skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non native speaker I'm reacting to the use of Ped as well, that paired with the obvious victim blaming that seems to be thrown around a lot, but to a much lesser extent here than in other forums discussing this issue.

Driving is a sensitive subject, people take it personal trying to do generalizations about drivers is just going to land you in a land of troubles, almost worse than profanity.
It means that if you implement Foo and give it whatever license, I can implement something that works exactly like Foo, call it Bar, and release it under whatever other license I want. Patents cover ideas, licences cover actual implementation.

That's why ReactOS and Windows are both legal under different licenses, even though they try to implement the same thing.
Well, only if your UI allows dragging two items at once. If you reorder multiple items, well, I suppose you can resolve it by passing some relative position. If you want to squeeze something in-between reordered items, then -1 probably is not a good choice, but more like calculating some middle value between previous and next item.
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I'm an academic. I've never met one who has objected to Sci-hub. Many of us use it, even to get papers we do have legit access to: journal publishers' access control systems are a pain in the arse.

Leaving aside the societal merits, our incentives are to get published, then get read. Sci-hub helps with the latter, and doesn't harm anyone except the publishers (who most academics cordially dislike anyway).
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I immediately read the original comment as UK belonging to the mainland of Europe, but you are right, continent can also refer to continental shelf.

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

"The most restricted meaning of continent is that of a continuous[5] area of land or mainland, with the coastline and any land boundaries forming the edge of the continent. In this sense the term continental Europe (sometimes referred to in Britain as "the Continent") is used to refer to mainland Europe, excluding islands such as Great Britain"
I really have to wonder about what IBM includes in cloud revenue and how thier profitability compares with AWS.
I agree with you.

Let's imagine all you know is handling a full-featured framework like Rails or Django - while relatively mundane and boring I'd argue that alone turns you into a very capable developer who's able to make things happen without diving into rocket science.
If you have a VR headset, I highly suggest trying out the "Welcome to Light Fields" demo that Google released on Steam last week (it's free): http://store.steampowered.com/app/771310/Welcome_to_Light_Fi...

It's absolutely incredible and seems like really promising technology. Even with the relatively low resolution of current headsets, the image quality is amazing and you can see some slight lighting changes as you move your head, which makes it feel far more immersive than a static photo. There should be a lot of potential to use this for extremely realistic virtual tours.

Note: I had some slight issues with it "hitching" at the start of each scene in the guided tour (which made me feel a bit of motion-sickness), but that was probably because I didn't install it on an SSD (or my PC is just not quite fast enough overall). There weren't any issues when viewing the scenes individually afterwards.
It was more the lack of reaponses that made me think it was a meh. Also I hadn't read the thread for a year or two and was going if memory when I wrote the post, did a search later.
> access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

Not sure what was limited, but you were able to get name, age, location, gender, photo, categories set (the profile stuff that I don't think many use any more), and other info. That seems more than enough to start building a profile on someone that you have no relationship with. Particularly if you're able to collect in quantity and join the dots.

> more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

I was aware it had changed some, but not when or how much. You seem to agree that it used to be useful for data gathering on friends.

That's less than ideal when most of us have connections to teen, and elderly, relatives who might be insufficiently suspicious of a fun questionnaire. To over-generalise a little neither group is renowned for tech awareness.
I was going to point this out (phase response distortion) but you beat me to it.

During my university period, I had to digitally sample an ECG (electrocardiogram) signal. Since the shape of the signal is important in diagnosis and must be preserved, I used a Bessel filter [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_filter
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1) There's already some work on this. Take a look at https://carbonwallet.com

A multisignature wallet with one key encrypted browser side and another in a mobile app.

https://github.com/carbonwallet/CarbonKey

The CarbonKey app is a simple PWA (Progressive Web App) so you can deploy it yourself and completely bypass the wallet owners supply chain.
Same - I had the unfortune to do a brief contract on a mulesoft mandated project. It was unpleasant to say the least. The UI was also nearly useless, you had to drop to code to do anything meaningful. But the company paid a lot for it, so we had to use it.
You are not wrong, although your example would not work in every SQL dialect (even when rewritten). Sybase's T-SQL does not have equivalent for LIMIT.[0]

My point being, there are some issues with regards to data purity and reasoning, particularly if you want a system where users can build custom reports.

And I just wish the original article highlighted that using floats would have these issues, and if writing SQL like this is important to you, then you might want to reconsider.

