skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to be a blog post rather than something that people can play with or try out as mentioned in the guidelines for "Show HN". Going to the company home page provides an opportunity to sign up for a demo, which doesn't really feel in keeping with the spirit of Show HN either.

That's not say someone might not find the blog post intellectually interesting, only that the product is not as described.

Good luck.
Doesn't this mean, full stop, that good developers should not even consider working for such start-ups? You know from day one that your contribution is not valued, and that if you are hired it's because management viewed you as a bargain basement sort of developer who could get the (easy, insignificant) tech job done and no more.

I don't see how the premise of the post can coexist with the phenomenon of clamoring to "only hire the best" and obsessing over e.g. HackerRank interview submissions or something.

Also, what of acqui-hires? I've seen and been part of some big corporate acquisitions in which a company buys a start-up that is not doing good work and has a stupid product, solely to get their 10-person engineering team and then drop the other employees. In which case that start-up succeeding mostly by not giving a shit about any actual business problem and just hiring a group of excellent engineers.
>> Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill,

Only one of those I would call "thrown away". Left in the field to "rot" is a form of fertilizer. Being fed to livestock, animals that would otherwise eat something else, equally isn't waste. These are products being put to good uses, perhaps not the most lucrative uses for which they were designed, but uses nonetheless. This is farmers recycling unmarketable product. It isn't waste.

Only when product winds up as landfill, that is waste.
Tshark and elasticsearch
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12083829
What part of that article do you think is a point against what I'm saying, exactly? Autoland and taxiing? That requires a Category III airport which many airports, even those served by airliners, aren't. It also requires pilot supervision and pilot intervention in the event of emergency. Hardly autonomous!

And there are plenty of systems below that. For example:

http://sarasotaavionics.com/category/autopilots/certified-au...

Note: single axis and 2-axis. Just like what I said it can be.

But yes, the people insisting that "autopilot" does not imply autonomy, simply because no autonomous autopilot exists on any commercial aircraft, are torturing the language. Sure.
>SpaceX might launch a Mars lander during the 2018 low energy window.

Is this budgeted? Is it on a launch docket? Is there a rocket ready for it? Is the lander completed? 2018 is right around the corner and frankly I'm getting sick of "Spacex might" comments. There's a big difference between "might" and "do." When you see a mission on the NASA roster, its ready to go and unless there's some serious technical issue, it'll happen.

I'd like to see more "do" from SpaceX that isn't LEO flights and landing on barges.
Frankly.. do boring things that don't cost you a thing. Stay away from vices (bars, pay to pay games, tech gadgets you don't need etc). Spend money on things that last, a nice bed, nice shoes, reasonable car, your family.

Live.. but don't waste.
OK, but why? Such a thing has never existed on any production crewed aircraft.
Worth noting the authors, Henry Lin and Max Tegmark, are both astrophysicists. Among other things.
Well except being 4 years late to the block storage game? Seems they have an uphill fight. Aws and gce match them on low end droplet price and offer much more. No local ssd but not sure what % of apps really need local ssd. DO effectively forces you to pay for local ssd for all of your servers.
This sounds eerily like the plot of Watch Dogs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs
Here is an interesting analysis about Duterte:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmGueIli7vc
Cooper jumped at night over unfriendly and fairly unknown terrain. Hardly the same as a day jump into a prepared LZ.
Reminder that just a few weeks ago DigitalOcean rolled over on one of their customers and took down 38,000 websites after receiving a claim of infringement from the NRA against a parody site hosted on surge.sh:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nra-complaint-takes-down-38...
I read it as they either silently limit you, or have a free for all and let the traffic duke it out for iops.
I would say 10%-15% is lost to insurance fraud. A lot of times when the crop yield is less than 50% of expected yield farmers will just disc the fields and claim 100% loss.
How Swedish Teens Use Home-Built Pickup Trucks to Drive Without a License
Show HN: CDN testing tool shows how your website performs on any CDN
I created a second bank account as soon as I went to college because I was too lazy to balance a checkbook. Now I actually have three accounts. Savings account for long term savings that 20% of my salary is deposited, a checking account where my rent is drawn from, and another checking account for general use where 80% of my salary is deposited.

