skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, using a neural network trained from this wide-sample dataset harvested from the public Internet, one could easily automate that process. And the result would be significantly less reliable without a wide sample of lighting conditions, genders, ethnicities, etc.
How do you explain locks to someone who's never had their shit stolen?
Purely from a search quality and end user experience stand, I'd choose Google or Bing over ddg.
I have given ddg a shot for over a couple of months. But I found myself using other search engines more often than not for the lack be quality results.
I dont think they do, or it would be of minimal value that WhatsApp is encrypted, considering the realistic threat model surrounding What's app use involves corporate and government snooping...
Elon Musk is really not a genius or a great mind. Both his companies appear to need large amounts of government mandates & subsidies and constant injections of capital to stay afloat. Teslas are neat cars but their environmental benefits are questionable and far more expensive than other methods of carbon abatement. Landing rockets is cool but the jury is out on whether it's financially better than the disposable ones used by the rest of the industry.
Can Rawls' Theory of Justice Help Us Design Fairer MMOs?
To add insult to injury the big players with most trackers just refuse to show the cookie warnings at all. At least that's the situation Germany where most major news outlets are full of ads and trackers and handle all of it via opt-out(!) in the privacy policy. For a example see spiegel.de, the most widely read German-language news website.

It's mostly small and medium sized firms that show the cookie warning out of fear.
That's completely the opposite of what I want as a consumer as well as a small-time webmaster.

EDIT:
Just to be clear: spiegel.de never shows a cookie warning even if visit with a fresh browser. You can opt out by visiting their privacy page [1] (in English).

[1] http://m.spiegel.de/extra/what-we-do-with-your-data-a-121194...
I use webstorm and yeah this doesn’t contradict with having sublime text installed. When I want to read a large file sublime rocks, but for actual meta developing you need to spend time configuring it.

Gladly it’s not like you can’t have them both so there’s not an actual choice problem here. Just use whatever you want for the right job.
Netflix is one of my favorite examples of a search service that would be infinitely improved with a really low-tech change that will probably never get implemented because it doesn't give the data scientists something to talk about over beer: Filtering

So often, what I'm looking for is something like, "G rated content, not by Disney, less than 30 minutes long", or "Documentaries that I haven't watched yet, with an audio track in French, that are available for offline viewing". With a search space the size of Netflix's library. There's no need for a search string there. Nor is there a need for anything fancy like recommendation or expanding to items that are similar to direct hits on the search string, because, these days, a basic filter like that will only yield a page or two of results, anyway. And would be really easy to for them to implement, because they already have their library tagged with pretty much anything I could think to filter on, anyway, so they can use it as features for the fancy-schmancy recommendation engine.

More generally, I stopped having a need for a juiced up search engine and recommendation system in Netflix the exact moment I stopped owning a DVD player.
The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web Is Built
Other articles posted said there is a way to turn off the auto-correction, but it's not intuitive. On earlier 737s which had this, it came on when engaging automatic ascents/descents and was disabled when a pilot disabled those systems.

In the case of the Max8, it's always on and there is additional training needed to react quickly when this happens. I think all current pilots who are watching this situation should know what to do at this point, but the needed the awareness brought by the situation. In the two crashes so far, it seems like the pilots had years of commercial experience.
> If [the United States] believed in the institutions, why did the embassy prevent the contractors from facing a judge?

No single citizen in the United States respects any foreign government's judicial system. The entire nation state concept is a joke and an administrative nuance at BEST to anyone here.

The whole story is about how a random autonomous federal agency in the US was either about to cause a regime change, or help the current regime destroy documents in a fake Central Bank heist gone wrong, and people are worried whether we would waste time with an irrelevent judicial trial that we were going to undermine anyway?

haha, okay. well if it wasn't obvious before it should be obvious now from me writing it out. The US provides financial support to everyone to maintain relationships, it has nothing to do with respect for an institution.
I work for Google, opinions are my own.

I believe this is because previously antitrust law was used when things were bad for competition but nowadays the thinking is more that antitrust laws should be used when things cause higher prices.

https://qz.com/work/1460402/google-facebook-and-amazon-benef...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/lina-kh...
My concern with Brave is them being beholden to the direction of Chromium - I am wrong about that?

I used Brave for awhile then switched to Firefox+uBlock Origin, hoping to do my teensy part in decreasing the market share of Chromium-based browsers while still being privacy-focused.
There has been one death in the past decade of US commercial flights. One in a decade of over 90 million flights.
Some dudes from the US (and a Serb) flew to Haiti to do something, they were stopped and detained by police. "Our boss will call your boss" was said. Boss duly made the call. Dudes were released because of high ranking intervention.

