skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer to stay anonymous. I'll share my recent interview experiences with Google, Apple and Facebook here soon.
No it isn't. If 81% of them are re-arrested (which means much more than 81% commit the crime again), a little inconvenience and suspicion is fully justified.
I met Hotz at SpaceX, and can assure you he's not as cocky as this article makes him out to be.
Reminds me of this TED Talk.

Given the choice between a job candidate with a perfect resume and one who has fought through difficulty, human resources executive Regina Hartley always gives the "Scrapper" a chance. As someone who grew up with adversity, Hartley knows that those who flourish in the darkest of spaces are empowered with the grit to persist in an ever-changing workplace. "Choose the underestimated contender, whose secret weapons are passion and purpose," she says. "Hire the Scrapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQVEvkYuvWk
My favorite Facebook reaction is everytime they get caught doing something what most consider "evil", they say it's just a "technical error" and that it will be fixed. Then two or three years later make that change the default for the whole service.

It's just kind of funny to keep seeing this happen. They did it at least twice with the cookie that tracks you across the web even when you've signed out of Facebook, and they kept using that excuse that it's a technical error.

Then when the EU privacy bodies actually called them out on it in Courts, their "whoops, we never intended to do that" excuse suddenly turned into "waaait a minute, we use that feature for security...and stuff! Why are you hurting your citizens, EU?!"
Behavioralism might be, but behaviorism isn't. My mistake.
Problem with 802.11 isn't the radio layer, it's the security. Early 802.11 didn't do security right at all, then we had WEP and that got broken, then WPA, then WPA2...

Example: I created wifi drivers for a handheld platform back in the 90's (Magic Cap), including support for the earliest 802.11 PC cards. Fans of the platform (both of them) encouraged me to update the drivers so they could continue using their handhelds over wireless, but it's simply not possible to get a 1999 wifi card on a modern wifi network in any half-secure fashion.
Financial reporting is likely on front lines http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-np...
This is really sick, but it seems much more like a precursor technology that would eventually be subsumed into every laptop out there. Even then, is this really worth getting for the few times this would be drastically better over using a keyboard/mouse?
“I don't want to be President. I’m one hundred percent sure.” -Donald Trump
Similarly, Eslite in Taiwan is flourishing by marketing themselves as a 24-hour source of nightlife, while other large book stores are closing down: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/world/asia/taiwan-bookstores/i...
You are correct. I do have sleep apnea. I have been postponing it for a while but I do need to have a sleep study.
How Much Money Can Software Developers Make Out of the Internet of Things (IoT)
Good call, seems as though this author has built his career around constructing SV cults of personality. This piece is just frothing the waters a bit for his next book on Hotz.

I stand by my assertion that Bloomberg goes for sexy. You can see it in their design, marketing, choice of topics, and choice of contributors. That's not to say they don't put out great and entertaining articles. Just that it always pays to think about who is backing, writing, and profiting from the publicity of the article.
So the whole ELF file is protected by a signature you don't have known flaws in? Because AES-CTR and/or AES-CBC (actually especially CBC) gives me the willies without some kind of MAC.
Any place you care about memory layout, AKA performance. O(n) doesn't matter if you cache miss all over the place. Some GC languages(like C#'s structs) have some tools for this but as soon as you work with refs you've lost control.

To me that's any device with a battery(I'm looking at you smartphones), gamedev, and as you mentioned embedded systems.

There's also another class of programs that's not related to GC. C++(and C by subset) is the only way to write truly cross-platform code for all the modern OS's. If you want to target Android, iOS and Desktop C++ is the only supported path on all those platforms with the right performance guarantees(JS doesn't cut it perf-wise on mobile, yet). That's why you see DropBox and quite a few other shops using C++.
I feel this is unethical: "In this study, we’ll recruit 1,000 low-income families across the country at the time of their children’s birth. Half of the families will receive a large monthly income supplement, and half will receive a nominal monthly income supplement."
What would be a good symbol for innovation, other than a lightbulb? For makerspaces?
It seems like most windows laptops have touch built in now though. I had to disable it on the laptop I'm using right now.
It very much is a problem with Uber!!!
> - They place them poorly. B&N is perfect for foot traffic. But B&Ns are typically located as drive-up "out of town" shopping. Somewhere you need to go to intentionally. They need to be in malls.

