skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no more guilty of bias than any other paper

When 99% of the press beats up on a presidential candidate, and he still wins, people may smell a rat.

2016 was a fun year.
Agreed. It became my standard choice for micro linux installs over puppy, nano, dsl, etc.
The Paris Agreement was an attempt at fixing that problem. I think it's still the way forward.
Actually, i think the walled garden internet will collapse spectacularly, as any mono-culture has done before- beeing prone to viruses and attacks.

Linux and Open Source might be the users last choice, but might be the last man standing one day- if for example sb would write a maschine learning virus able to detect and exploit new weaknesses in a dormant form.
To learn about embedded/headless/obscure-hardware Linux I would suggest checking out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ instead or using a distribution like http://www.gentoo.org/ for awhile to get familiar with lower level concepts and building custom systems. Customize kernel options until things break, try at least one embedded platform, and build a PXE diskless boot system.
Howdy! I work in cleantech, and I guess it's that time again for a what-can-you-do-about-it post :)

To start, here's my favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"

==So what can you do about it?==

The biggest thing this article doesn't say that is most relevant to the HN audience is that you can work at a new energy technology company! Our industries are out of the R&D stage and are currently focused on scale and growth[1], and we need as many smart people as we can get. There are lots of companies hiring software engineers (including mine).

==How do I find a job fighting climate change?==

I'd recommend browsing the exhibitor and speaker lists from the most recent conference in each sector (linked below). Check out the companies that interest you and see if they are hiring.

* Energy Storage[2][3]
* Solar[4][5]
* Wind[6]
* Nuclear[7]
* Electric Utilities[8][9]
* Electric vehicles[10]

Also, if you're in the SF bay area, I'd recommend subscribing to my Bay Area Energy Events Calendar[11]. Just start showing up to events and you'll probably find a job really quickly.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/22/energy-is-the-new-new-inte...

[2]: http://www.esnaexpo.com/

[3]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/u.s.-energy-stora...

[4]: https://www.intersolar.us/

[5]: http://www.solarpowerinternational.com/

[6]: http://www.windpowerexpo.org/

[7]: https://www.nei.org/Conferences

[8]: http://www.distributech.com/index.html

[9]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/grid-edge-world-f...

[10]: http://tec.ieee.org/

[11]: https://bayareaenergyevents.com/
Sequential bills is movie slang for marked/traced bills cops use to pay off ransoms and such.

And 'the government' isn't going after anyone who 'dared to not tell the government everything they did' or even after all the clients of this mixer or all bitcoin users but after a guy who ran a specific large mixer that was used in mixing bitcoin from a large theft and several small thefts and sketchy in general (whatever that means in context of a tool like Bitcoin that on its own is quite notorious).

And it's actually few governments together that are on this wider Mt. Gox case, including Japanese one (Mt. Gox location), Greek one (where Vinnik was arrested), etc.

They also said he possible played a role in the theft itself - we will see what comes of it.
U.S. Commercial Aviation Is on a Remarkable Safety Streak
> assume everyone online is American

Who even does that?
Was that ever an option? It's called 'voting with your wallet'.
is this a potential electron competitor/alternative?

Edit: Electron really needs a competitor/alternative
I stopped at "telepresence". This is silly, and as published as a pay for book, I suspect it will actually cost the environment more from it's printing and shipping than the influence it will have to make a change.
I guess so, yes. I believe that a significant proportion of their debt is not traded on the bonds market but agreed upon privately, e.g. with their banks. However, it must be found in their balance sheets.
Yeah I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't renew my license to Intellij this year because of some sanctions passed against Russia due to political BS by our political parties.
It suffers from the same weakness as most of the other papers I've seen about physical attacks where they interpret a change in most likely class as evidence that this will work for a real classifier. They say "We observe that all such baseline images lead to correct classification in all experiments." and then state that the average predicted target class probability was 0.8 +- 0.1 which suggests to me that they are taking a network which doesn't really know whether the sign is a stop sign but guesses that it is and tricking it into not really knowing what the sign is but guessing that it is a speed limit sign. Presumably a real world system would have much more confidence in the true class for the clean images.
They should put effort on the internals. Maybe if it's great, someone else might come and build a decent UI.
>> I don't buy that Google is a

>> natural monopoly for search

Google has most of the search users, creating better data for improving its product (ad targeting and search), so it gets all of the ad budget for search. Data+ad revenue suffocates the competition of users and revenue creating a natural monopoly.
If I collect money for my illegal pharmacy, then launder it through some retail front, am I not paying all taxes at that point?
Man, this brings back some middle school memories of back when my biggest USB drive was 128MB and I was playing with Linux live images for the first time. Sad to see why and how the project died.
Sounds like a good reason to hold bank accounts outside of the US?
By outsourcing manufacturing to HTC, LG, and Motorola...
“Foundery” Idea Network Releases August First. We Need Your Feedback
The meal is made up of the ingredients. You can't make a good meal from spoiled meat.

