skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast nutrition food with local price
I would guess that pointless waste makes up the majority. Getting sufficiently competent people in the right positions and the right authority and removing organizational politics is really difficult.
I do believe cockpits have a "master alarm off" button, that will shut it up until something new happens (or the problem state persists long enough).
Or don't. Your employee's childhood is none of your business.
Have you heard of the universal prior? It allows you to do exactly that with Bayesian statistics.

Although it is so esoteric that one might argue that it is more the field of algorithmic statistics which merely employs Bayesian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_probability
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_ind...
Black friday and demise of retail stores
How is it remotely blocking someone's free speech or access to information when you politely and automatically tell them that the blatant racial slur they just used might offend someone?
Did you read the same article?
OP here ;-)
3 and 4: The article isn't at all about the tool we built, it's supposed to shine a light on the different kinds of tasks that Test Engineers do. Think of it as not very subtle job advertising.

1. The idea was definitely out there (some other commenter posted a link to pacts, which were a strong influence). Part of the process (and I hope this comes out in the article) was to try to find good ways to write better tests. We couldn't really (long story, let's just say "legacy code" to summarize it). So in the end we went for this technique. The whole process took a year to do, and as far as NIH goes, the existing implementations do not work in Google's setting. So we had to roll our own implementation. That did not take very long, though.
A friend pointed me towards System 76's Oryx [1] laptop yesterday and it looks stunning.

Ships with ubuntu, nVidia 10 series gpu, matte 4K screen, upto 64GB RAM and space for 2* m.2 and 2* 2.5" drives.

Wired gigabit ethernet and AC wireless, HDMI + 2DP and 3 USB 3-A, 2 * USB3-C ports.

On paper this seems to wipe the floor with a MBP - and I'm sure you could also install Windows should you wish.

https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
Something I discovered years ago is that there are whole libraries of alarm sounds. And companies like Apple have licensed many of the best known.

The problem occurs when you choose a phone alarm sound that is frequently used in the industry for seriously nasty things. Like frequently used in many movies for the biggest disaster that will be occurring, leaving you in a panic to turn off the sound on your phone right in the middle of the most important part of the movie.

Or, you work in the central IT Services department of a major university, and you work in the building where the main computer room is located. And your alarm sound happens to be the same one as used on the floor for the halon dump fire suppression system. And you're standing at the doorway of a co-worker talking to them, when your phone alarm goes off. And their office happens to be right next to that of the datacenter manager.

So far as I know, there were no heart attacks or strokes that resulted from my accidental use of the same alarm library sound that day. But I was strongly incentivized to switch my alarm sound to something else.
by that logic we should stop talking to each other (sorry for violating your rights)

BUT it would be unethical if it was used, for example, to create the impression that something is the prevalent or mainstream, or the most popular opinion when it isnt. propaganda tactics
> A downfall of CNNs for text is that unlike for images, the input sequences are varying sizes (i.e., varying size sentences), which means most text inputs must be “padded” with some number of 0’s, so that all inputs are the same size.

Actually Kim's model you're using doesn't require padding because it uses k-Max over time pooling.

Also kuddos for NOT updating your word embeddings during training! A lot of people are doing it, but IMHO it's a mistake most of the time.
"Really it's just seeing if the source is reliable"

Not sure about that.

Does adult content make a source unreliable? Remember this? [1] It was flagged for adult content on fb, and there was a lot of controversy about how it shouldnt have been removed.

It also checks if there are tweets referenced in the article, and if so, checks to see it actually exists on twitter. What about a hypothetical story about someone saying something controversial on twitter, then deleting it? Is that news? Because that story would be marked as fake since the tweet no longer exists.

Then there is this story. The article "makes it sound like it's looking at arbitrary text and evaluating it for truthfulness". So would this be marked as fake news? Does the wapo domain get added to a blacklist?

