skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of Facebook advertising is that it's somewhat similar to this. I believe you are limited to $500/day budget until you prove yourself a trustworthy partner by building a reputation as such. You do this by running ads over a period of time to establish trustworthiness.

It seems to work decently well, for some definition of decent that Facebook has.

The point is that it removes the upside for a scammer: low friction entry point (good for scammers!) but limited ceiling: you're not gonna be able to do this to very many people.

Remove the incentive by capping the upside, rely on reputation until that point. Feels like a pretty good service.
The neural net that accurately predicts human control inputs also extracts the relevant features you would want to build a more principled autopilot. For example you could take one of these nets and then for build a speed limit sign locator on top of it without training a whole net for that from scratch. Using that you could then hard code the rules for obeying the speed limit into a more traditional planner.
Why is this linked to someone's G+ page?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5CX8drAtU
I honestly like the sites that block adblock. I only use adblock because it is so easy and has such massive benefits, but I still feel guilty than I am not supporting content creators.
AFAIK Watson doesn't generate Prolog. It does use Prolog rules:

"Specifically, decomposition for Puzzle questions is performed by matching manually developed Prolog rules against the question’s predicate-argument structure to identify its subparts.",

"Relation detection patterns are written in Prolog and apply unification pattern matching over PAS"

"Most of our rule-based question analysis components are implemented in Prolog"

(All from the IBM system journal issue on Watson).

I'm pretty sure I've read all the published papers on Watson (the QA system). It's possible I've missed something, so a citation would be great if I have.
Is it actually illegal to sell information that a particular bug exists and can be exploited? What if it is sold to the company which owns the software? What if it is sold to one's own government?
It's on Medium, so it must be true.

Seriously, the article has almost no content.
> I notice no citation, nor what "much more likely" means.

The blog post still makes the very important point that no one cares about beliefs when hiring. If one so chooses to be a bad teacher and teach things that are flat out wrong, well, that just makes firing them justified based on incompetence.

I think the NYTimes article is begging the question; if you ask why there are fewer conservatives/evangelicals/fundamentalists in the universities, one possible answer is that they are self-selecting, not that they're being discriminated against.
Using JS for automation is a great start. I don't think they have a way to build a JS app that leverages the full capabilities of either Mac or iOS yet.
I haven't used Sawmill in ages, but it wasn't bad, once upon a time. There's also GoAccess, which is a snazzy ncurses logfile analyzer:

https://www.goaccess.io/
It stands to reason it will eventually happen, but compared to a satellite there is a much lower liklihood that as an individual you will experience harm because of such an update.

Some mitigating factors:

- they can do slow releases. So if a serious anomaly does occur it is unlikely to be with your car.

- the conditons of space make errors much more catosptrophic. Although I can imagine similarly catosptrophic scenarios with a car, there are also more opportunities to safely rectify the situation (like the car pulling over and refusing to drive if things are not ok). In space, the satellite cannot just stop and wait for a tow truck to arrive.

- there is only one satellite to test the update on. If they screw it up, it's gone. With cars, there are many to test on, so errors will turn up and be fixed faster.

But back to the issue of risk:

Just like with drunk driving, you are at risk of somebody else's car going haywire as well, so it's a risk regardless of whether you yourself updated or not. At that point, the difference between your existing risk and the risk you take on from the update is probably not that great, so might as well just do the update.
A privacy-focused social network that people actually want to use. Peer-to-peer networks for individuals, groups and communities. With a monetization scheme that doesn't suck.

Disclaimer: I'm working on this.
Or that car maker actually have the ability to test their software in real-life situation before pushing the update to the intended client
Well, PHPixie is using a dirty trick right out of the JBoss playbook, so that's two strikes...
The 'best' language is subjective. There are many apps where JavaScript could be one of many 'best' choices and some where it certainly couldn't be. Either way, you don't have the choice today.
I would describe myself as liberal, even by the already relatively liberal standards of coastal California, but I'm not sure incoherence and hypocrisy are things only the Republican party is guilty of.

I see many of the same aspects of incoherence among Democrats and you don't exactly have to look for it in the hidden trenches of the Democratic party. I certainly don't think Sen. Feinstein's views on encryption are in line with those of an open progressive society.

I see the same hypocrisy in Democrats' views on gun control, and specifically the prohibition against convicted felons exercising their constitutional right to bear arms.

