skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they're not using autocomplete, but the software sitting between the electrodes and the cursor is a black box as far as the article goes. If the software is trained or calibrated, what's to say that it isn't picking up some information from the structure of English.

Also depending the setup of the onscreen keyboard, it too could have error reducing aspects built in.

Also it's unclear whether the 12 wpm is actual wpm with back spacing and correction, or whether it's an 'adjusted' wpm based on the error rate.

This isn't to say that it's not an impressive result regardless. Just that I'm more skeptical of the 12 wpm.
> It would make the intelligence community feel hurt/ sad

these are people who literally hire death squads to get what they want. hurting their feelings has consequences.
Happy Developers day for all :)
That is very true. The stakes seem higher now.
It should be made more difficult because of the harm that could come if it's used unjustly is much greater than any good it can cause by being used correctly.

Just because someone has sworn to protect you doesn't mean they'll actually do it. And that doesn't prevent anyone else from using it against you either. In a perfect world, all the police follow the law, all the governments follow the law, and there are no criminals to steal this information.

> at making the job of people sworn to protect them more difficult

What job is made easier by providing a list of all gun owners?

> is not only acceptable, but preferred.

It's pretty much the entire foundation of America. You don't trust the person. You trust the system, and hopefully design the system in a way that minimizes abuse. No, it's not perfect and never can be. But one concrete example is the fourth amendment. The ability for an officer to search a home for evidence without permission is just too ripe for abuse, even if it does allow criminals to get away with things.
And I've been very, very impressed with the handwriting recognition. I discovered it by accident before it was a paid feature when I was searching for something and it brought up an image of some scribbled notes I had taken with the search highlighted. And my handwriting is bad, really bad.
> And there goes my data, my privacy, ...

Are companies that host on EC2 or Azure giving the customer data or giving up on privacy?
Not all vehicles are safe. The shuttle was >100,000kg incoming. Passenger vehicles to orbit could be on the order of 1,000kg, which would be much easier to make safe for gliding. Emergency parachutes could even be feasible.
I've found that there is no correlation between Yelp ratings of a coffeeshop and actual coffee quality. It's just not what reviewers are necessarily looking for, especially compared to things like power outlets and ambience.
You're right about the prevalence of guesswork about probability along laypeople (and everyone until Pascal was essentially a layperson). The Emergence of Probability is a very interesting book on this topic that sketches how statistica emerged from an odd mix of intuitive advances, from places like medicine and alchemy where before statistics you had to guess whether your medicine worked.
> I drink beers with people usually.

It occurs to me that this is a good way to increase the number of "hops" in your network.

/me ducks
Lookouts: a book of the making of a short monster movie
Amazon seems to have gone HTTPS
The joys of the world wild west are still out there for curious surfers. Admittedly it does require a lot more effort, especially for a younger generation who may not remember what the early web is like and how you would traverse it. I still get a thrill finding 'hidden' communities on the internet.
> He caused exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.

do you really believe that? prove it. what security incidents have occurred because of Snowden's revelations that would not have occurred otherwise?
Peyton Manning is a football player.
Athletes are people too. If you would normally treat an issue with medication if the individual were not an athlete, why should they be barred from competing if a doctor deems using the medication appropriate? Rather than thinking of it as an unfair advantage, I would say it removes an obstacle which is disadvantageous for the person relative to their competitors (that is, it levels the playing field, in an ideal world).
I don't understand the correlation between the opening of the story and AWS vs. GCE at all.

Establishing a long-term dependency on "Scaling R Us" was the problem, not Amazon. If you diversify AWS with GCE so that you have established choices, that's cool -- but "Scaling R Us" is still a problem.
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> That's not survivable for people. (Or probably sparrows either.)

A peregrine falcon can take 20Gs [1], at least over short periods. Maybe we need to start an astrobird training program.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/How-much-G-force-can-a-bird-take
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Why not both is that someone who has brought the powder has done more than enough for the party to be excused from also doing grocery store runs for beverage.
I'm surprised there is this exception mechanism and nobody brought it up before. if anything, this leak shows that the list of exceptions should be public. I assume it isn't already. For example, I would be interested to see how many exceptions an X time tennis champion has obtained, as I'm sure his competitors would also like to know.

in any case, this exception mechanism is a slippery slope. is it fair to healthy athletes? could the advantage of these banned substances be so big that it could motivate healthy athletes to get sick intentionally?
I don't have any hope that wada will improve after this since now it is so easy for them to just say russia did this because they hate us. they also did not improve much after the russian doping scandal, which was only possible because the whole doping test system is flawed.
When did he do that?
And then Apple figured out the average American cares more about what they pay monthly for an object than they do about the total cost. So instead of "owning" a phone that you could run over with a truck, you "rented" a phone that would break if you looked at it wrong for 7x the price.

