skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly they don't seem to be that close to cracking it, like at all.

They may be using camera phone images, but they are well framed images of very distinctive features. Trying to recognize a literal tree in a forest is going to be far harder, and recognizing a tree based on a dead leaf (as a photo towards the bottom suggests) can be very very tricky. Also I have to admit to being concerned that adding "any known plant" won't kill accuracy. The more classification endpoints the less likely you are to get a decent result, and already you have to deal with far greater scale differences than are usual (basically it would be like identifying the breed of dog from anything from a full picture to a photo of a single claw).
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...and also wrote, in that very same article, that "there isn't any evidence of extermination camps" - an insignificant bit of information that you have omitted, surely by accident.
This is almost exactly what "De Correspondent"[1] in The Netherlands strives to be, with regards to ads, open data and relying on experts among their readers. They announced that they'll open source their CMS but it's not available yet. Too bad really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Correspondent
That's a two-edged sword; I've seen a few birds which, if the range diagrams in my field guides are to be believed, have no business being anywhere near where I am, and were probably up to no good. Granted plants move less quickly, but I'd hesitate to put all that much weight on location all the same.
After 30 is totally fine. I know several programmers who either switched to programming around 30, or had a long break from programming. Sure, you may be a junior developer while younger people may already be senior, but there's time to catch up, and with a bit of maturity, you may have a far better attitude than young cowboys who think they know everything.
I already do run to work, and it helps, as well as a reasonably active hobby. But there's a big different between running to work and a job that keeps you on your feet and moving for 40 hours a week.
> Instead the article doesn't even mention them in passing.

There's something implied there. For me, it's not mentioned simply because that's not the topic of the article. But what he seems to imply is that it was purposely omitted from the article - thus conspiracy/manipulation.
The 90's era was great but is extremely overrated. IMO the 90's doesn't come close to the 2000's and 2010's and I grew up on the 90's.
The stated reason does suggest they believe non-Jewish groups are less deserving of remembrance:

These people are not in the same category as Jewish people
with regards to the Holocaust,” Hikind said following a
press conference at the memorial. “It is so vastly
different. You cannot compare political prisoners with
Jewish victims.”

The proviso I would add is that NYP a muck-racking rag that delights in outrage and controversy. I would be very skeptical it is giving a full and fair account of the individual's views.

Anyone who's happy to make the former interpretation
needs to look very carefully at their motivations.

I don't believe the parent is making unfair interpretation of the actual article content. Using that as a source is somewhat suspect but any discussion of anything holocaust, Jewish or Israeli leads to accusations of anti-semitism these days. Its a problem, please be charitable.
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There was also the enslavement of Germans for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_...
Now where's weev when we need him
It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage, like Wikia was carved out of Wikipedia trivia sections. It's again Jimmy who launches a private company and suddenly Wikipedia changes the rules to forbid trivia section to boot his for profit offspring. Conflict of interest it's called.
It's very convenient to put blame on something so immaterial as "instrumentation" and "instincts".

You can feel good, moralize as long as you like, take stabs at political opponents.

But it does nothing towards avoiding repeat of tragic events. How would anyone learn on "crime without punishment"? And that's exactly it, you're not punishing any people, not proportionally to damage done anyway, and ideas don't feel pain.
Found a video of one of their prototype scanners. IIRC they looked at like every scanning solution available and also got a bunch of universities and libraries to help them purchase and operate scanning equipment. Pretty cool stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhL7qJYzcd4

edit: Next vid looks good too. In depth on different scanners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw
I studied AI back in the 1990s, but these days it seems to be called ML everywhere. To me, ML sounds like the new hot name (of course it existed back then, but it was less commonly used).
The problem is this isn't a video in which cops are watched, it's a video of cops being unreasonably harassed. Those are two very different things
Try MojoNation list archives.
Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.fo/I403G
I missed that. Still, I think it's reasonable. Being forced to sit and think is not such a terrible punishment, and it seems that it "fits the crime" in the case of truancy.
This is exactly what the parent poster (me) was suggesting!
Yep I totally agree. The reparations wouldn't need to excessive - let's say Germany would pay 2-4% of their GDP every year to the victims until all damage they caused was repaired. That would probably take hundreds of years, but would be very bearable for the Germany and also pretty fair.
>Please don't post trash video links like this here.

Are you a mod, or just emulating one?

