skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks interesting, but the results are somewhat blurry.

Has anybody ever tried to use features of the logos (number of shapes, shape size, position, color, curvature, shape parents/children, etc.) instead of raw pixel data to train GANs?

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Sure greed/profit motive, but it is accepted by the general public because it is local direct benefit (less crop failure) vs diffuse harm to a large area.
How is this a privacy issue? Netflix must know what you watched, how else is it going to show u a history of your last watched movies/shows. I mean, i have a website myself and i need to know which users ordered what because else i can't give them a order history.
I wish all articles were written like your tldr. The BBC article is atrocious, it reads like a list of bullet points. A single sentence per paragraph, no flow.
> The rule change was based on an argument that ISPs meet the legal definition of an "information service."

It was an excuse and as such it doesn't have to be real. ISPs donated 100mil$ to the congress. The only reason for an excuse is that they couldn't say "Hey, NNaggers, you haven't paid us nearly as much as ISPs"

ISPs are just more aware than idelistically arogant silicon valley what it means to enter public political discourse. You do it with cash, arguments are secondary and just a way of spinning the decision that has already been made with money.
Would that be a paid upgrade? I like the idea of FoldingText, but paying twice would be a bummer :)
Totally agree, it's a tweet, it's not profane, it's supposed to be a joke. People need to lighten up.
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Because all kinds of companies are pushing for the Industrial Internet of Things, since that enables new subscription-type business models for sectors that used to sell big expensive machines ~once per customer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Manufacturi...
What regulation and what 'caring' (in this instance)? "No official limits exists in the EU for neonicotinoid pollution in freshwater".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer says that the Inmos D700 Transputer Development System had a folding editor. That would have been in the early 1980s I think?
> Not sure what a capitalist incentive is, but we have plenty of ways to potentially regulate this. Are you asking about technical feasibility of finding the actors responsible for it?

I was thinking, in the framework of capitalism, what would the incentive be, other than regulation, to not pollute? Why does it not work, is the incentive missing?

For example, there are companies like Clean Harbors that earn billions from recycling toxic waste, oil etc. Are they earning money because regulations need to be met, or is there a profit to be made?

If latter, how come no one is trying to make profit by capturing pesticides/insecticides?

Would deregularization make these billion dollar waste collection companies bankrupt?
Even with all the things you mentioned, they really haven't had much of an impact of people's well-being. The other stuff has revolutionized human well-being and has enabled 7 billion humans to live with probably the lowest rate of extreme poverty humanity has ever known. The average human in a developed country lives better than the greatest king or queen of the pre-Scientific age.
> If those two things get done, the Democrats have a good chance going forward. Otherwise, who knows.

Otherwise, I hope the US political system gets an upheaval and more than just the lesser of two evils have a fighting chance in the elections. The two-party system is one of the problems that the US has. A lot of left-leaning HNers support the Democrats, but I'm fairly sure a lot of those are because it's the lesser of two evils.
Ah yes but how many planets orbit them?
"Do we really need regulations?"

Yes. You need to read on industrial history if this is not obvious to you.

The nature of business and industry is such that they prefer local short term optimizations. In this context an environmental hazard is not considered a concern for various reasons, including, it incurs no immediate negative impact on the factory, the impact of one factory would be insignificant because everyone else is doing it and cutting chemical X would give competitors a financial edge, etc.

The only way to curb culture which creates negative externalities is to pipe those externalities back to it's source. Regulations and fines are a one way to make sure there is a feedback from negative externalities back to their source.

Think of it as an algorithmic problem - local optimization seldom leads to a global optimum. Hence, sometimes global tweaks can benefit an entire system.

The good news is that regulations work, and damage can heal.

See for example how CFC:s destroyed ozone layer before banning them.
Do I have something wrong with my eyes?
The first pic looks closer to the original.

Chrome on a mbp.
That's because there isn't anything wrong with this. It's anonymous, it's completely untraceable back to the 53 people. If this is seriously something people have time to freak out about, they have too much spare time on their hands.
Yeah, I probably phrased my post overly provocatively but I wasn't trying to be funny, just logical. And thank you for a reasoned and courteous response. My thoughts were:

1) Mass shootings are horrific, and it seems insane that anyone can own an assault rifle with such low barriers, but at the same time, death from gun violence is statistically low compared to, say, auto accidents. If being in favour of stricter gun regulation to save a few tens of thousand of lives (in a country of hundreds of millions) means alienating a huge percentage of the population, then why not let that one slide. Things will be no worse than they are now.

