skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real IRA Assisted Russians in Salisbury
Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson reported in his Twitter that militants of the Real Irish Republican Army had transferred a component of the 'Novichok' nerve agent to Salisbury with the view to poison the former Russian military intelligence colonel Skripal. https://cienciamaldita.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/mays-gift-to-putin-or-reviving-conflict-over-northern-ireland/

https://s14.postimg.org/7cv9gkq3l/site.jpg

A few minutes later the tweet was deleted, which gives reason to believe that the information is sensitive and classified and thus must not be disclosed to the public until Scotland Yard completes its investigation. In case the information about the Real IRA militants' involvement in Skripal's poisoning proves true, the law enforcement have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario as terrorists may have a complete set of chemical agents necessary for creating the chemical weapon. Are the Northern Ireland's police units prepared to provide security for the citizens in such conditions? Let's just hope that they are, otherwise casualties among civilians can run into thousands.
If the task is "taking datasets and making them more searchable," it seems like that company gets the heat simply for making the task easier. Excel, SQL databases (or, heck, huge CSV files) don't get as much attention even though they could be used for the same purpose, even if very awkwardly.
We have to decide if people should have powers like this.

"Build tools that measure the rate and spread of stories and rumors, and model how it works and who has the biggest impact. Tools can tell us about the origin of stories and the impact of any venue, person or theme.

Connect polling into this in some way.
Find a way to do polling online and not on phones.
Analytics and data science and modeling, polling and resource optimization tools. For each voter, a score is computed ranking probability of the right vote.

Analytics can model demographics, social factors and many other attributes of the needed voters. Modeling will tell us what who we need to turn out and why, and studies of effectiveness will let us know what approaches work well. Machine intelligence across the data should identify the most important factors for turnout, and preference.

It should be possible to link the voter records in Van with upcoming databases from companies like Comcast and others for media measurement purposes.

The analytics tools can be built in house or partnered with a set of vendors."

Edit- Source - https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262
Facebook sells political-influence-as-a-service. The question is how someone ate their lunch right under their noses.
Isn't that still too fast? Maybe not worth ticketing for, but still relevant after an incident like this?
When you have a Facebook account, you are explicitly granting permission to FB to use your personal information and social graph to sell ads. There is nothing deceptive about this.
Amazing insights:

> Won’t raising the speed limit cause people to
drive faster and cause more crashes?

> The Federal Highway Administration studied nearly 200
roads in 22 states where speed limits were raised, lowered
or left unchanged. Prior to the speed limit change, 55
percent of drivers exceeded the posted speed limits. After
speed limits were raised or lowered as much as 20 mph,
there was a slight change in speed, but generally less than 1
mph. There were no significant changes in crashes,
although crashes tended to decrease where speed limits
were increased to realistic levels. Also, there was little
effect on speeds or crashes on intersecting or nearby
roadways.
Holy fuck. After watching the video on their site, I agree.
Thanks for this interesting source!
I've been currently looking for beautiful and non-common web fonts for my design project. Initially I was tend to use free fonts but then discovered some premium fonts on https://www.templatemonster.com/fonts.php . Gonna use a bundle from there!
Robotic Kelp Farms Promise an Ocean Full of Carbon-Neutral, Low-Cost Energy
I assume you're talking about in the web browser/pure js? Because otherwise you can just bind to the native CUDA etc. libraries like most other languages do.

And even on the browser side SIMD is being implemented in WebAssembly and (limited) GPGPU will be possible via WebGL 2.0 compute shaders. So as such I don't see any reason why JavaScript couldn't at the very least match python/numpy in performance if someone put their mind to it.
Git commit message syntax highlighting in Vim
You need to be highly qualified for that job
yepp, VPNs are really just shifting the trust from ISP to the VPN.
Is intellectual a euphemism for Anglophile now?
Self-Driving Car Kills Woman in Arizona USA
To save people some time, it's `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` in about:config.
Does this responsibility stay with the driver, despite this clearly being an Uber operation? Aside from the victim, did self-driving tech just get its first, uhm, "marter"?
Seeking advice: how do I tell friends and family about the negative aspects of Facebook without coming across as all “I don’t even own a TV” or “meat is murder”? Is that even possible?
Usually a couple of minutes:

apt/brew install docker docker-compose

git clone <repo>

docker-compose up

./gradlew build

docker-compose brings up all required dependencies (databases, message queues,...) and all tasks related to building, formatting, codestyle, testing are specified in the gradle build file. Optionally the dev can import the gradle project into the IDE.
> This people are not going to learn blockchain.

