skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean without getting identified as the source though? If you can simultaneously reveal both aspects, who would choose the domestic playground of an attacker over somewhere they couldn't stay undetected?
"Alexa, play [almost any recorded music ever]" is pretty cool.*

* You have to have Amazon Music Unlimited which costs from $4.99 to $9.99 a month.
Why are they being asked to decide between an election method and a representation system? The two are orthogonal.

You can have proportional representation with first past the post voting and you can have single member representation with various voting methods, usually STV.
in what way has red hat won out?
And not only that. Even his undergrad thesis back from 1990 was on neural nets. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVt...
I don't think it's made up but I think there's a good chance we're wrong about the cause. The theory is not falsifiable. There are too many interacting variables. The models have all been fit to the data and not vice versa. We've been wrong about other things that were universally accepted as true (e.g. dietary fat is bad) and later turned out to be wrong.

Doesn't really matter what I think though. I'm one person, not in a position of influence, and my beliefs and behavior on the matter are inconsequential.

I don't think that moving away from coal and petroleum is bad though. Those are dirty, polluting energy sources. I think we should be developing nuclear and electrically powred transportation and battery technology. So either way, I support moving away from burning fossil fuels.
Elsevier willing to compensate editors to prevent them from ‘flipping’
Mathematics is a creative activity, at least at the professional level.
Can Facebook Ever Solve Its Truthiness Problem?
I think it's "absolutely do not patronize Slack".
Can it? A particular recording can be copyrighted, but as far as I know nothing prevents someone from singing it themselves and selling that.
Other than closing the Internet as someone suggests, wouldn't be possible to integrate the service that Microsoft offers to detect this material?
Other apps like telegram, not e2e, could be integrated more easily, but personally I wouldn't mind such system being native on Android or IOS - allowing to make life much more difficult for pedos.
blockchain based messaging apps

Out of genuine curiosity, where do blockchains enter into the messaging space? Auditable chat histories and identities? As opposed to other cryptography/security techniques, blockchain doesn't seem like an especially good match for the problem space.
Why would we not blame the hackers? You can criticize someone for having bad locks but the burglar is still the one that belongs in jail.
Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries
The NHS isn't really a single body (1), it's perhaps easier to think of it like the US army in terms of structure rather than a single organisation.

There is a central organisation that sets overall directions and can give orders. But then there are lots of other organisations that are within it or attached in some way or even privately owned groups that operate in association with it.

Each group usually creates its own web sites and the central organisation doesn't usually interfere unless something is wrong.

The following is AFAIK correct, but it's my personal experience, and I'm not claiming to be an expert on the NHS!

As a simplified example, I am covered by the NHS. In my case NHS Scotland, which is separate from the similar system in England or others in Wales and Northern Ireland.

I am registered with the local NHS GP surgery which puts me on the system and provides most non-emergency access to care.

That GP's surgery is (probably) a private partnership of doctors who own the building and employ themselves and the other staff (nurses, admin, etc).

They get paid by the NHS system as a whole to provide me healthcare, but are not direct government employees.

I actually picked this GP's practice over several others, each of which have their own websites, because its website showed that it was open to new patients and because they offered open clinic times that matched my requirements.

On the other hand, the local hospital is owned (2) by the regional NHS hospital group as a government owned facility which employs the staff there as direct NHS/government employees. Except in emergency, I would go to my GP first, then be referred to the hospital.

However this is a separate organisation from the regional hospital group that operates hospitals in the next major city.

(1) NHS structure and funding: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-10/NHS...

(2) Though see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative for a more complicated explanation
> * Find phone/computer * Unlock * Locate self in interface and navigate to application selector * Invoke note-taking or reminder app * Type in note or reminder * Navigate through tagging/scheduling interface * Commit note/reminder

This is just bad UI. Voice assistants and search have been used to paper over a serious decline in UX over the past decade or two. PDAs from the late 90s had much better note taking workflows.
And now copycats will probably release their own site claming they are the same guys. This happens with torrent sites whenever they get taken down.
This takes me back to Corel Linux. My first Linux, it was based on Debian and very quickly lead me to Debian.
This kind of shit is like the black mold of communication systems.
Does supreme sue people for anything besides using their logo??
Apple saw more government requests for user data in the first half of 2018
I thought HPE was a majority owned Chinese company?
Ask HN: Are the documentation standards?
I'm writing documentation (in markdown) for a project I'm working with and was curious if there are standards in terms of format/styling.

For example, if I am referencing a file, do I italicize the file name? Do I put it in an inline code block? I would think referencing a variable would go in an online code block and a block of code with use a "paragraph" code block. Then there's this like IP(normal text? Italics?) and a GUI button or menu item text (italicized?).

