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Golang didn't pioneer 'fat' binaries as the article claims. It may have made them popular again, but we have had compiled, self-contained, dependency-free executables for decades. If people are not aware of that, perhaps it's because scripting languages (or languages that use a VM) have come to so thoroughly dominate programming language discussions?
This reminds me a bit of self-help culture. Some people are addicted to it, and never actually apply what they learn, instead just reading more and self-criticizing, when most of it is about breaking those precise patterns of thought.
Right, but that is not the thrust of the article, which is that Twitter is whining now about RT, yet previously tried to sell them a political influence package!
Neural networks do generalise well, and their vulnerability to crafted attacks is unrelated to generalisation anyway.

Additionally the size of the network isn’t the same thing as GPU memory and you don’t fit training examples in memory anyway (?!).
Specifications can be qualitative.

* Looks good

* Comfortable
Quality is qualitative
That will never happen because voting happens during a finite window of time.
They aren't changing to Kubernetes internally. It's more of an open-source reimplementation (and modernisation) of Borg, because they don't think it's practical to open-source Borg itself.
I agree. We originally wanted to build an appliance for it, but hardware is hard. So we abstracted out what we could and while we use "people" contributing data, the reality is that any agent (IoT, etc) on the network can participate.
yeah, what they need are programmable drones that follow them around, recording.

They can call it the "paparazzi" and Snapchat users will eat it up, it would be air and land based that makes them look like stars.

In all seriousness, the biggest use of Snapchat Spectacles or Google Glass is exploring but that view does lose the star aspect of what people desire on Snapchat. GoPro has that covered but also just a view of what the person is seeing isn't always the best view.

It could work with the drone/bot aspect to make it a full production. Still though, Snapchat is obsessed with angles that make you look the best so it might be something that would need to be edited/managed like a photo/video.
What does it mean to "concatenate two numbers together"?
The guerrilla marketing was to keep Robert Scobles

Prescient, given how toxic his personal brand now is.
What's concerning is that the network used dropout, which I thought was aimed and making networks less brittle (i.e. reduce overfitting).
Ask HN: Please hide the karma and points from me
Hi there.

I really like HN, I think it's the best place to keep in touch with tech news. I like comments too, as they often provide good counterpoints and details about stories.

I try to comment / submit sometimes as well to participate, but whenever I do, I tend to get obsessed with points and karma. I'll check the feed every 2-3 minutes to see if I get upvoted, or see if my comment tanks in the feed. I know why I'm doing this: it's because I love the feeling of random people liking what I have to say. And I think it's a fairly human thing to do. But then I feel like crap spending so much time looking at that stupid karma number.

My question is: is there ANY value to the user to display that karma number and points on HN comments / submission?

I feel that hiding the numbers would increase the quality of submissions and comments, while preventing a lot of people like myself wasting some time.

Oh, and it will also keep me from getting infuriated when I get downvoted in the first minutes after I post.
:-) was about to respond in a similar way, and I probably won't be telling anyone something they don't know by reiterating the cliche of "it's a matter of balance". There is nothing wrong with feeds, just as there is nothing wrong with ice cream. Addiction is the problem to address...
Alternatively eliminate the noise by low-pass filtering in freq domain. Even a small LED light will bleed to more than one pixel in a real photo.
Super appreciated. Are you working in the space?
It's simpler than that

The human vision has a natural blur (some more than others), natural temporal integration of inputs, automatic centering of subjects, limited resolution and gain adjustment

Hence one pixel nudged makes absolutely no difference
I wish they would sell these glasses for $50 USD. they would have no problem clearing out quite a few of them. I can’t see myself paying $100+ on Craigslist let alone the retail price of $129.99

Here’s to hoping they get highly discounted and dumped on eBay/amazon.
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Are you aware of how calories are measured? They essentially set the food on fire and count how long it takes to go out.

Does our body digest things by acting like a furnace? No. There are different ways to extract energy from food and our body does things that aren't accounted for by the nutrtional facts blurb on the box. In some cases the food will just go straight through you, such as when you eat loads of fat. All those "calories" don't necessarily translate into x pounds on your body in new fat.
We were just discussing this earlier with some friends. Don't bitcoin transactions take a large amount of time? A block takes 10 minutes to mine, and there is no guarantee your transaction will be picked up by the currently mined block (or the one after), because there is a limit on the number of transactions that can fit in a block. Are there solutions to this?
They had the application completely wrong. It's not for "social influencers". It's for jocks. People doing extreme sports. Skateboarders. Surfers. They needed to market this as a more convenient GoPro.

