skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Your argument rests on the assumption of a sufficiently large overlap in the set of illegal and set of disturbing things they viewed."

There's no need for overlap. You see video footage of rape, child abuse, animal abuse, beheadings, etc... that's enough to take someone to trial. One video is enough.

>"While the best headline grabbing portion of such content moderation (child abuse) do fall into that intersection, it's a faulty assumption to construct your already-dubious reasoning that better surveillance will improve the live of the content moderators."

It's not rocket science, it's quite simple. If you stop the ability of the producers of morally bankrupt content to produce the content, there will be less new content to remove. If you disagree, explain your logic.
I feel like there are more differences between China and the USA than just the EPA, and that's not at all what I was arguing.

What did you read my argument as? Can you restate my argument? Either I spoke unclearly, or you read poorly. So, let me figure this out.
Well, except for the ridiculous magazine design which looks to be aggressively anti-ergonomic and couldn't actually work as rendered without bullets actually passing through one another as they're fed into the chamber.
Why truncate the words down to the first two letters? Are you reinventing xkcd 936?
Microsoft intend to fix this with their new Precision Trackpad standard.
Judith Curry

https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/03/jc-in-transition/

Look at how this mildly (at best) informed senator encounters facts that don't support his hypothesis, look at how he, an amateur, speaks to a top scientist!

I believe many if not most scientists are at least partially lying to people, and by lying I don't mean they are accidentally mistaken, I mean that they know that some of what they are saying is speculative, but they pass it off as established fact. I look forward to stopping thinking this way when the scientific community admits to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6zDbWMuP0

I suppose (sigh) that I must pre-emptively add that no, indeed, she wasn't in fact literally prevented from speaking. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide for themselves whether all is well in this situation.
(I'd send this offline but you haven't listed a contact method in your bio)

Do I need to manually duplicate Asana tasks into Harvest tasks before I can start tracking?

This is problematic since I really try to break everything into many bite-sized (sub)tasks ...
React is not a template engine.
Even as a non-designer consumer it sucks when you can look at a concept and immediately see that it wouldn't work in real life.
More like mixing JSX into your Javascript.
Even w/o AMP you need to have a no javascript version for SEO.

Even w/o AMP you need to have fast downloading images.

Even w/o AMP you must use a CDN.

So don't call it AMP. Call it: "SEO optimized and for when users are not on Wi-Fi or for huge scale/load".
You can include the lighting bolt or not.

Wha, wha.
very useful intro!
I don't think I could write a comment that's a stronger explanation than what Guillermo Rauch wrote:

https://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui

TL;DR: It's not about the HTML in Javascript; it's about being able to declare all the states of your UI in a stateless way. The result is that React components are like pure functions: you pass them inputs and you get predictable outputs.
These organizations are obsessive about IP and they definitely don't share engine management code on a regular basis, even if they use the same ECU and the result is largely similar code.
The situation changes depending on country.

In Sweden, not even banks accept cash anymore, and close to no stores. There, it is literally impossible.

Germany and France tend to be a lot more sceptical of new developments, which I’m grateful for.
Mildly unrelated - does anyone else get frustrated with the ui/ux for HBO now/go? The menu switches from the right side of the screen to the left, the scrolling is wonky, etc.

Man their content is good, but the app sucks.
I mean in the sense that the emissions before the EPA was created was far worse.
It's less about emitting NOx, or an individual Chrysler owner being deceived about how much emissions their car produces. It's not even about a public policy requirement that aims to limit NOx emission, reducing smog and acid rain, which are bad.

In the end, it's about FCA lying to the government: claiming to meet the requirement while secretly working around it.
Good point, forgot how brittle the other curves were. I believe many require unbiased randomness or something?

> I haven't spoken to a cryptographer who believes the NIST curves are backdoored

From what I can infer, I would say this is highly unlikely. That still leaves enough room for things to be interesting, so… nope. I won't touch NIST curves willingly with my current knowledge.
For anyone else who was interested in looking this up on Amazon:

https://smile.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rob...
Because that's not the point of academic degrees? They're not job training certifications - you don't need a B.S. to program. Programming and engineering skills are auxiliary to computer science.
The thinking--and I'm not sure I agree with it, but it doesn't seem that objectionable--is that, while the HTML/CSS/JS separation makes a lot of sense for documents, it does not necessarily make as much sense for applications. HTML is just being used as a rendering language, not as a content description language, if that makes sense? And so the split between them might not make as much sense.

