skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general if a criminal goes free despite having evidence against him just because the evidence was not obtained legally ... it sounds rather wrong to me.

Then you are terribly shortsighted. It is "innocent until proven" guilty" for many very good reasons. We have only the word of the government that this man is guilty.

The government has ALL the cards and power, the innocent need protection from it more than we need to punish the guilty.

The accused aren't geniuses; the fact that the government didn't build a solid case against him with physical evidence, wiretaps, keyloggers, etc. means he really wasn't that important. The fact that they have such a high profile suspect and can't make the case against him without a fishing expedition makes me VERY suspicious.

The fact that they are willing to drop the case makes me wonder how much of what they have is induced, entrapped, or outright fabricated.
Good for people I told to keep their burners off unless transmitting from semi-anonymous locations. That's their best privacy technique if they're non-technical.
Since I still like my projects and my family, I decided to give the finger to the so called «open source community».

Most open source users see open source devs as the cheapest workforce on earth they can bully.

I decided I couldn't care less of the opinions of strangers and went on after numerous IP violations, and decided to give up on helping people trying to just abuse benevolent people.

I am a MINOR -like shit- dev, famous/respected (for good reasons) devs that are treated like shit and still behave nicely are suffering for me of a major Stockholm Syndrome.

Someone trample you while you try to make a gift, my policy is to headbutt directly.

I ignore github notifications nowadays aggressively.
I interact with people at the speed with which people interact with me IRL (which is slow), and decided since even a minor dev's code is good enough to be stolen I must be great, and thus should treat myself like a star.

Help yourself, be a human that behave as if life was too precious to be spoiled. Have fun, be wild, enjoy life.
Do you have to recreate the entire system each time? That's one of the downsides to Digital Ocean for me, you need to pay even when you're not actually running your droplet.
> Today, it's jobs and/or money.

or being supportive, or making their life better/easier/funnier.
I have dated women that were higher status than me and I'm still friend with many of them.

Being nice is a much more appreciated quality than being wealthy, especially if at work they must fight everyday to prove that their value is the same of men in the company, if not higher.

The same applies to women: I prefer nicer ones and, I must say, usually it is associated with higher education.

Not everyone can become rich or have a good job, that's true, but everyone can become a better man.

EDIT: I'm in my 40s, not exactly a kid anymore.
Getting off the main subject but there are lots of midwest towns that are pretty cool. Especially those with universities. Culture, things to do, good public schools, low cost of living, low crime rate, low tax rates, people not defecating on the sidewalks.... I think could be attractive to a lot of people.
I find the notion of 3D printing a house intriguing but it seems ultimately impractical. There are better ways to manufacture homes that can be componentized and transported for final assembly on site. One where I visited the factory was the BluHomes[1]. You can automate much of the construction of walls and wiring and finishing if you do it in sections.

[1] https://www.bluhomes.com/
This is a good article about the costly unintended consequences of well-meaning regulations. The author seems to think, however, that this can be resolved by hiring more educated economists, but I seriously doubt it.
Actually, it appears that that the field does not actually disappear completely during the switch.
> but I'm guessing you don't run anything in WINE

Now that is true. I can readily believe that Apple invests more efforts than the others in somehow ensuring even old no-longer-updated apps somehow render properly. It really is weird how the OS' font-scale factor seems to be ignored by so many old programs (or their GUI toolkits)!
This actually bothers me greatly. Not carrying through once charges are filed should be equivalent to "not guilty".
I have a Windows PC for day-to-day stuff and gaming, I use a MacBook pro for work. I don't really like the thing - but it pays the bills.
Cleveland!
Question: How solid is the Linux Subsystem on Windows?

I have been looking into switching back to Windows for months now. The only thing that's keeping me is the trackpad on my macbook. It's just so convenient.
We've made $161 since launching. [Stats] Revenue, Subscriber, Traffic
New LexVec embeddings that far outperform word2vec and GloVe on similarity tasks
I'd appreciate if you didn't start getting offended for other people when you clearly didn't read about the language (it's obviously esoteric¹), and also imply that somehow China, Taiwan, and Japan haven't figured out how to use their languages on computers.

