skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but in the US there's a concept of punitive triple damages for products sold after the defendant had knowledge of the infringement. If the plaintiff can prove (through subpoenaed communications, whistleblower, etc.) that the defendant knew before their product launched then the judgement is tripled, otherwise the penalties increase for products sold after the first cease and decist letter or when the defendant is notified of the lawsuit.
Great point, I wasn't thinking about that. Thanks!
> Google isn't getting a freepass, but they are sending their CEO up to testify, and he is apparently doing so truthfully.

We are discussing data privacy though, not algorithmic bias.
Their logo is an obvious (and admitted) ripoff of Barbara Kruger's work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger#Supreme_lawsuit
I agree with your skepticism about voice becoming generally dominant, but it’s already very useful. It may also become the dominant form of usage for some systems.
expected, expected, expected. nvidia doesn't care about the jetson line and they keep overpromising and underdelivering.
Still, are you going to place a majority of the blame on the victim or the burglar? It would seem that a majority of the blame lies with China if the allegations are true (I suspect they are)
You can train classic machine learning models like classification and regression as well as decision trees and more, or you can use pre-trained deep neural networks (Tensorflow, ONNX)
I am surprised you did not try to upsell Enterprise version
You should pitch the idea to him, I think he'd probably respond favorably considering how important the biochemistry topic is.
on that note: here's an example of a very costly example of this exact mistake, Apple's famous "GoTo Fail" for anyone that isn't aware of it:
https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
AMD ROCm 2.0 Officially Out with OpenCL 2.0 Support, TensorFlow 1.12, Etc.
Having used this framework you absolutely use it to train and create novel classification models. I used it to train financial transaction classification models, it works quite well.
The activity that they saw, I suspect, was the arrest of Meng Wanzhou. The C-suite wants to be absolutely sure it could never happen to them. The cheapest solution is to mine their extensive data on customers to exclude any hint of a possibly-infringing connection. Any more nuanced response that involves humans making judgements about individual cases would be orders of magnitudes more expensive.
Relevant: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/h71t46/drunk-history-jack-pars...
I hate this argument.

A) It depends on if you enable it.
B) Just because you're willing to accept something in one domain doesn't mean you are universally OK with it being applied everywhere.
C) I trust Apple much more than I trust Amazon.
You make good points about the opportunity costs of fund allocation. However, large bureaucracies are often so inefficient and ineffectual, that well allocated funds can still result in no useful outcome. That makes the positive outcome here more impressive.
A tax break isn’t handing money to anyone— it’s not taking it in the first place. There is a difference.
May I suggest the excellent “Jitterbug Perfume” by the incomparable Tom Robbins? It’s an all-time favorite.
> This year we celebrated 30 years of Morris worm.

Wow. That was one hell of a night. Melted down our university computer labs, packed with desperate undergrads trying to complete and turn in their projects before midnight deadline...
FCC Fines Swarm Technologies $900K for Launching Illegal Satellites into Orbit
> iOS app porting inherently creates bad Mac apps

Reassess in a couple of years when app porters have matured with the technology. Gestures and pinch and zoom won't work with a mouse but the key point is interfaces designed for a form factor.

UWP on Windows mightn't be a great success but there's no reason a universal toolkit can't serve both. c.f. Qt - a first class citizen on mobile (Sailfish) and on desktop (KDE), while Plasma Active has real potential on postmarketOS.

