skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What good would it do to change the law around the cop issuing the citation when you've already demonstrated that you don't care if the cop follows the law in the first place by allowing illegal stops?
Sounds like it could hardly be worse?
Wait for Alexa (the "entity" behind Echo) to evolve a bit further and integrate more of what Amazon knows about you.
Umm, actually, a "heat engine" needs both the source of heat and a place to dump the waste heat into, so the surface of a star would be a bad place to build one.

The only way of dumping heat would be to radiate it out to space, but "radiation" is a very inefficient way of losing heat. Unless I'm missing some really clever trick, soon your radiator will become about as hot as the surrounding gas, at which point the efficiency (= (T_hot - T_cold) / T_hot) drops to near zero.

* Not a physicist, so I might be wrong. :P
I wonder if there is a legitimate glitch that is at the absolute bottom of a priority list to fix (and stays there) because it makes them more money.

Does insurance have the concept of "breakage" like with rebates in terms of whether people follow through on these "glitches?"
That really is a misleading definition of a ransom. A ransom is more like, "If you do not pay X, I will do Y"
I get the trust issues with FB, but they are also incentivized to make the best match with you and to be useful.
This is super interesting. I assume you're doing this through a few different APIs?
Technically UNDOCUMENTED manual switch codes! ;)
It's a pricing problem. To begin with, $25 probably isn't enough to make the project financially successful, as it can't be expected to sell in large volume. Small-volume products need to find a sweet spot in the demand*unit-price curve. If no such spot exists, as may well be the case for software development tools, the developer may as well give it away. The Mac market is particularly low-cost, low-return.

Secondly, if the product were priced at a point where it produced a viable revenue stream - for example, Logic Pro X addresses a very large market and is priced at $199.99 - one could hardly expect the student discounted price for the full product to be less than $25. However, my experience has been that no matter how low-priced the product (greater than $0), students will always ask for a lower price. :)
FTFY: problem with games is that I only like games that are multiplayer
It was often trivializing some discussion on state management. E.g. a database failover or consensus loss

But, yes, it would have _worked_ if our requirements weren't so strict :)
Nasa denies world-ending asteroid will strike Earth in September
Intercom raises $35M Series C
Twitter Axes Accountability Projects, Sparing Politicians Embarrassment
I had a bunch of these pay+stock arrangements as a full-time data consultant the past 4-5 years, though they were 1) pre-angel to angel and 2) vetted contacts/friends.
How would having a more racial diverse demographic in Newark schools alleviate their problems?
Asians and Indians don't count as minorities for purposes of the all important diversity narrative. Don't make that mistake too many times or the internet vigilantes will ruin you.
This is also rather misleading - because 300 have been shut down, 904 have been funded, which includes 107 in the last batch, which can be discounted entirely from these stats. This gives us 300/797 have shut down, or a percentage of about 38%.

What I'd like to know is the value, at exit, of the companies that have exited or gone public. Because I can guarantee you that the "valuation" of $65B+ is a totally meaningless number. This includes every single company that had a huge, unsustainable up round which will almost certainly be devalued based on future financings or exits.
The author is not saying Google Chrome is a security risk -- he's saying that malware has goals and behavior similar to Google's software updater.

> Here are just some of the reasons Google’s software update system can serve as a model APT. (1)
There is a bootstrapping program, GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent, buried deeply in a user’s home
directory. Few people know it is there, even fewer probably know when it becomes active. It
neither requests permission to modify your system nor notifies you when it does. (2) Detailed
analysis of this bootstrapping program cannot reveal what it may do because actual actions (via
programs & scripts in this case) are only received from the Internet at runtime. (3) A critical
executable (one you trust with your passwords for many important network services) will be
modified.

The paper then goes on to argue that this is a useful test case for people trying to detect when malware has modified their system, and what it has modified.

The paper does not discuss the security strengths or flaws of Chromium itself --- that discussion is completely tangential to the paper.
A day off every other week. Typical work week is 40 hrs/week. With 9/80, you split 2 weeks of work over 9 days and take the 10th off.
I was 100% sure they were Brits with atrong connection to the working class of the UK, etc.

