skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of working at the company, aside from the adult content on people's screen, discussions of adult content, etc it is honestly no different than working at any large company.
No, that's not likely to happen. Photosynthesis is pretty inefficient, typical plants have a radiant energy to chemical energy conversion efficiency between 0.1% and 2%. Most commercially available solar panels have more than 10 times this efficiency.[1]

[1] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109739/is-plant-p...
As someone with very little knowledge of the language, I definitely agree with your first point. It's hard for me to figure out if the product would be useful for me at my level since there's no "Easy" book available for free. I imagine that for an advanced learner it would be similar not knowing whether there's actually any new knowledge to be gained at their level.
A well-educated, well-paid woman doesn't need to marry a wealthy man.
Ban behavior, not people. You can convert non-productive people to productive people, most of them only want to be noticed or accepted and past a certain point there is only so much you can do to block anyone anyway. Stylometric analysis would just be another simple hurdle to cross for a persistent person.

The idea that this tool would be useful for community management is terrible.
Could a catalytic converter be used to create CO2 from CO?

edit: I forgot what it took as input for a sec there..
A Single-Layer Atmosphere Model
Use the volume sliders! I've been mixing without the fader for years now. You get way more control that way.
If there's a 5% false-positive rate, then if I give it an unidentified text and the posts from 1,000,000 identified Redittors, it's going to give me 50,000 possible authors? That doesn't seem either useful or troublesome...
The US doesn't have good standards around this for everyone, for a variety of reasons.

You can use an SSN to map to an existing credit file. From there, you establish accounts with places with poor verification practices and use them to move up the food chain.

Some states historically were very week in verification for state ID -- best case you have an audit able link between a birth certificate, lease and/or parental affidavit. Few people can be linked to a biometric. (Other than headshot photo)
because he chose to marry her, which means they unite their status.
I was just going to ask if such a counter tool existed already. Wouldn't be too hard to put a web UI to this and make it easily accessible. Thanks for sharing.
If we had ways to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere, and this was close to carbon neutral, there's no reason to use something like this.
Yeah, I actually know both Rails and React, and have built stuff with them separately. I understand they would talk to each other using JSON and don't need to be "aware" of each other.

The main thing that I find confusing is the build/deployment process of a Rails application that uses React as the front-end. For example, let's say that I develop a Rails/React app and want to deploy it. Do I run webpack first to transpile the React app to "regular" JavaScript, then git commit, then push to Heroku? Or does Heroku do that for me? Also, how does the Rails asset pipeline come into play? Any special configurations? Etc.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...
People tend to think and write in the same familiar memes and patterns - I doubt very much it could discern individuals based on text samples.
When someone decides to write some very useful software to sell it and someone else "copies pixel per pixel" the software is simply stealing the original author work.
If you want to write your software and release it with an open source license you are perfectly able to do it.
If you are simply doing an exact copy "pixel per pixel" of someone else work and releasing it as an open source you are stealing his intellectual property given that the original license is NOT open source.
I really love open source, but people that think in this way seriously risk to undermine my trust on the whole OSS model.
> I realize that this is common UX jargon, but is it literally "painful" to click "File->Export" rather than "File->Save"?

I found it mildly annoying at first but then I learnt that the luckily export function has a keyboard shortcut. I can accept that I have to press ctrl+shift+e to export an image ;)
This is a laudable goal, but sadly not a realistic one. The potential search space is infinite, and unlike CC, you couldn't have "Use another licence if none of these works for you" as an option without undermining the entire system.

I'd definitely be in favour of standardising some basic assumptions that all suppliers and all customers of some common types of product or service could rely on unless they explicitly and prominently agreed otherwise, though. It doesn't take a 10 page legalese monster to buy a loaf of bread from my local store, but there are still rules to protect both the store and me in that transaction.
We've done all three to our yard in Oakland, and its great. We xeriscaped most of our yard, with plants fed by drip irrigation. We put in a small patch of grass (about 300 square feet) with a sod called "native no-mow" that is literally that: it gets long and we don't mow it. We do have to weed it occasionally. The rest is covered in gravel.