2) Many people (certainly me) would say that abortion is a woman's right but even if abortion is illegal, back street abortions will still take place. They may be in unsanitory and dangerous conditions, and some deaths will result. But again, statistically speaking, that will only impact a small percentage of the population.

3) Climate change however, seems like it presents an existential danger that could wipe us out as a species. Our growth driven economies seem unequipped to deal with this ultimate tragedy of the commons. Statistically, it will kill 100% of us, or severely degrade our grandchildren's lives, unless we somehow get our shit together on a global scale.

To use a crappy analogy, imagine we're all locked inside a giant container with limited air. There's a blocked air vent at the top, which we can only reach of we all stand on each other's shoulders - i.e. cooperate.

In such circumstances, why continue bickering over what music we should play while we wait for suffocation? Surely it would be better to listen to the other guys music, if it got him onside, and allowed us to move away from our tribal stances and work together on some action against the common threat.
What do you _do_ on facebook, thought? All I see on it are people saying what they just did or how they feel, that's something that has zero importance in living your daily life and trivially deferred to "check it maybe once a day".
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There are plenty of branches, but it's true there is no way to add your own for AlphaGo's evaluation. The main function of the tool is to see AlphaGo's appraisal of common opening lines from professional games, plus some of AlphaGo's own suggestions.
I think my chances of changing my country's government if I don't like it are pretty much the same as changing the EU.
- Two unstable people with nukes and a lot of angry rhetoric. And this today: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/li... -- not a great situation.

- Don't know enough about tax cuts.

- "Zero evidence of any of that" is a completely ridiculous thing to say. Get out of your bubble. Try to see the world from the other POV, there are many pieces of evidence that point in this direction. If you step back from moment-to-moment politics and try to look at what's already publicly known, from a historical perspective, it's already an unbelievable scandal.

- I don't think he consciously wants to be a fascist dictator, but it's again completely ridiculous for you to say there's "zero evidence of that sort of behavior". He does many things that point in that direction, if only you look. And, concretely, he's destroying norms that keep us not-fascist, barriers are being torn down right now. That degrades our system and populace and will make it easier for future people to transgress further.

- I don't know enough about what regulations he's rolled back. But dropping out of the Paris agreement and simply not taking action for the next four years have a significant impact.
This is Intel, not IBM.
People hate surveillance. They accept it as trade off, but you shouldn't remind them of it.

And I'd even say that even collecting this data is wrong.
Putting aside that US troops have to get there, and might well be deployed elsewhere already…

Russian military active and reserve personnel: 3,490,000

USA military active and reserve personnel: 2,227,200
there should be black bar for this.
yep. It is getting that bad.
I would love to tweet this and debate this with people but I know that if I do so there is a high chance it might impact my career and my overall life here in the bay.

Sometimes I'm wondering how many people like me just pretend to blend in and go with the mainstream political correctness just because we don't have the guts//strength to fight this fight right now.
My guess? a LOT from what I can see in my circle of friends over here.
At the very least we need to consider the culture. In our culture there are things where we consider them unambigously immoral and anyone engaging in them or even defending them is as well. But we have other things that are at least controversial to most people (e.g. eating animals). In the latter case, I find it perfectly fine to argue against it, even passionately so. But it's absolutely not ok to demonize or ostracise people for it. I feel like, as a society, we knew this until recently. At least most of us did.
I don't understand how people seemed to be fine with spotify doing the same thing a while ago...

http://www.adweek.com/creativity/spotify-crunches-user-data-...
If Netflix offered a choice[1]:
1) Be part of our data collection program or,
2) Cancel your account,
how many people would still pick 2?

[1] They already do this with the privacy policy, right?
https://help.netflix.com/legal/privacy
I think one of the best and chilling example is still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

Just some anonymous search strings can give you people. And that was in 2006 so nowadays with the quantity of informations people make public you'd get a lot more results.
> The attitude of the post is the big WTF

I don't do twitter, but from second-hand exposure, I am under the impression that this attitude is exactly what some of these corporate social media accounts are aiming for (less corporate, more joking).

Look at some of the follow-up threads to the comment in question:

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/940053684314021889

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/940053555813027842

I keep seeing Wendy's, PornHub and a few other account's tweets in other media, and their attitude is comparably even more "fun".

