skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* False positive rate probably depends on the cut-off for when something is flagged up for a humnan to review, but yeah, for all we know could be high

* No one quotes metrics based on the training set, so I'm sure these guys haven't done that.

* Most trained ML models don't require much computing at all to make predictions.

* The idea seems to be to flag content for review by a human, so there is a human in the loop

* No one is forcing anyone to use this... so there's no straight forward censorship issue

* maybe this does embarass bigger companies into explaining why they don't develop there own system to do this (removing IS content seems uncontroversial) - I presume this is why the Home Sec is really interested
Bill and Melinda Gates Tackle ‘Tough Questions’ and Trump in Letter
A linter and code conventions are a way to make code more consistent and easier to switch between. At times it becomes hard to see what code you wrote and what somebody else wrote, which is a good thing. If I open a file and everything "just feels wrong" but I can't change it because enforcing my personal preferences are just my personal preferences is just making things worse that really takes some valuable energy away I could use for actually improving things. But I can get used to a coding guideline that's not 100% my preference but a well enforced and consistent one. Knowing that if I fix indenting and naming the fix will not enrage someone else.
Conspire (FullContact) shuts down today
The Power of Negative Thinking
The Galaxy S9 is coming
What the author is too young to realize is that there is no development path for him(?) as a programmer. Companies don't care if you have time off or hobbies, or a wife, or anything. They don't hardly give a shit that you need to breathe air.
I also got the recommendation for that book from HN; specifically from a user who maintains this site: http://learninfreedom.org/readbook.html

We used it with our son, with fantastic results. He’s now almost seven and reads voraciously.

Edit: on review, I got the rec from the same user you did. Years later and I’m even more grateful he shared that book here.
By broadening your vision. As an engineer, it's easy for me to focus only on technical details. So I make an effort to see beyond that -- what is our org's broader goal; what are our industry's issues? It's not always easy, and sometimes I'm overwhelmed, but it helps build a common vision, which can be the foundation for teamwork across disciplines.
Is an Egalitarian Healthcare workable? (1997)
The Big Switch: a view of the advent of cloud computing, ten years on
It sounds from the BBC piece that this was trained specifically for Daesh content (part of the reason they don't want to say what the features they look for are), and as you say that is uncontroversially extremist content
I wonder how they deal with political topics. For example, searching on their map for "Palestine" brings you to some village outside of Rennes, France. Searching for "Israel" brings you to the state with that name.
Android 8.1 officially rolls out to the Nokia 8
Is the Galaxy X real?
Rather than search a public torrent site and download files themselves, I see most people I ask using streaming apps like Kodi plugins or streaming websites to watch content like movies and TV. Some sites, like defunct Popcorntime, used torrent protocols in the background but a knowledge/use of torrents isn't really required as much these days. At least among my experience talking to family/friends/coworkers.
Debatable. Just as people, some software ages badly. Heck, sometimes it's just born old :-)
It's true that Bitcoin's current setup is not suitable for a broader adoption. It's already at the limit with just 6 transactions per second.

But the Lightning Network might be a solution to this. After reading quite a lot about it, I tend to think that it can work.
Is there anyone reading this whose company has a DPO already? Is it an internal or external person? How technical are they? I'm a developer and I have a law degree; would that put me in an advantageous position to become one? Is there a market for 'consulting DPO's', like companies hire accountants, if that's allowed? Or do the big consultancy firms have the GDPR market cornered already? I wouldn't want to go in a direction where I would become what today's 'security auditors' do - go through a checklist of mostly irrelevant topics, drum up a list of 'recommendations' that usually aren't relevant or misunderstanding the situation but nobody cares anyway because it's all just busywork to get 'certified' for this or that (or insurance requires it). But if it would be actually working with technical teams on questions like this, that would be interesting.
Perhaps although this sort of reinforces the point that the design of git tends to encourage creating a lot of individual, single-purpose repositories, leaving it up to the user to string them all together with gitlab or github or a custom server, if that's what you want.

