skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the AI cars will have automated systems that report to authorities reckless human drivers.
First, I would like to separate the little-t tor from big-T Tor for a second. I had the privilege of attending the most recent dev meeting and found the Tor Project to be an incredible group of people who are dedicated to a single mission[1].

Besides working on `tor`, members of the Tor project are also working on better censorship resistance[2], reproducible builds[3], and improving Firefox[4], among other efforts. To me, a motivated corps of technologists that have the resources to work on projects to protect user privacy can do anything under the right leadership.

> oversold as solving problems it can never hope to

If onion routing can't solve the problem of masking your location on the internet (thus providing greater anonymity) then what can? Right now I see it as the only practical solution for doing so. I also don't see any of the problems you listed as fundamental issues. Hidden services are fairly new, for example, and a new spec is being actively worked on.

I understand that it is sometimes billed as a panacea of sorts, but I feel that the Tor Project is honest with itself and its users about the protection that `tor` provides[5].

[1] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/635856569201246208

[2] https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4

[3] https://reproducible-builds.org

[4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rF4Gah_OEequYDfPedoQ...

[5] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/nine-questions-about-hidden...
I hardly think Apple was first. What about Nintendo and the NES lockout chip?
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Yeah the full name is "Kinto-un" :)
It is a lousy business for Apple, but they can probably a minimum fee of much less than 25 cents.
It was funny because I had to explain it to my buddy who took the picture afterward and I'm pretty sure he didn't get it.

We literally climbed in a shadow for 6 hours before getting into the sun. It was ridiculously invigorating.
For those without a car or van, life can be even worse on Hotel 22 -- the only bus in Santa Clara county which runs 24 hours a day. People will ride it back and forth all night.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel-22.html?_r=0
Sure, but there was "PC huge hit" and "console huge hit" and they were light years away in terms of metrics.

Best I can tell Jazz Jackrabbit did not sell 1MM copies, SMB3 sold 17MM. Doom ended up selling something like 3MM, but the key difference was it was an experience that didn't exist much on consoles, and Carmack & Co. did everything possible to make it futuristic compared to anything then possible on PC.

I just don't see an SMB copy doing anything noteworthy at that stage, and the end result probably would have stunk, too. But that was a limitation with the platform more than anything.
It's a well-known tactics to lowball you. The standard answer is "I'm not allowed to disclose it" and if they push, I just give them what I want them to give me minus 5% regardless of what the actual number is.

If they end up calling my current employer and that this employer gives them the number (which is extremely unlikely), I just tell them "What I'm making right now is irrelevant, I gave you the salary I think I'm worth right now. If you don't agree, I'll just walk, no big deal".
My home state of Kerala has one of the best health care systems in India.

Infant mortality in Kerala is 6.7 (6.2 in US), life expectancy at birth is 76 (78.7 in US).

Per-capita income in Kerala is $2,271 ($53,000 in US)

So yes, you can provide good healthcare even with not a lot of money floating around.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
Even assuming you can find housing, the hassles of hunting (and places snapped up) make it daunting.

Which suggests the market's more fucked up than I care to think -- insane and all-but-unaffordable rents and still oversubscription.
35k whole bay area
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I worked in strategic planning for a startup, and the process forces people to think through issues and come up with hypotheses.

then, what actually happens happens, and you can adjust hypotheses. and you learn from that, and adjust your own guessing for future.
I disagree. Recruiters have a conflict of interest that often goes to the candidate's advantage and against their employer's interest. The higher your salary, the higher their commission. And employers are fine with that because a good hire is better than no hire.
Yeah our doc is incomplete, I did add a bug about this the other day. We should compare products (pouchdb vs kinto.js) and separately deployments (kinto server vs couchdb)
This was the plot of a recent episode of The Good Wife.
How can you be working just as efficiently as Western counterparts when you're napping? I don't know about being a lawyer, but in my own experience it is impossible for me to program effectively after about 10 hours. Wouldn't surprise me if there are rare exceptions, but generally the human body just does not handle that well.
At present, apps can implement HTTP and WebDAV APIs but not SFTP nor SMB. In the future we plan to generalize things so that apps could potentially implement any protocol, but we want to be careful to do it in a way that lets us keep our strong security guarantees.
> this seems to be lacking a graphical administration panel as well

we are working on one, that's almost ready. Should be released sometimes during Q1
The fed is in a box. If they raise interest rates, they will have to service their $18 trillion national debt and expose a lot of malinvestment in the private sector. If they don't raise interest rates, their only tool to fight the next recession will be to print money, which could cause the currency to collapse. Choose your poison.
Like the F35 debacle, trying to make something that's good at everything, you end up with something fit for nothing. There's a lot to be said for simpler, fit for specialized purpose designs. The same applies in computer software. Oracle attempts to be a one size fits all database, but as a row store it can never compete with column stores for analytics. As a disk-based, latching, locking, logging database, it can never compete with in memory stores that avoid those overheads. Really just an expensive pile of bytes that claims to solve all your problems, but is fit for nothing.
I think this is much more than a local Silicon Valley thing.

