skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much worse than chrome is firefox actually? I use firefox beta on a 500$ laptop with ubuntu mate and i'm more than satisfied with the speed and general performance. Privacy has been a very hot topic on HN lately (or has always been) and now i see people complaining over silly little things on firefox than make them go back to Chrome. How can we complain for the monopoly of Google Facebook etc, when we can't stand using a very good, competent and open source product that respects our privacy despite some minor bugs? Is firefox really so bad that you're willing to give everything to Google?
An accessible overview of Meltdown and Spectre, Part 2
> Regular people may wonder why something as sophisticated as this is free, but are not aware that the cost is privacy.

Precisely. Acting astonished at why people are upset just shows a disconnect from the reality of the masses.

Free, valuable products are all over the internet: Google Docs, Trello, WhatsApp, Waze, Spotify...just to barely scratch the surface.

It’s not obvious to most users that the costs of some of these includes privacy violation / spying on the user.
Censoring the symptoms of these systemic issues is like putting a bandaid on an infected boil. It may not look as bad upon first glance, but it's only going to fester and get worse.
Moving magnetoencephalography to real-world applications with a wearable system
Ben Thompson mentioned this article in this morning’s Stratechery. It raises an interesting point that Facebook (and Zuckerberg in particular) may be using the Cambridge Analytica public backlash to justify locking down their data even more, which could establish a deeper moat for them.
Does deep learning encompass all ML though? While I agree it can be used for numerous tasks I don't think starting ML with deep learning is such a good idea.
Video auto play blocking! I can't wait to have that feature. I hope it'll be there on mobile version as well.
I'm very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free. Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.

It's also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it's a broad selection. Keep up the good work Krita team.
Non-Lethal Weapon: DOD seeks to use lasers to create shouting will-o-the-wisp
Guilty that he'd knowingly sold everyone on WhatsApp out to Facebook?
Blender and Krita are really great. Inkscape is good. I use Gimp also but not because I want to. The others I use because I want to.
React and Redux Boilerplate Generator for Single Page Applications
There are huge margins in the lab business using traditional techniques after high upfront capital expenses. Maybe they're just fulfilling contracts using traditional testing methods?
>mild Chromium fork

Mild ? For some reasons, it's like 5X faster then chrome on my laptop, Can't live without it anymore
The README in the github JS port has 9000 lines of documentation and code samples (R and JS side by side) to prove the output is the same for all functions.

R is fudging numbers?
I dont think so, neither does JS or excel btw.

R shows limited precision to a human, you can control this with options('digits'=22)
Example

> options(digits=22)

> 1/1.2

[1] 0.83333333333333337

> options(digits=4)

> 1/1.2

[1] 0.8333
This Drone Rocket Hybrid Can Land Vertically
The base 60 Sexagesimal system used by the Sumerians is always an interesting one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
It's a satirical comment pointing out how ridiculous OP's platitude filled comment is.
Can someone explain why isn't the word 'the' considered part of the vocabulary in the blog post?
3M jobs will be at risk in the GCC if not adapted to AI advancements
There's some better documentation now:

https://switch2osm.org/
I don’t know if OP is stating that only s/he is qualified. But that if someone wants to explain knowledge of guns enough to control them, they should spend some time understanding their subject.

And saying someone is stupid isn’t mocking. (Although it can be)

It’s like old men legislating abortion laws who know nothing about female specific health topics.
Problem domain: Embedded machine vision / Embedded sensor data processing / Autonomous systems.

Process orchestration: Currently very simple. (Python multiprocessing). May change to something more complex in future.

Message versioning: It depends. My configuration management / deployment model means that most of the time backwards compatibility is not required. (The entire system is deployed as a single unit). When messages are persisted, the data recording system files the messages in a configuration management system that knows the system configuration that generated those messages -- so that when they are replayed back -- e.g. to test a new configuration -- the appropriate reading/de-serialization logic can be selected.
Show HN: Turning MNIST on Its Head – A NN That Counts
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought to keep "the military" (British troops) from taking weapons away from arguably "self-regulated" militias. I think it's a tough case to make if you're arguing that the Constitution was referring solely to current members of armed services commissioned by the government.
Definitely love censorship. The only people who don't love censorship are those fighting for the free speech rights of racists and conspiracy theorists.

And no, I live in this country so I think I'll be the change I want to see in the world.
The sad thing is they seem to be oblivious to the fact that they are potentially the dominant media being attacked by the legacy media because their idealism worked and they are gaining market-share, but they keep walking away from what made them so successful.
I understand your point, and I'll try to update the README with that information.
However, this client tries to follow Tornado's ways, whereas aioh2 works on Python's asyncio.

