skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Wikipedia article, "Community, Space and Online Censorship (2009) argued that classifying children in an infantile manner, as innocents in need of protection, is a form of obsession over the concept of purity."

I believe I see what you mean, however in a case of child pornography do you not think that it's in a human's best interest to keep something from abuse of naivety?
> but in technology people spend
> a lot less time worrying about
> that

Ways in which people in technology chase after status:

- Big-name employer (Google, Facebook, etc)

- Inflated job titles (CxO or VP at a 2 person firm)

- Going into management when they don't enjoy it

- "Meritocracy"

- Arguing in architecture or planning meetings

- Using the latest and coolest technology

- Speaking at every opportunity at events

It's possible to do all and any of those -- and to any degree -- without status seeking. But many people do those for the status.

EDIT: Personally I spent a fair amount of time and money on a mid-career Ivy League MSc I didn't need, almost entirely for the signalling effect.
Why is an exploit against a Tor user so valuable? Assuming the attackers can access the server, which for the FBI seems a reasonable assumption (they can seize the server, operate it as a honeypot, etc.), all they need is a browser vulnerability.

Perhaps they did use a valuable exploit in this case, or they used something not legal (such as something not covered by their warrant or NSA surveillance).
This is a (significant) technical advance in unifying two approaches (Bayesian probabilistic modeling and deep learning) for well-defined machine learning problems. It makes no claims about the philosophy and design of artificial general intelligence.
With GStreamer you can put together a processing pipeline for that on the command line:

“gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! timeoverlay ! xvimagesink” gives you a webcam overlay.

For more info: http://wiki.oz9aec.net/index.php/Gstreamer_cheat_sheet
If you buy the Hardware listed in the various Hackintosh guides (hint: http://customac.com is great!) you will have very little to no problems with drivers. At least for Desktops that is; Laptops are a different story.

I purchased a Intel Skylake-based System and 99% of stuff worked out of the box with the MultiBeast tool. Had to fiddle a while to get HDMI Audio working, other than that i had no problems.
It's unfortunate that they are necessary.
"write a crawler that collects email addresses from lists of relevant websites"

U.S. federal law (the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) makes it illegal to send spam to harvested email addresses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#Sending_b...
> People are "willing to pay" rents only in the sense that people are willing to give a mugger their watch.

That's a silly comparison. You could say that about literally any product that's charging more than you feel like paying.

> Nobody made land. So why should some people be able to demand money from others for it?

Now that is an interesting question. I think there is a strong case to be made against the ownership of land in general. The fact that people have been allowed to own land seems like an odd historical quirk to me. I think it should probably be changed.

That, however, does not make rent into extortion. It's still a commodity regulated by the same laws of supply and demand as anything else.
Not if the victim of torture can afford our legal system. A (most likely Federal) judge would deny qualified immunity to those responsible, and they'd be held accountable at least in civil court, possibly criminal, although doubtful, given the way state prosecutors crawl up the police butt.
This is very likely it from my experience as well.
Assuming for a minute that containers aren't in play, then the isolation model becomes that of a server/vm with the associated overhead of each. To make this easier we'll assume there's only a single service, even though we know this to be untrue.

If there are 1M customers that's a minimum of 1M servers. Some customers are obviously larger and would need more. There's also HA. Let's conservatively call it 2.5M servers.

At an absolute bare minimum we'd need to allocate 2.5M GB of ram and 2.5M vCPU. That's a huge amount of resources.

If you could reliably fit 10000 Small customers on a single server at 32gb ram and 8 cpus you can already start to see how many resources can be saved.

Without customer isolation you've got the entire cluster to handle load spikes and HA. With isolation you have to have scheduling monitoring each of the 1M clusters and scaling appropriately by anticipating demand.

Scaling a service is way easier than scaling customers within a service or many services.
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I mean every narrative about the invention of CFCs is basically found a great thing, didn't realize the great thing has downsides.
Indeed, most of Silicon Valley is effectively* under a Comcast monopoly. As a result, it gets the same crappy, overpriced service as most of the country.

* There are technically other service providers, but they are not competitive if you want more than 20Mbps of throughput.
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URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-05/clapp...

Title: “JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000 Hours”

Smells fishy.
They might be actively using it in other investigations that might be compromised if this exploit were fixed.
I really wish there were something like this for Windows. Free/Open source, not requiring me to use someone else's service (i.e I can host my own server to stream to and from) etc.

I want to stream games on Windows, but the games I want to stream aren't allowed on various streaming services, or those services require proprietary software in some capacity.

