skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

The main principle of humanitarian help is very valuable. We shall not abandon our core values, just because some people go ahead and cheat on us. Yes, some do. I know that and I don't like that either.

But.

In general every person on the planet should be able to live peacefully and in dignity and if leaders in other countries do not build a system that is capable of providing this for all inhabitants, we should give them asylum and protect them from harassment.

Regarding those who are leaving their country and seeking asylum only for economical reasons, trying to escape poverty and a bleak future prospect, we shall not forget that a lot of our wealth is build on exploiting other countries. Our wealth is built on a system, that lets money and goods flow while disallowing the same freedom for people.

No, there is no excuse for rape and there never can be.

But before we judge these people we should always reconsider: Why are they here? What is their situation in the country where they come from? What kind of chance do they have in their country? What kind of chance do they have here? Do we give them a chance to behave and act well?

I refuse to follow the growing mob that does not reflect on the global situation, that does not differentiate and treats every foreigner the same, that suspects that every refugee is a criminal, dirty and trying to rape our children.
I really like this. My nested lists in Evernote always get out of hand as soon as a node needs more than one line.

I've tried WorkFlowy but I didn't like the presentation. I prefer cards and in Gingko's case you get the added benefit of having a great overview.
Why I hate Zendesk
I'll tell you exactly what the problem is.
The page for the demo does not have a very eye catching way to get the user to signup.
There is just one sign labelled 'complete signup' at the top right side, which is very easy to miss.

Now, here's the major issue.
I'm assuming whenever someone joins the demo page, he/she gets a random guest number and can chat. Then when the person leaves, his session stays logged in for some time, and then is removed.

The problem is that when people try to learn more about your product, and try to go to the home page, the logged in session takes them back to the chat room.
It happened to me multiple times where I closed all windows, and went back to tesla.im, it would take me to the chat room, so there was no way to read more about what you guys were offering, and since the signup button in the chat room is easy to miss, most people leave.

If they do try, like in my case, to go back to the homepage to see more about the product, then they are continuously forwarded to the chat room, which is horrible considering people are have very short attention spans.

So maybe fix that and try again?
I do it with only a single ocular image (eye, eyebrow, and surrounding skin texture) rather than the full face. Using 1:1 matching environments are common for NIST challenges.
What's the state of the art in terms of extending such systems to handle faces that are partially obscured (e.g. wearing glasses)? References to further resources in the area accepted and appreciated! I'm going to start work on a face recognition system soon and I'm keen to learn more about their current limitations.
Hm, tried it with Opera and it is indeed blocking it. However, the image still shows when the page is reloaded. So eh, kinda works.
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I cannot find it now, but I listened to a podcast (possibly four thought) with a discussion on disappearing languages. The professor had been approached by a woman asking how she could help her children, who were losing the native language as it died out. He replied if she really wanted to help her children she should encourage them to learn English and not the native language - they will benefiot more from communicating with nearly 2 bn people than with a few thousand in the locale.

(I seem to remember that Papua New Guinea has a language every mile along its northern coast - mainly it seemed to piss off the neighbouring tribes)
ermm? Just right click the image, adblock -> remove this image.

Of course reloading the page will bring it back due to way it's done, I guess that's supposed be the challenging part.
It's funny, the communication difficulty applies to PG as well. PG could be much more prominent if he had a better speaking ability. His speeches are really bad, he reads of the paper and 'ums' all the way through. I've never managed to sit one through. If it wasn't for that he could've gotten the press coverage of a major tech CEO.
It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy
Yeah, I have no idea now. Nice job :)
Just like there was a relatively cheap countermeasure to every pipe dream revision of the SDI, such countermeasures are already in place for facial recognition:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/glasses-foil...

But at least we'll fall victim to a higher, rarified caliber of terrorist rather than that awful riffraff we're dealing with now.
Thanks Kiro!

I should have used "Evernote + Workflowy" in the title, since that seems to be what people immediately understand about Gingko.

Get in touch if you ever have any thoughts or questions.
One of the most interesting domestic exercises is to think about how much different items cost in terms of other items.

A steak dinner (say, $50) is worth just a bit more than 3 double-meat Chipotle burritos with drink and chips and guac (say, $14). Each of those burrito meals is worth a bit more than 4 dozen eggs (say, fancy-pants eggs at $3/dz.) Each of those dozen eggs is worth 20 packs of shitty ramen ($.15/pack).

It's an exercise worth practicing, lest you find yourself one day needing to use that calculus.

