skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a common tactic of Linux evangelists to state that they never have the problems you're experiencing and thereby disregard any criticism. You'll probably also get variants of "you're using the wrong distribution".
>Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learning make these analyses more accurate and less biased than humans.

This assumes the data sets of the criminal punishment system are not inherently biased, which is of course a false assumption.

All this does is make the runaway train of the US criminal punishment system a more efficient machine.
The problem with secret services is that nobody by definition keeps them in check and balances. They can easy fake and create the reasons necessary for theire power to continously expand.

To be honest though, i find the chinese social credit (sesame credit) system far more social chilling then cameras. If you are social isolated, because did not greet the police men this week, that is breaking people down to subatomic particles. That is a nightmare from which people do not recover. Cameras can be destroyed- one guy fawkes mask protest later a goverment can be gone.
But if everyone is setup to shun everyone and theire are no masks- and people get not even to meet other dissidents, that is where evil lies.
No, nihilism is the denial of any intrinsic value, we are still all free to make up and agree on our own values if we want, but it would be because we decided to, as untethered things in a meaningless expanse.
Similarly, I hate it when vendors organize their site according to what they expect their customer's line of business to be, rather than the features that actually distinguish their own product or service lines. For example, AppliedMicro divides its products page into "data center", "carrier", and "embedded". So instead of browsing (or - dare I dream? - parametrically filtering) the product lines to find something with the features I need, I have to decide which hat I'm supposed to be wearing to be sold the right thing.
...and forced to close down Slack. That is painful! :(
Are you telling me that everything that happened in SUITS could have been avoided if Michael Ross passed the bar in some other state?
Don't know why the downvotes. I was once asked to work on the original Gears of War. After talking to the developers at Microsoft game studios, I noped on out of there. Most game devs I've met have horror stories of death marches followed by massive layoffs. It's... not a great sector of the tech industry, if you value work-life balance.
The two-panel cases look very nice, but I hate the jigsaw-puzzle look of lasercut cases and mechanisms. It can be fairly strong but in practice people rarely put in the thought necessary for that. Carelessly designed lasercut cases can be very weak indeed.

On the other hand 3d printed cases can be beautiful and much more sophisticated[1] than lasercut. You aren't limited by the need for huge gussets and dozens of pain in the ass square nuts. Plus you can have curved surfaces.

[1]: https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/tuco_flyer.j...
Reminds me of the commercials here. Back killing you while lifting pianos all day? Knees aching from gardening at age 80? Pop a pill and ignore the signals that you're damaging your body!
The fun part is, that if you want to discuss such details (and I have much more) with an IOTA enthusiast, I get thinks like "I don't understand the technical details, but the founders say so you must be wrong. You are just discredit me."

So you, how want to discuss the details when people are just convinced without having knowledge themselves?
Older, even. "Hey Gorbb! There's a sabre-toothed tiger coming up behind you, you'd better start running!"
kexec doesn't keep your services running, it just allows the kernel to act as a bootloader for another kernel.
We got this close to WWIII several times in spite of all the safeguards in place. Atomic bombs by themselves do not prevent war at all, they are weapons and sooner or later those tend to be used. All it takes is more and more proliferation, at some point some idiot somewhere will throw a match in the tinderbox and then it will be game over.
Mastering the API
No they used a online seed generator..
The Making of the Largest Satellite Constellation in History – Motherboard
> I think it's obvious the poster meant the latter.

It wasn't obvious to me, but now that you mention it, yes, that would be a neat little trick to pull.
Apple could use ARM coprocessors for three updated Mac models
Interesting article, but this stood out to me.

It frustrates me to see people in the smash community treat measures like elo as "the truth" because they "don't have any human input". This simply factually incorrect - these so-called objective measures have as much human input as anything else, codified into the constants and design choices of their algorithms. Designing these things is as much an art as it is a science, and the choice on how to weigh placements, upsets, losses, consistency, peaks, and the like are all just that - choices, made by a human sitting in a chair with Sublime Text 3 open.

I feel like this is applicable nigh everywhere. From social media timeline sorting, to industrial processes, to Melee rankings. Using an algorithm doesn't eliminate the human element from a system, it only abstracts it away.
Why You Need SSL/HTTPS to Rank and Look Better on Google (2018 Edition)
>When it becomes almost 100% reliable and some unlucky person gets convicted because of a glitch but no-one cares because they trust the system.

Wouldn't that be a massive improvement over the current state of things? Convictions are currently made on the basis of very unreliable things.
0. I upvoted this response because it provides a legitimate answer to the question of "what's the other side" / "how can people possibly find IOTA a good idea." I hope others do too: it's relevant to the conversation, even if we disagree with the merits of the post.

