skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have abandoned every principle of the free and open internet – The Verge
30 hours in Unity
Samsung’s new A8 and A8 Plus devices feature a dual selfie camera – The Verge
> dumb functions and procedures

Perhaps you should.
Let's Grow a Christmas tree together
BOSCH to Buy Large Amount of IOTA for HODL. Boom Imminent?
No thanks. I'm not interested in the manipulation of perception.

I'd like a progress bar to actually report on progress. If you can't do that, don't feed me bullshit blinking lights, and pat yourself on the back. Just tell which part is hanging up, so I can either clear the bottleneck, route around it or throw everything in the trash.

I'm torn at this point, about which non-progress bars I hate more these days, Apple's or Microsoft's. Windows used to have the most useless progress bars:

https://www.xkcd.com/612/

But Apple system updates for OS X are possibly much, much worse. Reporting 20 minutes and taking 90, opaque, inching along pixel by pixel, and not telling you anything about what's slow, or whether there are parts to the process. Just one stupid line, and if it fails in the middle, start over. Is it unzipping, checking the integrity of file hashes, connecting to the internet, not connecting and waiting for a time-out, compiling open-source packages for this particular chip set?

One thing's for sure, I've been promised so many minutes, and instead lost hours.
London is installing electric car charging stations inside lamp posts for street charging

https://electrek.co/2017/11/14/london-electric-car-charging-...
Builder GNOME IDE 3.27 Progress (Again) – Zen and the Art of Gnome
If there's a way to objectively evaluate quality of output, that seems sufficient. It's not like a building inspection where it's a component-based evaluation. The results need to be reasonably and verifiably reliable to an appropriate degree, but the courts don't need to care how that is accomplished.
The fee used to be 50 EUR which they had to double because of growing demand.
You mean this?

> It is constructed using free/libre/open hard- and software components, especially for print, databases, web-scraping and tangible interaction.

> Currently, it exists as a working prototype with software "bureaus" which allow a user to read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input.

That's really not clear. Also, your "if you're not reading the copy but instead comments" thing was both snarky and incorrect. Both are fine, but it's not recommended to be both disagreeable and wrong at the same time.
IAEA bulletin: Nuclear power for a clean-energy future
> Still, its a traditionally impermanent art form

The entire point of 5Pointz and their argument is that it's not an inherently impermanent art form, any more than other installation art (which is already established legally not to be impermanent).
Apple, CALEA and Law Enforcement
Mozilla advertises Firefox in that tv show, both through product placement and actual ads.
A version of Hack with slashed zero and slab “i”
This whole fiasco has literally nothing to do with privacy.
Well the same could be said of most forms of art which were often created as a reaction to established order only to become the new established order. See: rock, rap, jeans, snickers, German language opera, abstract modern art.
Future of Fintech: An Interview with Angel Lorente
Should I be worried about having my cryptocurrency assets on an exchange?
Yet. [0]

[0] https://github.com/red/red/issues/3115
How YouTube Became the World's Best Film School
250 miles is 402 km. It's well over 3 hours at highway speeds, which IMO is the limit for any reasonable day trip as a recharge while you're there means it's really 6+ hours per day of driving.

Granted, this assumes you can charge at that location, but EV charging stations are plentiful.
This is patent nonsense. There is absolutely no fundamental rule that requires that there be unaccountable opaque algorithms making consequential decisions about the lives of citizens, and the burden of proof is on you to show there is.

What specific use cases match your description? What is an example of a "case" in your third paragraph above?
Will the Advent of AR/VR Dismantle the Office Building?
Yes

Unless your local security is worse than that of an exchange
It feels like this article just kinda left off the end.
Yes. Ideally, only money you should have on the exchange is stuff that you are moving around often. If you're trading you don't have a choice, but if you're just holding why not use a wallet you setup?
The waste of paper will be enormous with a office setup like that. Just use dedicated ereaders or something like that.
Apple PC/Tablets Twists and Turns
Yes. Put them in a offline wallet. Anything that is not on your machine is not yours.
It's the same in Italy [1].
Until just a few years ago it was still somewhat used in special circumstances (wedding, death of friend/relative) to send a formal message when you could not be present in person.

[1] https://www.poste.it/gamma/telegrammi.html
The mess we call copyright
Glad to see somebody else trying something like this. I was manually maintaining some charts like this for a while at a prior job and was toying with productizing it, it's super powerful, especially if you've got a large backlog or a large feature list ahead of you.

I wanted to have another representation that generated the GraphViz files, though, so you could more easily do other work with the data. Some other features we thought we needed:

* Notation of whether a dependency was "can't start until it's done" or "can't finish until it's done" to designate whether or not an item and it's deps could be in progress concurrently or if the earlier project needed to be completed first.

