skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"That's because we live in a world where there is no country that's good at media freedom"

No, there's no shortage of countries that have good media freedom:

https://rsf.org/en/ranking#

>"We have the US, which is interested in exposing Russia's crimes and hiding its own; Russia, which is interested in exposing the US's crimes and hiding its own,"

Please name one crime that the US media hid from the American people? Everything and everyone in the US is fair game.

>"What country do you think he should have taken refuge in?"

That's not the point, the point is he emigrates to Putin's Russia and then becomes President at @FreedomofPress. And for a refresher on the state of media freedom in Russia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23...
Depends on what you mean by the roadmap, but TruffleRuby looks very promising. I haven't used Ruby in years, but if I did return to it TruffleRuby would be the first thing I'd explore using.
As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down.
Or those smart enough to root their device to run a "post market OS" such as LineageOS or postmarketOS. Though the caveat of rooting your device could arguably be less security.
Astronauts to Test Free-Flying “Housekeeper” Robots
As defined by New York, basically any modern folding knife. If you can open it one-handed, it’s a “gravity knife”.

I went to NY last year. I could have been prosecuted under this law.
Could you give any recommendations of great articles on that blog? Or should people just go to the About/Top Posts[1] page and go down the rabbit hole from there?

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/about/
I'm not sure that either refugees or guest workers are "smart and open-minded" variety, not the conservative one.

Europe might be importing enough conservative types to repeat this stunt in a few decades.
Continued Fraction Arithmetic by Bill Gosper
I've used them side by side before and the default scrolling behaviour felt janky as hell.

I'll be very pleased if they have improved performance as much as everybody is saying, I want off the Google botnet.
Like they say; "The best time to buy bitcoin was yesterday. The next-best time to buy bitcoin is now."
Though I find the idea of Linux attractive, it is not attractive to most adults...and the idea of Linux was not attractive to me until I was nearing fifty. My opinion is that other than the rare outlier, the idea of Linux will not be attractive to a six year old or three year old.

[random internet advice]

For a child that loves art, I'd recommend a physical sketchbook and some brightly colored markers. Computers are an art medium. Some artists find it attractive. Other's don't do to the lack of mechanical fluidity.

The fact Linux is attractive to you does not equate Linux a fact of Linux being attractive to your child. Your child will be more attracted to spending time with you and if that happens while sitting at a computer, it will still be about spending time.

Good luck.
Do no evil indeed
I believe that any knife that can be opened one handed would qualify, no?

This would be a "gravity knife": https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Trekker-Pocket-Knife...

For context, I carried one of these throughout college for random boxes, cutting wires, etc.
Ok so rather than spread poor people out, let’s put them all in cheap high density housing with low infrastructure costs.
This is precisely the logic that lead to the housing project catastrophes.

As for the characterization of rural and suburban areas as some kind of federal infrastructure spending black hole, that’s not an accurate representation of the United States. Only a quarter of all infrastructure spending comes from the federal government, and only about half of that goes to highways, most of that is for interstates which help us city dwellers get free shipping from Amazon, not “roads to nowhere”.
All my life, I've had a strange fascination with this kind of thing: control rooms, cockpit instrument panels, or any sort of location with lots of of dials, buttons, gauges, switches, and indicators.
Even Microsoft Windows "Control Panel" kind of excited me the first time I saw it.

Now, seeing this posted here makes me wonder if maybe there are others out there who share this particular quirk of mine.
Yeah but knowing Samsung no phones will get the fixes besides the current flagship and MAYBE the previous one, all too expensive for most people in 2nd world.
>So sure, backprop (the credit assignment scheme that gives us a good search direction in program space, one of multiple techniques that could do so) is pervasive, but AI is starting to work primarily as a result of a deeper epiphany - that we are not very good at all at writing code.

Isn't it applicable to a class of programs only? Best example of which is Computer Vision. Or do you imply your argument to hold for a wider set of programs. I can think of a large set of programs in which direct coding of logic, rather than discovery, is more suited.

