skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to do this but with Blu-ray’s. My goal was to build a library of every movie ever made that was worth seeing. It seemed like 2018 was a good time to do this since good movies have apparently stopped being made. Anyway, If you wanted to watch tons of good movies, you would normally end up paying tons of money to rent it from iTunes. And even then you only get to see it once and you have to have an internet connection. And streaming services don’t have even a fraction of the selection needed. But Netflix’s mail dvd service seems to have every movie I can think of. So why not open a few Netflix accounts, order disks in the mail and just save all the disk images? It seemed like a good idea until I looked into Blu-ray copy protection. Of course, I wanted to have my library consist of only the highest quality and highest fidelity so Blu-ray’s were called for. But Blu-ray copy protection is devious, ingenious and very effective. Each disk consists of two regions: A region that holds encrypted movie data and a region that holds a key. It is illegal for players to be sold that read the key and then forward it to user-facing interface like a computer. Players must always only read the key only in order to use it internally to decrypt the movie data. This stops all legitimate entities from selling players that reveal the key to the user. But what about the illegitimate entities that might want to sell modified players that provide the key? Or just publish keys online? Well, the key on the disk is itself actually encrypted. And it is encrypted in such a way that multiple keys can decrypt it. Blu-ray players come with special hardware that is flashed with a key at the factory. This hardware uses that key to decrypt the Blu-ray’s key. In the event that a key is compromised and published online, or used widely in any way, that key is depreciated and all Blu-ray’s from that point onward contain keys that cannot be decrypted with the compromised hardware key. Instead, a newer key is used. This new key is still able to decrypt all the old Blu-ray keys as well as all the new ones. This effectively defeats people publishing keys online. It’s ingenious in that the people who conceived it realized that the only time key compromise is a problem is when those keys are disseminated widely, and that when keys are disseminated widely they are easy for authorities to detect. If you want to get perfect rips of any blu-Ray you might come across, you are forced to go through the pain of probing the hardware yourself to get that key, which is quite difficult. There’s no way around it.
And they are also curating who’s phone calls get through. The phone call never edits or bans content on their lines (generally.) Facebook as a utility is a false idea: they are a publisher whether they say so or not. A neutral platform doesn’t have nebulous “community standards” nor algorithms to determine the visibility of content.
I'm pretty sure they have shuttles in NYC too.

I live in Boston and my company has shuttles to the suburbs as well. All of the Big4 do.
I think a dictionary could answer that question for you fairly easily.
Anybody know if there's a graph or study that rates the safety and taste of tap water among US cities?
You think that because it’s taken the senate several years to publish a report that this is in some way unusual? Really?
Although I am overall happy with my Keyboardio, I must say the Matias keyswitches have been a bit of a disappointment. They're okay, but don't feel quite as nice, to me, as actual ALPS — I still have a working Kinesis Evolution that I use frequently, so I can compare them directly — or as Cherry switches. I wish they'd gone with Cherry.
I pay $2.6k a month in rent. I have friends that pay $3.1k+ in New York and Boston and Seattle (Seattle is a bit of a different story but nonetheless).

I was talking to a guy the other day living in a sub400 sqft place in lower manhattan in a non-luxury unit paying $2.5k.
Asking to affirm you are not boycotting and will not boycott Israel is a far cry from a "Pro-Israel Loyalty Oath".
A side note, but the media itself has sabatoged and seeded mistrust in US elections as well. But we give the media a pass apparently.
Amazon Alexa Can Now Detect Smoke Alarms Or Glass Shattering and Notify You
Wow I didn't know that -- that's ridiculous.

Imagine if it were any other country, friend or foe. A law against a person making his own financial decision against Canada, or China, or England, or Germany, or Turkey.
I did a write-up that should give you an idea: http://insideclojure.org/2018/12/17/errors/
>just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space ...

[cite needed][original research?]
Hi HN!

Meet Bubblin Superbooks, a social book reader for web. It's _iPad first_ and all the books (mostly public domain samples) work offline too using a service worker.

Hope you like it! :-)

Good/bad, all feedback is very welcome!
The OP says they're public domain, so I'd guess it's films produced by the government.
So let's say I build a nuclear plant. I make a lot of money from this nuclear plant, and I'm providing a useful and arguably essential service to my community.

Now, it turns out my nuclear plant is emitting toxic radiation and poisoning the community. Not only that, but the problem was blatantly apparent for years, everyone with the slightest bit of foresight tried to bring it to my attention, and to the attention of the community leaders.

The problem was identified, but I did absolutely nothing to resolve it even after being warned. When the problem shifted from a hypothetical to a forensically provable reality, I tried to cover it up and minimize it, while my gross negligence exerted immeasurable harm to the community.

