skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the point of that? The vast majority of people don't care about URLs, which is why they don't check it when browsing and why we have links and buttons in the first place. That also doesn't solve anything regarding URL redirects.

It seems you're attempting to solve a spam/security issue through a presentation layer, which really works, especially when it's opt-in to a new HTML standard.

All major client clients already do some form of link scanning, including robots to visit the links themselves. This also feeds into their spam scores and can retroactively block certain links when wrapping it in their own redirects.
Thanks for the detailed response :)
All the places I enjoyed working in the last thirty years enabled individual contributors to be highly regarded leaders.
Yes, but my friends that own Tesla's actually believe that self-driving cars are almost here.

When I say that it's at least ten years away and likely much longer because it will take big breakthroughs (strong AI, lot's of knowledge about the world, etc.) they look at me like I'm crazy.

I really hope it happens in my lifetime, but I remember talking about Greenblatt's chess program (see [1]) when I was at MIT in the 60's. The AI folks really thought that a chess program would be world champion within 10 years. They finally did it, but it took more like 30 years, and one of the reasons they were successful was that Moore's law eventually allowed a super computer (Deep Blue, at the time the 259th most powerful computer in the world) to evaluate 200 Million board positions per second[2]. Deep Blue's opponent, world champion Garry Kasparov) was most definitely not evaluating 200 Million board positions per second.

I see driving as a much more complex task than playing chess, so maybe 30 years before we will put our children in cars to be driven across town. I will be happily surprised if it arrives sooner.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1465715

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
It depends on what you're focussing on. If I've got a MySQL backend and using different languages, I may be looking for a MySQL driver for Java, or a MySQL driver for PHP. If I've got PHP backend and am moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I'm going to be looking for a PHP driver for PostgreSQL. Since it's the TensorFlow community, I trust they named it like they wanted. I can see it either way.
I've come to call this the abuse of polymorphic language. Polymorphic, meaning many shapes, is predominantly an object oriented software term, but it is obviously applicable to language as well. Any sort of allegory, symbolism, irony, comedy, homophones, etc are examples of this. Polymorphic phrases always give their speaker plausible deniability of the "dog whistle" part of the speech, by allowing them to claim they were meaning the clean phrase.

This is literally a product of English being an evolving language, borrowing from so many different other languages. This is precisely why many legal terms, and most medical terms are in latin. Latin is nearly perfectly specific.

Although "confidence" can take different contexts, all of those contexts share the meaning "with trust", even if the trust is misplaced in some cases.

Context is always context. "To tie or weave together", is always the meaning behind "context"

Controversy is always controversy. "To turn away" is always the meaning behind "context"

Confuse is always confuse. "To rout, or bring to ruin"

One way I've been able to employ this knowledge, without actually speaking pure latin, is to fold this specificity of latin back onto the polymorphism of English.

Essentially, if you can see a trend in someones behavior that maps to a Latin word, and they are consistent with that behavior, I've found that the meaning behind the combination of the individual phonemes is strikingly accurate in describing at least that person's general trajectory, if not their intent. For example, someone who is always injecting controversy, and never providing context, Like Howard Stern for instance, is generally trying to turn his listeners away from the people he is lambasting. In the converse, if you have people in your life that have convinced you that they always have your best interest at heart, and you can see that they have actually followed through usually, that person predominantly communicates with you by providing context, instead of injecting controversy.
> Neither Python nor Rust has ternary operators (which may be for the best).

Then it goes on to show the ternary conditional operator from python.
"Understanding Analysis" by Stephen Abbott is a great undergraduate level math textbook. The focus is real analysis (a rigorous treatment of single variable calculus). It's an excellently written text which will bridge the knowledge gap an engineer may have. After Abbott you can pick up and read books like Spivak where the beauty of calculus (from an engineering viewpoint) can really be seen. Both of these books have exercises, but they aren't tediously calculating derivatives. The exercises are fun and often mind bending problems you can spend hours thinking about, and really come out having learned something once you get the idea.
Except Sliceline, in the HBO show, was inspired by real-life Slice, which makes a shocking amount of money.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slicelife....

Slice is here in New York and I've been to their office and I know many of the programmers who work there, so I know they are surprisingly successful.
I suppose you could use the power generated to desalinate water, grow forests where there otherwise isn't enough water, then bury the trees before they have an opportunity to decay into the atmosphere.
I guess I'm comparing and contrasting this with the infamous Google sexism memo.

They canned an employee for saying something unpopular they disagreed with.

The fact that this went such a different way says something. Maybe that something is "the cultures of Google and Facebook are so different it explains the discrepancy." But maybe it's "Facebook wanted to float this as an ethical trial balloon."
Stepanov disagrees. You should return the second parameter if a, b are equivalent (and you should use < anyway):

template<typename T>
inline constexpr const T& max(const T& a, const T& b) {
return (b < a ? a : b);
}
Interesting, could be "libmodule" be useful for such app development as AzPainter[0,1] (based on mlib[2] toolkit)?

