skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are a lot. For example, NCMEC maintains databases of child porn hashes using photodna and other things.

Machine learning and other algorithms are used to identify images that end up in this database (and others).

Sadly, teaching machines what exploitation looks like is hard and it's not as simple as "identify things that have explicit sexual activity" and then "filter those things by people who appear to be 6 years old".

People still often have to make a final determination because categorization is ... hard

(and honestly, nobody wants to be the guy handling mislabeling, etc)
Cubans Newly Blocked at U.S. Border Place Hopes in Trump
I no longer get excited over such findings. Over the past 6 or 7 years I can't think of a single "discovery" that has changed anything medicine-wise.
>I suppose that importing doctors and lawyers would not help lower the costs much. Doctors in the US are expensive not (only) because clueful, experienced people are rare, but because the supply is (or was) limited.

What exactly do you think would happen to the price if supply increased?

Doctors are also expensive because of malpractice insurance. Finance gets a big cut.
There's a great app in the Android store that has a variety of breathing based meditations - Prana Breath.
It is sad to see petitions of this level. It is clear that this is an emotional reaction rather than any legal one. It would be interesting to see actual legal approaches to challenging the executive branches' new laws.

Though it is interesting that this inequity will only lead to more strife, anger, and therefore may actually end up changing things more substantially.

I'm actually very interested in the next 6 months of Trump's administration. That will give a much better view of the future than sad petitions that will have no efficacy.
andrewshadura is right. Here's just one of your items that is bunkum, for an example.

> their own custom [...] init system of Upstart when they could have contributed to System

upstart was developed several years, just under half a decade, before systemd even existed; it was used by Fedora for three years.
TIL: The longest time breath held voluntarily (male) is 24 min 3.45 secs and was achieved by Aleix Segura Vendrell (Spain).

How is that thing even possible? your body would work in an entirely different manner!
I thought most overdoses are the result of variable potency which is the result of the prohibition. Are you saying that accidental overdose would be a significant danger for addicts if they had a reliable supply of predictable potency? If that is what you're saying, do you have any evidence to support that?

I do agree that easy access to powerful opiates is a recipe for disaster for people at risk for suicide. And I concede that the danger of a negative feedback loop is obvious.
That's not in any way the hallmark of Homo Sapiens. Animals of all sorts can improvise solutions in similar ways.

The real hallmark of Homo Sapiens is that culture and knowledge are externalised and persist outside individuals. So there's a social bootstrapping effect, because individual insights persist even after the humans who had the insights die.

Which means other individuals don't have to keep (literally) reinventing the wheel. Or quantum theory. Or technology in general.

If you take an individual human and don't expose him/her to culture or language, you get an animal with very ordinary and limited abilities.

This is one reason I think the current ML systems aren't necessarily looking in the right places. Learning is one thing, but systems teaching systems - or at least systems communicating insights via a common knowledge/abstraction framework/protocol might be something else again.
"Eric von Hippel of MIT’s Sloan School of Management has found that about 80% of breakthroughs in scientific instruments came from “lead-users” rather than the manufacturers."

It seems to me the main focus of OA is on enthusiast end-users or members of the public who become fans.

The 'lead users' for scientific instruments are the scientists in laboratories doing research. Almost by definition, they will be using instruments in new ways/pushing the limits and so feedback from them is critical to the manufacturers of scientific instruments. More like a craftsman/patron relationship.

Struck me as a different kettle of fish.
Vintage pictures air Ceylon
Impact of Netiquette on Email Communication
You're mistaken, FF is using Yahoo! right now.
The Lenovo X1 Carbon is a beautiful, beefy business laptop
I guess Jay Gould was right. You really can hire one half of the working classes to kill the other.
Which part of Europe? Polish, Italian, German, and Irish immigrants at one point or another were frowned upon.
"Oracle Fanboy" - LOL, seriously?
> Do you ever feel guilty being a lurker?

Well, I expect zero lurkers to actually respond to this, hehe.
It's hard to argue what people would have been cool with under Clinton given Clinton wasn't elected. If you're determined that those who are protesting now just don't get it, you're absolutely right, you won't be able to work with them. You've already closed off that opportunity before you've even tried.

not even an ability to understand what the problem is

Do you really, honestly believe that so many people are completely unreasonable? If so, what do you think the path forward is? Do you write all of these people off? What do you do with them then?

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that I think Trump is the problem. I think the problem is that people aren't willing to look beyond some of their differences to work towards the goals they have in common.

Though from you comment, it's not clear to me what you consider the problem to be. Would you elaborate?

