skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding aliens using warp drives! :D ....
You're assuming that video is used primarily to share information.

How Edisonian of you: http://ethw.org/Phonograph (TL;DR: Edison meant it for business but it boomed for entertainment).
TensorFlow on Spark is for learning, Vespa is for serving.
Where Vespa excels is in evaluating a learned model very quickly over lots of documents. We're working on providing support for running models learned with TensorFlow directly. For now people make the translation on their own.
True. J. W. Demmel, Applied Numerical Linear Algebra, is a gentler introduction.

However, if you're masochist enough to actually implement any of the algorithms, Golub & van Loan is a great reference. (Though, you really shouldn't implement it yourself except for didactic purposes - just use LAPACK/BLAS, which has been debugged for decades, and deals with all the special cases you're ignoring (underflow/overflow/nans/zeros/infs/...))

EDIT: Oh, and there's the excellent Numerical Linear Algebra by Trefethen and Bau, as kxyvr mentions.

EDIT EDIT: Funny, on amazon the top reviews for both books mentioned above are identical. Seems like I'm not the only one having trouble keeping them apart... :-) (Demmel is more of an introduction, FWIW)
I understand the the issue is the unreasonable business terms.

His team has been consistently ahead of the competition on key metrics for a long time despite less funding.
We talk about that a bunch! I agree, though it's possible before that we'll figure out how to combine plant products in ways that make them taste very similar to meat. Impossible Foods is already impressively close.
There is no technical reason the OS couldn't stop this by stripping exif/location data from photos if the requesting application doesn't have location permissions.
Ask HN: LeadCheetah for lead generation?
Has anyone used LeadCheetah for lead generation? Their pricing is cheap, but not sure about conversion rate
How to kill Equifax with Ethereum and multiparty computation
> If we could trust them to lock them up we need to trust them to release them too.

This guy was getting locked up no matter what. The only question was, was he getting locked up in a prison or in a psych ward? So do we trust psychiatry enough to say "lock him up here rather than there"? Sure.

Do we trust them enough to say "It's safe to release him now"? That's a harder question.
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That’s what The Daily Stormer was. Stormfront is still up.
I'm not on call anymore but when I was I hated it like nothing else...especially the time I was on call for two weeks during christmas and new years.
I don't know if you could use this but I started taking note of when there were calls and noticed there were days where it would be rare for a call. Those days I would relax a little, knowing that at least by statistics it would be rare to get paged.
By the way, if anyone is interested in good open source opportunities, computational linear algebra is nowhere near a solved problem and there's good opportunity for impactful contribution. The computational challenges of the algebra versus factorizations is one angle. Dense versus sparse is another. Shared memory parallelization vs distributed memory vs GPUs is another. Even on the GPU, there are different strategies depending on whether or not the entire matrix fits on a single GPU or if we have to use multiple GPUs. Incomplete or multilevel direct methods used as effective preconditioners for iterative methods are also important. Hell, even efficient direct techniques embedded in indirect solvers is important.

Part of the way to get started would be to look at something like a general numerical linear algebra book like Numerical Linear Algebra from Trefethen and Bau. There are better computational algorithms than what they present, but they do a good job at introducing important factorizations and why we care about them. Then, have a look at Tim Davis' book Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems. The codes in that book are online. Then, try to reimplement these algorithms in other languages, parallelize them, or make them better. These are good algorithms, but there are better and Tim's more recent codes are actively used by both MATLAB and Octave. Then, look for missing routines in open source libraries. For example, I just did a quick look and MAGMA currently lists missing routines between them and LAPACK.

Anyway, it's not a field for everyone, but it's one that good architecture and parallelization knowledge can have a positive impact. Nearly all engineering codes depend on good solvers, so the impact is wide.
> Do you really think "3D photos" of you can't be created? Or even ones that test for "liveness". What exactly do you think that "liveness test" is? It's just an algorithm that Apple uses. That algorithm can be reverse-engineered.

I believe it was doing infrared detection.
Yes, of course. Although I can't vouch for its security and stability - while I use it myself and it seems to work OK, I'd rather state that it's risky. In short, the repo is more like a code dump, rather than a properly released project.

Still, here it is: https://gitlab.com/drdaeman/firesync

Development is very sporadic, though - you can see it in commit history. And some parts of code feel dirty (in particular, I've made a bad design decision when trying to avoid implementing full-fledged OAuth2).

The repo lacks few things:

1) Notes about patched PyBrowserID. It's in the repo, and you can check the Dockerfile, but not in README.

2) Instructions on installing Kinto - another piece that is used to sync WebExtension settings[1]. It became mandatory with 57, without it sync fails and doesn't update "last synced" date (used to work in 56 and below). I'll add some instructions later, when I'll find time to do so.

