skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, the prosecutor doesn't actually think: "He's rich, so I won't prosecute this so hard." But at every point where a decision can go for or against, there's a bit of bias in the rich person's favor distributed throughout the system.

This is absolutely critical and I think best explains that undercurrent of things like "subconscious racism".
Now it’s exploding Samsung washing machines
Shazam is finally profitable after a billion downloads
God help us if Palantir is hard tech
On Safari I really don't see much of a transition. The content suddenly appears with some flashing. Certainly not seeing anything that looks like an accordion.
>Swipe the SoC, and no one would be the wiser.

It would have to get swiped on the way from the manufacturer to the OEM. Once the OEM has sent it out, it's protected against this exact kind of attack. And while it may make sense for interdiction of a single package to a known target, doing the same with an entire batch of chips seems prohibitively expensive.

>Given everything that has to be in place for vPro/the ME to work

Again, per Intel's documentation. For all anyone here knows, data exfil begins the moment a certain sequence of bits crosses the right registers - and it's not like this is beyond the capabilities of what ME lets you do.

There is no good reason that the entire subsystem can't be disabled by the user, permanently. But, come to find out about it, the chips are configured to shut the system down within 30 minutes if the ME firmware doesn't pass checksum.

That, in my mind, puts it uncomfortably close to malware territory. Every one of these concerns evaporate if the ME area could be wiped or dumped - it's not as if remote management is some secret competitive advantage.
Nice calibration of the subject.
I don't understand how the algorithm on page 21 works. Aren't many Unicode characters formed with multiple code points, like <modifying-mark><basic-character>? If these are reversed to be <basic-character><modifying-mark>, then the textual output would actually be different, wouldn't it?

Shouldn't rev(1) reverse graphemes instead of code points?
>Wingdings

95% package loss rate incoming
Totally agree with you. I'll work on it. Thanks the feedback!
hopefully invaliding this name will be easier.
I think YC's criterion for getting admitted into the core program is still fitting - do they believe it can become a (ten) billion dollar company? They recently created the Fellowship program to fund more companies at an earlier stage but I don't know too much about that.

It's hard to give you more feedback without knowing more. If you don't want to focus on growth and realistically take VC money, YC might not be for you (these are generalizations, I'd argue Wufoo was a YC success story and they barely took any money at all).
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Real’ Robinson Crusoe
You might also be interested in Byron Tully's _The Old Money Book_. He's from an old-money background himself, and while his investment advice is unsophisticated, his advice on everything else is pretty much on the dot.
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Yeah, it's technically here with media servers too but the barrier for entry is still higher than your average Joe will bear. The idea of an out-of-the-box solution has been tossed around here a few times I think; a little server that manages networking, storage and other services for your home. One that just works after a simple gui walkthrough for setup, and doesn't make us so dependent on cloud services that exist to sell advertising space.
No, you first think about the code, and the concepts you have handy structure the way you think and then write. If you don't know what a subroutine is, you might be writing monolithic code, and sometimes think how would you eliminate some of the repetition. If you don't know the concept of objects, you can't structure your code the OO way.

If you don't have a working knowledge of [insert here], you are also losing something that might give your code a better structure.
(a) i use google apps to host backend services that power my "app" in the mobile space.

(b) you're all idiots.
Why?

My understanding is that the only problem we have with antibiotics is that they breed antibiotic resistant diseases; but that is not really worse than us not having antibiotics at all.
I don't think so. If the lawyer pool is so terrible, there will be people with incentive to fix it, and those fixes will benefit everyone, rather than the few it benefits now.
That's somewhat weak evidence for your original claim. (Which I don't dispute, but you've lowered the bar here.) How do much do outcomes differ for Mr. Zanzibar with a lawyer and Mr. Ali without a lawyer?
The difficulty of proving something beyond a reasonable doubt does not justify the lowering of the standard.
"processed white sugar" is half fructose.
Is there a better term to use to describe the concept of programming a service with short-lived executable blocks? Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) comes to mind, although to me that implies a third party host.

What's kind of funny is old web servers used to work almost exactly this way, running a program in isolation for every incoming request (CGI scripts anyone?), but that was well before the rise of REST and intentionally stateless development, so it didn't get a buzzword. We've come full circle.
> Personally, I'd take the money. I can learn social structures, I can't "learn" a giant pile of bootstrap money.

