skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. A better analogy would be someone trying to rob a bank wearing a George grey hoody and the cops asking Walmart for records on who bought grey hoodies in that style.

Which they actually do.

And nobody freaks out about it.
Only for the models, the core works with python 3. I tweaked the models to use them in python 3, it is things like 'xrange and range'.
What you need is a book on how to solve problems using a strategy, like the first few chapters of 'The Art and Craft of Problem Solving' by Zeitz and 'How to Solve it' by Polya. The Zeitz book specifically refers to the issues in abstract word problems and strategies for understanding them.

'Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning' by Eccles was another great book to explain the meaning of mathematical statements and how to think like a mathematician. If you read some of those, and want to learn more math, start with functional programming in SML since it naturally leads to understanding proof by induction https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-dog-tha...
Minnesotan here:

The inside joke about Edina is that it stands for "Every Day I Need Attention"; it's mostly old money, old-ways of doing things. For example: Up until a few years ago, they outlawed happy hour (as a state, we recently approved liquor sales on Sunday; odd, I know) and no, I'm not kidding.

Having said, this doesn't surprise me at all. Not that a judge approved it, but that Edina of all places requested it.
well, sea ice is measurably smaller: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iq...
The question is more of the strings are fast enough yet.
You could have GuileEmacs for a long time, but they weren't fast enough.
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being
Unfortunately there are people who don't really care for free speech either. Our president is foremost among them.
See also the Pima County Missing Migrants project. When a corpse is found in a desert a group of people try to identify who it used to be and inform relatives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21029783

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01v5sq8
I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure what an outbound role is.
The problem is how "the rot" is defined. And having an exhaustive database or algorithm that can quickly eliminate whatever "rot" the system has defined is what makes Minority Report dystopian.
Is this missing a /s? If every single piece of data related to you is stored and accessible by the government then it only takes a change in the political winds to turn you from a model citizen to an enemy of the state. You even reference Minority Report where half of the movie was the main character being framed for a crime.

Beyond that, if we really did want to make wide spread data collection a part of society it should be a constitutional change in the US at least. The 4th amendment protects against unreasonable searches. Proposing that everyone gets searched all the time is just a way for the government to weasel their way around that restriction. Doing so just degrades the rule of law which has a host of problems.

The only way I could possibly see being ok with everyones information being available all the time is if warrants were for specific information, for example looking for people who bought pressure cookers before the boston bombing, and any evidence found in this dragnet that pointed to other crimes could _never_ be used in any other case. That would at least prevent fishing expeditions from the government
That's a compelling argument, do you think a Google search for a person's name (or maybe any term) is similar to calling a phone number? If the police asked the phone company for the name of everyone who called (555) 867-5309 on a given date or time I don't think that sounds unreasonable.
Well, one would think that they'd have been bright enough to use StartPage/DuckDuckGo, a VPN, Tor, or some combination of them.
This is an interesting read, and I particularly thought it was illuminating with respect to the Indus Valley Civilisation.
Unreal Engine is struggling to remain relevant
That bill opens up to ISP's what website's ( like google ) hav e been doing for years. If no one is safe because of that bill, then no one is safe already. VPN'ing around your ISP is about the same level of difficulty as setting your default search engine to not be google.
One big item is that that Emacs' internal string/buffer representation supports things like loading weirdly (or even erroneously) encoded data, and saving this unchanged; this is sometimes quite useful.

Guile's strings (gnulib's) do not support that, and adding the support is quite a bit of works for all the corner-cases that emacs supports.

Now, emacs and guile do not necessarily have to use the same underlying string/buffer implementation, but it would definitely be a big plus, and I wouldn't be surprised the emacs maintainers would require it.
>"Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery?"

Yes it is different, what I do in the privacy of my own home is not comparable to a security camera in a public place or a security camera in a grocery store. In the latter I do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy as I am in a public space.

>"In either case, obviously innocent bystanders will be quickly eliminated from the list of possible suspects."

How do you know this? What if during such a dragnet they see something completely unrelated that they find "interesting"?

Also the granularity of GEO-IP information is notoriously unreliable, I don't believe you could limit the scope of a such a request to a particular suburb as the article mentions.
Illinois banned happy hour until a couple years ago, and Massachusetts still does.
I'm not sure why you're looking in the proverbial closets – aren't you rather looking at all the tapes maintained in stores to see who bought a grey hoody?
You're right, I've also been downvoted lately with no apparent reason, it seems they are getting more and more difficult
Who needs science and education?
> People might think of it as a trusted, private service

I think the problem is a little worse. Most people don't think about it in the first place, so the reason this question becomes interesting is that for most people it's a question they never asked themselves.