I watched the linked video in its entirety. It essentially said that the number is not six million but eleven million, and those five million people commonly forgotten deserve better. The tone was mostly somber and respectful.

While I loathe the general YouTube personality format to the core of my being, it's probably a stretch to call the video trash.

Of course, linking just a video URL is arguably poor form for HN.
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Don't be distracted from delivering the highest quality most thoughtful work and contributions you can, that's what will count most. Use your social/verbal communication time efficiently; e.g. help others on your team, and be seen to do so. Otherwise you can ignore all the extroverted people and their gibbering. All the intelligent people in tech know that meetings are nearly always extremely inefficient and that people's off-the-cuff output in meetings is much lower quality than thoughtful written output. So don't worry about it; just concentrate on excelling at the stuff you love and fuck all the extroverted meeting-oriented stuff, it's nearly all nonsense.
They redid their UI last year to be more Web 2.0, which would've still been a mistake, if a less grave one, had it been competently executed.

I wonder if it's still serving a complete list of article names to every visitor? If so, that all by itself is probably a big chunk of that 691K. If not, God knows what they're doing now - I don't have a console on my phone, and won't switch to my desktop just to dissect the latest mistakes of rampant NIH as applied to the modern web.
I'm sooo not in the market, and even at 1/10th the price I'd find it expensive, but still: it's not fair to call that Balenciaga bag an "IKEA shopping bag".

It's made in Italy, from actual leather, with fabric lining, a zip pocket and keyring lanyard.

That's a lot of features that are all way nicer than what FRAKTA brings, of course. It's obviously still a luxury product, but leather isn't cheap like polypropylene.
If you can find a job that you love that requires moderate activity, and funds a lifestyle you can get enjoyment from, that's obviously great. But this study doesn't suggest that you need to do this to stay sharp.

And, at least in the US, the statistics show that average lifespan has actually been decreasing for people in blue collar jobs. Part of this may be that physically demanding jobs simply cause the body to wear out faster or because you end up injuring yourself and having limited mobility making it harder for you to stay active. And, of course, a big part of it is most likely that blue collar jobs usually don't include great healthcare plans, and if you're earning less money, you may end up with a plan that really isn't affordable if something major happens.

It seems that a white collar job with maybe 5 days a week where you workout for an hour - some sort of combination of strength training and aerobic activity - is probably the best middle ground we have right now.
On Face Segmentation, Face Swapping, and Face Perception
But the margins are the issue here, and this is all at the frequency of the news cycle. Take a look at the objections put together at the top of the comment tree on this page. They point out exactly why this won't work.

Do consider that this has to happen at the speed of the news cycle!

This means that volunteers and journos have to report fast enough to be relevant or helpful. Thats a lot less time for volunteers to fact check or respond.
Why do they even need to label certain candidates? To me it just looks like propaganda, or some sort of group signalling.

It's subconsciously saying the following: "Hey don't trust this one candidate because we don't like that sort of thing and have attached a warning every time her name is mentioned. The other candidates are fine, even the extreme far left one, so no label needed - maybe we will add one for them on a rare occasion."

I'm almost certain this sort of propaganda is the reason why the public spew hatred at certain candidates, yet often cannot back up that hatred in relation to their policies or behavour. Just so you know, I'm not backing a political figure here, just pointing out what I notice when I read news websites - particularly the big outlets.
> why schools don’t teach systematic debugging. It’s one of the most fundamental skills

And herein lies Dan Luu's fundamental misconception: that universities see themselves as places where students come to learn skills, i.e. as places of certification producing skilled workers for industry. Most universities see themselves as academic places of learning for the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, which only incidentally graduates people whom industry happens to find their knowledge at least somewhat useful. If the university professor never needed to debug, use version control, or write clean designs in order to succeed in academia - why should he consider it worthy of being taught? If the university professor never benefitted from remedial review on his academic path towards becoming a professor, why should he consider it worth his time? Of course he's going to dismiss the notion to the tone of "some people just can't hack it in engineering." It's academic survival bias.

People talk about the STEM pipeline like some kind of demigod figure designed it from on high specifically with the intent of producing skilled technical workers, albeit with various flaws related to sexism and skill relevance etc. Of course, this is a ridiculous way of looking at the STEM pipeline, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that different actors in the pipeline have contrary motivations.
That sounds like awful pressure to not rock the boat of your study group but maybe it's suitable for lawyers.

