skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium is shocking for this. I added this to my uBlock custom filters list and now it's not a problem any more:

! medium dickbars and other bullshit:
##.u-clearfix.metabar
##.metabar
##.js-stickyFooter
##.highlightMenu

I have not limited it by domain so I can catch all the other Medium-based blogs that use other domains (hackernoon, etc). This raises my risk of false positives but that doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as all the extraneous garbage on their site does. YMMV.
Situations like these make me really question democracies. If the voting public is so poorly educated that they don't even question the source, that doesnt bode well for the complex problems facing our society.

The whole "fake news" phenomenon is even more disheartening. That the public is getting news from their Facebook or Twitter feed and think that is sufficient speaks to a major failure of our educational system and a lack of development of critical thinking and analysis.
For those wondering, why the heck are you guys java:

Our tensor library has a python interface in the making:
https://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/strata-beijing-2017-ju...

Our goal with this will be then to write side by side benchmarks with the other libs that people can easily run.
We know a lot of folks from python land won't jump over and we don't expect them to. The hope is that we're equivalent and can integrate better with a big data cluster.

Dl4j is not trying to be TF. When I started dl4j 4 years ago, it was theano and torch as the primary frameworks.

I wrote it for deployment in to production apps and for the hadoop/spark ecosystem.

We will continue that going forward at the eclipse foundation as well as using dl4j in our product.

Please check out the oreilly book as well (currently #2 on amazon right next to the goodfellow book):

https://amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Josh-Patterso...

Email in profile if there's any specific questions.
> That is: there is no coherent rightist opposition to the national religion of progressivism, and this can be verified by checking for who is doing the hunting.

Just because a bunch of people can do some witch hunting on twitter doesn't make it a lucrative and safe career. Twitter slacktivists aside, who do you think currently has an easier job - people fighting for civil rights, or people who are fighting against them?

One side in this fight uses water cannons in freezing weather on unarmed people. The other gets hit by water cannons in freezing weather. One side is untouchable. The other gets routinely beaten, harassed, and arrested - legally or otherwise. One side has killed ~50 people over this year in a series of hate crimes. The other... Punched a few nazis.

Or hell, if you want to talk about twitter slacktivism, have you seen how much abuse feminist writers, BLM activists, and LGBT people receive? You may claim that some martyr or other of the conservative sphere received similar levels of censure, but I assure you, the people on the other side of this are not having easy, cushy lives.
I sympathize with you. Time for another job, buddy. I am not saying this lightly, I fled three such companies and it hurt every time but always turned out to be the right decision in retrospect.
I don't speak German, so it was somewhat surprising to me when I learned that Führer means "leader" (or "guide", according to Wikipedia). And that that word is essentially dead in modern German speech. So how do you refer to the "leader" now?, I asked. I didn't get a good answer to that question, but it would probably take more understanding of German as to how they get by without the obvious word.

I wonder if "news" may be dead in English in the near future.
That's on average less than one visa even for someone with a powerful passport.
>There are also things like Kaspersky previously volunteering to provide complete source access to the government. Our government declined the offer. How does this make sense?

First, even if they were giving access to their genuine source code repository, there's absolutely no guarantee that the binaries aren't backdoored by Kaspersky, FSB, or both. Alternatively, they could just hand over a phony copy of the source.

It's kind of a pointless offer. There's no real reason to deny, but there's also no reason to accept. If the fear is that their products might be influenced or backdoored by hostile intelligence agencies, the only reasonable solution is a total boycott.

(And yes, I very much understand the exact same could be said of the NSA and a lot of US-made software.)
Netflix raises prices for first time in two years
Beer isn't in 'publicly' accessible vending machines any more as far as I can tell. It is however often available in the foyer of a place that normally sells beer (that might be currently shut.)

Ski resorts are my main source of vending-machine beer. Nothing better than cracking a can of Sapporo Classic in your first gondola ride of the day.
Slashdot was truly a part of my youth, it was the site I went to when I was a teenager, in between taking breaks from coding. It made me feel like there were others out there like me and was a great source of inspiration growing up in a less than stellar childhood in Ohio.

It makes me nostalgic for the web of yesteryear, when it was mostly about just a bunch of nerds sharing their passion for technology.

Thanks, CmdrTaco.
Yep. I find it pretty comical when an externally hired "Scrum expert" is trying to motivate the team and make them work faster (somehow) while he/she full well knows the shipping date of the final product is non-negotiable.

It's a circus and I have no idea why is it played. 90% of all devs I ever worked with see this bullshit a mile away and laugh about it in coffee breaks. In every single place I worked.
this is already available for free through safari. nevertheless, good luck with your product. :)
I work for a company that makes Math games based on neuroscience research. https://www.mindresearch.org

I find a lot of the games very interesting and founded more on actual learning (you're encouraged to make mistakes in this program). Turns out to learn you need to make mistakes and see why you were wrong, more than simply answer correctly.

