skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see what people come up with, but I doubt any algorithm can stop someone dedicated to figure out a way to defeat it.

Having the algorithm open for public review will lead to better algorithms, but allow for direct feedback if you are attempting to circumvent it; whilst keeping it proprietary will prevent direct feedback, but might keep the algorithm less clever than it could be.

If Facebook is using just PhotoDNA, defeating it should be trivial¹:

> […] It works by converting the image to black and white, re-sizing it, breaking it into a grid, and looking at intensity gradients or edges […]

That's fairly generic, but effective enough for resizing, colour adjustments, minor changes, etc., but not good enough for porn and an adversary willing to do some experimenting with the photo.

If I were to guess at how Facebook uses this, I would expect that they use a preprocessing routine that strips out anything that doesn't resemble a nude or semi-nude person, to prevent alterations to the person's surroundings from changing the hash — which is what you would do if you wanted to bypass the filter whilst keeping the essence of the picture intact. Keeping that fact hidden would be integral to their strategy I suppose.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Have had the same experience on an EFnet channel, wasn't much talking anymore, though. I also used to frequent QuakeNet.
The only reason I know anything about Adobe Photoshop and am able to use it professionally today is because of AOL warez. Thanks, zelifcam!
Future Music & Computer Music. I don't buy them regularly (each issue costs about $20 - $25 in Australia), but I keep the issues I've bought and found them surprisingly timeless. The artist interviews are often about the creative process & workflows. They interviewed Moby just before his Play album went to #1, and it contains my favorite quote on impostor syndrome:

"I'd done a mix here and I put it on headphones. Then I thought, just for fun I'd put on [The Prodigy's] The Fat Of The Land. It sounded a million times better so I got very depressed.... When you're working by yourself you can lose objectivity so quickly and molehills become mountains. I'll be working on a song and if I can't get the kick drum to sound right I'll think I'm a failure and walk around Manhattan, mourning my fate. It doesn't matter that I've made lots of records in the past. All that matters is I can't get one kick drum right. And all I can think about is my career's over and I'm going to have to become a fries chef at McDonalds." - Moby (pg 63, Future Music 84, July 1999)
Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.
Is it legal for Facebook to solicit pornographic images from minors, or are they (nominally) limiting this feature to adults?
Good course. I took a class like it called Critical Thinking.

Fake news has been around a long time, before the Internet as well. I worked in a college computer lab and their IBM PC based BBS. SYSOP of the BBS is a friend of mine, he gave an interview on BBSing. He said, "The professors sometimes write text files for their students to download and read for class, in that instance going to the library is not required." The college newspaper cut his words and took them out of context and wrote: "The BBS makes books obsolete, going to the library is not necessary." It got the Liberal angry at us and this was 1987.

In the 1970s, our neighborhood had a rat problem, everyone on the street had rats come out of the sewers and climb our fences and get into our houses. We had complained to city hall about it because they did something wrong with the sewers. Instead, our house and family got blamed for it in the city newspaper. They even got the pest control name wrong for a quote.

But yeah a lot of stuff you can see as BS as it does not follow any sort of logic, it does not obey the law of physics or thermodynamics, it does not obey federal law or the US constitution, and with statistics it does not calculate the margin of error and when you load the numbers into Excel and calculate it there it is huge.
The idea I commented on was to ban Intel chips. Russia cannot do that, military or not. The military accounts for a fraction of a fraction of tech that Russia depends on.

And the military are also dependent on foreign technology. If not for CPUs inside tanks and planes, then for CPUs inside command center computers. (and not just CPUs)
Simplicity makes picking up the unfamiliar easier. You can't accurately deduce from time alone that the time to pick up Vue was based on familiarity with similar libraries.
> The company also says the reports that inappropriate videos racked up millions of views on YouTube Kids without being vetted are false, because those views came from activity on YouTube proper, which makes clear in its terms of service that it’s aimed at user 13 years and older.

They need to take responsibility for YouTube proper as well, and not hide behind a ToS. Kids is not even available on the Web as far as I can tell.
Mclaren have a similar type of building albeit on a smaller scale. I would definitely think about giving it a go there, but, then again, would I prefer the Williams team up the road where vision and leadership is not mixed up with impressive building design?

I don't know, but I think the McLaren building has worked out nicely for them. Working there might not be to everyone's tastes but they set the standard for how it is done and the rest of the industry took note.

