skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there is no guarantee at all that you will ever turn a profit.

That's correct. And that's why most of your parents' money is in more stable investments. But if yours comes off, then they get a great return!

> That lemonade stand of yours might spend more than it makes for longer than your loan will sustain you.

That's also true. And if that happens, your parents don't have to put bad money after good. That's why it's important that you say what you're going to deliver, and if you deliver it, then they can believe you're on course. If you think you need $40, and you ask for $10 today, then they'll be happy to give you the $30 in 3 years when you need to open more lemonade stands on other streets.

> Which would require you to obtain another loan and so on. How many loans would it take before you would say: Maybe I really should start to make a profit on every glass of lemonade?

That's the point I'm making: your parents and you have an agreement and a plan. If you're sticking to that plan and on course, then we'll give you however many loans we discussed or anticipated you'd need.

> Or maybe you'd say: What a bummer, Joe from next door has also started a lemonade business, I wished he wouldn't subsidize his lemonade so much because I can't compete with him and his parents are wealthier than mine so they can keep that up longer.

This is an inevitable outcome that anyone in the lemonade business would have expected.

> It's not always a happy ending in the lemonade business.

:-)
This is the same guy who wrote the Patroit Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sensenbrenner

Fuck him.
There's a lot of background work to keep uBlock and other services current. A hosts file needs updating when domains change or new ones are added.

That's part of the appeal of this approach, it doesn't matter what domains ads are served from.
I don't know about the seven wonders, but I can tell you my personal ones:

fast inverse square root
MP3
BitTorrent
Git
Bitcoin
AWS
fast Fourier transform
>structures of oppression

What oppression? How are word vectors oppressing anyone? What a ridiculous claim.

>Have you noticed how automation often vastly amplifies things?

No, not at all. I've heard this claim on similar discussions. But I've yet to see a convincing example. Particularly with word2vec. I find it very implausible that word vectors will somehow discriminate against female doctors or whatever.

>It's a short step from saying 'this model accurately reflects the bias in society' to 'that's how things are, the computer says women aren't cut out to be doctors.'

No it's not a short step at all. No one is ever going to use word vectors to figure out what genders are capable of what jobs. At worst, your auto-correct might be slightly less likely to suggest "doctor" for a misspelled word occurring in a female context. And on net it will still make more accurate corrections than the alternative.
I'm actually a DNN that can recognize social patterns based on sentiment analysis of text in the context of HN. ;)

Seriously though, this is a super common thing that happens on HN all the time. This community is actively hostile to people who aren't winners and talk about why they should have won if only they were "given a chance" or did something differently. Pretty typical recipe for the bottom of the page.

I'll note that I didn't vote either way on your comment so as to not bias it. Though simply posting my comment might actually sway people to vote it up - there is also a very strong contrarian trend on HN as well.
Paying tax is very simple in Ireland (the average person rarely has to interact with the revenue service, certainly not every year), but no-one really _likes_ paying tax, all the same. This idea that people wouldn't notice if it was easy seems silly; they still see it coming out of their salary.
Bryan Lunduke Interviews Richard Stallman
But then you will be the old fucker completely out of touch with the strange stuff the kids are into these days and the lame things they worry about.
There's no lock in, because Uber failed in the most important category of their business - true ride sharing, a business with strong network effect, while others(ridewithvia, ford chariot) are already succeeding with true, high-density ride-sharing, with others companies(moovex, mercedes, ..) are working on their own service.

And chariot i think started in 2014, so Uber is very slow to respond, not sure why.
isn't the wise thing to do consider what WE will think as "not required" when we are old though? :)
> have there been any exploits for FreeBSD ?

ShadowBrokers is releasing these exploits to make a loud noise. FreeBSD exploits probably won't be covered on CNN.
I've been following this closely over the last couple of hours on Twitter as the news broke. What does it mean in practice?

