skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint, also known as an invariant point) of a function is an element of the function's domain that is mapped to itself by the function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_(mathematics)

Looks like it. And they need to resort to some mathematical trickery to achieve this because as the explain in the paper:

> A neural network is parametrized by a set of parameters Θ, and our goal is to build a network that outputs Θ itself. This is difficult to do directly. Suppose the last layer of a feed-forward network has A inputs and B outputs. Already, the size of the weight matrix in a linear transformation is the product AB which is greater than B for any A > 1.
I think you're reading a lot into the single response he got.

For anyone who doesn't want to click through, the reply said:

"It appears that this requires the other party to also have the app installed, right?"

There's nothing that could be even remotely translated to "why bother" or "meh" in the response. It's a simple question.
They are types and they are traditionally called types. Tags are an implementation detail.
We're taking around each other. You're saying "you need Facebook to organize events" and I'm saying "you don't need to organize events to socialize". It's two different conversations.
I don't have a Pi0, but I've had no problems running it on a single-core CHIP.
My mother/family/friends are not even aware there is a trade off. They only privacy 'problem' they know about is accidentally posting something personal in the wrong spot. There's no understanding of the extensive data collection, connection, and trade that's happening behind the scenes.
You're upset for someone using the word "ped" for pedestrian while using a word that's got a dictionary definition of being vulgar and offensive for women? I have to say I'm rather confused. I feel I'm being trolled.
I somewhat agree, I keep fighting this on HN - but speed limits are for two categories of people - the people driving, and the people expecting those drivers to be going a specific speed (or range). And 40 - 50 is not a range that is ever safe to put near people.

I grew up near (in the bay area) Almaden Expy where the signs post 45 (which means that in the bay area the limit is really 55). Just search for "Almaden Expy killed" in google and let me know if that's a safe street.
I never signed up for it and they probably have a profile on me simply because of the connections to people who have FB. That always creeped me out. Wonder if there is something in the GDPR legislation to get all the info they have on me and make them erase it.
If this piece of road is the one I’m thinking of, there’s nary a crossing area for at least a mile. Phoenix isn’t known for walkability, and this isn’t downtown Tempe.
> does this one (granted, massive) mistake mean that we can no longer try to innovate in this space?

No, but we should learn from those mistakes, right?

When a company makes money from prisoners and more prisoners mean more money, then the incentives are a problem.
> Our success is killing us. Slowly and in a variety of horrific manners.

As opposed to our 'natural state', which would kill us rapidly and in a variety of horrific manners.
Hold for 3-4 minutes?!?! I feel like I'm going to die if I hold my breath for more than about 30 seconds
Great. Most testimonies are probably fallacious anyway.
I don't agree with the sentiment that it happens all the time (but don't disagree that it's happened more than a few times), but I do think police are much less likely to make something up if they know (and have seen) the camera evidence. No point in saying something (the day after the incident) that can so easily be contradicted later.
If this isn't the opportunity for Diaspora* to become a thing in the public's mind, I don't know what is. We have to use this in order to move to a better platform for social media.
Android makes it easier for developers to detect drives and activity changes
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16634001
I've not read t but guessing its similar to why you shouldn't speak to police without a lawyer even if "I done nothing wrong". Because you will probably say something they can use against you regardless.
As a Californian, I predict we'll convert all the HOV lanes to exactly what you've described.
I read once where a 70-90 pound kit has been normal since Napoleon's army. Cramming more functionality into fewer cubic centimeters and fewer kilograms doesn't lighten the load, and never has. It hopefully gives the soldier a more functional kit.
Right, because "I was bored out of my mind and wasn't paying attention until an actual crash happened" is a statement that the human would have totally made if that were the case.
I feel the same way about most new coins trying things out. Bitcoin just has to sit and wait for it to show promise (and stability) before integrating it and invalidating that coin's only differentiation.

Even things like smart contracts can be integrated into Bitcoin (I believe the Bitcoin Cash camp is working on this)
I like mango lassi, but for less sugar one should try something like plain Greek yogurt or plain yogurt with probiotics and add fresh fruit for flavor and the fiber described in the article.

It's probably not so much important for a particular type as far as we know as just to get some and experiment with what you find palatable and convenient and works.

Most of the flavored yogurts have way too much added sugar for the average American diet.
Why is a social network needed. Maybe because I am mostly a loner so I don't get it. I was on Facebook for few years as more people that I knew got on it just made get off it.
How could we get the government involved? There's public broadcasting, NPR, PRI, etc.... Is 'social media' so different rather than just being the next communications' platform?

