skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me the major ethical problem with "parallel construction" isn't whether or not the information used to identify and detain the suspect comes from a signals intelligence agency, it's the intentional deception by law enforcement investigators and prosecutors of how and why they acquired and discovered evidence.

If the NSA illegally (or "legally" as they'd no doubt claim) intercepts private communications, and tells local traffic cops to find a pretext to pull over a particular car and search it - telling the defence and the court that the drugs were discovered in a routine traffic stop is parallel construction.

If the tip off comes from Palantir instead of the NSA, and the investigators and prosecutors deceive the court and defence about that involvement - I'd argue it's still parallel construction.
How valued is micro art today?

Stamps are such that one must have one to mail something, so why not pick one with a pleasing aesthetic?

I'm working on a side project centered around graphic art containing varying subject matter aimed to be used in a similarly nuanced way as mail art.

I believe this idea is even more applicable in the digital world as graphics are more readily available than artistic stamps.
I watched the Expanse on Netflix. It's not really that good but I had downloaded it and was stuck on a plane.

Of the others the only two I hadn't watched a long time ago (e.g. Sopranos) that I would consider really good are Mr. Robot & Boardwalk Empire, both of which I had already watched elsewhere. What I like about Netflix is their originals are top notch.
Lyft is testing a Netflix-style monthly subscription plan
Replicating 538's NBA Elo Algorithm
I don't think it's that so much as it is a way to get rid of "nuisances" like the Rapidshares and Megauploads and the PopcornTimes of the EU. They may not inherently be doing anything wrong, but they're a problem for somebody powerful, so let's make sure we can find a reason to shut them down.

If it's anything like USC 2257 or obscenity law, it's a wildcard law to be played when there's no other dirt on somebody. The implementation is left intentionally vague. They won't provide you a national registry to check against, nor will they license you government software that fulfills these goals to legal specifications. It's a law they put on the books with no clear path to compliance.

So you're left to your own devices to implement something that may or may not do the job ("we checked hashes against a blacklist!")-- which you can arbitrarily be found in violation of by the courts at some later point ("...but you didn't do enough to check for derived or modified works!"), since there is no precedent for the extent to which one is expected to comply.

Nobody will be prosecuted for this until there's a high-profile site that needs a takedown.
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Yes, but if the variance is the same in both groups, then in the group with higher mean you might have orders of magnitude more people above certain cut-off.

For example, suppose you have two groups, each one consisting of 1 billion people. Both groups have standard deviation of 15 IQ, but the mean of group 1 is 90, and the mean of group 2 is 100. Then, the IQ of 160 is 4 sigma above the mean of group 2, but 4.6 sigma above mean of group 1. This results in 31670 people above 160 IQ in group 2, but only 1531 people above 160 in group 1. With your cut-off of 180 IQ, only 1 individual out of 1 billion from group 1 will have IQ above 180, but almost 50 in group 2.

Of course, each individual should be treated as such, but you have to take things like above into account if you are wondering for example why so many top sprinters are of certain genetical ancestry.
Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
Acoustical Analysis of Shouting into the Wind
Stupid... You really haven't been listening have you.
The technical means to enforce a law are a bunch of guys with sharp sticks.
I use Incognito for all kinds of non-privacy things just because they're one-time searches like political or or how-to or just stuff I don't care to have Chrome try to auto-suggest or auto-populate or even show in history (even if it's completely innocuous and non-adult), and taking screenshots is very valuable to me when I'm submitting to forums, so this change is overly-restrictive and I'm not seeing a way to change it in settings.

Also, QA and dev teams use Incognito for "clean" testing, and screenshots here are very valuable for showing others what you're seeing (especially if they're not in the same office or area), such as when they're pasted to a ticket board.

I honestly don't see the reason for this restriction; if it has something to do with Recents (which the source code change ticket implies), then I don't know how that makes sense either, as I have Chrome tabs in Recents disabled, and I can't see how this benefits the user unless Google employees' significant others busted their salacious Incognito usage... but that's punishing the innocent as well and telling every user they're not capable of "doing it right" even if that's their knowing intention.
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How are those different from, say, d, nim, or lisp?
There is indeed work at FB being done towards that last part.
Offering the OpenVPN gateway has increased my confidence in their pro-privacy motives. I would rather trust them over Comcast.
Percentages work in all kinds of directions:
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

Qualified immigration vs. illegal vs. unqualified would be a very separate discussion.

