skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sex industry has a sort of 360-degree shield from criticism: From a "left" or "liberal"-minded perspective, to critique prostitution in any way is an insidious attack women's agency and sexuality, a holdover from the privileged feminism of Andrea Dworkin and the 70s. I invite the reader to search for any serious discourse on problems within "sex work" at Current Affairs or The Intercept, The Guardian, or smaller leftist zines like Hard Crackers. From a "libertarian" perspective, it's an attack on the free market and the economic choices of individuals surely inspired by the fantasy of complete government control of the "sexual economy". There's no incentive from any nexus on the political landscape, no group in which you would curry favor with for criticizing porn and prostitution as dangerous or exploitative or objectifying, except small conservative funds which don't really have any velocity because US conservatives don't actually hate porn and prostitution. Feminist Current is the only outlet with a significant amount written on this situation.
And probably you are missing the fact, that way how you read is established when there were no internet around.
HTC Announces a wireless adapter for the Vive headset
Ah, interesting. I wonder if they could tunnel to some of it eventually, or acquire more of the property. I’d take my kids and grandkids someday!
Blog is down: https://web.archive.org/web/20180821150052/http://maciek.blo...
Maybe it is easier to address various problems in an autocracy, but there's still way more that democracies can do to tackle these and other problems. In fact, there are plenty of democracies that are doing a lot to curb carbon emissions or fight other problems. And in the end, reducing carbon is just another problem that requires political action.

I suppose it's true that in an autocracy, there are less people that need to be convinced that something is a problem before something can be done, but it's not like democracies are doomed to indecision. We have been able to take action before, we can take action on this. It's not that hard. But we do need to stop making excuses.
We honestly tried to like Teams but ended up with Slack, I think partially since everyone (including me) was already using it for other projects.

Remember MS tried to push Yammer to businesses as well, so not everything they do works out.
I don't know the answer to that, but it's a market that startups could potentially capitalise on. It would also not just be desktop linux users, but anyone not using the top N web clients (where N is chosen by said media provider to provide the best cost/benefit to maintaining the DRM on those platforms).
Yeah no worries, I just wanted to make sure you had a clear understanding of the landscape
World's Largest Digital ID Operator Faces Suit for Data Leaks
Trump and BREXIT: the blame is put entirely on the electorate, but in both cases it was the elites who gave the electorate the opportunity to make a choice and it was the elites who provided the selection of possible choices.

Think of the many contemporary political issues on which the elites refuse to provide such a choice and insist on governing as they please.

This is the same as when the media (the voice of the same elites) blame lack of political progress (on for example climate change) on certain demographics of poor people. As if the elites care about what these poor people think. Since when did the elites lend an ear to these people to consult on policy?

They blame it on democracy when it is anything but.
Anyone on Earth can rent IPs from Russia to perform cyber attack on USA, and then scapegoat Russia...
A blog discussing the handling of this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17786791
Users/useds:

Bill (not FB user)
Sue (FB user)
Jill (FB user)

Conversation:

Sue: Bill is just so unreliable. He says things and doesnt do them.
Jill: Yah he did the same to me!

------

(Notices Bill's ghost profile's trustworthiness score go down, without any interaction from Bill at all. What exactly do we do about that? We in the US have no rights like this. The corps can do whatever they want, and maybe just maybe, a decent law will be passed to protect us. Or likely not.)

Edit: Useds was name given by Stallman from https://stallman.org/facebook.html .

Also, -1? Where am I being wrong? Are ghost profiles being dismissed, or trustworthiness? Or is it the fact I'm putting these things together?
I can understand Facebook and Instagram, they can make money by using strong network effects. It's essentially the same thing Microsoft did, monetize a common platform and exploit the lock in effect.

But Slack largely lacks that. A startup might setup a free Slack instance, then run into its limitations and pay for extra service. But aside from some institutional inertia, nothing stops a company from switching. You don't need Slack to reach your public, unlike say Facebook. It's a chat tool, an average one, and you can easily migrate out of it. As a repository for essential business knowledge, Slack is not a good solution and could even be harmful compared to things like a wiki or documents stored in a revision control system.

And as a pure SaaS offering, there is no way in hell Slack is worth $7 billion. You can replicate its functionality for less than $100 million, and get native, fast apps. There must be something else, but I just don't see it.
Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store
Breastmilk is the evolved complete nutrition for babies.
Various milk formulas are developed towards that goal.
You cant compare these with the assumption they do perform the same - it would be like using Soylent 2.0 as the control for adult dietary research.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181943 is the WebKit metabug, and the various parts of it have started to be worked on by an Apple engineer, which is a good sign they aren't ignoring it.
I do think it's great, but I'm worried that as Kotlin grows, so does Jetbrains hold on IntelliJ and the IDE market. IMO, any change that benefits IntelliJ should theoretically be applicable to NetBeans.

