skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I book via hotels.com to get there 8% discount (on hotels that apply), or booking when/if the hotel is on the genius 10% list. But yeah, if the hotel I want to stay in isn't on a discount on either site I'll book direct if the price is the same/less. I do travel often without a computer and need to book quickly so will just use booking or hotels app, as it's easy and quick, whereas the booking direct is usually rather hard. + I don't usually book within a hotel chain enough to gain any rewards, which you do on hotels.
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> Well, that sort of begs the question: Why did you feel you could do anything in the first place?

I don't know if I can... that's why I'm asking if I can. If feeling hopeless is the best I can do then so be it, but I'm thinking maybe people have had better success.
Nested queries are great but I am far more interested in the other features mentioned. I could be wrong but I as far as I am aware MapD, Kinetica and SQream don't have all of these covered?
Do the standard datasets not work too well (e.g. MNIST or NIST)?

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tijmen/affNIST/

https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19
Search makes the world better, using search placement to drive competitors out of the market makes the world worse. So the same company could have both good and evil parts. The internal decision makers shape the overall alignment of the company.

Market can't fix that, especially when there are almost monopolistic positions. Regulations can. Maybe there are other ways but don't count on boycotts or things like that. See how much people is ready to give away for convenience (e.g. privacy.)
Regulation and oversight is good. Continually reevaluating whether these companies are being good stewards of the information they hold is also good.

But I worry more about a heavy-handed overreaction than the present course we're on. In many ways it could be more dangerous to cripple or break up these companies: Fragmenting that data among smaller entities with weaker security is bad. Letting the vacuum (probably) be filled by state owned enterprises from regimes that don't value democracy, privacy or rights is very bad.

Yes, these companies could become an insurmountable runaway evil... but they have a long way to go to get there. The revolt would be even more intense if they were actually trying to do anything other than stay relevant. Which raises the final point... they will eventually stumble, get disrupted, dwindle. If they're going to die, let them die naturally -- don't be preemptive and destructive about it.

TLDR: let's hope for US vs Microsoft, not the break up of Bell Systems
Not to mention the many (ex) friends working for "defense" contractors.

Ex because I really can't be friends with them any longer.

Evil quotes deployed because calling it defense is a farce considering what the systems they are developing are used for.
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It isn't that Thiel thinks 'Capitalism and Democracy are incompatible' that makes him right-wing, it is that given he believes they are incompatible, he concludes Democracy should be discarded to preserve Capitalism, rather than the other way around. This is a far-right view.
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The most productive thing: Voice dissent. Ensure the higher-ups have thought through their position and the consequences. Assume they know things you don't. Ultimately, follow the order.

Once it's their call, you're absolved of any responsibility. Both morally and in every meaningful sense.
Shaming Intel? I'm sure they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Stand corrected, thanks, meant the "national debt".
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On the other hand, I like the irony of a backdoor having a backdoor.
Only the ones he has invested in.
Link to patent?
Good idea to splice it up, makes it easier to tackle.

Link to full pdf by the way:
http://futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/misc/cpumemory.pdf
I'm a fan of DuckDuckGo and I've found myself using it more and more these days. I actually had to change my launcher on Android because the default Google Go launcher that comes packed with the Moto X Pure has no option to remove the Google search from every home page. I switched over to Nova launcher just so I could put a DDG search bar in its place.
Then what's the difference between using !g and startpage.com ?
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Google has desperately needed its own hardware for several years now.

This is especially apparent this year. Just to name a few things:

- Apple is much later to the AR game than Google, yet can push AR to ~200 million devices at the push of a button. Google has had Tango for a while now, and can only push it to a very small number of phones (compared to Apple's)

- A11 bionic chip is so far ahead, it's not even funny anymore, and is married to all other parts of the hardware and software. Google has nothing that's even close to this.

- "Kinect-in-a-phone" sensor strip of iPhone X. Even if Google has the know-how, it can never provide the same features, because they don't have their own hardware.

"Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform" by Arstechnica remains as relevant as ever, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/owning-the-stack...
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If you struggle to get any of your indexing working, let me know and I can Google it, whilst you grep through your stale Stack Overflow archive.

Your reply seems pointless, yes I could download an entire copy of Wikipedia, compress it and index it - why would I want to? Are you going to do this on every machine you own? What about the updates Wikipedia receives every minute?

You should start a company though to focus on this, maybe you could call it Encarta or something?
Studies [1] on this question show exactly the opposite. The view of the majority of the population shows no meaningful impact on the policies that our government actually chooses to adopt. The interests of "economic elites" (to use the phrasing of the paper) do tend to be predictive of what passes. Their 'disinterests' tend to be very strongly predictive of what does not pass. The study concludes that the US has already devolved into an oligarchy though "Americans [still] enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise."