The claim is worded correctly though, even from your viewpoint, no? "welcomed promising minds" vs. indiscriminate immigration and its current backlash that hits "promising minds".
There are many people who have both Caucasian and Afro-Caribbean DNA. Is this result claiming that killer could be one of those people, or definitelt isn't? Those are opposite conclusions that both follow from the same statement, because the claim is ambiguous.
Some milkweed came up next to my garage a few years ago. I let it go and it spread. This last summer I saw Monarchs around it a couple times. Once I thought I saw one lay an egg and later when I checked the plant, I saw what looked like an egg in that spot. I never saw any caterpillars. There are other insects that also like milkweed and I saw plenty of those.
I guess I don't understand how Google restricting the user with hardware button presses from taking screenshots is required to fix an issue of other apps taking screenshots invisibly through software... this "fix" seems nonsensical and overly-restrictive to the user.

If Google's Android really can't tell the difference between a physical user and a software app, there's something seriously wrong with Google or Android.
When it comes to Russia's interference in the US, you'll have to excuse my incredulousness in the case of "mhkool vs the bulk of the global intelligence community"
Indeed, some Australian states actually have a ban on government agencies contracting out to IBM:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...

The quote from Queensland's Premier at the time of the ban:

“I don’t want companies that have this sort of culture doing work for the people of this state.”
Useful APIs that you probably don't notice
I don't see why that requires this as the fix, especially for users who have disabled the Chrome option to show its tabs in Recents.
This broke a bunch of peoples Ubuntu 14.04 CI/CD pipelines:

https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3280

It's working again now, but for a few hours there, some older versions of pip weren't working.
> the author's broad, unsupported generalizations

> surprised to see the author's use of "the Ukraine"

heh

just look up his linkedin; apparently he has spent his prime years working in Russia as some kind of tv producer there.
I don't sweat typos in my HN comments. They're not newspaper articles.

I can assure you I'm able to grasp simple concepts of English grammar, but thanks for the feedback anyway!

The connection between goodwill and debt isn't clarified in the next sentence. I stand by my point that a reader unfamiliar with goodwill would, after reading the article, understand it to be the result of debt.

My comment about the article was motivated by the fact that I found it poorly written by the standards of newspaper journalism. No other reason.
He is obviously from Slovakia. It says on their about page that their homebase is in Bratislava.
What are other important environmental factors affecting IQ in first world? I haven't really heard of any other are as important as these, so I'm interested in learning about them.
That's right. Allocators use the sbrk and mmap to manage the heap. IIRC high performance allocators tend to use mmap exclusively.
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505pgm55s2rx...

> The owners’ earnings are also driven by Renaissance’s fabled Medallion Fund, which is closed to outsiders. It has earned an estimated annualized return of 35 percent since 1982.

The fact that a coin that comes up heads 75% of the time came up tails one time does not mean its not a biased coin.
There are many different species of milkweed. Please, only plant the species that are native to where you live. If you are unsure what species are native to your area, contact a local plant society, for example the California Native Plant Society, the Oregon Native Plant Society, etc., and ask them. They would be more than happy to help and can tell you where to buy seeds.

edit: here is what I would consider a better guide from the Xerces Society, with links to regional seed suppliers.

http://xerces.org/milkweed/
It's also worth mentioning that MV has two Caltrain stations, though the other one (San Antonio) isn't served as much by the bullet trains I believe?

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/jr-1bd-1ba-hardwood-f...

With this one you would have Whole Foods, Safeway, Trader Joe's, Starbucks etc. within walking distance, but not as many restaurants as on Castro St.

On the plus side, you'd also be closer to Palo Alto.
I have a few friends that easily outweigh my full size motorcycle.
The gifted programs we have now are highly controversial for exactly the reasons debated in this thread.
I would suggest taking look at Quick Base [1]. We've been using it for years and I've found it hits the sweet spot for us in the complex spreadsheet/light database space.

I've been following Airtable for a while and I have high hopes they continue their upward trajectory. I like where they are going, and they seem like the most likely alternative if we were to move, but Quick Base still seems to have a leg up in a lot of areas. Cross Application/Database Connections, Webhooks Support, and automated table sync from Dropbox/Box/SFTP just to name a few.

[1] https://www.quickbase.com
>* You cant easily verify what the user writes.

Sharepoint somewhat handles that with file locking and had some revision history and permissions support. Most people just put spreadsheets on shared folders, so of course they get blown up.

Airtable is basically an enterprise swiss army knife for solving trench-fighting issues. That's basically the market, freeing up developers to handle main projects to make it worth the company's time to employ them.