If there's one constant for humans it is this: people will learn whatever they need, however complicated it might be, if it promises to make them rich quick.
Are you going to invade a foreign power when one of their sovereigns ignores your demand to forget?
Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that do this, and have already asked you once.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Physicists became aware about the ethical implications of their work after the A bomb - with information science there will not be any such sharp censure - but the implications might be even more profound.
I presume another application could be higher density electronics owing to reduced heat generation owing to reduced dissipation. However, if I recall comments here correctly we are getting to the point where electromagnetic shielding may be required as we scale down further which provides a second limiting factor to increased densities.

PS. Last year ETH Zurich also looked at weaving nanothreads in a kagome pattern, https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2017/08... ... note also that this style of weaving is widespread across all of continental Southeast Asia, at least southwest China, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and probably further west in South Asia. It is real a shame that a lot of terminology falls in to the "some random American saw a Japanese name for something so it is termed Japanese in English" category (eg. various food ingredients, philosophical concepts, art history, etc.). People could learn a lot more if they had broader regional comprehension of Asia and its history.
Thanks for the compliments! And thanks also for bringing up the debiasing! It's interesting to see what people care about and any conversation that leads to new ideas is a plus.
The update binaries likely use signing to prevent modification
As autonomy is implemented and refined, and safety improves dramatically, new regulatory and economic models will emerge. This will spark design innovation. No doubt both single rider and shuttle-bus options will emerge, with much lighter builds as crashes decrease.
Why do you think India is a low trust market ?
I once worked with a guy who would literally “do voices” on the phone to pretend to callers that he managed a whole team of people.
Well, Hillary Clinton still believes her bitterness is something people want to hear. Nancy Pelosi still thinks she's going to be the Dem leader in the House next year.

If what you mean by "unhinged" is "disconnected from what most of us call real life", you would be hard pressed to find national politicians who aren't.

If only there were term limits for all offices at that level.
>It has a performance cost, but if/when hardware can pay that cost in real time, games absolutely will use it.

Which has been said since earl6 2000. But the question is, when? Or if it will ever come?

If you look at road maps we surely dont have that in next 5 years, even unlikely in 10.
Right now I'm considering to just show them the video on sentiance's homepage.. (https://www.sentiance.com as linked above)
>> One fatality in 4 million miles is safe? Humans are 20 times better than that.

And this is considering the fatality rate for all human drivers, including those that are drunk, playing on their smartphone, sleepy, speeding, street racing, etc. I would not be surprised if those cases account for a very sizable majority of fatal car accidents. Now imagine you would reduce those numbers by relatively simple measures that don't involve AI. Let the car enforce speed limits, mandate smartphone companies to have a 'car mode' that cannot be shut off, mandate attention tracking capabilities for cars, dead-zone indicators, automatic emergency braking, etc. Maybe even mandate an alcohol lock, or at the very least a black box that records driving behavior so it can be analyzed in case of a crash, with sever penalties after the fact if the black box shows signs of drunk driving, etc.

The list of things you can do to improve road safety without requiring AI cars is endless, yet billions are invested in trying to fully automate driving. This just shows that self-driving cars are not about safety, but purely about business opportunities.
Am I understanding correctly is that the primary blame on Facebook is in enabling apps (via API) to collect data?

This stuff has unfortunately existed for years, no different from an Android "beautiful waterfall wallpapers" app that also happens to ask for permission to access your contacts/messages. People consent to their data being public (sometimes in second-degree through their friends), data gets collected. And what about all those helpful Chrome extensions that want access to all of your browsing tabs?

I never authorize third-party apps on my accounts (or even install non-local Chrome extensions), but I'm likely in the minority.
Agreed. TED talk was good too.
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
Showerthought: wouldn't it be easier to comprehend if Haskell called monads contexts?
how do I find a list of everything I have installed so I can then use that to make a script to install it all on a fresh machine?
Democrats are moving to the center (e.g. right) while conservatives move further right. Meanwhile, young progressive millennial and gen-xers are trying to move democrats to the left and are in large power struggle.

Not the same.
N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz
The Seed tech demo advertises depth of field - so does this renderer simulate a lens? Is this common in raytracing?
Another interesting part of the language are the names of the months. They aren’t derived from Latin; each has a cultural significance for that time of year.

https://letyourlanguagespeak.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/twelve...
I had a book about proverbs for years. It can be opened up anywhere, put down any time and a great conversation starter upon finding an obscure or funny proverb.
I am on OSx and use homebrew /cask heavily.

But I also have a few things installed with Pip and and a few things manually installed and it just seems a bit tricky to traverse all of my install sources and points.
Is this just an issue with floating point numbers in general then?

