skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not shilling for any "revolutionary" ideas. Just look at the history of the transistor, sometimes these developments and implementations take longer than what's convenient from a users perspective. And one could argue the difference now too is work done in the first half of the 20th century was relatively low hanging fruit compared to the limits we're trying to push now. It was a good twenty years between the first patent for the transistor and a demonstrable transistor, and then another seven years on top of that before a commercial implementation.

Ten years is an arbitrary length of time. And these things might lead to nothing, sure. But...

1. There's a long road between discovery and implementation and no reliable length of time that can always be pointed to say "that's how long it takes".

2. Road blocks and expense in implementation. Some things are just hard and depend on yet to be discovered or perfected technology to make them viable.

3. Existing technologies and processes are still sufficient, mature and cost effective. So we'll use those until the new technology can do it better and cheaper. We probably won't be using x86 and current technologies forever.

I like to think of an example I probably got from a Carl Sagan book that deals more with why throwing money at a problem doesn't guarantee results, but it was an argument for funding all science and discovery because we can't predict what discoveries will yield. It went something like: The British empire in 1850 could have spent every penny it had to develop television and it would have failed because it depended on science discoveries yet to be made. It doesn't mean television wasn't viable or that it was impossible. And no one could have predicted that some of the things discovered, which probably seemed inconsequential to the general public and a waste of time and money would help lead to television decades later.
This is actually a legitimate critique of what I wrote. Vehicle operators, from ebikes riders to motorists need to be the ones blamed for crashes and other bad behaviors. That said, my post is advocating for the same treatment of bikers as drivers. The government doesn't generally seize cars (unless it's blocking traffic or parking), the same process should be applied to bikes.
>Sublime Text has a plugin which implements the API; it runs full blown vim plugins.

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I didn't realize the integration was that far along. I'll have to give Sublime another look.
And I really don't like knobs on my synthesizer, they're a total pain to set right. (But I do like the lamps and VU meters, nice labels and a bit of distinct look.)

Nor the pages as I have to tap in addition to scrolling. There is a reason to have scroll bars, but not a good reason to have pages especially when they don't fit the screen size.

There is minimalism and then there is skeuomorphism. And the entirely different thing is functionality. Looks are only tangentially related...
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> I am convinced that cannabis improves concentration

> I am firmly convinced of the effect

It actually impairs attention and affects short-term memory.
I noticed that under "new robocall recordings" the recordings are all from October 25, 2017. Not sure if this is a bug or you stopped updating them on that date or something.
In Sweden (and probably other places), a service called URKUND[0] ("deed" in Swedish) is used for automatic detection of plagiarism for school work.

I have always wondered to what extent they identify stuff like this, and other potential trickery with UTF-8 or removing text layers from PDF files.

0: http://www.urkund.com/en/
Should be easy enough for networks to detect and remove these, by identifying content where character ranges in words routinely fall outside the charsets of languages.

That, or some sort of fuzzy CV hashing, which is cool, but more intensive. That would also mitigate null length and invisible modifiers.
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Has this changed at some point? Many years ago I had a takedown request on one of my videos. It was me showing a musical composition I made in some sequencing software and the claim appeared to be from the published of that software. I don't know why that company would have done that but I wondered if just anyone could have filed it claiming to be that company.

They told me that to contest I had to provide loads of legal documentation and essentially escalate it to a serious claim. It wasn't worth my time or worth risking actual legal trouble. I decided to just never upload a video to Youtube again and felt like it was a case of guilty until proven innocent. I'm sure it mentioned the DMCA in the request, though.
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There's a lot more detail in the linked paper.

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/jmh/papers/anna_ieee18.pdf
Millennials are starting to hate social media, too
I don't mean this facetiously: did you read the article? This work presents novel ways of "solving" the problem that cause it to beat the other contenders fairly convincingly (in non-linearizable regimes).
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A bit of extrapolation here. In short, a few websites dedicated to make easy money on Facebook by copying articles have started to use unicode to obfuscate the title. They automatically replace latin characters with similar letters.

This makes their title harder to be detected by either Facebook, fact checking websites, or DMCA/copyright bots. Nothing related to Russia here.
I have a drawer full of new ones so I can show newbies how bad they are. The three that I have all perform differently; they are the same model.

You got one that may perform closely to specification, but frustration for the newbie arrives when they get one that performs poorly....if at all. This is the norm for Baofeng equipment. So you might spend $35 a few times until you get one that works well, and then another $25 for an actual quality antennae ($10 one you have is 100% a counterfeit). Already, the newbie is down $95 and at this point probably not happy with their new hobby. If they do graduate to more interest, that pile of Baofeng gear will be wasted money in a drawer somewhere.