For example take sorting. I guess, sorting could also be taught to the machine, by having a training set. But what about the latency of the discovered program. Also what about the proof of such a sorting program, which is discovered by Machine learning?

Must add, that I largely agree to your excellent point regarding discovery of programs. But I am not sure about its wide applicability. In fact, I contend that it applies only to a subset of all programs. Particulary those which have been traditionally difficult to code.

So in that sense, now making a tangential point here, it is good that more complex applications are now possible, by combining both kind of programs. And there will be more programming work in the future.

Edit: minor
Show HN: In-Browser Neural Image Style Transfer Using Deeplearn.JS
It's not a switchblade. That's like calling a handgun a 'rifle with a shorter barrel'. There is a distinction between a switchblade (which opens at the operation of a switch or button), a gravity knife (which opens as you described),and a spring assisted knife (which has a spring but not one strong enough to open the blade on its own).

It's dangerous to mix and match words when describing an item that could or could not get you in a heap of trouble for carrying and or possessing in your particular jurisdiction.
Tutorial: So, with that program, whenever the picture is a cat, the program DOES recognize it. So the program DOES recognize a cat 100% of the time. The OP only claimed 95% of the time.

Uh, we need TWO (2), that's TWO numbers:

conditional probability of recognizing a cat when there is one (detection rate)

conditional probability of claiming there is a cat when there isn't one.

The second is the false alarm rate or the conditional probability of a false alarm or the conditional probability of Type I error or the significance level of the test or the p-value, the most heavily used quantity in all of statistics.

One minus the detection rate is the conditional probability of Type II error.

Typically we can adjust the false alarm rate, and, if we are willing to accept a higher false alarm rate, then we can get a higher detection rate.

With my little program, the false alarm rate is also 100%. So, as a detector, my little program is worthless. But the program does have a 100% detection rate, and that's 5% better than the OP claimed.

If focus ONLY on detection rate, that is, recognizing a cat when there is one, then it's easy to get a 100% detection rate with just a trivial test -- just say everything is a cat as I did.

What's tricky is to have the detection rate high and the false alarm rate low. The best way to do that is in the classic Neyman-Pearson lemma. A good proof is possible using the Hahn decomposition from the Radon-Nikodym theorem in measure theory with the famous proof by von Neumann in W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis.

My little program was correct and not a joke.

Again, to evaluate a detector, need TWO, that's two, or 1 + 1 = 2 numbers.

What about a detector that is overall 95% correct? That's easy, too: Just show my detector cats 95% of the time.

If we are to be good at computer science, data science, ML/AI, and dip our toes into a huge ocean of beautifully done applied math, then we need to understand Type I and Type II errors. Sorry 'bout that.

Are we learning yet?
> Now, which member might actually go veto a catalanian EU-membership?

Spain, for starters. Belgium and Italy might consider it as well. Basically any country that has a notable successionist movement.

That's one of the things that was pointed out during the Scottish independence referendum: contrary to the SNP's hope, the EU pointed out that membership was not going to be automatic, and Spain did signal that it was not going to look kindly on Scotland applying to join.
Demo link: https://reiinakano.github.io/fast-style-transfer-deeplearnjs...
What does Ukrainian separatists (who, yes, enjoy Russian backing) mistakenly shooting down a passenger plane have to do with Russians supposedly hacking the DNC? It's like saying the US must be making it up because look at the pictures of Abu Ghraib.
I’d back it!
> but I understand not putting the resources into a phone from 2012

I don't, but I have more sympathy for a company who quit supporting a phone from 2012 than a hypothetic [1] company who quit supporting a phone from 2015.

[1] Tho certainly a plethora examples would fit here.
Ten years ago, I implemented Gosper's continued fraction arithmetics in Python: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~mciura/software/cf.py My module can also compute exp() and log() as well as trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions. Here are slides from my presentation about it: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~mciura/cf.pdf
Has any company tried to do proper registration with the SEC? If so, we're they successful?

I just hit up the mighty Google and it was interesting, but not helpful.

