skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those ideas solve the problem of campaign financing being legalized bribery, the problem of politicians lying and flip-flopping to gain votes, or the problem of wealth, power, and the establishment deciding who can't win by manipulating the press.

The only system I know of that avoids these problems is to hold randomized lotteries for government positions and skip the election process entirely.
Thanks; changed to that from https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-co-founder-evan-william....
It's amazing to me that you blame people for choosing differently (and not for the current admin). Who you would rather than a) the people who actually supported the current admin and b) the people too apathetic to bother.

That's really how you want to make your mark? Going after people for disagreeing with you in a non violent, democratically sanctioned way?
Hey, your roof is leaking. I'll help you demolish it. Then you can rebuild a new roof with state-of-the-art insulation and integrated solar! Of course, I'll only help with the demolition, not the rebuilding, but surely that's OK. When do we start?

Snark aside, it looks like the current government is interested in repealing net neutrality, but not in increasing competition. So, at the end of the day, instead of a leaky roof we're going to end up with no roof at all. I doubt AT&T and friends would have supported the repeal of net neutrality if they thought it would lead to meaningful new competition.
Planimeter – a mechanical device to measure surface of arbitrary shaped areas
The fashion statement is what they did with the last Mac Pro, which they've clearly (finally) realized was a big mistake. I'm sure the next one will look nice enough, but I'll bet it also prioritizes function over form.
Contributors volunteer skilled labor

In an ideal yet non-existing world that is true. In reality there are also contributors volunteering not-so-skilled labor resulting in quite some overhead for the maintainer. That doesnt make the other things you sais less of a good advice, but you almost make it sound like it's all flowers and sunshine.
Ask HN: Anything You Always Wanted to Ask HN, but You Didn't
Is there something, you considered to ask on HN and never did? What about ask it here? :) Could be interesting
Font Swap for Google Fonts – chrome extension for instantly swapping fonts
This is quite amazing, beyond the homomorphic privacy implications being executed at scale in production -- they're also finding a way to harness billions of phones to do training on all kinds of data. They don't need to pay for huge data centers when they can get users to do it for them. They also can get data that might otherwise have never left the phone in light of encryption trends.
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Why is Visual Studio Code using much less resources compared to atom?
I have used both for more than a year and atom usually takes upto 3-3.5G of RAM but VSCode always uses around 500Mb max. How are the two so different when they use the same javascript and HTML tech to run everything?
Also here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimeter
Hi! The seminar is part of a program at UCLA called Undergraduate Student Initiated Education (USIE); it is specifically for undergraduate students who want to teach a 1 unit seminar. I have personally taken an upper division CS course on cybersecurity at UCLA, and my professor is my faculty mentor!
This. I started my company post 35. It was much easier with less business risk because of all the experience I had accumulated by that point. But there was more personal risk because my kids and spouse were all dependent on my income.
I am on GNOME 3.22 and the title bars are still crazy - look at the Night Light screenshot for example.

Most GNOME apps look great because they titlebar is actually a toolbar, but I spend most of my time in portable third-party apps which have large, empty titlebars. This is the one thing I immediately envy when I see a Unity screenshot.
If any CS students are reading this, and want to get published, I know of a couple security-themed journals that are always looking for general interest articles. Something like "The state of security awareness within NGOs" is exactly what some are looking for. An article in a proper journal is a badge on any resume.
How Do My Airtel App Works?
Does It required Airtel Number or we can use any mobile Number to start this App??
Part of me wants to make a really nice website to shine a spotlight on these corporate shills and track their offenses. Obviously, we can legitimately argue about the merits of some laws and regulations, but others are obvious corporate power grabs that objectively leave us worse off. And to officials who sell us out but are sure to be re-elected, like Marsha Blackburn, she needs to know that there are people who recognize her as a traitor to the interests of the American people.
My guess is that this is intended to a completely different public than planes (short distances). Still looks like totally unrealistic for urban mobility IMO.
Hey there, I am sure they had support for latex.
There is an entire section "What does the Syrian government say?"
I think Pidgin should fit the bill. Awesome client with a lot of useful plugins.
bb is not a project, it is a demo[1] from the demoscene. It ranked 10th at abduction 1997[2].

The demoscene is an unending source of awesome and amazing. The 4k and 64k categories will blow your mind, if you ever wondered "can a FPS game could be done in under 100kB?", the answer has been released in 2004 and its name is .kkrieger[3]

[1]: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=17468

[2]: http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=75&when=1997

[3]: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036
> impersonating a federal agent

> (possibly foreign actors) posing as federal employees

> impersonate a federal employee

Just one look at the twitter account in question makes it clear this entire line of reasoning is absurd. Can't wait to hear more ham-fisted nonsense like this in the weeks to come.
Sorry, I worded that funny. Federighi confirmed it so it's not a rumor now, but I meant that they had heard those rumors before this announcement.
Well yes - they're free to tell them to leave (speech), and free to compel them (property). Interestingly some theorists consider freedom of speech a special case of property rights.
Nice read, and I am wishing I had been in on the original topic.

