skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A computer is going to make an algorithmic choice, and that's what the article was about - who makes the choice as to how the car should react?

Google has already said that this kind of decision making will not be a part of their cars' system. The car's reaction to situations is based on the rules that we all agreed on when we passed laws surrounding how humans are to behave on the road.

If the car encounter as obstacle, it will brake. It will not calculate death probabilities. It does not need to.
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This is my neighbourhood... and I'd love it.
I just don't think that we as a society are ready for the driverless car. We are not ready to give up the freedom and the semi-anonymous nature of driving. I know you'll that with ubiquitous cameras that we are already being tracked, but that is different from the continuous, high-fidelity tracking that will be in place on these cars. I trust neither the private companies nor the government to keep this data secure. I expect that within my driving lifetime that I'll be forced to choose between lower insurance (for driverless cars) and driving myself. That makes me sad.

And consider, if you will, how this can become the modern version of "Red Barchetta" if you did choose to keep driving yourself.
A third reason: when I go to the page, I see a single task with $20 offered as the pay. From the description, There seems to be a reasonable chance that it takes me 3 hours to complete from start to finish. Given that it is not guaranteed that I get paid, why would I write code for US federal minimum wage?

If I'm going to submit a pull request to the marketplace and I see that this is the sort of thing on offer, I become skeptical that a skilled person who can deliver solidly readable code on-time is going to spend their time on this site. That means it is probably not worth the work it takes to package up a task for a total novice. If I don't have many of these sort of easily-packagable tasks, then I'd just do them myself. If I do, then it makes a lot more sense for me to go and hire a junior engineer who can actually learn my app/data model/domain and be 6x as efficient tackling them as a random person who doesn't have an ongoing relationship with me.

Companies often lose money hiring interns who have a whole summer to ramp up, but make up for it in the recruiting benefits. Why would they hire an intern for 4 hours.
Show HN: TheyMadeThat – an IMDB for everything and not just movies
Copy/Pasting my response from Reddit:

> They did polarize opinion but overall I think people liked them

I was one of the people who called you out for your "growth hacking," and this assessment is blatantly wrong.

For one thing, your original Apply HN submission had a linkbait title, which you admitted to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535928).

What you did later to polarize opinion was to include an unnecessary link to your Apply HN submission to each comment you made, which is Spam in HN's rulebook. On the first comment you made (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536407) (flagkilled), 3/3 of the comments called you out as spamming.

On the second comment you made (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537017), half the comments still told you to cut it out with the advertisements.

On the third comment you made (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537818) which made it obvious you were ignoring the comments on the first two comments, I stepped in and told you were breaking HN rules, but you still did not edit out the advertising URL. A HN moderator eventually killed your comment.

These shenanigans most likely disqualified you from winning the YC fellowship, which counteracts your "growth hacking is good" sentiment. The results do not justify disregarding community sentiment.

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OP replied on Reddit:

> Hey man you can't see the upvotes but I can, combined the 3 comments received more than 100 upvotes. People complaining = 10.

> If it was against the rules I would have been banned, it was not. Anyway if you are suggesting I took advantage of a grey area to come up with a way to showcase my product, yes I did. When it was no longer gray I stopped. Community sentiment is subjective, even you admit half the people loved it but I have data to know it was way more than half. So sorry about your sentiments. I get your point but don't know why you care so much about it.
Not so much.
BTW one can find out the rankings of all ApplyHN applications by just upvotes here: http://www.thefinac.tk/applyhn/ (sort by rating)

Pinboard is not a serious application so that can be ignored I guess
Tangential question: One of HN's frequent subjects is the rapid rise in Bay Area housing prices. Since real estate is an asset like any other, how does the Fed's policy of inflating asset prices contribute to this phenomenon?
This reads like a case study in pure incompetance at every possible level. Lack of vetting, no third party auditing, poor segregation of customer funds. It's a total shit show. This should permanently damage their business and reputation, but the Bitcoin community has always been forgiving of people who lose their money. Fool me once...
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I did not mean to belittle the efforts of package maintainers, most of which are people who don't get paid for it and do it out of their own volition (which I applaud!). They definitely put hours upon hours into improving the software that is shipped in Debian (or any other community distro for that matter). But you cannot argue that the efforts of a single maintainer compare to the effort of a dedicated engineering team, QA team, and a release engineering team of an enterprise company (Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat), whose only job is to assure that every single bug is patched correctly.
the plank (an exercise to help lose excess fat round the stomach)