(As for your note in brackets, where I work, SQL is basically used as a scripting language. So we would do my example in SQL.)

[0] Yes, I know there is 'set rowcount', but you cannot do that within a sub select.
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What would the timestamp represent? Are you providing a timestamp which encodes the position somehow, or using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP? Updating the timestamp for all of the rows in the (sub) list? How does this permit you to reorder the items in the list?
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So what's your rationale [...] to distrust the NYT reporters out of hand?

As you can guess from my phrasing, I don't absolutely distrust them, and merely suggest that their statements should be assessed with an awareness of their self-interest. I presume that the authors believe that they did not make edits in response to threats from Facebook, although I'd expect them to say the same even if they did feel pressured. But in the same way that the "anthropic principle" is outside formal logic but sometimes produces interesting insights, I think it's worth considering what conclusions can be drawn from the fact that these authors remain gainfully employed by the New York Times.

it's hard to believe why we should suspect the NYT reporters of censoring their own story when it's entirely their fault that the story even exists?

I agree, but censoring is not absolute, not everyone within the paper has the same goals, and no individual has just a single goal. There are tensions pulling the journalists in multiple directions, and Facebook's PR firm is one of these tensions. Perhaps getting a story out with minor modifications satisfies enough of the goals of the parties involved. Would you concede that "zero impact" from corporate criticism is probably an unachievable ideal, and that Facebook's pushback here might have had at least a tiny influence in the way the story evolved (and will continue to evolve)?

More generally, I'm dubious that a for-profit press can ever please all stakeholders. Are you familiar with this criticism of the NYT from a couple years ago: "An obituary of The New York Times" [https://medium.com/@johannes.wahlstrom/an-obituary-of-the-ne...]. I thought it did a good job of pointing to some previous examples of the imperfect wall between business and journalistic goals.
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I just don’t see the point in asking someone’s opinion.

To me the only thing that counts is how people respond to actual software, and even then it’s got to do what you envision the core functionality being.

I know everyone else disagrees but I think you basically got to build it to find out what people really think.

And even then the only real measure is whether they jump on it without much selling explaining or persuading.

But then again I’ve never succeeded so there you go I’m provably wrong.
Let's find out - pitch me (either in here or to my email in my profile) and I'll tell you what my initial reaction and thoughts were. Pitching over text interface isn't as effective as in person but I can hopefully at least give you some idea.
Thank you for these examples. I visited the links but I am not entirely sure what I’m looking at (sorry, this may also have to do with being a non-French speaker). Would you be so kind as to provide your thoughts on what’s the interesting bit about these places?
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Coincidentally, I just ran across this article [1] about Airbnb’s tool to turn UI sketches into interactive running code. The author of this project links to it in the post about their project (which is in turn linked from the readme).

[1]: https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/
> To my mind their mistake was not having an open source library that could work with their capture format, including basic support for focusing and producing an output image for display.

Oh, now you are making me wistful for what might have been.

If they'd had any kind of library or API, I could have played around with my Ken Burns idea by writing a few lines of code!

I've seen this same mistake over and over again going back to the earliest days of GUI apps: designing the user experience with hardcoded interactions instead of building the UI on top of a public API that enables others to create and experiment with their own interactions.
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This is interesting. I set out to argue that there are plenty of nasty, boring, unfulfilling jobs done by women for low wages (something that I think is inarguably true). But I note that your examples are mostly about physically hazardous jobs. So I did some googling, and found a statistic [1] that said that in 2015, 93% of US workplace fatalities were of men. So maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe the statistic changes if you look outside the industrialized nations. Anyone know?

[1] https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-come-nobod...
> I can dream of helping to fix the problem

That's about all though, isn't it? There's a negligible chance you'll actually fix the problem, unless you manage to leak evidence to the media or similar.

I write software for biologists, am I feel I'm much, much happier doing that than I would be working at Facebook.
You’d get bored of that after a week. If you’re not getting paid more you’ll resent having to work 24/7, with no real breaks and suffer watching your relationships and family crumble. You’ll have no hobbies, no real friends and be incredibly lonely. But you won’t even notice because all you care about is the business and your facade.

The janitor goes home after their shift and is completely free. They get their 4 weeks vacation and max 40 hour working week and can do whatever they want in their spare time.
Show HN: KYDY
>I find it amazing that with all the progress around us every day, people still think there is an impossible line automation can’t cross, and that their job is safe.

Why don't have any contracts signed with nature on infinite progress. Or that any desired progress will be timely.