* Attach rough time estimates to each node (person-week granularity)

* Generate a list of "eligible" projects, i.e. those things with no hard blockers

* Sort this list by how much downstream work it blocks. Probably by each of: number of work weeks blocks, number of projects it blocks, and depth of the tree it blocks. This would help identify the boring projects that stand in the way of everything.

* Generate a list of "up next" projects that had only one in-progress blocker and thus were eligible for moderate discussion, but couldn't be allowed to dominate meeting time.

* Generate another list of "off limits" projects that had at least one blocker that wasn't even in progress yet and thus were a waste of staff time to meet about. No point having design meetings when something is 3 nodes deep in the graph.

I ultimately left because the management was insane and irresponsible and undermined these efforts once they started to set in well (because they removed her absolute authority to monkey with priorities). But I think it's a system that works well with sane management. At present I don't have enough backlog to need this tool, but look forward to working on it again one day.
I don't understand how that changes the ethicality of the action.
>Encrypt you users private keys client side with a password only they know. Now I just hold encrypted keys my side.

I still wouldn't trust you as an exchange. There's plenty of email/password dumps available.

>Hopefully the users chose passwords secure enough to avoid compromise

They won't.

They won't. They won't. They won't.

And keep repeating that until you hate the idea of exchanges ever holding secrets related to large amounts of currency/fiat that law enforcement will not pursue to reclaim your currency.
I found that it's like a furnace that still burns hot from your momentum, but when you stop throwing in fuel (social interaction, feeling that you belong), the creative and productive juices do dry up and you end up, maybe literally, dehydrated; and I fondly remember getting my best ideas and impulses after good times spent with friends.
Echoing this - for long term storage, they should be kept on a hardware wallet.
Obligatory point that Flash didn't fail in the marketplace. Rather, it was wildly popular, so much so that Microsoft eventually felt the need to develop a comparable tech -- Silverlight.

Flash on the web faltered rapidly after many years of efforts by Mozilla, Apple, Opera, and associated individuals. They were looking to move the web 'forward' had a high-profile disagreement with W3C, so they started their own standard-setting collaboration to specify HTML5 and associated JS APIs. The blogosphere eagerly awaited the results, which promised to formally bring multimedia and rich interactivity to HTML, without having to use a vendor plugin.

When Apple announced that Flash won't be supported on the upcoming first iPhone, it was over. After a few years, when apps came to the iPhone, Adobe failed at marketing the fact that their Flash assets can be compiled into iPhone apps using Adobe AIR.

With existing Flash assets effectively relegated to desktop-only, it was only a matter of time before it was pushed out of the standard browser stack. Although later, both Microsoft and Google shipped Adobe's plugin (with better process isolation) together with the browser or the OS, and hooked into their respective auto-updaters, Flash was on its way out.
That's actually untrue. 3 Blue 1 Brown has an excellent example of how you can use visuals to aid intuition in higher dimensional thinking. It's just not the naive representation.
Atlanta Airport Blackout Exposes a Flaw in Backup Power Systems
"First world city streets already have electricity supply" powering a light bulb in 100 street lights and having enough capacity to charge 100 electric cars are 2 totally different animals and will require significant infra. upgrades.
“There is no excuse for lack of workable redundant power source. None!” wrote former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on twitter. He was stuck on a Delta flight on the tarmac for about five hours, he tweeted.
thanks for sharing; i was a (catholic) boarding school lad from age 6 until university

deeply envious envious of the place you've chose to live

where i've had so many excellent days out (snowdonia mostly)--bunk at pen-y-pass YHA, snowdon horseshoe, glyders traverse, etc), then finish each day with a litre mug of tea at Pete's in Llanberis
That's exactly it. GDPR doesn't particularly care where you're storing the data, nor whether you have a "European presence". If you're storing data on people from the EU, from the EU's perspective, you're required to follow GDPR.

From an enforcement point of view... if you have no EU presence, it'll probably be pretty hard for them to actually collect on the fines they levy, but as a director, travelling to Europe could be problematic. It's not entirely clear here, but it looks like there's a possibility of directors being held personally liable.
Great comment!

Currently utilities buy power during peak times from other utilities, or fire up expensive peaker generators to manage the load.

A network of charging cars could be managed as another resource with a price attached to it that may be cheaper than the alternatives. I like the concept of varying the price of the charge based on your participation in the network.

At least in Florida, USA, most residential electric meters are flat-rate (same price per KWh, no matter what time of day you are using). A good portion of commercial meters have a peak and off-peak rate, as well as a single line item charge, based on peak demand, that is often 30-40% of the entire bill. The off-peak rate is often 50% or more cheaper than the peak rate.

