skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the downvotes? This is a perfectly valid and sensible option which is being explored in some countries (towards the general population, not just 'creators').

Can someone explain to me why this comment is deemed to be irrelevant?
> Want to discredit a politician? Here he is picking up a male escort and using racial slurs.

Worked so well in a recent election...

> These sorts of things could be used to start wars.

Wars have been started on much flimsier pretexts, unless you are talking about getting the other side so irate that they fire first.
True - in logic/philosophy, implies means a sufficient basis for so it is just a semantic problem. I wouldn't say that a result can be necessary for a cause though, that is dangerously circular.
Eh Disney came closer than they would have liked during the second half of the Eisner era. They released some bombs (e.g. Treasure Planet) and the quality of the parks was decreasing because of Eisner’s cost cutting.
I used to think this but I’m not so sure now. Some people are simply unable to look past extremely ugly interfaces. Some people feel less able to trust applications or web sites that lack good design. I think the answer to the original question is cost. Design can cost more than the coder.
I think we’ll probably have to move to a model where any security footage or images that is used in court must be digitally signed at the hardware level, with a verification process similar to how CAs work now. Of course, this will still be tamperable, but tampering would have to be much more premeditated and sophisticated.
I'm confused by this statement:

> "Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size"

Checking my iPhone and my wife's Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard.

At first I thought you might be talking about non-English keyboards, but looking at the Keybee board screenshots it's the same standard 26 English letters.

So, from that particular standpoint, how does Keybee offer a more complete set of English language characters than a device's default keyboard? This feels like either a bad translation or dubious marketing.
"History"? it should be something closer to "reality of being a Skinner box operator".
Because in the beginning, design is not as important as validation and user experience. Classic example: Stripe. If you look at recent submissions on HN about them, a lot of comments have been about their awesome design. But Stripe became so huge because they made it so simple to accept payments online and focussed heavily on being developer friendly. I remember their tagline used to be "payments for developers". At that time, their design was ok not as shiny as they are now.
But it didn't matter initially.

So yea, as long as you are solving a real problem for your users and making their life easy, they don't care. A different example: Craigslist. Still the same as ever.

Hardly a company or product fails just because of bad design. That is why too much investment on design upfront is not worth it.
>I'm wondering if this could be used in other ways, e.g. government propaganda.

Here you go: (SFW)

https://imgur.com/gallery/BEVmQXo
Free as free app and not pay app. Most keyboards are trial or you have to pay for use them. That's it.
Lead was never the problem (just dont eat solder paste). Its the toxic fumes from fluxes needed to wet the metal, aka etch away oxidation layer. Very nasty stuff. The nicer te flux (RMA, no clean), the more toxic.
They never told me exactly. My guess was that I happened to use 3 different CCs, all in my name, to buy the 3 or 4 games I bought over my first few days having the account. I meant to say in my original comment that they did refund everything, so it wasn't as horrible as it could have been but I did miss out on the sale prices, a few weeks of not being able to play a game with my friends, and it left me with an ever-lasting bad taste for Steam and DRM in any form (which is good in the long run I suppose).
GPML is the canonical textbook for Gaussian Processes for any who want to go deeper (or find OP’s explanation too handwavy), and it’s available free online: http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/
And that’s why the use and mandating everyone uses their real and verified identity everywhere on the web is needed. You can still comment and post whatever anonymously but it won’t hold any weight!
> (And if you're facing an enemy that has enough ressources to shoot a specially-made porn video just to smite you, you have bigger problems to worry about).

While there may be a barrier to applying the technology after the fact, shooting a homemade video is something that can be accomplished by anyone with a modern smart phone.

In fact, if you want your fake porn to look authentic (for purposes of blackmail or otherwise), this is how you would do it. Then it could be claimed that it was self shot and leaked to the internet via a cloud “hack” or similar.
Coinbase still hasn't posted my Bitcoin
Coinbase still hasn't posted my 2.317 bitcoin to my account. I sent it from an exchange to coinbase 10 days ago. Never showed on my account. I've emailed support, and even called... no results!
That says a lot about the company. How moronic not putting another toilet in a less secure place.
Avalon: A scalable multi-purpose QQ group robot. 多功能、可扩展的QQ群机器人。
it's formatted as code, which is slightly weird but does not really decrease legibility for me.
A blockchain-based currency would be cool, and not totally different to the current system.

All I know is what a medical student at church told me - I'll have to confirm later. But I know that it's not payment as status - the doctors' salaries are set in a parallel currency, which has a changing exchange rate with real NTD. I'll find out and reply.
Yes, there's nothing in between nihilism and Carpe Diem...
To sum up and to thrown an idea up in the air:

There has been a decline in sex over the past decade. It can't be purely coincidental that while the world became witness to a depressing depression, people are having less sex. After all, depression is often linked to reduced libido... and if you're constantly stressed out over your (and your family's) future, you might not have enough energy to enjoy sex either, which in turn can form a negative feedback loop.