1. Parts 1 and 2 were all fluff. Part 3 responds to the actual technical claims, and several paragraphs of fluff later, confirms the MIT claim that funds were transferred out of user accounts to an account controlled by the IOTA Foundation without user consent. (They had consent from some other network participants / the "community", and supposedly they had very good reasons for it.) I gave up by part 4, sorry.

Where I come from—which happens to be MIT, in fact—security protocols have a threat model, either stated or unstated, and a confused threat model is a legitimate criticism. One of the common unstated parts of the threat model of cryptocurrencies is that, unlike with a government-issued currency, the organization behind the currency should not be implicitly trusted and certainly should not be able to take your money for your own good. Is this part of the IOTA threat model? What exactly is required technically for this sort of transfer?
which webrtc feature did you need?
Reminds me of a book I read a while ago: 'Debt: the first 5000 years' [0]

[0]: http://dbpedia.org/page/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
That is good to know, and I've considered switching to Things for a while. This makes it easier. Thank you!
> Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this.

You're making a common error—Correlation does not imply Causation. The author is correlating these phenomenon, but not implying a causal relationship. Instead, he's positing that there's an additional cause to both—that America is in the midst of a societal collapse.
I am personally not a fan of the keyboard either; the escape key is too large, and so it offset all of the other function buttons. Not to mention the extra precision (and thus attention) required to type on the keyboard: the minimal tactile differentiation of key edges can make it harder for my hands to auto-correct their position. I've hit 'tab' instead of '~' more than a dozen times at this point.

It's better than a rubber dome keyboard, but that's not saying much honestly.
What made you choose a python script rather than C++ templates or the C preprocessor?
The Effects of Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector
HAMMER OF THOR ITALY OBAT PEMBESAR MISTER P PALING EFEK
There is a new paper[1] from F.J. Balleteros published on 2017
that serves as a great justification too.

- [1] https://jisajournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13174...
NSA removes 'Honesty' from their core values
NASA has gone a year without a formal leader–with no end in sight
Milestones that will mark the true arrival of the cryptoeconomy
How about Truffle? It was recommend by yc blog about blockchain.
I actually implemented glicko-2 as an 'elo' system for my school's competitive melee group.

This is making me reconsider, although one thing of note is that you choose to play who you want in our setup.

Overall I think this leads to fair rankings, since 'worse' players lose to 'better' players most of the time. As such, the people we think should be in the top and bottom spots have them at the end of the season.
Simple, Energy-Efficient Recycling Process for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Ah, intersting.

I too am not such a fan of the jigsaw look, it was the rigidity and strength that I liked. If you say they aren't as strong in practice, perhaps 3D printing would be better. I've only ever seen really good prints come from expensive machines with a fair amount of post-processing going on. TBH currently I just get cases from Hammond most of the time. It's the creation of front panels as well that I'd like to achieve more cleanly. As it's just my hobby, I can just about put up with the misaligned square holes!
New monitoring/interview
> I'm not sure why Firefox would be causing instability until you restart (reboot?), though.

I get the impression that the UI loads files from disk dynamically, which start mismatching what was already loaded.
Debug tools for generating crafted DNS responses
Benefits of a Master's Degree in Computer Science
Not really because transactions in BitCoin take forever to clear.
Show HN: Ewolo v4 – Log workouts and body weight to track your progress
Acronis Releases Free Ransomware Protection
Papillon Rose – Art legging
In making that choice between options, you give up a lot - discrete graphics cards, two USB-C ports, the fingerprint sensor, hard drive options...

A preference for physical keys costs more than just "giving up" the touch bar.
>There are times when you simply have hard problems.
>
>For example, take code generation (I actually have in mind a SQL query generator, but a compiler back end would do just as well). The problem is already abstract - the input is code, you're naturally writing code that manipulates code, like you would with macros or reflection. The problem is complex: you can generate simple code, but it won't perform well. There's irreducible complexity here that cannot be simplified away.

Yeah sometimes you do, and that is exactly the kind of problem that is irreducibly complex, but I think new kinds of problems like this don't tend to crop up in the wild very often and when they do they tend to show up in subtle and non-obvious ways.

The problem you've described is far from a new problem - it's the same problem space that is covered by ORMs. Furthermore, if I were working on a team where a developer has uttered the words "I've created my own ORM" (or something to that effect), my face has probably already landed in my palms.

The rest of what you wrote I'm in vigorous agreement with though- especially the parts about unit testing, local modifications and "the other side of the hill". Seen all of that.
Debugging a NuGet Package with a Locally-Built DLL
> when you reduce the density matrix to its diagonal, setting the interference terms to zero in a non-unitary way, you are collapsing it to a "classical" mixture of two states corresponding to the possible outcomes of the measurement (as described by von Neumann 85 years ago).