Some of the buildings in North Korea are quite amazing and the subway system is a work of art, immaculately clean. Working in the parts they show Westerners should be a true joy with the most pleasant of traffic free commutes.
However I would not feel entirely free working in North Korea, being deprived of the Internet would matter to me and I would not feel happy 'cut off'.

I imagine working at the wonderful Apple HQ to be slightly cultish in the North Korean way rather than the McLaren way. Perhaps I prefer smaller churches in smaller towns. Or maybe I am more interested in FOSS and computing in general rather than the intricacies of doing things the Apple way.

The old SGI building as used by Google, that has things one can criticise but that building has survived the test of time. Many wonderful things have happened in this building but ultimately it is just a building and not a sacred shrine. The Apple building sort of crosses into 'sacred shrine' territory that will always be entwined with the memory of the founding story.
As a European that takes in a good bit of american business reporting (doesn't everyone?), I'm kind of amused and surprised at how China's rhymes. The common sense understanding of a consumer driven economy, the fantastical scale.

I sort of imagine that to a caricature of an old americana businessman, this sale is a significant event. The quantity of the chinese market (even per capita, by the satisfyingly physical measure of "biggest sale ever" and it's easily visualised as a mountain of packaged goods), is a quality of its own^. At least, that is what my caricatured character believes intrinsically.

^This is a made up quote attributed to Stalin. I love how american sounding it is, in retrospect.
Ah yes, twitter lists. It seems they came up with those to undercut the major reason people used the likes of Tweetdeck. Only to later buy up, and shut down the desktop version of, the very same client.

And now it languishes in some side area of the service, seemingly forgotten.
Best way to get karma is to post a link to something on a topic that typically gains a lot of traction. E.g. a famous company talking about an JS framework. Or someone influential talking about lisp. Or be the first to post some breaking tech related news.
Java interfaces don't have properties either (nor do Java classes), and you can explicitly state interface conformance in Go as well as others have explained elsewhere in this debate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672619

What Java does have (since 8) is default method implementations in interfaces.
This sounds like what Richard proposed for Pied Piper in the HBO series Silicon Valley?

Instead of power, use storage instead. Get a cheap PC, install Linux on it, get a 16T hard drive to store the Chiacoins and blockchain.
Why do Vue docs tell you to use webpack for “large, serious projects”? https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack
so whats a good rss reader in 2017?
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Why do you act in such a victimized way ? You were trapped in a closed system, the trap crumbled down and now you're free.
Google did not kill RSS, it killed its RSS reader and that's it. The number of websites providing an RSS feed has not declined since.

I mean I really do not understand your way of thinking ? When Google is no more, will it have killed maps and videos ?
I stopped RSSing after Google Reader was gone. I started using RSS (well, whatever is left of RSS..) few months ago. Happy!
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Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
All the best locks in the world doesn't help one iota if your attack is to get the janitor to open the gate for you.

The compromised component at Equifax was the running application which is built to retrieve data from the database - it knows how to log in to the database and do whatever decryption is required to retrieve data. You don't particularly need to compromise passwords or encryption keys or whatever, because the application will just use them for you.

Encryption protects against compromising the server itself either physically or at the OS level, which is not nothing, but also doesn't help if you have an underpaid janitor with a gambling problem with all the keys in his pocket guarding the loading bays out back.
That’s a silly comparison. The iPhone’s calculator is sloppy programming, but it’s not indicative of any particular performance issue.

There are a bunch of neat real-time effects ones iPhones, and ARKit is pretty cool. But it’s really the opportunities that high performance offers for devs that matter!
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I remember if you have a common name, that a celebrity also has, it is a better chance that they flag you as a troll or spammer and make you enter a cell phone number to verify your account.
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Here are some other posts explaining the nature of capsule networks, their goals and how they work:

- https://medium.com/@pechyonkin/understanding-hintons-capsule...

- https://hackernoon.com/what-is-a-capsnet-or-capsule-network-...
I've been seriously considering trying to consume the web solely by RSS again. All the news sites, the few twitter accounts I actually care about, HN. HN still provides RSS, and there are ways to get it for sites that don't support it, e.g. Twitter.

