skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You overstate what data is available. What self-driving cars are currently operating in icy/snowy/rainy conditions on poorly maintained roads that aren't radar-mapped to the inch?

In any case, avoiding hitting people and other cars is the easy part of building self-driving vehicles. Navigating in ever-changing uncertain road conditions reliably is a different problem altogether.
I think land-pirates will start taking on driverless vehicles when they're common and easy to find. A lot changes when harming a fellow human is no longer on the table.
Oh, please. From my experience living in the US and now living in the capital of Bulgaria I know that the price of food, housing etc. is way lower here than in the valley or NYC. Easily 3 times cheaper. And the tax is lower too.

But don't take my word for it:
https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/sofia/s...?

A decent full stack developer in his early 20s with no or little college education and 2-4 years of working experience is paid out 25,000 dollars yearly after all taxes and social contributions are paid.

Adjusting for living expenses that's like being paid out some $70-80,000 in the valley.

Developers here don't have debt, easily save up money, live in nice apartments, drive German luxury cars, enjoy 5-6 weeks of vacation where they travel to foreign countries. They meet in at 10 AM and leave at 6 PM sharp. We eat lunch together at restaurants every day and take plenty of breaks. From what I have experienced living 5 years here, life as a developer in Sofia (the most expensive city in Bulgaria) is more comfortable than in the Valley or New York.

Professional opportunities in the US are probably better, no doubt about that, but that's another story.
My hope is that Nokia will be doing a better job with the acquisition than how they kept up with smartphones.

When I look at the corporate history of Nokia and see that they used to be in industries completely unrelated to electronics, let alone mobile phones, I have this tiny inkling of hope that they still know how to make big pivots. That's probably simplifying their corporate history too much, but the point is that Nokia wasn't even always a phone company. Things can change.
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I think you might be surprised - companies would be insured against a total recall due to software/hardware failure, which would far exceed the cost of any accident a computer could get into, so I guess the premiums might stay relatively high.
Singapore's Open Data Portal:
http://data.gov.sg/
Yes.

As yet, there's still no foolproof way to verify/authenticate an endpoint on the internet. Not to mention the issue of so-called "host security".

Checking for a file on the remote host, e.g., a cert or a key a la ssh, seems to me a more sensible approach than relying solely on the promises of a "trusted third party" (CA's, ICANN, registrars, etc.) that you have never met.

Fears of ISP's intercepting port 53 traffic was not the reason why DNSSEC was revived from the failed protocol graveyard. ISP's do not have to go through the trouble. Most of their customers have the ISP's resolver addresses in their DNS settings, not a loopback address.

And although the software is available almost no ISP customers are encrypting their DNS packets.

DNS data for the public www is public information like the telephone book. It is easy to obtain. And once you have it, not only can you monitor changes, but there's little need to even run a cache.

You can just pluck out the names you need and plug them into your own authoritative server. Edit resolv.conf to point to it and you're done.

Easy way to speed up your www browsing and still very effective at blocking ads, apps phoning home, etc.
No, I don't have any MS hatred, except we have GIANT media files, engineering logs, technical logs, in the same place as well. OneDrive AFAIK, isn't that great at selective syncing (and now Project Infinite!).

Generally, cloud storage is done best by Dropbox. I'd love to be shown to be wrong.
Privilege is multifactorial. There are such things as white privilege, and male privilege; but those are not the only (nor arguably, the most significant) privileges there are.

Being "blue collar" and "from a small town" probably set you back in at least 3 or 4 different kinds of priviledges (as in economic, well learned, and urban/cosmopolitan). So, if you compare yourself to black women that had all advantages, yes, your life more often than not will turn to have been harder.

If, on the other hand, you genuinely want to understand what "white male privilege" is all about, you should look at how women of racial minorities fared in your home town, or other similar towns. And even greater insight can be gained by observing how people treats other white men from the same town who are otherwise disadvantaged: guys with physical or cognitive disabilities, gay men, men with "foreign" accents (specially if their speech ressembles that from a not-so-far rival town), or for the matter old folks. Even if they are treated "fairly", the small indignities they have to endure on a daily basis may build up to something significant.
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In case you want get a quick(-ish) overview, here are the slides that try to explain it: http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~jplozi/wastedcores/files/extended_t...
Japanese island tells tourists to stop farting in public
>suddenly stop serving me.
Those four sites are explicitly breaking Twitter API TOS, so I think you should have at least a little fear that they will suddenly disappear :)
If I ever meet him I don't think I would be unable to ask him what he is having breakfast even out of context.
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The second sentence in the article links to the source they rephrase: https://blog.cloudflare.com/empty-ddos-threats-meet-the-arma...
Imagine the patches with cool Latin slogans!
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Do you have any references to "subsequent research"? I am truly interested in digging deeper.
> I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.