On Android, where I am typing this message, a good number of apps designed for tablet work surprisingly well on a desktop (Outlook, Apple Flinger, Hot Death, Taskbar, iview, SBS on Demand, Supertuxkart to name a few). A bit more polish for mouse in the form of tooltips, contextual menus, scroll wheels and menu bars and it'd be a nice interface.
Thankfully, Friend Computer just promoted me to Red Clearance so I'm allowed to have those shoes.
This isnt about stopping traffic to /from Iran, it's about banning people who ever logged in from there even once.
I totally understand why they'd have to err towards caution on the initial appearance, but the drones aren't teleporting away when they vanish. The combined power of the authorities can't follow a drone for 30 minutes and capture it? Something just seems off.
There is alternative, use Hipchat.
Twitter Locks WikiLeaks and Multiple WikiLeaks Staff Accounts
This is what the whole digital government movement is trying to change. Public sector organization's in the UK (GDS), Canada (CDS, ODS etc), Singapore (GovTech Singapore), even 18F in the US, are all trying (and relatively succeeding even if incrementally) to change the public sector's ability to put out quality technology services.
Are there any practical Pytorch examples? Say my network training time is 12 hours, I wonder how beneficial this would be for hyperparameter tuning over just simple grid/random search? Or would I instrument my network in a way to iterate over hyperparams faster than at every epoch/run?
Basic voice dialing has been a thing for at least 15 years. Its progressively gotten better, and alexa et al. are no leap forward. The old sytems, while perhaps flawed, at least did not send recordings of you anywhere.
Between June 2017 and July 2018, 5 of my colleagues got RFE for extension. They all got approved. The denial stories I heard were all for people who had more than one employer under them (some people end up in situations like this where they have one employer who sub contracts them to another company who in turn has contract with the end customer). I heard 2 stories where these people went to stamping in India and were asked to wait until the consulate confirms that they are actually employed (one was asked to give end customer manager's contact details, another was asked to sent a photo of their office). I am not sure what happened to them.
I would think they could at least tail it until the battery dies? Maybe they've already done so and know more than they're letting on, but publicly this response seems terribly managed.
legit personal reference - if you don't know who Jeremy is already. ;)
The job posts for react are five times those of javascript :thinking:
Robespierre shares much with Oliver Cromwell.
Again you are saying the "inner functions should only be allocated once", there is no rule or book in CS that states that as the absolute truth. It is however a concept that would be taught in a typical OO programming class.

Idk where exactly you were taught this, or if you did not read my whole speil about that being memory/cpu tradeoff.

i know i put up a wall of text, but if u have time to read one article on JS from all of this it is this article - https://medium.com/javascript-scene/common-misconceptions-ab...
How much RAM did you allocate to the guest? From my experience the defaults are inadequate for desktop virtualisation. You need to allocate ~4GB of RAM and a couple of cores to get a smooth desktop.

I’ve had Fedora and Ubuntu guests running on a 2015 Mac Mini with no issues.
I assume you wanted to know about the RFE. Please see me other comments on what type of questions where in the RFE and what happened to other colleagues who got RFE. As for time line, my h1b was in premium. Got RFE within 10 days. They gave about 3 months to respond. My employer for some reason (seems to be the standard practice with my employer) waited till the last moment and filed it 5 days before the last date. Got it approved within 2 days of it reaching USCIS. This was in August 2018. Even though they asked why do I need 3 year extension, they still gave me 3 years, which is surprising and sad at the same time because I had already made up my mind to return and it made it even harder to leave.

Please feel free to ask me anything else though I am not sure I can answer. I don't really know the internals of the visa process. Everything is handled by the immigration team of my employer and their attorney, and we rarely have any idea or control over what's going on. I got to to see the RFE only because the delivery head of my unit escalated my case.
"Hey [huge corporation here]" is not a great user experience for a device meant to be at home.
I watched a documentary on Scientology ages ago about how they were suing the crap out of people for DDoSing their site. The problem was these people were basically just kids, most were ~14 years old, who saw something on 4chan and followed instructions. I believe this was ~2001 [correction: 2008]. One of their lawyers was going with the defence that DDoS was equivalent to a sit-in protest, not unlike those used during the segregation protests in the US in the 1960s, specifically of diners who refused black customers. Sending 200 people into a diner and refusing to move is basically IRL denial of service. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact name of the documentary but this wiki page covers the events https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology. I always wondered how successful that defence was, I havent been able to find a follow-up.
I never got Siri to work that well. I found it's had problems calling and some of it's standard features. It's still on my iPhone, there's no way to remove, but I've found Google Assistant to work better. Plus, the Google Home integration is nice.
100% accurate. When I was interviewing on the west coast, I tried to coordinate between two companies where one would pick up the hotel and the other the flights, mostly so I didn't have to cross the continent twice. That was a surprisingly difficult thing to pull off. Each of them seemed to prefer to pay for it all and have me criss-cross once per company...
Will Parallels still work well if Apple switches to ARM-based cores in many of their machines?
There are plenty of non-blockchain approaches to persistence as well which also fall under either the "distributed" or "p2p" labels.