It's probably not the best system but It's nice to have it all separated. It's a process if I'm going to take money out of savings and transfer it to my checking account so It makes me think twice on large purchases.
Why would anyone use machine learning if not to create systems they don't understand ? That's the whole point of doing it. Not having to understand complex system to understand -or even predict- them is a very good thing indeed. I don't know anything about how to mathematically analyze pixel values to read text, but I can create such a formula using machine learning. After creating the formula I know nothing more about it. So the same person can create programs to read text, transcribe audio, predict loan repayment, ...

And when it comes to the bias in the data - bias in the system thing, well, same thing goes for human judgement. Another way of putting this would be garbage in-garbage out. Humans might be able to tell you of bias in the inputs, rather than just using it, but this ability rapidly deteriorates when the dimensionality of the inputs rises. You can tell if there's something weird about combinations of 3 numbers, but you can't tell if there is something off about 150 number sequences.
I got 13 points (not counting as incorrect those where I knew the answer, but the system wouldn't accept the token I clicked on) and I don't think it was that hard. My objection is that if you run static analysis on code like this:

static int rr_cmp(uchar *a,uchar *b)
{
if (a[0] != b[0])
return (int) a[0] - (int) b[0];
if (a[1] != b[1])
return (int) a[1] - (int) b[1];
if (a[2] != b[2])
return (int) a[2] - (int) b[2];
if (a[3] != b[3])
return (int) a[3] - (int) b[3];
if (a[4] != b[4])
return (int) a[4] - (int) b[4];
if (a[5] != b[5])
return (int) a[1] - (int) b[5];
if (a[6] != b[6])
return (int) a[6] - (int) b[6];
return (int) a[7] - (int) b[7];
}

You are doing it wrong. You first need to figure out how to write code in a more readable fashion and not allow ugly things like the above in the codebase.
Is it dishonest or is it hustle? The name of the game is putting your business first. You can't let those feelings get in your way.
> I've been told again and again that there's some evidence us consumers have to be looked out for and have perfect, pristine produce

> out here in Mountain View

It looks like you and your community are ahead of the curve on this one. You're also less than 200 miles from some of the best agricultural land in the world, so of course good fresh fruit and vegetables are easy to get. In the northeast during winter, the choice is between mushy, bland big box produce or no produce at all.
That and the 6 second limit is totally arbitrary. The fact that you can have longer videos on Instagram(but not, say, multiple minutes long) is killer.
Live Streaming Breaks Through, and Cable News Has Much to Fear
Just a reminder that most businesses would do this exact same thing in this position and the problem is with the policy and enforcement.

Get out and vote for the right people this November.
4 Examples of Big Data Implementation in Customer Micro-Segmentation
> Why is it unreasonable to expect a society to look out for its weak and vulnerable?

It's perfectly reasonable.

But bullets are cheaper than care and that's why bullets rather than care fit so much better in the narrative expounded by populist leaders.

Conveniently, bullets also allow you to get rid of people that oppose you and that works better if you have a group that you've labeled 'ripe for extermination'. Then all you have to do is make people in group 'B' look like the people in group 'A'.
I really do hope that by now, everyone knows not to do anything they wouldn't want the public to know about on public WiFi, especially these systems. Using a VPN when you are on public WiFi such as this helps solve a lot of the privacy problems that you face using said service.
> Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations?