That is the story of Facebook. When you build things - especially giant pieces of infrastructure which communities rely on - you have a RESPONSIBILITY to do your very best to ensure it does not cause harm. Facebook is not responsible for everything which occurs on their platform, but they sure as hell have a responsibility to at least apply due diligence in reducing the harm it causes.

Facebook did not apply that due diligence. They were negligent at the very least, if not openly malicious in their intent.

Stop making excuses for them.
If you use Chrome, a better option is to use Video Controller extension[1]. Works with any html5 video, and gives you a lot more granular control.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
My guess is Google realized how many of their employees really, really want to live in NYC for some reason. I don't get it but literally everybody I've talked to wants to work in New York.
completely agree with this as far as the recommendation overthrows the record
A tiny compiler with ELF and PE executable for x86
I got the point of the original statement, but again, even building a large and complex system is not unique to Clojure. Go was used internally within Google, Swift within Apple, and Rust within Mozilla, to name a few.
How to Learn to Code
More granularly, about 2 minutes per disc. A 20x drive can read one disc in around 3 minutes, so a few of those running in parallel should be enough. (This is supposing all the discs can be read at full speed, which is not necessarily the case in reality; but increasing the parallelism to compensate can be done easily.)
Given its produced by a ".ai" company I would imagine they are using a U-Net derived ML model and not traditional OpenCV methods.

You can read more about that approach here:

https://hackernoon.com/releasing-supervisely-person-dataset-...

Good results though for sure and very handy for quick image edits.
I don't think that's entirely true, sometimes tools have only one purpose. It would not be ethical to manufacture nukes and sell them to people, for example.

Even with a messaging app, imagine that you created a new one, and then found that for some reason 90% of your user base is hitmen communicating with their clients. Maybe that's not your fault, but I think you would be ethically obligated to shut it down, or significantly modify it to stop enabling hitmen.

Obviously these are contrived examples, and often in real life it's impossible to make a tool that can't be used for evil. But I don't think you're devoid of responsibility just because you didn't intend for your creation to be abused. If you accidentally created something dangerous, you have an obligation to take reasonable measures to mitigate the danger.
I only use comment flags to signal that this comment warrants the attention of mods regardless of whether I disagree with whatever opinion it includes.
What’s a Mott FET
Jews are only 1.4% of the USA. If the Jewish lobby worked by influencing the votes of their own believers, they'd never get any laws passed.

Instead by co-opting the political right, including many Christian fundamentalists open to the biblical appeal of Jews vs Muslims, the lobby can get the votes they need to pass these laws.
Complying with AL in that case would simply amount to LLVM itself still being under AL. The code that calls it wouldn't have to be.
Doesn't it already? I've never noticed the nags when using Firefox
This is awesome!

I uploaded a photo of myself as a kid with my sister and grandpa. Early 80's, a washed out photo, where the lines were less definitive. Had some issues with that image.

This photo if you're curious.
https://imgur.com/a/a4jQ5y1
The net impact is going to be different. Amazon wanted to move to a part of town most tech companies aren't already and announced a significantly larger headcount.
Thinking back about the down votes I have received, they seemed more about disagreeing than wether the comment contributed.

When I am down voted, I am strongly inclined not to contribute anything (of any sort) again. It takes a while before I recover my intention to contribute, however there is a cumulative effect that will eventually cause me to permanently disengage from HN.
Is the Vivado software any good? I assume a license comes with the board.
A Robot’s Guide to Survival (1990)
Can, but wont.
Just by reading the comments below, I don't think there is any room for opinions of Chinese here. It will be downvoted to hell.

Anyway, I will give you one thing: for Chinese it's about to have an obviously better product to use. It has very little to do with morality when they support it. Of course it's not the case for Americans (or any Westerners) as it doesn't directly affect them.
If 538 is trying to do aleatory probabilities, then it is kinda like a broken clock - right sometimes, but as a tool for answers about future events of any complexity (i.e. the real world, where actions have consequences, and errors can be grave..), I'd avoid putting one's confidence in something that claims it has a simple/'linear' relationship to the real future.

It is also a cop out to claim "everybody who thinks probabilities based on initial poll responses are not representative of eventual votes" must clearly not understand probability. Maybe I am straw-manning or just don't understand the actual disagreement.

As a poll aggregator? I'm sure it's probably a fabulous tool for past, historical, observed data. The brand itself, probably even more valuable, as a symbol with some sort of social authority in certain circles, I guess.

Anybody who reads my comment history will see I have obviously become a Taleb stan, but his approach seems right to me: "show me the money". Which in his case means mathematical papers of proofs primarily, actual money, second.
It most definitely would make the people more oppressed. Even if we ignore the fact that the searches would be directly tied to a person, as well as the fact that there are nobody better than Google when it comes to tracking users on mass-scale, then you just have to think about all the people who would stop using VPNs as a result of this. You'd also be a fool to believe that China wouldn't slowly force Google to assist them outside the search engine.
How to be more resilient
>And really that sort of thing should be a reason to be fired instantly from a tech company

You will find this type of person throughout all companies, including tech. It’s really unfortunate but if these people get results, their horrible behavior is not only tolerated but rewarded.
I misspoke, replace glycemic index with insulin and I'm right.