When I started thinking about it there's various conventions that made sense to me which made me wonder if there's a standard format/styling for this.
I watched The Office for the first time a few months ago.

I was AMAZED that a show that recent had a lot of office workers with desks with no computer.

In 20 years, I don't think it's crazy to think the next generation will look back at our time and think... I can't believe you sat there staring at a rectangle and pushing buttons all day.

I'm not betting on it, but it seems plausible to me that in 20 years Hololens / Google Glasses combined with voice recognition and some type of gesture control could be good enough and desirable for most people.
I am skeptical when technologists say voice assisted systems will become the dominant interface at least in countries with a high rate of literacy.

I just look at TV vs radio, texting versus calling, or audio books versus written content. I believe most studies indicate that people are better at visual comprehension versus auditory:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140312-audi...

I know scientists love working on voice and speech recognition, since it is a hard problem to solve, but it sometimes feels like its a bit of a solution in search of a problem. I'm sure there are good use cases, I'm just skeptical that they are profound enough for voice to be our primary medium for interaction.
Asterius GHC WebAssembly back end reaches TodoMVC
Show me who I need to write a check to defend against a 0-day exploit that was used against Cisco networking equipment. Which in turn was used to compromise security mechanisms within the company.

Oh wait you can't. Which is why we had to turn to our government intelligence services to provide assistance.

So stop pretending like companies can defend against state sponsors who are buying 0-days for $100k+ like it's candy.
I partially agree. My terrible pun of including Excel was a reference to a very common application that's not going ubiquitous or backgrounded anytime soon. Similarly, nobody's soon going to be coding via a voice-drive device without a display.

On the mobile side, imagine the hellscape of privacy intrusion that would result if people all used voice to message each other (instead of text/email/etc).

GUIs are sticking around because they are the best available option for many use cases. Portable GUIs are likewise going to stick around for a long time. Fashionable nerds may decide to stop calling these "PCs" or "mobile phones" at some point, but the form factors will prove resilient.
Their entire design premise was rejected - so quite expensive.
Except for the fact that no current model Apple devices use their chip...
Google almost had this nailed with Reader before they canned it. Unbelievably stupid move while drowning millions in Plus and You and whatnot.
same here, I just assumed this was a leak for everyone to laugh at how bad it is.

and then all the praise is for a use case that makes even less sense? its like "hey so you need an API deliver a consistent user experience? WELL HERE'S SOME FRONTEND CODE INSTEAD" and the crowd goes wild "omg css templates yassss"
If a burglar robs your house and steals a gun it’s your duty to report that it was stolen.
What about when companies like google and godaddy just decides to confiscate domain names?
No, cntk is focused on deep learning and ml.net is more focused on traditional ML as well as making it easier to deploy trained deep learning Tensorflow or ONNX models in your apps and services
https://www.amnestyusa.org/execution-vans-organ-harvesting-b...

> For many years, it has been known that China uses execution vans, kind of like specially outfitted ambulances, to more efficiently carry out its exceedingly large number of executions. The method of killing in these vans is lethal injection, which has been slowly but surely replacing the firing squad as China’s preferred means of execution, and both lethal injection and the vans are believed to facilitate the widespread practice of harvesting organs of the executed prisoners, an unbelievably appalling practice.
Defense from foreign attacks is one of the main reasons for the federal government to even exist. You can blame the victims all you want but diplomatic and military defense is still the government's responsibility.
It doesn't happen most of the time yet, but that doesn't mean it's a gamble. I wouldn't describe it as "extremely unlikely"

We actually have figured out how to run public sector software projects successfully. It's not a mystery anymore.

There's a lot of barriers still to practicing agile service design within the constraints of most government organizations, but good results are consistent where you can carve out the space to implement it.

Look at "digital services" teams at every level of gov:

- UK Originals: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
- US Stormers: https://18f.gsa.gov/
- US Normers: https://www.usds.gov/

- CA State Child Welfare: https://cwds.ca.gov/
- CA Benefits Enrollment: https://www.getcalfresh.org/
- CA Digital Services: https://github.com/CDTgithub/DigitalServiceOpportunities
- MA Digital Services: https://www.mass.gov/orgs/digital-services

- Philadelphia: https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-open-data-and-di...
- San Francisco: https://digitalservices.sfgov.org/
- NYC: https://playbook.cityofnewyork.us/
- Boston: https://www.boston.gov/departments/digital-team
Couldn't Amazon just require all reviews to be Verified? That would at least cost a competitor a little bit of money in buying their competitors product...
Reminds me of putrescine, as described in Neal Stephenson's "Zodiac".

Also, wasn't something like this chemical a plot device in an Isaac Asimov short story about metal-plating things?
I think you’re right to say that this is an existance proof of good public sector work.