It's a serious question too, what would it look like to create a public/government arm of social media?
There's nothing (except possibly your ISP) stoping you from opening your firewall and using it remotely. I personally run dnsmasq (manually configured, but otherwise similar to pihole) on a VPS.
> It's universally understood why the media wasn't interested in turning that story into a scandal.

I agree that it's bad (not just looks bad), but you can't blame the media for something they didn't know about. Fox News went on for years about Benghazi. So in 2018, you can't complain about media being too friendly to democrats.

Also, the piece links to a tweet[1] in 2018, not an article from 2012.

[1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997
Really? Some 75% of Americans have "a great deal of respect" for the police. Sounds like the lying and getting away with it is working out just fine for their public perception.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/196610/americans-respect-police-...
Why is it better that google has your data than that another company has your data?
#DeleteFacebook: Perspective from a platform that doesn't put democracy in peril
Toyota Halts Robot-Car Tests Citing Drivers' Emotional Toll
Using their messenger app, not the main app.
I think the mistake is assuming that time that passes means people are ok with a certain amount of sharing, that it’s a safe investment, whether in cash or in investment in building on their platform or with their data. The reality is that we all know that what Facebook does is unsavory. When the privacy concerns eclipse the Value, whether its in year 11 or year 111, the wrath of society will be severe, as it should be.
Robots are not very good at picking strawberries yet
It must have been just as disturbing for the ancients to see how one could count the sheep using a sack full of pebbles. (We, modern people, are too used to the wonders given to us by the - quite abstract, in fact - notion of a number and never question our faith in the applicability of arithmetical operations to the real world.)
Because everyone who lives in the United States understands that there is an expectation that if you go to a restaurant you will tip the server in all but the most egregious circumstances. You may as well ask why it's considered rude to eat with your hands while making loud noises when, after all, there's no rule you have violated by doing so.

Furthermore, I'm going to make the assumption that, since you're posting here, you're probably living a pretty comfortable life, and yet here you are making your point by picking the pockets of low-wage workers. What word do you think describes someone who does this better than "cheapskate"? If you are so troubled by this structure that you feel you must take a stand, stay home or visit a restaurant that doesn't accept tips.
Arguably, you're getting downvoted for abrasiveness and name calling.
I was looking at Google Plus again last week and there's a lot of interesting things about it. I kind of wish they would spin it off into its own company.
No laws will ever be strict enough to prevent crime, the countries with the harshest laws in the world still suffer from it.

Legal penalties don't matter to people not thinking far enough ahead for them to enter the equation. They don't matter to people who think they can get away with breaking the law (much easier for electronic crime) and they don't matter to people who think they are above the law, which may be he case here.

Harsher penalties can even be counter-productive. If you're on death row for killing one person then you better make sure you kill any potential witnesses, the penalty is the same either way.

> This is exactly why victim blaming is pointless and stupid.

Fine, I'm being pointless and stupid. But if you don't care who you're giving your data too then don't expect me to care next time it ends up with someone you didn't want.
They don't block startpage and they've been around for a while.
I feel the context is important here.

This slide is not a comment on the frequency of these problems, because typos are definitely one of most if not the most frequently occurring issue in the day-to-day work of most developers, and I'm sure Rich Hickey realizes that.

Rather, this slide is a comment on what he defines as the "severity" of these problems, and one of the important manifestations of severity is the cost of getting these wrong.

With the exception of certain business domains where getting things perfectly right the first time is paramount, such as financial transactions and safety/security-critical programs, the cost of typos and inconsistencies is generally minuscule because they're practically costless to debug and fix. In fact, they often cost so little that we end up instinctively fixing typos and inconsistencies countless times throughout our day to day development processes, often without ever even making a conscious effort to identify and fix them. Even if the occasional typo makes it past our tests and into production, these issues are almost always trivial to debug and fix (and if they're not, and you don't happen to be in of these domains where getting things right the very first time is paramount, then oftentimes that can be the smell of some deficiency in your deployment/monitoring setup, or a manifestation of some other more subtle, but more severe problems listed on the slide, such as brittleness/coupling, place oriented programming, weak support for concurrency/names, etc).

Of course, being able to outright eliminate these entire classes of errors is a legitimate benefit of a static type system, and Rich Hickey acknowledges this benefit later in the talk. If you're in one of those business domains where you absolutely cannot afford to let typos and inconsistencies sneak their way into your production systems because the they'd be disproportionately costly to fix, or result in consequences that you're not willing to accept, then static typing can be very useful for providing those safeguards.