Also, what does this sentence even mean?

> Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)?

1. Unless you happen to regularly use a grid-based Brainfuck.
This is the opening paragraph of the BLS press release on employment from Feb. 28, 2017. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/srgune.nr0.htm

For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Tuesday, February 28, 2017	USDL-17-0286

Technical information:	(202) 691-6392 * lausinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/lau
Media contact:	(202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov

REGIONAL AND STATE UNEMPLOYMENT -- 2016 ANNUAL AVERAGES

Annual average unemployment rates decreased in 38 states and the District of
Columbia, increased in 9 states, and were unchanged in 3 states in 2016, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment-population ratios
increased in 36 states and the District, decreased in 12 states, and were
unchanged in 2 states. The U.S. jobless rate declined by 0.4 percentage point
from the prior year to 4.9 percent, and the national employment-population ratio
rose by 0.4 point to 59.7 percent.

Note that BLS uses the U-3 "unemployment rate" of 4.9 percent without qualifications or explanation. Yes, if you read through the fine print in BLS documentation (not the press release), you can determine that U-3 omits allegedly "discouraged workers" as in fact does the broader U-6 measure as well.

The mass media is following the government/BLS lead in promoting the U-3 measure as the "jobless rate." Again, there is no qualification in the opening paragraph, no mention of the broader U-6 measure or the general issue of purportedly discouraged workers.

The uncritical, almost universal repetition of the U-3 number raises the question of the independence of the major mass media, the so-called Mainstream Media or MSM, and the government, and vice versa.
There's the XPS line or Razer now.
> Re-evaluate whether the kind of privacy offered by tor is your number one priority

A good point. Though in fairness, that's why I included Chrome over a VPN as an option.

> The information stored on their computer is far more sensitive than the list of sites they visit.

Not that it invalidates your points, but I wonder how true this one statement is. First, remember that in addition to metadata Tor hides content (which may be redundant in the case of HTTPS-secured websites, but that's not a bad thing). Also, a journalists' metadata could tell you a lot about the who, what, when, where, why and how they are researching, and expose sources.

What is more valuable, knowing who a journalist is talking to and when, or knowing what was said? IM very HO, I think the former.
I've been trying to secure investigative journalists for about a year and a half, and this article kind of covers two of the points that I make on all of the security trainings. They usually go like this:

* Do not have work-related emails on your Android (unless it's Google-made). iOS (9+) is okay.
* Do not open random attachments on a Windows machine. (We always do our best to convince them to switch to a Ubuntu station with an AppArmor profile for LibreOffice set.)

This is a good start. I think this article would be even better if it included some phishing tips (like HTTPS doesn't automatically mean "secure", and if you're suddenly logged out of Google for no apparent reason, don't just log into the webpage displayed to you, but instead, open Google by typing the address bar manually and log in there).

Interesting side-note: Asshats spend days crafting phishing emails specifically targeted to our journalists, and they never get Google's postal address right in the footer.
Buy Bitcoin for 50k and sit on it. Not even kidding. :)
After some experimentation, it turns out my problem was that I expected - ridiculous, I know - that it would copy image data in some form that's comprehensible to Gimp, Firefox and Thunderbird. So I now rather suspect that Photos is using some new API, that Gimp/Firefox/Thunderbird aren't, and that this new API is, for no particular reason that I can see, not remotely backwards-compatible.

Feels like this forms a data point for the thread - since meanwhile, on Windows, I have a couple of programs in my bin folder that I use fairly regularly that I compiled in 2006.
Copy pasta from your spam folder?
You raise valid points about the lack of rigor described in the link. If this is mere advertising, oh well.