As a template engine (which I'm not totally sure is the correct term for it), I will cape up for it (more from a React Native perspective than a React perspective, and with the caveat that I think the JS world is mostly a crime-in-progress). I haven't found something that I've enjoyed working with in the JavaScript world nearly as much as React.
Can you give a succinct definition of what `git add` and `git checkout` do without relying on documentation?
Newton's family was not well off. His father, a yeoman, died before he was born, his mother remarried a reverend, who also died before Newton came of age. His mother wanted him to be a farmer, which is not lucrative unless you have huge tracts of land(which he did not).

When he was first admitted to Trinity, he was a subsizar - that is, he had to perform valet duties in order to pay for his education. He only stopped doing those duties when he was awarded a scholarship.
Bills need to get paid. If I'm paying my bills with "free" money, that means I have other money to spend on other things. If I'm paying off credit card debt, it means I have those interest payments available to spend now.

The only way to waste money from the economy's standpoint is to save it. As long as it's being spent, it's being spent well. And as long as it's being spent on something that you pay taxes on, the government wins too.
What was included in the 70k? Typically the govt agency I work for bundles things like support for 5 years, professional services, data migration, maybe even hosting into the "purchase" price because capital is easier to get than operating budget.
The headline's inclusion of the word "just" seems like clickbait. It feels like they are trying to mimic break room gossip.
> The amount of time to transfer hundreds of gigabytes will be dwarfed by the time savings from using GPU compute.

For me, it wasn’t about time savings – I had a limited timeframe, and wanted to get the models as accurate as possible within the time.

Transferring the data would have taken longer than the time I had to run the training, and I while the model would have been a lot more accurate, this wasn’t too important for my paper.
Eric Schmidt-backed HouseCanary raises $33M
It is a filtering, nonsense expurgating mechanism. I have no sympathy for professional researchers. I for my part spent the first twenty three years of activity in a full-time highly demanding extremely stressful profession while studying, researching, and writing my first three books at night; it lowered (in fact, eliminated) my tolerance for fake research.

I wonder if that explains why his first 3 books where so much better than what he has written since....
Its quite easy to do server-side rendering of react pages, then only mount the dynamic views once in the browser.
> You cannot unknowingly agree to binding arbitration either.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. Hasn't Wells Fargo managed to use binding arbitration clauses to successfully dodge lawsuits about the accounts they fraudulently opened?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/business/dealbook/wells-f...

Those contracts are large, rarely read, often use lots of technical jargon, and are subject to being unilaterally changed by the issuing party. Hardly anyone understands everything they're "agreeing" to.
Industry Supported PDF/A Validation for Digital Preservationists
If they wrote software that does something wrong, then there is so much premeditation in this that jail time is a must.
I use it on Windows. Seems fine to me. What am I not noticing?
Sure, but I'm not sure it's clear that working in e.g. theology didn't help him in his more technical work.

Have a broad and well-rounded view tends to help. I don't know a good mathematician who doesn't read, write, play music, explore other fields with passion and vigor. You get fresh ideas and it keeps your mind limber and flexible.

I'm not sure you could say a Newton who knew nothing but physics and physics only would have made the same breakthroughs.
Bookmarks and tabs are far from being easy, solved problems. For example adding a Firefox addon to display tabs vertically in a tree structure instead of a horizontal list has changed the way I use the internet (and I have always used a lot of tabs).

In the end tabs are just like booksmarks, except that they keep state during a browsing session. I find it very weird that we keep those very similar concepts in completely different UIs. There's a lot of room for improvement in that area.
Ah I forget that I'm back in the timeline that doesn't have physical teleportation... I have to start keeping notes on which universe has what.
StumpWM 1.0 is released (tiling window manager in Common Lisp)
If it's about state I feel like ExtJS is a better alternative especially with the way it handles Controllers, Events, and "Components" with state.
The person with the current role closest to this one-

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/michael-daniel
> Do people actually claim that? That's insane.

You've never heard of Objectivism?
Just out of curiosity, did you attend school? If so, how exactly did you pay for it?
The 2025 CAFE standards seem to be a dramatic rise in requirement in a short time period wherein the industry attempted to provide alternative advise and was soundly rebuffed, even outright ignored. The EPA may have once listened, but they don't seem to anymore.
Hi Paul! I believe your token should automatically resync if you enter three consecutive correct passcodes that are outside (but forward of) the current valid window.
This is all happening because at some point the car companies had this choice to make:

1) Deprecate/shutdown gas-only car factories, build hybrid factories with an upgrade roadmap to plugin-hybrid and eventually EV. Then make all models and all trim levels (from base to premium) hybrid as a starting point

2) Continue using gas-only car factories to get more ROI and profit, use shady tactics that either secretly violate EPA regulations or at best comply with the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. Make a few hybrid factories to profit from the eco-friendly market.

