skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well child porn serves as a good example. Tagging it would be effective in monitoring its diffusion, but it's not a neutral thing or a victimless crime like drug consumption; any kind of photographic child porn includes a child whose identity and sexual abuse are the subject matter of the material, and every time it is collected or viewed the rights of that person are violated anew, even if they have since reached adulthood and are thus of no further direct interest to child abusers.

I'm not sure exactly what technical measures should be employed in relation to such cases - perhaps machine-curated honeypots whose attempt to access is itself a crime.

CP raises extremely tricky moral questions. I mentioned photographic examples above because they include real people. But there's a tricky question of what happens in relation to creative works not based on reality such as drawings. It's easy to conceive of art that that would automatically be deemed illegal or at least prurient if it were photographic, but since art can be created from imagination without any real person needing to serve as a subject it's very difficult to figure out an appropriate response.

We could say that the simple lack of actual human victimization should OK the production of such content, but form a practical point of view it's possible to create hyperrealistic art works that are almost indistinguishable from a photograph, and computers are making it easier and easier to produce renderings that approach photographic quality, a trend which will only continue because of the huge economic incentives to instantiate virtual puppets rather than pay people to work. I'm sure this has been employed to produce crude CP already (based on its use in non-contraband porn). It's difficult to make an argument for expressive freedom when the only expression involved in its creation is that of the desire for activity that's illegal, but on the other hand nobody would think of arresting someone for a painting that depicted one person stabbing another notwithstanding the possibility of the inspiring idea being illegal.

This issue matters since it's a demonstration of art's power to subvert norms by realizing the creation of an image depicting a reality where desirous activities occur, but with the added complexity of leveraging mechanical assistance to produce something that's indistinguishable from a recording of real activity, at least to the casual or untrained observer.

(by the way, anyone thinking of dismissing these concerns with a 'think of the children' cliche - don't bother. I know numerous people who were abused and exploited in child pornography. It's not a rhetorical argument when it is something that happens to real people and which continues to impact their adult lives, and if you attempt to dismiss it on rhetorical grounds you are in effect asserting that the bad experiences of some people don't matter compared to some hypothetical liberty interest in consuming depictions of their exploitation.)
I would LOVE to go back to a Windows Mobile phone, like when it was Windows Mobile 6, that I HAD CONTROL of my device, I could access my registry, my autoruns, my hosts, MY NOTES WOULD SYNC (bad-bad-Apple) and there was plenty of software/games/utilities in the WM6 ecosystem.

I had asked the MS community a few weeks back whether W10(mob) is anything like the 6, and surprise-surprise, it was not. No option for a "firewall with learning-mode", no ability to modify OS to my liking/specs. They tried to mimic iOS "close-ness" in the worse possible way. At least iOS has the JB community which works miracles (e.g. Firewall IP)

I think MS was better when they were licensing a very nice WM6 OS to O2, Qtek, and more. Now that ship has sailed.

ps: I think that W10 is more of an attempt to get a piece of the "all your bases are belong to us" (telemetry, snooping on everything, move every-bit-possible to THEIR cloud. I see the/their convenience into doing so, but that makes it a no-buy for me.
Doesn't matter, milk teeth.
> As a friendly pile-on, yes, you do have to agree to the terms of the GNU license or cease using the software.

That is incontrovertibly false and has always been false.

Per the GPL v.2, clause 5 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html):

"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it."

A end-user is free to run GPL software without accepting the terms of the license. However, they may not distribute it (modified or not) without accepting the terms of the license.
And for iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/simon-tathams-portable-puzzl...
Dynamic memory allocation is frowned upon in both embedded and real time environments.
>The less something is important (or unique) the more entertainment you need to sell it.

Unfortunately, that includes you and me as individuals. Presentation matters for example is you wanna get a job or a relationship.
We ban accounts that continue to violate the guidelines like this. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unfortunately many banks seem to put up arbitrary hurdles to performing ACH transfers, or obscure the fact that they are available. Certainly I've had this issue with Wells Fargo, US Bank, and BoA.

I assume this is because a number of them use "free, easy transfers between our customers" as a selling point, which would vanish quickly if it were easy to do between anybody. Sometimes it seems like we're even sliding backwards -- for example Chase used to have a fairly nice person-to-person payment system, but they recently locked it down to people with their own Chase account.
Nobody ever got fired by hiring IBM mindset I guess...
Such an action would destroy trillions of dollars of wealth. For less than apple has in cash. It doesn't make sense, $50 billion of gold is still just $50 billion.
I've always said consider any product, even a security product, insecure by default until proven otherwise by careful inspection by people who know how to find flaws. This was the recommendation of those that invented information security. It was best approach then. It's still the best approach.
Yes, it is a necessary part of an AI, but I still wouldn't dare to call it an "AI Algorithm". Overuse of the term poisons the actual AI research field, it's only use is to aid click bait.
1200 tons of gold is worth around 44 Billion, a trivial amount of money as far the US government is worth. So the idea that it would be stolen by the government is ludicrous.
After reading a horror story of Facebook completely locking out someone's account for allegedly doing Marketplace fraud, I'm extremely dubious of services adding financial stuff into their existing offering. Imagine being accused of fraud and losing all access to your GMail information.
"In 2013 and 2014 they melted 55 of the 90 tons they retrieved in these two years, destroying all evidence if anything should have been wrong, like some of that gold being inferior "coin-gold", for example." - and I'm done.

