skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The bizarre thing is how differently the public treats this from Obama for America.

I don't think it's at all surprised that the British public is more concerned with Brexit manipulation than the actions of a US election campaign.
Ask HN: Am I too old to switch to an engineering degree?
Dear HN,

I've been following this site for over 5 years now, because I'm a curious person by heart and love to break and build stuff. I love this community for all the deep insights, discussions and inspirations. But I have chosen a different career path for various reasons which I now begin to regret. I have finished an undergraduate degree in business administration with a focus on information technology and management (most definitely more soft skill) and then have started a law degree (as well as philosophy).

I cannot take law anymore. I know that I don't really want to have a job in such a field. But I turn 25 in May. I am a quick study, still, finishing an engineering degree (either mechanical or electrical, I find them both equally exciting) with a masters will approximately take me 5 years. Then I am 30.

I am afraid that this is "too old" and future employees could disdain my path.

Please advise, I will gladly take any input and/or feedback.

Kind regards.
That statement is at odds to APIs being copyrightable. If the API itself can't be used then how exactly is a clean room implementation of that API supposed to avoid the copyright issues of implementing the API?
Nice, didn't know about "\ls"! I wonder what's the difference between "\ls" and "command ls". Yes, it's a bit longer to type but the output is the same, I'm asking about what happens behind the scenes.
Cinemas will die anyway. I'm personally shocked they still exist. I rent movies from google and Amazon an watch series on Netflix. Used to rent DVDs before that.

Cinema made sense in the early 20th century, but not today.
We are the same company, although I started working here about 6 months ago. This is a brand new site we have just launched. The phones themselves, we did already have a few of them, but the P20 models just got announced by Huawei today.

The core team is about 10 people, and we do projects like this every now and then. :)
Except that no companies actually wanted the software in the first place, they wanted the service.

[Edited: made it clear I was talking about companies]
The Guardian and New York Times are part of Facebook’s data gathering mechanism
Yes, you are right. But even so - the point stands. I'm not trying to defend anything, especially white men. I'm just saying this journalism is biased to portray white men in bad light.
We're a distributor to many start ups and biotech companies and it's so refreshing to hear this area being taken on!
Not as much as I feel I should; I spend the morning helping out at a cat shelter every other weekend.
IMHO, if API's are copywritable, consider the equivalents :

-) Are Networking protocols copywritable ?

-) Are REST APIs copywritable ?

I am not sure if this is the way open source world should work.
They don’t say they’ll work for free, they say they’ll work in exchange for your data, which they will then sell
Ah, so SoftBank Group is not just the ARM guys. Makes a different kind of sense now.
So would it be possible to literally talk through music? What if notes (or strings of notes) stood for different words and ideas. It would be like a set of pictograms, but for music.
I should of avoided the comments on that.
Here’s a Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them – Motherboard
You seem to be making an emotional argument.

I'm not blaming anyone. I'm saying that life is in your control and your personal responsibility. Things happen to you, but you can always choose how to react and thereby overcome obstacles.

Interestingly, you seem to saying that nobody in that position is at fault and are instead blaming everything else and "reality" which I find rather disingenuous at best. You either have control over your life or you don't, and if you think you don't then there's nothing to discuss and you can pontificate on the lack of free will I guess.
Ask HN: Pinterest is my livelihood and my account was deleted without notice
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Pinterest clogging up Google image search and general discontent about its practices alongside thoughtful suggestions to overcome some of these nuisances. Nonetheless, as a design professional Pinterest has served as an indispensable professional tool for the past 6+ years... until 48 hours ago when my account was suspended without notice.

129 "boards", tens of thousands of images gathered (and original content contributed), all gone. I have clients emailing and calling about projects we've collaborated on wondering "where the backups" are. Needless to say, I am completely without hope. I would pay for this service, yet I'm stuck in "freeware" hell with no service or support available.

Here's hoping someone might know a way through the "blackbox" of Pinterest or better yet, is offering an enterprise alternative -- which I'm more than willing to pay for!
Total Meltdown?
This seems like a wildly sexist and racist sentiment. Do you have any evidence that being a white man causes you to have greater opportunities?
A very common play is to remove all regulatory requirements for an industry that you know will provide next-to-no jobs at a cost to public safety, because it looks good to Republican voters. See: Coal.
Cinemas will be fine. I don't want to go to your house to watch movies.
You can get that by entering Private Mode in Safari.

A URL clicked in Apple Mail will then open in a private tab.
Ask HN: How do you respond to companies wanting your government ID?
I recently got a fraud alert from my credit card company about a hosting provider bill. The charge was legit but it was for servers from my failed startup and I wanted to cancel them now that I was reminded of the charge. When I went to login with the email and password it prompted me for a 6 digit 2FA code (we never opted in to this) that was emailed to the account email address. We don't own the domain anymore so there was no chance of getting it.

