skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if average people have the technology now, how long has it been in the hands of police departments, newspapers, militaries, and intelligence agencies?

Most of those people are average. Intelligence agencies can be assumed to have more advanced technologies in a number of areas but the gap between what they have and what's out in the more public world has narrowed.

We've already had image tampering technologies for a long time but there's not been a significant problem with fakes in the press or as evidence.

It is an important issue anyway and figuring out ways to being able to differentiate the genuine from the fake, with cryptographic signing in cameras for example, are worthwhile.
I still can't comprehend how can you spend "two hours everyday" there. What can you possibly do there for two hours? 0_o

I have account on all major social nerworks (Fb, VK, Twitter, Reddit), but I rarely even open their pages\apps, except for reddit and some evening twitter.

Two hours per week is the max I can possibly think of.
Word is why HCI papers have such bad kerning and word spacing in general (ironic, because HCI is the CS field closest to design and typography!). I’m from the PL community, where Latex is fairly standard, but co-authored a UIST paper in Word once, it was a nightmare and still didn’t look very good.

Word just doesn’t do double columns very well, and such a niche use case doesn’t seem to be a priority for Microsoft.
> Stealing the questions from the moderator

You're confusing two separate incidents, Donna Brazile giving one question from the primary debate to the Hillary campaign in March 2016, and Chuck Todd analyzing the first general debate in September 2016 and calling her "over-prepared". So, no.

Again, it's extremely funny how much false right-wing propaganda you're attempting to use in defense of the assertion that the left wing prefers orthodoxy to truth.
A code of ethics for Data Science
Ultimately, though, don't you have the same problem with things like contracts? Especially with digital signatures, but there is not actually a reliable way to determine whether a signature is authentic. And countless people are going to jail because of complete junk science like bite mark analysis. This seems like the least of our problem.s
My friends getting married and having children has gotten me thinking about how I would raise my own.

I look at my best habits that started early on in my life and wonder how I developed them to begin with.

I remember my friend James would come over to my house and we'd take turns writing stories in Word. Each of us would write a chapter from our character's POV while the other played Super Mario 64.That early interest in writing has served me all my life.

We'd also spend hours taking turns on my computer building custom Heroes of Might and Magic maps/scenarios.

But what gets someone to develop those creation-oriented interests instead of just being an idle consumer? And some of my ambitions, like programming, languished until I was in university and discovered amphetamine.

Seems to be some mix of opportunity + a certain amount of destitution + luck.
> not interested.

To be fair, most of us would have been pretty turned off by any educational computer thingy our parents would have pushed on us. In my experience most programmers have learned on their own, which is part of the charm -- it becomes a quest and kids love to learn stuff that their parents don't know.

If my kid showed interest in game dev I would get her a good computer and hint that she should download Unity and mess around with the examples. At least that feels real.
> What sucks today is the fact that I feel the OSes are gradually getting worse from user perspective

Looks like you haven't used Win10 yet. Try it. What Microsoft is doing is truly visionary and exciting, in a space where all innovation has been dead for a few years.
What makes you think that LibreOffice is not okay for an enterprise?
with incremental increases in artificial intelligence now taking the spotlight.

Hmm that does nothing for me. I wonder what the next big device is? Augmented reality? (Yes there was Glass but maybe the next generation will be more thoughtful.)

What I personally fancy is a drone-phone with more human-like AI assistant. Yes a talking, flying superphone. Inventors: please credit me, will ya ;)
Not much will change. People have been able to convincingly fake still photos almost since cameras were invented, yet courts accept some photos as evidence. What matters is the provenance, chain of evidence, and testimony of witnesses about the validity of the photo. Videos will work the same way.
I didn't leave, I can go weeks without checking it out. I do once in a while and when I do, I spend at most 30 minutes. I rarely post anymore, just see what my friends are up to. I only use it via browser and never installed the mobile app or messenger.

My free time, well, I started using twitter...
But it can't tho. Also, you would have to train your staff. You make it sound way easier than it actually would.
One have to remember why this was setup in the way it is, to protect the company forever.

In Sweden during the 70-ties 80-ties the Social democrats was pushing a radical socialist agenda ('löntagarfonder') to take over companies by taxing profits and then buying shares with it, all controlled by trade unions.

Result of these policies was that many companies left Sweden to protect itself (of course). IKEA, Tetra Pak and H&M to mention a few.

These socialist policies was one of many breaches of the so called Swedish model that the Social democrats did during the 70-ties 80-ties. This was beginning of the end of the Social democratic era and they started to lose elections one after the other.

