skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us not forget that Facebook has enabled in a way a form of direct democracy.
Subversive globalist players without any moral compass (such as George Soros and Hillary Clinton, whose foundation connections are being interrogated as we type) are just angry that they lost in a long time.

George Soros frequently propagates propaganda via his Open Society Foundations about the dangers of Facebook. Because he lost.

No wonder it is being attacked.
Here's how it could have all been different:

> Hi, thanks for looking at packaging Pale Moon. Unfortunately the way you're doing it doesn't comply with our licence for these reasons ... Can you please make the following changes ... otherwise you won't have permission to distribute this build and we'll have to ask our lawyers to get involved if you did so.
I just started a new job at a MASSIVE international conglomerate. I was literally told that an intranet site I needed to use would only work in IE, and that it specifically would fail to render fields if I used Chrome. It's a little disingenuous to hear these kinds of complaints coming from the company which distorted the browser market so badly that the world is still paying for it 20 years later.
It would be great to allow electric scooters as well, but this is a legal matter out of the hands of the London Mayor.
SafeAI – Abstract Interpretation for Neural Networks
Interesting article, but heavily biased approach.

1. Econometrics, as defined here, would include anything regression or classification. Indeed, Machine Learning would be included as "Econometrics" by the author's definition.
I think everyone, including econometricians, would say that Machine Learning is doing a pretty decent job at forecasting.
The authors are thinking of classical regression, but maybe this is simply because it's an article from 1978?
The answer may be: Perhaps we just weren't there yet?

2. The primary goal of econometrics aka statistical inference is not forecasting. It is separating effects from confounders, in a multitude of fashions. Modern approaches are bad at forecasting, and this is almost by design. One tries to approximate experiments, in a sense, and experiments by definition do not forecast real, complex situations: They try to get rid of everything that makes reality complex.

3. The definitions survey question can be understood as

- Statistics vs. qualitative research

- Econometrics vs. time-series econometrics

- Economics vs. other social sciences

- Regression vs. other statistical techniques

- ...

In other words, the survey is designed to get the maximum agreement from economists.
The "test", however basically evaluates the success of early simple linear regression studies.

This is, essentially, what we call a biased research/survey design, to the degree that I'd suspect there is some sort of agenda at play!
Counterfeits at Christmas: Are your brands protected?
Kubeless: Kubernetes-native serverless framework
Just think about the amount of data stored on a DVD.

It's about 4 GB, which means that if you got a perfect image of just the data of the DVD (one pixel imaging each bit) the size of the picture would also be 4 GB. That means, as far as I understand, a 4 gigapixel image AT BEST, assuming you were able to get every single pixel to capture one bit of data on the DVD. In reality, since DVDs are circular and images are square you're looking at images that would be more like 6 gigapixel if my math is correct.

Today, available cameras are at best 50-megapixels, which means you need at the very minimum about 100 photos of each DVD, but in reality, there is no way you can ever get one bit per pixel, because to begin with the bits are not aligned in rows unlike the camera's pixels, so you're most probably looking at ten times that.

It's an interesting idea but I'm pretty sure it's completely unpractical.

Edit and I realised I counted 4 GB, but I should actually have used 32 Gb as a starting number, as what matters here are the bits, not the bytes, so add another 8x to the amount of photos you need.
it can explain what you mean?
Essentially a very discursive 1939 collection of stories of scientists (Hertz, Maxwell, Faraday, Gauss, Ehrlich, etc) who “out of sheer curiosity” developed the background science that later led others to develop practical (and monetised) applications. There is some discussion of advantages and disadvantages of seeking knowledge for the sake of it, a brief mention of the (then) situation in Germany and Italy (where “the effort is now being made to clamp down the freedom of the human spirit”) and it finishes with a glowing description of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), where the author worked.
Pretty standard in the UK outside of major towns/cities.
Semi-off topic, I suspect someone's a Pratchett fan:

'Correct. The Bank is now in orbit forty million miles out beyond - what's the name of your outermost world?'