On the other hand, I am always reluctant to link to social papers since data can be so easily massaged to affirm nearly any presupposed conclusion. Do you have any evidence or logic to support your view that the masses have any substantive and, more importantly, lasting effect on policy? I do not think it's self evident that the masses are having any direct effect on the current themes of net neutrality and PIPA/SOPA/CISPA/CISA. The apparent effect seems more due to the fact that very influential "economic elites" are themselves divided on the issues.

[1] - http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materi...
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The real time information includes bookings made months away from your desired dates.
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It also lets one avoid reference-counting traffic, which can be significant for values that contain multiple ARC/COW things (such as strings and arrays), and is semantically critical with move-only (or "unique ownership", per the ownership manifesto[1]) types.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/OwnershipMan...
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Show HN: Why we built a Dropbox clone in 2017
How is this better than a real database?
what does CRO stand for?
Versions older than the latest macOS get updates all the time, I don't see why this wouldn't be the case here
It surely helped to change how black people are treated in America, no government-mandate would mean "no blacks allowed" signs still hanging somewhere to this day...
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No. They have no need for the VR team at all.

What they really need is their own smartphone hardware team.
Maybe there are legitimate grudges the "murderous muslims there" have which are not addressed by the state? Like the right to political self-determination.
Occam’s razor. I’m a very conspiratorial person and I’ve seen nothing to suggest any nefarious activity or collusion so I’m not getting carried away on this.

https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/executive-perspectives/a...

This is a statement by the Intel CTO from 2016 on the ME discussions, and briefly reassured us that Intel is conscious of the security of the ME, and that they have teams dedicated to it and can push firmware updates out to cover vulnerabilities.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...

Intel made an official announcement in May that they have discovered an escalation of privilege vulnerability and are addressing it accordingly as you would expect. It also notes that consumer hardware and firmware is not affected by the vulnerability, demonstrating that Intel actually does release two different chips, and prioritizes privacy and security more over features on the consumer models.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/important-security-informati...

Intel releases a software tool for checking if your system is one of the vulnerable units or not, they have a fix already for the firmware and confirm it is not due to physical design flaws, and are working with manufacturers to push the updates ASAP.

Overall, I don’t feel like Intel is at all intentionally sabatoging it’s customers, and genuinely considers the ME a valued feature by consumers, even though it bothers me that one is included on every product, they do differ and consumer models have fewer privileges than business models, which seems to be more of a firmware design than a hardware design, so I tend to believe that they simply don’t design extra chips without the ME and instead lock it down more on a software level. Vulnerabilities also appear to be firmware based, and the extremely vague announcement by black hat doesn’t suggest otherwise either. Intel very obviously takes the security of their devices very seriously and makes themselves available to users who need help identifying whether or not they’re vulnerable and what to do about it.
im good, already invested in one company that a YC company from this summer's batch ripped off... including copy and vendors
What is the level of culpability for a foot soldier in the army of an evil dictator? What is the level if they committed no atrocities? How about if they were an active participant? How about if they were zealous and inspired new levels of atrocious behavior?

I don't have an answer and those are rhetorical questions. The point I'm laboring to make is that there are varied levels of culpability. There are also varied levels of evilness.

We like to see the world in binary fashion, I think. This may not be new, but it is getting a lot more visible. Look at the political arena and the divisions between the politically active.

Hmm... How to describe this?

If I make a post that supports the right of Nazis to speak freely, I'm assumed to be as evil as they are (by some) and should be punched in the face. Yet, if I am speaking with White Nationalists and post a comment that supports the right for AntiFa to speak freely, I'm called everything from a Jew to communist.

They don't actually take the time to stop and think that I'm not actually any of those things, that I'm just supporting the right to free speech - for everyone. If I'm not supporting Hillary, I'm supporting Trump - even though I voted for Stein.

So, there are varied levels of evil and good - yet people seem to often focus on the extremes. Is Google evil? Maybe, but they've made mountains of information easily discoverable at no direct financial costs to the end user. Is Facebook evil? Maybe, but they've enabled broad communication with family and friends you might never have had the means to maintain on your own. Is Microsoft evil? Maybe, but they've done more to make the personal computer ubiquitous than any other company.

It's very much a sliding scale and no company is completely evil, as is no one person. Well, except Oracle - they are pretty evil!

