skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This makes me sad, because I love that look, and I hope it never disappears.

I don't think it will for a long time. There's still a market for film photography, if that's any indication.
I haven't read this site, but the design and look is great.
You clearly have a more skilled marketing team than the one I tried to work with using GTM. I ended up dropping it because rather than implementing tracking Javascript in a text editor I was having to do it in an obtuse GUI instead - marketing wouldn't go near it.
I tried reading Brave New World. It was atrocious. It was such a heavy-handed, corny, poorly written caricature of the left. I'm baffled by its enduring popularity among intellectuals.
Sure seems to be a lot of Fahrenhate here... Hey, look at it this way - the more granular Fahrenheit degrees (roughly half (5/9) a Celsius degree) are more useful for determining comfort - including setting a thermostat: I've had a couple of European cars that clearly used degrees Celsius for their setpoint (even if displaying degrees F, usually skipping by twos). Way too often, it simply wasn't possible to set the AC comfortably - it was either too warm or too cool. This matters in Texas...
> lack parent(s)

> without the love and support of a caring family.

Isn't that exactly what Mr. Bzeek is giving to them? I would not dare to tell him his love and care is any less than of a biological parent, and I believe it does not make any difference to the children either.
I didn't seem to get a paywall at the link, did you? If so, out of curiosity, do you block Referers?
Doesn't always work, but hit the "web" link under the article tittle. It'll usually get you around those paywalls.
>And yet phone companies and postal services aren't liable for what people send using their services.

Phone companies and postal services don't directly profit from the contents of conversations, letters, and packages. Google, Facebook, and so on, directly profit from the content, not from providing the service.
Deep text-pair classification with Quora's 2017 question dataset
Your view of creativity is quite narrow.
Read Maciej's http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

BTW: What causes this 11 points + 4 comments thing to hit the front-page of HN? Just wondering, as I believed it's the number of comments + popularity that pushes the link to the front.
It reminds me of The Crow and the Pitcher from Aesop's Fables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Pitcher

Without knowing the total parameters of what is possible and not possible, perhaps they could slowly lower buckets of dirt and rocks to the bottom in a way where the dog could just remain standing on the top of the pile.
So assume you get a bonus which allows you to maintain your previous salary with just interest income. The problem is the cost of your leisure time (as measured by the cost of foregone wages) just went up dramatically, so the leisure has to be worth that much more to you for you to take it.

Two things to note: 1) this is different than winning a lottery, because with a lottery there is no expectation of a change in wages; 2) your first week of leisure is worth much, much more than your 50th, as is your 1st dollar worth more than your 5 millionth. There is some level at which you stop working. I think it's much higher than you realize.
Packaging is a great evil. Most of our waste is packaging. My family recycles a lot, buys glass/aluminum when possible, and still we generate 2-3 bags of garbage each week, mostly food packaging.
Iterated prisoner's dilemma allows a sort of "communication". As the number of iterations grows, the cost of losing each individual round becomes negligible in the long run and agents can learn to use their decisions (COOPERATE or DEFECT) as a binary communication channel. So instead of saying "let's cooperate" over some side-channel, an agent indicates its intention to cooperate by simply cooperating.

In iterated prisoners dilemma and other similar games, the "API" with which agents interact with the world is extremely simple. The statement of the problem is also very simple. The agent itself can be any computable algorithm for deciding to cooperate or defect based on the past history of game rounds. I find it interesting to see agents learn recognizable behaviours like "communication" or "trade" when they aren't explicitly programmed to do those things.
Whats the point of having two factors at all if you are getting an SMS or using a TOTP token that is stored on the phone itself.

The phone does not force re-entry of this stuff so often that it would bother me.

When I am on my laptop, I absolutely love the Usability. Its much better then SMS or TOTP.
You (or your predecessor) hired your team based on the skills they already have. Focus on improving performance, not skills.

If you try to force your employees to develop their skills in a certain direction, even if you think it's a win-win, they are going to resist or even quit. Entire teams have quit their company based on a programming language change. People don't like giving up any autonomy when their level of autonomy is already low. But chances are, they will respond positively to pressure on things like improving performance benchmarks, turnaround time on requirements, test coverage, resource consumption, etc. if you approach it in a uniform and consistent way. Programmers see themselves as professionals and experts, and if you raise your expectations, they will meet them if they can.
Easily was, perhaps, not the correct adverb, but the linked article above as well as this one below go into it more. It does not appear to be false.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/28/7458159/encryption-standa...

Bruce Schneier has said while large government actors may be able to exploit it, it's still recommended: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rem...
Before Snowden, they liked to call it tin foil hats.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/13/obama-opens-nsas-vast-tr...

One of those agencies is the Coast Guard. If the message crosses national boundaries, it's fair game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data...