Since most people would charge at night, it would probably make sense to have these residential services switched to a demand and time-of-day based meter, which would further reduce the cost of electricity. If someone spends a significant time at home, the charging car could buffer peak loads during the day to offset the additional draw of the nighttime charging.
I suppose it depends on with what one compares. Compared with Disqus, which is, according to the article, about 750 kb, then, light-weigth. Compared with Schnack, then not light-weight. So, maybe both "yes" and "no" makes sense.

Anyway it loads quickly on my mobile phone (before I've scrolled down to the blog comments if I start scrolling directly) — maybe that's what matters, anything else people aren't going to notice anyway. ... Hmm unless they're on a slow 3G connection, then would be good if I could remove more js.
Dynamic Medicine (measuring dynamic response and maintaining  dynamic states)
My point was that if the server providing client code is compromised, it can serve malicious code to said client. This isn’t a cryptographic claim, just a point about how all web-based applications work.

Also while I appreciate the feedback, this comment struck me as more hostile than helpful, so I’d suggest having a look at HN comment guidelines for future reference.
When I read the headline screenless office, I thought about getting rid of monitors and desk chairs and replace them with high-resolution virtual reality headsets. I really want to be in the future when I don't need to sit all day at a desk staring at a screen.
The perks of being an exchange is you get access to many streams. Things are already broken up on little pieces for you. You act as a Tumblr
You don’t need to hold encypted keys to do this at all and doing so only adds risks. The user password can be a private key generation seed. That is how a lot of web wallets work already.

The closest thing to what you describe is shapeshift.io or evercoin.com

Limitation of this type of system is you can’t have a true order book and transaction fees are higher since you are on chain.
What is complicated about python syntax for you? I understand the performance bits but not sure if PHP is going to be the route to fix that for you unless you do something like Facebook did.
U.S. Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' for 'WannaCry' Ransomware Attack
Forkgen: automated fork coin generator
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As of the current moment at the end of 2017, the prime use case for cryptocurrencies is overwhelmingly as a tool for gambling.

It should be obvious and unsurprising to see governments attempt to join the market and take over the most widespread forms of gambling for revenue purposes and to regulate potential fraud.

It's the same set of incentives that caused the old mafia-run numbers games to become state lotteries.
I don't know, I have a wife and a few friends and loneliness doesn't enter into the picture anymore.

If I was lonely I think I'll go somewhere where board games are played and there find an unlimited company.
What is so good about multi-threading?
Is it actually obvious though?
Well we're sort of violently agreeing, albeit obliquely. I owe you a response; you got unfairly downvoted for what was obvious sarcasm and I think my initial response cast your comment in a bad light.

> "it's not violence if it's consensual" point is ridiculous and wrong.

Exactly - provided that it's done outside the boundaries of some sport. But I think an actual lawyer would need to say what that means: could you and I, for example, create a new sport called "Modern Dueling" and construct a set of rules for it which permits us to fight to the death in a seemingly regulated fashion? Almost certainly not: no reasonable person would consent to be bound by those rules. Yet people do die in MMA, for example, and charges are not bought. It's part of the accepted risk of the sport which is regulated and refereed to prevent lasting harm to participants.

Would two knuckleheads who decided to dress up in NFL gear and run full tilt at each other in a parking lot face charges? What if one of them died? I'd guess yes. Again, I agree with you.
You just described my reviewing behavior, and mine are legitimate reviews. I buy a variety of products. My purchase history is listed in my account, and every once in a while I go and review a bunch of them at the same time, in reverse order of purchase because that's the order in which they appear.
Thanks for the reply. What do you do, btw? I mean, where does your interest
in this subject come from, if I'm not being nosy (again)?

I'll have to have a look at those papers. Schmidhuber and Hochreiter first,
obviously- my favourites.

>> When we talk about generalization, we typically have to assume a lack of
distributional shift. Otherwise, if the "truly unseen data" really is drawn
from a different distribution (say one where all cats are now called "dogs"
and all dogs are now called "cats"), we can get arbitrarily poor performance.

Well, the difference in distribution doesn't have to be that radical, to lead
to egregious mistakes. For example- I don't know if you caught wind of the
recent "deep gaydar paper", where two researchers from Standford trained a
deep learning classifier to identify gay men and women from images of their
faces?

The data in one experiment consisted of about 12k pictures of users of a US
dating site. Shockingly (to me anyway), the number of pictures of gay men was exactly the same as the number of pictures of straight men, and so on for the numbers of pictures of gay and straight women
[1]. This is a completely unrealistic, artificial distribution - estimates
I've heard about the prevalence of homosexuality in the general population
vary from 5% to 10%. The paper itself references a 7% prevalence.

Given such artificial data, I really don't think anyone could train a
classifier that would have the same ability to discriminate between categories
when exposed to the real world. And we're not talking about "cats" looking
like "dogs"- it's a simple binary problem, discriminating between gay/not gay, the same features are (presumably) associated with the same classes,
except a classifier trained on balanced classes and in the real world the classes are
unbalanced.

