skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly interesting that lately there is more research into what ads people particularly dislike.

However I must wonder that they seem to skip an elephant in the room: Malvertising and Fraud. That is: Ads that either try to install malware on your system or that try to deceive you into buying something that isn't really what it seems to be. I'm pretty sure nobody likes that, yet both are common enough.
From Just a Laundry Business to Much More – Quick Dry Cleaning Software
Healthcare has very high overhead costs due to a number of variables.

In many countries, it's one of the most regulated business sectors, handling regulated substances and the whole prescription billing process are massive bureaucratic tasks which usually need to be coordinated between several different parties like manufacturing companies, authorities, patients, health care provider, physician, pharmacy and/or nursing services.

Along with that come special demands for data protection and handling for all the involved companies, due to the sensitive data stored about patients. Creating weird legal circumstances where sending a fax is the preferred option over sending an email, as most doctor's offices would be hopelessly overwhelmed with using email encryption like PGP.

Prescriptions also need to be in a physical paper form, adding additional (mailing) logistics to the whole processes. It's a lot of needless paper which could be removed for cost savings and making the overall processes more streamlined and digital, but it will be a long time until we arrive at a point where digital prescriptions become an actual thing (at least in Germany) and an even longer time before they become the norm.
A New #Linux #Malware Targets #Raspberry Pi Devices to Mine Cryptocurrency
I appreciate your feedback, I opened a question on google productforums if you want to follow up :)
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/ftBX_...
Ask HN: How do you build in anticipation of scale?
How do you design/build an app with the right foundation such that if it takes off you're able to scale? I've been thinking about this as I'm about to start a project. I know chances are that I'll just die in the early phases and that premature optimization is the root of all evil, but I'd like to do anything possible now that would pay dividends if we do scale. So for example do I run containers but only have one container per service? Do I use citus instead of postgres? I know this is app specific so let's say for discussion's sake it's just a crud app.

Also what are some good resources on designing distributed systems using today's IaaS solutions?

Edit: how do I get this sorted under Ask?
How to Create Habit-Forming Apps
The real problem, in my opinion, is that we're making more and more centralized decisions. Federalism properly done lessens the pressure to come up with complex gerrymandering and voting schemes by lessening the election pressure altogether.

It adds more power to other important democratic mechanisms: free speech and vote-with-your-feet.

The power of free speech is improved because a state legislator has fewer constituents, so each group of 100 with similar interests matters a lot more.

And, at the end of the day, if a city or state is really screwing things up, people (not everyone, but enough) can relocate to somewhere that is doing a better job.

Eliminating gerrymandering (how? how will it get passed?) and new voting schemes (which? how will it get passed?) are interesting, but federalism already exists (10th amendment), it's just underemphasized.
In ye olde days in Germany, the municipalities had their own construction teams, employed by the municipality. That meant that e.g. road constructions were done by the government - which also means that the "feedback loops" were way shorter, and there was no incentive for the construction teams to delay the construction or similar.

Now, with the privatization trend and "cheapest-bidder-wins", it's a catastrophe. Especially when construction companies from foreign countries are involved (thanks to EU-wide tender crap)... the language barrier is a huge issue.

One thing the article totally leaves out: in ye olde days, there were next to no changes to a project when it was approved. Now replannings in all stages of a project are common - be it due to politicians trying to gain something, NIMBY morons, environmental protection or, the worst case as can be seen at BER, changing technological requirements. Every replanning causes delays and cost overruns.
I turned off mine, still didn't find it.
In Europe full featured apartments under 20m2 (~215 square feet) are pretty standard. I personally know quite a few people that are living in such apartments with kids. 11m2 sounds like standard European bedroom in apartment.
The site is unusable on Android for me, because of an ad hijacking the page and redirecting me, spamming my phone's buzzer and popups, and trying to get me to download an APK to "clean my damaged phone". Ugh. At least it's usable if you disable JavaScript.
Already exists, see StegFS: https://albinoloverats.net/projects/stegfs
Fascinating.

