skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to get the position (coordinates) of the face as well, just like it is on Facebook?
Indeed. My first impluse was wondering if this was just a repeat episode, but, it's interesting to see the perseverance at play here.
We currently have an issue where the company that handle our ad-tracking/referral payout track and want payment for the same orders multiple time. They honestly doesn't seem to understand the issue, customer will, sometimes, return to the conversion page (checkout-success page) multiple times, because people are just weird like that.

The fix is super simple: Their tracking pixel receive our order number, all they need to do is accept that it's unique and just tracking the first occurrence. Part of their problem is of cause that they switch to a new platform and didn't migrate any data.

Because many of the amount are so small, they just accept a ton of errors and as you say: "sweep these issues under the rug" because it's just a few cents so who cares. But it adds up.
How is a basic income that scales based off of CoL even supposed to work?

A UBI causes the cost of living to rise in the short run. If you readjust the UBI the cost of living will rise again and again.

Cities like San Francisco will become more attractive because they not only have more jobs they also pay you more UBI. The more people move in, the higher the cost of living if housing supply is constrained. Readjusting the UBI then makes the city even more attractive. At the same time small cities become less attractive because not only are people moving into the city but their UBI is shrinking too.
I'm going out on a limb here but I'm guessing if this explanation makes sense to you, you don't need to be told the difference between deep and usual machine learning. Could be wrong!
The Swedish power metal band Sabaton told the story of this incident in their song "No Bullets Fly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02g4-XT_VU
Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious [2015]
No functional need for a separate VM: xvfb-run -a will automatically pick the next free display number and set up the environment pointing to xvfb's $DISPLAY. Of course container/vm isolation is still a good idea for security and repeatability reasons.
I didn't see any .org files in that repo, do you have them available anywhere? I'd love to see specifically how it's done.
>You can't push people up Maslow's pyramid and then be surprised they don't find life satisfaction in plucking chickens.

So we are supposed to give people purpose in life? At best this is futile. Purpose cannot be given. In reality this is false. Purpose can be given. For a short period of time. You can take those miserable people and ride their wave of misguided contempt to a revolution and grab the power. Then kill everyone who challenges your power. The first thing that disappears amidst civil war is justice.

Those people who feel unfulfilled better find a way to find their meaning of life for themselves instead of nursing jealousy and hatred towards people who did.
Yeah we monitor lots of Amazon & Microsoft 'cloud' services, we observe much, much higher downtime / number of outages than they ever report in a order of 50 to 1 or more. What do you expect though, both companies are known for lying through teeth to convince the IT community (or more likely the IT managers) that their services are reliable for everyone and amazing uptime and that they're not only a good option but the only option.
Both are facile bullshit designed to eat up CPU cycles. Which, incidentally is what major corporations are basing their business models on selling. I've had clients come to me and say they want to use machine learning. When I ask what for, it becomes very awkward.
Ha, that reminds me of the cas where one of our advertiser's creatives kept getting disapproved by Google's creative approval process. The ad was for a family hotel somewhere in Germany. It took a while to find out why the creative got disapproved. After quite a bit of back and forth with our technical account manager, they finally told us because the landing page contained the word "casino". Except it's a German-language website, and in German, that word can have different meanings than just being gambling-related. And that family hotel most certainly did not provide any gambling facilities.
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Hey Richard. What?
Space.Space.Space.Space.Space.Space

Worst than middle finger :D
I wrote some similar thoughts here: http://lisperator.net/blog/why-lisp/ (in the "organic growth" section). Sadly I don't get to do much Lisp these days, but it remains my favorite programming language (CL, more exactly).

And yeah, it's sad that "programming-as-teaching" fades out of fashion. Now that I know what it's like, working in an environment that doesn't support it always leaves a bitter taste. Let's just hope more people try it, because it's addictive.
Counter point: According to this Scientific American article, there isn't a lot of evidence for demonizing salt. "The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science"

"This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-th...
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I find text slides to be frustrating when listening, but that's mostly because it highlights how mind-bogglingly slowly they're usually talking.

Also, I find it invaluable to have the slides able to stand on their own if I need to go back or missed the presentation. Even if the presentation was recorded (which doesn't seem to be the case, typically) in high quality (which seems to be even more rare), I find it much easier to just skim through the parts of the text that I care about.
... and a method to train the hidden layers efficiently.
Why not simply verify domain ownership? You could select a display domain from your list of verified domains.
Leftists are not concerned with making good transitions. They are only interested in completing their vain version of the world where everybody is noble and peaceful. They don't care this is unrealistic and cannot be implemented in practice. It's mental masturbation. "Look how sophisticated and compassionate I am. Everybody should be more like me and we shall live in heaven."
>Sounds like the same thing to me - you can deal with this in 2 easy steps: 1) Ignore the hype 2) Ignore the hype.

