skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a really handsome piece of work. I love the papercraft aesthetic. Well done.

One of the randomizations I generated was uncannily like a winking eye. But sadly I only discovered the shareable link after I had lost it. Oh, the ephemeral nature of generative art!
> The internet exists, is way to big to manually curate, and google is just providing a window into it with algorithmic searches.

You're assuming that because they can't do it, they won't.

You forget that these people are making the laws. They can just vote a law that "the internet must be curated, and uphold standards X and Y".

Then they simply force providers to block anything that isn't perfectly curated at the simple request to a court.

Done/done.

So they can simply force others to do it. They can simply force self-censorship (see GPDR, and why that law is such a horrible thing). Congress can't check food for safety, so they make others do it (e.g. the FDA doesn't check food safety (except where it has already gone wrong), it forces vendors to check it, then does a basic sanity check on the report of said check, same is true in Europe, except for the name of the organization).
Sure, but to be fair, if we didn't have good checks and balances, things would have been bad a very long time ago. This isn't the first time checks and balances can/will help us avoid bad policy, and it won't be the last.
This advice goes directly against the advice in the article, which specifically calls out not looking for free translations, as they are apparently “dense and unreadable”.
Iron Ox (YC W16) is hiring an electrical engineer to help build a robotic farm
Say, what are the non self hosted alternatives to Dropbox that are still alive? Same ease of use please, i.e. no Backblaze. I don't mind if it costs a bit.
That seems a little bit extreme, why not just open the issue?
> I doubt they have any legal standing to regulate search algorithms

The first amendment would prevent them from regulating search results.

The problem is, many authoritarian countries have something like the first amendment in their constitutions. Constitutions mean nothing unless they're enforced. This president has already shown disdain for our constitution and the rule of law.And his public behavior is slowly eroding the democratic norms that reinforce our constitution.

Just look at all the newbie GOP politicians who imitate him, the senators who make excuses for him, and all his supporters who cheer on his authoritarian tendencies. They're not going to stop him if he crosses the line. So who will?

That's why we can't just sit back and pretend things will fix themselves. You have a chance to change things this November. Don't waste it.
There’s very little correlation.
The key here being "according to the company". This is the same company that has been working with law enforcement to prevent them from even disclosing their use of these devices to the courts or defendants. Is that a company you're willing to take at their word?
Your edit: I don’t think your comment is very useful. It starts off as sort of a generic ‘cops are bad, so who cares’ screed.

Cops behavior when using firearms isn’t really germane to the training required to handle 911 calls.

Your second paragraph is a good comment. That’s probavly balancing out the downvotes from the first.

I agree with you that would have the effect of discouraging Stingray use (especially since departments like to hide that they get used), but I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.
How many photos of white inventors have the word "white" near them, though? Image search isn't exactly parsing biographies. So it gets largely lost in noise compared to "inventor".

It's pretty common for certain words in certain image searches to be useless, and that's including a lot of very boring searches nobody has ever thought of.
I've been using this for years and somehow continue to be able to amaze academics when I show them they don't need to write LaTeX tables and equations etc. by hand.

While there's an argument for writing plain text, I don't think it applies to most of the academics who can barely run a python script and wish they had secretaries typesetting their papers like the good old days.
LyX is a wonderful program that needs more love and more developers.

If you have the skills please help out.

C++ and Python: https://www.lyx.org/GetInvolved
That was T-Mobile Austria and at the time T-Mobile USA (and iirc a couple other T-Mobile subsidiaries) said they used a different customer account system than T-Mobile Austria and handle account passwords differently.

(T-Mobile Austria has since figured out that storing this is a bad idea and promised to change how they do it. Dunno what they have done as I'm not a customer of them nor live in Austria, I just remember the the shitstorm on twitter about it.)
Expert publicly disclosed exploit code for #Windows Task Scheduler #ZeroDay
Duckduckgo has similar results ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=american+inventors+&t=hj&ia=images...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=european+art+history&t=hj&iar=imag...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=white+inventor&t=hj&iar=images&iax...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=white+couple&t=hj&iar=images&iax=i...
Year of the Chromebook maybe, but having the entire userland replaced with a proprietary web browser on top of the Linux kernel is probably not the victory the Linux Desktop community was hoping for.
Vint isn't suggesting that we do that, but a lot of other people are. Nothing good can come of it; the article is part of the backlash against this impulse. (And that should be disconcerting: backlashes have a way of being worse than whatever it is they're fighting.)
I completely agree. We're in uncharted territory here. Most likely there's a new science being born. For now, however, it's gotta be shoehorned into some other science.
Wait, I thought the left hated giant corporations controlling their news? Guess its cool if you agree with what is being censored...
Can data reveal the saddest number one song ever?
I think ideally they are the same, but doing a re-write isn't cost free - opportunity cost as you're not doing feature customers care about, new bugs being created, old bugs re-appearing etc etc.
Why single out google only? Isn't it an industry wide issue rather than a company one?