Welcome to the brand new (joyless) world.
The privacy implications of that would be scary. It seems on par with North Korea's Red Star Watermarking which has been dubbed as "dictator’s wet dream".

https://qz.com/583311/north-koreas-dissident-tracking-comput...
It’s more complicated than that. Steam is a distribution platform and you can get locked out of that, meaning you can’t (re)download purchased games. The DRM component, however, is optional, and at least some games (starbound is one, I believe) are distributed through steam without any DRM attached.
While the technique does make fraudulent videos easier to make, I don't see this in and of itself as that fatal to public trust. Faking content to hurt someone has been around forever. We then learned not to trust gossip, not to trust uncorroborated sources, etc.

I hope it might actually help people be more skeptical of what they're reading and seeing. And hopefully it will help news media be more skeptical of their sources as well. If that doesn't happen then this will be a disaster.
The Commodore 64 Keyboard in Black Mirror as Social Commentary
Nothing on compilers.

Dragon Book
LLVM Essentials

Nothing on machine organization and assembly.

Computer Organization and Design
ARM Cortex A72 Software Optimization Guide
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual
The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs

Parsing

Language Implementation Patterns
The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference
Thank you for the very informative and balanced comment.
A pint of Guinness gets cheaper when it leaves Ireland
You're right, US police officers are trained to be less hesitant in using force than would be natural. They are taught that at any moment they could be in a life and death struggle and that they have to have a "warrior mindset" to react quickly before it is too late.
Yes, absolutely. I use DuckDuckGo and it feels a lot like the early Google. The only thing I still use Google for is local searches, like opening hours, this is where the filter bubble shines.
No need to be flipped because the Keybee arrangement starts from the center of the keyboard. So it is optimized for left and right handed at the same time.
That doesn't really make sense in this context; if someone is pretending to be you using your own face and voice, using real identities is kind of the point, isn't it?
>For starters: Integration tests will not necessarily exercise a full range of inputs for the low-level functions. For a chat system, I would think hard about how to test low-level functions with a wide range of Unicode input.

I don't see any problem at all with writing integration tests that exercise a chat system with a wide range of unicode input.

I'd view it as irresponsible not to, in fact.
Note that FB has a service that keeps the app updated, which can't be disabled.
On Hacker News it's totally fine to blame men: "It's men that watch to much porn".

If you on the other hand suggest that maybe #metoo, unfair divorce court etc. has something to do with it (meaning maybe woman are also part of the issue), you get flagged or downvoted to hell.
All of this has been possible for the last century.

For instance, at least in Russia you just get an actor that looks like the politician, film them doing some bad stuff and blackmail them. Pretty simple.

We have had doctored photos/videos for as long as the mediums existed.

If anything it will saturate and you wont be able to tell what is real or not. Most people will default to "fake" and have to rely on the trustfulness of the source. Just like now. We have photoshop and there isn't mass chaos.
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This was by far the most concise and easily understood description of the uncertainty principle I've heard.
People will buy it. Look at the audiophile market.
There is a specific settings for dot-space combination. Check on Keybee settings.
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MessageEase keyboard works great for me. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.me...

Once you have it in your muscle memory, you can sort of type blindly and use symbols as quick as other letters. It doesn't look like KeyBee can improve my typing.
Someone bought me Starbound through Steam and I tried, maybe about a year ago, to run it outside of Steam, but couldnt get it to work properly. I'm sure it can but I'd just rather not deal with that.
Believe this article was the best they were able to offer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040860
>lets say we stop the bullet over the distance of 1cm instead of 2 inches - the stopping force to act upon bullet would be even bigger - 1.8M Newtons (30 elephants!). The same value force will be acting upon our 5lb armor plate. This force will be acting until the bullet stops, ie. for about 0.02 milliseconds. During that time the force would accelerate the armor plate to the speed of 16m/s and the armor plate would travel less than 1mm - only starting to compress the padding under the armor plate. So, 0.02 milliseconds after the bullet impact we have a stopped bullet and the armor plate moving with the speed of 16m/s through the first millimeter of the padding - the situation is no different than being hit by a frying pan.

That's not how impulse propagates. The force carries through the plate, into the person, and does its damage as a compressive wave. Think about seatbelts in a car during a high speed crash - they don't often penetrate the torso of people, but they can and do pop organs through compressive effects if they're worn too high. Yet calculate the momentum of the seat belt at 100 mph and you'll find it's tiny, like a light slap.

