skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good work for getting this far.

I've built several music-related services and apps.
A couple of points to think about.

- What is the source of your music?

If you are planning to setup deals with record labels to stream their content...then good luck.

If you're planning to use an existing service (e.g. stream songs from Spotify) then make sure you have an incredibly-tight agreement. The old adage "Never build a business using someone else's platform" exists for a reason.

- Why is your app 100x better than curation than Spotify and Apple?

TBH you should remove this wild statement because it's most likely not true. Perfectly matching music to mood is incredibly difficult, to the point of impossible, so for a brand new unknown app to make this claim just rings out alarm bells.

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Rather than trying to be a fit-all music discovery service, maybe try and think about a niche you're passionate about.

For example, https://www.soundshelter.net focuses purely on personalised vinyl recommendations for house & techno DJs.
It looks like the transformation in being applied to the whole image at once in your example. If each sprite was vectorized individually, you wouldn't see the gooeyness. If you are a game developer, this change should be easy enough.
You really ought to disclose that you also hired the language's BDFL when you make comments like these.

With that said, I sort of agree with the sibling comment here. Most other people involved with a language that I've seen are still able to make objective criticisms about it.
I get that, but he's ESPECIALLY noticeable here. It's basically the Dave Chapelle "Wearing the uniform" joke.
This gives new meaning to "location transparency" a la Erlang..
Sounds promising for my JAV collection!
Yes. Also, if you'll take a minute to re-read the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of the page: "did you read the post" is one of just a small handful of arguments you're explicitly not supposed to make on this site.
You mean tasks like computing the rank of a matrix? (http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/rank.pdf) ;)

Image super-resolution is an ill-posed inverse problem: many possible high-resolution images would be reduced to the same low-resolution image. However, some of the possibilities are more realistic than others. Consider a grey pixel in a photograph from real life. It's more likely that it was downsampled from a 2x2 block of grey pixels than from a 2x2 black-and-white checkerboard pattern. We apply such knowledge by adding regularization to the problem, or using a prior distribution in a Bayesian formulation.

Deep learning is very good at memorizing those priors by looking at real world data. I think, in problems where the prior is important and complicated, data-driven approaches have a big advantage over hand-engineered approaches. That does not mean they will take over every kind of problem.
Who designs this shit? How is this preventing anything? Russian intelligence agencies definitely can't crack this defense measure. /s

They should also require the buyer take a photo saluting the American flag while eating a hamburger.
Sometimes, the answer isn’t more technology, I guess.
“Why You Shouldn't Be on Call 24/7” – [Episode #110] Make Money Online
I agree with this, but I think most people don't, until it's demonstrated Rust kicks ass. Javascript is all the age right now. People might think "I'll get a Javascript job now, and I will learn to optimize later. Javascript is highly optimized anyway." Then it's just inertia. They already know Javascript. Besides, Javascript may have a reputation for being messy, but not for being a hard language to pick up. Yes it does have an unusual OO style, and supports functional programming, but you don't have to start with high level topics just to write any code with it.

As far as I know Rust has just two major success stories right now:
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> You can't select for people that care about your product, but you can select for people that care about some technology.

If that's true, it's kind of awful. "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? / That's not my department', says Wernher von Braun."
Most of the trip speed is 25 km/h, while speed limit in Moscow is 60 km/h.
Sure, but why keep state when you don't need to? Now that HTTP/2 is ubiquitous, sending new GET requests is no more expensive than sending bytes through a WebSocket.
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
I'll restate it then: The content of the article is in direct contradiction to the implication of your comment. How do you reconcile that?
> There are two main components to Harvey’s job, this person told me: to formulate a clear set of rules for what constitutes abusive speech, and to be consistent in enforcing them.

The odds are against Harvey being the first person in human history to solve this problem without false positives and negatives.
People who have never done this before. To be good at something, you must first be bad at it. Although I'm smh considering Facebook resources.

"“If you run an ad mentioning a candidate, we are going to mail you a postcard and you will have to use that code to prove you are in the United States,” Harbath said at a weekend conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State, where executives from Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google also spoke.

“It won’t solve everything,” Harbath said in a brief interview with Reuters following her remarks.

But sending codes through old-fashioned mail was the most effective method the tech company could come up with to prevent Russians and other bad actors from purchasing ads while posing as someone else, Harbath said."

Less postcards, more unraveling shell corporations using their corporate metadata. Authenticate political ad buyers using LexisNexis, IRS tax IDs/political org registrations, perhaps going so far as to implement KYC [1] controls and procedures. It's not going to scale, plan on hiring if this matters. Otherwise, this is going to be defeated with a UPS store mailbox.

"KYC controls typically include the following:

* Collection and analysis of basic identity information such as Identity documents (referred to in US regulations and practice as a "Customer Identification Program" or CIP)

* Name matching against lists of known parties (such as "politically exposed person" or PEP)

* Determination of the customer's risk in terms of propensity to commit money laundering, terrorist finance, or identity theft

* Creation of an expectation of a customer's transactional behavior

* Monitoring of a customer's transactions against expected behavior and recorded profile as well as that of the customer's peers"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Source: I work in risk management for a financial services firm.
Lob.com (YC13) will service this?
Meanwhile, over in r/gamedev, someone just released a tool that does a good job of pixel-arting regular images.

http://pixelatorapp.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/7ylvt9/pixelator_a...
Gotta say, I really like those PhotoZoom 4 results, aside from some of the fringing artifacts. They seem to preserve a lot more of the detail, whereas the presented approach focuses more on eliminating noise.
Kudos to OP for braving through CoreData. I’ve been using it on and off since it was released, and it’s an awfully cumbersome and error-prone framework. And as Apple adds more complexity to iOS, CoreData gets exponentially worse. I’m 200% convinced today that it’s far better to just store your users data in a more traditional cloud database instead. Especially with syncing, which Apple made ridiculously, unnecessarily hard to get right.
React was small at one time even if backed by Facebook. I was passionate about it even before it became popular and still am.
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Sacrifice, up to and including human sacrifice, is a common practice of most world traditional religions. Mesoamericans had a large dose of various forms of self-sacrifice and ritualized human sacrifice. That said, the Aztecs did ramp it up to 11 as a form of political propaganda ("look at how powerful we are, by how many people who captured"). This makes it difficult to estimate how much sacrifice they actually did, since most of the accounts are probably exaggerated to an unknown degree.
No envelope? Sort of invites cultivation of corruption in the USPS, unless the codes are further protected by something like a scratch-off layer.
I mean...... were foreign agents so obviously involved that they were buying election ads on foreign cards/wires with foreign billing addresses?

This honestly seems like it solves literally nothing. I'd be shocked to hear that foreign powers didn't already have e.g. diplomatic staff living in the US who were buying ads and listing their home or non-consular work addresses...

Actually, is there any indication that listing a consular address is prohibited? Because if not, then not only does this seem to not solve anything, it would in fact fail with certainty to solve anything at all, except maybe give the USPS some extra much-needed revenue.

Seriously, what am I missing here?
people in those countries tend to be highly critical of the actual affect of his interventions. his children are in school, but his friend and fellow-billionaire-advocate-for-higher-taxes-on-billionaires, Warren Buffett, is doing the same thing. his children work for the foundations that will administer his wealth after he dies. its only logical, why would he or anyone else let some random person manage the foundation? you want someone who you can trust. you dont have to consider it a bad thing but please dont think "giving your money to a foundation that you set up" is anything like "giving it away". there are things the ultra-wealthy do in order to save their wealth from estate taxes and setting up a foundation is one of them.
Have you ever cried because of a movie? If so, why?
Let me preface by saying that I don't have an immediate solution for this case, the details seem to be application specific. However, I will note that JSON is brutally inefficient by almost every computational metric that exists and it therefore is quite expensive unless your problem domain is trivial. I used to be in the position of spending -- literally -- millions of dollars per year on JSON because that was how people wanted to format the data. You can solve many engineering efficiency problems for millions of dollars/euros.

Which is to say I don't have an answer for why streaming JSON isn't valid in this case, but I can also say that if it was up to me I would never us it in an application that mattered. It is much too expensive for many (most?) applications.
That only works if the website you're logging into supports it. I highly doubt thewingmen.info or avolatvolavitdescendit.com support that (they don't even have https!). Also it requires your browser to support it.

And even then, malware can still just steal your cookies.
It's a bit inappropriate and sheepish and start wailing on someone's random comment with a toothless rant like that.

For anybody to take you seriously, you need to put more effort into it than just being disgruntled.
I'm always impressed by your ability to keep cool when someone seems to be making a personal attack (though I'd like to assume they aren't). I think Elm/Evan is lucky to have you as a kind of evangelist.
Woah. I love Rust and program in it super often, but I've looked at Swift also and it seems like an incredibly capable language. It has similar capabilities for algrebraic types, and a "typeclass" like approach to parametric polymorphism. Also if I'm not mistaken, Graydon, the creator of Rust works on it now.

What makes you say Swift is inferior? It seems like a huge improvement over ObjC.
Well at least we now know the solution to all of society's problems is making Ruby on Rails fast. Perhaps one day we can let out a collective sigh of relief once we remove the global interpreter lock.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you have mostly lived in all white areas and or watched movies that appeal primarily to white audiences.

Go watch a Tyler Perry movie or the recent black panther if you want to hear lots of clapping or cheering during a movie.
Not running some ads (like political) is also an option.
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Facebook is only going to turn money down as a last resort, either because the PC backlash is too intense or it's regulated by the government. I assure you, they're not at the point where they'll turn political ad money away.
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> Good thing about radar is that, unlike lidar (which is visible wavelength), it can see through rain, snow, fog and dust - Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/753843823546028040

Radar has been used on snowploughs to avoid rocks/curbs/etc buried in the snow (article from 2004):

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040302/full/news040301-2.htm...

Ford developed a LIDAR algorithm that can "detect" snow flakes and still be effective, this video shows driving in real snow:

https://qz.com/637509/driverless-cars-have-a-new-way-to-navi...

Computers can provide near "perfect" speed/traction ratios based on active road conditions... which humans are merely estimating based on "feel", without instant direct feedback from the wheel traction sensors, combined with whatever (potentially limited) winter driving experience they have.

Computers can also "remember" any specific location of the route from hundreds of thousand of other rides in the past and of other cars on the road communicating in real time.

In 5yrs I'd expect to prefer putting my trust in any self-driving car on winter roads over a human any day...
Why would you say that?

> Insignificant whitespace is allowed before or after any of the six structural characters.

Where whitespace may be space, carriage return, line feed, or horizontal tab. It's explicitly valid JSON.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-2
That's an interesting observation: a shift towards using a law-code paradigm for regulating personal social behavior, from an informal consensus-based one.

I suspect that has something to do with the fact that law codes are legislated by a select body, which is more susceptible to influence than an informal consensus.
Does this apply to all countries or only the United States? Doesn't seem fair if American orgs are allowed to purchase ads to influence foreign elections.
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Thats not charity - thats donating credibility.

Whoever was quoted has precisely Zero current understanding of moderation and the challenges it faces.

And worse - they haven't reflected on what "technical acumen" resulting on anti-harassment tools means.

Effective anti harassment tools can suss out intent, and by nature are also censorship tools.

Effective tools which can identify intent are so far past invasion of privacy, that they may as well be categorized as assaults on specific ideas.

If twitter does come up with this magical tool, then it's a sure bet that other nation states will also have this magic algorithm.

This rule applies to all lesser tools for "anti-harassment".

The solution sadly IS hiring more moderators, and journalists vetting.

Which I suspect is impossible at the scale and message type twitter operates on.
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> I mean...... were foreign agents so obviously involved that they were buying election ads on foreign cards/wires with foreign billing addresses?

Yes. I think I've heard an egregious story in late 2016 but can't find a reference.

For something less concrete, see RT's complaint against Twitter [1].

And a few other equally less-than-concrete report regarding Facebook[2] and others [3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/27/russias-rt-rev...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/06/facebook-...

[3] https://www.recode.net/2017/10/6/16419388/facebook-google-tw...
I don't believe that it is, sorry. I think you're making assumptions that the entire controversy about the author's appearance is detailed in this blog post.
Richard Pinedo pleaded guilty to selling information and identities to foreigners who then used that to appear as someone(s) inside the US. I'm guessing folks like him will be happy to offer some mail related services as well. Although it would provide yet another link to possibly track someone down, if only after the fact...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/mueller-flips-am...
I wonder whether Renaissance statues were unpainted also due to influence from the "white" Greek statues.
A little googling will show that "there is no international consensus on guidelines for measuring poverty".

I agree that "40 million people continue to live in poverty" is a claim that needs an accompanying definition of poverty and and description of the measurement methodology to really convey information. However that number is the Official US estimate of its own poverty rate. I agree that our methodology of measure poverty in the US is laughable and needs improvement, but you can't blame Mr. Alston for that.

Your assertion that this claim is "ridiculous" and that Mr. Alston is "unimaginably incompetent" or "massively disingenuous" for using the US's own measurement of poverty is thus clearly beyond hyperbole and more than a little ridiculous and quite disingenuous itself.
They need to show that they are doing something to combat this problem, and this is something.
The reporters have found a connection between real estate and the fentanyl crisis but I fear they’re going to jump to the conclusion of banning all foreign ownership. Which is not going to stop the drug trade. It is such a sexy narrative that the real estate crisis and opioid crisis can be blamed on Chinese foreigners which leads the reader to conclude that banning them is the solution. The piece is pushing all sorts of buttons.
There is a whole industry of companies that exist to give mail forwarding from a US address to foreign countries. They are mostly services used to buy stuff off ebay from sellers who won't ship outside the US due to higher chances of fraud.
I'd be interested to see the result of iterating on an image using these tools. Like go from high res to pixel art, back to high res etc.
There are tools to help you with multi repo GitHub issue management. A little bit of a plug but https://codetree.com is built to solve your exact problem - we sync up milestones (and labels) across many repos and allow you to visualize and work with cross-repo issues in either kanban or list view.
What you’re missing is that Facebook doesn’t really want to solve this problem — dollars from Russians are still green. They just want the news story to go away.
I am glad that this story had a happy ending. Mine did not.

Due to an online misunderstanding, a person with good intentions reported to the police that I was a danger to myself. What followed was one of the worst experiences of my life.

What seemed almost like a SWAT team appeared at my house. I was pulled out of my home in handcuffs in front of my neighbors. I begged and tried to explain the misunderstanding but no one would listen. The police said it was the responsibility of a psychiatrist to decide whether I needed to be hospitalized and that I seemed fine but they couldn't make that decision. After spending hours alone in a concrete cell, when the psychiatrist finally came to talk to me, she assumed I must be dangerous because the police had taken me away from my home.

While I was handcuffed and sobbing, she told me that "just to be careful" and for my "own good" I was being forcibly put into a mental hospital for observation. I spent a night locked in a ward full of psychotic people and drug addicts.

Thank God one of my relatives was able to contact the hospital and convince them it was all a misunderstanding. A different psychiatrist evaluated me and I was immediately released.

I still have PTSD about the incident. When I hear a knock on the door, sometimes my heart races because I am scared it is men with gun who will take me away. I have had many, many nightmares about being locked inside the mental ward. I thought my life was over.

When I got home, my life was not ok. My neighbors saw the police response to my house and all stopped smiling or talking to me. I was so ashamed. This incident is still on my record and it makes it impossible for me to pursue certain jobs.

I am not saying you should never send the police to the home of someone you are worried about. However, you should only do it if there are NO OTHER OPTIONS for expressing concern. Stories like what happened to u/ tevlon are the exception not the rule.
"Facebook to put out PR story to try to stay relevant"
In the US, most ordinary people pay attention to twitter's top customer: donald trump
I wonder how to become a good functional programmer. I think I'm already decent at procedural/OO.

Do I need to have a strong maths background? I didn't learn it very well at university and this worries me. Many functional language fans seem to have degrees in maths.
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That’s not how iCloud Keychain works. It’s a transfer method for data encrypted by keys only your circle has. You control who is added not Apple. Read the white paper
What is a static or strong type system is sort of up for debate, the terms are not well defined. Not OP, but IMO type annotations are static but not strong. I'd consider a strong type system one that enables you to encode additional invariants in the types, with sum and product types being perhaps the minimal requirement.
It's purely a PR damage control move. Foreign agents would certainly know how to buy a PO box and/or incorporate an LLC.
I recognized the name because she also made the news for live tweeting her opinions when she went to her son's abstinence only sex ed class at school.

https://mashable.com/2015/04/16/alice-dreger-sex-education/#...

I posit that part of why she is so controversial is because she is a woman. One of my comments today has a dead reply to it characterizing it as redpill garbage. My assumption is that the individual who said that thinks I am a guy with a lot of emotional baggage surrounding dating and what not. I did not specify that I am female, something I fairly often do just to try to avoid weird accusations based on exactly that type of assumption.

Women are not expected to have the kinds of opinions about human sexuality that she has or that I have. We are seriously not supposed to express them in public.

Given how controversial she is, I am pleasantly surprised by her diplomatic handling of the situation. My assumption is that she is younger than I am. I was a lot more controversial when I was younger. My opinions have not changed. My ability to express them less provocatively is the only real difference.

I intentionally kept a low public profile for a long time. I don't like drama. This has actively undermined my ability to establish a real career. Perhaps the groundwork I have laid will allow me to eventually make sufficient money without the kind of drama she is facing, but it has come at a cost of putting off having a public life. So perhaps the primary reason she is so controversial is she went ahead and pursued a career while still in the prime of her life.

I don't regret the choices I have made. But I also don't want to see it be some standard expectation that women can't speak in public until they have mastered doing so inoffensively or something. That sounds like a career killing double standard to me.