This is going to be interesting because recent moves by social media and tech companies have shifted them from a distribution platform to publisher which opens up an incredible amount of liability issues.

As much as I dislike Trump, I think recent moves by the tech industry were awful misteps. The extremes they went to and the obvious stifling of right wing voices really hurt their reputation and now opens them up for heavy regulation.

I use to feel that social media and tech were biased but fair or tried very hard to be fair. Now it's hard to trust anything ( posts, tweets, search results ) because these platforms have no fairness in them.

Normally, competition would be a deterrent against unfairness, but the days of excite, yahoo, askjeeves, altavista, etc competing with google are over. What else is left but regulation?
I still think making customers aware would go a long way. And we only have to go back to the Equifax breach to learn that companies are hardly forthcoming about who is and isn't compromised.
This argument is a simple and straightforward example of Whataboutism [1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I've used LyX for ~17 years. Did all of my homework in it in college, wrote my thesis in it, and pull it out anytime I need to write a TeX document for myself.

If you're new to LaTeX, just grab LyX and go. It is a great gateway to LaTeX, and a reliable friend even if you wind up working in pure LaTeX, in order to collaborate or satisfy a formatting requirement, some of the time.

Thank you, LyX!
Google doesn't produce news, though. It aggregates it based on user preferences and history. Complaining that the aggregate of news doesn't cast you in a good light is more of a reflection of who you are than what the aggregator is, as a public figure.
The first amendment is just a piece of paper unless someone enforces it. When the head of the executive branch of government starts talking openly about violating it, it's (past) time to take the threat seriously.
I’ve found LyX good for getting a document started, allowing you to not think so heavily about formatting details while giving you decent output.

Eventually, though, I export to LaTeX and format the rest myself. I find that using LyX long enough, you don’t have the formatting commands available to you (and you end up with a ton of unreadable custom insets and inline TeX), and configuration becomes as complex as LaTeX itself.

It’s a neat project and I’ve been happy to see it steadily grow over the past 10+ years.
shocker - government program is poorly administered and a private contractor is poorly supervised.
So just man in the middle all the encryption that goes on with modern phone protocols? Should we all have to install the stingray root cert on all our phones? or should the phone providers have to provide them a valid tower cert on demand?
Being a role model is not about being a boss
There is nothing logical or illogical about what you can flush

It's perfectly logical: it's either toilet paper, or it originated from your internal organs. Like I tell guests in my RV, "anything else, and you and I can have a good time with rubber gloves, a big stick, and lots of poop". It might be those on urban sewers, too, that suffer from "out of sight, out of mind". The folks I've known who have septic (myself included at various points) either knew better, or would soon learn an expensive lesson.
> they’ve just shown that they’re not going to be able to write clean code unsupervised.

The opposite, shown they can’t write supervised under the gun, which never happens On the job.
I've been hiring people for a long time and have always been against coding challenges. That was possible when I was only looking for more senior roles or hiring junior roles at a startup or small company. I'd generally talk to anyone that didn't appear incompetent to HR during an initial screen.

Now that I'm hiring for multiple junior openings at a fairly well known public company, hundreds of resumes come in each week, and I added a code test is there to help weed out those who are tragically lacking in skill or effort. The test is about as simple as could be and I generally don't even look at the score. I do look at the code, however.
Kinderpornografie: Operation Elysium
Machine learning is used to reconstruct individual particles in the detector and also to separate signal processes from background processes.

A general example... process A and process B can both have electrons in their final states (with other objects...). ML is used to separate A and B based on the kinematic properties of electrons (in combination with those other objects). Also, higher upstream, ML was used just to know that we had an electron to begin with!

A lot of BDTs are used, with deep learning under very active investigation. For example, when looking for the Higgs decaying to two bottom quarks, a slew of ML algorithms are used to identify so-called "b-jets" (jets which are identified as originating from a b-quark). In ATLAS we have low level taggers using deep neural networks (using Keras) in combination with higher level taggers using BDTs. Another example is the recent ttH observation, where XGBoost was used [1].

[1] https://atlas.cern/updates/physics-briefing/observation-tth-...
MALD-X Advanced Air Launched Decoy Test Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
The phones we carry around freak me out a lot when I think about what they can do. In many ways they really are a worst case scenario when it comes to privacy. I once heard someone use the term "Little Brother" to describe our smartphones and their respective corporate owners.