I have noticed similar things in Europe and Australia.

As I see it this is a symptom of housing becoming too expensive. By a perverse logic the only thing the powers that be do is to make sure that housing becomes even more expensive. In that way people buying too expensive houses are saved by house price appreciation.

How this will end is no longer obvious too me, however people in top paying jobs living out of hostels or vans for me is a sign of erroding real wealth in our society.
It was our first use case at Mozilla when we started the tool. This sentence is now a bit misleading. Thanks for pointing this out.
It's not like it was random chance that Nintendo turned them down. Having control of their own hardware has been a core part of their strategy for a long time.
I get a feeling that this is what the Nylas N1 folks are doing with their sync server.

They created their own JSON protocol and documented it surprisingly thoroughly, given that their desktop mail client is the only implementer right now: https://nylas.com/docs/
I don't have a commute. I just recently downsized from a VW gross polluter TDI (jetta sportwagen) to a Toyota off-road tacoma. 1/2 the gas milage. This will probably be the last vehicle I personally buy for years. It will be mostly road trips and off road camping.

The wife plans on a Tesla Model 3 as her car.

For my uses, even my 2016 Tacoma TRD OR screams over technical for a lot of back country camping / jeep trail stuff.
Reads like it was written by a distracted fiverr scribe moments before deadline. Why is TechCrunch allowing this kind of drivel--is this some kind of sandboxed area for unedited user submissions, maybe?
I was thinking this too. I'd be curious if one could even provide a single clear and unambiguous example of something people learn via "one-shot" classification.
Too late. Way too late. Bottlenecking transportation is the oldest law enforcement trick in the book. Why do you think they make you tell them all your info during registration, put identifying plates on your vehicle, compile databases of VIN numbers, get access to OnStar tracking computers, etc.
I pee at the bar before I go to bed. Bars close at 2 am. Coffee opens at 6:30 pm. I have never peed outside. I keep no food in my van. I sleep there and that's it. You wouldn't know I was there.
Actually no--the Shimano and Campagnolo systems (the first two to market, and the only ones anyone really has yet except some pros) are wired. Look up "Shimano Di2." The battery lasts about 1000 miles before it needs to be recharged, and it can be charged via USB.
It certainly gives you a feel for how they do development internally. End of the readme mentions a new version coming soon, instead of say, iterating on this one. Also, the main contributor is stripped of any personally identifiable information.
> How are they going to get there?

By motorcycle
Working in Japan right now. We recite the corporate principle every morning.
Cant really speak about orthopedic issues but have had some experience when my partner had cosmetic surgery abroad. Cosmetic surgery makes up a significant chunk of treatments and is much more of art than science. There is no way I would ever risk having surgery anywhere before i knowing all the facts.
My partner had a face and neck lift from a "reputable" doctor in Los angeles and honestly looks worse afterward than he did before. About 5 years he became painfully aware that he needed it done again so he went to a well-regarded surgeon in Bangkok that really improved his appearance and cost about half as much. http://www.thaimedicalvacation.com

One interesting thing about her experience was that he was told by the doctor in Thailand that he would not be able to offer a surgical facelift since he already had one 5 years earlier. It was very interesting to see doctors saying no rather than risking poor results with multiple surgeries. A person like Joan Rivers is a good example of what can happen when you have way too many surgeries.

Overall though my opinion is that for rare or esoteric conditions, there is no place on earth better than the US. However for common elective or nonelective surgeries, going abroad may not be a bad idea.
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Masters of Doom is a fantastic book. I highly recommend it. I don't think there's really a book out there that follows the life and exploits of a great programmer like Carmack in so much detail.
Intelligence is a difficult quantity to measure, but it definitely exists. Some humans are definitely smarter than others. Able to do tasks that others wouldn't, able to come up with solutions others couldn't, or do things faster/better/etc.

A computer that is thousands of times more intelligent than humans, means it can do things we might think are impossible. Come up with solutions to problems we would never think of in our lifetimes. Manage levels of complexity no human could deal with.
I think it's disingenuous because my point is the same.

If you haven't found your own cards more valuable than cards other people made, you're making cards wrong, and could be remembering them MUCH easier.
yes, but that doesn't explain why the underlying risk of insuring human drivers would rise. Nor does it explain why, since the underlying risk is the same, Progressive wouldn't offer lower rates than Geico's.
Isn't it 'technically' in the economy's best interest, in the long run, to expose the malinvestment in the private sector? The longer it continues, the more painful it's going to be when we rip off the band-aid that is historically low interest rates.