The answer is clear and obvious already based on the current legal framework, but it's news- and ask-worthy because for many people it's the first exposure to it.
Seems like we ought to be worried about both.
I always intended to read "Missing 411" after hearing the author speak on the radio, but haven't made time for it.
> It's not technologically, politically or legally feasible to expect that anything you do on the internet can or should be kept from the authorities

Which authorities? Just because you are comfortable with the authorities there where you are or the authorities you have today, doesn't mean you should be comfortable with the authorities here or the authorities you may have tomorrow

> we can end anti-social behaviour as we know it and achieve the kind of peace and harmony that only come from full accountability

Who is we? Who is going to read, interpret and correctly act on this information? Only a total boot heal would write something like this. Your faith in authority is misplaced.

> Crime thrives in dark corners. A surveillance society is a searing searchlight to expose and eradicate the the rot.

You know what else thrives in dark corners? Dissent. A searchlight can wilt a flower just as much as it can expose rot

> Legitimate buyers have nothing to fear and terrorists get caught

There are exactly two people that want to blow up a marathon with a pressure cooker bomb. Two. The planet was only able to produce 22 people who want to fly planes into buildings in over 80 years of commercial aviation. Even then, that was only possible because of an anomaly of state sponsorship. Terrorism is such a tiny problem as to not even deserve mention.
I am not posing the following question in a critical manor, I am genuinely curious. How can moving to Northern Europe from the US benefit one's career? Is it feasible to immediately compete for work against locals as a junior dev? What about senior?
> Pretty much all fruit trees used in agriculture are produced by cloning

I was surprised some years ago when I learned that most apple trees are grafts: you take a branch from a tree with apples you like, attach it to a shoot of some other apple tree, and it will produce the apples you like. A neighbor's tree had burned down, and he had no idea what sort of apples the shoots sprouting from the stump would produce.
Plug for Mathematica, which after its installed you can do deep learning on in one or two lines, with GPU support on all three platforms with no setup. Very concise. Getting fairly competitive in features with other high level declarative frameworks as of 11.1 (which was just released today). Very nice visualizations thanks to being in Mathematica. The language is of course closed source, paid software. Many universities have site licenses, so there is a large built-in audience who can use it in courses etc 'for free', home licenses are comparable to photoshop or whatever.

See http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/NeuralNetworks.h..., also look at Examples > Applications under http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NetTrain.html for some worked examples. Fun example of live visualization during training (very easy to do, will get even easier in future versions): https://twitter.com/taliesinb/status/839013689613254656
"a judge says yes" is right there in the title on HN.
Right, that's what you have to do. Lots of redundancy, and a plan to move it forward to whatever the technology-du-jour is in 5 years.

But do remember - a hard drive that's sat for 5 years may not even spin up. Spinups and spindowns are rough on hard drives. So is just letting them sit and seize up. A mechanism that depends on moving parts is inherently failure-prone.

SSDs are going to be better in that respect, probably. Although again, you have cases like the Samsung 840 Evo series where the flash cells lose their charge over time and need to be periodically rewritten or else they go corrupt (never fixed, just had a firmware patch to rewrite it in the background).

The funny thing is, I actually think optical media are a pretty good approach for long term stability. It's a lot like film, all you really need is a good image of the disc. Plastic and foil just happen to not be that awesome for long-term storage, if it was diamond or something that would be pretty much perfect. But, I suppose since you need a laser with a particular wavelength it's not really universal...

Anyone know how those "M-Disc" things made of some kind of stone or whatever end up turning out? Any good? Sounded nice from the marketing pitch but of course the salesman's going to tell you it's awesome...
The Origins of Political Correctness (2000)
You're right, maybe someone on HN can give us more info
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You're only 1/2 way away from slave labor at that point.

And when you factor in other taxes, you pay more than 50%, it's too much.

And if I choose not to pay those taxes, my freedom is taken away, so don't tell me the slave point is invalid.
google doesn't sell or share your personal information to anyone. Its a huge distinction.
The potus revels in his 1st amendment rights. Not sure what you're getting at.
> We live in one universe

I think this may be an oversimplification.
very clever.
The article with all its inaccuracies and misleading language felt like it was written in pursuit of a somewhat manipulative agenda. When I got to the end and read the book it's excerpted from it, it made sense: "Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future".

At least the article makes an effort to blame monocultures, but instead of proposing a better model for a more diversified agriculture, it implies that current troubles are an inescapable result of post-industrial consumerism. But I assert what we're seeing is a result of big agricultural companies' unwillingness to change course on a model that was supposed to maximise profits without any thought of long term viability - a phenomenon that is currently slowly changing through consumer demand for more variety.