So yeah, this malware can record almost anything. That's sort of a feature of these devices. They're built to record almost anything.

edit: I fixed a typo
The service worker can't maintain a persistent connection. Without an active tab it is shut down after 30 seconds or so. It can receive events via the Push API, which is what you're seeing. But if you refuse notification permissions the site cannot use the Push API. I'm actually not sure how it works when you block notifications after having given permission - it's a requirement that you show a notification in response to a push, so if you're blocked, I'm not sure how the browser registers it.

More broadly, I agree that it is strange you can opt into the Push API without a permission prompt. I wish it weren't the case, but I do think it would be confusing to users to request separate push and notification permissions - most consider them to be synonymous, even if they aren't.
Building a Treasury Bond Ladder
Wow that's incredible short-sided. Section 230 enabled the internet to grow and flourish with moderate freedom (the DMCA etc still exist). Removing it would heavily benefit large companies who can afford expensive monitoring and filtering software, while hurting small companies without enormous legal departments.
The frightening thing is that this would-be-king still has support from 40% of the populace. We're stuck with them and they are the greatest threat to the principles of American freedom. This country can't work with so many people happily supporting demagogues who pander to their pet issues and ignoring the damage they cause.
>"Zelle is easier/more secure to use."

Can you elaborate oh how Zelle is more secure? 2FA? Fraud protection?
It also filters some sources and promotes other sources based on opaque criteria that many suspect to have political bias.
Ubuntu almost succeeded in that respect, but at some point Canonical seemed to have gone insane with NIH duplication and then failed attempts at monitization that seem to have totally killed their momentum.
Cyber thieves use biometric skimmers to steal Aadhaar info
Puls Technologies raises $50M to do tech support in your home
What makes you think your family member is wrong?

I used to work for Google, worked there for years. I am very familiar with how it works internally.

For standard web search the algorithms are indeed very complex and the core PageRank concept is pretty democratic. It wouldn't be easy to bias it politically without it being widely known to employees.

But Trump isn't talking about generic web search results. He's talking about news.

News is treated specially by Google. News-relevant queries trigger the Google News oneboxes (well, universal search mixins). Google News does not use PageRank to rank news sources. News sources are whitelisted and I believe it's not documented anywhere how it decides how to rank stories.

A simple test to decide whether News is biased or not is to look at its front page and see how often stories from Breitbart show up. Like it or not, Breitbart is (or appears to be) a popular and prolific news site:

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/06/newswhip-may-june-...

I have never, not once, seen News rank any story from Breitbart anywhere.

I just search [trump] on News. Here are the story sources it selected, in order:

The Guardian, CNN, CNN, WashPo, CNN, CNN, The Guardian, CNN, CNN, Business Insider, CNN, Fox News, NBCNews, Fox News, New York Times, the Independent, CNN, WashPo, CNN, New York Times.

Do you think that it's at least understandable, why a family member who observes such result lists might conclude that Google staff have an agenda? And do you agree that explaining this conclusion as stupidity (the Dunning-Kruger effect) is unnecessary given that neither you nor anyone else outside of a small team at Google actually knows what their news ranking algorithm is?
How would you build an audio streaming service in swift?
How would you build an audio streaming service in swift? I want to listen to live DJ sets from my iPhone. How do Mac apps talk to native ios apps?
United States Woefully Unprepared for Nuclear Strike
Re glitch art, I wrote a (moderately popular?) tool for it: http://akx.github.io/glitch2/
Have you ever called 911?

That's not even close to how a call goes..
> The regular users I know don't even know what syncing is, what the cloud is, what integration is.

And that's fine! That's exactly my point, this stuff should have a low barrier to entry so that all users can enjoy these great features. I think it's wrong to look at users who only know email/search and relegate them to that for eternity when they might be very happy sharing family photos through some service that Linux doesn't integrate with.
Mobile's Latest Malware Threat: The All-In-One Android Trojan
Installed on Surface Pro 4, doesn't seem to work. Just draws weird patterns instead of tracking the stylus properly.
What kind of fire? Are people still inside? Do you need instructions on how to provide CPR? What did they eat? Are they on any medications?

That’s off the top of my head. I imagine a trained dispatcher could come up with WAY more.
I think the more generic questions is how are we going to assess that an algorithm is fair or not.

Since we are going to have our lives more and more influenced by the results of algorithms, should we regulate them or not ? If yes, how ? How do you appeal to a decision made by a machine ?

I don't think there is any easy answer to these questions.
> I think you’re accidentally digging backwards to find them.

You might be completely right. Though I’m not sure I understand what you mean by digging backwards. The problems I see are, of course, the main problems I’ve personally run into. I have a hard time telling a compelling story to someone who doesn’t know anything about computers or math. When I look around, I can see that many other people have the same problem.

My point was that generative art is and always has been considered art by some people, but it still has issues convincing traditional artists.