These funds was later abolished by the next right wing government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_funds
Dupe - posted yesterday by the original project author, but with only two comments[0]

I think a moderator should consider merging this thread with the original, if possible.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16287030
Is that only sugar or also starch?
There is a conspiracy theory about trump urinating on a prostitute on his visit to Russia some years ago. The theory states that Putin has a tape of it.
> What I see to be a worse thing than supporting Windows 10 only, is that for the retail/non-o365 version there is no install media. It is click-to-run only.

Why is that? Because of the necessity to download a multi-GB install file after purchasing the key?
Japanese regulators raid Coincheck in wake of $530M crypto heist
did we really post that link at the same time, or did you edit your other response to match?
I highly recommend GameMaker for teaching programming (this is actually how I started programming). The drag and drop interface is easy to understand, while also being powerful enough to use on real projects. There are even numerous examples of successful indie games that have used GameMaker. It's pretty great for rapid prototyping in game jams as well.
In Norway, where statistics show about 80%(!) of the population go hiking in the mountains at least once a year, almost nobody uses a filtration device. And we don't all get sick. Official advice is that drinking from streams is fine when you're not downstream from human habitation or livestock grazing areas.
What is it with Hacker News and unprovoked attacks on libertarians?

(but since I can't resist)

Of course libertarians consider self-interest in their thinking about a free society. Your key term is "get away with" and it points to the problems with regulatory agencies.

When a government body has placed its seal of approval on a product, it does two things:

a) Causes many consumers to trust the benefits / safety of the product, since the government said it's ok. (And they never lie to us, right?)

b) Gives the corporation wiggle room within the certification, potentially changing the product for the worse while maintaining its approval.

But if you take a step back, the limited-liability corporation is a fiction of the state in the first place. Hiding behind a "corporate person" could be a huge factor in bad behavior, enabled by state action. After the financial crisis in 2008, many lamented the fact that none of the bankers went to jail (although some corporations were heavily fined).

Perhaps limited liability is the problem. If members of corporations were on the hook personally for injury to consumers, they might behave better?
Don't follow his advice: All it takes is a rotting animal carcass or infected human poop near your water source to render water unfit for consumption.

Explosive diarrhea and crippling intestinal craps would be a disaster when your miles away from civilization.

Millions of people in the third world die from infected water sources - my church spends millions to help them setup small water filter factories (and setup the economy around it) and it's estimated that $250 in funding helps save one person.
Nice twist.
One time I used Edge for about two months on my Windows PC just because I was too lazy to download and set-up Chrome after format.

The only reason why eventually I switched to Chrome was Chromecast. Other than that Edge + uBlock Origin was doing everything any modern browsers do.
I was surprised to learn that you can't even move the taskbar to another position on the screen in Ubuntu, which is supposed to be the most user-friendly Linux.
Until gov or Equifax leaks your ID photo.
One is a data point. You can draw any line you feel through it but that doesn't mean it's a trend. You need more data.
Beautiful. That sounds like alien birdsong.
Probably a reference to the Trump pee tape:

http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-jesse-watters-bizarre-...
One fear would be that someone could craft a malicious .docx file that can do any number of things - install keyloggers or adware or ransomware.
It's of course technically possible but it's also much more difficult. You basically have to photoshop a long series of frames and make sure that it looks natural and consistent in sequence. You have to take into account changes in lighting, focus, motion blur, things passing in front and behind the object etc...

In your example they modified a very clean source video, image is perfectly stable, very little motion and they edited a very small portion of it for a very short duration. TFA is about replacing one person by an other while they're talking and moving on a potentially lengthy video clip. Doing this convincingly by hand would be hard work.

I think a good example of the difficulty is with the infamous "moustache removal" for reshoots of Superman in the Justice League. It cost a fortune and the results were not exactly seamless. Also the re-created Princess Leia in that Star Wars movie, not bad but definitely still in the uncanny valley.
It was obviously a well crafted image, but hardly one invented out of whole cloth. For example non of the three homes he owned[0] would classify as luxury by any reasonable rich person standard. His 'luxury' house in Switzerland was probably not even among 10 most expensive houses in town and was significantly smaller than most billionaires garages. His house in Sweden is in the middle of nowhere, the sort of place where 'no one' wants to live and you can pick up large swaths of land for very little money.

edit: here is a picture of "luxury villa" in Switzerland: https://w.cdn-expressen.se/images/7d/e2/7de2bbfb59044fe6bfc3... Don't get me wrong it's a nice place and something for a reasonably successful doctor or lawyer to aspire to, but hardly screams "one of the 20 richest people in the world".

[0] The vineyard was technically owned the Ikea Foundation and not by him personally, and since the wine they produced there was sold at the restaurants at his stores the whole thing was probably considered a business expense for tax purposes. Because that was how he rolled
When will someone finally build affordable lightweight modular furniture
Bacterial removal depends on the size of the filter. Microfilters remove many bacteria, including Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shigella, and E. coli.