You've never heard of "White Trash" or "Rednecks" (a.k.a Bogans in Australia) or how "uneducated" the South is in America (nevermind that Alabama outranks California in graduation ranks)?

> I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

And yet, here you are. Speaking for all of us.
Maybe the American reaction will be like that, but my feeling is that if that happens, then China will take advantage of it by pushing automated driving while ignoring the emotional arguments (authoritarian governments have their advantages in this kind of things...)

And then, the rest of the world will have to follow so as not to be left behind an industrial revolution...
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Cyclists tend to avoid freeways.
"if it can be fixed why not fix it?"

If the fix is "lay guilt upon and attempt to disadvantage all people of a certain skin color because some of that skin color have had an easier time in life", then it doesn't seem like much of a fix, does it?

Racism and bigotry need to be wrong in all cases or the moral authority against them is diminished.
My opinion, based on what is apparent by the quality of the offer, is that this not a serious attempt of providing service to the international audience.

It appears that these few titles were made available to the international markets only as a way to give strength to the PR claim.

The press release title is "Lionsgate launches films on Steam's global digital distribution platform" [1] and, although the blockbusters are prominently mentioned by name (like Hunger Games, Twilight, Divergent & Saw Franchises), nowhere in its text it is mentioned that, apart from those 11 token titles, these are available only to U.S. customers.

The press release forwards any inquire about availability or pricing to another site [2] but that doesn't mention this limitation either, simply displaying the available titles and prices.

As said, in my opinion they are not trying, the apparent reason they made these 11 titles available was to be able to announce "Available to Steam Customers" instead of "Available to U.S. Steam Customers"

[1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lionsgate-launches-f...

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/sale/lionsgate
Mass amounts of historic personal health info is more of a liability than an asset depending on the jurisdiction and the litigiousness of your customers in case of a breach.
Most large metros will have at least a halfway-decent number of software jobs available. NYC, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Louis, etc. all have decent markets. It won't be like SV where there are a million startups, but they also won't be 100% corporate, either. Check out LinkedIn or Dice or something to check a specific area.
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Let's look at the stats.

Apple's diversity report [1] states their tech employees are composed of 79% male, 22% female.

Facebook's diversity report [2] shows 85% males in tech vs 15% female.

Google's is pretty much the same, and you can compare them all with interactive graphs [3].

Note the dominance of white and male in the graphs.

The programs you mention for women are great, I agree. These are the steps we need to take if we want women who are interested in technology to come forward join our field. But women are not more easily hired. If that were the case then it would be reflected in, you know, reality.

[1] http://www.apple.com/diversity/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/facebook-diversity/

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9179853/tech-diversity-sco...
Accounting is not a world of absolute truth like that, because no-one really knows what next year's cash flow will be. There is plenty of scope for opinion. Valuing your employee stock options according to Black Scholes is one possible model, not the absolute truth, and valuing them according to their face value is not a lie.
Really interesting read, curious to see if this becomes a mainstream trend.
"Sichuan" is how the name is romanized using Pinyin, which is now more or less the standard romanization for Mandarin. "Szechuan" is from the older Wade-Giles system, and I think "Szechwan" is just a variation. The rise of the "Sichuan" spelling on your graph roughly corresponds to the rise of Pinyin.
Really well-written piece. Someone else mentioned Brett Easton-Ellis in this thread, and I totally got that vibe from the early paragraphs on.

What really got me though, was thinking about my earliest days building small Beavis and Butthead fan sites on Geocities, browsing Netscape for hours and waiting five minutes for a certain page to finally load. I was only 12 then, but everything just felt so new and shiny, and as someone else said like it could and would change the world.

Having now lived around and worked in tech for a while, stories like these make me feel a bit like I have been punched in the gut. It just seems negative and gross, but in a really captivating way. I connect with what the writer is saying, but also still get butterflies in my stomach when I think back to the 90's and my earliest exposure to startups and internet use.

At any rate, just me rambling. Well-done and insightful, I would read an entire novel like this.
If it takes you more than 83 separate instances of waterboarding somebody to decide that they don't have useful information to share with you, then waterboarding is not an efficient way to get reliable information.