Cheating was solved in an engineering class I took that had us write a program in our own time, but the assessment was a test where we were asked to modify it and produce the correct output. If you had copied the code without understanding it, you wouldn't be able to pass the test.
> Right now this screw is worth exactly the selling price of the whole motorcycle, because the motorcycle is actually valueless until you get the screw out.

If I read the situation correctly, the motorcycle with this screw is certainly not valueless. It can be turned into a working motorcycle far more easily than most other things can be turned into a working motorcycle. If it would take a competent technician an hour to remove the screw, then the screw shouldn't affect the selling price of the motorcycle by more than a couple of hundred dollars.

It's important to remember that small, trivial-seeming things can actually be important, which I think is what he's pointing at. But it's also important to remember that a thing's potential has value beyond its current abilities.
I can't believe people are actually defending Tesla here. Truly there's no limit to fanboyism.
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What you're saying is hilariously true.

What Hitler wanted is basically getting a huge slab of agricultural land. But as we all know, in second half of XX century both fertility and agriculture prices fell sharply, so even if he was ultimately successful Germany will have neither people to populate these territories nor economical reason to do so. The settlers will probably be leaving the area en masse towards "mainland Germany" creating "human deserts" of depopulation while being a drag economically. Even now it happens in these territories (Poland, Baltics, Ukraine) as people move west for better life.
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Making string validation faster by not using a regular expression
> In the wake of fake news, I'm asking for links, and not to other news sources.

What do you mean? In the end, news sources are by definition where we get information from. A blogger is also a news source. So is someone posting on facebook/twitter.
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I guess they forgot to teach me that in rabbinical school. I'll bring it up the next time I meet with the Elders of Zion.
> I can not think of any language where a non-engineer with little computer science knowledge, can get productive withing minutes.

That's a big misconception there. I absolutely don't mean this in an elitist way - and I completely agree that some degree of accessibility is a must - but this is in no way a benchmark for a good backend language. This is how we got PHP.

> [WebPage screenshot -> visual Diff -> send mail]
> Try to do that in any other language.

I fail to see what's so difficult about this. I'd wager that in the "heavyweight stacks" you'd not even have to use modules outside the runtime libraries for a basic variant, and if you want to, you'd have them at your disposal.

Don't get me wrong, the large centralized ecosystem of NodeJS definitely is one of its biggest pluses.

But - and yeah, now I'm sounding a bit elitist and jaded - I've heard a variant of "It's so much simpler in X" or "Try that in anything else than X" too often when it only meant "I'm actually not really proficient in anything else but X".
Wait, so flying Lufthansa could have me end up in United? That is something to keep in mind when booking tickets in Europe.
Perhaps you should put your notes online?
[Readlang] You are missing a sign up link on your home page... I can sign up after installing the chrome extension, but that's just strange.
Like amazon dash but for all stores
This feels like Vox - another attempt to 'explain the news', or 'provide more context'.

The fundamental problem that these sites run into is a thorough understanding of issues in the news requires context, and very often not the kind of context that can fit into an 800 word blog post on a subject.

An 800 word blog or article of any sort necessitates that you're going to make choices about which evidence you're going to include, which sources are credible and which sources are not, which sources add to the discussion vs which only serve to obscure. As soon as you do that, you're adding bias.

You can set out to build an 'evidence based' news site, but what you quickly find is that you've built a site with paid journalists (who have their own biases) supported by volunteers (who are the people most likely to have political skin in the game).

The problem is that people want a shortcut for everything - they want an 800 word post that will tell them everything they need to know about Syria. No such thing exists. There's no substitute for actually putting in the work and navigating the bias yourself.
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Yep that's true, you could count their labor towards the overall due reparations.
and this is only those someone with influence actually cares about. no one looks to identify the millions who died in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Nor is there any true accounting the horrors of what Japan did in China and Korea and there is what China did to itself.

The deaths inflicted by the Nazi's were inexcusable but we cannot keep focusing on them alone if we are to have a true accounting and have people understand what leads to such outcomes.
How do they join the bottoms of the bottles? They seem to be prejoined in the dome timelapse.
> without extremely heavy clarification of what "simplest" means

kolmogorov complexity? But then there is no universal measure, so it's relative.
From the quote that started all this:

"Right now this screw is worth exactly the selling price of the whole motorcycle ..."