Search terms 'ICO proper registration SEC' yields some interesting results, including some stuff that I'm not sure made HN, but doesn't reveal any companies that have done so or tried to do so.

I'm not suggesting this, but I bet the first one that properly registers with the SEC (even if it fails horribly and was bordering in scammy) would make a mint. The tag line of 'Officially sanctioned by the SEC' would go a long ways, even if it was doomed (intentional or otherwise) from the start.

Again, that's not a suggestion to make something meet the bare minimal requirements, register, and then make a killing.
Millions of #Macs open to #EFI #Firmware Hacks even if they are up-to-date
The same CIA who told us Iraq had WMDs, right? Sounds like a great idea to believe everything they say uncritically.
I am glad I never gave up on Firefox. Of course I did not give chrome a shot as I did not want to shift from Firefox. I never found it to be slow either.
>download the entire 16KB TLS frame to re-send just a 1448b portion of it.

The bigger thing, is that TLS is far from ideal for video content, and TCP transmissions in general.

It is much better to incorporate a degree of redundant coding, and tolerance to lost packets than rely on re-transmission.

As you deal with a real-time content, there is a no real need for flow control. You either get packets in time, or your video feed cuts of.

Another moment, for any genuinely live transmission, multicast beats down everything for efficiency, but why it is so hard to run multicast over open Internet is a discussion on its own.
This has been nice timing for me as I've been looking to cut my ties from "being the product" with Google. I'm using the current beta FirefoxDeveloperEdition and am looking forward to the upcoming rewrite in 57 (59?).

Others have mentioned pocket's integration, but I can't wait to see the open-source code, I've already set-up my own Shaarli and Wallabag instances.

I'm still evaluating Brave and Vivaldi after being a long time (2+ years) user of Chomium. The only thing that's hardest to find is the separate identity management and Sync that comes so easily in Chrome/Chromium.
I see many red flags here:

- The author claims no academic affiliation.

- The title of the paper sounds a bit unusual, the gap is not a property of a prime, is a property of a couple of primes. Also, there's no need to specify 'exactly', that's number theory.

- In general the language used throughout the paper does not follow that of a mathematics paper.

- No LaTeX, extremely minimal bibliography.

These red flags mean nothing if the result is correct, and I would love it to be correct. I don't have time to check the proof, even if it seems to rely on elementary constructions.
> "...then expect his life to get harder."

Poor guy might be out of a job, would just have to get by with his few paltry billions.

(I know what you are trying to say, but no-one makes billions without being smart, lucky and willing to take a chance)
Well, a purely heuristic evaluation: this appears to be written in Word rather than LaTeX, it seems to be this person's first publication, it seems they're not affiliated with any institution, and it reads like an undergrad's homework rather than a paper. So I'm pretty skeptical.
Uhm, "Vimium" vor "Vimium-FF"?
That's by design. If there's equity or promise of profits, it automatically trigger the 'it's a security' lever. The SEC DAO paper (linked below) acknowledges the same.

Your point that many are 'forced into the blockchain' to get an ICO is 100% correct.
It took a very long time to load the page. Consider implementing some caching if you haven't already.
is there any direct way to contact the developer(s) ? i cant read chinese
Democracy is more than just casting and counting votes. It's the biggest trick of tyrants to convince the people that so long as they can vote they're free (see: Putin, Erdogan). Full functioning democracy requires a strong, independent media, quality institutions, an independent judiciary, all of which are accountable and responsive to their constituents. It also requires eternal vigilance because these conditions are vulnerable to despotism, so you always need to be on the lookout (see: Trump, UK tories and the repeal bill, Poland, Hungary)
Fails test #1 of Scott Aaronson’s “Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong” (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304): it’s clearly typeset in Word with the Equation editor, not in LaTeX. As much as that is intended to be a joke, it really is true that the vast majority of high-quality mathematical work is typeset in LaTeX.