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[1] BTW, this means that everyone who runs self-hosted Sync but not Accounts (relying on Mozilla tokens instead) are now storing parts of their data on Mozilla servers. I don't think this was ever announced, I've only learned about Kinto when my Firefoxes started to log errors in the browser console. If you self-host Sync-only and think you may be affected - check `webextensions.storage.sync.serverURL` value.
It was also unreadable for me because before I was able to read a single word I was presented with a pop up to connect with them on Facebook. Thats my queue to hit the back button.
>thousands of dollars

The article is out of date. People are saying the amount is now $6 billion.
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Python is a good chance for the non-professional programmer because it is easy to get started with, easy to hack things out with, but also solid enough that you can take something hackish and get it into production.
I am interested in working on freelance/consulting projects for AR/VR as well! I have more experience in computer vision and AR.

Are you looking for books that teaches advanced graphics? Some topics I think some topics along that line are perlin noise, parametric modeling, computational geometry, and math for game developers. A lot of advanced graphics stuff can be seen in WebGL and Three.js, but starting by googling “graduate computer graphics course” can get the gears running. I will post some links I find interesting.

Graphics: look at some of cornell’s course links: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4620/2015fa/index.shtml

List of graphics courses: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~kb/

For VR, an amazing course taught by Steven Lavalle: http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu

For AR, it’s hard to dive into cause AR is heavily ingrained with Computer Vision. I’ll look for more and post here. Hope this helps!
This is a tough one -- inferior alveolar nerve damage is the most common long-term complication in third molar extraction -- I advise about 1% of my patients against extraction based on the proximity of their lower molar roots to this nerve. However, there is great anatomic variation in the course of the IAN such that damage to it can occur even when pre-op radiographs show that there is little risk of hitting it. (Which is to say... SURPRISE, there's a nerve where you didn't expect it!) Sorry to hear it, OP, AND I hope you don't have permanent lingual paresthesia -- having a numb tongue is nearly impossible to acclimate to...
For that it should be good enough to just store the first 6 digits and the last 4 digits of the card number. You might occasionally get two different customers whose first 6/last 4 are the same but it should not happen often enough to be a significant issue.

If even that small risk of conflating two different customers is too high, you could go with a hash of the credit card number.

If you go with the hash, then don't ALSO store first 6/last 4. A typical credit card number is 16 digits, and one of those is a check digit. If someone gets a hold of the hash, and first 6/last 4, then there are only 100 000 possible values for the missing 6 digits (10^5, not 10^6, because for any guess for 5 of the digits there is only one possible 6th digit that will make the checksum work). Unless you use a very very slow hash function, brute forcing 100 000 possibilities will be quick.
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Ask HN: Could Spanish peaple create DOS to defend legality?
Ask HN: Could a few million Spanish peaple create DOS to block ilegal pages?
Elon Musk addressed the idea of creating nuclear fusion on earth by saying something along the lines of, "why would we do that, there's a huge nuclear fusion generator in the sky that we can use to generate all the power we need"
I'm curious, did he tell you how he would be helping/mentoring you? What does he bring to the table that would make it valuable to you?

Since he's the one offering a mentorship relationship, how is it going to work? What is he getting out of it?
> Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR to name three in a market some calculate will be worth $50bn by 2020

Very optimistic calculation...
Yes, that'll be fixed when I move to a text-based HTML output instead of raw plaintext.

Thanks for the feedback and for trying it out!
It is certainly a part of it, McDonalds workers earn about twice as much in Sweden as in the US. There is no good reason why a dentist should earn 10 times as much as a McDonalds worker, people still work hard to get those jobs even when they just pay 2-3 times as much like in Sweden.
Your digital wallet gives up consumer protections such as chargebacks which is a regression in consumer benefits. It is also accepted approximately nowhere, with very little incentive for merchants to add support.

Apple Pay and related solutions offer "tamper proof isolation of private keys" while still offering all of the consumer protections of cards, plus broad and growing acceptance via compatibility with standard contactless card terminals and POS systems.
> though it's possible before that we'll figure out how to combine plant products in ways that make them taste very similar to meat

I think the major barrier to mass adoption of this will be convincing the masses that they should try it. Too bad it can't be marketed as meat, at least not for long before getting caught.
From the article:

GDPR applies to all companies storing information on EU citizens. Those citizens should be allowed to know what data is held, where it is being stored and who has access to it.

This is not correct, as far as I am aware. A bit of a nit, but depending on context it can be important: The GDPR applies to all companies with legal presence within the EU storing information on any person, regardless of whether they are EU citizens or not.

