skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you destroy something today, you have also binded the hands of a future generation who will never get to enjoy it. Most of the popular vacation places in the world are historic/old sites. If we tear down everything old to put up cheaper, more efficient buildings are we necessarily better off?
>Had Assange not provided the hacking tools, and had he not attempted to crack the passwords, this indictment would never have happened.

He has not been under trial yet, so how do you know with such certainty he actually did that?

>Press freedom and protecting your sources is not the issue here;

A lot of very prominent people who deal with politics, activism and journalism disagree with this assessment. On top of that list would be: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Noam Chomsky. Their reasoning seems pretty solid. And unlike some media people, they didn't suddenly flip-flop in their positions on such issues.
I've moved more and more browsing to Tor. I have this HN account, a Reddit account, plus a few others. It's possible to do a large chunk of my browsing in Tor, though it's slow and sometimes pages render oddly without Javascript, so it's a bit annoying. But I like the feeling of not being tracked.
I’ll respond to the part about undercovers transporting weapons and/or explosives. It’s easier to stay undercover flying commercial so a team may assemble in a location by taking separate flights and take their equipment with them. That way none of them are spotted in a known military or agency location. Or it may be a place where they can’t easily take military transport or some highly covert mission where they’d all be disavowed if they were caught. The book Rogue Warrior talks about it a little bit. If I remember correctly, everyone in Seal Team 6 had to sneak a weapon onto a commercial flight as part of training.
I suppose spell checking (and then grammar too) has been the most ubiquitous use of NLP to date. Unless I'm missing something even more pervasive (software).
Disclosure: I'm an EU citizen living in UK.

From what I have gathered, EU's strategy with Brexit has been pretty straightforward: do not even try to impose any further "penalties" on UK on top of what is already taking place without assistance. Just stay put.

The EU can't be seen to dictate internal UK matters - that would only create further animosity (if such a thing is possible, given the rabid UK press). Instead, let the UK repeatedly shoot themselves in the head while going through their cooked-up contortions.

There will be no better deterrent for others in the EU27 than observing Brexit from a relatively safe distance. "Leave, and that will be you. We don't even need to do anything."

And as for watching Brexit unfold at a close distance? It's like looking at a sword swallower trying out a new trick. With a chainsaw.
If SF really gave a crap about aesthetics, they would tax residents like you in order to clean up its streets and build affordable housing (hello skyscrapers) for the homeless people who are ruining the aesthetics of such a 'beautiful' city. Good luck bringing your kids to one of the 'many parks' in the city to play without being worried about getting pricked with a used needle hidden in the grass, or walk to that beautiful 200year old stone church without getting harassed by the homeless.

SF is overrated. The reason you would pay $3000 for a tiny studio is because commuting into the city to work for one of the megacorporations is untenable. There are much nicer places to live in the Peninsula and South Bay, or even in other states.
For more information on microtuning and MIDI

https://en.xen.wiki/w/List_of_Microtonal_Software_Plugins
Three Goals of Statistics: Description, Prediction, and Prescription
In addition to this, if the data exists, at some point in the future it will be compromised. The only way to avoid this is to not collect it.

And to anyone who says “I have nothing to hide” — imagine your worst enemy having all this information about you easily searchable with the intention to weaponize it for their purpose.
> If you do not want to root your device:

I want to but I can't even if I "own" it.

> 1. Consider LineageOS + microG

Probably should avoid microG if you care about privacy...
In the end unfortunately none of the ad/tracker blocking solutions are solid; All an app developer has to do is use an IP address to fetch ads (avoiding dns resolution and thus dns based blocking won't work.)

Or, fetching the ads from the same hostname as also used by the app itself to provide whichever service the app provides, which means that hostname can't be blocked even by a firewall because the app itself will stop working.

So i agree, the only proper solution is laws to stop the privacy abuse.
That's how it was measured, once. Now it is measured based on the components of the food (fat, carbohydrates, and protein).
To make these liveable, you have to have very strong central planning. Many former/currently communist cities look like this with varying height.

In Moscow for example, new apartments tend to be 25-40 stories high. However, they have large offsets from the street, are not built “shoulder to shoulder” with neighbors and generally developments from inner courtyards that are big enough to have parking and a soccer field.

There’s also a phenomenon of what locals call “pinpoint development”, where some unscrupulous developer will try to stick a tower in these courtyards and ruin the setup for everyone.

