skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, it's just marketing speak, each company has to do the same. Nobody gives a damn about these press releases. And sometimes really Google is doing something that changes the landscape, for example by deciding to work on a browser. Many times it's a failure like with Google+, but when you start you have to shout out loud how revolutionary your new tool is, that's pretty much normal. I think most people learned to ignore it just like we ignore advertising noise in our lives.
RPS3 Progress Report: February 2018
Many online soft purchases made with a unique mailbox I own but the rhs@lhs.org domain I own also. So.. when I'm gone the ownership of the email identified will vest with who gets my domain.

The IPR lawyers hate this and want to say "no no no you can't vest rights in those MP3s with your son" but they're going to struggle to show a loss of continuity in the licenced holder.

Personal domain be powerful tool.
Totally accidentally shilling for SE right now, but I learned a bunch of really cool tricks for cookies from an analysis about the different variables in cookies [1] that basically let me basically "build" my own secret recipe. Stuff like browning the butter before mixing it into the dough, resting dough overnight, using precise mixes of egg/flour, using chopped chocolate instead of chips, etc.

[1] https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/12/the-food-lab-the-best...
Major build speed improvements in .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1
> been one of the most open minded places in the country

What if you want to ride a Google Bus to work, and have the audacity to think that you don't deserve to be shot at or have bricks thrown through your window? [1] [2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17071308/callifornia-highw...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231758/protesters-targe...
He does. He says "forever" not 25 years.

(Research has shown that 4% drawdown of your wealth every year combined with an investment into stocks (assets with 3.5-4% post-inflation return) will generally preserve your capital stock - and even in the worst cases won't completely erode it.

100%/4% = 25
Array.prototype.flatten not Web-compatible because of old versions of MooTools
Good points well made. I hope I'll be able to prioritise trying Nix at some point.
The alternative is not doing it.

Do I really need to spell out why drone strikes are already ethically questionable? Improving automated recognition will not reduce civilian casualties, it will only help justifying the strikes because instead of having humans say they identified the target based on its height they can say the computer did it (based on "deep learning", i.e. based on its height but with computers).

The analogy is highly misleading. Poisoned Cheerio deliveries would be highly targeted. Drone strikes are not. The only way drone strikes avoid civilian casualties at the moment is by defining casualties as terrorists until proven otherwise (e.g. if they're children) and not having sufficient data to accurately say how many people were killed.
Also see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/
Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System
There's a bit of a chicken/egg problem. If there were a thriving app ecosystem for home servers there would be a lot more demand for them and vice versa.

There are tons of apps which would simply be better on home servers because the advertising imperative is gone so once the ecosystem was kickstarted it would gain its own momentum. E.g. a locally run open source 'facebook' could have its feed tailored by the users and it could have privacy settings that are designed to put the users in the driving seat rather than features designed to foment addiction, oversharing and selling eyeballs.

For people who take a lot of digital photos and videos, local backup/data sync is simply always going to be faster than equivalent online services, so there's an 'in' to the chicken/egg problem.

I think the fact that this hasn't happened yet is because hardware companies tend to suck at software, software companies tend to suck at hardware and hardware companies that don't suck at design are pretty rare.
Different tomatoes taste quite different too. One brand which is great for pasta and pizza is Mutti. (I am unaffiliated, just a happy customer.)

https://www.mutti-parma.com/us/#!/our-tomato-fields-and-your...
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits the use of genetic information to determine health insurance eligibility or premium
"I have a new found respect for man-made fibres like polyester, polypropylene etc as producing those fibres is so much cleaner than natural goods, and instead of having to spend a lot of energy getting the fabric to "feel" right, you just modify the properties of the fibre by changing how its produced."

Linen and hemp are also good natural fabrics. They require less water than cotton and are quite comfortable.

Their main problem is the price as they are less mass produced than cotton.
I was very fascinated by telephone books before I was 5 years old. I also knew that I wanted to work with "data" when I grew up. I was awestruck by how much information was in the telephone book, I just could not understand how so much data could even exist!

This was the early 1980s, I had never seen a computer in my life, but possibly on TV. Not surprisingly I was intrigued by a Basic-manual when I was 9 and started writing small programs.

I definitely had some drive toward... something intellectual? A very vague feeling but I know for sure my brain was already influenced in my fourth year in some way to make me like "data", and reading.
I do hope you're right.

One of my 'in the realm of possibility' dystopian fears is that a totalitarian regime figures out how to (chemically?) keep their society docile. Ideally the populace would still be creative, to an extent, but that might not even be necessary, or compensated for by stealing innovation from other places.

