skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP but there is a difference between ideas you generate and those generated, compiled by other people as well as appropriating and disseminating something that wasn't "yours".

My belief in whistleblowing is as follows. If the act of whistleblowing violates laws and go beyond the provisions in whistleblowing laws, but you or I dearly believe in what we are doing as proper and just, then we do it but understand the consequences and don't and should not seek understanding or forgiveness. If we believe so much, then it's our duty to sacrifice our selves in the face of adverse conditions. I compare it to revolutionaries. You believe in your cause enough that the negative consequences are part of the deal and you don't expect leniency or official pardons, else the issue is not that dire.
Pokemon Go got me hyped up for Sun & Moon and the drive to finally go through Omega Ruby which I had sitting installed on my SD card forever but never bothered to beat the first gym.
It was not removed - it was pushed into the "Umbrella" of "Autistic spectrum disorder" - why? Because there was no agreement as to what "High functioning autism" vs "Aspergers" was so different people diagnosing would put different people under different things.
> So why is parallel construction a bad thing?

Because try to hide the fact that they collected the incriminating information in an illegal manner.
We should get some extraordinary views of Jupiter's polar aurora activity. Also much higher resolution of gas dynamics phenomena because of Juno's perijove altitude of ~3,000 miles.

Doubt we'll see depth, unless it's through fortuitous breaks in high clouds. Other (non-imaging) instruments (microwave sounders, etc.) will tell us what's going on in Jupiter's interior. Metallic hydrogen? Rocky core? Juno may tell us.
VaultOS: bottom-up redesign of bank computer systems released
The biggest drawback for me: one more think to keep track of with my phone.
I am often in and out of the messenger app without being interrupted by the clutter of FB itself. I look at FB when I have some time (maybe waiting in line or whatever) while I actually use messenger for, you know, messaging. The app has its own message count badge, for instance, while FB's badge includes both contact requests and updates.

It's a case where disaggregation helps the user experience.
In my case, every meeting I had consisted of me saying "We need to know which features and performance goals we can sacrifice." Never got any answer. They wanted it all; they didn't want to pay for it.
I figure that's what you're doing, but man, why do you want to re-run a container when the result is already known?
30 deaths in 4 days.
Note that b2 charges 10x their cost/gb for downloads. Which means it's cheap only if you don't ever read your data back (at least in my use-case which was for ~1tb of backup data - makes it expensive to test your backups...).

We'll, "expensive" is obviously a relative term, but why store data and not access it?

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html
Mozilla SUMO Cache Poisoning and Open Redirect
When you take into account the full range of tracking methods cited in the article, I think the impact of Tor would be limited. For example: you probably already have an app on your phone that has an SDK from Gimbal (beacon company in the article) or a similar firm that reads beacons and tracks your location passively. So while Tor would disguise the source of your web requests, the SDK still has free reign to send your location and your Ad ID back to the mothership.
(mostly copied from my comment on the other story)

Given the number of Autopilot miles driven, you'd only expect one death so far, so that we have one doesn't really tell us anything.

However, injuries from car crashes are (fortunately!) much more common - roughly 60 times as likely. So you'd expect to have about 60 Autopilot incidents resulting in injury by now. I don't really keep up with Tesla news but, based on the reaction to the previous story (where the guy wasn't even injured), I'm going to assume the actual number of injuries is tiny.
I enjoyed the few times I connected on Weave to meet other folks who were interested in networking with me as well. Brian, the founder, had worked with some of my colleagues at a previous startup and was gracious to offer advice and feedback when I was applying to YC a few years back.
"If you can't beat them, attempt to scrape them!" /s
One popular anecdote or perhaps paraphrased statistical tidbit in the last few years was that incidences of autism were unusually high in Silicon Valley and particularly children of developers. Not that all developers have "high" intelligence--but higher than average on the whole? Just wondering if there might be any strengthening arguments to be made from connected studies. Of course, could be a red herring that masks the critical factors, but if we had to bet on the likelihood of a connection...maybe something there.
Exactly, my 2016 passat has some pretty slick lane assist and adaptive cruise control. Still requires hands on the wheel (although I've watched it take itself around a corner at a high speed and it was pretty incredible). Only thing it's missing is lane change and that's something I could see VW patching in if they were a company that cared about that sorta thing.

I think the only thing tesla has over the competition is the willingness to upgrade their cars after they're sold. With everyone else it's basically always going to be how it was when you drove it off the lot.

I imagine VW could also tighten up lane assist to not be as slot car and pick the middle of the lane rather than whatever side of the car is closest to the line.
Did it take you less than about 8 full time months to make the game? If so you just made the median salary in the US for full time work.
Most pie recipes I've seen call for multiple varieties, especially from different categories http://frugalliving.about.com/od/foodsavings/qt/Best-Apples-... My grandmother used mostly Braeburn and Northern Spies, my mother uses Crispin and Granny Smith. I think a crumble might break down the apples more than a pie with its protective crust, so harder varieties might work better there.
> Effectively their trademark policy is to automatically side with the trademark holder, irrespective of fair use[1] (see page 9+).