There's slight confirmation bias as before 2011 it was Borders who would follow the Starbucks strategy for real estate - sign a lease on the place with the most foot traffic (in US it was typical to see Borders shops close to train stations, major urban shopping centers, malls, etc.)

Borders went bankrupt, and B&N is not that flush with cash to overtake their leases (which makes me wonder if expensive leases combined with relatively fixed margins on books are sustainable), but that was likely the reason B&N would not compete for prime real estate.
The price for solar is not accurate in this article.

My parents just installed a 5KW system, with an inverter and smart meter in Warrnambool, Victoria. They paid $10k AUD, then the government refunded them $5k, so total out of pocket expense for them was only $5k
> B&N's coffee shop is a generic coffee shop. At my (now closed) local B&N, it was a Starbucks.

It's not really a Starbucks in the same sense as the standalone coffee shops of that name (nor is it specific to a particular local store); they've licensed the branding and beverage product line from Starbucks on a chain-wide basis (their food products are not Starbucks lines, but from other sources.)
It doesn't have to be monotonic...
> for a good cause

Right, because there's such a big market for calendars with naked coders. You totally don't have to guilt-trip people into buying them with some leukemia sap story.
You're aware that "auto pilot" literally means "self driver", right?
Except as has been shown time and again, IT DOES MATTER. Trying to put all of it on just the person, regardless of whether they grew up successful or unsuccessful, is completely ignoring the huge factors at play, most importantly, the factors that we as a society could actually have an impact on.
MIT Researchers Train an Algorithm to Predict How Boring Your Selfie Is
I know one major retailer whose terminals are all a DOS variant whose sales ended in 1999 and whose inventory is hard-tied to SCO UNIX. Got future-proof written all over those. ;)

Note: Many key operations, including the backend, are on AS/400 and mainframe. Much wiser choices. Needless to say, the employees tell me that part never goes down.
Technology innovation shifts the economies of art. For example, representational painters lost a lot of business to photographers. On the other hand, art photography became an industry.

There weren't a lot of people employed making movies or TV shows before the industrial revolution; now those industries provide lucrative employment to millions. Maker culture shifted with the technology.

That said, I agree with you that AI is being pretty dramatically oversold (again).
tomorrows touch screen technology is already here !
Whisper cocoa component
Break the silence of your UI, whispering, shouting or whistling at it. Whisper is a component that will make the task of display messages and in-app notifications simple. It has three different views inside.

Whispers
Display a short message at the bottom of the navigation bar, this can be anything, from a "Great Job!" to an error message. It can have images or even a loader.

Shouts
Let the users know that something happened inside the app with this beautiful customizable in app notification.

Whistles
This is the smallest of all, a beautiful discretion in your UI.

You can read more about Whisper at the GitHub page - https://github.com/hyperoslo/Whisper

kthnxbye
You're assuming the user thinks they are performing an "experiment". When I use core OS functionality I don't think I'm "experimenting", I'm using the system.

I don't backup my C:\ drive before I "experiment" with the cut & paste tool.

If you saw an emoji keyboard pop-up on your change password screen it would be natural to just assume that the OS was now accepting emojis in passwords.
Sure, but that doesn't require the block chain. You can get that with digital signatures and a timestamp service.
The cars could signal a turn ahead of time, or indicate how hard they're about to brake. With a large enough network, they could even predict traffic patterns and choose a different route.
>>Proprietary platforms run by untrustworthy companies are bad and dangerous.