When I emailed support they wanted a picture of my government ID (DL or passport) along with a picture of me holding it and all the info about the transaction. And they wanted this emailed back to them...

This is one of the top hosting companies- how could they be this loose with privacy and security?

I flat refused- I did send them all the transaction info and a picture of me holding the card... I know it's becoming more and more common to ask for IDs to be submitted for services- at least companies like Stripe refuse to accept them via email, but in any case I refuse to give out this information.

I emailed back offering to do a chargeback to stop the billing on the account since they wouldn't let me in (which they agreed would suffice so the matter was resolved) but I also offered to send a certified and notarized letter stating the issue, account info and verifying my identity... they didn't even acknowledge this as an option.

Do you all just give out this information?

I'm afraid this is going to drastically reduce the number of services I can use if this continues to become the norm since I do not trust any digital format of my identity to be securely transmitted and destroyed. Not even the state or federal government requires this for getting thousands of dollars back in a tax refund or to register vehicles... Do you think there could be a startup that could offer better "identity confirmation as a service" (I know such companies exist already but they seem to not be used...).
Ask HN: What are machine learning failure stories?
As an engineer, I see machine learning as a tool, appropriate for some problems and not so appropriate for others. What are the cases where someone has tries to apply machine learning to (real) problem and failed?
Worried About Your Privacy? These Easy Tips Will Give You Peace of Mind
I saw it based on back of an envelope calculation. The problem is for every worker in a modern society you need X people to support them. Directly as in children to replace them, old people that used to be them, fractions of people to educate their replacement, doctors to keep everyone healthy etc.

Add to that police, a justice system, politicians and lawyers. Not just miners, farmers, plumbers, researchers, and architects. Basically, everyone needed to make every individual component physical and social of society, plus all the people to support them and support the people that support them. And beyond that people to support children born with physical and mental handicaps.

PS: In the very short term you can get away with an unbalanced population and hyper educated generalists, but that means an inherent dependency on Earth. AKA you need to build a society supportable by average people not just select highly educated, healthy, high IQ, elite. Further, this also removes things like entertainers.

PPS: Now if you want some form of Science fiction dystopia where less productive people are pushed out of an airlock then the numbers do shrink somewhat. But, that's going to make recruitment a lot harder.
I think you're being sarcastic but it actually is. The Palantiri are tools made for a good purpose which were co-opted for malicious purposes -- and well-intentioned people got swept up in their wake.
They copied literally a handful of lines of code that an intern could have written in a few hours.
Please stop calling dopamine the ‘pleasure chemical’
Maybe you did, but I’d much rather have things like the Nest camera or text-to-speech as my own software. However, it’s impossible to get the same quality for the same amount spent this way, since vendors prefer the service business model.
The DGX-2 server (16x V100) costs the same as about 26 DeepLearning11 servers (10x 1080Ti) -
https://www.servethehome.com/deeplearning11-10x-nvidia-gtx-1...
With 260 1080Ti GPUs, you can do neural architecture search that competes with some published work by Google.

The DL11 also pays for itself in about 90 days compared to renting a P100/V100 on AWS:
http://www.logicalclocks.com/price-calculator/
The United States was also one of the biggest beneficiaries of The Opium Wars.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's grandfather was a drug smuggler [1], that made his fortune smuggling opium into China.

Also, the United States aided Britain in the 2nd Opium War.

So yes, the United States must be lumped in with the rest of the Western powers, that helped to weaken and ultimately destroy Qing Dynasty China. This is history. Don't white wash the United States' involvement that lead to the destruction of the late Chinese empire.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-s...
As a man, you're more likely to be murdered, killed in a war, commit suicide, die in a workplace accident, and be sentenced to prison disproportionately longer for the same crime as compared to women.
Why do you want to leave your house to watch movies?
When you get off the plane in Thailand, you’ll get an SMS if you are roaming on a foreign carrier to use a local prepay service without needing a custom SIM. Not sure how they do it.
The vast, vast majority of kids don't know it exists and have no idea what they'd do with it even if it did.

Yeah, I'm sure there's the one kid who loves tech in the class that wants to use it, but they'd be just as interested in Linux/tech stuff whether or not the school handed them a Chromebook.
The newest version is built on top of create-react-app so yes you can eject, I haven't done so though. You can use whatever editor you like, but you won't get the automated features like "Create Component" setting up your js, css, tests, and routes automatically. I expect this will be the biggest stumbling block for most devs. I may be unusual that the transition from sublime to the web based editor was very smooth and didn't slow me down.
Promoting independent access to this media is a good thing

Is there some significant difference between me paying $9.99 for a month of Netflix to watch a movie versus me paying $11.50 to an independent movie house for a single viewing?