Yes, that's true, but that is not the same thing as "measurement causing the collapse of the wave function". Collapse is not a physical phenomenon, it a a mathematical approximation. When you measure a particle, nothing happens to that particle as a result of the measurement. It does not suddenly "decide" to go through one slit or the other. Anything that "happened" to the particle happened not as a result of the measurement but as a result of the initial entanglement with the ancilla.
>Isn't Lisp particularly good at making your own DSL?
Anyway, the majority of the programming community tends to dislike that sort of freedom,

The majority of the programming community doesn't use Lisp.

Lisp metaprogramming is very different to metaprogramming in other languages (extreme opposite example: C preprocessor macros). Lisp homoiconicity makes macros easy to write, and easy to maintain.

The majority of the programming community dislikes that sort of freedom, but the overwhelming majority of Lisp programmers considers it an essential freedom.

After all, we're all doing high-level programming. We need tools to abstract stuff, and the more complex the problem is, the more powerful the abstraction features should be.

The state of the art in abstracting stuff in 2018 is still either hindley-milner languages (ML family), Prolog and friends (Erlang), or Lisp (Common Lisp, Scheme).
The article is wrong. There is no balance. The bike balances itself. Check youtube for the countless clips of bikes riding on forever after the rider falls off. At racing speeds you really can do all the direction control via steering. You wont be the fastest but you will get across the line.

Motorcycle tires are getting so good that lean angles are limiting the weight-shifting advantage. Look at the 1980s and you will see guys hanging low off thier bikes dragging knees. Todays racers can lean the bike so far that they drag elbows. There literally isnt enough room to hang. So the robot isnt at too much of a disadvantage.
Great learning tool. For getting started with blockchains I collect starter scripts in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc over at the Awesome Blockchain page [1]. Happy blockchaining!
[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
How the Finance Industry Is Trying to Cash in on #MeToo
Let Conversational Technology Take Care of Your Dirty Dishes
I was hoping for something a little more inciteful ;o)

My imagination of how an army is run requires careful maintenance of fitness of soldiers, so use of PT instructors, regular monitoring of fitness metrics. It also has dieticians to monitor food production/intake. Opsec would probably deny any personal electronic devices.

If a deployed soldier needs to track their personal fitness then that suggests a deficiency - fitness of sisters must be of prime importance during deployment? There seems no reason that soldiers wouldn't have a fitness record they could access that included all food intake, mandated exercise, regular weight monitoring, blood pressure, and whatever.

Of course, the use of personal fitness devices suggests my conception is wildly off how a deployed corpus of soldiers is actually run.
you're judging what you obviously have no idea?
I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of demand for future Intel hardware that's immune to spectre and meltdown. I think it might cause _more_ sales of Intel chips in the future, not fewer.
Wanna buy JBL go have a look at my review before buying the product
I tried Jekyll with github and it's awesome (until I can't fix certain details). If Ivy can integrate with with github that'd be awesome!
I doubt Intel will see serious punishment in the market. As usual, there will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth but when push comes to shove most people will prioritize nearly everything over security.

All markets work like this. People bitch about the quality of products, but still buy the cheap stuff.
Footage:

https://global.yamaha-motor.com/showroom/motobot/ep3/index.h...
Why not create profiles of real customer contacts? Use their own words for how they describe themselves and their goals.
You can get a Wanhao/Monoprice i3 for $300 or so, and it's a fantastic printer.
I did, although I have never really given up engineering. Happy to help if you have questions. See my email in my profile.
It's not a flip phone, but I quite like the way the new Nokia 3310 looks. Simple but modern.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nokia-3310-3g-cell-phone-unlock...
WebAssembly vs. JavaScript – Streaming Compilation Performance Advantage
The discussion in the paper describes COMPAS as "no more accurate or fair than the predictions of people with little to no criminal justice expertise who responded to an online survey", an assessment that doesn't seem unreasonable given the results presented. So, COMPAS is uninspiring because it provides no demonstrable benefits over even a crude analog of existing methods. Furthermore, it is not competitive against a two-feature linear regression model which only considers age and the number of previous convictions.

As it happens, however, I agree with you - people do have unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved with AI. Replacing humans is, in many domains, a more difficult prospect than might be imagined, because so much of what we do is implicit. Suggesting that a particular problem is "solved" because a system achieves non-significant parity on a handful of measures is short-sighted to say the least.
‘Panzer Dragoon Saga’ Remains Gaming’s Missing Masterpiece
It's hard to make money out of attacking stuff like this because you can't normally keep the system broken in a way that is easily fixable when the money shows up. Once you contact your victim they just fix whatever is broken and then ignore you. Industrial processes are unreliable enough that one extra outage might not make that much difference.

It's kind of like making programs to run on Windows 95. You don't have to worry that much about making your program reliable because no one will notice a few extra crashes.
Well, Senator....