Look at the new car market today, it's clear which option the car companies picked.
How Meditation Can Transform Your Business
I like how, in their README on GitHub, they mention that they're not interested in playing the benchmark game. That's great. For the most part, I don't care about benchmarks. I mostly just care about tooling that helps me to be more productive.
Webmention is a W3C Recommendation
Evolutionary development you can start at once, because you are building on what you had before; think an x86 generation. Evolution works if you already dominate a market and only need to run a little faster than your competitor. Evolution can be scheduled; tick-tock.

A newcomer can't sell yet another me-too, even with evolutionary improvement. Instead the newcomer has to rethink and create from first principles if it is to have any chance in the market. Rethinks can't be scheduled; they take as long as they take. Ours has taken longer than I'd hoped, but adding resources like more people to the project would have just slowed us down, or forced us to market with a broken product.

The Mill rethink stage is over, and we now can have reasonable schedules and put in more resources; that's why we are going out for a significant funding round this year, our first over $10M.
It's either ignorant or insulting to name theology in the same breath as alchemy. Theology is still an academic discipline and it doesn't even require a believe in the supernatural. Unless this is pg's attempt to insert himself into fight about "theology" vs. "religious studies".
10 things you're doing wrong with your app
Show HN: Monglorious – Query MongoDB with Strings
would this include works like Sherlock Holmes?
I found the whole update state and have the UI automatically render on state changes a very useful model. You only need to define the UI once, and have the real time rendering left to the state watcher.
hexchat isnt a good replacement for textual. There's a lot of features that textual has that hexchat is missing, even comparing to limechat
About the people on the garage, I don't think you can say it is irrational if they get a big non-monetary benefit from doing it.
Metering Is Monitoring, Memories, Mirroring and Management for the JVM
> From my point of view, this program is a losing proposition for any potential student.

Although I agree with your sentiment (formal education has a lot of flaws), a full-fledged degree potentially solves other problems than just improving your resume to get a better/higher paying job for engineers.

Family pressure, lack of confidence that comes with not having a formal CS undergraduate degree, or motivation and structure that comes from paying for a formal program could all contribute to someone choosing this path. A $10k, online masters program from GT seems like a good option for some people.
Then please cite the better ones...
Peter Thiel says the age of Apple is over
It was illegal. By law CVS could not prescribe the generic Adrenaclick in place of the EpiPen, if the prescription was for an EpiPen.

Classic case of the government causing abusive artificially high prices for consumers through bad regulation.
A good manager does more than just squash squabbles amongst developers he or she helps to convey business requirements to development, inspire the team, and meet other non-dev-y needs in the hope that a good manager helps the team accomplish more than it could without said manager, hence the salary. Or that's how I've always justified their salaries. There's also the experience that they often bring to the table that usually warrants a higher wage.
You can do that with other solutions, its not limited to react. I use polymer but you can use it with vue or others.
STL City Council hopeful will let constituents control his decisions with an app
I bookmarked this one, these would make some very interesting conversation topics.
He also mentions bi-modality, but yeah, not necessarily in relation to this stock. He also mentions the chart-technical argument that this stock was well supported and thus could not go down more, but I'd discount that argument very much.
No, the NIST curves simply can't use random strings as points at all: randomly chosen vectors can be points that aren't valid on the intended curve, but rather on curve of much smaller order; repeatedly submitting insecure curve points can allow attackers to recover private keys via CRT. It's a pretty awesome attack and not hard to implement in a test environment.

The unbiased randomness issue is with the ECDSA construction, which requires a totally, uniformly random k value for every signature. Bernstein's Ed25519 construction is deterministic, and doesn't have this problem.
The core idea of this article is that high reward is usually accompanied by high risk. To exemplify this, pg gave a great example of Newton pursuing physics, alchemy and theology.

However, this was just one example. I think the article could be greatly improved by giving, like, 50 examples (in an abbreviated form, like "Newton: physics, alchemy, theology"). With one example it's sorta easy to think, "eh that might just be an exception". With 50 example, it's easy to think, "wow, look at all of that; the core idea definitely does seem to be true".
That's nice. I was referring to this: http://www.reuters.com/article/volkswagen-emissions-congress...
They did the closest thing they could - when a project failed, they killed it and refunded money to the government. In the defense industry, this is pretty rare (the F35 project is widely criticized as a failure by almost everybody that's ever used it but it's still going to get hundreds of billions of dollars in future funding). They could have said nothing, pretended everything was fine, and continued to siphon money from their customers but they decided to cut their losses early and maintain their reputation as an organization that gets things done on time and under budget. This got them a lot more contracts moving forward.
Ask HN: What online CS degrees would you recommend?
I'm applying to the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech. Any other CS programs worth considering?

