skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they 996 just because they earn much more.

Maybe in absolute terms but their per-hour income is lower. They're working 1.8 times longer than a 40 hour week but not earning 1.8 times as much as they would when working in e.g. Europe.
I doubt anybody involved in targeting and suppressing Wikileaks post-2016 is leaking their plans to Wikileaks itself.
Very sad day. Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy. It was already quite disgusting how powerful entities were able to seemingly fabricate sexual charges as needed.

Later on he made very influential enemies by exposing corruption in the democratic political party. Instead of any follow up on that front, the pressure on Assange increased and the whole Russian scaremongering narrative was pushed. Probably to distract from own potential repercussions.

For me that looks a lot like government oppression. Something like that wouldn't fly in Germany for example. We had recently had an popular elected political removed from office for something quite insignificant - it was found out, he copy & pasted a few paragraphs in his decade old (and unrelated) doctoral work.

It doesn't look much different then the cases where Chinese or Russian governments going after journalists
> wasn't that he feared the UK would extradite him to the US, but that the UK would extradite him to Sweden, which would extradite him to the UK

I assume you mean "extradite him to the US"

Why would Sweden extradite him to the U.S. when the UK wouldn't?

Either way, he promised the UK courts he wouldn't flee. Then he fled. Now he's been arrested for skipping bail. Good. Everytime someone skips bail, it makes it harder for innocent people to get bail when they are charged with crimes they didn't commit.
it's going to be interesting to see what is in all those insurance files https://legalinsurrection.com/2013/08/whats-behind-wikileaks...
> A minor, but still significant, area of research to great public transport adoption is the last mile problem. Bicycles, scooters, Segways, OneWheel... hoverboards?

The big problem here at this point is not individual innovation into new devices. We already have folding scooters, folding bikes, bike share, scooter share, etc. I already combine a folding scooter with public transport in Munich and it works fairly well for me for many trips.

The real problem is that in many cities, the infrastructure to support these things is extraordinarily terrible. For example, there are literally zero cities in the US with decent bike infrastructure -- and it's bike lanes/paths that fit the kind of devices you're talking about -- let alone good infrastructure. The city I'm in, Munich, hits the decent mark, but still has a ways to go before being 'good'. And it only works well for me because I'm a relatively healthy/fit adult, an elderly person or a child would have more problems.
That was quick

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19633234

Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act. He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible.
The video mentions an 0805 resistor for scale.

That is 2 mm by 1.2 mm.
What is the difference between what Assange did and what every journalist does who does not disclose their sources?

I'm not sure if I am right, but I thought the whole point of Wikileaks was to be a publishing platform with good source protection?
Some of it moves server-side anyway. Counterpoint servers require expensive cooling, phones do not.

We all can over approximate in our preferred direction.
I wish there were the light and dark themes from the google chrome console
Some of the people are shills right? Theres an office somewhere where people are paid to forward an agenda in comment sections.
Anyone want a round of betting for when it closes?
Like the DMCA?
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Nothing is perfectly safe. The interesting question is, is it safer than the alternatives?
Not only does my post appeal to emotion, it openly appeals to emotion. On the other hand, your post uses the appeal to middle ground fallacy. If your list of priorities starts with anything other than stopping the routine torture of children, then your grand scheme of things is probably evil.
Ghosn calls on France to intervene, saying he is 'trapped'
People take real risks when telling on others. That it may be later revealed and their targets may try to take revenge is part of that.

There's no clear just way to view the entire situation. Though Assange was unreasonable to call them all "spies and traitors", if that's what he did.
> I don't understand this argument. Not saying Tesla is Theranos, but Theranos ran on hope and dreams for 10 years.

Amazon ran on losses for many years and it played out in the end. By choosing what company you compare Tesla to, you already choose a particular narrative. It's worthless as an argument and if you have a reason for your belief, it's more useful to discuss that rather than arbitrary comparisons.
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Now is a great time to donate to the Wikileaks Defense fund https://defend.wikileaks.org/donate/

The defense fund is operated by the Courage Foundation which has an excellent track record with similar cases such as that of Lauri Love.

Death to America
Yep, once tried to correct a Wikipedia page about an event I had direct knowledge of, only to have my change reverted. Whatever. Not going to get into a fight when I was only trying to contribute - enjoy being smugly wrong.

I'm also sitting on a few bug fixes for open source tools because some of the larger projects have made the process for contributing just way too obnoxious. (Sign our code of conduct, sign a contributor licensing agreement, submit your pull request along with a three page explanation (making sure to use the correct cover sheet) in X format, etc). That feels like work and I'm doing this for free -- like I'm supposed to feel honored that you're allowing me to submit an improvement to your code base. Meh, never mind - I'll keep the fix for myself.

