skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh! for a second I thought this was an "official" feature release. Not an improvement IMHO.

But for me this illustrates the "killer app" of browser extensions, that you can customize the sites you use every day and are not dependent on them implementing a certain feature.
Does this help the disabled? If not, it's 'user experience', not accessibility.

> Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people who experience disabilities.
Maybe he should have contacted the American ambassador to Sweden, or maybe the US ambassador in the UK :

>Included in the leak was a list of high-profile donors from 2008 and the ambassadorship they received in exchange for their large donation to the DNC and Barack Obama’s Organizing For Action (OFA). Essentially, Obama was auctioning off foreign ambassador positions and other office positions while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The largest donor listed at contributions totaling over $3.5 million, Matthew Barzun, served as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011, served as President Obama’s National Finance Chair during his 2012 reelection campaign, and now serves as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Oh, I don't think that will help.
If Assange is facing charges in the US (and I don't think there's any evidence he is) then that's his problem. You don't get to avoid prosecution for a crime because it is politically or legally inconvenient for you.
The timeline of what happened (according to BBC):

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11949341

What jumps out of to me is that the initial prosecutor said she didn't believe Assange committed rape, so she dropped the case. But then Sweden's general prosecutor took the case - why would she do that? Is that typical in Sweden?

Another thing it's not made clear by BBC, although it may have been explained in other articles or by Assange himself, is how did the two women meet and already accused him of rape within the span of 3 days?
Apple's satellite data is terrible when I try it. It still shows my house as a big hole in the ground, for example.

Apple Maps is good enough now to get the job done, but it still kind of sucks.
Ask HN: What's your best marketing automation techniques?
I run an online SaaS business.

I discovered (as many before me...) that marketing is probably the hardest aspect of growing a business. It takes time, patience and perseverance.

I spend a fair amount of time everyday trying to be creative on how I could automate my marketing efforts.

I'm a dev and I work mostly alone so I learned to be efficient in almost everything I do. Always looking for low hanging fruits with maximum impact and controlled costs.

I use automation tools, connect APIs when it makes sense, code some connectors when the tool does not support it, etc.

But I often get stuck when looking to solve complicated problems with advanced scripts that could dynamically take decision based on text analysis, sentiment, topic, etc. In other words replace part of what a human would do but with AI.
Thanks for the clarification and for spotting the 4khz error. This is fascinating stuff.

Looks like I'll have to concede that voice acting is much more practical, for now at least.
Ecuador did not refuse. They are the ones who wanted Assange to be questioned in the embassy in the first place. But obviously there is a procedure for this to happen, and as another commenter says, a date has now been set. The Swedes, after years of refusing to come to London to question Assange, finally agreed after the UN ruled that Assange's stay is arbitrary detention and criticised Sweden for its handling of the case.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/freeing-julian-assange-the-la...
How do they "finish the thing" by being unable to complete the arrest because he's sitting on foreign territory?

Particularly when the Ecuadorean embassy keeps throwing curve balls by blocking requests and insisting on asking the questions themselves.
'If you’re looking for a quick flip, find a burger joint’: exits take time
Ask HN: Can you help this quadriplegic organise their medical information?
I recently submitted a [Subject Access Request][1] and as a result I've been given a copy of all of my medical records. This treasure trove includes every phone call I've ever made to my doctor, every PDF, every Word document, every email that has my name on it, absolutely everything and it's all just in one big folder. Does the HN Hive Mind know of any tools that will help me organise this information, it's very important that I find a specific piece of information out from within this haystack?

I basically need to investigate myself to prove that something did or did not happen, but I have no idea where to begin?

I really need your help HN!

[1]: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/principle-6-rights/subject-access-request/
IANAL, and I'm definitely not current on how the Scandinavian legal system works. I'm hoping someone can summarize this:

Why can't he be charged while he's still in the Embassy?

I understand that enforcing any judgement rendered by a court becomes a hang up because of his asylum, but that's a separate concern.
Right of political asylum is a tricky concept. Such persons are indeed protected by one legal system from the prosecution from an other legal system. Neither system are required by international standard to back off, but tax payers of both systems are paying for it and thus has some right to question the sanity of it.

As for armchair Occams Razor/conspiracists theorist, the published line of events goes as:

First month in Sweden. Initial questioning only, followed by conversations between lawyer and prosecutor. Assange explicit asked if he could leave the country and got "yes" back. While in UK he had a previous schedule talk in Sweden which got suddenly surrounded by a massive police force. Following this was the international arrest order.

