skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China routinely imprisons political subversives.

And the US and UK, the Netherlands, France and I believe Italy have all been caught protecting police officers that used surveillance powers for that purpose I alluded to (finding boyfriends of a girl a police officer likes and beating them up). Given that list, I feel like we can safely assume that all EU states in fact de-facto allow and protect police officers doing this. Likewise police officers have been caught sporadically using official "legal intercept" tools to "help" in divorce, finding children they abused, finding ex-lovers they had a quarrel with, and the like.

Note: I don't mean just that police officers did that, that's troubling enough by itself that those tools allow that. My main complaint is that the justice system protected those police officers from the consequences of those actions.

The only case where the police seems to find this behavior by their own officers unacceptable is when it's directly used to help a (non-police-officer) criminal. And this is very widespread behavior. It happens in the US (but of course, in the US the victims (eventually) get notified that an officer did that, so you can sue them), it happens in the EU, and in the EU it's completely unchecked and unchallengeable, and "surprisingly" this does not lead to them using it more responsibly.

I find things just baffling. FB/Google/MS/... are all begin vigorously pursued for essentially selling your contact list ... by people who used violence against ISPs/ASPs (like FB/Google/MS/... but not just them) to allow police officers to beat up love rivals and abuse children. And when they got caught doing that ... they immediately rallied behind the criminals (because yes, what those officers did was in fact criminal in almost all cases).

I feel like we've got much bigger problems here than Trump's campaign using contact lists from phones/FB to get more people to vote for him. And I feel like the EU should not be criticizing anyone for being weak on privacy.
I agree that a stepped line graph is better that a line graph, but since the data is discrete and not continuous a lollipop chart or maybe a bar chart would convey it better.

Monty from xiph.org learned me that: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml @ 5:57
Nah. Customers want low friction and solutions.

Fact: NO ONE wakes up and thinks "I gotta buy me some iteration today."

Iteration, evolution and low-risk change are means. They are not ends.
Possibly. They must be getting their idea out 99% from somewhere, and existing transmissions in other application domains are a likely candidate. But I really don't believe that it could work at bike-friendly torque/weight ratios, in a system open to the gritty environment, in a multi-gear setup where angles are not aligned (the inner part of the teeth moves slower than the outer part, permanent slippage, yay).

As far as I understand it this is a mockup celebrating the intention of getting to 99, not a prototype that has achieved it. More artist's impression than product.

What's still impressive though is that the concept does away with pretty much the only actual product the company has, the pulley wheel. That is bold in a strictly economic way.
But that creates companies like Behringer; they are right now in the process of cloning every single famous synthesizer that has expired IP, selling it for 5-10x less than the original manufacturers. This would obviously lead to market full of cheap clones (of course welcome by customers), but the original designers would end up on the streets or are forced to change their mindsets to cloners, likely in 20 years completely destroying the market. If nobody is taking risks in bold original ideas, there is no longer any meaningful progress, rent-seeking becomes rampant (we see it with the massive push to subscriptions everywhere already) and once creative exciting industry becomes stale and unappealing.
I'm not sure whether you are joking or not, but how to get paper is never a concern for a PI in academia.
>I know this will never be popular opinion,but as a citizen of a poor, developing country with widespread corruption, I sometimes have to wonder: is democracy really the best model for poor nations that don't have the foundations to foster it?

I actually think you have a very valid concern. As Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." ( I know it isn't Churchill who said it first, but let not derail the topic )

As someone who has lived in Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy, and Authoritarian countries, My only conclusion is, none of the above form of government matters as much. What is much more fundamental, in every form of government is well educated, and well informed people. They need to be taught to think independently, and critically, to make values of things, to make a judgement, and (much) more importantly, to learn from the mistakes if they did make a wrong judgement. Education is the key and possibly the only key to political and society progress. Once we have that, any form of Government will work, as ultimately the power of Government comes from People, even Authoritarian.

