skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Android SDK for Real-Time Artistic Style Transfer
My company uses Mojolicious for all our webdev and Perl for all our in-house stack. Full disclosure, it was my decision ;) but the work is so fast and smooth, I can't imagine switching to anything else.
Nothing about saying, "Thanks, but this won't be accepted until X, Y, and Z are fixed," precludes having a conversation. By all means, if you think X is not a problem, I would expect a response along the lines of, "I don't think X is a problem because insert mitigating factor here." Or, perhaps, "I don't understand the issue with X; could you explain?" In other words, allow directness to beget directness. Enumerating all the possible ways you might be wrong, just in case one of them is actually true, seems silly to me.
How do you tell if something goes wrong? Well, if you hand-count a voting machine, and it gives you a different result from the machine, then you know something went wrong. And if you hand-count a bunch of machines and they all have the same misbehavior, then it's time for throwing out the machine count altogether.
Why are you getting so defensive? I agree with you, but that doesn't mean it's not a type of gentrification.

>Why do you think that people who are born in NYC are entitled to these things to the exclusion of the rest of us?

Did I say that? Just because I noted it was gentrification doesn't mean you can treat me like a straw-man punching bag.
The continued hate on gnome is getting old by now. We're a lot of people that enjoy gnome 3. It's stable, quick on non-ancient hardware, and it's a joy to get rid of the desktop metaphor. And the whole gnome ecosystem is comprehensive and well integrated.
I require what I call a, "clean up" day once every few weeks. I wish I had one every week. It's a day when I can sit on my computer or around my apartment and do all those little things that pile up.

Re-potting the plants? Never urgent enough to be top of mind but will become an issue later. Those 15 opened and unread tabs? Let me at em. Painting that spot on the wall? A tad too inconvenient for a normal Tuesday but perfect for the clean up day.
Building a new nuclear plant today costs an incredible amount of money and takes many years. The major reason we are not building more of them is that no one wants to sign up for that investment. Many nuclear plants that were built 20 years ago cannot operate profitably at this moment, so even if you could build a new plant for free, it's not a guarantee that it will be profitable. It's simply a better investment to build wind, solar, and natural gas.

Maybe next gen modular reactors will be cheaper. But, fear is not the main problem for nuclear. It's cost.
I found it...

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Build-and-inst...
Brilliant news! Mojolicious is the best. And the new logo is fantastic.
Is it the job or someone with power to help, to try and help, when it’s clear the normal regulating authorities will do nothing?

I’m sure Trump isn’t keen on any government agency regulating amazon.

Besides, it’s just a political stunt. This bill will never be passed, it’s just calling attention to the problem.
No food, no liquids, no water.

Is fasting with water less effective?
The research page at the bottom 404’s.
The waste management fee is not a tax. It is payment for a service that the government declared can only be provided by the government, but that it is too inept to actually provide.
I don't see an economic argument for nuclear. It's already one of, and by some measurements, the most expensive methods of energy production and that's only going to become exasperated over time. Right now nuclear accounts for 10-15% of the world's energy production, yet even at that level we only have known uranium reserves to run these for about 200 years. [1] Bump that up to where nuclear is a major player in energy production and we're suddenly running out imminently. This means we're going to need to turn to things like saltwater extraction and breeder reactors. But these technologies are going to send costs skyrocketing. And as well as scarcity becomes an issue, we can also expect to see the cost of uranium itself start to skyrocket.

And this is before getting into the other issues of nuclear at scale. Decommissioning is a lengthy, expensive, and complex process. Nuclear accidents are rare, but nowhere near as rare as they ought be. There are currently about 450 plants operating worldwide. That's a disconcertingly low number given the number of accidents. And breeder reactors would be absolutely required for longterm uranium perspectives, yet that technology not only greatly increases costs but also complexity and volatility. And another issue that becomes even more critical at scale is disposal.

In my opinion solar is the most logical option for the future. The one and only downside there is the lack of production during the night, yet this can be resolved in a countless number of basic technical ways ranging from batteries to even just mundane things such as shifting objects (or liquids or whatever) to create potential energy that can be harvested during off times. If we take a utopic view of the future, it's even possible to envision worldwide high energy direct current lines transiting power worldwide. All of these things involve losses of energy of course, but as far as our needs are concerned solar can provide a practically infinite amount of energy and so optimal efficiency is not so relevant.

I also think that the decentralization of energy is also desirable. Even something as benign as rooftop solar will end up providing an immense amount of energy. Centralization of energy, let alone when it relies on a scarce resource is something I think we've learned a lot about for the past century. A bit of hindsight would be valuable here.

[1] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...
I feel like a broken record on this topic. It drives me crazy.

ON-SITE OBSERVERS.

