skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine is using geospatial data to look for places in Mozambique with high probability of finding hominid fossils. He's basically automating Lee Rogers Berger's work of travelling Africa and looking for caves and other spots. It's pretty cool but still very preliminary.
Only if the parents have given their child the PIN and they also look similar enough to trigger against the existing facial model.
Also see https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/86284
Neverwhere => wonderful setting full of fantastic things

The Dark Tower => a massive epic that starts out western and goes multiverse SciFi and links together many of kings works. I felt like i was on a grand quest

Various short story collections from Gaiman & Stephen King => most are like twilight zone episodes (short little mind benders I can digest in one sitting)

Ted Chiang's short stories=> each one of these was amazing...particularly the one that inspired Arrival movie and the one with the guy that gets super intelligence.

The Dresden files => this won't win any awards from literary critics, but is one of my favorite series that just keeps on getting better and more captivating. There are so many complex characters. They don't exist in isolation either, but interact. There are so many main and sub plots. Themes about good & evil, how many things are gray, love, redemption, faith, corruption , perseverance, tactics & strategy...it's all there. It's very unpredictable plot wise. So many books just blow me away.
Hoarding money like this is highly immoral. Just give most of it away: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/its-basically-just-im...
Although the Stratum idea seems logical and even good (at least for me) the basic problem in developing countries is always the same: widespread corruption and wirepulling.
And there goes integrity. It applies to many other situations, where taking investment, accepting help, or committing to excessive mortgage makes you lose your integrity - you simply won't be able to afford it. One of the many down sides of aiming to build Facebooks instead of Basecamps.
This is free access to a huge trove of information.

So is archive.org, but it's not the Internet. They deliberately decided to give it the misleading name of "Internet.org" --- no doubt there would be far less outcry if it was named something else.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
As much as I want this to lead to public change, I don’t think it will. The economy seems to be strong enough for people to overlook the outsized shares of others.

I’m more shocked by the lack of outrage over the unfolding Trump-circle ties to Russia. People claim to be patriotic but welcoming to the Cold War’s nemesis.
> What's going to be interesting is what these people will think when people start demanding atheist, lgbt, leftist, etc content be censored.

I agree with the sentiment in principle. And I think competing walled gardens is a poor substitute for actual free speech. But I think the likely outcome is that other platforms/communities will rise for the "red team", with a similar philosophy of censorship but obviously much different community standards.

Initially, I think this will drive further animosity between the two teams as they become even more isolated echo chambers. But hopefully where the two meet (eg Faceboot), people will relearn that whole thing of not discussing "religion or politics" (redundant) in polite company.
Did you follow the links to the other connected articles?
Nice to hear there's some hope... I managed to get some small grants and donations and things for WireGuard over part of this last year -- https://www.wireguard.com/donations/ -- but I don't have much lined up for next year, and I'm hoping I can figure it out in time to do WireGuard things full time. The thing is just getting funding lined up for [part of] this last year was a pretty time consuming hustle, and I'd rather spend that time writing code. This leads me to think I should find somebody to handle "fund raising" or "community mumblemumble" or something, but as WireGuard is a security-oriented project, communicating correctly is important, and I could imagine that somehow backfiring. The other thing is that I'd feel really uncomfortable putting up one of those thermometer overlays on the wireguard.com website; just adding the "donate" link in the corner was a bit much for me. So, hm. Nice to see the Webpack guys figure it out. Maybe I'll take some clues from there.
Looks like a rush-job to be the first rather than a serious analysis?
The HN frontpage just got shotgun blasted with this "story" plus one about a Russian billionaire who owns Facebook and Twitter stock.

I counted at least 6 topics posted within minutes of each other with the exact same variation of title. Just flag and ignore.
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I was recently in Denmark where I learned first hand from numerous locals about the social services working together whereby most (if not all?) medical care is completely covered, children's education is covered (if they go abroad as well), subsidies for having kids and for studying / continued education... this largely results in two major considerations:
a "no-stress" lifestyle without cause for concern of saving up for unforeseen and significant medical illness, and no cause for concern of saving up for your child's schooling and higher education.
So, despite a _slightly_ higher tax, does all the take home money not then become completely disposable income with nothing needing to be allocated for savings, unless desire for new car or housing, or luxuries?
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It seems like a mathematician should be able to derive a trig identity if asked? Otherwise you don't know it very well.

