skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of misses the point - I do mention the robust permission system in Android.

The issue is that the developers themselves don't really seem to care as much about privacy etc as iOS developers. This effectively renders the privacy measures mostly meaningless. If I'm writing my dreams into your app and you can read them on your own server, I've already lost all semblance of privacy.
Hi, I am one of the co-authors. Thanks for reading our paper! We are actually using the small architecture WRN28_2.

In the experiment settings, we wrote: \citet{oliver2018realistic} provided evaluation results of prior works with the same architecture and evaluation scheme, hence we follow their settings and employ Wide Residual Networks~\citep{zagoruyko2016wide} with depth 28 and width 2 as our baseline model.

In the caption of table 2, we also wrote "Comparison with existing methods on CIFAR-10 and SVHN with $4,000$ and $1,000$ examples respectively. All compared methods use a common architecture WRN-28-2 with 1.4M parameters except AutoAugment$^*$ which uses a larger architecture WRN-28-10.".
Ask HN: Failsafe Electric Blanket?
I've been looking for an electric blanket and have been appalled to find that a large amount of products on the market appear to be obscenely dangerous, despite apparently being UL/ETL listed.

This I've gathered from the consistency with which the amazon listings come with 1-star 'burnt my house down' reviews with pictures, and more importantly that one of the largest vendors, Sunbeam, _still_ sells blankets they know to be defective, _and_ never recalled an older model they know to be even more defective[1]!

That they are still selling them implies a regulatory failure as far as I am concerned. And if they can get away with it, so can everyone else, so no blanket for me.

Which is a real shame because holy wow, electric blankets are so much more efficient than space heaters.

In conclusion, someone please do a disrupt and sell me a blanket

[1] http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/jury-finds-sunbeam%E2%80%99s-improved-electric-blanket-circuit-still-doesn%E2%80%99t-fail-safe?fbclid=IwAR0Ayoa1n7oz-xW78CZBRwYshnlLBr2Huu0uPEk0E7YhVmTnXvtAAlvatcw
Your last statement doesn't counter mine.
Ok, but why does making the process more painful make people lobby for lower taxes? The connection isn’t obvious to me.

To make this more explicit, presumably the chain of reasoning is as follows:

1. Make tax filing more painful.

2. As a general rule, people will set out to do that which reduces their pain.

3. Therefore, people will set out to do that which makes tax filing less painful.

4. People determine that lobbying for lower taxes will make tax filing less painful.

5. Therefore, people will set out to lobby for lower taxes.

Step 4 doesn't make sense to me because reducing total tax rate and reducing tax code complexity are orthogonal issues, and advocating for lower taxes will not in and of itself lead to a simpler tax code.
OneSignal Is Hiring Ruby on Rails and DevOps Engineers in San Mateo
Not globally. Most clouds architect each region as stand-alone. The logic being if a change that begins in region A causes an issue, you have a feedback-loop to decide to either move forward or to halt the roll-out to further regions.
No I don't and that's my point.
>Yes, this is why America started its war on terror after 9/11.

Huh, I thought 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from a country allied with America, that wants to buy $350 billion of weapons and military technology from it...
It's hard to keep your eye on the road and use a touch screen interface. There's no tactile feedback.
Things to Consider Before You Join a Startup
Thx! I agree with utility part,I just found t420s so much more usable than t420, while retaining modularity and maintainability. Feels easier to lug around than x220/230,if it's less heavy etc. Hmmm...!
I've gotten enough candidates who can't FizzBuzz to say you can expect to get at least a couple in a group of 100 candidates. More or less depending on what screening you do before interviews.

There is definitely a second line above the simple FizzBuzz many more candidates would have a lot more trouble with two nested loops.
All new vehicles sold in the US after May 2018 were required to have a backup camera.

https://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/49/4/4

If the automakers have to install a video display, it's not much of a leap to turn it into an infotainment system.
The us-east-1 outage of S3 in spring of 2017 comes to mind. The AWS status page went down and no one could figure out what was going on because the status page had a hard dependency on us-east-1 S3.
He is a notable anti-Semite and extremist hate leader who blames black slavery on the Jews. Trying to provide cover for him by claiming it's simply "anti-white" is disingenuous at best. If you don't trust me, trust the Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

Being black in America doesn't give you a free pass on anti-Semitism. If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know about the US but it has already happened in France. Retirement used to be after 40-42 years of work and it's been increased to about 45.

It's still unsustainable and it's expected to increase again to 47-49. The politicians are dragging their feet because nobody wants to be the guy announcing that, but it's going to happen, it's just a matter of time with the president rotating every few years until one will be painted in a corner.
Any interest in a voice controlled stove? Just an idea I've been kicking around...
How to CRUD in Angular and Firebase Firestore
You might still need "person_id" for foreign keys no?
Most of them are still so slow, unresponsive and laggy that they break any illusion of "touch" when interacting with the UI.