I haven't had much luck with ffmpeg and ffserver; it's very hard to configure for me.

Perhaps this is the only time I'm asking if there's a Windows alternative to something for GNU/Linux :)
You do realize that a lot of pieces of infrastructure are the bane of urbanists right?
> You could say that about literally any product that's charging more than you feel like paying.

Exactly. Property is a system of violence.
> I'm not sure where you live, but right now on HN's front page there's a post about the housing bubble in Toronto and the 100k vacant homes in Paris. So what you say may be true where you live but it is not the case elsewhere.

I live in Los Angeles, and rents here are certainly higher than i'd prefer. Not as high as some places, but much higher than most.

But where I live doesn't really matter. What matters is that this is still a simple question of supply and demand. The fact that the real estate market has globalized has allowed these properties to get closer to their 'true value'. The true value of living in one of the most bustling, dynamic economies of the world turns out to be quite high. And that is a price that unfortunately most people can't afford.

For some reason people tend to view this as an affront to human rights. We don't view it as a violation of human rights when someone can't afford a Ferrari, but we do when they can't live in San Francisco. But at a fundamental level, your cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, etc..are the Ferrari's of cities. They are luxury products and life in them is priced accordingly.

> Many people pay more than they were willing to or have to share their place to be able to pay rent. When the choice is between paying more than you were willing to or not having a place to live, you don't really have a choice.

It isn't a choice between paying more or not living though. It's a choice between paying more and not living where you want to live. As I previously mentioned, it's also an issue of artificially constrained supply due to the political and social influence of existing property owners, which is indeed a huge problem.
Amusingly, even if everyone had their own personal Palace of Versailles, we still wouldn't cover the entire surface area of the Earth.
Yes, I've been involved with litigation, divorce, and custody battles. Yes they're terrible. But I'd posit that is because people are terrible. Courts and the justice system have been indispensable in defending the rights of my family - without them, it would be might makes right / whoever fights dirtiest wins. Or like Duels in the 18th century. This can happen, but does not have to happen. The justices in our cases saw through the bullshit every time , with few exceptions. I could not imagine restricting my life choices over fear of court. I can't say it has been positive experience, more of an affirming experience that the system can sometimes work, if you are willing to study it and work with it. I've lived a fairly long life not thinking the world is against me: I help others, and have been helped and loved by others. The choice is yours, on how you act and react to events. In the long run, we are all dead, might as well take some risks while we are here.
Companies on the west coast in US generally are becoming pretty soft on marijuana due to the recent law changes, but things like opiates or meth definitely they are screening for. There definitely are instances of risk of injury with equipment at work if they show up high, but also many businesses end up with expensive easy to sell machines suddenly walking off the site. So simply theft alone to support a habit of using drugs often is the reason for screening out drug users. The theft issue I've heard of happening from many business owners and can be pretty substantial. Like 2k a week of equipment disappearing until they figure out who it is. Typically expensive tools and electronics that are easy to sell on Craigslist.
If you are on Windows, why do you have a problem with “proprietary software in some capacity”?

Are the games you want to stream also proprietary software?
This seems to be a novel application of dropout for uncertainty. The author's 2015 post linked by matheweis [0] gives an approachable walkthrough:

> I think that's why I was so surprised that dropout – a ubiquitous technique that's been in use in deep learning for several years now – can give us principled uncertainty estimates. Principled in the sense that the uncertainty estimates basically approximate those of our Gaussian process. Take your deep learning model in which you used dropout to avoid over-fitting – and you can extract model uncertainty without changing a single thing. Intuitively, you can think about your finite model as an approximation to a Gaussian process. When you optimise your objective, you minimise some "distance" (KL divergence to be more exact) between your model and the Gaussian process. I'll explain this in more detail below. But before this, let's recall what dropout is and introduce the Gaussian process quickly, and look at some examples of what this uncertainty obtained from dropout networks looks like.

[0] http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_3d801aa532c1ce.html
My point is that the 10x and 100x jobs simply don't exist in any significant quantity in Toronto, and that's why it's not reasonable to say Toronto's housing market should mirror Manhattan's.
>Why are we reliant on an economist to pick up on this irrigation issue? You at least need people from industry to be consulted before regulations like this.

It's naive to think that effective, efficient regulation can happen without consulting the people actually affected. It's also naive to think those people should be the ones making regulations.

Even beyond the inherent problem with industries regulating themselves, they are just not capable of doing so in many cases, especially farming. What does a farmer know about public health, or water-borne pathogens, or heavy metals? Farmers know what makes plants grow or not. They don't know how those plants affect the people that eat them.