Is that single viewing at a movie house somehow more open than a month of streaming?
Why would you choose an auto maker known to produce vehicles with high maintenance costs?
I have not seen any mention on licensing and whether you can cache and replay voice responses. Amazon Polly specifically allows caching.
Scout.ai was where it first broke I believe with their “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine” piece from last Feb.
Complete printing of our rocket, Terran 1, reduces
vehicle part count from nearly 100,000 to under 1,000
components - and is the first step toward an entirely
autonomous factory

They also mention a turnaround of _days_ for a full rocket, and being able to manufacture in Mars.

More info at their website: http://www.relativityspace.com
why are you assuming OP is a white man? is that the only group who ever notices the funny corners of race math?
Where do they come out and say that? Where do they put a message, in readable english, and not buried under a thousand other things, that says they'll do that?
My pleasure ... but it's not just my work. Firefox privacy & security and add-ons engineering teams have poured a ton of effort into Firefox Quantum to make features like this possible and easy.
Does the "right to be forgotten" extend to Facebook?

If I can write to google to not appear in google search results, would it be possible to write to google and ask not to appear in their results when people search my name?
Which company that creates content does not promote itself? By your logic, warner bros and other production houses should not display their signs before the movie starts.
You seem to fail to see these streaming services as production houses, which is what they seem to have become.
> advanced sensors that help deliver immersive augmented reality

What are these sensors — are they present in existing iPads?
It’s plain old steganography that can often manipulate media, especially note text.
Thanks for being informed about some of the limitations! I highly appreciate having these conversations, and I look forward to working with you to improve Monero.
Around 33 minutes into the presentation he does address radiation briefly, noting that it's favorable because most of the issues relate to the ceramic insulators in traditional SC magnets. In their design, the steel structural component of the tape serves as the insulator; they just wind up the SC tape and the current travels along that 1um SC layer.

More generally, the demountable coils suggests that designs could be made where the magnets are replaceable with some degree of economy.
> routing and parameters are relying on magic # annotations

Actually, as someone almost finished with the book, that brings up an interesting point. What controls # annotations and how do you hook into them (which also answers the question of how magic they are)?

If it's fairly standard and obvious how to look up, I think I might not classify them as much "magic", but truthfully, I have no idea at all. Maybe I'm just not remembering that part of the book (I did take a break for a month), or maybe I didn't make a connection that was implied?
Using web workers for safe, concurrent JavaScript
That's probably because custom elements aren't supported in Firefox yet, unless you set "dom.webcomponents.enabled" and "dom.webcomponents.customelements.enable" to true. It's supposed to be fully enabled in Firefox 60/61 according to MDN [0].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...
> This technology has been around for a year but we only got a few samples. I'm very excited. I use TTS to read back all the text I consume on PC.

Nope! These two papers are fresh work on prosody modeling. You can see the evolution of work this team has been publishing about here:

https://google.github.io/tacotron/

> This web demo allows you to enter your own text:

That web demo is unrelated to this. It's about a Google Cloud TTS API, which only includes WaveNet, not Tacotron.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-Clo...
We should be careful assigning skill to a decision that was borne out by luck.
Free SAAS business model: transform text by translating each word to its shortest homonym, and take a cut of the cost savings :)
I really like that perspective! A few more high-profile cases like this and we just might nudge the internet in this direction! :)
I love the new way Ben's organized his content. Since it's WordPress, I've always wondered why his categories and tags weren't publicly available. This is a fantastic way to surface up old content.

Not everyone may agree with this, but since I love his podcast as well, I would love to see that content integrated with the rest of his site. I realize it's a different vehicle and he co-hosts it with someone else, but since they often summarize Ben's weekly updates, there's a lot of synergy between both services.
I for one welcome our new wavenet telemarketing overlords...
For async, also worth considering Gotham: https://gotham.rs/

I only have minimal experience with it, since I've also eventually chosen actix-web for all my projects so far due to its simplicity.
The thing is, any program that calls "SetBrickMode()" HAS to use that name. Nobody has ever claimed programs require the consent of the API creator under copyright law to use the API. EVER prior to this. And then once a bunch of software is created using the API (presumably without need of the copyright holder) someone else doing an alternative implementation for that software to run on has no choice but to use the same naming convention for those programs to run.
Apple’s new, cheaper iPad is very, very familiar – The Verge
At work, we often create tickets to deal with such things and have epics dedicated to "code gardening". These are often addressed on a Friday afternoon or at other times when one feels their productivity is especially low.
> Why is it that Asian people are earning 2x more than white people