> If you want to make a living in art, selling to collectors and galleries, it’s really not about pragmatic economic concerns like these

Just curious - have you actually tried selling art? This might be extremely presumptuous, but your statement sounds like lack of experience. It’s almost entirely about pragmatic concerns, so much so that it becomes harder to make art when you need to make a living. There are millions of people trying to make it in the art world and failing.

> It’s about having a community of patrons and collectors who can’t help but talk about and trade the work at galleries and dinner parties.

I don’t mean this to be rude at all, but this is a pure fantasy. There are almost zero living artists who have this kind of following, the only ones who do are famous, and they didn’t have this before they were famous.

> As that catches, people will inevitably surface the “good stories”

That depends on you giving them the good stories, right?

> Codifying them as “main problems” might just leave you missing opportunity when the winds change.

You might be right, point taken. They’re my “main problems”, and not necessarily yours or the future’s.

However, if you look around, you’ll see that the problems I called out have been problems for a long time, and they are problems with other genres too. Photography is also harder to value, because of it’s reproducibility, which is why it has never (yet) reached quite the same status as a Rembrandt painting or a Michelangelo sculpture. Hopefully you’re right and in the future, we can value the creativity itself, rather than the object.
Official CNCF/Kubernetes meetup Helsinki – livestream
Anything's legal until a judge rules on it.
iirc pandoc's markdown provides the set of functionality that one is capable of transforming back and forth. So as long as you stay within those formatting confines, you are set.

This works for everything except table notes a la ```threeparttable```
I do some generative art [1] and I think a lot of the concerns in this article have to do with it being accepted by the art world vs consumers.

In my experience consumers enjoy generative art, and are happy to buy generative work so long as its in a medium they are used to - such a as a print or plot - and are not interested in moving/digital screens.

Instead of picking a render and placing it for sale, show the buyers the software, show them the parameters and give them an option between a few renders to choose from. It makes it way more personal. People and popular culture are also much more tech savvy now and appreciative of elements of digital/internet culture.

This is just my opinion, but I believe many generative artists seem to put the algorithmic focus ahead of the aesthetic. From my experience if you treat the aesthetic as the primary objective and the technology as a tool it resonates better. Jared Tarbell and Manoloide both seem to do this, but have very different styles, and are by far my favorites in the space.

[1] http://instagram.com/dmitricherniak
I find it rather depressing that you would be espousing regulations that hurt freedom (of Google, in this case). Please rethink your logic here.
Yes anybody who doesn't like what they see on Google can go search somewhere else. But that won't stop the other 80% of us from continuing to search on Google and seeing "biased" results, which is what is motivating some political/ideological calls for regulation.
Well, english is my second language.

Besides that, what I was really trying to say was that a tool like Normalize.css or Bootstrap's Reboot may be more helpful than the classic CSS reset.
There is no such thing as identity theft protection. Its all snake oil.
What's the point of having a lock (OTP) if the lock is removed upon an attacker's request?
Not only that, but the tech companies are starting to take an active role in politics [1]. The amount of power these companies wield should make everyone nervous - there is a comment on this article that "without checks and balances and the protection of the Constitution [the US] would be living under authoritarian dictatorship right now". On reflection, nobody should believe that the US is subject to sudden change but tech companies are somehow immune.

Imagine if the Google shareholders decided that someone like Trump would make a good Google CEO; paralleling the US move from Obama to Trump in one election cycle. It would be very worrying.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/17/google-was-against-trump-now...
Pay for software. Plz, plz pretty plz. I will easily drop $30-50 just to try a piece of beta software whose value prop matches a need I have. You have the money, indie devs need the money way more than you do, and they need to be rewarded for greenfield development.

$100-200 for a mature tool that actually solves the problem and is sufficiently hackable is well within the bounds of what I'm willing to spend.

Devs that don't have the money for these tools have a great way to get into the software world, use FLOSS tools to greenfield a new tool and collect $30-50 from anybody interested.

Can we make this happen? It would be amazing.
But dissonant melodies can sound good; for a while bitonalism (some Debussy; most notoriously Darius Milhaud) was a compromise or a gateway drug to straight atonalism. My first example has vocals in a different key from the guitar, but the song structure works.

Basically mixing any pop songs work -- here's a very very very good one with Sepultura + Pet Shop Boys

https://rave.dj/SENYa64kow5OLg

... the point being that pop music is very very regular in its verse/chorus/verse narrative curve.
The introductory chapter of "Introduction to Elementary Particles" by David Griffiths. It doesn't require much knowledge of physics but tells the story of how the theory came to be over the 20th century (based on experimental evidence and the theoretical work happening in parallel).
http://www.strategic-options.com/insight/the-best-and-worst-...