Didn't we just read about China's stock exchange practically collapsing due to easy money being pumped into poorly vetted investments? True, the regulations are much different, but the lesson at the heart of it appears to be the same: the party can't go on forever.
That is equivalent to wanting to live in a world wherein local government is adequately funded through ordinary taxation, such that it doesn't resort to highway shakedowns of the people for its operating revenue.
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Thank you for this link!

I was reading this USENET group non-stop for two days back then, retelling the posts to all my friends.

Just read this:
"PLEASE STOP FLOODING THE ONLY NARROW CHANNEL WITH
BOGUS MESSAGES. WITH SILLY QUESTIONS. NOTE THAT IT'S
NEITHER A TOY NOR A MEAN TO. REACH TO YOUR RELATIVES OR
FRIENDS. WE NEED THE BANDWIDTH TO HELP. TO ORGANIZE THE
RESISTANCE, PLEASE, DO NOT (EVEN UNINTENTIONALLY). HELP
THESE FASCISTS! BEFORE SENDING SOMETHING TO SOVIET UNION
PLEASE. THINK TWICE (OR BETTER THRICE). THANK YOU"
It's that or read in the van. I read enough at work. I need to take a break from consuming information.
This is solely based on my personal experience working in Japan. Reasons why people at my work place work over time:

1. For more pay. We don't get paid a lot (roughly 1,000 yen an hour for full time contracted lifetime employee), so overtime (2,000 per hour) helps.
2. Peer pressure. People generally look down on others who leave early. They will mockingly say things like, "wow I'm so envious that you don't have any work." Unless you have some "legitimate" reason (children, illness).
I am aware of the market-is-God talking points. The Bay Area's regulatory restrictions are doing exactly what they were intended to do: protect the views and increase the property values of existing owners by preventing new construction. In this case, regulation works as intended. It's just that the intentions were wrongheaded.

Removing the regulation would move us further towards "people with money can get housing." I want a livable city for everyone, including those without the resources to outbid me, and that requires different kinds of regulation.
It's worth noting that you register once and then mark each aircraft with your registration number[0]. You don't need to register each aircraft.

0: https://www.faa.gov/uas/registration/faqs/#use
He's not saying you can't figure out a market size.

He said if the market size is not immediately obvious then you can't figure out market size.

It's not the same thing.
FWIW deadlifting definitely helped, not hurt, after my back injury.

(Admittedly, I hurt it deadlifting with poor form, but fixing the form and strengthening my back with it was the single biggest contributor to getting better.) MMV, of course.
The Classic Amiga games only had a joystick with one button, but they were always more fun to play because of the way they were developed.

My brother and I would play Demolition Ball it was like that game in Battlestar Galactica where players armored up and tried to pass a ball into a hole in the wall and knocked each other over to try and get the ball or intercept a pass. I can't seem to find it anywhere and a friend borrowed all my Amiga disks and never returned them after moving out of state. But it was fun to play and knock over the other players with a spiked fist and get the ball in the hole in the wall before time ran out for the quarter.

If you ask me the games for the Amiga were just more fun to play than any other platform at the time. If the CD32 didn't have a patent issue that prevented it from being sold in the USA, it would have sold a lot with fun to play games.

Bard's Tale for the Amiga was fun with good music and graphics. The Bard's Tale remake wasn't as fun and sort of miss out on what made the Classic Bard's Tale so great. They even had books based on Bard's Tale that sold really well as well as other stuff.

A lot of these Amiga games it is hard to get the IP to recreate them on modern platforms, it is good to see Dino Dino make a version of their Kick Off for the PS4, I hope it is as fun as the Amiga version was.
> Once automated cars are a realistic option, insurance companies can properly price insurance for human drivers much higher (comparatively speaking).

What's "proper" about raising the prices for no reason? If they start pricing human drivers higher than they currently do, some other insurer will just undercut them.
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Wow surprised it took them about 3 months to update it... On another note, I was looking at their smart fridge page and if you click the video thumbnail, it opens a video and they used music from Audiojungle with the audio watermark still in it... Guess they didn't bother licensing that track for their ad. http://www.samsung.com/us/appliances/refrigerators/RF28HMELB...
> then what?

Whatever we want.
I'm seriously considering upgrading my home link from ADSL2+ to VDSL2 now that I've discovered it's available in my area. It's not a sustainable long-term national infrastructure plan, but for my personal needs it'll serve me for at least a few more years.

And you're right about the traffic - Canberra is very nice in that regard.
You presuppose that American insurance companies are not a very effective cartel, primarily functioning in the regulatory capture industry, with a side business in insurance.