Nitpick: It would be even nicer if the images on the main page were annotated with the person's name. I recognized e.g. Einstein and Turing, but who are all the others?
This can help to read the map
http://www.euratlas.net/cartogra/peutinger/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extends_of_the_Tabul...
Comment of the year
BER and "changing technological requirements"? BER (primarily) got doomed because they rearranged the layout to be able to sell more shopping space halfway through and didn't properly plan out the consequences of that change.
If I understand correctly, "Single sign-on" means that when you sign in at one site, you're automatically signed in at others. Like when you sign in to Gmail, you get logged in on YouTube without any extra clicks.

OAuth is typically a user-initiated action, like "Sign in with GitHub" or "Sign in with your domain" (https://indieweb.org/IndieAuthProtocol).

Though I think SSO should be possible with OAuth — maybe with a hidden iframe that does the auth process, or something with CORS requests… Or maybe a custom redirect-based protocol would be better.
Things You Wish to Know If You Are a Newbie Programmer – Orçun Yılmaz
A+Poem+of+Packers+and+Movers+Business
> If Amazon paid the same price as everyone else to get their packages into the pipeline, they would send fewer of them, and more delivery resources would be available for everyone else, would there not? It's not just the speed of the trucks, but their size and who's available to load, unload and deliver.

They only send packages that people order. I'm not sure I see your point.

Roads can get congested with 100% Ford cars, but the road isn't discriminating against any other brand of car.
Since am big fan of everything Base62 I started to work on a PHP implementation of KSUID.

https://github.com/tuupola/ksuid
The Perils of Reading About Writing
> Any customer that signs up for storage with Amazon automatically gets 5 GB for free, and Prime members receive free unlimited photo storage.

Do they compress your photos further or save them byte for byte? If not, you can upload arbitrary data in many image formats. Even if they recompress them, you could put a QR code as the image to encode the data. I bet someone is trying this...
Apple HomePod is a speaker to listen, not to be heard
Show HN: What if everyone in the UK voted? An interactive to explore
This was something I made after seeing a lot of people talk about safe seats and how their vote meant nothing. Every time I looked up the seat they meant, I found the non-voters could have ousted the incumbents.

In 340 seats, the largest group are the non-voters. That means if "no vote" was a party, they'd have a majority in the house of commons and be forming a government.

In 601 of the 651 seats, the non-voters could have changed the outcome.

Quite how they'd vote we don't know, but it's clear their actions could have a huge impact.

This is pretty rough and ready (incredibly hacked together d3), but there's nothing like a hard deadline to force actually releasing it! I'd like to extend this out to include much more analysis and exploration on different possibilities (e.g. what if more youngsters voted).

Hopefully this fits as a Show HN, I found a bunch of other interactive things searching around.
I'd like to read the article, but instead I constantly get big animations all over the screen. Very distracting. Apparently this is a frivolous topic rather than something serious?
> That changes things.

No, that's exactly what it doesn't. Rather, it leaves them as they were before this stupid and insufficient replacement was invented.
Speaking as a developer. You may be paid by the impressions but how much you are paid depends on the CTRs. Nothing works for CTRs like targeting. The more data you can share about users, the better it is for you. All this other stuff probably contributes to user churn as much it does to your bottom line. This is one of the reasons that a lot of apps ask you for location permissions even when they don't need it.
Paul is definitely a very smart guy and something of a programming hero of mine. I did have the good fortune to have dinner with him once, although I think I was too shy to really ask him anything.

The DCE library “surprisingly distributed by Apple” is used by their CIFS server and NetLogon daemon. From memory, it originally came from the OSF DCE RPC source code drop, which I then slightly modernised for use in XAD (the first Active Directory-compatible domain controller replacement, which became Domain Services for Windows at Novell), and then found its way to Apple via Likewise.
>I did not feel like waiting 2 months for an MRI so I decided to use my private insurance at a private carrier.