But if you already know the social structures, you don't need to learn the pile of money. You can just go ask for it!
Probably not much, especially if you can maintain a persistent HTTP/2 connection to the DNS server.
Oddly enough, removing the outer raf (on line 59) will remove the flicker in Safari but then break the animation in firefox. I'll see if I can figure that out, I must have a bug somewhere. We actually don't use the outer raf in our codebase and it works fine in both browsers.
Cash is king now. But just enough some wayward cop doesn't confiscate it because it's all shifty and suspicious looking.
I Googled it. I don't know if it's true or not but it was entertaining. :) My memory is fuzzy here but I think one of my sources on it was the leaked MOD Security Manual of UK that talked about what various countries pull the most on their agents or diplomats. I know it was in a few places way before that DSK story. The one on Russia was worse, though. It said they not only would bug your hotel when they knew you were coming but might create a way to ensure you landed in a bugged one even if you switched at last minute. Very determined professionals over there haha.
It survived a flood, but how it survived all that industrial dust for so many years?
This was a randomized experiment with results that were significant with p<0.001. What more do you want? 178 is more than large enough a sample size for an effect size this strong.
I find it somewhat amusing that in order to use DNS-over-HTTPS you must first resolve a domain using "normal" DNS (dns.google.com). You'd think they'd go ahead and publicly advertise a static IP for that so you can use it without relying on normal DNS.
Nope, trillions. The mass of the atmosphere is about 5.15 × 10¹⁸ kg [1], 400 ppm of that are 2.06 x 10¹⁵ kg or 2.06 x 10¹² t which are about two trillion (short scale) or two billion (long scale) metric tons. I used the short scale [2]. And because the 400 pm are by volume and not by mass you end up with about three trillion metric tons if you take that into account, too. Of course only unless I messed things up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
I can't help but wonder if these businesses are capitalizing on the hostage-like nature of data recovery & are price-gouging based on that.

You answered your own question. They don't charge based on the labor involved, they charge based on the value of the data to you. See also emergency plumbing service.
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This page is completely broken with Ghostery installed and configured to block Sift Science. I think this is partially a Ghostery bug, because it probably shouldn't be blocking Sift Science when I'm on a *.siftscience.com domain, but the page should also probably not break horribly just because I'm blocking trackers.
I see people complain about the low power of the Pi3...then I think about how I went through college with a slower computer than that, and how the people over the previous 30 years had even slower machines to use (if they had their own personal machine at all).

What you can do with a couple MHz and a few hundred KB of memory is great, given a little ingenuity. Of course, you aren't going to do real-time face recognition on something like that, but 99% of what we need to do is just fine with 0.1% of the performance.
Launch:) Short of this, get your cardboard-box-level prototype into users' hands.

No matter how early and rough, show your product to potential customers and listen to what they say. You'll learn more from an hour doing this than a month of brainstorming with your team about what features you should someday maybe add to make your product compelling.

Over many cycles of sharing many prototypes with customers, you'll figure out what your future users actually want your product to do. This will almost always be way different than your original vision.

And stop worrying about whether you're too early: many of our best startups get rejected before applying again with progress and getting accepted. Pretty much everybody thinks they're too early or late for YC, and they're all wrong;)

(Disclaimer: I work for YC advising hardware startups.)
Will skimmers be rendered obsolete by chip cards? It seems like this will all be over when the last magnetic strip reader is shut down. Although I've never seen a chip reader at a gas station, so it may be a while.
https://domains.google is a thing.
How Seattle police illegally purchased a tool to track social media
AIUI, no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY

This is a talk from 2012, so things may have changed.
What is PaaSes?
Python Magic Methods and Lazy Objects
Ok, I appreciate the use of the word "cromulent", being a fan of the classic Simpsons. I am no longer mad at you; you've embiggened my heart.
Hmm. You could use those as examples. There would be cases where type punning might be true in developer time. There would be cases where self-modifying code might buy you better memory or CPU efficiency. Yet, self-modifying code is pretty hard to do and do right for most coders that I've seen. Type punning happens automatically in dynamic, safe language with decent conversion rules. You often only do the conversion rules once or when you change the class/type but you mentally do that in your head anyway if you're analyzing for correctness. Difference is you typed it with conversions being mechanically checked.

These you bring up seem to be double-edged swords like the others that can have about no negative impact or significant one depending on context.
People say that, but most of the complexity in the tax code (that average people deal with, anyway) is there in an effort to make it more "fair" or to encourage socially beneficial behavior.
2600 will pay $10k for Trump's tax returns, donations add to bounty
It looks like the talk is limited to instructions on how to produce well formed utf-8 string transformations. Once you go farther than that your into the nitty gritty of internationalization which is itself a moving target as cultures change.