(Personally, I enjoy this. If I want pure corporate-speak, I can always read the Investor Relations pages.)
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You're not dead. Just set to away
There are French and Italian speaking regions too (well, there's Romansh, but that's tiny).

But in all seriousness, in the main cities you can get by speaking English.
The thing that makes me nervous about Lambda is the lack of price capping to prevent buggy functions racking up thousands of dollars in a weekend.
I don’t get why people are getting offended so much by this, it’s just a random fun fact. Nothing private here and it shows they have humor. That’s so much better than lawyer driven PR.
It's the difference of (1/country population) and (1/511,805,088). So slightly higher chance changing your countrys government. But you have the added bonus of having the same language, good luck with that in the EU... :-)
The NIH has a metastudy here: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ehp515/

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When they go to college? They're grown up enough to be able to understand such things. This was certainly the case in my generation (mind you, in a different country) - if you asked college students why they're there, some would be actually interested in the subject, most would be there because they thought it would lead to a well-paid or at least stable job, and a few would be kids of rich parents parked away to get their requisite diploma on whatever.

Consequently, for most, choosing where and what they are going to study would either be a research project in and of itself, or else they'd just pick one of the few specialties known to pay well. And we didn't even pay for college!
You can only cast to Chromecast by using Google's proprietary API, with Google's proprietary library.

This only works on devices with Google Play services. On desktop, or on Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, or Kindle OS, it doesn't work at all.

This is important, especially the last part.

The company at fault for missing Chromecast support in anything is always Google, because they chose not to make it an open standard, and because they chose to rapidly, sometimes even weekly, change the already obfuscated protocol, to prevent Amazon — and open source devs — from supporting it.

I spent hours every week updating my reverse engineered library to connect to it, but in the end, I gave up. Now I have a very expensive brick here.
Yes, it's worth zero but all startups are worth zero until they make it to the profit stage. As long as Tesla can get financing and moves forward it's too early to count it out. Investors are still convinced that it will eventually make it to the profit stage.
Nothing is sufficiently bad to not care. Caring is the only way you can even tell if there is a risk, if you’re playing with fire, if there is a chain of causality that leads right back to you.

DDT was supposed to be a risk-free way of killing mosquitoes. Nobody knew the side effect existed.
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> Would people in Indonesia and India join Facebook if it were mostly old people and people from their own countries

Shockingly, people join networks that are used by people they know and their circle of friends is in their own country, for most part. If you think young Indian people are desperately trying to copy what's cool in America you'd have to explain why Whatsapp has been (and continues to be) the dominant network in India, despite being a minor player in America.
In the Netherlands we require ID to vote and having an ID is not free but it is compulsory. In most cities there is only 1 place where you can get an ID. You also automatically get a hard to forge letter in the mail that you have to bring with you. Seems like common sense to me. The idea that anybody can vote (multiple times, even) seems crazy to anybody outside the US. Don't you need an ID many times in your life? How do you prevent people from getting married / applying for welfare / getting a job in somebody else's name? How do you verify somebody's age for age restricted activities?
This is not republican vs democrates. It's simply corporate donor money at work. You might remember that FCC tried exact same thing during Obama administration as well and they had to turn back because of huge backlash. This time I think backlash wasn't super aggressive and Trump administration thinks they can get away with anything as long as they are tough on border and other party is weak on border.
Yeah they could save a bunch on those; the USB LEDs are things they could make themselves, stick them into the gpio pins. Actually they don't need those.

If your parts are more expensive than the rPI itself, you're not going to need it. Those cases aren't cheap either.
First of all, it's not you specifically. On a forum it never is. When we post here we represent a certain portion of the population. And things like censorship have proven to be very dangerous so we have to be careful.

In your second paragraph you've deviated from what I'm talking about (perhaps I was responding to the wrong person? EDIT: I didn't). "Person X is behaving unethically" is perfectly fine. "This person is an unethical person because they engage in action X" is where I draw the line (asuming action X is controversial and not very clearly evil like first degree murder) because it assigns a trait to someone by which they will be judged by their peers.

EDIT: Actually no:

>people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people.

You said that. So your revised statement is moving the goal posts.
Install a firewall (for example, NoRoot Firewall) and whitelist only these apps/services you want to access Internet.
Yeah I think having something physical around will definitely help - being able to visualize something was really important for me back in school.

We had an overpriced external hard drive we had to slot into computers to play around with, but it helped because it wasn't a virtual "imaginary" thing.
List of product deaths of the 90s this year:

1. Hotmail.com

2. Half.com

3. AIM

4. ?

