skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my issue is that I don't like seeing the state making more and more decisions for people. Like I said, I am sympathetic to the need though, and am a donor, hence my ambivalence.

And from the article, it looks like the yes vote came down to one vote (unless I misread), so it's likely going to be a close one.

Also, for the record, I'm in the US, so this is an entirely intellectual exercise for me.
Instapaper is a pretty nice evernote alternative
A Case for Composition
Meet New Glenn, the Blue Origin Rocket That May Someday Take You to Space
> After spending much time among entrepreneurs I find that there are very few with a "business" mind.

I'm sorry but you seem to be one of them. Think outside the box please.
I'm evaluating InfluxDB for work and was wondering what issues you ran into?
Human Rights Watch. By Americans for Americans.
I would say: automation & AI:

- automated cities & robotic workers
- HARC working on the interfaces for the "workers"
- basic income to replace minimum wage earners' incomes

Would love to work on this path!
What exactly does a company like Evernote have to do with machine learning ? Do they have a targeted advertising platform? I can see how it might be good for things like image recognition but what else are they doing with it?

I am Genuinely curious, I've not used Evernote for several years, it just got out of hand and bloated I found.

Machine learning is really starting to feel just like another trigger phrase.
You try not to leave them totally high and dry, but you can't shift the entire burden onto people who weren't even born when those deals were made. It wasn't the unborn that screwed them, it was their own elected politicians who did it, in other words, themselves.
It always blows my mind to see people suggest that making the job of people sworn to protect them more difficult is not only acceptable, but preferred.
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The parent is talking only about surveillance, but from the report you linked, it's pretty obvious the US, Russia, and China, are pretty much in the same horrific boat as far as human rights abuses. Actually, I'd say the US, with 2.37 million people behind bars is worse than either China or Russia or any other country currently on earth. When you're systematically ruining that many lives, you're in Nazi territory.
Free stuff for being a programmer?!
>>I know a lot of people from Sikkim regularly get asked where in China are they from.

Every one has their own axe to grind based on what they want out of life. But this is plain ridiculous. Discrimination exists on every country on earth.

Every one who is following US elections and speeches from a particular candidate knows what is happening there. Racism has and may be will always exist due to identity consciousness among humans.

On an average US probably has the same levels of this sort of racism as much as there is in India.
The Management Engine, think of it as running at Ring -1. It can access hardware below the level of the processor. Injecting malware into it would be the holy grail for attackers, it would be impossible for anything running on the CPU to detect it and the malware would have access to all of the low level hardware. It can even intercept or create packets on the network interfaces.

Luckily the implementation is obscure so it has perfect security, right? There's no way such a complex piece of software that has had very little oversight could have exploitable bugs that would completely destroy any security foundations you have on your machine.
This is a good point. I think it'd be pretty interesting and useful to get a better grasp on when/whether/how a system can reason about itself as embedded in the world in a sane way.
When you have a government job and are entrusted with a security clearance, your country's interests must be your only concern. The people are entrusting you with their interests.
I strongly believe that concurrent datastructures should be kept out of the stdlib. There are just way too many tradeoffs to worry about here, and these tradeoffs are far more important in the concurrent case.

Take a concurrent hashmap for example. Do you want a "vec of lock free lists" kind which is lock free and infinite-capacity (no need to copy-reallocate), or do you want a probing one which has fine-grained locks and needs to reallocate (but has better cache behavior)? Or something in between? If it matters enough that `Mutex<HashMap<K,V>>` isn't good enough, then these tradeoffs matter too. Rust could have a rogues' gallery of concurrent hashmaps, but that feels like bloat.

Some already exist in the ecosystem, though, and you can always use those. But I'd love to see more work here!

Having a semi-official/nursery library containing a lot of concurrent datastructures would be nice, though. crossbeam provides better primitives for writing such things, but not the actual datastructures.
For what it's worth, the article formalises "one 6 from 6 dice" as "at least one 6", and similarly for the other events, which throws off your probability (which works with "exactly one 6") and hence your asymptotics.
I assume if forgiveness ever occurred, it would need to be respected as income for the debtor(so then IRS gets involved) simply to prevent fraud. Much in the same way that charge-offs are currently taxable income(1099-C).

There's simply no way that you will want to forgive the student debt... so pay them off if you can! The punishments of 'forgiveness' simply have to outweigh the benefits or the system will be gamed until broken.
I'd echo psql, it can be quite powerful if you learn to use it (http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/How-I-Work-With-Pos...).

But if you're looking for a graphical client then Postico. It's by the maintainer of Postgres.app, so in a sense if you're using Postico you're helping to support Postgres.app as well.
No ones hands are clean over there. Israel's response to the athletes' murder was not exactly "good world citizen" stuff either. But that's beside the point.

