skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like? Honest question. I have not shaved for many years and I am not planning to nor have I worn a suit since the 90s yet my clients are banks and big brands where the conference rooms are full with clean shaven suit wearing people. In the 80s I was told by my parents you cannot do business without shaving and suits as it was not allowed (one of the bigger IT consulting companies had a strict dresscode which forbade beards); now the people I deal with say they are allowed to do whatever but they do not out of fear to stand out and find me kind of brave (I am not: I hate wearing suits and I find shaving annoying).
Even if there is a limit to the size of a mind, there is not a limit to the number or speed. An atomic scenario would be a billion human level intelligences running a hundred times faster.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Transportation officially bans ride-hailing apps
law in WA is you wait one full light cycle and you can run the light. So basically 30-45 seconds and if no one is going you go.
He brought up both lawyers and law enforcement in that phone call. Come on, dude.
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2012/fall/smart-traffi...
It's a different mode of attention. You're optimizing for consuming lots of information in a short amount of time.

But design that optimizes for depth of engagement almost always performs better on metrics that ultimately matter. I'm not saying YCGifts is an outstanding example of this, but to pan the design of the site (and all large font, lots of whitespace designs in general) because it's not optimized for your scan-and-pan method of consumption is shortsighted.
My father was very cautious driver, he never broke speed limit intentionally, and I remember the same argument I had with him when I was in driver's school. I was of opinion that speed limits should be hard enforced, and he told me, you don't want that, sometimes you might need to break the speed limit, for example when you're exiting the crossing a little too late for some reason. I think he was right.

But in the case of self-driving cars software - I would much prefer it to just stick to the law, rather than try to match human nuances (or not!) of breaking it. I think general predictability is of value. I hate to say that but the human drivers that cause these accidents are the ones who have to learn better. And if it is still desirable for the autonomous cars to behave differently in certain place, you can always change the speed limits (or other signs) in that location.
Attach a largeish neodynium magnet (like a cow magnet, as a bonus they are coated in plastic so they don't corrode) to your bike frame. It will increase your magnetic signature massively and cause in wire-loop-in-road light controller to "see" you. (note, not all sensors are magnetic, some are weight based or IR based)
> Surely information can be encoded in other ways.

Information - yes. Strings... I'm not sure. What other representations are you thinking about?
I use k/q to read HN, sort of like RSS. I'm a kdb+ novice but am determined to master it someday. This is a way for me to keep using k/q every day and build familiarity.
Or like worrying about global warming back when it would have been easier to prevent?

Ng's statement is, at best, equivalent to a student who is putting off starting their semester project until finals week. Yes it seems far away, but the future is going to happen.
Yep. On another occasion I demonstrated knowledge of a lesser-known fact about the Taiwan dispute and this girl was really happy with me. :-)
The timing was done in the 70's, and it never worked. The city would argue that its traffic engineers were highly competent and had timed it perfectly, but all the drivers knew better.

It's like the TV sound engineers who'd argue that the commercials are not set to be louder. Yeah, I know, dynamic range compression, but I'd put VU meters on the sound and the loudest sound in the TV show was quite a bit lower than the average sound on the commercials.
Everyone is biased. Presenting your arguments and declaring your biases so others can take them into account is the ethical thing to do.

This reminds me of the illusion of objectivity in journalism. If you pretend to be perfectly objective and unbiased, you're lying.
I felt sick reading that, I think you need to get yourself checked out.
My gathering from the researcher's post is that facebook requires you to use a personal account. I'm guessing he just had his employer listed on his fb account.
Today they introduced nicknames[1], chat colors, and custom emojis (replaces the "like" button) on the mobile messenger apps (haven't checked web).

So my guess is that the Messenger guys just try to add whatever they think might be cool and then see if it works.

As for their goal... it's just so people spend more time on Messenger of course.

[1] If you are in a chat (1-on-1 or group) you can rename anyone with a nickname that will show up when they talk instead of their Facebook name.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's not unprecedented, but I also don't think a lot of the companies that get hit by something like this talk about it so publicly.
Depends on many factors, including how much you value human life. Quoting from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_672.pdf :

> The initial design and construction cost of a roundabout can vary significantly depending on the roundabout size, right-of-way impacts, illumination requirements, and other design or aesthetic features that may be desired. A new single-lane roundabout intersection in an unbuilt environment can have construction costs comparable to a traffic signal. However, as the size of the roundabout increases, particularly in a fully built-out commercial or residential area, the cost of roundabout construction can be higher than that of a traffic signal, depending on the footprint of the roundabout relative to that needed for the signal. However, the ongoing operations and maintenance cost of a roundabout can be less than that for a signal, with the possible exception of increased illumination needs for a roundabout. Although the initial construction cost may be more, a roundabout can have less operating and maintenance costs than a traffic signal, and the service life of a roundabout is significantly longer, approximately 25 years, compared with 10 years for a typical signal (2). Roundabouts also provide substantial cost savings to society due to the reduction in crashes, particularly fatal and injury crashes, over their service life.

