skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this was true, but I'm very doubtful it will. (I work on the Copyright Directive at the EFF).

The problem is that the supporters of Article 13 strongly feel that sharing or allowing to share any material without a license is a moral and legal failing. This is why an exception for small European services was so controversial (and the primary reason the negotiations dragged on for so long). To them, SME exceptions are the equivalent to saying that there should be an exception for punishment for robbery by people who don't profit too much from it. They've been saying that this is another conspiracy by tech companies, who will immediately set up thousands of small European businesses to continue their immoral piracy.

What that means is that the decentralised Web is going ot be immediately targeted. It will be framed as a lawless area, where the principles we "all agreed on" in the Directive -- to require licenses and auto-delete anything which might be copyrighted by somebody in the world -- are now being abused by those who create these tools to evade the law. The more successful as an alternative to US companies, the more this criticism will be expressed.

Remember also that the Directive has to be transposed into national law, and the exceptions will be heavily lobbied over in those jurisdictions. It's very unlikely that France, for instance, will build strong exceptions into its law.

I realise this sounds like a lot of predictions, but we faced a similar effect in the 2000s. Lawmakers were told that stopping commercial piracy (which was said to be funding terrorism) was the goal. But when the laws were proposed, the language they used was "commercial-scale" infringement, because the rightsholders didn't just want to stop people making and selling fake DVDs and CDs, but also Internet tools and services that could conceivably be used to make multiple copies. "Commercial-scale" just became a synonym for "a service on the open Internet".
In fact, they already did: The ACTA protests.
As I recall, nobody could stop talking about it in the weeks before the Falcon Heavy demo.
Keeping up with the Jones's was one thing in the 1950's when the smug guy across the street had 5 years more seniority then you and was making a full dollar an hour more.

It's another when the next guy up on the corporate ladder got a $5m bonus to your $500k one.
Gmail is a bad example. It's way too limited, very low-density in default settings, and generally slow. Thunderbird would be better, but it's far from the peak of what's possible. If you redesigned Thunderbird around the principles of terminal or Emacs-based mail apps - in particular the keyboard-first focus and high performance, with Thunderbird's rich content rendering, then it would be much closer to e-mail perfection.

3D software suites like 3DS Max or Blender are perfect examples of software that's a tool, not a toy. The learning curve is roughly proportional to the breadth and complexity of the problem domain, so training is required, but the software itself doesn't waste your time and patience with slow and low-density UIs.
Except that Hulu paid Billy Mcfarland, whereas NetFlix didn't. I see Netflix as the more responsible party in terms of compensating bad actors in this case. With that said, I have a strong disdain for FuckJerry and their founder Elliot Tebele.
Way to end the graph in July 2018...extend the graph out to the edge and you see the wages start to rise again. And as long as unemployment stays low, we should expect wages to continue to rise.
Maybe transfer of ownership should be a mandatory major version bump with no option to release to lower major versions anymore.
>Those images are infuriating!

And, does the pole count?

The whole thing is way more stressful than it needs to be for what it is.
That’s not the point. It’s about whether the film maker sets out to be balanced or to act as an auteur.
As a Midwesterner, I can verify that in the more populated areas it's possible to get them. Live lobsters are a bit on the expensive side, but not prohibitively so.
TL;DR: a campaign made its campaign documents (draft tweets)writeable to a large group of people, someone social engineered into the group and edited the documents
Then tor and i2p.
>> modern marketing 101

No, it's false advertising and misleading business practices, if not plainly illegal. The regulations just haven't caught up to this because politicians are terrible at understanding how this works and the public doesnt care.
The dataset is compiled from flickr portraits, and the model was trained to generate sampels from that distribution, so there will definitely be bias towards the sort of people whose portraits end up on flickr. Per the paper:

>The images were crawled from Flickr (thus inheriting all the biases of that website) and automatically
aligned and cropped. Only images under permissive licenses were collected. Various automatic filters were used
to prune the set, and finally Mechanical Turk allowed us
to remove the occasional statues, paintings, or photos of
photos.

It's still much more diverse than previous datasets (which used U.S. celebrity photos), but would require some additional work to match the actual world population distribution.
1. You would call them. A SMS would not go through.

2. I'm pretty sure they do that for actual callers: However, there are times they call a wife or sibling or child for a patient and they can't verify. Besides, these places DO leave voice mails asking folks to call back. This isn't much different.

