skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some markets are hard to police at scale. I'm reminded of Google's ongoing problems with fake locksmith listings [1].

One way to solve the problem is to try harder to police it. Another (if alternative ways of searching are better) is to get out of the market. This can be a reasonable decision even if it's a perfectly legitimate market.

I'm guessing Google doesn't want to devote the resources into figuring out which bail bond advertisers are legitimate. They have lots of other rules about not accepting ads for legitimate businesses.

[1] https://marketingland.com/locksmiths-try-sue-google-fake-loc...
I had been going to the gym, but I was frustrated with the crappy heart rate monitors on the cardio machines there. I was also looking for a replacement for my Pebble Time, so I got the new Fitbit Versa. It works pretty well, and has a nice feature of giving me a "calorie budget," telling me about how much I can eat.

So far, though, the hardest part is estimating how many calories are in something, and how much of something I'm eating.
Rachel's mic is always off until I turn it on. So if she's asking a question, it's only after she's visually indicated that she wishes to do so, and I've found a time in my presentation that I'm ready to take it. So I'm literally never being interrupted, and can't be surprised by the fact that she's asking a question (although I may well be surprised by the content).

I do try to limit the time I wait to take a question, since I don't want to move on with a topic where I've failed to properly explain some foundational piece.
The iPhone 8 starts at $700, the same price the iPhone has been for a long time.
Ask HN: When would you choose Electron and when would you go Native?
Why not 7 hours or 7 minutes or immediately?
+1 for uMatrix. It can be annoying at times, but it is a very powerful tool.
Looks like they use Google Cloud and AWS. I assume they’ve built their platform in a way that they can easily use many different providers.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo...
Hi everyone,

Do they have a newsletter or something? I would like to be notified everytime they published a new research.

Thanks.
This is wrong, there are cash back cards in the UK, for example. American express operates over here:

https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/credit-cards/platinum-cas...

For the grandparent, cash back cards work by charging a higher percentage to the retailer and they haven't seen much traction or support in many European countries. Effectively in the long term they simply raise prices and give a greater cut to the card processor, theoretically they're overall a bad thing for consumers.
That's a false dichotomy. There's nothing inherent to the bail system that requires huge bail bonds that defendants cannot afford on their own. If bail schedules were abolished and bail was tailored to the individual, bail bondsmen would be unnecessary.
Humble bundle Devops books
# of arguments about screw drives = # screw drives !

Great fun
The items are made mostly by Sysco.
May I ask which link I need to see for the Microsoft AI announcements?
What are the stumbling blocks to self-hosting Mapbox?
I disable css when it's some article with some annoying low contrast.
I have never been able to consistently tune a guitar using harmonics. It was always a fun trick when I was first learning to play, but it was never quite right and now that I'm older it is far more difficult to hear subtle differences between harmonics.
What conjecture?

This is empirical. The researchers are observing the DNA from different orders of life (based on their extant species) and comparing them. They report their quantitative similarity.

What about that is not factual?
Ask HN: How you manage multiple projects and your time?
So is it "fix whatever Burp points out" ?
Is that a good first step ? Especially for api endpoints (versus websites)
So you say 'not true at all' to my repudiation, and then go on to say:

"you'd be hard pressed"
and "the vast majority will percieve no difference"

which is it?

bit rate: yes, as sounds are at the lower end of amplitude within the bit depth, the more 'stepping'/'zippering' occurs to the input waveform since less bits are available to represent the shape of the wave at that amplitude, and so things become more distorted, and the signal noise goes up. similarly, for higher amplitude sounds, the less need for compressing/limiting to remove clipping artifacts, so again, less distortion (though the latter isn't inherent to the signal encoding per-se).

sampling frequency: irrespective of the nyquist theorem, the shape of the wave is different. even if you can't explicitly hear at a base frequency of the overtones above a certain frequency, the waveform is not the same and your ear is not being moved in the same way, period, and relative distortion of overtones with respect to the base frequencies within the nyquist spectrum increases with frequency, so the tonal effect of the sampling frequency on the sound (and net distortion) is diminished as the sampling frequency increases. aka overtones become increasingly distorted to a lesser extent as the sampling frequency increases; banded spectrum (e.g. FFT display) is much cleaner, as a visual example.

both of these can be masked somewhat with dithering, but again, this is introducing noise into the signal, which you can also hear; all other things equal (which they arent), the dither free signal will inherently have less noise and so be cleaner sounding.