Restaurants sell meals. Because of that, they have to pay attention to their ingredients. At least to make sure they won't make anyone sick. And, if they are making a premium product, they need high quality ingredients to make a high quality product.

You can't just replace the fresh mozzarella with Kraft singles and still sell pizzas for a premium price.
That's not the poem. The critical part of the poem is the line-breaks.
So, if the WaPo doesn't criticize Bezos, it's because they're owned by him, but if they do, it's because of a 'reverse submarine'?

Quite the box they're in there.

Let me throw occam's razor out there -- unless Bezos and/or Amazon PR people leaned on the WaPo to write this story, then it's exactly what it looks like, a random writer with a critical thought piece about Amazon.
Our soft launch is August 1st! We'd love to see you guys on the site and get your feedback. Hope to see you there.
A bigger concern in my mind is where 100% accuracy is needed, like when doing authentication (cf. any login screen that lets you in by looking at your face).

A lot of experiments are done on visual data sets, but I don't see why these techniques need to be strictly for visual inputs. Is a machine learning model making decisions based on the results of its classifier? Then it is at risk of being fooled, and whatever decisions it's making, better be trivial ones.

I wrote a document a few months ago that summarizes this and other risks that ML models currently face: https://matt.life/papers/security_privacy_neural_networks.pd...
Sorry, this is all flawed. Just an agenda of constraining ourselves and limiting human influence. Won't work. We humans are inherently driven to expand and use more and more energy for our needs. This is a given. Any solutions trying to ignore this are doomed.

What we need is technological solutions to _reverse_ global warming effects. Like iron fertilization of oceans.
To expand, city services are more expensive for a resident of a city than an employee, hence the asymmetry of the fiscal surplus numbers.
You could do 19.2k with 20mA current loop so all our VAXen were configured that way.
People go to prison for it all the time. It's as real as any other crime.

If you are acting in a way that's indistinguishable from someone who is attempting to hide evidence of a crime, don't be surprised when people think you are doing something wrong.
Puppy Linux is still around as well. http://puppylinux.org/
What conceivable advantage does privatization of Bonneville Power(and the other facilities) provide? It is difficult to see how privatization will give us better service at lower cost. While discussing this proposal with a friend today, he opined that "we need more nationalization of infrastructure, not privatization". I agree.
I agree. Writing helps. Murakami thinks so too! Have you read What I talk about when i talk about running? It might be interesting for swes. He writes about how writing helps him refine thought and relates this to training in running. Great book.
My thought exactly. It's been a long time since it was updated. It's a nice historical once-popular distro, but this post feels kinda random.
The US government goes after all sorts of people that do things even remotely looking like money laundering. They make banks report $10K+ transactions, then invent a new crime if you avoid making such transactions. Small business owners get bit by this and end up fighting for their own money.
To scale a service business, you need to offet a service that is in demand, easy to teach, and with good gross margins. You also need to be nice & generous to your employees, or they will simply leave and start their own competiting businesses.

What type of service businesses have you seen thay scale?
I have a background in electrical/computer engineering, but much of that has faded from memory. For the past 15 years I've been a software developer, starting out in the embedded space, and today working on cloud telecom. I feel like I don't have the background or domain knowledge required to break into a career in clean energy, though it's a space that interests me a lot (both intellectually, and because of survival-of-the-species reasons). Do you have any suggestions how I might break into this field, beyond attending the events you listed (or is that enough?)? Is there a need for my skills more or less as-is, or am I looking at a steep learning curve and more "entry-level" positions until I can train up?
Netboot Linux over the internet
As mentioned elsewhere, gross is not net. Once you factor in city services costs for those new residents, the net change is far lower than the gross property taxes per new resident.
Every couple years these things get posted by people who have discovered then for the first time, and then get voted up by those same people or by people who have a fondness for it.
We humans are really inventive in ways of making money. Bringing more unhospitable lands back to sanity? Allowing for more consumption without the need to curb lifestyles? A lot of money can be made from here.
Sanction based behavior is just another form a bullying. It's not much different than physical, psychological or social bullying.

Similar to bullying, it doesn't work when the target can fight back. Sanction based actions just seem like bullshit to me and is actually exactly what China wants. It gives space for domestic equivalents to grow. (the trick is to having your self created monopoly not rot is to keep it in its toes)

China for better or worse is becoming (is) a global power. It's the only country that is managing efficiently at its scale so criticisms fall flat. It's great for western indignation for them to feel-good about themselves. The realization that the previous bullying is no longer working creates the same sense of desperation and grasping for relevance that trump supporters have.