Maybe it's already this way? I'm really not sure, but I'd appreciate a NetBeans or IntelliJ dev to clarify. It'd be awesome if these changes were done collaboratively.
Wow. Now they're proud of putting people into information bubbles. This company is showing more and more how disconnected they are from reality and why people are starting not to trust them anymore.
Cut them some slack.
HTC Vive Wireless Adapter
All the comments were aimed at the company not the people who work there. Corporations aren't people no matter what the Supreme Court says and they don't have feelings.
Perception of real life may not be what you think it is.

Visual information processing is the visual reasoning skill that enables us to process and interpret meaning from visual information that we gain through our eyesight; perhaps this is not the same for all of us and is well illustrated with this AI example?
Good news don't typically require instant reaction and thus are not urgent. Our brains are wired to prefer urgent over important.
Google Closure Compiler doesn't get any use because Google has entirely neglected it for a decade. They could have been where TypeScript is today, but instead they entirely ignored external users, hardly staffed the project, and now have an inconsistent mess with a non-coherent super-buggy type system and no users. It's a disaster, and if you try to do anything non-trivial it will fall to dust.

Good riddance to that abandoned pile of rubbish, and fuck Google management for letting it get so bad. They had a five-year lead on the rest of the industry in serious JavaScript development, and now they're ten years behind.
Digital Nomad's Guide to Information Security
Wow, is there anything 3M doesn't make?
GCP is pretty tightly integrated/optimizes for Tensorflow. That’s why scaling GPU amounts wasn’t a hassle for example since I was already using the TFEstimator framework.

I’m pretty sure for the next Tensorflow 3.0 update, they’re rethinking towards a Pytorch style with more dynamic computational graphs.
It's a library for building webapps. Router and Ajax lib are a pretty obvious requirement for every webapp.
It's not really a 'random slur', it's a fairly run-of-the-mill anti-libertarian argument. It might be overwrought or in other ways wrong but it's pretty standard. Quick googling finds a recent example but as a line of thought it's been around for at least as long as Reason itself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/0...
but a good one :D
Yes, technology can change society and culture over time, which has an enormous impact on civil problems. But rarely does one single technological solution neatly fit into society and all of a sudden solve civil problems - because such problems are based on soft things like trust in others, trust in institutions, trust in government and confidence in basic human rights protection.
awesome! one more command to memorize :)
I'll just leave this here

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit
Software engineer in proteomics, Seattle
The Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington has an outstanding opportunity for a Software Engineer. This individual will work at the interface between two laboratories: the Noble Lab develops machine learning and other statistical methods for the interpretation of large genomic and proteomic data sets; the MacCoss Lab focuses on development of high-throughput protein analysis methodologies related to tandem mass spectrometry. The Software Engineer will support the development and maintenance of proteomics software tools for the two labs. The primary goal is to enable widespread adoption of these software tools by the wider research community.

o The position involves opportunities to work with senior engineers.

o Previous lab members have gone on to positions at top software houses (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Tableau).

o Position is full time, but daily schedule is flexible.

o Working from home is allowed, though we cannot hire remote-only employees.

o Salary range is $70-90k, up to $100k depending on experience.

Responsibilities

o Software Development (50%): Develop proteomics software research tools and place them into production. This includes the development of both client and server side software. This position will require the development of novel computational methods for the analysis of complex mass spectrometry data.

o Algorithms Research: (25%) Research, test, and implement novel algorithms, in collaboration with other members of the two labs.

o Data Analysis: (10%) Analyze complex time course data using novel in house developed software tools. Train new users on the use of these tools: (10%)

o Mentor junior software developers in the creation of professional quality software tools: (5%)

o Other duties as assigned

Further details:

https://noble.gs.washington.edu/software-engineer.html
I would level the same criticism at this article! Most of the libertarians I know can't stand Trump. Libertarianism itself is a coherent political philosophy (a suboptimal one, but coherent nonetheless) and we can do better in rebutting it than pretending that its adherents are alt-righters or Trumpkins.
I didn't find the winter trail video but stumbled upon some interesting links:

2018 3D Scanning: A Comprehensive Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08863

2012-2014ish BigSFM: Reconstructing the World from Internet Photos
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/bigsfm/

David J. Crandall
https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~djcran/#research

Andrew Owens
http://andrewowens.com/

Also check out his on/offscreen audio source separation work. It's pretty neat.
(2018) Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features
http://andrewowens.com/multisensory/

Noah Snavely
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/

(2018) MegaDepth: Learning Single-View Depth Prediction from Internet Photos
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/megadepth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGbMWAFMMBQ

With live demo page :)
http://megadepthdemo.pythonanywhere.com/
It's not even necessarily corruption. The company they're wiring the bid for may indeed be the best option, they are just trying to minimize inefficiency.