For example if you eat 200 calories of ice cream vs broccoli. The ice cream will be absorbed so fast into your system that you will get hungry again before you actually need more calories. Every insulin spike is a notch towards metabolic syndrome. It is the crazy insulin spiking that leads to diabetes.
Well I guess I am more used to the physicist’s definition of entropy, which can be described as “the higher the entropy, the less we care about the details.”
Beautiful. Works great with portrait poses, less well with groups.
No need for Go, GraalVM already allows you to create a native binary:

https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/native-clojure-and-graalvm/
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but this is a low value comment in furthering healthy discussion. Consider tacking on some further qualifiers to support your claim.

* In what actionable ways do you think they are missing the mark on reformation?

* What in your opinion is the bar for reformation for a social media corporation?

Otherwise, Twitter-esque call-to-panic statements like these diminish the signal to noise quality of discussion here.

Just a friendly suggestion.
FWIW, Microsoft used to prefer AL for its open source projects early on in its F/OSS forays (after experimenting with its own custom licenses), but has since moved to MIT as the default.
to my understanding, a bunch of nested if-else statements is an algorithm, and if you change all the conditions in the if statements, you get a different algorithm.

so e.g. ID3 is an algorithm, designed by a human, that produces new algorithms, only indirectly designed by a human. we may be talking past each other, though. i just think it's reasonable to apply the word "algorithm" to things that are simple/stupid enough to be generated automatically, and so it's no big deal to talk about algorithms writing algorithms.
Why not just read the unencrypted data that the Blu-ray players give you, though.
I was thinking the same thing re: phonetic. Dotsies opening paragraph claims the latin alphabet was optimized for writing, but it wasn't, it was optimized for phonetics (if anything at all), which is useful to both reading and writing. However, we know from Korean and Japanese Katakana/Hiragana that phonetics can be generalized into syllables and don't have to be spelled out as in English/Latin. A Dotsies version of that would be ideal.
I once managed to install the Dotsies font to a rooted Android... it was fun for about 10 minutes! I agree with the other comments that a font more focused on overall word shape would probably be easier to read at high speed.
Very possibly, but, as far as I know, in the information-theoretic sense (which is what we mean when we talk about alphabets and conflating one letter for another) it's "high entropy" = "low redundancy".
> Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's simply consistent.

We agree except for what we mean by "eventually" which is just semantics. What I mean by "eventually" is that eventually all the information arrives for my (or anyone's) model of the universe to match reality, analogous to eventually consistent distributed databases. Like an eventually consistent database however we can never catch up completely, since new events are happening in the universe all the time. It takes time for this information to "replicate", but there is no inconsistency. I was following lkrubner's analogy.
Is this production worthy?
Stanford CS has at least a couple of people who seem to be really decent humans as well as great computer scientists. Besides Don Knuth, John Ousterhout is another person who comes to mind. Both of them have a humility combined with humor that I find quite admirable.
> I would personally take a shuttle over the subway any day.

If you're crossing any bridges or tunnels, a 15 minute train ride could easily be 45 minutes in a shuttle or car.
He should not have accepted the honor if he didn’t call a winner in any of the states!

And he didn't, as far as I recall. I remember him saying something to the effect of "that isn't that impressive, even a simple method looking at polls would have gotten nearly all the states correct". Don't confuse what other people focus on for something he is boasting about.
I like the idea of this but there's something not quite right.

When you look at the front page you see all projects have had $5 dollars worth of stickers purchased.
http://tinyimg.io/i/DfTAcu4.png

But then you click through to purchase a sticker and the minimum purchase is actually $10.
http://tinyimg.io/i/saXcgTw.png

That feels a bit disingenuous and scammy.
Facebook created itself, allowing Russia to use it to do bad stuff.
As all of the comments below are comparing the San Francisco Bay Area with New York City in terms of real estate, transit time, etc. it's worth noting the stark differences between the two.

The Bay Area is of size 6,000-10,000 sq. mi. with a population of 7.7-8.8 million people[1]. NYC is of size 302 sq. mi. (yes, really! That's 20x-50x smaller) with a population of 8.1-8.6 million people[2]. Perhaps it's easy to underestimate just how much of a big world city NYC is and how varied its people and industries are compared to what they might be used to on the west coast.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
Ended in '00 you mean? But earlier comments allude to whether the person remembers 9/11 or is aware at the turn of the millenium. So that probably results in a range from '82 to '96.
What has Apple done through their "participation", besides providing the government with billions and supporting their technological advancement?
As fcurts below mentioned, [Graal's native image generation](https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilatio...) might be what you want.