Did you miss that? It's not infringement if it falls under fair use. They were not following their TOS because they did not confirm the content was infringing a copyright
Predicting which cops are most likely to mishbehave in the future
Shyft
It takes a special kind of stupid not only to leave a noose on someone's desk (inarguably a sinister death threat, especially in a time of conflict) but also to do so when you know that it will be captured on a security camera.
It's a new motor, not a battery.

They've eliminated dysprosium and terbium from the motor magnets, freeing them from a dependency on China, which is the go-to producer for those particular rare earth elements.
Yes, but can the same be said about cheap popular music?
They realized that they can only claim the camera fell off so many times.
It's very definitely drug users/addicts as well.
Tesla has never claimed "driverless" - the driver has to be there (well, now - earlier firmware versions didn't check for weight in the driver's seat). What they did do is market it as "autopilot", which means different things to different people - in an airplane, "autopilot" merely flies the plane into the direction and altitude set by the pilot - it does not avoid other aircraft, take commands from ATC, or anything like that. So, technically, calling Tesla's auto-steer "autopilot" is pretty accurate. The problem is that most people being unfamiliar with aircraft systems think of autopilot as "something that flies the plane on its own" and analogizes that to driverless cars.

You've never flown in a pilotless airplane. Autopilot is not AI.
Developers should definitely write their own code when there isn't an open solution that they can leverage to solve the problem, but those situations are quite uncommon for the majority of startups. Most founders aren't doing the sort of cutting-edge development that no one has seen before; they're making a SaaS app that boils down to a few CRUD forms in a browser and some nice design[1]. Building a business around that is much, much easier and cheaper if you write less of your own code.

Use open solutions where you can, and don't use them where you can't.

[1] That is in no way denigrating startups that do that. If you can solve people's problems by making a better form then that is a Good Thing.
They certainly don't seem to be fleeing to the capitalist paradises of Honduras, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.

If the United States had a wet foot/dry foot policy with the rest of Central America, it would be absolutely flooded with asylum seekers. It's already flooded with illegal aliens risking their lives, paying coyotes to smuggle them across the Mexican border - imagine what would happen if they were automatically legalized.
As long as I can turn the auto-pilot off and take the wheel myself, driving the car is my responsibility.

It will be Mr. Musk's responsibility if (when) he disables manual driving option fully, without the opportunity to take back the control.

So far, everything's well.
Yes, and also, if they like, IMSI (via base station spoofing, aka Stingray/Triggerfish), bluetooth MAC, NFC, etc.

If the phone has any cooperating apps on it, choices are much wider even.
Really well said! Also, before reading your explanation, I was a little hazy on how the image stacking thing worked. Now I understand a lot better. It's like averaging to get all of the details to the forefront without the oddities!
> What are the on-the-road stats for automatic driving? Aren't they better than human drivers already?

Probably not. The fatality rate for urban interstates in 2007 was 0.54 per 100 million miles. That's the type of environment--safe, predictable--where autopilot is most likely to be activated.

With one fatality, we don't have a really accurate picture of Tesla's fatality rate yet, but our best estimate at this point (0.76 per 100 million miles) is higher than that.

http://freakonomics.com/2010/01/29/the-irony-of-road-fear/
Ok, I'll be more diplomatic - not spray and pray, but a "portfolio approach".
> in our case, live migration would just be crazy with local spinning disks, we tried it didn't work

It looks like Exoscale does live migrations with locally attached SSDs.
FOIA
thanks for the kind words
Expecting a hosting provider to wade into fair use waters hand-in-hand with you is generally unwise.

The vast majority will not unless you are a large customer with your own legal staff on retainer to provide the appropriate legalese/notices/etc.
Time is the total running time for 64k writes, write cost is for a single write, so just dividing time by 65536 gives the write cost. This is correct for all listed tests on Linux and Windows except two, the two buffered tests on Linux. I am not sure what went wrong, both write cost values are about 3.75 times to high assuming the total time is correct.
A big thing (for me anyway) is that the overall interface becomes smaller, and allows for greater customization. I can set it up exactly how I want, and at what size, without messing about. Sure, you can do that in a single-panel application, but skype is never gonna do it. It's kind of like how photoshop is better with floating windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is-ought_problem
> Further, I can't locate nor have seen any evidence to support the claim that anybody considers those types of apps to be the apex of human civilization.