Often mathematicians will make informal arguments but the idea is that you should be able to add rigor when needed.
I think the link changed? I ended up here : https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-face...
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Worthy noting that Yuri Milner automatically invented ~$150K in YC companies till 2013 [1]. Russian money might be making this very site possible.

[1]: http://bit.ly/2y4cIU6
Imagine if they'd never shut anything down.

People would be constantly popping up on HN repeating a different mantra about how bloated and unfocused they were (although arguably Google manages to be bloated and unfocused despite the shutdowns - but that's another debates)

Most of the Google shutdown's were understandable whether you like them or not.

In any case - it's getting tedious to hear the same comment on every Google related post. They shut things down. We get it.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach awakened my intellectual curiosity about formal systems and other autistic modes of beauty as a teenager. After "The Selfish Gene" it was the first book I bought and read on my own volition, so I have to credit it as a major influence.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs for showing that you can think rigorously and compose beautiful programs out of simple pieces.

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty for showing that it's possible to think and feel about politics while maintaining a profoundly ironic and groundless mind.

The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry for its beautiful view of civilization as materialized caring and of the inflicting of pain as metaphysically destructive.

Being-in-the-world by Dreyfus for introducing me to Heidegger and showing how continental philosophy inspired by Heidegger was a major force in the evolution of AI and how AI researchers tended to be influenced by rationalist philosophy in the vein of Descartes which leads to huge misunderstandings of the nature of being.

Dhammapada translated by Gil Fronsdal because it's a beautiful exposition of early Buddhist poetry and clearly shows the worldview of south east Asian Buddhism.

Debt by David Graeber for making me interested in money and credit systems from an anthropological point of view.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace for being hilarious and sad and buzzing with neurotic perceptive overeducated thought in a way that mirrored my own precocious self-consciousness and made me feel less "marooned in my own skull."

The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett for giving a defense of the anarchy of urban life that views conflict as necessary for growth.

After Virtue by Alisdair MacIntyre for showing the contemporary situation in thought and ethics as profoundly abnormal and difficult, being the aftermath of the Enlightenment project's failure to ground morality in objective reason, and pointing to virtue within traditions as the only way to live coherently.

The Teachings of Huang-bo for being a merciless and hilarious attack on sanctimonious and ritualistic Buddhism, displaying the role of sarcasm and wit in spirituality, and generally just shouting "wake up, lazy pretentious idiot" on every page.

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land for diving deeply into amphetaminic insanity thus accurately mirroring the schizophrenia of postmodern capitalism.

The letters of Van Gogh.

Phillip Lopate's personal essays.

Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton.

On the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
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It's a hit piece from a Soros backed organization, with the typical astro-turfing and other tactics.
This thread and the culture of those replying to it fascinate me. Do you really enjoy spending this much time debating licenses, clauses, and legal matters?

I personally, just have to many more important things to do than worry about and waste time on compliance, laws, enforcement. It just seems like such a rediculous waste of time.

I just 2 clause BSD license my code and move on. Compensate me, don't compensate me, I'm busy writing other code, or designing systems, etc

Do people people posting replies here really spend this much time on licensing issues instead of producing?

It just seems so needless to me.
I can't help but think of the GOP's tax "reform" that is a hot topic in the US right now. I say "reform" because there's absolutely no reform about it. It's a tax cut for billionaires bought and paid for by the GOP donor class. The paranoia of religious conservatives certainly elected the GOP but make no mistake: they don't give a shit about anyone but the donor class, often personified by the Koch brothers.

The carried interest tax credit is noticeably absent from the House plan.

The problem with any kind of true reform is that every exception and rule benefits someone and they'll lobby hard to defend it.

As for the corporate tax cut, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to it if it came with enforcement against the offshoring (via transfer pricing) of profits in low tax regimes. But of course it doesn't.

Bringing this back to the Paradise Papers and other similar leaks, the problem I have is there's increasingly an ultra-rich class who benefitted greatly by the political stability in places like the developed world but have somehow convinced themselves that they shouldn't have to pay for it.

There was a time in my life when I was against the estate tax on philosophical grounds. That time is long gone. It really is a silver spoon tax. If anything it should be higher.

I really wish I understood why someone with $5b thought themselves above paying for schools, roads, hospitals and police. What really is the practical difference between having $5b or $10b?