The project wasn't cheap, but it wasn't that outrageously expensive, either, especially not compared to the cost of housing. We have to irrigate some, but nothing like what a lawn would need. And we have a nice outdoor space to hang out and entertain in, way nicer than concrete.
Original oss licences were developed in a world where software was distributed and the licenses were developed based on that model. Business models shifting largely to XaaS wasn't accounted for in the original license mindset and this is being taken advantage of the fullest extent my commercial entities (as they would be smart to do). The differences between the original oss philosophy and the realities of software in the current world seems to be causing some stress on the system as envisioned by oss advocates. Will be interesting to see how this develops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
Indeed. Interesting it's from PIE via Lithuanian - I hadn't thought about it before but it is cognate with English rota, rotate via Latin.
If a tree grows in the forest but no one sees it, is it there at all?
FusionNet: 3D Object Classification Using Multiple Data Representations
Sure, that's a good one. But wasn't that done by the mortgage applicants themselves? Or in many cases wink-wink encouraged by the brokers themselves? I haven't heard where that was a formalized policy within an organization, so it seems to me you'd be going after pretty low-level individuals?
Magento is a pretty good example, as I describe here (and oh my goodness the horrors in DCoder's followup comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12152874
We need nuclear desalination and district heating
> Facebook Google and apple shouldnt be taxed BC theyre r and d

Lol. Most real frontier level r and d is funded by the gov with tax money, especially the not for profit r and d focused on energy and health sectors. The only r and d the tech cos you named do is targeted to make profit for themselves which is why they pay taxes. I agree that a lot of tax money is wasted but some of it is used for critical research.

When facebook starts a non profit division researching better nuclear storage containers and cancer treatments then, maybe that division shouldnt be taxed. I mean these are essentially advertising based businesses, so that's not really pushing the frontiers of human knowledge in a uniformly positive direction.
Funny how the original satire was about how to solve the problem of starvation and the problem of population explosion in Ireland at the same time by eating Irish babies. Yet somehow people are think there should be limits on satire. The fundamental accusation is that Catholics have more children more quickly than they can feed (implying that they are too stupid and sex crazed to realize the consequences of their actions). Eating babies is a sideshow to the real, deep, and uncomfortable question that SHOULD make people angry because it is calling them out for inconsistent, immoral, unethical, or strait up bad behavior.
> "People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis"

I don't understand the significance of this. People have been killed for all sorts of silly reasons, religious differences provide lots of examples but there's plenty more outside that, wearing the wrong color or the wrong team's shirt in the wrong part of town, dating someone from a different social group, trying to vote, I could go on for a while.

So what's his point?
Never mind the loans; that wasn't actually illegal. It's the robo-signing that should be prosecuted into the ground.
> - and in record time - design on laptop to working board prototype in less than 2 weeks

Well, it looks like there are 3 chips, a usual DC-DC converter, and that's all :-)
I recently read Rene Girard's "Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World".

He postulates the following theory of collective violence in the world. First, people form mimetic desire - they want things before other people also want and have them. Second, this mimetic desire results in a crisis - the collective actions of virtually everyone result in bad circumstances. Finally, in order to resolve this crisis, a scapegoat must be identified and subjected to collective violence. At this point, society can return to normal.

He wrote this book in 1978. I find it quite amazing how well it describes the financial crisis, and the post-crisis search for a scapegoat/villain.
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I'd guess if it can be used to identify you, it can be used to adjust your new posts until they don't appear to be written by you: for a practical example, a Chrome addon that detects when you are making social media posts and automatically flags identifying information like a spellcheck does. So the thing can be used to counter itself.
I found gcp support to just work, for $150, the monthly cost of silver support, I was able to get tons of best practices and guidelines from actual google developers.
As an example, at least for graph production, Excel seems to be the common software. It's pretty hard to get decent looking stuff compared to some old fashioned software that were used to create graphs earlier before that.

There used to be specialists doing the graphs for various printed materials. Now it's all made by the marketers, consultants or number crunchers themselves. Of course the quality has been so bad ever since that happened, but nobody seems to care. Even designers don't really understand much about graphs.
Not to mention that the US has a particularly awful history of subverting other countries' elections.
Google polypropylene piping. A standard in continental Europe since eighties, added to building codes across NA just few years ago.
So it's 20x cheaper than the noble gas version — what's the absolute cost? I assume it's not cheaper than pumping fossil fuels yet, but I'm curious to know how far away it is.
Even beyond that, lot of those farmers bought the right to access a certain amount of water when they bought their land. Taking it away from them is like taking property away from someone in SF because they didn't pay enough for it back in the 80s.
i write posts in markdown, they're then "compiled" into html, I should fix the software I'm using ... but as long as it works, for me it's ok, being it styling or markup :)
That's especially troubling because the easiest and cheapest thing for any commercial service to do is to ban forever and without appeal any user that presents a hint of trouble to the algorithm. If these services have near monopolies, or share data with all of the other services like CLUE does for insurance... Its like a digital death sentence.