If waterboarding is not an efficient way to get reliable information, then I'd be very curious to hear about what definition of "work" you're using where waterboarding might satisfy, but fail in this particular instance.
> Whenever a bloated, antiquated dinosaur is replaced by a newer, smarter company the sun shines a little brighter in my world.

And whenever a "newer, smarter company" disregards fundamental IT security practices and gets hacked, the sun shines a little brighter in my world.

Security is an afterthought (if a thought at all) in many hipster operations, and it's about time someone fucks up so badly that IT security is priority #1 from the beginning.
If they really want to be at the cutting edge they would sell movies DRM free so you could watch them on ANY platform. The movie industry is taking way to long on this.
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Was he privileged when he was in Eastern Europe or only when he arrived in the US?
Or, even better, Robot land-pirates.

There are many many things out there that you can steal without harming a fellow human now.

When robots are doing all the tedious jobs for humans, you either live for free or work for fun. Not much need for breaking the law (unless that's just fun).
Social Security for everyone.
Thank, God ... the world doesn't work like this. Grabbing my coffee and going to my privileged position as an American .... just because I'm white shouldn't be held against me. Stop calling me "white privilege". It shows you have no lack of motivation to work yourself AROUND a problem, vs. pointing at things of barrier. The tech industry SOLVES problems, not creates them.
You say that but have you actually experienced it? That's my point. I never thought the USA was an unsafe place. Until spent 7 years in Japan and 6 months in SG. Before I lived in those places I would have had your opinion. Now that I have I can't live in the USA anymore. It feels like a shit hole 3rd world country.

Intellectually knowing the trade offs is different than actually feeling and experiencing them. I'm sure you believe that even after experiencing a life of feeling safe at all times you'd still choose unsafe but freer but I suspect you're discounting the effect it would have on you to actually have the experience. I'm not saying you'd make my choice but I am saying you'd at least see the trade off in a different light.

Being free from certain worries is also a form of freedom. You're free to criticize the government. I'm free to let my 8yr kids explore the city without worrying they'll come to any harm
Thanks!
Yeah me too, I really would like more data on it TBH.
For me, being on camera is a personal thing. I don't mind it, but I know doing it every day makes it a lot, lot easier. There's always audio and of course written text to share your journey with.

At the end of the day, you have to start somewhere, and the two things I think are:

1. You are only as good as the last piece of content you put out. So if it gets critically slated, then go learn from it and improve for the next.

2. Embrace the failure, and that includes the negative comments. Take a third person view and treat it all as an experiment which you can learn from. Enjoy the successes and share the learning from failures.
You seem to be saying that one of those propositions is prima facie absurd, but I'm not seeing it. Who would disagree that checking corruption in industry is a primary function of government?
Mister Horse is correct!
To be fair:

"﻿And even if it had been true, what the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah—with the knowledge and approval of the highest government officials—is a prime example of the kind of still-unpunished crimes that officials like Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld committed in the so-called Global War on Terror."

... from very near the beginning of the article.
Thanks for the response. Really appreciate it.
OK, I am going to forge ahead with execution.
Which is still much cheaper than renting a 48 hour movie from Apple iTunes which seems to still have a market. Sure this is not a game changer per say, but fits the criteria of "remaining" on the cutting edge in delivering content.
You're talking hypotheticals. We actually do this, and we actually do talk to real lawyers. On the rare occasions when someone has tried their luck, we have never lost so much as a chargeback.

Of course, most of the time it never gets that far, because as I said before, we try to provide very good customer service. Among other things, that means we are up-front about our pricing and we give our subscribers quick and effective ways to manage their subscriptions. I wouldn't want to run a business that did the sort of shady things mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. We get very few complaints in the first place, and in reality it's far more common for us to help out someone who made an honest mistake and then get a nice mail back.

All I'm saying here is that we don't have any obligation to go beyond what our terms and the relevant laws require, and in particular, we don't have to accept some random e-mail as cancellation when we explicitly say we won't, for good reasons, and when we provide a quick and effective alternative that is readily available to all subscribers. I honestly can't see why anyone would have a problem with that.
You won't understand because you fall in that category.
But trust when it's said. You avoid certain challenges because of your race and sex and that is a given.

That said, that doesn't mean that you sailed through life on a magic carpet with things handed to you.
> Do you have a source for this?

Yeah. It's called deductive reasoning.

You scream about the evils of racism and what harm it's done to our society ... and your solution is more racism, just in the opposite direction? Smart.

How about no racism at all? I think that's better.

