skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would a personal backup company invest in OCR?

> To peek at personal data
Two new books about the history of paper
Modern voice codecs are extremely compact. An annotated text representation of voice will take up equivalent space.
More "zombie" (behavior-altering) parasites:

https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/mind-controlling-wasp...

https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/body-snatching-barnac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasite

Also rabies and toxoplasmosis.
In retrospect, I'm not sure I was clear enough that my proposal was mostly a usability / familiarity hack for the general public. I agree this would only be an option.

Specifically, if I'm not in a financial position to own and maintain a smartphone, OR I'm not inclined to trust Apple or Google with my identity, I could acquire a (heavily subsidized?) smart card from the SSA office.

If I don't trust a national office with my identity (see the National ID debacle), I can choose not to use the system entirely. Banks can continue to offer to extend me credit by verifying my identity manually. Specifically, I wrote:

> no one can be held liable for—and credit decisions may not be made against—accounts that have not been digitally signed for any citizen //who has a verified public key.//

My idea being that if Bank of America sends me to collections or pursues a judgement against me, I can take them to small claims for the statutory limit by easily showing the judge that (1) I had a verified public key at the date of the debt and (2) Bank of America cannot provide my digital signature showing I accepted the debt. I'm in and out in a few hours and clear $5K.

If the proposal above had even 20% rollout/adoption, that's 65 million people who can sleep a bit more soundly at night knowing their identity is–not perfectly secure—but FAR more secure than our current system.
This sounds like one of those headlines that shows up before one of those movies like 28-days later.

I'm all for trying to fight disease but how deeply do we actually understand what we're trying to solve. How do we know that we actually aren't going to make things worse down the road?
Programmers are, generally, proletarian (wage laborers). This certainly recognizes that fact, but doesn't serve to advance it.
A more innocent explanation would be "make your scans searchable"

(Not saying you're wrong)
Government users do not generally need sophisticated desktops. Most of them probably handle the same documents and work with the same systems all day, every day with few deviations.
About 80% of US, internet-using adults have Facebook accounts. I think her surprise was warranted.

In fact, Id bet that tech-savvy adults aged 20-50 who have Facebook accounts is in the high 90% range.

You are weird for not having one. She isn't weird for expecting you to.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/11/11/social-media-update-20...
Thanks! Author here.

I think quite a few videogames have different levels. For example, I remember an old 1990s game called Wargasm where you could both be the general and the soldier. It was a lot of fun.

Most videogames don't go there, though, because it's more straightforward to use the game at a single "level". Even if they do have multiple levels, though, I don't think they ever go with more than 2 or 3. That would be just too confusing.

In text, though, this is natural. Even in non-interactive books, you have things like "Conan wants revenge > Conan is on his way to Stygia > Conan meets cobras > Conan is being attacked by the King Cobra > King Cobra's attack goes above Conan's head > Conan thrusts sword upward".
Greta Van Susteren is releasing an apology app called Sorry
“Compiling Android Userspace and Linux Kernel with LLVM”
The videos in question would still exist on YouTube, even if they would be banned from YouTube Kids. I don't see how that could possibly infringe on anyone's free speech. Free speech doesn't mean that you have the right to broadcast all of your creations to children without anyone stepping in.
Perhaps. However, we do a similar thing with telephone numbers--to reach most professionals I have to go through a receptionist. The added friction to contact has to be weighed against safety and susceptibility to disruption.

At the very least, a single point of entry to ProPublica's journalists is something the organization can control. It is by scales of magnitude more difficult and intrusive to control spam in the wild.

"Too" intrusive is a question of expediency. In other words, the cost to harassment is low because the price to contact has been set low. Raise the barrier to entry. It will make legitimate contact SLIGHTLY more difficult, but it would also make opportunistic harassment in bulk MUCH more difficult.
wait 10.1 is like X.X.1 in the past ? They changed their numbering style.
The analogy works surprisingly well.

I really wish I didn't have to breath the Facebook's (and Google's) secondhand smoke every time when I interact with other people (or websites). Just like smoking, putting a "like" button on your website or using any of their services to chat with someone inflicts causes "secondhand" damage on people that choose to people that chose not to "inhale".

> I don't know what positives

Nicotine is a drug. It should be obvious that some people enjoy its effects and/or find it useful. The tolerance effect may reduce those benefits for some (most?) people, but that doesn't change that it had (or continues to have) positive effects.

> claim with a straight face

Maybe you should ask the doctors at the Harvard Medical School[1] et al about the benefits nicotine seems to have for several mental health issues? Now that we are finally moving oast the taboos on any nicotine-related research, these discoveries might lead to entirely new types of medication.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Nicotine_I... (paywall - google cache bypass: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t8ekKU... )
>I have. Amazon. Over 15 years now and flawless every time.