Brilliant move on their part, and I wouldn't trade my google maps for anything. But I miss the hell out of my blackberry email to this day.
I feel like every Atlassian product has a totally different Markdown syntax for no good reason. That makes it feel very non-unified.
The initial thought process around financial aid in this case is to give founders the means to be able to work on their idea, project, or company. I'd like to think of it more as a grant. The grant will afford founders in more disadvantaged positions an opportunity to focus on their startup.

We're still working out the details of program, but our aim is to encourage more people to work on their ideas, and hopefully help startups be better in the long run.
The US government has known this forever. Ever see those black boxes over censored documents? It's obviously better than blurring, the only information you get is the size of the box.
The question is, how do you ensure they are just swapping existing ads, that they are all not acceptable, and that they aren't inserting ads where there were none?
>eliminate student loans

This will do nothing more than favor the rich and further suppress the poor.
Samsung and Sony disagree.
Just for the benefit of those looking for great coffee shops, you're speaking of Spyhouse in Minneapolis[1], right?

1: https://foursquare.com/v/spyhouse-coffee/52408489498e959bae4...
One further comparison, the Blue Origin rocket that has landed several times is roughly the height of one of SpaceX's landing legs. It really is a different game.
Ah, an obvious factor that I failed to consider (homeowner being absent), thanks.

Is this different from a thief "casing" your house to determine if you've purchased big ticket items? If their access to the information is logged (which I know isn't always going to be valid) and you're notified that a civilian accessed your gun inventory record, is that more or less problematic than someone who just watches your house every weekend for a few weeks after, say, Christmas, to see what large packaging you throw out without breaking down?

I'm reconsidering my opinion on public access, for certain, and I'm sincerely trying to be as informed on the caveats as best I can.
The median you quoted is for a household (usually more than one person). 55k is well above the median individual income.
Level 1:
'Buzzword' has the connotation that it sounds impressive to outsiders but is not much else than hot air. Sometimes there is even a connotation that it is an imprecise, non-technical term.

Level 2:
Machine Learning, however, has been well-defined in the past (starting in the 50s), is now widely used, contains a whole set of (old but also) new innovative techniques and actually contributes massive value to many domains.

Level 3:
VR is far from dead.

EDIT: a word
EDIT_2: I would have agreed if you had said 'trend'. Yes, it is a trend.
Blind guess, lack of clustering and a history of changing file formats so you loose your data every few month.
I think it might update on another schedule. It was introduced in March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_SE
I think the net needs to include people who know people that were funded by YC and not just the partners themselves.
I do not know if they are evil, but I think it is fair for me to try to avoid those kind of people.

This is a fine stance to have, but I don't see how it relates to the context of ad-blockers. It's a simple enough just to not visit websites that display advertisements. Why would you need an adblocker for that?
> it is not worth $100k and there are many other ways to have that experience that do not cost that much

You can get an excellent education at a state school for less than $6k per year.

The person who gets a degree in music theory, philosophy, or art history may not get a job that ties in to their major, but these people all leave college with skills in critical thinking, writing, the ability to meet deadlines, skills in communicating complex ideas to others, public speaking, etc. Most importantly, they leave with proof that they know how to learn and improve themselves. There are jobs for people with these skills, and they will likely be far more rewarding than gutting chickens on the line all day or waiting tables at the Cheesecake Factory.
The police officer is a person, so they are free to ask you whatever they want. In most circumstances, you are free to decline to answer.

Some states do have a "duty to identify" law making it illegal to decline to identify yourself to a police officer. If you're traveling I would imagine it's incumbent upon you to know whether or not you're legally required to present identification if asked by a police officer.
I'm a fan of finding odd corners on the 'net, what's your technique?
I thought this is what they did on Geocities. But don't people still do that on Tumblr?
> Lisp has sensible norms

Again, in your opinion. And sorry to start blunt because I'm trying to round this out as we're getting nowhere :)

To me, writing my code like it's an AST, amid a ton of parens is not sensible. I've happily not done so in many other languages for over a decade, and I'm very happy with that state of affairs (or at least I'm relatively happy with the modern incarnations of C-style langs, e.g. Rust, Crystal, ES6, and I would be very unhappy if I had to chuck that in tomorrow and write lisp).

Generally agree with your train of thought on abstractions, and see how you arrive at macros. But my take is that it's simply not a good idea to go as far as macros, especially when the syntax sacrifice is so great. If the language is truly missing something, take it up with the language authors.