But you have to then ask for the specifics of how this project came about. You have to dive into how the Government Digital Service build a culture which could not just develop this product but could spread to other organizations.
You can definitely train your own models too...samples at https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples
For non-technical people who have some interest in learning html / css and a free weekend, its even easier:

- https://www.codecademy.com/learn/make-a-website

- host for free on netlify

- maybe simple intro to git to make updating and deploying to netlify easier

anyone can learn basic html / css (in 6th grade we did a week long "build a website" project and everyone did it -- this was back in the late 90s), and with frameworks like bootstrap anyone can make an attractive looking site.

with just basic html / css knowledge and netlify, you can:

- self-host and write a blog

- post photo albums

- share videos and audio (link to youtube)

- share status updates

- create an online course

- create a curated list of interesting articles, photos, recipes, food (a la pinterest)

- conduct surveys (link to google forms or other free survey tools)

- create a mailing list / online following (link to google forms or use mailchimp)

- get creative and personalize your site's appearance

- create links to your friends sites

- publish short stories or even e-books

- communicate with people via email (just create an email address for your site and publish it). posting publicly doesnt have to be the normal way to socialize online

- and probably much more

the only downside is if you don't want everything to be public you'd need a simple backend / auth framework, and youd have to host on heroku or something (idk if netlify only does static sites?)

and if you can do this stuff, and find html / css interesting, it isn't that hard to learn enough python or js to build stuff like forms, comments, like buttons, RSS feeds, or simple CRUD apps

the open source software and free-tier saas products we have today make so much of this so easy
For people that are already into the IoT space, I think it's a no-brainer. I have smart bulbs (Lifx). They look great but have little to no support for physical switches, and the app works OK until you want to have two phones controlling them. Suffice to say, voice control has made the experience 10x better especially for guests. Now, we also have a Roomba and some other smart things. Rather than get a new app for everything, it's all controlled by once interface.
It's a bit like an embroidered sampler: the content is filler, or at least isn't factually significant/important so there probably hasn't been any reason to look closely. I'm not sure about this kind of document per se, but in general I think only a small fraction of documents in archives actually get processed in detail (translation, transcribing).
The problem is that the boringco tunnel at max capacity has roughly 1/100 the capacity of a subway but only about 1/10 the cost. Scaled up to equal volumes, it would actually cost 10x of what a subway costs.

The expensive part of subway construction isn't the tunneling, and hasn't been for decades. The expensive part is constructing the subway stations; each station can itself coast as much as all of the tunneling.

BoringCo does nothing to solve this. It addresses the most cost efficient part of the problem that, even if they can introduce efficiencies, would only cut a fraction of a percent off the cost of public transportation systems.
Ask HN: Healthcare insurance for 2019 ?
I work for a firm with under 20 employees and I have the option to opt out of health care insurance provided by the firm if needed.

My employer offered insurance premium for the year 2019 works out to be around $5000 for an individual, which I thought was outrageous. I'm tempted to go without insurance but that may not be wise.

I'm interested in insurance plans that cover emergencies only ( not routine visits). Presumably the premiums are lower for plans that just cover emergencies. I'd be curious as to where the HN crowd in a similar situation as mine ( or say unemployed) obtain their insurance from. Please mention the name of the insurance provider and the plan that you avail.
for the USA, israel is the biggest offender
Yeah, I'm pretty confused by this being on the front page.
The meme of indestructible nokia phones came about because people treated flip phones terribly.

Amazingly, there were other phones on the market besides low-end Nokias.
I find it interesting that you would register such an obviously inflammatory name (eight months ago) and then never use it until now. Even more interesting is the fact that you have received two very reasonable answers and continue to argue against them with very poorly thought out arguments.

The facts are:

1.) Meetup is not and has never been a word in the English language.

2.) A trademark is a very distinct vehicle with particular uses.
The only reason I can envision using voice controls for anything is in the car while driving, and you would only begrudgingly use them because it is overwhelmingly safer to have both hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.

Yup, that's pretty much the only reason I use Siri. Though I could see VR as another possible use case, since hand controls in VR are less precise and slower than keyboard/mouse for textual input.
What if someone joins every group

What if that someone doesn’t show up in the list of group members because WhatsApp has this built in

What if you don’t control the source code so you can’t verify this

What if RMS was right

What then
Messengers need someone to host and maintain the servers. That requires a monetization model and requires someone to act as a central figure. That figure (like Facebook) then has to either moderate the content or try to make a case of not being able to but still facilitating it.