The part I'm having a hard time with is that blockchain's specific strength relative to other distributed approaches is the ledger. That's not really the crux of the decentralized messaging problem.

Unless you need the immutable ledger, other approaches solve identity, privacy, and persistence aspects of messaging just as well or better without the overhead that blockchain approaches introduce.
Then how is this "historical perspective" relevant to the current discussion?
> A root-and-branch cull of the conditions which made Trump possible will prevent the next Trump.

The conditions which made Trump possible were the American people believing the roots and branches of American democracy were already rotten to the core. There's no "root and branch cull" to prevent the people wanting to vote in Nero just to watch Rome burn.
The information is owned by AT&T. They can be forced to hand it over to government warrant/subpoena. Or, they can choose to freely offer it (more likely sell it) to the government.

We can pass laws (and have such as with medical records) that even though the information is owned by <company> they can not use it/reveal it/etc because it is violation of privacy.

But we haven't done that.

Also, one thing many people don't remember is that the constitution/bill or rights restricts the government. It does not restrict private enterprises. Corporations are not required to protect your free speech, right to not be unlawfully searched, or any other right granted by the constitution.
This was commissioned for an emperor and contains parts of the Liturgy of the Hours: prayers that Catholic religious do throughout the day. But it's not uncommon for lay people to partake in those, either doing the full version or some abridged version.

It's not impossible to imagine the emperor wanting his fancy version of this (whether to earnestly pray along or just to appear pious, we can't know).
Not just windows 10, it's apparently been around since 2005:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899395
Does anyone know what the origin of the plastic is? Specifically what percentage of it is from a) what countries and b) what sort of products?
This is strange. I was curious about the meaning of “pretending to be armless John” so I googled it.

There is only result for the use of that phrase:

Your post.

So what's your fun example situation for us of someone “pretending to be armless John”?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cpretending+to+be+ar...
>Supreme is a common noun, and uses one of the most common typefaces, Helvetica, on a solid red background.

It's an italic version of (or very similar to) "Futura bold oblique" and it was used in white on a red background by the artist Barbara Kruger as (massive irony here) a critique of consumerism. Supreme then took that influence to create their logo.
Though I substantially agree with you, PCI-DSS requires anti-virus for in-scope servers. (They used to only require that it "be installed", which meant it was dutifully installed and not enabled in a lot of cases. Later, they updated that to require that it be configured to at least periodically scan.)
Trade dress was the basis for (one of the?) Apple/Samsung disputes, with Apple making the argument that the distinctive shape of the early iPhone should not be copied: https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-trademarking-tr...
I am not familiar with the state of rsync apps on Android and iOS. But for irc, yes it would easily replace slack.
Evernote down
EVERNOTE down for a couple minutes. Evernote service was down for aproximatley 5 minutes at 19:40 East time.
Empire was created in the late 1970's.

The details of the case are long settled, so I prefer not to rake the coals.
It seems strange to impose an injunction, but make Qualcomm pay bond for potential damages if this gets overturned. They're recognizing the potential for this be overturned, and that it's damaging to Apple. Why not reserve the injunction while the appeal makes its way through the system?