Also, Yaesu and they like are hardly Pay To Win as you say (whatever that means). $165 is small amount of money for something that will last many years and will function as designed and when needed.

Further, the point of radio gear is to communicate. Try using a Baofeng for anything anywhere important for any length of time, and you'll realize they are nothing more than toys and not suitable for the task.
I'll take your word for it regarding JS, but I was thinking along the same lines w.r.t. C++ deprecation.

Alternatively, one could take a page from CMake's playbook with "policies" [0].

[0] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.7/manual/cmake-policies.7.ht...
I watched the first few episodes, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it.

I will second the sibling comment though; I really enjoyed watching Lewis.
Well, goodbye nice looking VPN.
It's funny in a disturbing way. NSA and Google use technology in an oppressive way and everyone is up in arms. China develops oppressive technology and journalists cannot stop singing their praise.
I wouldn't be so quick to say that they won't succeed - their marketing has been managing the public opinion about diamonds for 7 decades. Neither blood diamonds, environmental issues nor the (false) perception of scarcity has brought them down yet.
The only thing I've read that doesn't completely fire off my "bullshit warning mode" is something like "fasting can enable stem cells, and have immune system destroy old cells" like explained here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/fasting-for-t...

Still seems a little too "high level" to actually believe though. In any case, I still do IF by skipping breakfast, mostly because I'm lazy, and after fasting for so many years hunger doesn't really bother me that much.
This is incorrect - I won't go into details as I'm busy fixing my server and need to go out in a couple of hours.
Thanks! Bonus points for anyone who posts the quantity of Hershey's syrup in that packet :)
Heritability is a term from genetics with a very specific meaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability

A trait, such as height, can be heritable without being 100% heritable. On the other hand, you have traits, like the language you speak, which are not heritable at all.
For games, both approaches work well. Very weird is fun. Immersion (of which skeuomorphism is a part) can be fun too.

I'd rather not want my phone apps try to be immersive rather than get the job done.
>"Given that this study focuses on declining naive T cell production and thymic tissue loss, it is interesting to look at another recent study that suggests these losses are the dominant cause of increased cancer rates with age.

[...]

Our model outperforms the power law model"

Interesting, since cancer "rates" (age-specific incidence) for many cancers peak at 60-90 years old. This paper looks like they cut off the data at 85 years, ignore the peaks during youth, and aggregate the data in such a way (eg colon and rectum grouped together) to force a power law fit.

EDIT:

Also, they just say "data from SEER". What years did they use, inclusion criteria, etc?
How do you add something to a patreon page??
This one was only a regular journey though. Must have been less money than the usual buyouts
I never thought about those recaptcha things. I feel guilty and almost dirty for helping them do these things. I also feel ripped off. We are programming their computers with our data and they are using our work and intelligence to train systems which will make them billions and we won't see a dime of it! Not only that but training autonomous military drones with dishonest crowdsourcing seems like they just made almost everyone into accessories of mass killings. I have to come to terms with this and I don't know how I will do it but something will have to be done because this is unconscionable.
Effective mortality of single weapons.

But he will still say that "oh, but we are having less violent deaths". Well, possibly. But deaths never came so fast from single individuals/actions/operations.

You always lose when the other part sets the metrics and they cannot be discussed.
So, what's the catch?
You're thinking of ice hash.
Some software use the standard icon for storage instead - looks like a stack of hard disks.

And then you also get the folder icons with arrows on Windows, not floppies.
I know, which is why I couldn't forget it :-)
More good work by radio amateurs. PA3FWM is a ham.
>The site is part of a growing list of fake Native American pages run out of places like Macedonia, Kosovo or Vietnam.

So the headline is a little misleading... It's just that there are a growing number of websites that simply plagiarize content to get views / ad revenue. Because their titles are obfuscated to prevent detection of the plagiarism, they have to target specific niche groups to drive views. So it's not some weird "fake Native American" scheme / scam / ploy... it's just that this site in particular seems to focus on "Native American topics".

So it's not "Fake Native Americans Are Using Russian Characters to Avoid Plagiarism Detectors", it's "Fake News Sites Plagiarize Articles by Using Cyrillic Character Replacement to Avoid Detection", subtitle: "One such site targets Native Americans!"
Video violence
Surely, not everyone that plays violent games or watches violence is destine to commit criminal acts of violence. But, surely there is causal linkage, though statistically rare. Since the government monitors every already, why not allow parents, educators and the givers of the law, the same access to data.

