skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunning-Kruger

What's even worse, is that she might be aware of what she is doing.

>Blum's wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband's government contracts and extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Blum has denied any wrongdoing, however.[4] Critics have argued that business contracts with the US government awarded to a company (Perini) controlled by Blum may raise a potential conflict-of-interest issue with the voting and policy activities of his wife.[5] URS Corp, which Blum had a substantial stake in, bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002; EG&G subsequently won a $600m defense contract.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum#Controversy

Why isn't there a non-voluntary recusement protocol for government employees?
Perfect, amazed at how quickly you dug this up!
A good entrepreneur needs to do both.
This is a problem I have that I thought was near to impossible. I have a nightmare test case for you. I am a property manager of 1000 units. We have 40 properties each of which we track vacancies with a spreadsheet. They've got all relative property data on them as well. Let me know if you are interested.

My solution was to build a web app for this completely out of spreadsheet land. But I've got some other things to tackle first. Either way good luck!
> But the current Android frameworks are written to function with GC, so if Google wants to support Swift or any other non-GC language, they would have write and maintain a second framework along side the old Java one.

While it is likely that this is how it could play out, it is certainly possible to have a garbage collected language and a managed memory language working together in the same program (e.g. a manual memory managed C program can start an internal JVM and pass data between the two languages).
I don't think that's the point of the article though. The author is criticizing the rise of bloated webpages with very little good content.
The original was recorded on a Roland SH-101.
Did "Apple is helping terrorists!" really got traction in the US?

From far away, it didn't look like it did.
Where to start? You won't win putting legal pressure on any Chinese startup since that is an empty threat, but you also won't win talking to any big Chinese IT company. The startup won't care about the threat of legal action and the big company will simply clone your product once you convince them the market has potential.

If your goal is making money and/or securing a partnership you have to put yourself into a position of strength. The best way to do this is to launch an actual Chinese competitor yourself. This should cost no more than 10k USD per month assuming you can leverage your existing code, which makes it much cheaper than going the legal route. Feel free to contact me (contact info in profile) if you need help or introductions to people who can actually make this a reality for you in a week or two. I'm in Beijing and have done three startups in China and can put you in touch with people here who can actually help you.

A live product from you poses an existential threat to your competitors and keeps the big IT company from delaying in perpetuity (the typical modus operandi for big players here is to have middle management rush to agreement on the general principles of possible cooperation and then stalling and never doing anything more substantial -- the delay means they aren't sure if it is worth their while to clone you yet). But the threat of your getting actual traction matters because growth puts a deadline on your willingness to accept other people stalling, and your presence starts imposing actual costs on the startup. Those guys will need to change their branding at a minimum since they can't build an independent brand with you in the market, and once they know you will play hardball you will find them a lot more amenable to compromise if you want to go that route. With that said, if your market reception is good you may not even want to continue talking with them, since most Chinese startups are really inefficient and you can probably blow them out of the market anyway.
How Not to Explain Success
Final Cut X was really a huge disappointment to the professional editing community when it was released. It was missing features that made it unusable for professionals. For example, when it was released, it was not possible to export sound as an OMF or AFF (which is the format required for sending sound to a professional sound mixer). I saw it as an indication that Apple no longer needed to cater to the pro market (see also apple dropping Shake and the XServe and the Xserve RAID) now that Apple had the iphone, ipad, itunes, etc.

As for compressing films, maybe GPUs will pick up the slack. But there are still other applications like Maya and After Effects that depend almost entirely on the CPU for rendering, so having dual CPUs makes a big difference.

I don't really mind Apple leaving the pro market. Adobe Premiere has taken Final Cut Pro's place for most people I know. I just use Windows machines now for my video and graphics work.
Yes, we wouldn't want to give it away without a fight. Chinese people are crazy for gambling, and our business is on the right side of a very, very fine line between gambling and skill-based gaming.

Thanks for the translation! I thought the gege was standing for GG (good game), a part of eSports slang. For the rest my Chinese is too rusty :/
And don't forget !yt for YouTube search from DuckDuckGo.
(!bang will show you almost 8000 bang options)
yes -- 'what stops a third party from duplicating your model' is a good question to ask before starting a company.
The best french accent I've heard in a movie is from Sacha Baron Cohen: https://youtu.be/yv7UJLOyERs?t=17
I wept like a little baby in front of all my coworkers when the first iPhone came out. Such a beautiful accomplishment.
It's cheaper that going back to the pad.
Not when you are an investor in Musk's projects (which I am). If investors don't see a return on "Fuck yeah, progress" type investments, they will stop making those investments and opportunities for progress to succeed will diminish.
To be fair, I doubt the rocket is running microservices either :)
Why provide premium cars and then cover them in decidedly non-premium ReachNow stickers? I'm surprised this service is actually _by_ BMW.

