skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t really get that - doesn’t it mean that the person who took a loan is relatively responsible and was able to pay their loan back on time?

That's probably the reason why it would increase one's credit rating in a positive way. I have no doubts about these systems being broken in such a way that they consider people who take on credit, paying it back in time, as more "credit-worthy" than people who never needed/wanted to take up a loan.

A bank obviously wouldn't want to miss out on the first group of people, why they couldn't care less about the second group of people from which they make no money in the form of interest.

It's also interesting how these kinds of rating systems seem to be "broken" all over the world. In Germany there is "Schufa", which is not a bank but basically a private company with a de-facto monopoly position in regards to credit ratings in Germany and they are quite infamous for mixing up people and thus giving them a negative rating, often without the people noticing until it's too late and their negative credit check denied them access to a rented flat/credit whatever, after which it's their responsibility to get in touch with Schufa to clear up their misidentification.
Once you have debunked something interesting I suppose you don't have trouble getting in published. But you have a hard time writing a grant application that reads something like "I want to replicate study X, no new results are expected."
And same question for android. Any persistent sidebar todolist? Else some programmer want to partner to develop it? All design is ready on my side.
Garum also lives on as Worcestershire sauce, which unlike colatura is still fermented. I'm happy you showed me this, it's incredible to see living Roman history, still 2,000 miles apart!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce
For Go-users wanting a quick way to get a basic Vim setup with Fatih's awesome vim-go plugin [1], you might want to checkout https://github.com/samuell/devbox-golang (Just updated to Go 1.9).

It is a little different from some other vagrant boxes in that it uses Ansible for provisioning. This means you can reasonable easy re-use the ansible roles (perhaps with some minor modifications) elsewhere too, like locally, or on some cloud image.

[1] https://github.com/fatih/vim-go
Σχέση από απόσταση, όλα όσα πρέπει να κάνετε για να πετύχει
I find the section about the arse-covering website amusing in the way they cannot help but give it a stupid marketing speak name, and phrase it like it's some fantastic product they are providing rather than a desperate response to an existential threat!
>"There are many voting schemes that offer all the benefits of paper voting [...]"

You appear to have one incomplete theoretical scheme?

Thanks in any case for sharing it.

Edit: just on a quick reading - if I think I'll lose a seat, and can corrupt a single authority, I can get them to return a random set of numbers for their part of the polynomial, this randomises the results, doesn't it, giving me a chance to win. As there's no verifiability, it can not be observed in the voting data?
Yeah, the thing is, back before deregulation, the airline industry was a great place to work. Fat paychecks, strict limit on work hours, and a chance to see the world when not just anyone could afford to do that. Then all of that went away in the course of one working lifetime.
To me this looks much less readable than the equivalent JSX. JSX has been such a non-issue for me, it's extremely reliable and you can use all the new JS map/filters, loops, etc. instead of learning some half-finished template language.
Forget the cinema in this product.

The real product is a new model for subscription services based on the issuing of prepaid payment cards and a payment system that enforces how it is paid.

That's pretty huge.

Imagine your employer giving a transit allowance and food allowance via this, and that it could only be used on a given transit mode and with the n local places to the work place, at some set amounts per month.

Or that parents could use a Uni subscription card that allows for purchases from the campus grocery store and the bookshop to be capped at a reasonable rate.

This is essentially a new breed of subscription that can be used across multiple outlets and yet have a set of controls built into it that make it seem more like a coupon.

As a new mechanism for subscriptions... this is far bigger than the cinema model.

You could even allow for the creation of custom controls to create subscription models that are totally personalised, or go further and sell this capability to other businesses.
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Teams Client teams.exe multiple copies running
If they give a taste of what it is like (for a month or two) and I like it (and I've decent number of diverse options) then I would rather pay $20 per month to be able to watch films in theatres than $10 or so to watch films inside a browser.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198997
I saw a transmission line arcing while driving the other night, just over the crest of a hill. It looked like an alien abduction was in progress. I only know it came from a downed line because a minute later I arrived at the scene and was just able to stop before running over the still live wires lying on the freeway.
I’m pretty sure that Hey Siri is keyed to the users voice to some extent, so Siri should be safe. Not sure about Google, Cortana, Alexa etc.
The information is great but the website design is truly obnoxious (at least on mobile). What is the point of replacing the browsers scrolling with your own crappy version of scrolling while adding nothing?
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And, laws that don't force the use of brand name drugs.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/25/mylan-antitrust-epipen-s...
THAT Michal Kosinski... I wonder where the seed for this idea started, such that it germinated so far. Are people still doing this in the second decade of the 21st century?
Yes, sorry! I was just providing a little bit of extra information.
Is that optimage result for lossless or lossy mode?
I can't help but feel that you're in a minority there.
Siri is not keyed to anything . My daughter can talk to her as i do.
How AHCI or IDE Modes Can Affect the Drive Performance? – SuratNow
How I learnt how to steal like an artist in a month and designed my website
Siri recognises the "hey siri" bit unique to the owner, further commands aren't validated.
I think all employees are covered by 3 breaching trust is gross misconduct in the UK
"Hey Siri" is.
It's actually the 2nd question on that page, not the one referenced in the title. Should have left a comment to that effect.
A React Component that observe changes in the intersection of a target element
DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode
It's a pretty straightforward reading of your comment.