(Product is currently in Flash but we are working very hard to move to HTML5)
This seems more like a "hack" in the general tech sense than the security sense (even though it's probably technically illegal). I even think it'd be something YC would love to see on an application.
I don't think anyone responding to you can figure out what you mean. The US government already has a successful model of interacting with the commercial space industry. You're proposing abandoning that for... ?
On Ubuntu there's an "always on top" option for all windows (right click the window's top bar), granted you don't get the click/see through features and other niceties but it served me well when I had the TV on my desktop.
> Probably the strongest arguments for B-trees over hash indexes pertain to multi-field indexes and to nonuniform distributions of key values. A hash index on multiple fields requires search keys for all those fields such that a hash value can be calculated. A B-tree index, on the other hand, can efficiently support exact-match queries for a prefix of the index key, i.e., any number of leading index fields

Yes, well, if none of the columns/fields in the index are sufficiently selective, then the ability to search a B-tree by prefix may not do you much good. Don't get me wrong though: I fully agree with all of the given reasons for B-tree superiority to hash tables.

Although the newest storage technologies (particularly very fast byte-addressable NVMs) -- too new for TFA -- might well change things. When you have fast byte-addressable storage it will pay to not read pages, and hash tables may yet involve fewer accesses than B-trees in that case, though I suspect B-trees will successfully adapt anyways.
Point taken, but the article wasn't talking about "rebuilding local infrastructure", or long-term recovery. It was specifically talking about people dying, and in danger of dying, right now - for the lack of easily deployable (in the timespan since the hurricane - being as this is, you know, the richest country in the world) replacement "infrastructure" like air conditioners and gas-powered generators.

While their country's Executive Branch not only shows no signs of taking their plight seriously, but goes out of its way to make spiteful comments about it.
My first account was 1xxxxx, lost that, second account 2xxxxx. I remember reading slashdot on NYE 1999, code red, the Billenium in Sep 01, and of course 9-11 when it was one of a few sites that stayed up.

Back in the day the comments section was full of "famous people" like Wil Wheaton and Bruce Perens, which I found fascinating.

Slashdot inspired me to jump to Debian in 2000, and E17. I didn't stick with e17, but did with Debian until about 07 when I transitioned on to ubuntu. The standard broadcast Linux build (1200+ machines on 6 continents) for a major UK based global broadcaster is ubuntu because of slashdot introducing me to apt after a coupe of years of frustration with rpmfind.net. Funny how these things work out.
There are no rules in soft dev
I know right? Funny how managers NEVER ask themselves if they might be the problem.
For reference you might consider watching the excellent documentaries "Our Daily Bread," and "Food, inc"
I think its hard to morally justify consuming animal products in this day and age, under a capitalist system where animal welfare is not recognised.

For people that want to eat or use animal products you should consider hunting for your own food, rearing your own chickens or just cutting back.

The ecological problems and the blatant disregard for animals rights are too much and a top down approach doesn't seem possible considering the power these big agricorps have.

It's time for individuals to make the conscious decision to opt out.
They might need a new database product to survive if they are going to have to compete fairly. Maybe acquire a bunch of distributed systems startups, like CockroachDB, and do something with them for the Oracle cloud.
We don't depend on the Russians for cargo, and 2 US systems for launching people to the ISS are getting close to the finish line.
I bought the original S431 thinkpad with hybrid graphics for about $1500 when it came out. At the time I was a university student, and had saved for maybe 6 mos on my part time job to purchase it.

The original s431 had heat issues that came from the graphics card inside of it's slim body. The graphics card would actually heat up hot enough to melt the laptop. When people figured this out Lenovo pulled it off of the market (it was only sold for 1 month).

The bottom of my laptop melted when I was gaming one day, before I knew this was an issue. The keyboard also stopped working. I called about it to see if I could replace it but they said they where not servicing it unless I had a warranty.

So even though it was a manufacturer defect, they would not service my laptop. They said they would sell me a new keyboard for $200 and I could install it myself. So I did.

Turns out the keyboard cable that attaches to the motherboard was also melted. The new keyboard did nothing.

Fuck lenovo. I will never purchase from a company with that terrible of customer support again.

Edit: The laptop also shipped with a bunch of faulty drivers, and because the HDD was some custom lenovo hybrid drive instead of a standard drive you could not wipe the drive and reinstall windows.
AWS does not protect you from devops
> "If it sounds good on NS10s then it'll sound good on anything."

Spot on. I dabble in electronic music production and this is precisely why it's such a "good" speaker, because you want your music to sound good on all systems, and the NS10 is going to simulate what your music sounds like on stock Apple earbuds. If it can sound good on those, you can bet they will sound even better on virtually anything else.
Assuming you are an American, you have people in your own country that don't have the same values as you.