I'm generally of the opinion that the criminal justice system in the US is fundamentally broken and institutionally racist/discriminatory. Going by that premise, and seeing the specific hurdles that poor people, and specifically poor black men, face in terms of selective enforcement, likelihood of being offered pretrial plea bargains, chances of conviction, and length of sentencing, I find it hard to view any laws that hope to strip citizens of their rights based on a tainted justice system as anything other than racist. And yet, these laws are broadly supported by both Democrats and Republicans.
Good point. But there are a lot of things like self driving cars where emulating would be a quantum leap forward...
Corporate Innovation Management: A Methodology Discussion
Again, answered in OP and links.
I work at a certain custodial bank and it's scary just how much of our business depends on Excel VBA. Something like this would be amazing as we have virtually no SCM / revision control for our critical spreadsheets.

Does anyone else know of any neat "can't-live-without" Excel utilities or add-ons that would make a software engineer's life a lot easier? A few weeks back someone posted ThingieQuery[0], which also looks fantastic. The IDE for VBA is awful, and I'll take any improvement I can get.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583488
Safety is something you can actually measure.
Some of my projects have double digits dependencies in their requirements.txt file so upgrading one at a time, even with pip list --outdated, would take too long.

The only solution I know of to this is to "unroll" all those dependencies into your own requirements.txt, and manage them the same way.

For some projects I work with this is actually the only option, since I have to use requirements files with hashes and those are all-or-nothing -- even a single dependency-of-a-dependency that doesn't specify a hash will break the install, so I have to track down all of them and get a hashed entry into my requirements file.
Wondering if they have to create near collision scenarios in order to train the network :-)
The thought crossed my mind. ;)

But being able to say "$GOODTHING happened because of me" felt so much better. It just means in the end that 50% of my meals are lentil based :P.
Why does choice matter? I could choose to indulge my fabulous side and cross dress, but the social rejection wouldn't be any less painful.

Yes, choices do have consequences, but social exclusion based on those choices can still be critiqued.
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It also came about before CAP was postulated, and does nothing to automatically resolve partitions. It doesn't -die-, but it was clearly built with a "we'll run this in our own data center" mentality. In the event of a partition, it goes immediately to split brain mode, which each side of the partition running separately, allowing both writes and reads, and doing nothing to try and automatically heal the partition, even if your Erlang nodes reconnect.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing; it's a very easy model to reason about, it rarely has an issue if your cluster doesn't span more than one data center, and it lets you know when it happens via events you can subscribe to. But doing anything different, up to and including healing the partition automatically, is left to the user.

There's also a few warts due to its history; disc only tables have a rather small max size (so if you're not expecting everything to be stored in RAM as well, you don't want to use Mnesia), indexes are shockingly inefficient for writes, and a few other odds and ends that I don't really remember. For persisted, but fast, storage in Erlang, where partitions aren't common, it's great, but outside of those sorts of use cases there's probably something better.
The decline of conservatives in academia in the humanities and social sciences (other than economics) post-dates the conservative movement's dismissal of the value of those fields and is a natural consequence of it: if you are part of a political movement which rejects the value of a field of work, you are less likely to seek to work in that field (and, conversely, if you value work in a particular field, you are more likely to split from a political movement that does not.)

If conservatives started painting those fields as valuable fields for scholarship which needed more conservative scholars, the gap would, I suspect, substantially disappear within a generation.
"I don't see a problem with the status quo. That's just how the world works."
This is great! Incredibly useful.
This was the essay that got me thinking about translation not being a 1-1 exercise.
I have 30,000+ songs in my music library. I've taken the time to meticulously tag each and every song when adding music to my library.

I currently use MusicBee and love it. It's somewhat lightweight and its tagging tools are great. I've also used Media Monkey for a few years and that also has great tagging tools, but it's not as lightweight as MusicBee.

I only ever use iTunes for purchasing songs I can't get via other channels such as b-sides or whatever.
Yeah, but if a computer screwed up like a human we'd never hear the end of it.
If only there was a mnemonic to help :)
Postmates Math
> My personal opinion is that profiles should be set as private by default as people don't often investigate the options they have, even i didnt realise my profile could be viewed publicly by the rest of the world.

It's a dating site.
"Self-hosting analytics for better privacy and accuracy."

Then why using google fonts which is listed by Disconnect.me (used by Firefox) as a tracking domain? Isn't that paradoxical?
For better or worse, anything sufficiently subtle or complicated can't be translated 1-1 across languages. There are too many problems of context, meaning, etc. For a strange example - the Intuit have 50 words for snow. How much subtlety would be lost translating that into English? It just wouldn't work.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there...
May I suggest adding the condition of noting what fraction of offshore funds fall under such classification?
The Java community became familiar with the term 'astroturfing' after JBoss was caught doing it.

Rot in hell, Marc Fleury
I feel the same way about IoT. The downward trend is a good thing for the start-ups that stay focus. Let's not forget the days when the web was 'over'...
How do you know that? Very little evidence is offered. The other side is quoting studies about bias in hiring, and the reply is basically "we would never do that, trust us".