If any person wants to check the vote they should be able to stand there and watch the whole thing and then demand a manual count on-site immediately afterwards. No bringing ballots somewhere else to be counted.

Democracy is how we stop violence from deciding resource allocation. It will be undermined if it is at all possible.

Also, I really hate how electronic voting machines instant tally elections. We had that here in Ontario[0] and completely aside from my security concerns over e-voting, having the night end in a single minute ruined the normally fun nail biting as the results came in on CBC.

[0] Which, by the way, did not allow me to be an on-site observer. Do I distrust Elections Ontario staff? No, but I shouldn't have to trust people. This is a fucking election. I ran the last federal one as a DRO. All paper ballots are 100% secure. The fucking e-voting lobby is evil.
This is very much an outsider with no skin in the game making suggestions...

Considering that the US is a federation, would it not make sense for the federal government to run local elections as a service?

This is on the back of another idea that has been floated around for elections in regions where "free and fair" is an aspirational goal. I stead of an international body certifying elections, it might be better to have a 3rd party run the elections, and make all the implementation decisions.

..just to keep a separation of powers between election system and candidates running within that system. Similarly, as referendums are increasingly important in many European locales... we need a more nonpolitical body empowered to finalize the wording. A president perhaps, for "westminster-like" systems.
Agreed.

But if you watch the discussions on the Amazon internal Facebook groups, you constantly see somebody in the US bring up the case for unionizing, and immediately get shot down with anti-union tirades, talking about corruption and protectionism. There's a lot of anti-union bias in the US.
Ask HN: What are some small machine Learning project ideas?
How can a developer can gets hands dirty with Machine learning?
Yes, of course, you're right.
I think this book is for people who have not found their passion yet and might never find it, it seems like a logical way to make the best out of life. Instead of hitting random darts into life to find something you are passionate about, its more likely you might feel something akin to passion if you somehow force yourself to master something (which is a slight catch-22 because you will never really master anything without passion).
I think the problem is Amazon makes a lot of Revenue at very small margins so they have built a culture around squeezing out every last drop of margin they can. Historically they've had a lot of negative profit years and some very tiny % profit on very high revenue. Not every large company is like this.
I am. My partner uses it as her daily driver everyday. I have asked her if she wants to upgrade, but she doesn't see the point as there is nothing wrong with the 5s, which is running the latest release of iOS11.
Mind Your Own Business View Controller – Domain Driven Design Take on MVC
Linus Torvalds apologizes for bad attitude
>Just so long as you don't torture a combination of such factors that, low and behold, it happens to only apply to the individual / company that you have it in for.

>When you come up with a bill with an acronym "STOP BEZOS", I am pretty certain you've left the path of light and reason.

Except that the content of the bill is quite broad and definitely doesn't "torture a combination of such factors" to target Amazon. It will impact Amazon but it will also impact all of Amazon's competitors too, and companies completely outside of the sector. The dubiousness of your 'path of light and reason' aside, it seems quite irrational to decry a bill for its name and not its content.
There is a fantastic paper on how these proxies often lower security: "The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception" [1]. The paper also provides some interesting ways of detecting this type of proxy on the server (and client too - although a client should know if they have custom trusted certs). mitm.watch has implemented the details of the paper.

[1] https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdf

[2] https://mitm.watch/
Richard Hamming “Learning to Learn” [YouTube Playlist]
There is prior art. I learned the term from German tech blogger Fefe: http://blog.fefe.de/?q=Popcorn-Reserve
That's actually a pretty smart way of marketing, Gabriel might have had a shadow account to write that question
5 App Ideas to Unleash the Power of Mobile Machine Learning
What's funny is that the system encourages this society and those who are able to take full advantage of it become so rich they are able to completely opt out. The goal of capitalism, of supply and demand, labour and capital, is to have so much that all goods and services are within your grasp for no effort or time.
At this point, I'm automatically suspicious of any party that says it's perfectly safe to use paperless voting machines.
A lot of people don't have other options so they take whatever they can get in order to survive. Why don't victims of domestic abuse leave immediately but stay for years?
While I do observe this in theory, in practice I've found that some newspapers/magazines/websites just do a better job in certain subjects than others. One wouldn't expect Top Gear to be 100% correct in an article about floral arrangements, after all. I've noticed this a lot for local news channels; they're great at covering local events (that's their specialty) but terrible at covering world events (which is very much not their specialty; the better ones stick to the key points instead of trying to go in depth, which is smart).

So a publication totally butchering a subject is certainly cause to get a second opinion for other subjects, but not necessarily cause to discard the publication's take on those other subjects outright.
Really? On par with Uber? Because that's the goalpost that's been set, here.