If that did happen, clearly we would see that excessive video or violence is just not healthy. Also the data could be scrubbed and published and let's begin to see
who has the right prospective.

Naturally, any industry that accumulates such vast wealth, at the expense of mental health of the masses, is going to be firmly against organization and sharing these datasets; cause they already know the eventual conclusion.

Our youngsters are being destroyed and we all know it, just nobody gives a shit, or they are too stupid/fearful to speak up about it.

YMMV.
Personally, I'm waiting for Lattice 64.
I doubt websites hosted in Eastern Europe care about copyright legal threats. Even if they contact the hosting provider directly I doubt any action will be taken. Eastern Europe has plenty of cheap, shady hosting providers where you can host pretty much anything that you want. Unless the website is making a lot of money, nobody is going to spend significant resources to take those websites down.

Let me speculate of why they might be doing it. Google will de-rank pages that have content that's identical to others (e.g. identical paragraphs of text). Maybe Facebook is doing something similar?

Let's say one of your friends shares an article from BuzzFeed.com, then another friend shares an exact clone of this article from FakeBuzzFeed.com. Now, Facebook might not want to show two articles with the same title from two different websites on your timeline. And considering that BuzzFeed.com is a website with a higher ranking that FakeBuzzFeed.com, it will probably choose to display only the fist one. If you do the Cyrillic trick to the article in FakeBuzzFeed.com, Facebook will think it's something completely different and present it to you, thus getting you a higher reach.

The same applies to the advertising part: if you're constantly submitting page ads with exactly the same titles as the one's that real users are sharing, it might get you banned.
Or Native Americans.
But as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion there are legal repercussions for filing an incorrect DMCA takedown request. The problem is Youtube have their own version of the law and just automatically believe the claimant.
If there's still any doubt that encrypting everything is the right way to go for internet protocols:

Huge: @Citizenlab catches ISPs invisibly redirecting download requests for popular programs, injecting them with government spyware. Unencrypted web traffic is now provably a critical, in-the-wild vulnerability. 20-30% of top internet sites affected.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/972110541408952320
I’m not going to spend a bunch of time reading this particular whitepaper, but not one of the three proof-of-capacity “mining” systems I’ve looked at are Sybil resistant and decentralized.
Not being super savvy with electronics - but enjoying to tinker - is this a visually apparent problem or do you need the test the capacitors to identify the issue?
Moissanite is so much prettier!
> For the sake of argument, assume that we want to protect copyright on sites like YouTube. What is a good, fair solution here?

Well, it may not be a “good, fair” solution, but the process provided a safe harbor by the DMCA is a better, fairer process than the actual process used by YouTube.

The problem is that, as it stands, YouTube likely has no liability to users for taking content down without any good justification, and do has no incentive to follow the part of the safe harbor process that provides protection against liability to the accused user.
When I am hiring, I tend to use a github account with an active project as a positive signal.

It shows me they can code, perhaps in the languages I am hiring for. It also shows me they know how to use version control.
Diamond chef knives.
Are you paying for http on top of your internet connection costs?
Running a Marathon every day for a week isn’t really much of an achievement for Extreme runners... but people are still allowed to be proud of running even a single Marathon. He wasn’t claiming to be an olympic weightlifter just sharing his PRs with pride.
> "height: 500px; height: 100vw;" is insanity in a
> reasonably large project with multiple developers.
> I forbid you to do it.

What have happened to us? Too many post on HN show this attitude: make it cheaper to develop, don't care about the users. What happen with the "zen of the web"?

For one, I've started with the web around the time CSS was being born—2016. And in your example I see neither insanity nor large overhead, just a robust approach.
The last time I joined a team or a company, I didn't merge with them.
That's an interesting thought. Imagine thinking about what time it is and naturally being able to connect that to how much the earth has rotated.

Oh, 3 hours has passed? That means Earth has rotated X degrees.
I'd be curious to know if similar effects are observed in orthogonal types of physical activity from cycling, e.g. strength training.
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Students in PL used invisible whitespace characters to avoid detection.
A neat trick would be to render the PDF into an image file, and then OCR that image file, and do the detection using the text file generated by the OCR process.

Just like VW's defeat device, the cheater would then need to create software that outputs something different when they see they are being rendered not to display, but to an image file...
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My response would depend greatly on the system I was working on.

- Is it true that changes actually take longer in the new system, or is there an unfair comparison being made (eg "tweak a form input" vs "rework an API")?

- Is the new system inherently more complex than the old one in terms of business logic?

- Is the new system inherently better than the old system (as you hint by your UI/UX allusion), and it's just a case of "good things take time"?