Contrast that with SF or NYC - you hardly have open plots of lands and everything is one giant wall of buildings.
Yet more hardware junking up the world for people who can't configure software. Got to wonder how rigorously people who install umpteen of these sorts of devices around their home maintain them.
Hackman played the same character in both movies. His character in enemy of the state has some deliberate references (the raincoat, the workshop, the opening sequence).
Volvo doesn't have self driving as a cunsumer offer. Or have I missed something?
Do you eat onion peels? How about banana peel? Do you eat the bones of meat? 2kg isn’t that much.
Life of a Child Con Artist
https://www.chowly.com/

They are a great service to restaurants and use NLP to automate a lot of service integration such as between the embedded POS system and delivery companies.
I think that qualifies as materially aiding in the crime. There's a huge difference between receiving and publishing illegally-obtained information that someone else provides you, and in actively aiding in the extraction of that information. I'm happy to let a judge review all the details and decide.
NLP is used in a lot of marketing tools. Check out crimson hexagon, infegy atlas, netbase
Usurious loans are unethical and disgusting. If people aren’t capable of effective money management, that just reinforces that the justifications used by that agency are bunk.
Is Spacetime Discrete or Continuous?
I had a 6 digit ICQ number and I'm about the same age... someone deleted my account using my unlocked computer and I was never able to get it back...
Terraform really shines when you have a complex environment that depends on various external services. I don't know enough about your architecture to comment on the benefits for you, but for a generic web services environment on, say, AWS, you have network configuration (VPC, subnets, security groups), EC2, load balancers, S3 buckets, RDS instances (managed databases), DNS, and possibly a number of other services which need to be set up for everything to work. Explicitly defining what services your product depends on and precisely how they're to be configured is extremely valuable.

You certainly can write Ansible playbooks to create all of those resources if that works better for your team, but generally it's better to draw a line between configuring your VM/container/server and provisioning all the infrastructure it depends on.
People do it because every other option sucks.

Sharing to someone else's timeline is way too invasive, sharing to your own timeline and tagging the person is weird, sharing via message is too disruptive.

What people is looking for is a "Show it to a friend" button that just creates a notification on the person's bell icon and allows them to respond in any way they want.
I’ve tried going over the article and cannot find any mention to any right-wing party intentionally reducing the amount of trains. I should disclose that Spanish is my mother tongue.

If anyone wants to pour over the article and explain it to me: EMT is the TfL of Madrid, Mayor's office is left-wing, Regional government is right-wing.
OpenAI Plays Dota 2 Co-Op with Humans
Not entirely, it’s a security / convenience trade off:

- if you don’t want to trust anyone, email is a lot of work- you need your own email server and domain, and you can use the catch all option

- if you are willing to trust only google, gmail plus addresses work, but then you lose most of the security and privacy benefits, because it’s trival to deduce your email address

- if you’re willing to trust a 3rd party (in this case idbloc) then that gets you highest level of convenience & security, but you do need to trust idbloc
I'm not a musician, but I love `Selected Ambient Works 85–92`. It sounds way ahead of its time.
Actually your comment was insightful. I have a bad habit of editor jumping. Went from vim (6mo) -> emacs (18mo) -> vscode (8mo) -> and have been using sublime for the last month. Keep switching because I don't feel productive in them and kept getting a grass-is-greener vibe every time I'd see someone online using it. Maybe it's because I never specialized and really got gud with one of them. Would have stuck it out with emacs but using it on windows is a big meh (way too much fiddling, generally speaking). Popped off vscode because... microsoft. although it had the most surface polish of the editors I've tried, and intellisense was nice. Sublime has been good to me so far, but the available themes leave something to be desired, and the emacs keybinds are iffy. Maybe I just haven't found 'the one' and at this point, there are too many features from each editor that I like that I may never find it. Emacs came closest, but learning to configure it was too time intensive, had to cut my losses and find something more portable and time efficient. Guess I'll just stick with sublime from now on and say that's that...
Case studies would be great, nobody is getting paid tho. What info you looking for? I can try digging it up for you.

Notabug basically does everything Reddit does + more. Would that qualify as a larger app?

What in particular, what do you think would be difficult?
Sublime just isn't able to iterate as fast as VS Code can - it's closed source, and seemingly one or two developers. So I expect the gap to widen. Of course if Sublime already fills your needs, that's not a problem.
How was IRC not siloed when you've always had different networks managed by different people?
I can clearly remember when this was driven home to me. When I was in high school, back in the early '80s, my social circle was heavy into hacking and programming. One of my acquaintances got a real job at a real software company that, if I had been more observant, I could have had.

I was so jealous that I could taste it! I was sure that I had missed a one-in-a-lifetime chance.

Decades went by and I happened to run into him by chance. In catching up, I learned that he wasn't working in the industry at all. I mentioned that job and told him how jealous I had been. He laughed and said that it was one of the worst decisions he ever made, bad enough that it was why he lost interest in programming professionally. (Don't feel too bad for him, he's doing quite well in a different field.)