If it matters, I'm a self taught developer looking to take advantage of my employer's tuition assistance benefits.
Google Brain team – looking back on 2016
Virtual reality is not enough for empathy, needs hologram technology
Well, if the automation is good enough, it doesn't make (financial) sense to improve it. If its not, there will be other companies/teams that will come up with an automation that is better and that automation will be adopted.

e.g. before Docker/Containers came along, tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible were already automating much of infrastructure deployment/management. But a new paradigm was introduced which was (seemingly) better and that is catching on now.
Remains to be seen how this is going to work out in practice. For example now I pay flat rate for my unlimited 4G subscription. When I travel, my own operator will need to pay per gigabyte price for the network provider. This may put some pressure on my own operator to raise the price they are charging from me.
"If you hear advice from a grandmother or elders, odds are that it works at ninety percent. On the other hand, in part because of scientism and academic prostitution, in part because the world is hard, if you read anything by psychologists and behavioral scientists, odds are it works at less than ten percent"

Some of my favorite books of all time were Taleb's, but I have to say, his writing is the perfect demonstration of power law. 10℅ of his content is remarkably insightful and the remaining 90℅ is unadulterated bullshit.
I built my early career entirely around CRO / testing and moved over time into product / ux / app optimization.

Huge, crazy, insane amounts of time are WASTED by humans dickering around with interfaces that they don't understand and that are not personally optimized.

One of the things I don't hear many people talk about, but I am particularly interested in, is the coming and continued improvement of adaptive & personal interface design.

A challenge that any single interface has is that it's difficult to set-up and qualify a test on a small cohort group level (men over 70 years old that wear glasses are homeowners, drink wine, and live in California is an actual target class we can easily devise from current ad tech for instance).

It's challenging because - NOT ENOUGH DATA - eg very hard to run experiments and achieve statistical significance, let alone biforcate your alreadly limited resources to drive to that level of granularity.

But imagine an adaptive UX or set of UX preferences.

EG - Take the same inputs -> eye tracking / natural language feedback (speech!) / interface observation / time to goal / etc <- and then let a flush ML / AI come up with a set of experiments and pathway.

Key to not completely confuse and blow users off path will be some kind of throttling mechanism - adaptations that settle you into the UX like your body's settling into the couch cushions.
I am bitter about having spent time, money and emotional energy on something that I felt I got no value out of, and I want to warn people thinking about doing the same.
The article betrays some misunderstandings of option pricing and trading.

It's not necessarily right to say that the options were mispriced. Option trading desks hedge themselves, and then don't care whether the stock price goes up or down (unless they want an explicit long or short position in the underlyer, which is rare). What they do care about is how much the stock moves every day ("realised vol"), and how that compares to the (implied) volatility they originally sold/marked the option at. (If you sold the option, you lose on gamma the more the stock moves, while you gain on theta.)

Big jumps in price are definitely a problem - the theory assumes continues trading, and as you get shorter to expiry, or the jumps get bigger, the approximation to continuous trading breaks down.

At any rate, traders are well aware of the fact that prices are not lognormal, and vol not constant. Nevertheless, the theory and practice of replication works quite well all in all.

Last comment: Every time a stock jumps, some people lose and some win. If people traded with leverage (options/futures), some lose a lot and some win a lot.

(Derivatives have net zero supply, so it's in fact a zero sum game - but don't forget that the bank is hedged, generally, complicating the picture.)

Bottom line: there are necessarily some winners, and some losers. Guess who writes articles on medium that get upvoted on HN? :-)
I read all that only to find that its author apparently misses being abused and so does it to himself.
How, in your eyes, the income distribution has changed?
The post mentioned the inadequacy of PGP. I would like to see a comparison with Keybase (https://keybase.io) which addresses similar problems.
It's not really an annual fee, though. You're paying for a product with Amazon prime -- besides free movies, photos, shipping, etc, you can now get a special card with no annual fee _just for having it_.
I'm curious, was the risk material for Newton, or just virtual, like "risk of failure" which would just be an embarrassment.
I Grew Up in the Rust Belt, but I’m Not in Any of the Stories About It
Optimise your Web Development Workflow: Web based slides full of DevTools tricks
When a crypto primitive breaks (like MD5 did), we're kinda screwed anyway.

On the other hand, bug-free implementations are possible. We have the tools to audit the hell out of them. That kind of pedestrian can be made immune to buses, so to speak.
I can recommend it. I have a setup with Sonarr, SABnzbd and Kodi plus a sub to a nice European usenet server. Hardware is my desktop, a 4 TB NAS and a fireTV. All told a few hundred dollars and TV shows show up automatically for me, often within an hour of airing.

This is the first I have heard of Radarr though. (Sonarr but with Movie retrieval). I'll have to check it out.
HTC's Vive is beginning to edge out the VR competition