skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state by state numbers are surprising. CA has about 1/10th of the total shootings. IL has only 20, which is less than a lot of other states (NM for example). Florida and Texas seem to be the other big standouts
AWS doesn't have that many OS versions.
Besides I'd expect huge datasets go either to S3 or to ephemeral storage like Cassandra clusters etc.
EBS isn't the best place for it. Your mileage may vary etc.
Ask HN: Launch idea within company or as side project?
I have some exciting software projects I'd like to pursue. I am an employee at a large tech company in California.

The tech company I work for, like with most other large tech companies, provides an avenue for employees to bring ideas to market from within the company.

I am currently wrestling with whether or not to launch this project from within the company or as something I do entirely on my own (on my own time, with my own equipment, etc.).

Have any of you (or any friends) wrestled with this decision? What were the pros, cons, other things you considered, and things you learned throughout the process?

I appreciate any advice you may have!
The role of the cerebellum in perceptual processes
Ummm, no.

How about, everything shifts to isomorphic rendering. Generate an interactive view stub to display on the client while the app bootstraps.

There's no justifiable reason why we should have to refresh and completely re-render the page every time the view changes.

From a 'business perspective' it's worthwhile to have front-end devs build all of the view logic (incl templating, routing, etc) on the front-end while the back-end team focused solely on building APIs, microservices, and data management infrastructure.

If back-end devs are responsible for everything incl templating, the front-end devs responsibilities are limited to... Photoshop, HTML, and CSS?
It doesn't really matter. Backdoored "security" is useless, no matter how much noise you make who gets the keys. It's always only a matter of time until everyone has the keys. Always.
> Airplanes weren't a practical means of travel in 1910, but by 1960 it was a different story, and some people in 1910 had already realized that plane travel was coming.

Indeed, arguing about the potential threats of air-travel in 1910 (let alone in 1810) would have been silly. The point isn't whether or not AI is possible (or could pose a serious threat), but whether or not discussing it as a threat given our current, near-zero, understanding of it is productive. Jaron Lanier argues that not only is it not productive, it distracts from more pressing challenges related to machine learning.

> I am an atheist, and think most religious beliefs are irrational. However, that doesn't mean that every belief that "looks like" religion (in some vague, poorly-defined way) is irrational.

You think now that religion is irrational, but when most religions were established there was little reason to believe they were. As to the "vague, poorly-defined way" all I can say is that religion has many definitions[1].

The famous anthropologist, Clifford Geertz defined it as a "system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

Another famous anthropologist said (again, quoting from Wikipedia) that narrowing the definition to mean the belief in a supreme deity or judgment after death or idolatry and so on, would exclude many peoples from the category of religious, and thus "has the fault of identifying religion rather with particular developments than with the deeper motive which underlies them".

It is therefore common practice among social researchers to define religion based more on its motivation rather than specific content. If you believe in a super-human being and an afterlife and not for scientific reasons (and currently AI is not science, let alone dangerous AI), that may certainly be a good candidate for a religious or quasi-religious belief.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
I wasn't focusing on the genesis of these ideas, which frankly have always been around in every technological era, I was talking about how such ideas can persist in the age of limitless information, education, and technology. And my answer was as stated above. The curious thing is that as information and access to information has increased, the "intrenchedness" of some of these fringe ideas has increased as well; like an opposite and equal effect. I would have expected the opposite. So I'd say that hyper-connectivity has made community ties stronger for believers in order to survive the information onslaught. Nothing binds a small community more then direct opposition from, well, everyone.
Not that this is a major problem with the article, but the Powell and Stringham paper they refer to is from 2004, and can be accessed here. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1676277

They don't misrepresent it, but it is rather old.

I think it would be relevant to see how these policies have faired over the last 8 years. I suspect that they have done more harm, rather than less through the housing crisis.
When Job Hopping Goes Wrong
What are the business advantages? It has to make business sense, right?

Bigger ads? Trap people more in the ecosystem, less outbound links, maybe?
Netflix mostly uses their own CDN now (AS2906) with PoPs all over the world. AWS runs the non-CDN infrastructure. I'd guess they may use the "local" CDN in some markets while they find interconnection hubs and build out their PoPs.
The flip side of that is that with the new monthly phone payment option you are now able to upgrade yearly
True. Battery life keeps on increasing. Li-ion batteries across the entire industry. The trend is ever upwards.
That's a great resource. Multiple links for every death, very impressive.
I think the parent is talking about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
I'm not content simply throwing my hands in the air as everyone else seems to be. We should talk about other options.