Other than that, another idiot who is actively trying to get some attention, by doing illegal things online, nothing new, nothing special.
So employees at Ycombinator startups are extorting money from their employers? I find your definition of ransom and extortion quite bewildering.
Would .. you .. like .. to .. play .. a .. game?
Wouldn't Apple keep a record of your transactions? They even send a push notif with the receipt so they are aware of the location and store.
> Money and education results don't correlate

Even if they did, see my math analysis above that roughly 1/5 of employees are front line instructional and 4/5 are deadwood administrative. Therefore even in the most superficial analysis 80% of the money will be wasted on metrics and TPS reports and consultants. The reality of course is deadwood can cause much more damage than a front line instructor, lets say 2x as much, so of the $100M at least $90M would be wasted on deadwood and only $10M would get to the instructors.

$10M to the instructors sounds helpful, but its a big district so it divides out to only $10K or so per instructor. Figure a substantial portion of that will be lost in paperwork and corruption (4 out of 5 employees exist to get in the way...) so you only get $5K per teacher effective.

Assuming money equaled results, $5K isn't much. A math teacher could buy 50 brand new TI calculators, assuming buying brand new calculators increased student results, which they probably don't. Or about ten ipads, so the ten worst troublemakers could play angry birds and get out of the way of the rest of the class. Or $5K is about two sets of new overpriced textbooks for newark's very large class sizes. Again assuming any of those expenses give results anywhere but the product sellers bottom lines... But even if they did give results, they couldn't give much.
Is this like Hacker News' greatest hits?
Are you by any chance referring to the RWC or EPA stores? I've been to both and had miserable experiences each time. Employees that I can only describe as the "B-team" with no answers. Looking at my like deer in headlights when I ask a simple question on where to find a grout scraper, etc.

Decided to go to my local ACE hardware store and the experience was night and day. Never going back to Home Depot if I can avoid it.
Just a point of etiquette. Does it really make sense to down-vote a question to oblivion when the question has attracted reasonable responses?

In fact, this question contains by implication another seemingly reasonable question: Given that there exists a universally available cross-platform development API, why, in 2015, is anyone writing anything other than a web application?
She was also fighting several completely and utterly bogus citations from the traffic stop for those 6 years, unless I'm misreading this.
Former Morgan Stanley VP to Be Released on $2M Bond
I know a couple shelters that would love cat/dog facial recognition that was able to identify the animal based on it's face.

This project isn't that, but it's still pretty cool.
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That's not a full pictures of their current offerings. UberPool/Lyft lines are already closer to public transit on the continuum, with respect to the distinctions you made:

1: Pool/Lines add a lag to search for a match, so it's a bit less on-demand and more favorable others' schedules.

2: Pool/Lines increase the riders/vehicle.

4: Lyft Line hotspots reward you for picking start points at special locations, and ending within a zone, so it's somewhat route-constrained in return for a lower price.

The article's prediction (and Uber's upcoming initiatives) simply go further in that direction: more constrained routes, more constrained times, lower prices. It's not the sharp boundary you suggest.
sorry, it's too late to edit but I meant not expressed in equal amounts or at the same time
Yeah, we are using APIs and agreements for the content.

We also have an API (private beta for now) for developers to use the content and/or create alerts for our mobile app

So the first product we build with our API is this one, looking forward to find out if it's something useful. What do you think?
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Yeah, finding the right dead zones would be pretty hard. Especially if you are somewhere with relatively good signal. Would be a very interested in the results.

Disappointed with that 2 seconds though. I was really hoping for smoother. Though I guess that is why they are still invite only. They are still working on the technology. I was leaning towards getting Fi when the new Nexus comes out, but this makes me think it might not be ready yet.

Thanks for all the info.
I'm extremely excited by the prospect of personal server management. I dream of the day when "the cloud" will consisy of just a bunch of servers sitting in everybody's houses - sort of like a safe - and we will be in physical control over our digital assets.

This will happen one day, and I hope more will follow Sandstorm's path.
It helps to stop thinking about blockchains and smart contracts. Ethereum is a global public computer where programs have their own storage space that can't be modified by anything other than the program itself. You can remove the trusted middleman from pretty much any system that used to require one. That is a significant fraction of the economy. It's a significant fraction of our society.
VICE made a nice documentary about Agafia - http://www.vice.com/video/agafias-taiga-life-full-length
That's the American experience. It's less the case in any country that has signed up to the convention on the rights of the child.

In the case of children we protect them because they lack capacity. When they develop capacity we reduce the constraints.

Have a look at English guidelines for medical competance: "Gillick competance". This is used to decide whether someone under the age of 16 can consent to medical treatment without their parents knowledge or permission. (The perhaps odd age of 16 is used because that's the age of consent for sex and the name Gillick Competance comes from a case where a mother did not want girls under the age of 16 to be prescribed the contraceptive pill. (16 is the age of sexual consent in England.)