Melting bullion is the standard way to determine that it is in fact gold. If it were "inferior coin-gold" (which I assume he means some form of alloy), that would have been detected through the process of melting.

This man is too far into conspiracy theories to present a neutral view of anything.
I picked up a few during that run, as I remembered picking one up from Radio Shack in the 80s and having fun with it. A really delightful chip to explore, you can get so much out of it just messing around with RC circuits for the various timings. The original docs are quite opaque; just a few minutes with this new article is really revealing.
Uber’s Terrible Response When Someone Steals Your Ride
I work in the industry too, and I didn't even realize Sybase was still around. It's a big world out there and there are little subcultures with different preferences. Bigger tech companies seem to prefer MySQL, old Enterprise ccompanies use Oracle, .NET people use SQL Server, and smaller Rails shops seem to use Postgres in my experience. But it's interesting to hear a different perspective.
Welcome to the Brøderbund™ Software Library! Here, you'll enjoy many educational software titles. Including: Dinosaur Hunter 3D, and, JumpStart Kindergarten Deluxe
Old habits die hard. With new teeth inbound are you going to convince your child to stop eating foods high in sugar?

Also, dental health isn't the only reason to minimise sugar intake.
Letting go of ORMs is so easy with good lightweight model binding libraries. e.g. Dapper (https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper)
The twitter account has this[0]:

>We now offer a legacy (IPv4) mirror of the behindthesofa homepage: https://filippo.io/behindthesofa/

The actual service is at https://ct.filippo.io/behindthesofa/ (IPv6 only)

[0]: https://twitter.com/_behindthesofa/status/858600027727462400
Pretending that OS X (or macOS) is better?

Having been exposed to Linux on the desktop for more than a couple of decades, in addition to using OS X since 2003, my subjective opinion is that it's not only far more mature, but better in almost every conceivable way.

That goes for casual users to developers. The ecosystem from Apple is maybe not perfect, but I still dare to use the word fantastic.
I wonder if Microsoft is a welcome competitor in those domains where they don't have any monopolistic advantage. They will help you avoid any anti-trust issues, while also being too sluggish/dysfunctional to actually execute.
Please stop posting unsubstantively like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Decentraleyes: privacy-oriented emulation of Content Delivery Networks
Turkey Purges 4,000 More Officials, and Blocks Wikipedia
Great writeup!

Is there any way to determine the values of the resistors and capacitors on the die based on their geometry, or would someone have to build up a standalone circuit and experiment until coming up with something that sounded similar? Can a person at least infer one value from another by the ratio of the geometries, like one resistor being 2x another if it were twice as long?

BTW, I built up a perfboard with this chip and a pile of resistors, capacitors, and potentiometers many moons ago. Just tore it down a short while ago. 76477 was also my Automated Teller Machine password for a lot of years.
There seems to be a layout called "US international" which might help: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_US-International.svg
Thank you for your feedback

Added a link to the original tweet that inspired the app
Postgres bcrypt is wicked fast. You need some crazy load before it makes sense to move hashing out of the DB.
Where to look today?
Watch Toyota’s Project Portal hydrogen fuel cell truck drag race a diesel semi
I hear some schools used to send students home with backpacks full of hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks even though they​ knew every book wasn't going to come back. It's called acceptable loss and is a cost of doing business. You can't deny all students access to resources just because there are a few bad apples.
Google already has a history of that with AdSense, I believe. I think HN has seen stories of total Google lockout over AdSense disputes.
when you say output models are you referring to the optimized ANNs, or the organisation of output neurons?
Anyone else use the Bitvise SSH Client[0]? I have used it in place of PuTTY for a long time (I don't recall how I found out about it originally) as it seems much more feature-rich but PuTTY is still dominant on Windows, from what I have seen.

[0] https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client
Would you say it's overkill to be using these processes to design a Qliksense dashboard?
(a) and (b) used to be the norm.

(c) is already the role of the people. We elect new representatives when we feel the old ones weren't enacting legislation we like.