It can turn a Clojure app into a single executable with excellent performance and memory characteristics.
r/politics is leaking
Works amazingly well, and has an even better domain name.
No, Google does not have shuttles in NYC. There is no need for them (the Port Authority building literally stands on top of a subway station) and it would be nearly impossible to run them (even if you ignore the traffic, there isn't any space next to the building to legally park a shuttle).
Yeah it's basically the suburbs, but a 10 min walk from the subway. And within the last two years there are actually lots of good restaurants in the area now.
You shouldn't consider offsets ("0-indexed") more valid or right than ordinals ("1-indexed"). Doing so imposes unnecessary restrictions and narrows your scope of discussion to the programming context instead of broader mathematics. You can come up with any arbitrary case where it alternatively makes sense or doesn't make sense to include 0 in the natural numbers.

If something is a matter of taste, it really doesn't make sense to say one taste is "right" over another. It's more important to define your terms and be consistent for the context you're working in.
>and a lot of them welcome the social credit system

The first rule of the social credit system: do not disparage the social credit system.
I mean obviously its hard to make predictions of complex things as the data from every angle is difficult to get and sometimes incorrect. I used to love Taleb but he is more of a broken cloc, many say if he stopped writing after black swan he would have gone down as great but some of his other points and politics have undermined him.

I think Silver is actually pretty legit. He was over-hyped, then he was largely panned as a chrlatan but through and through he has been pretty consistent. The Obama elections he rose to prominance but he also did well in the most recent election. The absolute only news outlet saying that Trump had a statistical chance of winning. He hovered around 20-33% at peak while Huffington post told him he was an idiot. Many major outlets didn’t personally attack him obviously but had Trump in low single digits throughout the last weeks
I use this every day. Being able to quickly jump forward/backward 10 seconds is also very useful. I recommend setting keyboard shortcuts that agree with equivalent functionality on your desktop player like VLC.
I am not aware of any single South Korean who has used either Yandex or Baidu. They don't even support Korean at all, so why would any Korean bother to use them? Very interested in the source of your statistics, which I guess completely incorrect.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/sou...
https://www.opensurvey.co.kr/blog/trendreport/sns_2018/
http://www.internettrend.co.kr/trendForward.tsp

As far as I know, there's no report which shows Yandex's significance in South Korean search engine market share.
My suspicion is that the way to improve legibility is to consider ways to make symbol images more robust to noise. In particular, if a symbol image were perturbed, would the context help you figure out what that symbol should be?

For each letter, we can build a histogram of contexts that letter occurs in for a sufficiently large corpus. An example is the letter "o", whose occurrences in the previous sentence have the following contexts: f_r (twice), t_g, c_n, _c, c_r.

Each letter's context histograms have some similarity with each other letter's. We want different letters that have similar contexts to have widely differing appearances, because if their appearances were similar, their contexts will be of less help to the reader in disambiguating. And letters with sufficiently different contexts may be allowed to be more similar in appearance (note e.g. the archaic long "s", which despite visual ſimilarity to "f" is easily distinguished from it by the different contexts it appears in).
As a non-specialist, I like how the discussion boils down the picture at the end: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*D_tidaT-fHMY3DRLg... in that it is something I can understand.
Why are you comparing the SF bay area to the city limits of New York? Better would be to compare SF bay area to New York Metro Area, which is far bigger than the SF bay area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
I mean, its pretty clear he’s building all the tech to colonize Mars. Boring is an important part of that.
Affordable housing isn't far away, but yes, in-Boulder rates are getting much worse. I work out of the Boulder office and have a 4BR house a 25 minute commute away for a lot less than I'd spend in CA.
Companies that do business with Texas have to sign an agreement that includes that statement about Israel. It's part of Texas's standard agreement with vendors...
In a sense, making a public Twitter post, blog post, and hash-tag movement is leveraging that donation, even more than it's monetary worth, to advance the NAACP's own incentives.

So in that sense, they did indeed take advantage of the donation, not in the first-order monetary sense, but with the resulting publicity and press that probably surpasses the donation's intrinsic value.

Pretty good move on there part to be honest. I wonder what would've been the public outcome of them re-donating that amount instead to one of them "Soros-funded" anti-Facebook organizations as a "screw you".
how confident are we that spending $1B on real estate in a market where you already have a strong footprint is optimal?

I guess at what point does it make more sense to locate to a less pricy metro and pay engineering talent to come (basically pick Amazon's reject list other than the VA and NY winners)?
Middle class professionals can normally afford their own places with ~30 minute commutes.

If I need a roommate to make things work financially, I’m in the wrong job or the wrong city.
Reading isn’t a to-do list item
Big Pharma Is America’s New Mafia (2015)