We might never be able to pass some local maxima.

Or we might go extinct, or go back to barbarism after a few good wars of famines, before we get to solve some problems.

Or it might take 50 or 100 years in the future to do so.

We still don't have personal robot (with bodies) assistants, flying cars, space colonies, or general AI -- all things that were considered (by experts nonetheless) "just around the corner" in the 60s.

And don't get me started on mass market holographic storage
and memsistors...
I can follow this because I have a signal processing & controls background. I feel the same as you when I see some crazy reverse engineering feats or security breaches explained. They might be simple if you have the background, but it sure looks difficult.
First sentence from the original article: „A team from Columbia University led by Ken Shepard and Rafa Yuste claims to beat the 100 year old Sampling Theorem“

> (2) existing idea spun as something new

The existing idea is oversampling and is often spun as beating the sampling theorem. But this is unlike the airless tires example, because, while oversampling works, it isn‘t beating the sampling theorem but rather based on it.

You can filter after sampling, but that filter is not a replacement for the analog ant-aliasing filter. To avoid aliasing you have to somehow limit the bandwidth of your input.
We are introducing a new AR voice messenger app KYDY! Kydy brings your questions to life with talking AR creatures (Kydies) that pop up on your hand. Built with ARkit, hand recognition technology, and voice filters, Kydy allows users to record a voice message for friends and have an AR creature deliver it in funny voices - right onto friends' hands.

The Kydy app isn't intended to be an everyday messaging app but an app for asking friends light-hearted questions in a fun way. Kydy is great for turning any message into a light-hearted, silly or cute performance. There are many AR apps where you can record sounds and share the video/audio to social media, but none that allows you to 'send' an AR object to others, with audio!

Kydy was created by VREX LAB, which an AR startup based in China and Korea. Our mission is to deepen people's relationships with one another through AR.
It's not 10k but I have Spotify playlists with 4k+ tracks (queue of new albums I listen to as radio at the office) and I always fiddle with the order of the albums at the tail of the playlist.
This is pretty cool!

Honestly I don't think there is a "best" solution here. Even in a "regular" programming language where you can easily use any data structure, it's not obvious which is best for maintaining the order.

Updating the order "value" of all the rows = moving a value around in an array (causing you to also shift a bunch of other values around).

Storing the ID of the row that should show up next in the list (not mentioned in the article, but mentioned in the comments below) = moving nodes around in a linked list.

Creating a new index that will fit in between two existing rows = inserting a value into a tree (because of the index).

It is a little bit trickier in a database, just because, no matter what you do, you also have to pay the price of putting something into a tree as well. Still... I can think of situations where I'd use any of these techniques. In general, this is not a problem with a clean solution for every use case.
Derp, I missed the obvious. Thanks.

I had heard of uMatrix but didn't realize it had that functionality, which is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!
I was wondering that too. Maybe cash repatriation is at work here?
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you are looking at 'trust' from a very technical perspective. and you are right there, but not everyone understands cryptography to talk about trust just from that perspective, that's just a small part, and a statement from Telegram surely takes into account a much broader audience. that's all I was trying to express, that we can't analyze the statement from that angle alone.
I'll be honest. I've read enough science fiction and enough warnings from people a lot smarter than myself over the last decade or so to have seen this coming but I didn't. My reaction to the warnings was to think about how much of my own and my family's data I was comfortable letting out and trying to limit our exposure.

What I did not think about much was how I, or society in general, could be affected by other peoples' data and I think other people are reacting similarly.

There's also the political angle. A lot of people are _very_ upset about Trump and the general state of politics in the US today and anything that touches on that gets amplified.
Is definitely name calling (not to mention uncivil) to say that someone spews reductionist bile.
SUVs have use value as well: driving in difficult conditions.
I'm pretty sure that's the very first thing that came to their mind...
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The comment is digitized brain noise in ASCII form. It just shows that if there's too much unfiltered noise before keyboard sampling, the signal can't be reconstructed.
It always seemed to me that spring integration got me to the same place but without he ceremony nor the murkiness around whether you would need to pay for anything,
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This is great! We need more open, accessible, widely searching, tools for research.
They haven't got around that, it's just that this data "breach" happened before 2015 when the old API was removed.
I did not intend to imply that I'm regularly writing code that's hard to justify to a type checker. In fact, most of the code I write is in statically typed languages (I'm not some kind of dynamic typing zealot), so I tend to avoid situations that could never typecheck before they occur.