'Far Out,' said Tarli.

-- 'The Dark Side of the Sun', Terry Pratchett
Rare relic is one of only three fossil clouds known in the universe
And Hillary Clinton, backed by George Soros, had direct collaboration from a Google-owned company.
Your point being?
Best solution proposed here

So what should the bet be? As far as I can tell they're not disagreeing on anything that can easily be reduced to a bet
It's funny how things tend to get less black and white as more money is offered.
The elusive ‘hidden people’ of Iceland
Sad to see the down-votes.
The globalists are seething that their left-wing-labeled puppets lost.
And to be fair, the same can be said about the Koch brothers.
Whats up with the attitude of people commenting on this? I am just speculating here, those semantic details arent important for the larger discussion i was trying to start.
Workers’ rights? Bosses don’t care – soon they’ll only need robots
How the heck doe a Google's buisness depend on trust? They make mo ey by extorting ad revenue. They keep asking users to give up privacy, and have met no mainstream resistance. Everybody knows not to trust them but does anyways.
From the article:

The memes contain an embedded command that is parsed by the malware after it’s downloaded from the malicious Twitter account onto the victim’s machine, acting as a C&C service for the already-placed malware. It should be noted that the malware was not downloaded from Twitter and that we did not observe what specific mechanism was used to deliver the malware to its victims.
Wolkenkit 3.0 – a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript
Books for the kids carers to read to/with them
I think that Taleb's problem is that he thinks all the uncertainty in Silver's model comes from the fact that people might change their minds about who to vote for.

This is why Taleb can't make a model that fits Silver's forecasts. Silver could only be confident early on if he knew that people weren't going to change their minds much. But if people don't change their minds much then Silver's forecast shouldn't fluctuate much as time passes. Alternatively, if the forecast fluctuates a lot, it must be because lots of people are changing their minds. But then Silver shouldn't have been so confident to begin with!

But in fact the uncertainty in Silver's model isn't (wholy) caused by the possibility that people change their minds. It's mostly caused by the possibility of polling error. As we approach the election people have less time to change their minds, but the possibility of polling error doesn't change. This why Taleb can't create a model under which Silver's forecasts are rational; he's not taking into account polling error.
This is actually an interesting idea in some ways, but there's such an enormous difference in scale between the problem and your solution that it's completely impossible. Like the bit with the guy trying to jump across the English Channel: https://youtu.be/Qvk2wNWmB20?t=47s
Why Ad Monetization Is Wrong (Really)
I'm pretty sure NSLs are only enforceable in the US.
What exactly has WikiLeaks "pursued"?

Last I checked, they had people contact them and published material they liked.

Not discounting the work they do, but there's a huge difference between them and someone like The Guardian assigning reporters to investigate a story.
Not that uncommon outside of major towns/cities either - I was getting barely 12Mbps on ADSL in inner London, and that only 600m from an exchange.
Most typed programming languages will allow you to form a pair of type (Integer, Integer), and reject programs which try to return something like (Integer, Float).

Dependently typed languages might allow you to declare a type (n, m) where n and m are integers, and n < m, and will reject programs which attempt to return pairs with n > m.

The key step here is that this rejection is done during compilation, and so while your program is running you can be absolutely sure that n < m.
A Year of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, and the Importance of Empathy
The first diagram, of the distances from the sun of those objects including the classical planets, it's not really a sensible thing to show.

If you look at the second diagram some of the orbits are very elliptical so the distance from the sun changes significantly. And it's also not the case that one objects it always the same "rank" from the sun.
Perhaps as a means of distributing spores? The higher up the spores are released the further they will spread.
You can even use it in your Python code, for better or worse:

for 𝖓 in 𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊(50):
if 𝕟 % 15 == 0:
𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥("𝔽𝕚𝕫𝕫𝕓𝕦𝕫𝕫")
elif 𝓃 % 3 == 0:
𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓉("ℱ𝒾𝓏𝓏")
elif 𝓷 % 5 == 0:
𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓽("𝓑𝓾𝔃𝔃")
else:
𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕(𝒏)

The identifiers are normalized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693738
I tried this during development. It works amazingly well but there are also a lot of downsides: the long processing time is just a minor example.
I don't think this is a good description of Silver's model. It doesn't discount disruptive events at all. It implicitly takes them into account.

