skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, she was also fired (finally) and her career is finished. I agree it was monumentally stupid. But "punished as high treason"? Treason requires intent. She most certainly did not intend to be criminally disloyal to the country. Merely being ignorant and incompetent is not treason.

This is a major fuckup but let's be real. Our country is a "joke"? I know complaining is a national sport in Sweden, much like in many other countries, and I can rage about plenty of idiotic things going on. But on the whole, things are in general pretty good, relative to most other countries in the world. Move elsewhere and you'll just find a different set of things to be mad about (perhaps more, perhaps less; and there's always a bunch of Swedish expats who complain that things don't work like in Sweden).
I also wanted to address some of the other points you raise with some anecdata

- I do MOOCs after I put the child to bed
- No facebook or channel surfing for me. I use my time and call friends/family on the phone (usually after my child leaves for school and right before I head to work). So in a sense, I use my time for synchronous, deeply meaningful relationships vs. trying to be up to date with 300+ people on FB

- I don't get to go to post work social events. But that's a tradeoff I will accept because it means I pick up the kid from school, go the park or take my child to her classes

- We have people over for lunch/dinner, so I do keep in touch with friends - probably more deeply than before

- The things that truly take a hit are doing things on an impulse - shopping on a weekday or eating out randomly. All of which are completely doable with some planning ahead of time.

So for me, it has been about planning, managing time and energy and trying to do fewer things well.
how does this nuclear fusion company hope to make money ? Their product is decades in the future.
Yeah, Clarifai did well. I am keen to learn how well their custom model feature works. Per their FAQ[0], you only need supply 20-50 images per concept. That seems remarkable to me, given that a concept like 'cow' has ~1500 images on Imagenet[1]. Perhaps they are using some sort of transfer learning to facilitate this? I.e. using a pretrained model, and then only retraining the last few fully connected layers, or retraining parts of the entire network?

I am not a deep learning practitioner, but would be curious to know from experts how their custom model feature might work; and from any of their users on how well it actually does.

Tablas: haha, great description of your teacher. I do play, with enthusiasm, but poorly. For those in Seattle, there is an amazing teacher who teaches up on Cap Hill [2].

[0] http://help.clarifai.com/custom-training/custom-training-faq

[1] http://image-net.org/synset?wnid=n01887787

[2] http://www.acitseattle.org
> But that's "source code available", not "open source" (ie, under a copyleft license)

It's proprietary. Also, there are many free software (or "open source" if you prefer) licenses that are not copyleft. MIT, Apache, Revised BSD, zlib, etc are all examples.
Straight from the source, in English: http://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-govern...
There was an interesting article with the CEO which adds a little color: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-wo...
Yes, that would also work in the sense of improving compatibility, but it would still leave the other players competing with Adobe's own. Eventually they might prevail, due to being less security-bug-ridden, but in the interim we'd still be worse off.

Also, this whole discussion is moot because open-sourcing Flash ain't gonna happen. I can practically guarantee that it's too entangled with other companies' IP for that to happen. Maybe the people who are arguing that we should treat open source as an alternative to the trash can (which is pretty damn insulting to those of us who actually produce open-source software) could spend just a little bit of their obviously-copious free time lobbying to change that IP regime.
Each coin tries to solve different issues with Bitcoin. This article has a brief summary for some of them: https://jonhq.com/looking-at-the-top-100-altcoins-by-the-pro...
>our responsibility to consider the long term well being of a client

True, but I don't think the answer is just "framework" either. A more thorough analysis of many of these scenarios would likely yield a surprising number of cases wherein the answer is not framework, if all tradeoffs were earnestly considered.

For instance, a couple of short years ago it would have been seen as responsible to build on Angular 1.x. Today, those clients are stuck with an obsolete, underperforming stack that has been deprecated with no reasonable upgrade path.

In some ways, knowing what we do about the ever-changing framework landscape, a reasonable argument could be made that it's almost irresponsible to recommend dependency on these ever-heavier, more intrusive, monolithic behemoths.
Like this guy http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/man-removed-from-aero...
The man page for boot(8) explains it.

