skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't mention arrests but I think the database used was much larger. Probably all persons of interest. The Met (London Police) has been using experts in face recognition for years and their hit rate is much higher. Those people can also identify a high number of suspects on random CCTV while the software was used in stadiums where people tend to remain at one place for most of the time.

So 95% false positive can be better than nothing but it's nowhere near what trained policemen can do.
Any links to something similar, sounds really interesting.

BTW I really recommend unbuffer from expect, if you are using tcpdump and pipes.
This led me to an internet research rabbit hole, via http://www.ukserials.com/ to the crash report (years ago) of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8587389...

It drove home that the aircraft doing low-level flights have very little manuverability option when flying at 400kts (~200 meters per second). Dodging a drone would be infeasible even if you could see where it was. Transponders with LOS limitation might be of limited use given that the terrain is extremely hilly and the aircraft could come round a corner in the valleys or over a ridge.

It's also a major tourist area, just the sort of place that people might want to send up a photography drone...
Are autonomous cars really safer than human drivers?
Begs the obvious question - is this immune to Spectre and Meltdown?
Ask HN: What are you using to bill one-off online calls/meetings?
I receive a small, but non-trivial amount of emails that request my time (via a call or otherwise). When appropriate I reply (or chat) for free, but I can't do this for everything.

Instead of just saying "no", I'd prefer to have an option where I can tell the person to schedule a paid chat with me.

I've seen the likes of Code Mentor, but are there any services that cater for this in a more general-purpose way?
You are one of the fairly few companies in the world who a) can use $3 billion and b) do not have ready access to the capital markets. I happen to be one of the fairly few people in the world with $3 billion and virtually unlimited flexibility to deploy it how I see fit. Yours is clearly a valuable business with strong cash flows and a lot of defensibility; that's worth something.

Want my money? It's not going to be cheap, but it's available in quantity.
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It is of course important to point out that this is akin to casting a struct to a void pointer and writing it to a file (it's just faster), which works extremely well but requires the data structures to have a stable memory representation. If one changes the structs in any way, old persistent data will look like garbage. One should therefore still have an extremely well-defined and versioned system for managing persistent data, rather than just arbitrarily allocating objects on the persistent heap.

It's still neat, though.
Even by being open to the idea, it is easy to see that such a project will garner so much opposition as to be politically non viable.

It is also very hard to achieve, as even if you break up the family structure, there will be a disparity of compétences accross the education institution and will also magnify genetic advantages and handicap, things that as a society we do not feel legitimate to attribute merit.

I am open to the idea of banning inheritance though, which seems to me the most unfair family advantage out there.
Excellent, that seems to address my misgivings. Thanks.
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Original author Aaron Brown writes "None of this argues against global warming" and adds "my point is that statistical cooling outliers garner no media attention. The global average temperature numbers come out monthly. If they show a new hottest year on record, that's a big story. If they show a big increase over the previous month, or the same month in the previous year, that's a story. If they represent a sequence of warming months or years, that's a story. When they show cooling of any sort—and there have been more cooling months than warming months since anthropogenic warming began—there's no story".
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Always do what you are afraid to do.

Practise. Seek out opportunities to make these weaknesses your strengths. There's Toastmasters and other groups to help, lots of books.. but mainly, practise, do them over and over again. A lot of the great speakers of history were terrible in their youth, or stuttered, or something--a lot of people who achieve greatness made extra effort because it meant more to them than to other people. etc. Good luck!
We all know HN runs the occasional job ad and promotional piece, but I find it acceptable given the educated target audience. Personally, I also like "Show HN" where a startup CEO/tech lead gets flak, but also has the chance to expose his product.

A more imminent concern is that, given the increased news frequency in the last one or two years, many stories don't make it to the home page, and don't get the coverage they deserve. Also, HN is somewhat prone to ring voting, and I guess this is almost impossible to get under control, though it's not too bad IMHO.

Both of these issues could be seen as inviting growth hacking or worse: the first one to shadow negative publicity (a trick as old as the soccer world championship); the second one, obviously, by making public reception appear in favour of something, when in reality it's everything but.

Ok there's one issue I'm having with HN: too many pieces about machine learning/big data, and stories being predictably offtopic'd by functional programming nerds (but it's par for the course on HN, ycombinator and all).
Gah, what is the point then?
That's a false choice. Obviously Linux code is still optimized significantly despite their extensive disabling of UB based "optmizations".
Often I hear about people who refuse some contract because of ethical reserves. But, we should have more people with ethical sensibility working on military projects, not less. If the only people working on military projects are sociopaths, what future are we building?
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Exactly.