I wonder what's up with all those MRI shortages in some places? I got my last MRI a couple of years ago in Germany, fully covered by public insurance, had to wait like 2 weeks for my appointment.

Sounds like some places are in dire need of more MRI capacity?
"Minority shithole" is a bit harsh... I spend a lot of time in Newark and it is a much better place than it was twenty years ago.
Well, I saw this coming. /r/DataHoarder is going to lose their shit today. It had become pretty vogue to store tens or hundreds of TBs of encrypted data on Amazon Cloud Drive. This became kind of inevitable. One person even had a petabyte stored there: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...

Guess I'll be using Backblaze B2 entirely on Linux and macOS now.
Thanks for offering. This is very kind. Just anger for me.
If I am in that much trouble, definitely will seek for help.
> If the public system covers anything more than emergency care (patch a patient up and let them go) it automatically creeps into all service levels (have a basic cough? maybe that's bacterial pneumonia, better issue referrals for microbiological analysis and a CT scan. /s)

No. In the UK, if you go into a GP's office with a cough, you'll be told to go home and rest. In fact, most likely, you'll be denied from making an in-person appointment. This is FUD in its plainest form.
I use Vimium in Chrome to be able to use the keyboard to navigate web pages. Gmail in particular conflicts with this by implementing its own keyboard shortcuts that interfere with my workflow.

Some people may like it, but I'm just saying that it's not a feature that isn't disliked by some people.
If you find a way to work around human irrationality, you'll win a Nobel prize in more than one domain. :(.
Thanks for the article, it is spot on.
Take a long walk home.

"I can't! I live far away from my job." Yes you can: get out on a bus/train/whatever stop before your home. 1 hour walking is ~5 Km.

"I drive home bro." So park it 5 km before your work.
I'm guessing you're one of those lucky ones with a sane manager that values your productivity, nurtures growth by rewarding good work, and keeps a good tab on past accomplishments whilst protecting you when others make unrealistic or untimely demands of you, and intervenes only with actual wisdom rather than nonsensical judgement or belittling comments.

Consider yourself one of the few lucky ones. The rest of us have to deal with some degree of micromanagement, office politics, and other such nonsense on an almost daily basis.
High-speed, high side n-channel MosFET driver operates up to 150V
I wonder if it would be possible with machine learning to find out how data can be recovered after re-encoding an image using different encoders. This would ensure no loss of data. Least significant bit stenography must be very fragile.

Some other methods are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography_tools#Carrier_en...
Or she!
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/germany-dividends-idUSL8N1991...
Yeah, it looked cute once, but every time I scrolled down something was animating. It was really distracting. I don't see a good reason behind animating every number from 0.
It is an infographic encompassing an article, which sadly I can't find translated to english on the site.
I found this book very helpful in approaching some of the things OP talks about.

https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Cooling-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1573...

Also, check your blood pressure regularly every morning and evening, for a few weeks. You could be non-symptomatically hypertensive (for all sorts of reasons); talk to your doctor if you find your blood pressure consistently on the higher side.
Weed Startups Will Make Warehouse Rents More Expensive in L.A. And Boston
Russian Hackers Testing Malware with Britney Spears's Instagram
> the only explanation that I can come up with for this situation is that intuitive syntax matters a lot (at least for language adoption)

Where intuitive is, as always, defined as "things I've seen before". Which makes the argument boil down to "popular things are similar to other popular things".