EDIT:

This is also why buying Mississippi Mud ($4/qt. of passable black & tan) or Arizona RX energy drinks (~$1/can) is a good investment, as is rolling your own cigarettes or smoking pipes.
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Except that you most likely shouldn't use a pie chart to begin with. Unless you know you shouldn't, then it might be ok.
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Predicting start-up success with Google trends
Pedophiles and terrorists use high-strength crypto to transmit dangerous and illegal information. There's no reason normal citizens need high-strength crypto. Besides, if it came down to it, do you really think your crypto would stand a chance against the government's three letter agencies? You can still protect yourself from passive script kiddies with ROT13.
If you have a team with many different accents, a CEO who speaks with excellent "transatlantic English" (international/mixed-British-American English) will also likely be easiest for all the other team members to understand. It's about being a more central node in mutual communication/intelligibility networks, rather than a leaf node.
For what platforms is it available? (There's no way I'm going to the trouble of signing up, only to be told "uh oh, not on your platform".)
Some caches, like dnscache (and thus OpenDNS), may not respond to non-recursive queries. Would this break your dns_peek function?
The Next Generation of Online Giving
Not easy for non-EU citizens, unemployment rate is very high. To be able to move there you have to find a job with 60K salary.
I've been using Firebase for 4 months and the stability has been pretty great. At least, no worse than I expect for a service this new. I had maybe 4 or 5 times where my site was slow or didn't load and never lasting more than an hour. Pretty decent uptime for 4 months or so. Note, I don't use AngularFire.
It's funny, as I was going through the site I found the following issue:

On http://darkpatterns.org/library/faraway_bill/

Next is listed first, followed by Previous.

On the "previous page": http://darkpatterns.org/library/disguised_ads/

It is listed as such Previous followed by Next. So when I got to the Disguied Ads page, I clicked the last link on the page expecting it to take me to the next page, instead it took me back to the previous page!
Now that is a great idea.
Sometimes the "bad edge" effect is cumulative over time. This can lead to a new entrant to the market suddenly gaining a lot of market share, because so many people have gotten fed up with the dominant player. So maybe the dark patterns work well, until suddenly they nose-dive, because everyone's switched to the less annoying alternative.

A/B testing only tells you what works today, not what's going to keep your customers satisfied in the long run.
People will walk around with headsets to cover their entire face, defeating the cameras.

Let's face it, you're won't going to walk around with a VR headset on your face unless you're a) wireless connected to a server, or b) enjoy taking a heavy backpack or cart of gear everywhere.
Well, now you have me as a data point, I care ;) Alas, I need to open "exotic" formats like OpenOffice spreadsheets as well (I don't really get a say on what format lands in my inbox): on Android, I have chosen amongst the 3 paid apps which can do this (yes, there are also 30 others, but as noted above, 90% of _anything_ is crap); on WP, I'd be SOL as _MS_ Word only handles...wait for it..._MS_ Office formats. Yay, vendor lock-in! (Although to be fair, since the last month, there _is_ now a rudimentary converter on the WP store)
My head has no trouble keeping my name, address, social, and other pertinent information safe from prying eyes.

I don't really know what you're getting at with this comment.
Given the rate of false positives when "cold hits" are used with DNA databases, facial recognition (which is presumably higher entropy than DNA) has the potential to send a lot of innocent people to jail.

I also have some concerns of inadvertent "software racism". See for example, this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM. Obviously facial recognition isn't inherently incapable of recognizing people of different races, but if it's designed and calibrated on subjects of one race, it won't necessarily work well for subjects of different races. The last thing we want is a facial recognition database that thinks e.g. all Arabs look alike.

And of course, there are a ton of ways that it can be thwarted easily and inconspicuously, even if it works very well. Are all surveillance cameras going to be fitted with IR filters to ensure that a bright IR LED necklace doesn't blind them? And how hard is it for a criminal to hire a makeup artist?
Spoken language is an strong indicator of education and class. I'm guessing that native english speakers with poor communication were hardly ever accepted to YC, while non-native english speakers with good educations were. That would explain pg's data, at any rate.
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Identifying people's faces, especially caucasians, is relatively considered straightforward nowadays. Google spent a lot of time working on the problem so they could obscure faces in Google Street View. You start by looking for the eyes, which are dark spots surrounded by white. Then, you go from the eyes to the nose.

Identifying which person a face belongs to is a classification problem, which gets difficult the larger the set you're comparing to. Facebook has some tech that is interesting here, but it also only checks your friends and some level of false positives is acceptable. I imagine it that what algorithms they have aren't quite good enough to, say, identify your face out of an entire city's worth of driver's license photos. (Yet, which is what this article alludes to.)
I can confirm PayPal are douchebags in this regard. So much so that I couldn't donate to Lavabit because of it.
Yes, it's a stark object lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Qwest

ADDED: which helps explain the current behavior of other companies we'd like to think better of. I'm sure the people running them would to, but they and their families (who the Feds have targeted in other political prosecutions) would prefer they stay out of Federal prison.
8tracks.com boiled down to single tag?

