skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CMS-ish system

That's Google Docs or Office 365.
Opening the apng directly in a Firefox tab froze my whole linux system completely.
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Built an AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans
Really meaningful work, and some of the most dedicated people I've ever worked with.
That's not being a progressive. They can call themselves whatever they want but we don't want them.
HN is ridiculous. If a mechanic sabotages your car, you can sue them... you know, a service provider by the government. But what if your town has only that one mechanic? What if the mechanic is worth billions and bought the other smaller shops just to shut them down? Do keep in mind that sometimes there is no competition, or the incentives are so perverse that competition doesn’t matter. The world isn’t black and white. Despite what Ayn Rand might’ve told you, you can’t just expect competition to fix literally everything.

Hackernews is supposed to have smart people, but the pithy nonsense like the parent I’m responding to makes it abundantly clear that that’s not the case.
>...and random trips through goodwill as inspiration

I'd be interested in a little more rigorous of an algorithm when choosing books to read. Given that, particularly for history books, there are a good deal of "duds" out there, do you have any recommendations for finding books? Like, you said goodreads, but my goodread recommendations are either NYT Top ones (which at one point had 50 shades of grey - not exactly a list guaranteeing quality) or a bunch of "intelligently sourced" recommendations which means entirely YA fiction because that's what half my "read" bookshelf contains (been adding books to goodreads for a while).
I'm currently sick at home and I don't have the mental energy to do anything useful but I actually found this oddly amusing and mesmerizing ... Because you shoot so quickly and turn so fast, I found that you can just hold down the spacebar and turn around to use your stream of projectiles kinda like a whip, turning left and right to get the curvy stream to intersect with the ships. This also defeats most of the right-in-front-of-you spawns. Anyway, very neat!
How We’re Designing Channels
Feel free to send an email if you have any questions when trying it! Since it is a static technique we don't expect it to become quite as good as what you could get with a dynamic approach, but we've been happy with our results thus far.

Our work so far has found that data quality used in training is the biggest factor in the performance you should expect. Which isn't surprising, but it seems to be a bigger problem in this space. Some of our first work was dealing with that issue and showing how critical it can be http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1007/s11416-016-0283-1?a...
>To be fair, VP9 and WebM both may as well be considered de-facto proprietary formats.

What about how they're used makes them "proprietary"? If there's open source implementations of them that aren't patent-encumbered, then that's terrific.
There's no perfect system, but what we have right now is better than anything from the past, and it's only getting better. Anyway, I think under-regulation is worse than over-regulation.
There's a missing link between "third-party apps have access to the depth sensor data" and "depth sensor data is used to identify your face for FaceID". The iOS biometric authentication API is basically just a call for the OS to check your information and return whether or not it succeeded [1]. Third parties can't just take the biometric data and use it to bypass your authentication without having physical access to your phone.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/localauthenticatio...
How I make $70,000/month by building an add-on?
> This could be fixed by increasing the taxes on the middle class and up, leaving the lower class taxes the same.

How exactly would you sell that? It requires a certain amount of commitment to furthering society to ask people to pay more in taxes. And there is all this right-wing media and people who will constantly shout "Big Government is taking all your hard earned money!" argument.

Its rather amazing that Europeans have accepted high taxes on middle and upper classes as a fact of life. But then, If you look at history, it was the poor who got taxed the most in pre-revolutionary France, while the rich got away with massive tax cuts. I fear this might lead to something similar in the US in the future: push too many people into poverty and they will rise in revolution.
Because the key to gaining wealth and keeping it are different. Gain it by focusing on one thing and hope it becomes popular. diversify to keep it.
Great question. Think of it like content marketing that is very heavy on content because that's the best way to market :) - Bebe, Atrium Co-Founder
I feel like this is opening Pandora's box. What's to stop people from hacking a business rival or other entity and claim a hack originated from them. Once they have access to the box they could plant whatever incriminating evidence they need to corroborate their claim.

Who is responsible for service outages, degradations in service, damaged equipment if a pivot machine is damaged?

How do you guarantee that these vigilantes only access materials related to the hack and don't run wild on the pivot machine's network once they gain access?