Judges don't decide whether laws are good or bad. They interpret and apply written law. The moment you allow a judge to determine whether a law is in the interests of the people is the moment you give full power to conservatives who are already chomping at the bit that we have an activist judiciary.

> It's a risky concept judges don't like but ideal tool to deal with laws passed by corruption

Definitely not an ideal tool. Turning judges into politicians who bow to constituents will just make corruption worse. Judges must be independent.
I don't know where you got this idea. It's not a good one.
So now Google will tell advertisers how much you are willing to pay for products too. Paving the way for omnipresent Amazon(tm) price adjustment based on user history.
Variance describes distribution...

Discreteness is another layer. What are the exact defining characteristics of this problem though? You could take two dice 1-2-3-4-5-6 and 2-3-4-5-6-7 and the typical mean EV calculation would work fine...

1-2-3-4-5-7 and 2-3-4-5-6-8 have different variances but are probably not intransitive (haven't checked the math) since they are translations of each other

I'm just thinking out loud here and trying to narrow it down...maybe someone reading wants to help me :)
Some of the money gets funneled back into salespeople; that's how enterprise software gets bought. The salespeople target the CTO or another single point of contact.
The difference is that you passively wipe the phone screen inside your pockets or its sleeve. I have seen some very, very disgusting laptop screens.
Ask HN: Did Google UK just screw up their webserver config?
As a novice research-assistant I really appreciate the fact they included a Software implementation and hardware section in the appendix.

They even wrote "We will make the code to reproduce these results publicly available". That should be the norm. Kudos.
Just ask around. You're never more than a person or two away from some acid.
Why is it bad to create artificial safe spaces? You're implicitly saying that private networks shouldn't be allowed to exist. So if I set up a forum and hang a sign on the landing page saying 'commies will be banned' you're saying that That's not acceptable? Certainly I'm attempting to create comfort by establishing a virtual space where I can enjoy discourse free of communist ideology, but if I find communism intolerable why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? certainly that's an attempt to employ the network for comfort rather than doing the work of ideological disputaation, but people use the internet for comfort and convenience all the time, like any technology. I don't see how you can argue that certain thins like political ideologies should be subject to differing technological rules, that seems neither logical nor practical.
Please​ make your own, so that Google has less of a stranglehold on everything.
https://www.neverware.com/

Can be used on recycled laptops. Provides Chromeos. Free for personal (no support). I have no connection with neverware other than being impressed with their work when I tried it on a 9 year old Thinkpad.
This is EEE.
I suspect that the size of the weights file might have to do something with that. 500M+ is not strange and if enough people hit your small VPS or Amazon account that can either cause you to be rate capped, go down or go broke.

It would be nice if a universal 'model+dataset+weights' sharing service would spring into being.
In a country scale crisis people would be selling all their valuables for fire sale prices to pay for essentials, including gold. A fiat reserve currency, like the Swiss Franc or the Pound would be easier to use, less likely to be stolen and more valuable then gold shavings.
I'm not sure that I want my equality signs to be ligature'd together. I feel like using this might mess up alignment in a monospace font.
It was working again 6 minutes later.
Very interesting but I hate this for programming, feels wrong when I'm so used to 1 char == 1 fixed with char. I'm sure I could adapt but for some reason it makes my sense of programming taste not happy. What do others think?
That timeline of Google ads in Part 3 is pretty damning. Not of Google specifically, but of the whole push for "native advertising". This also ties in with "engagement" measures like autoplay-by-default on YouTube and "next article" popups on news sites. It's all about maximizing appropriation of users' attention.
I've wondered that, too! Even considering the low complexity, that's a couple of 100k investment, at least.

Can anyone here approximate the cost to re-produce this chip ten years ago? I mean, it's not very complex, but it is analog and it couldn't have been cheap. Maybe someone had to find a use for an old machine that had nothing to do anymore? That could explain it.
Ah the memories of a Novell NetWare high school. I still remember gleaning the librarians password over his shoulder. Low and behold, his regular login had been granted full permission to the tree! It took them four years, but I almost got expelled, weeks from graduation.
Bear in mind that 'Cortex' covers every modern ARM chip right the way from a tiny (~12,000 gates) microcontroller like the Cortex-M0 up to high performance 64 bit designs like the Cortex-A73, so it isn't a label that tells you anything about complexity...
It's a highly-reliable, ultra-responsive, self-healing OS w/ plenty of middleware and supported architectures. Also easy to develop on. It's already 90% to their goal for their OS and software. Why not use what already works? If it makes them enough money, they could try to develop something similar in-house.