And then you end with abandoned npm dependencies and no new development/books/blogs/tutorials after a short while.
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Both have pluses and minuses. Mostly, when you purchase a Mac, you now get the Apple productivity suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) for free.
True, and I think neither PPT or PPTX can embed fonts in them, so the result is subpar, while a PDF can embed fonts, but cannot embed the transitions.
Ask HN: Apple workers of HN, do you really use iTunes Sync?
Are these numbers before or after pitting competing companies against each other?
Can someone say a bit about minimum number of layers and neurons needed for structure to be called artificial neural network? I have seen papers with something like 10 neurons (which is very very tiny but authors claim it does the job), while on the other hand there are Google sized ANNs. Thanks :)
And since 2014 it's owned not only by an Australian corp but Aussie and Chinese.
Many of the (non-techie) people I know have Whatsapp push notifications disabled, because otherwise there are way too many of them.
Add to that better error handling.

AFAIK in POSIX /bin/sh it's not possible to detect if a process that writes into a pipe exits with an error status.

bash has "set -o pipefail" and "$PIPESTATUS" for that.
Problems of Messenger App (and not Facebook company):
1. Can't log out
2. Can't turn off the 'online' indicator
3. 'Seen' indicator
Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after “sexual mistreatment” allegations
But at least I have Pocket and FirefoxHello integrated. Wasted efforts...
>Comparing back-end frameworks to front-end is silly; there are entirely different concerns on each level. Or is Rails suddenly diffing DOM elements?*

There's nothing "silly" about it. If anything, this arbitrary distinction is silly.

It's still all frameworks.

Whether they are front-end or back-end doesn't matter one iota to whether they could (or should) be stable.

There's nothing about "diffing DOM elements" (or any other thing front-end frameworks do) that necessitates tons of new and redesigned frameworks each going about it in its own way. In fact it could be retrofitted to an existing framework with care for backwards compatibility -- if only more JS frameworks were like Ember.

It's not a matter of some inherently technical concerns making the backend more stable. It's just the JS community churning out new frameworks and redesigned stuff all the time (because it's easy, and because they're many more millions that Python or Ruby programmers).

It's not even JS getting more features with ES6/7 (Python got tons of new features and syntax since early Django but you still don't get the same framework churn. Heck, Django even works with 3 -- and all only with tiny incremental changes to the same framework over many releases).
Fantastic, thank you so much for the hard work!
The article feel a bit like an ad for hunch.ly as well
Exactly. I'm guessing most didn't fully read the article. What I got out of it was that the NSA was really concerned about being sure they were correct that Snowden didn't in fact officially raise any concerns and that all they could find that was even close to this was a single email about a trick question on a test.

One could argue the NSA could be trying to make sure there was no proof rather and that's fine. This article though only finds evidence of a single email. I'd love to see more but this isn't it.
Indeed!. In the last 126 years technology has not progressed very much. Why should it be different today?
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The article feel a bit like an ad for hunch.ly
True, but this would be a very different feel that the one being proposed. This system would be public assistance and so only poor people would get it. So it would come with the usual stigma.

When EVERYONE gets the same check then everyone can talk about it freely and be happy about the money. It may be that with the change in tax rate, higher income people don't really get a net change to their income so the result in similar, but the "feel" is dramatically different.
I noticed he is using ggplot, which is the python attempt of implementing the API of the ggplot2 R-package.

What is the status of ggplot on python? Is it ready to replace seaborn and matplotlib?

http://ggplot2.org
Really interesting tool, the PDF export seems to work great as well.