If I had, I would have commented that the version upgrade process sucks for anyone that starts from a minimal base(like I do). If I go through the upgrade, I will end up with all the default stuff.

If I don't have thunderbird installed, don't install it for me.

In short: upgrades could be smarter, faster, better, stronger.
Sure thing; the weekly emails will contain the slides I use, as well as relevant articles covered each week.
I have a course syllabus available here: http://kfrankc.me/cs88s/USIE_Syllabus.pdf
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I think the distinction here between "handing over your data" and "letting a model train on the data on your device" may be more subtle than you might think. There is still no guarantee of privacy - it is trivial to construct objective functions which probe data from your device.
Knowing what I know now, I think by the time you're 35 if you work in tech you should have enough saved to not need a day job at all. Most people will find this outrageous though, since they're used to wasting money and nobody teaches you how to manage it.
While this is not a car replacement for everyone - the Volocopter will require a full pilot license to be flown, it should have a significant impact on small commercial and especially non-commerical flying. Helicopters are very expensive to operate and the Volocopter should bring down operation costs down to the levels of fixed-wing aircrafts, if not even below that, as it lacks any maintenance-intensive combustion engine.
import ctypes
from multiprocessing import Array
mysharedarray = Array(ctypes.<type>, 100)

That's essentially the same as this proposal.
Scuttlebutt – an off-grid social network
Nevermind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049

Found here: https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html
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Specifically, all non-Clinton voters and non-voters in a tiny number of relevant states. For everyone else, their votes never counted.

To blame it on Stein specifically is of course insane and purposely incendiary without any other purpose really; the number of non-voters who just let it happen or "are not into politics" is orders of magnitude more significant and they are much more responsible. Stein voters at least voted against Trump, they just chose not to vote strategically so that their votes were expressive of their preferences but ineffective. Non-voters couldn't even be bothered to express their preference. Geeks love to avoid politics and pretend they are above it, or they aren't interested in it because it involves people not technical facts and this is what happens when we do.
I think people are forgetting to ask the key question - Cui bono? Who benefits?

23andme definitely benefits - all the data they have collected is very valuable, and they intend to sell it to pharmaceutical companies etc.

On the other hand, working in genomics, in my opinion the benefit to any one person having their genome tested in this manner is minimal. The simple reason is that most genetic alterations have low penetrance for phenotypes or involve complex interactions.
"Simply foolproof" aka unsinkable.

"Safety first" ... if safety was the primary concern one wouldn't ever step into a helicopter. Speed and convenience come first.

I would enjoy reading the market studies for these micro helicopters. Weight is a huge issue. Exactly how fat can the passengers be?
That would be great! I would really appreciate that.
Thanks for that. Interesting, but not too surprising to anyone who has read much Hayek. Nuanced, of course.
I would argue there is no such thing. The model will after the update now incooperate your traning data as a seen example, clever use of optimization would enable you to partly reconstruct the example.
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I don't hold the leadership at Google with the same contempt as I hold the leadership at say Verizon, GE, Ford, or News Corp (WSJ). I'm sure given enough time all corporations are categorically evil but Google isn't there yet.
It did mentioned a local version of mini TensorFlow, I would guess the data is cleaned up on local devices and only updates are send back to the cloud.
I remember my dad managing a jump from a downsizing TRW in 1971 to a government gig. Which meant the family rode out the double dip recession of 1979/1982 unscathed. However I couldn't find a job myself at all 1982-1983.

Remember being at a small company in 1990-1993 and watching the orders fall and fall. Survived because the owners didn't take a pay check for 2 years. I didn't take a paycheck for 6 months.

Company I worked for in 1997 went under due to the Asian Financial Crisis.

Division I worked for got tossed over board during the 2001-2002 dot bomb. Even though there was nothing dot bomb about what we did.

Somehow managed to come through the 2008 down turn myself, but my GF got laid off, hired, then laid off.

> I am not sure if suffering builds character.

Look at the above to see; suffering is bullshit.

What bothers me is (perhaps I was naive 40 years ago and less so today) but it seems that the political system and the people that control it are committed less and less to having the backs of the general public. Notice that 2009-2011 large banks and insurance companies, private high wealth individuals were bailed out but millions of schmucks lost their homes and small fortunes[1]. And that was a matter of policy.

