skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As long as the data is used as one of many guideline sources which is scrutinised by human officers

What makes you think that's going to happen? If anything, the trend is in the opposite direction - reducing the need for humans within automated systems as much as possible.

If a fast food store manager brings in robots to serve people food, do you think he'll still want to hire people around to make sure the robots are serving the right food to people? No, if he brought in robots, then it's because he wants to get rid of as many human employees as possible.

Maybe the humans will be there for like the first month or two while the robots are being tested, but that's it - or at least that would be the goal. Look how fast Musk wanted to get rid of human employees at Tesla, too. Complete 100% automation will be the goal for both companies and governments.

Even the Pentagon is rushing to allow its AI drones to kill "targets" on their own (thanks, Google). You don't think governments will rush to get humans out of the equation for more "trivial" stuff like arresting people?

If 20% of the people are wrongfully accused, but the system catches 99.9% of the actual criminals, then they will be very happy with that system. Just like Facebook is happy to censor 10%, 20%, 40% other innocent content, as long as it can brag to Congress that it "censored 99% of the terrorist content" (which probably isn't true, either). They don't care about the collateral damage.
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I don't know either, and this is not legal advice. The regulations[0] are actually pretty clearly written, and not actually that long. Make yourself a good coffee, and read them in a few sittings, thinking about your specific context, and taking notes.

My understanding, based on my reading and your comment, is as follows:

* You are retaining personal information - this requires consent.

* If you do something with the information you have, it requires consent.

* If you don't do anything with the information, and you are not legally obliged to retain it, you should delete it.

* When an individual asks, you must be able to tell them everything you hold on them, and where you got consent.

* When an individual asks you to delete their data, you must be able to do it within a short time-span (unless legally obliged to retain it).

* Consent can be implicit - for example if someone signs up for a service.

* You absolutely need a statement saying what information you hold, and what you do with it.

* If you can't say when, where, and how someone gave consent, you should seek to obtain explicit consent with an "opt-in" email.

Some of the above will probably be wrong, but I don't think anything is very wrong.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/
Well your strategy has to have some way of breaking ties, when Alice's number is the same as yours. Lets say that you always say "higher" in that case. Then you always win whenever your number is between Alice's or equal to the smaller of them. Equivalently you could just pick a random half-integer.
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I wonder if a person can get penalized for false positives, after all the system will not work a 100% without glitches. That would make for a Kafkaesk situation where a completely loyal person has to self justify his inner thoughts that got misrepresented...

Also this reminds me of a novel by Kurt Vonnegut - I think it was 'slapstick'. Here 'the Chinese' did all sorts of wondrous things like minituarizing themselves in order to solve the population problem.

Still, this may well turn out to be our future as well.
Science didn't prove anything, it just shown correlation between personal preference and speed of reading.

How this association was built? Where is the cause of this correlation? Why people preferring two-spaces are worse at reading one-space after period? Do they worse than one-spacers at other visual cognition tasks? Do they better understand spoken language with increased pauses between sentences?

One can ask tenth of questions, trying to make sense of this findings. This research gives us a bit of scientific data, but the bit is too small to jump to conclusions.
It used to be a thing to download celebrity voices to your TomTom. John Cleese was popular.

There's a Japanese navigation app that has a bunch of anime voice actresses doing different stereotypical characters. You take a wrong turn and they scold you, or ask if you're feeling OK http://maplus-sp.jp/voice_list.html?ct=cvi1
Ask HN: How do you handle API integrations with 3d parties?
At our company, we're planning on integrating with third-party apps our clients use to ingest data directly into those apps, instead of our clients having to manually synchronize data.
One approach we came up with was to decouple integrations logic from our main app, i.e. having the main app talk to bunch for microservices(1 per integration). Anyone had a similar experience?
The problem with this view is twofold:

- what was the agreed rate of return at the time the loan was given?

- To maintain your image: why was the house on fire? Was it perhaps because of the enormous centralization of the financial market in the previous decades, combined with a massive deregulation, starting in the 80s? (your facade comment rings odd given the Grenfell Tower disaster)

The loans were given because the large financial institutions weren't able to make the profits they promised to their shareholders. The money which, no matter how you look at it, was free at the time, was an intervention in order to mediate the profit issue. That now ten years after the fact some of this money came back (of course shareholder returns were always prioritized during these years), is not a success by any means neither in terms of ROI nor in any others I could come up with.