Ultrafilters do most bacteria (and many viruses).

See https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/home-water-treatme...

Lifestraw, for example, does 99.9999% of bacteria. See http://www.lifestraw.com/faqs/
The rumour that Russian intelligence have video of Trump getting pissed on by prostitutes, the #goldenshower hashstag is used I believe. No idea of its veracity.
"Mr. T Ate My Balls" - probably the original "meme" as it would be defined today
I don't think it will take until 2023.

iPhones and Google Pixel devices now include a special core for ML, and Snapchat already planned to move some of its filters onto it.

If Snapchat adds a deepfakes filter, it'd only take a few weeks before this is mainstream.
This sounds so obviously stupid I wonder why nobody stopped and said "You know, we might just make all these companies leave with stuff as ridiculous as this."
Hopefully, this makes celebrity untenable.
The list is long but top reasons for me after having used it for a while:

- start menu completely random. Like typing "upd" doesn't display anything but typing "update" shows windows update. And the behaviour doesn't seem to be stable. Sometimes old control panels show, sometimes not. Seems to be erratic through time and across different machines.

- microsoft dropping unwanted apps regularly in the start menu. Candy crunch, all sort of ads for sponsored software

- Frequent forced reboots

- Microsoft trying to force my hand on everything. Like default apps, making it difficult to change the default or for videos and images requiring me to confirm on every single different file extension one by one, or not allowing to select an app by its file path for all images or videos (only allowing me to pick from a shortlist of useless apps), making it difficult to create local accounts, all these multiple opt out confirmations are annoying. No means no.

- telemetry

- two control panels and making things worse, settings progressively moving between the two such that the location of a setting is unpredictable. The new control panel often gives the feeling of having been simplified (which in itself is fine) but also to hide the access to more advanced options (not fine).

- generally speaking the big buttons, all grey UI is not particularly pleasant

- many small usability features. Like when prompting for credentials, the RDP client doesn't allow you to access the username and password boxes with the keyboard, you have to select them with your mouse. It feels unfinished.

- I haven't had blue screen for a long time on windows 7, while it has become quite common on windows 10

- repeated interruptions. The OS should be discreet and not be interrupting your workflow unnecessarily. They since removed the full screen notifications in windows 10, but didn't for Windows Server 2016.

There are notable improvements too. Like finally being able to copy-paste in command lines was long overdue. The server features are also much better (hyper-v, powershell functionalities, IIS, etc). But on balance I think it provides a poor experience. I am not saying Windows 7 is perfect either, it comes with its own annoyances but I think it's not as bad.
They were definitely struggling with IE. Moving to Edge has brought them neck and neck again.
Bathroom time must be interesting.
> BTW, that free upgrade still works, it just isn't advertised. For above mentioned reasons, many consider Windows 10 to be the inferior version, not the previous ones.

This is interesting! Can you expand? Where or how can one still upgrade to 10 now? AFAIK even the free upgrade extension for those using assistive technologies has been withdrawn.
I love the reference to static structures. Indeed, I have a pet theory that most love of immutable lists is actually a love of static ones. Though, I typically expand that to measure statically visible in the code.
I probably shouldn't be so negative. But on the other hand I think its important to not get too caught up in celebrating our success and pay attention to what we lose to what is generally considered progress. Their are clear social problems that come from the nature of our technologically advanced society that need acknowledged.
What with the Big "L" hate anyways? A market-based solution is underway--the first thing is educating the public, which is hard to do in countries like India and China where the masses are hopelessly poor and ignorant and kept that way on purpose. Despite that situation, once word gets out to people that animals pumped up with antibiotics are disgusting and harmful to public health, the reaction is swift.

Or did you think it was regulation in the US that has shifted food production in the US towards animals raised without antibiotics? Seen the labeling on foods lately? Every producer is touting hormone-free this and antibiotic-free that. What we might need is proof, which is what meat inspectors do, right?
As an Amazon employee, I tend to think Amazon's reputation is overstated. Some teams definitely have very high operational loads, but in general my hours have been comparable to friends in similar tech companies and certainly less than friends in industries like medicine, management consulting, etc.

It's very strange to describe Amazon (at least engineering roles) as a sweatshop considering how well compensated employees are.
Regardless of whether this is a good or bad technology to have, I can all but guarantee it will only improve with time.
Ask HN: How to push through and finish reading/ listening to a book?
I couldn't finish reading or listening to even one book. I read a lot of educational blogs and watch videos but when it comes to books i tried to start reading many books but i just start feeling bored after a hour n totally loose interest and feel like i already know the stuff in the book and stop reading it and go to next book n repeat. These are books that are suggested by billionaires and new york best sellers.