For example how should strrev handle BIDI control characters? When is the unicode BIDI algorithm appropriate and when is it not? (hint: formulas look pretty messed up with it). At some point these become application specific.
The certificate has to match, so I don't think there would be a problem.
Dammit, I just turned 46.
What do you mean mission creep and how can you avoid it when you have "blue sky" projects? As I understand it those types of projects, by their very definition, are trying to do something so unprecedented that they don't have a clear roadmap and will always go off into many tangents before circling back to their main goal. Take the moon landing for example: early rocketry pioneered technologies in chemistry and controlled explosives, material science, mathematics, and computation before the first Mercury mission to say nothing of systems engineering, a very broad field born almost entirely from the NASA space program. DARPA is the agency that takes on projects that are way outside of the capabilities of any other research organization in defense and its a lot less focused on commercializing technology than the NIH or even NASA.

The very interesting thing about DARPA is how its management is structured so differently from every other government agency. DARPA has a $3 billion budget with a staff of less than 300 people who are mostly project managers and administrative staff (compare to NIH - $30 bil/20,000, NSF - $7 bil/1,700, or NASA - $19 bil/17,000). By policy these PMs have a strict term limit of four years and the only DARPA PM I know of that served a second term did so over two decades after his first. These PMs have scientific advisory boards that don't have any term limits but the mandatory turnover for management means that they come in with clear goals and deadlines that seem to remove career advancement out of the picture (although to be fair, most DARPA PMs are way beyond worrying about their career prospects). No other government agency works this way and it has paid dividends not only for our defense but for technology and society as whole.

Unfortunately there isn't a DARPA equivalent of https://spinoff.nasa.org
I'm a bit surprised that, in 2016, there is no standard way for a computer to authenticate its keyboard and monitor. Has anyone even thought about how that could be done?
Governor Brown signed a massive civil forfeiture reform for California today.

https://www.aclunc.org/news/gov-brown-signs-historic-bill-re...
I see there being a number ofpaths for Neural Network compression.

She Simplest is a network with inputs of [X,Y] and outputs of {R,G,B] Where the image is encoded into the network weights. You have to per-image train the network. My guess is it would need large complex images before you could get compression rates comparable to simpler techniques.
An example of this can be seen at http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/image_...

In the same vein, you could encode video as a network of [X,Y,T] --> [R, G, B]. I suspect that would be getting into lifetime of the universe scales of training time to get high quality.

The other way to go is a neural net decoder. The network is trained to generate images from input data, You could theoretically train a network to do a IDCT, so it is also within the bounds of possibility that you could train a better transform that has better quality/compressibility characteristics. This is one network for all possible images.

You can also do hybrids of the above techniques where you train a decoder to handle a class of image and then provide a input bundle.

I think the place where Neural Networks would excel would be as a predictive+delta compression method.
Neural networks should be able to predict based upon the context of the parts of the image that have already been decoded.

Imagine a neural network image upscaler that doubled the size of a lower resolution image. If you store a delta map to correct any areas that the upscaler guesses excessively wrong then you have a method to store arbitrary images. Ideally you can roll the delta encoding into the network as well. Rather than just correcting poor guesses, the network could rank possible outputs by likelyhood. The delta map then just picks the correct guess, which if the predictor is good, should result in an extremely compressible delta map.

The principle is broadly similar to the approach to wavelet compression, only with a neural network the network can potentially go "That's an eye/frog/egg/box, I know how this is going to look scaled up"
It would be interesting to hear what these people are doing for health insurance.
PaaS is "Platform as a Service"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service

Think Heroku, Google App Engine, AWS Beanstalk, etc. Cloud providers that give you something like a managed runtime.

As distinct from Infrastructure as a Service which provides lower level infrastructure. Examples are AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, etc.
CakeML, a Standard ML subset, can compile to ASM with mathematical proof of correctness. You know your ASM will be what you expected it to be. There's also tools like QuickCheck, QuickSpec, and SPARK that can automate lots of analysis. Tons of work like this in compilers and static analysis with smart people always improving them.

Good chance your business logic will not be handled that well. So, good to structure it in a way to facilitate easy analysis or optimization by tools that currently exist or are in development. You get long-term benefits.
Just skimmed the article for lack of time, I will give it a proper reading in a bit...

I may have missed it, but I was fully expecting to see something about the Military here. At least for USA based persons. I have several friends that are beginning to retire or thinking about retirement in their mid to late 30's.

Full health insurance, and a pension for the rest of their lives. It may not be a ton in all cases, but most of my friends are young enough to pursue whatever they want with a ton of financial security if they so desire. Or go chill in a van down by the river.... either way it's a decent option.
What is 'not true'? That I can fall to where I came from when I fuck up? Why would it be less true for me than for someone else?
Well, you bought it.

My TV is a dead-simple Panasonic with absolutely no brains or smarts at all-- any smart things it does are provided by the Xbox One or Roku attached to it-- I saved money and ended up with a product that doesn't require the use of anti-virus software.
Quickest way to get an answer on the internet, state something wrong on a forum.