(I've never encountered a situation in > 6 years of writing Python where I encountered something I could not do and needed macros for).

Again, my basic opinion is I see it as a trade-off, and one that I don't agree with. I think many others feel the same way if they get as far as understanding the purported benefits of homoiconicity. But most aren't willing to argue it on Hacker News and get downvoted to high hell (which is why I used a throwaway).

(I should note meanwhile in another thread someone wrote off the entire JS community as 'full of self-righteous assholes' [0] and got upvoted to top post).

Thanks for the discussion, it was an interesting experiment in arguing these thoughts I've had for a long time, as an 'abandoned' Clojure-curious dev. I'm a bit sad I didn't get any new answers, but appreciate the insight all the same.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12482176
Step 4: Existing application shut down by Google.
Yandex offers unlimited users (up to 1000, then you have to contact them and I guess they will allow more) and claims unlimited storage, zoho free tier is 25 users and 5 GB storage/user.
Bull Run on Lyndale might be better.
Espresso machines need not be fancy or ultra-expensive. That's a terrible myth. The best one I've found (in terms of quality espresso and reliability) is the Delonghi basic model and costs $99.[1] The Italian Americans I know also use this model, despite having tried others.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi-EC155-Espresso-Cappuccino-Ma...
not to split hairs, but that's median household income... usually made of 2 incomes these days.

plumbers, electricians, and plenty of other blue collar vocations do pretty well imo.
> I have hired at a company like Google and we want to hire the best person period.

The law is that the H1-B is supposed to be used in those (rare) cases where there are no Americans that can do the job. Frequently "the best person to do the job" is loaded with subjectivity. But also, it is against the law.
Do you know of an island of cannibals which are white Europeans?
It doesn't. You'd have to scrape a site that had that data or check to see if they have an API. I believe there are sites that do this but as it wasn't core functionality of the MVP anyway we didn't focus on it too much.
Largely depends on what you work on. I have relatives from India who are doctors who stay in non-coastal cities and make a decent living. Unfortunately if you have to make it big money wise you have to ultimately play the start up game, where the biggest center in the world today is the Bay Area.

Also as some one who has lived both in Bangalore and Bay Area, I know well to understand cities matter in the sense if you are in the middle of all the action chances of progress and growth are higher. Or your long term competitiveness and career will likely suffer.

Sure some hipster culture exists in the Bay Area, but for all of it. There is a lot of good work in Bay Area, and I think if you are in tech and are an immigrant you must absolute stay there.
Yes, but in that situation they're still allowed to have "reddit" in the name. It seems like using docker at all in the repo name is forbidden.
This was tried in 1988 - http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug...
Agreed. Depending on what he's allowed to pack I'm betting against him
>More like a law enforcement officer having increased situational awareness

I.e. more likely to shoot you? Many people have irrational responses to knowing that someone has a gun, police officers included.

>Nor did I say anything about a cop taking anyone's guns.

I assumed you were referring to the number of recent proposals to allow for the "temporary confiscation" of guns from people accused (but not convicted) of domestic violence.

>I'd think that information would improve their situational awareness and make their approach more context-appropriate.

Why would you think that? What would be more context-appropriate?
It's been hacked before, too, see:

https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Kall...

and

http://legbacore.com/Research_files/HowManyMillionBIOSWouldY...

The example in the first link is especially depressing, because they found an integer overflow vulnerability in a code file that started with this warning comment:

/*
Caution: This module requires additional review when
modified.
This driver will have external input − capsule image.
This external input must be validated carefully
to avoid security issue like buffer overflow, integer
overflow. */

And of course, later someone came along and added an integer overflow.
You can either approach this small-scale (you want to actually know the people in your network) or large-scale (you want millions of readers/twitter followers, etc).

For small-scale:

* Industry talks and conferences -- it's very common for tech companies to give talks or even conferences. An information security / pentesting consultant company held an event where some of their employees presented research that they were taking to a larger conference. From their side, it was for marketing reasons, but this was kept out of their presentations completely (which focused entirely on their work). From my side, I got to spend a fun few hours being wined and dined (for free) and got to chat to some interesting people in the coffee breaks about their work. We still keep in touch. Pros: smaller groups of people who probably share interests with you (you chose the same event). Cons: It's a bit harder to find out about events like these, but definitely possible if you keep your eyes and mind open.