In the meantime, I'd been lucky enough to have benefited from many opportunities. That one-in-a-lifetime chance that I missed turned out not to be that at all.
I scan all my receipts, and every gas station receipt has a date and time stamp. How accurate they are is anyone's guess.

I also always use a credit card for any transaction which gives another 'I was there' proof point.
My compensation for learning things "on the side" was always simply getting the better job where you can use the skills you got.

I've taught myself web development and thus got my first job.
I've taught myself iOS development and was able to switch to it full time later.
If real estate agents were paid hourly, imagine all the new problems you would have with them.

Their incentive would be to keep the house unsold forever, and milk the client for many hours of work (regardless of the value of those hours)
A 20° increase in Arizona (picking Yuma where my father grew up) would mean much worse. The record high is 124° from 1995[1], at 144° and 5-10 minutes of exposure we'd see death[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuma,_Arizona#Climate
[2] https://www.livescience.com/34128-limits-human-survival.html
https://wikileaks.org/cia-travel/secondary-screening/WikiLea...
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Yes! Exactly. Oftentimes I look for "X for Y developers" style tutorials to try and fasttrack that for myself (e.g. npm ≈ Maven but this is how they differ), but high quality ones can be hard to come by & takes a long time to fully grok a new language
Having a full time job and not being able to afford to have your own place is simply miserable.
Damnit I hate crying to stuff I see on twitter.
The underlying resource is space. If you are in an open field that you own with no neighbors and no zoning then the first unit of space is you pitching a tent. The second unit is another tent slightly to the left. If you are in a city were land is expensive, a prior building might have to be razed, a new advanced one planned for years and you might block someone else's view, the unit of space is very expensive. So now you have razed the building, built a new larger one and added to the supply of housing, what happens to the next unit? Everything else being equal it gets even harder to produce.

You can shift supply by e.g. changing zoning. Now you have more resources. But it doesn't change the equation, so eventually you might end up in an even worse situation were it is even harder do the same thing again. The even bigger problem however is that you don't necessarily get choose what should happen. Or maybe something is already shifting demand, like demographics.
I think the stigma comes from issues using XQuery etc. Not that they are unusable but they require adjusting your way of thinking.
Jumia is not an African startup
How popular websites have changed in the last 10 years
I should probably care more, but after netting about $750k fixing up houses over the past 20 years while my wife and I worked full time jobs, I don’t. Estimates had converged on between $860k and $940k from various realtors and models; we took her advice, listed at $950k, and ended up with about $300k in net profits.

FSBOs don’t usually sell as well for the simple reason that REA caravans don’t hit them. This is kind of important since we live 2000 miles away from where we were selling. We’ve seen some 1% agents and they were possibly worse than nothing (we soaked a seller with shitty agents for about $35k when we started to walk away after an inspection).

Our agent also dealt with endless bullshit (reassessment, delivering an ultimatum to an annoying tenant when my wife folded, etc) for a couple months leading up to the sale. We wanted to unload the house and NOT deal with finding a new tenant. I think this is the part people underestimate — it’s NOT just the $5k net. It’s also all the crap we didn’t have to deal with while living 2000 miles away and both working full time jobs. There are endless time sensitive documents, amendments, etc that I didn’t have to grind my teeth about.

Honestly I’m starting to wonder how many houses the friendly Internet Experts have sold. It’s a shocking amount of bullshit to navigate.
Why is it that Americans are supposed to bend their cultural norms to accept others in the workplace, and at the same time, while working abroad, are supposed to fully adopt the culture norms of someone else's workplace? This is never a clear-cut, all-or-nothing scenario, but I don't think I should have to accept all the baggage that someone brings with them. If I'm living or working overseas (which I've done), I'm happy to adopt local rituals and norms (or go through the motions when I disagree). I expect others to do the same when they come to my country.
They’ll probably say something about using the system to fight the system. In the end everyone comes out a pig (see Animal farm) and becomes the farmer they came up to hate.
The US constitution declared slaves as 3/5th of a person. Women couldn't do much without a man until recently. We've tortured folks and the Holocaust was a thing. The crusades were a thing.

On a lesser note, people gossip. They'll have "private" conversations about you while they know you can hear. Stop talking to folks because they think you are lesbian.

People are horrible.
That article is fairly damning.
I don't figure how a "refugees welcome" sign is a populist thing in the current political climate. The opposite phrase would surely be.
That's the entire point though. Those people presumably vote on tax policy, and have zero clue what they pay.

If the majority of the country were constantly being hounded by government tax collectors for being past-due, there would be very little political support for raising taxes in the future.