The trouble is, that's not Snapchat's target demographic. The device concept is fine; it's the seller that's wrong.
I say it's obvious because neither Glass nor Spectacles were wearable by people who need corrective lenses AS corrective eyewear.

This reminds me of Canon vs Nikon. Fanboys on the Internet wank on about megapixels and whatnot but the real differentiator is the eyepoint of the viewfinder, which is probably literally as simple as, the eyepoint guy at Nikon wears glasses themselves and their counterpart at Canon doesn't.
moral of the story: quit hyping things that you know are stupid
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You realise that anti-SNAP thing was literally the same argument people used on FB when they floated, right?
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I disagree with your entire comment and here’s why - in my view, saying that the reason something failed because it relieved no itch or there was insufficient utility is at par with suggesting that trading is simple because you have to “Buy Low and Sell High, d’oh”. It teaches no one anything they don’t instinctively know.

Everything the article says - be it about influencers not picking up and promoting the Spectacles to difficulties with porting content without cropping - is extremely useful to anyone else looking to launch a Spectacles type device.
Not only bigger brains. Human I/O as of now is limited.

Communicating one word at a time, one picture at a time or one sound at a time is slow and has significant overhead.

AI doesn't need to transfer information one word, picture or sound at a time. It can potentially pass on any arbitrary representation no matter how large, at massive speeds.

Then, going back to humans: a human expert take decades to train. Once trained, transferring that expertise involves starting the process again. Not the case with AI. Take the state of an AI, serialize it, instance it thousands of times, you've got thousands of experts.
GHCi defaults to numerical operations on Int by default, so we have to specify what type we would like. Before you convince yourself that that's an obvious loss for Haskell bear in mind that you have to specify the type at only one single place in your whole program and it will propagate everywhere else, even if your program is 10m lines.

Prelude> add_ x y = x + y + 1
Prelude> add_ <$> readLn <*> readLn :: IO Float
3
40.1
44.1
Amazon can turn up and down their profit whenever they like. They have proven it and the market knows it.
Someone just published a new attack at ICLR that does not even need confidence scores but works solely on the final decision output of the network and works as well as the best known attacks (that so far required gradients): https://openreview.net/forum?id=SyZI0GWCZ&noteId=SyZI0GWCZ
If using Clojure means that one no longer needs sleep then I concede immediately.
Google cards are an example of anti-competitive behavior. They lift content from sites, often without their permission, and display that data on the site. With their 90 percent marketshare, this behavior kills websites. There have been numerous lawsuits on this. The end result, is you have a web with less choice and innovation.[1] The most outrageous thing is they take this content and display ads right next to it and profit off it. All without giving a dime to the website owners.

Cards are one example, the best example is Google's plan to kill comparison shopping sites because it was eating into their marketshare. Washington Post put it best:

> Quoting internal Google documents and emails, the report shows that the company created a list of rival comparison shopping sites that it would artificially lower in the general search results, even though tests showed that Google users “liked the quality of the [rival] sites” and gave negative feedback on the proposed changes.

Google reworked its search algorithm at least four times, the documents show, and altered its established rating criteria before the proposed changes received “slightly positive” user feedback. Internal Google documents predicted that the proposed changes would reduce rivals’ user traffic up to 20 percent and subsequently reported producing the desired results once the changes were implemented.[2]

[1] https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-should-be-outrag...

The list goes on and on...
The article that you linked was well-thought and well-written. I liked the more bottom-up approach to the issues and that Mr Sarris at least offered kernels of alternatives.

Ignoring for a moment that the decision-making ability of the US legislature is all but broken, I worry that the sheer complexity of the issues surrounding UBI would make adoption – or even learned consideration – impossible.

And, as you and Sarris mention, the relationship between UBI and healthcare and housing (rents) is a whole other can of complexity.
Lubuntu is fast, but feels unfinished, some things I can't really describe annoy me when using it, I see a lot of small things that are supposed to be there but are missing.
Agreed.

One thing that struck me when watching the video - it's not just the father interacting with the camera, it's other Apple employees who very clearly know that they're being filmed. I wonder how come none of the employees said anything?
I saw an issue or thread somewhere about the technical problems of supporting Closure Advanced in Bucklescript. I'm surprised they were solved at one point then regressed. What would be the reason for removing it, unless maybe it was easier to implement new features by no longer supporting it?