I'm not saying I prefer the subversion architecture, but with subversion the pattern described is quite natural and requires no additional technology or design beyond a directory structure.
As an Elixir dev, popping open old Erlang code bases is always an interesting experience. Some of those haven't even been touched in the last 4 years!
Google’s New AMP Stories Bring Snapchat-Like Content to Mobile Web
Not old. The author is probably young. Or a js dev. Or both.
Or most of Europe (France, Germany, ...).
No 2FA on Lifelock, Other ID Protection Services
> That was my point.

Was it?

Let me be blunt for a second. When someone asks for recommendations. If you are able to help that person, then please do so. It helps them and it may help others in the HN community.

What you should not be doing, is your previous reply. In no way was it warranted, nor was it solicited.

If you wish to make such statements known. Feel free to post your own comment or replying elsewhere.

I cannot believe some elements of HN behave in this manner.
It's interesting what a white wash of the monster this piece is. Get the bad out of the way so the "good" can clear the conscience. When do we start applying this technique to the Nazis?
I'm not dismissing it off-hand, just putting it into perspective. And frankly, there is orders of magnitude difference between those two things.

> you shouldn’t contribute your services pro bono

But I happily will. I want to.

I will readily, and entirely for free, support every single company, organization, government and individual who puts a honest and smart effort to make the world a better place. We're in extremely short supply of groups and people who make a difference; almost everyone - companies, countries, NGOs - are too distracted playing market games and politics for their personal, short-term benefit.

You get what you support. So let's support people who actually care.
Maybe it's pedantic, but I wish security reporters wouldn't list their pubkeys and signal # on a page that isn't served over TLS.
Cloning objects in JS. Looking under the hood of reference and primitive types
That is barely out of adolescence. Part of my day job is shepherding a large legacy web application into final retirement. 18 years and still trundling on, longer if you count the desktop applications that came before in the product line. Still getting new development time allocated to it too, most recently implementing improvements to help the clients comply fully with GDPR. Traced a problem in production back to a bug introduced 13 years ago just the other day...
7 Reddit Alternatives
I don't know about the options for Apple's operating system, but this is the sort of task that tiling windows managers (such as Xmonad or i3 on Linux) make short work of with a few keystrokes. [1]

Tiling window managers provide extensive control in exchange for a brief learning curve and the very occasional corner case where manual pixel perfect window alignment has enormous benefit -- I can't remember any.

I recall reading that Xmonad will run on Macs if the display manager is changed from Apple's proprietary code to X11.

Good luck.

[1] I have been using Xmonad for several years and I will never go back to a non-tiling manager (large piles of cash might create an exception).
Commonwealth own ing. They have for a faire while. That's why Commonwealth customers could use ing ATMs for free back when they still had fees
More probably this is something they need for a reason we don't know about but won't disclose.
For some reason, Figure 2 doesn't continue out beyond the few-training-samples regime. Therefore, I think we're left to assume that MothNet underperforms the other techniques in the many-samples regime. Is there something I'm missing?
Can confirm. Work at nuclear research firm, have supercomputer, interns always talking about casually cryptomining on it. It doesn't have too many gpus (we haven't gotten into CUDA driven neutron transport and ray tracing yet) so it'd be a waste.
I do love these throwaways: "I don't follow Western philosophy at all, it's still playing catch-up to Eastern thought from two millennia ago". He doesn't follow it but knows it's 'playing catch-up'. Still - 'People say and write all kinds of things'. Totally agree.
Research by Homaan Behesti of Fastly (above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16365413#16365605) suggest that you test h2 with your site and see how h2 compares to h1.
I wonder whether for curvy automobile sheet metal these days they sculpt and then digitize or start out directly creating virtual shapes.
A big problem in the IT world today is that #1 is no longer the case--it is marketing departments that are driving a lot of software development and they don't care about standards, code quality, tests, anything. It's a bad culture change.
The Future of Working for Millennials
For Gardiner's corner, I think you're looking the wrong direction. The entrance to commercial road has moved, but you should be looking this way: https://www.google.be/maps/@51.5151995,-0.0716539,3a,75y,88....