I agree that bit rate is harder to perceive, and for most things, this is more important w/r/t multiple generations of distortion introduced by software.. but just because something is 'hard' to percieve doesn't mean it is imperceptible and therefore a net zero, which is what the original post is claiming. whether a net 0.0001 is relavent is a different matter (as I said previously, 16/44 is generally fine, so I'm not in the 'I can totally hear the difference from my monster cable digital edition' camp), but it is not a net 0, and when listening for tambre rather than frequency, quite clear once you know what to listen for.

also yes:

I did a blind listening test for this while in an audio engineering program. Was able to clearly tell 44 vs 96 and vs 192, as well as 16 vs 20 and 24 (though 24 vs 20 was pretty difficult). That was a while ago so not sure if my ears are still as sharp.
So what's the alternative? The government sets wages across all industries to be exactly the same? That doesn't feel too meritocratic...

But hey, if you need another few, what if:

You have two jobs to choose from, both make you happy and both pay the same. The outcome won't be identical in both cases, since you'll meet different people, work in a different location and do different work.

Or how about the obvious extreme between a job that pays well and nothing? Let's assume everything ends up on basic income and that works out. Fair enough.

But now assume one of those people wants to become an entrepreneur and sets up a startup that ends up becoming a billion dollar corporation while the other one sits at home and watches Netflix all day.

Their opportunities may be the same, but the outcomes won't be. Is that a bad thing? I doubt many people would say it is, especially given how both have enough to live on and both are enjoying their life doing what they want to do.

Or heck, how about another example? Imagine two people are looking for a romantic partner at the same time. They may have the same opportunities (in terms of access to the other gender, wealth, location, etc) but simply by genetics (aka one potentially being more attractive than the other) or interests (more attractive people from one gender might have one interest and not another) they won't have equal outcomes.

You will never get 'equality of outcome', simply because a system that aims for that would be ridiculously unfair, completely non market based and likely verging on a dystopia.
Perhaps not currently a law enforcement problem - the police are to serve and protect society. We don't let private companies do whatever they want, and this may evolve into a situation - especially if using AI is incentivized by cost benefit - where police can be further utilized.
Aliens: "What did you do?!, The Polar Bears are Brown"

(paraphrasing Louis CK).
Does the Moon Orbit the Sun or the Earth? (2012)
An explicitly content-free marketing announcement relating to a contemporary industry buzzword. I know it's worth paying attention to the big fish, but this is literally a zero content 100% time wasting post. Flagged it because IMHO it's pure spam
It has been eight months since the data breach was announced (nine since it was discovered). This is the first time we are getting a full reckoning of what data was accessed. (We knew it was ~150 million SSN's, but we didn't what else it included--e.g. address history, income, debt, etc.) I'll admit, Equifax actually exceeded my expectations in this regard, I was skeptical that they would be able to create a document like this at all. Still, the impact of the data breach was magnified by the fact that they have so little oversight over their own systems that reconciling records took more than half a year.

Any time there's a privacy issue nowadays, I like to play "What if GDPR?" GPDR would have required this document be filed to the relevant authority in three days (Article 33). And the work to compile this document would have mostly been front-loaded by complying with the documentation requirements in Article 30. I don't think GDPR would have made a direct impact on preventing the breach (other than maybe causing someone to look at the towering pile of paperwork and consider thinking of the data as a liability), but affected users would have been much better prepared to know how they might have been affected and how to respond.
Legal status of fonts and typefaces is INSANE. The cost of some of these fonts in $199 https://www.typography.com/fonts/isotope/overview/ And well you can kind of have a strange position in copyright law in the US and internationally.

The cost of these fonts are up in the hundreds of dollars. Yet in US we have a mixed bag. Officially it is:

> Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the United States (Code of Federal Regulations, Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e); Eltra Corp. vs. Ringer). The idea that typefaces (rather than fonts, which are computer software) cannot be copyrighted in the United States is black letter law. 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(e). Under U.S. law, typefaces and their letter forms or glyphs are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements.

BUT we have cases where judgement has been awarded to Adobe and Target is a defendant in a lawsuit for their use of a unlicensed font in a video.

I am conflicted. I love having fonts and I love open source, BUT I also appreciate the technical and artistic achievement these fonts produce.

The BEST font for me has been Cardo and it has had the best license ever http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html I studied several "ancient languages" and a font Cardo saved my academic life by making an awesome unicode font for my languages. One font for English, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and others. Before that I had to write my papers in Latex just to cover the languages or transliterate them (ugh).

Here is a font author that I have used and even purchased fonts from. She now has a donation based price model. https://www.dafont.com/kimberly-geswein.d1468

Hoping she has success with this model and switches more to this model and it works for everyone.

Microsoft's Font FAQ - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
They could just as easily use time since boot, which is usually a separate counter.
Made in-house in the sense of thawed and microwaved in-house. I learned quickly to stick with the handful of items that are eaten frequently. Everything else tastes like it came off the assembly line a few months ago.
It makes them seem unlike Microsoft Windows and Google Analytics and win points with their customer base.
Maybe there will be a flipside to this. Perhaps we can hope for the ability to have our own AIs that work on our behalf.
Bitcoin is designed to process <10 transactions per second.
> because it felt like I was pounding my head on the wall trying to learn abstract math when what I really wanted to do was build stuff.

But you do need to know abstract math to build stuff, particularly if what you want to build is deep learning stuff, both models and implementations.

For example, how do you expect to understand how to minimize an utility function if you have no idea of what a gradient is, how you calculate it, and why you want to descend through it.
Apple should allow to do this in Software.
Make the lockdown mentioned in the link happen immediately when USB is disconnected, forcing you to retype the PIN every time.

Could be a cool feature for the privacy concerned crowd.
You are correct. I re-read her response and it looks completely reasonable to me on second reading.
The rules aren't opaque. There just isn't any ambiguity to them, which means that everything is exactly written with no room for Interpretation.

I explain Amazon support like this: if you told someone to grab money from the bank, you haven't specified the instructions, so they will claim they have no idea how to do it.

If you tell them to drive to the bank, walk in, go to the teller, not the ATM...

This very specific instructions will get the response you need.

With experience, you start to get a hang of the lingo. It does feel like you are talking to bots, but you are really talking to humans who click the next step in the Q&A. They probably could hold your hand, but they don't appear to be trained to do so.

It's highly unlikely that you'll get shut down full stop right off the bat. You have a lot of room for error, but if you get frustrated quickly, you can get blocked at some step, but really that's on you.

The situation in the article would have taken me about 1 day to resolve, but the key takeaway is the books were up for sale again because the author did exactly as the instructions said.
Bloomberg doesn't do a good job of explaining what these varies bodies are.

The Department for Health and Social Care has governmental responsibility for the NHS, but hands all the money and almost all the power to NHS England.

NHS England directly controls some specialist provision, but also hands off most money and responsibility to local regions in the form of Clinical Commissioning Groups. Those groups buy services from bidders. At the moment most of those bidders are NHS Trusts, but they don't have to be. There has to be a lot of multi-agency working, because a bunch of healthcare isn't the NHS, but is Public Health England and provided by local government (local authorities).

We'd tend to call CCGs "commissioners" and NHS Trusts or 3rd sector organisations "providers".

So, Cera said they were working with CCGs (probably being commissioned to provide services) and NHS Trusts (maybe being sub-contracted; or partner working).

One thing that's confusing about this piece is that the service Cera was providing - care - is not provided by the NHS, but is provided by local authorities. I'd be interested to know what their business model was, because I think that's the real story.
So what was formerly called "Google Research" is now confusingly called "Google AI"? Which, mostly covers AI material but occasionally ventures into other fields, like quantum computing? That's what I gathered.
The biggest problem with GCP cannot create a private kubernetes cluster, it must have public interfaces. Why is this a requirement?
The TV series "Little Britain" had a regular sketch featuring an apathetic bank employee who just checked the computer after every request made by a customer and read out "computer says no" every time, never with any justification to the seemingly completely arbitrary rejections.

For banks it reflected the reality at the time (2000-2007), but it's creeping into more and more areas.
What was the point of the rebranding?
We're using it for https://www.citymayor.co and it is getting expensive quite quickly (.5 for 1k page views), but the API is really good and the themes are really pretty as well. I've tried playing with open street map directly to create a theme and it was quite a mess.
Yeah, so then you have to exploit nginx, not a web application. Good luck with that. If someone can get RCE through nginx alone, you're already toast.
Is there precedent for telling a company who's ads they must show?
Publishing JSON-LD for Developers
I think they could probably just open the case and wire a new port anyway.
The simple answer is that the enforcers of the law don't usually come from poor and minority communities.
That makes sense that DFU would still work, since that would let the data continue to be protected and wiped.
> Is spending the time and resources on creating a non-JS site worth it, or would it better spent somewhere else (usability, accessibility, etc.)?

Even a naive approach to making a javascript-rich site render with JS turned off will have profound positive impacts on usability and accessibility, so I'd say it's still worth it.
GitHub Power-ups: Learn how O2 and LifeSum use Instabug to build better software
That one is about platform control. It's one thing to build a platform that only executes signed code--that's good for security--but it's another thing to refuse to give users control over who the trust authority is for their system. Apple still maintains that under lock and key effectively refusing to let you run your own software on your iPhone.
Do you know if Lightning headphones count? Aside from charging, it's the only thing I plug into my Lightning port.
>And doctors make most of their revenue from sick people!

Which is one of the reasons health care isn't charged for at the point of use in developed countries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17016333
Most trackers have a way to handle non-JS clients by rendering a tracking pixel - a solution that has been out there for a long time now.
A tweet from Princeton's Professor Arvind Narayanan on this announcement:

First Microsoft, now Google. Sends a message to researchers choosing between academia and industry that your work will be valued in the industry only if it's buzzword compliant.

https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/993850870067548160
Google's AI Research challenges are so technically advanced, they can only be adequately described by their leading marketing experts.
I'm not the target market, but it looks like a lot of work went into this. Just want to say, nice job. I especially like the "layout mode" abstraction.

What's your tech stack look like on the frontend? Any comments on the development process, e.g. how long it took, major challenges?
Without that time limit, an entire black market of non-app-store software distribution could spring up, and Apple would not be able to protect little Bobby who wants an emulator from bad app actors.
Honestly wouldn't bother with forms failing over. That sounds like double the work to support a few people. If you want to participate, enable JS, otherwise view the site as read only.
Detecting Decision Ambiguity from Facial Images
I have a Feedly link to their research (now a.i.) blog, and if you have a premium subscription to Feedly you can incorporate IFTTT to do something (e.g. send you an email) whenever a new post is available. I'm sure it's possible to get this working yourself though without a thirdparty platform
Kids Gone Wild: Denmark's Forest Kindergartens
"Opaque financing offers" is handwaving. If its anything like payday lending, the real complaint is that the bonds "keep people in debt for months or years." But that's not because of opaque financing, but because poor people don't have much free cash flow to service a loan, and are bad credit risks statistically so the interest on that loan has to be relatively high. Removing the ability to advertising makes both problems worse, by reducing competition.
This doesn't quite sound as amazing as a first look, because this is not a full "data connectivity" kill. Data connectivity is always required whenever people use headphones due to headphone jack removal.
Vie Belles: Superior Kitchen Knives for Everyone
Big updates to the REST API documentation experience on docs.Microsoft.com
Mmmmm, lexicographically sortable. I prefer the RFC3339 profile, but YES to ISO-8601 for anything meant to be readable by a human. It's loony how many different formats are in use on the wire and internally in programs.
DNS Leak Test – Found This DNS Leak Test What You Guys Think about It?
I am not a developer, I can write just html+css. For my personal website (http://mrtno.com/) I use just static pages written by hand. No JS needed, no stupid complexities.

I wonder why if I can sell my lack of skill on the market... because the skilled designers/coders are programing a web that really has a tendency to be so bloated.

I browse the web with no-script (firefox extension); and many websites won't even load without scripts. I wonder why. For many many website I don't see the need to have JS around at all.

Can the lack of skills be a skill? :) hire me!
Ha! I told you the earth was flat! ;-)
The time deadline might have some unintended consequences. Maybe law enforcement will proactively image people's phones early knowing it will be harder later. eg you are stopped at the airport. A judge may give give quick search warrants since its "now or never".
Anushka shetty sexy pics
I think this is the real reason why we will never see Python inside Excel. The other, minor, reason is that Guido has pretty much pooped all over the idea of backwards compatibility in Python, which is pretty much integral to Microsoft's vision.
The whole credit reporting industry depends on others absorbing their massive negative externalities. The companies are the equivalent of gross polluters dumping benzene into reservoirs.

> The privacy angle is minuscule

It is infuriating to see the suffering of the individual victims of identity theft dismissed so cavalierly. If the credit reporting companies had to pay for all the harm they cause they would be bankrupt many times over.

Even if credit rating serves a purpose, how does the system get reformed to bring true redress to those negatively affected by it?
Not shape, Brazil and Greenland are both distorted
The other possibility is that they're badly managed. They didn't figure out a way to measure food quality and therefore chased a local optima, ignoring an important dimension.

Evidence for this hypothesis is that many branches of these chains are closing and several chains are nearing bankruptcy.
> But what happens at the point when ideal distribution is attained, and all consumers are satisfied?

I don't think we are anywhere close that, nor that we can ever get there. What happened is that most low-hanging fruits of actual value got picked, to the point that sales & marketing started to have much better ROI than trying to invent and build better things. It's a gradual shift towards a zero-sum-game economy.
I'm not sure if anyone is arguing for getting rid of bail? The alternatives some people advocate include setting bail lower and yes, sometimes relying on the honor system.

Lots more here:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/1439-bail-reform
What about openfire[1]?, written in java.

[1]: https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp
Anybody willing to part ways with their money
Tableau Implementation of the HyperLogLog Algorithm
Great customer service but ruthless with their suppliers. The author here falls into the latter camp.
Term Sheet Problems Part 3 – Side Letters
>At least wait until the blockchain can solve a real world problem before burning through the mines?

What do you mean? Bitcoin already solves problems; e.g., https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2017/12/31/bitpesa-ceo-...