Is any one else suffering from this?

Is there any cure for this?
I find the more concerning thing is not that people will believe that a fake is real, it's more that they won't believe something real is real anymore.

Already nowadays the whole thing about fake news and alternative facts has segments of the population flat out not believing the truth. This may very well be greatly exacerbated in the future where, regardless of the amount of evidence you bring, people will just disregard it as fake.
Ultimately, yes, but just like the workers who tried to destroy machines that took their jobs during the first industrial revolution, truckers will need a bit time to adjust to the driverless world
for HFT, you'll need millions for infrastructure, co locating servers in the stock exchanges, etc... definitely not one man life style business...
Early on, I think I've seen W10 update my GPU drivers while I was in game, which crashed it. I've also seen my TV mirroring setup wiped out by driver updates that happened behind my back.

Windows 10 doesn't seem to respect the user as much as previous releases.
Not grumpy at all. Of course you are right but solving this problem and making features like this available in dynamically typed languages is a bit tougher and in some cases, not at all possible as certain things might only be known at runtime.

So intellisense news in an IDE is certainly nothing new but it is "newish" for more functional/dynamic languages like JS. JetBrains has also done a good job with their intellisense in their IDEs for Python and Ruby, for example.
SEPA Direct Debit: 10 best practices
It's all just tax games.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/eu-regulators-to-investigate...
I think you mean Windows 10 enterprise, not windows 10 pro. Windows 10 pro comes with the same limitations in term of control than windows 10 home. Just with a few features unlocked (like being able to RDP into the machine).
Creator's update is nothing like a service pack of yore. A defining feature of service packs was that they didn't have any new feature. Only bug fixes and stability/security. Creator's update is a bigger upgrade from base Win10 than Win10 was from Win8, in terms of features.
> If we want to get kids interested in technology, we should be teaching them about technology, not creating abstractions on top technology and then teaching them the abstractions. I learned about computers with Murphy's Laws of Dos and Dos 4 on a monochrome screen. I knew that what I was doing was the same thing that professionals did, and I knew that the knowledge I was acquiring would be applicable in many settings. Later I learned Basic and HTML, and again these were tools used by professionals.

I'm glad that worked for you—and will work for plenty of kids. But there's also plenty of kids who want something different out of tech. If we envision only a single road into technology, we're only going to end up with the same sorts of people in technology that we've got now. Technology should have many roads into it, as many roads as there are ways for kids to look at the world.
I wonder what the correlation is between:

* People who would seek to disable updates on their computer.

* People who would take negative views on those who refuse to vaccinate their children.
That was backported to 7 though.

You can disable it in 7 by memorizing the KB #'s of the updates that install them and refusing them, but it's just as much work as installing Spybot Anti-beacon on 10.
Not sure about economics, but separate PCIe card with FPGA and it’s own storage is not that hard to build. Such setup could accelerate big data operations for sure.
They'll get more convincing. Then we'll actually get better at recognising subtle differences. Then they'll get even more convincing. Someone will develop algorithms to identify those fakes. Then they'll be further developed and improved to the point that they're impossible to distinguish at every level.
Shadow options are the only way I can play Sudoku as well; this is also potentially why I don't enjoy playing Sudoku. It always feels like the only way to make progress is by making a number of informal suppositions and waiting for a contradiction to reveal itself. This is surely true of a large class of games, but the only type of constraint you have in Sudoku is "no direct collisions" (i.e. two instances of the same number can't appear in the same row, column or subregion). Since all of these constraints are essentially of the same class, I can't keep any more than one or two of them in my head at a time, hence "shadowing". When I compare this to a game like KenKen, where there are a number of different classes of constraint (i.e. all of Sudoku's, as well as the mathematical constraints introduced by KenKen's rules), I find that I can hold a larger number of those constraints in my head at once, even when they have non-local effects.

I only know a couple strategies for Minesweeper, so it was pretty cool to see this writeup make distinctions between local and global approaches, not to mention calling out explicit situations where guessing is necessary.
Like everything in AI, it's probably just a matter of time now.
How do they compare to the telegram desktop client? Are they electron apps?
Flappy Gopher[1] uses SDL and comes with an instructional video for the beginners.

[1] https://github.com/campoy/flappy-gopher
It depends on the product, but probably not. If it's a very technical product where the customer is also technical then yes. If it's a user-centric product then I'd much rather they just had domain experience (and maybe UX skills).

The best PM I ever had was non technical, had no UX but had significant domain knowledge, and was pretty clear on the limits of his knowledge.

The worst PMs I've worked with are the ones that had a little bit of technical knowledge - just enough to be dangerous - and tried to direct the team to implement a half-baked solution where, more often than not, the actual problem they were trying to solve was shrouded in mystery.