There might be a way to stop pedophiles and kidnappers, and rapists that we haven't thought of simply because we're not willing to talk about how we could do it.

Highways have police. Where are the digital police? I'm not sure I prefer such a thing, but why don't we even discuss it?
I spent some time with google looking for the references to no avail, but from what I recall, the SEI (Software Engineering Institute) agrees with you. Measured across thousands of projects, the average number of hours of actual software development is 2-4 hours per day.

In my experience with teams actively and accurately tracking time, the average is about 2.5 hours for most development work. It can spike up, but the spikes are typically not sustainable for more than a few days. Even then, the higher number days are typically spent doing design documentation or other non-coding tasks.
More than 10% of US people live in California. So 1/10 of the total doesn't really stand out.
Whilst the "enslave us" thing is a bit alarmist, regarding it taking our jobs there's a certain analogy here with mechanisation.

You pointed out (below) that historically people have often been terrified that machines would take all of our jobs, and that terror has turned out to be unfounded. But they weren't wrong, they were just wrong in thinking it would be a bad thing.

Over the last 150 years, the proportion of Americans employed in agriculture has dropped from ~70% to ~2% [1]. They've literally been replaced by machines.

A large proportion of those people are now doing menial intellectual jobs that likely will be replaced by "AI". A complete shift in the nature of the work we do isn't unprecedented, and it shouldn't be considered impossible, but it shouldn't be considered disastrous either.

edit: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_Stat...
My phones seem to get slower over time independent of any OS upgrades. My last one got so bad that I had to replace it when it started timing out when launching new applications, and I declined major OS updates.
The real question is whether there are enough people who will follow his kind of pandering. It seems obvious that the guy has absolutely no principles. He will say anything. I don't think there are enough of of them. If there are enough of them then I'm being stupidly naive and have not read the mood of the country correctly. If so we are all fucked, white, yellow, brown, black.
For those who don't follow these things, Chaum is known as being both brilliant and... well, not so brilliant. A famous example of this: https://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm
Importance of Lateral Connections in the Parietal Cortex for Motor Plans
The potential for harm is greatly increased with mass surveillance. If you can accept that, you're getting closer to seeing the problem.
I think he means taxpayers are suckers, https://www.stlouisfed.org/Publications/Regional-Economist/A...
(older article, but i believe still true today)

I used to really hate sports, and make fun of people. It took me a long time to realize i was just an alienating asshole. While not really my thing, i try to put in a tiny bit of effort to be aware of what's going on in sports, and it's improved casual relationships a lot. That said, taxes for stadiums is a pretty bad idea.
> most web APIs, being text-based and intended for human consumption, could be copyright-eligible.

But the very first condition of copyright eligibility is that the work have some fixed media representation. What fixed representation does a web-API have, a representation that must be replicated for the API to be implemented?
This is a forum, not a scientific paper. If you want to have everything cited and backed up by independent review by peers and so on I suggest you communicate by paper only, this is a discussion forum and as such I'm not required to provide you or anybody else for that matter with whatever they demand. I'm not exactly on your payroll.

If you choose to interpret that as ideologically grounded discourse then I think that says a lot more about you than it does about me.
From what people say, the map is not complete and it should work in Poland too. It definitely works here (Czech Republic).
Testing a neural coding hypothesis using surrogate data
I don't approach Netflix as "I want to see this movie so I go here," so much as "I want to watch something, so I'll pick from here." I'm never lacking a choice to watch, even with fairly specific criteria in mind.

If I know exactly what I want to watch (and don't get lucky enough to find it on Amazon/Netflix/Hulu) I pay for PPV. I don't expect magic for <$10/mo, especially when the going rate for a one-off viewing is nearly half that.
I aspire to make enough important and influential decisions some day to earn the sort of hatred RMS has.
I just loved how, instead of simply rejecting gravitation (why would they need it?) they rationalized an incredibly more contrived explanation out of General Relativity.

I'm still not convinced they are serious.
They build it up and then they tear it down. Eventually they will be right, but something is telling me (Christmas sales forecasts) that Apple is about to demolish another quarter.
The value is in creating a summary, to collect all the stream of conscience updates into a coherent statement about status and next steps. A daily standup of summaries removes the burden of mentally remembering yesterday's minutiae to reconstruct the current state.

I mean, if you want to know the status of a system do you go to the dashboard or do you go review every system event for the past few hours? I hope not the latter! That's what you do when something seems off, which is exactly the case too for daily standups. If something doesn't seem right, you go review discussions and updates.