If it's an authentic personal experience, then I'm a bit more intrigued by his findings. It definitely reads like what I'm currently going through in a different context, but for the same problem. Your entire post ignores the fact that this is a story about one person's experience & doesn't require the sort of rigor you're suggesting. The goal wasn't to create something for everyone to use; it was to help fix himself.

The application of the scientific method has become too objective when the individual subject's experience is completely ignored. We need to reintroduce the subjective into several scientific fields. For example, the mind is impacted by our neurochemistry & can also affect our neurochemistry. Yet few drug studies examine or control for patient mindset or emotional state.

Science for improving humans needs to take into account the whole human experience.
That's because women don't decide to have children in order to get welfare, they decide to get welfare because they got pregnant. Also, as a community starts to go downhill, couples often have less access to birth control and other family planning options, especially those who are "just getting by" to begin with.

The only people who actually seem to think that welfare causes these problems, are the ones who don't think we should be paying welfare. People who are on welfare or know those on that kind of assistance know better.
The structure is to keep police officers honest which is more important than a particular person going to jail. The operating principle is that a dishonest police force is more dangerous than a criminal who was caught using illegal evidence. Typically the criminal will commit another crime and if you get evidence against them legally, then you can prosecute them for the new crime.
How to Increase WiFi Signal Strength
Ask HN: Best book to learn ReactJS?
Ask HN: I am thinking of doing masters. Help me provide some inputs.
I got my bachelor's degree in engineering in 2007. Since then I have come a long way in the software profession. However, I feel that any upward growth is limited unless I get masters degree. I work for software dev company that just happens to be in a lot of sectors.
I have 10 years of software development experience.My goal is to go into executive management and lead a large part of the organization. I am torn between MBA, MS in Data Science, MS in ML/AI.

Of course, ML/AI is in the news every day. I don't know if that's just the hype or if it's going to produce meaningful and wealthy jobs.

I am willing to work hard. However, as I get older, I am becoming more reluctant to sit down 10 to 12 hours a day and find out nitty gritty errors and do the coding.

Would MBA from a top school (HBS/MIT/Stanford/UPenn/UCLA) hold high value for tech jobs?
What about MS in Data Science or MS in Machine Learning from average schools? Would that open doors for moving up in the organization?

If anyone here in manager/director/VP/CEO position, can you please share your thoughts on what could be a good course of action in your opinion?
Take sample processors, uncap them, x-ray them, compare the designed circuitry with the x-rayed one. That would be a way.
If I were to bet, it was the other way around. They said they got into it when they actually couldn't.
True. But I'd call synchronous XHR a legacy item that you should probably never use.
Hi everyone, I got sick of hearing the same ads over and over again in podcasts, so I made this ad blocker for podcasts.

How it detects ads?

The app detect ads by either a user identifying an ad (by clicking the Podblocker button) or by a large minority of users skipping forward at the same point in a podcast. Once an ad is identified, we have a team that locates the exact starting and ending position of the ad.

Why not use ML to identify ads?

We would love to, but we can't work out how to make it economically feasible. A bag-of-words model we think would work reasonably well to detect an ad. However, at this stage, the cost of speech to text recognition is around $0.02 a minute, so if you are identifying ads in 10,000 podcasts that release once a week with an average duration of 45 minutes you are looking at spending around $468,000 a year just to get speech to text recognition.

If anyone has any other ideas on how to tackle this we are all ears.
I think the logic is: "If you're willing to gather evidence against somebody illegally, then you'd also be willing to fabricate evidence that doesn't exist".
I think I'd panic if I got that question in an interview. Where do you start with that? What are the first steps? How did you know what to Google?
> Why would someone who's threat model includes the US government possibly want to trust a totally closed OS made by a US company?? Do you still not see the US government as a threat to journalists? If not how do you justify this position?

Let's be honest, if your adversary is the US government, I suspect that there is no electronic equipment you can use.