Some rando department needs a form for their new employees or needs to spreadsheet-collaborate? Instead of building some custom webapp, Airtable is a central point for those kinds of things where a more specialized workflow solution doesn't exist.
What? The weasel words at the end are good science, not weasel words. They're explicit about what they have and haven't determined.

They've done impressive work figuring out why the "ultrasonic" attack would have an audible component. They can now reproduce the tones heard in Cuba using an ultrasonic source, something that didn't make sense before. Responsibly, they never claim that the "ultrasonic attack" is conclusively responsible for the actual harm, although it appears likely.
They can hardly run around sticking everyone for having what everybody can have easily and what is not easily visible unless too many people start collaborating and reporting each other.
Race is not biological as it is just a historical classification based on some "skin deep” observations of physical appearance.

What is biological is that different people from around the world are genetically more similar to their neighbours than people more distant and people with a similar genetic background tend to look similar.

What is more interesting is not race, but that different human populations around the world are different species that can produce fertile offspring. There are four known living human species; sub-Saharan Africans, Euro/Asians, Melanesian/Australian Aborigines, and African pygmies (there might be some more human species in Africa, but we lack the fossil DNA data to know this). Each one of these different species is a hybrid between ancient sub-Saharan African’s and one of the other homo species that lived on the planet before 50,000 years ago [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
Didn't they recover by hiring a completely different team to rebuild the entire site from scratch?

"Here is the tl;dr version of their story: Marketplace Lite, or “MPL” as they came to be known, devoted months to rewriting Healthcare.gov functions in full, working as a startup within the government and replacing contractor-made apps with ones costing one-fiftieth of the price."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s...
There was a brief outage, but the block in Turkey is something entirely different.
It's doubtful Intel would delay plans too much to work on such subject, and its even more doubtful the result would even be better for anybody: we would have to use the old completely unpatched chips for longer...

It's better for everybody to have more frequent gradual fixes, even if the firsts are not 100% complete.
Robert Frank's book Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy is another enjoyable book about this (and supports your argument for some form of government redistribution).
Thanks. I think in a few years we'll see devices that can do everything locally, and cost a reasonable amount. For now, like others have said, some of the models for pose are too complex.
I wouldn't like to be the false positive who has the police's efforts "directed" at him, convicted or no.
I taught myself programming a few years ago and did the ML nanodegree before. My cofounder Neil studied software at Waterloo and was an engineer at Pinterest.
"Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and open every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody." -Joseph Heller, Catch-22

I always enjoy seeing character archetypes from Catch-22 in the flesh.
I miss boolean search. How the hell does anyone find anyhing anymore? All my searches are changed to more common shit google thinks I shouod search for instead. Bing, Ddg, arent much better. Is there a simple, powerful search ala google of early 2000s? I would easily pay an absurd monthly amount just to have control again. I feel helpless in a sea of misinformation and google is objectivly making it worse.
In other words people who don't know the difference between race - a biological phenomenon - and ethnicity - a social phenomenon.
> ... should work

If it doesn't, people could get arrested and worse. Is this advice reliable enough for that level of risk?
source please
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gms-driverless-cars-unit-i...
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/02/waymo-now-has-a-serious...
15 seconds of googling
Note that there are multiple species of milkweed. If you find milkweed unappealing, look into other species. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, I found a couple of monarch pupae on some plants in the wetlands in my back yard. The plant stems were more stiff and the leaves less velvety than the milkweed I was familiar with in the local park.

I asked our local nature center if Monarchs only eat milkweed, why they would pupate on this plant. They identified the plant as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_incarnata , a variety of milkweed.
Probably impossible to tell, but I'm willing to bet this is related to the fact that the YPG uses ProtonMail for communications.
> I don't believe so: if that computer is reading a bunch of serial lines forgets to check the bounds of it's own buffer - then Houston's got a problem. That's all it takes.

That's not even an argument. You can put a buffer overflow in anything. The key thing is this: the larger your code is, the more likely you are to have one. Using serial lines isn't going to make your code larger if you're just taking sensor readings or something. Far from it.

> At least we've got a set of verified, battle-tested, multi-platform TCP/IP stacks.

Think about this in terms of Linux or any other Unix or bigger RTOS, if that's most straightforward: in the kernel, there's much, much less code needed to make a UART appear as a device node than there is to make an entire TCP/IP stack and network PHY work. In the kernel it's all "battle-tested" code, none of it more so than the UART drivers. In terms of software quality, relying on the serial port and not using the TCP/IP stack means you're exposed to fewer potential errors simply because there's much, much less code being used.