Silver knows that people's opinions can be changed by events that happen before the election. This is why polls taken early on are less informative about the final result than polls taken closer to the day. Based on historical records, Silver knows how the accuracy of polls depends on the date they are taken, and he weights them accordingly. This process automatically models the possibility that an event could suddenly change people's opinions just before the election. It's taken into account in terms of the accuracy of polls.
Fortnite's New Update 7.10 Starts 19th December
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Yes, but if we want to distinguish between say asteroids and planets, or orbital pebbles and planets, we need criteria with which to do so and those are going to be at least somewhat arbitrary.

The 'cleared it's orbit' thing is also arbitrary. Pluto is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune for example but does that mean they share an orbit? It's mainly to exclude Ceres, which is pretty close to spherical.

The problem is any rules that exclude Ceres and also exclude the other trans-Plutonian planetoids also end up excluding Pluto. If Pluto is a planet and this new thing, why not Eris, Haumea, Sedna, orcus, etc, etc, etc.There are many dozens of them.

We do have applicable terms - planetoid, dwarf planet, so why not use them?
Both events are extreme yet possible.
Yup. Multiple u-nets, actually.
Stop Datamining Me
> This read like a troll piece. Every line rubbed me in some wrong way until I couldn't take it any more.

You're not the only one:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/a76b...
Humble Book Bundle: Hacking for the Holidays by No Starch Press
>Maybe I'm lacking in morality but I don't understand how serving censored content to people that already live in a society where the content is censored is considered evil.

If only was just a simple web search with some results removed maybe it won't be such a big deal, but consider this:

- Google does this for big money, so they want to sell ads and maybe other services in China

- To make money from ads Google tracks people and collect their data

- By law all this data from China will have to be hosted in China and the government can access it whenever they want, no warrens needed, no way to opose such a request

So Google will track and collect data and hand it over to China to do whatever, I imagine they could do an SQL query to find who searched some "illegal" keywords and send them to work camps or worse.

I think is normal as an employee to tell your bosses that you don't want to work on tools that will be used for harming others and try to convince them to find other contracts since they have already enough money they could maybe be less greedy.
>While Google won’t get outright public subsidies, as Liccardo noted, the company will benefit as much as the community from Diridon Station, which will cost taxpayers $10 billion.

Why are you holding the bag for Google?
> Part of Norway, the whole Svalbard archipelago is one of the only places in the world you don't need a visa to live -- if you show up, you can stay, so long as you don't commit a crime or go broke in the process, in which case the governor sends you back to Oslo.

My understanding is that Norway owns all the land there, and that the accommodation situation is quite tricky - there are few rental properties, operated by private landlords, while most of the properties exist solely for the purpose of accommodating local workers (researchers, miners, etc.).

Is that indeed the case? Could you, please, shed some light on this?
> One of my leisure time pursuits is to find interesting old books on cavalry, making them into high-quality reflowable e-books.

That’s so cool! Is there any chance you’re willing to share those epub’s? I’m a private Archivist/Data Hoarder and would love to get my hands on those files just to keep them safe.

Feel free to contact me, my email is on my profile.
Among the best solutions for seasickness are to watch the horizon, steer the boat, remove as much clothing as comfort allows, make sure there’s fatty food in your stomach, and stand so that your body is oriented in the direction of the boat’s motion.

I know those work anecdotally (for me and others with whom I’ve been on boats). They were explained to me by an ENT dr during a sailboat race to Bermuda about 20 years ago. His explanation was that it was about aligning the different signals the brain gets during motion.