I understand wanting to use your cars for marketing, but at least do what zipcar did: don't place any stickers on the driver side so the driver feels like they're getting into a premium car.
Nothing to be embarrassed by. I was too, and I was high-fiving my wife, who I made watch it. :)
The associated journal article, unfortunately, appears to be paywalled:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915...
If the commercial market has to build insecure devices, these same senators, the FBI, CIA, NSA, will all eventually get to move their own work to these things or stick with 10, 20 year old devices.

The US government may be able to spend billions on specialized devices but eventually they are going to be left behind. Sounds like Assange's goal behind Wikileaks. Eventually, they can keep no secrets.

I think the CIA-NSA is smart enough to figure this out. It's not going to fly.
The Chinese Internet/tech industry is basically used to, even addicted to, copying. It's in the culture from the VCs on down. When given task X, the designers are told just to find something decent abroad to copy.

So the point is, a Chinese startup is much more likely to copy your website than a Nigerian, Russian, Romanian, Vietnamese, etc... startup.
Facebook quietly deprecated their Python/Ruby libraries for Instagram API
There are some great things about this article. But the assumption is that better platforms have to be much harder to get going. In reality, I think better platforms tend to focus on other things, and ease of ramp up isn't one of them.
It would seem that no US person could package or distribute such open source crypto without becoming a covered entity.
> p&l is a silly goal when it comes to "Fuck yeah, progress!"

Is it though? We don't throw money at people for building useless shit. If you make a lot of money, it's because you helped a lot of people.
Looks like this is the same service. They must be trying again in Seattle under a new brand.

https://us.drive-now.com/ redirects to http://www.bmwcarsharing.com
They are the cheapest models BMW makes. They are premium compared to other shared cars (Car2Go!), not compared to BMWs.
It's going to lead to a manned Mars landing. The time will come.
As a French I never found an American TV show that I had difficulties with (love the Appalachian accent btw) but English shows were another matter (usually when there are criminals).

But if you tell me it's difficult even for Americans I'm a bit reassured about my abilities ;-)
I'd hope that some sort of DNS namespace could be carved out with appropriate rules followed by everyone.

The automatic resolution is an optimisation I am suggesting. If ip.whatever.domain always resolves to ip then your local network infrastructure can do that without requiring external Internet connectivity at the time of resolution. You shouldn't require Internet connectivity for internal access!
I agree with the author concerning content and ads, but find it ironic that the article's title is so click-baity and misleading (considering she never implies content is actually dying, just that its business model is).
Where's the call to action? Who designed the page?

> SpaceX offers open and fixed pricing for its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch services. Modest discounts are available, for contractually committed, multi-launch purchases. SpaceX can also offer crew transportation services to commercial customers seeking to transport astronauts to alternate LEO destinations.

With such big ticket items, I wouldn't have imagined there is a price list available. I would think these things are negotiated over expensive dinners. You almost expect to see a "Buy Now" button on the page.
How certain are you that their site has a genuine flurry of activity/users?

If I were a Chinese clone with this strategy, I would try to simulate that activity as soon as possible to make it seem like a legitimate threat. Can you get in touch with any would-be users within China who speak English and Chinese to gauge whether or not this site is legitimate before worrying too much? It seems you are short on facts at this point.
Yes having to scan you bill/receipt is the approach I am thinking of but how are providers/supermarkets willing to give this data? or I have to find away to get these information somehow.

As I wrote in another comment, I would like to know how many are interested on this idea to see if the journey is worth to take.
Wasn't that at a point where Tesla was under a huge capital crunch as well? Can't imagine what pressure he was under.
Wordpress is still a security nightmare.

PHP, mostly dyanmic everything, unmoderated cesspool of plugins, themes, etc... where you just drop code, predictable URLs and pages to brute force, I could go on...
serious answer: play kerbal space program for a few hours. it gives you lots of intuition for such questions.
> If you have a job that pays $100,000 and the taxes on your $250,000 house is $7,500 (3% property tax) and the tax quadruples to $30,000 in five years; why would you want the market fluctuations to be able to force an individual to leave their house?

Because it ties housing prices to economic viability. If a person's housing value increases 10x, they should move if they can't afford to maintain it so that another more economically productive person can live in it.

It sounds evil on the surface, but the reality is that it will keep housing prices in line with the economic growth of the area. As it stands now, fixing the assessment value only encourages people to hold onto the house even longer because taxes eventually become a minuscule amount compared to the appreciation of the house.