So I ask, what secretly American agents? What elaborate ruse? A ordinary investigation suddenly jumped from "this is barely worth anyones time" to "international arrest warrant and massive police forces". Assange theory is that an external diplomatic force, ie US, meddled with the investigation. The other theory being presented is that this unprecedented chain of events is just normal procedure.
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That's fair - I just find it's horrendously unstable (often hanging or crashing) with only a few (under 8, generally) tabs open (also on an SP3), whereas Chrome / FF will handle up to hundreds with no issues.
Taleb considers the stock-market at large to be extremely risky. He advocates the exact opposite of keeping 90% of your assets in the stock market.
> I don't know what it is about HN that makes people refuse to read past the first little thing they object to and then bloviate about it.

That's hardly unique to HN. Following Chomsky, I'd argue that it's actually a universal behavior, which merely finds (slight) variation in expression according to the medium at hand. It even has a Latin name - argumentum ad logicam - and it's closely related to cherry picking except that it's applied to parts of the argument instead of to data. In fact, I just did it to you when I picked on the inessential "about HN" part of your sentence (which reads fine without it), and if you find that annoying then perhaps you should consider that you also did it when you jumped into a response about innuendo without addressing the more substantive discussion that had already occurred.
> The problem is that Sweden and the UK are complicit

The UK isn't that complicit, because he's been here for a while and the UK has done fuck all.
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You might not need a CSS preprocessor
Rather extradited – to Sweden or the US, the latter maybe via Sweden … that seems to be the real issue, not the rape accusations (although rape accusations are known as a powerful weapon to destroy enemies – although that does of course not rule out that Assange is actually a rapist under Swedish law).
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Unless you are playing games with it all day, Otherwise you want the Baseband Modem to be super energy efficient, or may be you some how mangically get the best reception signal everywhere.

And the Connection is only 2nd energy drain, the first being Display. I am not even sure if MicroLED could improve much at all. But any energy saving in Display Tech would be huge.
Or try him in absentia. But clearly, they don't care enough.
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Dignity of the two girls is not involved because they did not report being raped or molested despite what the news say.

Ms. Ardin hosted Assange six days after the alleged incident and threw party for him.

Ms. Wilen and Assange separated in good mood afterwards and had breakfast together.

They went to police in order to persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and after the police said they cold not do such thing they basically asked the police "if they could have been raped or molested" without never reporting rape or molestation. In the prosecutors report girls describe sex as unpleasant and that they did not like it. Under Swedish law police and the prosecution are required to register and prosecute all possible rape offenses of which they become aware. Prosecutors even dropped the case once.

As far as I understand, this is just procedural limbo. Swedish prosecutors are required to continue with hearing and Assange is freaked out of his mind because the case is so absurd.

I don't agree with those who claim that Swedish rape laws are bad, but I think they are very different from other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#/media/File:Ra...
There is no way to prove someone's guilt unless he's in Guantanamo? Every day HN teaches me stuff.
One of my favourite examples is the blank C program that won the "Worst Abuse of the Rules" award in the 1994 Obfuscated C Code contest (last entry here):

http://web.archive.org/web/20020615054101/http://www.nyx.net...

It's a Quine, a Palindrome and a Null Program all in one!
I find few reasons to disagree with you, especially the possible Internet access is a very important point. Thanks!
It's an unrealistic demand, which Assange is fully aware of. The Swedish constitution makes it illegal for politicians to interfer with the judicial system.

Our laws do also, by the way, make it impossible for us to extradite him to the US without the consent of the UK, so it seems awfully convenient that he claims that he would trust an illegal guarantee by the Swedish government but not that it would follow it's own laws. That is, unless the UK is the problem - but then why the hell did he go there in the first place, and stayed there?
Sweden shouldn't have to bargain or compromise with someone accused of a crime just because that person is picky about what countries they set foot in for their own reasons.

IF there are US charges against him and IF the US tries to extradite then I'm sure he'll have an opportunity to fight it.
I couldn't find the favorite link on mobile though :o(
Interesting. The project structure looks a bit weird, though. It's basically an own GOPATH, which makes it harder to vendor. I would suggest putting src/devt.de/dudeldu in the root and everything else in subdirectories.
Abundance in Earth's crust doesn't help at all during a supply crunch. Bringing a mine up takes at least 5 years. And your mine is going to be on an orebody, not just processing random rocks. Cobalt is another critical element for batteries I believe.
I wonder what possible applications could come out of using a fresnel lens+a stirling engine to drive pistons in a desert:
https://youtu.be/CDCTANU8Tfk?t=1m1s
And "absolute" actually means relative (to closest non static ancestor).
Wow, I didn't know D3 v.4 is so much better for Canvas, thanks for the link. However, this simulation runs horribly slow in FF and IE - I wonder where the fault is.
Nononononono. The documentation was great, the times where I had to read the code were rare, and they were a pleasure. His code is not always the most pragmatic or straightforward, but it is packed with beauty, and I much prefer it to digging through heaps of very readable, character-less code.
>>In this song, the emcee articulates and presents math from various, relatively advanced perspectives, while using the context of a nerdy professor giving advise to an embattled Mathematics Major student who must finish his assignments soon, and practice harder.
It's great that they're doing this. We had kicked around the idea of signing up all of our customers for HIBP, but decided against it for obvious reasons. What we would really like to do is to be able to notify our custoemrs when their email addresses show up in breaches. Besides being helpful to our customers (who will mostly not be aware of useful services like HIBP), it would potentially help reduce fraud on our sites.