They aren't. 2× more is 300% of the base value. Asian men make 117% of what white men make, Asian women make 87% of what white men make (or 106% of what white women make.) So, Asian people earn between 6% and 17% more, not “2× more”, than what white people of the same gender make.
Because I'm not a hermit. I like to meet up with friends, have a shared experience, go to dinner and talk about it.
Blocking third party cookies goes a long way to achieving the same thing, and also prevents Google and others to track your movements across the web. The occasional site may break if it relies on third party cookies, but this is easy to work around when it happens.
Most harmful is to delete the most recent material. Say everything after 2016. Nothing makes a "social" site look more dead than abandoned accounts.
The aim is the same, but ITP only strips cookies after a 24-hour period when you HAVE NOT visited the site.

So ITP does nothing to protect a user who visits facebook.com every day. Which is most of Facebook's user-base.
There's subtle exploits out there that efficiently manage to Hot-mic a phone and still use less battery than facebook.
> I thought the result of Oracle v. Google is that APIs can’t be copyrighted?

The result—not final yet—is that the Federal Circuit ruled APIs are eligible for copyright, but that ruling didn't create binding precedent that applies outside the Oracle v Google case. So future cases are still likely to produce the result that APIs can't be copyrighted, unless those cases also include the patent claims necessary to get them into the Federal Circuit for appeals.
I think we know Facebook accepts non-warrant surveillance if the customer is paying.
ive had it disabled for years and never had any kind of issue with single signon websites
+1 to his podcast, here's a link since it is goes by another name: http://exponent.fm/
I've always wished that apple would offer this in the macbook pros. A laptop that doesn't have to tether, but just carries its own internet connection with it would be really nice.
Could the lens be made in situ from distilled, frozzen again moon-ice and a mirror be crafted from foil? Im sure, this would not be optically optimal, but given good enough camera software, learning about the physical flaws of the system, these flaws could be filtered out?
“It's time to regulate the internet”
Ask HN: How to do performance optimizations like a pro?
I know that "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Still, I frequently find myself called upon to battle
the monsters of poor application performance, so I might as well learn how to do it right. I'm interested
in any advice you could give, especially related to desktop and server-side applications (I don't do much
frontend, mobile or embedded).

Here's what I know:

- How to find my way around regular and statistical profilers for the languages I work most with.

- How to replace poor algorithms with better ones.

- How to go about finding performance hotspots by my gut and liberal amounts of timing statements.

Here's what I'd love to know:

- How to leverage system tools (Linux and Windows) to measure performance of an application in the context
of its interactions with the hosting OS?

- What are the common/accepted practices of performance testing? In particuar, are there practices
that make this exercise less painful/ad-hoc, and more systematic/streamlined?

- What are good strategies for including performance tests/safeguards in the usual CI/CD pipeline?

- Are there any good resources on application performance optimizations out there? Books, blogs, courses?

- What, beyond basic (regular and statistical) profilers should be an essential part of my toolbelt?

- Are there any interesting tools for analyzing and visualizing performance reports?

Thanks!
As someone else pointed out - yes, you are right and I was wrong. However the point stands - Asians make more money then everyone yet article points out how white men are earning more.

Again, I'm not trying to defend any white men or whatever, however don't you see the clear agenda this journalist is pushing?
To use your own analogy it seems like we are only talking about one singular right. Making derivative work thereof. If not can you clarify your position?
And the NRA would have been against them, because up until he stepped on campus and started shooting, he was a lawful gun owner.
That's from the plot of "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) :)
I feel that difference will blow in the next decade. It will just be content, wherever you watch.
Recent Updates to Project “Honolulu” and PowerShell Core 6.0
Thanks. I ask because I’m pretty sure I tripped over this bigtime in recent history.

When all you do is wander around looking for broken stuff to help fix, imagine the above sequence repeating itself.
a $300 ipad is still technology for the privileged. come back with $20 tech that the majority of underprivileged can actually afford, then you (apple) can boast about making tech ubiquitous. Until then, nothing they have made in the last 5 years has been significant.
This is essentially a light-weight version of that.
Sounds a bit like when Twitter cut off developers, there isn't much you can do except serve as a warning to other users so thy don't get burnt by the same thing happening to them.

Did they notify you why you were cut off? Any idea why they cut you off if not?
This quote is inspired by Kent Beck who coined it while he and Martin Fowler were working together.

> "For each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change"[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032

Edit: Added a link to his first Tweet containing the quote that I know of.
cool stuff, i was messing around with this. To then take that list of exceptions and find them back the actual files again, tack on at the end: `| grep -Fwf - *`
What could the FBI actually have done in this case? What law did the shooter break?