skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the victims should have known.

I strongly suspect (and hope) that you are just trolling, so in a very short form:

* "It's an observation" that you eat babies. This statement is just as valid as yours. I mean, "it's an observation" (tm). Read: Well, duh, yeah, whatever you say. Come back when you have a point.

* "posting inflammatory remarks" is not activism. Activists have no time for this BS, they do actual political work.

* Spend a few weeks in a developing country before you give advice to people who live there. Here in my house I can get you an apartment for $200/mo (2 bedrooms, hot water, gas, electricity and "internet" inclusive). But be aware: Best phone you can purchase in a 3h-radius runs Android 4; next place to buy a laptop that halfway works as expected with a vanilla linux distro: 6 to 10h driving. Modern hardware costs at least twice as much as in 1st world.

* Before talking, take over responsibility for OPSEC in a place like mine: Nobody within hours that can help someone with a problem with tails but me (well, you, since you just volunteered); next linux-expert? At least a day's travel. Still want to advise for a non win/osx-solution? I'm looking forward to hear why and how this should work.

Too much work? Well, then at least show me that at least half of your friends and family adhere to the standards you expect from unknown people who live in circumstance you obviously have no clue about. Until you do that: You're trolling.

PS: I've been teaching OPSEC to activist since 1996. I'm using Linux since 1997 and FreeBSD since 1999. I happen to know a thing or two about windows as well.
Fuck hunters and fuck ranchers. The hunter and rancher lobby and good old boys everywhere in the West is why we can't have wolves despite the overwhelming support from general public.

A large number (all?) ranchers in the West are what is called "welfare ranchers". The only reason they can exist is the taxpayer support. They get cheap grazing land for the amount of money not even sufficient to pay for paperwork management, the federal wild life management is killing wolves and coyotees for them. If not for the taxpayer subsidy, many of them would not exist.

Wolves (just like grizzlies) are a necessary part of the ecosystem. The nature is not obligated to provide an easy elk hunt to you or anyone else. The overpopulation by elk and deer is why we have the chronic wasting disease and why the Rocky Mountain National Park has to cull elk.

Traps are the worst. This is an extremely painful way for the animals to die and routinely kills wolves, dogs, cougars and everything else.

The federal wildlife control agency uses cyanide bombs to kill predators, which often also kills dogs and sometime injures their owners (see the recent case of a boy who was poisoned and his dog killed).

We need to bring down the anonymous on the sons of bitches that run the wolf hunting outfits, just like they came down the elephant hunting dentist. We need to bring the attention of the public to the wolf hunts, which happens right here, not somewhere in Africa and is just as brutal.

Do you how they fight the wolf packs? They kill the pack, leaving one surviving wolf and collar it. Then they wait for the lone survivor to form a new pack and repeat the story. It is hard to imagine what the poor soul has to go through losing the family over and over again. Look it up, this is in Oregon, now.

The damn fucking cowards of humans hunt wolves with snowmobiles and pickups. They carry high powered rifles with optics. They use traps. This is not even remotely a sport, but just plain murder.

As soon as Trump fuckers are out of the office, the wolf protected status comes back.
Most amusing to me is that Maciej Ceglowski of idlewords.com would probably say the exact opposite.

Some (start of) context: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Reading Maciej' comments about PG, HN, and Silicon Valley in general is a wonderful cure to the kind of madness that can pervade the place.
From what I read, it sounded like as it existed in Windows 8.1 the UI/UX was too complicated/confusing for users at the time and they were removing it until they solved some of the UI/UX problems.

It does look the UI has evolved (a dedicated column in Details view, some new clues in the command line even; in the demo the DIR showed the file size in parentheses, presumably to note a placeholder).

It also sounds like the UX has evolved with things like file prediction to predict some of the files to load/unload from a device.
Eh, the WSL stuff avoids most of the NT subsystem style flexibility.
> aesthetics only matter when trying to sell turds as diamonds

When it comes to printed (or any kind of graphical) communication, form and function are very closely tied. The vertical text at 23:15 is (at least to my western eye) super distracting and hard to read, and I have no idea what I should be looking at on the screen.
If you're comfortable setting up a server, I've been using duet for a couple of months which is great. Doesn't have a native app though but no monthly fees. https://duetapp.com/
Not really the same thing...
> we stopped iterating on nuclear weapon designs

We didn't. Los Alamos is pretty busy this time of year. So is Sarov.

> we haven't done the R&D and optimization to lower the cost for mass producing neutron bombs too.

We had. And also, we were smart enough to put these papers on the shelf and not proceed with them.

Say what you want about humanity, but 70+ years without a nuclear war is impressive, given our history. It became possible through continuous innovation in game theory, spy games, and yes, improving the deterrents. I think nuclear weapons will never be actually used in large-scale future wars, like chemical weapons weren't massively used in WW2.