It's still WIP, so feedback like yours helps a lot, thanks!
Reminds me of the RATM song, Bulls on Parade:

"They don't gotta burn tha books, they just remove 'em

While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells

Rally round tha family, pocket full of shells"
How React Native Creates Native Mobile Apps In-Depth
Syzbot dashboard
Economists cash in on HPC
The 5.56 round is designed to tumble upon impact to maximize internal damage. It really is a poor choice for anything but warfare.
syzkaller/syzbot dashboard for #Linux kernel is now live at https://t.co/lq4Lds8KtL. In the past 8 months syzbot has reported 500+ bugs in kernel, 130 are still unfixed.

— Dmitry Vyukov (@dvyukov) March 21, 2018
People do illegal things. This isn’t surprising nor an argument against making something illegal. If it could be shown that banning guns and making it illegal to sell guns didn’t decrease the frequency of their usage to commit crimes then I would no longer be advocate for banning guns.
You say that I doublespeak and I say that you cry "wolf". If you're willing to go full 1984 when Youtube updates its ToS where do you go from there?

Note that the definition for censorship you quote doesn't necessarily apply here, youtube is not prohibiting "any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security", they're prohibiting it on their platform. That's a huge difference. It's "you can't say that here" versus "you can't say that period". If I invite you to my home and you start spewing nazi propaganda I'm going to kindly ask you to leave, is that censorship?

You can't force Youtube to host your content if they don't want to and they can't prevent you from posting your content on other websites if you want to. There's no censorship or free speech issue here, only the problem of a monopolistic centralized platform without serious competition. That's why net neutrality is important and that's why Making the Internet Decentralized Again is critical if you value freedom of speech and opinion.
Serious question: What is the argument for the need for autonomous driving? I haven't really pushed this question so figured I'd start here.
> But who decides what's constructive?

For a start, it would be good if as an author I could give feedback on review quality. Rebuttal periods are becoming standard for computer science conferences, and you can put some feedback into your rebuttal, but if you are too frank about bad reviewers, they could decide to recommend rejection. It would be good to add an option to review reviewers after the final decision on the paper has been made. I do think that that would make (some) reviewers more constructive.

A few conferences do have distinguished reviewer awards, though I've never really seen explained how the winners are chosen.
Originally the most popular (and only) use case for Elasticsearch was for full text search. Then a bunch of people thought it was good for analyzing logs and decided to hijack the brand, and market it as a logging analyzer.

But in its core, Elasticsearch is meant for full text search and analytics. Not logging. Logging is not even an interestinng use case.
I’ve been tracking some of the bugs related to this for years, and there’s been a dispiriting lack of progress in them. Ultimately I’m still a Firefox user because it makes the best trade offs for my particular wants and needs, but I’d love to be able to more enthusiasticallt recommend it to others for whom non-native feeling apps are a non-starter.
if it bleeds it leads
When reviewing a candidate, I don't think I've ever focused on the work timeline and making it complete. What matters to me is that you have experience in the thing I need help in. Everything else is a bonus. I would be asking about the things on the resume and trying to get more detail which would help me understand how much actual experience you have.

A recruiter's prime objective is to spend the least amount of time to get the person the highest paid job. That's how they get paid. I'm actually very annoyed that companies use recruiting firms so much, they are terrible and don't actually get you good candidates, just qualified candidates.
Ah, that is great news, thank you.
Ecco le gonne della prossima stagione
Well for a start, Reddit is a privately owned company run by Steve Huffman and he's been very open that he will use his own moral judgement. Companies are capable of making moral decisions - I agree that most companies morals boil down to "Make the most money and do whatever we can for that purpose" but that's fine, we can judge them on that basis.
> The number 60, a superior highly composite number, has twelve factors, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60, of which 2, 3, and 5 are prime numbers. With so many factors, many fractions involving sexagesimal numbers are simplified.

It really makes a lot of sense actually.
Just to make sure I'm understanding you, you're using the API's here:

http://confreaks.tv/api/v1

....but as an example though, I can't find any speakers named Lomax in: http://confreaks.tv/api/v1/presenters.json

Or the Category designation, it doesn't exist in the API above but for a few videos I looked at I didn't see any comparable metadata on YouTube either....is some of it manually added in your curation, or are you doing something magical with "Portions of text Analysis by AlchemyAPI"?

I imagine you know about this already (haven't tried it but potentially useful): https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6084053?hl=en
It is really a shame how far behind Gimpo has fallen. I attribute it largely to the mess the GEGL transition caused.