Where is this unicorn proprietary platform that is run by trustworthy company?
Nba.com uses AngularJS
ISIS Gives Us No Choice but to Consider Limits on Speech
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Why politicians still dream of controlling the internet
They're not actually changing the policy: "On Facebook, we require people to use the name their friends and family know them by.... We’re firmly committed to this policy, and it is not changing."

They're just changing the enforcement mechanisms. So while the changes seem positive (Lil Miss Hot Mess says some good things about them), they're just around the edges, not getting rid of the actual harmful policy.
The distinction between execution and transformation is a useful one. For instance, depending on the semantics of the source language, you could be able to guarantee termination of a specific transformation of that source, but not be able to guarantee termination of execution of that source.
Linux utility: lsof
Any list like that sure sounds like slander/libel. If you are treated as a criminal by a shop-owner because someone else is making claims about your reputation, this is the exact type of situation that slander/libel laws were created for.

Also, I could be badly mistaken, but isn't slander strongly enforced in the UK? Wasn't there a scandal involving forced apologies?
I have thought that for the entire time this story has been in the news and only today realized it wasn't.
The insight from that report was included in the Polygon piece, and it does not include who-initiated-what between Kojima and Konami executives.
The linked question states:

"I wanted to check if it's possible to use emoji in a password for my Account on OS Yosemite."

You're correct in general, but in this particular case they clearly saw this as something that might not work. They just didn't anticipate how badly "not work" could go.
What’s stronger than the Force? Inflation
what's with making text so thin you can't even read?
This is amazing, and very important – this year I lost a friend to a seizure that might not have been fatal had they been found sooner.
I think it can be reduced into simpler terms in fact. In swift you simply can't do

var stuff:Set
var stuff:Set<Hashable>
var stuff:Set<MyProtocol>

Sets don't allow for mixed base types, and that's what a protocol would allow. All objects in a set must contain a similar base type. This is actually true in obj-c as well where everything in a set had to derive from NSObject.
How a 'typo' nearly derailed the Paris climate deal
If he really did read the papers then it's clear he would not say this. The papers aren't an end. They describe incremental progress. Having just returned from NIPS where most of the researchers are saying "We don't know" all the time, it is ironic.
AIUI, with HTTP/2's multiplexing requests over a single TCP connection, the need for bundling resources might just disappear completely.
5 Key Deployment Pipeline Patterns – DZone DevOps
I'm not quite sure how well it's doing overall, but Books a Million, probably B&N's biggest brick and mortar competitor, seems to be doing alright in my local area. There are lots in the South (several within 30 minutes of me) and they have a lot of more discount options. I go to Target once in a while and have a BAM next door and I usually stop by. I can usually find some interesting titles for $1-$5.
Microsoft's OOXML is a joke, no matter who rubber-stamped it. It's effectively the binary Office formats expressed via XML. Any office suite adding support for it still has to include the myriad piles of compatibility hacks they did for binary Office documents. OOXML contains several "transitional purposes only" formats that were obsolete before they ever went through the joke of a "standardization process", rather than standardizing a single format; as a result, anything wanting to read real-world documents in the format has to handle all of those "transitional" formats. And OOXML contains elements like "lineWrapLikeWord6" and "useWord2002TableStyleRules".

OOXML was designed, effectively, to be the easiest possible transition from the binary Office formats rather than being the best possible document standard, or even a good document standard. Direct quote from the proponents of the standard: "OpenXML was designed from the start to be capable of faithfully representing the pre-existing corpus of word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Corporation."

That doesn't make it a bad representation format for a vendor's proprietary office suite, but it does make it a bad standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... is worth reading; the "standardization" process itself was effectively politics, not technology.

By contrast, there are multiple independent implementations of ODF.
From this article http://www.wsj.com/articles/shrinking-u-s-shopping-malls-get... it seems that the industry consensus is that malls are "overbuilt", not necessarily dying as in long-term trend. So we're seeing a correction, not necessarily a long-term slump.