Progress is good. Wars are part of the progress. Wars themselves are bad, though, so some of the progress is spent to keep wars at bay, to not interfere with the progress.
> That's actually a better metric in most cases if you a) trust the person saying it and b) trust their ability to review friends choices.

How so? Whether or not I trust someone has no obvious bearing on whether their opinion closely matches the general consensus.

For example, I know someone who likes the 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead better than the original. I absolutely believe her on this point. But it would be ludicrous for me to say, based on her preferences, that the 1990 version is widely considered the definitive Night of the Living Dead.
This is pretty cool. It competes well with lz4 even if it is amd64 only. I wonder what an ARM version would look like. Here's to hoping he author keeps working on this.
Oh I know. I tell myself everyday that I walk into work or log into my workstation remotely that I give up all semblance of privacy. It's in my firm's employee agreement that basically everything is tracked.

I was talking about my home workstation.
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> breaking RSA isn't a really big IBM purchase order away from happening

You seem to also be completely discounting the possibility of implementation flaws or unpublished advancements against RSA that simply require a ton of hardware to pull off.

What if we don't know that a major RSA implementation is leaking enough key material that it brings the attack down from physically impossible to really really hard?
Highly recommend life below zero on Netflix. If my family ever ends up living off land I will now know how to do it a little bit better than I knew before watching. The best hunter, 5ft lady, chased down a running wolf and shot it from long distance. Great show! Alaska is amazing.
That'd basically be putting a barrier on every memory access though.
I think the believer was trying to refer to the distinction between works and faith (and is, therefore, most likely Protestant.) Perhaps in error, since the original analogy in the article might work with "grace points" or "actions according to faith points," too.
The problem there if I am not mistaken is the CPU Virtualization extensions that can't handle multiple hypervisors using them at the same time.
Why we made quickcache
They also allow you to use Direct Debit if you are in UK/EU.
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Full journal publication is coming--as you likely know, the system doesn't always move as fast as we'd like.

> quick back of the envelope calculation a positive test result is still 5× more likely to be a false positive than a true positive.

For what it's worth, about 10% of people who come in to the cardiology clinic experiencing symptoms are diagnosed with an abnormal heart rhythm. So even a 20% positive predictive value would be an improvement over the status quo.

As mentioned below, you can use other risk factors (like CHA2DS2-Vasc, or even simply age) to raise the pre-test probability, and thereby control the false positive rate.

As a meta-point, I do think we let the perfect be the enemy of the good in medicine, and that potentially scares people away who could otherwise make positive contributions. For example, many of the most common screening methods in use today are simple, linear models with c-statistics below 0.8. You can build a far-from-perfect system, and still improve dramatically over how people receive healthcare today.

My overall message to machine learning practitioners sitting on the sidelines would be: please join our field. The status quo in medicine is much more primitive than we have been led to believe, and your skills can very literally save lives.
Maybe they mean a day on Venus. ;)
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> and would benefit from being on Kickstarter.

There are different funding sites with different rules and different popularity due to those rules and the vagaries of advertising and attention. Kickstarter doesn't need to cater to every type of project or business.
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On a related note, I had a very rare stroke last week, only symptom: headache for 3 days.
The doctor sent me for a CT scan without any idea of what to look for. The only clue: it was not a migraine because I missed any neurological anomaly.

On the other hand, stroke prevalence is rare, 1.3% for men, and generally don't look like mine, and my kind is 2% of all strokes, it would have been completely weird to suspect it with such a low probability and such a non-specific evidence.

Long story short, I almost got sent home with an aspirin while I had an extensive cerebral veinous thrombosis.
Well, it is one thing to make the statement that penalties for the possession of such material are unjust. There are several compelling arguments to make for that case.

On the other hand, it is deeply disturbing that this guy is publishing directions on how to securely store these materials in a way to evade law-enforcement in such a specific manner. I hope and suspect that there will be a thorough investigation of this guy's activities.

Separately, it is unbelievable that such a controversial and conspicuous PSA could go unnoticed for over two years! Wow.
I personally don't care about any of that. I'm not sure what I'd need to "escape" from. There's infinitely more than enough on Earth -- even a minute slice of Earth -- for one human qua human.

Even the exploratory impulse you seem to be experiencing seems misaligned with your conclusion. There are places, people, cities, societies, continents, ocean floors, mountain peaks, unplumbed caves, blistered deserts, dark forests, that you haven't seen here -- what's so hot about Alpha Centauri?
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Not that "finally", Windows NT was designed specifically to support POSIX and OS/2 alongside Win32 apps and the first few versions actually shipped it.
The US government IS subsidizing ranchers!

http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm

"Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West"
The better you get at jiu jitsu, the less damage you'll need to do to control your opponent. Slaps can be effective to get them to open up for the submission - clean, no damage done, and they are forced to psychologically give up, which makes the dominance more definitive.
Since everyone's posting theirs, here is mine: http://qte.tumblr.com/
RGBA in associated is unique in that it represents distilled geometry. If you were to zoom in on a pixel that had a degree of geometry occluding it, the coverage is represented by the alpha ratio, while the RGB is purely emission.