You don't have to hit enter at the boot> prompt. It pauses for a few seconds to allow you a chance to enter boot commands; you can hit enter to boot immediately, or it will proceed with a default boot after a few seconds if you do nothing.
Last week, I created about 500,000 separate zfs pools to back the Docker containers we are running on cocalc. I love ZFS.
Quite possibly, it never making any money at all but getting the world closer to usable fusion is an acceptable outcome for investors like Paul Allan. And it could make money
by being the first ones to sell said product, decades in the future, or by at least holding valuable IP at that point?
Until today, I'm still waiting for my Mt.Gox refund :(
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms-to-Iraq
And I must add that open sourcing it would clear up a lot of situation where the distribution of flash player had an unclear status.
Although I don't understand the US's involvement in this -- a man breaking the rules is being put to justice, and I'm very glad. I'm also impressed by the feds work in the cryptocurrency space. In recent years the fed has really started to reverse the trope of the government not being technologically adept. There are too many that become wealthy through illicit means and it's good news that something effective is being done about it.
Justice playing whac-a-mole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve
Ask HN: Are upvote rings successful?
I ran across this website today

https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/

I have known about reddit upvotes being sold for awhile and I can easily imagine that being successful. Is HN susceptible to the same thing?
I had not yet picked up the habit of reading the manual. https://man.openbsd.org/boot.8#EXAMPLES

Being able to reach the boot menu is critical when installing to a range of embedded devices such as routers. I use a null modem cable for input/output with my router, and the TTY settings need to be adjusted in order to see anything.

GUI bootloader alternatives often use the "press ESC really fast" strategy, which is arguably less intuitive if you're trying to figure out where the boot settings are.

Anyway the boot menu rather is self-documenting. It even responds to `help`. I eventually figured out the solution, but I still remember it as my first experience problem-solving on OpenBSD.
Yes, it's exactly like that.

.... Eliezer leaned back in his chair. "Mr. Musk, what can I do for you?". The two engaged in a blissful staredown as their eyes locked. After several overbearing teary-eyed moments, Elon replied with a simple request. "World peace." And thus began a long, unproductive partnership between Big Yud and Peter Thiel-- I mean, Elon Musk -- a partnership focused not on the practical realities of actually building relevant transhumanist technology, but rather a venture focused on theories of world peace-- er, I mean, friendliness-- and writing fanfic instead of executing on important engineering/lab skills to achieve technological goals.

This story continued here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXARrMadTKk

More seriously... Some projects don't really require that much funding to happen. Often you can use specialized knowledge to forego otherwise hugely expensive efforts. It mostly starts with skill and knowledge, not money. As an example, trying out random CRISPR-Cas9 projects can actually be really cheap, less than $5k/project if the projects are structured just right. The trick is to pick projects that happen to be within budget and interesting enough to everyone involved. And if there needs to be a larger budget, sometimes the project is interesting enough to attract outsider funding.
You 2.0: The Value of 'Deep Work' in an Age of Distraction
Hey, just because you torture a child and they confess in the hopes of relocation to a prison in their own county doesn't mean they're not terrorists.

I wonder if I can find any examples... Here we go, this seems evenhanded and without political motivation: https://www.conservative.ca/cpc/meet-canadas-newest-multi-mi...
Ah, I think you're right. In my specific case the default "did nothing" because TTY settings were improperly configured. I actually needed the boot menu to be there.
There is also Mattermost. An open source Slack.
> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC

No offense, but the IRC user interface is REALLY lousy. I've been around the block, and I hate going into IRC.

In addition, I wish people would bring back mailing lists. No, Google Groups is not a good substitute.
It sounds like you may not have experience in this domain? You're benchmarking an active, time-based task (a person "seeing a car" - implicitly allowing eye saccade, multiple images, context, depth) versus a static task ("classify this single image based on no context"). They are not comparable.
The expectation of profit is at the moment of investment. So even if the SEC declares it a security, you cannot go back in time and change your investors' expectations...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796282 -- I would say no
I think it's a case of creating something like a phone requires a lot of intricate internal wiring that robots simply can't do right now. Robots struggle with variable pressure, to pick up delicate objects, and a phone would be much trickier to do. There seem to be advances in the latter, and I think Amazon is really trying to get it to work for their warehouses, and I do hope that there are advances on this front due to the terrible chemicals used in electronics manufacturing that cause cancer, infertility, and other ailments, but it will likely be a while until the technology advances enough.
Maybe, they get very large tax breaks plus the take up resources. It's probably a breakeven situation.
>> "popular open source projects would just stick to IRC as it just works"

I used to use IRC a lot when I was working on the Openstack project and do not agree with this part.
Well, you wouldn't want to modify a gene that isn't well-characterized, sure. But there are some things that are known with a great deal of certainty.
> I would love to see the SEC draw a clear line in the sand by issuing another report on a better token offering that is determined to not be a security

Better yet, issue guidance for how ICOs could be conducted in compliance with Regulation D [1] (or A). ICOs have potential. But right now they're replaying on fast forward the boom-and-bust scamapalooza of the pre-1930s. More disclosure, more discretion and an iota of personal responsibility will help, not hinder.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-regdhtm.html
Hey! A thing I can actually help with! I put together a PoC of exactly this when I had the same idea a couple years ago. Here's a basic generic example I put together at the time, that also defines interfaces for other policy directives (e.g. min length, etc.): https://github.com/milo-minderbinder/policy/blob/master/src/...