From what I have read one of the vulnerabilities seems to be a 0day targeting SMB on Windows. One commentator suggested it's enabled by default on the majority of Windows machines (of that I am sceptical). Presumably most people are behind a router which would stop this in its tracks?

A lot of people (who I would probably take seriously) suggest disconnecting Windows machines from the internet for the time-being. Is it really this bad? Are there millions of Windows (home-)users who are vulnerable (by default) today?
Indeed. What I find most "puzzling" is the lack of acknowledgement of this in the business. Its like it is a whole new, almost magical, thing that the devs dreamed up.

I wonder if it has to do with how the microcomputer world had to almost bootstrap itself without any input from the mainframe people, because the latter considered the micros little more than toys.

And this continue into the present, as a large segment of the business is self taught. And by now even going to university will not expose you to mainframes, as they have largely been abandoned in favor of clusters.
> every plant and animal is not actively trying to kill you

It's the opposite here. There are no harmful animals anywhere. You can go walking through the wilderness bare foot (which I have done many times) without fear
It is still possible to relive some of that experience configuring X11 by hand.
"Not loading" doesn't make sense in the case where the ad is inline in the response body (i.e. "part of the site", like Facebook's ads are.) Which is the case where this ad-blocker uniquely shines.

Besides which, the algorithm involved is a computer-vision one, so the ad needs to be rendered before the algorithm can recognize it as an ad.

The best solution here, if you want maximum privacy, would be to use a traditional ad-blocker as a first-line defence, and this algorithm as a second-line, for the ads which make it past regular ad-blocking (and which are therefore probably inline-content ads anyway.)
The events on the first link happened this year. Also, BLM.
It's in addition to the original ticket price.
Houses in New Zealand are mad expensive. Auckland (for instance) now has an average house price over $1M, about $700k US. It is, I believe, the fourth least affordable housing market in the world after Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver.
I think there are some strategies that may still work.

FWIW, back then my friends sounded a lot what you are saying. Oh it's too hard. Oh you'll be up against big boys.

And I didn't do it b/c I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Uber did it. And, from what I understand, they did it by hiring someone off an offshore programming website. MVP.

And they built the human pyramid. That's what you need to do to retire. Build a human pyramid.
This was the argument telemarketers used, it was their right to call you and try to sell you crap you don't need!
Microsoft are leaps and bounds ahead of where they were - IIS 4.0 is likely the least secure software ever placed on the live internet
> Where I'm from, "good schools" is a nice way of saying "it's a white neighborhood"

There is no need to inject race. Plus, in the bay area, many good schools are comprised of mostly minorities.

Good schools in the bay area just mean good schools, as based on standardized testing methodology, class sizes, dollars per student, extracurricular activities available, and acceptance rates to selective colleges.

You can definitely pay a lot of money to send your child to good private schools.
Nice way of putting it (technically vs. holistically). I wouldn't go so far as to declare anything a basic service, even something I've used almost every day of my life like electricity. I simply view it as "something that's nice to have" and therefore something we shouldn't squat down and take a huge dump on for no reason.
I have a idea. Well, several.

1. Let's stop overbooking in the airline industry. The seats are already prepaid for. Who cares if a passenger shows or not? (It'd be different if they were losing revenue when a passenger doesn't show up; they aren't).

2. Let's take responsibility (the airline) if we fuck up (or an act of gawd enables) a situation where our own staff can't get where to a destination they need to be in per our own scheduling. This means we don't bump customers involuntarily for our fuck-up. If not enough paying customers volunteer so be it: We'll eat the impact of our fuck-up of not properly planning how to get our own staff from point B to point B (whether that means finding an alternative for them to get there, delaying some other flight, whatever).