Once you're at the point where you no longer consider others reasonable, you're effectively stuck. You can't reach them, nor are you open to being reached by them. This is a position from which no civil progress can be made. I'm willing to accept such a position with only the greatest reluctance.
he got some details wrong but the frustration is real, especially if you have anything slightly off standard, like a multi monitor setup or, god forbids, a touch screen.
Amazon Redshift?
And you failed to understand, that you have to pay your dues.

Don't expect others, to do your work for you. This includes 'starting' or 'understanding' anything beyond ELI5.
Good for you

Suboxone is a miracle drug, more people need access to it.
Taken charitably, this post is the author attempting to do that at scale.
Uncoupling proteins (of which there are now 5 known types, up from one when I was a medical student 4 years ago) increase basal metabolic rate. The effect of increasing metabolic rate includes a raft of other metabolic changes (some of which may be because fat is an endocrine tissue by itself and so reducing visceral fat - which has a 'bad' endocrine profile - leads to a systemic improvement in 'healthy' endocrine signalling) that globally improve health.

Essentially exercise without exercising, so generally these are good discoveries - but we as yet haven't harnessed it in a useful (ie drug) form
> You says "X is bad", "Y is better" but you don't say how exactly X is bad, in what way Y is better.

I gave you a breakdown in my earlier comment, but I'm thinking that writing more isn't going to make this better:

* Your experience: Python does everything that you need, and quickly, because you are already very proficient in the language and the tools.
* My experience: Shopping for a programming language, knows Python syntax but no attachment beyond that, has tried out a number of languages and has working knowledge of their tooling.

I'm not suggesting that Python is a bad language, just that I think that the tooling and developer experience for new users is not competitive with some other languages. If you are proficient in Python, and haven't tried other languages recently, you won't have experienced the jump: Python is slightly more hard work than Ruby or Node.js, but Rust, Go and .NET Core have a level of slickness and integration that older platforms just don't have.

> What is so bad about "a multi-file Python project that could act as a library as well as a CLI, and be packaged as a wheel for PyPI."

Again, see my previous comment for a list, including some bits that you are omitting. I found that document and read it, but it assumes that you have already created something with docs and tests (laid out in an appropriate directory structure). Since I didn't actually submit the package to PyPI, I didn't have to think about twine, but that's another paper cut. Which is my main point: if someone is not already sold on Python, every small quirk and special case becomes another obstacle, and the Python tooling has collected more than a few.
Yeah, although it was kind of a throwaway comment/joke, I still agree that that was a poor example given the context. Most of the same techniques for clearly identifying a problem apply identically to vehicles. IE, does it not start? Are you getting a check engine light? Is it not performing the way you expect?
Postgres has at the very least window functions. What do you mean by online reorg? Schema changes in a transaction that doesn't block? Yeah, postgres has that too.
You are confusing consumers facing products( Altavista, MySpace ) with corporate facing customers. The corporations have invested 10s of million or more developing products based on Oracle products. Changing from Oracle to PostgresSQL is possibly many years of work and multiple projects for a large company.
It is nice to see a demonstration of the fundamental principle, described in the Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, in contrast to the cascades of bullshit of the Yoga Pradipika.

Humans bullshit everything, painting degrade to the modern colorful Warkshok inkblots, music - to sophisticated noise, yoga became a method of hipster's public snowflakery. Philosophy - Hegelian nonsense, politics - vagina marches.
From a user point of view, I doubt most people thought about it before the reports of ecological damage started rolling in. I know I didn't, I'd occasionally used products with microbeads in the past, it never crossed my mind to think about the damage those beads could cause, and even if it did I'd have assumed that it would've been easy enough to filter them out at a water treatment plant (I'm still not sure why this is a problem to be honest).

Now that I know about the ecological damage they cause I won't be using them again, but I suspect plenty of people are still unaware of their impact. Hopefully they can continue to be banned.

On a similar note, there are plenty of hazardous chemicals used in personal hygiene products, which is something that requires greater public awareness. There are some examples here (and even though the article suggests the EU has higher standards, hazardous chemicals can be found in products sold in the EU too):

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/2...
I am currently trying hard to like vimfx but what kills the whole fun for me is the lack of any 'comfortable' jump to tab. It has one with hinting but useless if you keep your browser in fullscreen. The whole " we don't modify the browser" surviving strategy does nothing for me. I liked the way vimperator/pentadactyl did it. the browser should be nothing but a window to a page. no need for that bar and for the hanging tools like pocket, some fancy download progress or one that shows how many ads were captured. for titlebar one has to fight microsoft as well. really hoping usable vim+inspired browsers do not become extinct. they dont need a corp. behind them, they only need us.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667485 .
This is exactly why I wish we'd just hire more police so the existing ones can spend a shift a week doing positive community work.