So even if you only store personal data on foreign (e.g. US) citizens, you still need to follow the regulation.
It's not the smartest Indians who move out of the country, but the ones who are in seek of a better life. They may be same in many cases but not always. Just as an anecdote, some of the smartest people I worked with are still in India and continue to work there, with no aim to move anywhere.
The Github page seems to have a bit more information so we changed the URL from https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/09/open-sourcing-wallaroo....
That article is a classic but I don't really understand how it applies in this case.

Smart companies commoditize their products' complements (something that needs to be bought with the product) so that whoever wants buy their product has a large variety of offerings to select from. For instance, MS-DOS's ability to run on any standard PC architecture machine commoditized the PC.

It's not clear how commoditizing data search makes selling media to consumers easier, because consumers of media don't buy data search. In fact they expect it to come for free from the media company.

Might it not have the opposite effect instead? That is, it makes starting up a media company cheaper and allows competitors to spend more money on acquiring media?
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Sorry to hear.

We take a risk every time we do something. It doesn't mean that you'll absolutely be guaranteed by paying 10x more that you won't have a botched surgery, it's just less likely. Someone would say they are willing to pay 10x more for 2x less the chance, given they had an accident. The problem with that was I don't think the population will be happy adopting an 80 USD toll road and $25 per gallon for 2x less the chance of a car accident, even if that could be done. I think safety tradeoff is easier said than done.
That's the thing, raising salaries won't solve the issue. Why? Because it doesn't solve the issue of supply. Demand won't stagnate or go lower. Once salaries go up the only thing that changes is the price due to higher demand of limited housing units, leading to the same situation. The problem is with multiple city halls. They refuse to add more residential zones let alone high density residential zones.

https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...

Palo Alto is just one example. People need to raise the issue with elected officials, that they want more zoning for higher density residential.
Ah yes Daily Stormer, just a website with a "conservative bent"
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> A huge advantage of Apply Pay is ... without the hassle of entering a PIN

You are forgetting that tools like Apple Pay are not hassle free for most people, especially those outside of IT circles. Millions of people struggle to use anything beyond basic technology (American banks have even decided that PIN's are too confusing! A four digit number that has been common in the rest of the world for decades!). Combine that with other factors like fears of being caught with a flat battery or businesses that are reluctant to spend money on new POS devices - it's unlikely that plastic cards are going away anytime soon.

Also, I'm not sure entering a PIN is really any more hassle than using a phone as a payment device (I use Android Pay whenever I can due to the added security features but the POS readers are often incredibly slow).
> Would you want to live next to the guy who did that while not in control of himself?

Perhaps there is a combined higher probability that one of your other neighbors will one day snap and go crazy than the medicated/or rehabilitated one doing so again. Unless you're not worried about that, but rather your "sensibilities are offended" by his action. Well, in that case, "the devil you know..."
It's not my interpretation (I like to be more precise with terminology), just one that I could explain. I suppose that people who feel that way about bitcoin probably feel that way about any commodities that are held at speculative value above any value based on their utility, but I don't think they would describe those as being "ponzi schemes" -- not sure how they would make the distinction.
Battery life has been a major focus 2 or 3 iterations of Android ago.

Google released the tool they created in order to benchmark it (battery historian). btw, releasing the tool they created for a specific improvement is what they do each time they focus on improving one aspect of the platform, and that's an excellent practice.

Google probably cares to some extent about battery life. I doubt that the mobile team behind let's say Youtube cares, but the framework team does.

Third party devs tend to do not worry at all about battery life .. unless they use a really excessive amount of battery and are shamed for it
We find there is a core tension between GDPR's principle of data minimization (take no more than strictly necessary), and SaaS practice of data driven innovation (collect everything, then try to figure out what is useful)
That's an elegant explanation
I absolutely agree.

My understanding is that prisons are said to have four purposes: deterrence, incapacitation, retribution, and rehabilitation.

However, in the absence of having prisons a society would likely create prisons to protect the people of society. My conclusion is that prisons are meant to protect the populace with those other reasons being secondary based upon cultural mores.
What happens to that energy, though? Energy is conserved, even with gravitational waves, correct?

So, what happens to the energy - does some of it get converted into 'normal' potential energy by changing the (amount of gravity? gravitational fields?) of the stuff that it passes through - the weak interaction that you refer to?

And, if it interacts very weakly, does all of the energy eventually get used up this way - do GWs get 'used up' before they travel across the universe?

(Probably a meaningless question): can GWs hit the edge of the universe, and if so, what happens then?
Use cases

- controlling IoT devices, like lights, which you control when you are at home

- playing music, podcasts

- playing videos (via Chromecast/whatever)

- setting alarms

- asking simple questions

- checking weather

I could go on. You're saying "if there is a market for these devices" as if there isn't already a demonstrated market. Amazon is selling a ton of them! Your phone is a personal device, while an Echo is used by a household. Their use cases are very different.