Feedback: the player panel, instead having tabs for Now Playing / Queue, why not move the tabs below the player buttons, and have Comments / Queue tabs.
The person who wrote this blog would disagree with you: www.alljapaneseallthetime.com . It's harder, no doubt, but most people can't give that excuse because they don't go 100% into immersing their lives into the language. Which means listening to audio, TV shows, anything in that language at least 12 hours a day even at work, and even sometimes when you sleep (a lot i know, but if it was that easy, everyone would speak 3+ languages).

Plus, if you live in NYC or any ethnically diverse community in the USA, you'd meet plenty of people who've lived here 20+ years, yet can't have a conversation with you in English - I know many Chinese immigrants like that.
Eventually, this will become a crime and we, programmers, will support it. Because, legislating our way to money is easier. Locking down is easier.
So is 'reversing' a common lazy shorthand for 'reverse engineering'? The title confused me until I realized what it was about. Feeling like an old fart...
Don't we all technically speak with an accent?

I'm from Canada, and I have been to areas of the USA where I could not understand almost anything being said by the local population.
Extensions like Readability and Clearly let you read just the main content on the page. It would be nice if they had an option to automatically load pages like in that mode. Besides avoiding all the clutter websites put, the pages would also load faster that way.
I'm sure that happens just the way you said.

I just think it's strange that people who would come to HN looking to learn more about entrepreneurial things would resonate much at all with "the environment determines outcomes, not the individual" type thinking.

Not only does that mindset doom entrepreneurial success, but I wonder why people with such a defeatist attitude toward self-improvement are here in the first place.
One problem with programming books is that code listings are not well formatted. Paging through a code listing on paper is not ideal. But it is usually even less ideal paging through a listing in an e-book format.

E-books should be better than print. They should have at least scrolling code, syntax coloring, and and updates straight out of repos.
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"You might be surprised to learn that the calculator chip cannot perform multiplication natively. There's no floating point unit to multiply two numbers."

Quite true. The sexy multiplier chips from TRW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW_Inc. ) were still a few years off, and not intended for mere calculators. Same for
the Intel x87 floating point co-processors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8087).

Nowadays the silicon real-estate cost for floating point math is trivial, and chip area is filled out with RAM cache for lack of anything better to do ...
warning: anecdote of 1 here. but one time my native Japanese roommate and I were playing with a real-time audio spectrum analyzer and I was demonstrating the difference b/t "l" and "r" and she simply could not hear the difference.

As tokenadult mentions, it is brutally hard to learn these distinctions. perhaps that is why successful founders push their way past accent problems; they are successful as pushing through brutally hard problems.
+1. That's the only way to use PayPal as a consumer. If you're just a buyer and not a seller, there's no advantage to you to tell them about your bank account. They make some noise about a sending limit until you verify with a bank account, but I've never had any transactions run into that.

I had my bank account connected to PayPal once, but deleted the association a few years ago. Somewhat surprisingly in the modern world of phantom deletion, there's never been any sign of it reappearing or Paypal trying to use or access it for anything. Each Paypal purchase uses only my credit card with no accidental way to do anything else.
> "But as surveillance technology improves, the distinction between public spaces and private spaces becomes less meaningful."

Or more to the point: as the NSA mandates access to all private data, the distinction of recordings from public spaces and recordings from private spaces is made moot.
Outlining: a workaround for JITs and big functions
You're welcome. Glad I could clear that up.

If you haven't played in a while, you should check it out again. There's a game[1] now for Steam/Xbox/PS3/Android/iOS to get you back into the swing of things and show you many of the current cards.

[1]: https://www.wizards.com/magic/digital/duelsoftheplaneswalker...
Do you have any papers on your work? Would be great if you add a link to them.
Oh, I think it's okay if the hypotheses are falsifiable in the future, as long as the models are not presented as experimentally verified.
"The Point" is to get rid off them as soon as they have another place to go.
You do have time to read, though. You just stated you have 2 hours on a bus.
Perhaps, but the cameras on the VR headsets will provide even more data for the government for those who don't have an anonymous face; especially if the data is sent to a central server for processing (ala Google Glass).

Plus, unless you build the hardware entirely yourself, the headset won't save you from other tracking technologies. Presumably the headset will have a wireless chip whose MAC can be tracked, or, worse, it'll have an RFID chip specially-built for government tracking.
The sad state of business funding vs creative fields
As someone who took a break from a good programming job to attend grad school (on a $20k/year stipend), I can say that for me the causality went poverty->stress. I've never had trouble with money management, but boy I sure sweated every little thing during those years. I was short with my wife and kids. I had sleepless nights. I had no idea how I would ever afford retirement or even health care. Now that I'm back to earning a good living my stress is way back down again. I feel my judgments are more considered, and I'm more confident in myself.
Kinesis is the final word in keyboards IMO. It's expensive for a keyboard, but they last a very long time, and the shape is far superior to any other ergonomic keyboard I've used.
I thought Nuke Anything Enhanced was meant to do exactly that?