I think that wikipedia and some of the more popular OSS projects have something in common: a clique of long-serving contributors erecting barriers to entry to keep newcomers out.
He's a Russian traitor
Remarkably, Shirky's essay predicted much of what has transpired with the rise of Facebook from its February 1, 2004 beginning — nearly a year after the piece appeared.
Read up on the Geneva Conventions. War is brutal, yes, but at the end it's a conflict between state powers & while violence is necessary to force the issue, a line must be drawn. See the use of economic sanctions as a method to compel without direct violence. There's enough power between parties which agree to the Geneva Conventions so that if one party is not agreeing to those terms, additional resources can be tapped from allies

Unfortunately it feels the US is powerful enough that the international community isn't stepping in with sanctions against the US
> So the number of messages you can send is precisely the number of keys that you generate at the start? How many is that?

Bingo. The demo only generates 10K keys per participant, but 100k keys in storage takes less than 200ms to generate and only uses 6MB of storage space. This will be user configurable per chat. It's important to note, each message burns two keys. The first key encrypts the message, the second key encrypts the reference to that message for the rendezvous point.

> This also probably means you don't support long-running (think multi-year) conversations or the ability to add/remove people to/from the group, is that right?

Correct. There are plenty of other tools that do a beautiful job of handling that. This is designed specifically to provide short-lived chats with specific guarantees. The handshake happens just once at chat creation and all participants must be present.
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“Belsito is hunched over the game. He’s just shot the right orbit, and if he can hit all the major shots to fill Deadpool’s chimichanga punch card, he’ll be able to fight the T. rex for a chance to shoot the scoop and win the mode, bringing him one step closer to a Mechsuit Multiball. And then all hell will break loose—in the machine and on the scoreboard. He’s engaged in a rare three-way-tiebreaker to advance to the next round—one step closer to pinball glory, a championship belt, and $2,500. Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies is helping with play-by-play commentary and the room smells a little like a middle school gym class.”

My inner (and outer) nerd loves everything about this paragraph. I’ve never played a Deadpool machine but with my moderate knowledge of the comic and my past experiences playing other pinball games I can imagine in my mind’s eye what the sequence looks like.

Kudos to Lindsey Quinn.
Facebook is using smartphones to listen to what people say: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

A lot of people said Facebook ads suggest them products or services debated on phone calls.

If you have Echo or Kindle Fire TV, guess it can be easily reproduced when Amazon really listening and analyze your voice.
I'm not sure that amp is available in Europe.
I live in a EEA country and I've never seen an amp page. Curious if this is the case in the rest of Europe.
But you're still conflating two different things. There's no 'instead' here. Companies are correctly investing into a potentially profitable thing that makes sense for them, and for whatever reason, society has democratically chosen to not invest very much into public transport.

Short of arguing for FULL COMMUNISM NOW, where society would also be democratically telling businesses exactly what to do, these two things are not meaningfully connected. If the people decided to take public transport more seriously, we could do so at any time.
As long as it stays voluntary...
I've never understood the "5 Why's" method to be taken that literally. In my experience at a major manufacturing company it was taught as a way of reminding people to think deeper about a problem and not stop at the first level and think that you have arrived at the root cause. Sometimes it's four Whys', sometimes it's six.
Civil disobedience means accepting the consequences of one’s actions. Mr Assange is a narcissist, probably a pasty, and deserves to be prosecuted for his crimes. For it is in the state’s treatment of him can the public find the truth, if any, in his claims. Stop being such a pussy, Jules, and own up to your actions.
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That statement is true. Torture is and stays torture but would you agree that there is more than one variable in war?

Your second point is a red herring.
Yes, "role models" are a good indication of how weak or strong our social capital is. Our society is increasingly fraying apart, so much so that people are now unwilling to view others as fundamentally sharing the same humanity and social outlook as themselves, unless they happen to share some shallow but somehow salient features like gender, ethnic background, religion, sexual orientation and so on and so forth, that make them a part of some increasingly narrow "tribe". This kind of thing used to be seen as a significant social faux pas, but increasingly we see it being accepted.
My thesis is related to trees, forests, and ensemble of forests.

This is pretty concise but mostly for decision tree but only half of it.

CART is the framework for decision tree for classification and regression. This article only addresses the Classification part which usually use Gini which is a class of split that split along parallel axises (there are oblique trees). The regression part uses more traditional statistical linear regression to calculate split point (SSTO).