Also, at the risk of triggering on standup philosophy, I do believe that zoning out during standups mean it's being done poorly: updates are too long or people are not engaging each other. That's the problem to fix, by setting an example of good habits yourself: cut off rambling, encourage active cross-questioning and ideas, etc.
Emissary – A microservice for archiving the news
Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow?
I dunno, it looks like the system requirements implies a not more than 1 year old gaming computer costing at least $1000 (e.g. this one [1]). They're hardly targeting casual gamers, they're targeting people who are accustomed to dropping $600 on gaming hardware to have the "latest and greatest". See the GTX 980 Ti, any 27" 4K monitor, etc. none of which have exactly flopped. Even slightly ridiculously priced products like the GTX Titan X seem to sell OK, or NVidia wouldn't keep releasing $1000 gaming GPUs year after year.

[1] http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/build-an-amazing-gef...
I am very much a novice, but here goes...

I don't think the paper was trying to speak to truncation generally. Truncation is a weakening of the crypto by definition. (Reduce bits => reduce security.) It is easier (cheaper) to find a collision if one uses a truncated hash. That doesn't make it Dangerous or Safe; just quantitatively reduced.

If the authors are trying to establish anything, it seems to be, "Yes, collisions do matter!"
Why I'm satisfied with my decision to get an online degree
I was one of the developers on the original Doom and got so sick from playing it that it motivated me to debug my code faster. The phases were no problemo, sweating, farting, nausea, then that was it: gotta lie down and hug the cold, firm floor.

I eventually became less sensitive to it. I imagine the same will happen with VR after we get our "VR legs".
Not a lot more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-g.... About 30 terrorism-related deaths per year, not counting 9/11. If 9/11 is a once-every-50 year sort of event, that's another 60 per year on average.
No doubt, the link you have provided has some merit and explains a lot about the Oracle's side of coin. But after reading a lot about this story from all different angles, my final impression is that no organization is all too saintly or 100% honest, and neither are any altogether guilty. In fact, the thing about organizations is that they are multi-faced and do a lot of complex things and its just impossible to keep track of all those details.

Considering all this, I feel that the only important thing in technology is that concentration of power shouldn't be in the hands of one/few tech companies, be it Oracle or Google. Rather, there should be checks and balances everywhere. Ideally, all software should be produced by communities where all coders are chosen strictly on merit every commit passes through the scrutiny of all members.
I hope things will be different in our case. We always get everything last. Funny enough, South Africa has the best internet infrastructure compared to the other Southern African Countries. I have been to Zimbabwe and Botswana. The speeds are decent but it costs an arm and a leg to get a gig of data there. :/
You always provide safety to bad guys along with the good.

Seatbelts, airbags, traffic lights, food safety, drug safety, pollution control, national defense and many more benefit pedophiles just as they protect good people.
I don't think that they consider Crimea as a separate country. It's just an area where Netflix is not available because of the U.S. embargo.
Funny enough, the automation/optimization/scripting/algorithm aspects of DFS are a big part of what makes it interesting to me. I have domain knowledge about sports, so DFS is a better testbed for me to learn and explore these areas than, say, automated stock trading.

It's a great place to practice linear algebra, machine learning, forecasting and projection models, web scrapping, data cleaning/normalization, and API wrangling. And all without needing a brokerage account, minimum account balance, or transaction fees!
It should not turn into long discussions, but if standup is for mentioning what you're stuck on, it seems really strange that others are forbidden from mentioning how to get unstuck.

I'm used to pair programming and communicating all through the day. This is incompatible with the surly loner programmers you describe in the last paragraph.
FWIW (a alot, IMHO), here is the Github account for the data:

https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings

Seems like no big deal but with the commit history, we basically have a record and frequency count of how, in a major project by a major news organization, things get updated. Counting these incidents has always been difficult. Victims names are rarely known at the time of death, nevermind the circumstances. It can take awhile for that information to come out and when it does, often a reporter (at a local newspaper) will have moved on to some other story.

The Wapo team is dependent on local reports. The github repo let's us see how efficient they are at it. Very cool transparent move on their part.
Melbourne: Startup plans to teach 10,000 students coding in 2016
LOL

I wonder why the guy doesn't want RMS to use his software, but his ABRMS has the same virality as the GPL!

ROFL
Rude.
> Guess they don't realize that south of the border there are countries that speak English (as well as French, Dutch and Portuguese).

I was working in Italy for a bit although they had audio in English for most programs I wanted to watch, subtitles were only available in Italian. Again, it's all because of licensing...
What about Palestine?