The iPad is almost 10 years old now.. come on..
Apparently somebody did the needful.
Use the "?" operator. That way, you only handle errors one time (probably at the root of your program).

See here: https://github.com/omarabid/rust-starter/blob/master/src/mai...
Flame on!
> where is the money going exactly?

120hz

Airpods, and the new embedded chips

AR, certainly an upcoming headset

A failed vehicle program

Others?
I really wanted to disagree with both 'fringe' and 'dangerous', but it must be said your argument in favour of fringe is compelling.

'Dangerous' is still unsettling. Mark Zuckerberg has been floated as a possible-but-out-there presidential candidate and he isn't likely to run on the Republican ticket.

Words like 'dangerous' with justifications like yours ('well, they aren't directly responsible but they might ...') can be used, with minor variations, to justify suppression of:

* Any major religion

* Any racially coordinated group that trys to organise to better their social poisition

* Any innovative business model that threatens established companies

If Facebook bans show an ideological bias then that is bad even if it is legal. It isn't like the left is free of dangerous idiots inspired by rabid media [0]. There is going to be some bias in some direction - obviously - but this is a space to watch for evidence of a real problem. Facebook should not be shaping political dialog in the borderline cases, that isn't something they are known to be good at.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
It's probably the same as with tech companies where only a very small percentage does cutting edge work.
If an SSD is used, would the extract and copy approach cause more wear?
There is no evidence to back up your claims that he has white supremacist beliefs. You people are delusional and obsessed with leftist/SJW ideology. No logic behind your reasoning. Everyone who disagrees with you is Nazi/homophobe/racist/whitesupremacist/etc. Insanity.
Is it me or is this a terrible abuse of a regulation which itself is well intended?
When those touchscreens break–and they will-- it will cause all of the services in that car to stop working and the repair bill will be enormous.

Thus, the 80 something percent of new cars that have touchscreens are a maintenance nightmare. Everyone who spends their money on a new car with a touchscreen will deeply regret it.
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In your opinion, do you think that the hiring manager rejected the applicant because that hiring manager thought the applicant was too good? As in, that the applicant was a possible threat in the company hierarchy to the hiring manager?

Asking because I've seen that one play out a fair few times.
Some of my key lessons were:

- remote-first meetings; is someone is remote / in another office, everyone takes the call from their laptops. That way no one ends up being forgotten on a screen in a room full of people.

- habitually reverting to written communication, so that information doesn't get lost in 1:1 conversations. That means writing thought processes into tickets, so folks can search for things later. We worked across 3 timezones (including PT to IST, ~12 hours off) so async communication was key.

- not having a central office. "Everyone is remote" wasn't perfect, but there wasn't a true home office in the same way as my current company. For example, it was considered rude to "@here" in the general chat channel for things like donuts, because hey, many folks are in other states/countries, and don't need to hear about y'alls treats. Little things like that make a big difference in employee experience.
People get older, you know.
Sure, but net effect is the same - saying something hugely biased and hiding behind a screen of humor (legitimate or not) to allow it to be said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_Update

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester
The thing about things with longer half lives is that while they last a longer time they're also less radioactive. The same decay events that cause dangerous radiation are the same decay events that lead to the material's half life. I would guess that it's worse to breath in Plutonium-239 than to breath in asbestos but I'm not sure and the Wikipedia page is short on information that would convince me either way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Toxicity
> Facebook is arguably the new public square, which is precisely my point.

Hey, I think Clay Shirky wants his point from 2008 back. Since we actually have more than 10 years to have reflected on this idea, we can now see it's patently nonsense, given that the idea of the "public square" doesn't encompass harvesting the conversations which happen therein, aggressive tailored marketing, and leaking of personal information from everyone who crosses through. Facebook capitalises on the notion of a public square. That does not make it one.
> a 4% rise in price

But a much larger change to profits. And it's the profits that matter to the business decision makers.
To an English speaker it looks more like "wanker"
It's DNS, so it is somewhat inherently global. Route53 isn't region specific either, so I could see an issue with that having a global effect, too.
Handbook of Monte Carlo Methods
BMW does a good integration of CarPlay without a touchscreen. Select by turning the control knob, push down to click.
Although there is one higher res image available, which is better than usual. Of course it's high enough res to show that there's visible artifacting. But this is pretty impressive.

I wonder if an easy hack would be to train a second separate neural network to clean up the kind of artifacting that you get out of the first neural network...
I’ve seen this so many times as well where candidates under sell themselves or key accomplishments never get brought up. Even Elon Musk in the most recent Autonomy day had to say to Karparthy “introduce yourself and don’t be bashful.” Even then, I’ve noticed, I’ve noticed that people don’t “hear” things until a second or third conversation. The idea that you can absolutely hear everything a candidate has to say in 60 minutes is just unreasonable. At the same time, I think you did the right thing: you helped your client make a better decision but not letting them rely on a first look exclusively.
Here in Australia we have automated passport control gates that scan a chip in our passport then takes a photo of our face (and I assume does some matching with our passport photo) before allowing reentry. It's quite quick and very convenient. Although I'm not aware of any airlines being able to use the system for boarding.
I think you're missing the point.