Right now it's an imaginary percentage the vast majority have no clue of. Ask 10 people in various social circles in your life what their all-in tax rate is. Almost zero will know, and those that think they know are often wildly wrong.
I believe Apple's issue is lack of data.
They have to to appease the next big growth market: China. Courage would be not doing business with China and their abhorrent government but alas even Apple fears its shareholders more than its laurels.
I also use Facebook only for the positive things it brings me. I refuse any conventional "news" stories I see there.
Electrostatic speakers seem like a great idea. Just like condenser microphones can give better recordings (although it matters less with microphones as the diaphragm is smaller).

Unfortunately they can be sensitive to the environment (pressure, humidity etc), and require moving parts close together with a large difference in potential between them, leading to a risk of short-circuiting, sparking, or catching fire, and requiring much more technical expertise for maintenance.

Nevertheless they are reasonably commonly used for headphones in studios (where there is mains power which is necessary). I think electrostatic loudspeakers (requiring much more power than headphones) are very uncommon in homes (although I suppose loudspeakers in general aren’t super common). Quad still make electrostatic speakers as do other companies.

I wonder if this sort of speaker is used much in more commercial settings
Those news are great, but do people actually change their lifestyle? do governments change too? The solution is to stop being over-consumerists, limit births of course, and to have more permacultures to bring back more life, better recycling, plant trees...

We are spending so much energy and resources analysing a black-hole (which is fantastic for Science, but our ship is sinking), entertainment sports... Every individual can and should change. Personally I did, I'm living with a really low environmental fingerprint compared to the average here in Western Europe, I eat mostly region-scale local vegetables, fruits, rice.., ride a bike, and buy the strict necessary
You have no clue how any of this works. Just stop.
This. REAs live and die on referrals.
It's the amount of silos. There was never more than a single digit number of IRC networks that anyone actually cared about. And even if you did need to be connected to a lot of them, you could do it all from the same client.
humans are gonna be humans, we need societies that work with actual humans and their faults rather than just wishing humans were perfect.
Section 5:

> Chinese people ... care about AI-related ethics issues,

> including privacy. Let’s dispel once and for all with this

> fiction that there are no discussions of AI ethics

> happening in China.

I'm happy to hear that :-)
But one of the biggest privacy violators is China government, right? I'm curious why the section didn't mention about that
https://topicseed.com (shameless plug) is using NLP and a knowledge graph to help SEO experts cover their focus topics comprehensively.
Classic statistics with inference is one way.

New data science with predictions is another way.

There's also a third way!
Spammy blog.
OpenAI’s Dota 2 AI steamrolls world champion team with back-to-back victories
You could buy the storage disks for $2000 from Amazon.com.
Would love to see a list of sample projects for each common language that plays to its strengths.

Often if trying to pick up a new language in my spare time, I can get to a stage of learning the syntax, but if I do it by following a "101" tutorial, I'll end up building another To-do app or whatever — it's very hard from an "unknown unknown" position at the start to find the path into idiomatic "X" that will show you the unique features and paradigms of the language.
Recycling doesn't help much as long as Norwegians throw away 40-50 kg of food per person each year. :(
That's amazing ! Could help many people who are lonely to better know about themselves
The bottom 78% of incomes varies widely, so we know it's a result of spending, not earning.
Totally agree. I always think that negotiating a salary as a company accountant must be pretty easy because you know exactly what’s going on. That’s why I don’t understand that a lot of employees are against salary transparency. Maybe they think they got a great deal but from my experience most people who think they got a good deal in reality don’t.
I don't really make dishonest dollars so this is unfamiliar to me but I was under the impression content mills made easily detectable formulaic clickbait "What happened next will surprise you" "a local housemom discovered something" "7 worst celebrity hairstyles" etc...

This is decidedly different. Here's some examples:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2198700&cid=3629362...

These are all at least 6 years old ... the key here is to make it look like it's legit and above board all the while you're just content farming from archives.

I've had people repackage articles I've written on their own site and presented them as conference papers as just one-offs (I don't really care, whatever). This is a proposal for an automated plagerization engine, shamelessly lifting old content and repackaging it in a way suggesting it's exclusive.

I've had top articles and projects on reddit, slashdot, and hn ... I tried amassing a portfolio recently and it's really hard to find the old references, blogs, and articles talking about it. The web is more of a moving river than a library. That's why I think this would work.

It's incredibly dishonest but I don't think I've seen it done.
Most search engine products, be it job search, Airbnb, e-commerce, Google, etc are going to have a lot of opportunities and use for NLP to understand queries and content.
> As you say, a lot of bike infrastructure is bad, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion. If a city really half-asses its bus program so that it's nearly useless, we don't declare that the fault of public transportation generally. You get what you pay for and all.

I'm not anti-infrastructure. I'd consider myself about 1/2 vehicular, 1/2 infrastructural. (See my other posts in this thread; I've repeated this several times now.) Both sides have good points. The problem is that most infrastructure in the US is bad, often considerably worse than no infrastructure at all.