Rest easy old friends
I think he means that the rate limiting when scraping google gets way more aggressive past the first page.
still. Even if you are wealthy, Fighting this is very taxing for your life. you are constantly under attack by every other person that wants to feel like they are bringing progress to society by agreeing to the latest PC trend from SF.
> "you do <X>, who hurt you?"

It's a meme format, Netflix is just trying to be edgy/cool here, trying to fit in with the "fellow kids" [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/6CxLwMG.jpg
They could / should switch to a Pi Zero or Zero W then, save more than half on the expense of the devices.

Or make it so you can plug in any Pi, is there anything of a secondhand market for those yet? I can imagine there isn't though, those things are cheap enough to be throwaway / lose in a drawer devices.
Apparently not.

Jade/Pug comes to mind. Pug (the HTML templating language) was originally called Jade.

Jade is already a programming language (well, whole environment) made by Jade Software in New Zealand. They literally took the name of another programming language.
I'm sure it's more a of case of needing the data for business purposes (such as paying copyright holders) than a matter of "surveillance".
Well, here's a copy from memory of my post from hours ago that has now disappeared:

Um, no need, it's in my comments but not in this message list any more, not necessary to use what's left of my feeble memory, I'll just copy & paste it back in :)

Without the leading dollar sign for one of my run-on sentences, replaced by USD instead, just like you would do on a teletype machine.

Quoting myself here:

>It is easy for some of us to remember what it was like back in the '60's when SF rose to become the US center of non-capitalism at the time.

>The Grateful Dead were local musicians who gained more widespread popularity whether every one of them wanted it or not, especially once they got a record deal with a capitalist outfit that could advertise and promote in ways that the musicians could not or would not do on their own.

>As the purported "leader" of the band, Jerry Garcia for one indicated that he was soon earning more income than he really needed, and having a strong balance toward benevolence over greed, set out to give 1000USD each to numerous individuals who without a doubt were truly in need of the funds.

>1000USD really would go a lot further then compared to a short 10 years later once the devastating devaluation of the US dollar was set into motion after it was unlinked to a universally appreciated natural resource (gold).

>Anyway, turns out that before too long it was determined that it was costing 1200usd to give away each 1000USD, and the program ended up grinding to a halt.
Yes, because it is a null reference.

SQL's null is a value. The difference is that processing null values does not cause exceptions in SQL.
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You find labelling people is in invitation to a debate? So if you find yourself in a position where you desperately need a job but upper management says "I think people of race X are <racial slur>" you would take that as an invitiation to a debate? Saying a person is unethical is labelling them. That's what I object to, not debate or confrontation.
> To simply dismiss facts that are being presented to you by experts, when you have a legal obligation to receive and consider such facts, is another matter entirely.

That makes it sound like you can sue the FCC for not meeting their legal obligations here. Is that viable?
There are implementations like Chainlink running decentralized oracles. At the end of the day, the data-source is still the bottleneck but they try to discourage bad actors through e.g. reputation mechanisms.
> Just be glad that the EU's been relatively benign so far.

The creation of free movement of people, goods, services and capital across 28 States and creating a common currency used by many of them is arguably not “benign”.

For avoidance of doubt I’m in no way expressing an opinion on the merits of these - simply that it is not benign in the sense of having done nothing.
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Same boat. Also got rid of Twitter app.

Now just to block HN most hours of the day...
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> Here's likely what happened:

Alternate hypothesis: someone on the social media team saw brands like Wendy's doing well with the "edgy-but-funny" thing, then made up this tweet, and then tweeted it.
very well articulated response and I recognize myself in it 100%.
IMHO this is clearly a joke...if a tweet like this is enough to be a "privacy" concern I don't see the difference with, for example, Amazon SEO associating with your account whatever related product to your search.
You search for a Blu-ray movie once and then you're stuck with all the related garbage for at least 2 weeks or so.

As far as we know, the data behind that tweet could also be not backed by real data, if it was, it most probably would be anonymized.
I don't know if it's just me but I cannot really see the concern here.
- a lot of online stores, hotels need to constantly update prices based on what competitors do.

- cleaning (big) data. Automatically reconcile data to canonical format / names using authoritative source (say wikipedia)

Can you understand even the simplest TOS? I'd argue most (all?) are too restrictive to be enforceable.
https://tosdr.org/
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