skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a great job for robots that are like beach and water roombas [1]. They can side as mapping the oceans better and report other data. These types of robots still need to be widespread and better but that is probably the only way to tackle this problem.

Other solutions in the water are being worked on that scrape it off with a large line [2] or a boat like Mr Trash Wheel [3]

[1] https://www.popsci.com/waste-shark-is-garbage-collecting-sea...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29631332

[3] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/mr-trash-wheels-...
> the UK police are generally not that corrupt

Here's the thing - is it corruption if it's actually their job? Whatever their official role, they've always been there to put down trade unions and organised workers.
> The first scandal was easy for voters to see: closing Gitmo was kind of Obama's thing, from the very beginning of the primaries.

Campaign promises are usually seen as best effort. Are we still waiting for Mexico to pay for that wall?

> The second scandal required a fair amount of investigation, but that investigation was fairly legible to voters.

Yes, it is very straight forward and the FBI went over it multiple times, to the point that Comey had to be extra diligent in reporting the investigation's progress to avoid a tinge of bias in the FBI.

> The third requires voters to believe what they're told by unnamed sources:

There has been plenty of "coincidences" thus presented so far. I for one would apply Hanlon's razor: Trump and his advisers were just being very stupid and don't think any malice was involved, though breaking the law is breaking the law regardless (see their opinion on stupidity and Hillary's emails). Besides, thou dost protest too much, so maybe there is more to this than we can see right now.

I don't think any of this leads to impeachment, which really isn't in anyone's interests anyways (Pence?). Instead, Trump will be a two year lame duck after the midterms with little public support left.
Here is the question all Americans should ask about legislation: "Is it constitutional?"

If no. Discard or modify.
Because with $5 billion in debt, even if they devoted 100% of that $200 million/year profit to paying off the debt, it'd take 25 years for them to pay it all back -- and that's assuming the debt isn't accruing any interest over all that time. Which is why the parent called the debt load unserviceable.
This is a really cool application of this technology, great work! Do you have any blog posts explaining the types of models you're using or open source repos that one could contribute to?

(Asking as a ML/Software Engineer who's pleasantly surprised and yearning to contribute to something like this!)
Lawyers wished to create a 'walled garden' for their knowledge and methods. Doctors do the same and the churches also did it.
These people charge fees for access to this knowledge and do not want easy access to the general public.

recent advances in AI endanger many jobs at law firms and medical practices and may result in fewer jobs - at law firms at least.
I expect the medical and legal lobbyists will bribe our elected criminals to limit this. It has already made it hard for new lawyers to get any jobs at all.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/too-many-law-stud...
>on the basis that they’re not allowed to criticise other people’s positions

Where did I argue that?

Kara Swisher has the same right to her opinion as everyone else. I do stand by my statement that she's part of a new wave of tech 'elites' who are brown-beating tech companies into accepting certain kinds of ideologically-based standards of conduct. Nowhere did I even imply she doesn't have a right to do that, but I can certainly criticize her for it. Doubly-so because she's a public opinionator with a significant public platform.
I checked, and in Italy the actual material is this one: http://materbi.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/12/Sch...

I would be curious how this compares to PLA. If you have any idea about that, let me know.
> I am tired of hearing people claim that you can only deactivate your account

I'm tired of FB (or anyone using similar tactics) hiding behind "but you can delete your account" while employing all manner of dark patterns and scare tactics to mess with people who want to do exactly that.

Maybe it's changed since you did it, but I walked a friend through it recently and it was painfully tedious (not just a bunch of "are you really, really sure"s, but a bunch of dark patterns trying to steer you away from or hide the option altogether).

I'd be surprised if even 1% of people who want to delete their account are successful.
Common Data Mistakes to Avoid
That's for small time abuses. What happens in the case of a full blown illegal logging operation involving a entire company? What about cases where things get violent? It's not uncommon for mining operations in the Amazon to end with natives getting massacred, the loggers probably not unwillingly to do that to anyone who gets in there way. When you come across a full scale logging op, do things get complicated?
Folks interested in this should contribute to Mozilla instead: https://voice.mozilla.org/

Why help an ad company when you can help a constant warrior for privacy, freedom, and open source technology? Why is Google trying to create their own instead of joining Mozilla's work?
Totally. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sunlight_is_the_best_disinfec...
And National Geographic has just been sold to Disney. I assure you, the ownership doesn't affect reporting on a story like this.
We should be more broad about it. The tech industry regulatory exceptionalism ended with Microsoft in 2000.

Or did it end with Intel? They spent the entire 1990s holding a regulatory & anti-trust settlement party. [1]

Or did it end with the 12 years of anti-trust pursuit of IBM?

There's actually nothing new going on here. The new titans, the same as the old titans, running up against cultural and political fears of unchecked power.

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2239461/data-center/int...
I don't think the quote intended to imply that Capitalism propagated a myth. I think the quote intended to imply that the subject of the myth was Capitalism.

E.g. suppose I said "One of bowling's most enduring myths is that wearing a bowler's hat improves your score". Does this imply that a cabal of bowlers spread propaganda? Or simply that the myth exists within the bowling community.
I admired Toys R Us. It was a complete shock and utter disbelief when I heard the news of the bankruptcy. Because the way the stores are run it never felt that way, although the question that how do they manage to do all this was always there in the back of my mind. I wonder why, if they are so much in debt and not doing well, nothing much has changed inside the store over years. Its the same huge store with loads of stuff pouring out of every corner. I don't know why they didn't consider cutting down costs at the store level.
Maybe this was a reasonable stance if you were a hardliner skeptic.

But it's March 2018. 5 of Trump's senior campaign staff are indicted. Multiple Russian actors are indicted. The Russian government doesn't even deny it, Putin literally blamed Jewish people. CA's c staff was just on video talking about using human trafficking to compromise politicians and their CEO just disclosed that some state governments were cooperating with the Trump campaign.

All this is astride the long understood fact that American election security is so bad that there aren't reliable records to disprove a machine that's been tampered with. What's more, the we've also seen corroborated evidence that the machines election officials in some swing States we're compromised by sophisticated actors. These machines aren't just where emails happen, they're the machines where the software that configures the voting machines runs (for some models).

None of what I've said is even an uncharitable reading of the facts. The final statement might be surprising but it's well supported in security literature.

But sure, you be skeptical as a well-measured and coldly logical citizen.
Generalizing so broadly is a terrible way to understand the nuance of the real world.
Did you expect no one to google it? Pence had private email while governor of Indiana. Through August 2017, Nepotistic Adviser (perhaps not his official title? I don't know) Kushner had had fewer than 100 emails sent from or to his server from official accounts, all of which are saved and can be produced.

Meanwhile many tens of thousands (no way to know how many) of classified messages of the Secretary of State where available to any hacker but not to the oversight of the people and their Congress. It's no mystery why Comey said the stupid shit he said; if he had said nothing he would have had a mutiny on his hands.
My personal benchmark for this is to monitor Taobao for the day that the book is banned from Chinese markets. So far it's still available for sale: https://s.taobao.com/search?q=%E4%B8%80%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AB%E5...
Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808124

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
I think my post already covers that...

Do you think the power company should be able to stop delivering power to porn providers?

Should DNS servers not serve dns request for porn sites?
Should ICCAN not allow you to register porn domains?
>Yes. Britain is far ahead of everyone at this moment. I'm sure china and the rest are desperate to catch up.

I don't think you even believe that horseshit.
It used to be said that you weren't a real woman until you lost a child.

The future is amazing (on average right now). That doesn't negate the value in considering ways in which the future has not improved upon the past.
Not too long ago I would have whole-heartedly agreed with you, but I've since accepted that my opinion on her was strongly swayed by social media (specifically on Reddit) campaigns lead by Russian entities.

How much do the e-mails matter? I don't know, it's hard for there to be an objective answer since these things matter as much as everyone talks about them. Everyone talked about the e-mails, but did that conversation cross the threshold from factoid to scandal due to malicious acts by Russia?

Do the e-mails matter less than things happening in the Trump campaign at the time? It certainly seems that way, especially since there have been stories about Trump administration private e-mail servers that have barely made it into the news cycle (that's from memory, apologies if I'm not remembering that properly).
This is a product of monarchy, and going to your parliment won't fix it.
Google really is pushing forward what browsers do - I am not sure if that's a good thing. Especially in regards to privacy and security. Maybe they should separate browser from OS in some meaningful way. These capabilities should not be easily available in your ordinary web browser. Same with WebUSB that hackers can use to mount your USB drives and read data or eg. steal passwords from things like ubikeys... I know the analogy is a bit flawed, but it reminds me of all the power that Active X provided back in the day, when Microsoft tried to make the browser the OS.
Ask HN: How many hours do you sleep on average?
Mon-Fri - Up by 8 am EST and asleep by 3 am to 3:30 am the following day
Sat-Sun - Up by 11 am EST and asleep by 1:00 am the following day.

My schedule looks like this by choice. During the day, I'm a software consultant, and by night I'm working on my product. I know, it doesn't sound as cool as me saying "superhero by night."

I find it hard to sleep when I have something that needs to get done, outstanding questions, or worse.. when I'm just "that close" to having something completed that brings my ideas to life.

What is your schedule like and what keeps you up at night?

P.S., I don't buy into the idea if you don't share my schedule, you're not working hard.
I think that comment was agreeing with my comment, which was written with the understanding that 52 ESR would be better than 56 because the ESR is not out of date the way 56 is.
The question is, why does Facebook wants to know each bit of our lives and fetch details which might be harmless for us. For instance, Facebook might want to know how do I talk or walk or turn around and build a persona of mine? Ads, well that's obvious but ONLY Ads? I don't think so.
And formed a team / hired him.
If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it - somebody
it'll be selectively enforced; small players will be pushed out because they can't afford the liability, and the behemoths will use their weight to ensure nothing happens to them.
If all the profile data is fake, presumably the phone number is too? If not, that kind of negates the whole post.
What a fridge has taught me about customer support
Yes. It's available to stream on PBS Kids starting this past week, and my family is going to watch it as much as possible.
Scholars have commented that Pinker hasn't the slightest idea of what "the Enlightenment" was and ultimately makes it stand for everything and anything that happens to suit him. Thus it would seem that he isn't exactly the best person to consult about the topic. Aaronson is also out of his depth, but I've come to expect that. He's obnoxiously over-opinionated, loves attention (I had the displeasure of seeing his juvenile antics at a conference) and frankly, his opinions are rather puerile and whiny.
The simplest answer is, as much as you can, stick to a whole-foods, plant based diet. So:

Whole grain bread and pasta instead of white bread and pasta.
Brown rice instead of white rice.
Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables, and fruit.
Beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils.
Things to avoid: Meat, fish, dairy, eggs, OIL (of any sort), junk food (of course).

Whole foods mean foods where nothing bad has been added, and nothing good has been taken away.

This diet is scientifically proven to reduce inflammation, and in fact, make you live longer. The closer you can get to it, the better off you'll be. The only thing to be wary of is that if you cut out animal protein entirely, you'll need a vitamin B12 supplement, unless you get your water from natural streams and eat vegetables without washing off the dirt :) (B12 comes from bacteria -- that's where grazing animals get it from).

If you're interested in the science, here's a long (but good) talk by Dr. Michael Greger (creator of nutritionfacts.org) at google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ

Note that he's different from most of the diet advocates out there in that he seems to try quite hard to remain focused on the science, his website is entirely free, he's not selling supplements, and all the proceeds of his books go to charity. I'm a big fan :)
If they're trying to get away from privacy-related bad PR, maybe "oh, by the way, we're capable of bugging the entire rainforest and analyzing the take in real-time" isn't the best approach.

Heaven knows it's only driving me more paranoid.
and you can be easily 7 days away from another, if brownish stuff hits the fan hard enough
I'd like to see evidence that Pinker thinks it is about "this special group of people". What I have read in the book doesn't support this. He of course gives examples of the most remarkable people but goes on to say they depended on an immensely larger group of collaborators. For example the process of eliminating smallpox depended on hundreds of thousands of people including health workers, government functionaries and the patients themselves.

Regarding the motivations of the mistranslators: I think those commentators are frustrated romantics who actually reject the enlightenment view that people can understand and improve their world. Look at John Gray's books on Amazon; he argues that progress isn't possible -- he's quite passionate about that!

I have had discussions with people who take this position -- typically very intelligent academics. They rely on "anecdata" -- a blizzard of examples of bad stuff. Something like Pinker's blizzard of data and charts would naturally make them very very angry -- as much because of the reliance on statistical thinking as because of the subject.

As to why these people are so passionately devoted to romantic (anti-enlightenment) values: I'm not at all sure. I think they have a visceral dislike for analytical treatments of human issues, but I don't have a deeper sense of why that is.
Three people in the back seat is a couple hundred kilos.

Modern cars, including the XC90 have a tilt sensor to adjust the headlights automatically for this.
The "We" above is rather inclusive then, isn't it? The only time I see Fox is when I visit my grandmother.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

Actually, political opinion is not protected against discrimination. Otherwise I could create a political party that advocated, say, the extermination of a particular group, and then if you refused to hire me (because I'm obviously an asshat if I hold this view) I could sue you.
Have you seen the "Nazi Pug" case from a few days ago? The UK may not be a dictatorship, but they are certainly extremist authoritarians.

For the record, this is the video that was enough to arrest and convict a man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYslEzHbpus&bpctr=1521821668
Quinoa?
What are you basing this assumption on?

The point of the study was that reduced calory intake seems to reduce metabolism, which is already vastly varied between two individuals.

If you're basing your assumption on internet TDEE calculators those are often wildly misleading, and generally overestimate values.

But on the other hand it's extremely hard to know how many kcal you eat, so if he's basing his intake on labels, those are usually too low (within regulation guidelines) because manufacturers want to sound "healthier" than they are.

But to my main point: If you keep as even intake as you can for a few weeks, and you don't lose weight, that is your maintenance, no ifs or buts.
Pence literally fought in court to keep his private election emails private and won.