Short answer, Yes. JavaScript floats behave identically to 64-bit IEEE floats in all other programming languages. Dealing with rounding errors, precision, stability etc when doing math with floating point numbers is an entire area of research in itself that many very smart people have dedicated their research careers to. This is why you should be very careful before you start writing your own numeric algorithms since the pitfalls are as subtle as they are numerous. Rolling your own core numeric algorithms basically falls into the same category as rolling your own crypto. To a first approximation, leave it to the experts.

Some languages/libraries do offer arbitrary precision numbers that let you avoid these all pitfalls in exchange for a massive performance hit.
> can be seen as crime by some people

That doesn't make it a crime. But it does make those people less credible.
Thank you. That really helped.
There is (or was) a “bug” in the business logic, as is now apparent. Assuming it is the case that CA gained access to this information by lying, it means there were inadequate safeguards in who could access. The data. The only reason you could say this wasn’t a “breach” is because FB had engineered virtually no safeguards against this type of deceptive use of user data.
> While the majority of its business is in China and Asia more broadly, that is a huge market and gives Alibaba enough lift to grow fast and move up in the market more quickly. In another report from Synergy published last year, it found to no one’s surprise that the Chinese cloud market was dominated by Chinese cloud companies.

What are numbers to support that they have a big presence in Asian countries other than China? I checked the pdf it doesn't talk about country-wise segmentation.
If I'm correct TextMate was first using multiple cursors before sublime text came, but yes, sublime text has such a versatile UI!
I'm guessing drivers will sign up to this along with Uber, Taxify and GoCatch and keep flicking between them or just use a bunch of phones with one acting as a hotspot. Which ever pays the best will take priority.
On the one hand, logs seem clearly more capable. On the other, every single change they made was objectively worse when debugging.

I have a multi-process tool, and subprocess logs no longer appear at all (much less in chronological order with parent process messages) so in a separate window I must set up a log stream specially configured to try to dredge those up.

They have this notion of “privacy” in logs now, meaning even the messages you do see will frequently withhold vital details unless you remember to first change settings to show private data.

I have a few side commands and short-cuts in the shell to fiddle all these knobs. It’s just annoying, frankly; it’s like someone replaced the steering wheel and dashboard of your car with “request steering control” and “request speed info” buttons.

And to top it all off, for like a month their fancy new logs spat out “Month 13” complaints, despite being improved. I couldn’t find ANY way to turn those off with the 4,000 new knobs available to me.
Perhaps, but that becomes costly, fast: first on install, but especially on inspection and maintenance.
I think most people believe Russian hackers literally hacked voting machines to give Trump the election. Subtle manipulation of emotions it too complex for the public.
As a little side note, Libor is so idiotic that I don't understand how the general public allow it to underpin most of the financial products they buy. We need a bit of a revolution in the rates/banking space. The current financial system is inherently unstable, frought with moral hazard and serves the rich to make them richer still.
rss news in newsbeuter + links2

Anyway just quit my job, because of boredom. 9 days left
Right of way doesn't absolve you of fault. If you have the right of way, but a pedestrian goes on the street anyway, you have the duty to stop/slow down to the best of what's possible.
Ask HN: How do you think Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data?
Reading the stories around Cambridge Analytica and the facebook "breach" I can't help to think that this was merely done by accessing the Facebook API.

A simple naive solution really. So why the hype ? Serious question.
Bitcoin on trial as prolific trader faces money laundering charges
Sure, there's no way to know.

But it is possible to distribute trust across multiple VPN services, such that none of them alone can compromise you. You just nest one VPN inside another. It's easy using VMs. Most simply, connect to one VPN provider in the host machine, and to another in a VM. Using pfSense VMs as VPN gateways, you can chain more deeply. It's the same idea that's behind Tor using three-relay circuits. But less anonymous, because routes are static.
Sorry if this should be obvious, I've read it 3 times and still don't understand this bit:

> They also did this because they cashed every last check of every employee that left and there were a lot of those.

"They also did this" - Who also did what? The candidates accepted the job? The company hired the fake guy to get sacked?

And who cashed whose checks? Did they cash them before or after they left? And why does that mean the first set of people did the first thing?
yep, sure. I did that computation to have a rough estimate. Also, with on or two fatalities, I guess the confidence in the stats is not very high.
So, this is somewhat misleading (or I didnt read the full thing)

* Uber already allows you to pay by cash or use a credit card and put in the OTP after your trip

* The PayTM concept is largely due to a discrepancy in regulations, money can be debited from my PayTM account w/o an OTP, but my credit card cannot be charged without an OTP due to regulations
Serverless deployment via docker
Maybe one solution is to actually start teaching some simple economics at school. The curriculum in the UK conveniently skips over the details of banking. If people knew how it really works, I'm certain they would feel taken advantage of.
I would recommend Privacy Badger over Ghostery - It's made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (non-profit) and is open source. Ghostery is proprietary and still collects & sells your data.
Expected to see TUI (Terminal UI) IDEs here (the likes of DBase/Foxbase/Foxpro/etc). Disappointed, because they were hugely used "programmer interfaces" for a long time and influenced GUIs when they came up.