Links:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...
Works on all modern browsers. Soon, will work on mobile as well.

I've even been testing it on my Kindle this morning, and was surprised to see it (almost) works there too!
I didn't realize that. Got my passport long ago, and for the driving license I'm sure they just took a picture. There was no scan (atleast nothing like the laser scan described by bsenftner above).
Yes because pedantry is so much more meaningful than engaging in communication.
With the element hiding extension[1] installed:

0x1b.pw##IMG:first-child

But I imagine you could work around this by adding a null IMG element before the ad. Also, I'm pretty sure this would break any non-toy page.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelpe...
Could you not do a captcha for non signed in users?
It does happen, but its rare. You have to remember that the whole criminal justice system operates in the context of large numbers of guilty as fuck defendants who file endless appeals and petitions to get rock solid cases overturned. That's the rule, cases like Daniel's are the exception. So prosecutors and investigators have broad immunities, with high bars for overcoming them. Otherwise, they'd be constantly subject to litigation.

Remember, this reporter got hundreds of letters from convicts and followed up on this one. Remember also that in real life, the facts aren't laid out for you like a newspaper article.
> Here is an idea for a product - easy to use program that balances the budget as good as possible while taking into account the unique challenges that struggling people are faced with.

It's a good idea, but saving money often has an up front cost and I think an app to help the poor would fall into that category.

The people that would end up benefiting from such an app would be people that could afford to purchase a device to run the app.
One of the virtues of Evernote is that you are not stuck in a hierarchy if you don't want to be. I find Clay Shirky's well-known criticisms of pervasive hierarchies to be quite persuasive. I'm looking for something that doesn't paint me into an hierarchical corner. Evernote is certainly a step in the right direction, and the IHMC concept mapping software can work very well too.
Using ElixirLang to write Ybot plugins
"Hmmm, my affiliate revenue is dropping, time to write a new product round-up blog post."
I agree, that's one good example of social inequality. though, to be fair, I think the rulers are trying to improve the laws and the culture, for a third-world country UAE can never be compared to any of its neighbours where women can't even drive.
This analogy almost made me snort coffee out my nose.. well done sir.
Alternatively, there would be no shortage, even among your friends, of people who would march you to the gas chamber.
For an even more interesting observation:

I have grown up not quite in poverty, but still in a single parent home with mum having to work multiple jobs at times to support me and my sister. Thinking about money has rubbed off on me.

Nowadays I personally have zero money problems on account of my freelancing business doing great. But going to the grocery store habits learned over half of my life still kick in. Do I buy $5 rice or $3 rice? Does that pack of tuna cost less per kilogram than that other pack of tuna even though they're the same brand? And so on.

Buying steak at a restaurant still feels like "Holy crap man, what are you doing, chicken will be just as nice and it's like half as expensive."

I suspect it will take years to unlearn this and I honestly envy people whose parents did not instill this kind of thinking in them. It looks easier.
I've been playing piano since I was a kid, but I wouldn't mind taking a class for a refresher for music theory.
From Geek to Pro: A continuing blog about a web dev training for the NFL
I hate the circle-jerk of Askreddit. I think it is a great idea and will help as much as I can.
Back around 1997 when I was fighting my Internet ban on First Amendment grounds[1], one honest journalist told me the deal. He told me that journalists are not my PR agent. They have their own agenda, and their own angle. Their goal is to get readers, not to spread the message you want them to spread.

tl;dr - Remember, journalists are not your PR agent.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lamprecht
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Elon Musk gives his opinion of the Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF (video)
HTML only needs two verbs; throw away the REST
It's just an issue of training. I'd expect a similar setup as I describe could be used to associate a series of faces with and without different things attached to their face, and a neural net could be trained to generate, for example, a no eye glasses wearing image from one with eye glasses. We already do that with facial expressions. I think the issues to be improved upon are extending the recognition beyond the face - include ear characteristics to extend recognition beyond +/- 30 degrees, and although my lab tells me analyzing gait is a dead end, I feel there might be something there that can help. Also lighting neutralization is an area that needs some help, which includes illumination balancing without removing important details, shadow removal, and colored illumination white balancing.
How about people with thick Southern or Mainer accents? People with heavy lisps or stutters? People who have suffered debilitating injuries, etc.?
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That's why I said "community" not country. You can live in many modern cities and speak your mother tongue all the time.

First step for learning a language is wanting to learn I guess
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