1. www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/technology/facebook-vietnam-war-photo-nudity.html
Can a divided America heal?
Yes, they are.
That's why we started this little series of posts to highlight the difference. There already are some articles on SETI (aka SET). For example https://testing.googleblog.com/2016/03/from-qa-to-engineerin...
Elasticsearch: Adventures in scaling a multitenant platform
A report from the 15th annual Blender Conference
> Is there a kind of programming where the challenges are repetitive, somewhat unique, and yet still just barely possible to automate?

Optimizing compilers come to mind ;)
Baidu swaps tickets for facial recognition in historic Chinese 'water town'
One problem - and one that people often forget - is that historically, societies change their position on what's appropriate.

It's also easy to see an automated approach leading to hilarious results with say tweets from African-American rappers.

Finally, maybe we can move past this "might offend someone" stance that offers 0% nuance?
Interesting news: https://neo900.org/news/2016-week-47

"What's coming to the horizon is that Maemo will switch upstream from Debian to Devuan, the Debian fork without systemd."
Other way around, only the "white" bots with high follower counts were effective.
I've had a little on-again, off-again RSI trouble over the years. A couple of years ago, this topic came up on HN, and I picked up a very useful tip. Somebody shared that they had (heard|learned|observed|whatever) that most of the damage resulting in RSI happens while you sleep, not while you type. So they started wearing a wrist brace to bed and it fixed their problem. In my case, it turned out that wearing the wrist brace to bed also helped tremendously. Usually if I have an RSI flareup, I make it a point to wear the brace to bed (and possibly also during the day a bit, but not all the time) for a few days, and the pain goes away.

All of that said, knock on wood I guess, as I haven't had a serious flareup of wrist pain in quite some time now. Not sure why, but I'll take it.
How much longer can Antarctica’s hostile ocean delay global warming?
It's still slow and use lots of CPU.
Finally! Just what we've always needed!

An automated system to help teach stupid human beings how to write good click bait headlines!

Okay folks, everyone else can go home now. The Internet has finally been conclusively won!
Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper
I wish there were a way to share the voice of appreciation e.g. like that. Sometimes I really appreciate what a comment or submission had but I'm not sure how to express it. While up voting does that, it is anonymous to the receiving user, though on the other hand, I guess it's what keeps HN from becoming only about the 'likes'
I don't think banning (my assumption of your intention behind nuking) is the correct course of action.

I just had a similar chain of thought at a story of a students union wanting to ban certain newspapers from the campus. My opinion is that, in that instance, the union should focus on the people who buy those newspapers. Why do they buy them? Do they agree with the messages? Or perhaps they are believing what they see without critical thought? There is then either an ideological debate or perhaps critical thinking education that can be undertaken.

Hiding the message of an organisation or individual seems morally wrong to me. I'd much rather see the opinions published and shunned rather than outright censored. In the Twitter example, I'd like to see the classifications used to help understand the viewpoint of others or provide further information prior to posting, rather than to censor / ban individuals or groups.

Not a fully formed idea, for which I apologise. My gut (and it is only my gut) tells me there is a useful aid there.
If a bot is used it's automated and you don't tell anyone anything.
Google plays pictionary
There's a lot of decent comments being downvoted. Really mature.
Rules and all are great, but they're not there to be followed until the end of days. They're there to make you think about it before you break them.

End racism with software? Bold claim, and sign me up, even if it means manipulating racists out of their bigoted attitudes. I honestly can't see a down side to that.
javascript taken into consideration by crawlers is still likely to be less efficient and sure than just giving the crawlers html they can understand, thus with universal javascript the same code on client and server can render both places and give crawlers a server rendering of what a non-crawler will see with client rendering (it's what I do, I find the benefit minimal but there is a benefit)
> At our company developers rarely write tests.

Ahhh!