If Qualcomm continues to prevail, revenue Apple generated during the continued infringement would simply be factored into the final damages awarded to Qualcomm.

The other way seems unnecessarily complicated, but I'd love to hear the counter argument.
Show HN: A Naive Approach to VPN and Proxy Detection with PHP and JavaScript
The Ocean Cleanup Project is essentially a scam at this point. It can't work for numerous ecological (scoops up ocean life) and engineering (the ocean is HUGE, corrosive, and violent) reasons. Not to mention that ocean microplastics are distributed throughout the first 100 meters of ocean water, and this goes nowhere near that deep. Of course, they dismiss these concerns or deflect with scientific BS (which the media gobbles up) whenever they are brought up.

They can't get this to work on such a minuscule scale in placid water off the coast of the Netherlands, it won't work in the North Pacific on a far grander scale.
That's fair. I recognise that it's quite hypocritical of me, but I don't really have a choice in the matter. :-( I've argued enough against the practice to reduce the problem from something that would take on average an hour to something that only takes 5-10 minutes at most, something that is taught and used extensively at universities around here. Thinking about it, no one has failed it at all.

For me, I do kind of need to rush. I'm transgender and not really in a safe environment to come out, and the time is fast approaching where it's near impossible to hide. Whereas overseas, where I do not know anybody, I can be myself. That is also why I also want to move to San Francisco in particular, it is very open and friendly.
Two points:
1. This was a specific example to an assertion I made that another poster had a hard time believing.

2. It's true that when we talk about life and death situations there are many ugly outcomes. It is, however, not clear that the ugly is the most common outcome when a law-abiding gun owner is involved. This is due to the fact that records are more than likely made when someone is shot, but not necessarily if one deters an assailant with a weapon.
This should help:

https://www.copyright.gov/registration/

A registered copyright gives you additional legal protections, as well as solid proof of ownership.
This is great news. Even as an Engineer, Sales is Hard.
That’s a really good point.
I'm guessing you're from microsoft. The message that you seem to be getting here is that when people first see ML.NET they think Tensorflow, including being able to train it. They take a look around your examples looking for training examples and don't find them, and are then annoyed that this was not stated up front.

It does not lower the value of ML.NET to clearly state that it does not allow building and training tensorflow models, it actually prevents annoyance at having to dig around and figure it out from lack of examples. It should be stated in the readme.md before the installation section.

I'll add that there is very little point in coming onto HN and looking for the community's feedback if you're going to ignore it.
How can the antivirus patch a signed .net dll? I'm assuming they didn't use snk's.
Cool! Anywhere I could look for details about your game?

Edit: Never mind, I took a look at your username and googled it with "empire". (google even did an auto complete to it!) for other's, here it is, looks great! http://www.classicempire.com/
I'm fairly sure if you have the app on your phone you can download the map data and use it offline unless it changed (It's been a while since I've done it).
I hope they can figure it out, but it seems like they may have missed something significant in their simulations. If the water basically pools and becomes stagnant within the boundary of the catcher, then it makes sense that currents will route around the boundary and therefore carry plastic around it also. The long skirt seems like part of the problem, as it's trapping all the water in that area, but my knowledge of fluid ocean dynamics is nonexistant so perhaps I'm wrong. The idea of a passive system is nice, but it seems like the problem would be easier if they had some form of propulsion with a renewable energy source to drive it forward.
Pixelmator still great, as is OmniGraffle (a better Visio) for vector diagrams and my vector-image pirposes.

https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

https://www.omnigroup.com/
I installed WinZip on my PC a few years ago because it's the only archiver i'd found that let you view image thumbnails without extracting the whole ZIP, pretty cool feature.
This is absolutely the case for many (though not all).