That is of course ignoring capitalism sneaking through, where human greed are maximised. Where Education isn't about teaching the basics of thinking and values, but skills set that you are required to get a job.
Not so easy to do when you have several children, especially twins..
I am using WSL to target Linux from VS2017 and it works like a dream. Twice as fast as VirtualBox (at least) and everything I need right there. Ubuntu and Debian.
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Are you commenting the headline or the article?
Note your donate link https://html.brow.sh/https://www.brow.sh/donate/ 'broke' the QR code. Amazing work!
Ultimately, I disagree. If we are using the assumption that information is power, and the purpose of spying is to protect national interests (even if that only means the interests of the government in power), then I'd prefer the US spying on me. They already are and have been for years. It makes me uncomfortable, but if the US stopped spying the Chinese sure as hell wouldn't, and so I can't rightly advocate for less spying from the US.

I call it a necessary evil.
Democracies are not only direct, they're also representative. Also, no plan survives contact with the enemy, I'm not talking about Utopia here. The US is absolutely a democracy, as one manifests itself in real life. So is the UK, France, the Scandinavian countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.
More like, "It's not going to do you any favors, because you've already done them all yourself."
I like the "The marriage of sense and reason" section.

There are so many "wrong-on-the-internet" folks who believe they're being rational, but in fact are merely cherry-picking whatever bits of reality (they use the word "facts") they understand, formulating their response only on that basis and ignoring everything else that isn't easy to observe, measure or reason about.

Being rational or objective is a very tall order. We are never _actually_ prepared to do that in real-life scenarios. It is only remotely feasible in the most stripped-down, simplified set-ups.
> pioneer

Definition: One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

Apple does not really fit the bill when it comes to MP3 players, but you could say they did when it came to the tablets since they pretty much created the category.
Personally, I don't like that it starts with the reasons to not take money ("I've had many offers to sponsor HIBP, to monetarily reward me for product placement and indeed to buy the service outright. I've rejected every single one of them because I didn't want my motives to be questioned"), then it is a _long_ time before he explicitly says he is taking money ("Clearly, this is a commercial relationship - 1Password pays to get their product in front of people via HIBP").
As a European and an android user, without the "copiers" most of those "original pioneers" would deliver no value to me, so I'm very glad the "copiers" exist.

Don't want your business copied? Make it available to everyone yourself in the first place.
10 inches is a little small to pretend to be "as comfortable as a laptop". I think 12 inches is the actual lower end for decent size/comfort.
It depends on how you define and view "socialism". It seems to me most US citizens have a vert different view on socialism then everyone else from CommonWealth countries.
The title is pretty in-line with what article has to say, and it actually elaborates on what you wrote. I think it's not that big of a deal when a bit of meaning fell through the cracks when whole thing was summarized in one sentence.
Hi there!

Andriy from Crowdin is here! Crowdin is localization management platform where you can upload different kinds of files (including PO) and localize them with help of community or hire professional translators. It's worth mentioning that GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket repository and sync files automatically back and forth.

Quite often people indeed create a separate i18n repo where localization files are hosted. A good sample:
https://github.com/electron/i18n

We do not provide translation services ourselves and I'm sorry to hear you've found some imperfections in texts! If you could point what exactly can be improved, we would be happy to improve that of course!

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Please elaborate.

AFAIK they promote their Pytorch wrapper in their course instead of using pure Pytorch. Anything else?
Mind blown how accurate this is, I've sent you some BTC as token of appreciation even though I do not have any application for what you've built right now. A lot of work has gone into this and it shows.

edit: it's so good that I got confused about which window I was looking at and tried to click links with the mouse :)
I may agree with some of what's written and I completely agree with the overall conclusion, but the writing seems to be pretty low effort.

> Finally Two Sigma Securities, the market making arm of Chicago based quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma, will purchase the options trading business of Interactive Brokers.
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For those interested in aerial archeology I recommend the work of French archeologist Roger Agache, who pioneered the domain in France in the '60s and '70s and based on whose work tens if not hundreds of Roman-era villas have been mapped in the plains located between the Loire valley and the Northern area of Paris. Just a couple of links: http://www.archeologie-aerienne.culture.gouv.fr/en/discip5-p... (presenting his work in English) and especially this http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr?ACTION... (with actual aerial photos taken by Agache and his team).
It's important to note that this grand unveiling of an (not very) ambitious multi-decade long scheme comes at a time where we've already established we're going to fail to meet targets for our previous decade long scheme to increase renewable energy use. If there were any serious will from this government it would be diverting funds to meet our 2020 target, not start talking about 2040.
IIRC, Jetbrains does a great job inside their IDEs. They have a training mode of sorts that suggests faster ways to do things.
This seems like a good example of how "feng shui" can be just "good atmosphere". A open view over the water is worth a lot.
Exactly what I need for my GraphQL backend. Thanks!
>Or are you assuming that democracy naturally devolves into a corrupt regime?

All governments regardless of their nature or intent devolve into corrupt regimes over time. The nature of government - authority through a monopoly on violence and coercive taxation - makes corruption, authoritarianism and collapse inevitable.
Kensington and Logitech (and others, I'm sure) had keyboard cases for the original iPad in 2010, although they communicated via bluetooth.
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Because we depend on biodiversity to survive. It's what allows animals to not be wiped out by only one super parasite. It's what allow plants to bread so that they get robust and nutritious. It's what allow all our bodies to not be vulnerable to only one disease and all die.

It also supports the balance of all the ecosystems: forests, seas, rivers... Which we also depend on to survive.

It's what makes us live on a beautiful, comfortable planet instead of survive in a terraformed rock we have to fight against while rushing to the next scientific way to palliate yet a new deficiency.

In our planet system, everything is connected.

Let's take a very naive but simple to understand example, the tomatoe.

Planting so much, and always the same kind of tomatoes makes the land nutritionally poor and the plant susceptible to parasites. We compensate this unnatural state by addition artificial nutrition and pesticides to the plant.

The result ?

Most tomatoes are tasteless garbage that looks more like a plastic ball than a fruit. Their nutritional content has been divided by 10 during the last 80 years, so that you need to eat much more to remotely get the same minerals and vitamins. When you eat them, you also absorb a small amount of all the products we put on them, with consequences we still don't know about.

That's just for a simple tomato. Bring together all the food, the water, the air, the temperature, etc. together, and that's how much we are disturbing.

It's not just emotional. We are seated on branch we are sawing.
It would be much better if journalists would stop reporting "accuracy" and instead mention the precision and recall[1] of the classifiers they report on. There's a fundamental trade off between the two and it's hard to tell what where the trade off has been made unless both are reported.

To elaborate, it's trivial to make a classifier with 0 false positives... but also many false negatives (high precision, low recall). Similarly, we can have 0 false negatives but many false positives (low precision, high recall).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
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> Since Microsoft are more into Linux these days,

You have bought way too much into the Microsoft PR. Microsoft does not love Linux, they just use it as a cash cow when it's convenient for them (in the server space, for Azure services) but that's the extent of it. Don't expect to see any real Microsoft offering like Office on any Linux distro.
Problem with Originality is that you have no one else's mistakes to learn from. Also the ecosystem and market around does not exist, so the execution is not only riskier but costly also.
The web 1995-2005 or thereabout will be the best documented period of humanity and it is saddening to see how payload has been replaced by cruft to the point that we might as well have remote PDF viewers.

So much for 'the semantic web' I guess.
But I'm not worried about nature at all, although the massacre disturb my sense of aesthetic and empathy.

It's sad we destroy it. I wish we would not.

But it will survive, thrive even.

The problem is that our current actions will kill us.
If someone wanted to connect with others and have a good time, rationality is the number one party buzzkill. I’d trade all rationality in perpetuity for being able to connect with people without even needing to think about it... social skills are far more vital to well-being than almost anything else besides industrious productivity. Worse, these skills are in abject crisis with infinite distractions, negative social polarization/crybullies/humorouslessness/long-tail civilization decline and a disposable, social-dilettance mentality that only allows for surface, fake relationships that go to die on Facebook. You also can’t have love with Vulcan analysis... it’s incompatible with mutual-affinity.
Check again :)
From the paper:

We define metadata as the information available pertaining
to a Twitter post. This is information that describes the context on which the post was shared. Apart from the 140 character message, each tweet contains about 144 fields of metadata. Each of these fields provides additional information
about: the account from which it was posted; the post (e.g.
time, number of views); other tweets contained within the
message; various entities (e.g. hashtags, URLs, etc); and the
information of any users directly mentioned in it.

...

For data collection, we used the Twitter Streaming Public
API (Twitter, Inc. 2018). Our population is a random
sample of the tweets posted between October 2015 and January
2016 (inclusive). During this period we collected approximately 151,215,987 tweets corresponding 11,668,319 users.
However, for the results presented here we considered only
users for which we collected more than 200 tweets. Our final
dataset contains tweets generated by 5,412,693 users.
I'm going to go out on a limb with no evidence what-so-ever and say anesthetists.
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> "...we had to ask ourselves what people want and need from a 10” Surface..."

Answer: Maybe not a 10" Surface.

What I dream of is single computing unit (read: cpu + ram + storage + etc.) with the ability to attach to different UIs.

Maybe that's a 5" screen. Maybe that's a 10" screen. Maybe it's voice (and no screen at all).

I know Motorola tried (is still trying?) this to some extent, but as strong as they are, they are not MS.
Apple never invented the tablet or the tablet category but again they absolutely pioneered it.

In fact it was apparently Microsoft that were the first:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053242/Steve-Jobs-i...
Smart people have always stolen ideas from completely unrelated industries.

I mean, Gutenberg invented the printing press after seeing a wine press crush grapes. Velcro was invented when some guy found burrs stuck to his trousers.

Genius isn’t conceiving some magic new technology. It's taking a mature technology and transplanting it elsewhere.

For Christmas, I bought myself a pass to Masterclass.com. They have classes by people like Malcolm Gladwell, Helen Mirren and Martin Scorsese.

I found that watching them sparks all kinds of unexpected epiphanies that you can apply to your life or your work.

For example, Deadmau5 has a folder of unfinished loops and melodies. He calls it his "Mr Potatohead" bin. He spends his time building little components – and then once in a while experiments with different ways of putting them together to make a track.

That's actually very similar to how I write.

Observing other professions is a great way to get your brain purring.
I was about to write that very comment. It's not like he's hiding it, and he's giving the (e)book out for free, what more could you ask?
> Internal hubs are slightly less efficient overall and this depends a lot on the internal design and which gears are in use. But even these are something like 94% - 97% efficient.

This isn't true. Rolhoff hubs can approach that for some gears, but bikes with them start at $2K. Nothing else except derailleurs are even close:

http://bikeshed.johnhoogstrate.nl/bicycle/drivetrain/shimano...

https://www.cyclingabout.com/speed-difference-testing-gearbo...

Also, current shafts and bands reduce speed another few percent.
Wouldn't profit per employee per hour make more sense?
Musk’s mini sub “not practical” for Thai cave boys rescue
In the title right here on HN, it says 111M. Guess the HN font doesn't clearly distinguish between 1 and I clearly enough.
People bitch about wasps, but there are almost none now a days. I used to see plenty.

The only species that thrive are the opportunist ones that tied their fate to the humans: cockroaches, fruit flies, dogs, cattle, chicken, etc.

Those don't pollinate plants, they don't eat plant parasites , they pollute the water and air, and because we feed them with so much crap, even the land instead of fertilizing it.
Ask HN: How can we contribute towards the open source community?
We run http://draftss.com where we offer graphic design on a subscription model to our customers.

We love using a lot of open source projects at our workplace and would love to give back to the open source community.
Is there any way we as draftss.com could help the community?
The first thing that strikes our mind is open source project websites are very poorly designed and we could help them there, but we are not sure.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
I love the authors other work, it really helped me when I was getting into compiler design. I'm very excited to start reading.
How do you plan to get the data? Assuming you took the idea that far.

Sounds interesting indeed, and I have not thought about it for long, but I doubt there is any public official database for it?
Look similar to https://github.com/svanoort/pyresttest but in nodejs
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Ask HN: What is your rate?
When working freelance, what should you say when a recruiter/manager casually asks you what your rate is?
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Thanks. That machine has a server processor and ecc memory 64GB. Specs are pretty similar to a small server. But yeah. Hardware has changed a ton :)
Unlike the vast majority of apps, HBO is a sound business.
In India, Flipkart is often criticized for "copying" Amazon's idea (not that "sell stuff online" was revolutionary to begin with).

But the thing is, Flipkart entered the Indian market before Amazon.

As a consumer, I derived more value from Flipkart's "copy" that served me than from Amazon's "originality".

Same with Android. As a consumer, Android may have copied iOS, but Android's copy was far more affordable to me, and hence, I derived far more value from it than the original.
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And who has verified what Nissan said?
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