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-protection-sy...

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

For examples of what this means with real life examples:

14 year old refuses chemotherapy for a highly treatable brain tumor: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643x61

14 year old with type 1 diabetes is non-compliant with treatment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0499j2f

Can a 9 year old be given treatment her parents don't agree with? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t3z65
SendGrid mid-career “Returnships” encourage gender diversity, workforce re-entry
It will be difficult to get a solid proof without lawyers involved to check everything with the third parties.

Typically you just want to have a written statement from your founder and if at some point the company is worth enough to justify a check, you can hire lawyers to go back and check. If your founders lied in a written statement they will be liable for even more. In general if your founder lies to you and you have proof and the company goes big he is in trouble. Your lawyers will need to see all paperwork you signed in such case, watch out for sketchy terms you might be asked to sign later on. It is possible that crappy founders will try to erase all prior liability at some time when the company is about to make it big. In fact the company lawyers always go back and check everything the founders signed before a big deal to avoid any unforeseen liability.

You have to judge if your founders act in good faith or they are taking every opportunity to put you at disadvantage. If you don't trust the founders or the investors, don't do business with them.
I would research the terms of the H1-B visa. It isn't all roses and sunshine for the employee, essentially you will be stuck working for them, and if you ever get fired you have to find a new employer very quickly or risk getting deported. Even if you do keep your job it is extremely difficult to convert it to residence (I believe that requires costly employee sponsorship too).

While moving to the US is a great opportunity, it is only a great opportunity if you can escape the shackles of H1-B and work for whoever you want, or do your own startup.

So all I am getting at is, if you move to the US don't expect to be doing a startup again for at least ten years, unless you move back to India. It is unlikely many existing startups can bring on a H1-B categorised employee, and you definitely cannot start your own startup without being deported.

There are a few interesting articles on this topic....
Texting the Government Your Location
Instagram: I know where you live, and I can edit your posts
Android ImageGallery Library
Hey Guys. If you have ever needed a simple image gallery in your app my library might just be the thing. It now supports very large images like those on www.unsplash.com Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://github.com/lawloretienne/ImageGallery
Glassdoor's entire revenue stream is dependent on having a user-base visit them to generate the impressions that comprise their inventory of job seekers.

That user-base will only continue to visit Glassdoor if they maintain their reputation of having credible reviews around companies. It really does not seem in their best interest to shoot themselves in the foot in that regard. Of course Yelp was accused of similar things (whether true or not) and I'm not sure it really hurt them, so who knows.
Vactrol
This is more likely a case of Facebook "pitching" the story to Wired than Facebook paying Wired to run a paid promotional story. If you don't bite and do a story about the new Facebook thing, all of the other outlets will and you lose out on those potential readers. Because there are so many potential different outlets for where people can read about these bits of news, the PR people have the upper hand under the current views-based model.
It's got to be the position in the market at this point (though probably started out as human capital to get to that point). They're seeing most of the good deals for early stage companies because they're so far ahead anyone else in the space, which is obviously in your best interest in something where the best deals are several orders of magnitude better than a merely good deal and the average case is failure.
Show me the list of affluent parents who are willing to send their children to schools in crime-ridden areas. It has nothing to do with race but with the violent culture these areas breed.
The Pitch Room – Ep. #2, Featuring Cameron Peron
Most programmers have stated on HN that they work on avg 4 hours per day. Most ppl cannot work more than that. Of course there exceptions but about 4 hours of pure programming (reading documentation, writing/refactoring code) is acceptable. Otherwise you risk burn out.
Sorry for being lazy, but can someone explain how this is different from the other 1-click app hosting companies?
Money thrown at things in general doesn't work. It's not specific to education. See VICE's piece on the Afghanistan reconstruction and how much of American money is wasted.

Ex: Afghanis are tearing down equipment, planes, etc, so that they can request to purchase new ones using American money.
It doesn't work that way in professional sports where team owners raking in guaranteed profits hold their host cities ransom every 20 years looking for a new public subsidized stadium. One that could be paid for out of pocket by investing a portion of the profit made over those 20 years.
Unsupervised training may isolate the defining features of a cat picture, but it won't know that that's what we call "cat", so no unsupervised system will be able to identify cats in videos unless you show it at least one labeled image ("show it what a cat looks like").