This is not marginal utility as somehow the value of this screw is equal to the entire amount of the motorcycle. There is no marginal utility to be had because decreasing it or increasing it has no effect. This would not be a continuous function. You could talk about the marginal utility of one having a motorcycle or no motorcycle. It's not related to the increase in screws.

Additionally, to say that expertise in a subject is not needed is perplexing to me. So much so I literally can't begin to understand how you'd surmise such a claim honestly.

How much economics did you take? I ask because it sounds like your understanding is that from a class or two, and not the bulk of your education. I think if it was we would not be having this discussion or you'd somehow prove it instead of reiterating the same points.
The long request goes to "http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/FeynmanAlgorithm" which seems to be just the articles' text. But there's also a names.txt which is ~640K (260K gzip'd). Hm.
I guess it depends on your viewpoint:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/111787/what-is-t...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1584617/simulator-or-emul...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-simul...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's definitely an emulator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_emulation

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_simulation
A much better device for that use case is a percolator though. They sell them at IKEA for like $10. Using one is as simple as putting in water, putting in ground coffee, and sticking it on a stove. Makes much better coffee than a keurig and takes up less space to boot.
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On the subject of BearSSL a diff has been proposed to the OpenBSD mailing list to adopt it's constant time AES implementation.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149300140901420&w=2
Feynman was a fascinating person, and remains well able to reward further interest - his autobiographical works being a fine place to start.

Generally I'd also try to recommend a work by someone with a less favorable but still well founded perspective, for comparison. But I have yet to encounter anyone who takes such a view of Feynman. Perhaps the closest is the article [1] on his time at Thinking Machines, whence comes this matchless quote:

> Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it."

[1] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
The difference is that most tribes don't fall as easily as Germans for madman's tales of nation's superiority and greatness. Every nation has its nationalistic/rightwing nuts. Not every nation sets out to conquer the world and murder tens of millions of civilians.
The guy in question - Dov Hikind - seems quite open in his views. He's a follower of the terrorist group Jewish Defense League who has some odd views that @tome will probably be happy to explain to you as misunderstood :)

http://gawker.com/5986773/assemblyman-dov-hikind-king-of-one...
My go-to list:

1. Launch your product on BetaList

2. Create a blog and write a lot. Don't create trivial content. SEO is important but write because you have interesting things to talk about, not because you have to create "content".

3. Share as much as you can on twitter/Slack/FB groups. But never be spammy.

4. Being actively engaged on Twitter (yes!) by regularily searching for your main 1-3 keywords.

5. Start soon with link building. It's hard but eventually will pay.

6. Word of mouth. Encourage and make it easy for your customers to tell others about your product (no, not by including dumb social sharing buttons!)

What not to-do:

Don't start with Ads prematurely. No matter what the platform is. The don't pay initially and will cost you a lot.
Yup, that's the one. Hooboy.
I've thought for some time that the idea of understanding is bass ackwarkds - understanding comes after learning how to do something mechanically, particularly in maths. Don't know if that's a learning theory though
Cormac McCarthy is possibly my favorite writer and I would not recommend the border trilogy. I only read one and a half of those because I found them to be the most painful things I'd ever read.

I would say Suttree is a lighter (relatively speaking) read.
When I say "back then", I'm referring to the decisions after WW II to turn Germany back into an economic force, i.e. the topic you started.
I thought this was about giving Americans a chance at those jobs. If the focus is the economy, we probably want to allow even more foreign workers. What is the issue with the H1-B visa in terms of the economy?
If you want to know what I mean by biased news, go to /r/politics/ right now and count the number of news articles against Trump.

- Trump backs away from demand for border wall money

- The State Department is apparently spending money to officially promote Mar-a-Lago

- Trump’s border-wall fantasy is crumbling

- Trump’s White House Family Affair Looks A Lot Like The Most Corrupt Nations In The World

- CNN’s Tapper: US 'shamelessly' advertising Trump's businesses

- Poll: 73% Back Independent Probe of Russian Election Interference

- Anderson Cooper Warns: Don’t Be ‘Desensitized’ By Trump’s ‘Fake Facts’

- Mar-A-Lago removed from State Department blog after ethics outcry

Only one of those items was real news:

- Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

Any real solution needs to make sure that it doesn't devolve to this mess.