Increasing variety is the answer to the robustness problem. When I was a child, there was precisely one type of tomato in the supermarket, and it wasn't great. Today, I typically see more than five, and they all taste pretty good. If I had five types of banana to choose from, that wouldn't be the end of the world either (neither would be the banana dying out, for that matter).

"Having the Food We Want When We Want It" is a highly misleading premise.
Most of those organizations are happy to dump $1 million into something with so much potential power on the off-chance that it turns out to work. In fact, if I was in charge of Google, and understood the extremely tiny chance that D-Wave is legit, I would still dump in money, because the tiny chance it works still makes it worth it.
Why would the cameras have to be in closets? If the hoodie is in your closet then you aren't wearing it so it means nothing. If you are seen wearing the same clothes as a suspect in a crime in a nearby location at the same time then I think that's a reasonable way to narrow down a list of suspects.
I'm talking about giving $2 to one person. A 10 second act
As someone who is not an Australian (i.e. born/raised in the USA), I will agree with you that Australian Rules Football is one of the greatest sports in the world. :)
> The vast majority of prosecutions never go to trial.

But that's a result of the evaluation of prospects at trial, so the protections that apply at trial directly influence that.

> Plus the president can lock up enemy combatants without trial.

Such detentions of alleged enemy combatants can be (and have been) challenged in court as well.
Here is a basic model in my physics project:

http://strainer.github.io/fancy#10

The two objects are the size of our sun, the green one represents the black hole.
I put in the orbital distance as 2.5 times the Earth to Moon distance as stated in the article, and just tweaked the mass of the black hole (green orb) until the star orbits once every 30 minutes. The mass of the star will hardly matter. The mass of the black hole in this model is 60 solar masses.

The model timestep is here is 1 minute, five or ten minutes should still work for this engines integration scheme. Its a Newtonian model, at 0.01 lightspeed there will be innaccuracy but I guess just a few percent in measurements.
>>Microsoft has shifted into a whole new gear with Windows 10, and made it clear, despite user feedback, that they intend to stay the course, and continue the data collection, and advertising, and everything else that gets discussed on HN

Well if you would just Subscribe to o356, put all your documents in OneDrive, and buy every app in the windows store they would not have to show you ads ;) /s
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Why ouch? :). It's not like there's a zero-sum game here. It's great to see more things being released, so the ecosystem can continue to improve.

I do wish SyntaxNet were a bit easier to use. A lot of people have asked for SyntaxNet as a backend for spaCy, and I'd love to be using it in a training ensemble. When I tried this last year, I had a lot of trouble getting it to work as a library. I spent days trying to pass it text in memory from Python, and it seemed like I would have to write a new C++ tensorflow op. Has anyone gotten this to work yet?
One of those gadgets is designed to measure refraction and radiance from greenhouse gasses. I.e. to confirm or correct the only assumptions in climate modeling that are even remotely controversial.

Gee, I wonder why they want to cancel it.
Of course cloning is not the only way to make seedless fruit. Watermelons are made seedless by taking a triploid variety pollinated by a diploid variety. They are not comparable and produce sterile fruits with soft white seeds.
If a bike was stolen from a street, the police do not have the right to enter and search every home on that street to see if you committed the crime. We already have the legal framework for these kinds of questions in meatspace. The courts are treating it differently because its on a computer, the same way companies are getting patents for unpatentable processes as long as they do it on the internet
The entire moral quandary behind minority report could be avoided simply by having police monitor people, and if they are actually about to commit murder---prevent it and arrest them for attempted murder.

The reason they didn't do that was simply because it's a movie, and movies work better if instead of picking a compromise point between our society and some future ideal---you just pick the future ideal that will seem crazy to people.

It's like Logan's Run (movie) where the issue isn't just that you kill everyone over 30 to save resources, but that you lie and pretend no one can physically live past 30 and everyone gets reincarnated. They inserted the moral quandary to make the story interesting.
NXP's Cortex-A35 based i.MX8 X SoCs put safety first
I recently created a web page that provides - in my biased opinion - unique, relevant information on a niche topic that I'm interested in. It's been impossible for me to crack the top search results on this topic. Instead, the top 20+ results are all news articles repeating the same thing.

I never had reason to complain about Google's algorithm until I became a content creator. Now, I wonder what other great web pages I'm missing out on.
If you want to deploy it as a static site, but want the convenience of doing browser-based editing, you can try Pragma (https://pragma.build).

(ps: we are currently in private beta, will send an invite soon)
One of D-wave's founders is now trying to patent teleoperation of robots and pass it off as "novel": http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

Also, tossing in some machine learning which I presume they're also trying to patent (because it's not as if UC Berkeley and Google have done that 15 times a year since 2010)....