Wow, I have a completely different experience. I had been a Prime member up until about 2 years ago when my last 10 out of 10 deliveries arrived late. Since I noticed Amazon wasn't really competitive with other sellers on E-Bay, etc, I only used them when I actually needed something fast. So, moral of the story is I paid more for something to get it sooner, and it still didn't help.

Amazon is generally only competitive on big ticket items that you'd get free shipping on anyway. So I found Prime to be worthless.
People seem to forget that components (stateless components, stateless functional components or whatever you want to call them) are just functions. One function calls another function, that's function composition. In plain JavaScript we do it all the time. But when React is involved people are suddenly all like: no you can't call that function directly, you have to name it 'Component' with a capital C and use like '<Component />' and to compose two Components you have to use a HOC. It's like they all forget how to JavaScript…
We make things worse down the road all the time. Its only that while the time goes by, we advance technologically to tackle on solving those things we made worst in the first place. Of course that makes things worse downER the road...
I am just wondering, are we about to discover what other insects etc. are being influenced by this decision, possibly with negative effects on a large scale?

Makes me think of the four pests campaign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
To clarify even more, it also doesn't address cutaneous delivery of opioids or other analgesics for people who are unable to take either IV or oral applications.
I love VSCode. I don't understand what's Microsoft's incentive is to put all this money behind it (by hiring external contributors and staffing the project). Would love to know, if someone can chime in.
And "recent" here doesn't only mean "the 1970s". TIL: "In 2016, the British government denied the right of the Chagossians to return to the islands after a 45-year legal dispute". [1]

Also, in 2009 an attempt was made to prevent resettlement by declaring the area a marine reserve. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Court_battle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fr...
Trophy wife relationship might be not so different.

We already have commercial close day to day relationships like daycare, teachers, taking care of elderly. Then we have therapists and prostitution. Many lonely people have only workplace friendships that are more artificial than the importance they have in the life of lonely people.

But these are all fundamentally honest relationships with defined roles in the society. If a mother wants tho hire father figure for her child, I think the relationship should be honest towards the child and not based on lie. "Hired uncle" would be honest.
They were using Mechanical Turk to evaluate existing OCR systems before they started at building their own.

If you read further into the article, they did exactly what you suggested to train their own system:

"A corpus with words to use...A collection of fonts for drawing the words...A set of geometric and photometric transformations meant to simulate real world distortions...The generation algorithm simply samples from each of these to create a unique training example."
There was a fair amount of improper labeling, improper storage instructions for new time users, and improper understanding that edibles may be extremely potent and slower acting and can actually get you a lot higher than you might intend (vs smoking where the onset is basically instant and easier to control for).

The industry has made progress in labeling, in better indicating dosages, and in maybe avoiding certain form factors or ensuring proper packaging so that the product cannot be easily mistaken for candy.

But the amazing thing is that even with some significant mistakes / shortcomings in this area in almost all cases the result of accidental ingestion or over-consumption is basically just a matter of sleeping it off.
Social Media has succeeded in its primary mission: to make money.
> $15/hour. so minimum wage.

$15/hour is significantly above the locally-applicable minimum wage in most of the US. It's even a little above it in San Francisco.
>literally gassing their dogs in front of them.

This hits me from a deep emotional place. We shouldn't do things like this. The deeper and more connected this giant web becomes for me, and the more parts I know about, the more everything I've ever known comes into question. It feels as if the final episode will be the big reveal that Bruce Wayne is on the therapist's lounge discovering his second alter-ego, the Joker.
That's totally flawed reasoning. The people, if they had their own governance, would not have .IO for Indian Ocean Territories. They'd have some other not anywhere as cool ccTLD. .IO is something the British Government created, not the locals.
A greek director also made a movie based a very similar idea http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859446/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Also check out his newer movies like The Lobster... really good movies!
Unless you're encrypting it first (via Cryptomator etc.), they already have lots of your data in easier-to-peek-at formats. You could always do your own OCR, and encrypt the results before storing it with them - though I accept that most won't, or use encryption at all for the files they keep in Dropbox, gDrive, etc.
Presumably if her mom is about to run out of money, she pays for a final session where the dad gets hit by a car and has a funeral, right?
This is great news! VSCode has become my defacto editor across all of my environments, Linux, macOS, and Windows (10).

With a small amount of background setup that differs between environments I have essentially the exact same thing across all of my environments, and everything 'just works.'

I'm a big fan of VSCode, and it's awesome to see Microsoft putting heavy effort into it.

On the note of this specific plugin -- it's really good! I'd also suggest this plugin - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felixfbe... - if you like PHP. I switch between PHP/Python a lot and these two plugins have made VSCode great for my workflow.
> If you are addicted to FB you should do some soul searching.

