skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now DeepMind's AI can spot eye disease just as well as your doctor
This is definitely the case here in Spain. I've been to the voting centers a few times and they have tables outside the voting rooms with piles of voting slips similar to[0]. You see families come in and the younger members have no ability to secretly vote for whom they desire as the slip you pick is for a party and you are selecting that in front of anyone else that is there.

Being from the UK where we mark who we are voting for in a private booth, on a slip with all candidates [1] fold the paper in half so no one can see and post that into a box, the Spanish system makes me uncomfortable. Let alone that people mess with the stacks of slips, hiding smaller party's slips under other piles…

[0] https://c8.alamy.com/comp/KN3EHD/a-hand-pick-a-voting-paper-...
[1] https://www.unlockthelaw.co.uk/images/Ballot_Papers_General_...
I find the dichotomy quite interesting. Fundamentally, there aren't too many differences between the two, and yet Plex has no stigma associated with it. It's a pretty limited space to work in. Long term, I don't see how Plex's business model works. Since they don't control the media, they don't really control anything. There's only limited appetite for transcoding software.
If it isn't, where are people getting the DRM free movies?
Well, is Speck enabled by default? If not, then this title sounds a bit like they fear-mongering, or just general FUD.
Come on, building and rebuilding other country's economies is a boon to the local economy, particularly when that other country is footing the bill. That's literally why the US was on top starting at the end of WWII. Not everything the Soviets were doing in the 70s is the reason for their downfall.
remember this guy ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
Probably the rate of riders disputing the claim would be a better metric.
> Which makes their actions less evil than the article implies.

And accusing the mother of having a history of mental illness in an attempt to get conservatorship when no such history exists? Sounds pretty damned evil to me.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Even if they had their patient's best interests at heart, that doesn't excuse what they did.
And yet, Plex is still used mainly for watching pirated content.
You’re not wrong, not in the slightest. The benefit is the system allows concerned citizens to step in to make improvements at very little cost.

Democracy requires constant vigilance in many forms. This is one such form.

Matt, we salute you and your efforts! I hope this encourages others to get involved in improving their local government (and perhaps even creates reusable tooling for use at scale [“citizen oversight as code”]).
There are a lot of places in practical neural nets with attention where you want softmax(queryvector · memorymatrix), where memory can be quite large. If you have a decent ANN implementation, you can approximate by only calculating the dot product for the vectors of memory that neighbor the query.

There are currently a ton of mediocre ways to do this because nothing really works very well in high dimensions, and calculating this can easily be the bottleneck in training and evaluation.
The key quote:

>"It’s worth considering all this misdirected spending in the context of the Soviet Union’s decline. Around the middle decades of the 20th century, Moscow presided over a China-style economic miracle that caused many in the West to fear they would be overtaken."
How feminism has made me a better scientist
And ... now they've linked your HN profile and are analyzing your comment history to serve you up even more personalized content.
Reagan’s LPS Act didn’t apply any nuance, common-sense or transition when defunding JFK’s community treatment program, and just dumped people whom aren’t in contact with reality or self-care onto the street. Complete lawlessness is infinite tyranny.
Like the requirement that you have to delete tweets in datasets that have been deleted on twitter?
China's situation is entirely different.

1: The Asia Pacific is "hitting the knee on the curve" and modernizing its economy. Also, it's the most populous region on earth. It's why economic forecasters call the 2000-2100 period the Asian Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Century

2: The Silk and Road Project ranges far outside "economically stagnant" areas. It's adjusted investments according to projected future growth, and also hedged into already modernized economies. It's as much about supply chain and trade routes as it is about direct economic investment. It connects China to Europe.
A $2 billion minimum size for a vendor getting a $10 billion contract is perfectly reasonable.
Any plans to get this through FDA approval in the US? I don't know which process you'd have to go through(510k, De Novo or PMA) but I'd imagine the NHS approval would help a lot.
There was a fascinating article that did the rounds a while back ( http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015... ) describing the history of female candidates running before female suffrage.

Legally this is analogous, although I don't see us extending the franchise to 14 year olds. It's a pity, really, as I suspect allowing a 16 year old to vote isn't any more unreasonable than allowing a 90 year old to vote; especially on issues that are far more real to a 16 year old. At least in Australia a lot of the really abjectly dim climate denialism came from people who would be lucky to see all those 2030-2040 dates that folks toss around. Yes, I do understand that some older people are voting idealistically and not voting their narrow interests, but historically this is a very self-interested bloc.
Not meaningful to you, meaningful to them. Mine are currently building weird contraptions out of Meccano, take off on their bikes every chance they get, and playing their instruments without being asked (most of the time). They often actively turn down the option to play video games.

