skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bizarre if true and is followed up by NK removing all those artillery pointed at Seoul. It puts them in a very precarious state. The only remaining bulwark against US invasion would be upsetting China.

The other obvious one is the nuclear threat. But the nuclear threat to the US mainland has to be negligible at this stage, and is, if anything, an incentive to invade asap before their nuclear threat becomes reliable. I think without the decimation of Seoul on the table, many generals will be licking their lips at this.
That seems a bit unfair. Both are facing the same tense emergency situation; one while keeping an eye on the auto-pilot, the other while directing multiple inbound flights.

Perhaps I'm overthinking, but to my ear, it's the pilot who's bricking it.
Network Effects Will Be What Launches Cryptocurrencies into the Mainstream
Fantastic paper, glad to see it is so powerful! I'm just graduating as a computer scientist and independently came up with a very similar idea. Nice to see it validated, especially with it solving previously unsolved problems. Called the latent space of the VAE "Mental Space", having similar purpose to the Vision Model.

Have you done any experiments feeding the cell states into the Controller in addition to the latent vector and hidden states? If so how did it perform?
Cool product, it just bothers me that they describe mycelium as the "underground root structure of mushrooms". That's like saying the rest of a plant is just part of a flower.
Yes, IPs and any other information can be kept if there is a legitimate interest. For example if another regulation requires you to keep full information for AML or tax purposes, you can't immediately comply with a right-to-be-forgotten request to delete all the data you hold.

It's still personal information though (which was my original point), and so you still need to comply with GDPR by minimizing usage, not sharing it to processors without permission, having a procedure for telling users what data you hold on them, etc. And I think you'd have a harder time claiming that the other stuff is required too, specifically the addresses and phone numbers. You can do spam detection without that information, even if it would be less effective.

The problem I see with GDPR is just that we won't know precisely where the boundaries are until there's some case law to set precedent. It may prove to be easy to comply with, or it may prove to have some sharp edges that are expensive to comply with; we really can't tell.
There are only 6 original thoughts about ranking 3 movies, and a billion people who have seen them to form opinions.
It's early morning here in India and no email yet.
LinkedIn absolutely “wins” when it comes to a sucky mobile web experience.
Rosa Parks paid her fare before seating.
An in-depth tour of Nikon’s Hikari Glass factory
www.tothetens.com We are building a marketplace, where users can share and buy products from the photos and videos. We are starting with fashion and beauty sector.
did he call yavascript to avoid something like this?
>you'll still encounter a significant subset of those issues

Heck you will encounter those issues in a large project using only one language!
And on a scale of 1 to 10, since I doubt he knows of the existence of advanced video fakery techniques, how likely do you think it is that he could be completely fooled by a faked video of a Myanmar domestic celebrity or politician?
ES seems like a decent enough alternative to me.
Which parts have the tallest buildings?
Yes, like us, fungi are opisthokonts, but where collagen is the mammalian structural protein used for making leather, fungal hyphae are principally comprised of chitin—structurally closer to the polysaccharide cellulose of the mentioned "kombucha leather" than to the collagen protein. Collagen is present in fungi in certain edge cases, but bulk mycelium is mostly chitin. This is speculation, but leather made from chitin may actually be a bit stronger than animal leather made from collagen. Maybe closer to keratin in strength? (Interestingly, keratin is chemically cleaved in hides during leather production--not entirely sure why, to enhance flexibility and allow access to the collagen fibers?). Agreed about fungi being easier to engineer. As you point out, endogenous expression of dyes in hyphae for different colors of mycelial leather is compelling. GFP would be cool too for the rave and nightclub crowd.

The Quorn meat analogue[1] is another product made from compressed mycelium. I've had "chicken" nuggets made from it. They're...not bad, but as far as mycelial structures go I prefer mushrooms.

1. http://www.misac.org.uk/PDFs/MiSAC_Briefings_1.pdf
Do you still have it?
CIA Director Pompeo Met with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Over Easter Weekend
I'm so glad Aubrey de Grey got a nice win here. I feel like he doesn't get enough credit for his other endeavours.
If anything the Washington Post was worse than CNN. They ran 16 anti-Bernie stories in 16 hours [1]. Their outright complete support of Hillary was very obvious.

[1] https://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie...

NY Times often used spurious polling and statistics to push Hillary. They messaged that Hillary was in the lead before primaries even began based on predicted super delegate numbers. They claimed with over 90% certainty that Hillary would win the election on election day, even when it was obvious to casual observers such as myself that that number was totally wrong. They were trying to manufacture consent.
Maybe you should can’t let them use Facebook logins?
The Right King of Wrong
You are right that PoW does not establish order. The PoW "ticks" have a temporal order, but the way it is represented in the blockchain is cryptographically using a Merkle tree, and there is no "rule" that the real life appearance of "ticks" must match the blockchain order.