Baseline CO2 apparently (from other comments) has always been in the 300+ppm range for human history, but I'm not arguing the details. If, for example, 4% of the world's people were to die from Zeka, it would make Ebola look like a sniffle.

I'm arguing the article is a too fine example of persuasive writing. I came for the comments, got a lot.
Right, so how is that different for someone who grew up poor than for someone who grew up not poor?
<He and his wife, who quit her back-office job at Credit Suisse in February, spend about 3 percent of their $1.5 million portfolio a year.>

Yeah, the tricky part is accumulating the first $1.5 million in the first place. After that, it's a bit easier.
Murdoch smear campaigns happened, it's been a shit show ever since Labor voted to switch their party's head. Right wing has formed parliament in the two elections since, even after doing the exact same thing last year voting Abbott out in favour of Turnbull.

"Aw, but they're like exactly the same mate, I'm just gonna draw a dick on the house of reps ballot and vote One Nation for the senate instead."

Love it here.
Stats below:

If there is no bias, the lost packages reports would have equal probability of having come from the athiest group or the non-athiest group.

The (frequentist) probability that the ratio would be 9:1 or worse (given 10 lost packages) is 10/(2^10) which is approximately 0.98%. If you're the type to care about p-values, here we have p < 0.01.

Suppose there indeed exists this bias as it appears (9 times more likely to lose athiest package), we might be curious to ask: how likely is it that we would have detected a statistically significant (p < 0.05) bias with just 10 packages lost total?

Doing a similar calculation as above can check that we only see a statistical significance bias if the loss discrepancy is (10:0, 9:1, 1:9, or 0:10). Now if we suppose the bias is 9:1, how likely are we to have seen one of those events? If we add up the probability of these events (10:0, 9:1, 1:9, or 0:10) occurring under a biased scenario, we get about a 74% chance of us detecting the bias.

A standard requirement is for this number to be at least 80%, our result is close but would like to see more data before publishing in the Journal of Atheist Footwear.

The latter metric is called statistical power or the probability of not getting a false negative, whereas p-value is the probability of a false positive.
TL;DR Have 1-2-N million US on you investment portfolio and live on %.
Ask HN: Who's using Discord for open source community?
I've heard that Discord doesn't have invite limit (Slack only allows people to join after you invite them manually, and even this gets blocked after a while if the user doesn't respond to the invite, not to mention how it does have an undocumented upper limit on how many users you can have), I know some open source projects started using Discord as a Slack alternative, and was wondering what the general experience is like.

Can anyone share their experience using Discord as a Slack alternative for an open source community?
7 years later and my wish came true..Westworld starts this Sunday
An attacker swapping the monitor with one that records or displays other content isn't very different from the possibility that an attacker replaces your keyboard with one that keylogs or inserts crafted sequences of keypresses. I don't think ORWL tries to do anything about these possibilities, and it's difficult to imagine good fixes that don't massively change the scope of the project. And even if you do make the keyboard and monitor tamper-proofed and securely paired with the ORWL, it can't prevent an attacker from hiding a video camera in the room or using skimmer-like devices between the user and the devices.
Why is this news? Any protocol can (usually trivially) be tunneled over http(s).
> Making software easy to use fully from the get-go only means making it not do much.

Back before people started spreading wrong ideas like this, we had things like HyperCard, which were both easy-to-learn and extremely powerful.

Now we don't, because people like you seem to think the entire concept is impossible. It's not. It never was.
Kik Messenger is no longer growing
I work in finance but Dallas is pretty great. The job market is incredible as well.
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Too bad they're only good for about 30 years or so before falling over and leaking it all back out again, and nobody is going to be seeing it as good RoI to bury them in the ground unfortunately.
Your figure is for 400ppm. But we are talking about 1ppm.
My thoughts exactly. We've almost certainly had closet atheist presidents before, and I highly doubt Trump believes in God. I have my suspicions about Obama and the Clintons as well.
At that size you are probably still getting the initial, unoptimized experience. There are tools that already work under the hood, though not quite surfaced for easy consumption quite yet, which perform Angular 2 template compilation as part of your build process therefore avoiding the need to ship a substantial chunk of the JavaScript to the browser. This shrinks download size, and also makes applications start faster. You can play with it today, using a seed projects like the one I link below. Sometime soon (work in progress, did not announce) the official Angular 2 CLI will also make this very easy.

https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed

Build time template compilation helps a lot, though depending on what all features you're using the base size might still be bigger than Angular 1. Still, for most applications the dominant cost is not the number of bytes on the wire, it is the development labor to make it an application work. A2 so far appears to be very strong on this axis.
Essentially, any "how to retire at age X" title can be rewritten as "how to budget $Y at age X."