Plus, says who that irrigating with drinkable water is even a bad idea? It's the most accessible standard. Drinking water is everywhere. It's literally the most unscientific reasoning possible that manure is dirty, therefor water can be dirty too. Self righteous, pretentious stories like this are everywhere, where the clever, down to earth common guy stumps all the big brains. The fact is that the people who study the effects of an industry are in a far better position to assess regulation.

Yes- a producer will be able to say that a regulation may be burdensome. They will definitely not be the best person to know if it's warranted or not.
recommend basiccoin, a crypto currency in few hundreds lines of code.

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin

I implemented something similar with c++

https://github.com/shi-yan/bingot
I was not involved with Soylent when that event happened. Soylent and I parted at the end of April 2016.
Where does the water come from?
Reverting smaller diffs out of order to roll forward IS a patch under pressure. Usually most interesting features, the kind that tend to cause bugs that are not caught until deployment time, tend to come in as several patches over time. So reverting those means cherry-picking a set of patches, making sure you got the full set, making sure no subsequent patches took some subtle dependency on the ones being pulled, and so on. If you're in a compiled language, the set of patches is not too big, and the churn on your repo is low, then you probably have a decent chance of getting it right under pressure even if you have to untangle some refactors and such. If not, good luck.
Not a problem. The L1 point is where the gravitational pull of the Sun is balanced by the gravitational pull of the planet plus the centrifugal force; if you move slightly closer to the sun, its gravity will balance planetary gravity, centrifugal force, and the pressure on the sail.
IIUC, the proposal is to build a magnetic shield at a stable Lagrange point between Mars and the sun. Mars would be far away, in the "shade" created by the shield. So there's no magnetosphere around Mars. It's more like a magneto-cylinder. :)

This image explains it better than I can: https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/2017...

I don't think an approach like this would work for the moon, because there's no stable Lagrange point between the moon and the sun. (And even if we did build a magnetic shield for the moon somehow, I think it's still too small to accumulate an atmosphere.)
International law didn't have any problem doing just that.
> because Phones ARE computers.

This is like saying trucks are cars, too.

Different form factor for different purpose.
But how would that affect the house prices in, say, Sydney Australia where the prices have also skyrocketed but 2008 had little effect?
Go-ratelimit using redis
To me it's just pointless. Have all of the settings in the settings app now so I don't have to go to two places to change them. The problem with settings was that it didn't include everything I wanted/needed to change.

As far as search goes, my Windows 7 machine finds most settings too.
We try to do this as much as possible where I work.

It's... kinda working.
Technology is considered an "elite" job in this market, and not just because it pays well. It's also kind of ridiculous to claim that technology professionals are are less status seeking than the other professions you've listed. Satire like Silicon Valley exists because that behavior is rampant in our industry.
Explanation for What?
> For the majority of the population in developed countries, and almost all of the population of developing countries, smartphones are the only computer people have or need.

Not true. I am from India. Developing country. There are 5 working people in my family. None of us can replace our notebooks with our phones. For all of us phone is for communication and notebook for work.
Settings in windows 10 is garbage. Why do we need yet another easy-mode for the control panel? I thought that was what the larger control-panel icon groups were for in XP?
We have managed to warm the earth considerably in less then a century and that's without trying. I reckon if we gave it our best we could change planetary scale things even faster than that.
Ok, we all need to practice, train our respiration and voice intonation. There's a lot of tips about it. But one of the most important thing is to present a clear message.

I liked the book "Made to Stick" http://heathbrothers.com/books/made-to-stick/ about how to clearly present your message. They have a very good summary designed for presentations called "Making Presentations That Stick". The authors will give it in exchange of subscribing for their mailing list: http://heathbrothers.com/resources/overview/ (it is in the bottom of the page)
The euphemism treadmill makes my raises bigger.
Doesn't seem relevant given the number of places in Europe that are more progressive and failed to replicate silicon valley.
We don't know how well cyanobacteria fared against its microbial competitors, how efficient the early photosynthetic pathway was, or how large the oxygen sinks were pre-GOE saturation so we have no idea whether planetary oxygenation actually needs to take that long. Without an existing biome that captures oxygen or large bodies of water to dissolve oxides, the process can be many orders of magnitude easier (especially since Mars' atmosphere will take significantly less volume and we might be able to survive just fine with lower air density with a higher concentration of oxygen).