The purpose is to Filter out people who can't code at all.

If you've ever hired developers you know how many people show up to interviews and genuinely cannot program to save their life.
Car tech is _insanely_ bad; I don't understand why, but it boggles my mind.
While we're speculating:

If the algorithm predicted, "Then CIA extraodinary-rendition'd $particular_person_of_interest_to_people_with_top_secret_clearance to a black site"

you'd hope to get a judge who's technical enough to understand that the algorithm didn't "know;" it just "predicted."

Point being, I don't personally have much faith that the justice system evaluates tech the way we would.
>I'll take his word for it. I'm not delusional/paranoid/schizophrenic/obsessed enough to have such motivations.

Why would no journalists or paparazzi found anything? Most people actually go out in public with their spouses.
I hate this trend.

My ideal car:

- buttons and dials I can feel with my hands without looking for climate/volume/etc. controls

- Car has a well documented API that can be used to control all non-safety critical features of the car (climate, media, etc.) as well as get lots of read only stats (current speed, current gas levels, current GPS location, etc.)

- mount on the center console where I can put my own touchscreen device if I so choose (iPad, Android, phone, etc)

- Car has an official app that can talk to said API over bluetooth or whatever for iOS/Android.

- Or I can write my own apps or programs, etc. that talk to the API.

Maybe I want to listen to audiobooks on Tuesdays and my own app would know to push that to the speakers as soon as I start the car on Tuesdays

Or maybe I want a raspberry pi in the trunk to log my car's current location and speed once per second because it's my teenager.

Just stop forcing crappy touchscreens attached to crappy laggy computers into my car! I want to choose my own computer and I want to be able to replace it if it breaks without taking apart my whole car and paying someone $1000 in labor. A stock iPad is 10x more responsive than the crappy touchscreen in the Model S; just let me mount my iPad
You can have both a touch-screen AND tactile feedback. Ex: have a volume nub AND a touch-screen.

The touch-screen is almost a necessity with Apple Play and Android Auto. If you want to interact with your cell-phone apps with your car system, you better have a touch screen.

But please don't get rid of my AC buttons or fan setting knob.
Exactly. If you're Gap and have a lineup with thousands of articles of clothing, why would you go through the trouble of procuring models? You have to deal with modeling agencies, photographers, set managers, etc... When the AI gets good enough, it will be even better than the alternative. It will serve ads showing only your body type. Maybe the models will even have....your face.
This is misleading and false when it comes to Course 18. Math classes numbering has much more structure.

18.XYZ where Z >= 5 are grad classes.

X = 1 is Analysis
X = 2 is Mathematical Physics
X = 3 is Applied Mathematics
X = 4 is Theoretical Computer Science
X = 5 is Logic
X = 7 is Algebra
X = 9 is Topology
Bento – An Android UI Framework
At CHI conference about a decade ago I spoke with some of the lead HCI researchers at Mitsubishi (which has long contributed to human factors research). During Q/A they said the single best thing you could do to improve safety was to NOT buy a car with a touchscreen interface. Lack of tactile feedback is a major problem.

We all were quick to point out that they were selling cars with touchscreens. The HCI researchers said yes the company did, but their point still stood.

You want to be able to do things like adjust heat and defrost without looking (just with hands).
There's nothing barring this. Just don't sell any control of your company to anyone who won't agree with this strategy indefinitely, and run a consistently cash flow positive business so you will never be in a position to need to bend that rule to make payroll. It's definitely harder, especially if you don't have your own capital to start with, or hit a temporary bump in the road that bleeds the war chest, but people do it.

If you take outside capital to accelerate your business on the assumption that the investors will make money as it grows, you're choosing to join that system, no one forces you to participate.

Although I suppose you could end up in a zero sum competition with another business for market share, and there might be an unstable nash equilibrium where you both might want to not raise money, but if the other raises significant capital they could crush you, so you are kind of systematically pushed to play the game to keep your vision alive.
Not in places like Winnipeg. Streets stay snowy for months.
> You're suggesting Julius Steicher shouldn't have been charged in the Nuremberg trials?

If Breitbart and Bannon were acting solely at the direction of white supremacists or neo-Nazis, and so the ultimate agenda of ethnocleansing were clear, that's a totally different scenario. There's no need for charity or a presumption of innocence. The summaries of the emails I've read suggest that isn't the case.

> There absolutely is a direct plan to incite violence, check the emails.