Edit: re self-selection, two points:

1. If the self selection occurs at the student levels (i.e. professors are hostile to conservatives which causes them to drop out of academia before they get to the teaching level) this is still bad.

2. Even if it's entirely self selected, it's still a diversity problem.
I've started using git-crypt for deploying configuration. It keeps things simple and ensures that keys are not in plain text on bit-bucket which is basically good enough right now.
You don't choose to believe something different. You deliberate on your beliefs. And either find validation or repudiation or somewhere in between. Beliefs are formed over a lifetime and in constant (though perhaps slow motion) flux. Consider (for yourself) your present stance on a non-theological postition. Death penalty, abortion, universal suffrage, the draft, something. Consider what you presently believe and why. Then question it. Research or seek out the opposing view. Hold serious (non-strawman) debates in your own mind on the various potential stances and their rationales. Maybe you come back from this unchanged, changed to an opposing view, or to a middle ground. But you'll have arrived their deliberately.

That's the essence of being a rational human adult. If you can't, figure out why. If you won't, you're still a child.
The same thing could have been said when we went from oil lamps to light bulbs.
Totally not important to the content of the article, but to the author: your date line is broken. It's saying it was published on 2016-0-0, currently.
yes it is, but it should be private when your logged out, its public to those who dont have an account on okcupid
Thanks for the feedback. We're optimistic about the idea of focusing on what can be gained by starting from scratch. Specifically by creating a modern API between the core kernel and device drivers, we think we can make interesting advances in areas like system-wide power management, component level servicing/updates, and overall "debuggability". We believe these areas will become even more important as general purpose operating systems are integrated into more embedded devices.
Gordon's metric generally is QALYs. Yours?
cheers fixing it now
Your perception of PostgreSQL being obscure in comparison to MySQL is interesting... Most projects I've worked on use pg. My perception is that projects using MySQL do so because of history (project started in php and that was the default stack, it was faster at the time (before transactions), etc...).
> I would describe myself as liberal, even by the already relatively liberal standards of coastal California, but I'm not sure incoherence and hypocrisy are things only the Republican party is guilty of.

An electoral system that can naturally support only two substantially competitive parties guarantees that parties that cannot maintain incoherence will also not be major parties. While the electoral system empirically does reduce the significant axes of variation of political vies in the population [1], it doesn't reduce it so far as to actually fit on the one-dimensional axis implied by a two-party system. So the major parties must be incoherent to be competitive.

[1] See, Arendt Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy for research on this.
There's also many more cars to test software on.
He is saying they are fundamentalists with a lower case f. They can still be less fundamentalist than a group literally called Fundamentalists and still be fairly fundamentalist.
If you trace the root cause of why people are in prison I bet in most cases poverty is a large part.

When will we stop and realize keeping people indefinitely in poverty only makes life worse for everyone? The people behind these kind of schemes are morally more criminal than many of those who are incarcerated. Preying on defenseless or down and out members of society for financial gain is about as low as you can go.
This almost sounds like the line from terminator two.

"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ..."
I've read that one of the problems with Google's self-driving cars has been that other cars tend to run into them because the self-driving cars drive extremely conservatively and violate other driver's expectations of how a typical California driver is expected to behave.

I think this sort of thing is something developers are going to have to find ways of dealing with; a car can be technically driving in a safe, legal way but if it's too different from how a human would drive, they are going to be a safety hazard.

Of course, standard driving behavior varies dramatically from place to place. For instance, in the United States, everyone is expected to get out of the way of whichever car has the right-of-way in that situation. In Indonesia, the car that has the right-of-way is expected to slow down, stop, or move over to accommodate other cars that do things like pull out in front of them in an intersection or pass on a two-lane road with oncoming traffic. A self-driving car in Jakarta would need to be trained very differently than a self-driving car in Seattle or Paris. Not just because the traffic laws are different, but because drivers have very different expectations about what is normal behavior.
Better debugging, commercial support, stable/better driver API I would assume. They explicitly state they take away the pain of constantly maintaining patches.
I really can't tell for certain, but I feel fortunate that Michael Kandel translated Stanislaw Lem's works; they read so well to me, I can't imagine them not being what the author meant. The fact that the poetry in "Cyberiad" works so well (in English) makes me feel he's a good and honest translator. You're right on Eco, though: I can't name the translator for Pendulum.
Take David Cameron's investment fund, as that is one of the biggest news stories with regards to the Panama papers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474555

The reason for using an offshore vehicle is because investors came from different countries, so it wouldn't make sense to set up in a high-tax regime.
> Kind of. The really high efficiency LEDs are blue. The problem is with the efficiency of green LEDs.