It also depends on how much you value people's time waiting for a light to change, as described in the parent scenario.
The demand sensor wires are too close to the lights, so you wind up having to stop before it turns green. Also, if cars are coming from both directions, the demand system tends to get 180 degrees out of phase with the traffic and makes everyone stop.

A proper system is, well, like one on a self-driving car. Detect traffic from further back using the cameras rather than the sensor wires. Estimate the number of cars, speed, and position, then adjust for max flow.
Don't like what someone is saying? Point out why they're wrong, but don't send guys with guns (the police) to force them to shut up. That's far more unethical than anything anyone could say.
The only problem with the article is the speed limit is much more complicated than the number printed on the sign. The actual speed limit depends on the flow of traffic and weather conditions. Merging on to a high way where people are driving 80 then driving 65 is violating the law.
They mentioned Adwords here, too.
http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/11/highlights-from-angula...

I'd argue Adwords is one of the most important Google products.
If it's speech condoning or encouraging harm against others, then it should be removed. But if people are just voicing their opinions, even hateful opinions, then it doesn't take a genius to figure out that banning such speech makes the sentiment run deeper, and only offloads it to even less "tolerant" parts of the web, like 4chan.
It isn't about designing an efficient intersection, it's about designing one that generates a lot of traffic revenue for the city.
There was also https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/
I get your point in these threads, but unless I'm misunderstanding, who cares about stolen, potentially undeleted Amazon creds? Revoke the key in the portal and be done with it?

Given who I'm replying to, I'm assuming that I'm missing some key piece of the puzzle.

(And I totally acknowledge it doesn't change the circumstances of what either side has done, I'm just curious)
In all honesty, despite me knowing about DDG for reaaaaalllly long time, I still tend to forget their name. "something duck" is how non-tech people reference it. Cant you really name it something easy to remember and (ouch) Google like Duckgo? Or Ducker? Or anything else that can be pronounced by anyone within one breath?
> Why should the situation be different on the desktop?

Because users want it to be. Whenever there isn't a significant performance hit people will always choose the browser solution. The only reason people download apps is because of performance and data limitations. Take those away and people will use the web based version.
From T.S. Eliot's "East Comer":

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Don't hate me I voted for Kodos.
Free speech does not give you the right to hate speech. The title is misleading, because they only agreed to remove hate speech only, not all anti-immigration comments.

EDIT: To clarify, hate speech is for example speech inciting doing harm to others. As a concrete example, in the heat of the refugee crisis, I was regularly seeing calls to arms to go shoot all the refugees at the borders on my Facebook wall. It made me cringe.
We've had a pretty good response rate when asking people to do this. Of course, I totally understand why someone would say no. I'd love to find a better way to evaluate someone's skills, but absent a good public FOSS portofolio, what are my options?
Software based networking on BSD. Can't trust American vendors for anything. Is this what you wanted Mr. NSA? Good job at sabotaging your own business interests. It's not that you're spying, it's that you're so promiscuous about it.
Hadoop Connectors for Apache Solr
"I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly contacted me at work, not the other way around."
Is there anything I can't do in Swift? Perl is super cool, but Swift seems like it can now be used on most of your text parsing and big data crunching needs (DNA, lab R&D, etc) now.

And it was everyone's first web language in the day. I was super impressed when ran my first perl script. I was hooked. :-)
One of the core problems of Unix is this focus on textual streams.

Every configuration file, every proc-style file, every interchange format ends up with its own unique take on what format is easiest for it to present/consume. Every program has its own text parser & generator that generally is the minimum bar to deal with the text that it assumes.

And at some point, when taking a bird's eye view at all of this, it just turns into an unpredictable and insecure mess.
> Ten days later, a Mountain View motorcycle cop noticed traffic stacking up behind a Google car going 24 miles an hour in a busy 35 mph zone. He zoomed over and became the first officer to stop a robot car. He didn’t issue a ticket -- who would he give it to? -- but he warned the two engineers on board about creating a hazard.

> “The right thing would have been for this car to pull over, let the traffic go and then pull back on the roadway,” said Sergeant Saul Jaeger, head of the police department’s traffic-enforcement unit. “I like it when people err on the side of caution. But can something be too cautious? Yeah.”