If taxes are a fixed $10,000/yr on a house that is growing 10% in value every year, then it makes sense to hold onto the house indefinitely. However, if the property taxes increase proportionally each year, there comes a point in time where the calculus no longer works out and it makes sense to sell the property and cash out. Since this happens to everyone simultaneously, the growth in housing prices will also decrease (thus, reducing the growth in property tax).
A similar thing happened at every Space Shuttle launch I was lucky enough to go to. I wouldn't read too much into it. A few people get really excited and proud to be American when they see a display of some impressive literally-earth-shaking technology (the noise from a shuttle launch was amazing!). They start chanting it and the rest of the crowd joins in. It's a nice moment of unity even if it is within the confines of national identity.
Congress obviously either doesn't get it or can't seem to let the encryption issue go because they want access to all our private communications. You can't have it both ways. This is the last dying breathe of a criminal government overreaching.
The US doesn't have the tense history with Nationalism that Germany does. Chanting USA is rather common at national sporting events, in times of triumph and often whenever someone starts the chant.
> it took many people from lots of different countries

In a indirect way it did, (standing on the shoulders of giants, heritage of the people working there, etc,) however, unlike the other companies you mentioned, SpaceX only hires American citizens (because of government contracts and ITAR.) So it's basically an all-American effort.
Ruby one: https://github.com/facebookarchive/instagram-ruby-gem
… and the HB2 Profiling Starts – Paige's (Mis-)Adventures
I just walked around downtown Seattle and saw about a half dozen of their i3 cars. Impressive visibility for launch day. I haven't driven an electric vehicle before so I think I'll use the free sign-up just to get behind the wheel of one.
F9 is not believed to have any information from ground sources during descent, based on FCC filings. The altitude of the barge only changes by a meter or so in decent seas, and the legs can withstand a drop of several meters, so probably they target sea level +N, where N is the maximum expected height of the deck.
How do you figure it is a satirising exaggeration and not a straw man designed for ridicule?

I found a transcript of "An Inconvenient Truth" at http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/hd1/courses/blog/gw/An%20Inconvien.... The section on 20 foot sea level rise is a description of what would happen "If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted" and ends with "Is it possible that we should prepare against
other threats besides terrorists? Maybe we should be concerned about other problems as well."

I agree that it's a call to action. I disagree that it's a prediction of something imminent, as in, an outcome that will happen within a couple of decades of when the movie was made. I read it as a need for imminent action, to prevent one possible long-term outcome.

BTW, Gore does make some short term predictions, which have proved to be incorrect. Gore said that within a decade there will be no snows of Kilimanjaro. That decade has passed. Instead, http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/419/2013/tc-7-419-2013.pdf says that most of the ice cover will be gone by 2040, and the rest by 2060. http://lindseynicholson.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Moelg... further points out that there will be snow even if there are no glaciers.

(While incorrect, I do not think it seriously affects the underlying meaning. The choice of "snow" over "glacier ice" should be read as an homage to Hemingway, with some poetic license allowed.)

Gore predicts Glacier Valley will have no glaciers within 15 years, or 2021. NPS estimates no later then 2030, https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/glaciers.htm , so Gore may be a couple years off there as well.

Gore was willing to make testable predictions in the 10-15 year span, which is a clue that the 20 foot rise in sea level that he described was not meant as a prediction of something imminent.
Sure, but BMW's branding is that they only make premium cars. This would be a bit like Apple plastering its iPhone SE or Apple Watch Sport in poorly-designed stickers because hey, it's their low-end model.
A task has a template, script, data in and data out. You can define a task using all of it and use it again and again.

Haha, nice idea about name. May be call it taskflow.run
I can understand the distaste for nationalistic displays in Germany and I think it says a lot for the German people that this is considered distasteful.

This is a peacetime effort that is likely to improve all of mankind. If you want to criticize the celebratory reaction to killing someone then I will probably agree with you. This is something else. Pride in one's nation and it's achievements is not inherently shameful.

Do you believe that nationalistic displays are never appropriate? Why is it ok to celebrate your nation during World Cup but not after a significant technological achievement in peacetime?
As long as it's made clear in the privacy policy in none-weasel language I don't really see the issue.

Also I had no idea this existed, it looks incredible!.
Except your example would be much harder =P
It fits the pattern of her misguided anti-gun laws. I think the implications don't matter to her, so long as the legislation resonates emotionally with uninformed voters.