Is anyone aware of a way to get access to sanitized dumps that we can compare to our customer DB internally? It's unlikely we'd get approval to go out and get the dumps and analyze them ourselves, but if there was a reliable source like HIBP, but for bulk comparison, we could bring a lot of value to the business and to our customers.
I think you should just read the book(s). They're very well written and enlightening.
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I googled this yesterday a bit, and at least in the us they are mentioning how development companies scaled back in 2008 and they are still ramping up construction: for the last 8 years, developers have been building less than the increase in demographics in the US. That could have been a global side-effect of the previous crisis. If it is so, this would automatically fix over the next 10 years.
The more mainstream idea that the money is cheap is also getting reverted by the Fed by increasing its rates.\

> Economists out of UBC have been saying that the only explanation for such explosive, unrealistic growth in real estate is a flood of foreign money. Last I heard, they were calling this tax, at best, a good first step.

Do you have any sources for this? This is a bit mindboggling: flood of foreign does not explain the global effect very well. Argentina doesnt have the same issue, but real estate prices also had its great increase. But also, flood of foreign money into a city like Vancouver could be helping a lot in its economic development: if a city is flooded with cash prices increase, but so does the economic revenue of many people in it: by putting a measure that limits money coming in, you could reduce prices but you would also reduce value, because the property is simply less desirable.

In any case, we still dont know why a rich person would buy a property and never rent it out if he doesnt plan in living in it and thats the supply problem its trying to get targeted. Why would the chinese tycoon face depreciation of his property and losing money? It even looks like a business opportunity, if it is so.
But how do you design a bench to avoid it being used as a radiator.
Oh, I forgot the most prominent one as of late: Urbit, which started as a functional esoteric language with a Martian aesthetic... written by a guy famous for... other things... and... somehow hopped on the blockchain gravy train? last I heard it was... auctioning address space? for surprisingly large amounts of money?
I'm curious about functional approaches to game programming. I don't have those ~30 years of experience though.

One of the key differences between React and an Entity Component system is that React encourages a single source of state to be passed into the top of the tree, and then that state filters down to leaf components. A component can be said to only be coupled to the abstract contracts of its children.

What I understand of an Entity Component system is that entities are largely responsible for managing their own state. From what I've seen, this leads to a fair bit of undesirable code, with entities trying to discover state from other entities, leading to some unfortunate coupling.

I might be wrong though, so would be interested to hear if that's the case, and if anyone knows of any pointers to interesting approaches.
The real benefit is not just being able to develop Linux software, but the ability to work on cross-platform code. I do most of my coding and debugging in Visual Studio, but when I want to test the changes on Linux I now simply alt-tab to the bash shell which I have open in the appropriate directory, rebuild the changes with make, and then run the updated executable.

That's not necessarily doable for everyone, but for me that workflow is so much simpler than it would be with dual booting or a separate Linux VM.
It's you jumping the gun here. I think if you re-read what I wrote here, you'll find that nothing you wrote contradicts what I wrote above.
Ah.

I've heard tales of some of his code being absolutely unmaintainable. Guess I was wrong.
http://www.svt.se/ug/julian-assange-riskerar-utlamning-till-...

Why would a nation give a warrant for communication data associated with a person, close down that persons bank accounts, and send investigators to interview people close to the person and request evidence? Those are the supporting evidence, and while it doesn't conclusively prove anything, some people would conclude that it is enough to warrant caution.
R

Five or so years ago it as an esoteric language for statisticians, which had been around forever (especially if you count the predecessor S language).

Now the IEEE ranks it the 5th(!) most important (or something?) language[1], and it's the fastest growing language on StackOverflow[2].

That's a pretty amazing change for a language which has few redeeming factors (ha!) as a language, apart from lots of very useful libraries.

[1] http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-moves-up-to-5t...

[2] http://jkunst.com/r/what-do-we-ask-in-stackoverflow/
Do you only create copies of the stateless pieces of each stack, or do you also copy databases?
I feel (hope :-)) that in the future, network bandwidth will be large enough that large, high-power general computation services can be used to offload intense processing tasks from personal devices to work around things like this.