I had not heard of the Takahashi method.
I might use it for some informal talks or as a presentation prototyping tool.
Matrix does voip too (Console and Vector implement it using WebRTC as the transport) but it's not as mature as SIP. It's fine for casual use but you wouldn't want to run a telco off it yet :) That said, it's roughly 20x easier to develop on than SIP ;)
Ask HN: Advices, Literrature, hacks for prepping to be a parent
My wife and I are expecting a child in a few months from now. I'd love to hear thoughts, book recommendations, links, hacks, advices or what have you on the topic from the HN community.
While this is pretty interesting, the machine seems pretty bulky. I also wonder how accurate you have to be with the way you hang up the clothes on those clips. I'm sure if you're a little off the clothes won't last right. The other drawback I notice is that it seems this only folds tops. Pretty pricey and bulky for a one trick pony.
Sounds like good reasoning. What older models would you recommend?
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Wouldn't AI help with that problem, as well as a thousand others? AI is a better tool to help us solve other problems.
If you're wondering why there's been so little innovation related to the ideas of Marx and Engels, it's probably because most people decided those ideas weren't useful.

Over the past century, a lot of people tried to implement the ideas of Marx and Engels. People tried different versions of communism in different cultures, different geographical regions, and different levels of technological development. On two occasions, people even split a country in half and ran one side communist and the other side capitalist. In every case, the citizens of the communist regimes ended up worse-off.

If we've learned anything from these experiments, it's that Marx's ideas reliably create failed states. There are probably better systems than what we have today, but they're not close relatives to communism.

Fortunately, many far leftists have understood this and gone searching for other ways to improve the lives of the poorest. For example, basic income seems to be growing in popularity.
I almost hate to point this out, then, but you did consider that there's no guarantee that an AZ is a single DC, right?
The headline is very sensational. The actual research says that a malicious extension can do its malicious work by reusing part of the code of existing extensions, which may be less obvious than directly pwning the host.

The research isn't bad, but "here's a trick to hide (extension) malware using (the code of) NoScript" is very different from the most straightforward reading of "NoScript is vulnerable".
Key here is "not always". If two users trust the intermediate chain of servers that have access to their messages, then transport layer security is indeed sufficient; that already safeguards against unauthorised links in the chain (the man in the middle).

On the other hand, if absolute confidentiality is a concern, end-to-end encryption is required. XMPP does not rule out either approach.

End-to-end encryption matters of course, but it is a lot more relevant when one single mega-corporation is in control of every server messages pass through (e.g., WhatsApp). But if, say, you and I decide to run our own XMPP-servers and communicate thus, it may be sufficient to ascertain that a secure channel exists between our servers and between our clients and their servers.
The ELB control plane woke up for us about 90 minutes ago; back to flying on all engines again now.
It could also mean that the fraudster made enough money and decided to bail on the campaign and tear down all of their infrastructure. Tough to confirm either way.

Or the ads simply did not generate a positive ROI. I have read that Facebook advertising (especially for US traffic) is very expensive and tends to not convert well. I often see people run Facebook ads for non-scammy purposes (for example three months ago James Altucher ran Facebook ads for his books, and those ads are gone) and then pull them down , presumably because the conversion is crud. No one ever pulls a successful advertising campaign because they 'made enough money'.
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Apple Pays Homepage Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Anyone having problems with BJ servers? My site is not running, https://www.weisisheng.cn, I can not SSH into machine nor access login page to AWS dashboard.
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Multiple ELB's came alive around that timeframe but our primary ELB has remained unable to re-register instances. Creating a new ELB as a test and trying to register new instances from the effected ASG has also failed.
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Okay, after rethinking it once a gain I will move a bit towards your position. By increasing the required work for one X from 8 to 10 hours we are definitely introducing an inefficiency so we are losing something somewhere, we are doing 2 hours of unnecessary work. Assuming both agents can share the X or get to use half the X in both scenarios, we can just leave it out of the equation as mentioned before. If one gets the same value from X in both scenarios, then working 5 hours is strictly preferable over working 8 hours and not working is strictly preferable over working for 5 hours.

So this looks somewhat like the prisoner's dilemma. Let A and B be the scenario that agent A respectively agent B works 8 hours and AB the scenario that both agents work 5 hours each. Then the preferences for agent A are B > AB > A and for agent B they are A > AB > B. But that doesn't help much, no matter which transition you consider, one agent will be better off and one will be worse off.

So there is still a conflict. I acknowledge that an inefficiency gets introduced when the work is split but also want to maintain that 3 hours of leisure time twice is more valuable than 8 hours of leisure time once. Surly value can not increase and decrease at the same time. I am more certain that the inefficiency is real than what the shape of the value function for leisure time is so I will pick the former one and conclude that 8 hours of leisure time are - contrary to my earlier comment - more valuable than 3 hours of leisure time twice.