Luckily the House plan is pretty much DOA in the Senate.
You keep dodging. His point was that you misquoted Bloom to create a perception that he disagrees with Damore.

Also this is more interesting since its an insider opinion by an educated man. You are trying to dismiss Damore outright without counterargument. That's not productive.
The best, most effective, and only correct way to fight hate speech is not to censor it.

It's to TALK BACK.

The thing about speech is it's only a paper trail of sorts. Sounds or printed symbols are not bullets being shot. But what they do is connect and mobilize minds and ideas, and hence the fear.

But since they are only a paper trail, censorship never solves the cause. It's like burying it. Silencing does have an impact... in that we no longer hear those words. But where they came from - unless they're funded by the speech itself (like a newspaper or something) - are still live and kicking. You have to kill the people that spoke those words, or else they'll continue to influence (hence the assassination of MLK, and so on). It's the equivalent of putting a silencer on a gun.

The point is, we need to engage the cause. The "gun" needs to be made the issue, not the sound of bullets firing. And not fight as in war, because that would lead to justifying offensive tactics that lower our moral standards. Censorship in media is the equivalent of murder on the battlefield.

Engaging is to connect. It is diplomacy. And for engagement, SPEECH IS THE ONLY WAY. So silencing goes against the cause. It makes things worse.

When we bury what cannot be buried, we get Silk Road and the drug war and the political backlash which is Mr. T. Instead, if we engage these PEOPLE as non-criminals for who they truly are - people just like you or I with different ideas - then we might actually get somewhere.

They are here to teach us what we needed to know, and vice versa. We must talk back, and not silence or punish or annihilate. That is the only civil and progressive solution.
Oh f* off, yellow emojis were perfectly fine until you lot cane around and started adding gender fluid and race fluid nonsense. It’s a writing system who cares about what colour an emoji is. Unicorns are pink and frogs are green. If you want equality then stop trying to push for obvious differentiators to especially point to what your skin Color is over a simple tweet.

You’re what’s wrong with the internet
I'm not a bag geek, but I know firsthand how hard it is to find the right bag, if you care about functionality more than form.

For instance, I still haven't found the right carry on backpack that's sturdy, doesn't cost $200+, allows me to take clothes for a couple days and a laptop. It's either too big, too expensive, too heavy, too fragile, take your pick. So I can understand how someone can become a bag geek if they have to travel professionally on their own (without assistants who carry your baggage). Bonus points if I can detach a small laptop bag to take with me in order not to leave it at the hotel with the rest of the bag. So far I've always had to carry around the backpack and leave clothes in the hotel room. Pack, arrive, unpack, carry laptop, repack, go home.
What makes you think other countries does not also have "elite" universities? China and India has five times the population of the US and several universities which are harder to get into than MIT. Fwiw, I don't believe in the theory of the GP. Math is a subject best done by yourself so what your peers know or not doesn't matter, imho.
Title is misleading. There are two brains connected by a bridge.
I'm just making an observation, not a prescription.
Is there a mirror? An ipfs link?
Its not class-driven, but caste-driven society.
I’m saying explicitly he or she is making up problems that don’t exist. My presumption is they never used webpack or tried for a second and gave up. My theory is this user likes to parrot things about the JS scene. Upgrading webpack involved changing some things from an array to a keyed object or something. It was nothing. I’m not particularly smart or JS savvy.
If a company doesn't use these tax-avoidance means, it becomes uncompetitive and gets eaten by those, that do. Moreover, there is a wealth of tax optimizing consultants with great knowledge of holes one gets access to once their revenue reaches $x00,000,000, often sanctioned by governing bodies. So if one makes it to the club, the easy way to stay there is to adopt the same disgusting practices like everybody else and shoot the ladder behind themselves. The rest of the world can live in favelas, nobody at the top really cares. I doubt we can't figure out a proper system to track every single transaction and make sure it's taxed properly, but there is no will or there are always some convoluted backdoors proper consulting companies install through lobbying and make available to "donors".
It's indeed on 'Current region' and apparently that includes Australia and UK, but not US. Strange.

As I'm writing this I've only found a mention on the nytimes homepage (rather small). In Europe it seems to be the main (breaking) news on most sites.
The GOP is beyond corrupt -- would you agree the focus should be on improving the Democratic Party to be formidable again?
Here is the latest publicly available draft of the 2nd edition (June 2017, 538 pages): http://incompleteideas.net/sutton/book/bookdraft2017june19.p...
Here come the conspiracy theory apologists.