Facebook didn't just build something really cool and people got addicted to it.

They built something really cool, then hired the smartest people to find ways to make it addictive.

Remember this scene:
https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw?t=88

If the Colonel simply makes great chicken that people want to eat, then I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If, on the other hand, he puts an addictive chemical into it that makes you crave it fortnightly, that's a different thing.

Facebook has spent a lot of time and money making itself addictive.
Cats Are an Ecological Nightmare and Ruining the Environment
Hey guys, sorry for the bother, we certainly don't want to abuse HN. All the posts had entirely different topics and we believe there are people who might genuinely benefit from them. If that's not the case, people won't upvote the posts and they will quickly fall into oblivion.
Are you aware of about:profiles? Type that into Firefox's URL-bar and it'll give you a somewhat less awkward profile manager. You can also bookmark that to make it easily accessible...
Equifax earnings: Breach may have hurt consumers, but it won’t hurt the business
Ask HN: High Performing Open Source Code Compilation
Is there a need for better compiled open source code ? Developers typically pull binaries from repo's that are not necessarily compiled with best optimization flags. Assuming a better compiled version can boost performance, would there be users for such a repo ?
It has also been repeatedly pointed out that the YTube reporting system to takedown inappropriate content consistently fails.

Plausible scenario is that it fails is that they assign a few human reviewers, and set the threshold of reports required so that those humans aren't overworked. Then they make the erroneous assumption that their staffing for the task is adequate and that items falling below the reporting threshold must be fine. Wrong.'
Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data
Opioids are absolutely stronger. Marijuana provides a previously unavailable mid-tier level of pain control where a lot of people who didn't want to be taking opioids now have a better option.
You really expect to hear a product update via HN comment?
(Not the OP)

That's the problem, I see the following often suggested instead of Go:

Java - maybe if you use Spring Boot you can get around some of the boilerplate, but there is a ton of baggage in the ecosystem.

Clojure - This is really popular where I work but LISP + Java Ecosystem turn a lot of people off. Also, some people really want static typing (maybe Spec is good enough?)

Node/TypeScript - terrible concurrency, good for throwing something together that works rather quickly, good for cutting corners. Terrible memory, cpu profiling. As a professional node developer in the day job I could go on and on, but at least the type system is better than Go (too bad the concurrency story is so abysmal)

Elixir - not popular, but at least it's on BEAM VM and has lots of libraries. Not statically typed (yes you can use dialyzer). Never done anything with it, but apparently deployment is a pain.

I personally write JavaScript mostly because its ubiquity. It's good enough, until it's not.
Deploying IPv6 in Dropbox Edge Network
This article was posted in April. Did Dropbox follow through and release? 7 months..
5 Best Dash Cam for Truckers with GPS and Night Vision
Regulating tech co's is one approach, another is trying to create new social norms around the use of these platforms. My Facebook feed is almost entirely pictures of friend's babies and announcements about local events. That's because I've curated my feed and deliberately not liked any news sources. Some friends and family share their opinions and stories, but even during the election, it was pretty limited. It's tempting to create a new federal apparatus to regulate these tools, but what's really lacking is the common sense found at a dinner table "No talk of politics or religion."
This.
I once applied to my bank to take out a loan for my business and the questioning I faced was very vigorous and the process took almost a month. Contrast this with getting a Visa/Mastercard for almost equivalent amount-- the sales rep fills out the information in a minute in a big box store and the card is mailed to you within a few weeks.
Author here. I'm surprised (and very happy!) you were able to play through. I know accessibility is one thing I haven't given enough attention to.

If you have specific suggestions for improvement, I'm all ears.

I'm getting feedback that as the game grows, it'll need a map. Are there any best practices for map navigation for blind people?
>For what reason?

If your programmers can make your project their job, you don't have to worry about the amount of time they have to contribute.
This sounds like the wolbachia release of aedes egyptai mosquitoes that verily or w/e did in socal earlier in the year. Not so frightening, since it's just a sterilization technique using existing bacteria.
Ya, but I guess what i'm wondering is how you distinguish between a company who has 'legitimate' foreign profits and a US subsidiary that's taking out a legitimate loan vs. taking out a loan to avoid repatriating profits.
They didn't have different topics. They were all slightly different takes on "use apify".
Are we (Mexico) exotic for the USA? Honest question.
You're overstating some of this. Some 750 Tis actually do need an external power connector, and the high-end/enthusiast market actually doesn't care about power consumption as long as the performance justifies it.

If Vega were smoking a 1080 Ti then you wouldn't hear any grumbling at all. It's when you get into a situation where Vega is pulling more power than a 1080 Ti and delivering performance that's barely above a 1070 in many titles that people start to get queasy about it.

