skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>sentenced to death (in absentia) in Yemen

one can only wonder how much "justice" in a justice system which does such things in absentia.

>If this guy really was a terrorist why didn't the CIA send him back to Yemen to be put to death legally?

while can't speak for CIA obviously, i think there are many reasons like for example how one can be sure whether current government-of-the-day in Yemen would kill the guy or let him go as a national hero?

> All organizations seem poisoned by processes and plagued by mental models designed by lawyers with relativistic principles.

this is why there are courts, the 3rd branch, whose decisions are supposed to have the power to correct the organizations back onto the right course. Of course in the situations when there is no court power present, like in Gitmo for example, the organization there - government - can do whatever it wants, be it a right thing or a wrong one, without any limitations/checks.

The key money quote from your link :

“While the government has an interest in ensuring that the proceedings at Guantanamo are fair, that interest is not compelling enough” to stop the proceedings, Wiltsie [a Justice Department attorney] said in Lamberth’s courtroom Thursday.
You might try flattening and reinstalling the iOS cause I have iOS 11 and have experienced none of your issues.
It is often the case that I type faster than the UI can respond. So if I am tabbing through form fields and the last one changes everything above the viewport without me noticing it's an easy mistake to make. I usually won't double check shipping addresses because I typed the correct thing in the first time. At the end of the day it is on me to catch these kinds of things but I am sure you can understand my frustration.
Nope. I want well-defined best practices that make it easy for me to focus on the real engineering challenges rather than boilerplate. The issue I have is that there are numerous, sometimes conflicting, methods of solving the same problems that, in the Django/Rails worlds have one generally-accepted solution. As I mentioned earlier, there are numerous methods of solving i18n and it isn't clear which is "the best." A framework is a potential solution to this problem. Simply getting folks to all align on supporting a few libraries is also a solution. The challenge, of course, is that my "best" isn't the same as your "best," thus we end up with conflicting solutions.
It’s not uncommon at all, and it’s been documented here and other places many many times. The difference between this and your poor analogy is that here Google could actually prevent this if they chose to.
(crashing your browser) - I'm sorry about that. I'm not VERY technical but i'll see what I can do here.

(Signing Up) Writers can sign up at - www.publoft.com/marketplace

(Prices) We've been back and forth about making them public or not. Right now we're testing the "not". It ranges from $300-$600 per month.

(grammar)- I will go back and double check. Im sure they are right. As a one-man show, I can only catch so much, but this is inexcusable.

(Skeptical)....Curious how does it look controlling to you? It isn't supposed to come off like that. Actually the opposite, so i'm curious.

Thank you for the feedback. I really do appreciate it and value it. Hopefully, I cleared some of your questions up.
And this is why your validation logic should also be done on server side...
Aside from MCTS being a different tree search method, there is no 'closing of the loop'. In regular MCTS, it is far from unheard of to do the random playouts with instead some 'heavier' heuristic to make the playouts a little better estimators of the node value, but the heavy playouts do not do any kind of learning, the heuristic you start with is what you end with; what makes this analogous to policy iteration (hence the names for the Zero algorithm of 'tree iteration' or 'expert iteration') is that the refined estimates from the multiple heavy playouts are then used to improve the heavy playout heuristic (ie. a NN which can be optimized via backpropagation in a supervised learning of board position -> value). Then in a self-play setting, the MCTS continually refines its heavy heuristic (the NN) until it's so good that the NN+MCTS is superhuman. Then at play time you can drop the MCTS entirely and just use the heavy heuristic to do a very simple tree search to choose a move (which I think might actually be a minimax with a fixed depth but I forget).
I think sometimes it's hard for us to zoom out and solve bigger problems that we might not see. Like, if I don't enjoy the chore I'm doing, I can make it easier, or I can eliminate it. (Paying a bill in person is a good example). Or, maybe there is an object that is generating a lot of work for me, like a house, and there is an alternative object (an apartment). Heck, sometimes it would be nice to have a record of all the things I enjoy and just have an AI path-find to maximize revisiting those things.
I wonder how many sites have left the /debug/pprof endpoint enabled in production. Sounds like something pentesters should keep in mind.
Hey there. Good find in the blog post. I'll be dead honest here. I had rent to pay that month and bills to pay. We thought we were being bold by making that claim, but in reality, it killed our sales process. Leads come in in double digits, not in the dozens. It was a bad decision, and I own up to it 100%. I should probably make the blog post unlisted.

Thank you for your question. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Think broader: he called the prince a corrupt, holier than thou douche. It seems he was right.
Ask HN: What are you doing/did you do with your extra hour
It’s that time again where we gain an hour for winter and I was just curious what everyone is doing/did with that extra hour?
I got an iPhone 8 when it came out and ive seen all the problems listed above.
The Internet companies lost the high ground in regard to censorship and 3rd party speech when they tried to shutdown Daily Stormer. When Google or CloudFlare were told that the website was using their services, instead of taking the high ground with regard to the principle of free speech and 3rd party speech on their services, they used their right to free association to withdraw service.