As an analogy, imagine someone broke into my house and stole my computer. Should I be allowed to hire a private military contractor to raid all the safe houses or apartments my suspected assailants used to try to get it back?
This is a typical SEC action against a get-rich-quick Ponzi-type scheme. Read the SEC's note on Ponzi schemes.[1] The original Charles Ponzi only promised a 50% return in 90 days. Bernie Madoff promised about 10-15% a year. This "ICO" promised 1300% in 30 days.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersponzihtm.html
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> That seems like a poor way to explain the concept since the entire point of programming is to mutate state and that's how the hardware actually works, too.

The hardware actually works using gotos, too (well, jumps in assembly language). That does not make it either ergonomic or safe to write code that way.

The entire point of programming is to compute results. In the hardware that results in mutations; in the programming model it doesn't necessarily have to.
Yep. It's either fake users, or weak passwords for existing users.
No. When I was a kid people went outside. Same cookie cutter homes, but people outside.

It's the Internet.
A Hidden Beer Flavor Has Finally Been Revealed
Certainly, those are exactly the reasons I would use to argue for Rust. I just don't like seeing people minimize its learning curve just to make a point.
It's been done, multiple times. See qt, gtk, etc.

Personally this revolution can't come soon enough.
This is tangential, but I wonder what was meant by Eddie Izzard lacking natural talent. Outside of rare provable conditions (learning disabilities, height, etc.) I wonder if natural talent exists or if it was a matter of determination plus deliberate practice before people noticed and thus declared someone "naturally talented".
I'm guessing the author doesn't have children.

I read every day and I get through probably no more than 1 or 2 books per month. Obviously books can have extremely variable lengths and difficulties, and I would say my average book is probably longer than "average".
I've floated the idea of allowing various video formats in <source> for the <picture> element. Would allow for the right codec to be selected, and would easily allow for a <img src="foo.gif"> as the final fallback. Might be worth pushing on more.
UndecidableInstances is actually not bad. I turn it on all the time and don't feel scared when I do. Worst-case, I write some bad instances and the compiler fails due to the recursion limit. IncoherentInstances is the one that really has no place since it can make code unsound.
Solving the Raven-Paradox and Improving the Way We Do Science
A practicing, orthodox macroeconomist’s unsolicited views on BitCoin
You could have written that here rather than push more self-promotional blog content...
Those tweets are absolutely terrifying. Not because the persons are practicing bad security, but because they don't understand why it's bad. I work with plenty of people who reuse passwords/have weak passwords, but they acknowledge that it's just because they are too lazy to do the right thing. That's scary. What's scarier is when people in positions where they are responsible for creating policies that impact security, encryption, privacy are fundamentally blind to why you'd even want security, traceability, and privacy.
Before you do that, take a look at these:

Taxes: https://imgur.com/a/s3SVY (Not sure if imgur links are allowed here, but I couldn't find a website that would let me calculate an estimated paycheck and share the link)

Rent: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/apts-housing-for-rent/search/...

Car Insurance: https://imgur.com/a/3UgPw

Public Transit Options (https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/49dfm6/poor_public...)
Every old idea will be new again.
For all the recent talk of the energy cost of bitcoin, it would seem a far greater amount of energy (money, time etc.) is expended on making things that are slightly worse than other options that are available, but more exclusive and therefore sought after by some part of our monkey brains.
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For everyone else wondering what exactly this is, I finally found an explanation in their blog:

This new organization exists to fund the development of open source tools so that designers and makers like you can create ethical and profitable high quality garments and is dedicated to reducing waste and improving labor conditions in the fashion industry. We address these challenges in a practical way by producing the (software) tools of change.

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I'm wondering if there is a different between actually reading a book and listening to a book... I use Audible.com to listen to books commuting to/from work, it's a great way to not care about traffic.
Why VLC?
The Greatest Aviator the West Has Never Heard of Has Died
You don't see the difference between the aesthetics of a "Rape Me" tattoo and explicit instructions?
1. This paper asks the question "How often do users actually read the content of the post before they vote on it?" After recording the behavior of 300 Reddit users for a year, they claim that almost 3/4 of the votes for stories are based on the title of the story rather than the content.

2. The "Hacker News Guidelines" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) state that one should not accuse others of not having read the article before commenting: "Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article".