Most journalists, however, are more in fear of their lives or communications when outside the US. For that, an iPhone is provably a much better choice.
Well for me, the fallout has been the pain in the ass task of changing all my passwords.
Any recos for mic pres? I'm looking at sm7b's also
North Korea launches another missile, perhaps one that can reach U.S
In real science, not the TV kind, negative results are important, too.
If he's found a way to inhibit self doubt, that'd be fantastic! I've been experimenting with programming my brain using my own generative model to help me intuit ways to improve myself. It works, in part, through the careful manipulation of my perception. Since beliefs contribute to perception, self-doubt can creep in to hinder things.
"So just rent, says the curmudgeon. Well that isn’t cheap either. The average rent price in Vancouver
proper in late 2015 was $1,079 for a one bedroom and $1,368 for a two bedroom.30 The latter is the
highest in the country, while the former is not far behind top spot. And there is anecdotal evidence
that rental rates on new units have surged.
Suck it up, says the curmudgeon."

As someone who wrote code to forecast the demise of the housing bubble back in 2008, RENT vs BUY is still the strongest argument in my mind.

In 2005 I could choose to rent a 3bdr/2bth for $800 per month or I could buy it for $1200 per month.

Today, I feel like things are frothy but rent is actually more per month than "buying." I'd be curious to see when rental vacancies go up. That to me is a strong signal that a correction may take place in that local market.
I've suggested this in the past and it's great to see a large municipality trying it out. Now to put together a list of people who want to live in Paris rent free by signing up to a program of 'bonded house occupiers'. :-)
The feeling of alcohol vs. the feeling of an opioid.
That was going to be my go-to, but I remembered that search popularity != usage.

Though, I am surprised that the term is hovering around 25%.
Does anyone have a summary or notes of the essay ?
Same here, there are pre-built houses but they are ugly. It is even forbidden in some neighborhoods to put a pre-built houses.

I guess this is just because there is no company doing it properly and maybe no market for it.
It's not a "straw man", it's more like reductio ad absurdum.

And if you'll remember the 1990s, the entire plan to cut welfare benefits was premised on the Earned Income Tax Credit taking up the slack. Which actually worked in some ways though, if anything, it makes it easier for single mothers to provide for a family by working a low wage job. Which has distorted the "marriage market" though in different ways from the welfare benefit.
Do you think poscasters show ads because they want to? They do so to support themselves and the cost of putting on high quality programs. They're often easy enough to skip. I would have been indifferent to your app if not for the .99 cent a month subscription which to me feels like theft.
Google's Deep Learning AI project diagnoses cancer faster than pathologists
Its interesting how high the comment count seems to be on this kind of article.
This is something the readership are passionate about.
Near where I live in Cambridge, MA a four story apartment building was recently built/assembled over a weekend. They moved in modular components that were built in a factory in Maine. I think it was done on the weekend because they could briefly shut down the street (Mass. Ave.) to truck in the pieces. The interiors took longer, and are probably customized for the buyers, but the structure itself appeared in a couple days.
Right, it's to demonstrate that it can make any shape.

I'm not sure why the OP thinks that it can only do curved walls. The "print head" is pretty clearly capable of accessing any point within its working radius.
Right. My point is just that people tend to condemn CFCs based on their costs while completely ignoring the benefits they brought at the time.
No, he's arguing that we provide the "hoi polloi" with a higher quality of life...
Cheap underpowered laptops are really common in the windows world. My wife had an HP that we bought in 2015 that would take up to a minute to load chrome on Win10 for example. Everything done on the laptop was an exercise in waiting. I would honestly dread having to help her with her laptop because of how slow every action one. She upgraded to a Yoga finally and it's snappy now.
A round building can also be larger than a square building constructed with the same "printer" that articulates around the center.
I live in Kirkland & have come up with my own approach to addressing learned helplessness. If you'd like to get coffee sometime, my contact info is in my profile. I'd be interested in testing out "Fourplus" to see what effects it has on me.
How to Implement an IMU Using an Accelerometer, Gyro, and Magnetometer
You are entirely theoretically correct. Unfortunately reality is far more complicated.