Heck, a lot of retail TUIs still run on them (and some of them are in process of being changed to "web apps" bypassing desktop apps). They were yesterday's full stack (design a database, build forms, run CLI commands, write OO code, package and distribute - all in one shell).

I think the post should be titled "programming GUIs" and not "programming UIs".
Gestalt Design Principles
kube-fzf – Boost your productivity when working with Kubernetes
“Which is bad”.

Did you measure the impact, subtracting harder development and run- time? Do you like to code in all hard ways before you meet any problems? Is sqlite a key performance point in your app? (Why not async-pg then?) How many requests per second do you have at average peak hours?
Last male northern white rhino is put down
By law(and please correct me if I'm wrong), the driver of the vehicle is responsible for everything that happens with the vehicle. Why would it matter if the vehicle is owned by UPS, Fedex, PizzaHut or Uber? Is a truck driver not responsible for an accident just because they drive for a larger corporation?

Let me put it this way - my Mercedes has an emergency stop feature when it detects pedestrians in front of the car. If I'm on cruise control and the car hits someone, could I possibly blame it on Mercedes? Of course not. I'm still the driver behind the wheel and those systems are meant to help - not replace my attention.

What we have now in these semi-autonomous vehicles is nothing more than a glorified cruise control - and I don't think the law treats it any differently(at least yet.).

Now, if Uber(or anyone else) builds cars with no driver at all - sure, we can start talking about shifting the responsibility to the corporation. But for now, the driver is behind the wheel for a reason.
lol, just add a captcha to the trap page :D
In many cases, industry self-regulation can be a good solution to protecting customers from being wronged. PCI is a great example- there can be huge fines on merchants that don't meet strict regulations for handling customer financial transactions according to the strict standards set by PCI.

What has become extremely clear from this situation is that we are far past the point of self-regulation being the answer for protecting personal data. Facebook knowingly enabled a 3rd party to pay $1-$2 to 300k people to acquire facebook data that may have been marked private/don't share for 50 million users. Roughly $500k for 50 million people's personal data, or in other words, a penny per person. This data is connected to influencing the election of the POTUS. There needs to be significant overhaul of how personal data is protected or this will continue to happen.
Quick run down on word2vec and what happened here:

A big problem with NLP is understanding the semantic associations between words (or even lemmas. Lemmas in this context refer to different meanings of the same word, like a baseball bat vs. a vampire bat). For example "run" and "sprint" are similar in meaning but convey different connotations; kings and queens are both high-level monarchs but we need to encode the difference in gender between them for a true semantic understanding. The problem is that the information in words themselves don't accurately convey all of this information through their string (or spoken) representations. Even dictionary definitions lack explanations of connotations or subtle differences in context, and furthermore aren't easily explained to a computer

Word2vec is an algorithm that maps words to vectors, which can be compared to one another to analyze semantic meaning. These are typically high-dimensional (e.g. several hundred dimensions). When words are used often together, or in similar contexts, they are embedded within the vector space closer to each other. The idea is that words like "computer" and "digital" are placed closer together than "inference" and "paddling".

Usually these vector mappings are represented as something like a python dictionary with each key in the dictionary corresponding to some token or word appearing at least one (maybe more) times in some set of training data. As you can imagine these can be quite large if the vocabulary of the training data is diverse, and due to being in such a high-dimensional space, the precision of a vector entry may not need to be as high as doubles or floats encode. Floats are 32 bits. The authors of this paper/repo figured out a way to quantize vector entries into representations with smaller numbers of bits, which can be used in storage to make saved word2vec models even smaller. This is really useful because a big problem with running word2vec instances is that they can take up space on the order of gigabytes. I haven't read it all yet but it seems the big innovation might have been figuring out a way to work with these quantized word vectors in-memory without losing much performance

Edit: seems it may not work in-memory
This is really scary I think!

In Denmark it is standard procedure to immediately arrest the other party and charge with manslaughter if there has been a fatality in an accident, no matter who might have been at fault. This way the police can gather information quickly from the driver and release him shortly after.
An in depth investigation is always carried out to precisely map out what happened (this can take weeks), and not before that will charges be dropped depending on the result.
Thanks, you've articulated my thoughts about this kind of articles just perfectly. Adding this comment to favorites so I don't forget the wording.