Very light on Random Forests though, doesn't talk about out of bagging, implication of bootstrap and ordinal data, etc.. but overall I think it's a neat introduction.

> we only try a subset of the features,

You bootstrap features without replacement at every split. Instead of just bootstrapping rows/observations like in bagging.

The concept of weak learners ensemble together to become a strong learner is done by Dr. Ho work under her paper Random Subspace where she does it with decision tree and basically proposed Random Forest before Dr. Leo Breiman (both independently came to Random Forest). Her advisor have the theoretical paper for proof of weak learner, stocastic discrimination.
> It will be interesting to see if the US tries to extradite him. It's actually not 100% clear that he's broken any US laws in any ways that they aren't also routinely broken by newspapers.

He has also been arrested on the extradition warrant to the US:

http://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrest-of-julian-assan...
In both cases, it would be in US' national interests to put the long term consequences before the short term gains.
>It will be interesting to see if the US tries to extradite him.

Scotland Yard has confirmed that Assange was arrested on behalf of the US after receiving a request for his extradition.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks...

Edit: Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charg...
I'm not convinced that tightening up web development practices is what's going to solve climate change, but:

> When you push the CPU processing of the UX from the mobile device back down to the server, the energy consumption certainly moves. Does it decrease, though?

One could argue that developers/website owners might be more motivated to optimize their server code for performance, thereby decreasing their hosting bills, vs optimizing front-end code which they don't pay to run.
>Since moving to more reactive, state based frameworks I haven't even thought about DOM manipulation in so long - that to see people discussing the merits of one system over another is pretty wild.

Not all websites are SPAs or need fancy interactivity, some are rendered server side and jQuery does simple manipulations,

Also there are many good UI components for jQuery and I seen the big frameworks wrapping 6this components.
Nothing, and they will likely prove that if there is a fair trial. However

A) it will take years

B) he will need to do it from a US prison cell

C) it will be expensive for him

D) they hope to impact wikileaks while this is ongoing

E) they will try to get him to accept a plea deal where the US govt gets to look like they are right, because he plead guilty after all (certainly not just to avoid a 700 year sentence for treason but because he is actually guilty)
> Whatever happens to Tesla, I want to be able to say I was part of it.

Good luck - and I sincerely mean this. I cancelled my Model 3 preorder just this morning after waiting for over 3 years. Still no ETA for them here in the UK. Meanwhile the rest of the global automotive market has caught up. I genuinely hope that my £1000 interest free loan was at least some use to the company in that time.

> Tesla's stated goal is to advance the state of transportation

There's no denying that they've achieved this and given the other manufacturers a much-needed kick up the ass in the process. Practical, desirable electric vehicles are here and they're here to stay, and pretty much entirely thanks to Tesla.

A friend has had a few Model S's since they were released and they're incredible cars, just unfortunately too expensive for me to justify at the moment. I'm still backing Tesla in spirit but there's no denying that they have a lot of issues and that their USP is rapidly disappearing as other manufacturers bring practical electric cars onto the market. Unfortunately mass producing vehicles is a hard problem that Tesla still seem to be working out.
> what differences the trees within the random forest have - as I understand it, they are all slightly different, and this gives them greater accuracy?

I can give you an example from my own work. We have a random forest on a 400+ attribute input (ie: 400 variables). All we want at the end is a probability from 0.0 to 1.0.

Our random forest model will build around 500 trees. Each tree randomly selected a small subset of those 400+ input attributes and says "what's the best I can do using only these attributes?". Generally, it does okay. But when you average the 500 trees, the accuracy is pretty darned good.

Edit later: To be clear, each new tree is generated using the random subset of variables. The point is that each tree may glean some insight about that small combination of variables.
> When you use a javascript library the browser has to process and load all the functions in the library.

That simply isn't true. Your device does load a library (usually minified), and parses the JS to be sure it is runnable. But it doesn't run every function just because it is loaded in memory. Even if it did, it happens on app load, once... then runs functions on-demand. And the size of the load can be mitigated with appropriate use of tree-shakable libraries. But without JS, the server regenerates an entire page, every time you do something, which takes some resources. It sends it over the wires, which takes some small amount of resources. The mobile device loads an entire page again.

I do agree there is wasted processing in both scenarios. But that waste doesn't just disappear when you do server-side work.
Problem is, Trump says a lot of things that he doesn't mean. Or he forgets, it's a little unclear.

But the American intelligence community appears very interested in the guy and is known to have been working on extradition process in 2018.