It would be cool if what you describe actually happened, but in the real world, premiums only ever move long-term in one direction: up.
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Re 1): Yup. There's a lot of focus, especially in Western press, on the salarymen and how much they work. But the vast majority of Japanese workers aren't salarymen. Assembly line workers at Nissan or Yamaha don't work 17 hours a day, that's for sure. Even other white-collar workers like doctors and teachers have schedules comparable to their counterparts in other countries.
> But people who are driving the 1994 Dodge Colt were probably forced into it by financial circumstances.

I would suspect that these people have a very costly (to them) investment to protect. However, they are probably more fatigued and cognitively-taxed.
What is this "similar function" with "similar API issues"?

C++11's random utilities and O'Neill's randutils aren't similar to std::rand at all. They're totally different beasts from std::rand.

Making std::rand a decent RNG would probably make the world a better place. I'm not disagreeing with that. But even if std::rand used a decent algorithm, it's still a suboptimal API.
The country wide average, assuming it's even accurate, is irrelevant. You can still have a significant percentage of the population working death marches.
Well reasoned. I still cannot understand how the court chose to ignore the unusually clear precedent of Lotus v. Borland. That took some contortions.
The debt could easily be serviced by raising taxes on those who could afford it (i.e., high income) and to de-emphasize the kind of things that don't service the markets (i.e., HFT & front-running) by introducing a small financial transaction tax.

The country doesn't have a debt problem - it has a revenue problem.
> Randomized controlled trials have also shown that exercise or psychotherapy are valid treatment options

The research on exercise is rather inconclusive (mostly because it's hard to placebo-control exercise, but see e.g. [1] for an interesting attempt), and I don't know of any trials that demonstrate the validity of switching away from a working depression treatment. The chances of success are generally not great when trying a new depression treatment (~30% for the first one, decreasing with each failed treatment [2]), so I'm not convinced that the validity alluded to here actually translates into any actionable advice in the context of this study.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037212

[2] http://www.edc.gsph.pitt.edu/stard/
In NYC I worked at a firm where they had to lock the doors and do a security sweep at midnight to prevent people from sleeping under the desks so they could work more. This was a during a training class--not even real work! This wasn't even an investment bank or law firm--the two places in NYC most noted for such extreme "work ethic."

In Singapore there is a well-known phenomenon where employees will not leave the office until (just) after the boss leaves. It doesn't matter if there is nothing left to do--you must never be seen leaving first. For a year I arrived to work 1-2 hours earlier than everyone else, and you know what appeared on my year-end review? "Leaves the office too early."
Thanks for the kind words. :)
As a corollary:

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

You can replace all the parts of your crappy v1.0 code and still call it the same code base. That's what the smart ones go around doing quietly.
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I don't keep it a secret from coworkers and friends. I just don't go telling strangers. I'll keep it up while it's still fun and simple.
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>We can look at efforts to stimulate the brain, which do not seem to scale easy.

Simulating the brain isn't necessarily the path to human-level AGI though. Simulating biology in digital form tends to be inefficient.

Modern machine learning scales easily, or at least relatively easy.

>(and it could theoretically be detrimental; look at what happens to humans who have too many neuronal connections)

Perhaps a constraint of our brain's cognitive architecture and not intrinsic to cognition itself. Still, interesting point.
Some US schools have school songs.
I learned Parser Combinators on Haskell. But a basic version is easy to write yourself in any language that supports first class functions.
It's going to be a great stay in prison. Enjoy.
Yeah well those billionaires don't just donate money to you. They'll create some organization that will compete with yours, then donating money to that. Or they come in and say 'ok we want to support your cause to give free internet for the world's poor, but it should only work with Facebook' or some such strings.
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>However, cities are barely approving residential zoning and this artificial distortion is amplifying the homeless problem.

Aren't "cities" just manifestations of players within the greater market system coming together to assert their interests and preferences?

Or is this an example of how a group can act to block the proper functioning of a market, kind of like a cartel?
Unfortunately even if it did, it's unlikely to have the subset of music a lot of us listen to.

For example I listen to a lot of music from Japan and a lot of smaller artists who aren't a part of the big labels.

As such I have a few thousand tracks that make up most of my listening time and aren't at all available on Google Play Music, Apple Music or Spotify.
A city is a network. When you have high congestion for a central resource you should find ways to push that resource to the edge of your network. The resources are Jobs. Deregulation would certainly help, but that's missing the big picture.

Companies are focused too much on silicon valley. People are willing to live like animals putting up with appaling conditions and subjecting themselves to insane costs and commutes. They would certainly move a few hundred miles for the same job with decent rent 10 min from the office even with a pay cut. The market can fix this problem right now without deregulation. But it won't get fixed until more companies actually start hiring outside of SV.