> If anybody asks for support for some other OS, i can think about switching to poll(),

Think, adding macOS support is enough.

Windows support un-needed[3] as Windows OS will die soon and it's soul go to clouds[4]. I'm serious[5], really[5]! There is HN thread[7] about it.

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/AzPainter

[1] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/linux/azpainter.html

[2] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/linux/mthemeeditor.html

[3] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/winsoft.html#en

[4] https://news.microsoft.com/2018/03/29/satya-nadella-email-to...

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179328/microsoft-window...

[6] http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/news/companies/microsoft-res...

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716040
Bullshit. This is an ICO off the back of people’s desire to fight cancer. No FDA approval, no actual system, no substance, just GLIA “utility” tokens. If they want to defend their approach with something substantial, I’ll retract the “bullshit,” but this looks like the usual ICO scam. I took the liberty of filling out complaints with the SEC, FDA, and FTC yesterday and hopefully they can get some real answers.
How many dimensions were they working with and how much variance and correlation was there in the features? What's the margin of error for the end product?
One important reason is that it helps democratize ML to make it accessible to everybody. Even a casual hobby programmer can write awesome applications, and anybody - especially non-technical users - can use them. It makes ML - especially inference - as easy as opening facebook.

Right now, just to consume ML models - whether as a application developer or an end user - requires some combination of special skills that fall in a spectrum of complexities - from something relatively simple like installing a system package or an environment like Anaconda or a pip package, to something much more complex and time consuming like building TF or Caffe.

ML in browser bypasses all of that.
this is so nice. love the app already!

- feature wise, it's not as good as forklift yet but the performance, ui (personal preference) are much better.
Any centralization of a sector of an economy needs to be politically coordinated so the fact that the G20 heads don't agree on a plan is promising. I think it's possible some of finance ministers of the G20 members like the disruptive potential of cryptocurrency.
> 1Password also holds documents and notes; in my state, documents such as car insurance can be legally carried on your phone for traffic stops. I also have my health insurance cards in there for ease of use.

I wouldn't rely on this because it turns your phone into a single point of failure (your battery could die or your phone could fail at the wrong time). Similarly, I would never rely on mobile wallets without physical cards as a backup.
Roam Robotics Announces $2500 Soft Exoskeleton for Skiers and Snowboarders
Thanks - I just searched the page for "archive.is" hoping to see a comment exactly like this one :)
Every Easter, a Sicilian Town Builds a Cathedral Out of Bread
I’m not up to date on GCC macros, so I’m not familiar with this syntax:

#define __cmp_once(x, y, op) ({	\
typeof(x) __x = (x);	\
typeof(y) __y = (y);	\
__cmp(__x, __y, op); })

Is that a block-expression, or what?
"The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision."

Shouldn't you have more audible warnings than visual if you are aware that not complying will lead to an accident?
I will LMAO if it turns out the barrier was collapsed the previous day by another Tesla on auto pilot. We only hear about the fatalities right?
It's unpredictable, because a much smaller pool of people visit the new page and upvote stories. As a fallback, sometimes the mods will promote a story to the front page.
It doesn't have to add up, most people are too busy with their real lives to manually search and find reliable details (what we get from the media is not reliably unbiased or true), and then read and understand them, so they believe what they see and hear repeated over and over on the TV, radio, and newspaper: the American President is controlled by Vladimir Putin. Even most smart people don't seem to care about actual evidence.
You're throwing out buzzwords instead of addressing the response.

It's dimensionality reduction. You cannot recover the original object. It's like using a shadow to reconstruct the face of the person casting the shadow.

Note this has nothing to do with the expressive power of a deep neural network. You are by definition trying to throw away noisy aspects of the data and generalize a lower dimensional manifold from a high dimensional space. If it's not lossy, it won't generalize.
No. Way.