I take the parenting approach of throwing tons of stuff at them, and let them pursue what they find interesting. It seems to be they find meaning in exploring the limits of what their minds and bodies can do, which I reckon is fine for 8 and 10 year olds.
I was referring to your reply to outside1234's comment. His answer was in the scope of the "obviously mentally ill" population. And I addressed your reply to that.

It is incorrect to take my response outside of its intended context and attempt to attack it there.
Criminal proceedings are usually public in most countries. Where do parking tickets fall? Even if not technically criminal, some might, for the same underlying reasons, consider it acceptable for "someone well-off whom you don't like and who doesn't seem to mind getting tickets on a regular basis" to have this illegal behavior on the public record. "Don't want your name tarnished? Don't park illegally."

[Edit: on the other hand, if the ticket is unfair (eg. confusing signage as in this example), then you have a valid point; I just wanted to point out the other side of the coin]
That’s because KODI is really just a media player with a plug-in framework.

The plug-ins are NOT part of KODI’s core functionality.

Although it could be argued the native stuff are plugins too, they are built on the same framework but source your media from locally attached storage (USB, SD card, HDD) or network server/stream (RTSP, SMB, FTP).
> It seems pretty unfair to malign the entire field of medicine due to a single bad actor.

Do a little research. Prescription fraud of this sort is widespread in the US.
Yes. Now, finish the thought.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Everything the NSA and the US govt touches is suspect. Anything less is silly
Would be nice to use the same skills to help reduce cars illegally parked in the bike lane. Identify areas which cyclists commonly complain about that (e.g., to the city) and encourage them to put up better signs?
You can't have a right or wrong opinion, its just an opinion.
So you give everything you create away for free? Hmm, how altruistic of you.
OP asked about novels. Here are a few excellent novels in this genre which I highly recommend:

Soda Pop Solider by Nick Cole

Ctrl-Alt-Revolt by Nick Cole

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

Second the Vernor Vinge recommendations, and the Neal Stephenson and William Gibson Sprawl Trilogy recommendations.

Gibson's The Peripheral, as well as Pattern Recognition, Zero History, and Spook Country all apply, as well. Same for his Idoru, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Finally, Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine - the first and, so far, best steampunk novel - also qualifies, given the storyline.
I certainly think that many Hollywood companies are stuck in the stone age in many regards, but these devices are literally built for piracy (with the specific plug-ins, there are very legal uses of Kodi). You may have your own views on copyright, but I don't really see any rational argument for why someone should be able to profit off selling these devices.

Yes, the internet makes it easy to circumvent copyright, so then why don't people download this software themselves?

If you don't believe the `content cartels` deserve your money then why should someone random person installing free software?
If this starts showing up in the wild as a new attack vector, it would be great if companies/governments decided to abandon faxes and embrace email attachments as a response. If both are subject to vulnerabilities are there any upsides to continuing to use fax?
Here's the original article by Dave Barry from 2013 mentioned in the linked article.

https://www.davebarry.com/misccol/poptarts.htm
How much did the FOIA request cost?
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That's a non-sequitur. The commenter upthread asked how you would hide a backdoor in a tiny block cipher. Can you answer that?
Very little of the federal budget goes to those things you listed. State budgets may vary.
The TL;DR is: "any criminal records is public information". Fundamentally, even if it's very minor, it's public information until expunged, cleared, or sealed. I think most people are generally fine with this, it's only really a problem if you consistently are committing offenses.
The stream links die left and right these days. The upkeep it requires (searching for working plugins) is just not worth the hassle, IMO.
Were the West Indies productive before the ports and sugar plantations? Was India productive before its railways were built?

Something smells of anti-China propaganda in this highly speculative piece.
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People interested in Crystal might also be interested in Inko.

It's Ruby-ish but less compatible,
https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/inko

> "Safe and concurrent object-oriented programming, without the headaches.
Inko is a gradually-typed, safe, object-oriented programming language for writing concurrent programs. By using lightweight isolated processes, data race conditions can not occur. The syntax is easy to learn and remember, and thanks to its error handling model you will never have to worry about unexpected runtime errors."
The context of this conversation is the mayo clinic kidnapping a patient. If you want to talk about the homeless problem outside of that context, start another post.
I would call it much more than just a performance optimization.

A good story on parallelism is fairly high on anyone's list looking to move away from a GIL language like Python and I believe Ruby.