The brick building on the left in this view is in the original photo:
https://www.google.be/maps/@51.5151502,-0.0700696,3a,60y,114...
Fixing lore in tech
Yeah but this is between Banks
Thank you for your thoughtful follow-up.

I agree that we're probably on an upward trajectory -- and that's a very good thing indeed.
While GP stated soft-deletes aren't allowed, I figured I'd contribute to this thought exercise.

What about symmetric encrypting the field(s) and then giving the customer the key, and tell them to print it or store it safely, or else they won't be able to recover? And then don't store the key or write it to disk (remove it from memory)
Haber was a true giant.

Nobody out people there would've lived without him inventing a process that lead to first generation chemical fertilizers.

An invention I rank second to invention of fire in history of our species.

(third being the metallurgy)

Yet, the man is unknown to non-chemist, and some anthropologists
Eh, their shoppers sound dumb from the anecdotes here, are likely tending to be picking up larger orders a lot, and generally plugging up the store at a higher rate than other shoppers.
Wayfair's Conversion to React and Redux
Even as a casual user OpenStreetMap is great. My old Garmin GPS isn't supported anymore and no up-to-date maps are available, but some awesome persons online are providing updated maps that are compatible with it using the OSM data.

Thanks OpenMapChest!
Consider this: Every single Bitcoin mined has either been lost/stolen, or will be lost/stolen, with probability approaching 1 over increasing timespans.

I’d argue that since January 2009 about 50% of the ~17M coins minted to-date are lost. But the realization that this number will asymptotically approach 100% of all coins is a bit striking.

The reasoning is simple - maintaining control of your coins is surprisingly difficult. The harder you try to secure them from theft, the more likely an accident will wipe them away. The more redundancy you keep to protect from losing them, the more they are exposed to theft. And as time goes on, the random noise of life conspires to blot your coins out of existence. And once they’re lost, there is simply no recovery.

The supply of Bitcoin is not asymptotically approaching 21M. The supply is approaching zero.
> Especially on an article about inequality of access

I did not read the full article, only skimmed. If this is mentioned then yes, it's very relevant and indeed valuable to discuss. Thanks for bringing that up and I agree, 17MB is not very accessible, and bit weird to talk about inequality of access when serving so huge pages that won't even work in some parts of the world.

With that said, tcd did not mention the same things as you did. There was no reaction about "article about inequality of access when your site is not accessible!", but more of a knee-jerk reaction of "Large JS, boo!". That's the part that is not constructive and I'm guessing, is why it was downvoted.
Check out Raph Levien's thesis:
http://levien.com/phd/phd.html

It doesn't talk about dynamically varying stiffness along the curve, but is otherwise a very detailed dive into splines.
> When someone asks for recommendations. If you are able to help that person, then please do so.

No. Recommending commercial entities to others is not what HN is for.

If you want such a thing you are more than welcome to contact me or others out-of-band.

> It helps them and it may help others in the HN community.

Yes, or it may steer them in the wrong direction entirely.

I don't think this sort of advice is best dispensed through a public forum, reputations of companies are at stake and without enough context it is impossible to make a good advice to begin with.

It is closely related to people dispensing legal advice in forums, better yet if they're not lawyers. The line that comes to mind is 'advice is worth what you pay for it'.

> What you should not be doing, is your previous reply. In no way was it warranted, nor was it solicited.

That's your opinion, mine is a different one.

I get regularly asked to recommend services or companies (by those companies and by their prospective customers) and as a rule I will only do this if I familiar with both parties and consider them a good fit.