However, I think he also brings up an important point that static type systems and the act of flowing types around in your system is often a significant source of coupling, and that coupling is a much more severe problem when it comes to maintaining a piece of software over the long term. So it's important for each team to assess that tradeoff carefully in order to gauge if they're willing to take on that additional level of coupling in exchange for eliminating the possibility of typos and inconsistencies from reaching production.
I would love to see the kernel community go after Mikrotik for license violations -- up to and including monetary damages, if they continue to refuse to comply.
I think the scandals will keep coming, the media will keep banging the drum, and I think people will demand regulation. A few techie libertarians won’t even be heard amidst that noise.

People already have had serious reservations about how fast things have been changing, and if you think that death by robot car and privacy violation by social media isn’t going to create a backlash, you’re not reading your history. It won’t help the tech sector that “old media” has everything to gain by keeping this dripfeed going.

This is a first wave, and while it will recede, there are more and bigger waves to come.
There are so many variable here. If you are travelling at 30kmph and swerve into the path of a car going the opposite direction at 80kmph, that's a massive crash.
I’m certainly glad the 3DS is pretty much end of life and they can focus on delivering titles for a single platform now. The Switch has been delivering great first party titles (Zelda, Mario Odyssey), and with things like Pokémon on the horizon there’s plenty of reasons to be optimistic.

The Switch is also going to be a great platform for them to build their product portfolio over the next decade or so - I can already see a Switch Mini (cheaper, smaller, non detachable controllers, for people who only care about the handheld experience), the Switch XL (iPad sized, 4K out, optimized for local multiplayer, perhaps with exclusive GameCube virtual console), etc. Plus they have an amazing catalog, and offering a “play all you want retro games on demand” for $20 a month seems like an easy way to add an additional revenue stream.

In my friend group, I've seen the Switch become a hit with an unexpected market: people who grew up playing videogames but kind of gave up on them as real life took over except for the odd smartphone game, would never consider buying an XBox/PlayStation, might not even have a TV at home, but are attracted by the nostalgia of playing a Zelda or Mario game. The form factor of the Switch works perfectly for this demographic (in my observed anecdata, many of them are women in their 20s/early 30s).

Nintendo has periods where they perform terribly in the market and periods where they do amazing. As a stockholder, I hope we’re back in one of those periods :)
For many in the "justice system", in the U.S., it's not about justice, it's about career.
French newspapers Mediapart and Canard PC have teamed up and released a bunch of articles about the video game industry and its toxic practices.

The articles are available online [1] but they're in French and some of them are behind a paywall.

The situation got to the point where a labor union for video games creators, « Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo » (STJV) [2], was created in France last year. There are currently around 70 members (out of 5000+ video game related employees in France). A strike is currently on-going in Eugen Systems [3], a French studio author of RTS games like Steel Division.

[1] https://www.canardpc.com/online/crunch-investigation (French)

[2] https://www.stjv.fr/en/ (English)

[3] https://www.stjv.fr/en/2018/03/already-more-than-3-weeks-on-... (English)
what a fit tho
We (the general public) grant permission for facebook to use our data, with the expectation that they don't let any bad actors do anything with it that harms us (the general public). This has been their image, this is what they espouse, and it is clearly not what happened.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Ok let me describe it in a bit more detail.

This is what we do in high-quality computer graphics rendering.

Suppose you are want to reconstruct a signal, showing only the frequencies < N hz.

With an analog filter, you filter out everything above N hz. Then you can sample at the nyquist frequency of 2N hz, and then perfectly reconstruct the filtered signal.

Alternatively, without the analog filter, you can take some number of samples M >= 2N. The samples are randomly placed/timed. You accumulate the samples at the 2N locations, but you weight the sample when you accumulate it with some filter function. This effectively convolves and filters the signal with a low-pass filter.
Because of the random sample placement/timing, high frequencies get converted to noise instead of causing aliasing.

Admittedly you are taking more than 2N samples, however you don't have to do any analog filtering, and you can still reconstruct he bandlimited signal. Your reconstruction will have some noise, but the noise will decrease as you take more samples (e.g. as M increases).
Talking to the cops when you are the victim makes sense. Otherwise, not so much.
Actually, in UK slang, that refers to someone who's being stupid. And still, everyone knows what it means in the US, I believe.

Edit: Sorry about the ambiguity. I wan't referring to "ped". But rather to the slang that's offensive to women.
I’m no fan of Facebook, and welcome this scrutiny. But what about all the people Facebook buys data from? Can we regulate them? What about Equifax?