3. The guidelines do not however say "Please read the article before commenting", nor do they say "Please don't upvote articles based solely on their title". Should they?
The Big Banks Are Threatened by ICOs
I wouldn't call the 80's some lawless past under anything but the most strict definition of past, and we're much safer now than we were then.

The authorities are becoming more of a danger than any criminal as well. This is shown directly with assets stolen under civil forfeiture rules being greater than assets stolen by criminals in the US. Anecdotally, even in the bad neighborhoods I've lived in where I wouldn't go outside at night, the worst I would expect from a criminal is a mugging or beating. With cops I have to worry about that as well as being put in jail and possibly having my life ruined depending on what they decide to charge me with.

I don't really see the cops or FBI as defending me or anyone else from criminals. At this point they are just one group of criminals fighting other groups of criminals for dominance
No, it depends on the context.

Bill Gates has his own shortened links on Twitter for example, that look like this:

b-gat.es/2nmg2cp

I don't expect him to roll me through affiliate schemes.
It's worth noting the SEC describes the perpetrator as "a recidivist Quebec securities law violator". Apparently this isn't the first scam he's run.
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Inside the Tech Stack of OpenMined
This seems super pointless.

Their reasons:

> 1. Browser performance is slow with <video>

Maybe look into ways to make <video> fast?

> 2. You can’t right click and save video

I never had an issue with this... But if Safari does, perhaps they should have fixed that there?

> 3. Autoplay abuse

Mute the video or remove the audiotrack. If even this in the future gets prevented to autoplay, then I don't see how <img> tags wouldn't as well. After all, they're just becoming the same thing.
Serious question: has Eclipse Che gotten easier to setup over the past year?
I tried it out in May/June 2016, and setting it up was very difficult -- the documentation was sparse and I ran into errors all over the place. When I finally had it setup correctly, a new version came out, and updating killed all my existing workspaces.

So, has there been a focus on documentation, stability, and clear upgrade paths in the last year?
CryptoKitties Quickly Becomes Most Widely Used Ethereum App
Don't know if you need a spec change since this is technically now supported in Safari TP. (See the example) Really it's up to the browser to decide if it wants to use the media type or not.
Think of it like training data for a neural net. An image classifier is impacted by every image was trained on even if it does not remember it and was little changed by a specific image.

I think it's worthwhile to simply be exposed to an idea even if you disagree with it because it may shape how others think. It took me a while to understand that the religious mindset is based on the idea you're accessing a source of truth. I am used the Bayesian mindset of updating probabilities, so it's a very alien mindset.

PS: It's often the little ideas that really stick with you. Legally marketing something as "The Best" is a meaningless statement, so subtracting it from marketing copy is interesting. "These are --- ---- steaks!" Ha Ha, true enough.
>> I don't think bug bounty is a substitute for certification.

Nor does certification preclude the need for a BB program. These are very different schemes with very different outcomes.
"PlexCoin" also seems like a name likely to run into trademark issues with the makers of the media management/DVR software Plex (plex.tv).
At least 47 cities around the world are piloting self-driving cars
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Bitcoin is a Pyramid Scheme
You can still buy 32-bit Xeons, even. Sometimes srs bsns requires stability, too.

https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=proce...
>well-paid IT-jobs will evaporate due to advances in ML

The first thing I started to code in was Delphi 3, which I think was one of the first IDEs to have code-completion, which speeds up development quite a lot. It still required you to manually handle memory.

Today we have much more powerful computers, much more power languages, far more powerful IDEs, tools like code testing, code review and commonly use version control systems - and a shortage of programmers, with their salaries just going up.

I am not saying that AI won't ever make devs obsolete, just that it will be one of the last fields to be made obsolete, as we are likely to integrate it into our tooling (perhaps in the future, rather than write code you review and fix AI generated code).

Sexbots will definitely be a thing, but I still think they will be a niche, because the real sexy times will happen with AR (it is both far more deniable than sex-bots and, according to reviews I have read, way better than internet porn).

As for fertility, that has been in decline in the US for years, and the rest of the west. The average European rate is only a tad above 1.5, so in the future net-import of brains (zombie-mode) will be required, but the world is also full of smart people who wants very much to go to the west.