Also, this last one could be resolved, but it would take some sort of stronger national digital ID. I have a secure digital mailbox for government stuff. Doctors and hospitals have a different system, but I use the same authentication for both (and payments, actually). This is a greater hurdle than dealing with robocalls, though.
It's hard to watch videos over email, too...
Google cloud boss Kurian warns: You will see us competing much more aggressively
That can't be that expensive unless you want it to be storm proofed. But it wouldn't be super cheap either, the receiver is probably going to be a bigger problem.

http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/dish-antenna-building.htm

Would be a good starting point. But keeping it stable under wind load is going to be the major challenge. That would be one heck of a project, it would likely take a few years of your time to pull it off.
I really didn't see it becoming a crime to read something...
There's a data center somewhere around Atlanta, but to my knowledge it's purely wall-to-wall racks and the IT guys who babysit them. There may be a handful of GCP salespeople with a water cooler and coffee maker somewhere, I'm not sure.

But the midtown office where developers worked (and user group meetups were hosted) has been closed for several years now. To my knowledge, that was the end of developers or data scientists based out of Atlanta (except for remote workers, perhaps).
> On the other hand, blue-collars do non-creative jobs, they usually do not make decisions and do not solve problems; if they follow the instructions, they do their work very well.

This is a fairly elitist sort of attitude that belays the likely fact that the author doesn't actually know any builders. If they did, they'd know that rarely do engineering plans line up 100% with reality, and plenty of decision-making and creativity is needed on behalf of the skilled worker as they best try to execute the plans of the engineers.
Its not just the bandwidth spent its the extra complexity of the code base. Every framework you add is an extra thing that devs have to know and in the future there will be less and less people who know jquery.
I wasn't just commenting on the physical durability of the rovers themselves although that is a huge part of it. It is also impressive from both a political and an organizational standpoint to keep a program like this running successfully for so much longer than initial plans dictated.
Python rides high, but Groovy is cool again
Seriously, what is the point of space exploration anyway? and what if we found water on Mars? shouldn't it be a huge amount of water to support life?
One of their slides (https://speakerdeck.com/eranyanay/going-infinite-handling-1m...) lists the use cases for such functionality and they are pretty broad (message queues, chat apps, notifications, social feeds, collaborative editing, location updates).

When you consider the price of the hardware and complexity of the system, it's obviously useful not just for handling 1M connections per host but also 10k connections per host.

If some other technology / framework can only do 1k connection per host, then you can per 10x less for hardware and have room to spare. And the system will simpler which means faster to develop.
Maybe he used a personal brokerage account not tied to the Apple shares he recv'd from being an employee.

That brokage being TD Ameritrade.

Anyone here work at Apple? What brokerage does the company use to deposit your RSUs?
So what if tax revenue has been flat as a percent of GDP? That says nothing as to how the burden of that tax is allocated.
Again I still don't see how not wanting Google to track you should qualify as a disability under the ADA.
I do something similar. My default ring tone and message tone is "silent". I then set ring/message tones for some people in my contacts.

I've heard that some smart phones don't let people use my method any more. i.e. you can not set default tones to silent.
Looks like someone else has already used another neural net to find our president in the latent space. https://github.com/Puzer/stylegan
Amazon’s SEC filings claim much larger taxes than this blog post. I’ll trust the SEC filing over this article.

Here’s one if you care to look.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417...
Show HN: Beginner Tutorial for React Web Application Builder
Yep, and also support services. A service that made it easy for you to host Mastodon (and lasted longer than 3 years); or a Mastodon instance that had a Patreon attached.

We'll fight like hell to make sure these get excluded, but given the battle over excluding SMEs, it would be a tough fight. And the chilling effect would be considerable — you can expect to get automatic legal letters from rightsholders claiming that you were already liable unless you paid them licenses, and the sort of takedown blackmailing you see happen on YouTube. Even if you're legally in the right, it takes a lot for a volunteer operator to stand up to that kind of intimidation.
This makes it a real deal. This puts the politicians one one side or the other. Are they yay or nay? This will guide people’s decision when it’s time for voting. Especially those who work with Yemeni population. This has an intangible effect even if it doesn’t pass the senate.

Edit: My comment about Yemeni population means that it allows those people to see a outcome and notice it “first” hand the consequences of our voting decisions without actually participating in war. Hope that clears it.
That would be great. Each game usually features its own weird UI, with unique shortcuts, half-broken controls and plenty of design experiments - and yet users don't have any problem with learning all of this. A lesson for the UX people that users aren't as dumb as it's often said.
That's not a consumer product, that's their core business. Also you need to spend over 1M/month to get any real support.
Veering off topic... I haven't found WebRTC to be that crippled by browser vendors. The fact that Apple didn't just give it the middle finger actually surprised me. I use it successfully for some things and lament that some users fall back to TURN (blame the ISPs), but w/ the webrtc adapter it works well. I too was experimenting w/ distributed signaling of late w/ IPFS [0]. That is quite crippled as well.