You could like, be the guy who writes a few unit tests.
Ask HN: Docker, where do I start? What's the point?
I miss the container train. I'm not pro or against Docker but I'd like to understand the buzz around it.
Hungary will cut its corporate tax rate to 9% next year
I think posing as a "high-status" member of some "group" and spamming them with some cooked message qualifies as propaganda.
I haven't really seen the hate for Blender--just indifference. I can see dissuading someone from investing time in learning Blender if they want to work in the commercial VFX/Animation industry because it's just not used.
Not even 2 weeks ago the DRUMPF'lets were screaming bloody murder over some emails. And now that DRUMPF essentially pleads guilty to fraud on a mass scale, deafening silence. The hypocrisy is stunning.
Well thats a curious development, as sailfish, the OS derived from Maemo via Mer, is all about systemd.
Not sure how common but I worked on a side project at the Launch Hackathon in Feb then slowly made progress from prototype to real thing. In July I put up a website for it so people could sign up but I keep falling behind in actually launching the damn thing (and believe me I want to launch ASAP, warts and all, just need everything working first).

I have gotten emails / tweets from two VCs regarding my project and another from a group wanting me to apply to their start-up incubator. I sorta solicited one as he was tweeting "hey what's your idea and I'll give you feedback" so I mentioned it, pointed him to my website and he seemed interested in wanting to help when I was ready.

So I'm not sure. It probably depends on if a VC happens to come across it somehow and it's probably pretty rare. The 2 + incubator that contacted me, hell, they may never invest anything. I did setup a twitter account so I tried tweeting during my hackathon but after that was one it's pretty rare for me to tweet on it.

Fyi my side project is www.simex.io (yeah I know the date is wrong but I am still working on it and I did have a real working prototype; I _will_ launch but it'll likely be in January at this rate).
Play pictionary against an AI
Kapustkiy breached an Italian Government website, exposing 9000 of 45000 records
ميعاد مباراة الأهلي والإنتاج الحربي اليوم السبت 19-11-2016 والقنوات الناقلة
Why do people say dog food?
Years ago ALPO® Dog Food from Purina® lost it's competitive edge. They used to be the top dog in town when it came to quality dog food, but the people over at hills-science-dog-food started to win in terms of sales each year.

The CEO of ALPO® asked himself: what's wrong with our dog food?

He went down to the front lines and asked people that worked in the ALPO® plant if they thought the dog food they were producing was good.

Shrugs!

Each human he asked said, well, to be honest, I don't ever actually eat the dog food. I just make it.

He found the problem. They were making dog food, but they were not eating their dog food.

He placed Timmy from accounting in charge of eating their dog food. Timmy was a trooper and ate a lot of dog food but more shrugs. He said it tasted bad no matter what changes to the recipe they made.

Timmy stopped eating the dog food himself, but hired a team of actual dogs!

Now when they make a change to the recipe, one of Timmy's dogs that actually eats it, lets Timmy know if the change is good or bad.
What strikes me as recurring problems from the things that make it on to shows like Kitchen Nightmares are the following.

* Can't or won't keep the accounting books in order.
* Micro-management of staff that want to do the job.
* Under-management of staff that aren't doing the job.

* I /suspect/ not paying the staff enough (in money/respect/etc) to keep good staff and keep the motivated.
It'll be turned against you.

Which, in turn, will make Twitter an endless bot flamewar.

It'll stop working the moment anybody notices.

In fact, its effects will be inverse from that point.

It's essentially spam.
Help me out here: why is the EM drive so surprising?
We've known for a long time that photons have momentum. Is it not the case that the EM drive is simply chucking out photons in one direction, momentum is conserved, "thrust" is observed in the opposite direction.

What am I missing?
I recommend this article, it will cure you from Docker.

https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-product...
Sorry yes that's psreadline not posh-git like I commented. I wouldnt' call that a drop down though, that's just adding to the output isn't it? You know I've no idea how that works, could come in handy actually I should learn.
David Brock had quite a year and a big budget, yes. Unfortunately he and the CTR got caught on camera by James O'Keefe, and on record by its online budget.

