skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can tap anything that Siri hears you say and fix it. Unfortunately, that means you might end up with the opposite problem in the future.
David Armstrong and David lewis for metaphysics! Quine word and object is great, but some of his short essays are more accessible. For a good logic book graham priest an intro to non classical logic. Russell is pleasant intro, but you'll probably want to go deeper.
I don’t think you responded to any of my points. Most of what you are claiming is not true or irrelevant.

I’ll try to respond to yours.

> the extralegal FB "raid" on CA's offices. or is there some internal explanation for that?

That was apparently part of the agreement that Facebook had with CA after it was revealed by The Guardian that they bought data from another firm. CA claimed at the time they didn’t know the data was not licensed to be sold and agreed to fairly extensive terms, including agreeing for Facebook auditors to check that the data was actually deleted.

It’s my understanding that acquiring this data does not break any law, at least not clearly, so few official channels are available to prevent a company from sharing that information -- not until GDPR is in place, next month. Even then, you might need users’ complaints: jurisdiction is not clear. Facebook auditors, who are sworn to a lot fiducial obligations, not Facebook, had the ability to prevent Cambridge Analytica from deleting evidence hours after the revelations -- thanks to that previous private agreement; the ICO took several days to draft a warrant.

As someone familiar with the situation, I was flabbergasted by the spin that Facebook could be “deleting evidence”: it wasn’t in their interest, certainly not after the revelations were out. It was however very representative of an incredibly misinformed and hostile media coverage of the company.

If you start with the presumption that Facebook is the Devil incarnate, well… you are stuck without much options to solve a data leak, and you reach the conclusion that Facebook in the Devil incarnate. If you trust the company to act in their own interest and the interest of their users, yes, you would expect they enforce that contract properly.

My position is not that Facebook is perfect: I have repeatedly pointed out here, recently and for more than decade online that I was the first person warning about such a company, since before Facebook was even founded. I suggested in early 2004 to my adviser a PhD topic on the challenges to enforce anti-competition rules on social media. I believe that there are a lot of things that make Facebook potentially dangerous and that need regulation and monitoring. I have very publicly opposed certain decisions made by Facebook, generally in that direction -- but I think that the foaming-at-the-mouth hatred that so many people display here is unhelpful and actually helping the company evade necessary challenges.
Insert obligatory Star Trek Discovery reference here.
> I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of Hacker News. No, this does not gain me entree to the old boys club. I still have essentially no professional connections here, though that may be painfully slowly changing.

The leaderboard, inasmuch as it correlates with any elite group, probably does so more because people who are already in that group are more likely to get onto the leaderboard for a variety of reasons, not because the leaderboard offers entry to that group (whether generally or for men specifically.)

I don't think I'm at all unique in being a man who has been in the leaderboard without ever having any professional connections through HN.

There is definitely a group with professional connections that overlaps with the HN community, including the leaderboard, and there is certainly no small amount of networking that is facilitated by HN contacts with similar interests, but, even before coming considering any potential gender dynamics issues, getting into the leaderboard just isn't a ticket into anything of substance.
Test comment.

This works because the collapse request is a GET request. Just like the "Show HN: This up votes itself" post [1] from a few years ago, a simple hidden image in any webpage would make the request on your behalf.

Obviously, collapsing threads is merely annoying as opposed to something more malicious like automatically upvoting posts, but I still thought this would be interesting to share.

Don't perform authenticated actions using GET requests, I guess.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
Autonomous car companies hitting the gas as Waymo files for driverless permit
I like the concept and implementation of the proposed improvements, but I think it starts off a bit too slow - lots of repetition in 2 through 6. The reader doesn't know what's coming, so you're asking a lot for them to sit through those "boring" bits.

Also, information on how to deploy this concept on other sites might also be useful, especially given the venue. Maybe even use the project itself as the tutorial?
I think some of this is kind of wrong.