Theoreis abound because there were a guns, several magazines (clips), and sat phones found but nobody is talking. All higher-ups/agencies involved are staying tight lipped. It seems like a professionally-run, clandestine op that was botched by a security guard that prob makes hourly pay.

The rest of the article goes on to highlight the suspicious aspects of the whole case, but the reason for it all is speculative. The most suspicious thing is how it went sour and how they were freed from orders from very high up - yet nobody can figure out what was going on.
Nothing stopping this from a tech standpoint.
It seems like the general opinion that Sublime Text outclasses vim when it comes to opening large files though
Eh? "Use a prediction service" is about whether you send data as you type _to your default search engine_, not to Google. If you change to DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, toggling "use a prediction service" on and off will not send any more or less data to Google, because omnibox typing is never sent to Google in that case regardless.

Source: I am the former Chrome omnibox owner. You can find the relevant code for this starting at https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/omnibox/brow... ; look for how GetDefaultProviderURL() works and when that query is sent. You can also watch packets with your favorite network analyzer.
Would be nice if you could explain how am I wrong. For whatever greater good you mean as downvoting doesn't really change anything except multiplying hatred perhaps (I didn't downvote you back but I can hardly save you from being downvoted by others). If I said something stupid that can harm others and you want to save us you should probably be a little bit more informative.
That is not accurate. There is a sufficiently different pitching moment in high angle of attack attitude that results in the engine nacelle producing lift. That means the flight characteristic of the MAX is sufficiently different to otherwise warrant its own type rating separate from previous 737 generation type rating. Boeing and FAA agreed to a software abstraction to obviate the need for a separate type rating for pilots.

The plane is not unstable. A pilot who is trained for the actual flight characteristics absolutely can handle the plane. The problem is they weren't required to get that training, because 737's still all share the same type rating as if they all have substantially the same flight characteristics. Which is generally true except one particular attitude, high angle of attack.

It's an open question to me (I'm no one, but I am a pilot and a flight instructor in a previous life) exactly how different stall avoidance could be with MCAS disabled (which is indirectly done by setting stabilizer trim to cutoff) once it has already induced a dive by having fought with it a little bit too long. If it's a normal procedure to disable the very software abstraction that means you don't need a type rating for this airplane, but the stall avoidance technique is substantially different from other 737s - that's very concerning to me. Not that the plane is unstable or unsafe. But that there's a disconnect in pilot knowledge and actual airplane flight characteristics with this abstraction turned off.
My personal favorite is _The Tombs of Atuan_ - it introduces a new character, creates an entire world around her, then pulls all the assumptions beneath the world apart.
”because having a monopoly on a platform and using that platform to enforce anti-competitive practices is illegal under anti-trust law.”

I don’t think that’s what the US law says. Most platforms are proprietary, and their makers have a monopoly on them (you don’t see people complain that Tom-Tom, Volkswagen, Miele, Boeing, etc. shield of their platforms for third-party software)

What is illegal under anti-trust law is having a monopoly in a market and using that monopoly to hurt consumers.

If you want to use anti-trust law in this case, you’ll have to convince the judge that “iPhone applications” is a market, and not “smartphone applications”. Doable? Maybe.

I think (but am not sure) you will also have to show that Apple’s behviour hurts consumers (as opposed to just other companies)
Three days?

It's their job to keep people safe. They do that by looking at data they trust. I don't envy the position they're in this week one bit.
The way I see it the only good pieces of Google Hardware are the Chromecasts (which are absolutely amazing devices, might be near perfection in terms of simplicity and price) and the Google Home (though that's still 2nd in the smart speaker market). Everything else is either niche (Google WiFi, which I forgot existed even as a techie) or a hanger on (Nest).
> To prevent this, Boeing added a new autopilot system that would pitch the nose down if it looked like it was getting too high.

The biggest problem here is that the new autopilot system relies on a pair of Angle of Attack sensors. Those sensors are prone to damage, and if the sensor is damaged, the erroneous information it reports can engage the new autopilot system. One of the reasons why Southwest thinks it's immune to this problem, by the way, is because they paid extra for a system that displays an alert when the Angle of Attack sensors disagree with each other, so pilots are aware of what's wrong and can take action to stop it. Most other carriers, including Ethiopian and Lion Air, didn't.

Also, other autopilot systems can be disengaged by pulling back on the stick. This one can't: you have to manually disengage the system.

Pilots were never informed of any of this because Boeing wanted to maintain the fiction that the 737 MAX is no different than previous versions of the 737.
That wouldn't fly. A small company could release a best of breed product, and everyone could say it meets the definition of a monopoly. Unless you mean that the company would have to have a certain minimum marketshare AND ALSO would have to have best of breed product. (But even that would be problematic. We could likely get courts to go for something like 60%+, or even 50%+ with effort. But the courts are just gonna have a big problem with anything less than 50%.)
It's one things to compare app sales from one market to another, but the broader issue is that Apple maintains a monopoly on the store itself. There is no Google Play store on iPhone.