The headband sounds interesting. There’s few things I’ve experienced that are more miserable than extended motion sickness.
Ask HN: Review this startup idea we are discussing
Tl;dr :
We have a idea to build a platform where people can connect and get paid to have meaningful conversations. Roast this idea in the comments section.

Long version:
Me and a colleague have been brainstorming this idea to build a platform where people can find other people to talk to about any topic they want. It could be life coaching to startup advice to maybe just talking to a person who is depressed and whats to have a casual conversation.

either party in the conversation could pay for this call. for eg: you're a tech guy and want to talk to some business person to see if they might be a good lead for the software services you provice. you can pay maybe a few dollars for a 5 min conversation with him!

I know there are niche players in the market who have similar platform for education, legal services, medical consultation etc..

we are wondering if we can have a general platform where people can directly connect with each other and make money instead of going through one of these niche players.

obviously we may need to start off with niche sectors but we want to give people a platform to make money by providing their services online.

that's the gist of what we have been thinking..
Where and why do you think this would fail? if you think it's a good idea, tell us what sector could we start with if we decide to go ahead with this idea. and how we can get some network effect?

Let the roasting/"this idea sucks" begin!

Cheers :D
T-Mobile, Sprint win U.S. security approvals for merger
Domainr
Meta, but this parent comment is a good example of the mis-use of downvoting on HN.

If you don't agree with the poster then engage in debate, don't just click the little arrow to try to grey it into oblivion.

We're all here to learn. Why not learn how to challenge this fairly widely-held view. Imagine you're talking with a 'normal' at a Christmas party and they say that; do you just stomp away singing LALALA?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/videospeed/
Tree with Moon // 278 chars
> Not "extremely probable" -- it says "extremely possible", which is a malapropism or a new phrase. It's easy to mistake because it has no clear meaning.

Indeed, despite quoting it in my response, I made exactly that mistake. Thanks!
Deploying Your MicroProfile App at Oracle Container Native Platform
What was the bottleneck ? tray ejection time ? human operator sleep patterns ?
It was mentioned elsewhere - some drives will randomly flip bits in order to make bitwise copies impossible if you just start copying. A software that can actually correctly work with the CD/DVD drive is necessary.
Open source tool for merging datasets
Hybrid, SaaS+PaaS: Cloud Trends to Watch in 2019
Ok this is cool.
Infinity CSS Grid
Strategies for attracting and retaining top tech talent
> How would this handle systems in which the dimensionality of the hidden layers is not equal to the input dimension

You could use the ODE solver to integrate the system from t1 to t2a. Then you need one normal neural net layer (one forward Euler time step) that takes the system from t2a to t2b and changes dimensions. Then you can again use the ODE solver to integrate from t2b to t3.
EmailSuccess, the high performance MTA solution, goes freemium
Or entropy. (In this case, social entropy?)
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love.
Patreon is for content creators of any kind, Harris was one of the top 10 or so Patreon earners, and probably got most of his income through that route. You should not dismiss what happened so readily because you do not like conservatives. The guy that was booted was banned because 10 months ago, in another platform, he used the N* word, in a satirical way, while mocking the alt-right. That Patreon banned him for that is a very scary sign that we are moving towards a world where speech is controlled by un-elected, unaccountable organizations. It is foolish to think this is OK, just because one happens to not be a fan of the politics of the people being banned at the moment.
Human eyes are in fact most sensitive to green light, but I haven’t read anything to indicate that’s why it’s in the middle.
USAF requirement will keep SpaceX from landing Falcon 9 booster after GPS launch
TLDR: malware uses meme images containing hidden instructions posted on Twitter as a way to receive commands. It's one-way communication though - the result of the operation is still uploaded to a C&C server.
My first laywer website
> Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance

Strangely though their absence coincides in roughly 80% of all programmes, so "being at odds with" is meant as

(Efficiency -> NOT Elegance) AND (Elegance -> NOT Efficiency)

but not as

Elegance XOR Efficiency
> collaboration from a Google-owned company

Can you be more specific? I don’t know what you are referring to.