You may want to reassess your approach after reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795367.

In short: Data indicate our current society doesn't function in a world where men aren't substantially better off - and we're equitably continuing to head away from that.

An intelligent, thoughtful, rational approach would be ideal rather than seeking to score points "white knighting" or "feministing" in the gender war.

Or keep picking on them and ignore the problem. Help show the world that feminists are no better than the men they deride. Besides, what type of harm can broken family units and a substantial disillusioned male subclass possibly cause anyway?
Article seems a bit over the top. Many of us can and do have a rollback button.

Sure, rolling back isn't trivial. If the code has side effects (e.g. database, disk or cache state), you need to account for those side effects when rolling back.

The example given in the article could be easily fixed by adding a cache.clear() to the rollback procedure (assuming cache performance isn't considered panic-critical)

For database state, use a migration system and make sure each change you make can be reversed (and make sure that's tested!)

> If developers incorrectly believe that their mistakes can be quickly reversed, they will tend to take more foolish risks. It might be hard to talk them out of it.

I doubt it. Either encourage rapid iteration and deployment, or encourage a more stable, well-tested production environment. Do that via feedback, code reviews, post-mortems, internal docs. The presence or absence of a rollback button is not going to a major contributor to this.
> Blade Runner is another one that should have probably been spread over two or three movies.

As a huge fan of Blade Runner, I strongly disagree. A masterpiece I've watched plenty of times already and love dearly, but there simply isn't enough plot to stretch into a series. I'm a bit upset at the general tendency to turn everything (books, movies) into trilogies, and then have prequels, sequels and whatnot. I'd rather have a single beautiful piece of art, and then have the director and scriptwriter move on to different works. I prefer focus to a never-ending milking of the proverbial cash cow. I don't enjoy "shared universes" or "world building" -- I'd rather have a single, focused good movie.

Or, to paraphrase Eldon Tyrell:

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very, very brightly, Blade Runner."

No more sequels. No more trilogies. I beg you, Hollywood!
What's the verdict on this? Does Dropout do parameter uncertainty or risk estimation? Gal seems to be claiming the first, while the paper you linked claims the second.
I think you are looking at some confirmation bias here.

Single 20-somethings (whether or not they happen to be tech CEOs) often enjoy living in cities.

Older people with children generally do not.
There is bandwidth pricing listed as you mentioned, but to date there are no bandwidth charges yet to any customers.
Pricey. How are these competitive with traditional construction?
How wildly popular is it now? After the hysteria died down, people realized they don't want to be flailing their arms around while playing games. They just want a normal controller, which is why it's worked exceptionally well, and iterated upon for the last 35+ years. Nintendo keeps creating these new human interfaces, that get abandoned by the time the next console rolls around. I'm all for innovation, but when it comes to input devices, standards like the gamepad/mouse/keyboard are here to stay. Because they work exceptionally well.
All of those homes cost nearly or over $1M. A garage is $60k. How is this even remotely similar?
Weird how this post seems to have annoyed some people.
Facebook Chat supports syntax highlighting
Note: This does not work on mobile or messenger.com

Does anyone here know of any documentation of this or other hidden gems in FB chat?
Mostly agree, but I've also seen a fair bit of C/C++ skills associated with jobs involving *nix development environments. I've rarely seen C++ associated with embedded jobs (even though I've read that it can certainly be used if care is taken to avoid things like dynamic dispatch, etc)
Safari stutters regularly for me on a new laptop. It's just not a very good browser in my opinion.
This is a real gem of a comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571160

"petty abstractions" to assist reusability

Layer upon layer upon layer of indirection.

I want to be liberated from this mindlessness.

It is everywhere in the programming world.

Large sums of money are spent to maintain and propagate this way of thinking.

Large companies have been built upon it.

Is it possible to escape this?

These contributions from arcfide are heartening.