And... listening to SCOTUS oral arguments recently, that sounds like it will be changing soon.
It’s 3 more choices than most in the US get for broadband providers.
Ask HN: Best shortcuts for doing math in your head
What are some of your "go-to" mental shortcuts for doing math in your head, that you use regularly?

A few examples that have been useful to me:

1. Memorizing fractions to decimals for 1/1 through 1/25. (e.g. 1/7 = approx 0.14. Then if you have, say, 3 out of 7 of something, it's easy to approximate the percentage or do other useful things.)
2. A number is evenly divisible by three if the sum of its numbers is evenly divisible by three (e.g. 3213; 3 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 9, which is evenly divisible by three, therefore, 3213 is as well)
3. Memorizing 2^x from x=0 to 22
I am not an Apple fan-person by any means, but Steve Jobs had a Product philosophy that stuck with me many years after he described it:

You can't start with a cool technology and build a product / user experience around it; you have to start with a vision of a coherent user experience, and build the technology around _that_.

I think that's my biggest frustration with Google: they have interesting and really cool tech that is just way too fragmented. The structure of controlled chaos via launching many products as experiments and culling down to the "best" ones makes it difficult to provide consistent, cohesive experiences.
Care to offer evidence to the contrary to support your incredulity?
The move comes after the group received pressure to turn Google Hardware into "a real business" from higher-ups at Google/Alphabet -- the squeeze continues unabated :-)

Its too bad, since the Pixelbook is pretty nice and with actual investment it could have been something much more than it is, but alas it would not have the margins search advertising does. Back in the 90's I met the head of Xerox's PARC after he had given a talk on innovation. One of the challenges he saw was that gardening innovation was like gardening crops, which was to say it was very hard to know when sprouts had one leaf out of the ground which were weeds and which were crops. Ideas were the same way, you need to nurture them to at least adolescence before you can reasonably decide if they are going to go on to be great or not so great.

From the outside, Google appears to be at that stage where they have not learned how to nurture an idea to see if it will be great or not before killing it.
High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble
This is the worst kind of bootlicking. Why are you stanning for a psychopath. None of what you posted means anything regarding the article. It's meaningless sideshow to try to discredit Tripp.
Definitely very similar, just different level of abstraction.

£80m pound fund. Assuming it does 2x in 10 years, with 0% hurdle rate, 20% of carry will be, 16m£? divide it by 20 entrepreneurs and you get £800k. Not bad...

One thing going for founders' mutuals is diversification. 100, 500 companies instead of 20 companies should work better for founders, as described here: http://reactionwheel.net/2015/06/power-laws-in-venture.html
Hopefully those abilities and integration will filter into open source implementations. Right now, it seems like AM is owned by the big players and will be for the foreseeable future.
Are you really going to use a UPS crash as an argument here? You actually raise some good points but I can’t get past that one.
Another sublime release without relative line numbers...
Low. Certainly not enough to be in the "donate a building" range. In fact, I doubt $1.2million is in that range.
Ask HN: What are the most effective ways to learn something quickly?
Like many of you, I like to learn new things and get better at the things I already know. Do any of you use particular processes/tricks to learn something more quickly? How about to learn something more deeply? Thanks!
No, once the data is extracted it can be sent to any/everyone. One team has to be responsible for extracting the data though - it's not simply popping out an SD card and plugging it in to your MacBook like a DSLR, especially with potential damage to the device.
The Crash of the Boeing 737 Max Is a Warning to Drivers, Too
I would recommend putting the "Are you coming?" above the fold, if not the very top of the page. I'm on a 27" monitor and had to scroll all the way to the bottom. If you want to increase conversion you'll probably find that by moving it above the image.
TFA mentions contacting the Flickr users who uploaded the images, so for all we know, they were attributed appropriately. (Not all CC licenses are CC-BY anyway.)

The problem of treating a neural network as derived work is exactly why IBM said they wouldn't use the dataset in their products. Instead, they'll likely train various different networks, note which ones performed best, write a paper about it and throw the trained networks away. So long as they do that, they're not infringing on anyone's copyright.
BYOB painting studios are getting popular these days. Could be a good opportunity to experience a guided painting session.
Yes they are supposed to be, when a user joins a chat they cannot see prior messages and I believe this is a byproduct of their key being added to the ring.
Read the article man. He kept pressing the police on it even though everyone involved knew it was all bullshit. The original tipster doesn't even matter at that point.
It this for digital signage?
Thank you! Scale is doing great especially in the autonomous vehicles vertical. We are different in a few ways from Scale or other data annotation companies -- one, we really focus on building AI tools that can automate data annotation all the way from label proposals to quality control, and two, all annotations are done in-house without relying on any crowdsourced labor. We think it's difficult to guarantee quality with crowdsourced workers and we see this a lot with Amazon Mechanical Turks. We can do this because our AI tools give a huge speed boost and our in-house workers can go through the data a lot faster. And also, we also collect and provide raw data (limited to images at the moment) to companies that do not have their own.
Spotify is a shady company that doesn't pay artists as well as Apple, it doesn't have a sustainable business model and now that they're public they're hiring PR firms to make timetoplayfair.com and spam HN because they're accountable to investors.