Currently the two most popular types of syntax are C-like (C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, etc.) and Python-like (Ruby, Elixir, etc.). Prolog suffered from the AI Winter similarly to Lisp, and thus Prolog-like languages (e.g. Erlang) still get complains about their "arcane syntax", just like Lisps.
Not a smaller scandal was former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (now President of the European Council) reform to move money saved on privately owned pension accounts called OFE (OFE invested peoples money into obligations and bonds) to the public pension system - circa 151 billion PLN, so around 40 billion USD.

link: http://www.money.pl/gospodarka/raporty/artykul/skok;na;pieni...
> BERLIN, June 22 German banks exploited a legal loophole that allowed two parties to claim ownership of the same shares, the financial watchdog will tell lawmakers this week, in schemes that could have cost the state billions of euros in tax over many years.

ZEIT: "The Multibillion Euro Theft". To call it theft then, is a bit ridiculous. It was a loophole. There are loopholes everywhere. If lawmakers would make proper laws (isn't that part of their responsibility?), and took sufficient time to think them through, a lot less loopholes would exist. Unless they're put there by design, of course.
Funny you say that. So many men in tech cos often means lines at the men's room. So it's a time sync. Smart phones do alleviate
Pro tip – Cmd/Ctrl+F for "independently". Research redundancy :)
concerns stemmed from the various mentions of everything being in /root which just seems like plain bad security practice.

however a cursory review of the codebase indicates that most of the services run as the zulip user and authentication uses certificates rather than passwords.
The very first number is incorrect isn't it?

€3,100,000,000 != 31.8 billion
Yes, but nobody else with a FTTC internet connection with an unlimited bandwidth allowance (I'm in the UK). I have 2TB of data, so speed is important.
Privacy Badger uses simple heuristics like cookie entropy estimation, domain prevalence (how many other domains embed that domain's stuff): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/src/js/h...

and static block lists https://www.eff.org/files/cookieblocklist_new.txt
Bizarre.

I can't imagine what makes a supervisor think that it is okay to forcefully take a customer's luggage from them. Why not just go "Well, you can't fly with us then."?
Funnily enough, I think the same.

The first is the stuff you do in school. Always good to have context, which sadly there's little time for.

The second is fundamentals and computing stuff, and stats. There's a good chance you'll have to use a computer to calculate things over large datasets sometime in your life.

Crypto is interesting as well.
Study reveals that green incentives could actually be increasing CO2 emissions
Excuse me for not falling over myself thanking him/her for helping the current and future super wealthy.

It's times like these that I start to get why populism is becoming so popular in the west.
This should have been an animated video with the explanation narrated. They did 90% of the work, just needs someone for the voice over.
Most loopholes allow you simply to pay less tax than you might otherwise owe.

This loophole seemingly allows you to take back more than you paid in the first place. This is theft.
Like feed in a compressed file (OGG or whatever) feed in a lossless file (FLAC say) and have the [ML] system create an algorithm to run at the receiver that will more closely approximate the lossless output.

This has been done before surely, like compression with varying decompression algos the characteristics of which are sent with the compressed stream to enable more optimal reproduction of the originally encoded data??
Or a tax break. If you get an R&D cash subsidy from the government, is that theft? If it's possible within the boundaries of the law, it isn't theft. It's a design flaw (and one certain politicians should definitely be held accountable for, for sure!)
If theft is involuntary taking of other people's money, then tax is theft. Employing every legal trick to minimize taxes is moral and encouraged.
Thanks for all the great advices and comments here.

Every job has its ups and downs. Though I agree that if you constantly feel down time, that probably the time you take a break.

What I find hard is that no single method works for me for a very long time. (Probably because it can trigger the bad memory? ) So I need to find a new approach when I find the old one does not work any more.
I disagree. IMO it's just about what you've learned before. Note that parsing natural language isn't obvious until you learn to read - a task on which you spend years of your life.

I'd argue Lisp is no less readable than C for people who haven't seen a programming language before. It's just more likely your first language will be C-like rather than Lisp-like, and this colors your expectations.

Funny things, people in our industry deal with Lisp-like syntax all the time. Consider HTML or XML. If you grok how they work, you'll also understand S-expressions. Except S-exps have less clutter.
Internet Is the WAN of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This article obscures the most important question you can have about this: was it legal, or wasn't it?