Bloom is a fancier but also naive attempt. Nobody on that team has experience with loan origination, loan underwriting, loan rating, loan syndication, credit reporting, credit scoring, credit cards, debit cards, or debt collection. Having read the white paper, it is weirdly specific on record formats, and weirdly hazy on almost any important issue. It seems a fine example of the XKCD cartoon about physics majors. [1]

Remember when somebody who built a Magic the Gathering card exchange and then decided they could build a currency exchange? I'm not an expert [2], but that's what the Bloom.io stuff reads like to me. People joke that Bitcoin is basically the Dunning-Krugerrand, and things like Bloom don't do much to challenge that view.

[1] https://xkcd.com/793/

[2] Although I have build financial trading software, worked on a loan accounting system focused on the underbanked, and am currently consulting for a commercial lender, so I'm not entirely ignorant.
I wonder if anybody is maintaining a "Legal bullshit you need to be prepared for when running a popular open source project" checklist / FAQ? I know I'd be totally unprepared if this happened to any of my projects :/

The worst I've had so far is people forking it and giving credit to themselves, but none of those forks seem to have gained any popularity, and they at least had the decency to change the name rather than claim to be the original official branch...
So what can you actually do with Linux? A guide for beginners
> "Have you donated everything you made this month above the poverty level in your country to some kids who can't afford to eat say in Bangladesh per chance or its equivalent?"

> the moment such actions inconvenience them

That's "not even silly", the threshold for "inconvenience" begins way earlier. And "caring for others" doesn't mean not caring for oneself, I'm also one of those other people, if you will. And your need to somehow disprove the empathy, love and/or generosity of everybody else, with such cheap sophistry to boot, says more about you than about the people you know nothing about. If you're looking for convolution, you might want to also look into that.

And why does caring for others only requiring those who get oppressed, and not attacking their oppressors? Give a man a fish, and he has a fish. Denazify the world and he has a place to raise kids in. Everybody has their own views what caring and doing good means, and comforting a bullied person ranks way lower for me than dealing with the bully. I wouldn't answer "no" and squirm, I'd laugh in your face.
You Americans, thinking you can control everything...
Don't drag me, bro!
In "Serving the Reich"+, Philip Ball talks about how "pure" science lost its innocence when nukes were first deployed, and argues that researchers cannot absolve themselves by claiming that they didn't know how their research would be used. The same applies here: nothing good can come from this.

+ Hi trolls, yes, I'm aware of Godwin's Law. I also didn't call anybody a Nazi.
Are there studies on possible tidal effects (if any) that an eclipse situation could cause?
The "solution" will be another layer of security hacks: passphrases (which anybody can trivially register), registration of known tone (which means the phone will stop accepting it in noisy surroundings)... another cat & mouse game starts and it's like we're back to 1970.
Everytime I compile and it takes longer than usual I check HN. Sometimes I forget to check the new build and 20 minutes have passed.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/01/49223579...
It's happening at the hardware level, so there is potentially limited scope to fix it in software. My guess is that when the author refers to "harmonics" they are really talking about intermodulation.

The idea is that if you want to create a frequency of "A", you can emit two powerful tones at frequencies "B" and "B+A", where the frequency B is high enough to be out of hearing range. The non-linearity of the microphone means the two tones mix together to produce a number of other frequencies, including the frequency "B+A"-"B" = "A".

Thus the conversion from ultrasonics to audible is happening in the microphone itself, before the software has a chance to distinguish the difference. The mixing process typically produces other frequencies other than "A", so there might be hope of a countermeasure if the microphone is able to pick up these other frequencies and the software is smart enough to use them to figure out that an attack is in progress. It's not a simple case of just filtering out a particular frequency and an intelligent choice of ultrasonic frequencies may leave only a single frequency in the band of the microphone.

It's the same principle that is used in ultrasonic beamforming speakers. That adds another element of stealth to the attack, in that the high frequencies can allow the sound to be beamformed and illuminate the microphone and not much else.
Beyond the Centralized Mindset (1996)
I would say checking anything 15 times a day isn't a positive habit. HN is certainly not destructive but being here 15x a day isn't any more useful than just visiting 1-2x.
There is a non-negligible possibility of this occurring. Insider trading is ridiculously easy to prosecute (the market is closely monitored) and the government regularly seeks prison time for executives. Rich people go to jail all the time for it.
I love the fact that the authors also see that implication and include a warning.