* Reach out to people who used to be in your network -- university professors, old colleagues, etc. They have surprisingly good memories, and probably won't be at all unhappy to get a quick update from you. They might even mention some opportunities ;)

* Make stuff -- even if it's small, such as a blog post or a useful script, it's probably enough to get a few people to notice you, and perhaps one or two to follow you on Twitter or email you and ask you for help with debugging

For large-scale:

* Give people free stuff in return for an email address. Spam them (even if it's not a lot of emails, it's super targeted and you'll get results). Follow people on Twitter, and DM them with offers with free stuff (video, white paper, blog post). Some will react badly (like most of the HN crowd, including me) and report you as spam, block you, unfollow you. A majority of people will lap it up and your 'network' will grow exponentially. [Note: I haven't really tried this myself, but as an experiment I created a Twitter account and started tweeting cheap motivational bullshit. I gained followers pretty quickly and saw how the marketers with hundreds of thousands of readers operated as they were amongst the first to notice my bullsh.t account. Unfortunately what they were doing was working].

In either case, remember that there are a lot of people looking to grow their networks because having a large network is beneficial, so they look for other people who can provide value and network with them. Instead of being one of these people, and focusing on what your network can do for you, rather focus on the value you can provide to others, and then give it to them. The network will flock to you.
Kinda 20th century thinking. Military might is important, yes, but economically things are too dependent upon one another. All it is going to take is global pop culture to shift away from Americanism to whatever flavor is next (probably some Asian cross cultural identity). Then the USA and our economy too dependent upon cultural exports will kinda run dry, and boobs like Trump will become more common. It's gonna be a shit show. (Actually, already is!)
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't pixelation a first step in most of image recognition algorithms, used to reduce computational complexity of the problem? It would be weird to treat it as obfuscation method.
Hey, your email isn't showing up either. You can email me at kam[at]stratagem[dot]io

I'll send you my calendar when i get your email.
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Yes. For simple text-censoring examples de-pixelating is quite easy (since you know a lot about what could be under it), it was only a matter of time that somebody applied better tools to harder cases.

(you can of course cover something up with a random pixelated pattern if that looks less jarring, but it then is a purely cosmetic choice: the important bit is to remove all information connected to the obscured content)
That is a stupid approach.

Cars have always been coevolutionary with infrastructure and, hell, society as a whole.

Why solve a problem for a point in time and its assumptions... the hard way?

By adopting adaptive and coevolutionary timelines, self-driving cars and a society that uses them can "organically" (sorry for the buzzword) adopt them.

And ignores multiple levels of useful intermediate achievements:

stage 1: self-driving on superhighways for the long haul: a wayyyy easier task with much more controlled information, markings, protocols, risks, etc. And with massive payoffs in consumer and business transportation.

stage 2: more extreme weather events, highways besides superhighways, handle commuting and congestion

after that: progressively more local streets and conditions.
> Though it has only a small edge in terms of range, GM’s all-electric car will get to market well before Tesla’s Model 3 does.

Meh. This kind of sounds like the 800-pound gorilla boasting that it can lift slightly more weight than the spider monkey.

And before we declare a winner, let's see when, and what, the two companies actually ship. How will they compare on price, range, reliability, safety, comfort, software features, handling, etc?

Nobody knows yet.

Gorilla projects great victory over spider monkey!
> And there goes my data, my privacy, ...

I'm not sure why this would be the case. They're just using google cloud services (computing, storage, and apparently tensor flow). You use tons of other services right now which are built on the same back end. It would be no different for you and me (end users I mean) if they had chosen Amazon.
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I think it's generally a blur, as opposed to pixelation.
> The government tried raising awareness for years, it did not work.

Or it did, but people just decided that they didn't want to be donors.
> You goof up your registration form at the post office (one mistake on the 4th page of a 10 page document)? Guess who's filling it out again, even if the office worker has white out handy.

That's pretty much my experience in most government offices in the US, too.

> When people are talking about greasing the wheel, it's getting access to systems they otherwise don't have.

Paying privately to the official for access for service from public officials that is not generally made available is "bribery". Yes, "greasing the wheel" is a euphemism for bribery that is often used particularly for small bribes for small favors (though "small" is relative to who is speaking.)

> My point more is that the "bribes" that are talked about so much aren't really what we normally think of as bribes.

They are exactly what most people with experience in domains where there is the kind of lack of accountability which makes pervasive bribery a thing expect as the most common kind of bribery. (When there is some accountability, the perceived risk/reward of smaller transactions becomes less favorable more quickly than is the case for larger transactions -- if as a public employee you are going to get fired and be unemployable in the public sector, and maybe prosecuted, if you are caught taking any bribe, and there is even a modest risk of detection in even small bribes, its no longer worth it to take small bribes in any case.)
Yup. In 2004 Interpol busted a pedophile by untwirling his (lousy) face obfuscation: http://boingboing.net/2007/10/08/untwirling-photo-of.html