You can have as many ethical systems as you want and call it "evil" or not depending on your opinion. But you don't have multiple law systems (in a single country) and call it "theft" or "legal loophole" depending on what mood you're on. It's either one or another.
What Happens When You Mix Thermodynamics and the Quantum World? A Revolution
Although, interestingly the article describes the find as belonging to an ancient group of toothed birds, so perhaps the Wikipedia description needs a tweak?
Some pay taxes voluntarily.
Sometimes, Rewriting Is a Good Idea
Better explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F1wkCFCqd4
"Birdman" from India
>But as a graduate student in a state school, I might be biased.

As an undergrad at a middle tier state school that at times does cool research, I'm with you here. Ivory tower elitism is a hell of a drug, and it just makes me sad.
Can you please describe in more detail, how do you jump from this:

> This loophole seemingly allows you to take back more than you paid in the first place.

To this?

> This is theft.

Because by itself, this logic would seem to include all welfare recipients - they also take more than they pay. You probably didn't mean to call them theives though; so, you probably have more precise criteria to calling someone a thief than just "he takes back more than he pays".
I want to play MiniMetro on this map with Roman chariots instead of subway cars.
>What the state could have done with €31.8 billion:

>Covered the costs of the refugees who came to Germany over more than one year.

Yeah... why spend it on the citizens, right
Are we talking about this mooc https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about ?

"do" means register for the course ? it seems they did not rerun the course (sadly).

about the content, it's very similar to other PL mooc, you get the Pharo env, first week is basic hands on[1], then you solve problems of increasing complexity (but here it's no CS level problems, more IT/CRUD).

[1] the fun part is that in Pharo, first exercises are about modifying the world you live in. You also learn the versionning system to save/load your work.
Are there any software products from British organisations called "Fag"?
Remove Duplicate Items from NSF
You can't wish them away, no. But if you change the right habits of mind (not saying that's easy) you'll have less negative emotions in need of unpleasant metabolizing in the first place.
> If it were called Obamacare and ACA in the news media and politics equally, then yes.

> ...but that wasn't the case. You can't just ask them questions about a less popular name and expect less-informed people to know it's the same thing.

But that was the point. "Less-informed people" aren't disliking something based on its content, which was what you originally claimed, but based on its branding and ads (attack or otherwise).

Yes, people don't want higher premiums, but they do want all the other stuff that comes with it. The results of similar polls will change dramatically once people experience what the effects of a repeal means.

Which is proof that they don't answer to polls about the policies in it, but its brand.
Basically we agree. I see "tech" as anthropological hubris mostly. We overcome our own limited understanding through the ages and each time we felt great. Dismissing the beauty of everything around us. When you think about how even a fly is amazing, or an insect, so minuscule, so thin.

At the end we'll only get to understand our own world and own bias. Then we may reconsider the meaning of life and our cultures.
Why are you trying to deduce the nature of ML by looking at org charts? You do realize ML predates all the titles you listed above? Org charts are nuanced things often politically driven. You are looking at the wrong things of you want to truly learn instead of appeasing your personal biases.

Computer science largely deals with algorithmic space and time complexity. Look up the Wikipedia page on logistic regression and tell me if you see computer science there.

It is true that software giants are using and making huge breakthroughs in ML, specifically deep learning. That's largely because these companies invest heavily in bringing in the top ML researchers to their teams. Do you know the cost of deep mind? Individual engineers on the team have had multimillion dollar golden handcuff contracts from what I heard.

Yes, software engineers can utilize the developed theory of ML and apply it to applications. For example, look at the new Google image search. You have a lot of interesting filter options now that require machine learning. Google speech recognition for instance has gotten so much better because Google moved off GMM's to dnn for the decoding.

So just because Google and FB have interests in ML, doesn't mean that ML is a CS discipline. That's such faulty logic.