I believe that this reflects the 25 mph maximum speed that Google has set. I don't know CA law, but in some places it's illegal to go under 25 mph in a 35 mph zone. It's always safest to minimize speed difference with other vehicles. Even if that means exceeding the limit. That won't protect against citations in speed traps, however.
If you want to invest in a startup get a high paying job at an established company and just become an angel investor.

On the other hand if you want to work at a startup because of the lifestyle or mission then don’t expect to make any (well not much) money if the company succeeds. The sooner everyone wakes up to this reality the better.
Free speech, the correct way. In my opinion, of course.

(The following is not so much directed at you; I don't know you, after all. It's just that I need to rant, as always when Americans lecture us on free speech. "You" is not the personal you, but "you Americans on web forums")

Don't mistake your version of free speech for a canonical implementation.

Keep your hate speech and school shootings, be proud of it, and bury your dead.

We just happen to live in peace and don't need or want your constant superiority complex in our face.

Just remember, after WWII you had a wonderful opportunity to force your free speech on us. You deliberately chose to force something else on us. And had it written in our constitution. Because Nazis. Now don't you dare blame us for having it. You wanted us to not extend free speech to Nazis. You wanted us to defend our new constitution.

You don't get to come back after seventy-five years and ask us to please be nicer to Nazis. And Scientology. And whatnot.

Have you noticed how wherever you engage in nation building, you never implement your political system? How come? Isn't your system perfect? Maybe it's only for the enlightened American people and other peoples are too backwards and savage for that?

Okay, maybe Puerto Rico, which is almost an American state. They have your system, as well. Except... all their political organs serve at the US congress' pleasure. Very colonial.

It's great that you identify with your system. Really. But please enjoy it. Feel free to tell us how much you enjoy it. But stop disparaging others who disagree.
What about offering a whitelabel product where I am the account owner and can spin up an independent database for each of my clients with their own login credentials while I still have master access to each?
I would literally sign up tonight and deploy this next week to my restaurant clients who want the ability to update their food menus at will and in complicated ways. Static site front end with a live menu API and Excel-style interface for them to edit in? That's the perfect solution for what these kinds of clients want/need.
Moreover, why are we asking computers to make decisions we don't ask humans to make? In a split second, a person does not weigh the pros and cons of hitting an old lady vs a schoolbus filled with boy scouts. We just react, and ideally react according to how we were taught in driver's ed. A computer would do just that, only better and more consistently.
I really enjoyed this sentence: "He made about $350,000 before taxes on his Box stock, more than enough to buy the world’s smallest violin."
It's all silly philosophical argument. The heuristics will be more like: reduce kinetic energy as much as possible, avoid pedestrians as much as possible in the event of likely collision. If that heuristic is sufficient to save lives in most situations, it'll be good enough.
My experience has been reminiscent of the old SE days, when different engines would often fare better/worse for varying queries, vs there being an all-out winner. I think of DDG as avoiding a fair amount of overtly "consumer" content. Google is great at getting to "interaction points," DDG is great for information. I quite like the DDG ability to play embedded videos from the search results page, and their accompanying privacy warning.
Sounds more like an insider committing an obfuscated exploit, or a plausibly deniable bug.

Props to Juniper for owning up. Unless that is part of the con...
In which jurisdictions is it illegal to obey the speed limit if traffic is going faster? I know some jurisdictions have charges for impeding traffic but that's always been for when you're going under the limit. I'm skeptical that to conform to the law you have to exceed the posted limit.
There's also Kona[1], which targets K3 and my own interpreter called oK[2], which targets K5.

Good hunting!

[1] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona

[2] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
I work for a company which makes network devices. We've detected many hostile intrusions in our network. If you make hardware or software that runs in enterprise datacenters, someone is surely going to be trying to steal your source code to find exploits and possibly put backdoors in.

We use multi-factor authentication just to get in the corporate network and a separate, airlocked engineering network to store our IP. From what I've talked to from my colleagues at other major device manufacturers, this is becoming the industry standard (seven years ago I scoffed at Ericsson's paranoia for having a sequestered engineering network. Turns out they just saw the attacks earlier than we did).

In our case, doesn't seem to be the NSA. Looks more like China. Could easily be either one, or yet another party. This is the world we live in.
Consider using the "Not Matt's Script" versions (http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/news.html), but even that was last updated 2004. MSA was notorious for very bad examples of old-style perl, and there are much better ways of doing perl nowadays.

For a much more modern approach, use Plack/PSGI, and one of the many frameworks built using it.
Thank you for writing this (and I say that as an American). We as a country are are gargantuan hypocrites about this whole thing; the idea of free speech in our Constitution--to say nothing of plenty of other privileges that we pretend are rights--is one of many things we don't pass on to the people we claim hegemony over.

