skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just watch some YT videos. It has been explained many times in many videos.
It's not as ephemeral as you might think. As long as humans have existed there have been cognitive traits that confer an advantage in competitive environments. But our understanding of these traits has improved.
You’re not mssng anything. This is not the end, it’s just the end of the beginning. Ten years from now we’ll have tests that come within a narrow margin of error of predicting IQ from spitting in a test tube. Modulo malnutrition and serious physical abuse but the first at least is not common in the developed world.
I write python for most of the day, professionally. I write Rust at home.

I'd say I spend similar time on the same problem with both, maybe a bit more upfront on Rust and a bit more on the tail with Python. This is, of course, disregarding libraries.
Fiscal year is numbered to match the calendar year it ends in. Walmart's FY2018 is already done and they've reported earnings.

http://s2.q4cdn.com/056532643/files/doc_financials/2018/q4/Q...

http://s2.q4cdn.com/056532643/files/doc_financials/2018/q4/Q...

http://stock.walmart.com/investors/financial-information/qua...
Since we are talking about a technology that basically speculates about people, it's kind of funny that according to the article the "New Orleans Police Department's Director of Analytics" is called Ben Horwitz. Hmm...
It is typical to label the fiscal year by the date of the end of the period. This distinction doesn't matter when your fiscal year is Jan - Dec, but comes up in this case

If your fiscal year goes from Feb 1 2017 - Jan 21 2018, then that is commonly referred to as FY 2018
I'm pretty sure the ruralites kill way more arthropods since they spray much larger areas.
Thanks for the reply. How can I move the submission I already made some hours ago? Do H-N have moderators for this?
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Brilliant home page video. Explains the premise quickly and clearly. I suspect the power and convenience will evaporate privacy concerns for many.

It could recognise a couple in a dancing pose and randomly play something appropriate. It could recognise heroic arms aloft and play applause. So much potential.

There are countless things we do daily that have loads of room to be simplified. Even getting an Apple TV where the remote can switch on the TV and the device, and auto-change the TV's source to the device input felt like a game-changer, but this could ramp that up significantly.
For anyone wondering, like I was, the electricity cost used in the model to make this claim was $0.06/kWh. Presumably, since the network is still running, Bitcoin miners in locations where they are paying less electricity than that are still profitable.
As a bicyclist, I was taught that just because someone's face was turned in your direction doesn't mean you can tell what they are focusing on. My brother got run into by someone who pulled out after making "eye contact". I go around behind every time, like I'm invisible.
I have a similar feeling. On the one hand, I feel like Brexit happened for all the wrong reasons. I don't remember england being a nationalistic nation when I grew up. I found it profoundly alienating to find myself in a country that had voted for Brexit, more or less, because they don't like immigrants.

On the other, what happened to Greece was appalling, and confirmed everybody's worst fears about the EU being an instrument of Capital in overrunning democratic norms.

I don't think it would be so terrible, in any case, if the EU blocked UK financial services (or if the financial services went under anyway, since I think being in the EU was part of the raison-d'etre). The imbalance of the english economy created by an overweight financial sector that employs basically no-one, and has antithetical legislative needs to all the other sectors, is a lot of what's wrong with the UK as a country. We used to make things. Now all we do is flip houses on the back of one bubble or another. The financial sector has created a weird double-country, with a super-rich capital, and basically impoverished provinces.

But this really comes back to what I see as the heart of English dysfunction - and it's English, since the Welsh and Scottish don't seem to share it. The politics are awful. Recruiting half your leadership from one elite boarding school just doesn't work. There's no way you can find enough smart, talented people that way. That's why everything the english state does is always so screwed up. And it's a problem that only gets worse as more power is concentrated in the financial sector.
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The more I learn about things like this, and the interesting failure modes of AI, the more I really, REALLY hope we don't accidentally (or on purpose) create any type of self-aware AI any time soon. Not for any reason of AI-apocalypse, but because it seems like it would be just about impossible to avoid creating something inherently insane and, if capable of experiencing pain, in constant torment. Hopefully we won't start creeping up on general-AI anytime short of also having a near-complete understanding of the human mind with all of its biochemical complexity.
Denying science because it doesn't fit your preconceived notions? How is that any different than anti-vaxers or global warming deniers? I'm afraid that soon we'll have anti-genomers.
Darwin's Beard and George Eliot's Hands
Indeed. And the older the testees get the more stable the results are. Infant and early childhood tests are predictive but by 14 or so the results are basically the adult results
The DMCA has a counter-claim system. In 2008, Thunderf00t (Phil Mason) quite famously had many of his videos wrongfully taken down by a Christian Extremist called VenomFangX using the DMCA. Phil went through the process of suing him, though they eventually settled, and VenomFangX had to quit YouTube for a year. There was a video series about it[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlgB1AD5hI
Check out https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone
Of course; I know very little about Japan's antitrust laws, it's really beside the point whether they are democratically defined or not. It's on Amazon to argue about their interpretation through Japanese courts or by whatever is the mechanism of redress they have in this case, if any.