Remember Gimp --> GTK? And Gimp is still limping on Gtk2 and blurry on each and every scaled Wayland installation.
The documents from the Snowden leaks were illegally obtained/distributed. How long before that type of stuff is censored?
How does that compare to aiohttp? What are the benefits?
Speculating: IR interference might have jammed this vehicle's LIDAR for an instant as it sampled the vicinity of the hazard. Any power in the passband of the detector might have been sufficient to saturate it and make it less sensitive to the returning LIDAR signal. This could come from another LIDAR unit in the vicinity. Other possible jammers might include IR laser pointers, TV remotes, or IR camera illuminators.
Cute little list on the example screenshot.
looks at own code with some 3300 tests
The article is IMHO a tad bit too vague and generic, but it does resound with my little experience with some "no-profits", over the years I have become increasingly critical on the way many of these are managed, notwithstanding the good will of most financers, volunteers and participants.
Using Technical Debt in Your Favor
Thanks a lot. This is great — always nice to try new tools.
Dave Morin: “Let's Rebuild a Better Path”
Thank you, I might try it out!
oh, no no no... i only get my gcc compiler and linker flags from gentoo forums! #funroll-loops
How does this compare to GPU? These FPGAs are high end ones and not cheap for sure.
That's the thing though, these are private companies at the end of the day and can censor whatever they like. That'll reflect on their brand and perception, but that's their choice.

It's changing because they're trying to follow 'public sentiment' and keep up the sign-ups, views and clicks to get advertisers their money.

If we want them to not be able to censor/moderate/control their platform their own way, they need to be regulated/classed as a carrier/media org.

It's only been 'open' till now because that's the most profitable model...

People need to realise these companies are not public services compelled to free speech, it's just an expectation the users expect to be met.
Qt has an event loop and async http library. I've used it from PyQt with great success.
We should also make them all switch to Ubuntu and vim too, right?
I love Firefox and it is my primary browser for years, on both - Mac and Windows, and it's not going to change anytime soon. Still, I feel Mac version is noticeably slower. Even though I disabled all extensions I can see the difference between Chrome and Firefox on Mac. Sometimes I can even see "naked" plain text page for a moment, before styling is applied (ex: on GitHub pages.)
This is a huge problem in the Czech Republic - speed limits are overused so much that people stopped thinking about road conditions and instead just go 10-20 over the limit. It leads to nasty situations. :-(
Scuttlebutt is open source and peer to peer, but not paid, because there is no one to pay. I recently joined, although I knew about it for a long time, and I was pleasantly surprised on how well it works. The communities have a very nice feel as well, like IRC had in the 90s.
will be like #deleteUber . People don't care.
" IBM has eliminated more than 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over, about 60 percent of its estimated total U.S. job cuts during those years"

Combine this with the "new tech leaders"[1] affinity for hiring only young people and it's getting tough out there.

Fortunately, non-technical fortune 500 companies seem still open to us grey hairs in their IT orgs.

[1] Google, FB, Twitter, Uber, etc.
Not to mention 10 years worth of archived videos that will be lost (and are currently lost due to censoring and de-ranking).
Youtube at this point is like the Library of Alexandria, but they just decided to burn down half the books and replace the index with a list of their favorite ones. You can read books for free, but they inject advertisements between paragraphs.
It can be seen in this light: Your experience and your thoughts are internal behaviour.
>Why is Facebook so dead set on sharing data at all?

What else are they supposed to do to keep their massive infrastructure running?

People would clearly rather invite the likes of CA into their private lives than pay even the tiniest little fee to keep their contacts and pictures in the cloud together with those of their friends.

I unsubscribed from Facebook years ago, because it just didn't seem like a good deal to me.
3 Steps to Disable Display Over Other Notification on Galaxy S9
It's absolutely stunning what's happened to Reddit. Between the speech clampdowns like this and the soul-crushing amount of political astroturfing going on it's clearly time for a new challenger (not Voat).
The same is often required in America. Garage doors usually need to be solid as well.

That said, a firewall is not a fire proof wall, it's a wall designed to burn slower to prevent the fire spreading between those areas too quickly. Its purpose is to retard the fire u til it can be put out or so you have enough time to escape with your life. I suspect with failed batteries the latter is more likely your best chance.
Does it support HTTP/2?
Uber are a totally ethical company who would never do anything as underhanded as that!!! /s
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>People can advocate for social norms and different ethical frameworks without advocating for legal or regulatory changes.

Yes, but unless you're considering some means of achieving those social norms, even if that's just social pressure, it's unlikely to change anything. And when people do actually advocate means of changing the norms of discourse, people who don't like the proposed changes will call it censorship.

>They are called ideals because we cannot perfect reality, not because they are unimportant. There's nothing wrong with forming consensus about how things should work

I agree. The point I'm trying to make is that in practice "Freedom of Speech" is not actually a very coherent ideal.

If we just mean the government should not directly intervene to prevent speech, that's a reasonable ideal, and relatively few people actually disagree with that. But when people try to consider other ways in which speech is controlled, they still call it "Freedom of Speech", even when arguing for contradictory things.