I was thinking more along the lines of stealing US nuclear tech, false-flagging, attacks on US, high-level espionage and "turning" top government officials, negotiating for top posts, etc. Or the whole "mess with us and we'll nuke the world" stance. Behaviour that's unbecoming of such a close ally, and that would be more expected to be coming from North Korea (if they had the resources). Maybe "everyone" does this kind of stuff, but these ones are public knowledge yet bringing them up is usually reacted to very negatively.
Heck, it would be big news even if this applied only to the x230. Or even if it only applied to some x230s. It means there's a somewhat modern x64 laptop on which the ME can be disabled.
I got burned with my 1st house- buying in 06, and did just OK with buying again in 10 and selling in 13, but 'lost' (did not make another) 50% by not holding it long enough.
My experience parallels yours almost exactly, particularly switching from bookmark folders to one big folder with tags. However, there's one more step in my progression, which is that I all but stopped using my browser's bookmarks, and moved to pinboard (with the painful interim step of delicious, on which pinboard is based).

After my comment, I started thinking about tags again, and how I might clean up my pinboard tags. I decided the easiest way to start would be to delete all my tags. Before I did that, I did some simple tests.

In pinboard, you can:

- search all your bookmarks.
- full text search all your bookmarks.
- click on a tag and get everything it tags.
- click on multiple tags and get everything they tag.

Here's my unanalyzed results, searching for "python":

text box: 700
tag: 556

check "search full text"

text box: 707

After eliminating all tags:
text box: 700

check "search full text"
text box: 707

I'm betting that the 700 and 707 are the same before and after I deleted all my tags (yes, I actually did that). Don't know what the intersection is between the 556, 700 and 707.

But I look at that and I wonder, do I really need my tags? What are they doing for me. Similar question to what made me, and possibly you, to eliminate folders in your browser's bookmarks.

And I really am wondering now, do I want to bother at all rebuilding a smaller tag set? Of course that's a question for me, and it's anecdotal, everyone has different needs and solutions that work for them, according to some definition of "work."
This is very similar to PageRank except "vouch" is accomplished by linking to the other page.
Apache's IP provenance is also considerably robust and respected.
Why not?

Absolutely believing in god and absolutely NOT believing in god are just as arbitrary as believing something in the middle. 'Just-so' stories aren't inherently inferior.

Believe what you want.
Probably not enough to cover the eventual copyright infringement lawsuits.
Because new icons take artists' time and effort? Windows 10 is slowly converging icon sets, it just clearly takes time.

Additionally, as you point out, many of the classic icons are embedded into system DLLs and EXEs. Servicing some of those files is a potential backwards compatibility nightmare and as a programmer I can understand not taking that lightly. (Not to mention, as much as people complain about "unnecessary" restarts from Windows updates, how many people would complain about a restart just to change icons in a system DLL?)
I grew up around JSC in the 90s and 2000s and driving by the Saturn was routine. It wasn't til 2 years ago that I actually bought a ticket, went in, and browsed the site with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets. (I know a tad bit about the space program, which is mountains more than most of the tourists there).
I argue that "having ADHD" is a very convenient excuse.
Man, that's an impressive amount of bullshit in one article, even for a politician.
Isn't Apache a community itself ? Should not it be left to the community to decide if they want to support that given project. Apache itself can abandon the project if there are not contributors.
Yes, from the article:

> 10-day supply of an illicit drug — a gram of heroin

I'm a heroin addict, and that would keep me going for about a day and a half ;(
Burrito-Delivering Drones–Seriously?
You'd be surprised how much a vocal minority (which is a lot more than 5% in agricultural states) can push senators around. Still, even 5% of the population constitutes a very powerful special interest.
Part of me wonders though - things seem a lot less discreet in dasher... but given that input is really in one dimension, and not two, it might be able to work faster...
PG wasnt joking when he said:

"You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
> 3x more hardware # for Postgres

Tells you something about how insanely costly Oracle's licenses are. Whatever you say about Oracle though - Oracle DB is an incredibly well performing and reliable piece of software. (Attested by experience - we had several Oracle DBs running on HP-UX Itanium that only needed to be handled when OS and Oracle patches were needed. Massively used too - think 36 PA-RISC cores at peak, 24 IA64 ones. It also helps that there are lot of DBAs with great deal of Oracle experience.)
The discussions and rationale for accepting any and all projects is done on-list, on the public Incubator threads. There are no "side deals" or "arrangements" other that was is opening and publicly discussed. In any case, any sort of quid-pro-quo about funding is NOT part of the equation.
> This method is still not perfect. The tag-management features of all the bookmark managers I'm aware of are pretty primitive. It would be nice, for example, for these bookmark managers to automatically show show tag clouds or let you browse tags along with their respective bookmarks. This is technically possible, but afaik hasn't been done yet.

If I understand you correctly, pinboard does all that.
Exactly. For best results do it with the very first coffee that rises from the moka.
That seems a fairly shortsighted estimation of what balances power between police and the people.

And FWIW the UK is arming more of its police, since that is clearly the country you are referring to.
They did. The page from several hours ago said $40.
Can you expand a bit about what makes the UI outdated? How should a updated UI look like?
ArduPilot is really an amazing project and I hope that they walk away from this stronger than before.

It's not just drones - they have autopilot code for fixed wing planes (Plane project) and rovers as well. Antenna tracking, too. Extremely well documented (http://ardupilot.org/copter/, http://ardupilot.org/rover/, http://ardupilot.org/plane).

Am currently building a geological survey fixed wing plane using ArduPilot.

Someone built a remotely controlled tractor using the Rover code, even:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBNWYIC3lY0 (first attempts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybxhvlyw-X0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69E9rm8x8M (a few years later)

The guy initially built this to make his life as a farmer easier and now he founded a company and markets his technology (Reimer Robotics).
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Yes. I'm not sure how that's relevant. I'm not just "some user". I'm actually me, and I know what my actual behavior actually is. I'm just describing what I actually do, not prescribing what someone should do.
In zsh you can type !!<tab> and it will auto-expand the line for you. I find histverify to be kind of annoying so I don't use it.
I agree, even the comparator descriptions seem weirdly awkward and placeholdery, describing the mechanism used to compare images rather than the comparison (e.g. "animated gif comparison" showing an animated gif used to compare two static images).

The whole thing is presented as if the marketing team haven't worked on it yet.
WTF is a CTO
I recommend freelancing or contracting. This way you can choose your clients, set your own terms and generally get paid for deliverables as opposed to being micromanaged how to do your work.

Also, I'd suggest you also try to understand why people are asking you to do certain things and if you have a better way of accomplishing the same goal, try to explain it.

I personally have strong opinions, but I've learned that there is not one true way of doing something, but it's all about tradeoffs. Focusing on tradeoffs usually makes for more productive conversation.

Good luck with your project!
Their paid features include OCR, both for handwriting and images of printed text. Seems like a textbook machine learning problem.

https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/01/23/search-handwriting...
http://www.brandcrowd.com/ has more selection and doesn't increase the price for every logo sold.
Google also recently made apps such as Reddit Sync change their name to Sync for Reddit.
Oh, OK. Well yeah, then definitely. :-)
It's the new buzzword of the year, now that VR is flopping.
American policies towards immigration are plain stupid, destructive and damaging economy potential long term.

The solution IMO is very simple: open up easy immigration path to USA for those with advanced degrees (MS/PhD in science/technology) from world's accredited universities. Thats it!

Attract top talent! Start today! Not throw it away to your tomorrows competitors. Build better society/economy here in USA using help and labor of educated people who are eager to come here to build better lives for themselves and ultimately the entire country.

People still want to come here despite even this shifting tide - the reason again simple - it is still one of the best place to live and work (there are plenty of other countries in Europe and outside of Europe as well), despite all the problems that USA has (like any country).

Do not wait until we have to beg people to come here, because by then it will probably be too late.
>Machine learning is really starting to feel just like another trigger phrase.

Yes, and its close cousin "data science" fits the same description, to me. They're quickly becoming what "the cloud" is: marketing jargon that doesn't provide useful information.
-Thank you; most educational (And exotic, seeing as we don't have anything like it around here - being a monarchy would be a lot more fun (and less democratic!) if the head of state held more power)

As things go, it can be argued that the King holds less privilege than his minions; suffrage does not extend to him, for instance. The job undeniably carries some perks, though.

Good thing presidential pardons does not extend to future crimes - that would be - ahem - interesting. Very much so.
My Code Does Not Work Because I Am a Victim of Complex Societal Factors
Freebird (www.getfreebird.com) is actually taking the pragmatic approach but does not seem to have the p2p component. Could be an easy add to them...
My next question is (and it's probably mentioned further in the thread or manual somewhere): how does the ME chipset route traffic to the Internet in the first place? Piggyback off the OS? Does this mean it's directly coupled with the networking devices on the system somehow? Presumably it will work with any OS....
It's worth noting that it all started on APRIL FOOL'S DAY (2015). That was the convenient day the author of the project decided to say in the comments for a random Github commit "hey, anybody wants to take this over? I'm out", without any previous discussion or announcement. Users assumed it was a joke but it was for real. Literally the first person to reply took over the entire project, and when the developer who was the real responsible for the Firefox and Safari port saw it, he stopped contributing instantly.

However, it's not that "the original author wasn't able to get it back". He is too proud of himself to admit the big mistake it was to give up the project to a random greedy teenager (who after the drama offered to give it back), so he decided to stay with the Origin name.