I was responding to the parent comment calling the arrangement as described in article unfair.
Thanks, how would one go about for existing submissions?
This kind of reminds me of FileMaker. What am I missing?
Wife worked for them as sales something, sometimes I saw the tools she had been using, couple of presentations - real nightmare fuel.

I remember once talking about how they (big blue) see Atlassian as a competitor and how they have to try harder to convince companies to use IBM products... the very moment someone replaced Jira with some IBM shit or Gmail Business or even Outlook with Lotus Notes I would quit.
The NSA is too busy spying on all Americans [edit: as well as collecting backdoors and keeping OS bugs secret] to fulfill its official duties (one of which is to protect U.S. communications networks and information systems).

Edit: all of the above is factual, apart from the evaluation of them being negligent of their responsibilities solely due to being overly busy. And if you reasonably hold that the NSA are failing to perform their duties to help protect US infrastructure from cyber attacks for other reasons than being too busy spying on the American people -- would you like to suggest what such reasons are?

Fact: the NSA records all electronic communications within the USA.

Fact: the NSA collects backdoors, and has bribed US companies to create them.

Fact: the NSA seeks and collects major OS bugs for exploitation.

Fact: the NSA has systematically avoided revealing the above bugs to US manufacturers. If they had done so, as expected according to their charter, the bugs would have been fixed -- and thereby would have been protecting US infrastructure, government systems, companies, and last but not the least, the people.
Technolgoists need to remember that tech is nothing without law.
What made you choose SLC?
But it would suck for those who do not pass the test. Would they by default get a lower wage?
DCMA abuse emails being put into /dev/null, most VPS providers do not do that. Also a promise to insist on subpoenas or other expensive methods before they would comply with requests.

Also why do you trust your VPS provider over a VPN provider? They can inspect your VMs memory and do whatever else they want to the machine. Same with whoever owns the real estate that you co-locate your own physical servers.
But the article suggests the opposite? The prosecutor denied using Palantir in that case. That's not the way to whitewash some evidence.
Tbf the point of startup time isn't the actual time cost: its rarely significant; even a 5 minute startup is only 5 minutes for an 8-hour workday.

But it feels absolutely awful to have to wait 5 minutes to start doing something useful. Especially when its not necessary, and when you've got alternatives that start up instantaneously (ie basic vim install).

The problem is in that transition from 10ms wait to 10s wait; the difference is immense.

And of course, theres the idea that an order of magnitude difference isn't just an order of magnitude difference; it can enable entirely different paradigms and workflows. In the fashion that the shifts in web-capabilities correspond at least to a degree to the shift in network capabilities. Streaming doesn't make sense on a 10kb/s connection, but on 10mb/s the whole world changes
I've been using their service with OpenVPN for years and I've always been very impressed. Them going open source, and ultimately being auditable, makes them that much more recommendable.
The history of the US is a history of deep divisions, until someone pokes it a little too hard, and suddenly a seemingly united response is generated. Often that response is more than a little extreme, and sometimes it gets all over the place, as Iraqis or Cambodians could tell you. The manufacturing capacity of the US, and its massive military spending are not to be fucked with lightly.
It was actually by design, so you know you have the wrong place. We already have systems like postcodes where small changes result in small geographic offsets and they have major downsides too.

Geocoding seems really simple until you have to build one and have customers use it.
>good light for webcam

Studio lighting would solve that and falls into your mentioned price range per item.
Rust-style resource management in OCaml
I think they are trying to be "access in the browser" but they are not all the way there yet.
I admit my ignorance. Can you give me one of those examples?
I don't know if they still do but historically they had to pay.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/08...
The worst thing for our cities: An Uber driver using a mapping app. /s
Yes, essentially. He understood it was some kind of currency. But wasn't sure _why_ people used it, _what_ they really used it for or what all the hype was about. He bought mostly due to fear of missing out.
Monsanto sells products to annihilate most insects to ensure monoculture lawns. Have you not seen that throughout America?
Glad to see someone already posted this. I don't know how anyone writes something like "this is what Slovaks are like" and doesn't stop to think about their biases.