Now when you use free association to withdraw internet service that you oppose, you implicitly are saying that you endorse the services you keep.

Now most people agree that if people who advocate Nazism are bad, people who actually engage in human trafficking are even worse. And if you are ok with making sure that the former are not on the Internet, you should be even more ok with keeping the latter off the Internet.

This is the reason why the ACLU has historically been pretty absolutist about free speech, even defending and making sure that the government does not censorship even the most odious of speech.

In the past, section 230 made sense as most of the companies had a lassez-faire attitude to speech on their services. With companies now doing more to me censor 3rd party speech on their platform, section 230 is seen as the tech companies wanting to have your cake (bot have any liability for 3rd party speech) and eat it too(be able to censor 3rd party speech whenever they want).
I need to go back to check our website. I'm sure there are errors. I only have two hands and there is so much to do. BUT, this isn't an excuse. I will go back and proofread the site. Thank you for your comment.
I think people have always understood the difference between maximising probability of victory versus score. Even in amateur games you'll get the feeling "I could fight here, and it would be complicated, but I might get a huge advantage, or I could just play safe and keep my advantage."
Looks like fun! And for a good cause, too.
We pay writers $50 per 700-word post. We'd like to raise that amount, to be honest, but it's all we can swing right now.
Peak autocorrect
Quite British advice. I would sue
Nobody? Hyperbolic much?
Here are the most important announcements from PlayStation’s 2017
Thank you for this. I am going to go back and edit the site. I didn't realize how many errors there were if it weren't for HN. So thank you for showing me that there's more to edit and for the tip.
Some additional discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/778v... https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7apvr4/d_i...
Also, the weather widget does not update when location service is disabled.
In any set of events, the story is up to the interpreter. If you make your story that you were victimized, then you'll feel like there's little you can do yourself to change that. Claiming victimhood is not at all productive.

Instead, if you see those events as failings on your part, you are empowered to make the change required to have a better time in the future.

Victim mentality doesn't solve anything and goes further to make the interpreter of one's life a powerless pawn that will unavoidably be used in ways that person doesn't like.

Blame yourself and empower yourself.

Upwork is still awful. Avoid it.
In my experience this is the only useful approach.

By definition an entity that does not pay, is a leech not a client.

My approach is to break down projects into small units of work. Bill upon delivery of each unit and stop further work until it is paid for. Of course, there are some leeches out there who will bluster to get more work done without paying for what has already been delivered. I simply fire any client who becomes too abusive. They are simply not worth the hassle.
This is 100% spot on. 1000% spot on, really. We aren't done with the idea of displaying prices though. We might go back to it. But for now, this is what we're going with.
If your agreement is as firm as you say it is, continue what you are doing and /Sell/ the debt.
You'll get a guaranteed percentage of the outstanding sum even if the ghost can't be tracked or prosecuted.
The best part: No headaches, wasted time or bad PR due to dragging a client into a lawsuit.
> Unless you want your ’shrooms to turn into slime, bring wax paper or a paper bag, never plastic.

It doesn't really matter if you're only out in the woods for a couple hours, rather than being out for days at a time harvesting commercially or whatever. The reusable bags made by Baggu are pretty good because they hold 40 lbs, are breathable, and you can just throw them in the washing machine. The only downside is that they're $10 each unless you buy them wholesale.

As the article says, the best way to learn is to join your local club and go on the weekly walks. And if you want to buy a book, don't buy a field guide. Instead buy a picture book that covers a handful of your local species, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooming-without-Fear-Beginners-Co...

https://www.amazon.com/100-Edible-Mushrooms-Michael-Kuo/dp/0...

https://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-Fungi-England-Lawrence-Mi...

It's pretty easy to learn, if you start going on walks in the spring and go every other weekend throughout the year, then you'll know most of the edibles mushrooms throughout the year. Plus the poisonous ones, the other notable ones, and maybe even some of the psychoactive ones.
An hour? I'd say about five minutes.
UVA - $5 Billion

http://endowments.com/university-of-virginia/
This is probably the simplest approach. Of course it would be considered fiscally high risk to let any client rack up more than GBP$10k in outstanding payments.
Take the top apps and automatically raise a list of apps with similar names each week. Pay someone to investigate and flag if necessary.