If the American intelligence community wants to extradite Assange, I don't doubt somebody high-ranking in the CIA will sit down with the president and by the end of the meeting, have him thoroughly convinced that he's wanted Assange's extradition all along. They have agents trained in psychological operations and negotiation, and Trump is demonstrably an easy mark.
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I certainly didn't expect it to be _this_ quick.
Ignoring the noise, politics, and financial feasibility of this, we sure are living in the damn future.
Video in question: https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
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His company has value. As long as he didn’t dump all the shares at once he could surely unwind his stake to the market. We’re not talking about bitcoin or beanie babies here. There’s an underlying asset.
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The fact that material existed in the first place is solely the fault of the candidate.
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Same here.

People are also not that different in person - it's just that some of them don't go out much so you're unlikely to meet them and their horrible personalities.
Sovereignty isn't binary, and states and laws are one of many social constructs. Discussing the complexities is interesting. Purely semantic arguments is not.
Australia just released a statement that they will continue to offer general consul services, and that's it.

Too little too late there, Australia.
You can find a copy of “Markov Chains and Mixing Times” online, which is good and relatively accessible.
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Here's an older article that clarifies some of the issues:

Panasonic has lowered its forecast for the 2018/19 fiscal year, which ends in March, following a decline in profits over the winter. However, the Energy division, which also includes the battery business with Tesla, recorded its first operating profit in three quarters at 131 million euros.

The Japanese company cites the trade dispute between the USA and China as the reason for the lowered forecast, which caused demand for automotive components and factory equipment, among other things, to fall.

https://www.electrive.com/2019/02/05/tesla-saves-panasonics-...
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People soured on him when they thought his releases became political (much whistleblowing is political, generally). People were happy it exposed US corruption, etc. but once he apparently singled out one ideology for exposure and that was against mainstream ideology people renounced him on political grounds as they couldn’t denounce him on the same principles they once supported.
Assange is not getting arrested for his journalistic activities.
That's not what I read. What I read is he removed the condom during it, and she did not know this.
^ what he said except the last bit
A few high profile HN commenters have, for years, been claiming that Assange's insistence that the US would seek his extradition was without merit. I eagerly await their updated analysis.
Tough one, I'd have to say:

45% http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

30% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

25% Youtube
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I don't see what you're seeing, I see news headlines and comments that are suggesting Dr Bouman worked alone.

They just need "a" instead of "the", or "lead" if she's responsible as leader of a team.

For me, I am slightly primed by the "Apollo code" story: the claim was (paraphrasing) "this programmer created all the code for the Apollo programme" with an image of a person standing with folders of printouts stacked up to their shoulder. Well that person was the lead of teams of coders and didn't personally do it all. The implication, explicit in some cases, was "women's contribution is always hidden, this person did it all and got no recognition because vile men refused to share the spotlight". (Hamilton's contribution as a lead programmer was vital to the Apollo programme, but it doesn't appear to have anything to do with her being a woman).

Now, this story appears to be doing exactly what was claimed there, people's contributions being ignored.

Normally a headline would be "Bouman leads team to image blackhole", but the use of a clearly gendered forename suggests the headline writer is trying to pick out the sex of the subject. "The" suggests singularity (pun attempted!) of contribution. So, it's natural to ask why, and if you've been subject to the social media "women do it all and men get all the credit" one is bound to question the contributions.

Then looking at GitHub and seeing 2k loc vs 850k loc -- paired with the programming vs computer science confusion -- it appears like another exaggeration to forward a feminist agenda rather than an attempt to report science.
What about life sentence instead of death penalty?
He reportedly conspired with others to criminally hack in to protected computer systems. That's a crime. Journalists don't do break-ins.
"Death to America" refers to policies, not the nation.
Early to mid 2000s was the best time in web design. Everything before that was "omg, i can put animated images and color on the web, LETS PUT ALL OF THEM IN THERE!" (aka the Geocities School of Style) and after after that was "OMG iPhone is kewl, lets make everything 20x sized so that people can rub their screens with ease (desktop? what desktop? that is sooo yesterday, and dying, get with the times grampah, today real programmers make web applications in their iPads while drinking latte soda cappuccinos and eating gluten free croissants at plate free coffee shops with hand demoisturized tables)".

I mean, early/mid 2000s design was still bad (especially when people learned about the gradient tool and drop shadow filter), but at least browsers were limited enough to mostly contain the damage.
ok thanks for the correction
Can you please give the names of the products that you are talking about?
Right, especially considering the HBGary conspiracy that got revealed years ago against Wikileaks.
Hopefully he won’t “mysteriously” die from a disease or an accident while waiting for a fair trial. Fingers crossed for him