I originally thought maybe he was from Slovakia (I have occasionally made jokes or generalisations about Irish people, as I am one) -- but then the footnotes make it clear it's not self deprecation. It's just prejudice.
Why do you have to in germany?
Regardless of where the "average" intelligence level (As measured by IQ tests) is for any specific race/ethnicity/etc, all the data I've seen so far shows far more variation inside each group than between groups. For example, a group might have an average of ~100, and another ~90, but inside each group you have individuals varying between ~60 and ~180.

The point I guess I'm trying to make is that people are individuals, and should be treated as such.
For anyone that lives in a warmer climate, can't ice skate or wants more to watch I'd suggest you checkout lawn bowls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowls). The games are very similar and typically people that like one like the other.
AFAIK the fact of TOR usage is rather easy to detect. AFAIK (from some news here on HN) you can get SWATed and arrested for a mere suspicion (e.g a false positive by an automated traffic analysis system) of using an end-to-end encrypting messenger or even Twitter in Turkey. I doubt it is legal and safe to use TOR in such countries. We need something that is harder to detect on the client ISP side.
Governments can subvert democracy without an EU.

Step 1: Make election promise

Step 2: Fail to deliver.

With regard to accountability, the process goes something like:

Step 1: implement unpopular policy

Step 2: lose next election. Don’t go to jail, or otherwise be held accountable. Receive fat government pension.

Step 3: new government doesn’t undo unpopular policy implementation, but blames former government anyway.
Certainly wouldn't be the first time a Gubment agency's done such things.
And the big problem with open systems is that there are so many of them and nobody will pay to market and implement any of them to make one a standard.
Not Finnish, working off memory of a comment on an old message board.

They have many theoretically equal voluntary high school subjects and tests. More able students take many more, known harder ones. This allows self segregation, much like AP classes in the US will have few people with reading difficulties. No one particularly cares because if you want to go to a third level institution after high school you can.
We should turn the internet off to the EU for a while and let them simmer. They're completely out of line and misaligned with technological understanding.
I wish it could be banned. It’s great people like VS code but does it really need to always get butted in?
Forgive me for this n00b question, but what do you get with ProtonMail (with respect to security) that you don't get with, say, gmail?
Yup. You can email the mods via the Contact link in the footer. They can help you out.
I think if Harper had stayed in office, he would have blamed this on the complicated payroll requirements. He likely would have leaned on PSAC/CUPE to simplify it in the next round of contract negotiations.
> The Romans had previously moved that obelisk from Egypt to Rome.

I wonder how many people died during this job. I mean: stuff is easier to do when you have a ton of expendable slaves no one cares about when they die or get injured.
Lots of people have seem to taken your similar reading and it wasn’t the intention. We have gifted programs right now. This would be no diffrent on that front.

Where it would be diffrent is very young disadvantaged students that never made it into the gifted program because they didn’t get any attention when they were young will have a much harder time getting missed.
That's on purpose, and required, for a variety of reasons.

First would be that it cannot be put together into a single executable as it is composed of multiple, separate components, that each rely on a specific structure of the file system being present. This is not something I can control.

Second, Portacle is made in such a way that all three platforms can be combined together into a single directory so that it can be run on any system as one, which mandates a shared folder structure.

Third, in order to be self-contained, the Portacle installation directory must contain its own configuration and project directories. It makes no sense to allow you to move the executable outside of this, and it would make no sense to put those directories within the .app on, say, mac.
Ah yes, the etacts debacle. Agree. I meant more the Quip integration (which would make sense) vs Salesforce as a company. But good point.
Darwin Awards and intelligence have a negative correlation.
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Crazy strict laws with regard to torrenting etc. Heavy fines.
That's pretty thin. The fact that Putin said she did, doesn't mean she did. We're on much more solid ground saying that Americans got Yeltsin elected in 1996. Of course that result ended up being very good for Putin...
Well maybe not to that extent, but to my knowledge things are not that bad in Japan yet :) Let's just not confuse market share with monopoly (in economic sense of course, which is what we are talking about here -- the Japanese legal definition may well be different, and it is that one that matters for Amazon.)
Rookie cops making $30k a year have also identified such criminals. Bring sentenced to 100 yrs means nothing and is irrelevant
It is inherent to the architecture of the Lightening Network.

Run a simulation with many p2p nodes in an adversarial payment routing network, and the inevitable statistical optimization will be centralized payment hubs controlled by wealthy users.

Smaller less wealthy nodes will not be able to sustain routes and will be ignored. No one wants to keep paying fees to open up dozens of routes as if they're pre-depositing funds all the places they shop.

What's the benefit here?