However, I like to use Python for small single-purpose utilities, and in those cases I don't even bother with the optional type annotations, let alone checking them with mypy. Since those programs are so simple that a handful of test cases is enough for 100% path coverage, if the program runs correctly on one case, it's almost guaranteed to run correctly for all others. (Similar to Haskell's "if it compiles, it runs".) Statically checking for type correctness would be pointless, because you can just run the program to find out. It then becomes quite natural to e.g. apply type-modifying transformations in-place, which most type checkers wouldn't allow, since they assume a single fixed type rather than a progression of different types during different stages. (You can get around that, of course, but it requires constantly recreating essentially identical objects to give them a new type.)

For an example of a project (not written by me) where the type checker's rejection of a correctly working program precluded the use of a type checker, see http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/30.html
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Hi guys, I am looking for some AI industry studies in order to have a good undertanding of the market with a business perspective. Any useful links?
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> Sybase's T-SQL does not have equivalent for LIMIT.[0]

Are you looking for SELECT TOP 3 ...?
Yeah I see that in the post, but to extrapolate my comment, I mean something running in a separate address space that coordinates all garbage collectors across processes/containers. It would necessarily have to be cooperative.
>This makes me worried for Apple.

Yeah, Apple is doomed /s

>Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their own internal abilities, and that’s not a good look.

Apple doesn't outsource their Cloud services to IBM. This story is not about that at all.

(They do use Azure and Google Cloud though, and perhaps Amazon too).
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And I think they dodged a bullet by failing to acquire Groupon (for $6bn).
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>Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?

For your line of work, perhaps not. For the enterprise and government customers, where they make billions, very much so.
Yes when I say cooperative I mean nice processes are opting in to being told what and when to do something (change heap size, run a light or heavy collection, etc) apart from their own internal view of affairs.
I don’t like guessing. It only reinforces bias. Please complete your anecdote.
It was yours to share because it was shared with you.
Yes they can. It is a mindset that says you will treat your clientele (they are not just customers) with the absolute highest service and consideration. Most people cannot get to this point.

I don't have the personality to do this - I am considered to be far too blunt and abrasive. Yet, even though I am this, I consider it extremely important to treat my clients in a manner that says that I will solve their problems and actually do this. None of this work ever involved tips, it was a part of the service that I thought necessary.
First available from 12.5.3. And I cannot be certain we have that version or a newer running.

But you are right, I should have clarified that.
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The media discusses voter-profile harvesting mostly in a past context of Brexit and US elections. These countries are politically stable. A far more dangerous picture paints itself in emerging and poor economies.

For example FB recently announced it would roll out job-posts[1] for low-income workers.

In poor parts of Europe like Croatia, Serbia, BiH & Balkans (where I chose to live and work as a foreigner), many people use Facebook to find work and network w/ colleagues. In these locations facebook is the Internet. Often you usually accept a friend request before you are able to discuss a job.

FB job market will lock in users from those regions even further. These economies don't stand a chance and are already bled dry thanks to facebook & Co not paying their taxes. These locations already suffering a huge braindrain of local talent.

Their local society / governments are becoming increasingly corrupt[2] because and honest work opportunities are so scarce some people (like nurses or occupational therapists helping the elderly and disabled) even work for free[3] (I know several people who have the choice of working for free or not be able to graduate).

So many people just leave to the North where they find themselves in slave-labor like conditions in Germany[4]. (sorry for switching focus to Germany for a second I'm trying to show some causality). It's not limited to healthcare. Literally any industry has setups where shady middle-man benefit from Germanys "Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz" (yes that's a word) which is Germany's outsourcing law (a law criticized for creating a dual class workforce) and they are making a killing thanks to the many loopholes present to exploit foreigners/minorities.

When facebook rolls out it's job postings for low-skilled and low-paid jobs it's targeting the most vulnerable minorities in politically volatile regions.

One takeaway from the facebook/CA election meddling is that because majority of people in Balkans are already depending on facebook, it's even easier to spread disinformation and rig elections. And it's giving powers to local crime gangs which usually influence 100% of the electorate[5]. Ask yourself what data harvesting means in these regions, who benefits and what effects this might have 3-5 years from now.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/facebook-job-posts/

[2] https://euobserver.com/political/136664

[3] http://www.etf.europa.eu/pubmgmt.nsf/%28getAttachment%29/760...

[4] http://www.dw.com/en/foreign-nurses-exploited-by-unfair-priv...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde...