skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's the whole issue. I cannot think of any reason why Facebook would want to store that data that benefits the user.
Re: banal small talk

I think it's a misinterpretation that we 'techie types' tend to make that such small talk has anything at all do to with the content of the words spoken, and not the act of engaging in person-to-person contact.

"The medium is the message": people initiating (banal! frustrating! meaningless! boring! impractical!), small talk aren't actually interested in the weather, they're trying to convey that they're interested in you and interested in conversing with you. The signal isn't the words, the signal is the face/body engagement.
The Showrooming Phenomenon: offline stores should hire more quality sales staff [pdf]
Interesting how the whole money system that bitcoin tried to fight against is completely recreated in bitcoin. There are centralized banks, just they are called exchanges. Most people hold their money there. And apparently money laundering is also making a come back as bitcoin mixer agencies.

If these mixers really succeed for 5 or so years at what they are doing, I guess bitcoin might have a chance after all.
> there is a vein of ineptness

I don't see that. The raid on Osama was pretty inept too, as it was arming and training any random anti-Iranian person in the region and ending up with IS/Daesh.

It's just that direct action is inevitably brazen and unsubtle, and will often have unpredictable repercussions. You give state-of-the-art anti-aircraft weaponry to Ukrainian biker gangs and they shoot down a civilian plane; you support anti-Ghaddafi groups and they end up burning down your own embassy. You just cannot predict which way the grass will bend under your feet. Any direct action will have its fair share of fumbles, it's just that the world is now so well-connected that they will be ruthlessly exposed pretty much all the time.

Personally, I wouldn't underestimate Putin - like all fascist regimes, his rule has likely cultivated a cohort of inept yes-men, but he's also reinvigorated what was a tremendously dangerous military apparatus that is still capable of triggering a nuclear holocaust. I think our approach should be a bit subtler than "slapping down a bully".
Maybe it was the content, but what I saw on 3D tv was just flat characters in a 3d environment. It felt very weird. The clunky glasses were a bit rubbish. All a bit weird and crap.
> But if you add the definite article, it's a proper noun.

Not in my example.

Do you regularly go take walks in the Sun?
I doubt it'll help since the bill makes it problematic to facilitate any illegal behavior. So E2EE won't help, they'll just slap you for facilitating stuff.
Apparently trading your body for sex is somehow metaphysically different to trading your body for labor.
Some proof for down voters:

1) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Jain-monk-co...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani
open for applications from europe as well?
I skio brrakfast and eat a single larger lunch. If feel it’s easier to skip dinner this way since I get hungry right around when I go to to bed. No acis reflux this way either.
Static-website-design-services
Spy on text messages phonyspy
Russia Hacked U.S.Power Grid and Other Critical Infrastructure. So Now What?
i have the same feeling that D3 related jobs are extremely sparse around here in europe (NL/DE).
> Networks which generalise better are harder to break

yep, that was my whole thesis dissertation. also you can actually include some confusion during the training itself by adding noise to the weights or the transfer function and the learning algorithm will find more stable solutions that are more robust on its own.

we used that to produce network that were more resilient to being quantized when moved to low power devices having only fixed point arithmetic available.
> Although I now realize, your comment may have been rhetorical in the sense of suggesting that this post (and others like it) take advantage of this trend but lack in substance.

Yeah this is what I was getting at. Ive been noticing that people have been dissatisfied with the quality of content recently citing marketing type activities like this. Kind of wish it could just be a forum without the competitive drive that we are bombarded with everywhere else.
I believe there's also a virtue signalling aspect that plays into the problems in the original article.

"I am so dedicated to my work that I willingly turn my home and outside-of-work life into the smallest possible monastic box, using less resources than the average Joe. Plus I'm so classy that it's a beautiful box, and it can't be cluttered by bourgeois garbage because my experience outside work is a stark void and doesn't generate things that would require space."

Whoa, that looks good on your performance review. All you need to add is 'and I'm never there because I work all the time. The only person who sees my house is Merry Maids, and they only have to send one person with featherdusters all over her. She twirls, and that's her job done for the week' ;)
Personal anecdote : I always ate little and spend most of my life underweight. I look extremely young for my age. I estimate I rarely eat more than 1500 kcal a day

When I think about it, most visibly underweight people I know tend to look young. Does anyone have the same observation?
Not every employer is like that. When I started at my first developer job, I only had a degree in physics. (I've since completed a part-time B.Sc. in CS.) They hired me because of my open-source portfolio. Now I'm at SAP, which according to a common joke is an abbreviation for "Sammelplatz arbeitsloser Physiker" (assembly area for unemployed physicists), and one of my friends from university (with a doctorate in laser physics) now also works as an SAP consultant.
RPi Zero – Headless Setup
Show HN: iOS App to get toilets within walking distance using OpenStreetMaps
No More FAQs: Create Purposeful Information for a More Effective User Experience
It's just like a mortgage. Even though it's you buying the house, it's in a way the house that ends up owning the mortgage (in many jurisdictions, you can walk away from the house and mortgage, and the bank had no leverage against your person, they can only repossess the house).
Yeah but what happens when it becomes a compulsion? After a while it becomes kind of annoying.
Don’t you mean Jans? ;)
Yeah, and the relative harm between microplastics and heavy chunks of garbage is also off the charts. A big chunk of stuff floating around in the open ocean can actually become a habitat for all kinds of creatures, whereas small bits of plastic are basically poison.
> it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it

Interesting. I wonder if the timing has anything to do with a recent particularly shocking case of sexual exploitation involving Craigslist:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15601265.Sadistic_paedoph...
But is there risk when using the company as collateral? Isn't that the point of collateral? Or do they still have to put up the difference between the current value of the company and the debt?
Yes that would be extremely helpful. For example I have above-average protein intake (exercise intensively almost every day, weekends spent in the mountains) so have to compensate for this. But for the most part it comes either from plants (broccoli, beans, nuts etc.), diary products, protein powder a bit, and white meat (poultry, fish, shrimps).

But also white meat could be an issue - antibiotics, growth hormones, heavy metals in seafood. You can't really eat BIO all the time.
Regulating Facebook is not the solution
> Störerhaft

It's "Störerhaftung". I tend not to be picky about these words, but "Haft" (imprisonment) and "Haftung" (liability) is a huge difference.
Slack already signs DPAs when they declare they will be GDPR-compliant when the law comes into practice.
I remember your website. I was at a hedge funds that used your service. I had a few conversations by email and by phone with your partner too (nice guy and went to a good MBA school if I remember). I understand why there were maybe bigger and better opportunities vs return on time needed to keep doing your activist short site going as it is quite niche. Are you involved in the space at all any more?

For others reading here and in case curious, the hedge fund I was working at wasn't interested in paying for access to tracking of activist short campaign data for the short trade ideas themselves. There is little interest in copying or jumping onto another's trade like that. The real interest the hedge fund wants to get alerts and track these campaigns was to keep an eye on what other hedge funds are doing - it was more about competitor and industry colleague research than securities research.
Global water database to be developed to help municipalities
I'm wondering how the ICO craze impacted Telegram MAU. Most of the ICOs focus their community management efforts on Telegram, and a lot of them have a huge number of members, more than 50k in some situations
It seems to me that with this list of demands you are asking to be isolated. No matter what you're going through, statements like "Whatever I tell you, it is instant law." are unacceptable if you want to be a part of society and have you and your children be treated even somewhat normally.
I like playing with OpenStreetMaps, but there aren’t many sample apps that use it as a playground. This app is a fun exercise in creating an testable MVVM app using Swift. I’d be happy to hear any feedback that you guys have.
Not quite. This and dropout are a good idea to analyze together, but this is not the same thing.

Dropout is done _during training_ of the neural network. In other words, for a given training example / batch of examples, some of the neurons are deactivated. Those that remain are forced to "pick up the slack" of the missing ones, and so this ends up preventing over-fitting.

What this is, is taking a neural network which has _already been trained_ and seeing how the output differs if we now drop some of the neurons.

It is true that neural networks that have been trained with dropout will probably fare much better under these circumstances.
A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live webcam input
This is the real story:

"While we can’t speculate on the agendas of the groups behind SESTA, we can study those same groups’ past advocacy work. Given that history, one could be forgiven for thinking that some of these groups see SESTA as a mere stepping stone to banning pornography from the Internet or blurring the legal distinctions between sex work and trafficking."

Too many laws in America are stalking horses for restricting, not just commercial sexual activity, but all unapproved sexual activity. And the people who'd be doing the approving don't look like people I want in charge of my or my kid's sex life.

Child pornography and sex trafficking are both real, serious, problems. We should deal with them, not work to make it harder for sex workers and horny teenagers. But for a lot of the pressure groups in this area, the second thing is _their actual goal_.
Unless the acquired company is obviously healthy enough to service the debt through to maturity, or the bank is really stupid, the acquiring company has to put up non-trivial collateral.

Or put another way, if the acquiring company has no risk, then the bank putting up the leverage has it. The risk doesn't just disappear.
Make backup copy of your profile before you downgrade.

Unsurprisingly, older Firefox doesn't fully understand profiles from newer Firefox. (I don't remember the details, sorry!)
>With further contact, awareness and familiarity things will change.

I don't think you need to worry about further contact after this list.
What's my IP Address? What's my browser?
That sounds very nice to work with, and for tools/scripts running on my own workstation it sounds great.

For user-facing code running at scale catching more errors at compile-time still sounds better to me.
It also does work, somewhat. I spend my evenings finding places where I can promote my side project without being obnoxious.
Hadn't really considered the natural sciences there, you're right! I was talking mainly from a tech/engineering perspective and at least in my generation (filthy millenials) and among my peers in uni I've observed the opposite.
"This can only happen because the key is on their server."

No, they can ask them for the keys even if they don't have them on their servers. And one would think that a likely response would be "We can't do that, we don't store the keys on our servers". Which is exactly what happened

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/21/telegram_ordered_ha...
Same here. Call me naive all you want, but I do think Mozilla has our best intention. They won't sell the data, they will try to keep it as secure as possible and anonymize it. As seen they even made a deal with Cloudflare to ensure they don't log any of that data.

I'm a strong advocate for privacy but if I'm going to give away my data I'd rather have it be Mozilla than Facebook or Google.
:%s/sex trafficking/mass shooting/g

:%s/gun control laws/internet control laws/g
> everything they do is open

That is incorrect. Many bug reports are marked as private for security reasons.

Other decisions such as Pocket, Cliqz and Mr Robot are made and executed in private.

Once the code is thrown over the wall it's all open. Upstream of that is a different matter.
If I'm understanding you, you're saying that this is more of a way to evaluate whether a network has generalized rather than a method to help it generalize. Is that right?
Writing a Fuse file system in Python
I think this was the exact original motivation of "check your privilege".
As with any social network, you need to join, follow a few people, see what they say and who they quote, and then build your list of followees from there.

I'm @ColinTheMathmoon@mathstodon.xyz[0][1] and I follow a few tech people. One is @cypherpunk on mastodon.social and then you can follow people quoted by them.

Who would you like to follow? If you are on any Mastodon instance then you can follow anyone on any other instance.

[0] https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo

[1] https://mathstodon.xyz/

[2] https://mastodon.social/@cypherpunk
It's interesting that the skeletons found from the period after agriculture was introduced are significantly shorter than those from before.
Your analogy is not quite right. Google in this example isn't the gun manufacturer, they are simply the building owner that somebody else is selling guns out of.

The GP wants that building owner to be liable for the actions of the person that their tenant sells to.
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018

RootSudo Ltd

Chief Architect

Blah blah
This is good advice.

Let me add another important tip too.
Bill on regular times. Like at the start of each month and be strict with payment terms. Just do a friendly reminder after that, but...

If the customer doesn't pay within the set term, stop working on the project. If they do not value your time you should not spent time on it.
What relevance does this have to political campaigns?

You seem to be implying it's a foregone conclusion that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to do this, but that certainly hasn't been proven.

At best, this reveals a clearer link in the DNC emails being hacked from Russia. These were then sent to Wikileaks. If they came from Russia, then it was likely to influence our election, and it likely benefited Trump. But that (in no way) implies any behavior on the part of the Trump campaign. You're making a big leap here.
Fourier's Transformational Thinking
What is currenly being done with self-driving car testing on public roads is basically like a pharmaceutical company mixing a new experimental drug into the dishes of random people at a restaurant, which neither are compensated in any way, nor did they have a chance to decline their involvement in the test.

Such a thing would be entirely unthinkable in the pharmaceutical industry of today. So if this comparison suggests anything, it is to much more strictly regulate self-driving car development and testing!
No, if someone else uses Google's tools to create a product offering called "Gmail for Pimps" Google is liable.
Actually you can opt out of the tax without leaving your church (though they might consider this grounds to exclude you from services -- in practice however the only punishment is heartfelt disapproval).

Also it's important to point out that if you are a faithful member of one of the religions that enacts a church tax, that money goes to that church rather than to the state (who just collect it for the church, free of charge). So presumably you actually want them to get that money and are fine with the tax (although in practice most "believers" in Germany either opt out of the tax or complain about it because they're unhappy with the institutions of their religion).

AFAIK it's only the Catholic church and the Evangelical church who've done the necessary paper work and formed public bodies on the national level to be eligible to receive these taxes from self-declared members of their church. There's a small Muslim group that has managed to do this in two states but they're a minority sect (in Germany anyway). I guess for most religious groups it's just too much of a hassle compared to collecting money directly from church-goers (or mosque-goers for that matter).
People tend to pick either "Piece of media X had no effect on culture" or "media X had these specific, clear, well-defined effect on culture."

Both are cop-outs, born from what the speaker wants to be true.

The more interesting question is: Given that Portland has long since replaced San Francisco as the most prominent uniquely-cultured west cost city, what changes are inevitable? And what role did Portlandia play in the larger picture of that change?
:%s/sex trafficking/mass shooting/g

:%s/gun control laws/internet censorship/g

--edit: before you reach for that downvote button - im not conflating the two crimes they are both depreaved and horrible in their own way. I am noting a high degree of symmetry in the reaction of a heavy-handed government 'take away the rights of everyone' to what is isolated incidents of horror.

In one case americans seems willing to relinquish their rights to the government in the name of safety.

In the other americans seems to consider this overreacting

yet to me they seem to have high degree of symmetry
A conversion tool to go from Docker Compose to Kubernetes
User intrusion seems to be a pattern with Mozilla now.
>but the concept is fine; they are a completely sensible way to set government finances rather than doing it piecemeal.

No they are not fine, not has they are used today. Congress as normal has abused the power of these bill this being a prime example.

This is why we need a Constitutional Amendment to bring the US Constitution in line with 41 US States where the Single Subject Rule is enforced.

We also need to bring back the Line Item Veto

We also need a mandatory Public Comment period, I propose 1 day for every 10 pages of Text... so for this bill it would have required 223 days of public comment before a vote would have been allowed, instead of what 12 hours this one got from the time it was submitted until it was being voted on
I look repulsive and my personality isn't much better. Hookups are quite out of the question. But it must be nice to be attractive and have enough money to go out clubbing.
Roobykon Ruby Digest 2018: Issue 2
Like any ecosystem, the Ruby on Rails community depends for its health of a fine balance being maintained: between competition and cooperation, stability and progression, careful teamwork and radical experimentation. Accordingly, in this latest roundup of all that’s new on Rails, we find individual developers and teams working both to keep the wheels turning, and to reinvent them. Enjoy --> https://roobykon.com/blog/posts/88-roobykon-ruby-digest-2018-issue-2
Not the "first cars". First machine-powered automobile was a steam engine (1769), first internal combustion engine car was running on hydrogen (1808), first gasoline-powered combustion engine came in 1870 and was installed to a cars well before Benz made his car in 1885, about the same time the first battery-electric car was made by Thomas Parker.

But yes, there were many electric car models in the beginning of 1900's.
They look like walking pants.
You should be using Aurora not Nightly for those features.
To complement that, here is something I wrote:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThinkingAboutMastodon.html?HN_...
I agree. Especially cheaper german providers like UnityMedia have huge issues with latency because they overload their network in order to reduce cost.
Ask HN: What are the best learning materials for a newbie in programming?
> Other decisions such as Pocket

I am amazed that Mozilla has not yet released Pocket as free and open source software. What's going on?
Like any ecosystem, the Ruby on Rails community depends for its health of a fine balance being maintained: between competition and cooperation, stability and progression, careful teamwork and radical experimentation. Accordingly, in this latest roundup of all that’s new on Rails, we find individual developers and teams working both to keep the wheels turning, and to reinvent them. Enjoy --> https://roobykon.com/blog/posts/88-roobykon-ruby-digest-2018...
Yea, it does assume that. I happen to think that's true, but it's a separate argument, and one worth having. Humans are really quite bad at driving, so I think a conservative estimate is that autonomous vehicles could cut road deaths by at least 90%.

Cars are killing by the millions now, so do the math, and I'm willing to tolerate a lot of deaths in the process, contingent on the deaths actually helping researchers and engineers reduce future faults. I would happily take a million deaths right now if it meant driverless tech instantly became available to everyone, but I think there's an upper limit to how many accidents can be realistically examined at once.

What's the alternative position? That you're for more road deaths in total? Are you also the kind of person who wouldn't pull the lever in the trolley problem?