Now notice that the current US President has been severely sleep deprived every day for decades.
You can register copyrights in the US: https://www.copyright.gov/registration/

It’s not required in order to have a copyright, but it can make it easier to prove a claim.
This isn't miscellaneous characters added for visual effect, it's the title of the work written in two languages. (The katakana isn't stylistic, by the way - it's standard Japanese, apart from how it's positioned.)
I worked in webhosting forever and I've never heard of a company until this post actively digging through a users access to services to block them. What we'd do is use products like Maxmind where if you tried to sign up and pay from Iran, etc, you'd be automatically denied. I've never, ever heard of audits to SSH logs to track this stuff down. We'd audit ssh logs if there was a server that was hacked, etc, usually to see if they hacked other servers so we could take them all down at once or find out (they'd often have irc running) what groups they were in to get more info on how they did it, etc.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I've opened up Slack while in Cuba to check on work things at my American company who does no business there. I don't have anything to do with our Slack bill and I'm a US citizen. So if someone goes to see their family in Iran/etc and just happens to open Slack they'll get banned? That's hamfisted as all hell.
RIP VET Anti-Virus :( CA Anti-Virus was so bad.
In the US, you can officially register your copyright by filling out a form, paying a small fee, and supplying a copy for archiving in the Library of Congress. It makes defense of your copyright much easier.
Generally, poorer countries tend to be bigger sources due to worse sanitation. A huge proportion is from stryofoam or other plastics on fishing nets or buoys. Plastic bags are the single biggest source on land. Plastic bag bans are really important.
http://classicempire.com/
I'd always thought of butter as being mostly odourless, until at some point aged 30+ I accidentally bought some that actually smelled of something - and, who knew! It was a huge surprise.

I have ever since always sought this out - unpasteurised salted French PDO stuff seems to be the thing to go for - but while I now know that it is possible to get butter that smells of something, and I now know I like it, I'm still not sure I'd class butter in general as something that smells of anything in particular.

This line of thought did remind me of this article I read a few years ago, though: https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/05/eating-cheese-in-ch...

"Another said that the selection “smells like Russians”. “The difference,” he added, “is that the stinky things Chinese people eat give them smelly breath, while stinky dairy things affect the sweat that comes out of your skin.”"

(It's possible this is some genetic thing. I worked with a guy recently who would refuse to eat cucumber, on account of its strong taste and aroma, that would taint anything with which it came into contact! - meanwhile, I always thought cucumber rather watery and tasteless. Maybe very slightly gently peppery, if you got a good one that was particularly strong-tasting... by cucumber standards, at any rate.)
I wish there was some ISO standard for packaging decomposability in water. Then folks could design to a specific grade and companies could get another “hey we’re green” cookie from consumers.

Grade 1 - 6 days in fresh water/8 days in salt water.

Grade 2 - 4 weeks in fresh water/7 weeks in salt water

Grade 3 - 3 months in fresh water/6 months in salt water

Grade 4 - 2 years in fresh water / 3 years in salt water

Flip those numbers around as appropriate.

Materials scientists, I’d be interested to know the barriers to some standard like this being designed. The ones I can think of are:

- What is the bacterial culture in the water? What ph?

- How powerful would the incentives be?

- How much more expensive would the packaging be to make? Would it result in notably greater spoilage?
‘DDoS for hire’ == Aaas == Assholes as a Service
Well, the obvious difficulty is in nailing the specific IP address, and thusly the location of the server hosting the content, due to the obfuscation that TOR provides.

It’s essentially the same reason you’re safe browsing it.

The issue, however, is that web sites always need to be hosted on a physical server somewhere, and all it takes is one social media account or email that gives away some aspect of your identity or location for them to find it - assuming you’re doing something illegal of course. There’s nothing inherently illegal with hosting TOR sites. :P

That doesn’t mean that shutdowns don’t happen, though. The FBI recently shut down a number of TOR sites with illegal content.
Tips to Understand Quotation Contents from Your Electronics Manufacturers
From jailbreaking to self-driving cars. What an interesting path in life. Goes to show that you really never know where you will end up, and everything you learn along the way will help.