We are tremendously bad at owning our shit. I wish we were better.
"It's not clear how the code got there or how long it has been there. An advisory published by the company said that NetScreen firewalls using ScreenOS 6.2.0r15 through 6.2.0r18 and 6.3.0r12 through 6.3.0r20 are affected and require immediate patching"

If the use a Subversion/Git code repo to maintain their codebase, they should be able to track down who wrote the code and when.
Google's Perfect Computer
Is that similar to Chrome's "search engines"? They work really well, and I tend to use google's "site:" filter to search sites that have awful search capabilities.
The title of this article needs to be changed. There is a world of difference between "anti-immigrant comments" and hate speech that incites violence (which is what's really being discussed here.) @dang
Could be wrong, but I believe in most cases the conversations were with users of the SL4 mailing list, and at least one user posted a PGP signed statement to the effect that the AI was let out of the box.
Random Calculation and I may be way off:

http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-fe...

This is all fines and forfeitures but:

St. Ann	$3,609,972	$9,115,012	39.6	13,020
St. John	$1,126,763	$3,835,573	29.4	6,517
Ferguson	$2,571,190	$12,746,894	20.2	21,203
Bellefontaine Neighbors	$749,252	$4,918,310	15.2	10,860
City of Florissant	$2,966,669	$23,120,332	12.8	52,158
City of Berkeley	$1,047,536	$8,680,716	12.1	8,978
Creve Coeur	$1,847,864	$16,365,796	11.3	17,833
Maryland Heights	$2,077,689	$22,820,884	9.1	27,472
Jennings	$679,787	$7,737,693	8.8	14,712
Hazelwood	$1,919,022	$23,809,852	8.1	25,703
Overland	$582,292	$8,695,835	6.7	16,062
Richmond Heights	$763,523	$12,109,281	6.3	8,603
Black Jack	$123,355	$2,621,186	4.7	6,929
Clayton	$1,027,932	$21,761,741	4.7	15,939
Olivette	$283,289	$7,046,302	4.0	7,737
Bridgeton	$445,171	$12,887,494	3.5	11,550
St. Louis City	$11,022,000	$441,426,000	2.5	319,294
University City	$586,281	$26,639,562	2.2	35,371
St. Louis County	$4,397,769	$341,291,336	1.3	998,954

This totals up to around $35MM in Fines and Forfeitures in St. Louis (chosen due to Ferguson and all the articles around Mike Brown). Anyway WAG numbers this looks to be about 80% of the neighborhoods on the highways but it's got the 2 major players (city & county) so lets call it good.

St. Louis is 21st (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_of_...) in Metro area size, so that gives us $755MM if everything was actually the size of St. Louis.

However if I just add all the pops from 21 up I get 146MM people, so that means that if scaled linearly for St. Louis (which may or may not be right), we're talking $1.763MM, so around 1.75BN for the 21 biggest cities in the US.

Easy to say that traffic stops in the US are well over a billion.

Way over analysis but it shows scale of traffic income. If you read the first article linked, it points out the share of revenue this. It can be up to 36% of revenue for small municipalities.
This is all crazy considering how well a double-edged safety razor works. Cheap and efficient.
Now tell us what you really think.
Virtualsetworks Package:A collection of six virtual sets
The implication is that workers get screwed by less-than-stellar IPOs, but who demands unreasonable valuations? Investors and VCs. The ones who actually make real money.

All in all, the Silicon Valley we-can-all-be-unicorns model is a pretty raw deal. So what if as an early employee you make $350,000 at the IPO? That's what, a down payment for a house in the Bay Area? Just don't let yourself get priced out by millionaires getting priced out by billionaires. And considering that any early employee is expected to pretty much always be working, that's basically overtime, with a tip.

People only put up with this pathetic excuse for an American Dream because they allow it.
> Also, it's incompatible with UTF-8 strings stored in C

That's not true as of 3.3. It will store the compact representation, which in most cases is ASCII, which is UTF-8 compatible. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/

So unless you go outside of UCS-1, you don't need to reencode anything.
The Buffalo station was built, a few years ago...
Given the position/speed data that Google collects through Google play services (which assists then with determining traffic conditions for instance), I think Google could do much better at controlling the traffic lights (or at least provide one source of input for).
You talk about ethics like it is an entirely black and white concept. I would consider a lot of Facebook's practices unethical in comparison to my own set of ethics. There are ethical dilemmas, which are basically what most discussion about ethics is about to begin with. You use the word unethical but without discussing ethical dilemmas, and that makes your argument weak even though you potentially have a very strong argument.
https://vimeo.com/37751380
And how do you prove that you did after the red light camera catches you?