Cringe. Hard to take the writer seriously after this statement. The rest of the article seemed fine so I googled around to see if there was some stunning new research showing the plank (or any specific movement) spot-reducing fat. Nope.
Is this to improve taxation for David Copperfield or to get money in some other form from the government?
My day-job went through a similar exercise...and they even got us excited by proposing a pilot where some numbers of employees would use google apps for a couple of months, while some other employees would pilot Microsoft's online offering. Then the higher-ups would garner feedback, and pick the one that most thought was productive, etc. We actually never got to test google apps, the pilot got killed. Word is that the MS office online solution will be implemented...to which i reacted like you stated, "Morons in charge"...and then someone in the office reminded me that sometimes in corporate world, tech decisions are not always about functionality but about existing (and potential) license agreements. Maybe the company's corporate software vendor or microsoft sales team offered a financial deal that was overall better (our corporate laptops run windows OS) for the company.
I've never seen an advertisement for a Dell computer running Ubuntu though. I've seen a ton of ads for the chromebook.

If google ran an ad campaign for chromebooks running Ubuntu I think it could easily compete with chrome os.
how about free service?
Testing my luck that it will work on Windows - though I'm doubtful given the Mac-orientated mockups and that cool/useful tools like this never find their way onto Windows. :(

This is the one thing I've wanted from note taking software that I haven't found elsewhere (admittingly, I also haven't looked very hard)
Not every founder needs VC money; think outside the YC bubble.
Thick plywood can handle a lot. My dad is a general contractor and uses sheets of 1 1/2" plywood to prevent his forklift (~24,000 lbs) from sinking into soft ground. At that weight a single sheet (per tire) crunches a little, but it holds up just fine.
Yes, I was trying to figure out an eloquent way to add something to that effect to my comment, but I think you've done a better job than what I had drafted anyway.

What would be interesting, is if diesels were predominantly more likely to exceed those lab levels than gasoline cars to a significant amount, or if they were exceeding those standards to an unexpected level.

That's still possible, and it would mean we need to update the emissions standards and/or the test process, but this article doesn't make that case.
I'd say that voting with dollars is the only democracy. Most people don't have the value to choose correctly, or simply don't care. If people don't care why would the government feel forced to do anything?
My understanding is that Google developed Tensorflow to provide a single pipeline between the data science model and a production system. The idea is to avoid a translation step between modeling the real world and implementing it in production.

Of course, most people don't have the resources of Google with a layer of data scientists and another layer of software engineers [and maybe a layer of data engineers in the mix too]. So the idea of a tool tailored to a small team's needs rather than those of Google seems like an interesting niche.
Thanks for posting, spot on.
There has long been http://www.1kbgrid.com
> As jobs continue to get automated away, the emphasis on education will only become more extreme.

Why is that insane? What else should people be doing instead of learning -- especially when they don't need to work?
> Six of today’s 10 wealthiest Americans are heirs to prominent fortunes. The Walmart heirs alone have more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans combined.

That's Amazing. Here's a list of the 10 wealthiest of my country : http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2362216 .

There's 3 large groups here : 6 out of 10 are heirs to fortunes that were already fortunes in the 18th century. 2 were made between the 2 world wars, and 2 after WW2. There does seem to be a constant here too. Wealth of the older families is declining, whereas recent fortunes seem to be increasing.

Heirs:

1. AB Inbev families (Spoelberch, de Mévius en Vandamme) - 49,391,305,000 euros.

2. Albert Frère (left on photo) - 6,205,140,576 euros

3. The Emsens Family (Etex) - 3,614,510,000 euros

5. The Lhoist-Berghmans Family (Lhoist) - 2,789,342,500 euros

6. The Janssen Family (UCB and Solvay) - 2,458,359,000 euros

7. The De Nul Family (Jan De Nul) - 2,078,252,000 euros

8. Ackermans & van Haaren - 1,700,863,000 euros

9. The Collinet Family (Carmeuse) - 1,470,600,000 euros

10. The Balcaen Family - 1,305,811,000 euros

Made wealth:

4. Frans Colruyt (centre) and the Colruyt Family - 3,246,369,000 euros
>In terms of duration: I would say they are one regular recession away from this. For the last 5 years I've been saying "next 2 years". Today I'd say 1 year. (I have no actual money involved so this prediction is worthless. But you asked for it...)

So what you're saying is that you've called 3 of the past 0 recessions...

The Japanese economic stagnation is complex enough that it demands more than a lone sentence concluding that it will result in hyperinflation.

As an aside, I often find it frustrating reading HN comments related to economics, as it is not an area of strength for the community. Consider how much faith you would put in an Economist's analysis of consensus objects or networking protocols. This gets especially frustrating when technical terms with specific meanings (like duration) get misused in these discussions.
Quality of life? Japan's poverty level is at record highs.[0]

"Bookshops advertise a slew of bestsellers on how to survive on an annual income of under ¥2m ($16,700), a poverty line below which millions of Japanese now live."