Indicating that opportunity costs that are related to central government tasks in a democracy (education, health, infrastructure) are some form of luxury, only normalizes oligarchic structures.
King’s Cross is right next door and had turnstiles last time I was there.
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I haven't been in all medinas of Morocco, but never had a problem with GPS there, have you actually tried to use it? :) I think the only place where I really had a problem were Caruggi of Genoa.

One tip to have a better location awareness with electronic map is to enable trip recording, if you see your previous way you can sort of continue walking "inertially".
I think this line is about repeating the narrative about the trade debate during the last US election. The author follows by explaining why it was wrong, showing why data is not always reliable and in a sense rehabilitating the value of gut feeling.
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Has he lost it, is it a joke or does he suffer from severe ADHD?
My pet thought experiment for these questions is the luxury watch maker: the magic of brand gets them incredible amounts of "productivity" from working slow.

Now imagine some major policy mistakes that make all other economic activity fail. Average productivity would rise madly! And everybody would ask themselves, how can we have so much unemployment, when we have this totally awesome productivity? You can almost hear the knives getting whetted against foreign and domestic scapegoats, because clearly, with that awesome productivity inherent to "us" (people love thinking that!) , only foul play can be the explanation.
From this idea I decided to type "no javascript" in the HN search bar. There are some interesting things in there.
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> 29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.

I was going to complain that Cheops' Law ("it always takes longer and costs more" is my version) was missing, but that's a useful elaboration providing a new target.
On Linux Mint, with FF 59.0.2 (64-bit) there are no problems. Simply save the page with "Save page as..." into a folder.
The idea is wonderfully simple.
Point is, that within the EU some practices just are not allowed. If they happen to obey the law is something else of course.
Again a very good point! The key assumption that breaks down in general, that is, unless you assume an unbounded storage system, is that the data can be written at all. As also the post I linked to states: C together with an unbounded storage system is definitely Turing-complete!

How to specify such a system with C remains unsolved though, unless you assume its existence and availability via streams in the first place. This is in contrast to the other languages I mentioned, where you can specify the semantics of an unbounded storage system via built-in mechanisms and data structures of these languages.
HPFS had a similar system some years before.

* http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Inside_the_High_Performance_Fi...
That is fine. It is a perfectly reasonable argument. She should make it, and make a case. But, she started with "the data/science is in" as if she's reporting on an indisputable truth, rather than a plausible narrative. This puts anyone who disagrees with her in an irrational truth denier category, as if her position was an authority on par with newton's laws. This is scientism, and it's harmful when public debate (especially around politically charged questions) picks up this style of writing/speaking.
What's crazy is that with enough learning from being trained by these freak scenarios, we'll eventually be seeing reactions that actually turn an unavoidable collision for a human into a near miss for the ai.
If small businesses don't have manpower or money to handle user's information transparently, they should not collect those information in the first place. That's why I like GDPR.
Oracle Access Manager's identity crisis. (Padding oracle attack)
> Relativity is only violated, and causality threatened if information is transmitted FTL, but entanglement doesn’t allow for that. You need a classical channel make entanglement work for communication, and that classical channel is going to be no faster than light. Without a classical channel, entanglement just gives you random noise.

But none of that answers the 18th-19th century Physicists question about how fields extend across the universe, or how light propagates in empty space. What the hell is a field anyway?

Also, it doesn't explain how the expansion of space happens, what made inflation happen, and what dark energy is.
I have weekly 1 to 1s. They aren’t typically about career path or job, they are protected time so that you can go through priorities and talk about any conflicts between scheduling - and they are useful for getting your boss to commit to decisions. Sometimes they only take 15 minutes. Sometimes they take an hour.
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The formatting of that site is really strange. If I make it a full desktop size (1920x1080) it becomes more readable.
> not only does the math work but it proves that reality is fundamentally acausal, or probabilistic, etc. which are various forms of denying identity.

Proves, as in all deterministic interpretations of QM are impossible? What about MWI? Also, the wavefunction itself is deterministic.

Maybe reality isn't fundamentally particle-like, but field-like.
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This is a mis-use of ASCII. After all, the colon, asterisk, forward slash, question mark, backward slash, and NUL characters are all in ASCII, yet they are far from things that "work virtually everywhere". And that isn't even considering the open and close square bracket and semi-colon characters which are also not anywhere near portable to the extent of "working virtually everywhere".

The kind of file names that do work "virtually everywhere" are not ASCII, but rather are those who only use characters from the POSIX Portable Filename Character Set, which at 65 characters is just over half the size of ASCII (which has 128 characters).

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
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If it's feasible to write (most) all of your app backend in Elixir, then I think it's a pretty great option. I feel like language context switches tend to be very expensive and error prone for developers, plus the increased hiring and on-boarding cost associated.

I think the core advantages of micro-services are:

1. Polyglot applications. There often is some library in a language for a use case, but there is also often the library in a specific language - the one that has a far larger community around it, very active development, considerable battle testing, a wealth of examples and guides and support available online. If you use this library in this language, you just kind of know it will work as best and easily as possible. The trail is well trodden. You now have a new problem of API contracts and versioning and such, but pretty much every language can at least HTTP and JSON reasonably at this point, so it's fairly tractable.

2. You already have code written in another language that pretty much works, either because of (1) or for historic reasons. If you go all-Elixir, you're going to need to re-write that hairy-ass black-box of a Go service that interfaces with Chinese SMS delivery. But it pretty much works, and if you can just chat with that over HTTP you can keep going. However, you probably want something to turn that thing back on every week-or-two when it inevitably eats it for whatever reason, and K8S gives you a really nice interface for this.

In general, I think - and this was an opinion I read on this forum at some point - that when building from scratch it's best to build a mono-service and then break small things off from that as the need arises, and Elixir would probably be at the top of my current list.

However, if you can run that mono-service in a micro-service environment - Kubernetes and containers - then you're well prepared for breaking pieces off or rolling new isolated components using the "right tool for the job".

I know there are difficulties around BEAM and K8S with both kind-of trying to do a lot of the same things, and that's something to definitely be aware of... people that have worked with it seem divided on where it falls between terrible and not really that bad of an idea (if you're paying attention and have some idea what you're doing).
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It doesn't do that. The one in the post composes a bunch of other Behaviors, see the lowPower one further down in the article for an example, it's not polling a bunch of variables. Then it is all wired up to react to events.
You basically sacrifice all your rights to protect your own IPs if you go around stealing from your neighbors. If a Chinese company invents something - no matter how protected it is, i assume it would be one huge government sanctioned feeding frenzy free for all.

I can already hear the negotiation starting with- well if you want your IPs protected, all you need to do is sign here and here- and assure us our IPs are protected to. Its the same eye for a eye logic governing punitive dutys.
Your bosses did them wrong. If there's nothing to discuss they need not take longer than 5 to 10 minutes, just a chance for you to assure the boss that there are no blockers that you need unblocked and boss to briefly tell you about stuff that may be coming up on the horizon and to make sure you’re happy.
Any Statically generated website doesn't use JavaScript.

Interesting Website will be WikiPedia. Source - https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-the-web-looks-like-with...
I remember navigating without GPS. No, but thanks no.
That's like saying, he got a mortgage, shame on the bank for giving him free money!

It's not free money. It's a loan that needs to be repaid. Market rate interests are also being paid on that loan. The government is making money from those bailouts.

If you don't like working then you are free to take out loans against your existing assets (shares, real estate) and be a capitalist. But managing or investing money is still hard work (though different) and definitely not "free money".
Like the look of this but given increasing privacy concerns I absolutely believe that the Moz experiments data policies are plain wrong. At least allow a non-data collecting variant, otherwise you will never find out how many users this could have had :/
That's why I have mentioned the combination of Bitcoin / Lightning, not only Bitcoin. Lightning seems very suited for micropayments.
Sure, but they were not mercenaries. They did not enroll, but were taken from their families in occupied lands as small children, raised and educated as warriors, and the only career option they had, and family they knew of is the army.
Poking around his previous articles I was surprised to see this:

> At the end of the day, OpenSSL is a library, not an end-user product, and enc(1) and friends are developer utilities and "demo" tools.

I think most would be interested to know that OpenSSL doesn't consider the command line tools worth securing.
I really wonder what's going to happen if Blizzard (aka hearthstone) or someone else big (Steam) get shot with the GDPR bullet 1st.
GDPR has special and more stringent provision when dealing with Minors data.
Everybody look at the adtech industry as the one with the highest risk regarding GDPR but the Gaming industry (especially for online and mobile) is the one that can be shot first because of the Children's provisions of the regulation.
> 2,470 potential matches were identified. [...]

> 2,297 - 92% - were found to be "false positives".

... so we have 173 true positives, but 450 people were arrested.

I guess the 277 wrongfully arrested ones may have an opinion different from yours.
... except on the operating systems, discussed at length in this very same discussion, where paths are fundamentally 16-bit words.
I would love to be able to write C++ without having to write header files, there is an insane amount of redundancy between header/sources in any C++ project. I don't even care about anything else, that would be the most important thing this tool should support flawlessly.
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It is now clear I don’t write enough macros :)

Your blog post was great. Thanks for the share.
Can they actually read anything meaningful? Last time I've looked up research on emotion reading, you needed a device much more elaborated than what you see in the picture (and it was still shit). It could just be another case of a company lobbying to put these devices everywhere to get money, it would not be the first feel-good/bogus security device deployed at a large scale. It might just be similar to the fake bomb detector: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896.
That's enlightening. I always thought artists had the whole paint in mind before starting, never considered that it wasn't like that. Arguably it was one of the main deterrents to do any kind of drawing: it took too much effort to have the whole picture in mind!

I'm happy to see that I wasn't entirely out of my mind...
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I looked into the issue with multiple coprocesses in bash again to make sure. While you would naturally think you could simply give them different names, it's unfortunately not supported:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-04/msg00059...

Bash will print a warning when you start the second one, and the man page explicitly says at the bottom: "There may be only one active coprocess at a time."
[I focus only on the performance of facial recognition system, not on whether it's good idea to have such systems in place.]

From the systems performance point of view, this is non-story. If you deploy detection system, you have to make trade-off between precision (how many false positives you will have) and recall (how many false negatives -- misses) you will have [1]. How you do this trade-off depends on cost of false positive, and cost of false negative.

For example, if false positive means, that someone will point camera to that part of stadium and someone will manually check if it's correct [2], and then arrest, then 2000 false positives might be good performance if recall is good, because there is no negative impact on false positive, only some wasted effort by police.

On the other hand, if this AI match would be used as evidence in court, then the it would be terrible, as it would cause much more harm than good. From the article it seems that police is using it more closely to the first case, than to the second case, so the performance of this system might be good, so really the article is non-story.

[1] I simplified the "precision" and "recall".
[2] Or send more security guards / police to that area, or whatever discrete measure.
The kind of technical debt otherwise known as premature optimisation. If you don't even know yet that your app has to scale - and in which way - preparing for that contingency is a waste of resources.
True, I mean at least since a year or so. I think last year articles about studies showing Facebook having an adverse effect on happyness arrived in the mainstream, i.e. Google News.

But anyways, the more I think about Facebook, the more question it raises. What I was wondering recently: how do they acutally pay the low-income personell, like guards or janitors? If you imagine that even people earning a 6 digit salary have a tough time finding an apartment and commuting to work - both subject to protests by locals - how do these people live?

I was thinking about that as I read a post on HN about exactly that problem at Yelp. The article was deleted though. Here's the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16844410 This makes me think there is something deeply wrong in the whole Startup bubble.
> That's like saying, he got a mortgage, shame on the bank for giving him free money!

> It's not free money. It's a loan that needs to be repaid. Market rate interests are also being paid on that loan. The government is making money from those bailouts.

You seem to know your econ. Maybe you could help me. Would you mind calculating the ROI for me on this ten year loan please? Must be similar to the market rates in 2008 I guess...

> But managing or investing money is still hard work (though different) and definitely not "free money".

There's a really good book that touches on this and has some nice case studies: Thinking fast and slow by Kahneman (econ nobel prize winner if I'm not wrong).
On the contrary, if one is on Windows this stuff is actually much easier to handle, as the operating system supplies out of the box a large, extensible and maintained by installed applications, table of extensions, with an indirect mapping (via an intermediate) to display icons supplied in that very same table.

The ASSOC .DOCX command shows an example of the first leg of the indirect mapping.
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Took me a while to figure out the "pip install" command:

pip install --index-url=http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/5.9/latest/ pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io

(with python 3.6 or 2.5)
Glossing over the fact that there is still the opportunity costs that you neglect, would you be happy with a ~13% return over ten years? Would you consider something like this as a business offering?
Ah yeah, forgot that. :)
>300-600 watts per hour

Watt is a measure of energy/time. It doesn't make sense to say watts per hour.
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Because, at Google you do not get promoted if you make small incremental improvements. Especially not if you work on something that does not easily show up in metrics.

You need to launch flashy products and APIs to have the promo committee look at your packet properly. Unsurprisingly, promo driven development ensues.
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Good luck setting a breakpoint.