I guess where you draw the line is a personal thing and, like the rest, is on a sliding scale. It's easier to try to place things into boxes and label them good and evil, but that's intellectually lazy and not very accurate. Even the most evil companies aren't entirely evil.

shrugs

That's my takeaway, for what it's worth. I also try really hard to not judge or to control. I do have lines that can be crossed, but I try to be understanding and have empathy.

I'm not sure if this helps, but it works for me.
What's sad? Repeated HN submissions with no reaction? It happens.

I find the "lessons" themselves very sad, because of the implication that for a certain set of people basic common sense advice (e.g. "If you have more than one person traveling, splitting the cost between the group of people on Airbnb will significantly save you money") is novel and hard-earned.

This horrifying realization is the saddest point: "Over the last 5 months, we have learned not only how to live our life to the fullest, but we have learned how to experience life the way we enjoy it". One must be really stressed and unhappy to enjoy low-budget tourism so much.
Hey! Congrats! I'm just curious about interview process in Booking.com. Are they same as typical data structures and algorithms oriented interviews? Did they let you know about their tech stack?
Okay, so how do I get my friends to do that is the question. Conveying this requires getting them to admit there is something wrong with what their employer is doing in the first place, and at that point I'd be already past the obstacle I'm trying to figure out how to overcome.
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I'm kind of ambivalent to this issue, although I do think it's a regression that they use the same buttons to accomplish different tasks, and especially since it's kind of confusing that you think it's off but it's actually not truly off. I'm hopeful (but know it probably won't happen) that long pressing or force touching the buttons in the bigger menu from the Control Center will let you disable instead of "turn off".
Just stop pretending that working at {Google, Facebook, Amazon, ...} is the highest goal that a tech person can strife for. A see a lot of students who seem to have that as their goal in life.

Also, we have to be honest with ourselves. While we (as a community) were hating Microsoft, we made Google our tech darling. Now they are ethically probably as rotten as Microsoft were in the early ~2000s. We should stop putting companies on pedestals. Then they might suck less talent out of other potential startups, academia, and non-profits and create a healthier economy.

I think practically this means investing in open standards, open source, and open networks (Mastodon for Twitter, MusicBrainz for CDDB, Openstreetmap for Google/Apple maps, etc.). Also, tech people and journalists should continue to expose bad behaviour of companies.
Any experience/data on rate limits? I heard B2 rate limits a lot. I need to pour data in at will at a moment's notice without limits.
Pretty sure you can't have a "poor Michelin ranking". The restaurants that are judged poorly are not included in the listing at all.
I've got a very old and slightly broken blog post on what I was doing:

https://www.cmgresearch.com/2009/08/14/How-does-it-all-work....

My approach was to adaptive threshold the image and then assume that that the object of interest was the biggest connected region in the image. Then run that though rectangle detection.

Have you tried setting the aspect ratio and minimum width on the Vision rectangle detector? That might filter out any nonsense.
Everyone involved has to know the objective, which is a lot of more work than most people understand.
Besides that I think that the selection and training for the BA0X where uniq for the swedish army who could pick from a large volunteer base.
You can invest after YC has invested at a substantially higher rate. The YC investment has the effect of a stamp of approval by the picker of winners and as a result the value of the stock of the companies they invest in jumps up immediately.
Because Google and Facebook have the advantage of hindsight. They were able to take their time influencing and integrating with the government. Their corporate images are meticulously crafted in such a way as to not feel remotely like the cold, take-no-prisoners Microsoft of the 1990s.

It's no mistake that Eric Schmidt is best buds with all manner of high-level USG folks, with Zuckerberg laying the groundwork for political office. Worst case in the latter scenario, Zuck abandons his political ambitions and ends up even more well connected than before.

Not to mention each company's massive annual spend on lobbying, or any of the national security relationships they likely have.
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I've been running this command on my mac for over 10 minutes, trying different stuff, nothing. Also tried "sudo tcpdump -i any -s 0 -n port 53 -v". What's going on?
I think one of the very few remaining applications of variable-speed gearboxes are wind generators with no converter. But this in itself is rare, because it may be more reliable (?), but also less efficient than the power electronics... (afaik off-shore wind generators are going completely gearless).
> Anarchists believe in no laws.

This is incorrect. Anarchists believe in no rulers. Laws can be agreed between consenting parties.
It would be nice to remove some of the complexities, friction and cost of holding and trading shares in companies beyond the vehicles that exist today, and I think we can get that via blockchain.

It would need to be regulated though - to reduce scams, and also because regulators wouldn't allow tokens that are securities (shares in a company) unless it's regulated. That part, to me, feels like it will take a long time - would require changing legislation.
Sure, she wasn’t one to turn down an easy buck and a bit of fame. Can you fault her?