- Have you, in fact, chosen an unnecessarily complex stack in which to build the new system?

This last point is worth considering as a possibility. Ordinarily you'd expect to make progress faster in a newer, smaller codebase you're building from scratch than you can when trying to change a large legacy system that someone else built. If you can't, and if the new system isn't inherently a larger effort, it may be that your tools are poorly chosen or are overkill for the task.

Eg, if the application would be just fine as a server-rendered site, but you've taken on the task of building the server side in one framework and the client side in another, you've added unnecessary work.

Or maybe you've chosen tools that are perfect for the task but which your team doesn't know well.

Web development has gained the potential to be more complicated; you can now build things on the web that you couldn't build 10 years ago. But you still can build sites like it's 1999, and in some cases, that (with a little bit of modern styling) would be good enough.
The only thing you have to attest under penalty of perjury in a DMCA claim is that you (the person filing the notice) are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner you are claiming has had their copyright violated.

The attestation that the use is unauthorized is merely a "good faith belief", which is a standard of evidence so low as to be meaningless. I don't believe there has ever been a successful case going after someone for filing frivolous DMCA notices.

(As others have said, YouTube has their own inhouse process that does not actually use the DMCA in most cases, but I wanted to elucidate this point, because lots of people seem to think the DMCA takedowns have some repercussions for fraud. In my opinion, they don't.)
I think at some point, a sort of visual-normalization that converts similar looking unicode to a single unique string sequence (ex: convert certain letters from Cyrillic and other language sets that are also present in Latin to just Latin) is just going to be necessary as a security precaution.

Given the whole "fake news" thing over the past couple of years, I expect that the first step will be taken by one of Google/Twitter/Facebook/etc, but I hope that they (or someone else) releases a library (or worst case, an online API) that allows this sort of normalization for security verification. I get that having it open would make it easier for people to find loopholes by brute-force testing, but these sorts of loopholes could also be patched rather quickly as they came up, providing benefit to everyone (especially from a security perspective).

EDIT: Perhaps this could start out as a series of matches generated using ML classification? I don't know much about ML - does anyone who does think this is a realistic starting point?
I think your numbers may be off for wind turbines. Random googling gives

>for an offshore wind turbine 0.57 years of expected average energy production are necessary to recover all the energy consumed for manufacturing, operation, transport, dismantling and disposal https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/energy-balance-analysi...
The incentives need to be useful though. Realistically it’s Google doing the routing anyway and cyclists ignore it when they know a faster path. GrubHub cannot reasonably fix that unless they’re going to fine delivery workers when they deviate from the route, which seems absurd given that delivery workers will legitimately deviate for faster routes that are equally safe.

Making GrubHub liable for accidents also doesn’t do much. Accidents are relatively uncommon anyway and it’s probably very affordable to just eat the cost. Plus I’m not sure how GrubHub would force safer cycling even if they were incentivized to do so.
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Diesel doesn't return futures, the author of the blog post returned a future and the person that you commented on is pointing out that that's pointless because Diesel is synchronous.
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Running in the cold is great. I run outside until it gets below -20 deg C. Some thermal tights and a few layers on top is all you need. It took me quite a few years to finally just give it a try and now I actually prefer running in the winter vs summer.
> It actually impairs attention and affects short-term memory.

And it kills your sperm as well. I think that these are long-term effects though, I was talking about the direct effects (the dose probably matters as well).

It actually makes sense that the use of cannabis improves attention but impairs attention in the long run. Compare it with drinking coffee. The first time I drank a strong cup, I had a strong boost of energy and felt a little euphoric even. I am now a heavy caffeine user, and when I don't drink coffee I actually feel more tired than usual.
Can you give a range?
Whelp, that singlehandedly kills any credibility tunnerlbear had in my mind. I hope the buyout was worth it guys. The exact market for services like tunnelbear are the same ones that avoid the likes of mcafee (the company) like the plauge. I can see them jumping like rats from a burning ship. They should just find a new name at this point, ala comcast, blackwater, etc. Even their literal namesake disses them publicly.
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I didn't downvote it, but the reason I don't see it as worth responding to is the bundled assumptions and simplistic analysis.

According to the comment, everything has to be about Trump vs. Clinton; it couldn't possibly be that the IP provisions changed substantially for the better, or any number of other aspects of a complicated agreement.
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>And although she understood why there was no real difference outside of price, I think she was very worried she would be judged by other women for not having (or being worth) a "real" diamond.

get fake diamond, claim it's real to everyone else. it's not like they can tell the difference, or they will take her ring to get tested.