This would an interesting thing to try - a computer system that would scan all the papers for math and find parallels. I think we already have something like term indexing for deductive systems?
instead of aiming for "the same number or slightly less" accidents than a human, why not have humans give oversight to prevent autopilot errors, and autopilot assist where humans might make a mistake?

actually try to let both computers and people excel where they do best, and massively decrease road accidents?
Think Like an Entrepreneur for Business Longevity
Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform
Nothing preventing someone from making a DAC with a 3.5mm jack instead of a set of headphones. In fact they already exist...
Grafana 3.1.0 Released
Elon Musk “Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for the fun”
TBH, if we want an example, OJ Simpson is good: he was eventually found to have wrongfully killed his wife in civil court, but at his initial murder trial he was acquitted due to (among other things) poor evidence handling by the LAPD.

There were widespread accusations of attempts to 'frame' OJ and of police racism. It was both right and necessary to discard the questionable evidence, otherwise a large part of the public would have believed that he was wrongly convicted. Evidence is not just for the courtroom, it's to rule out allegations of improper conviction and unfair treatment by the general public.
> Anyone see a flaw in this?

Perhaps not a flaw, but some issues with your setup are implied.

If you're rebuilding from scratch because you're not sure that you can update things, then you're probably in need of a configuration management tool (I'm a big fan of saltstack[1], mostly because I don't like Ruby or DSL's, but there's lots of options out there[2])

If you're worried you're going to lose transitory data, it sounds like you don't have a trusted and tested backup/archival/recovery process in place. So having it stored on a single EBS / DO BS / etc means you're still exposed. If you're rebuilding and rolling data over, in this scenario, I'd be copying, rather than relocating, any precarious data repositories.

[1] https://saltstack.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_conf...
SS7, Diameter, GTP security
A more detailed report: http://www.portfolio.hu/en/economy/uber_set_to_pull_out_of_h...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086041
It is more than stupid shit, it is illegal stupid shit. Please read (edit: replaced, was "the") the German legal code. From your argument it would be better not to pursue crime just because you might "(to) get more physical radicalism"? That is clearly not justice.
Alphabet's NYC kiosks also have two cameras which are recording passers-by, https://cryptome.org/2016/06/linknyc-spy-kiosks-installation...

A dystopian "smart city" vision can be seen in the "Hyper Reality" video, http://hyper-reality.co that is inspired by Magic Leap's AR, in which Google is an investor.
GoodBye ‪Google Search App‬ – hello federated enterprise content search from SME
Wasn't 64 in 64 a config issue? Enable VT-X?
If the police showed respect for the lives and rights of the people in the community that they are policing, there would be far fewer people resisting and disrespecting them.
The teaching to "Just drink tea" is a training principle. The reason that the teacher can read the news paper and drink tea, is that he's completed his training.[1]

Most of us never attempt any such training though.

In my comment I wasn't attempting to make a moral or aesthetic prescription. I was just pointing out that training the ability to focus on doing one thing is worthwhile.

[1] Also most Buddhist teachings reveal several layers of meaning when actually attempted. You are supposed to _try_ and sit and drink tea only, and see what happens, and what that reveals about your mind.
The air gap will always exist, just a matter of the tools being ubiquitous enough for it to be worth the effort.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085868
What Personal Growth Work Really Looks Like
I counted 21 cases of mostly targeted ads in that single article.
link to the social part: https://steemit.com/
How is it that "dalkegatan, Göteborg" and "dalkegatan Göteborg" give very different locations, neither of which is the city match location?
Decentralize now?
Definitely user hostile. I have 4-5 Apple earbuds kicking around [in my office, in my car, some at home, etc.]. That's one of the "lock-ins" with my iPads and iPhones.

On the bright side, maybe phone manufactures who don't treat the users in this way will be more competitive. Competition is good.
Google has repetitively made their interest in running cities public, Larry Page talks about it often. While this article is primarily focused on the Wi-Fi efforts in New York City, Google has been working with other cities to replace management of public transit and parking enforcement.
Between the fertilizer, fuel and pesticides used in modern agricultural practice there is some difference with a native plant dropping seeds.
This sounds far fetch and sci fi, but intelligible machines are particularly of importance in avoiding machines becoming self aware unbeknownst.