Ask anyone who's ever lost an ebay or a google account to an algorithmic burp and was essentially banned for life without appeal or even human oversight.
Should the person taking out the loan have 0 responsibility as well? Surely either the janitor or the english lit major should have some personal responsibility when it comes to taking on debt that they could not possibly pay back. I think both parties in the transaction have some responsibility in making sure that the loan is beneficial.
Summary: there's nothing to see in Silicon Valley, folks. Move along. This article reminds me of a Movietone newsreel, slick propaganda pieces shown in movie theaters and classrooms during the baby boom years.
now you know :)
The problem with this is: this means MM is a very good executive regarding technical details, daily operations and the like. However, she wasn't hired to be HR or COO. She was hired to be CEO, in a company that faced deep existential challenges in a market that was rapidly making its products irrelevant. When she took over, I wasn't sure what value Yahoo really provided other than a "yet another portal and email provider" type of thing, far from being a peer of FB and Google that it aspired to be. The company needed to execute a pivot of epic proportions and in this, we have heard very little. And maybe there were some projects in their skunk works that may yet get written about, which never saw the light of day.

Morale of the troops? great. Making employees' lives better? great. But it doesn't mean squat if your company still doesn't have a viable product at the end of the day...
The first rule is: in tech, all shitthatdidnthappen.txt stories actually did happen. I once got a CD cup holder when I was working dialup tech support.
This development is exciting, but the complexity of the chemicals involved looks scary. I wonder if it will impede the adoption. Anyone with the domain expertise to comment on this?
"Walkable" is on the increase because of demographics: there's a slight bulge in under 30s who are more likely to like urban living; once they start having kids the suburbs start to look more enticing.

Self-driving vehicles are likely to increase sprawl by reducing the travel burden :-(
I really liked reading this article. The author describes not just the skills that are important for reasoning well (mathematics seems to just be an arena in which this kind of thinking is required), but in the end, also the pitfalls of taking these skills to their logical extremes in social situations. As the author points out, context is very important.

Most of the Senior Engineers I look upto and who I consider as role models seem to know this. They are carefree and jovial in most conversations, but when its time to design a system or drill into root causes of an outage, they are capable of asking (and answering) these types of precise questions. I've learned a LOT from working with them and do hope to be like that in the future.
>> from one jet fighter to another. Both of these are not stable platforms.

Fighter aircraft as remarkable stable platforms. They spend 95%+ of their time wings-level, say +/- 5*. And most of the motions of an aircraft are commanded by the pilot, allowing electronics a momentary heads up to make decisions re antennas. Compare that to a tiny raft in even moderate seas, constantly moving in every dimension, where the random motion never, ever, stops. Many a fighter jock has suffered sea sickness.
Hyper_: docker-based cloud platform. Just deploy containers
The efficiency is around 4%, as in Figure 2 from the paper. SFE is solar-to-fuel efficiency.

From the paper, " We also calculated the solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency (SFE) for our photochemical process (Fig. 2C), obtaining a value of ~4.6% limited by the maximum efficiency of the PV-a-si-3jn cell (~6.0%) (13, 20). This SFE is higher than that of the water-splitting reaction (~2.5%) previously measured using an identical triple-junction photovoltaic (PV-a-si-3jn) cell (20). "

https://d2ufo47lrtsv5s.cloudfront.net/content/sci/353/6298/4...
Aren't these more or less the arguments used to justify anti-cryptography legislation? And when articles about banning encryption come up on here, people say pretty much the same thing: "Don't let the worries about its usage by 'bad' people overshadow the good".

In fact I believe this tool is even more worrisome, because there are a very large number of non-tech savvy people who express their dissonant opinions simply under the mask imparted by internet anonymity. I imagine most everyone here on HN have at least once made an anonymous account to post a comment somewhere that they would rather not have tied to their identity. This is an avenue that is necessary for the preservation of free speech. Remember that things like treating black people as equals, giving women the right to vote, gay rights, etc were and in some ways still are taboo subjects that bring the wrath and ire of the power du jure.

All that said, I still don't see any reason why such a tool shouldn't be released. Why? Even though I believe the tool to be harmful, it's better to know that it exists, know its capabilities, and most importantly know how it works. It'll end up in the hands of the wrong people anyway, so it's better to at least get it into the hands of the right people who can possible do something to combat it.
There are papers on how to do this, and many approaches work. Traditional statistical methods[1], support vector machines,[2][3] (software available at [4]) and a random forest algorithm [5] have been shown to work, more or less. This isn't a new idea. All this new code does is let us compare how deep learning does on the problem.