This is pretty freaking amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Which US legislation?
Are you saying that the rarity of voter fraud is evidence that current deterrent measures don't work?
Curious why not Go. Google has much more control over Go than Swift.
Will you end up on 85 or will autopilot figure out at the last minute that you need to change lanes and do so?
It only gets built if some over-zealous nerds build it. That's the point.
Sigh....the technical legality of obtaining the data is not the point of contention. Do you think that is what this is about, whether CA "broke the law"?
Do you have any sources for your claim that the parent poster claimed the democrats purchased Facebook data?
There's a problem with all ML-based content recommendation, whether it's advertising, movies, whatever: the people who make the content have strong opinions about what should get shown to whom and when. If those people have negotiating leverage over your organization, your business team will compromise your recommendations to placate those people. That means that after you've build this beautiful model that minimizes whatever cost function you've chosen, there will be a bevy of business rules and content-specific score adjustments that will be overlaid. Over time, this shaggy, bad-assumption-laden system will dominate the user experience, and unless your management has a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the recommendation system, your model will eventually be lost in a sea of human-generated noise. Not that I'm bitter about this or anything.
Ok, I found the doc for GCC Statement Expressions. Seems very Ruby-like.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html
These self driving systems are not likely learning in realtime. When the algorithms are updated, best practice is to validate their performance on a large regression set. So something like this should be caught during validation, assuming your test data is good.
On-Chip Communication Network for Efficient Training of Deep CNNs
And this short snippet in D

T max(T)(T a, T b) { return a < b ? b : a; }

without requiring explicit constexpr annotations and with less noisy template syntax ;).
I love Tesla to death and in most cases will defend them beyond the point of reason.

But I took a test drive in a model S for the first time earlier this year and almost immediately noticed autopilot’s extremely unreliable behavior— it would swerve out of lanes in ordinary situations that should have been easy to handle. The second I saw that, hat was it: I would never use it again before many years of testing and improvement had taken place. No way am I gambling my life on a clearly incomplete feature just because it’s cool. Fuck that.

Of course Tesla is fairly safe behind their disclaimers and warnings, and to be honest I think it may be impossible to develop such a system without putting it into the wild before it’s perfect.

But for me, personally...I’ll let other people choose to be the Guinea pigs. The risks are all too obvious. Continuing to use the feature is very dangerous. Do it knowing this may very well happen to you.
Most posters here are human.
Can you point to the part of that article containing evidence of to what degree they affected the election?
I thought that seemed really high, so I did a little looking and horrifically it’s actually a bit lower than the industry average of 46%! Some of that is skewed by VW recalling more cars in a year than it sells in a year, but still...

Wow.

http://m.wardsauto.com/industry/best-and-worst-automaker-rec...
You're right that it's really just a form of dimensionality reduction. My point was just that it's a more powerful form of dimensionality reduction than PCA or NMDS.

[Edit: and that the salient characteristics are likely contained in the model.]
Isn't "the experience of a diner" just greasy food cooked from frozen ingredients and average service?
Tesla is very very very bad with PR when something goes wrong. Their response to this is awful.
I have not watched the dystopic thriller you mention, so I don't know what kind of drawbacks you are expecting, but I think this technology might have some useful applications.

E.g. an image-upload site could answer requests for deletion on privacy grounds not by taking the whole image down, but by obscuring only parts of the image.

Or imagine you're taking a selfie in a crowded place and don't want all those other people diverting attention away from you.

Basically, this could be used whenever someone might go for manually painting over parts of an image to remove content. Something similar for screenshots of conversations might be useful as well.
But do people assume the same thing about, say, Google search results? Promoted posts on Reddit? The ads (or natural posts) on Snapchat or Instagram?

I agree that it's pretty obvious you're being retargeted when ads for camping supplies start showing up three days after you search for them on Amazon. But the practice of "personalization" of results and ads is far larger and deeper, to a degree that most people never seem to think about.
I thought for sure you'd be wrong, but nope!

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_...
The idea of probation is itself kind of messed up, in some ways. See what Meek Mill (yes, the rapper) has been put through because of a judge that is obsessed with him, along with absolutely idiotic and onerous probation requirements.

Of course, you’re technically correct (the best kind!), but it was a thought I felt like riffing on for a moment.
For the elderly and perhaps others also, too little insulation means a higher chance of accidents (falls etc.) turning fatal.

It might be quite hard to consume a sufficient amount of certain nutrients like Calcium on caloric restricted diet as well.
Is it me or did the audience had absolutely no clue what that presentation was about ?
This answer ignores some known details of the story. Cambridge Analytica didn't just buy targeted ads from Facebook. They used a sockpuppet to release a fake "take a personality profile" app, which then allowed them to gather tons of data against the Facebook terms of use.

The CEO of Cambridge Analytica has also been recorded telling a (fake) potential client that they routinely blackmail people using prostitutes and who knows what else.

So unless you can show that Clinton's campaign was doing the same things, your claim is a false equivalence.
Minimal DNS-Over-HTTPS Server
> Finder also has done bulk rename for a few years now.

It was worth logging in to HN today just for this, which I had alway relied on third party utilities to do. For anyone else who wasn’t aware, just select multiple files, right click, and select rename.
I've never been a morning person. Always been awake late and struggled to wake up in the morning. Imagine how it feels to have people dismiss this as a problem with screen time when I grew up without any screens! (Literally - not even a TV).
Space is just about the worst place to put a datacenter.