It's extremely unlikely that we can pull it off in a human lifespan but I would bet that planetary oxygenation is possible given a few millennia
Except the part where they immediately agreed to help the US Government, only to find that incompetence had made the problem much harder than it should have been. They then resisted having to do a large amount of unpaid labor to continue to help. Plus, a PRISM member.
Ah, that's a little annoying, but I think my expectations for what I can get out of a $10 computer are getting out of hand. Looks like I'm going to have to check out the Pi 3.
When the author says that kamek does not get more rides... Well that doesn't mean the pie is still the same size, there are more people eating it.

From a theoretical point of view, Uber allows underutilized assets (a car in the garage) to be used, frictional unemployment to be temporarily allocated and reduces barriers to entry (bypassing taxi permits). All of above, from a naive (but not necessarily wrong) perspective, contribute to increase the market surplus. It also has a side effect of shifting wealth from taxi permit holders to newcoming drivers.

Whatever implications that has, it is not just a broker, it is a powerful market mechanism for increasing asset utilization and employment, and as such a mechanism it creates value that can in principle be captured as profit.
Perhaps Canada is just different, there is no discovery for income: the judge orders sharing of your T4 (1040 equivalent) with your ex every year which shows all income, capital gains, dividend gains, etc. By law it's what's required. Child support is usually a formula taken from a rolling average difference of income adjusted by regular access (50/50 parenting vs 70/30). Ability to work at past incomes due to illness, recession, etc. can also adjust this.

From a public policy perspective here, the family justice system is designed to encourage settlement and not go to trial: almost all cases need a dispute resolution or case conference ahead of trial to provide a preview ruling.

What is the policy you would prefer?
There's multiple problems with that idea. Firstly, it incentivizes 'working around the system' for enforcement to go after people. Enforcement is not inherenetly out there for the 'good', many times they're there for their own agenda, while looking like they're enforcing the law. This can create a mixture of criminal/enforcement culture, and lead to a further increase of 'bad cops'.

Secondly, when gathering evidence illigally, it may be that the evidence is purely out of context, shaped to make the person look guilty, or that the methods of doing so are not reliable. Courts still have a problem with reliability of evidence, even 'lie-detectors' are still seen as legitimate, but there is no evidence of their ability.
The third world isn't a good target; there's no permanent dwelling shortage.

The reason why you often see people homeless or living in squalor in the third world is because they were uprooted by war, famine, or natural disaster. They often need short notice temporary dwellings, rather than new permanent ones as this would produce.

So there's a market for "popup housing" in some of those countries (and even in the US for natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina), and the Red Cross and similar international aid charities make some use of those. Erecting concrete structures that would be hard to disassemble is likely a non-starter (in particular as it requires a plentiful supply of water which may be unavailable in an evacuation zone).
There's more than a trillion pounds of water ice on the moon.
When I moved out to a far away country, in the early 2000's, my non-English speaking mom started using my localised-Windows desktop as the mean to keep int touch (hello Yahoo messenger).
In the 2 years that followed there was not a month were I didn't receive an alarmed phone call from her about "The computer says I am at risk!" or "There is a message in English, I don't understand, it looks bad!".
Switched to OS X and the tone changed to, "there was an update and every thing went fine".
I have been using OS X (macOS) for the last 10 years but I can still see in my corporate environment that localisation of OS and third parties (hello mandatory anti-virus) is not a fixed issue.
>They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.

A weird thing to say when most people I know who use them are doing it for the cheap price.
Mars has a lot of water, it is just solid.
That doesn't seem relevant given the many other differences between European countries and the US, that don't apply to California vs Kansas.
mind posting more info about this somewhere?
As I've climbed out of the poor student phase of my life I've grown to appreciate the idea that content should be free as in freedom and not free as in $0.

It's an important distinction until we reach a utopia where people don't need $$ to live and do their writing/research etc
A federal judge deny qualified immunity? I'm struggling to contain my incredulity. There are instances where cops shot people who were unarmed and attempting to comply, where filmed doing it from multiple angles, and the cops still walked.
Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs
I would love to hear more about your experience there (my email is miles at coderpath dot com), and would like to learn more about R.G. My only knowledge about him was through his autobiography.
It might come down to culture/demand?

In Japan where it's preferred to make a new home rather than buy a pre-owned one (outside the big city), pre-fab seems to have taken off rather more (13% of new builds in 2013). For example, a house built in a day (customisable, moderately expensive but very high quality):

https://youtu.be/Kzpv47o80eg
The author specifically talked about VR and gaming, which are things that need more power (especially in the GPU department) than what Apple is offering right now.
Apple could keep usb-c and MagSafe, but they didn't.
nice. this makes them the cheapest to offer IPv6 support with a proper /64. I wish scaleway would follow suit.