(EDIT: To clarify: from a rational perspective, some of her sponsored anti-gun laws primarily have the effect of alienating and galvanizing the opposition with nonsensical and ineffective laws. From a rational anti-gun perspective, they have done more harm than good.)
Is Chinese language so hard to add? I'm living in Taiwan, perhaps I can help.
South Korea is huge for eSports so definitely also a huge target for us. But I am not sure that you can play a role in China from outside.

The current interest in China (and our FOMO) is mainly driven by potential investors or acquirers. We've nearly finished our app with which we hope to bring eSports for-money tournaments to a whole new level.

In our type of business everyone is moving goalposts all the time, we have had interesting experiences with regulators in EU and US so I am unsure if Chinese bureaucracy can really top this.

Obviously, when structuring international business in that region Hong Kong or Singapore are prime locations, but I don't think the big vision can be implemented without having native speakers both in CN and SK.

As a German company, a lot of our "good old manufacturing" businesses have written case study over case study about expansion to China, with very mixed results. But I feel we're kind of forced into that decision right now, because growth can be explosive.
I wonder if there are significant differences in voice synthesis of the two OS.
I just walked around and saw a bunch of their cars and thought it was neat that there were so many. If they weren't labeled I would have had no idea. At the moment it's great advertising.
Count degrees of freedom that have to be zeroed out in that landing: three coordinates of position, three coordinates of motion, two axes of tilt, rates of yaw, pitch, and roll.

That adds to 11 dimensions of control. And their flight computer nailed it, without even zeroing one at a time! Only roll rate around the axis of the rocket was zeroed well before touchdown. Impressive!
When FCP X shipped there were howls out of outrage from the video community.

FCP 7 had made a name for itself as a solid professional solution. Then they changed it. Completely. And they didn't ship it as a beta for review. They shipped it as a finished product.

The professional reaction was best summarised as "WTF is this shit?"

It's kind of settled down now, but a lot of pro users have either moved elsewhere or continued with FCP 7. Meanwhile support software like Motion hasn't had a proper update since forever.

New users have come on board, but they're mostly students, semipros, small-time boutiques, and YouTube dabblers. FCP X is certainly usable for pro work, but it has some incredibly obvious and annoying shortcomings that make it really hard to integrate into a commercial workflow.

It's hard not to get the impression that Apple is trying to become a blingy toy factory, and not a cool computer company that makes cool tools for cool professionals.

This is unfortunate, because by losing the cool Apple is also becoming less bling. It's starting to look like a middle-aged guy trying to dance with teenagers at a party - and nothing about that is good in any way.

So - MacPro? Maybe not. It looks an update would push the cost over five figures. Considering that many pros are using standard software (i.e. Adobe CS) it's much easier and cheaper to get better and faster PC hardware.

This is why killing FCP loyalty was a bad idea. If FCP had kept its user base, a MacPro would have sold itself. Nuking a strong software user base also killed demand for the hardware.

MacPro sales are rumoured to be unspectacular - and this was easily preventable.
Sorry, it was _just_ the removal of the conductor (the one in the middle of the train that opens and closes the door. That was enough to scare people. They did it in 2005 and tried again in 2009.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/20/nyregion/on-l-train-driver...

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/conductorless-train...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2009/02/subway_riders_s...

The plan was to take out even the operator, but unions kept the train operator in.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/2...
I'm French too and if you read more of the comments you will find more positive things about us.

By the way, if they form an opinion on France by how they are treated by parisiens I can understand they don't appreciate the experience.

We're much friendlier in province ;-)
Using the uncertainty principle against itself to gain precision
Tesla is not the next Apple
my wife is like "meh" about it. Same thing with virtual reality, I've got an Oculus DK2 that she's not even interested in trying out.
I came across the slogan »Proud not to be proud.« recently and really like it. I really like Germany and am glad that I can live here. But for me being proud has a lot to do with personally having done something for the thing to be proud of. I have zero stakes in the beautiful landscape, my influence on the society, economy and whatnot is negligible. Why would I be proud of the country? I also think that nation states are probably not the best way forward but that will take us to far now.
Even so, I do have some benefit to having defense attorneys use it. I'll get more data on jurors.

Having people pay what they will or can isn't a new idea. If the defense can't pay an individual license may be cheap, while an office license could be exorbitant if the DA will pay through the nose.

The main point of the last post is that I gain nothing if they don't use it, but if anyone is paying for it I still gain from other free users.

As I mentioned the I think system is suboptimal, I think this can improve it though. I'm not a jerk who would screw the Justice system for a buck, I really do think this can improve things. I don't think the possibility that it might hurt is reason enough not to try.
"I think you have zero potential" is a very bold and mean thing to say without explaining why they don't have potential.