However, I think it's also possible that we may never be able to create machines that are self aware as people are unless we do allow them to build without our understanding of them. There could be a recursive relationship in that an intelligence is not capable of understanding itself.
For thought experiments that are applicable to real life, you should not presume knowledge that nobody in the experiment has access to.
I'd rather it brakes and collides with a child than swerve into oncoming traffic

Wait, what? You'd rather hit and kill a child than hit another vehicle - a crash which at urban/suburban speeds would most likely be survivable, without serious injury, for all involved?
Mostly by prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves by putting another sex crime conviction on their record and not giving a damn about the long-term consequences of the young life they ruined.
There have been a few articles on HN about this topic but this one has a little bit more detail on the sad state of available USB-C peripherals.
>gotten in their minds that RTG power is evil and dangerous

RTG usage is curbed due to NASA's low supply of plutonium-238. Until more is made it makes sense to design for solar powered systems. Also these are risky missions with high pricetags and erring on the side of caution using well known technologies isn't some big conspiracy. Its to avoid high-profile fails. We can try new and risky stuff in lower profile missions.

Heck, Curiosity was launched just a few years ago and has 11lbs of plutonium powering its RTG. I hardly see a conspiracy here. Also RTGs add weight and cost to projects. If you don't need one, you probably shouldn't be using one - even ignoring their rarity. Missions like Juno get significant weight savings using solar.

>I don't know if the cam is the problem or the transmission bandwidth,

The quality of the photo has to do with the distance from Jupiter. It has nothing to do with "power." This is a spacecraft, not a gaming PC. Yes more power would mean a higher bitrate, but the bitrate it uses is good enough for the mission.
Changing the pointing device from default touch mode to PS/2 mouse in Machine>Settings>System fixed that for me. Seems to be the default for Ubuntu machines in recent versions.
> Just because I say that I hate you because you are the race you are, I don't hurt you directly. Why is it not allowed then?

Damned if I know. I do not agree with hate speech laws. I think they are corrosive of the fundamental need to free speech in a democracy.
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 45 – DevOps and Security
I've seen a lot of articles/books confuse music notation with music theory.
Helsinki Wants to Eliminate the Need for Car Ownership by 2025
> when she learned that her child sex abuse images were widely traded on the Internet

But how? I'm not suggesting she actively looked for CP, but surfing the web casually won't get you anywhere near it.
One of the nice things about Apple's review / publish system is that it encourages multiple parties to keep release binaries around. Both parties will need them in case there's ever an allegation of malicious or dangerous code.

Also app-specific DRM is unnecessary AFAIK, so that will avoid common problems.
It turns out that 44.1 kHz / 16 bit is sonically transparent, even in the most exacting environments. This has been verified over and over again in listening tests. So the good news is you can downsample to reasonable rates without losing any perceptible quality (although you might lose the placebo effect).
I do technical diligence for a living so I feel like I should chime in.

1. Many of my clients are unsophisticated when it comes to technology, regardless of whether they buy a "tech company" or not. Yes this includes both PE and VC clients. When a PE firm makes an investment in a tech company (and take 51+% of the company) they need to be confident the technology will hold up. About 90% of my work is PE, with the other being 10% in VC (mostly Series A +). Believe it or not, many commercially successful companies do not always use "today's world of SaaS tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure". And even if they do, just because you use AWS doesn't mean you've setup a VPC correctly, you have multi-az setup, or sensitive data isn't encrypted at rest. These can have potentially costly (i.e. lose customers / brand recognition) consequences. (case in point -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11999712 )

2. If you're a VC, and especially an early stage one, then no, due diligence isn't necessary. At all in fact (including finance, etc). You're thesis isn't aligned with careful analysis, it's spray and pray, so diligence isn't a worthwhile endeavor. I wonder if something prompted the author to write this or if it's just a random rambling. I thought it was pretty well understood that doing diligence at the angel/seed stage was almost unanimously worthless.