Closure Advanced has many benefits so it's really nice to support it, especially if you're writing a whole site app of decent size all in one codebase.
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Wouldn’t it be sensible to median filter the input images to remove these types of single pixel outliers?
> Docker is a tool that allows you to continue to use tools that were perfect for the1990s and early 2000s. You can create a web site using Ruby On Rails, and you’ll have tens of thousands of files, spread across hundreds of directories, and you’ll be dependent on various environmental variables. What ports are in use? What sockets do you use to talk to other apps? How does the application server talk to the web server? How could you possibly easily port this to a new server? That is where Docker comes in. It will create an artificial universe where your Rails app has everything it needs. And then you can hand around the Docker image in the same way a Golang programmer might hand around a fat binary.

Anyone who thinks that all modern web applications are made in Golang or on the JVM is in a pretty weird echo chamber. Server-side rendering with React or Angular Universal practically requires you to be running Javascript on the server, and while you can theoretically statically link V8 to Golang, it's much easier to use Node and have native code-sharing. And the reference implementation for GraphQL is in Javascript as well. Web application servers never stopped moving towards scripting languages (though arguably the microservices split from them did move towards compiled languages). So there will continue to be, for the foreseeable future, an industry-wide need for deployment of non-fat binaries with these types of dependencies. And in that case, Docker is significantly more sane than trying to synchronize all those files.
What if every time they thought "we got him/her for a measly $X, sweet"
Show HN: Fibonacci in {lambda talk}
In the case of a debit card it can be pre-paid and/or the fees cover the costs just like with credit cards.
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The company has created an investment product for a wide international audience, the honesty, the smart contract, the leased facilities to the personal account binds.
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It is already possible to invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum,AdvCash
The withdrawal of the charges to profit and the contribution of the body 30 of the month.
Withdrawal of earned affiliate-marketing every Monday.
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Perhaps instead of writing proofs about how you came to believe what someone elses beliefs are, you could either:

a) Not do that.

b) Ask them what their views are if you're actually curious.

Cheers.
His article is a delight to read, if only for how he wittily plays with words.
>25 billion euros

Pretty much to buy anyone, any 25, any 250. It is interesting if Volkswagen was ready to pay for the silence, or was it just unnoticed low-level decision that allowed misbehaving vechicles to the market?
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I also felt the opening tone of the article was quite patronising. What exactly is an emissions specialist supposed to look like?
Apparently "feed" describes the class of apps like Facebook and Twitter, but not RSS feeds? RSS feeds give me much more control. With Facebook the choice is pretty much use as is or not at all. Well, browser extensions can help a little but for the smartphone app, this is the choice.
> The Go language is the pioneer for fat binaries.

I had to laugh on this one.
Just moves the problem rather than solving it. You now have a Go dependency management problem and all the fun that causes.

It won't be long before we see Go library distributions with versions in packages and security fixes rolled out to them...

What we've missed over the years is an agreed improvement to the Unix process abstraction that the kernel manages. IPC was never solved. So now we're trying to do ipc over http with JSON
it just means bald with shiny hair.
> I can always completely avoid having to choose static verification if I so choose

Well, yes, roughly, of course! You can always choose to use extremely broad types that give minimal guarantees, for example Scientific instead of Double or Int, String instead of MyPreciseErrorType, Map String Dynamic instead of MyPreciseRecordType ...

You'll find the Haskell ecosystem is not really designed around that kind of programming because Haskellers don't really like it but it can easily be done, semantically. It will also be a bit awkward syntactically, but it's certainly possible. And then you can opt in to types (a la carte) later by replacing broader types with narrower ones as your project manager refines his specification.

But that's not really the point. You can bolt on types to Clojure and you can bolt on dynamism to Haskell. My point is that I've almost always found it better to start in a strongly typed language, even when the requirements are changing rapidly.
The earth was big. There is oil everywhere.
Is there a service that compiles cool stuff into a daily or weekly newsletter?
It's just a process with a fancy chroot. Don't believe all the docker hype. Sensible admins have been doing something similar for years. We just didn't have a massive PR budget
Ironically Hacker News is blocked (thru the host file) on my pc for this reason. I still browse it one my phone, but it is a more conscious action and it is less confortable, so I waste less time on it.
Ask HN: How do you make sure you get enough sleep every night?
I have a hard time going to bed on time at night because I always end up browsing the internet. What are your tips for getting a good night's sleep every night?
I even got rid of RSS several months ago. Couple of news sites, several tech news feeds (did I really need 9to5mac, macrumors AND Cult of Mac??) and few job related feeds.