But let's assume your analysis is true. Why then does a shotgun slug, with considerably less momentum than the .50 cal and even a frying pan, crack ribs through armor? Why can I put a piece of AR500 steel in front of a watermellow, hit the steel with a .308, and have the watermellon explode despite nothing getting through?

But I'm done. I've explained this same concept 5 different times, and I'm still having to cover basic physics with people too proud to admit their layman's interpretation is wrong. If you think you could survive a .50 with armor, you're welcome to go buy a 1 inch plate from shootsteel.com and an M82 and test if out yourself. Remove one more prideful fool from the gene pool.
A lot of valid criticism already about this "info graphic" (advert).

Also not proof of "a bubble", but more interesting to me are the four metrics presented graphically here https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/

And it's fun to watch those astronomically large debt numbers increasing in real time.
Eric Geissinger: Virtual Billions: looking at Bitcoin through a libertarian lens
I read economics at the very epicentre of Keynesianism (LSE) in the heady years in the overheated run-up to the Great Recession (1999-2003), but I must say that there was no sense of his teachings being in any way obsolete: in some sense, there was a critique of his orthodoxy (I remember an accurate quip to the effect that The General Theory of Employment, Interest, & Money was not general, nor a theory, but a collection of cobbled-together maxims and heuristics), and there was the not unreasonable notion that his observations needed grounding (e.g., with agent-based modelling), but Keynes’ status had not been called into question. If anything, in fabled Third Way Cool Britannia, there was a concerted effort to confirm his relevance in the face of apparent success of the neo-classicists. Time bore him out, of course, and the Austerity policies that set in right thereafter pretty much have served as confirmatory particle-accelerators of the economists’ creed.
it was called in because he was pointing the rifle out of his hotel room window.

i guess it's up to you to decide for yourself whether or not that could be called "careless". or whether it would be reasonable for a passerby to call in a report of someone pointing a rifle outside of a hotel room window, a couple months after Las Vegas.
I'd do it if I were rich-- I'd look for companies with:

(1) Breakthrough technologies and/or amazing numbers.

(2) Introverted founders passed over by other investors.

(3) A sales process that is not in-person where being introverted, understated, or shy is not a major handicap. Companies with mostly inbound, viral, indirect, or automated sales processes or that can outsource sales easily would work.
Benefits of using Angular Js
Dealing with the hard-line feminists sounds exhausting
The Fitbit Ionic has a pretty open JavaScript SDK that we’re still working hard on to improve. You have access to a lot of the device public API, and can share your apps via links without getting it approved for the gallery.

https://dev.fitbit.com/
that is absolutely never going to be workable because you can just film another video being played back.
In the end all the material progress our civilization has experienced since the Industrial Revolution has been due to increased productivity. Wages for workers can never go higher than worker productivity without the business employing them going out of business. Historically workers have received half of the returns to productive capital and that doesn't seem to be changing. However, recently the return to rents on land have gone up drastically and so capital's overall share of national income has gone up. But that's not a problem that can be solved by making workers less productive.
> however it's really hard to argue that Apple, Microsoft, or indeed IBM or Disney ever killed the geese that lay the golden eggs.

In this context, you're not talking about the geese, but about the eggs. For example, for Apple, one such golden egg is the iPhone, and what Kay talks about is how there are many capable people to turn this golden egg (invention) into coins or platinum (product => shareholder value).

But the geese are not the products; the geese are the inventors. Jobs turned the failing Apple around from outside its own context. Microsoft missed out on the entire phone eco-system. Lots of people would attribute these long-term business fails to exactly what Kay talks about here.
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem (2016)
But the question they asked was: did you watch a pornographic movie in the last year? (yes/no)

This question does not make much sense in the current reality, where lots of people spend massive amounts of time watching online porn.

Watching one movie per year is something totally different from that.

Also, the type of porn has changed a lot over the years. And the choice of porn is now totally up to the user. I'm guessing this makes a huge difference too; at least this should be tested.

It's like these researchers are totally out of touch with reality.
Show HN: 5 keys to create a killer CLI in Go
Reading books about the evolution of computing from different angles, it quickly becomes clear 1) how few ideas are original and/or how few are big leaps vs. incremental steps that tends to occur multiple places at once even in the beginning; e.g. the number of internal projects that would have been "close enough" that were cancelled because competitors beat them by mere months. 2) how much innovation gets stomped into the ground because of ridiculous reasons such as corporate politics.

While there certainly are amazing people doing amazing things that deserve recognition, it seems increasingly clear to me that if any of them weren't there, the space would have been filled, and quickly. Maybe in different ways and things wouldn't be the same, but history is so full of independent near-simultaneous invention of practically the same things that it seems that a lot of ideas end up being realized not because of some unique intellect, but because their time has come, and the best these people can do is speed it up a bit.