The crux is this entire situation seems to be four distinct matters:

- Overbooking (unnecessary)

- Staff logistics (contingency plans, accepting consequences)

- Involuntary bumping (goes away with addressing the former two matters)

- Security / policing efforts for matters that aren't being handled amicably in the moment by a disagreeing party (standard police matter I presume, which has a body of knowledge and skill associated with it which may have been lacking here or needs to be adopted to plane boarding situations)
> If you ride up late at night on a motorcycle, you have a choice between committing a serious traffic offense and waiting several hours for the light to change

Uhh, or

(A) Back up, pull over your motorcycle, walk the crosswalk(s) as a pedestrian with a 'bike', get on motorcycle on the side of the road you want to go on, continue; or

(B) Make a right turn + U-turn as many times as needed to reach the desired turn? (3-way intersections can pose a problem, but the through road is most likely defaulting to green and if not you can pull over...)

If your municipality still treated either of the above as a 'serious traffic violation' yet still not springing for better sensors that likely exist for more mainstream compatibility then you're just living with idiots at that point (or they just don't like motorcycles :P)
Top 9 Deep Learning and Neural-Net Books
> Argued that way, nobody has to use phone, digital camera and a whole bunch of other things. Part of the job of being a law maker is to understand the needs/interests of all people, not just old people because the lawmaker happens to be old

It's not just because the lawmaker happens to be old, but also because voters happen to be old. He's a Congressman, so he has to get reelected every other year. Half of those elections will be midterm elections. Almost twice as many voters will be 65+ as will be 18-29.
A little friendly competition is a great motivator in sports that can be easily quantified like running, swimming, bicycling, and weight lifting. For me it really helps in staying fit. When you see your friends posting their workout times and speeds on social media it gives some positive peer pressure to get off the couch. Most of us here have sedentary jobs that are literally killing us so we need to get moving for more than just enjoyment.

Of course, everything in moderation.
>Nobody can rest easy that Congress will do what they want.

Given enough money, I think you definitely can.
7 trans actions per seconds. But there are several changes in the pipline to fix this. One solution is having "off-chain" transactions not on the main blockchain, this would allow us to not record every coffee purchase made in bitcoin to be stored on the main chain. Look up Lightning Network if you are interested in how this is being done. Your main point is correct that Bitcoin can only handle 7 tps while Visa can handle 20,000 tps.
Agreed. King of the Hill is amazing and is always underrated.
obviously the parent to that post doesn't have a pussy pass, like Andrea does, other wise you'd have banned his account. HN protip: get a pussy pass and USE IT.
He does not. Most (by far) of the people he represents do.

Why isn't he representing them?

Fix that and you'll fix far more than just a boneheaded internet policy.
Pandoc is nice for markdown text: http://pandoc.org/demos.html
Is the most recent dump also from <=2013?
That's a great point. The barrier to entry for "internet weapons" is way lower than people are making it seem.
In an environment in which Blue people are banned from becoming doctors, its also inferring something about reality to conclude that 0% of Doctors are Blue. It would be entirely wrong, however, to use these inputs to infer anything whatsoever about the respective propensity of Blue and Green people to become doctors in an environment in which such a rule or idea of a rule had never existed. Obviously "structures of oppression" - real and imagined - which lead to fewer female doctors even in western liberal democracies where women wishing to become doctors are generally met with encouragement are less extreme, but that isn't to say they don't exist or that a computer output (or human interpretation of said computer output) is likely to draw correct inferences from it.

And if you think that people won't use the idea that the outputs are unbiased because the computer isn't programmed with the same prejudices that produce the inputs, I have some algorithmically-generated investment advice involving a bridge to sell you
With regards to taking an instruction and converting it into a state representation, I think creating music is very similar to programming. Coming from a web background, I've seen experiments like React Music which I think are really interesting. If the question becomes "how can we best represent the changing state in code?" Then I think that's a question that can be solved for both interface programming and music programming at the same time. This is why I find React Music interesting: React's declarative syntax makes it easier to understand what the final product is going to look like. Can the same thing be done for programming sound, in a way that represents the final product in a more naturally understood way?
Flattr just got got bought by Adblock Plus...
Sketch – Self-completing programs
Anecdote:

The year I moved to the US I had a pretty complicated tax situation. My company paid for accounting help to get my taxes filed for that year as part of the relocation package. However, the accounting firm had some issues with my Swedish taxes, and told my company it would cost an extra $25k to fully investigate the situation to properly finish my Swedish tax return.