Question 1: Since they have the same access as you to "truthful history" why are their values different?

Question 2: Do you believe you could change their perspectives by introducing them to additional historical information?
I totally know what you mean.

I’m worried that my kid is not getting a ‘big’ view of the world, and is instead seeing it via YouTube, and anti-Trump playground conversations (which I agree with, to be sure, but it’s not a very deep or diverse understanding of the world).

When I think back to my childhood, my view of what the world, and human society (civic society?) ‘is’ came from TV news my parents happened to be watching - and occasional glances at their newspapers.

Even though I try to consume news from wide ranging sources, my kid sees none of that; it’s all an individual pursuit.

I fear there’s also a lack of ‘coherence’ in society today, and suspect that everyone watching the same news programme was something that provided it. When we think of current events, I don’t think that we’re all even aware of things outside our ‘bubbles’ - adults are sort of aware of this. What must growing up like this be like though?

I’m considering starting to watch evening network news. One problem with that is that we don’t have a TV - just iPads, laptops, and a projector for watching movies.

I’ve also subscribed to a delivery of the newspaper on Sunday (though it’s been a month and it’s never actually been successfully delivered to my home yet...)

Who’d’ve thought we’d be lamenting the decline of TV the same way our parents lamented the decline of newspapers?!
Note Google Spanner.
Leiter, I believe.
I did the same when the dupe was posted 3 weeks later
And you signed up about a year and a half ago - just the right time to try and influence the US election. Perhaps you work for a western intelligence agency.

Or perhaps you are easily manipulated by the media.

I've been called Russian on various forums several times. I am actually British and have never even been to Russia. My crime was to point out the flimsy nature of so many of the allegations regarding Russian involvement in, well, pretty much everything.

There are lots of people in the world right now who psychologically can't accept the fact that Trump and Brexit won and have descended into a sort of group hysteria as a result.

This idea that the Russian government spends its time/money trying to influence US politics by posting to Hacker News of all places should fail any basic test of common sense and logic. But it's so tempting to believe in this conspiracy theory, because then difficult questions like "why did Trump win" and "why do people hate Hillary so much" and "are there Trump supporters in my own circle of friends and family" can all be ignored. It's not really America, it's actually some vast subtle manipulation by a foreign government! And if anyone questions the unreliability of US intelligence, that's just more proof that it's really happening!
Most accurate comment in the entire thread. Thank you!

Indeed, agile and its brother XP are pretty awesome concepts and ideas but have been heavily corrupted by well-paid "motivation experts" and "efficiency consultants".

Business loves making money on the back of people who don't understand a new concept well enough. I, like you, am sure that won't ever change.
The moral pitch for abstinence from meat in general, or meat one hasn’t killed themselves, is one of the most unsuccessful animal rights campaigns in history. People like meat. Those same people are moving into cities. The population is not going to hunt.

Moral arguments are fun to make, but without a plan they’re just bloviation. Pushing people to prioritise humane legislation, advocating a switch from intelligent animals and related methods, while less emotionally satisfying, are altogether more effective.
I wonder if the author has ever hosted his own blog?
I recently created a platform that has my hand-picked resources for bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain:
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It has resources for other concepts like Design, UX, JavaScript, Startups, etc.
I'm not exactly sure I'd call those "bindings". If you want an actual compelling competitor to us because we're not a big name, at least look at mxnet. That's more credible.

It's incredible that folks insist on this still. Both those frameworks aren't even going to be aiming for any level of integration with the JVM.

At least take a look at what makes us different.

A big one being:
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

We own the whole stack here and integrate pretty deeply. This has lead to some great performance improvements.

We aren't just "java bindings" but offering a lot more in one place than the other frameworks.

Also: I highly doubt you've even looked at the numbers.

We're actually doing pretty well in the rankings:
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/915366704401719296

We're not #1 but we have an actual user base.

I think a lot of our upcoming things like our python bindings where people don't have to "see" java and integrations with spark will win over some folks at big companies..maybe not DL researchers which is also fine.
Our upcoming api will be like pytorch though.

Regardless: I'm not sure the framework will matter long term given that model import and things like ONNX are becoming more common.

Finally, I'll just say this: It doesn't hurt the ecosystem to have more competition and different interests than research.

Every single person who says this usually dismisses us for 1 silly reason or another ranging from:

1. Not a "big name" (despite being put in production by a ton of them)

2. Not a lot of research papers (yeah no crap we're not a research framework, we do have publications though!)

3. They see java bindings and can't tell the difference between a full application suite

and a tensor lib with java bindings generated by SWIG

4. Usually a PHD student at a university who hasn't worked at a large company and doesn't understand my actual target audience
Have you heard of ZomboDB? It aims to provide the best of both worlds; transactions and elasticsearch. I've been using it on my own pet project and am very happy that I only have to care about dealing with Postgres (the ES part goes automatically).
Ask HN: I received a great offer, but am unsure about relocating
I recently received a compelling offer from a major company out in SV. Career wise, this is my dream job, or at least it seems that way. Now that I have the offer, I am having some major second thoughts about relocating out to the Valley.