All these corps do it without even the veneer of informed consent; we should make sure we criminalize the activity and not just crucify a well known practitioner and call it a day.
Also you can send inordinately small amounts, practically, with stellar/ln. The smallest unit of measure in Bitcoin, one satoshi, is already 1/110th of penny! It would cost you more than that to send it to someone and you would have trouble doing a million of those per second. This exact concept was used as a ddos of sorts to slow down legitimate Bitcoin transactions.
Have you tried using Zapier? They may be facilitating tens of thousands of integrations, but they are painfully basic integrations.
The Roots: Obscure Origins of Unusual Katakana
We'll see how long this one last.
> That's because tuition costs were not increasing at unsustainable levels before GWB

Eh, no. College tuition increases have always far, far outstripped wage and inflation increases: http://toughmoneylove.com/2008/12/08/the-college-student-deb...

I will say that the slope of the curve gets a bit steeper after 2000, so perhaps you’re on to something to a degree, but to say that college costs weren’t increasing at unsustainable rates prior to Bush is laughable. And with everything, perspective is key. I started school in 2000, and what you consider reasonable my dad balked at (because it was roughly 3-4x what he paid 25 years prior).

> As so nicely represented by the explosion in student debt:

There is more to this than just the raw tuition value to consider: far more people are attending college than in years past (far more than should really be doing so, honestly). A graph that normalizes against student population would be much more interesting (otherwise your graph doesn’t tell what portion of the increase is due to tuition explosion versus student population explosion).
So you're saying they have lots of personal data (nobody is disputing this). If they have the data, and they let someone else have access to it, it could leak. Which, sure, makes sense.

But that's not the same as "know[ing] Google does the same thing" unless you define either "know" or "the same thing" very loosely.
This is an absolutely terrible idea. Don't do this. Your job as traffic is to be as predictable as possible. You're just going to cause more accidents by driving erratically.
I think they only fund companies at the idea stage if a partner is enamored with it and/or the founding team is amazing. Otherwise they'll glimpse at your submission, see no traction and dismiss you.

I was very disappointed when my last submission was rejected without them even clicking on the demo link. I remain a believer in the idea but I have to put food on the table so it's on the backburner for now :(
I mean internet WAS basically created by DARPA. The irony.
Diaspora is a non-starter.

Look at their getting started page. Step one - choose a pod. You just lost 90% of the people that might be interested. They need to get rid of that step.
Fine, I'm being pointless and stupid. But if you don't care who you're giving your data too then don't expect me to care next time it ends up with someone you didn't want.

I’ve never had a Facebook account, yet friends and family do, and through them they can get info on me. You don’t have to care though, and I’ll just get with not caring about you. Meanwhile the public at large is starting to care, and your attitude won’t impress them any more than it does me.
> why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist

Supreme court has also ruled that opposing them because they are racist is also not racist.

> It has come to this. Called upon to explore the jurisprudential twilight zone between two errant lines of precedent, we confront a frighteningly bizarre question: Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbid what its text plainly requires? Needless to say (except that this case obliges us to say it), the question answers itself. “The Constitution proscribes government discrimination on the basis of race, and state-provided education is no exception.” Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 306, 349 (2003) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). It is precisely this understanding—the correct understanding—of the federal Equal Protection Clause that the people of the State of Michigan have adopted for their own fundamental law. By adopting it, they did not simultaneously offend it.
I think that's why it's relevant. It's likely the system can't make such a decision because its developers wanted to avoid having to deal with that can of worms. If this is the case the car may have insufficient options available to it in this type of situation. With a working "trolley function" it's possible the system could have noticed the obstacle then done some "moral math" with the chances the obstacle is a pedestrian and the odds of survival for the car's occupant(s) then chosen to drive off the road and crash into a ditch. Without this feature it's likely the system's only recourse is to stop and ask for help, which it may not have time to do.
I think it actually does delete your data now. They added that in response to upcoming GDPR regulations.
I only originally signed up because I was single and dating and girls found it “creepy” I didnt have a Facebook.

Peer pressure, man.
KeepTruckin guns for Unicorn status by end of 2018
Can the final transaction to the network (that closes a channel) be a series of transactions? In other words, can a state channel allow for transactions with more than 100 operations?
d00d, if we stop having so many meetings, lots of people who have no other job role beyond organizing, hosting and recording meeting minutes for upstream communication and consumption are gonna look awfully idle, sitting around in these open office floor plans looking like their doing nothing...

You know what comes next? Layoffs! After that? Unemployment? After that? Deceased buying power! After that??? No one can invest in bitcoin anymore!!!

AND THEN THE WHOLE FUCKING ECONOMY CRASHES!!!!1one
Well, I think they have, but there is a vested interest in keeping the housing prices high.

And as much as I hate it, I do understand it. CA asked for this problem and now it will be hard to reverse. What would you do if you had millions of dollars tied up in your home and it was your only asset of value?

Argh- I'll save myself some typing :) - I commented on this here on another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16540488