That's a thing borne from experience, which again you may disagree with but this has served me well over the years.

> I cannot believe some elements of HN behave in this manner.

And I can not believe that you feel that you are doing any better with this comment.
I’ll be checking that out
Journalists will love it!

It's not easy for journalist to do a simple table like yours.
The problem is very time consuming for them to do this kind of work.

If you want to get traction in newsrooms, you'll need to add the option to tweak the size of the chart to be able to fit their CMS screen state, and twitter/facebook/etc post sizes.
You also highlight, maybe without realizing it, an inherent blind assumption that somehow more humans on the planet is better than less humans, when in every regard and all measures would indicate the clear opposite being true. It almost feels like an addiction, a compulsory habit or even a physiological dependency on the notion that more people is a good thing.

The sustainably and ecologically balanced and qualitatively positive carrying capacity of the planet is far lower than even today's population, but for some reason even just bringing that notion up is not only ignored, but even countered not with rational argument, but violently aggressive hostility ... just like one would expect someone addicted to react to the confrontation about their addiction.
ONE MAN'S QUEST TO MAKE GOOGLE'S GADGETS GREAT
My issue with 3D Touch is that there doesn't appear to be any language for when you can use it or what it will do if you can.

90% of the time, I forget it's there.

A specific case of where it was a problem for me is that tapping the lockscreen icon for the flashlight does nothing. I thought it was broken for a week till I accidentally discovered that you had to force push it.
I'm still testing it and improving it (there are so many different websites with different responses...), so If you have any comments I'm looking forward to what you think about it.
Charging More for a Worse Product
I'm disappointed that nowhere in this interview is there any actual indication of what is done badly, or what teachers should do to improve how kids are taught to read. I get that there is apparently a gap between how kids are taught to read and the science behind how kids should be taught read.

I would much prefer a single understandable, actionable insight. Without it, this interview seems rather hollow. From this interview, I'm led to expect that the real insight from the book is that "teachers should study behavioral science, congnitive science, and brain development," which is too loose a central thesis to capture my interest.

I suppose what I've really gathered from this interview is two things: firstly, I would like to know a bit more about the gap is between how kids learn to read and how they should learn to read; secondly, I do not intend on reading Seidenberg's book (i.e. the book this interview is centered around) to find out.
Really? That's pretty poor form. And has put me off it without having even used it yet. Imagine the identity theft we are going to see when people can lookup a mobile phone number and account name on one click of their app.
Thank you. Just tried it and it works great in Chromium.
They are mostly private companies where the families cash out and the fate of the company and brand depends on the buyer.

It looks like Remington got picked up by an equity group that bought the firm, borrowed as much as possible, paid itself as much as possible and is now liquidating.

It’s a common business model. See Toys R Us and even the KMart/Sears shitshow as recent variants on the theme. The movie Wall St described similar strategies from the 80s.
Look up Frank-Lin distillers sometime.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/bztu6ot3xumpeiiiygdzaa

http://www.frank-lin.com/

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/topstories/fairfield-offic...

http://www.webcitation.org/5jjmHRr9C
Show HN: Chrome web crawler that tests for 50+ SEO/speed/security best practices
Well noticed :-). Both of those are discussed at length in the book.

First, "ways of talking" have domains of applicability. GR's domain of applicability doesn't include the very small scale, so it doesn't make any predictions there to contradict qm.

The book also talks about value judgements, and is very explicit that different people's core values may differ from each other. So I guess poetic naturalism doesn't apply to them? That bit wasn't clear, but I would only apply these axioms to "is", not "ought" statements.
But the number of outputs is not fixed. What if the number of given points is 1000, or 10000?
Learning by Competition: Understanding Adversarial Neural Networks Part II
> Comparing Jesus-level sainthood to Bill ... I can't tell if you're trolling there.

I feel I need to be direct: you seem to be failing at reading comprehension 101 all throughout this thread (I assume tiredness).