I'm neither a lawyer nor female, I am married to someone who is both and considered law initially (family of them). Are you missing working companionship or feel pushed out as a female in SW? Is there a specific type of law you'd like to go into, similar to medicine or even software, there's many many different paths.

Best of luck, curious why you're looking at switching, I still flirt with it sometimes. Personally, I think the unreasonableness of some of the dealings/proceedings would irk me too much. It is very interesting though and the lawyers I know genuinely help better other people's lives, directly, while making a decent living.
Yes. I particularly hate when I am in none of the categories yet want the product or service. Makes me feel like they have no interest in selling to me right off the bat.
So V8 doesn't use compressed pointers? It sounds wasteful to use whole 8 bytes for pointer if typical JS application is unlikely to need more than 2GB of ram
> the end product has to be at least readable, if not maintainable, by any half competent electrician

You can get that by using Python or similar languages; you can get that by programming in something like a Haskell DSL and hiding the underlining libraries; you can get that by creating an actual DSL and interpreting it on the fly.

But C or C++ state machines manually encoded into structured code is one of the things that won't get you there.
It was playing around with exactly these sorts of tricks in c++ (with late 90's compilers) that drove me to learn common lisp. It's a much nicer environment to do this sort of thing in, but difficult to compete head to head with a good optimizing c++ compiler on code generation in general. Fwiw, in common lisp particularly having access to to compiler macros allows for interesting approaches.

I was doing primarily research code at the time though, and the overall improvement in productivity more than made up for the fractional difference in run times for me. Of course, ymmv.
The Race to Produce Lab-Grown Meat Is Underwritten by Billionaires, Big Ag, VCs
I actually did 'LaTeX in the browser' as a master thesis in 2014, but never went to continue developing it afterwards, be it as open-source project or with a commercial intent in mind. Although I though, at that time, I was at least up to the few solutions that were out there and solved the task of instant updates and real-time collaborative work on a document pretty gracefully.

Some neat improvements would have been version and so on, but you know, never made it that far after picking up a job. Kind of a shame...

https://github.com/djuerges/cotex
The Security and Privacy Implications of AI and Machine Learning (SHA2017)
This tracks with the current trend in Open Source, Libraries and Tool-kits are open but Finished Software is not. This is the primary motivation for the opposition of GPL and other copy left licenses in favor of non-copy left so they can insure the "open" code can be locked down in the final consumer product

Sad really that Open Source has diverged so much with Free Software..
Ask HN: Firefox keeps changing the default save-file directory. How to fix that?
Hello

I'm on Firefox 58 (Mac) now and am experiencing an odd problem.
I save a picture (e.g. *.jpg) and choose where to save it. Then when I want to save another picture (the same file format) it resets the default directory and I have to navigate through Finder to choose that directory again.

Does anyone know how to fix that?
The other poster isn't trying to lay out a worst case scenario, they are talking about harm from a likely scenario, one where most people think things are "fine".
I remember working for a company a few years ago that would accept a faxed time sheet with a signature but not the same sheet as a scanned document by email.

Their logic for this seemed to just paranoia though. Maybe it's common?
Software Testing Trends for 2018 and Beyond
It's single threaded, but with async I/O.

That means that any I/O doens't block the main thread, and other parts of JS can execute.

This example provides literally no benefits, and actually is a performance hit from converting the data from JSON, then sending it back to the main thread (which itself copies the data in a method similar to converting back to JSON then back to an object again in the main thread).
Even the double spending problem is not really resolved. Just with the current theft, there are recipes posted[1] on how to recover the stolen IOTA by basically enforcing the double spending and trying to give your spending a higher priority than the fraudulent transactions had. That means fraudulent transaction could try this themselves and just need to exploit that race condition. That means a fraud needs to somehow collect the data on pending transactions and just need to issue their own ones with the known collision problem on the hash.

[1] https://www.inowrx.de/iota-stolen-iota-stop-pending-unconfir...
I don't think that's hard to imagine. I'm imagining it right now. I don't think we're going to get there without some strange forces acting on us, and idk if that's a society I want, but we are more malleable than we give ourselves credit for. People seem to think that life as we know it is life in all it's possibilities rather than one permutation of an infinite mess of dissimilar outcomes.
I think the things we struggle over which will determine our future are battles of coincidence and not fated. I don't think communism and capitalism needed to compete through their representative nations in the cold war, that was just the way we dressed up a power struggle, where power struggles are the actual predictable thing.
Synthetic ‘Virus’ to Kill Bacteria
Ignorant? You mean like the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is supposed to have classified oversight of America's spy agencies?

Maybe you should bone up on the details yourself, before slandering others as ignorant. Never mind Clapper could have simply refused to answer the question. But yes, please continue to cover for spies dodging their legal responsibility to comply with full Congressional oversight.
Thanks for letting us know about it. Wow this is way before Snowden...
"What's the big deal? It's just metadata."