I'm not too concerned w/ end users' troubles with the law in a P2P sense. Even though the laws are ridiculous, it would be another level of ridiculousness to apply them to peers in such a system, akin to making Tor exit nodes and relays responsible for following this or the GDPR.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/webrtc-ipfs-signaling
The article totally misses that he's important to epidemiologists because it's the earliest good description of a plague. He spends several pages on the Plague of Athens in 430BCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
As someone who is not very knowledgeable about the field, I find reverse engineering fascinating. One thing I've been curious about is the economics of the security industry and the role reverse engineering plays in it.

To my novice eyes it seems that reverse engineering is more of an academic exercise and I don't see any direct ways to commercialize that skillset. How do you make a living doing this? Are you essentially paid a stipend to conduct fundamental research (finding zero days) that is inherently risky (no exploits = no return on investment)?
"As homelessness rises across Europe, Finland’s numbers are falling."

But at what cost? I'd like to quote a budget but the article doesn't tell us.

"While it’s expensive to build, buy and rent housing for homeless people, as well as provide the vital support services, the architects of the policy say it pays for itself. Studies have found housing one long-term homeless person saves society around €15,000 ($17,000) a year, said Kaakinen, due to a reduction in their use of services such as hospital emergency rooms, police and the criminal justice system."

Market-rate rent is at least 600 eur per month in Helsinki, or 7200 eur per year (well depending on the unit's size). Adding this to the 15k saved means that each homeless person is causing 22k euros worth of costs every year. Multiplying by 7k homeless brings their cost to 154 million euros per year. And this figure doesn't even cover those who get their apartment from these programs, thus making them not homeless.
Caviar only become particularly scarce after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and an explosion in poaching drove sturgeon to extinction.

There was plenty of poaching during the communist times, but not enough to utterly destroy the country's fish stocks.
Wow thanks for this, I added myself to the waiting list.

If you use my referral URL I get a bump in the queue:

https://hcaptcha.com/?r=29d830be7540
Medical Device Cybersecurity Startup Landscape
Three things. First, GAE has drastically, massively improved as a product since it was first introduced in 2008(!). But a lot of people don't know that, and the original reputation remains.

Second, App Engine was the original Google Cloud product, it came out years before Compute Engine and never took off like they expected but for awhile it was all they had to offer.

Thirdly, in 2011 Google changed the billing model. Datastore requests were no longer free and CPU billing was switched from CPU time to wall time [1]. The old billing model did not account for how some developers were actually using GAE and it was not sustainable, so Google had to make a correction and some apps saw a massive cost increase. This further tarnished the GAE reputation.

[1] https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/The-Unofficial-Goog...
If it accounts to investment income, then the easy solution is tot borrow against your equity. Better to pay 2% interest a year than to pay 70% on realising a gain.
koa-router was owned by @alexmingoia and not by @koajs. Still it is a central piece of the koa framework that compromises practically every koa setup. The only alternative I have found is this:

https://github.com/koajs/trie-router

The transition from express to koa has been slow, and this doesn't help. It will undermine the confidence on the koa framework.
Or perhaps they make a documentary about something more important/interesting rather than rehashing this one story.
I haven't seen any mention of keystroke (or mouse) biometrics (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics) When the checkbox appeared I assumed that was what it was.

Keep a history of the biometrics of the devices either on the account or in a cookie. Use a sufficiently secure and obfuscated language to capture and upload the data (maybe using steganography in an image, explaining the weird image uploads.) Prompt when the biometrics don't match a known user of the device/account (according to ml). Or if the tracking data didn't exist (incognito) then prompt using a backup model trained in the difference between the biometrics of known bots and known humans. Keep a very loose threshold here.

That's how I'd do it if I were Google (and no one else because only Google can afford that.) All the browser fingerprinting stuff mentioned is great but doesn't really work as much as you'd hope in practice.
I think he means effective marginal rate. 70% is nice and all, but when you are able to deduct 40% of that, is it really higher than 30%?
"what's the indication that they knew that McFarland was acting fraudulently?"

It's in the documentary-
According to the Hulu documentary, FuckJerry was aware of the problems in the festival’s production, but proceeded full steam ahead anyway.

"How does their role make them significantly more complicit in the fraud than the photographer, who got paid for the viral glamorous Fyre ad he shot, and who ended up as a producer for Hulu's doc?"