I was not comparing Bill to Jesus. I was implying that you, and similar critics, think that we have streams of Jesus-scale saints who are smart, rich and ready to help, and we prefer Gates instead. But we don't have those saints. Right now, we can only choose between Gates and no one at all.
It is for the author who got his first paycheck last year.
My favourite quote from, "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers:

"They're writing legacy code, man!"
10% is the rate of the people that ever try, and those are currently likely to be the people that are predisposed to develop an addiction. I don't think this can be generalized to the whole population.

> but these aren't things that should be legal and accessible for people to start using.

Then impose a full ban on alcohol as well? It's about as addictive and ranks higher in danger to health than heroin. And it's pretty much freely available to any adult. Well, the US tried, it didn't work out all too well.
> Is there anyone reading this whose company has a DPO already?

I've seen one in all of 2017 (out of ~20 companies).

> Is it an internal or external person?

In that case it was internal

> How technical are they?

More legal than technical, but that's a very small sample.

> I'm a developer and I have a law degree; would that put me in an advantageous position to become one?

Yes. In fact that's probably one of the most lucrative combinations of fields.

> Is there a market for 'consulting DPO's', like companies hire accountants, if that's allowed?

YES! In fact if you are halfway decent this would be an extremely lucrative thing to do, but it probably will become less so over time as the knowledge gets diffused.
Uber Settles IP Suit with Waymo for a $245M Piece of Uber
My favorite is when people capitalize LISP. It's not 1958 anymore, we can just say Lisp now.
Last September I was in Armenia. I paid at a supermarket with my debit card. I immediately opened my banking app for my Dutch bank, and the amount was already withdrawn.
> It does not matter. Just keep launching as fast as you can and see what works. Just think of it as throwing spaghettis on the wall and see what sticks.

I get that you can't do what you love and expect to make money. But this feels like it's gone too far. It seems like true greatness and satisfaction requires just a little bit of intent above just making easy money. I guess if easy money is your only goal this would be satisfying.
Lit-html: HTML Templates in JavaScript
Workshop:How to write library using next generation JavaScript
So what's the alternative to lying for what you hope is the greater good?

This is the advice that I give my colleagues who, after exhausting all other methods, try to squash technical debt before a 1 hour task becomes a 5 hour task. Leaving the job doesn't solve the problem (though it may save your sanity). In fact it might make it worse, because the leaving person is likely taking tacit knowledge with them.

I'm not saying that lying is preferred, but what else can one do?
Content aside, I love the ToC to the left with clickable links. Helps prepare a reader for what information their about to consume, and provides relevant context for each section.
Git itself is developed this way, so saying it could be fixed by "real revision control" is silly. Maybe you worked with someone who misused this model, but there's good reason Git and Linux use it.
They made sacrifices for someone else's country. A lot of them were not US citizens.
> ... asserting that people under 35 know they're supposed to hate Microsoft too, even if they don't know the detailed reasons.

I apologise -- I did not intend to sound prescriptive, but rather observe that people over that threshold tend to have a qualitatively different view of MS & Bill than people under it.

> It's only "end justifies the means" when people start excusing present bad behavior ...

I disagree very strongly with this revisionist attitude.

> ... go and do something meaningful ...

This is precisely what I'm endeavouring to do.
> Note also that the worshipping around Elon Musk is much the same thing, just for techies.

Huh, you mean Musk doesn't actually push R&D more than other car manufacturers / launch providers?

Its only natural those marketing tactics work. Who the hell does have the time to research environmental impact when buying a $4 brush. Don't forget to also research its durability, health impacts, social ethics, and so on. Apart from "evil" gov regulations, consumer organizations can help you to at least some degree. But i doubt that is enough for a good society.
A lot of governments want to do away with physical currency as it is simply much more difficult to track than electronic transactions. I believe it is one of the reasons China put a lot of effort in developing their mobile payment systems.