> outlet style strip malls where there's less crowding and inconvenience

"Dying" problem and "crowding" problem seem to be mutually exclusive in a Yogi Berra kind of way.
If the neighbors are harmed, a landlord with means accepts responsibility for either stopping the harm or compensating them in exchange. That's way better than the current situation. What are the neighbors going to get from a tenant who sub leases in violation of the lease agreement?

It's the landlord who offers (within the limits of local law) the terms of the lease. I've never seen a lease agreement that allows subleasing without at least right of refusal on reasonable grounds by the landlord. The landlord is within its rights prohibit the tenant from entering into any kind of sub lease entirely. It could (again, within the limits of local law) evict the tenant for even advertising a possible sublease without its written permission.

But no, the landlord is very graciously offering to actively support subleasing via AirBnB. If the landlord executes properly, that's a win for the tenant, a win for the landlord, and a win for the neighbors.
> Facebook is being the asshole that keeps using the wrong pronouns/names/etc. despite being asked not to, and when challenged on it, demands to see ID to "prove it".

If you tell me to call you Lord Joseph, is it really so wrong for me to ask you for your credentials? If I refer to you as 'him,' not 'His Lordship,' am I really the one in the wrong?
I suppose the process would be analogous to and as labor intensive as the recent conversions of older movies to 3D, i.e. practical for many movies.
What happens to ex-cons who go from prison to startups
Travel agents.
>Whoa sweet! Any chance you'll be sharing?

Sure. Do you mind if I email it to you? I'm not using git yet, and don't want to deal with git or Github today.

My email is in my profile.
Facebook, Google and Twitter agree to censor posts to satisfy German law
Why should I be punished for what someone else (ISIS) might be doing, or might have done? That's bullshit. You're using claims of another human's misbehavior to punish the wrong people. Fuck you.
Coffee business is about margins though - as long as people kept buying $3.50 cups that cost 25c to make (excluding labor), it might have been a good business.
His bio reads "day: console OS development, night: home".

Time for wild speculation! Apple are making a game console!

(He probably just hasn't updated the bio.)
So if I run gcc with -O0, it's a transpiler? Remember that gcc outputs a human readable language that another program (the assembler) converts into machine code.
SEC has been sitting on it's ass on that for 3 years, but it looks like mid-2016 things will kick in (assuming nothing changes)
http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
180 days after Jan 29 2016

Edit: Not sure how wide spread this is, but some states have rules for smaller investors, such as Oregon http://www.dfcs.oregon.gov/securities/faq_crowdfunding.html
> our process is running in a FreeBSD jail, which I'm not sure is possible for a process running as root

uh... that's, like, the whole point of jails. If you get root in a jail, you get root. In the jail. You only see the jail's root fs, the jail's processes and, usually, a very limited set of devices in /dev.
Holocron – a static blog engine for Force sensitives
You've lost me. Exactly how do I benefit as the neighbor of someone who has turned their apartment into a small unregulated hotel?
Ask HN: Where did you learn about stock market/exchanges?
This is probably a very naive question so sorry about that.

In the startup world, you come across terms like equity, shares or vesting very frequently, like when you're reading how Steve Ballmer got rich.
I've got a vague sense of what those terms mean and I feel like I don't understand a lot of what everyone knows, like I have no idea how to talk about equity/stock options if I get a job, or how do they relate to other things, or how the whole stock market works. Let's just say I have zero knowledge of economics.

So where did you learn about it? I'm looking for resources which teaches you only the essential stuff. In depth resources on are also welcome.
There is definitely a need to reproduce all scientific studies. No study is perfect and can be taken at its authors' word.
What's your experience based upon?

Sales and marketing are often heavy Excel users from what I've seen. Even with the uptake of Salesforce (seems to be used more and more), you still have lots of Excel users. HR is usually a tiny bit of the company so I don't really find that interesting.