> Additionally, given that companies and governments are increasingly using computer vision algorithms to detect people’s intimate traits, our findings expose a threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women.
In some ways, MIT needs to catch up. For example, here's a list of deep learning research groups put together by Bengio's group at Montreal as of Oct 2016: http://deeplearning.net/deep-learning-research-groups-and-la... -- MIT is missing from the list.
Here's two more analyses that actually leave you smarter. Stefano Bernardi's read to me like it boils down to greed, which is a weird category.

- https://medium.com/@twobitidiot/ico-ethics-filecoin-short-te...

- https://medium.com/@ryanshea/the-economics-of-filecoin-a8d82...
This Obscure Agency Is Key to Solving Our Energy Problems
yes, but some big milestones have to be achieved for a 8x time increase.
Check this out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1js-N4uFteHPAYMAZJRPa...
Tides have an influence on earthquakes [1], but spring tides due to Sun and Moon lining up happen about twice a month, so I don't think that the Eclipse is a likely cause.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_triggering_of_earthquake...
Uber plans to electrify uberX in London by 2019, entire city fleet by 2025
> What the Hell Is an Initial Coin Offering?

A fast way to lose money.
Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (2002)
Virtual Reality Companies Seattle
"...no hardware solution..."

There is for new hardware. It's relatively simple to include a couple components on the mic input to filter out ultrasound.

There is indeed no hardware fix for anything already manufactured.
Mozilla Releases Version 2.5 of Root Store Policy
> You don't need to provide a SSN to get cell service or provide real information. Lots fraud is done through tethering through burner phones.

Don't give them any stupid ideas. This year Germany did exactly that: Require proper identification for purchased SIM cards. Lot's of people used that opportunity for some extra cash by selling pre-activated SIM's through Ebay, after the requirements had been changed.

Too bad they also introduced Euro roaming, so people are still free to buy their anonymous SIM's in other EU countries and use them in Germany.

I guess those are the consequences of a future where your mobile device is used for your personal authentication everywhere by everybody. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/dealbook/banks-l...
5 Surefire Ways to Keep Your Passport Safe While Traveling
HTCs stock price has tanked in the last 5 years. They laid off 15% of their employees last year. Finally their market cap is about even with their cash in the bank so buying them would be essentially free. Finally, they make the Pixel so Google has worked very closely with them recently.
The point is that your social is a fairly predictable number if you can figure out someone's birthday and hometown. I realize this wouldn't help in the case of equifax but it would help in other instances. It would also allow us to have voter ID laws that didn't constitute a poll fav but that's a totally unrelated issue.
I'm genuinely curious - can you share a link how it works please? I've never heard of it.
They have a competing card service that's more expensive
> When Erlang does hot code loading, it loads it into the currently running process.

That is also usually true for PHP code using Fastcgi or mod_php or similar. It's not true for PHP code using PHP as a CGI, but nobody has done that since the 90's. It may depends on settings for opcode caching and the like.

> This means that any socket opened by that process stays open, and the connection is uninterrupted.

One of the earliest optimisations for PHP was the ability to make database connections persist across requests. See [1] for documentation of how to do this in current versions of PHP but it has been available pretty much from the start.

> When the process gets to the point of completing the recursive loop within which the old function was called, the new one gets switched in seamlessly and is called from there onwards. I know of no other language that has such mutable late binding, but I can't say they don't exist.

Plenty do.

This is valid Ruby that replaces the method "foo" for each iteration of the currently running loop:

(1..10).each do |i|

eval(<<END)
def foo
puts #{i}
end
END

foo
end

(the textual eval rather than simply inlining the method definition is necessary because "i" is a local variable not accessible from within the newly defined "foo" - if we used e.g. an instance variable instead it'd work, but then foo would effectively be static which would defeat the point of the demonstration)

Ruby's and PHP's ability to do hot reloads is similar, but it needs the running script to cooperate in the loading unless you use a containing process that embeds the interpreter and does hot loading that way.

But the PHP approach there is traditionally instead to throw away the code on each request.

> 1. The process pid is unchanged (it's literally the same process), and 2. The process data state is unchanged (it's literally the same process memory) and 3. The process file handles and sockets are unchanged

To me these are optimisations that are undesirable unless you need them. They're necessary for performance, but they make the system more vulnerable to working on corrupted data. As such I don't think it's a good distinction, but as mentioned depending on how you run PHP it can/will meet 1. and can meet 3. to some extent, and will meet 2. for session data, so it's up to you how much persists across requests.

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-connections.php
Because it has a 95% chance of producing a different (better) result. Statistics is all about the quantification of uncertainty.
Stealth wealth is pretty despicable: 'I might have x million dollars but you aren't allowed to know that and hey, I'm just like you!!'