Everything seems to be gearing more towards deliberately occupying as much of my time as possible, algorithmically selecting content that achieves this. I want out of this situation, but overcoming addiction and interrupting the automatic trigger cycle is hard. Maybe now's the time.
For the analogy to hold, wouldn’t each holder of a Deutschmark also need to be given a (portion of a) Euro? That wouldn’t be easy to do with physical currency, since there’s no easy way to mark each Deutschmark currency as having been awarded.
And you can push out news on RSS as they arrive, not just "weekly (newsletter) updates" or so.
Doesn't stop people from using Ruby (Begin/End).
When Google killed the Reader, I switched to Feedly and still using them. Useful enough so I have paid subscription. Still using them after four years, nothing better around as far as I can see. Facebook certainly not even in the same galaxy, and I have no idea why Twitter even mentioned in that topic. IMHO RSS and accompanied readers are still the best for keeping oneself informed.
digg reader works fine for me.

screencap: http://i.imgur.com/3GbYB61.png

link: http://digg.com/reader
What if I told you that Yuri Milner was behind that?
Switching to a Surface because you want long term quality is kind of hilarious tbh.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface/microso...
As a heavy RSS user, I really like Newsblur
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If you forced them to stop doing business and sell their assets, the shareholders would just get money. You can't simply rebuild a company from that, not to mention they'd probably get a significant haircut from that forced sale.
This. My 7 year old watches some awesome Lego building channels and some gamers that I've checked to be OK.

For at least 6 months we have forbidden our 3 year old to watch YouTube because he ended up at some (harmless, but totally braindead) Spiderman nursery rhyme video and I figured he would be caught by bad algorithms.

Sometimes the 7 year old wants to be nice to his brother and searches for spiderman. He knows they shouldn't watch violent stuff, but it feels like a drug somehow to watch autogenerated content at all.
the (good) old reader and newsblur are my favorites

https://theoldreader.com/

http://newsblur.com/
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I thought it was x qubits is equal to 2^x classical bits? So wouldn’t 2 “dubits” actually be four times (not twice as) better?
I just logged into The Old Reader for the first time in a long time. What a lot of interesting stuff I used to follow.
B-but you can’t have javascript within RSS!
Yes but conversion isn't the only metric.

For a newspaper, you could also have whether users feel more informed, whether they are more informed, etc.
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Wow, I wrote some code just yesterday that consumes RSS-feeds thinking I was forever alone - guess I was wrong :)
An index for a column-store and row-store is (conceptually) the same. Why is different is

1. How data is represented. A database is a collection of column objects. For example, it is easy to create a column or delete a column.

2. How data is being processed (queried). The engine processes columns as objected managed by the system
I don’t want to repeat what I’ve already said. It just seems that we have different views on design.
I truly love RSS, combining Feedly with Reeder makes for a fantastic experience. I wrote a brief post on how I use RSS recently: https://smcleod.net/thoughts/return-of-the-rss/
I hope one day more web developers will realise all the major JS frameworks are just a band aid to plug the gaps in vanilla JS. It should be easy to build web apps using vanilla JS. No frameworks pushing a certain way of working, just a reliable batteries-included language that you're free to extend with your own application-specific extensions and mix-and-match external libraries, just like desktop app developers have taken for granted for over a decade.
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I use https://feedreader.com which looks nice on desktop and mobile.
Well there could be something better if someone rewrote it in JSON; but it works so it's best left untouched i guess.
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I thought this as for a long time.

I have tried Go and worked with languages without exceptions in the past. The problem is the amount of error handling code I was writing time and time again. It might only be a case of returning an error but that is one more thing you need to think about instead of concentrating on the the domain.

Error handling in threads is a pain either way.
In MacBook Air, I had to keep the bottom part with my other hand, otherwise it would come up too. My very old MacBook Pro didn’t have that problem, but its screen would wiggle a little after I left it. These new ones are the only ones I’ve seen that don’t have any of those two problems. Of course, I have only seen some of Apple’s laptops, so this might not be a new thing.
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Atom syndication format is better than RSS.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29
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As a heavy RSS user, I also recommend newsblur.
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I actually read everything by RSS except HN, since the posts here often get better over time, thanks to comments, so they're less suitable for RSS, in my opinion.

By the way, if you follow YouTube channels, not only do they still provide RSS feeds, as you can get a nice OPML file of all the channels you subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)
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As an ex RSS addict I'm wondering why you think you can fix things by using RSS feeds. For me it actually takes more of my time.
rss2email: https://github.com/wking/rss2email
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If you don't mind self-hosting, I really like TinyTinyRSS. It has a decent Android client too.
I came to this thread from Feedly :)
It sounds to me like your perspective may be skewed by having watched too many Hollywood action movies.
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Do you mean things like [1]? That's my university, which was using them 12 years ago while I attended.

It's a high resolution camera pointing straight down at an evenly-lit sheet of ordinary A3 paper.