Part of it is fear of the unknown and stress of relocation(even though the company will cover all relo). Another, more critical part is that my girlfriend (mostly) does not want to uproot and move either. We had been planning on moving in together prior to this offer, but now everything has been turned upside down. We've talked over it pretty extensively, and as it stands now she really does not want to go, and while I have my concerns, I lean towards taking the plunge.

My fear is that I may need to choose between a great offer or the girl I am likely going to propose to. So I ask HN: those who have had a similar decision to make, what did you do? How did it turn out? If you ended up declining, how did you go about it and how did it turn out?

I'm not really looking for advice on what I should do (I am aware that it's my decision), but more on how you came to your decision, your thought process, etc. I know I should be excited to have a great offer, but the stress of the relocation decision is quickly turning this into the toughest decision I've faced.
Yes, Spanner is the opposite of that strategy, designed from the ground up as a distributed database.
Oh, man, Kuro5hin! That was such a great, diverse, welcoming site for a couple of years. So sad what it descended into.
I wonder if perhaps they're not using exactly that on the backend to implement this.
Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor that can record screens
By default: if Headless Chrome hits a redirect to a file:// it returns: net::ERR_UNSAFE_REDIRECT

window.location.href = 'file:///' will return console error: "Not allowed to load local resource"
> And there's nothing inherently hard about CLI interfaces; "regular people" used MS-DOS PCs for ~two decades.

CLIs are opaque by definition. With a GUI you can click around menus until you find what you're looking for; with a CLI you can't even begin unless you already know what you're doing. Man pages are no help to newbies; they're either uselessly terse, impenetrably jargon-packed, or both.

It's probably possible to make a CLI that's relatively easy-to-use and newbie-friendly, but I've never seen anyone attempt it. People used MS-DOS for years because it was the only way to access the large majority of software, and abandoned it as soon as there was a viable alternative (Win9x).
Regarding physical kill switches for the microphone, even on older models with a mute button and visible indicator that no longer functions after Windows 10.

Good indicator that some of those buttons may not be as much of a physical kill as you think.
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Court to hear challenge to GCHQ bulk hacking of phones and computers
A filesystem snapshot is only reliable if you stop the database to do it, or if there is some sort of cooperation between the database and the tool that triggers the FS snapshot creation.
Film print emulation LUTs for download
Hey there, I am Keshav and I bootstrapped Symphosis. I have been working on a small project and I wanted to share and get feedback from this community.

My goal with Symphosis is to streamline knowledge & resources. It's a way for a kid in Kentucky to learn about Startups or a college student to learn about Cryptocurrency or UX.

I built this because people usually ask me resources for Design, UX, and JS and so I thought if I could build a repository of my favorite hand-picked resources that I can easily share with anyone, it would be a great way to streamline resources.

I would appreciate any feedback to improve this and ways I can expand this idea! Thank you!
inb4 "it's all a pyramid scheme"

I welcome the SEC's enforcement of established rules on ICOs and going after scams. It will make the whole space healthier.

Puzzling why some obvious scams are going strong, though, such as this: https://mastercoinplus.com/

I mean, just read that FAQ! It's like a textbook case of identifying a pyramid scheme.
They seem to target the situation that the storage-to-memory ratio is very high.

But this raises the question: isn't this ratio decreasing with cheaper and cheaper RAM these days?

(I've seen a lot of systems already moving to completely in-memory databases, taking this to the extreme; so this is actually a reality)
I have no trouble morally justifying it.
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But parent is making a point that technology has moved on and your Apple Earbuds made in 2017 sound way better than the NS10s, and I think after all these years that might be the case
OpenCV: Histogram Equalization
>>> Gay marriage: David Cameron introduced that, but more Conservative MPs voted against it than voted for it. It passed because of 90% of the Labour MPs supporting it

And how does that contradict anything I said? Did Labour, with all that aparent gay marriage support, actually do it? No, they didn't.

>>> Conservative party currently does not "support" the NHS, but would not dare move openly against it, that would cost far to many votes.

That's like complaining companies only do things "for money". Well of course they do what the people want, that's what they're there for.

>>> Rather they follow, the model of "defund, induce crisis, introduce a privatised solution"

I would believe it if the NHS actually got less funds year over year. But they don't.
Well you didn't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict that.
Is it? I don't have a good handle on the logistical issues involved. Does the media? Commenters on this site?

Which resources should the government haved used and didn't?