No, you are not, because your wealth means you have a whole world of options that average people do not have.
Depends how tall the storm is. Planes engines breathe air, and there is less air the higher you go, so there's a limit to how high you can go; roughly 10km for commerical jets (actually it's a factor of altitude and speed; at high altitude, you need to go at least a certain speed to get enough air into the engines, but if you go too fast the plane breaks apart). I think big storms are about 10km tall.
You're assuming every trial is of equal difficulty, which seems unlikely. I would guess that the system can classify some images with very good confidence, while others are more of a coin toss. But you're correct that the 'straight' prior is very strong.
I take @rubicon33's point that even if you make $40,000 a year, and your income tax works out to be 20-25%, you still pay 8.875% in NY for sales tax, and the other taxes. Looking at it that way, you pay over 35% or more when all is said and done. You are taxed on previously taxed income.
It's not lending them the money ... they own the money now ...
There's a similar argument to be made about monopolistic corporations.

The money that Bill Gates made (and later gave some of to charity) isn't the real problem, it's the multiples of that which he destroyed via economic inefficiency or the crushing of other smaller entrepreneurs. Similarly, aristocrats who are not the absolute riches people on the planet, could still have torched Trillions in value by playing silly games to keep them on the top of the heap.
As opposed to who?? Are you implying that the European countries successfully implementing these systems do not?

Also, if I recall correctly, the UN had to actually remind the US about the actual dangers of the Third Reich only a few weeks ago.
I think we’re about to see a whole new class of browsers and app platforms emerge in order to exchange small amounts of cryptocurrencies for incremental services on the internet. It will start with ideologues who believe in a distributed internet or whatever, but what will quickly happen is people will learn the value of their personal digital output and monetizing ones own data will become the driving incentive for adoption.
Ketamine is safe for humans.

I was not claiming all substances safe for one animal are safe for all animals. I'm claiming "animals" is a superset that includes "humans".
Subscription probably isn't a necessary element. On the other hand, gift cards can already effectively cap purchases at a particular outlet. And pay-as-you-go transit passes can do the same thing for transit. The idea of limiting purchases to a pre-selected catalog is potentially interesting although I'm not sure how broad the use cases are. In the Uni examples, do you really need something other than a credit card with a reasonable credit limit?
Would you like to invest in my dreams?
Maybe you shouldn't put so much emphasis on the executive. They're just meant to enforce the laws, it's congress's job to write them.
> flying at cruising altitude or even through the storm is fairly harmless,

Yes, so harmless that no one does it. NOAA has to use an extremely reinforced, highly maintained fleet of P3 Orions. You've mentioned repeatedly in your parent posts that hurricanes are harmless to planes when commercial pilots in this forum say they wouldn't do it without excellent weather planning.

> You need to plan your path carefully for the descent, landing, and takeoff. But at cruising altitude, hurricane winds are not a major safety concern.

Planes have all sorts of cruising envelopes. Gulfstreams are in the 40k feet. Commercial jets cruise at 25-35K foot band. And commercial turboprops (commuter shuttles) are in the 10-20k foot band. While the first 2 won't feel the gale force winds they can experience the updrafts as turbulence. Commercial jets fly in the lower stratum of the stratosphere. There is still weather phenomena at the height, just much less than the troposphere.

Finally, the captain will avoid a hurricane even if it doesn't really affect them. They may need to decend to a lower attitude for an engine flameout, for example. And why deal with the added complication of emergency landing during a hurricane.
> They've deleted pages I've tried to make for local ice cream shops, ma and pa stores that have real stories (and real citations!), and local investors/entrepreneurs

Are those things really notable? I think you're overvaluing things that are only relevant to you. It sounds like what you should be doing is creating a wikia or mediawiki for your city, county, or state.
> Even the VLC authors documented how Google tried paying them to ship Chrome as default with their installers:

It doesn't mention when though. If its around the time where MSIE was dominant, well, I (FWIW) got less of a problem with that. Because -even with its profiling- Google Chrome is objectively a far, far better browser than MSIE ever was. And the Google of 2005 or 2010 is a better Google than Microsoft was in 1998 or 2002. Check the Halloween documents on that one.
It would be nice if there were some prefix or suffix to the file name to avoid collisions. Not that I know of other reasons to create such a file now, but I could see it happening in the future.
When a dare to eat an insect goes horribly wrong
Since SoundCloud I am extra cautious with USV investments. They invest, pump (pulling other investors into their great opportunity) and then nothing.
The search terms there would be "Model Calibration" and/or "System Identification" Software.
I think those are again very domain specific. But there are a few.
PS: While AI and machine learning are catching on in many different fields, the software packages in those domains make heavy use of fairly complicated fitting and approximations methods already. Lots or correlation and effect estimation, which builds many of the underlying guts of machine learning.