Also, it isn’t from anyone remotely reputable in the area of number theory, so the odds are very high that this is just a crank submission.
How a Hacker Helped the Coast Guard Rescue Victims of Hurricane Harvey
The smart move would have been to take the tens of millions of dollars, retire, and spend it developing VLC Too if you'd like. Ala Mysql > MariaDB.
Silicon Valley all in on tax reform
A working currency picker for android
Truly Serverless: Build an MVP with Facebook Groups API and Deploy as an Extension
Yeah, whenever that happens I just accept that I'm never getting back to the article and close the page. The author can pick a less shitty host.
While I think you are right in saying the salaries probably has gone up, I am very hesitant to believe that they are more than 25-30% higher. There were boatloads of devs coming out of these 12-14 week bootcamps or vocational 80 week programs (KY) with promises of work, and the market was flooded. This kept salaries down. I don't think it has become any better.

I had a look at some old notes and stats from 2012-2013. Knowledge in JS, Php, Java, Python or C/C++ were required for all of the positions.

14 recruits in the 18-20 yr, no edu bracket (high school dropouts/just graduated), mean salary 24451 USD (199200 SEK)

24 recruits in the 18-20 yr, bootcamp/vocational edu bracket (high school dropouts/just graduated), mean salary 27249 USD (222000 SEK)

17 recruits in the 20-22 yr, bootcamp/vocational edu bracket, mean salary 28869 USD (235200 SEK)

29 recruits in the 20-26 yr, higher edu bracket, mean salary 34467 USD (280800 SEK)

These were placed with employers, startups and established companies, in the tech sector. Mainly in central Stockholm and Kista (tech hub outside of Stockholm).

Make what you will of this, the amount of job seekers with bootcamp/vocational education hasn't gotten less than in 2012/2013. I believe this keeps the salaries in Stockholm down, and makes you settle for less if you want the job at all. Entry level salaries for devs in Stockholm are low.

BUT - as soon as you get some experience under your belt, you can rise quickly in salary by job hopping for a year or two.
LWN has a cool feature where any subscriber can make these "subscriber links" to share an article with a friend/coworker, a relevant mailing list, or sometimes even HN. See https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks for details.

In this case, the link was posted by Jon Corbet, who is LWN's main editor and developer.
Hey y'all, I wrote this post and would be happy to discuss any questions you might have or dig deeper into any of the technical aspects you have questions about =D
> And they have some of the best extensions.

Sadly 11 of the 14 extensions i use do not work on Firefox 57 (i just tried it). The browser is indeed faster - it feels faster than Chrome and Edge - but i never really had an issue with its performance. On the other hand i have a very big issue with the functionality that is lost. Stylish, FireFTP, Greasemonkey (with its own extensions), Better Reader, DownThemAll and a bunch of other addons are things i rely on almost daily (e.g. the internet became way brighter the moment Stylish stopped working :-P) and there are either no plans to update, no alternatives or the alternatives are simply way inferior (e.g. FireFTP is my favorite (S)FTP client for years now, i use DownThemAll for pretty much every download, i use Stylish themes in many sites to tone the sunburns down, i use Better Reader to make Reader mode actually usable, etc.

Firefox is sadly solving a problem i never had and in the process it introduces a problem that for me is a showstopper.
Does Apple 'slow down' your old iPhone to make you upgrade?
I wouldn't consider myself a normal user, so I don't know.

"Like, comment, and subscribe" also was once a popular thing to say at the end of videos too. I'm sure for some individuals this would be beneficial to reinforce. For some it had no impact. For others (myself included) it would be mocked.

I guess the question is, does less than five seconds of text at the end of a video (which some people may not even see) hurt more than it could potentially help? My search terms don't seem to find such research, if it was done.

My assumption, however, is that there are plenty of people out there that will do it, and might look at the comments to see what others have discussed. And some just have to comment on everything.
Parent never said "per year".
The law itself still needs fixing though, as it's open to such willful misinterpretations.
The trick to this is to do the absolute minimum required in the interrupt routine and to push the rest of the work to a regular piece of software that gets scheduled at the right priority due to the interrupt having been processed.