It is complimentary to lighting.

The math works because of the differing forms of the alpha over formula. FG.RGB + ((1.0 - FG.Alpha) * BG.RGB), resulting in a pure add at the extreme case of alpha being zero, or ratios of addition when non-zero.

Within the limitations of the RGB model, it works extremely well.

The folks cited are extremely adept imaging people, covering years of experience and several Academy Achievement Awards.
Disagreed. Because it's such a well-known benchmark, it's a great sandbox for testing new techniques, trying new software, and self-study.
I just realized where the 'V' logo in "Viewpoints Research Institute" came from (you can see it here: [0]):

The diagram comes from the book "The Act of Creation"[1], where Arthur Koestler discusses the common themes in creative acts, including the idea of juxtaposition.

In research, you start with a baseline level of knowledge and do a random walk until you encounter a (not necessarily) totally orthogonal set of ideas. Once you combine the two, boom! Something new is created. A lovely book, that I'd recommend to anyone.

[0] http://www.vpri.org
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Creation
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What do you mean by "the utility function of the universe"?
>In many fields, subjectivity is the best we have. In business management, venture capital

Indeed, and I see nothing wrong with that.

The issue I'm critizing is when a group of people fraudulently present themselves as doctors and scientists (implying physical objectivity), especially in regards to metaphysical matters such as the mind.

The catholic church did this during the days of the inquisition, and psychiatrists have been doing the same since the field was invented ~200 years ago.

>perhaps you can show me a biological test that will differentiate between attention deficit caused by biology, versus one caused by bad habits?

There are no biological tests for ADHD.
Seems to me, the same technology could be used by the NPEs too, though, to find new troll targets.
Their previous process was load container on truck, drive to major port, unload container from truck, load container onto a ship. The plant apparently is a small port, so the new process is load container on ship, sail ship to major port, unload container from ship, load container onto another ship. I don't see why loading and unloading a ship would be more onerous than loading and unloading a bunch of trucks. So if the ship uses less fuel than a bunch of trucks, it's a win. Why not do it?
Most modern hunting rifles have 2-3 rounds loaded. Even if you were rolling around with a 30 round magazine you could only try and shoot the ones that you could see.

We had a camp member stalked by a pack while walking between two campsites one night, he was not armed. He heard them and we checked the trail in the morning, the size and number of the prints made our blood cold. Same guy was charged by a mountain lion several years ago and he was lucky to get one shot off that dropped it at his feet, claws out. It ain't Disney out there folks.
That's true but it sure is convenient for Microsoft, and they are exploiting it as far as they can with the Credential Guard feature.
I can't get my friends to use Telegram or anything remotely better than sms or Google hangouts. I hope keybase finds the critical mass that's needed to make these things work.
Crossposting question from other thread: What's the "Visions: Cosmic and Romantic" that's referred to around 36 minutes into the video? Google doesn't turn up anything.
That hack uses lab conditions. They have a clear wine glass with a high resolution scanner.

More real-life conditions (smeared print, non-glass surface) would be interesting to reproduce.

My guess is that it ups the ante significantly for cost of hacking.
Prestige or social standing may be an important part of the formula as agumonkey says. There are native communities that haven't done well while getting large amounts of oil revenue (or basic income.) So being able to accord that may be more important than the money itself, for happiness. Once upon a time churches and monasteries were pretty good at this; not the only path but it shows it can be done.
I am talking in this specific case.
Originally posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14313854
As a High Admiral backer, you could also be a in High Commitment Bias? Not trying to be offensive.

https://www.aqr.org.uk/glossary/commitment-bias
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm
Indeed this book is incredible. He talks about it here : https://www.quora.com/What-made-Xerox-PARC-special-Who-else-...
I highly recommend it.
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I'm Chris Hardy, a program manager at Microsoft working on the Xamarin Live Players. Yup, you will still need a Mac, to deploy to the app store, to work against different APIs that require special provisioning (such as Push Notifications, etc.), sign and provision applications to share via TestFlight. The goal for Xamarin Live Player is to provide an easier and faster way to work and iterate on applications with C# and Xamarin without the need to commit to downloading and provisioning different devices to get up and running.
I agree, what Microsoft shows us today is a real evolution of a software-engineering empire done (mostly) right.
The sad fact is that this open-source love + tons of goodies for developers comes after decades of pain and suffering, which were not really "killing" Microsoft, but they were risking a lot.
Now they're flying, leaving Apple far behind (Apple completely lacks a multi-tier engineering vision), but if they get a monopoly again... pain and suffering will be back.
That's the free market.
Before we commit to that thinking, Fukshima should be considered.