Price to orbit is thousands of dollars per kilo. Maintainability is zilch. And you have lots of cosmic rays flinging charged particles into your sensitive memory banks, flipping random bits. Also, heat management is very difficult.

I couldn't think of a worse place to put a datacenter than space. The bottom of the ocean would make more sense.
If you enjoyed this sort of first-order quantitative reasoning about energy use and production, can I recommend the book 'Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air' by the late Prof David Mackay? It's essentially 300 pages just like the grandparent post, about making an energy policy that adds up, given various bounds of allowable CO2 emissions etc.

Free online, and a the best seller physical book in the field: https://www.withouthotair.com/
Stop Saying Smart Cities - Bruce Sterling
Relevant: http://i2.wp.com/www.business-planning-for-managers.com/Worp...
Nice! Uh, how do you make that work with Manhattan rents of $10-$100 per square foot monthly?
Ask HN: Chinese domain and punycode
I was checking domain availability in China and I wondered..... Am I really registering the puny code version of the domain? Like xn--p8sr6e67h0r1c.cn? And does .cn and .com also convert to punycode?
Or someone that's "just doing their job".
Ask HN: Instagram API rate limits
I use some self developed script to get info about my posts and followers. Recently i discovered that Instagram changed rate limits for my app. I see following info in headers:

x-ratelimit-limit: 200

I learned Instagram blog and page with changes but found no mentions about any changes since Oct 1, 2017.

Is this new limit related only to my token or to entire platform? Could you check your token?
Scheme, absolutely. At least two highly regarded CS101 textbooks, SICP and How to Design Programs, use Scheme as a language for instruction.
The admission by the company executive.
How to Hire a Freelancer
Yeah, but there are inefficiencies in the production process and the engine. I conservatively assumed each of these is about an order of magnitude.
https://protonet.com/ and https://holochain.org/ are relevant and noteworthy projects. Prototnet is popular in Germany for SMB replacement of Google Apps. Holochain is an evolving blockchain / decentralized project that sold $500k USD worth of mini desktop servers on IndieGoGo last year to seed the infrastructure.
Alex Inc. (StartUp) – Episode 1
After Tesla dumped Mobileye for their own system a year or two ago, autopilot performance was worse. But in the past few weeks they supposedly pushed out an update that dramatically improved it, to the point that it's finally unambiguously better than the old Mobileye system.

I still wouldn't trust it. I don't believe their current hardware has enough processing power to do the job. But it should be performing better now than even a few months ago.
Over a 100 comments from the Show HN a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921364
Parsing JSON back to front is faster
Or open it from China (where the captcha is even blocked). The irony....
Ugh. So many terms that when I actually say out loud and try to be serious I throw up in the back of my mouth a little.

Is there room in this space for a new no-nonsense vendor? Someone who cuts out all the goddamn middlemen and just asks what hardware you want, how you want it configured, and quotes you a frickin price without all the bullshit?
I've heard rumours that the internal backlash at Netflix against 5 star ratings happened with Amy Schumer's most recent comedy special which had thousands of 1 star reviews on Netflix. Which was one of their most expensive comedy productions and whose release coincided not long before the switch over to vague thumbs up/down.

Note, the comedy special was similarly panned across the press and social media as being repetitive of her previous work, extremely predictable punchlines, and when seemingly good later exposed to be highly derivative of other comedians work.

But regardless of the reality/honesty of her rating it was apparently not good for Netflix's business when they let users destroy content they produced destroy it on their own web site via user generated content.

So the suits (heavily swayes by their production studio and Hollywood) were able to convince the product team to hurt the UX for 90% in order to protect the popularity of the 10% of content they own.

The truth may be good for consumers in almost all situations. But sadly the interests of executives dealing closely with high value B2B partners and investors tend to have a way to out-valuing the interests of the average user (not to mention far out valuing power users).

So I guess we have to rely on 3rd party IMDb web extensions which inject into Netflix in order to get honest ratings.
How is Tesla supposed to know, yet, if Autopilot actually made the maneuver? They're saying what they know.

Edit: in a posting today, Tesla has said more: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident but at the time of the earlier blog posting, Tesla says they did not know yet.
> single point of failure

Let me spell that: A W S
Looks interesting. I'd love to see more screen shots. Is there a gallery somewhere? I poked around the site a bit but didn't find one. Tthough perhaps I just missed it. Been known to happen.)
It's necessary for adding SSL to an intranet service.
If they can't figure out how to store that data they shouldn't be on the road. You're telling me it's a data storage / transmission problem that their best engineers can't solve, yet we're supposed to trust their machine learning system? Tons of companies are working on this and plenty seem to have figured out even bigger big data issues already.
That would make a hell of a racket. They more likely boiled their brake fluid or something, possibly due to a stuck caliper.