I'll add docs and updates if people give a shit. The passwords.dat file in the resources folder is the top 1m most common pws that I compiled from a number of lists available at the time.

I implemented a redis-backed instance of the above common-password bloom filter in a sample Spring app which I was using to show off some features of spring security to a dev (I work in AppSec). You can see the policy and redis config here: https://github.com/milo-minderbinder/spring-ref/blob/indev/s...

And you can see an example of how to wire it up to a Spring Validator here:
https://github.com/milo-minderbinder/spring-ref/blob/indev/s...

And you'll find where it's registered as a bean in the SecurityConfig.java file in the config dir with the other Spring java-config classes.

If you want to run it, I dockerized the whole Shebang with docker-compose a whole back, which should be easy to run: https://github.com/milo-minderbinder/docker-spring-ref/tree/...

Hope any of this was meaningful to literally anyone in literally any capacity haha
Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer
Not sure if this is already happening unofficially?
They don't. But there is too much money seeking "unicorns", so you might as well vacuum it up.

If you suck in $250 million and have only 500 employees, you can cruise for a very long time.
Maybe it'd be fun to hack on https://github.com/raydiak/pray?
I agree. Not real strongly opinioned on either side, but I encourage data based research and rational discussion. A specific semi-common irrational opinion I've noticed with the growing percentage of states to legalize marijuana: The mentality that we must change regulation in order to keep 'stoned' drivers off the road (be able to issue DUI's). It's my understanding that marijuana had a negligible impact on the motor-cortex and reaction timing wrt operating a motor vehicle. Many professional athletes testify to using it before performing some of the most coordinated, reaction timing dependent physical activities of anyone on earth. DUI's were a result of the fact that drunk people tend get in more car wrecks, especially fatal ones.
Probably pot users also drink an play video games, so they don't affect the difference in performance.
'It has been a popular belief that the increase of the average marathon finish time is due to the fact that participating in running competitions is gaining popularity. With the popularity increase, the number of not so fit participants rises, and the average finish time increases.

This argument is not exhaustive.

Let alone that in the last two years (2015 and 2016) numbers of participants are declining and the finish time in all the four major race distances is still growing.'

This is a wrong argument. It is enough if just running in general gains popularity. If you take races as a sample from the running population the sample size does not mean that much - the average/median/percentile performance of the sample (if it is representative) may follow the performance of the whole running population!

This is the case for example if the racing population is a uniform random sample. But it may even happen that nowadays larger proportion of slower runners are going to races - because races are much more advertised/known for the hobby joggers than in the past, while elite runners were there always...
You Win Father of Year in my book.
Why do you say "refugees" in quotes and "so called refugees"?
I do agree with this. One of the clearest inequalities emerging in A.I.-driven machine learning is how useless those techniques are unless you have access to a monstrously large amount of well categorized data. Currently you need to be one of the big four to have that access, and this is highly monopolistic.
Huh, thanks for the correction.
Become a regular contributor to LLVM for some time to build trust and then sneak in some complex optimization that under some rareish circumstances leads to exploitable binaries.
There already is some that is publicly available, like the Kaggle lung cancer competition's dataset.

I'm not saying it's easy on any front. It is possible, and it would be hugely beneficial to humans to have such a dataset. Raising awareness about the problem may be one step towards solving it.
Ask HN: What's Spotify NYC culture like?
I recently saw my dream opening, user researcher, posted for the NYC and Stockholm office. So I'm thinking of applying and just wanted to ask if anyone could describe more of the team/"missions"?

Any input and advice would be appreciated it particularly on the UX research team!
IRC doesn't have a user interface, it's a protocol. The interface varies based on which client you are using. One can make an IRC client that looks like slack.
The OAI Announces the OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0
> Mathematically, yes. Practically, not always.

P values measure statistic significance, not practical significance. If you are extrapolating practical significance from statistical significance, then you have a problem that is unrelated to sample size.
Interesting, the goal of the fastest runners must not be to finish highly, if it were, they would distribute themselves to the additional races so that they had a better chance of winning. Instead, the claim is that they each keep running in the same races as they did before so that the slower runners do not have lower finishing places. Wait, not that either since then those new low finishes at the new races would be slower.

I note that they don't look at the top 3 finishers of big races... because those times have been falling (like the US Nationals).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Marathon_Championships

An economist might say that was impossible (for competitive people to deny themselves a precious placing goal), I simply find that it's unlikely.
Frankly I pin this down on IBM Sweden who knowingly cut corners in order to land a juicy government contract and satisfy its margin targets. Clearly not caring about the customer's best interest.
‘Textalyzer’ would let police see if motorist was using cellphone while driving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14862901
This illustrates how the DOJ is years behind when it comes to understanding cryptocurrency technology and markets.