The main problem will be reaching political consensus. Given that the US have a problem of reaching much, if any, consensus this may be the biggest hurdle.
I've noticed the Chrome feature as well. I watch a lot of Twitch streams, and it causes a frustrating experience, albeit with possible workarounds by Twitch. It's that Twitch is about live streams and live chat, but now the video autoplay is delayed until I activate the tab, but chat is still live from the moment I clicked on the link. It basically buffers the stream now, but makes me go out of sync with chat. One alleviator could be Twitch adding a "go live" button that shows up when I'm not live.

There are still two classes of problems unaffected by this change.

1) As is popular with gifs, there could very well be multiple of these autoplaying videos on the same page, probably even multiple fitting in the same viewport area. If they had sound, these would interfere with eachother.

2) My understanding is that many listen to music from some source unrelated to the webpage containing these autoplaying videos. So even if there's only one video, its autoplaying sound could easily mix with my tunes.

Doing autoplaying sound is hard, but with gaze tracking and knowledge of system sound usage status, I think a pretty good solution is possible.
Yeah, mpv.io is where it's at.
This usually happens when you have colour pallet increases. If you had a simple animated Gif with only 256 colours and convert it to any video you instantly have more data to compress. The better use case is where you start with video and convert down to gif (like when you use gif.ski)
Where can you afford to rent in California?
Argh, didn't know Goodreads was acquired by Amazon :/ thanks for saying so
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yes. To speculate on bitcoin nobody ever needs to buy any bitcoin anymore, if futures gain significant volume.
> Now I find myself missing those things in the languages I use daily for my job (which sadly, do not include f#)

It might not be do-able in your situation but there are ways you can introduce F# in an incremental, low-risk way. Some ideas here: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/low-risk-ways-to-use...
in the context of <img> the audio track doesn't play anyway. dropping it ensures you save the bytes.
They're in separate clauses but they look the same on their own. You have to look out to a few lines of context to see which is which. At a glance it's not even obvious which lines are function declarations and which are implementations.
> I don't think bug bounty is a substitute for certification.

Neither does the EU: by extending the free software security audit programme (FOSSA)[...]. Meaning: there already is an audit, certification and audit being synonymous for this purpose.

> making it short term

This is a trial run, to be extended later: we are trialing the VLC application on a bug bounty program

> with only one payout

There will be as many payouts as security-relevant bugs are found: Rewards may range from $100 up to $3,000.

> will only attract people with automated tools

This is a private trial, where people with automated tools submitting low-impact bugs will presumably not be invited: We invite hackers and bounty hunters (aka researchers) based on a variety of factors - reputation, previous track record (high quality reports)

> Then code will get "certified" and forgotten.

This is VLC, one of the most-used open source programs. How will code merged into the product be forgotten?

> It all seems wrong.

Indeed...

> Hopefully it is just bad wording on the official PR.

I think the problem is more likely caused by a complete lack of reading skills.
Spot on. This is something my wife and I have known for a while now. The shitty part of this reality, is that there isn't much anyone who isn't extremely can do about it. In countries like Denmark, there are many apartment communities which have communal areas and kitchens, which allows folks to have "villages" in close quarters to city centers.

My experience on the west coast of the USA however, is that no such thing exists outside of convalescent homes for elderly people.

Some people have gone to extreme lengths to buy up land with a 503c corp in order to create communes in the countryside, which is great! While that solves the issues around villages and communal living, it divorces itself from the life and culture of society at large. How can we still benefit from communal living, while still providing the option to work a modern job in a downtown office?
There was a Freakonomics Radio podcast ep about this very thing

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/
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I've always wanted to start a luxury brand called TAKEN.

"Wow! What kind of watch is that?" "I got TAKEN!"

The ultimate Veblen good.
I'm not sure that's always a positive.

I'm not saying it should be this way, but there are very many companies and industries where a long open source development history won't be seen as a reflection of what the developer can do in a job. Not all companies are going to take an interest in GitHub history.

I think the majority of development jobs are with companies that have a skepticism of their employees contributing to open source projects because they don't understand it and are worried about their IP being co-opted into open source.
There appear to be some but you are correct that it has a strong "card game" bias as it was originally meant to play Magic. I'm not aware of any, no.
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