3. Tech due diligence at the later stage of VC, if done right, has more to do about scalability of operations and processes then it does about the specific tech. When you put $50M into a company, spending $50k is a pretty good safeguard.

4. Tech diligence, by the right partner, could have certainly identified risks at Theranos or uBeam (assuming there are some there), but that's precisely what it is - risk. I'm pretty confident the investors in these companies understand the risk, they simply just don't care, because the potential outcome will return their whole fund and some. Do this 10 times and one bet is bound to pay off.

5. I always try to remind entrepreneurs, VCs are finance professionals, not tech professionals. While some may have made their way into VC because of their previous technical ability, there are also many who do not. And just like when you stop coding for 6 months and get "rusty", so do previously technical able VCs who get older and out of touch.
This is EXACTLY the thing that I need for one of my droplets! I love how there is nothing "special" about it - it's just a disk that you can attach to a droplet. I'm sure that under the hood there's some kind of magic going on, but it looks like it's nicely abstracted away. This is what I hoped block storage would turn out to be - here's a block device, use it like one.

As soon as this rolls out to the region I've got that droplet in, I'm going to pull the trigger on it. I might even spend the effort to migrate my droplet to a supported region just to get this.
In the USA, it is entirely possible to institute a reasonable UBI, on the order of $10k/adult with some fractional amount for their dependents.

The question is politics: it'd also require scrapping most of our current welfare programs and instituting Scandinavian levels of taxation. This ends up goring {Republican,Democratic} {donors,clientele demographics}, so I agree that's presently an impossible lift in the USA, but that's a matter of politics, not economics.

I'm with you on fixing our broken healthcare and educational systems, but if you think that's any more practicable than a UBI, I've got a free government subsidy to sell you.
Unless the DAC is very tightly integrated into the actual speaker (literally fused, so it's hard to connect to the coil), there always will be an analog loophole.

DRM is not about preventing this, though. It's about making ordinary consumers surrender to whatever media dictates, not preventing absolutely everyone from ripping the content.
You certainly don't know Greek :)

Copr stands for "Cool Other Package Repositories" and is pronounced copper
Hey there, I work at Stripe. We're working to roll out 3D Secure, and it's in private beta right now for European, U.S., Canadian and Australian accounts. If you're interested, send me an email at edwin.wee@stripe.com!
Stupid comment. The quality of work of a very good scientist is not a random variable with an average being the same as the population average. Some scientists are actually better than average. Stop trying to sound smart.

Now you could argue that IAS scientists were actually average, and they were just lucky enough to hit upon quality results before they went to IAS. In this case your comment could logically make sense. If that is what you believe, I will just assume that you know nothing about the world of research in the past 40 or so years (at least not in an area where IAS is world's best, like theoretical physics) during which the IAS produced some of the world's best research, as opposed to just having the scientists with the world's biggest reputations.
Gotcha! thanks for your insights :)
Find me a viable candidate who will work for the people and I will.
Shasqi (YC W15) unveils a new way to deliver drugs in the body
It's the same price as AWS's General Purpose SSD EBS volumes.

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
How is that different from running GPL programs on Windows? You need to accept the EULA to run windows, which limits how you can use the application as well. Every GPL program must link to kernel32.dll, which has usage restrictions covered by the EULA? And to even install/download/copy the software, you will need to interact with built-in Windows software like IE or exporer.exe or cmd.exe or a third party program that also links kernel32.dll.

It feels wrong to deny users access to GPL software because of terms of service applying to the underlying OS. As long as the software itself is available in source form under the GPL (either packaged inside the .ipa, and/or with a link to a page where you can download the source under GPL with no EULA attached) should afford the user all the freedoms of the GPL.

But I guess smarter people than me have decided this is unacceptable, so users can't be allowed the convenience of pre-compiled iOS GPL software?