The Clinton camp didn't create bots. Besides more illegal things, they bought papers and paid shills, e.g in India to spam politics, worldnews and many other forums.
Their POV http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/4vbq3c/the_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRecordCorrected/comments/4xeq2h/...
I went to a school once that had only just gotten a computer system.

Our usernames? First initial, then full last name, then the first 4 digits of your social.

The password?
...the last 5 digits of your social.

I was horrified. Not a single administrator saw this as a problem.
Or to find a place where your goals and a mangers goals are aligned. I've worked at places where I knew I'd never get a promotion from my manager due to bad blood.
Here’s another overview:

https://opensource.microsoft.com/
It's not losing photons.

Inaccurately speaking: Those photons are "chucked" in one direction resulting in thrust. And they get back to their origins without resulting in any thrust in the opposite direction.
this is great video showing how neural networks learn https://streamable.com/6htc
I wonder if any of this has made it into vfx production? The few companies I've worked at they've invested on better tools to manually rotoscope because automated tools never lived up to the hype in production.

The most important thing in these masks are clean edges (and the "auto stuff" usually isn't). A rough mask (called a garbage matte) is good enough in some cases, but most often it's the first step and a clean matte is created by hand using multiple techniques; playing with contrast, playing with color/chroma (bluescreen), and hand animating curves or painting (rotoscoping).
I have a bit of trouble with these arguments, because the "free speech" argument feels really recent to me.

At it's core, twitter is an assemblage of communities. Twitter can simply decide that, no, it doesn't want neo-nazis on its website. These people are then free to go make their own websites to hang out on.

Websites like Digg or Something Awful, despite also not being about single topics, were never sitting around thinking "Oh, I want to ban this guy that goes around calling black people monkeys, but free speech". Even 4chan would ban people for that sort of dumb stuff. I feel like this argument only became prevalent after reddit became big.

There is an argument to be made that reddit's philosophy on this point single-handedly made all "community" websites worse, because it stigmatized the notion of "drawing a line in the sand", and implied that all websites have to accept everyone.

I think in the newspaper example, Twitter is a newspaper, not the campus. People can make new websites easily, just like they can make new newspapers. Twitter is under no obligation to "publish" stuff if they don't want to. The internet is the campus. No DNS blocking, just banning users from some websites.

And, honestly, the amount of people who care about the "free speech" issue dwarfs the amount of people who see Twitter as "the place to get trolled at". It doesn't seem like good branding to be at the same level as 8chan on this point.

Though, to your point, on a more general level, figuring out what's going on in the audience for these sorts of messages is important.
My assumption is that Trump knew full well what he meant by saying he'd bring jobs back to America.

Just he neglected to mention that they'll not be done by people.
Woah, calm down Skynet.
Once everything coordinates like that it seems like they could just forget trying to organize the lanes and make the computer route everything.
(warning, anecdotal) I have been behind a computer full time (>= 8 hrs/day) (usually including weekend) for over 30 years now, I take breaks for exercise, cooking & parties and have done for most of that 30 years. I have found, for myself anyway, that RSI has zippo to do with the amount of typing, mousing or work I do. I have done years of 12 hr days full on typing and I have gotten beginning RSI symptoms from a few weeks of stressful meetings with very little typing in between.

As I was young then and did not want to waste time not being able to lift my arms or move my wrists, I experimented and found that, again for me, it's just 100% stress. Any exercise (none, too little or too much), working 20 hours or 2 hours are completely unrelated for the onset; if there is a stress factor (like; our new product is not selling!! back then) I would get symptoms immediately and they would get worse once started when typing/mousing more if the stress factor stayed constant.

After that and other health events triggered by (much heavier) stresses, I got my brain to not stress (took me a lot of years) and that worked. I can just work forever behind a computer (which I usually don't need anymore, as I found also that it's completely useless to work many hours / day) without any effects for the past 13-something years.
You misread the article. Only the white bots were effective. The black bots with many followers had a negative effect, but only on a subset of the users. Based on the effect sizes and without more data these finding don't look terribly robust anyway.
Quite fun to play...