I feel like there's a general unwillingness in some realms to do anything at all if the solution is "manual labor until a better tool is available."
These are all good questions and thoughts to think about as we're moving forward with our value proposition. We do have content marketing experience but not tons. But from our startup experience, we've found that startups don't need TONS of experience. They need content and they need to put that content in the right places. It's not as intense when you're at that stage.
That's because Steve is gone.
Google is coming to CES. More new hardware?
A Hard Day's Night: Solving a Beatles Mystery with Mathematics
I recall lua for the browser beginning in 2001.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010428142032/http://links.sourc...

http://web.archive.org/web/20090227050803/http://article.gma...

http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/c...
I wouldn't compare Tokyo's transit to New York's for the same reason I wouldn't compare almost anything else in Japan to its counterpart in any city in the U.S. It's a wildly different culture. Comparisons are fun, but sort of meaningless, because no city in the States will ever be anything like any city in Japan.
http://mmcloughlin.com/posts/your-pprof-is-showing - "Golang’s net/http/pprof package is incredibly powerful: it’s trivial to debug a running production server. In the process it’s equally easy to accidentally expose your debugging information to the world. In this post we use the zmap project to show this is a real problem in the wild, and explain preventative measures you can take."
Starts at $300/mo for two posts, a content calendar, and a keyword analysis. Goes up to $600/mo for four posts a month + the content cal and the keyword analysis. We actually aren't close to agency prices. We've internally grappled if we should make them public or not though.
He was arrested on the orders of someone who has a lot to gain politically, and in a country that regularly arrests people for what we consider to be basic human rights, so this doesn't convince me of anything about his character.
Crunchyroll.com attack update
Suing only makes sense if the cost of legal action is far less than the amounts owing. Engaging in international commercial disputes is typically very expensive. You probably need to retain lawyers in both the USA and the UK.

DIY legal action is doubly expensive. 1) you probably don't know the correct procedures, and 2) while you are lawyering, you are not earning an income from your profession.
We charge between $300 and $600 a month. Breaks down to about $150 a blog post. Keyword analysis + content calendar are included in the price.
The main reason AlphaGo Zero learns so much faster than its predecessors is because it uses temporal-difference learning.[1] This effectively removes a huge amount of the value network's state space for the learning algorithm to search through, since it bakes in the assumption that a move's value ought to equal that of the best available move in the following board position, which is exactly what you'd expect for a game like Go.

A secondary reason for AlphaGo Zero's performance is that it combines both value and policy networks into a single network, since it's redundant to have two networks for move selection.

These are the two biggest distinguishing characteristics of AlphaGo Zero compared to previous AlphaGos, and the OP doesn't discuss either of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_difference_learning
To call those seats a bad idea for New York would be the understatement of the century.
It starts at $300/mo for two blog posts a month, a keyword analysis, and a monthly content calendar. Goes up to $600/mo for 4 posts a month, a keyword analysis, and a monthly content calendar. I think we're going to add pricing to the website. Thanks for the comment.
iOS 11 was enough to get me to move off Apple products altogether. It turned my iPhone 7 into one of the slowest, most buggy devices I've had. Everything is slow, audio constantly cuts out and stutters (even when predownloaded), there's lag switching between apps, apps reload constantly, it disconnects from Bluetooth devices at the drop of a hat, my keyboard disappears or fails to appear, and battery life is garbage - I'm charging twice a day minimum. And it looks like they removed the download button from Podcasts or moved it where I can't find it. It's not in the menu.

Granted 11.1 fixes some of these issues, but I don't appreciate having my thousand dollar phone gimped for two months, and it's still worse than it was before.

I'm getting a different phone, watch, and TV device. But hey, the industry still has me by the balls as long as I'm buying something every year, right?
It starts at $300/mo for two blog posts a month, a keyword analysis, and a monthly content calendar. Goes up to $600/mo for 4 posts a month, a keyword analysis, and a monthly content calendar. Averages out to about $150 a blog post.
Rick Perry tried to argue that fossil fuels can help fight sexual assault
Posted yesterday, 390+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15621494
My upgrade went smoothly and everything works fine. iPhone SE here.
Small nitpick, I ran the example and found I could only create 3 blocks. (I'm on ubuntu if that matters) looking more into it, it seems like the issues is the glob.glob in sync.py is not always read in order so the chain is out of order. My solution was to move the add block to chain call lower, and to sort the blocks first. After changing that code it seemed to work fine.
I have owned multiple iPhones since the original but what really bugs me is that there aren't any official ways for downgrading your iPhone without saving blobs and being quite careful[1]. I understand having an official downgrading technique brings up security issues but either way the bugs are getting pretty crazy.

[1] https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/downgrade-ios-11-back-ios...

[2] My Windows computers at work and Windows Phone let you downgrade lol.
Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald provides by far the best news coverage of Guantanamo, the trials there, and of this ongoing story. Without her, it seems like much of the activity there would 'die in darkness'. Thank you Carol! (It's hard to find a good link to her coverage in general, but that one looks pretty good.)

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...

Just Security, which has leading professors and experts in the field covering national security and international law, provides the best analysis:

https://www.justsecurity.org/46578/gitmo-mess-continues/
Can this technique be used to write a strong chess engine?
> As the Bitcoin price reaches ever higher, many prospective investors become wary of the higher price, making it more difficult for entry-level investors to join the market.