Helping folks, getting to know the 'normal' folks. This is when I get to the problem: I don't know what exactly I'd ask them to do, but it would be things like: Free (or very low cost) 2-hour windows of child care on the weekends to give parents a stress break, delivering hot food to elderly folks, helping some folks with lawn care or organize to repair some houses (at little to no cost to the dweller). Actual community improvements.

What is more common is to have well-advertised PR events and regulations that they live in the area. Simply living in the area without being exposed to the positive sides is not enough in my opinion.
There is a bookmarklet that can do this for you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
It’s All in the Cards
I don't think that would work.

I mean, it might work if airbnb and trump properties share the same customer base... which they might. But then it's more likely to attract people looking for free accommodation rather than customers of Trump properties.

Besides any of Trump's customers who want to make a statement have likely already taken their money elsewhere.

But then again I'm not from the US and I know nothing of Trump or Airbnb, so maybe it would work.

Eh... I have no idea why I started writing this comment :-/ .
DJT could learn from Oracle on how to manage a nation of resistant people.
Huh. I'm reminded of that story about the guy who's shown surveillance footage of the middle east, and there's a computer that watches his brain because his brain will react to there being things like people in the images faster than he can be consciously aware of it.

Would it work to use such a system to improve filtering while reducing the human cost? Or would it do something akin to what subliminal advertising is credited with, and just push the damage to the unconscious level?
I think it is worth specifically calling out one of the main points of the Twitter post you linked: people who are upset about Trump's executive order on immigration were not necessarily fine with everything Obama ever did.

If it meant we could get Trump out tomorrow, I would gladly vote for Obama a third time. Still, Obama did a number of things while in office that I strongly disagreed with -- and a lot of things that I strongly agreed with. It turns out that life is complicated.
I saw in a Dutch documentary that micro plastics were found in beer, honey, and bottled water.
It was the decision of hosts to list the properties for instant booking, so host controls who can stay anyway. In these cases it just does not matter for the host who are the guests.
It's also what swap is for.
Well they are in the context - the article talks about premature optimization - and the OP argues you should micro optimize to be a good engineer.

What I'm saying is the only way to do optimization correctly is by doing the things you and everyone else is doing when it matters - measure before and after - the rest is just assumptions that rarely pan out the way you expect them to - at least that's my experience with optimization when I was still doing game dev. You can really do micro optimization up-front
I like this service, but I have he same result with Mailgun's free tier: forwarding *@mycustom.domain to my gmail (where there is already gmail's antivirus/anti-spam).
Or am I missing something?
That data has to be normalized for the surge in fentanyl use.

Sydney has had safe injecting for 15 years, initially the rate of overdose went down ~75% to around 1 per month but now in the past few years it has spiked back up again to record levels.

There are also other factors to safe injecting rooms - such as opening pathways to recovery, removing litter from the streets, preventing hepatitis and other diseases and removing the taboo from drug addiction.

I don't think anybody claims that safe injecting alone can prevent all opioid deaths, its part of (and usually the first step of) a multi-pronged approach.
The others might have guilds, but do they ever go on strike? A union that never strikes is just a social club.
Umm please read I do not think building a wall is needed.

Also before you downvote I'd love to hear your thoughts as to why Mexicans come here illegally and in large quantities... why are they not staying in Mexico? Why is it not a country of wealth, opportunity and prosperity for its people like the US and Canada? Do you not think that's something worth questioning and trying to address/fix for all Mexicans?
Yes, a failure at safely distributing software is a pretty big failure when it comes to distributions.

Mint, elementary and the other "user friendly" distros should focus on creating the desktop and leave the distribution part to projects that have the resources and the staff to maintain the infrastructure.
My old mother (born 1936) is using ubuntu since 2013. She can read her mail, answer or forward, view powertpoint, video and pictures, web surf, print stuf, write letters (its her most complex task). I use ssh and x11vnc for remote administration. It is the most simple setup I can imagine.
Trump is targeting him specifically for this to silence WaPo and force it to "change its tunes" singing his praise turning into another Breitbart clone but I don't think that this is happening anytime soon.
GPL not lesser. Link with this only from code that you can and want to licensee as GPL.
Since Cieplak mentioned systemd:

* https://freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy....
You make biased judgement without knowing how the service actually works. If you had a look at the disaster response page of Airbnb, as just did I, you'd find that the UX flow is different. You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests.
>To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid.

Indeed, with proper dosage long term recreational use of heroin is far less likely to cause lasting damage than alcohol or tobacco.
I think that Gnome3 has a more detrimental effect on community projects than Unity. Why? Because of the client side controls they are pushing, rendering Gnome apps for everything non-Gnome3 either useless or ugly. And all of that for a few pixels of screen space, something that has been solved more elegantly by putting menus in the top panel.