Hailo was often fully booked when I tried using it, and I had several previous-day reservations evaporate into thin air. It wasn't (as) reliable.

London taxis have always been slightly better than the FR/ES/BG/IT taxis I've taken, but not that much better. And the apps have either gone bust, not worked, or both.
If someone is overworked their productivity decreases. If you start cutting hours their productivity will increase up to a point, when they become underworked.

What's the right amount of worked? You cannot keep cutting hours and expect productivity to go up indefinitely.

In addition, the right number of hours probably has some variability among the population. I'm very much against a one sized fits all amount work environment.
I think it depends a lot on the context. Some examples:

- Someone injects an obviously inferior idea for political reasons (e.g. the recent TLS 1.3 debate). Then, a rude response might be your best option to deter the opponent. I think, some of Linus's attacks from the past fall in this category.

- Someone is just inexperienced and proposes a bad idea with good intentions. Then go for factual "This is flawed, here is why".

- Someone proposes an idea with flaws, but you see potential beyond the current proposal. Then, one should politely point out the current weaknesses, and at the same time encourage the proposer to improve on it.

As successful leader, you need a repertoire of responses.
Sophisticated phishing attacks that leverage Google Drive
Grey raised borders definitely existed in Windows 3.1 GUI elements.
It's not bomb-grade material. In fact, after startup the reactor can be fed by natural uranium, depleted uranium, or nuclear waste.

(And I'm not suggesting that individuals would get their own golfballs. I'm just pointing out the amount of material required to fuel each person's lifetime usage.)
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, but it sounds like you're saying the modern welfare state is feudalism.
Your point is valid, but other than the acronym used to get people talking about the bill, Amazon is not targeted directly.

Wal-mart would actually be impacted much more than Amazon as they employ 5x the workforce, and has arguably been the larger target of such legislation considering the majority of their workforce relies on government subsides to make ends meet.
I work for a movie production company and have been thinking of creating something similar - especially the collaborative and versioning feature as in github for screenwriting. If you like I could ping you via E-Mail as well, since there are some features crucial for (at least our) workflow. Revision aka colored (replacement)pages, excerpts for set dressers etc.
But so far it looks really great and I hope it'll be able to replace Final Draft at our company someday.
For a list of all of the instant answers currently live on DuckDuckGo: https://duck.co/ia
For those interested, Dylan was a language with semantics close to Scheme, with object system inspired heavily by Lisp CLOS (with multiple inheritance and multiple dispatch), with infix, non-sexp-based syntax (kind of Lua-like), but also with pattern-based hygienic macros.

Honestly, just reading that list of features should be enough to get anyone interested, it died because the company behind it went out of business IIRC, which is a shame. It still exists, is on life support over at https://opendylan.org/index.html - without a dedicated IDE and up-to-date windowing library it's a bit unwieldy, and it lacks something like 20 years of performance optimizations that went into other compilers, but it still works. And, even now, its linguistic features are way ahead of Java; it would be easier to compare it with Scala rather than Java - and it was like that in '95.

Well, it feels more like an exhibit in a museum now rather than a real, workable tool - but at least it's preserved in this form, so there's still hope that someone will step in and revitalize it...
If you want to trully know how thing works I suggest great blog:

http://sommarskog.se/error_handling/Part1.html
http://sommarskog.se/error_handling/Part2.html
http://sommarskog.se/error_handling/Part3.html

More than 100 pages of technical knowledge.

And presentation: http://www.sommarskog.se/present/WhenThingsGoWrong%20(SQLSat...
Illness was punished as a misdemeanour by the company. I took
a day off sick and was given a point for it – despite
notifying Amazon several hours before the start of my shift
that I was ill and offering to provide a note from the
doctor. When I returned to work I asked an Amazon manager how
they could justify such a policy, which effectively punished
people for being ill. “It’s what Amazon have always done,” he
replied blandly.
> "Capitalism" is totally orthogonal to this

The rest of your post fails to substantiate this claim. Concretely, the "this" that you claim is orthogonal to capitalism is that:

>> When [social benefit of a service is completely misaligned aligned with the profit of realizing that benefit], they may pretend to do a job while they are actually doing a very different one.

Unsurprisingly, this is not a big problem for economic systems that do not reward profit-making. It is certainly true, as you note, that there are other ways in which the distribution of reward warps behaviors even in systems that aren't organized around profit-making.

But the problem of social benefit being misaligned specifically with profit-making is very much a quintessentially capitalist problem. Witness e.g. the fact that capitalist systems always end up realizing and attempting to solve this problem with a patchwork of laws and regulations.