And before you pass through customs, you are considered outside the country.

All legal. Checkmate.

Fortunately, I've just discovered that the SMS option isn't required on a Google account. Now you just have to remember to remove your travel yubikey from the account before you fly home.
Compare this to the crap LinkedIn pushed out about a month ago. Holder images linger long enough ponder their existence and allow for noting their janky departure.
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What is your workflow while developing the compiler?

- Are you experimenting with the particular function in REPL/interpreter and then add it to the code?

- How do you debug the code?

- How do you test it, what are the test suits etc?
tbh there's significant interest in decentralised comms, at least from the geek community - the matrix.org server alone is pushing out around 1500 msg/s atm and we're having to panic around finding faster hosting hardware as a quick win whilst working on longer term homeserver scalability work. obviously this needs to transplant into mainstream interest, but we're hoping that clients like Riot will get the UX sufficiently good to bring decentralisation to the mainstream folks otherwise stuck with WhatsApp and friends.
> just charge a capacitor to a certain voltage, then use it to power the motor; adjust the charge rate to adjust the wiper rate

Actually, the circuit is a variable oscillator controlled by the adjustment of a potentiometer that controls the charging of the capacitor; that RC constant controls the oscillator (similar to a multivibrator), which is configured to dump the charge to activate a transistor that activate the relay which connects the wiper motor to the battery (there's also a switch contact involved that opens when the motor has completed one revolution). A simple circuit details this:

http://www.eleccircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/index....

Kearns' patent essentially shows the same kind of system:

https://www.google.com/patents/US3351836

I find it interesting that he did design it this way, as production transistors at the time were still fairly "new" on the market, and would have been an expensive component. There are probably ways to design it back then that wouldn't need a transistor - perhaps based on a bi-metallic switch plus resistance for adjusting the time for a heater to heat up (basically, re-using an automobile blinker in some fashion?) - though maybe this was the direction Ford was trying to take, and Kearns was able to use the "new-fangled part" to his advantage?

Oh - in case it hasn't been posted yet - the New Yorker article the movie was based on:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/01/11/the-flash-of-ge...
I really enjoyed this comment. Thank you.
hopefully people in power don't get to the idea that since it might not be harmful to us where it is at that we should purposefully put stuff there
> I think we can do much better.

I think things could be a lot worse. I have history and data to back me up, where does your opinion come from?
Previous periods of overbearing law enforcement in the face of rapidly changing technology imho had a lot to do with the flourishing of open source and the multiplication and widespread adoption of federated protocols. Subsequent changes in the political environment (not least the collapse of Soviet-style communism and the end of the Cold War) led to a moderately happy marriage between convenience and consumerism in which the web flourished and provided wins for both consumers and capitalists.

I feel the emerging need now is for lean protocols and tools that allow us to effectively filter unwanted content and to view and manipulate metadata structures, both inherent and emergent. If you're looking for inspiration in places other than the commercial sphere, much interesting work on digital ontologies has been emerging from the EU in recent years.
I think it's hard to "leave politics out" when the article is written specifically because he was muslim. If he was christian nobody would care. This is pro-muslim propaganda, and it's hard to "leave politics out" when discussing propaganda.
I know a lady that works on the cancer ward of a childrens hospital. Strongest person I know, but after reading this I'm not even sure how to feel. Having children comes with the risk of losing them, having children with the full knowledge that you will lose them is on another level entirely.

Hats of to this man, I know I could never do this.
Missing - key backup/escrow, verifiable trust (you can't just trust the first key sent to you for a specific email address), key revocation, and portability.

Solve too many of those problems and you've invented PKI...
It still doesn't quite make sense to me. The argument you're presenting, as I understand it, is that evolution resulted in milk naturally being made a certain way (with a membrane) and that changing this is might be bad but we don't really know?
Does current Rust stable provide equivalent SSE support?

If so then an equivalent Rust program would be welcome.

If not then it's hardly unfair to compare what actually is provided in current Rust stable to what actually is provided in an old C compiler (gcc 5.4.0).
So you're trying to convince me something has materially changed by posting a quote that compares the current scenario to what the Soviets used to do?

Either things have changed, or the Soviets were doing it in the past. Only one of these statements can be true.
I've been pleased with Azure. VMs and SQL can be expensive, so make sure to plan ahead on those.
Some features I'd like to see aren't available or deep in the priority pipeline. However, overall it's been a good platform.
This one isn't it!
i am not clear, which part of what i said is wrong.
Counter: if your phone service was free, but you had to listen to a pre-call ad every time you answer the phone, do you think the phone company is now liable for damages caused by the content of the call?
First They Got Sick, Then They Moved into a Virtual Utopia
Really liking Middleman (similar to Hugo as OP mentions) for this kind of stuff recently.