One could argue that this is already sort of happening in many places, without there being a big conspiracy behind it, I guess.
The reason for it currently to be "for non-offensive uses only" is NOT because making the machine to automatically kill someone is unethical, but because it's is not accurate enough to only hit valid targets (May hit deployer and friendly).

So yeah, may be now it's "for non-offensive uses only".

Few years in, it will be "human control the kill trigger".

Then, eventually, it will be "human deploy the device, then it fires and kills all by itself, just like a fire-and-forget missile, plus it can hit multiple targets and be reused."

The dark side of technical advancement.
LA also has a pretty massive affordability crisis. Rent and housing costs aren’t as bad as SF in absolute terms, but incomes are lower. https://www.nahb.org/en/news-and-publications/press-releases...
Hemp is a good alternative to cotton that has similar advantages - biodegradable, non-toxic, allows skin to breathe, but does not require input of toxic chemicals to produce.

One major drawback of synthetic fabrics that is recently coming to light is the tiny particles they constantly shed, which are too small to be filtered by most municipal water systems and are now found all over in lakes and rivers: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/microfib...
Pretty cool! I use the "Retirement Planner" from Personal Capital (like Mint but for investments)
Some of the notable features are:

- Adding future income events (social security, pension, etc)

- Inflation adjusted.

- Set future spending goals (buying a house, wedding, health care)

- You can also save different simulations and get a percentage chance of hitting that goal. I have one for if Social Security doesn't exist when I retire, another one for early retirement, etc.

It's free to sign up. https://personalcapital.com/
Sumptuary laws needed here.
The solution to fake reviews is simple. Just ignore all reviews that aren’t verified purchase. Still leaves some room for manipulation but much less.
Sometimes the sale price is $49 (during Thanksgiving), NOT including shipping costs which can be large depending on country
Transliteration only, since most of his works were meant as gifts, so he wanted them to be readable.

Also this wasn't done in english, but that's just a minor detail.
I frequently loaned books abount electronics and programming when I was 10-15 years old, and I try to take my kids to the library every now and then. I worry libraries will barely exist when they are 15 but the libraries seem popular, at least with smaller kids where I live.
Is there any part of this site where some suggestions could be made to moderators/admins? Like restriction of sharing links to sites which you can't see if adblock is enabled?
FWIW, https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ has been mentioned on HN in the past.
But it's Coinbase, so many people will get excited to get screwed over.
Julia Evans - https://jvns.ca/
Six companies sue FCC over net neutrality repeal
LA is even less affordable than SF. Rents are lower but the median income is much lower.

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41786-los-angeles-surpa...
Dart is promoted to be "Very easy to get started by Java, C# and JavaScript" developers. But that's it.
The delay is now up to 6 minutes since January !
That was the first and most major revelation though: prism, which allowed the NSA to tap directly into its user data.
Laws of use and laws of possession always seem to come down to enabling benefit for current holders over future holders.

Thing is, changing this is like changing the gravitational constant. It's baked into the DNA of property rights, leases and taxes.

sanFran is maybe on an extreme here for the USA but it's not necessarily worse than say Tokyo, or the eggegious failure of leasehold in London, or a number of worldwide housing issues
Yes. Apparently some people are creating Trusts which actually hold these licenses, but the idea hasn't been tested in court.
Lego are made from ABS, and ABS can be recycled.
I believe that the ethics board will not allow voluntary harm, if as a scientist you believe that the procedure is harmful (beyond done reasonable threshold, as everything is harmful in large doses...)
There is massive consensus around IPCC's conclusions within the scientific community. The topic of the discussion here is not if climate change is real or not. You should find another site to discuss that.
While there are problems with linux I'm not sure you have correctly identified them.

"And the pervasive pattern, inherited from open source itself, that things have recursive dependencies, each involving their own incredible journey of configuration and workarounds."

You get software from repos. Your system figures out the dependencies for you I literally have no idea where you could possibly be coming from.

"Hardware compatibility"

Buy compatible hardware.

"arduous installations"

Don't know what you are talking about. Given well supported hardware installation is incredibly easy and has been for over a decade.

" feel that, much like Blender, Linux requires a certain mindset. I suspect that mindset resembles either masochism or Stockholm Syndrome. I still have no complaints about MacOS."

You accept that MacOS doesn't run on just any hardware, buy hardware from a vendor who sell you MacOS preinstalled on supported hardware and experience no issues. Can I propose that you would have similar lack of issues with a vendor who sells prepackaged linux solutions?

Linux is bad in some ways but you are mostly kinda bad at linux. People installing hackintoshes seem to exist in a world that is fraught with pitfalls and workarounds but nobody expects MacOS to work out of the box on whatever. Linux by virtue of actually working on 99% of machines catches flack for only working optimally on 80%.