I think a more CS way to think about it is shipping out a MVP vs. shipping out a 100% perfect, 100% feature complete, 100% bug free, 100% documented, product.

I think everybody would be happy to start a project and ship out that 100% finished product, but you'll spend your entire life working on this and die without succeeding because it doesn't exist. So the choices are to 1) not bother, 2) do what you can (MVP), or 3) work until you die as a failure. OP would want me to choose 1 or 3, it seems.
Being too busy is of course a legitimate reason. Without knowing why he declined it is silly to criticise it, I think.
You're right, I read diagonally :)

However, the optimization argument for signed overflow seems weird to me, because I can't see any reason why this argument would not apply to unsigned overflow as well.

If we keep undefined behavior to optimize things like "if (n < n + 1)" when n is signed, why not do the same when n is unsigned?

Conversely, if there is a good reason not to, then why would it not apply to signed overflow as well?
Just checked my facebook data export and the location_history folder just contains the file no-data.txt

My location history is also turned off on facebook.

Just another data point
Why did the CEO want a photo with you?
Looking back at Viva Tech 2018
Plainbudget variables demo (GIF)
Using Gmail as a helpdesk like a champ
.. but is apparently fairly terrible at saving mothers? https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/15/opinions/op-ed-christy-tu...
What about 'Smashing Security' and 'Darknet Diaries' ?
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Wow, old days, working with clipper, it took between 15 and 40 minutes. We went to the bar and hoped the compiler didnt break the moment we entered the bar.
Got any data? I googled a bit, but couldn't find by both socioeconomic class and color. It's either one or the other.

I wonder where's the disparity. Are well-off black kids doing worse? Is it poor whites doing better than their peers? Are white poor- communities doing better than black ghettos? How is it correlating to street crime and violence?
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> mainly saving about 90% resident memory

The TechEmpower benchmarks do not care for mem usage and startup time. Maybe this has something to do with them doing JVM consulting? :)
You will need one more face into the camera view for face swap.
It strikes me as a term where everybody thinks they know what it means but if you drill down most people just made up their own definition and there's no agreed-upon definition.

While everybody agrees that toxic users are bad and you probably should get rid of them, many would really disagree on who the toxic users actually are.

My made-up-on-the-spot definition would be: "Everybody who hinders business interests."

May it be by hindering user growth or even causing user loss. For example making large groups of users feeling uneasy in some way. For example using bad words or posting bad ideas or even purposefully provoking users or user groups.

Or by hindering revenue streams for example by advocating ad-blockers or making the advertisers or other money sources feeling uneasy.

Or other reasons.
What's important to remember, I think, is that we should not compare YouTube auto captions to human made captions, because auto captions were not created as a substitute for human made captions - if it wasn't for auto captioning, all these videos wouldn't get any captions at all. They may never be perfect, but they're not designed to be, they're creating new value on their own. And IMO they crossed the threshold of being usable, at least for English.
This Android VM bug causes interned strings to be handled incorrectly
You can always get the most up-to-date public version using wg21.link/pxxxx. So for this proposal: https://wg21.link/p0907
Well, Asians are a different race but they also eat more rice than wheat

http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/09/china-study-ii-...
Indeed - and possibly write an expose about how terrible it was to work for us that will gain traction across a variety of social media sites.

(I am not usually this cynical before lunchtime, honestly.)
There's No Such Thing as a Full Stack Developer
Are you sure this was the intent of the standard writers back in the midlate 80s and not something that modern compilers just happened to take advantage of? I'd really expect it to be the former.
Let's do a little thought experiment where we try to stay within the scrum universe, but try to solve the main problem (developers being disempowered by scrum) by modifying the scrum framework. As the author states, "So Scrum has a master, product has an owner, but no-one is empowered to advocate for development priorities." Let's add another role to scrum called the craft master. This individual has excellent technical leadership skills and deep technical knowledge. The craft master's goal is to defend what the team is doing as a craft (much as the scrum master would defend the process of scrum itself), making sure that the craft's level of quality is manifested through a Definition of Done that takes way more of a center stage than it currently does. Would this be empowering developers?

IMHO, the answer to this question is "yes".
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Being a schoolteacher is risky - kids kill themselves over things that happen at school, or they metaphorically throw their life away with other stupid actions. A good, engaged teacher can help to steer children through that minefield. It's not just about teaching a subject.

The idea that one only needs to be good at a subject to teach it well is bunkum.

It's not rocket surgery, it's potentially far more important.
>> there existed a system that could scan multiple irises from a distance of up to 6 metres.

Holy %}^##

I thought that was Minority Report BS - it's actually possible?!
This presumes that the people with ethical sensibilities have any power to change the structure of the MIC from the inside. On the contrary, I'd say a fundamentally rotten institution can't be reformed by a few good apples joining up to help turn civilians into red streaks on the ground.
But it's only going to get better from then on it's a first revision of a product with a novel tech inside it. First SLC SSDs had abysmal performance numbers and density by today's standards.
Indeed it erodes solidarity, little by little.
So its a bug?
So MSFT uses Rust. :) That's actually quite a newsworthy thing, could be a lot more newsworthy if we knew the purpose it was used for was some mission critical component that also needs to be blazing fast.

Looking at Rust's strengths, and that MSFT has languages/compilers of it's own, the use case is prolly "mission critical component that also needs to be blazing fast". But for now we're guessing.
So, what evidence would you accept?
Buggy hardware will get you every time!
Let us all remember all Dave Chapelle's jokes, Eddy Murphy's jokes which where related to accents.
So your society does the same, it's absurd to say otherwise.
And recently Trevor Noah had a french dude in the audience and made fun of his accent. No offence was taken. Quit the safe space madness, thanks.
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Well, are’nt you missing the point here? Conflating features with intent?
I used an AS/400 as operator back in 1994, was mostly taking care of doing backups.

Sadly I never got to program into them, but at least .NET (on Windows), Android seem to share some of the ideas.
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For a developing country to increase life span in general, it makes most sense to decrease child mortality and increase vaccinations. Old and sick people don't matter much for the statistic, since a child dying with 2 years is much worse for the statistic than an old persons getting one year less out of life.
Yup. In this aspect libpmemobj could be compared to how Cap'N Proto [0] works. And of course, this has some trade-offs that users need to be aware of.

[0] - https://capnproto.org/index.html
It's quite surprising that they've ended up pigeonholed into full stack web devs, given that they have specialty forums for a lot of technical skills including some of the ones you mentioned. They seem like they should be well positioned to do really well in niches where they have a Q+A board.
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GDPR blocked, not going to read it.
Is this illegal in the UK? I believe in Germany it is.
Is it interesting that people spend the most time on Reddit than on every other website in the list? Even more than xVideos (which is #2)
I’ll bet that this is primarily not because of registration but primarily because of topic constraints- you can only discuss movies.

And I’m guessing there was some problem, which is why they shut the forums down.
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He also promoted the idea that fluoridation of water was a Communist plot.
With financial data you might be better off separating out the side of the bet from the size of the bet and thus it makes sense to just make three bins. The features to use for direction and volatility are different.
Combinatorial Game Theory
There should be a way to "sandbox" a webpage, ie completely disconnect it from the outside world. I would be much more comfortable with this kind of demo that need webcam, audio or file upload.

So:

- block all incoming and outgoing requests from that page

- discard all data persisted in cookies/localStorage

- ignore caches (to prevent timing attacks)
While it's possible that Google may be keeping the data after you ask them to delete it, that would be a violation of the GDPR.
Not likely. My sister teaches in a magnate school in a poor urban U.S. district.

The amount of bad behavior with which she must contend is shocking. It's entirely foreign to me from our childhood, and she has relatively little freedom in how she can handle chronically problematic students.

If it is theoretically possible for the teachers to keep the disruption level low enough for much learning to happen, then the formula is a secret.

It's very depressing, and it has left many teachers bitter, burned out, and I suspect more racist.
Google doesn't appear to be very successful in its attempts to influence published opinion in Europe right now.

The consequences of the planned EU copyright directive could be dramatic (not just for Google but also for freedom of speech, for small publishers and for AI startups) and yet big European publishers (including public broadcasters) are largely succeeding at suppressing critical reporting on the subject.
German spies can keep monitoring internet hubs, court rules
> there would be no significant difference between the students in the study

I didn't say this. I say that you can't generalise to students NOT in the study, i.e. students with parents who didn't care to participate in the lottery.
Or, "ants like flux residue!"! Rosin based, aka resin based, aka probably yummy smelling for an ant!

I was half expecting an article on how the hardware was badly designed, but apparently, it's rather conservative in the ratings they used -- that is, until a little mobile short moves in!
The point is that signed integers are two's complement. After all, it is the title.
That's a good tip, thanks for sharing.
What is the GDPR acceptance interface being used here? I am assuming it is a plugin or third-party service, since Macrumors have an identical one.
Hdrfgdf
This is really impressive! I mostly use Inkscape normally, but it feels dated and painful in all sorts of ways, and a capable web alternative is a great thing.

Personally, the most obvious limitation I can see here is font choices. Is there a way I can use custom fonts? Really just being able to pick from google fonts would be amazing.
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Reminds me of a LAN party with friends back in the early 90s, one of our computers suddenly shut down while playing Doom, and would not power back up.

We opened up the case to check for any obvious problems, like a loose connector or similar. On the motherboard, next to all the capacitors and inductors near the CPU sat a fried garden slug...
Thanks.

I tried it and it consistently made my face a little too small, ruining the effect.
This should be a thing like tl;dr

eu;cr
There's something very organic about the system in his demo that feels almost surreal
Facebook no longer has the same purpose as it started. Reddit on the other hand it’s still true to its purpose. Free, open, and fun.
I wonder what he thinks "international" means.
Only if you have JavaScript enabled apparently. Works for me.
Seems that happens only once, but you can go back and are not nagged again. So he doesn't bare you from reading it, just takes the opportunity to explain why he is not happy with our decision.
I think part of the issue is that, when you return a fallback icon (the B icon in this case), you serve it with an HTTP 404 status.

In Firefox (and possibly other browsers), the browser will not attempt to render images returned with a 404 status. Changing it to return a 200 status should work.
That's assuming those are the only two choices. In real life there are many more. The US could learn from France who have fought islamic terrorists far longer and tend to assassinate the guilty with a bullet rather than taking out a bunch of innocents with bombs.
You know, I think google wave was so close to this augmenting human intellec thing, perhaps the product was killed because it threatened to cannibalize other segments of up and coming products from google, I have no idea.

But I clearly remember the feeling I had when discovering it.
I would like to know what the ideas he wrote about were.
Hdffgh
You can give a Trello board an email addresses and simply forward the emails (manually or with a filter) to the board, details and attachments are kept intact.
With the current administration, maybe it won't just be optics, but also some knee-jerk executive orders that lead to much higher costs.
This is not really finance research so do not confuse the two. It is CS/ML with a financial application; two different things. Return predictability low in real data, even if you control for time- and firm-fixed effects.
Oh yeah, this is the cutting edge of mod techniques now - predict based on association.
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Yes, it is a bit more complex than that. But it's pretty clear that readers don't know who has editorial control, so they won't get driven away if that changes. It's also surprising how few advertisers there are in each paper, if you're maximising your profit you need only a few big accounts to fund the paper, diversifying to a bunch of smaller clients is going to be difficult and costly.

To maximise revenue you want clients to compete for your ad space (in some cases, just to be in there instead of their competitors). Editorial control just goes out of the window, so long as the baseline quality is high enough to keep people reading, you're good.
They can be security issues since the compiler is allowed to optimize stuff. The compiler can check, that some checks the user added "don't make sense" since those only would be hit if something undefined happens. An example is shown in https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vulnerability-man... but there are many more.
Redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS should not be the default thing to do. It introduces vulnerabilities (such as MITM attacks) that are hardly considered in most configurations (from what I've seen around).

The default connection to your web server should be HTTPS, not HTTP. HSTS is an option to set this up properly.
Location history is OFF for both Google and Facebook for me
Being an asshole has a lot more to do with the tone of the message than with the content.

In my experience, most people will accept feedback if you do it in a respectful manner.

You can tell someone they are underperforming without insulting them. Respect your employees.

Even when you tell people to read the manual, you can do so in a way that doesn’t feel insulting. There’s a world of a difference between “RTFM!” and “I believe the documentation addresses this problem on page X.”
Miners can refuse to process some transactions (this is somewhat intentional, in that higher fee transactions are supposed to get priority, but there is no mechanism which prevents them from simply excluding all transactions to/from a specific address from a block). If a large percentage of them do so it can have a significant impact on how long those transactions take (and the mining pools are very big and few in number).
If our particles have no identity, how can we? (2015)
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