[0]http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21647676-poverty-worsens-...
The article isn't entirely clear how AWS is as fault here. Usually, it comes down to misconfigured AWS settings which are the users' responsibility in the shared security model. A shameless plug, but there are ways to scan your account for these misconfigurations which can lead to leaks like this. I've been working on CloudSploit (https://cloudsploit.com), an open-source and hosted scanning service that can continually check your accounts for these kinds of risks.
I can't understand why everyone doesn't go to grad school. In grad school in a computationally focused biology lab, I'll be able to come in every day and code on whatever projects I want (well, in my case all of the projects I want to work on are in my field) to in whatever language I want to. It'll be open-source, on github, and be shared with other scientists through publications. It will contribute to advancememts in environmental and medical genomics (however small!), which are important and morally/intellectually fulfilling fields.

Why would people ever choose to instead go write code for some corporation that will always be closed source, has to be be whatever your supervisor tells you, won't even be owned by you, and may never see the light of day for the first 4-5 years out of college? Grad school seems more fulfilling, interesting, better for portfolio development, and you just happen to get a PhD out of it than most entry level coding positions.
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You're assuming the QE cannot be maintained on the Fed's balance sheet indefinitely. Substitute something else for "the Fed" where appropriate.

The reason you have (relative) inflation of housing (besides subsidies and throttling of supply ) is because there's no inflation other than that. With no growth in productive sectors, people turn to rents. Keep it up long enough, and they forget how to do anything else.
Borderlands definitely isn't on the Play store, unless you're talking about Tales from the Borderlands, which is something entirely different.

Portal and the Talos Principle do seem to be on there, but only for specific Nvidia chipsets.

And calling Hearthstone "professional-grade" is a pretty big stretch as well.
Apply HN: Startup Timelines
Currently in private beta:

http://www.startuptimelines.org/

We're building a wikipedia-like platform for startup founders to help them study the success of other companies.

Right now, our site shows screenshots of successful startups and how they evolved over time but we're working on adding new kinds of publicly available information such as SEC filings, press coverage, founder interviews, and growth/traffic metrics.

To see a sample preview of what this could look like check out the Airbnb timeline:

http://startuptimelines.org/startup-timelines/airbnb

this is just a fraction of the total amount of information out there on this company. We think with more money we could get the runway we need to more comprehensively profile companies like Airbnb. We're also working closely with 4 entrepreneurs to learn more about what kind of information would help them out most in their background research.

Our goal is to give founders a single timeline with as many data points as possible so they have a dedicated resource when doing background research before starting their own ventures. Eventually, we'd love to open up the platform so anyone can contribute content to Startup Timelines.

Some success we've experienced so far is that we've added companies to our site at a 20% weekly rate in the first quarter of this year, we've also had 60,000+ visits, and 2-3K shares on social media. We've also been featured in TechCrunch, Product Hunt, and Entrepreneur magazine.

YCF will give us the runway we need to keep the lights on and continue executing on our ambitious mission. We've been working on this project for about a year now, so, please consider upvoting/commenting as we could use any support we can get! Thanks for reading :)
>>> Gilgamesh

Great pointer. thanks.
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I haven't heard anything about the latest agreement, other than that it will involve a buyback offer, unspecified fixes, and/or compensation. You don't have a source do you?

There's been a lot of speculation all along, will they retrofit DEF systems, will the cars just get super unreliable because the systems can't handle prolonged legal operation, etc.
Produces way way way more people wanting to be such than society apparently needs, or is at any rate willing to employ at non-poverty wages.
Religious flamewars are not allowed here and we point that out whenever we see them. If something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574861 comes up again, it would be good email us at hn@ycombinator.com. We don't see everything, so we rely on users to keep us informed.
This is the way Europe and the US are going too with quantitive easing it is just that Japan is a couple of decades ahead.

We need proper helicopter money (or a Modern Jubilee) going to the public to spend not to purchase assets at the benefit of existing asset holders.

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/ See - "A Modern Jubilee" (I'm not sure about the Jubilee Shares part though).
Yea, this looks interesting. We've managed an internal sprint board with JIRA and treated the customer-facing task tracking systems as inputs and outputs of our sprints.

It'd definitely be nice to replace our internal system with something that was lighter-weight than JIRA and had integrations (bidirectionally) with the customer-facing task tracking systems. I'll run this by the team and we may give it a try.

One question: I don't see pricing or a paid version anywhere on the site. What's the business model for this product?
I'm assuming the Bangladesh bank did not write their own software so these vulnerabilities must also exist at other banks on the SWIFT network. SWIFT is just a protocol but any bank who signs on to SWIFT must also have software which implements SWIFT and therefore is potentially vulnerable to similar attacks. I'm sure this prospect terrifies the banking industry but it cannot be explained away. These risks exist even for Western banks.
If you have a signed contract with the gym, then just cancelling the card account may be a good way to find yourself sent to collections. Eliminating the payment method just means you are not paying them any more, it doesn't mean that you aren't accruing charges.