Note that the paper says "_also_ solves", implying that the "representation in majority decision" part is secondary. If you think about it, the winning miner does not really get to decide anything at all, since the block has to exist before the winning SHA is found since it is the input to the SHA.
Sure, they will still track you as best as they can (though as I said Facebook doesn't have geolocation access on desktop). This doesn't change the fact that without your browsing profile, Facebook will have less knowledge about you than it would normally have, period. Facebook can't "undo" that.
It's not him for sure but I thought it sounded really good. It's only going to get better, too, when we have a good AI or other type of solution to replicate his voice and mannerisms.
IIRC this guy or his associates dug up soil from a medieval burial site near Cambridge (England) to try and find a bacterial enzyme capable of breaking down 7-ketocholesterol (and hence potentially to cure artherosclerosis). Maybe not Indiana Jones but certainly ingenius and intrepid!
There are a lot of charities handing out mosquito nets in a driveby fashion. There are not many charities working closely enough with local communities to ensure that those mosquito nets will actually be used, and they won’t be turned into fishing nets instead. If you donate to malaria prevention, make sure it’s a truly hands-on charity.
Wouldn't setting your cookie settings to strict (block all third party cookies) do the same thing?
I recommend the "Switch Container" extension for this.

For developers, containers and this extension also make it super easy to test what a page looks like when logged in as a different user.
I've definitely run into problems with ecommerce sites (really just Tarsnap) and embedded iframes from 3rd party payment services, while using the Chrome equivalent of this Firefox setting.
This is not going to age well.
Sun was encouraging Netscape to include the JVM in their browser for applets, and generally trying to promote Java as the Next Big Thing. The in-browser scripting language was going to be called "LiveScript", but Sun asked them to change it to "JavaScript" to strengthen the Java brand, and make the syntax more closely resemble C-family languages.
There's no need for this. The SOA DNS record of every domain already includes an email contact (more by convention than requirement, I think?). It's mildly annoying because they have to replace the '@' with a '.' due to limitations in what can be in the field, but it's pretty easy to extract the correct information.
Are brain waves abstractions?
I think they're lying when they say that they haven't seen a noticeable impact in usage. Plenty of people I know can see through their BS and want to delete their FB or already have.

Society probably shouldn't use social media at all. Facebook has every intent on making its use a social norm.
Linux and Java have the same license as this.
Many businesses are cash-only because they had so much credit-card fraud associated with them that no merchant bank is willing to process their payments.
Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
Airbnb tries to slime Boston city councilor
It sounds amazing. But Oracle's legal reputation means I can never safely choose their tech stack, especially not something open source and free.

One of a million examples, this happens on the front page of HN at the same time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/8d0bg2/oracle_o...
They also have a similar number of employees: IRS - 76,832; NC State - 83,820
I would like to isolate every website I visit into a container, such that cookies or other tracking mechanisms are unable to be effective while on other pages.
16:55: "Use caution for the downtown area."

Meaning, don't fly over downtown so that if your plane comes apart you won't kill large numbers of people below you.

Pretty intense stuff.
Foul-Mouthed Zen Master says: This is one of those problems (and there are many) that the manager could've avoided by just not giving a shit. Racism for example is nothing but giving a shit about something that doesn't deserve to have a shit given.

Why even get involved with anything happening on the other side of the counter? Take the money, dispense the coffee, collect your paycheck, and read the community-college catalog so you can get the hell out of there someday!

If someone is genuinely "in the way", people will repeatedly jostle past them annoyingly until they get the hint. It's a self-correcting system.

If someone is such a foul presence that they're driving away customers, that's Starbuck's problem, and not really a big one for them either. You as the manager, meanwhile, have less to do because of it, not more; use that time to read the community-college catalog.

If someone is actively threatening or harassing someone else, yelling at the top of his lungs, or committing some other actual literal crime, THEN you call the cops.
They have existing apps that wouldn't let them do that. I'm not about to control my mother's choices.
Last time I checked Packrat had nothing to do with memoization. Packrat parsing is the same as precedence climbing, very similar to the shunting yard algorithm, except it leverages the call stack to simplify the code.

And last time I checked, PEG was syntax sugar above recursive descent, just like parser combinators. I implemented¹ the damn thing, so I think I know what I'm talking about. Somewhat. Memoization is just a way to go beyond LL(1), and handle left recursive grammars, it's not not mandatory.

[1]: http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/metacompilers/
I don't understand what you are arguing.