...ok, I am kidding.
The tl;dr is that we will eventually have AIs which are smarter than humans. Much smarter than humans, to the point that we are to them what chimpanzees are to us. They would have godlike powers and abilities. And this could happen very rapidly, as the first smart AIs design even better AIs and better computers, which then design even better AIs, and so on.

The second point is that they would have no reason to keep us around. They would do whatever we programmed them to do, to the point of absurdity. An AI programmed to collect as many paperclips as possible, would convert the mass of the solar system into paperclips. An AI programmed to solve the Riemann hypothesis would build the biggest computer possible to do more calculations. An AI programmed to value self preservation would try to destroy anything that was even a tiny percent chance of being a threat to it. It would try to preserve as much energy and mass as possible to last through the heat death of the universe. Etc.

The only AIs which actually do things we want them to do would have to be explicitly programmed to want to do that. And we have no idea how to do that. We can't just hope that arbitrary AIs will happen to value humans instead of something else. We need to figure out how to control them, which requires solving something called "the control problem".
the modern font in the "A R Codex Veritatem" header that the article highlights really does stand out badly. wonder if it was left in as a deliberate tell.
The BBC is discouraged from producing its own content, so a lot of the content is made by third parties and the BBC doesn't have the rights to broadcast them outside the UK. That's why you get BBC branded channels in different countries because those channels have to compete to buy the rights. There's lots of other things too, like music rights, sports rights etc. Means the content has to be redone.
For an alternative analysis:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-iphone-and-china-fear...

As has been pointed out, New year predictions of falling iPhone demand due to supply chain reports is now an annual tradition. One day it will be true, but in the sense that if you keep crying wolf eventually, one day, there might well be a wolf. I suppose the Journal can claim that they are only passing on reports, which is their job as journalists, but if they want to do so with any honesty or integrity the least they can do is point out the times they Passed on reports of exactly same thing in previous years.
Stake in ... what?
I wish it was "in europe", but it looks like "western europe" :(
If you need a thousand words to say something, put it on Medium or Tumblr or any of the hundreds of other blogging and social media platforms. I dont mind a minor tweak of the char. limit, but the rumored 1000 word limit is way too much.

The beauty of Twitter is its brevity. It forces people to cut out the flab and be concise. This in turn makes the entire steam easily glanceable. Huge walls of text will take away much of what makes Twitter special.
iPhone's Wi-Fi Assist blamed for $2,000 bill
I look at the data on these posts all the time and can assure you that the interest in this one is genuine. There's nothing implausible about a startup attracting attention on HN anyhow—especially when the startup started on HN.

People are much too quick to jump to a "shilling" explanation when other people's interests differ from their own. We need a name for this bias.
Then we're all fucked.

Can we go home now?
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There's an implicit decision there - choosing between you (the passenger in the autonomous vehicle) and the people on the street. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Fault isn't what's at stake here.

You actually DO require the computer to account for every single scenario - since we DO require humans to do so. Nobody says "Oh, it's okay that they <<insert some negative driving consequence>> - nobody expected that they'd be able to handle it!"

Legislators with driving laws aren't how people interact with roadways, except in a basic sense of a framework.

I do agree with the self identification of autonomous vehicles, especially if they replace LIDAR. However, there are already highway capable autonomous systems that are driving around right now (Teslas are an example). There's just no test case yet.
You sure used to be able to go there for specific movies. I understand why it's not the case anymore, but I miss what it was.
No kidding. Despite the hate, look where open-source was pre-RMS, and where it is now. Look how important GNU tools are, GCC, Linux, and so on...
A large chunk of that goes towards the broadcast infrastructure, so it could potentially be less for an Internet only version.
my reply has to do with the unexpected time difference, not the GPS. When a flight (according to the flat earth) should take 24 hours and only takes 12.
Sounds like they're about to throw out Kanban in favor of quitting
Sure, I agree. I also think gambling is a health problem.

I find your last paragraph interesting. I too, am European. But there are lots of cultures in Europe. To me, the word "responsability" struck me as being very strong.

As a portuguese, we are sociably incentivised to help each other out but it usually goes as far as helping a "friend of a friend". We have almost a "helping out" economy, that I believe comes from the hardships from our parents and grandparents during the middle of the century. And it's how we make bonds with each other.

But when someone can't or doesn't want to help, it's OK. The way you phrased it turned a "could do" and "might do" to a "must do".
Sounds like a very dumb license.
Lot's of interesting theory, but it would be too bad if anyone let that overcome what for very many is by far the most important, happiest thing in their lives.