The "board" (the projector screen) was at a height that everyone could see. The lecturer could write with whatever pens they wanted; could continue from the previous lecture easily; could look forwards at the students rather than having their back to the class. They could show a page from a book, or bits of a robot or circuit board. There was no chalk dust, no marker smell, no dirty boards, no worn-out faint markers, no mistakes with permanent markers.

No-one ever had trouble using it. Most rooms had two projectors, and the touchscreen on the right selected an input for each projector (desktop computer, laptop, DVD player, visualiser etc).

[1] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploaded... or http://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/char...

Presumably this is the manufacturer: https://elmoeurope.com/product-category/visualiser/
I would like an (automated) “IMDB for Podcasts.” Specifically, I would like to be able to find, and be notified of, every podcast where a given person speaks.

Similarly, I’d like automated data on what ads are run/read.

Essentially, I’d like rich automated metadata, in addition to timestamped transcripts.
BBC Live Subtitles are available on all channels apart from BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and S4C.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/using_subtitles

Most of the programmes on BBC iPlayer now have the option to turn subtitles on. I think a very rare, old, program that does not have it. As the standards state MUST
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/subtitles/

The standards are clear.
4.1. Full-length scheduled programmes and their associated broadcast subtitles MUST be made available online through iPlayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/su...
Thanks. It already seemed as if there are not many people left who see it as irresponsible to place kids in front of all YouTube.
Even the "good" examples in the article are cheaply produced crap. Also very telling about parenting that they could optimize towards long videos. I remember intense discussions about whether it is ok to let two-year-olds watch the Teletubbies. This nursery rhyme in the article is way below this.

Maybe our overall perception of quality has changed due to being exposed to crap on the internet, and now new parents believe the stuff on YouTube is fine. And they don't remember the whole world of Sesame Street and alike out there anymore.
> YouTube says it typically takes at least a few days for content to make its way from YouTube proper to YouTube Kids, and the hope is that within that window, users will flag anything potentially disturbing to children

They’ll use the computing power of a small nation to train their Go-Bot and can instantly identify anything that might belong to Big Content ... but when it comes to basic decency Google throw up their hands.
Go still lacks a few goodies from Limbo, like proper dynamic loading (only kind of working on Linux currently).
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Feedly is good; I use it in conjunction with Reeder on my desktop and phone for syncing.
I wonder if "Rankings" from sites like Reddit and HN could be considered copyright protected. I think using rankings scraped from the RSS source entry page could result in a better user experience. And give Newspapers back incentive to produce quality Content.
Feedly killed RSS for me. The way their mobile app scrolls[1] articles just absolutely ruined the experience and I couldn’t find any better app/service before giving up on RSS entirely

[1] https://i.imgsir.com/G0jR.gif - weird entire page scroll going on instead of just scrolling normally. Makes it impossible to skim read the titles
You can setup a DNS proxy with the android sdk (no root), I thought.
"Feedbro" PlugIn in Firefox. For me, the browser is the natural environment for RSS reading. "Sage" did a perfect job for me in the past, but since it is not available for FF 57 yet, I switched to "Feedbro" and never regretted.
There's no difference in the consumption method though, is there? I kind of lump Atom and RSS together in my mind. Some of my subscribed feeds use one, some use the other, but without looking at the URL, I couldn't tell.
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To be fair, the garbage code part definitely also goes for C. The issue seems to be largely orthogonal to language preferences and capabilities.
InteliJ doesn't have a built-in incremental compiler like Eclipse does.
China quality is fairly meaningless considering iphones etc are also manufactured in China. Overall I've never been disappointed with what I have purchased from China. Always does what it says on the tin.
Not sure if this is just me, but Google Search results are getting less and less relevant for my queries and at the same time, provide more and more spammy sites as results.

Finding a useful site on page 2 and beyond? Good luck!

I've switched to DDG half a year ago or so and haven't looked back much. I only once in a while use the !g bang and almost always come back disappointed.

Sure, there are also some spam results on DDG (and probably there are going to be many more once it gains more relevance to be spammed) but for now and my searches i exclusively use DDG on my private computers as well as at work...

So, to summarize, i think the relevancy of Google as a search engine will, imho, continue to drop and also the perceived "truthiness" of statements found thereon as well.

To add, i also don't necessarily think of this as a "Google" problem - the same people that will believe in a statement gathered from a quick search will also believe in the same thing when they see it in a Facebook post, Whatsapp chainmail or whatever....