http://blog.samaltman.com/hard-tech-is-back

I think the public perception problem is that "people invest in / read about things they understand." By definition, people are less likely to understand an enterprise predicated on cutting edge research than a realization of an existing market need by deploying existing technology. So the bubble talks about Snapchat but not battery technology startups (side gripe about deplorable state of popular scientific reporting).
"Sophisticated" has no objective meaning, but not all music is equally complex. I mostly listen to techno. This genre has high timbral complexity, average rhythmic complexity, and almost no melodic or harmonic complexity. Compared to, eg. Beethoven's 9th, it's obviously artistically inferior. Despite this I find it more enjoyable to listen to.
web2py was called gluon, IIRC. They had to change the name.
The actual problem is that autopilot doesn't remove the driver from the situation enough. It gives people the illusion that they can hand off driving to the computer, but in reality they still need to be doing 90% of what they would be doing anyway. They have to stay engaged in the act of driving. Giving people the illusion that they don't have to stay engaged is where I think the problem is. Until the car is driving itself entirely, I'm not sure there's much to be gained.
The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money
You should look up what "technically" means in that context.
How to use UI elements to prototype better
This article has the usual pro-Uber slant that allows them to complain that it's "impossible" to do business in a place because of regulations that apparently don't hinder any of the other players, so we're unlikely to get any details on what in particular made servicing Hungary "impossible."

I have to assume this is just more of their petulance, given local events involving them. Uber and Lyft claimed that servicing Austin would be "impossible" given the horrific demands that their drivers submit to finger-printing and left, claiming all over the place that they were "kicked out."

We have several ride-hailing services that are somehow able to bear these truly onerous and unbearable regulations, and that's without 100 billion in SV funding.

So I would guess that Hungary didn't want to serve themselves up on a silver plate and Uber threw the usual fit.
The Cloud Appreciation Society furthers a proud tradition of doing nothing
No screesharing though - seems like simple webview over web.skype.com
The Tesla warnings remind me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where one of the brats were about to do something disaterous and Gene Wilder would in a very neutral tone protest "no, stop, you shouldn't do that".

From a risk management standpoint, Tesla's design doesn't strike me as sufficient. Warnings without consequences are quickly ignored.
Yeah, tbh, just throwing your vote that way to pollsters may be enough to get him on the debate stage and that is the best you can really do.
Because they have the money and lawyers, so they can break the law.

They like to call it Disruptive Innovation or some other fancy term.

The problem with Uber is they think every country is the same and welcomes them. I under that might be the case with U.S, but it doesn't mean taxi system in every country is broken and they are welcomed to "fix it".
If you can get a reasonable timeframe for the photo (even a month or more) and you know specifically which room it should be trivial to get a list of occupants of that room during the time frame. Combing through tens of people should be manageable, and it should be less.
You recall correctly. I had to sign that this was the case and be willing to verify that if they asked. I kept mine locked in a cabinet.
Yeah well, sorry about that.
The point of a crash test is not to show that the vehicle is super rigid and impervious to damage. It is to show that a human inside the car is safe. To that end, the car should "crumple." It shouldn't remain 100% rigid, and it should fall apart like tissue paper. It should absorb as much kinetic energy as possible so that the human doesn't have to.

The Jazz is doing the right thing.
I was waiting for someone to mention Theranos. The challenge there was that Elizabeth wouldn't share the tech. With anyone. They shouldn't have gotten a dime in funding.
Complexity takes different dimensions. Take American folk music, for example, something I know well. The songs and melodies are very simple. The performance is incredibly sophisticated. Addressing both individuality and tradition simultaneously, expressing the emotional content of the lyrics effectively... doing folk music is really, really hard.

If all you're doing is counting notes, Bach is more complex. If you bring expressiveness into it, the Carter family trounces Bach. And if you want to hear Bach ruined, just plug the notation directly into a midi sequencer with no human involved in the performance.

Music is both intellectual and emotional. Measuring only the intellectual aspect is a disservice to music. The emotional and cultural roles of music matter. This is often lost in "music theory".

I remember a long time ago, watching Peter Gabriel perform at a charity concert for human rights. A quarter million people in the audience, and he got them to do a sing-along of the chorus to "Biko", a song about the death of South African activist Steve Biko, who was beaten/tortured to death in police custody. Peter Gabriel was sitting on the edge of the stage, swinging his legs, providing minimal guidance. A quarter million people raised their voices together. How is that less sophisticated than a Bach fugue?

You raised the example of Simon and Garfunkel. "The Sound of Silence" will last in human society as long as Bach does. It will still be heard centuries from now. That's sophistication.
Better integration?
With a cross-platform JS monster?
Sure.
No generator. I just took Trump's quote about Saddam Hussein and terrorists and changed a few key words.
Thoughts on Diversity Part 2. Why Diversity Is Difficult
The comparison is shit. Anyone can make a comparison that puts their position first, it is no different than politicians selling our rights down the drain "for the children". Your hyperbole isn't much better.