So, if you're on your phone and need to crunch a massive data-set, this gets offloaded to the big-datacruncher-in-the-cloud, and the result sent back to your device.
His racism, obviously.

Standard immigrant-hatred. Very much en vogue throughout Europe right now.
I have a game development background. Did 8 years of C/C++ games for PCs/Consoles. I then switched to web/server development. I've thought of doing something similar as I'm super into React/Redux, but....

Redux can be used without react, just rendering your game graphics all the time is fine, a moving game basically causes that to happen anyway. I think taking something like Pixi.js and using redux for your app state container would give you all the hot code reloading you need.

I'd maybe vote for using React for your settings/menus and such, but then again Pixi.js is going to give you much richer, and faster rendering APIs.
She wrote a blog post, put it online for ... who knows? It could be literally any reason. For her own later reference, to help crystallize her thoughts, or just for fun. Somebody else posts it to Hacker News. Dudes (always dudes!) tell her to change her writing style. Why? Why should she? Why do they care?
No, Pixi.js is a better one for 2D games. Redux is sweet though.
I am betting this will happen in 2018. Likely to be announced in Summer 2018 WWDC. TSMC announced their 7nm will also comes with a High Performance variants. Most leading nodes has always be Mobile first, and I cant think of anyone other then Apple who would pay to get this. Other CPU and GPU makers no longer compete with Mobile's Soc Fab capacity, they just sit and wait until the yield and price is acceptable.

All this, is assuming the Mac dont just fade out, where we will simply dock our Personal Computer ( Our iPhone ) and OSX UI running.
The Nix manual is a good start: http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-quick-start
Then there are a lot tutorial about setting up a development environment for a particular language. See:

go: http://lethalman.blogspot.it/2015/02/developing-in-golang-wi...

haskell: https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2014-02-04-how-i-develop-...

python: http://datakurre.pandala.org/2015/10/nix-for-python-develope...

node.js: http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.it/2014/10/deploying-npm-pa...

I recommend reading Luca Bruno's blog for learning Nix internals and more advanced topics.
Since when has "fuck all" cost £10m?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31159594
It's pretty Kafkaesque that a "Department of Homeland Security" investigates citizens who run simple torrent trackers.

I just can't get used to this terminology.
Ramping up recycling of old batteries helps
Legally an embassy is a tiny parcel of sovereign land that belongs to the country it's an embassy of, so strictly speaking, he's in Ecuador.
>Why? Why should she? Why do they care?

In a word: constructive criticism

Again, I thought the piece was informative. I figured I'd voice my opinion in the form of suggestions, since this is a forum for such things.

Lesson learned. The only feedback one can give is positive.

>dudes, always dudes

What does sex/gender have to do with this? From your comment, it follows that you'd be less upset if women had commented. That feels wrong and regressive.
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Nvm sucks at npm link. If you use npm link and nvm things will break. Thats why you should use n instead.
All true, but the parent was questioning policy in the US.
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The goal of such a system would be self-replication[1]. So the material that the stirling engine is made from should be sourced locally from the environment. Perhaps iron or aluminium.

Also make use of molten salt energy storage systems to keep the system running over night.

Calculate your doubling time and extrapolate to determine when you've solved the worlds energy problems, or when you've turned it into grey goo. ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDo2OeeimHA
Anybody experienced the opposite ? first time I was exposed to combinatorics everything felt natural and intuitive. The following lesson everything had become a blur.
It clearly is his problem, because he's been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy for years. That sounds like his problem.

> You don't get to avoid prosecution for a crime because it is politically or legally inconvenient for you.

You clearly do, if the alternative for the people who want to prosecute you is to violate international norms and storm an embassy.
Can it handle streaming of videos? README only mentions mp3 files.
Encryption backdoors? It's an ongoing dialogue, say anti-terror bods
According to the Alexnet paper (The first real Imagenet CNN success story - http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/imagenet.pdf), the choice of 224x224 (but actually 227 - there's been some confusion with the paper I believe) was due to their use of data augmentation techniques (translations and reflections) on the 256x256 images. The sizes of Imagenet images varies but I believe it is common to crop to a minimum of 256x256 for the size/minimal overall information lost tradeoff.

Section 3.5 and 4.1 of the above paper have more information.

edit:
So I guess really it's down to:

1. The fact that square images are much easier to work with

2. The images are cropped to 256x256 because it's a convenient average size for imagenet

3. The 224/227 sizes are used to allow for the extraction of random patches for translation invariance
That's cool. I've never looked at Flynn, but you've motivated me to give it a look!