It won't take long for one of the cryptocurrencies with private transactions to rise in dominance, since this sort of crackdown imposes costs and uncertainty on all participants.

If the goal of the DOJ was to fight crime, the most effective approach would have been simply to infiltrate mixers and trace money flows relevant to investigations, something BTC is perfect for.

Instead, this move sends a strong signal to the cryptocurrency community that hardening measures are needed.

For instance: http://zerocoin.org/
How are the coins connected. For example, BTC being mined via GPU was a big problem. It lead to TBX using scrypt PoW instead of SHA 256d. Later came LTC which also used the same PoW. This was further forked to create clones.
> I know this makes me sound old, but I really wish popular open source projects would just stick to IRC as it just works

I agree that Slack is pretty painful - the Linux client may as well be unsupported.

But it's still a hell of a lot better than when everyone in my office had to run their own ZNC bouncer.
The writer has nailed it for me.

> Software does not exist to please us as programmers and let us write beautiful code. Neither it exists to create jobs for people in the tech industry. Actually, it exists to kill as many jobs as possible, including ours, and this is why basic income will become much more important in the next few years, but that’s a whole other subject.
One of my favourite comments from a lecturer in my applied science degree: "In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is". We encountered so many times when theory said one thing but it didn't pan out when tried.

It's another way of saying "First, take a spherical cow..."
This Is How Chinese Models Get Photo Shoots Done Fast
You're making the same mistake in reverse. The p-value is not a marker of correctness, but of confidence. If something doesn't reach the p-value cutoff, that doesn't mean that the effect doesn't exist, just that it didn't meet the confidence level. A paper could be entirely correct in its hypothesis, yet not meet the confidence level in its experimentation.
Betting on Yourself
> Sweden Democrats (SD)

For those not following the rich drama that is Swedish politics:

"Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a nationalist political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation, however the party has been described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. The party had its roots in Swedish fascism and was a part of the white supremacy movement in the late-1980s; initially, it was characterized by right-wing extremism and activism. Among the founding party officials were several people that had formerly expressed strong support for the ideology of Nazism. SD's logo from the 1990s was a version of the torch used by the UK National Front, until it was changed to an Anemone hepatica flower in 2006 (Swedish: blåsippa)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats
Where is DMT, Digital Monetary Trust? The DMT rand?

It should be there somewhere between 2000-2004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Monetary_Trust
On getting your lunch eaten
>I've found several very annoying bugs in the OSX Slack client, and each time I wait a few months before trying it again, yet more bugs continue to occur.

That's strange, cause we have been heavily using it for 2 years at a team of 100+ and have yet to find any bug to write home about, and basically nothing affecting day to day use (mostly OS X clients).

>It's impossible to un-join a team via the OSX app, or to remove a team that you partially created. Also, updates frequently force a logout and the password reset procedure is quite clunky.

While no doubt there are bugs, those all seem like corner cases.

"un-join" a team works fine when the admins un-join you, for example, which is more likely in a business use case.

I also don't think "updates frequently force a logout" even qualifies as a bug. Heck, OS X and Windows updates force a full reboot.

And how often does one "partially creates" a team they have to remove? Even if that's a bona fide bug, it's still quite a corner case. I've seen worse bugs in XCode or Photoshop, and those are on their nth decade of existence...
A lot (most?) of the coins on the bitcoin page are dead. Many were created as thinly veiled, MLM/HYIP/pump and dump schemes.
And rocket.chat
The biggest crime is that they decided to use IBM in the first place.
How would one conduct a double-blind study of long-term learning ability effects? You'd need to find a control group and a test group with prcisely the same learning ability, which already sounds like a stretch.
We recently did a test run for Mattermost to see if it's a better fit for us than Slack.

This is a note to others who may be considering the same. Specific needs will vary greatly across teams/companies.

We found Mattermost web client to be ok, however phone apps and integration coverage are both poor by comparison to Slack. We also found running, securing, and maintaining our own server to be roughly as or more expensive than using Slack.

I'm hopeful the Mattermost project keeps momentum to improve. Currently though it doesn't quite seem in the same league.
Assuming it becomes possible - why shouldn't people edit their genes to produce superior children? We're already talking about just that, when we discuss editing out congenital diseases and the like. The only difference between the two cases is that one is eliminating unexpected weaknesses and the other is eliminating generally-expected weaknesses.

Really what's being said is that nobody should be allowed to use their resources to improve their offspring beyond the level of random chance. This mentality isn't about ensuring that anyone does well, it's about preventing anyone from doing better, like crabs in a bucket.