All this makes me think they're not legit.
Technically they ask for ALL the identities that searched for that name.
I kept running into bugs while using Commander Genius (even before entering the first level, I managed to get Billy stuck "behind" the map. This one feels exactly like I remember.
> Ryssdal: Now, we should say, that in the days, what, week or so since this post was published, Google has in fact changed the search results, right? So, you've changed two things: You've changed the New York Times and you've changed Google.

This is still a problem with this specific example today.[0]

[0] - http://imgur.com/a/2R5k5
Depends on jurisdiction, but I think over here, the store owners give it routinely, firstly because it is in their best interests (to catch criminals in the area) and secondly, because if they wouldn't, a judge would anyway give the order.
I didn't interpret the results in this post as "predicting the future distribution of language use." Rather, I interpreted the ranking as an indicator of a qualitative trend in that distribution. I think the author also made this very clear.

And of course, all things trend toward newness, so your objection there seems more about time or human psychology than the methodology of the post.
Google’s DeepMind made ‘inexcusable’ errors handling UK health data, says report
I'd best most would fall into "not handing insane user inputs". Remember the recent S3 outage? http://www.recode.net/2017/3/2/14792636/amazon-aws-internet-...
sudo pip install tensorflow works fine as of the recent v1.0, and works out of the box for CPU training.

The annoying thing for GPU training is handling the cudNN dependency, which Google's guides are annoyingly lacking.
I'm not endorsing this, but here's PG's explanation (which likely influenced others) http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Looking for small things in a field requires, and promotes, a particular mindset - like you have to let your imagination run from the slightest impressions, and trust your innate powers of recognition. I sometimes go mushrooming (like John Cage, fact fans) and the funnest part of it is the battle with my own thought processes, as I attempt to turn myself into a slick mushroom-detecting machine via consciousness-dilation.

I like to think the key's not complete thoughtlessness, but rather an appreciation of the vastness the field without caring too much about any one part of it. Which is a bit wishy-washy, but forms a good basis.
Even from a contemporary perspective, one it's fairly easy to argue that the industrial revolution is still ongoing.

We have had many revolutionary technological developments throughout the past 200 years, such as radio, flight, and computers. And it doesn't seem like we're really slowing down yet.
It's not an entitlement per se, but Head Start is a classic example of the government program that doesn't work, but can/t be cancelled. Even DHHS admits it doesn't work[0], but it's impossible to cancel politically.

[0] https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/executive_s...
> I've got the project on hold for now because I can't find a decent, non-commercial way of converting voice to text. I'd really rather not send my audio out to Amazon/Google/MS/IBM

Same concern here... so my voice->text method is via android's google voice - forced to offline mode. The offline mode is surprisingly good.

Re mis triggers... I also have opencv running on the same android. It only activates the voice recognition when I am actually looking directly at the android device (an old phone).
Of course that will be the case. Tesla will never be willing to accept liability for accidents.
I can tell you're excited by this, but I can't be sure as to why. Which "game" do you think this project is going to change? Bearing in mind that simulating/predicting mass psychology/behaviour has been mainstream in the field of economics for quite some time.
I'm a bit sad there is not any answer to this but I guess this is a complicated topic.

Maybe I should bring that to the Python-idea mailing list instead.
The Dept of Education budget also is proposed to be cut significantly, including deep cuts in financial aid to college students.

NIH research also is proposed to suffer large cuts.

And while I'm at it, the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are proposed to be eliminated entirely.
Even brand new (residential) construction doesn't have AC in Germany and Austria, although even 100+ year old apartment buildings will usually have central heating.

It's just not hot for a long enough part of the year to be worth the expense.
I'm not 100% sure about this particular instance, but, in general, it's fine for companies to have information that's not fine for the police to ask for.

Substitute Google for any sort of dating website, and it's clear that such a website would have a tonne of data it needs as part of its day-to-day operation that the police should never have access to at such a wide scale.
> In nuclear war, a split second decision could annihilate every living human, erase all evidence of our existence, and maybe cause a big enough climate shift to permanently end life on this planet.

Not to take too much from the argument, but that line is way overblown. I think it's hard to believe a nuclear war would kill all humans (it would certainly destroy civilization, but killing everybody is way harder) but nobody can be sure of that. Anyway, the Earth has survived meteor strikes larger than humanity's entire arsenal and life is still here.
It's pretty clear to me that they started upgrading the "Control Panel" menus and never finished the job. At a surface level, you get new-style flat, simplified dialog boxes. To change more advanced settings, you jump into the old-style dialogs.