As I'm sure you're aware, parallelism isn't always easy to bolt on afterwards. Once a glut of your code is written violating your (unwritten) memory model you're never quite sure if you've gotten rid of that last race condition.
Whether China will come up ahead with Belt and Road is uncertain. What is certain is there's a tremendous infrastructure gap, particularly in Asia. This is a great way to turn the overcapacity in Chinese steel and cement into something useful for the world.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/ppps/forecasting-infrastructure-...
Yet so many people do run a team of programmers at 18...? I’m not saying they’re necessarily successful, but...
Could be, but that list doesn't seem too excessive to me. Normally addiction is defined as doing something to the point where it causes harm.

What's being sacrificed to have the time to do all those things? If it's relationships, that's bad, if it is time that would otherwise be spent on watching TV or refreshing a social media feed, then it's good.
is there any example of async actions like ajax queries?
This is a bad article. Is there any other cloud provider who has a cloud offering certified to hold top secret/secret data?
Reminds me of working with free-form, manual entry order detail information, in a former life.

Hundreds of thousands of records a month. I ended up importing them into Excel(1) and then using... what was that called? An MS/Windows library that came with IE 5 and/or a few other things, that provided regex support (with a few quirks) that was accessible via VBA.

The point was, I could programmatically mine it -- including regex pattern matching and replacement of and within cell contents -- while also having a flexible UI within which to find and handle one-off cases. When the one-off's demonstrated a repeating pattern, I could quickly iterate to add that to the programmatic mining logic.

This included adding color cueing for items of particular interest, manual follow-up. Excel's sorting capabilities to bring potentially related instances into visually displayed groups. And the like.

It ended up working quite well. I might have preferred something else to VBA, and I did use Perl and other stuff, elsewhere (something that also gave me both power and the flexibility to rapidly iterate).

But the point is, with such data, I found it very useful to combine regex and rapid programmatic manipulation, together with a good visual interface (including visual cues, the ability to comment upon instances -- Excel cell-level comments -- etc.) and manual manipulation.

As a final aside, the extensive set of Excel keyboard shortcuts greatly aided in rapidly and effectively navigating and massaging the imported data.

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1. This was back when Excel had... I think it was a 64K (or a bit less) limit on the number of rows in a sheet.

P.S. I tended to retain the originally imported data in its columns, and to produce my mining of it in other columns. That way, I could always and immediately see what I started with, for any particular record. (And, if things visually started to be "too many columns", well, Excel lets you hide a range of columns from the view. As one example of how its features really helped, on the visual front while doing this work.)

I still had to learn and allow for some quirks Excel exhibited with respect to importing text data. That included making sure the cells/columns being imported into carried the correct/needed formatting designation before importing into them (usually, "Text").
However, guardianship or consevatorship (when the person is over 18,) imparts a fiduciary duty on the person/organization to provide for the needs of their ward. So the ability of Mayo to “financially benefit” could be subject to debate. They assume financial responsibility with the assumption of guardianship.

In terms of Mayo, they are one of the best hospitals in the world, current situation notwithstanding. It isn’t like the national monopoly one might find in the NHS. Remember a very similar situation happened with Alfie Evans — except Alfie was terminal and had a minimal chance of survival and the U.K. government still refused to allow him to leave the U.K.
Given those parameters, how would your bank turn any profit at all?
There you have it folks - another large corporation gaining political power.
I have definitely seen anecdotal stories of this occurring. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that this type of behavior is widespread?
No one's saying don't release what's good. They're just saying parallelism is worth delaying the big 1.0 for.
It ends up having the opposite effect anyway. Now people will just buy a ton of Kodi devices. I don't think any majority of the country/world even cares about anti-piracy measures in any direction and certainly doesn't pay attention.

While I agree with your point, I think this bubble will stay afloat by pure ignorance alone.
We have alcohol in the U.S. as an example; It was made illegal; so gangs moved into the import business and made more money than they had before - gangs had turf wars bigger than they had had before.

Moonshiners started making it, and sometimes it created poison.

The police were corrupted where corruptible or killed when they didn't go the gangs ways.

The rich had parties and skirted the enforcement of the law.
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In the US there is an entire industry that scans license plates on public streets and sells the data. Basically no privacy in public.

(random example: https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/private_comp... )
I think that's a poorly-worded way to say "the product will be built into facebook itself"
Certainly teenagers, especially older ones (such as 16 or 17 year olds), are more than capable of having political views diametrically opposed to their parents.