>>> the maximum-likelihood model is one where the frequency of every word is the frequency that you observed that word, and the frequency of unseen words is 0

>> I think that's false. A model may never reduce any probability to zero. Novel data is a normal feature of modelling.

> But there are better ways to build a model.

Yes of course there are. That's exactly what the OP said ("You correct it by being an intelligent human who knows the maximum-likelihood model is wrong, and applying a correction on top of it") but you seemed to be arguing against it.

(And to be clear, there are also alternatives to the maximum likelihood model)
It is super rude, and "giving up" is the right answer - to annoying sites. Screw them.

The single nicest thing you can do for yourself after an ad blocker is to get Javascript under control. I personally am using JS Blocker, which takes too much effort, but allows you to selectively load JS. There are others - I like the control JS Blocker offers, but it is a bit annoying.

This is not without problems; there are sites that don't work/don't work well. I frankly don't care about most of them, so that's fine with me, and I leak much less data to the various panty-sniffers[1].

Life is much nicer when you take back control of what runs on your machine.

[1] I block FB, Google and several others' IP space, but the smaller adtech/government/who-knows surveillance shops are impossible to keep up with, and, well, defense-in-depth is the way to go.
Metabase is great but try as I might, I cannot get it to connect to a Postgres database over SSL. So... I'm using Redash instead, where it was easier to make that happen.
We use Anima at Novi! Great product :) Love the transitions beta.
If the efficient market theory is to be believed, then as soon as a competitor shows up with the user's preferred choice, they will gain the market share.

The fact that no such competitor exists is evidence that the user's preferences aren't what you stated, but is in fact consistent with reality, namely they prefer free and bloated.
More pressingly, it looks like the Archive Team need some help on this one: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikispaces
This is exciting for new leather products, I'd like to see how a pair of boxing gloves or a pair of Thai pads made from such a material hold up. As for other leather goods. I usually just buy them second hand from a goodwill or something. Almost, Second-hand anything is good for the environment.
Things will break like logging in with Google/Facebook/other OAuths that use popup window redirects, iframe services like Disqus or Facebook comments, Google's captcha will become more annoying, less local caching will happen which means slower browsing in general.
> They messaged that Hillary was in the lead before primaries even began based on predicted super delegate numbers.

Which was true.

> They claimed with over 90% certainty that Hillary would win the election on election day, even when it was obvious to casual observers such as myself that that number was totally wrong.

Even election day doesn't necessarily prove that "wrong". 90% chance of Hillary winning means a 10% chance of Trump winning. If I draw a red ace of clubs out of a deck of cards, I don't go "that's statistically unlikely, fake news!"

It appears that 538's model was better, in hindsight, as he appears to have been correct to give more credence to the chances of a multi-state polling miss. It's not clear the NYT's model was necessarily wrong, through.
To be fair, 23 years is a very, very long time for something to "roost".
> "And you know what else is interesting?! Mack Wel-

Nope. Goodbye.
Thank you for the information. I have no connection to the charity I linked (except I think I may have given them $50 once), and I don't know which charities, if any, are effective at preventing malaria. Maybe they should be giving out fishing nets as well. It's telling that for the communities receiving these nets, they see starvation as a more immediate threat.

Anyway, my point is just that if you're looking to make optimal use of money to save or improve human lives, there are many things that should be higher priorities than stopping people dying "of old age" in the West.
My use case is multiple Google accounts. I can log in to multiple Google accounts at the same time in different containers and answer emails very easily.
Speaking of unwritten rules, there were actual written rules that black people had to give up their seats when asked by a white person, couldn’t drink from the same water fountains, etc.

actual. written. rules.

So even though she paid her fare, the rules at the time were that she had to give up her seat when asked.

So not the best counter-point, unless you agree that, whether or not money has been paid, and written or not, bullshit is bullshit. And getting kicked out of a cafe when there are other peaceful loiterers who were not also kicked out, is bullshit.
Such is the way of capitalism.
it has been suggested by many that the ideal start would be to take over existing HOV lanes and turn set them aside for self driving cars. They have unique markings already and from that a system could be developed to mark any road sufficiently and economically.

better yet it can probably be paid for by people who want to use it and manufacturers who want to sell their solutions.