In fact that very network produced also millions of other "concepts", that is, classes of images, that have no direct interpretability in human terms. The "cat neuron" was a fun gimmick, but you're reading way too much into it.
More importantly, it gives you the chance to have a conversation with real people (and hopefully ones you'd be working with) to get a clearer picture of things with which to make a more balanced decision.
FreeBSD + Mach kernel, libdispatch, and launchd? How does this differ from Darwin?
My understanding of the most common argument is racially diverse =~ class-diverse and therefore a racially diverse group of schools all have similar tax bases. Unlike segregated schools which might have a lower class tax base for one school and an upper class tax base for the other.

But that probably isn't what your parent is invoking since they said money isn't the issue.
My Gmail is based on my real name and I had similar problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502169

At least 300 men in the USA share the same name as me. I got my Gmail in 2005 so I got it firstname.lastname@gmail.com and others who got the same name as me enter it into websites all of the time. Most don't even validate the email, and sometimes I have to email the admins to get the account shut down.

I think websites have a resposibility to validate the email and delete the account if it isn't validate in a reasonable amount of time or have a link to delete the account if someone who signed up wasn't you.
Nope. Here's the link to the paper Google team published in 2002.

Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209

From the abstract: Contrary to what appears to be a widely-held intuition, our experimental results reveal that it is possible to train a face detector without having to label images as containing a face or not.

The Cat detection thing was just a side product of learning to identify features of things in an unsupervised manner, but the news outlets locked on to that with titles such as "How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000" in NY Times.

Wasn't it amazing that they could distill the concept of cat from images with no help from external labels (human intervention)? They missed the core of the discovery by not understanding that.

The deep learning method is an unsupervised way to process raw input and transform it into useable features. This used to be done by a combination of domain knowledge and supervised training, but they could build an automated way to extract relevant features from images.

This opened the window for hope that one day neural networks will be easily applied to any new domain if there is sufficient raw data to build a deep network for it. In the past there was a need for a large investment in human based data labeling and how to extract the best features from raw data (also described as voodoo magic by the same researchers - it was hard, it was domain locked and expensive).
They have a nice collection of entirely open-source apps? https://sandstorm.io/apps/

A nice option to run your startup/project infrastructure (such as etherpad or project management) without having to trust third-party SaaS companies with your data. And avoid monthly subscriptions from 10 different companies.
You're being disingenuous. Every platform requires support, which takes time. It's unreasonable to expect Linux to be an exception to this and not take any time. If you planned on Linux being the special platform which doesn't cost anything to develop for, your disappointment is due to unreasonable expectations.
>If Bob's Burgers is paying $1000/mo in FB ads, but Karen's Burgers keeps being recommended as the "good burger joint", how long before Bob stops buying ads? And why would Karen start buying FB ads since she's getting exposure for free?

How is this any different than the approach laid out by Google Search? AFAIK, Google isn't suffering in the "search ads" department.
Won't this method discourage you from working with startups at all? Generally, they offer less cash, longer hours in exchange for more equity.

If you value the equity at zero, the rational thing to do is avoid working for a startup at all.
The question I'm trying to get at is: from the perspective of the physical realm (which may be, even likely is, all that exists) is there any possible mechanism by which something nonphysical could influence events in the physical realm?

For example, is there any physical property that is not "locked into place" by the laws we know and the observations we can make? Is there any fundamental impossibity (not practical impossibility) of snapshotting the state of the universe and using that snapshot to determine every past and future state of the universe?
Just throwing it out there, it's remotely possible that state governments make this a priority because it is actually one of the moral underpinnings of a market economy and needs to be enforced. Litigating is very expensive, I doubt that the increased tax revenue on W2s from those cases pays off -- it's the overall effect on societal norms that matters, everyone on this thread immediately said "You should have gotten that money".
Perhaps the other exception is Carrefour
Please, write the next check. Mark wrote the first.
I wonder if you could glue microsoft's ios emulation layer on top of this and get the basis of an open source ios/os x?
What's in a name? Retiring the name “Canary”
> Mostly, though, I grew to enjoy being a kind of hub in the E. Ratliff community.

> E. Ratliffs have our secrets, and we stick together.

lmao. Great read.
The short answer is that Sandstorm is easier to use (no technical skills required to install and use each new app; no shells or config file editing), radically secure, and open source (you can run Sandstorm on your own machine; it's not just a service).

It's easiest to understand if you try the 60-second demo: https://demo.sandstorm.io

You can also read about the security: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/security-prac...