Why not just use venmo, stripe, square, paypal?
Also, certain crimes like drug use are common to the point where even models highlighting "links" or "suspects" purely at random might yield increased prosecutions if law enforcement believed in the model enough to investigate more thoroughly than they would if simply following a "hunch", carrying out random checks or conducting a "sweep of the area". And if a model is largely uncorrelated with actual rather than revealed propensity to commit crime, and rather more closely linked to demographics, then its effect on who police prioritise their resources chasing could be a big problem. Certainly a far more likely problem than a model failing to surface any evidence of any criminal activity.

For other reasons, criminals citing false negatives from limited social network based profiling tools failing to identify them as a gang member as a case for their defence, as the article suggested one New Orleans defendant hoped to do, would also be problematic.
It’s not pass or fail, it’s a rating.
Pg's startup idea YC would fund from 2008:

22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Like make it easier to get data into it, through forms or scraping.

Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people. The question to ask is: how much can I let people do without defining structure? You want the database equivalent of a language that makes its easy to keep data in linked lists. (Which means you probably want to write it in one.)

From: http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html
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Foviated rendering will half the requirements
1. Search for "one two three".

2. Google returns results with
"one" and "three" crossed out, as if you didn't mean to put them in the search.

3. Go to bing I guess?
It's very annoying that I'm no longer allowed to upvote. Providing sources is something that should not be downvoted.

Also mods, if you're reading, fuck you for revoking my upvoting privileges. I did nothing to deserve that. Especially not for three months and counting.

EDIT: Just got a very interesting keybase message from a user who shares my experience. His voting privs have been revoked since 2014. Apparently I get to look forward to years of this, for reasons that were never explained at all. (I tried asking.)

If you have similar stories of abuse, I encourage you to send them over to me. I've been collecting them and will hopefully write ... something. I'm not sure what, yet. All I know is that we all helped make this community what it is today, and there's nowhere else to go.
For TF, I found it easy to work with and also cloud agnostic (nice bonus). So you only have to learn one tool instead of one for each cloud provider (Azure's Resource templates , AWS's CloudFormation, etc).

Also it seems to have great traction in the industry and is a very active project so I don't see it going anywhere soon...
Did you read the article?

>Uncertain about the science, the police asked Frudakis to take a blind test: They sent him DNA swabs from 20 people to see if he could identify their races. He nailed every one.

>On a conference call a few weeks later, Frudakis reported his results on their killer. "Your guy could be African-American or Afro-Caribbean, but there is no chance that this is a Caucasian."

So we can see that not only are the classes used more precise than just "black" or "white", but there is empirical evidence that they can be predicted from DNA.
I would say that people who build systems with excessive complexity are (almost per definition) not smart. They made appear confident and have a high level of "I am so smart" feel about them. But they are clearly not.
Probably due to their extremely shady business practices, first of them being bundling the JRE with crapware on Windows.
So tell us, throwawan, do you support or oppose this action?
That was part of my point though. Siri should be smart enough to understand my meaning (and Apple heavily marketed that aspect of it). If I put "Ike's Sandwiches" in Google (or even Apple Maps) they both know what I mean. Siri somehow thinks I'd be interested in a restaurant over a thousand miles away.
I initially felt the same way, but after actually reading through the GDPR materials, and a bit of Q&A on HN, I've come to the conclusion that it's a good thing.

It doesn't really place any burden on business - it simply means that you must be transparent with users about how you use their data, allow them to know what data you hold about them, and allow them to delete it if they wish.

As a consumer, as well as a founder, that seems very reasonable.
I'm referring to things like putting the American fleet in the Black Sea, getting involved in the Ukraine, getting involved in Syria...
You are right, it is actually quite similar
Yeah, I'm just teasing a bit... which is apparently not much appreciated.
I wouldn’t be shocked if lower-revenue customers turn out to be a disproportionate demand on support/customer service. Not every potential customer is a good fit from a vendors perspective.

My impression is that they’ve got the free plan for people with minimal usage or who just want to kick the tires - beyond that, if their service isn’t worth $100/yr to you, they don’t want to think about you or support you.
I have worked in local government, and have dealt with these departments. While most cities probably dont have this infrastructure, most states do and open it to local muni's for these exact scenarios. Like I said if they had to create something last minute this is great, I was just surprised at their appreciation to scale something to 60 users.
"If we let them have what they want and do not intervene, they will just stop." -- England and France, a few years before WWII.
Given that the concept of race was defined by family/tribal grouping and observable physical features, which are biological in nature, to point out that it is biological is entirely tautological.

Of course it is biological. Doesn't stop it being an appallingly crap system for human taxonomy. Especially given that there are a very large quantity of people out there whom you would really have to give a long list for in this taxonomy, rather than a word, as people have a habit of not sticking to these neat little groupings when they have sex, even if you force them to with law.
I assume if you start abusing it (trying to get things for free) then your bank will drop you as a cardholder.
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