That mess has the very real potential to irradiated our water.

I remain unconvinced we have a grip on longer term risks associated with nuclear energy.

And we can move to renewables. Lots of work there and lots of unemployed people to do it. We should.
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No offence, but it's hard to compare learning a colour histogram to learning concepts such as couch, floor, and open door.

RL (Q-learning?)with a linear approximation wouldn't work if you have subtle patterns in the image (poor contrast between walls and floors, a gradient, a border, etc.) and that's exactly the issue with robots: not detecting things that seem obvious to us.
Google has had a Go app, "Ivy," on the app store since 2015. I think it was just an experiment at getting Go to build for the App Store and getting it approved, but it was in fact approved.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivy-big-number-calculator/id...

It's true that fork() isn't allowed on non-jailbroken phones, so you can't shell out to a Go binary (you can on Android if you want). But you can build a static library in Go and link it and call into it with cgo from Objective-C or something.
It's not your bias. The Windows ecosystem has always been pretty good for developers. If it weren't for the ten-year Ballmer purgatory, MS would have been all over this space, where little iOS and Android toys still haven't hit puberty. Reinventing the wheel has been an overall giant waste of time for the industry.
"Progress is good" is an implicative tautology -- the seeming obviousness of the statement relies on the fact that the term "progress" strongly implies "betterness." And it is, in fact, its applicability to any state of affairs a matter of betterness -- but betterness of very specific, and often unspoken, types. "Technology progress" may mean "better technology" -- but it does /not/ necessarily mean "technology that is better for people."
These aren't packs of feral chihuahuas we're talking about, the adult (american) grey wolf mean weight is 88 Lbs, they can weigh up to 180. Imagine an animal almost as large as you, who's very purpose for existence is to predate mammals much larger than itself. Now imagine being surrounded by 20 of them and aware of the fact they have evolved to hunt cooperatively, to take down ungulates that can weight 5-10 times what they do. You are going to maybe get 1, 2 (if god himself intervenes) shots off with your bolt action 30-06 before they swarm you and literally tear you to pieces. If you had your back to a cliff and a M134 Minigun, you might have a chance. Luckily they mostly choose not to hunt humans, but it ain't because they wouldn't be successful. They just have easier prey most of the time.
The funny part is: this "education" often happens on turist attractive locations like remote islands where doctors can come with their families... and pharma companies pay the costs... sad reality...
And yet, earlier this year, 200,000 had to be evacuated because a dam in California nearly broke.

If 200,000 people in the US had to be evacuated because a nuclear reactor nearly went critical, every single nuclear plant in the country would have been shut down.
A fingerprint isn't secure in any robust sense of the word. you leave your fingerprints on everything you touch.
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https://www.eastidahonews.com/2017/03/boy-sprayed-cyanide-ex...

POCATELLO — The family of a teenage boy sprayed by a cyanide explosive that killed their dog is outraged they weren’t told the device was planted near their home.

M-44s are spring-activated devices that release cyanide when they are activated through upward pressure or pulling. The US Department of Agriculture uses the devices to control coyotes and other predators.
"Starting to roll out today" - does anyone versed in traditional PR have a say in this new trend in slow roll-outs?

I can see how it makes sense from an engineering point of view but I just installed Allo to try it out and it hasn't rolled out to me yet.

I'm rather unlikely to remember to try again in a few days/weeks etc.

This has happened multiple times in similar scenarios. I dug out my Gear VR to try the new Oculus browser. I didn't get it for 4 weeks (only a particular interest in WebVR kept me coming back to see if it was there).

Surely this is squandering good press and good will?
I've seen him give this great talk before, but IMO the delivery this time feels rushed and a bit disjointed. That said, the last few minutes summarize his powerful "Gretzky Game" idea so succinctly that they're worth the price of admission alone.

I would recommend watching the last 18 seconds of this version (starting at https://youtu.be/ZDM33CMJvp8?t=3452), internalizing the Gretzky Game slide on the screen, backing it up and watching the fuller explanation in the preceding ~3 minutes (starting at 54:18, https://youtu.be/ZDM33CMJvp8?t=3258), and then finally watching a different, more expansive version of the talk like this one, given at Qualcomm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs.

Oddly specific advice, I know, but hopefully helpful to somebody.
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Sometimes I find an icon set that has all the icons that represent the actions that I need. But it's in the wrong art style. Do you hire an illustrator? How much are they? Is there another way?