Again, I get that this might not be a good device for you. But it's silly to say there are no uses beyond ordering stuff from Amazon, because people use them for a lot of stuff every single day.
Thats what I‘d say if I was selling energy storage.
Coincidentally, the cop that shot him is the son of another friend of mine. We were in boot together and mostly stationed with each other.

His son now has PTSD and no longer serves on the police force. I believe he is getting some sort of check and unexpected to return to the force.

All for some clothing to fit in at university.

What a tangled skein.
No, I mean ES6 class inheritance:

class MyButton extends MyBaseComponent {

// Render a button

}

Class MyBaseComponent extends React.Component {

// Include error handling lifecycle hook here

}
Advice about a questionable startup
I was asked to help a group that is developing software/hardware for the blind community. I vetted their legal paperwork, rewrote it, got them their first investor funding, and introduced+organized with nonprofits, universities, medical centers, and industry contacts (none of which they had). I set my own projects aside in exchange for an agreed amount for 1-2 months.

I only managed to have them meet with the blind community on 1 occasion and they avoided others. They also avoided many of the other contacts and ignored them.

Shortly after they cashed their first check, they split, didn't compensate me for the time I'd set my own project aside, I had to smooth things over with the owner/investor they had been staying with, and they appear to have ignored many of the groups that I'd had them talk to, testing, and further talks I'd put in place.

As it turns out, they are back at it again.

How should I deal with this group? I'm somewhat tormented by the fact that I recommended them to a number of parties in the disabled community that have been taken advantage of in the past. And, I worry that this company will continue doing pretty much the same thing.
Interesting in some respects, and I like that it's text-editor-friendly.

My biggest issue is that traditional notation does a lot more to show flow, relationships, and basic shapes. All of that is invisible in this notation without reading and understanding it. There's a lot of cognitive overhead not present in standard notation.

An editor that had live conversion to standard notation might be pretty boss, though.
Where are the changes of Amazon? You can still fork Chromium
> You'll have to be pretty naive to think it wasn't storing location.

I think you'll have to be pretty naive to assume that users inherently realise that "photos have location attached" automatically leads to "third party app can read location in these photos" and can lead to "build a profile of you based on your photo locations".

It's not that people can't put these things together, it's that they don't ever really think about it. When you download a photo editing app you're thinking about editing a photo, not about the metadata you might be leaking in doing so.
> people who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity or who have been arrested but found incompetent to stand trial — are involuntarily confined to psychiatric hospitals.

Here, "psychiatric hospital" literally means "prison with carpets". There are locked doors instead of bars, and caretakers instead of guards, but it's a prison all the same.

My brother had a mental breakdown (not violent or criminal, but threatening enough to himself for police to be involved), and ended up in the state "hospital" for quite a while. I almost wish it was a prison instead, because at least prison is honest about what it is.

These "hospitals" may be necessary for some, but as soon as you walk inside, you take a deep dive into the uncanny valley, and you yourself begin to question your own sanity. I won't even try to imagine what it would be like to be thrown inside with no trial, and told that you can't leave unless you prove to your accusers that you are adequately "normal"

The worst thing about the situation is that my brother didn't believe or understand he was ill, and the state gave him every reason to be angry, and reject the situation, rather than come to terms with it.

Thankfully now, he is in an assisted living facility, is allowed to leave, and can feel more like a human being, but while he is very normal, functional, etc. he can't just go find work and go live his life. There doesn't seem to be an end game, and that alone is its own prison.
From the link I posted (emphasis mine):

There are many variants of simple non-copyleft free software licenses, such as the Expat license, FreeBSD license, X10 license, the X11 license, and the two BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) licenses.

They outright say BSD is not copyleft, which means it is not Free Software by the FSF definition, though it is Open Source.

Anyway, all I was trying to say is that GPL and BSD are both sensible licenses, the main difference being that the GPL restricts developer freedoms in order to provide user freedoms, while BSD does not restrict either. That doesn't make GPL bad or BSD better, it's simply two different philosophies and I for one am grateful to both. If you are intent on calling me a liar for that, so be it, though you should know that ad hominem attacks are not welcome here.
It's possible to give permission for a single photo on iOS, as opposed to the whole library—hopefully more apps will begin to be that fine-grained.
If you're responding to the parent's situation where someone causes violence due to mental issues leading to a loss of control, the latter may be treatable and curable, after which the threat is gone if the person, absent the mental issues that caused the loss of control, doesn't want to harm people. The former was a choice that may be made again, so is therefore always a threat even if they truly repent and are sorry for their choice.
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