Blah blah tin foil hat blah blah wacko nutjob.
> "The choices Nordic countries have made have little to do with altruism or kinship," Partanen wrote for The Atlantic in 2016. "This is what Americans fail to understand: My taxes in Finland were used to pay for top-notch services for me."

This is an odd statement to me. Any wealth redistribution system has both "givers" and "receivers". What do the "givers" in Nordic countries actually think? Do the the "givers" share this perspective that the system isn't altruistic? Or do they not consider this money theirs? Are they conditioned by a young age to see themselves as "receivers"? Or do they not think about which they are, and prefer the ambiguity? Or are they silenced? I'm very curious to hear a "giver's" perspective, because this sounds a bit brain-washy to me.
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Sure, once corporations are regulated properly and prevented from contributing unnecessarily to emissions, I will stop taking leisure flights. That's a promise I know I can make because I will never have to keep it. Until then, I don't see what the point is and I actively refuse to make changes when the entities most responsible for emissions, corporations, are allowed to do nothing and go on about their polluting ways. Nothing I do will make a difference. The plane I gave up my seat on will still fly and still use about as much fuel. My not flying on said plane will not prevent thousands of other planes from, for example, delivering tomatoes from the other side of the world when there are plenty of local ones. Pass legislation addressing the 80% of the problem (corporate pollution) and then ask individuals to address the other 20%. Doing things in reverse is not only dumb but quite ineffective.
You can use attrs validators for it, though it's not maximally concise. (i.e. you need functions declared, but it's easy to reuse them.)

http://www.attrs.org/en/stable/examples.html#validators

Also, the next attrs release looks like it's getting some support for PEP484 type hinting annotations, but I don't know the details beyond having glanced at some pull requests. So it might get simpler in the future. If so, that'd make it easy to trust the type-validation, and just have the range check as a custom validator.
My wife and I spent some time in the Bay Area in our twenties. It was nice and I'm glad we did it, but I am so happy that we moved back to a small town in Ohio before beginning to raise a family. SF is a nice place to visit, but Ohio is home.

It definitely helps that programming can be done remotely, but I think I'd still prefer it here, even if it meant working for a local shop at half my current salary.
Depends on how you define advertising. It's fundamentally impossible to have a market without marketing. The cinema gets its audience by posting events on Facebook, and that's advertising, right?
All the money that rich people give away comes out of your wallet in the form of tax deductions.
You are correct. There is no TD learning in AGZ. The value network is trained to directly predict the game outcome given the current state, and is not trained through "bootstrapping" based on the next state's value estimate.
That's why we need good journalism... power will always corrupt, making the "Fourth Estate" a necessary implicit branch of a democratic government-and-society
Washington State and local government has a sales tax of close to 10%. So say you make 100k per year, your effective tax rate is 25% add 5% property tax and ten percent sales tax that's 40%.
You wre not discussing this civilly. A democratic process will consider any viewpoint and judge it by its merits. Not dismiss it outright with a handwave "this is just a political technique" that's not how a truly democratic or scientific community responds. This is the response of a tribe afraid of values that do not fit into theirs.
I never took U.S. civics, so that is news to me. I always found it weird that it took an amendment to get to free speech but apparently this was all set up in one go?

Thanks for that!
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbg3ZX2pWlgKDVFNwn9B6.... Thanks!
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The sad thing about this is the fatigue caused by the whole "well, of course they're cheating, they always do.". When the powerful/wealthy get caught the result seems to be just further apathy, rather than outrage with consequences. I wonder how long this can continue.
I don't think that placing all of the blame on her, as it seems you are doing (and flagging most likely as well) helps with the conversation in the industry right now. Your entire comment blames her response rather than the stimulus.

You can say that you don't like her public response, but the response of the organizers and inability to send a quick note before doing what they did places some of this on them as well. I submitted this in the hopes that someone who organizes a conference in the future can have the insight to ask before doing something like this.
Relevant for HN audience:

"Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has put tech companies under scrutiny"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...
You stated it very well, especially that last paragraph.

I'm busily bringing lmbench up to date and seeing if I can get my mojo back enough to hang with these guys and do some work. It's both exciting to think about kernel work and depressing to realize so few people understand it any more.
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The meteor docs in general need more examples and best practices. The udemy course on meteor/react is extremely well done as a starting point.
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