I'd rather the market make the decisions. Not because they don't have failure points but because they organically create understanding through mixing of values. The non-organic too down forcing of value systems doesn't work unless one party can effectively bully the other.
Climate refugees have a large shot at flipping the cost / benefit ratio here. If we can get someone to enthusiastically explain we need to solve this problem by paying labor in OH, PA etc to work together with scientists and businesses right now. Or else we are gonna pay relocating a bunch of people, paying for wars, and generally just wasting a ton of bad money. It’s a problem with solutions that could really unite a bunch of people who are really divided right now, and history is calling for someone to step up and seize it
...No? You haven't paid taxes on the first transaction at all.
> I would guess a fair amount is just the whole alpha power dynamics thing.

I think that's part of it. But there's also the effect that the Baltimore system/culture, the police, the politicians, the DA/prosecution, the prisons, all evolved on top of a forced labor system. Yes, slavery. The system is inherently designed to preserve that dynamic between the enslaved population and the non-slave population. It captures kids in their youth, puts them in juvi for-profit prisons, which limits their options for work in their adulthood which then puts them at risk to re-enter the jail system (forced labor) in their adulthood. Michael Wood, a former marine and former Baltimore police officer provides an interesting collection of data. His interview here shows how the system works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5nPyf-0UMc Listen to him talking about the "Knockers", a special class of police officers.
The linked github repo doesn't have any code. https://github.com/hannob/ctgrab
Anarchy Cookbook (2000) [pdf]
Great online tool to consume new information, in real-time
A perrenial question! Because it's interesting.
And our prerogative to judge them when they behave unethically.
> "Start actually arresting or forcibly evicting people who behave this way."

This is one of those easy solutions that sounds practical on paper, but in reality doesn't hold up.

Let's say SFPD go ahead and do what you suggest. What does that achieve? If they arrest people for shooting up, are you sending them to jail? For how long? Is that going to help them get clean when smack is probably easily attainable in prison anyway? When they're released, now not only are they homeless they've got a criminal record, good luck in the job market with that hanging over you. If they go down the other route and forcibly evict them, where do they get evicted to? All it does is shift the problem to another part of the country, who are probably just as resistant to dealing with it as SF.

You have to treat the root causes of involuntary homelessness as if it's a societal disease. The threat of arresting people isn't a strong enough deterrent to break people out of their addictions, which should be clear by now, otherwise the war on drugs would already have been 'won'.
Disappearing ink trick
Wow, these are really beautiful. Great job.
I mean it's a made up victimless crime that only serves prosecutors. It's on the moral level of asset seizure and worse than "crimes" like wire fraud.

Prosecutors are free to think someone's doing something wrong. Investigators might be able to get warrants under such suspicions (iffy but perhaps acceptable). But they should need to find actual wrongdoing to be able to convict people, and this last part is what is lacking today.
Wonder if they fixed the issue with whitelisting in the windows firewall.
It's fine to examine the negative effects of repeal, but you also have to consider the negative effects of not repealing.

Prop13 is a monster that will continue to exacerbate inequality. Families that owned homes in affluent areas pre-1970 will continue to pay artificially suppressed property tax rates in perpetuity, so long as they only transfer the house within their immediate family. In that way, Prop13 is a perverse incentive to suppress real estate transactions, which exacerbates the real estate issues we already have.
Facebook isn't really threatened by either of those companies. They own Instagram. They also own WhatsApp, which is overtaking Snapchat in users[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15537000/whatsapp-stories-...
When have you used it last? The ecosystem around it sucks but the language itself is not too bad, es6 has made the syntax pretty bearable
You are paying some tax, just not all the required tax. Specifically you are evading income taxes. As I recall in the US at least, there is an option on your IRS form to report any income derived from illegality so that the relevant tax can be paid. Whether anyone has ever done so I don't know but something like that could have kept Capone out of prison.
There wouldn't be a second transaction (the front store) if it weren't for trying to pay taxes on the first. So that's not really a defensible line of reasoning. Only, perhaps, if the tax rates would differ.
Monero and Dash are both making a play at the anonymous space, do you have an opinion about Monero vs Dash?
Dairy and eggs both involve the death of animals. Dairy cows produce milk for their offspring. In order for us to get milk the offspring must be removed. Typically males are sold for veal, females continue as dairy cows. The production of laying hens results in roughly 50/50 male vs female chickens. Most of the males are killed shortly after hatching as they are not the variety kept for meat.
Conviction in the US?
We need not cut them off. We behave ethically regardless, and if they choose to cut themselves off as a result that's on them.
That's probably what I would say too, if my job required me to have a good working relationship with police.
Agreed it's a theory, though someone mentions some other site with more on the story in the comments..