Doing actual work in an interrupt routine is a non-starter in a real time environment.
Yes the 'Soviet' bit just makes these pictures sound more exotic than they are (and it seems they originally had a couple of American ones in there by 'mistake') but the point is, none of this has anything to do with cybersyn-like networked command centers for the command economy. Which is what the linked paper is about.
Proofdoku: Solve Sudoku Puzzles by Proving Them
Groceries on Blockchain
Nice that they are getting rid of an irritating implementation.

But they aren't replacing the legitimate need. Some videos do benefit from background material. Or a patreon type link to support the content creator.

Google should address the need. Otherwise it just looks like a tactic to keep people on YouTube.
Serrapilheira – first private funded scientific support institute of Brazil
A Breakdown of the SpaceX BFR Video
Also related:

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
> The Store release of Paint.NET is not distributed free-of-charge. This allows many things to converge and solves a lot of problems, while still providing value for new and existing users (err, customers?).

So let me see if I've got this straight. I can go to the Windows Store to get Paint.NET, in which case I will have to pay USD$8.99 for it. Or I can go to getpaint.net to get Paint.NET for free, in which case I will expose myself to a barrage of misleading ads designed to get me to download malware (see https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/google-and-paint-net-need... -- I wrote that four years ago, but the ads are as bad today as they were then).

"Now you can pay us money to skip past the part where we try our hardest to screw up your computer!" is a real innovation in software marketing.
Governments are testing their own cryptocurrencies
Benchmark claims that Travis agreed not to exercise the authority as part of the resignation ordeal. This is mentioned in the article in passing. I'd guess that being sued by them changed his perspective on the deal, assuming it existed.
The whole thing is just a ball of insanity. I'm not sure what it is about cryptocurrency and ICOs, but it seems the representation is heavily populated with insane people.

I will recommend reading this sub-thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369840

Now, there is someone bragging that they are intentionally and willfully going to break multiple laws. They are already breaking laws, so they are also going to break some SEC regulations.

They think that being nice is going to keep them from going to prison. On top of this, they are posting about it in an open forum. They quite happily admit their criminal acts and intent to commit more.

If you're curious, their profile has more information.

I'm no psychiatrist and a few Internet posts aren't enough to diagnose someone, but I'm pretty sure they are crazy. Not 'so crazy they might just get away with it' crazy, but 'should seek professional care' crazy. Also, a lawyer... They should also seek legal council.

I'm not sure if it is the ICO and cryptocurrency that attracts crazy people, but it seems to have strong correlation. It may just be the cryptocurrency?
Simple cute and open source Microsoft To-Do desktop app
As I understand it, Vimium for Chrome and Vimium-FF share the same code base (https://github.com/philc/vimium), even the addon site for Vimium-FF just calls it "Vimium" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/).

So if it's in Firefox, it's Vimium-FF. (And I'm using Firefox, in case that wasn't clear.)
> No LaTeX, extremely minimal bibliography.

I prefer TeX! And I've published applied math with just TeX, sent to Information Sciences, an Elsevier journal, and they handled the TeX source easily!

I prefer TeX because Knuth's book is shorter and easier to read than the books on LaTeX.

Yes, for TeX I wrote about 100 macros for table of contents, cross references, help with bibliographies, ordered, unordered, and simple lists, boxes around text, etc.

So, it's not all just LaTeX guys -- TeX is still darned nice!

Nothing comes between me and my TeX!

Give up TeX? It will have to be pried out of my cold, dead fingers!
Sorry to hear that. I don't live in Barcelona but I though there were town there more open minded as Barcelona is more multicultural. Where city do you live?

Nacionalist can be very xenofobes if you are not catalán. You ask them for something in Spanish and they reply you in Catalan.
Just curious, do you have a reliable source for the 16 billion per year?
Spanish is not treated as a foreign language. What the fuck. Why is everyone spreading so many lies about Catalonia? Spanish is treated at the same level as Catalan. We do Spanish literature and grammar, which is not the case for English or French.
True, but is also a public secret that people who vote against Erdogan are being threatened.