So do I have to say that maximizing the total value is the wrong metric? Do I have to try to assign a value to the fairness of work distribution? Why wouldn't that already show up in the individual value functions? I am a bit stuck here. But I may have a way around that, I am just not sure how good the argument is. One obvious problem is that in case agent A does all the work, then agent B has no means to transfer some of the additional value from his additional leisure time to A. Maybe he could give away some of his share of X.

But now I can no longer ignore the value function for X and that hopefully saves my argument and I avoid the conflict between decreasing and increasing total value without the need to explicitly appeal to the value of fair work work distribution because it is in the two value functions for X and leisure time. But I am not sure, I did not think this fully through.

I think in the end it boils down to nonlinearities between the individual and the global view, i.e. we can globally waste 2 hours of work but still increase the total value because we have to take the global set of things, split it up for all individuals, push them through the nonlinear value functions and then sum it up again. Now it is no longer necessary that a global loss of 2 hours results in a global loss of value even if all the individual value functions are monotone.
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From the FAQ, (emphasis mine):

> There is less than a 1% chance that FoldiMate will do anything other than fold your laundry and treat your clothes.

Let's be generous and say that less than 1% means .5% chance. Assuming each clothing fold is an independent event, that means if you fold 20 articles of clothing then you have a 90% chance of not destroying one of them[1].

I like those odds!

[1]: (1 - .005)^20 = 0.90461048
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Feature Learning.

Deep Neural Networks can learn features from essentially raw data. Usual machine learning starts with features engineered manually.

DNNs also learn to predict from the features they learn, so you cold say (very roughly) "DNN = usual machine learning + feature learning".

In practice manually engineering features is a time-consuming "guess-and-check" process which benefits from domain expertise. Feature Learning, otoh, is more automatic and benefits from data, computing resources, and optimization algorithms.
Paper this article is based on can be found here[1].

I'm not aware that the tools they used or the source for the tools they used was ever released although it was reportedly given to the Mozilla reviewers[2]. Outside of the top 10 extensions they listed this makes it hard to draw conclusions other than the fact that Firefox's extension architecture leaves something to be desired although I'm not sure I would call it surprising. Firefox has a long history of not making a push towards a more secure platform. I'm not sure I would say they don't care but it's clearly not a priority for them (in general, not specifically this incident).

This is speculating but I would imagine they may have integrated this into their automated review process or at the very least done a more thorough scan and contacted extension authors since they were reportedly given the tools. Although a better question is could anything actually be done about this in the extension's code (it may be in the paper, I didn't read it all the way through)?

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-me...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1534
> And yet MSIE still ruled the earth as a major pain in the foot in 2010, with a whooping 40% marketshare

That was largely related to large install bases in corporate/government/educational institutions where legacy requirements (e.g. we built/bought this IE-optimised internal mission-critical web app, and it shits its pants in other browsers).

> It's only when chrome started doing very aggressive advertising that people started to switch.

In 2010 Statcounter and W3 counter both give MSIE ~50% and Firefox ~30%. There was huge shift away from MSIE long before Chrome existed, and longer still before they started using shitty tactics to 'encourage' people to change from other perfectly functioning modern browsers.
It's too early to say that. The urban cantons did not finish counting, especially Zurich, Basel, Bern and Geneva. I'd expect that there will be 30% yes votes, but of course there are always surprises.
The target is, of course, Gaisler's SPARCv8 LEON3, as designed for ESA. The LEON processors are interesting because they include a lot of radiation-hardening, which is essential for computers running outside the (protective) atmosphere.

Gaisler also sells TSIM (which aims for cycle-by-cycle accurate simulation of Gaisler's chips). Since I see that the author of this software has submitted it to HN: why would I use this software instead of TSIM? You obviously had a reason!

LICENCE.txt is somewhat confusing; 4-clause BSD isn't bad, per se, but it's not entirely clear whether Monahopoulos Konstantinos or EMTech is the copyright holder. Also, from a practical perspective, "This product includes software developed by the EMTech." is probably false - I'd expect emulators to be used during development and test, not during the actual mission?

The README mentions an associated "paper"; it would be great to include a link.
Wow. I always knew hardware manufacturers half-assed their software, but this is kind of a new low.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
I wish I would live in a country where essential political decisions like that are made by the people and not by some professional political elite in a far away capital.
Change the title? It's misleading to imply the results are final.
Salvatore is a machine. Since 2012 Redis has been a main tool in my preverbal belt and it has always seemed to have forward momentum.
It's a private equity owned business. They paid around $600m for it. They're not going to take anything down.