Didn't really need ANY of them as it turns out.

I don't know the way to filter RSS in any meaningful way so that had to go too.

(Never was on facebook or twitter so my main nemesis is/was web browser and RSS feeds).
I built an extension [1] that might be helpful to you. It blocks only the Facebook news feed but still allows you to use Facebook normally otherwise. I found the news feed was always the thing that drew me in mindlessly - I'd go on there to send someone a message and end up just scrolling for hours.

I don't believe Facebook is on a path that will end well for itself. Anecdotally it seems there's an increasing number of people like yourself who are fed up with Facebook and looking to dump it.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Facebook had two classes - A with 1 vote and B with 10 votes. In IPO they offered class A.

Snap has A, B and C. They offered A which has zero voting rights.

Facebook tried to get another structure in place this year but dropped it.

So, not literally the same argument.
Knowing Germany, the transition will probably be 10 years long, because everything has to be 100% perfect and 99.8% ist außerhalb der Fehlermarge!
An increasing urge is building to ditch as much tech as possible out of the home. Possibly all except the dumbphone, including the TV.

I cannot say it's built to the point of action, but there's some compelling arguments for doing so.
I had this problem. Solution was to install a Chrome extension called "StayFocusd" and really lock down what it allows me to look at. Only sites that are work related: mail, all the local web consoles (Jenkins) that I use, stackoverflow and friends, and websites containing "Cpp" or "python", and a few other keywords.

Wikipedia for entertainment. It's complex enough that it's like reading a school textbook: your mind gets tired from reading about the war of the Spanish succession, and decides to go back to work.

Everything else I give 3 minutes a day to, within the working day. So if I show up early or work late, I can browse a bit, but the 3 minutes can be used on random sites I need (say someone emails me some form I have to fill out).

I also use "TimeYourWeb" to show me what I looked at, and it's much better since I did this. Normally I didn't waste all day reading, but now and again I'd run into some interesting long-form article with associated links.

Now you might think 3 minutes is too little and I'd then cheat and go on Safari or my phone. Which I do, especially for Facebook. But I generally use FB to tell my friends I'm still alive by liking their articles. The articles linked from there are either things I've already read because they're all over the news that day, or not very interesting.

I also find the leap of having to copy-paste a link to Safari is enough to stop me doing it for most things, when I would have just clicked through on my main browser.
I guess so.

Usually everone that somehow thinks Go compilation model is inovative, never has used anything beyond scripting languages and possibily C in addition to them.

MS-DOS used to call them "XCopy installs", NeXTSTEP had its fat binaries with directory structure, Windows and MacOS(pre OS X) can store all dependencies inside the .exe file and so on.

In any case, fat binaries don't cover the dependencies with file system, other running servers or sandboxing.
80 years is too short. That's only 20 American presidential terms.
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chroot only protects the file system, sandboxes are much more than that.
Long-term survival could be the sort of problem that requires people to think about it for 100-500 years beyond kindergarten. Moreover, societies here on Earth could benefit from people caring more about the impact they will have beyond their (currently) inevitable death in 0-100 years.
Google runs things internally as fat binaries inside cgroups, which is a Linux kernel feature that implements resource limits like "only give this thing 2GB of memory"

Docker combines cgroups with a layered filesystem and a tarfile to copy everything around in. It's the total package that is meaningful; the article argues against just one aspect and thus fails to cover the whole picture.
How do you disable the feed in pixel? I hate seeing stories pop up whenever I want to do a search. It's horrible. Moreover the stories often anger me and I would have been better off not knowing
Same here. Never used Facebook/Twitter preferring RSS instead, recently decided to replace it with subscriptions to few weekly newsletters, so far so good.
That is correct. One solution to this being worked on is Lightning Network (http://lightning.network)
I think that currency volatility won't be a problem in the future. Everything will be online and prices of items will update in real time to reflect supply and demand relative to any digital currency of your choice.

It will be like in the old days when people used to haggle over the price of everything.
RSS for news sites has never worked for me (well, apart from planet.mozilla). Where it’s worth is for me is aggragating the hundred or so blogs I follow that post interesting things once every 3-12 months.
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Is there a large difference in viewfinder design nowadays? I wear glasses and use a Canon 1DX2 and have tried out a Nikon D5 — if anything the Canon is more comfortable for me to look through.

The specifications bear me out: Nikon has a 0.71x magnification VF with a 17mm eyepoint, while Canon has a 0.76x magnification VF wish 20mm eyepoint.