The result of this is that said teenager still makes a profit off the brand name (see ublock.org). People see that page and happily give him money thinking that they are helping the world.

By the way, it's also worth noting that the greedy teenager inflated his Github commits with minor changes and by hijacking the authorship of some commits, so that people would think that he did more than he actually have done (he can't really do much), and donate more to him. Eventually he just stopped making commits at all (https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/graphs/contributors), since people will still donate just for thinking that his domain is legit.

The moral of the story is that uBlock Origin is a good extension, but its developer, despite being talented, can't be trusted to be here tomorrow. He can just have a tantrum and delete the entire project or give it up to some other random teenager again.
There is an old, two-year HN discussion [1] on the danger of traveling for hackers (logically, the thread morphed into a heated discussion on the Spanish Inquisition, because... Hacker News!) and it certainly is scary that open source contributors should now entertain the prospects of arrest...I mean, it is open source, people typically do not get paid for that sort of work...and they could get arrested! Kidding aside, scary indeed..

I do not think that Canada is the only such country to find itself in said position. Only recently, Australia was unsuccessful in preventing the execution of some of its citizens, convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia. Here [2] is a handy tool that visualizes the percentage of foreign prisoners in most countries around the world while [3] reports on the number of non-nationals facing death penalties mainly in Asia. Also came across these news reports on the many (100s) of Canadians that are in foreign prisons [4].

Question is, how exactly did they get to him so quickly after his arrival? Perhaps they de-anonymized his code [5]. Perhaps the State has a huge database of persons of interest [6]. And by the way, how did they figure out that it was his software that was getting used by porn site webmasters?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976882

2. http://chartsbin.com/view/8ns

3. https://www.hri.global/files/2011/09/14/IHRA_DeathPenaltyRep...

4. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/27/over_1590_can... ; http://globalnews.ca/news/2542128/not-enough-being-done-to-h... ; http://o.canada.com/news/almost-2000-canadians-held-in-forei...

5. https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_dean... ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMa04HovKfs

6. https://www.iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Internet_... ; http://voiceproject.org/post_news/inside-irans-judicial-crac... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12488420; https://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/ONI_NameofGod_1_...
Possible applications that come to mind are image recognition, note classification (e.g. recipe, web tutorial, news), text search, and text recognition in things like PDFs
AMT requires Intel NICs for that reason.
Any system based on trusting a government not to do something is bound to fail, usually in spectacularly explosive ways.

This is why trust is not a cornerstone of the US Constitution.
Four Ideas for Better Human Systems
He normally still advises companies, but right now he's living in England for a year.
Why We Won’t Be Writing JavaScript in Five Years
Tuesday Bot Teardown: Growbot
We'll make it a 4 letter agency, one of the letters will be 'h' for honest.
Well, that is definitely one way of approaching the lack of federation in IRC
I drink beers with people usually.
Basically, I make a lot of high level friends / associates at every place I have worked or random meet ups and I do a lot of lunches or after work drinks to keep up with those people.

I usually spend at least one happy hour a week after work + one lunch a week with those types and then one or two lunches a week with current co workers and people closer to me that I consider super talent that I'd like to always stay in touch with.

I just drop random messages to folks saying "Hey it's been about year since we last chatted and it'd be awesome to learn about what you're working on and catch up in general. Do you have anytime for a lunch or pint after work in the next week or two?"

If you do stuff like that you'll get invited to other social gatherings and eventually you'll start meeting their friends and people they consider talented.

What I described above is actually work (I enjoy it though) and requires time and effort.
I want to live in the world you propose. But.. I'm sad now.
WeChat and related services

Line and related services

Multi-sim phones

Emojis

language/script support for local languages

... and many more

basically thinking like a local lets you disrupt many age old creaky systems.
I have a love hate relationship with the place, it's rarely black and white. I get to work on really cool projects and stay in an incredibly low cost of living area.... but the internet access is awful and I don't get much time to improve myself.
This has an editorial point of view, for sure, but it's also an approachable introduction:

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-w...
Visualizing the Art in Pi – Visual Cinnamon
I like these counter arguments
>open up easy immigration path to USA for those with advanced degrees (MS/PhD in science/technology) from world's accredited universities.

AKA How to create diploma mills in one easy step.
Direct to Consumer Whole Genome Sequencing with Health/Wellness App
The Death of the Cyberflâneur
Places I've worked have had their own mini-libraries. I have some kind of documentation loaded up on at least one of my monitors at pretty much all times.

I don't spend significant amounts of time doing nothing but research however. The problem might not be "read three chapters of a book" on a status report, it might be having only that on a status report.
"My pill is better than theirs", he said, after a demagogic campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt.