skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(AWS employee)

That’s not how these numbers fit together. Using rekognition, you would create a collection of faces based off your image corpus and then ask the service if a provided image has a match against anything in your collection. Lowering your confidence threshold, invariant of your sample size, is by definition going to increase your false positive rate while lowering your false negative rate.

I think it would be worthwhile to compare a mixed test set and see false positives/negatives at various confidence thresholds, because the fear (IMO) is that law enforcement will minimize false negatives at the expense of a huge increase in false positives.
I’m not sure about letting you filter but they have a toggle to hide explicit songs in settings -> explicit content (on iOS at least)
I suppose that's a fair perspective, but really what you're doing here is being pedantic. WASM is just the final step in integrating something like Flash or Java into the browser. That it took 20 years of standards adoption to get there isn't really relevant in my opinion.
Wait, since when was she a senator and governor?
Abbyy FineReader is far and away the best we've ever used. Nothing comes close in the space.

Tesseract requires piles and piles of training, which you may or may not have.
Would these cards work with more vendors than Privacy.com cards? Many web services, for example, reject Privacy cards because they show up as "prepaid" cards.
It's not really the same. Monzo's a bank capitalising somewhat on UK Open Banking legislation[1] and the fact that traditional banks are very slow to move with the times. It's not a SaaS product, they're likely one of if not the first movers in the market. There are competitors (Monese, Tide for business, N26 is coming at some point soon). UK fintech is pretty vibrant.

You would hope that Monzo is easy to replicate well because that means you have more modern banks to choose from.

[1] https://www.openbanking.org.uk
Indeed space dust is a problem. From notes in the parent article - "[3] Observations of the centre of the Milky Way must be made at longer wavelengths (in this case infrared) as the clouds of dust between the Earth and the central region strongly absorb visible light."
This interstellar dust was recently revealed to be a fine mist of grease, soot and silicates - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/479/4/4336/5039660
This article is unfortunately typical of the low quality of reporting on Bitcoin in the popular media.

It provides no independently-verifiable evidence of the claim in the title, nor does it even make a small effort to explain the analysis supposedly done by Cryptocompite, a service whose website consists of nothing more than an email capture.

FWIW, determining the nature of Bitcoin transactions is not trivial. The disposable pseudonym privacy model, coupled with CoinJoin transactions and now increasingly Lightning Network gives users a great deal of privacy power if they choose to use it.

Many analyses I've seen are based on transactions whose users throw that privacy stuff out the window, re-using pseudonyms and posting them to social media.
Much easier for city councils to virtue signal on non issues rather than tackling the sea of needles and shit on their sidewalks.
You can't tell corporations how to spend their money vis-a-vis political campaigning. It's a much narrower scope than what you're implying.
Truly free markets don't have patents. Abusing the power of the state to destroy competition does not work in a truly free market.
I'm trying to understand the article's premise. Is all political advertising immoral? Is it something about the way the ads were distributed that make them immoral? Is it just immoral because the politics itself was "wrong"?
Congrats on the new product!

Do you have any timeline on when you'll start offering your services in Poland? I'm always amazed at the quality of your offering, but always sad that I can't use them.
Amazon ECS Adds Console Support for T2 Unlimited EC2 Instances
Does a clean photo of a document yield 100% accuracy typically?
Canada is using ancestry DNA websites to help it deport people – VICE News
Passing the Grandma Test: Lessons Learned in Naming Your Startup
Well you can give me your second billion after you make your first.

That said, I don't know how you would monetize a system like that.

Furthermore would you really want to?
Seems to me part of Facebook's (and other popular social media platforms) growth is attracting advertisers with access to user data personalization.

Consequencently this set up leads to people (at least geeks/nerds) boycotting or giving up on Facebook due to information mining and obnoxious advertising.

Then those aforementioned nerds/geeks make something new that begins the cycle over again.
Lizard study reveals hurricanes speed up natural selection – Axios
Don't try this game on an evening before you need to wake up early.

Wonderful game, extremely engrossing: everything you do is a choice between long-term utility and time until implementation - Do you make something that will do what you need for the next five minutes in 1 min of building or something that will do what you what you need for days with a 20 mins of building?

Everything is a good choice, but some choices speed up your growth faster than others. I've had many nights where I've gotten sucked in and played for hours before realizing how late it is. Games with exponential growth curves that are able to still achieve balance create such an exhilarating feeling of progress.
>If C receptacle to A plug adapters exist, they allow the user to plug one in on both ends of the cable, creating an invalid cable that devolves into a USB A-to-A cable. This is why the specification specifically forbids all legacy adapters that have a C receptacle on one end.

I don't understand this statement; If an adapter for USB-C to USB-A exists, then the usage of it would force the USB-C operations to be limited to USB-A specs?

Isn't that exactly what you want? USB 2.0 is slower than 3.0, so interaction between the two devolves to USB 2.0; USB-A is slower than USB-C, so interaction devolves, and now you're backwards compatible (omitting whatever benefits of USB-C, but still a working setup nonetheless)

In fact, I'd imagine thats what adapters do in general.. if they're between non-equivalent things, it naturally devolves to the maximum commonly supported
Would this work in conjunction with Stripe Connect? E.g. for a marketplace-like service but instead of sending payouts, issue custom cards?
When that is published, please post it to HN!
Every remotely-tech-related company with more than 10 employees in San Francisco will provide free food. Only the large ones (more than 500 employees?) will have an on-site kitchen in the cafeteria with dedicated chefs and cooks.
This is 1940s stuff. Checkout Wald.

Short answer: in sequential testing you can ask at intermediate stages whether a satisfactory confidence has been reached. If yes you are done and if not you can continue. On average you will hit a 'yes' sooner. For non sequential you cannot do this if you care about correctness (). So the sample size needs to be pessimistic for non-sequential protocols and then you are bound to that commitment.

() If your method ensures correctness even after inspection at intermediate stages then its a sequential method by definition. There is some confusion in literature about Bayesian and sequential. They are orthogonal concepts. Both Bayesian and Frequentist test of hypothesis can be sequential
No, it’s the value of the free meals that’s considered taxable income. IIRC there was already a controversy about this a couple years ago. Employees getting the equivalent of what, $20 in free food every day? That adds up to real money.
Thank you! We'll work on those those UI bugs, the nested grids are a challenge.
https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values

This article does not read like "touting as a benefit". Excerpt from it:

Still, if the perception persists that one must type

if err != nil

all the time, something must be wrong, and the obvious target is Go itself.

This is unfortunate, misleading, and easily corrected. Perhaps what is happening is that programmers new to Go ask, "How does one handle errors?", learn this pattern, and stop there.
Most of the companies which provide free lunches do partner with local food places.
What a useless article. Reading it, you would think Azure is somehow leading on AWS, when market share is 33% AWS vs 13% Azure. This is never mentioned among the buzzwords.
I think that if you were to plot "c-section deliveries as a percentage of all pregnancies" through the years before and after Edwards' string of winning court cases, you would see that c-sections did increase.
It's a weird issue because really it's all vaguely arbitrary distinctions.

There's nothing really different between the various celestial bodies and at the same time they're all so vastly different from each other. You have planetary satellites larger than some planets. A couple of planets that are pretty much failed stars.

Even things like comets and asteroids, they're really just defined by behavior. I mean the definition of asteroid is basically "not a planet or comet".

It's basically all "stuff in space".
Association between cap poop parasite T. gondii and increased entrepreneurship
Uganda tightens grip, orders ISPs to block pornography
In that regard, looks like Unity is the new Flash.
Yeah, the proposed legislation mentioned in the article in San Francisco just banning the construction of onsite cafeterias seems to recognize this at least.
An oft repeated fallacy... Originalism applies when it extends the rights of the people or restricts the government, not the other way around.
Another feature they don't have (that all other apps seem to have) is Bluetooth playlist. Not sure why their apps are so bad.
How to delete your Twitter history – The Verge
This is one of the most stupid policy I have ever seen in the bay area (and there are a lot of stupid ones over here).

As much as I dislike some of the big tech cos and the TechBros working there bragging about the free food all the time, I still believe a company should be able to decide if they want to offer food or not.

Restaurants were unable to turn a profit, so they lobbied successfully and now everyone beside them got a worse outcome.

This is economy 101. A highly visible group of people lobbied hard (in this case the restaurants), and they put a small burden on everyone else to have their issue resolved.
However when you calculate the outcome, the burden on everyone else is bigger than the gain that the highly visible group got out of it. Everyone is worse off.
NASA Remakes the Airplane Wing with Electric Propulsion and a Lot of Propellers
Cryptocurrency vs. “Intellectual Mastrubation”
How about Tech companies spin out their Cafe and require their worker to pay for it?

The companies would have owned the property, and making the meal cost at least 30% cheaper.
No, of course not. Citizens United says you can’t limit a corporations ability to create and distribute a political movie by pretending to regulate money not speech.

It has no bearing on what sorts of non-speech activities you can regulate, even though they happen to involve money.
While I think it is totally bonkers, I think it is probably within the city's authority to forbid institutional food prep and/or a kitchen within spaces zoned for commercial use but not generally accessible to the public.

I don't think they have really thought this through though. For example, would this forbid a soupe kitchen that serves hot meals, how about a nursing home or a hospital?
Baldurs Gate uses the AD&D rule set, as did all the Icewind games.

Personally I find the video games mentioned a bit contrived as it's clearly not the same, video games are always on rails compared to traditional RPGs.

Saying that, DOS2 is fantastic.
> San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies ...

... while they hand out hundreds of thousands of free needles that end up on the street, among shit.
I got an offer to do the same work for more money elsewhere. But if I'm being honest, the environment at my last job was pretty hectic and I went out looking for a new job in the first place. I describe my last job to people as being like working on a pirate ship.
If it ever did happen--not that it would--it would happen like brexit: "Bust them up! We don't need them. Wait a sec... Where'd my cat videos and fake news go?!"
I agree; however the first thing he did was to order a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis and get the exact location. So the family doctor visit was thus duplicative.
What Are Machine Learning Models Hiding?
Tokenized payments (Apple Pay, Google Pay) which are supported by many card providers work by generating a new card number when you add it to the device.
Deportation in Canada has always been big
No, it's not.

CU (and before it Buckley v. Valeo) stands (in relevant part) for the idea that the right to spend money on Constitutionally protected expression is itself part of the scope of the right protected. It's not “money is speech” but “the freedom to spend money on speech is part of the freedom of speech”; the former makes a better soundbite and can be a useful memory aid, but loses critical information if taken as the core message.
They fed it a large number of mugshots. They didn't ask "is this person a criminal". They asked it "does this face match one of the faces you've seen before".

You're right that systems have previously learned to infer black -> criminal. It's absolutley possible that could have happened here! Given that not every one flagged is a person of color, there's clearly more at work.

Systems like Rekognition let a user specify what level of certainty the system has that it has found a match. In this instance, the system was told to use 80%. Rekognition can be told to use any number from 0 to 100. Your number of 99.999% could be used without any difficulty whatsoever! Since the ACLU doesn't seem to be sharing enough to reproduce the test, we can't tell what would happen.

Regulation based on accuracy is a wonderful idea! One well worth pursuing. With that said, "accuracy" is perhaps difficult to define here. How would you determine that? How accuracy is measured is highly sensitive to what you use as a dataset, and different test datasets can easily produce very different impressions of how common false positives and false negatives are.
Not only that but they employ chefs and kitchen staff to run these cafeterias -- generally under better conditions than most restaurants.
This proposal would ban the construction of office cafeterias so if you're just serving free catered food (which is what most small and medium companies do, I'd guess) it's fine.
Why should there even be a "compromise"?

My employer gives me free health care. Should that be restricted so I have to spend my own dollars and not get the benefit of a group plan?

Should employers not be allowed to give a transit subsidy because it hurts Lyft/Uber?

Maybe tech companies should not be allowed to offer stock based compensation because it's unfair to other city residents who work jobs without such things.
My wife and I own two gyms, and no matter how easy we try to make it for people to cancel - you can literally email us at 9pm the day before you get charged and if we see it we'll cancel it - people still treat the charge back functionality like an "oops didn't mean it lol" thing.

Huge gyms like Gold's or PF have these oppressive terms because they have to, otherwise at their scale they'd be getting hit with multiple charge backs every day at every location. We have less than 300 members between our two facilities and still see one every month or two, mostly from people who don't understand what they're actually for - fraud, subpar delivery of whatever you purchased, or not receiving whatever you purchased - not as an easy refund button so you don't need to take 10 seconds to write an email.

The most we can hope to get out of fighting a charge back is the money back (less the additional charge back review fee which is $15-30 depending on merchant) and a very high likelihood of a 1-star Google and/or Facebook review. And that's best case scenario when the merchant is willing to side with us instead of the customer, which is why we're forced to now have contracts detailing cancellation policies. It will never happen, but I really wish consumers had to pay the charge back fees when they use the feature fraudulently like many do.
Looks like 20.02% currently. [1]

[1] - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB
What about Remain Campaign ads?
How to Choose the Best Mobile Back End as a Service (MBaaS)?
I come from a biotech background, and I felt that a lot of the claims others were making about how it was basically guaranteed that GSK would start selling genetic data to insurers were very bold claims with no evidence. I get that in tech data protection and privacy culture and regulations are very different than in healthcare, and there are legitimate concerns especially with 23andme having healthcare data (given how fast and loose they play by the rules governing healthcare), but the tone of some of the comments seemed so confident in their opinions without providing much evidence. I guess each side believes the burden of proof lies with the other

In the spirit of not wanting to seem that way myself:

* here is a link to all of the clinical studies currently being conducted by glaxosmithkline: [0]. There are 4,662 studies currently listed. This is across dozens of countries. Click around and look at the data they are collecting (look at the endpoints, inclusion / exclusion criteria, etc). This is all clinical study data, so patients have to volunteer for this, but you also have to opt in to sharing your data for 23andme. I also know of a few companies that collected lab data from patients and sold them to pharma companies so they could target them with ads; patients had to opt in to this and there were privacy protections; I'd imagine there are plenty of other examples like this.

Also, thousands of other companies have access to massive amounts of health data, genetic and otherwise: EMR companies, insurance companies, hospitals, etc. Many of these groups share information with each other all the time, including genetic information. How else could a lab share with a hospital a patients sequence data? Why is this GSK / 23andme deal particularly concerning? Is it because 23andme or GSK are viewed as bad actors?

* here is a list of FDA approved nucleic acid based tests: [1]. More and more drugs are being approved to treat patients with specific genotypes, see slide 316 [2]

[0] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=glaxo&cntr...

[1] https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedu...

[2] https://iabsverige.se/wp-content/uploads/InternetTrends2017R...
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I never have and never will understand the mindset of people who always want that extra dollar. These CEOs have billions of dollars, but they won't hesitate to inconvenience the customer if it means they get a few more dollars a year. These are people who will never run out of money, and their childrens children will never run out of money, but still they are out to swindle every dollar out of every customer they can.
No, if your employer is giving you $10k worth of meals (their cost to produce them) and charging you $100 for it, you are taxable on the $9,900 benefit.
https://blitztactics.com

Fast-paced chess puzzles for teaching chess tactics through pattern recognition
Just make sure the reviewers are very good. I see a lot of team reviews by mediocre people that kill any kind of creativity.
There is a less well known news coming out recently. Due to a legal case in Washington state, Facebook agrees to not to prevent customers to receive AD based on ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

This is mostly making targeting ad illegal and hurt the fundamental revenue model of FB.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/facebook-...
Current spambot attack on freenode (and elsewhere)
Previous discussion from 18 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17614221
>Isn't the doxxing the problem then? It seems like the focus is in the wrong place.

Facebook is taking the stance that spaces (pages) that promote and spread this information must be protected. They are slow to take action against people (and their bot networks) that incite harassment.

>Don't we already have laws on the books to stop harrassement? Don't we have laws to stop from inciting violence?

Local police departments are not equipped to deal with internet harassment, even credible threats of violence. There are cross-jurisdictional restrictions on their ability to act.[1]

>Why are we blaming the megaphone?

Facebook is the entity that directly profits from the presence of these people on their platform. They optimize for engagement. If harassers keep your eyes on Facebook, then Facebook optimizes your feed to see more harassment. Hate-clicks are just as revenue generating for them as any other kind of click.

1. https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1019702132579037184
> They want some of that tech money too.

The strips of bougie overpriced restaurants that haunt Palo Alto, MTV, and Sunnyvale are already getting it.
In a move that was later admitted to be a mistake, I was moved into an IC role from one where I managed several high performing teams. This came after a successful acquisition.

I was bored, not challenged, and completely disheartened to watch morale slowly evaporate. Teams were fractured and everyone went from moving fast with a common purpose to "meh" in a matter of months. New management was assigned, though they were 3000 miles away and showed a tremendous lack of experience in anything other than being a medium-sized cog in the big company machine. For example, the solution to being late on a release with no requires was to both rewrite it in a new language and build it for a completely different infrastructure, and with a 5 month deadline. Months later, people are still arguing about requirements.
These are good points, though at this point I think it does make sense to wait a bit to clean up the deprecated stuff, given that a lot was waiting on this release and we'll probably drop the old stuff in a month or so.

Re: API access control, sure they do, but given that export is essentially calling 'GET message X' it's not as if we can restrict that to a subset of users.
Is there particular reason you'd go directly to BGP and not e.g. OSPF?
I don’t know what you mean “blame...” Spotify licenses certain music in certain countries and not in others. That’s not some kind of crime against the user, so I blame no one.
This is a really strange, naval-gazing article. "Company builds tech needed to serve their business." News at 11. I keep looking for some nugget of actual wisdom, but haven't found it yet. There's a point about competitors trying to build from scratch + competitive advantage of being able to extend a technology into a new line of business, but none of that is a particularly new concept; incumbents who are smart enough to move into new businesses and well-capitalized are hard to beat, color me shocked.
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Just got API access with privacy.com. This space is ready for lift off IMO. Long in the works and long overdue. Good luck to everyone involved in creating, and god speed to those integrating.
Keep in mind the context of this whole conversation. You suggested one-time pads as a solution to PKI and the problems of OpenSSL's large code base being added to projects that need encryption. I don't know how to put this nicely, but it just shows you really don't know what you're talking about.

Yes, sometimes experts get it wrong. Yes, non-experts can sometimes find solutions that the so-called experts couldn't find. I'm not arguing against those claims.

But suggesting one-time pads as a solution to PKI is like seeing someone on the side of the road with a flat tire and suggesting they refill their gas tank.
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