EDIT to add jacquesm's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14231160

Mine on Lobsters summarizing a lot with links:

https://lobste.rs/s/ensbd6/building_blackberry_qnx_7_desktop...
Cities technically do have leverage: at a minimum, they control the right-of-ways that are being used, and may actually own a dark fiber network (this is how Google was able to cut deals with cities for Google Fiber), and can even create (or threaten to create) a municipal broadband service that competes directly with the ISP(s), especially when the cable and phone companies aren't interested in providing FTTH.

Unfortunately, in most states where this has happened, the state legislature has passed laws forbidding (effectively, if not explicitly) local government from competing with the private sector in this way. So far 19 states have passed such laws. Maine is the latest state where such a law has been proposed.

This map provides a good entry point to the subject:

https://muninetworks.org/communitymap

Since Maryland doesn't have such laws, and Baltimore owns the conduit and charges rent for it's use, Verizon can be presented with the option of building out FTTH across the city or face rent increases in order to fund the creation of a municipal fiber network (Verizon can also allow the use of their own fiber for this purpose to offset some of those rents).
Ask HN: Review my startup idea
Introducing Repairer - An on demand repair service.
Website: https://hammadn.wixsite.com/repairer

We get your damaged products repaired for you as fast and as cheap as possible and deliver it back once it is repaired!

We'd be taking watches, clocks, smartphones, lamps, spectacles, laptops, modems and other common household products initially.

We've planned to launch in New Delhi, India initially and would be expending to many other cities all over the world pretty soon.

Would love to have your feedback and suggestions.
I only mentioned them as they're very hardware focused.

So why micro imaging instead of macro?

I haven't done any of the nn cv stuff yet, can you pair different image sources of the same item?
Does this strike anyone else as a gimmick? I'm not sure if parsing symbols is really the limiting factor when I try to understand code.
That app already exists. It's called Google Wallet.
Yes, probably so. Sign me up.
Shameless plug for my game that I've been working on for a long time: https://bobsgame.itch.io/bobs-game-puzzle-game
Oh hell. I was initially skeptical but my hopes are up now that you say that.
The iPad is decidedly not rugged...
First introduction to LaTeX
>But for business and education, central management is essential.

For business, it depends.

I think my company is fairly typical in that we offer fully managed systems but don't require that people go that route. (But you're more or less on your own for support if you choose to self-manage.)
How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
Seems like this is a perfect place to use Bittorrent: a large, desirable file for which you own the distribution permissions.
'Political crimes' often generate political pressure to investigate. If a Senator's office calls the FBI making a stir about something they're going to investigate as a matter of course. It's things like that that make me wonder whether lawmakers should actually be held incommunicado in prison-like conditions for the duration of their term, much as juries are sequestered in criminal cases.
But new phones are incredibly sophisticated devices requiring a lot of investment to create and bring to market, so maybe even billions a year of revenue might not be enough.
Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacity
Not just common consumer goods, but say, electrical engineer educated in Germany would be inclined to use Siemens software and hardware, and he/she would need to put extra effort to learn about alternatives.
Bioinformatician here. I appreciate that you need to make money somehow. I do find this a little hard to believe, though:

> full-text search of 20MM PDFs at our traffic levels is expensive to operate

Assuming you convert them to text once, index them, and put them in a standard FTS engine, I'd guess it is on the order of 100GB-1T of text (max), plus some more for the index (basing these estimates with my experience text mining PubMed Central and MEDLINE). So it can all fit on a pretty standard server. Maybe at 100 req/s it would take a few. Yes, you'd want replication.

The number of servers required to get good latency FTS is the part of this that I'm least familiar with. Anyone have a ballpark, given these estimates, on what kind of hardware would be required? (I could easily be wrong, and indeed this is very expensive. If so, I'd be curious about ballpark numbers)
A programmer’s view on technology that hijacks people’s minds
There's no tie to break. They're different overlapping forms of input. They co-sign just fine on a laptop and you don't have to choose one over the other.
Like, say, run smartphones or webservers?
How does a commercial enterprise even get a .EDU domain? I tried to obtain one for the local private high school, and was told it's available only to institutes of higher learning.
Variance does describe the distribution, but not well enough, in this case. It reduces the vector of possibilities to a scalar, and hides the most important aspect, the non-transitivity. Numbers have transitive comparisons, so there's essentially no way a scalar value _could_ capture that in any straightforward way. Basically, abandon all single-value summaries. They'll do you no good in understanding this phenomenon. But the detailed analysis isn't too complicated, so it's okay.
Minix 3 for reliability part, DROPS for real-time part, OKL4 for mobile, and Genode for security part are basically it that I'm aware. It's really the mix of capabilities in one system that makes QNX great. I don't know anything that has that despite the architecture described in great detail in freely-available papers. Just waiting to be cloned or improved on. :)

http://www.minix3.org/doc/reliable-os.pdf

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/overview.html

http://l4hq.org/projects/kernel/

https://genode.org/about/index