Having said that, just as often, it's due to cronyism.
Exactly. Somebody running a company can't be an expert in everything. But they can be a good judge of people and have a wide enough network that they can get recommendations from people they trust.

A few of those trusted technologists will make a fine hiring/oversight committee. You won't need a ton of their time, so you can pay very generously for the insurance they provide.
From the outside, it's been glaringly obvious that the US has had a very nasty partisanship problem for quite a while.

In other democracies opposing parties manage to build a government and, mostly, work together for the "common good", there exists cooperation even across some of the largest ideological rifts.

That kind of cooperation seems impossible in the US, it's like the two big parties have no other purpose but constantly opposing and obstructing each other, often out of sheer principle, every chance they get.

Even tho their actual ideological positions ain't that far apart.
My reading habits suspended during college for skim culture, and rebounded every break from school and fully recovered after graduation.
Lessons Learned: Switching from CircleCI to Google Cloud Build
Oracle's secret/top secret cloud is completely stealthy. You can't even see it.
Oracle is a cancer. Their hostility to their own customers is inexcusable. My company recently suffered through an Oracle audit, and we're being basically extorted to buy Oracle cloud products to avoid a lawsuit.

Their corporate culture is just rotten from the top down. Their sales reps' word is worthless, and the attitude is not "How can I help the customer," but "What's my leverage?" Sales people are trained not to find the right fit for their customers, but to exploit their ignorance. They take advantage of customers using opaque terms of service, bullying tactics, and outright deception. It's like they got their business ethics from watching Goodfellas and The Sopranos.
Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
was it only me who was expecting more of a gallery type site showing an image and describing it in english?
I was a pretty early beta on the editor, and I'm happy to see the production version turn out as good as it did.

Cards is a smart way to re-phrase the rich content without dipping into the "site builder" mould.

Nice work.
Yes to the web interface. VCS kinda, the jobs are all XML files, but Jenkins has built in change history like Wikipedia allowing reverts and comparisons.
No idea, this is general comment about all hedge funds. I'm not an investor in the fund, but based on a quick search they're a 2/20 fee structure so they better outperform the SPX.
AUSTRALIANS CAN Now PAY THEIR BILLS WITH BITCOIN
>If Trump, Brexit and Duterte are what the people want, perhaps we live in societies that are incapable of self-governance

Only if we take the preferences of the 10% of well cushioned (who see themselves as Elois and the masses as Morlocks) as some universal law, or _the good_ itself, as opposed to what they are: preferences based on their private interests.
Dang this is really cool! This is an act of faith on YC's part - they believe in us. If nothing else, I think this is a great culture-shaping move that should help bring what makes Silicon Valley special out into the rest of the world.
> And honestly, how hard can it be?

Excuse me? You think 5 people can 100% replicate Slack natively within "a few months"?
Years ago, I found myself in an exceedingly remote backwater of Central Africa for work; it was fairly safe to state that I was the only person within a hundred mile radius who wasn’t born there.

As I stop at an intersection, some guy I’ve never seen before walks up to the car and excitedly tells me «Mr. $MY_NAME, you must phone home immediately!»

Puzzled (and worried!) I asked him how he knew my name - turned out the local radio station had announced that if anyone saw the tall, white guy - tell him to phone home!

No less worried, I thanked him and drove off to find a phone.

Turned out my grandmother (bless her!) had decided to give me a call just to chat; she’d rung up my employer asking how to get hold of me; he’d called the local contractor, they had realized I was out and about and after a few more delegations, all involved assumed it was urgent and pushed the big, red button.

When I finally got someone at home on the line, half panicked, it felt absurd when my father just said «Oh, your grandmother wondered how you were doing down there; I’ll fetch her...»

My grandmother? To her dying day, she couldn’t make up her mind whether this was the most embarrassing or most hilarious experience of her life - the day she made all of Owando look out for her grandson...

Probably both.
Unfortunately, a non-expert can't tell the difference between a good simple explanation and glib, confident ignorance. So I think that's a good test for expertise, but it's not one that a non-expert can fully judge.
I moved to Barcelona after finishing University in the UK, the pay is pretty good in multinationals taking into account the cost of living but the rent has been soaring recently. The weather is nice too.