(edit: the same basic idea applies if you're talking about something more sophisticated than a UART, like a CAN bus, which is still way less code than a TCP/IP stack)

> But instead we've got those half-baked implementations of "oh my god, it takes me only a few hours to establish a radio link" protocols just increasing the attack surface.

In terms of system engineering, you're exposed to fewer potential attack vectors if someone needs to plug into your system via a serial line versus accessing the system from anywhere you're connected to using the highly fragile resource of TCP/IP routing, but even connecting via a short-range radio link need not be much more complicated than that. Use a radio modem that connects via serial if you're using a real computer. Similarly, if it's a tiny embedded thing the radio is probably exposed via a serial interface.

Adding TCP/IP just adds code and attack vectors. That's fine if you truly need it...
Tesla latest Autopilot update brings some significant improvements to Autosteer
No, that's not what happened here.
OCaml operator cheatsheet
Notion.so — It was recommended to me and after playing around with it for a little while, I didn’t want to use anything else. I use it for almost all of my note taking and other note and documentation tasks along with several other purposes. Completely left Evernote and moved everything over to them.
Are Infants Natural Synaesthetes?
this makes me sad because this is the idea I've been building in my head for a long time now. :( I need to make a free and open source alternative based off of my ideas..
You realize the victims in that case is not Amazon, but customers and investors. Amazon still makes the same sales as before, it's just that your personal 401k is worth a little less now, and people who buy from Walmart get screwed.
I think the essence of any live streaming is an active chat; viewers ask questions, point out mistakes, &c. you 'engage' w/ your audience irt.
What's the price sweet spot here assuming unlimited (or near unlimited) records allowed?
>Is this result claiming that killer could be one of those people, or definitelt isn't?

The latter. The claim is pretty unambiguous. There are genetic markers that are only found in certain populations. His statements imply that he observed no markers that are only found in Caucasian populations, and several that are only found in African or Afro-Caribbean populations. If a person were mix raced, they would likely have a combination.
Yes, I agree with this argument. The intelligence community has consistently valued offensive capabilities over improving our tech defenses. Apparently they think that finding and hoarding exploits gives them an advantage over other state actors.

Which really sad and depressing for the American tech sector. Not only do they have foreign state actors trying to hack into their infrastructure, they also know that they're own government won't help by disclosing the holes they hoard (or worse, joining the foreign attackers in exploiting the holes they have found).

America has so much to lose and very little gain from exploits. It's so discouraging that the intelligence community is still valuing offense over defense.
Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation
What is factual is that NSA is spying on Americans. What is not factual is that this is the thing that prevents it from doing it's other jobs.

That's why you are downvoted I think. Unless you have some proof on this activity being a source of NSA'a problems in achieving it's other goals.
Decoding Parkinson’s: Scientists Aim to Put All the Clues on One Map
The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’
I'm guessing it changes it considerably.

In other words, total comp is going up, but much of it is being funneled towards ever more expensive healthcare.

However, for business, the cost is just as real as giving employees a higher salary.
It's coming from Google Fit on Android Wear. I assume using accelerometer and possibly heartrate data, so should be available on most devices.

Fair warning though... It's brilliant in some ways and alpha in others. I can't seem to edit a set if I tap too fast and log it incorrectly. It guesses one rep too many in about 30% of sets.

On the other hand it knows when I'm doing pull ups (ie, without moving my wrist) and accurately counts them, which seems like magic.

It calculates an extrapolated one rep max for all your sets.

On the other hand the web interface is not exactly feature rich for data junkies. And I'm not sure there's an easy way to export your data to a more useful spreadsheet.

It's ripe for someone to make a great lifting app. But you know, watches are niche, so don't expect any customers.
> There's no reason to think ...

There's no reason to think it happened either way. But I think there's reasonable suspicion that Palantir might have been involved.

> information in Palantir was inappropriately obtained without a warrant when one should have been required

That's not the only issue, or even the main one. Government investigating and collecting information on private citizens en masse, rather than individuals for cause, is very dangerous. Doing it based on decisions made by Palantir's software developers, seems even worse.

> It's basically a mashup of a social network and CRM with predictive modeling on top.

How do you know how it functions? And wouldn't that describe any government system used for surveilling (and sometimes oppressing) its citizens? The Stasi had the same thing, just with far less powerful tech. Using banal buzzwords doesn't make Palantir or government surveillance any more banal.
That reminds me of the Japanese fellow who was in Hiroshima when the bomb hit, survived, returned to work in his home town Nagasaki when the second bomb hit, survived, and lived until 2010. Talk about bad luck and good luck.

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