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E/E99/E99-1021.pdf
[2] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1391/126-CR.pdf
[3] https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS13/paper/vie...
[4] http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
[5] http://ntv.ifmo.ru/en/article/15185/kompyuternaya_kriminalis...
I have lived in shipping containers converted into housing, and that is a really poorly done example of such. Considering the financial resources this guy must have, it is not difficult to do such a conversion properly.

Dilettante.
Just use AGPL and dont bother
>It is sad that a student can leave high-school with almost no classes that ever makes math less abstract.

I find it sadder that many can get through high school without any classes that make it more abstract. Too much of it is just mindless repetition of seemingly-useless incantations that have no meaning or apparent purpose (especially if the concepts aren't understood). Where there are word problems, many students are confused and hate them because they haven't really learned how the math abstracts the situation. (Or how to look at a situation and recognize "Hey, I could abstract this with math to get more information!")

I once tutored a student who hated math and after 11th grade was still failing pre-algebra and wouldn't be able to graduate. After a few months, we had covered algebra 1 and 2, geometry and trigonometry, and a brief intro to calculus and statistics. She aced the test, graduated, and went on to become a successful professional in a job that routinely used math. By then she loved it. Problem? It had never been about the joy of discovering new ideas and new ways to use them. It had always just been shuffling numbers around without any concepts or thought processes that could lead to understanding.

My answers are simple:

Why should you learn it? As with learning to read/speak/write, it gives you another way to think and communicate, and exposure to concepts, some of which you may never use, others of which may someday be very valuable. Even if you don't use them everyday, just knowing that they exist and could be helpful (and recognizing when) is valuable.

When will you use this? You may not personally sit around calculating statistics and probability, but as a manager you may recognize that they could help you make important decisions, avoid problems, and increase profits. So you know to hire someone who can do the calculations, and you have a general idea of what to ask them for and how to understand the reports they give you. And to ask questions to get them to explain the business meaning of things affected by confidence levels or standard deviation so you can understand how that affects your decisions. You'll use it to increase knowledge, success, and profit.
Isn't the point that it is public?

> Make all SSNs public
Yeah, these kinds of interviews are epically stupid. What's worse is that practices like this and similar ones from places like Google, etc. give credibility to dumb things that make for a terribly inefficient (at best) or outright toxic (at worst) job marketplace.

Other places follow the same practice because they hold these market leading companies up on a pedestal, which is tantamount to argument by appeal to authority.

But, but, but all the top companies do this and they're successful!!! Yeah, well they're successful despite stupid practices like this, not because of them. Their business models are so resilient that they can tolerate a whole shitload of failures in other aspects or dimensions and still come out on top.
Trespassing on my property for the purpose of harassing me is not equivalent to protesting in public.
Agree. Rather than release the code, release the testing data set and/or test methodology used to make a claim of 95% accuracy; no one is harmed and it should give a good sense of the claim. I wouldn't be shocked to find that the score was achieved by overtraining on a very small and narrow data set (small number of identities), and that the model isn't generalizable.

That said, identification may be a more tractable problem if you have a limited population, additional metadata for features, and normalized writing samples (comparing anonymous reviews to identified reviews, or within community posts, as opposed to trying to compare a set of anonymous tweets to an identifiable dissertation).
There's more to finding a loophole than choosing to deliberately misinterpret all the case law that comes before.
Do we really need machine learning deanonymisation tools to identify trolls so unsubtle and obvious?

I voted to release the tool, but you've set up this false scenario with the intention of knocking it down easily and discrediting the opposing argument.
It should be released. Its the equivalent of stopping medical research because it could be used for biological weapons.

The people who need this for evil purposes will develop it whether it's released in open source or not.
> Could a catalytic converter be used to create CO2 from CO?

You don't need a catalytic converter, you can just burn it. But breathing a sigh of relief that we can "safely" dispose of the CO in this way is missing the point rather badly.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151004
Last time I checked, and I did check recently, I couldn't find a Haskell library that offered an easy way to send email using a Gmail account. Resulting in this homegrown example, which doesn't work: https://github.com/runeksvendsen/restful-payment-channel-ser...
Well, at the article suggested/stated also, they don't really want to get countries angry, esp. Russia not just because but for business reasons: Russia can find a way to punish Google financially.
CO is easy to convert to CO₂, just burn it and feed the CO₂ back into the process.