Hu? That's not true. Blue is less efficient, not more. The lower the wavelength the more efficient (toward the red side of the rainbow).

Also mono-color LEDs are MUCH more efficient than the ultraviolet ones with a phosphor (AKA white) ones.

If you wanted efficiency then have red and green in an LED, and that's it. You don't really need full color at night.
I can't work on it for free, but at a minimal Bay Area developer salary equity I'd be down to discuss it. Are you planning on fundraising? You mentioned your CS background - I hope this doesn't sound accusatory, but you haven't let on much about what you bring to the table as a non-technical founder and most would probably want to hear that as well.
Reading Bruce Schneier made me especially aware that security has a strong economic component--its not that you can make your server secure against all threats, but with the right tools you may be able to make it uneconomic for the threats you are most worried about. There's probably not much you can do to defend against an NSA-scale attacker that's targeting you individually. But if you're more concerned about NSA-style dragnets or their corporate equivalents, OpenBSD can help.
I think they accidentally a word. (My guess would be 'main reasons my computers crash' :P )
By this logic - you wouldn't want to drive any car since no satellite programmer could guarantee no bugs in their initial software either.

I think it's a tradeoff. If self-driving cars can save tens of thousands of lives in the US every year, how many should we be willing to risk to enable this?

Eventually your insurance company may force this on you due to higher premiums, or government may make injuring someone in a manual car accident a crime like assault.
I also noticed the shadow problem. And with some fixtures, the shadow itself can have a strange pixelated look - https://i.imgur.com/e0nReZ8.jpg

At the same time, the city looks much more beautiful to me under LED lighting.
The very first point is key. Unless you work at a realty company, when guys at the office are trying to get rich flipping houses we've reached the peak.
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By sheer coincidence a research dataset containing OKCupid data was released today: https://osf.io/p9ixw/

I looked through it and it's very robust. I should have a few data visualizations up using it soon.
(The actual problem is nicely highlighted in this article's most popular Reader Picks comments)

There is a popular narrative about what it means to be conservative, liberal, progressive, etc. This narrative is a small simple band in a vastly complex spectrum of views. Unfortunately, we have come to the point where the narrative is being echoed so much that it's impossible to have a conversation framed outside the popular narrative.

We have all been trained and self-trained to pigeonhole each other based on these meaningless labels to either a) dismiss each other or b) rally together to dismiss the "other".

The one thing that we can't do is suspend our emotional biases and sincerely listen to alternate narratives.
To clarify, the default state is that the profile is available to logged-out users.
Self driving cars must do significantly better safety wise otherwise the adoption will be hampered.

Plus, the whole point here I think is to save lives. Google self driving cars arent really a hazard they're more just very annoying because they are overly cautious.
Are you saying 42% of profiles are empty? That would seem to indicate that OkCupid is really puffing up their MAU numbers.
Good strategy is to move all data transformation into Excel add-in Power Query and leave raw data in original format. No more copy/ paste of data. "Fat finger" events are minimized. Using PQ gets you moving towards more robust business process, data management and IT architecture.
Url changed from https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/self-driving-cars-3... to the paper it points to.
It always seems to be on any site where you have to create a profile, by default it'll be exposed to google.

I really wish there was a checkbox at the end of a registration form that said something like "Show Publicly". I'd wager most people would leave it unchecked.
> I would describe myself as liberal, even by the already relatively liberal standards of coastal California, but I'm not sure incoherence and hypocrisy are things only the Republican party is guilty of.

Which is still not true as a generalization by any meaningful definition of "fundamentalist". The Evangelical movement was precisely a reaction against the elements of the Fundamentalist movement that made "fundamentalist" a generic term of zealous, narrow-minded extremists.
"You can't choose your skin color or where you were born, but you can choose your political beliefs."

You sound really confident about that, would you care to cite your research? My ignorant assumption would be that people's temperaments would segregate them into political views naturally. I know Jonathan Haidt has done a lot of research into this area, and he has some interesting ideas - "All political movements base appeals on different settings of the foundations—and the culture wars arise from what they choose to emphasize. Liberals jack up care, followed by fairness and liberty. They rarely value loyalty and authority. Conservatives dial up all six."[http://www.thelavinagency.com/blog-jonathan-haidt-difference...]
thats fantastic, i will have to have a look, i imagine its a bit more organised than my quick scrape
VR is definitely trending. I'm working on a startup currently. I'm the technical and product side of a two person team. My business focused partner in passing asked if it would be possible to integrate VR into the platform. VR literally adds nothing, these trends can be toxic as they are productive.