Marketing and adoption is a different issue - I think William Gibson got it right: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

A lot of the challenge of innovation is not the innovation itself, but getting the knowledge to filter out there. Arguably, it's first the last decade or so that languages like Lisp and Smalltalk has won people over - not by themselves, but by the success of an increasing array of languages created by people who were inspired by them that themselves have taken years to get traction.

And even then there are so many low hanging fruit that has not seen traction because, frankly, people are busy, and the amazing stuff often isn't the work most likely to pay the bills then and there.
These days you don't even seem to need any evidence. An allegation seems to be enough to get you dethroned.
> We then learned not to trust gossip, not to trust uncorroborated sources, etc.

Somewhat ironically, I feel a citation is needed here.
How long will it take for this approach to be used to splice people into child pornography? The court of public opinion might sentence the victim to maiming or death.
John K’s book should be mandatory reading for anyone attempting an Everest climb.

The authenticity of emotion JK spills onto the pages of this book, regardless of how well or otherwise it portrays certain people, including himself is just moving.

Here’s a man clearly traumatised by this most harrowing sequence of events and when begged by his editors to “sleep on it” for a few months before he writes anything he responds with a “no. I dont want time to blunt my recollection.”

At the beginning of the book the highlights an exchange he had with his wife at the airport as he departs to Kathmandu, the background being the relationship was severely strained by his obsession with climbing.

He says “Don’t be melodramatic, I’m not gonna die”.
Check this link (slide number 9) for the answer:
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/keybee2013/keybee-she-smar...
> The truth is that it's been hard to write because this has been a deeply troubling year in so many dimensions — for men, for tech, for American democracy.

American "democracy" isn't any more troubling in 2017 than 2016 or any other year before that, it's just that his party has effectively very little power. If he means Trump is still POTUS, then he's right. He's vehemently anti-Trump: https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the...

As for men/tech, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anyone that the type of (alpha?) male that winds up in a position of power (and/or money) would abuse and misuse it for sexual predatory behavior. This has gone on for most of human history.

A very small sample of randomly chosen examples from our recent past:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167013/Sexual-preda...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexual-violence-...

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/03/sexual-and-predator...

Learning that these types of things happen frequently != epidemic or that somehow 2017 was the year of the sexual predator.
Because no one cares or names it a "-gate" when one Android phone, consisting of <10% of the whole Android phone market has the same issues.
Why is this downvoted?

Hacker News is designed to appeal to cowards: someone had an opinion I didn't like, lets downvote with no accountability.

I've seen multiple times in here that the users really liked the idea of people with different opinions should talk with each other instead of remaining in their own echo chamber.

But the walk is much harder than the talk, just see what's happening here with any decending opinion.
You can move it to the left or right.
What's the big deal? Photoshop has already taught us not to trust photos, so we'll just have to learn to stop trusting videos now.

https://singularityhub.com/2016/05/13/new-digital-face-manip...
I live in a country where guns are legal to own and the police still doesn't shoot random people for no reason. It's not that hard, just don't give the job to thugs.
The Fitbit SDK is a direct continuation of a lot of the awesome work Pebble did, much of it by the same people. The Ionic may be aimed at a slightly different market, but we’re still working hard at trying to keep that dev goodness alive.
This pretty speculative and kind of sexist.

I mean you could kind of flip it around, only instead of men and porn it's women and dating apps.

That the likes of tinder makes the most attractive men far more accessible to women, so they are no longer interested in the average man.

And similarly tinder apps and the like have drastically reduced the costs of dating compared to the past. It's private, you only get hit on by men you like. You can safely reject them etc...

I think this is just as inflammatory.

Are men really choosing turning away from women because they are "lame" compared to porn? At least for me porn is for when I'm not in a relationship or my s.o is occupied.

If I had to reach for a cause I would say it's a mix of economics and modern entertainment/past times being far less a social experience.

I was in rural village recently and it was pretty clear to me that people are going to hook up less if they are spending their weekends on Facebook and Netflix then dancing around a fire.
In the U.S, cops are allowed to shoot unarmed civilians, entirely at their discretion. We consider it a privilege of the position, bestowed in exchange for the risk they face. Video doesn’t affect the verdicts even when it is admitted.
Just make sure it's not this one: http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Bowei%20HC-10...

And ideally, see if you can find your charger tested here: http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK...

If it is the first one, break it so nobody else finds it and tries to use it, throw it away and replace it. The Xtar MC1 is the cheapest safe charger commonly sold in the US; they're about $5.