As annoying as these cancellation procedures are, they are almost always laid out in the up-front contract (especially for a gym, where you signed up in person). The time to object is when you sign the contract, not when you're trying to cancel.

(Not that I don't <strikethrough>hate</strikethrough> like this practice and find it shady and annoying, but wouldn't want people to wind up in deep trouble as a result).
> It's not P2W, but there is a "Pay 2 have an marginal edge" factor

That IS what P2W means.
> I think sleep has some innocence until you lose it and afterward it changes permanently.

Yeah, it's called 'getting older'.
Real estate price rises at that level imply the pursuit of land rents. This doesn't happen in Texas. Compare and contrast.
Let me try this again, hopefully the right way this time. (This is the first day that I've ever posted anything on Show HN)

On a related note, we've submitted this to Apply HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523675

As for a previously asked question on the last thread:

Q: How is the backend fundamentally different from a wiki?How is the frontend, more efficient than one?

A: You have more freedom on wikis but the information being displayed is way more consistent on TheyMadeThat, the format is enforced by design.

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

http://theymadethat.com/people/tony-fadell

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

http://theymadethat.com/people/chris-pinkham

Unlike Wikipedia, the data layout is the same for every person and thing. Moreover, it's guaranteed to have links between people and related things, so the relationships are much more apparent similar to IMDB

Feel free to ask more questions
Not likely to help me; my problem is too much weight collapsing my airway. I'm using a nasal-pillow style cpap mask, so I'm already breathing nasally.
Indeed, almost every other western country has socialized healthcare. The US is only 300 million of them with particularly loud voices... and despite all of the rhetoric, they have even deeper pockets to pay for healthcare than most states with comparable tax regimes.
It's hard to imagine a modern concept like "unemployment" without Capitalism, which brought with it boom/bust cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises

There's very little on that list before the Industrial Revolution
Wow, this is exactly what I've been looking for. I can't wait to give it a spin.
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100 data breaches later, Have I been pwned gets its first self-submission
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Average monthly wage is around ~$200-$300 [2014].

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2014/05/what-is-the-average-sal...
That I agree with. That's also the government's official position per NSA IAD since Orange Book. They said most software was shit, showed it in evaluations, showed how to do better, proved that with evaluations, and the market stayed on shit for profit margins.

Anyway, I think we should use their own Common Criteria and INFOSEC statements against them in crypto debates.

"Mr. Comey, these NSA documents say a system isn't secure until certain rigorous practices are performed from the chips up to the app. This iPhone wasnt designed to that standard due to to backward compatibility and cost concerns. By your own docs, the Fed's or NSA at least shoukd be able to shred it along with most COTS systems. So why is FBI contradicting NSA's expert testimony?"

Lavabit case defense I wrote previously:

"Your honor, FBI wants to put a black box in the system that can stealthily compromise all users and even forge evidence. You asked for an alternative. In our possession is a network tap that is certified for security by NSA-approved labs per NSA-approved standards. It has a NSA-approved TPM to attest its software hasnt been tampered with. Our administrator of that device has a US security clearance and will testify under oath to its physical integrity. This device can, in audited way, run a specific search on our logs or stored keys to get just the data the court needs. We suggest using it as, per NSA expert testimony, it's all they need to get the job done and has no risk of tampering."

What you think, tptacek? Nice way to make the red tape pay off? ;)
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Is there a difference? Type II diabetes is largely a lifestyle disease. It develops because of the way we eat and (don't) exercise. If you have chronic wrist problems from typing all day, I'd say that eliminating the typing is a legitimate cure. If you have diabetes because you eat too much and exercise too little, I'd say eating less and exercising more is a legitimate cure as well.
This puts my morning, one-eyed phone gazing in context. It definitely feels harder to get that right eye open for the first 1-2 minutes of being awake when I've been roused by my alarm. When I've had a more natural waking, I definitely don't rely on this crutch nearly as often.
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Would you expect someone to write you flood insurance on a house without knowing where that house is located?

Should car insurance companies treat a 16 year old with a WRX and a 45 year old with a Camry as equivalent?

It's really pretty bizarre that we expect people to underwrite our health without any insight into what risks we choose to take with it.

We chose the free market as our approach to health insurance, we could at least make it efficient. Right now a lot of healthy, fit people are paying through the nose to subsidize the privacy of those with sedentary lifestyles.
I am not sure self-driving cars will reduce traffic. My expectation is that they will increase traffic. By a lot probably. And commutes will get even longer.