I was sort of hoping you'd Google that too.
In that case it wouldn't be "over" consumption, right? It's a relative term.
Ask HN: How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?
Hey everyone! I'm a self-taught full-stack web developer. I've spent the past few years learning webdev, working on personal projects, and building a portfolio (https://startuplab.io/portfolio).

Now I want to find good clients, or work remotely for a startup, and to do that I need to make a resume(or CV?).

So I wanted to ask a few questions:

- What should I put on my resume?

- Can you share some examples of how a great resume should look like?

- What are some of the best tools for making one?

- What do you look for when deciding to hire a developer?

- Can you share some advice that would help me increase my chances of finding a good job?
I think that would be worse for the world stage as a despot with nothing to lose is always going to be more dangerous than a despot in a prosperous economy.

But I also this is a moot argument because I doubt the lack of consent would stop China from using intellectual property.
"What if the lawmakers want to hurt the people struggling at at the lower rungs of society? To me it feels unlikely it is intentional in most cases, or conscious, but what if on some level, there is a motivation to hurt these people who they feel are inferior?"

Doubtful. It's not that they don't want to help them, but more that there's simply not much government can do.

Consider drug addicts. One of my good friends died of an overdose last year, and all of his friends including myself had tried for years to get him to quit. No luck. If someone's closest friends can't help them, what makes us think the government will be anymore effective?

In fact the government has tried through the "war on drugs". You can disagree with the means of the war, but the intent was to help society and the people most vulnerable in society by eliminating drugs through force.
Yep, no doubt. But you can make choices about whose work you highlight to the public.
We are living in crazy times, where russians showing a big fuck to all of us breaking all laws, using chemical weapons, hacking, killing, occupying other countries. Capitalism for the win, money rules the world, and Russians know where to invest them to keep everyone in their pockets all over the world. We have biggest Mafia state in the world inside the Europe and everyone is just fine with it. Sad..
I agree that people CAN do this, but do you believe that Mark's recent actions show that he HAS done this?
It may be hard to understand, but some people have ethical principles.
If cat videos and shooting videos are on totally separate sites, where do we put the videos that are both?

a. The cat has a gun.

b. The cat is shot at.

c. The cat is fired out of a cannon, as a circus performer.

d. It's a hunting cat. It fetches things that have been shot.

e. Cats like sitting on warm things. Guns get warm.

f. Cat fur gets into everything. Picture a cleaning video with a gun jammed up by fur.
> And I love FB, because I know that being online means sharing information. If I wasn't okay with sharing it, why in the world would I put it online with some other party controlling it?

Do you love that they track your movements across the web using phone home beacons on large swaths of the web and third-party apps?
This article reeks of clickbait. Not only was this already known but they strangely included this tidbit "a political research company with links to Trump." which is not at all relevant to the article.
This sentiment confuses me. Why do people dislike Zuckerberg by default? How does it happen that anyone sees him as a bully?
So the mailing list and the other stuff are "internal only"? How is possible for external individuals to take part?
CEO shares why he left Silicon Valley and moved to Canada
By the time you became a monarch you had usually already survived to adulthood (child kings existed but were the exception). This biases the statistics considerably.

FWIW: I’d have (probably) died from pneumonia at age 5 without modern medicine. In reality it was curable trivially.
Fellow Canadians can find a map of cell towers here: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html
This is a better study than previous ones, in that it used "environmental" levels of radiation, rather than blasting subjects with an amount of radiation equivalent to laying your head on top of a cell tower for 22 hours a day.

However: out of 817 individuals in the control group, 2 had benign tumors, 2 had malignant tumors, 1 had glial cell hyperplasia, and 2 had malignant glial tumors. Out of 409 individuals in the highest-dosed group, 4 had benign tumors, 0 had malignant tumors, 0 had glial cell hyperplasia, and 3 had malignant glial tumors.

https://imgur.com/a/VeEUb

Rates are elevated, but given the differences in population sizes and the relatively very small differences in rates involved, this study looks like a very good candidate for the decline effect that's been plaguing similar studies for a while now. (e.g. a regression to the mean; that the effect numbers, being small, would disappear in subsequent studies.)

Any potential link between cell phones, or wifi, and cancer, still has the fundamental problem that we should have seen cancer rates rise dramatically over the last 15 years in populations all over the world, and ... we haven't. While there have been more and more findings on other causes for cancer (and preventable mortality, like heart disease), glial cancers aren't increasing in any manner suggestive of a link to ubiquitous environmental microwave radiation.
Exactly. In that case they arrested a couple of poor peasants, but the people/organizations that both financed and enabled it walk free.

Like with drug labs in the jungle, all this cool technology is great for detection but ends up hitting a brick wall of corruption when it comes to actually solving the problem.