> Mainly, that you blame other people for your problems, specifically minorities, which is an odd conclusion to come to.

It is an absolutely odd conclusion to come to. It would make more sense to blame people like you. Unfortunately, human beings aren't purely logical and when they see another person at the job they should have had ... they blame that person, rather than the policy that put them there.

What's worse, nobody knows if that policy is at fault or not ... so people assume that they got fucked over, because it's always easier to blame someone else than yourself. So you've now created a society that resents success, because it's assumed that success only comes to the privileged classes like minorities, etc, rather than to those who earned it.

Congrats on making a full circle.
Which makes sense given that these countries contribute the most to the funding of CERN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states_and_budget
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Programming is a skilled labor, not a profession, in that you are "supposed" to do it for a couple years and then move on. Like teens used to work at McDonalds and give weird looks to the creepy 30 yr old guy still working fast food.

When its not noteworthy for programmers to have an age distribution similar to the greater population, or for experience to be respected instead of being made fun of, then programming will finally become a profession rather than a semi-skilled labor.

Personally I don't mind being made fun of by the kids... I get a lot of money cleaning up their inexperienced mistakes.
These days, yeah, that's definitely the case. A few generations back there were a couple of multi-socket-single-memory-domain designs.
Wow, look at all those 10x programmers in this threat. Ladies & gentlemen, we're in the presence of greatness!
Wait, you are justifying an illegal action of yours because it is easier than the legal route? Since when doing the right thing is and should always be easier... So, do you also not pay income tax because it is much easier to not do so? There are countless examples where being illegal is easier over legal, but as a society some of us understand that if the majority respect the law and order, we are much better off.

I'm Canadian, and I certainly don't back you up on this. I use Netflix, Crave, my providers VoD service, independent and mainstream theaters to consume content all the time. When I realize I've spent more then I should on entertainment, I simply find other stuff to do or consume.

Is it really about being "easier" and not about being cheap? Personally, I find it quite easy to swipe my credit card or link it to a Google Play account.

I am amazed to read this under the caption of articles picture: "Netflix customer Susan Lorenz of Toronto doesn't understand why the company is suddenly shutting her out from the content she used to be able to see." ... Susan most certainly understands why.
> I think people will be less comfortable with the idea that the truck next to them has no human in it, and could experience some kind of glitch with catastrophic consequences.

Unless the truck somehow acknowledges adjacent vehicles in a comforting way. I don't know what that would look like, but it would probably be coupled with advertising and data collection (no law against filming all the cars around you and what they are doing).
> This is actually the biggest issue I have with the intersection of social justice and the technology industry. The concepts of "white privilege" and "stereotype threat" are borne of the non-falsifiable, non-reproducibility "science" of sociology departments everywhere.

I wasn't suggesting that because moral claims are metaphysical in nature, they're automatically wrong or meaningless.

Just that because no such arguments are offered at all, the best the author can hope for is that the argument either strikes the listeners as obviously true, or prods the listeners into further consideration which leads them to the same conclusion.

My point was simply that the only chance he has of convincing some of us (including me) of his assertion is to actually do the work of presenting a decent argument, which he hasn't done.
Copyright legislation is country by country basis and needs to be "navigated" as such given the differences in legislation.

Although there are global companies that have the resources to do it worldwide it still makes more sense to license IP to national distributors [1] and give them exclusivity in their local markets. This closes the doors to global digital players like Steam or Spotify, for instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_distributors_by_c...
> It's metric ton, as in one thousand kilograms.

Or (unfortunately not) better known as one megagram.
> I don’t know if this means I should not trust American Scientist in areas that are not my specialty. On something I know a bit about, the magazine has failed miserably.

I forget the term for this - when we see media cover something we know about badly, but continue to assume that they cover other topics that we're relatively ignorant about fairly and correctly.
daily reminder that universities indoctrinate students.
You have obviously never heard of ZipCar or Getaround.
"white privilege" is just a term to coup out of the economic slavery that liberals/progressives in power put upon their constituencies. Call it what it is. The democratic party needs to enable minorities in particular by creating middle class opportunity through deep education entrenchments in lower income enclaves - aka. inner cities. This isn't 1963 anymore. We are WELL past that, so if someone uses this term one more time ... you are just validating that you fail to motivate yourself around your situation. We all deal with them, so be of the belief you go around them, not over. To me ... Democrats to not serve me ... let alone their own base.
No more electronic road pricing gantries, every car's position will be tracked via gps
What's the good reason? Is it because the pricing strategy is charge as much as the customer is willing to pay?