That dragged a bit, so I just called up the Swedish tax agency, explained my situation, and they told me which form to fill out and how, and which rules applied, all in a ten-minute free phonecall.

I'll take that over "APRIL 15TH OR ELSE!!!", which is all you get from the IRS.
More nominations:

Hashlife (golly)

SAT-solvers (minisat, glucose, lingeling, ...)

Convex optimization (CVXOPT, ...)
How to Extract the HTTP Live Stream URL from JW Player on RT On Air
Can you even call this a business?
Excellent writing, clear and easy to understand. Would appreciate the links to example problems as others have mentioned (and solutions too if available). Seems like an interesting book to keep me sharp for if/when I ever go on the job market. Well done.
Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot
I think that really illustrates the problem with them not taking their "blue team" role seriously enough. Its not like other countries or groups aren't using these same exploits. They could have actually protected us.
It doesn't seem very forward thinking to start a new app in whats essentially a deprecated language.
There's plenty in Auckland, Wellington, a lesser amount but still a healthy amount in Christchurch, and a few in Dunedin.

http://seek.co.nz to get an idea.

The developer of DayZ has set up a gaming studio in Dunedin, but it's still pretty sparse down there.
If ads are protected free speech how are tobacco ads illegal?
The dynamic binding of `this` at the callsite is one of Javascript's biggest mistakes. It's a tremendous source of run-time errors, and we have to hack around it with closures and arrow functions. How counterintuitive is that? It's exhausting to reason about what `this` refers to within a given block of code.

I very frequently want to pass methods around as callbacks and almost never want my functions re-bound as methods on alternative objects. The only times I can think of that I want to re-bind is when I'm writing library code.
So, it stands to reason they have _zero_ civil immunity, unlike a sworn officer?
>The contract allows the airline to deny boarding involuntarily in case of overbooking. But that’s not what happened; the airplane wasn’t oversold. And Dao wasn’t denied boarding.

Every article about this story needs to repeat this line.
Chatty – Chat with strangers all around the world
Internet access is considered a basic necessity in several countries too.
https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/lost-in-...
It doesn't work on Facebook's autoplay video ads, so that didn't last very long...
What the republican party has become makes me sad for any real conservative :(
Looks like our tourism marketing campaigns are paying off, although emus are Australian, we had moa, but they're extinct now.

Not pictured in the tourism campaigns - our vast reliance on agriculture.
Yeah, "end of the arms race", are you kidding me Vice?

I see 13 year olds watching their favorite youtube stars showing off the new products they're being sponsored with this week. How exactly would you block this?
I just realized someone could create an honest-to-god "privilege checker"

groans
Ft Lauderdale is absolutely not the Yacht capital of the world. Sydney? Auckland? Southampton? Garda? Croatia's rocketing up the charts too. Or maybe you mean things with engines in which case St Tropez, Monaco, some place called the Caribbean seems quite popular too.
You're wildly mischaracterizing what I said. I didn't suggest "people can't handle my truth". I suggested the article we are discussing says there are certain truths that ML systems should not learn.

The article explicitly recommends building systems which can't learn those things, and suggests characterizing them is a first step:

"We recommend addressing this through the explicit characterization of acceptable behavior. One such approach is seen in the nascent field of fairness in machine learning, which specifies and enforces mathematical formulations of nondiscrimination in decision-making (19, 20). Another approach can be found in modular AI architectures, such as cognitive systems, in which implicit learning of statistical regularities can be compartmentalized and augmented with explicit instruction of rules of appropriate conduct (21, 22)."