A messenger using the blockchain as its medium requires no staff to operate it and has nobody responsible for it. There is nobody to blame for whatever it's used for and nobody to dictate what it can and can't be used for. The group chats will simply exist and require no maintenance which is very desirable from an app point of view. Also a big positive is that you don't have to worry about the company running your messenger going out of business and then you lose the ability to use your app.
i can predict it with near 100% accuracy anywhere in the world. just show me where all the artists and musicians in your city hangout and pay less than 900/mo on rent.
I just walk over to my fridge and write it down with the dry-erase marker stuck to it. No issues with voice recognition misunderstanding, and it's trivial to do something more complicated like add to a specific list.
Located nearby, on a much smaller scale, there's a similar juxtaposition of interesting contemporary architecture and older Japanese art - the Hokusai Sumida museum.
For anybody who likes Hokusai's wood-block prints, the one-room permanent exhibition has excellent multimedia content.
I don't know why would anyone downvote honest question. Damn you hn!
What if I try to sell you on the notion that getting high quality is extremely unlikely by definition, otherwise it would be called average quality?
knock knock "government telling you you're in trouble and need to take down your content.. wait whose building is this?"
The US (and many other governments) claim jurisdiction over crimes committed against their citizens as well as crimes committed by their citizens no matter the physical location.

If you think a country protection its own citizens is "abuse," well, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
I genuinely don't understand how it can be a 24+ hour operation just to take out a drone.

Don't jets regularly get scrambled in response to less disruptive intrusions? Doesn't the battery die at some point? Can't they follow it to where it lands and take it out of commission? Couldn't someone have woven a giant net by now?
I get what others are saying on this thread regarding the feed/content aspect of FB, and agree a personal website isn't a substitute for those FB features.

BUT - if you just happened to have gotten married like I did, and are on the path toward kids in the semi-near future, a personal website isn't a bad idea.

I was just starting to reconsider my no-FB account ever policy because of the need to easily share family pictures/news, etc. Then I read this and thought - NO! - I will not get sucked into finally having a FB account; a personal website is a viable option.
Worse: “SCS doesn't address replay of old cookie values.”
Well done. You've solved the security challenge of our generation.

And all it took was meaningless buzzwords which almost all enterprise companies at least do already. It doesn't make one iota of difference when your vendor equipment or services are compromised.
Endless loading... I think there's a bug
Of course I'm not. That's why I used the precise phrase I used. Key words: "historical" and "perspective".
Something can be possible, while still technically not feasible.

I agree our knowledge currently is lacking, but see no reasons why this will never catch up.

There are fundamental limits on cognition. For one our universe is limited by the amount of computing energy available. Plenty of problems can be fully solved, to where it does not matter if you are increasingly more intelligent (beyond a certain point, two AGI's will always draw at chess). Another limit is practical: the AGI needs to communicate with humans (if we manage to keep control of it), so it may need to dumb down so we can understand it.

Even an AGI as smart as the smartest human will greatly outrun us: it can duplicate and focus on many things in parallel. Then the improved bandwith between AGI's will do the rest (humans are stuck with letters and formulas and coffee breaks).

Manually deployed atom bombs and malware can already wreck us. No difference with autonomous (cyber)weapons.
So far, up to 3 days of interruption, 650/720 flights cancelled.

Even assuming smaller planes with ~200 passengers, a modest cost per day of $300 (nonrefundable hotel bookings, accom for stuck passengers, taxi fees, etc):

200×650×900 = 117,000,000

And I think this is an underestimate, because those passengers still have to fly eventually, possibly on other carriers. By the time it's done, could be $500M.

I wonder if they have been asked to pay a ransom?
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So then the police should do their jobs?
I'm surprised Oracle has kept virtual box going this long, but with the licensing and aggressive behavior they seem to be doing their best to kill it.
I get that too
Is it possible to use metadata to understand these networks without actually decrypting anything?

If you can track down a bunch of these groups through public / advertised urls you can probably figure out a whole bunch of them based on the participants in each group. I bet it forms a beautiful graph.

There might be some other user patterns you can identify which point to suspicious groups / patterns as well

How else could you solve this? Create hashes of known illegal images and check them locally?
Aren't patents all about disclosure? They were meant to prevent secrecy in return for a limited monopoly.
Yet the decision was made by men; doesn't seem very inclusive does it?

Maybe Debian should remove itself.
Does the postal service have a problem if people uses their service to share illegal pictures? I think they are just a victim of abuse of their service.
Google for "Telegram Security" or "Telegram Moxie" to see why Telegram / mtproto might not be the best choice. This is repeatedly the topic on Hacker News as well.
This is super impressive. Do you have a write up on the datasets used and the process you went through?
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Maybe "naive belief"? Almost rhymes, too, so easy to say/remember.
Yeah the world is really a worse off place because they took a bunch of DDoS sites down. What a bummer.