Powerful enough to use asset caching / on-build minification / direct deploy to s3 / dynamic page generation from JSON, light enough to load in the blink of an eye.
For U2F at least, Bluetooth solutions should be arriving. If Yubico does its on (they have said that they are working on it) they might additionally let you use the OTP stuff.

That said, LassPass says that when Firefox supports U2F, they will also try to support it. So maybe the OTP stuff is not that important.

Dashlane Password Manager already supports it.
> I've felt that an argument could be made that safe harbor provisions should only apply when the service provider can provide an actual identity associated with an account and that that person is within US legal jurisdiction.

1) How would they be able to verify that identity for a reasonable cost without being opened up to a DDoS vulnerability against their finances?

2) What happens when every country does it based on local jurisdiction and the internet gets balkanized?
>i don't understand this holy crusade against bloat. Yes, many if not most of websites i visit are bloated, but i think reasonable steps are the right answer (like an automatic, idiot-proof system that serves 4k pictures to 4k-displays and hd pictures to smartphones).

What's reasonable about serving MBs of BS to people who don't care for them just to follow the latest design trends, or the latest frameworks, or whatever?
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Hmm. What do you reckon is the meaning of this line?
Great, thanks for the idea. I will look into Markov Chains.
U2F and HOTP (Google Authenticator style 2FA) are not mutually exclusive.

I have both enabled on the sites that support both.

I use U2F when I have the key near me, and use HOTP on my phone otherwise (like you, my phone is typically closer to me than my U2F key).

A common response at this point goes "But then doesn't introducing HOTP remove the security benefits of U2F?" No. One of the main benefits of U2F is that it is phish-proof: the U2F key cryptographically authenticates the server, rather than the user eyeballing the address bar, which is how server "authentication" works with HOTP.
M.i.b
Great, but now how will you find out that a particular optimization pass hasn't been completely obviated by earlier passes, since you won't be looking for C code that actually triggers it?
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Understandable - and I think people don't know enough of what Analytics solutions are doing behind the scenes for sure.

In GA's case, none of this is personally identifiable (Google actively strips info which could be PII out of listings), and the way Scroll Tracking is implemented could only ever be used in aggregate. So that is something.
Archaeologists Have Discovered Large Geometrical Geoglyphs in the Amazon
I get a paywall and don't block referrers.
Worth noting that the watch alerts that it has been used to unlock the laptop. Doesn't prevent the action, but does prevent "stealth mode unlock"
I'm not sure engineers and executives are similarly motivated. I'm pretty sure most engineers (at least the ones that work at Google and read HN) have tons of ideas about hobby projects they'd love to work on full time if only they had fuck-off money.

I would expect most executives like the power of being executives at established companies and managing lots of people, and they probably have fewer personal projects that they want to do. Maybe I'm wrong; I'm not an executive.
Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Also the rate at which it accumulates points. For example, if a submission was submitted an hour ago, and in the last 5 minutes it got 4 more points, it will probably hit the front page.
Have you seen the Essence of Linear Algebra video series posted to HN a few days ago? Seeing the geometric transformations animated gives you intuition hard to develop otherwise:

Essence of Linear Algebra (visualized) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
I agree with your second point. As to my wording on your first point, I should explain a bit more....

"Easy" means that it's not technically hard to do. For instance, anyone who's lucky enough can win 30 times their money in roulette. It's "easy", but rare - only 2-3% of people do it.

For contrast, "hard" to me would be something like trading gamma-delta option spreads.

Technically, just about any investor do the former (although they'd have to be lucky), while few can do the latter.

Final point - I consider being lucky consistently is damn near impossible (although statistically, I guess it happens to a few of the 8 billion people out there).
Heating houses with high performance servers
There are a lot of attacks one can imagine when you have physical access to hardware inside the building. Why not just boot to a thumb drive and install malware?
They don't profit from the content, they profit from the service of providing the content (ads).

Bloomberg is one that profits from the content.
It's built on Medium
We still can have those or equivalent services without advertisements. We only use them because it's the model we know, not because it's the most appropriate model.
There are no limits on immigration for people from Croatia or Slovenia in the EU. They could move over here to Germany tomorrow and immediately start working. They can't immediately apply for welfare though.