According to the article, the most closely related work "is concurrent work by Bolukbasi et al. (6), who propose a method to “debias” word embeddings."

(Recall that in the context of the article, "bias" is something that generates true predictions that are objectionable rather than something which is false.)
Do you really think "The offer started at $400 and ended up at $1,000" matches the description "start high and lower it"?
Unless you're starting with zero.. Skills on the team? Current stack?

If nothing then I do this:

Git and stash.
An agile approach, features and user stories.
An agile board. Vsts or rallydev
Yes to continuous integration, deployment and automation.
Testing, unit tests first.
A desktop application may have specific technologies so .. depends.

Oh and code review, pull requests and I actually advise desk checks before submitting PRs.

Regular demos of sprint work is essential
And who picks the answers, and who scores
> no walking that back

I don't think it's as dire as you make it sound. The reason is that the real implicit agreement most of us have with our society is that everyone is as helpful and congenial as possible as long as it keeps the wheels turning. Once you run afoul of the airline, or the sheriff, or the HR department, you can be stomped down in the blink of an eye, and even if you successfully challenge it legally, at the end of the day you've still lost some amount of money, time, or health fighting it.

Someone in that mindset is going to look at their Expedia search and still sort by price, because they realize that every airline is playing the same game, and the one in a million chance of being forcibly removed from the plane over a technicality is just one of those gambles that everyone takes whenever they step outside their house.

(That said, if I sort by price and Delta and United come up the same, I'm picking Delta.)
bye bye HN. going to get some work done.
I might be ok with overbooking if they got rid of involuntary bumping and had to auction off being bumped until someone accepted the price.
> outside of Wellington and Auckland, I didn't feel like there were any interesting opportunities in IT (that's a subjective and based on a very limited evidence from discussions with local / personal observations)

Christchurch has a fair few also, and it's closer to the "LOTR scenery".

> but eating habits don't seem to follow. Obesity seems to be a huge problem there

Obesity directly correlates to low socio-economic status here.
Not necessarily. Technological progress seems to be slowing.
Here's one example: me. I fly pretty much weekly for work, paid by the company I work for. The online reservation system my company uses allows me to select from various airlines and times. Guess which airline I am not picking? I was flying United, so they lost weekly airfare from at least me.
Win95 did run on 386, even with 4 MB of RAM. But you really did want at least 8 MB, otherwise it would just trash the disk swapping.

Running it on Pentium with 16 MB RAM was great.
Examples ?
Didn't someone (well-known on HN) write an essay with descriptions of UIs that would be controllable using Solresol-ish voice commands​, with more advanced users using three-or-four syllable commands up from the monosyllabic ones for lay users?

It was a very 90s website.

Edit: found it.
http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-of-computer/jc...
That's the opportunity VMWare capitalized on, and that Microsoft is trying to worm its way into with Hyper-V.

A conservative nontechnical business is unlikely to invest in an unproven desktop management system, office suite, email/messaging, security, and building automation system just to beat virtualization overhead. They're even freaked out by Red Hat.

If you're adventurous, you'll just use Macs/Chromebooks, the Google suite, and cloud-based "IoT" building automation (or you won't have a building automation problem because your office is small or nonexistent). You'll use Skype/Hangouts/Slack/Hipchat/cell phones instead of a PBX.

If you're less adventurous, there's something to be said for widely used components, backed by tech giants who are likely to stick around for a few decades, which multiple interchangeable sales/support firms in your area know how to work with.
Also - no capital gains tax means that most domestic investment is poured into housing as opposed to something productive like investing in business.
the authority to remove bad-actors and the authority to remove non-bad-actors is not the same thing.
Episode 8: How Wall Street reacts when a patient dies in a clinical trial (2016)
This is good to hear--I'd like to know more about how network federations scale when they approach things like critical mass. I hope they have mechanisms in place to safeguard against influence from centralized platforms.