I'd love to, but googling doesn't seem to turn up anything but comments and summaries. Given the emotionally charged nature of this topic, I'd prefer to read the source myself. If you have a link please share.

> And of course a video of Bannon laying things out

Sounds like he's laying out a campaign strategy. Again the question is whether he actually believes in it, or if he's pushing this agenda for ulterior motives.
I think they can be pretty beneficial in corporate environments where you can exert some control over the IDP and turning it on/off isn't super difficult (like visiting a physical help desk)

In addition, these places tend to have less technical users and "plug it in and press during login" isn't terribly difficult
how about person_id to person.id?
how about old fashioned nubs and buttons?
Try slader.com
Decades ago, Honda tried to become a gasoline engine supplier to other car makers. But the industry remained vertically integrated in engine development, even as parts suppliers in other areas moved up the value chain. Electric cars may drive horizontalization even more. Another factor is the huge number of manufacturers springing up in China.
PyCharm.
You're taking an overall reduction in violent crime in the US to mean that hate crimes have also decreased.

The opposite is the case, and it is absolutely because extremist/fringe material has become increasingly and vastly more easily available.

50 dead in Christchurch, scores of Rohyinga in Myanmar, 11 dead in a Pittsburgh Mosque are all victims from what you call a 'pressure relief valve.'

"An FBI report released in November 2018 detailing hate crimes across more than 3,000 police agencies showed a more than 17% uptick in 2017, fueled by increases in attacks against religious and racial minorities. The count documented 7,175 hate crimes in 2017. The tally was 1,054 higher than the year before. It included a 37% increase in anti-Jewish crimes, a 24% increase in attacks on Latinos and a nearly 16% rise in crimes against African Americans."[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-poway-jewish-hate-...
Yes. Google takeout has that as an option.
Southern Sweden, surprisingly enough :)

https://www.yogameditation.com/retreats/the-3-month-sadhana-...
People on HN insert Wiki links so that readers can get a quick overview of a subject they may be unfamiliar with. None of us here owe you a curated list of academic journals explaining the history of specific instances of hate speech. If you really feel that conventional wisdom is wrong about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion being hate-filled trash, by all means, do the research and make a decision.

And that relates to the bigger picture about whether Facebook owes Farrakhan any sort of explanation or reason for kicking him: to be blunt, we don't HAVE TO offer a reasoned, good-faith proof that every wackjob is a wackjob or that's all us non-wackjobs would be doing all day: countering wackjobs.

I've never read Farrakhan but I don't have to read his writings to know that I disagree with him because enough people already have -- journalists, commentators, other people, the literati, the accumulated conventional wisdom of our society, whatever you want to call it.

Same with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- it's propaganda filth that should have been left behind in the last century. I've never read it, don't need to. You can if you want. It's not outlawed and shouldn't be.

But FB has decided they don't want that filth on their servers. Because sometimes, the people who post that filth also egg each other on and post things like "get a high score!" when one of their buddies starts livestreaming themselves shooting up a synagogue.

So if you do want to read it, go for it -- you can find it in numerous academic studies of hate speech and propaganda, and I'm sure it's still available on plenty of websites haunted by the types of guys who collect Nazi memorabilia with a gleam in their eye. But don't be shocked that lots of us have heard of it and can instantly label it as crap without having to research it.
Hell, Michael Jackson did it way back in the 1980's.
I guess he was indeed a time traveler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFE8cirkdQ
High functioning autistic people have the ability to cope with extremely complicated systems.

Thus, as the people with Aspergers take over, we will find some nice safe places for the Neurotypicals to live. We will find games for you to play and other simple things to take care of you. But do not be confused: there will come a day when we control everything.
> Key-logger on the box your soft cert is on. Soft cert is comprised immediately, fully, and permanently.

That essentially means the entire machine is compromised and logging into any service would allow the adversary to access them. That would compromise the email and SMS routes. If they have root access to my phone (or whatever I use to store the TOTP secret), that would allow them to generate the correct one time token to log into any service that I use TOTP 2FA with.

> With email/sms, at least it's possible for you to realize they're compromised

That's assuming I check carefully and often enough. If someone brute-forces my password over IMAP, then they could read my messages without me ever knowing. But I could always check the process list on my computer to determine if a keylogger is installed.

> and with TOTP the underlying keymat is likely not on the device so the attacker has to repeatedly win the race.

It depends on the application. If someone got access to my phone, they could easily get the TOTP secret out of my GAuth app.

> the correct answer here is hardware protection of the private key, e.g. yubikey.

Except that it's not universally supported. It's not going to work with my email client nor will it work with my IRC client.
keep lying about renewables by including hydropower. ....keep on keeping on. :)
I don't agree with this but it seems like a functional method to fund research. Are we seeing breakthroughs from other countries via the traditional private funding/patent system?
I’m not sure what validation means, but it does auto calculate and tell you if things don’t add up.