Libertarianism was never viable. It goes against human nature, just in the opposite direction from communism. Communism postulates that lazy people deserve everything (“to each according to his need”), so the wealthy and aspiring hate it. Libertarianism postulates they deserve nothing (“taxation is theft”) so the poor hate it. The gray reality is somewhere in between. The underlying truth of the situation is that when the poor have nothing to eat, they eat the rich, and moral absolutes do not help either side.
The parameters are not very well documented. (Or at least it wasn't when I was coding that part). But yeah I did get those set finally.

Whatever I do though I can't get it to recognize any rectangles here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9359579...

For our demo video we ended up photoshopping out the horizontal line right above it and that seemed to work.
iOS won't detect when I'm on a good WiFi connection but its ADSL link has decent ping yet is much much slower (10Mbps/0.6Mbps) than what I would get with LTE (40~80Mbps both ways) at the same location. I'm on a 100GB plan so I could care less about data use, and I have FTTH (300Mbps/100Mbps+sub-10ms ping) at home so I want WiFi there but always forget to toggle it back on. This UI solves it for me, although I wished the 3D Touch UI would allow quick access to the third, disabled state.
If your intent is to improve the world, and not just act superior, I don't see what this accomplishes. Hear dissent without action long enough and it becomes noise.
Ask HN: Does the Facebook AI understands irony?
On September, 12 2017 I shared the following on my FB timeline

"Irony : Americans strive to use Facebook Messenger Lite that has been develop for 3rd world countries." accompanied with the link to the HN comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222616

On Sep, 20 2017 I opened FB and there was the message on the top that said "Try Facebook Lite, our Fastest App". I have no doubts that these are two events are connected. The FB AI parsed my message from Sep, 12 and decided to show the FB Lite offer. But it's astonishing - is FB AI that good that it can understand this kind of posts?
I've had a similar idea. Been gathering my notes on it here: https://github.com/ErikBjare/KnowTree/
Curious how “There is grow­ing con­cern … about big­ness and size, and pow­er be­cause pow­er cor­rupts absolutely” among the growing fan club of a representative of the ultimate accumulation of bigness, size, and power: the government.
That was accredited investor only.
why do you think it didn't work out?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/02/10/how-goog...
GPS should have an option to be silent until I deviate from the route. Or be silent if I frequently travel this road (for example at least twice this month)
I get chills when listening to Tupac.
Can you describe what happened with hotels.com? I've been using them exclusively because my travel is so random and it's just easier to have all the hotel bookings in one place. But it does make me uncomfortable that I'm getting taken advantage of in one way or another. Thx in advance.
I participated in the beta program and I thought of it as a bug first and reported it. Nothing happened except it turned out a feature in the release version. Why didn't they integrate "turn completely off" in the long press sub menu instead? NO, now I need to go all the way to settings and turn it off.
I don't get it.
You can read this the following way. The 'analogs', represented by Trump, realize they are losing power, that regulation may be their best shot even if that has proven to not work well, and are launching a full-force attack against the 'digitals' (eg Valley).

This event is more meaningful for the world economy and safety than North Korea playing with nuclear weapons. The sides of a possible WW III are analogs vs digitals.

What do you think? I'm thinking about writing a blog post expanding on the idea.
It's one thing to consider problems that might be in play if a bare majority had arbitrary power. Worth doing, but then again, an odd point to underscore considering that such considerations are already well-woven into most western democracies, including the United States.

It's another thing to propose that where representative government itself is in tension with capital... the problem is representation. Or perhaps even civic/state power in general.
Once it's their call, you're absolved of any responsibility. Both morally and in every meaningful sense.

Uhm, no? You have another choice: not working for companies that work as privatised spying agencies.
Tried those first but no, they didn't work great with the data I was able to extract; those datasets are only handwritten digits which apparently weren't close enough to the computer printed ones.

I think the artifacts from the square borders (eg if it's slightly mis-cropped or misaligned) were also tripping up the model before I had my custom dataset loaded in there.

Edit: I should say this was my first stab at doing machine learning so I may be missing something; definitely open to ideas or suggestions!
The way I read it the "non-exclusive" refers to the access, not to the IP: Google got a permanent license to use every IP HTC owns. HTC stays the owner and could strike similar deals with others or completely sell it in parts or whole, Google's ability to use those patents would be unaffected, as selling IP does not revoke existing licences. There is no mystery about some distinction between "exclusive IP" and "non-exclusive IP" (whatever that would mean).