I draw awfully but nonetheless the AI got it, I'm impressed

Ok, ok, I know I shouldn't: deep learning just works, it's not news anymore
Long story short : but they do.
Long story short : they do.
Tesla Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration (Short)
this sucks so bad

d3 is good. let's just use that you genius
Even more interesting - an OpenAI paper on the roughly same subject/technique came out a little earlier (RL2 fast reinforcement learning for slow reinforcement learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02779.pdf). I think parallel inventions tends to indicate that multiple people have stumbled on a similar good idea at the same time. (disclaimer: I work at OpenAI. v pleased to see these two papers emerge so close together)
The one that yields the simpler solution.
Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration
so a poorly written app in tech x performs worse than a better written app in tech y. who would have thought!
'Post-Truth' Beats 'chatbot' to Word of the Year Crown
If you just want to avoid shipping .NET with your app (or requiring the user to install it), another option would be to build your app against an older version of .NET that is already included in versions of Windows that your customer uses. (At a previous startup we used .NET 2.3)
Side note: What do people think of the 'subscribe to our mailing list' popup on this site?

On desktop, it first appears as you are about half way down the page as a small banner at the bottom of the screen, as you scroll more then takes up half the page, and finally covers the whole page (with a close button to dismiss - which sets a cookie and stops it appearing again).

It's not in your face when you load the page which is nice, but it's still a popup - these things must work though, so I can't see them going away anytime soon.
Surveillance train has left the station, can't be stopped any more. It's just too cheap to use cameras, wireless and large HDDs. AI can sift through videos efficiently.

So, the only way back to balance is to do government surveillance, and more generally, to have a multi-way surveillance society in which a single actor doesn't have monopoly. We have to go all the way now, short of destroying all surveillance equipment everywhere and making sure nobody recreates it, which, given incentives, it's impossible to enforce.

The main problem now is balance of power, not if we like surveillance or not. This new power must not be put only in the hands of an elite. By the same doctrine of "separation of powers", we should not concentrate all surveillance power in a single point, because it lacks checks and balances.
B) is a better definition in general, but it clashes quite a bit with what I would call recent trend(<20 years) from the left of blaming groups of people rather than culture. Its the idea that society is the one that creates unfair distribution of power between groups, and culture the vessel for the perpetuation of it. It did not blame individuals based on their skin or sex, demanded that they fixed society because of privileged position, but rather sought to change cultural norms by causing a change from the inside.
One could argue that if you are not writing straight ASM, you ARE writing specifications for Code already...
U.S. Could Be Punished If Climate Deal Is Dropped
Using Bash History Interactively
Things like a cash register or a media player are also considered "embedded systems", even if they use x86 CPUs. Embedded ≠ incomplete computer.
Ah, Miyazaki. Whenever I feel down and the winter is darkest, going back to this world fills my heart with joy. I'd say already the music of Hisaishi has some medicinal qualities.

And what a nice rendering!
Three days ago, a Jolla C replaced an iPhone 5S as my main phone. To be fair, me using iOS was just a kind of an experiment. Before that, I was using a CM build without Google Apps using FDroid as unique app repository.

I must say that, while still needs some polishing, Sailfish OS (which is not 100% free, but is quite there, and provides a complete Linux experience), does the job. My Pebble works, my BT car kit works, and I have all apps I need. In fact, my biggest complain is about the hardware, being underpowered and with an atrocious camera. An official port from Jolla to some mid level device would make me _very_ happy.

In some countries, like mine, the FOSS mobile OS killer has a name: WhatsApp. Without official support for FFOS or Ubuntu Touch, and being very aggressive against third party apps (banning their users), most people can't even think of them as an option for daily usage.

Jolla goes around this bundling a commercial Android Dalvik emulator. Not the best solution, but one quite pragmatic.