Mostly the claim that "The Difficulty is Intergalactic" is just flat wrong.
Consider a miner on mars with 10% of the hash-rate on earth. Lets say the light delay from earth to mars is 10 minutes (it is 14 on average).

Now, suppose mars has last seen block B_0 and it was mined on earth (as would happen most often due to 90% of the hash rate being there). We will call E_1 the next block found if only earth were to mine, and M_1 the block for mars.
Now, mars has two really big dis-advantages. First of all, earth gets to see B_0 ten minutes before mars does. So, earth can start mining a lot earlier.
Second of all, when mars does find a block, but earth finds a block 10 minutes later, earth is going to orphan the martian block.

So, if mars has fewer than 20 minutes of advantage over earth, there is a very good chance any block they find won't matter.

Now, I suppose if the hash-rate is more spread-out over multiple planets, and one planet isn't dominating things might work out. But we might also see consensus break down. I might sit down and do the rigorous math on that tommorow, just to see what happens.

(Other minor nitpicks)

> SHA is Memoryless and Progress-Free

Technically false, because memory-less processes have positive probabilty of yielding no block after 2^256 tries, whereas for sha-256 using brute force, this probability is totally 0.
I don't think this matters at the current hash-rate though. (our current hashrate covers about (2.5 * 10^-53)% of the entire output space every 10 minutes.)

> Trying a SHA Makes You a Participant

Only if you would actually submit your hash if you found a match. The same holds for the prime-factorization example. If I happen to factor a huge number and tell no-one I haven't contributed.
One of the top feature requests we have is help finding a mentor. It's a key use case we want to enable.
Leather production comes at a very high cost to the environment. So I welcome any real alternative (assuming it is significantly less dirty).

https://undark.org/article/leather-tanning-bangladesh-india/
How do they kill the fungus? I hope it won't continue growing if you wear it.
This is wonderful. I'm looking forward to playing around with JavaFX. Being able to compile that to a native image is huge! It would effectively invalidate the Electron approach of building "native" applications.
The recalculation window is substantially larger than the permitted clock drift window, so it would take a large number of consistently malicious actors to affect difficulty. Even then all you'd get is a difficulty adjustment, so it's not a catastrophic attack.
I imagine a there are a fair number of them, all of the top ten are earning over $10M per year.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/highest-paid-youtube-stars-201...
But when "refraining from censorship" ends with advertisers (your main source of income) pulling out, your options become "censor videos" or "shutdown the service".

"Not playing the game" isn't ever an option here.
The HomePod was designed not to be a single-user device. Especially after reading the OP article, I think it's more of a technical limit than anything because you could potentially give away information that didn't belong to a user if the user isn't detected correctly.
Title is kind of misleading. They are talking about permits for companies to deploy them for scooter-sharing services, not for a person to operate one.
FISA court rulings are usually accompanied by gag orders here in the US, under "National Security" flags... This means they'd likely be unwilling and/or unable to consult with a foreign, local law enforcement.

Not that I really agree with it, most of the time the secrecy is for secrecy sake imho, and to advantage government prosecution. It's pretty scary tbh. Does this mean it's ok for a US company operating in China to turn over US information?
It's always nice to read about new applications, but using DL to build image classifiers is not very impressive in 2018.

I would be more impressed if they put the data out in the open, and let everybody compete on building a better classifier.
Only recently have some churches begun to welcome different sexual orientations. 20 years ago it was basically unheard of and it is still limited in scope.

Many churches still have little to no female clergy. Some have dress codes, some don't. And what you have to choose from depends on where you live: They all might be pretty conservative.

Your barrier of entry is set too low. It isn't that we say we mostly believe in the same thing: It is that you must act like you believe it and not be any of these sorts of people. If you don't fit in the mold, you can't be yourself here. This makes it a bit difficult to form bonds with others if you aren't in their mold.
Not OP, but it looks like it is:

https://github.com/ALSchwalm/PuppyJusticeAutomated
Hi, thanks for the feedback! Honestly we didn't intend to over-hype the results. We took the terms from existing works that we knew:

1) Alex Graves on Hallucination with Recurrent Neural Networks, a 2015 lecture at the University of Oxford from a course by Nando de Freitas (highly recommended).

http://www.creativeai.net/posts/kp4bTG993JTQcqy2d/alex-grave...

2) Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850

"Assuming the predictions are probabilistic, novel sequences can be generated from a trained network by iteratively sampling from the network’s output distribution, then feeding in the sample as input at the next step. In other words by making the network treat its inventions as if they were real, much like a person dreaming."

There are other terms, such as Imagination, also used in the literature:

3) Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06203

4) Uncertainty-driven Imagination for Continuous Deep Reinforcement Learning

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v78/kalweit17a/kalweit17a.pdf

In our work, the procedure is closer to the approaches in (1) and (2), rather than the "Imagination" approach in (3) and (4) where there are more subtle differences (i.e. planning), so we followed the terms in (1) and (2).
What benefits were gained by DeKlerk dropping Apartheid? Or by the British politicians finally giving up India? Sometimes people just realise they cannot carry on like before.

After their silly missile antics, SK is diplomatically isolated (Kim being “recalled” in Beijing a few weeks ago was a big sign that things were in motion). They have escalated as much as they can realistically do, and it went nowhere; so they might as well give up and try other roads. Besides, China has bigger fish to fries with disputed straits etc, so they are probably tired to subsidise the erratic leadership of an impoverished peripheral fiefdom.
I applied with Shaxpir (pronounced exactly like "Shakespeare"). It's an online writing platform for fiction authors. I like to describe it as a "Github for Literature".

https://shaxpir.com

Besides the basic text-editing, cloud-sync, and ebook publishing tools you'd expect in a platform like this, there's also a big linguistic model of literary prose, which helps authors analyze the vividness of their writing, and make meaningful comparisons against the authors they admire.

Anyone online can explore the public version of that model, at http://prosecraft.io, but subscribers of Shaxpir can actually analyze their own writing according to the exact same model, getting realtime feedback on the linguistic metrics of their prose.

I launched my beta about 3 years ago, and this is the 3rd time I've applied to YC... I applied to the original Fellowship, in the fall of 2015, and then to Winter 2016 class.

Fingers crossed!

And best of luck to everyone else who applied!!

But even if you don't get accepted this time around, just KEEP WORKING! Eventually, you'll find a way!
I tested it out with some fairly dependency-heavy node JS projects and it worked great (albeit with a human-noticeable perf difference vs node). R projects suffer the usual R-on-JVM issues, see eg https://github.com/oracle/fastr#status-and-limitations . I could, however, use ggplot2 and dplyr, which I don't recall working the last time I tried R-on-JVM. So that's awesome.

Being able to reasonably use R stuff from clojure (and other languages better for general purpose programming) is my data science dream. Though I can't say I'm sad with my current unix-y solutions.
Drummer with Cyborg Arm Wants to Take It on Tour
This is the future I want.
1) I'm not saying there aren't novel solutions - there's a whole category of devices that use active control. I'm saying its not common place.

2) From what I understand, China has a completely different design philosophy. They design structures to remain elastic, under certain earthquakes, which would then allow for TMDs.
Ok, we've rephrased it to reflect that.
The vendor has calculated the transaction cost into their prices. You're paying ~2% more than necessary if you pay with cash.
Yeah. Lots of stuff comes from above if you are on the street. Going inside a building is a good bet.

"35 deaths and many injuries from falling masonry during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Buildings with dangerous parapets, facades and verandahs" [1]. That was 20% of total deaths.

Certainly near a skyscraper, you want to go inside, since if it pancakes, being outside won't help anyway - debris will hurtle horizontally.

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/71738867/property-council-s...
Yeah, that's fair. My surprise came because The Blues Brothers is, in my mind, the Chicago movie. It couldn't really be more Chicago if it tried.
Or Dune
Oh sure, I'm all for studying it. But we shouldn't lose sight of the broader context.

> there is a large swathe of population that doesn't particularly care about art

Ah yes... "Art" is a tricky term. I think things such as movies, music, books, etc are also relevant here, and are considered forms of art. I might define art as "creatively expressing ideas through an imprecise medium".

Of course, as they say, anything can be art. My definition fits that -- all expression, even mathematic and scientific, contain some imprecision.
Yes that’s an OS bug. I’m saying the assumption that an unmanaged API should in no circumstances cause a system crash
Trying has taught me the exact same thing the GP has learned: People only ever take advantage of me. That's it.

I'm not rich, but it has cost me plenty to be kind and generous to people and I don't need some internet stranger trying to give me some pep talk like I just haven't tried hard enough.
The Responsive Network
I can see the use case of this being similar to having Excel connected to an SQL server and creating some pivot charts off of the connection. Then rather than emailing the Excel file (which might be quite large depending on how much data is pulled into Excel), emailing a URL which is much cleaner.

Am I correct in thinking that Mode is not really a reporting platform (e.g., QlikView, Power BI) and more of an investigative, analytics-sharing tool?
spot on. also there's likely to be some phase issues in some mixes

aside: seems to be a smooth enough lerp between bits so as not to destroy speakers, but might cause a record needle to jump (can anyone more versed weigh in here?)
Those orphans are treated like someone trying to 'fork' the blockchain by working on an older block, and trying to get a longer chain.

Well behaved Miners will always mine on the longest chain, and get to pick if there are two chains of equal length. Most probably pick the first they saw, because it gives them more time to work on that block.

So if an orphan comes along, people ignore it.
Like other have said, all nodes know about almost all transactions, so the next miner will just see those transactions as still being 'up for grabs' and might include them in the next block they are attempting.
I think everyone is overestimating the importance of the "favorite movie" section of a dating profile.

Once a dating profile has been created it is RARELY edited in anything but photos.

No one was going back to put Amelie into their favorite movies. They just were filling out the BEAST LIST of requirements and personality tests, and quickly filled in that field with a non embarrassing movie they had seen recently.

I think this years most favorite movie was probably "GET OUT". But that shit will be a footnote except for film buffs in 3 or 4.
> but I feel like how to be happy and to live a good life are among of the main goals of philosophy.

Afaik Socrates was saying something about philosophy being the quest for finding out what is "good" and then trying to "reach" it, so nothing directly related to happiness. I'm not a philosopher by any means but I found this description about what philosophy should be as the one closest to the truth. Also, as a pseudo-Kantian I also think that philosophy should have the task of teaching us about our sense of "duty" when pursuing said "good".

Putting the two above concepts together you could say that "inquiring what good is and then trying to pursue and reach it out of a sense of innate duty" is what a "good life" should be, so in that respect I think you're correct.
You know you have a giant prize and glory awaiting you right?
Thanks! Changed to that from https://www.astromart.com/news/show/an-improved-hubble-yards....
Maybe even replace HOV lanes with autonomous lanes that are marked and also the cars communicate with each other to avoid collisions.
Your construction is a bit hard to understand. Would you mind describing it as an explicit plane graph, rather than in terms of a "map"?
Fizzygum is a new web framework designed to do complex things easily
Is there a way to use clock drift to exclude certain miners? That is, change the time-stamp in such a way that honest miners using an actual time-stamp might get their blocks denied?
The risk isn't active oppression by the military. The risk is that the government will prevent the police from defending opposition groups or anyone who is politically inconvenient.

Even in Venezuela most of the violence toward opposition supporters comes from non-government "Colectivos" made of government supporters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectivo_(Venezuela)

Even in the US, the San Jose PD is currently facing a lawsuit for corralling people attending a Trump rally into a mob of violent protesters (Hernandez v. San Jose). The SJPD is arguing that attending a Trump rally is an inherently unsafe act so they have no obligation to protect the citizens there.

So it's very easy for NRA supporters to imagine say the California government turning a blind eye to assaults on their homes.
A little more detail on current policy:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/31920/in-what-c...
>Properly conducted and repeated experiments with noted mechanisms of actions (e.g. vaccines)

This is a good example of why it's not so simple as you're making out. Earlier, you put biology on your list of unreliable branches of science, and you claimed that you could know that the racial science of the 30s wasn't "real science" simply because it consisted of "studies about people". But vaccine science falls into both those categories!

In reality you're deciding whether or not any given branch of science is methodologically sound not by examining any actual studies in the relevant disciplines, but simply on the assumption that any study which has arrived at the "wrong" conclusion must have had a bad methodology.
Fake Barack Obama delivers a PSA about “deep fakes” using a deep fake video
Now, I suppose if the hash-rate is more spread-out over multiple planets, and one planet isn't dominating things might work out. But we might also see consensus break down.

I'm no expert, but wouldn't it just be a matter of increasing the target time to solve each block? An solar-system-wide blockchain might need to take a few hours rather than ten minutes between each block, but it should still work.
Unless the lower cash/debit price is worth it... in California on my last road trip, noticed the extra charge for CC wasn't worth it even at the 5% I was getting back at gas stations. It really depends. You also have to work to make certain you're paying off your card every month and don't overspend.

It's can be pretty great. Better still if you're getting reimbursed for expenses.
Motorola running the latest version of Android; but I suspect it is the google search feature that is doing the snooping.
Nonsense. If there is such a thing as Scholastic philosophy, which is heavily on the religious side, as opposed to other western philosophies, then there is such a thing as Eastern philosophy.

Buddhist philosophy, Jain philosophy, and Taoist philosophy all do not believe in a god, while others like Hindu philosophy and Confucian philosophy do.
Which was introduced 20 years ago and can't handle large files.
Another vote for the [paywall] tag
Neural nets are only a small part of the solution. Waymo gets this, but too many of the others overuse neural nets. The safe solutions are about 80% geometry and 20% neural net.

LIDAR and geometry give you a 3D map of the environment, at least the part of it in range of the sensors. Anywhere the vehicle is going to drive should be verified as flat. That's the first step. Waymo does this. Tesla doesn't. Whether Uber does will come out when the NTSB dissects their vehicle that ran over a pedestrian.

Those top-mounted LIDAR units aren't primarily looking for obstacles. They're looking for flat road. A pothole, a cliff, a car, or a pedestrian does not look like flat road. The software doesn't have to know why it's not flat to not go there.

Trying to classify stuff that isn't flat road is mostly for dealing with moving objects.
"What is that?" and "What will it do next" isn't a geometry problem. That's where neural nets come in. An acceptable result is "unidentified", which feeds back into the planner as "stay away from there".

Some people have gotten the idea that they just hook up a camera to a machine learning system, train it from a dashcam, and they have a quick path to self-driving. That will work most of the time. Until it kills someone.
Suppose I operate a small general practitioner healthcare facility
that often has only two patients at the same time. If I offer free
Wi-Fi in the waiting area, should I consider that a HIPAA violation,
because I'm reasonably confident that one patient will see ads related
to the other patient's medical condition?
I can't understand your description, but if you can connect any number of nodes to all other nodes in a single plane, you may have a career in electronic circuit design.
I'm interested in trying out one of the current adaptive cruise control systems. I pretty much got out of the habit of using cruise control. Most of the roads I drive on have enough traffic that I find cruise control leads to me prioritizing maintaining a constant speed rather than sensibly staying in the flow of traffic. I.e. shifting lanes rather than slowing down a couple mph.
The vendor often isn't even getting that 2% anyhow - it's dead losses from cash-handling expenses and employee theft.