Also, consider that your comments about psychology are mostly comments about your own biases and value systems. People who grow up and are successful in other political/value systems tend to say similar things about their own milieu.
From all the stories I've heard, it seems to be a combination of the two: most of the really inhumane stuff comes from local managers rather than global policy. However, those managers are just acting to meet unrealistic targets of their own, and when they're reported, nobody above them in the hierarchy seems to care.
They are correctly using the upper salary and hours as a reference point in both cases. Perhaps the language could be clearer, but it doesn’t make sense to use different reference points for comparison.
How a piece of software helped fuel the 2008 financial crash
Yes and cloudflare has already demonstrated both their ability and willingness to de-platform.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
As someone who is not familiar with OpenSTEP, what are the implications of a desktop built with it?

There are many small things that I like about OS X that never seem to make it into the graphical re-skins. Things like coherence of applications "feel", as well as more tangible features such as consistent and global keyboard shortcuts in every app (ie. Cmd + , for preferences). The visual polish of OS X is the least important thing that makes it usable.

Do you think a project like Nextspace could be the foundation for a Linux desktop experience more on par with the consistency of OS X?
Pushing configurations to devices has been around for at least 2 decades. Everybody does it and unless we are bashing big companies, we usually agree on "automatic software updates are a good thing(tm)". I don't see any difference between software or configuration updates, after all you can do the latter through the former anyways.
The biggest draw to Chrome is the dev tools. The debugger especially is on par with Visual Studio, may be better, and smooth (too smooth actually, especially the scrolling) whereas Firefox chokes 90% of the time as if it were created by novices. For instance, the break point never works, and if it does, the variable values are undefined. I am using v60 but this has been happening for many versions now. I have never faced a hiccup with Chrome. That said, I use Chrome exclusively for debugging and do general development and browsing exclusively on FF. Only if FF could improve theirs and spare us running two memory hogging browsers simultaneously.

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As for the topic, I am not sure how much of this is out of genuine concern for the users and how much is opportunistic jabs at the competitor's revenue. Will the jabs lead to hooks and upper cuts and eventual KO? IDK but it seems like we have a nice match on.
Didn't they use meth during WW2 on the russian front?
That makes the most sense on the face of it, especially in the preceding context of "Barnes testified that the server that holds the data that Georgia's 159 counties use to build their ballots". It's possible that the reporter conflates this "ballot data" on the "Dropbox-like site" with actual voting tallies. Such a site for the election center to upload ballot proofs sounds reasonable, although I question why such a site would need to be "air-gapped". The data to build ballots would presumably contain entirely public information (e.g. the serialized info of which candidates are running for which parties in which races).

But even if these details about ballot proofs isn't relevant to the main point, Mr. Barnes's testimony is still concerning. He's the director of the state's centralized elections system, after all. Last year, when Lamb notified the state of the data breach, Barnes "wrote of blacklisting Lamb from accessing the website before changing his mind and ordering scans of the system". [0] That the vulnerability stemmed from Drupalmageddon is even more troubling, because it's not as if Lamb's claims were hard to verify, given how well-publicized Drupalmageddon had been at that point.

It's also worth noting that I haven't seen any read about how the elections center receives the actual vote data. The stories I've read so far -- including this WaPo article -- have only referenced voter registration data. Having this data breached via arbitrary code execution is still a big deal, if the site is used to verify voter eligibility, but AFAIK, it's (hopefully) not the same system and database that holds vote data.

(Voter registration data contains personal info, but some states actually publish it online. in machine-readable format even)

[0] https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article...
> Bezos has a much lower public profile.

I think that's what I was going for. A lower public profile is better than a public profile with lots of mixed things (say good stuff like charities and bad ones like the CA scandal). And maybe people are also more practical, they are ordering tons of stuff from Amazon, it gets delivered to their door, the see the log on the boxes as they are opening them etc. So it is associated with success, something tangible, something that "works well" more or less.

> he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely

Was just thinking between the ultrarich (assuming billionaires running the country is now the new norm), which ones would have a better chance if they tried.
With respect - how you possible state that? If you are not searching on google most of the google magic isn't going to work?

For instance - when I google "python" google knows I mean the programming language. For another user, they may mean the snake.
I don't think comparing a software update to rape is buying you any points here.
The engineering cost of dealing with Fukushima and Chernobyl are aboslutely eye watering.

I would agree that the human reaction is sometimes irrational, but that needs to be accepted. Human life is not a lab controlled experiment where people will always behave rationally.
Leaked docs show Assange bid for Russian visa
Check how unique your fingerprint is using panopticlick[1] and try to fix it by adopting more common settings.
Also don't use Firefox Focus: it has telemetry and shares data with a third party[2]. Use the german version[3] if you must, it has telemetry disabled by default.

[1]: https://panopticlick.eff.org

[2]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/12/firefox-focus-privacy-scan...

[3]: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.klar/