I am quite surprised a seemingly crypto-centric news site doesn't know you can buy fractions of a coin.

Or maybe I misunderstood what this sentence meant.
No, I find it funny. Even hilarious, given that code with initial version
published mere six years ago is considered "not modern" somehow. I write in
a language that was published twenty years ago and hasn't changed very much
since then, and is unequalled to this day.

Also, ask any Lisper about "being modern".
I believe I was talking about consistency. No?
Actually, how do you debug those? If you put in a breakpoint, use DTrace & co or do logger output, you won't likely hit the issue. I did this with super low-level distributed systems and they were mostly resolved by hard thinking and modeling execution path in my head...
Or (seriously) one of the reasons I use a windows phone!
The big one we have at work is 6/6s devices freeze or have the phone app crash when you browse recents or try to go to voicemail.
> I know, it's ridiculous. I mean, look at the backlash to someone saying it would be

There was no backlash.
If the author's here: some of the math formulas don't render correctly. In particular, 10^170 is parsed as 10^{1}70, and $5478$ shows up without TeX applied to it.
Random advice from the internet:

The most useful thing you can do is a "mission debrief".

+ Identify what were the warning signs of non-payment. Sometimes they will be there from the start and the client never intended to pay. In longer relationships, non-payment is part of changing behaviors and often due to other financial stresses (this is how it tends to play out in economic downturns).

+ Identify the reasons you accepted this particular job/client. It is one thing if this job/client looked like other previous jobs/clients. It is another if the job/client was accepted due to ambition (expanding internationally) or desperation (just need the work) or greed (terms more lucrative than normal).

+ Identify why the client chose you. Maybe you have a rare special expertise (though by definition, this is rarely applicable). But if your services are somewhat fungible (much more common), it is worth examining why you and not another similar service...or to put it another way, a web developer might think about "what happened to this potential client's last developer?" Was the lead outbound or inbound? Was it a warm introduction or a cold call?

In the end, the best likely outcome is a better intuition about potential clients and which one's should be avoided and a greater willingness to stop work quickly over payment and eventually a better process for assessing the financial wherewithal of people and their projects. It is unlikely you will be paid.

For what it is worth, contracts/terms are somewhat useful for defining project scope and describing the processes of work delivery and payment. Unless you are big enough to have attorneys on retainer, they are pretty useless as something to point at when things go off a reasonably happy path. Client and project selection are much more valuable.

Good luck.
If it was profitable, others can do it themselves. Plenty of bank loans available.

If it wasn't profitable, then the owner was essentially donating money until now and this whole thing would've ended even sooner under other conditions.
This runs contrary to Apple's philosophy. The user should not have to do anything.
OLED is something a lot of high end phones had for quite some time now.

As for FaceID, I am not convinced yet. I would be more impressed with an under the screen fingerprint sensor.

But I guess I will try it in a couple of weeks, when I get mine, and form a better opinion.

IMHO component costs are not the reason Apple increased the price; they increased it because they could.
That sounds a lot harder than just normalizing the string
This was lucid. I’m looking forward to the next post.
Yes. As described, all that’s needed is a way to imagine all possible moves from a game state, and check if a game state corresponds with win/tie/loss. That is possible in Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, and Go.
What ASCII characters are a mistake? If we required all apps to only use characters in the ASCII charset (the 127 codepoint one, not the Windows-1291 "ASCII" garbage), these tricks wouldn’t work.
I've got a comment strawmanning me to hell and back and a flurry of [Fight Club]s that only I can count.
>magine if the postal service was charged with filtering any potentially illegal activities.

The Postal Inspection Service _is_ tasked with filtering stuff that is prohibited from the mail, such as child porn, illegal drugs, and nuclear weapons. While the USPS isn't responsible for illegal stuff that happens through the mail, they do have a whole law-enforcement branch to deal with it.
Site : https://betterself.io/
GitHub : https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself

I do this similarly but with supplements and medication. I track a lot of my supplements that boost productivity and sleep and disregard anything that's negative. I've been continuing this over the course of a year.

I haven't added anything like a RNN to it for recommendations though. Some fears about missing up the gradient descent component scare me :)
Android enthusiasts who think they’re elite because "Apple sucks! Android’s has that feature for 5 years!" But not to be naïve; iOS has problems with fake apps too, just not nearly as bad as Android.
They're easy to demonstrate. I'm not sure I'd qualify them as easy to run into. Generally when using the calculator (if I do use it all!) I'm not focusing on typing very fast.
WOW Signal the Movie
Variables like that don't even have to have unique addresses. They may live only in registers, or if their usage doesn't overlap they can be given the same stack address!
Well, how would it? You'd need to know where you are to get the weather.