I mostly see a mix of things at best.
Save yourself 30 hours a year
Not if you consider they probably want mobile apps for both ios and android as well as a web page and sales. It's hardly anything.
I think you don't understand how the scientific method is supposed to work. Let's stop there.
Is it really the best approach to only train from real world scenarios without any programmed constraints? Most humans are terrible drivers and there's a reason so many people die every year in car accidents. It seems like his approach might be more organic but it'd also be really hard to provide training data around emergency situations as others have mentioned here.
"Note the emphasis on accidental memory safety violations."

Good points. Of course, I'm guessing you're saying it's still really hard to write memory-safe code with modern C++ constructs whereas others here suggest it's pretty easy. That point is tripping me up in these discussions. Did a quick Google on C++ safety and found you already said something about the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7587978

My statement is predicated on the premise that modern C++ can be done safely without issues like that. If not, then it's false and we're back to me recommending safer, systems languages.

One thing to remember, though, is that there's tools to automatically transform C code into safe code. Softbound + CETS comes to mind. Might be able to use a C++-to-C compiler with one of those. There's also safer forms of C++ like Ironclad C++.

http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~osera/papers/ironclad-cc.pdf

So, the situation might be worse than people looking into C++ were hoping but not as bad as you think.
> Collabora - and their proprietary fork of LibreOffice

It looks like this Web based LibreOffice is all available from public git repos[1], so why are you calling it a proprietary fork?

[1] https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
Yes, that is exactly what I think, and also what the zoning commissioners in virtually every city think, which is why cities have limitations on short-term rentals in residential properties and special zoning rules for where you can put hotels!
He forgot to mention the unethical practice of extreme consumerism.
And in their mind it might be a 'rip off the bandaid' move as it becomes more mainstream... these things are starting to be on endcaps in Lowe's, Home Depot, etc.
That smoothing out of the daily demand curve might actually lead to significant capital savings on the part of utility companies as less need for short term high power reserve. Also the resilience of the system to problems would increase. UK is providing a degree of subsidy to reduce peak demand already. Smart meters may help in future.

http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/Industry-information/Electri...

http://www.eunomia.co.uk/eunomia-supports-uks-first-electric...

http://www.carbonbrief.org/how-national-grid-keeps-the-light...
Go on?
No, the equivalence you've drawn between long-term renters who happen to qualify for housing vouchers and people who stay for a few nights in a house while traveling is the illogical argument.
Phoenix 1.1 Released
When lives are involved handling edge cases is everything. The person stepping off a curb, the cyclist that falls in front of you, the car that weaves in its own lane and can't be used as a reference, traffic lights that are out of order, stop signs hidden by trees... and on and on. Mess one of these up while autonomous and severely injure someone and you're done.

Human drivers might only see one of these cases a month, or 6 months, but not driving over someone in that case is what is critical. Not saying it's an impossible task, but IMO it will require a lot more training data than humanly possible for one person to generate.
This is also known as a martingale strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
I was very interested in this back in the day, in fact, I wrote a HOWTO to get the desktop bit run under Ubuntu:
https://fak3r.com/2006/01/31/howto-mezzo-desktop-on-ubuntu/

I'm sure that's not going to work anymore, but I got a lot of questions and comments about that post, there was significant interest. Here's hoping a new release comes out in January and people can try it out.
I've mentioned a situation, that many trans folks experience, where someone asks to be called by their preferred gender pronoun and the person they ask refuses to do so. And, I've mentioned that many trans folks find that kind of response hurtful. And, you've made a joke comparing that to someone wanting to be treated like royalty.

Do you sincerely believe the two situations are comparable?
To be fair, this is machine learning we are talking about, not algebraic topology. The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule...
All Uber drivers in the NYC area are licensed livery drivers and Uber is no different than any other car service.

Airbnb is trying to turn buildings zoned for residential living into commercial hotels, which is illegal.
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