Of course I can't really say what would happen if their classifier was trained
on data with a distribution matching the real world (or their 7% expectation
of gay men), but I do know that, with unbalanced classes, it's perfectly
possible to train a classifier with perfect recall and rubbish precision (with
a ratio of 10% gay men, you can get 1.0 recall with 0.37 ish precision). So with different training distributions you get different classifiers. I mean, duh.

So that's the kind of thing I'm talking about. And for large enough problems
(e.g. the language domain where the true problem is probably infinite) that is
a real issue, because even with the best intentions and the best sampling
techniques you may never get enough data to train a proper discriminator. And
even if your laboratory experiments tell you that your discriminator is
generalising well against the data you have, but didn't train it on, you have no
way to tell what will happen when it encounters data that even you have yet to see.

_________________

[1] That was for users with at least one picture, which is to say, everyone.
Decreasing numbers of users had 2, 3 and so on up to 5 pictures and they were
used in different experiments.
What part of "read and navigate news" and "printers for output and barcode scanners for input" isn't absolutely crystal clear? It fully and clearly explains what the system can do and how you interact with it. Do you not know what printers are? Barcode scanners? News?
Virgin Hyperloop One Sets a New Speed Record
Mr Robot advertises Firefox in the TV show.

It is unclear if Mozilla is paying them or if this is an unpaid thing in both directions.
> It is not unreasonable that it should be

It actually is, and if you're interested in understanding why, I'd invite you to read up on installation art and the copious case law surrounding it, both in New York City (where a lot of that precedent was initially set, incidentally) and across the country (since this is a federal lawsuit).

> At least, it is not unreasonable that the standard could be reexamined.

That's not how common law works. When there's a clear legal precedent (which there is, in this case), it's not the responsibility of the judge to legislate from the bench and overturn existing standards (either codified standards - like this one is - or standards set by case law).

The question in this suit is whether the legal standard applies; the jury determined that it did.
I was agreeing with you, of course if they have intercepted all traffic they have both public-key encryption key exchange and the resulting symmetrically encrypted traffic and that they could correlate it... I’m sorry if I was a bit longwinded and pedantic in my reply, I didn’t realise I was talking to virtual Hacker News nobility (with ten times the karma I do!).
I think web needs some more standardized functionality (like popups/modals, better dropdowns styling, datagrids ) so you do not have to implement things yourself or research and find a solution made by a third party.
Long New Yorker article last week on this subject
You can mix the stolen coins. Change them to many different coins, shuffle them around in and out of different tokens. In the end, move everything back to BTC and sell on localbitcoins in some offshore country like Hong Kong or Macau (and spread this around too not to raise suspicion, so travel around different countries and sell couple BTC on every stop, open local bank account, deposit money, rinse and repeat).
how can it have a learning curve for people already know it?
Would you say there is a use for imagery, or should it never be applied because there is a risk of someone, somewhere, becoming reliant on it?
Is there not a license on this?
New York City moves to create accountability for algorithms
Secret Sauce – How Is Pilosa Different?
> As the domain offswitch ping was obvious Hutchins was seemingly the only competent researcher who read the source code.

If iirc it was an accidental discovery of the kill switch. He noticed the pings to the domain, noticed it was un-reg’ed, thought “hmmm if I reg this domain I will be able to see how many other infections and their location when they ping home”. So reg’ed the domain.

It was then when he noticed the code would quit out if the domain was in use.
The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought
Shhh... that's the not the example they're wanting :)
To me the worst part of the law is that it oversteps the borders of the EU. I don't think US laws should apply to non-US citizens outside of the US and I feel the exact same way about the EU. It's a massive global overreach.
You can use any templating system you like, then "| kubectl create -f -"

I would like YAML includes, or some way to re-use templates directly. It's mildly inconvenient to have all of my env vars templated, but to require N copies for N variants on runcommand / base name / port / etc. I could Xzibit templates in my templates I suppose, by having a simpler format than YAML with #include would be awesome.
I think it's a travesty that the source code won't be shared with the public, but I hope it would at least be provided for review to the agencies adopting the algorithms.

In my field we are highly regulated and must provide the regulatory agencies with an audit trail for all data. I would like to see an audit trail for these algorithms that would allow someone to follow the decision tree and review the outcome of the algorithms.
A new approach for detecting planets in the Alpha Centauri system
But is there any good reason to forbid users from choosing longer, more secure passwords while still limiting the number of attempts and doing heuristic fraud detection? You know, other than that sixty year old legacy system that stores your passwords in clear text and doesn't support any other format than six digits?
your going to need Nobel prize level breakthroughs to make ev's ubiquitous and that will take say 20 years from discovery to industrial production
Alright, fine, but is there any reason to think you're anything like a typical user?