However, not to excuse falsifying evidence, the 30s buffer example you mention wouldn't cover the case where you found the stash more than 30s earlier and have already disturbed with the otherwise valid crime scene..

I'd imagine in some sort of hot pursuit situation it would be pretty easy to do this and forget the button, especially if you've been working for years without them..
Kotlin is Java in a way that Scala isn't, so, yeah, it works a lot better. The edges can be a bit strange for the Java user but usually in positive ways--for example, passing a null parameter into a Kotlin method that does not accept a null parameter will cause an exception at the call site.

`val` in Kotlin creates an (inaccessible, except via reflection) backing field and a bean-compatible getter. `var` the same, but with a setter. Stuff like that. It works incredibly well.
Nit picking on one issue: Nuclear. I'm glad they at least listed it as a solution but I feel that there's way too much agenda in here that isn't based on the science.

It has potential to avoid emissions, but there are many reasons for concern: deadly meltdowns, tritium releases, abandoned uranium mines, mine-tailings pollution, radioactive waste, illicit plutonium trafficking, and thefts of missile material, among them. [1]

Nevermind:

* that >60% of the carbon-free electricity in the USA comes from nukes right now,

* that by displacing air pollution, nukes worldwide have saved 1.8 million lives and prevented 65 billion tonnes CO2-eq [2]

* that nobody died or is expected to die from radiation at Fukushima

* that uranium enrichment is by far the easiest way to illicitly traffic weapons materials (which can happen without any nuclear power)

* that Hanford was a cold-war nuclear weapons facility that did not prioritize waste storage, and that it was totally unrelated to commercial power generation

The capabilities of nuclear energy to thwart climate change are real and gigantic. Getting costs down would help, and the Koreans have been doing an amazing job at that. The French electrified their whole country with nukes in 10 years by standardizing designs and that's been wildly successful. This solution should have said something like: "If we can standardize a safe Gen III+ reactor and get costs down, nuclear can and will grow as our climate champion."

[1] http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/energy/nuclear
[2] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197
If you illegally sell $10 worth of drugs, then record your front store of selling $10 of Tylenol (that you don't actually buy or sell) then the $10 of drug money has been fully taxed.
You sound like the poster dismissing DropBox's idea saying it could be manually done easily.
I imagine a fair many such anthologies get published. Poetry no longer sells in general, that is true, and it would be odd for any poetry lover to buy an unknown anthology rather than a collected edition by one of their famous poets...

But there is a particular niche, which everyone on HN is familiar with, where books regularly book very lucrative profits while being sold at full price, and whose authors churn through edition after edition and regularly turn out new works - college textbooks.

And indeed, when I look at the Amazon page for the very first anthology listed, "The Broadview Anthology of Poetry", 2 of the 4 reviews mention needing it for a class.
I understand that the author is trying to sell us the product and get it developed but what are the cons of using a duocopter vs your normal quad? I generally think of decisions as tradeoffs and want to know the cons as well when considering an option.

Note that I'm just an drone enthusiast in that I buy and use them but I do not develop or go DIY which is why I ask this question.
Not exactly, but there was an Electron-compatible prototype for a bit, called Positron.

Myk wrote about taht as well: https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/
When you say "our society is based on ... high reproduction rates", which society are you talking about, and which reproduction rates?

Currently most of humanity has less than replacement level of fertility:

http://www.economist.com/node/14743589

Are you saying that the economy is failing because of low reproduction rates?
Lots of others had plans to step down (aka move out, when a new dictatory/ the military moves in) - as shown by very rich ex-dictators living well all around the world.
Not even any fiat?
No matter how much a company claims they're for freedom, diversity, and so on to infinity, at the end, it's always about the bottom line for them. ALWAYS.
It doesn't matter why they exist: they are different transactions and taxes are assessed separately.
Well on second thought I guess qbrt is more or less trying to solve the same problem as Electron, without being compatible as it is "simplifying the process of developing and packaging a desktop app using web technologies."
The fact that this is not exactly-once for a couple reasons.
Was never the logical choice.
This is true even in the United States

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/education-lev...
Monoculture is bad. Why create clang rather than use gcc? Why create Ubuntu when Debian exists? By all means create new things atop existing infrastructure, but don't forget that there is value in having options.
little evidence

No evidence collected != little evidence present.

I bet pretty much every thief leaves fingerprints now; police haven't taken prints for pure property crimes in years. (In contrast, SJPD did take prints for a car break-in in 1986).

Every week, you hear of a neighborhood getting hit by a gang, with 30+ vehicles affected -- total losses well into the felony range.

A gang could be shut down in a month if bait cars with GPS-tracked bags were used. Same with front-porch package thefts (always rampant).
Anyone getting SSL errors trying to load the slides? Nothing seems to work, including proxying over Tor.
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