[1] To avoid moral hazard someone needs to suffer. Just not us seems to the way it works now.
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> it doesn't take much to understand the policy-first approach is fundamentally flawed.

While this is a popular belief, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics works. Ignoring policy doesn't mean it won't happen; you're simply allowing other people to define policy without your input. In this case, congress should have acted to preserve neutrality and privacy by passing the necessary laws or regulations.

Unfortunately the people that should have been educating congress and pressuring them to act were more interested in complaining about congress's lack of education in technical areas and/or working on technical workarounds. Without any real competition, Comcast et al bought politicians easily and cheaply.

Yes, politicians will pass imperfect laws even when they have the best intentions. You fix that by participating in politics and applying an opposing force to corruption. Ignoring the problem isn't neutral; it's announcing that you aren't going to stand in the way of corruption.
I love it and will buy it. Had the speedometer in the middle of the car on my Toyota Yaris and never had any problems with it. Lots of people wanted more buttons when the first iPhone came, but then all of that changed. Also, I think the car is beautiful but, but of course the Model S is the premium option, but it also cost 2x.

I think the Model 3 will sale crazy well.
Where is the security model in this? What stops malicious attackers from uploading updates that are constructed to destory the model?
Unity and Gtk would scale everthing up, so things that are properly drawn before being re-scaled.

So quality will be there.

For normal/low-DPI screens instead, you'd scale everything down, so you'd lose some memory CPU power, but you'd still get the quality result.
Opinions on Uber aside, wasn't everyone complaining a while ago that VCs were having too much control?
What about just asking in its own thread and leaving those reddit-style threads off this site?
I really like these. There is something to these kind of inventions that always puts them "just around the corner" category. This has been going on since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar in the 90's.

There is probably a combination of a tendency of people to dream about flying, and how much fun it would be, combined with the ignorance of all possible hurdles, not just physical and engineering ones, but also legal and regulatory.
Sounds like the typical problem with authoritarian figures. For some reason, they lack the self confidence to handle criticism.
One of the evidence often used in these lawsuits is performance reviews.
I just read the entire thing again and this is all I can find:

>A statement on Syrian state TV said "American aggression" had targeted a Syrian military base with "a number of missiles" but gave no further details.
As Canonical has moved its focus away from end users, we might end up with a more intuitive split: snaps for the cloud, flatpak for desktop apps?
So, it seems that they have to ramp up a team to design the next Mac Pro? Oh dear.
For urban moblity, let's take a use case of flying someone from central london to heathrow airport i.e. 20miles or 30km.

Assuming this thing could fly at 60km/h then a flight time of 30 minutes would be required.

I'm not aware of any electric VTOL vehicle with this capability at the moment. But we live in hope.
Weird, I seem to remember the legislative branch repealing some regulations that nearly all Americans support exactly on party lines in order to make the Internet worse recently...

It doesn't matter at all in this particular instance because the people who want to remove NN own both branches and can do it just as easily no matter where the rules come from. The only things that can persist in the face of a 1 party lockstep government like this is a constitutional amendment, or something that is so widely popular and easily understandable that repealing it is political suicide, like health care.
It's a lot like asking why people want a laptop that was "designed for Linux" rather than one that's just compatible with Linux. It's mostly a matter of vendor support—if it's the hardware vendor's responsibility to fix incompatibilities between OS $FOO and their hardware $BAR, then $BAR is going to run $FOO a lot better—especially whenever $FOO is updated—than it would if it was entirely just community support.
Yep, I agree. On the specs front it was a good deal but the upgradability wasn't there. I hope they learned from this in that sense, but I'm not holding my breath.

I really want a new version of the cheese grater, but if that's not what comes out I'll just get another iMac (which isn't upgradable either, but it's cheaper and I'm not interested in running a Hackintosh).
Man's half face is forever young after getting hit by particle beam
> A statement on Syrian state TV said "American aggression" had targeted a Syrian military base with "a number of missiles" but gave no further details.
FALSE: DNA Test Proves Retired Postman Has Over 1,300 Illegitimate Children?
Can we stop with the unsubstantiated heresay? What condition, what markers, what risk calculation is used?

I recently tried to research these companies to help a friend, and theres a huge amount of innuendo out there along with a lack of detailed and up to date information.

Even the companies seem to be in the dark. One example is I asked FTDNA to explain what the advantages might be to their autosomal only testing vs AncestryDNA's autosomal testing. A "senior" person there essentially said, we have no idea how they conduct autosomal tests so we can't help you.

Off the top of my head every company I can think of goes to great lengths to know the competition, in part to be able to explain their advantages to customers.

But not so for some of these DNA companies.