And I'm arguing that the reason for these contradictions is that the debate tends to be framed in terms identifying speech restrictions and acting to remove them, rather than asking broader questions about the inevitable ways in which speech is amplified or silenced, and how we should structure discourse within those limitations.
Your point 2. is actually very important and I haven't seen it discussed before. We don't know what instructions the drivers have been given, but there will be first a question in the drivers mind about if the car will react.

The driver has to consider if they will be reprimanded by Uber for breaking before the car had a chance to.

So this might stop any kind of reflex action - which I assume is what the standard 0.5s reaction time is based on.
> The web still exists very much as it was.

As a collection of standards, yes. However, trying to find a host for the content that is perceived to be wrong or questionable by the mainstream is now much more difficult. The submission is a case in point. youtube bans gun-related videos not because it is directly bad for their business (on the contrary -- it seems to have an active following), but because lawmakers and media are putting pressure on it to do so. This, in my book, is wrong.

Free speech means arguing against messages one disagrees with, or ignoring them, but not trying to suppress them.
Maybe for brights, though they can be blinding to oncoming traffic. Even the LED ones appear too bright to me.
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They are doing it already, if I block googlevideo.com, the videos don't play.
Yes but then you end up having warnings on everything--like in the States.

A knife is potentially dangerous, a rope is potentially dangerous, just about anything is potentially dangerous!

I think it's fine to expect people have a working brain. On the internet it's not immediately clear that if you upload a naked picture or post a racist comment it will stay there _forever_, and might very easily affect you negatively _for an indefinite amount of time_ (employers can see it or do background checks, etc.), but that's just how it is.
There is really not competition for Google with YouTube plus they now have over 1.6 billion hours consumed a day. So getting rid of Alex Jones content do not think would hurt YT in any manner.

Google does not have to play the cost for more left leaning content like they have to do with alt right content.
Residential houses are often built using wooden frames, or a metal frame with everything else made of wood. Japan is humid, so if there's poor drainage the wood rots. Japan has Earthquakes, I guess that causes subsidence and other structural issues. Construction is of varying quality. I've seen houses in the countryside (Showa era, maybe 70s 80s?) which literally look like they found a nice rock and decided to use it as a foundation for a house.

Mostly the foundations are not as I'd expect to see them in the UK (where I'm from). If you remove the Tatami flooring, there's a thinish piece of wood, under that there's Earth.

So what it comes down to is that because many houses are made of wood, and because of Earthquakes, houses kind of get structurally unsound over time. At some point it's just more economical to pull the house down and build a new one than it is to renovate it. This is my understanding anyway.

I don't understand planning permission in Japan well, but it seems easier to get than I'm used to seeing (in the UK). Perhaps that helps depress land value.

People seem to find moving not wanting a house someone has died in weird. I think it's more understandable with houses that last a relatively short time... deaths, and suicides that have occurred in a house need to be declared when the house is sold. It decreases the value of the house somewhat.

Somehow all of this has contributed resulted in much more (to my mind) reasonable housing prices, at least outside central Tokyo.

I've just bought a house in Japan (with my wife) so a lot of this stuff is on my mind. If anybody would like to talk further, my email is in my profile.
I'd second this, plus Jeremy and Rachael hang out on HN occasionally.

I've also worked my way through "Hands on machine learning with scikit learn and tensorflow" by Geron and have found it pretty approachable, up until tensorflow anyway.

But https://github.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples helped with that.
I don't know why this is being downvoted.

One of the workloads that Cloudflare does is encryption, and RISC-V has been planning a vector extension that can be reconfigured, so that the jump from 128-bit to 256-bit native execution is not an ISA change and doesn't require recompiling.
parking violations are assigned to the registered owner because they are not present at the moment they are imposed
> I don't have any issue of excessive RAM or CPU usage.

I guess it depends per device and use-case. I use Firefox everywhere. Home (PC with Linux OS), work (laptop with Linux OS) and on my phone.

On my pc I have 0 RAM or CPU issues with Firefox. (intel i5, and nvidia GTS 250, ancient I know.)

On my laptop (intel i7 and nvidia NVS 5200M) I have had serious CPU issues though. With version 57 it used to stay above 90% CPU for hours. Since version 58 though it's been a lot better. Sometimes stays at about 40% for a while, then goes back down to like 10%. I suspect it might be due to some of the tabs I have open with zabbix graphs, but I don't know for certain.

I love using firefox on my phone because it's the only mobile browser that can use uBlock Origin. I don't care how fast or smooth chrome is on mobile, I'm not gonna use it if the price you have to pay is being eye-raped by ads.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
Very clear wording that took over 200 yeas for there to be a Supreme Court willing to agree with that interpretayption. Previous courts disagreed. Given this no one can reasonably think it’s very clear wording.
I am in the exact same boat as you and would be interested in hearing others opinions:
-Full time working as a developer.
-Part time Online MS in Information Systems
-Looking to pursue Phd in artificial intelligence or machine learning.