To boot you wonder why apple who has received thousands of dollars from you works better than a product which you provide zero support for. Its super likely that if you and others who wanted open source solutions to work for them had spent 15 years giving open source software 10% of the support provided to closed source solutions you might have something closer to what you want.
You'd believe based on what? US doesn't do any on-the-ground post airstrike investigations most of the time, talking to the affected people. So it can't even know what is collateral damage and what is not.

Really, I'd like to see how would a feedback loop that would make US military minimize civcas work in the real world with the current way these things are evaluated by the military.

US had for a long time literaly two people dedicated to processing the hunderds of their civilian casualty incidents reports until recently. They have backlog of a year or so of reports. So after killing thousands of people in Raqqa and leveling the City, US military hasn't even started processing complaints. The operation is over for 5 months and official casualty numbers are like "perhaps we might have killed 2 civilians". "Sorry we have backlog." Meanwhile, hunderd corpses are still being extracted monthly from the leveled buildings in the city months later.

Still, it's mildly better than the idiotic european allies who still maintain that they killed no civilian after droping thousands of ~200kg bombs since 2014. It's really that demented.

It may be a stated goal to minimize collateral damage. But with this crap going on, I don't believe it has any meaning. US military probably employs 100x more people to clean the fucking toilets than to process the civcas reports. Lip service and all.
Probably not the best example.

Maybe you're talking about a different kind of shirt, but I tried Amazon's brand of collared long-sleeve button-up shirts and found the quality so low that I'd consider them unwearable.

The material was very thin, extremely wrinkle-prone, the collars were wilted and didn't keep their shape at all, and the cut wasn't very good.

I'm not the type to be easily fooled by marketing/branding psychological tricks, quite the opposite. But every off-brand collared shirt I've ever bought in my life has been a cheap unwearable disheveled mess.

I know designer brands are just cranking these things out of Cambodia for $3/unit, but no-name brands still just can't seem to compete at all on quality. They're not even trying as far as I can tell.
There are many things that you cannot experience anymore as an adult. Let's just say that phisically they are decades behind you compared to the time when you were exploring.
My invention?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Google has honored existing Boston Dynamics military contracts while owning them.
We're not talking about killing imminent threats for self-defense. We're not talking about bombing military targets in a legal war. We're talking about remote drone strikes against poorly defined "non state actors", typically in civilian areas.

Maybe we shouldn't try to legitimise it and abdicate the moral responsibility to a computer. Maybe we shouldn't mislead drone operators by showing them a popup stat "this blob you're looking at has been identified as a valid target with 90% confidence" so they feel better when pushing the button.

If we were talking about space lasers that make an individual person's head explode and high res camera footage you might have a point. But we're literally talking about lobbing bombs at people in public spaces and doing so based on grainy low res data.

The last thing we need is more talking points to justify this.
> he experimented with a sort of an evolutionary algorithm where he would change one or two things, note the results

I do that when baking. A little more water, a little less, note the results. Bake it a bit longer, a bit hotter, or cooler, etc.

I think of it as "experiments" and "science" rather than "evolutionary algorithm" but whatever model helps.
The existence of the study may entice participants to fast for a long period in exchange for attention or (relative) fame, while they wouldn’t have done so without it.

It also may put pressure on them to continue where they normally would have stopped because they feel pressure because “those scientists invested so much time in it”.

And of course, they may suffer long term health effects, even if they fast for a period that typically doesn’t have any on subjects.

You can see these kinds of ethical issues clearer by exaggerating. Replace “fasting” by “being hit in the face”, for example. What’s wrong with looking for volunteers who want to be hit in the face every hour for weeks?
Woman Says “Men Are “Fucking Dogs”
The best cooks I know all have an excellent sense of smell and rely heavily upon it to get the timing right.

Try putting that in your official recipe.
Joke alert
Easy fix, use the anonymous variable;

_ = builder.String()

The compiler should not optimize that out.
The "Contact" link belw.

hn@ycombinator.com
Is this very old? Never heard of HybridCluster before and the site is dead when I went to it. Twitter account has been inactive since 2014.
Unfortunately the value of a fake review is so high no ML will ever be able to defeat it. The only way to fix it is with trusted reviewers but there a lot of products on there and only so many trusted reviewers.
"It’s been hard reorienting myself out of that. "
I am very keen to know how you did that . I suffer from same habit
> As you said, this is equivalent to factorisation in terms of complexity.

This can't be right. Factorisation is, legendarily, a hard problem, unsolved (in realistic time frames) for large input. But more than that, it's harder than division is.

Finding the length of the nonrepeating and repeating parts of a rational number's decimal expansion can be done just by doing the division. That would appear to be evidence that it is not harder than division?

Edit: from the wikipedia section you link:

> If k = 2^a·5^b·n where n > 1 and n is not divisible by 2 or 5, then the length of the transient of 1/k is max(a,b) and the period [of the repetend, presumably] is r, where r is the smallest integer such that 10^r ≡ 1 (mod n)

All integers (except those whose only prime factors are 2 and 5) satisfy this condition, so this would appear to be exactly the method desired? Repeatedly dividing by 5 is much, much easier than factoring is. Taking the discrete log of 1... could be equivalent to factoring.
FWIW, I agree with you. I've lived in several states (and a half-dozen countries) and I find the culture of the bay area more monolithically stifling than anywhere else I've lived. No hyperbole. And I am someone who would be considered well left-of-center just about anywhere else in the country.
> No doubt a fake Lacoste would disintegrate in a fraction of the time of a genuine shirt.

Such a statement has no grounds to stand on. There are non-genuine items which are of the same or better quality than the genuine ones. You cannot just put them all in one bin.
In the middle right (under BLOND) is the word Schlange, which is German for snake and also a German surname.

At the bottom, there appears to be a repeated sequence of characters which might be the Polish surname Zakrzewski. There's also a digit sequence 098765-543210 012345-567890.

Hope that helps.
Well if you want to install this FOSS, you still need a virtual-private-server, which costs some $ per month. Unless you have a server already, then the hosted blog comments plan is probably cheaper actually.

(Can I ask, in your opinion, what's an affordable/ok monthly cost for blog comments?)
Catalog Entity Extraction for Search
I'd expect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing to become the standard way, but I don't know how easy it is to set up yet among non-programmers.
Thank you that was a good read. A nice perspective from someone who is considered "Western" but has studied and knows Xi well.

There was an interesting point made, that even though personal freedoms are being curtailed, party is consolidating its power, and ideology is emphasized more, those who reach economic prosperity will somehow demand or seek freedom and will push back. I think that's been the promise of Western-style capitalism + democracy -- we get some market capitalism going, with all its ills but that's ok, soon enough democracy will arrive.

But what if it is doesn't. What if this authoritarian mode can lead to a more efficient and effective system. (More brutal of course for individuals). That point was slightly touched in in regard to military, quoting a Bloomberg contributor, James Stavridis, a four star general ("a military under a single long term rule might have an advantage of set of figures that keep getting reshuffled every 4 years). But what if it is also economic efficiency too.
Even the way you stir has an effect on the result in confectionery...

Making emulsions consistently is hard process science. Sometimes even dispersion is not what you want.
Picking right cake form or cookie size is critical too as it changes water evaporation.
But amazon could hide by default reviews where no purchase has been made through amazon.
Given the way digital storage works, I guess it will be more like us looking at old Egiptian, Mayan, Romman, Greek artifacts while wondering what their purpose was.
My great grandmother had the best pie crust I've ever had, and she got it from Crisco as well.

She did something odd though, like running the dough under a stream of cold water in the sink while making it, or something like that. After all, it's not the ingredients but how you go about it.

I, on the other hand, have my own personal not-secret sauce recipe for ravioli I created from scratch. It's made to my personal tastes, so I'm biased. Not all secret recipes are from the label.
Reality check: after you die no one really cares about your stuff or is going to look through your social media photos.
The challenge with the "want the best for your child" way of thinking is that very often you end up micro-optimizing for whatever definition of "the best" was in the latest pop-science article, to the detriment of other important skills that haven't recently been written about.

The experimental results were that reading books with named characters resulted in increased attention to those characters. Is paying more attention to storybook characters a skill you want your child to develop? Maybe? What if further research showed that those same infants showed less attention to their parents? Or that they had stronger verbal skills, but weaker mathematical skills? Would you still consider this "the best" for your child? (These actually would be interesting follow-up studies to do, but I doubt any parent would be able to consider all the relevant results together.)

My dad very much wanted "the best" for me, and as a nuclear chemist, he taught me math and science from a very early age. I got some leverage out of the math skills, but this generation happens to be a singularly shitty time to be a scientist, and it turns out that for skills that are valued by the market at this point in history (selling software, for example), things like emotional intelligence and social skills are actually quite a bit more helpful. Being a math prodigy is far less valuable than knowing when someone's trying to take advantage of you, but I suspect the former is desired by a lot more parents.
Generate fake reviews in AWS then post them in the main site, the perfect crime
Nobody said that anybody owes anything. Please read properly.
That restriction predates the Autodesk acquisition.