Why do you think the photographer knew anything before arriving at the festival? The ad was probably shot very early.
I'm so sorry, but that's seriously the ultimate tease. Every phone call is a "MAYBE ITS MY NEW KIDNEY?!" and instead you're greated with "Your cars EXTENDED WARRANTY is about to expire, please press 1 now to speak to a representative about your cars EXTENDED WARRANTY"
For project Euler specifically:

- look at the size of the inputs, it usually tells me what type of complexity my solution should have: if n is around 1000 I’ll be looking at O(n2) algorithms, if n is around 1000000 then it’s O(n) or O(nlog n), if n is 10*12 you need O(log n) or O(sqrt n). Knowing the complexity class gives you some idea of which algorithms to try or to discard. (And if you can get away with letting your naive solution run for a few hours to get the answer)

- figure out an inefficient solution that works for small inputs, then run it for a range of inputs and try to pick up a pattern (this is usually a last-ditch effort though).

- leave the problem alone for a while if I’m stuck on it for too long. This is usually a sign that I’ve taken the wrong approach; looking at the problem with fresh eyes will sometimes reveal a new way to attack it.

- read the PE forums for solved problems. These are a goldmine for mathematical analyses, code snippets, etc. Not to mention that some hard problems are related to earlier, easier problems and trawling the easier problems’ forums can land you the solution to the harder ones.

- try to frame the problem in a different way. Some PE problems are well-known math or CS problems in new clothes. For me this involves a lot of formula writing: I frame the problem in a mathematical manner and try to rearrange the terms into another formulation of the problem. Also lots of googling and reading Wikipedia articles about mathematical branches and theorems. Even if it doesn’t help for the problem at hand, it might help on a problem further down the line.
In this case the press itself is the special interest group. Publishers are trying to protect their content by dropping A-bomb on a pest.
The difference is that it's an American movie with an American bad guy. Take a look at the Chinese movie poster for "The Force Awakens", they minimized the presence of the black character because they knew he wouldn't be popular with Chinese audiences.

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/star-wars-chi...
Agreed - there are tons of work that is creative. Heck, I think the best workers of any kind are the ones that take pride in their work and try to do it effectively - which even for jobs like cooking food or janitorial work consist of plenty of creativity, decision making, and problem solving.

I think it's better to say there are lots of jobs that don't appeal to the workers doing them.
The bot-vs-human is distinguished by profiling mouse and keystroke patterns.

The image classifications that you do, however, are used to train the computer vision system.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy talks a lot about the "can't make dirt fast" problem, and I was surprised and impressed at how fascinating such a mundane-appearing problem could be. I had never thought about it before.

Note: I think you mean humus. Hummus is "a Levantine dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas... blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic."
You could tax corporate dividends, stock buybacks, stock splits, reverse stock splits, mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs.

Major corporations won't de-list from the NYSE/NASDAQ for tax savings.
I watched that show "7 Days Out" specifically for the Cassini mission. It did not disappoint. There were feelings involved.
Putting aside any discussion of Pai's motivations and political considerations, is there a reason that carriers wouldn't want to eliminate these robocalls? Are the spoofers paying the carriers? It seems like any carrier that figured out how to effectively eliminate (or even reduce) them would have a massive competitive advantage until the others caught up, right?
Are you familiar with [1] and [2]?

1. https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/

2. https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/manage-iids
Could you not do that on PyPi and rubygems as well?
Sure - apply, and just say that in the application
does the mass of the exhaust fuels count as well? whats the percentage of thrust being lost in a gas generator?
Isn't that basically 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'?
You start with the von Neumann existence proof and work your way backwards to a universal constructor that spits out sudoku-solving machines.
Building Applications from Scratch with Azure and Cognitive Services
More info on SHAKEN/STIR:

https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken...

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/how-to-stop-spam-robo...
Yeah, my wife studied animal science in undergrad and is now getting a graduate degree in animal behavior and welfare. Oddly enough she wasn't vegetarian but talking to her made me go real vegetarian real fast (and I'm almost vegan, I'm currently phasing out cheese and I've cream). My guess is that whenever we get lab grown meat and we don't "need" animal agriculture anymore people will start to realize how bad the current practices can be.
And Amazon pays billions in property tax, SS taxes, and all sorts of other taxes, and generates billions more in income for workers.

Their “share” is what the law says.

I doubt many posters here pay more than required by law, and take tax breaks when applicable, from mortgage deductions, healthcare deductions, schooling deductions, etc.
I know exactly where this one is headed..
How would you recognize this and reach that conclusion if you were a different species, with different technology?
That really depends on the state/region. You can see in this [1] report that states like Florida and Georgia are burning millions of acres a year in prescribed burns, while California burns a few ten thousand.

[1] http://www.stateforesters.org/sites/default/files/publicatio...