Spotify doesn't play fair with intellectual property, they were founded by a guy than ran an ad supported torrent company and got enough early market share to go public, but it's not sustainable. Now they expect less of a cut to gain market share because they didn't build something sustainable, unique or based upon a higher standard of ethics. No tears to be shed for this company's standard of fairness. Plus the product has other issues which I noted when I was a customer but were ignored as this company is simply interested in the bottom line; so I cancelled my account, which was not easy.
Norwegian research institutions not to renew their agreement with Elsevier
I assume you mean they haven’t had a fatality in the last ten years, not that they’ve never had a fatality?
Yup. Even professional pilots get it all wrong:

> almost all the eyewitnesses, including experienced pilots, gave grossly inaccurate accounts when compared to the film record
boy, that kind of "deep regulation" into UX design from a single arbitrary company should be illegal regardless.

people bought apple hardware and the operating system, not voted them the unilateral governing body on consumer choice in that platform. one should not be taken to imply the other.
Ask HN: What would it take to rate the web?
My need came from browsing services online, and the annoyance of having to go through blogs, other websites, personal references to get a sense of how good, and still “relevant”, those services are. Then came the thought, what would it take to have something like Yelp for websites?

Ended up starting a simple project over the week with that in mind [1], but wanted to discuss with others here too.

Spam reviews: With moderation and anti-spamming tools, it seems to have “worked” for rating products (Amazon), offline businesses (Yelp), and others so why not online services (websites)? The 5 star rating system measures “satisfaction” somewhat well, but the “popularity” part (number of stars) is easier to spam. I really liked the format used in [2], so I used a modified version of that in my project. I feel the “never heard of it” option could suppress spams.

Apathy: What would motivate folks to start contributing? It should probably be dead simple so I thought a browser extension could work well, both for the people leaving and consuming reviews. This obviously has its limitations on mobile. The real motivation probably comes from the fact that the review was helpful to somebody. People seem to go nuts on reddit gold, so I guess that’s validation if any, so I tried to add something like that.

Privacy: Related, but some people don’t like leaving traces behind on the web. I feel the best way is to be transparent as to what is happening and give them as much control as possible. For example, make it easy to view and remove everything they know about the user. Still probably won’t satisfy everyone.

There are other smaller issues that I can think of (e.g. not all websites fall into a "rate-able service" category), but probably missing some big ones too. Please feel free to share what you think.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lome/necafokehnnolgnjmapmlmhigjmlelpl

[2] https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/overview/
They are almost certainly still losing money on the $35K Model 3, and released it simply to try and grab some cash to keep the lights on and maybe head off accusations of a bait-and-switch perpetrated on early reservation holders.
Even then, it's not just filepaths. Internal representations can range from "bytes that are sometimes string-ish" to "bytes which are valid strings", while in no way covering the domain where the string-like properties that normalization brings are desireable.

I doubt there are hard-and-fast rules where normalization is appropriate, but if you start applying it to all input, you're going to break things. Email addresses immediately spring to mind, for example.
If revenue should increase, it's much easier to increase it by changing some constants in the function. Same applies if you think revenue should decrease, or if you think the taxes should be more progressive.

A simpler system benefits everyone: it's easier to comply with, it's easier to enforce, it's easier to change.

For instance, adding a negative income tax would be as easy as adding a negative offset to the function.
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The more boring answer is that Musk's thin skin promotes a culture of pettyness, and someone at Tesla did it without direction.
>Of course I am looking after my own interests. I am human, that's how we evolved, that's how we made it to the moon.

So why the surprise that Spotify is doing the same? Yes, it's hypocritical for them to say "Apple locking in users is unfair" then do the same in a situation that benefits them. But to your point, it is human to look out for one's own interests and Spotify is a group of humans doing just that. That doesn't make it right, but would you behave differently in their situation?
I'd urge anyone reading this before the article to read the book. It's one of the best books I've ever read and a lot of that is because I didn't know what it was about, I don't think I'd have enjoyed it knowing more. Just close this comment page and go read it.
Speaking of which, how does Han Unification affect Unicode normalization. If I understand correctly, you can compose strokes into characters? Does that work?