Youtube and Google’s G+ social network were (like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) used by Russian agents in the past few years to target Americans with disinformation with the intention of affecting US domestic politics. Youtube in particular is a powerful vector for fringe conspiracy theories etc., and IMO Google should take more responsibility for the poor quality of their recommendation engine and the negative social consequences thereof.

Soros is a wealthy US citizen philanthropist who spends his money on promoting government transparency, civics education, investigative journalism, free and fair elections, cultural exchange between different parts of the world, public health, and so on.

He also spends money on political campaigns and advertising in a way comparable to any number of billionaires with varying agendas. Personally I think it is indefensible that US campaign finance laws have been gutted and billionaires can spend unlimited money on political advertising etc., but Soros is not essentially different from numerous other billionaires (Adelson, Simons, Bloomberg, Koch, Uihlein, Mercer, ...) involved in the same type of political spending.

Disclaimer: when I was in high school 15 years ago, Soros’s Open Society Institute funded a US State Dept. sponsored program which sent my high school debate team on an exchange trip to Azerbaijan, and brought a group of Azeri students to California. It was a great experience for me.
I'm not sure I can say this without it feeling a bit personal to you, but you don't /sound/ unoffended, which is pretty ironic and kind of the whole point of the article.

I hope that doesn't offend you :/
For all the kindle users, they could just supply their kindle email address and have you send the epub directly to the device.
Starting an article by referring to countries that work without tipping cultures and then finishing it and naming it to say it can't happen is astonishing exceptionalism.
To be fair this has to be seen in context (in the linked article):

> Hyperinflation bet that could very well not work but if it does "you will never fly in a public jet again."

So it's a bet on a small probability with very high payout.
This approach worked for him in the past.
PeakFinder – explore mountains with augmented reality
These people usually are the same sort who willingly become part of a raging mob, and convince themselves its okay to contribute and hate on some outlier group.
And those who need the tools know how to roll the cat downhill.
"Those are tools to hunt only criminals."
"We are a completely seperate department to the political police"
"I hate those creepy state safety agents more then you."
I will admit 100GB a week is an unusual case, I've certainly not replicated it myself. But there'll be a lot of people with half-decent cameras for which 200GB is nowhere near 'everything'.
I'm profoundly confused by the deep respect Taleb commands in the eyes of many people here, apparently. The guy has a few good ideas that he repeats ad nauseam, but he punches way over his own intellectual weight too often. A few especially egregious examples are his deranged GMO hate "paper" which is profoundly ignorant of the involved biology [1], his support of Syrian government's slaughter of civilians [2][3], and his Putinversteher views ([4] reads as a parody for anyone knowing anything about Putin and modern Russia). Combined with his unlimited arrogance, I don't understand how people can respect him intellectually.

[1]: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2

[2]: https://medium.com/opacity/the-syrian-war-condensed-a-more-r...

[3]: https://medium.com/@ameraidi/nassim-taleb-is-wrong-on-syria-...

[4]: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/773323163509850112
Well, yes, that's true. But my point was that they aren't going to change the legacy nav data structure.
The vast majority of accommodation in Svalbard is owned by companies and reserved for their employees. The few private apartments that are there tend make more money as short term holiday rentals and on sites like AirBnB so very few become available for 'normal' long term rental. The easiest way to get a place to live is to get a job there that comes with an apartment.

That being said there are a fair few private houses on the island and there is almost always something for sale. Here you can see what's currently available: https://www.finn.no/realestate/homes/search.html?q=longyearb...
So far the only thing I saw that could break previous "squiggly text" style captchas was some research papers. I have yet to see any of it used in the wild.

So I doubt spammers brought this upon us - the previous captchas were more than effective at keeping them at bay already.

The real reason is shitty Google being greedy and needing someone to label their training data.
Tracking?
Author also doesn't seem to understand what "skin in the game" means.