PCGH just put out their new benchmark charts and the only Vega part that can even match the 1080 on average is the 64 Liquid Cooled version, which is roughly a $650 product at the moment. You're paying 1080 Ti money for a 1080 that pulls twice as much power as a 1080, which is a pretty unappealing on the whole. The only real value argument AMD has been able to make is FreeSync, but it can't really make up for that kind of performance/value deficit.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafikkarten-Grafikkarte-97980...

Another little-discussed disadvantage is that Vega is a delicate little flower, even moreso than Fiji was. Even most board partners that normally allow you to keep your warranty while using a waterblock have decided that Vega is just too delicate to have users taking the cooler off. You put a waterblock on, you lose your warranty. Many stores are not allowing returns for them either and I suspect this is a factor (along with generally immature drivers and other problems resulting in generally low user satisfaction).
Yep! I tried edibles, joints, and vape pens from 3 different dispensaries in the bay area. The edibles and "free" joint I got from Airfield Supply Co. were the ones that effected me the least negatively.
No, humans are, and our uncontrolled population is, and all that comes with it. Our waste, our consumption, and our pets. A reasonable human population with pets wouldn't ruin the environment, but billions of us?

Sure, we'll ruin it just by being human, and all that goes along with it; for millennia, that's included cats.
The only solution is to opt-out. There’s no other solution.

That said, there is a role for government regulation. Specifically, to break up monopolies such as Google.

Then, when there is proper competition, you have some freedom to choose the platform that’s policed by algorithms that you agree with.
General-purpose programming on the GPU has many use cases apart from deep learning, e.g. image processing, computer vision, offline rendering and other high performance computing applications. OpenCL allows you to have a single code-base working on NVidia, AMD and Intel GPUs without having to recompile or put any special effort - the same kernel that works on NVidia will work anywhere.
> I never read Animorphs

There is a scene in one of the books where the narrator finds a sliver of flesh still stuck in his teeth from when he was fighting in tiger form, and that isn't a particularly gruesome scene in comparison to the rest of the books, just to be clear. Harry Potter's later installments come close but Gravity Falls and Adventure Time aren't even in the same league. I do absolutely agree with your basic point though - I also greatly enjoy all of these series watching or reading them with younger family members.
If you're proposing that web servers should not exist and we should just expose the SQL DB via HTTP: what about when you don't have all of your data in a single database?

What if I want/need Cassandra, ElasticSearch or MongoDB? An SQL DB is just one place where you have data and there are very valid reasons for using other solutions.

In fact, some people might argue that you want to do everything with event sourcing / kappa and use Kafka + specialised data stores.

GraphQL fits this universe perfectly. It also fits the one where you only use a single SQL DB since a GraphQL query translates quite nicely to SQL with minimal amount of code in between.
This case it's probably being done to recent invasive species... As in the ecosystem was fine before they came, and will be fine after they're gone again.
I like VLC.
https://www.videolan.org/index.html
> The colony is really the organism, and the soldiers serve it, abiding by prevailing odors, likely without very much free will. Or at least as much free will as your arm has, to reflexively recoil from a burn, or lash out at some unassessed threat when reacting in fear.

Yep. And now go up a level. What are _you_ in the organism that is humanity? That concept is worth a lifetime of thought as you go about your job, consuming resources and processing information that is given to you to process.
OK. Of what utility to mankind is SHA256(SHA256(candidate)) after it is discarded by the miner? What do we get from that?
This is the source code (and several binary compiles) of the CIA C2 infrastructure + client implants for Solaris, Linux and various routers. I suspect that now this is in the open, past and current CIA malware will now be detectable by commercial Anti Virus.
Because "Russian metadata" was not the totality of evidence used to draw the conclusion that it was Russia. It's never just one thing, it's all the things, together.

If you want an example of the kind of analytical techniques that people use for attribution in the US government and sophisticated industry groups, then refer to the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis: http://www.activeresponse.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dia...
I think they just want to build on their ethos of being very developer-friendly; also that it could be some sort of a loss leader for them.
It never occurred to me that this could even be possible for such a giant waterfall until I saw this article awhile back. It's really neat to see. And a little scary we can have that much control over nature sometimes.
> Flow doesn't infer

That's because the author told Flow explicitly to expect an array of strings and numbers.
Downloadable crypto trade history site launched!
He's comparing riding in a fully autonomous self-driving car that will let him and his family sleep at night when he's driving to flying. He's not planning on driving his car 40 hours over 4 days himself, I think the number of people that consider that to be a viable option over flying are very low indeed. I can almost agree with him that a self-driving car would make this viable, but I think he's overestimating how comfortable 4 nights of sleeping in the car on the road will be for him and his children.

When that fully autonomous self-driving car exists, then cheap self-driving cars for car-share will exist.