the elephant in the room though is that is has been marketed as a safety system and it cannot operate in the conditions we need it most. just live BEVs there are too many players going in too many directions that regulation and standards have not caught up.
It's more thorough than just cookies including various caches and data stores.
It will just make the problem worse. If you have a tulip bubble, slowing adding tulips to the supply on exacerbates the problem. The solution is to allow the market to disincentivize people from moving here. But that would hurt certain industries and decrease tax revenues that certain groups want to use to do good.
How do you do this in Chrome?
I attribute these sorts of things to companies doing what they are designed to do; make money. The goal of this move, like most others by similar companies, is to either make more money now, make more money in the future, or minimize any future monetary losses. Not being hated by the public just happens to facilitate the aforementioned primary goal.
His major contribution to society is some entertaining sailboat racing.
My LA house has to have a shutoff that automatically kills the main gas line during an earthquake. One must be installed when the house changes hands. No grandfather clause exception allowed.
‘Scraping’ Is Just Automated Access, and Everyone Does It
Not yet. It's on our roadmap.
I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot-pole without an explicit patent grant. Oracle has misbehaved too much in the past (and present) to ever be trusted again by the open source community in my opinion.
The New Octopus
The problem is, where do your coins come from? Who or what is allowed to bring coins into existence and what prevents them from just creating as many as they like? The second problem is, how do you resolve conflicting transactions spending the same coins?
I am working on a project that’s cryptographically encoding passage of time as data, with a millisecond resolution. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana As long as the fabrication process is the same you can have high confidence at time and order of events that are far apart.
The brilliance and scariness of the possibility that this may be where advertising technology is at reminds me of this sentiment that I can't remember the source of:

"All the brightest human minds in the world are working for advertising companies"
Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook
Except there is no evidence he said that, is there? Wikiquote lists it as "suspect".
Or just use a vdf as the ledger :) https://github.com/solana-labs/solana
Dunno, small stdlib-like extensions are the absolute most trivial 3rd party dependencies. Like let's say they use Lodash.

Definitely not the hard part of maintaining a legacy dynamically-typed application. And I'd say it's the most trivial part.

And your assertion suggests that it's somehow rare to have to maintain code? I'm sure the person you replied to has maintained code for more than a year and is drawing part of their post from that experience.
For convex shapes, isn’t it?
Fuck it, let's just call it ECMAScript and be done with it. JavaScript was a purposefully horrible name to begin with (as other commenters have pointed out). One less thing Oracle can jerk us around on.

I'm just going to call it ES or ECMAScript from now on. If enough people do it the matter will be settled.
The Psychology of Russiagate
ACLU Report: The Public Internet Option
The length between any two vertices which share an edge is 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_distance_graph
also relevant: http://nissan.com/
Thanks! The entire site is very interesting.
> The internet removes serendipity

It also removes the social context around the production of taste. Taste, in addition to being a set of personal preferences, is also a conscious and unconscious way of both signaling social status and creating empathy between people. This is largely absent in algorithm-facilitated media consumption. Facebook/spotify/whatever else is an intercessor between you and your group of friends and peers, removing the patterns of social interactions surrounding our formation of likes and dislikes and replacing them with an anonymized distillation of what other people enjoy. I don't think that's a good thing. There's a huge chunk of human interaction that's being elided here.
Except that Oracle owns both the JavaScript and Java trademarks via the Sun acquisition.

And Sun requested the name change:

in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.[1]

So it's kind of the opposite of chickens coming home to roost. More like a term plan finally paying off.

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2653798/application-develo...
Don't do this to the space bar! I used the same trick as the video to fix/clean several keys out and had a pretty good feel for what I was doing.

However the stress/weak points on the spacebar are quite different and you're more likely, as I did, to lift the entire butterfly mechanism out. You will not get this back in again. It's $700 to get the thing fixed at Apple but you can buy replacement keys for $100 per shot online.
He was from the future in the presentation, so he knew that after this oracle debacle, everyone since 2018 onwards called it "yavascript"
More than my contribution.
Well, I've generally found that the more "compressible" your site's HTML structure or CSS is with other websites the worse it does. I suspect its because Google is fighting Shopify / SquareSpace fly-by-night stores. Even if a store objectively looks worse, if it's all hand coded HTML and it's got an array of products, it's less likely to be a scam or shoddy material.
Ask HN: What are some good architectures for building recommendation systems?
I have been working on AI/recommendations(for music) for a while now and run a few experiments with some ALS models which have shown promising results during A/B tests. Would like to build a proper recommendation system with online and offline models. I have searched around and elastic search and Solr come up as good ways of building one (reduce the recommendation problem to an implicit search problem) but after talking to a few folks at work it seems like it may not be the most scalable or simplest solution for us. What are some other architectures to consider? Are there any good resources for this? After a lot of searching, I have not been able to find much other than the aforementioned Solr/elasticsearch solutions.

Here are a few links I found online while researching this.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/looking-at-content-recommendation-through-a-search-lens

https://mapr.com/blog/inside-look-at-components-of-recommendation-engine/#.VSv8o_nF81J
Using Image processing an AI to help define your memories (images)
Antiquing?
In that case, hopefully, and probably, justice will be served.