The simple facts are, it does not work well enough to ensure the absolute safety of those using it or those not using it. It is horribly named for what it can actually do. Tesla needs to step up and admit it is not ready for prime time and since they cannot guarantee how their customers use it they cannot in good faith allow non designated testers from using it
What is a good textbook that will take me from 0 to practical proficiency with Bayesian Nets, if I have experience with regression models, hand built and machine learned?
Show HN: Trump-Rejects: The Most Devious Use of $20 in Twilio Credits
You'd really have to look at the number of accidents per mile where people were driving in a single lane on the highway, not the overall number of traffic accidents.
The ISS's cost was substantially due to the cost of the Shuttle program. Building an equivalent space station today using the rockets and systems we have available now would likely be considerably cheaper, by a factor of 10 or more.
It's still primarily a "gaming" voicechat/messaging system, but the software is all there, it just needs expansion. I'd be surprised if some sort of enterprise-grade discord didn't come about.
Exactly! In this case the driver may have been at fault.

What happens next time, when the driver has a stroke?

"Well, he didn't put his hand on the wheel when the car told him to, it's not our fault!"

Like you say, slow it down. Sure, the driver of a non-autonomous vehicle who has a stroke might be in a whole world of trouble, but isn't (semi-) autonomy meant to be a _better_ system?
All the way agreed. Plus, in the last incident, the autopilot explicitly told the driver to take the wheel, which he did not do. So the accident is at least still in part human error. I expect incidents to go down even more once humans are removed from the equation entirely.

That future can't come fast enough for me.
Words are messages, and government always reserves the right to punish the use of some messages, and prevent them. And in this, it is a matter of degree, not kind.

For hate speech in Germany, I firmly believe that the story should not end at "police raids" but rather at "and the neo-nazi was adopted by Syrian immigrants and shown great love and compassion, and he fell in love with a nice Syrian girl and they will be married in the fall." But that has more to do with what the punishment is.

While I'm against hate speech laws in general because of the withering slippery-slope argument, Germany really is a special case because of the holocaust.

Last but not least, this news article implies that we are being monitored. We might not trigger visible action, or any action, but our messages are running a gauntlet of predicates that, if any flip to "true" will get human eyeballs on our messages, which may yield humans wielding guns in our living rooms. Such is life.
Yeah, you should not process your four examples over and over with that cost
On the contrary, the fact that it takes an entire fortune to build a self-driving electric car is also very telling.

Building an "app" to take selfies or find imaginary creatures in a porta-potty is a lower CODB, obviously, but it's a product people apparently value and it can be done by a small team[0] instead of a fleet. There have been a few HN threads that discussed successful software/games/webapps that were developed by a single person (Slither.IO)

Are we sure the future is really "winning" when it's headed toward a fully-immersive VR and hyper-intelligent AI that will essentially replace the need for most human labor?

The chief point I'm making is it's all very relative. Rushing headfirst into a new world sounds nice, but have we even stopped to consider and react on the negative impact that Social Media and our current innovations have made?

[0] http://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-use...
I used Weave a few times when it was still "Tinder for Networking" and it was pretty clear it'd always be a niche product without a clear monetization strategy.

These are the kinds of startups that make me think twice about becoming a founder myself i.e. raising VC money and hiring a bunch of people only to become trapped into working on an idea for 3-4+ years that you know is not working after year 1-2 because you still have money to burn.
Is it just me, or do all the new languages this year look the same (like a hodgepodge of Haskell and Rust)?
Did the cofounders not have beating terms on their shares?
Reaction Engines moves ahead with single-stage-to-orbit SABRE demo engine
Thanks for the distinction.
>The problem is integrity

Not really. The issue is market size.

So many wanna be reviewers will happily sell out for 15minutes of fame. Changing/discarding people is commonly done by the audience AND reviewers at a whim.

Furthermore game sales are done as impulse buys on the strength of a franchise, or studio. Look at the market for pre-orders. People don't purchase escapism rationally, as escapism isn't a rational experience.

Demanding integrity out of this system is the battle cry of naive. Studio's don't allow, profit motive doesn't push for it, and those demanding it are a minority. The only choice is to stop buying games by large publishers period. If you don't have the integrity to do this, you aren't in a position to demand it from others.
Three basic mistakes people make at casinos, according to a math expert
That's a good question. In most cases, no.

I'd counter that Sidney Bechet or Muddy Waters 12-bar blues can be sophisticated without being complex
They are from actual software but that doesn't make them less trivial – assignment instead of equality, unbalanced parentheses which invoke the comma operator, mistyped names of variables in repetitive expressions which do not stand out due to the idiotic indentation, not knowing that arrays decay to pointers when passed to functions.

Those things can indeed cause a lot of harm but they are far less frequent in codebases not written by monkeys, compared to issues like undefined behaviour due to misunderstanding the language semantics, integer overflow, not checking whether a call has returned an error, etc.