I used to live in Edinburgh and that is also an excellent city with a much better cost of living than London and still pretty good companies and salaries (including the financial sector). Doesn't have such great weather unfortunately.
There's no real political agenda at work here. They are just showing you suggestions for things they think you will watch, so they can serve more ads.
Attribution can be hard. What liability will companies have if they "hack-back" the wrong people and/or cause financial losses as a result?
I suspect this has more to do with the amount of information contained rather than the sentiment of the information.
Who decides if it's accurate? Granted, you might not need blockchain anyway. But I do believe some kind of cross signing setup at least is a better answer than just a normal database.
Instead of blocking them by IP, send false information to their IP. Make it subtle so they don't immediately notice, and end up hosting tons of unreliable information.

Maybe even automate it: one lots of requests start coming from the same source, a sign that somebody is scraping your site, start messing with the data you send them in later requests.

This all assuming there's no legal objection to providing false data on this particular topic. There might be, depending on what it's about.
It's used by companies to not only communicate, but also used by management level employees to pry on conversations/gossip. Personally know of a well known company where a group of managers used Slack for snooping on those they manage(d), and subsequently fired those they found criticizing them/higher-ups.

Not saying that this is surely what makes it valuable, but could see a management team deciding to use it as a means of improving productivity, where they could take logs and tie them into a system for gauging sentiment. Not saying it's right at all, but could see the value others could see in that
How to fit large neural networks on edge devices – training and inference
A year or so ago, I decided I wanted to read all of the "best" books so I found a few lists of the best literature in English from the past few hundred years and read a few dozen of the books that showed up on most lists, and I realized that really well written books aren't nearly as low-bandwidth as a lot of more pulpy type books are.

Obviously I didn't enjoy all of the books on the list, but even the ones I kind of slogged through felt like they contained more... knowledge (wisdom?)

I'm also really into sci-fi and fantasy, so I've been working my way down awards lists like the Hugos. The books on these lists also seem more high bandwidth, with the bonus of giving you exposure to a bunch of different authors who have mostly all written a bunch of stuff that's similar to whatever won them the award.
Tu quoque fallacy. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I live in a city that is in crazy high demand. Prices climb 10% a year. Demand is huge. There are two vacant homes on my block. (And another one two blocks away) But not because no one wants to live there. But because of stupid practices by the banks that have left these homes in a limbo state where someone left, and it’s not on the market at all. It’s just vacant. This is so stupid. People need housing. I wish the city would just take over the homes and let people live in them. And that’s just the three homes I’m aware of. There’s probably tons more.
Not sure the investor said anything remotely looking like : "Here is nearly $500m, please use this money to install tons of servers in a region that generates a small percentage of your revenues because their infrastructure is subpar."
I think Google is already throwing enough money at Chromium for all of us (Electron runs on top of Chromium AFAICT).

In my opinion, Google's expectation is that you run one instance of Chromium per machine. Electron wants to run one per application. Hence performance woes.
Does anyone get them after programming all day? Feels like my brain is in a different mode and the transition back can bring them on.
Many wars, that is. Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria...
A. A dictatorial, totalitarian government rating all its citizens based on opaque criteria and using that to restrict access to essential services, financial support, and general life and liberty.

B. A private company scoring its users to combat spam, as all social networks do.
>> “I have spent a great deal of time during the last decade shifting the blame for my debt. Whose fault was it?”

There is no one single person to point to, but I'll take a whack at it:

1. The father, who should know better, for agreeing to co-sign a loan for a worthless degree. A 5 minute conversation with ANYONE related to the degree would have told him the facts.

I wanted to be a video game designer and my parents would not sign for a loan for a degree in that area. We compromised on Computer Science. BULLET. DODGED.

I'm a bit sorrowful I'm not working at my passion, but I'm pretty young and for all I know being a game designer would have made me miserable. Traveling the world, living comfortably, and putting away a lot of money as a computer programmer is not something I'm about to complain about.

2. The people giving these people toxic loans for degrees that have no chance of every paying off.

They have essentially created a servant class that has to pay a large % of their monthly take-home to a parasitic student loan company. Instead of taking risks, buying houses and cars, and getting more useful education, they are doing data entry.

The best minds of my generation are doing data entry and working at call centers.

3. The Universities themselves. How is it at all ethical to allow students to go through a 4 year program, charge them 100k for the effort, and then turn them out on the streets to suffer for years and years?

I remember in my non-major classes in college, the attitude of other students with worthless degrees and professors who teach them was: Don't talk about it. Don't think about it, just keep going. Which is bullshit. Talk about it. Tell the students what they are getting into.