To be fair, AncestryDNA's web info was so marketing messaged I didn't even bother to ask them the question.
>> The vast majority of people in any organisation are good people who want what's best in the sense of the greater good

No. The vast majority of people in any organisation are timid folks who want what's best in the sense of the greater good, unless the greater good involves any courage on their part. These people are congenial, but don't confuse those with good people.
How is that a bad thing? Would you argue that companies using heavy Javascript frameworks on their websites are "using other people's computers" too?
Will someone explain why certain companies stock, like Google, and Netflix, don't seem concerned about this "fast track repeal of net neutrality" news today?

I just check both stocks, and they really didn't move much.

It's big news for them--right?

(I honestly don't know all the ramifications. Do they figure they are so big, and so popular, they don't need to worry? We will always be around one way or another?)
Could you share some of these journals?
Typically it introduces a support and development burden, product fragmentation and a weaker brand. They tried it before (I had one of the Mac clones, it was just ok).

It would eat into their sales but the other side effects are worse, and they would have to look into creating a channel for being able to make money from MacOS.

There is a reason for a number of these boutique Windows workstation manufacturers as there value add is to provide a supported product out of known good tested configurations, because for someone that just wants a machine that works it’s still some effort and Microsoft still gets money for the Windows license.
No different from a centralized approach?

When the rail company in Sweden first offered voice bookings people would hoax it by calling and saying "I want to book a ticket from Göteborg to Stockholm", and a robotic voice would reply "Do you want to book a ticket from Göteborg to Stockholm?"; at this point the hoaxer says "No, I want to book a ticket from Stockholm to Göteborg". And back and forth for hours and hours until the system could no longer distinguish between Stockholm and Göteborg and the system was basically useless.

A system that tries to learn corrections, e.g. the keyboard example in the article, are all vulnerable to poisoning. As anyone who plays with poisoning Google search results delights in.
Yeah, there's a law for that!
May I ask how much it would cost, in total man hours, to for example change the name of a field ? For example make "name" into firstName and lastName.
When I was in Zimbabwe 2008, prices changed every hour.
What CMS is better?
I'm looking for a user-friendly CMS to create the main structure of my site.
And we can compare them on LibHunt by CodeQuality, Popularity & Dev Activity

React VS Angular https://js.libhunt.com/project/react/vs/angular-js

React VS Aurelia https://js.libhunt.com/project/react/vs/aurelia

Angular VS Aurelia https://js.libhunt.com/project/angular-js/vs/aurelia

BONUS
Vue.js VS React https://js.libhunt.com/project/vue/vs/react

It seems that Aurelia beats them all by Code Quality...
I would have. I had 2 kids diagnosed with cystic fibrosis the same day, so it would have helped me. Many phenotypes are complex, but not all are.
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Even if Canonical only keeps a fraction of its desktop staff, they could easily improve on GNOME's default settings and theme, something that Fedora won't do.
Some company like google or apple or facebook should just hire him for $1.00 a year as "Hacker in Residence" and give him full benefits.

Also the surgery was March 28th. Is he OK? Or is the date supposed to be April?
I am totally in the same boat, and totally agree with you though I haven’t bothered to even think about getting a new MBP in the last year, just going to use this 2013 model until it dies.

And I need a new workstation for more intensive workloads than any MacBook Pro can handle, and have been holding off on what to get.
The equivalent to "unmasking" would be someone inside twitter knowing the name. Totally incomparable to mandated disclosure.
US demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter suing to keep it secret
I'm not understanding this as homomorphic privacy.

They take pains to say:

> your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update. Only this update to the model is sent to the cloud, using encrypted communication, where it is immediately averaged with other user updates to improve the shared model. All the training data remains on your device, and no individual updates are stored in the cloud.

(my emphasis on the word stored)

Now there are lots of scholarly articles on reverse-engineering and rule-extraction from neural nets.

So Google, having the diff can actually get some idea what it is you are trying to teach the net.

They just promise not to.
Every single digit of mac unit sales the Mac Pro constitutes is $700M+ in yearly revenues.
If you're going to flog your project, you should at least disclaim it as yours; it's only polite.

And you should actually define what "code quality" is, which in this case is apparently a really handwavy claim to cyclomatic complexity and similar metrics (which, while not entirely nonsense, don't mean much, especially at library-code levels when dealing with performance-critical code and the like).
I am involved with this one and we are always looking for good material: http://www.issa.org/?CallforArticles

Our editorial board does read everything submitted. I cannot remember any article that has been published without at least some back-and-forth. I can promise that you will at least get some feedback, something many don't provide.

And for law/policy types: http://www.americanbar.org/publications/scitech_lawyer/2017/...
Yes, it would. Apple experiemented with this in the mid 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone it didn't really work out.