I can remember as a 17 year old trying to convince my Dad to vote a certain way in a referendum which I myself was too young to vote in, and he ended up voting the way I wanted him to (although, it is entirely possible that he might have still voted that way even without my input.) I think my reasons for wanting to vote that way (despite not being allowed to) were likely better informed and better thought-out than those of most of the voters who were old enough to vote.
Amazon being in line to win a large government contract while the President openly despises Amazon is actually a testament to proper government procurement. The real scandal would be if the President ordered Amazon to not be considered because of his personal beef with the Washington Post (and IMO general jealousy regarding Bezos who is actually as successful as Trump has always dreamed of being).

tl;dr It is not a scandal that the leading cloud provider is in the pole position for a large cloud contract.
Because different people have different priorities.

Remember, you're part of the government.
You're worrying about the wrong scale there.

The prescribed nature of permits means they know exactly what they have to factor into their planning decisions. It means vending machines and coin operated rides all meet certain specs, and that allows for speedy turnaround.

Open it up and you have to spend extra time classifying what you're allowing for before you can decide if it's allowable.
It's dropped to around $3m in Australia with some limitations. $10m I believe for the full license.
"Was India productive before its railways were built?"

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India

Colonization is a terrible thing.
What you say is true. It's also the case that there's a lot of information that is nominally public--often for very defensible reasons--which historically took significant effort to get at and, even then, only in a very limited and manual way.

Today, a lot of that information is at least a lot more accessible to everyone (though in this case it still took a lot of work) and, furthermore, it can be mashed up with other public or semi-public data.

I'm pretty sure this is something we'll be collectively be coming to terms with for a long time.
Yes, but this isn't for the outliers who know they are outliers.

This is for the people who right now are paying some company to essentially and unnecessarily siphon off some of their tax money.
Often the point is that there's no single "they". If an organization is sufficiently dysfunctional that group A refuses hear what group B has to say (and many organizations are), then management getting a summary (filtered!) of group B's recommendations from someone they trust is quite valuable.
Thanks!

I thought so to until recently and was honestly kind of surprised they actually gave it to me. They rejected giving license plate info at first, but they've given it out in other, similar, FOIA requests.

Specifically in FOIA's statute, it says:

(c-5) "Private information" means unique identifiers, including a person's social security number, driver's license number, employee identification number, biometric identifiers, personal financial information, passwords or other access codes, medical records, home or personal telephone numbers, and personal email addresses. Private information also includes home address and personal license plates, *except as otherwise provided by law or when compiled without possibility of attribution to any person.*

In other words - if the dataset itself doesn't have identifying information, then it's not considered private. That said, I've played around with re-identification using this dataset as a POC.. and then deleted the code, because yeah - it's scary.
Nah, the target was drunk. If it looked like they might be blacked out, it means that they don't know that they didn't vomit in the car and can't/won't fight the charge.
> Its a commons, since they essentially 'own' the tree as part of their territory.

If territory is owned, by definition it isn't a commons.
Optics of having a portfolio company "acquired by fb", non-zero returns (more relevant for angel, for VCs it's pretty much the same as nothing), frees up mental energy to focus on other companies.
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We don't have any information on the parents at all. I know its good to give parents the benefit of the doubt, but these people could have been ignorant, suspicious and contrary. Or 100 other things, that make a trained physician wary of trusting them with anything as important as a critically ill patient.
"founder" is a fairly gruesome injury to horses' hooves. For most of my life this was the meaning that would have first come to mind. HN has fixed that...
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Hey! Thanks for posting this, and the kind words.

Interesting note about getting data like this - Illinois FOIA allows a requester to submit a SQL as part of their request.. so long as they know the tables and columns within the database ;)
> but the comment didn't make it very clear which benchmarks were included

It made it perfectly clear. You were reading from a list of what wasn't in the review yet: "But here's what there is to look forward to:"
*COMAL (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMAL)
iOS 12 is introducing time-based AND app-based parental controls, manageable from a parent's phone. This is perfect timing as my kids will be getting phones in another 2 years or so, and we'll start with full monitoring and gradually remove it.
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It was free. I've never had to pay for any information coming from an Illinois FOIA request.
Pretty sure determining your location via the signal strength of nearby cell towers is a feature of Location Services, so if you have that turned off you're fine.
They stay in a reputable medical institution and get better after a debilitating aneurism?
My Yeasu VX8 doesn’t have predictive text entry, which is a shame. I don’t know of any that do. I’d love to have an APRS radio with a slide out keyboard for quick texting.
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