Syrians are not the only significant refugee group, there is also Afghanistan and Iran in the top 3. Together they currently make up about a third of all applications for asylum in Germany according to BAMF.
For kids I'm a fan of http://dragonbox.com/ and their http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ They do a pretty good job of teaching symbolic algebra to kids who don't yet know arithmetic.
I'm the creater of codeposters.io (https://codeposters.io). It's cool seeing everyone's take on this. I have a python script that consumes an image and text file of code and produces an output text file. Then I bring that output text into Illustrator and fine tune it.
I've been trying Hipmunk's last week and I think that it helps a lot if you are looking for flights or hotels, but it needs a lot of improvements to try to understand the user. For example, the chatbots comes into a loop many times :)
But anyway, I think that this bot is a very good approach at what will be the future of booking flights and hotels.
Those folks aren't the target of ads in general, either.
It's amazing how you can read an article about an absurdly selfless person and his awe-inspiring, humbling tale, and can only think about how this is a propaganda piece about muslims, because he happens to adore a different abrahamic deity than you. And yes, the unconstitutional executive order leaving people like him barred from entry is inhumane.

I guess it's true what they say. When you can't argue the substance, dismiss it as propaganda.
Of course. You don't?

Maybe not directly (i.e. literal rock star) but as a means to an end sure.
Its a good thing to think about, but I don't see it as a huge problem. I had a Yubikey Nano plugged into my laptop almost constantly and I do trigger the OTP sometimes, but using that as an attack vector is pretty hard, specially for all the sticks that are not always plugged in.
Age is also a factor, optimizing for younger submissions.
Thats what I was saying. The Nikon D600 vs the Canon 6D had a better sensor. The canon 6D had built in wifi & GPS. Nikon could of put that in for $5 although, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to why they would not do that. The add on modules are a pain in the ass to use.
> I know you document that you can't use a random nonce

Looking back at my manual, I understand it was easy to miss. But you can. You just have to use XChacha20, which gives you a 192-bit nonce, where the chance of collision even after 2⁶⁴ messages is negligible. The high level constructions all use XChacha20, so random nonces are possible.

I really should re-arrange the order of presentation.

The slightly better usability mainly referred to the fact that functions that cannot fail return void. It's small, but the user is not left wondering whether the return value should be checked, or why the manual doesn't say anything about it. I tried to make the ordering of arguments consistent across the whole library. Easier interfaces have shorter names (no "easy" suffix).

Then there are opinions. Primitive functions are named after the primitive, because I don't believe in hiding those to the user. Fixed sizes are hard coded, because I don't expect them to change without changing the primitive itself. Constants like CRYPTO_ENCRYPTION_KEY_SIZE obscure the point somewhat.
Sorry, I might not have been clear about what I meant by "bottom-heavy". I think we actually agree - as someone who's hiring for DS roles right now, I've seen a ton of exactly what you're talking about.

-Some candidates can write great code, but don't have the math background to understand what ML black boxes are doing.

-Then there are STEM PhDs that have never written non-research (i.e. maintainable) code or had to formulate a qualitative business problem into a quantitative problem they can solve.

Both types of candidates need to come in at a "junior" level and do some on-the-job learning in order to be fully successful data scientists. IMO it appears to be easier to teach STEM PhDs how to code than programmers how to do math, but that might be personal bias (since I came from the former group).
The "missing plastic" cannot be explained with birds and fishes even more "eating" i.e. swallowing it?
And consequentially when dying taking it with them to the oceanfloor? Seems rather unintuitive.
When I saw the title on HN, I wondered if it would be about Jessamyn West, and it was. It was cool to see her pop up here. I don't recall why I started following her web site, but she has raised my awareness of the importance of librarians and I recommend it.
Temporary + infinitely renewable = permanent, in 95% of the cases.
Speeding tickets are where the government holds all the information on the person. Fining a tourist AirBnBer requires getting a warrant to get information out of a private company. How much effort do you think is going to go into pursuing a noise complaint? If you're not on-the-spot fining, just how many resources do you think the police will throw at pursuing that?

Are you aware also that tourists come from outside the country? Speeding tickets aren't particularly enforceable in that case.
Yes, it's great, I read most of his books when I was a teenager.
Yes, this is entirely true, hence why it is a leaky analogy. And yes, a growing number of people are upset. But the genie can't be put back in the bottle; there will almost certainly be some push back, and possibly some regulation that the, us, techies won't like. But the internet tries very hard to route around issues, be they technical, social, regulatory.

There will always be a dark underbelly because the net was created by, and is used by us humans. You'll never be able to protect everyone. Just like every other protection issue; regulation, light or heavy, comes in waves. Humans, collectively, are notoriously bad at risk management, exigent threats always seem worse and distant ones in the future are always discounted.
So is GCC adding a toolchain similar to the one LLVM has around its bitcode?

In this instance, a way to write a text representation of an internal data structure that represents code, run a single optimization pass over that data structure, dump the result, compare the result with serialized text representation of "expected value"?

Will they add the other parts, to extract an llvm-like core out of gcc and implement the C and C++ compilers and link time optimizer as users of that core?
Food stamps?
Not to mention the issue of Kaliningrad.
IMO The Economist subscription is worth every penny.
Ford Announces $1bn investment in AI company Argo