And talking about breakage: I can't count how many times some important Gnome3 plugin broke after a minor Gnome3 update from the distribution. Or how many times I wasn't able to install a plugin that installed fine just a month ago on the same Gnome3 version. Why? Because you have to download them from some obnoxious website that apparently has no archive and no way to properly match the right plugin version to a given Gnome3 version.

Cinnamon copied the same madness. But you have to install less addons to make it at least usable. KDE is somehow still stuck in the previous decade when it comes to desktop design.

If the Gnome3 project with their questionable design choices and holier-than-thou attitude is the future of desktop Linux, then I have to say that the situation is much worse than it was ten years ago.

BTW, Ubuntu doesn't come with Amazon addons installed anymore. And even when it did, you could entirely remove it and look at the source. I think Canonical realised that they cannot pull something like that anymore.
It’s usually better to start from zero in mathematical formulas too (in many cases simplifies them, and most of the rest of the time makes no difference). It’s just that mathematics as a field is very slow to change, and the cultural tradition of starting with 1 is thousands of years old.
It's Congress' responsibility to impeach him.
But then it's also like when the student who shows his work, but gets the answer wrong, rises to the top of the class, gets the girl and a highly paid job in management consulting, because we ended up caring more about the process than the outcome. While the student who gets the answer right every time but can't be bothered to show his work ends up in a cubicle, endlessly berated for not putting cover sheets on his TPS reports (as mandated by the management consultants).
Looks like it will be something different from what you already have. Housing is necessary for those who are outside USA and cannot return home and for those who's being deported, which means it has worldwide scale, not limited geography as before, right?
That shift is somewhat insane though. Moving data out from the DB just to do stuff in the app that could be done inside the database is throwing performance out of the window.
Instead of inflicting PTSD on content moderators, why not give the job to someone who actually wants to see this type of content? They must exist, otherwise the content wouldn't spread in the first place.

And/or crowdsource it so that more people are spending less time doing it? Viewing a little bit of this content is probably less traumatic than viewing it for 40 hours a week.

Of course I realize it'd probably be a regulatory minefield, a thorny area morally, and any specific plan would likely draw critics. But it seems a lot better to me than scarring people for life with a full time barrage of things that repulse them.

For instance, why not offer convicted pedophiles jobs which involve screening out child porn? That would save an innocent person from the trauma involved and it might even allow the pedophile to feel like he was redeeming himself to some degree by saving others from viewing that material. From my understanding many people with that fetish feel a lot of remorse about it and they're not exactly trying to get other people into it.
Great idea open world, communities, et cetera, but how to deal with terrorism? Look at the Europe, how uncontrolled immigration ends.
Sometimes I feel humanity does not deserve all the wonderful things that science and technology provides because people will find a bad use of it. Won't be surprised if someone creates a solar bomb.
Thats certainly true. Usually, these cases are done with money transfers in Europe, which is not really reversible (on the other hand, this is where many people use Paypal, which also gives you the money-back feature of a CC).
Example: Oracle could do live replication and HA 15 years ago. Postgres introduced it recently -- if my billion-dollar company was relying on a single logical database, I'd sure as hell wait a few years to see Postgres HA stabilizing before considering using it.
I have the opposite problem - I worry that I comment too much. It takes a lot of effort for me to recognise which of my opinions are baseless and unworthy (probably most of them), and to leave them unsaid.
The Mystery and Occasional Poetry Of, Uh, Filled Pauses
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dGPo9XBIPA
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I see no argument there, only a subjective statement "0 ≤ i < N is nicer". To me, 1 ≤ i ≤ N is nicer because it is what most people think when they see sequence 1..N. In addition, the last number of the sequence indicates the count of the members.
The Trump era's top-selling dystopian novels
The internet doesn't create the content, people do.
I feel your guilt is misplaced.

You shouldn't be wanting to give back to the internet, you should be wanting to give back to other people.

So long as you're a genuine-at-heart and mindful person, this should be a regular occurrence for you regardless.

Every human interaction you have is an opportunity to give back :)
As I understand HT, in it's most basic form it will try to utilize all processing units by executing code from a second thread whenever possible. FFMPG most likely maxes out usage of all arithmetic and floating point units and limits branching to a minimum, so it would make sense that there are no real performance gains with HT.
The US is still droning, that policy of assassination has not changed. It was wrong under Obama, and is wrong now (plenty of people condemned it), but is nothing to do with immigration policy.

This is whataboutery, and you're also trying to reduce serious issues to the shallow dichotomy of American political parties. Don't do that.
>What country on earth can you buy any drug you want without a prescription in a pharmacy, and how does the culture look like?

Most of the poorer Asian countries have been like this in my experience.