skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While intensive technical due diligence at the seed stage is rare (for the good reasons cited in the note), I wouldn't make a unilateral assertion that it's a waste of time.

Some startups ARE technology driven (I bet the Theranos investors wished they did more tech diligence).

I find a light / informal discussion about technology to be really helpful. What's been built gives a sense of the real (vs stated) tech skills on the founding team (we all tend to reach for what's most familiar). For example, if the first version is built on the Microsoft stack, you might want to know that.

Finally, code meant to be thrown away always hangs around longer than expected.
Yeah, fighting the cartels directly has worked like a charm so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Casualties
The Grad’s Dilemma: How I Found a Software Job That Fits
Freeze your Python with str.encode and threads
Tesla's "autopilot" system and implementation has serious problems. I think it's becoming clear that they did something wrong. Whether it rises to the standard of negligence I'm not sure, but it probably will if they don't make some changes.

With that said, I agree that ultimately the driver is at fault. It's his car, and he's the one that is operating it on a public road, he's the one not paying attention.

One of the laws of ship and air transport is that the captain is the ultimate authority and is responsible for the operation of the vehicle. There are many automated systems, but that does not relieve the captain of that responsibility. If an airplane flies into a mountain on autopilot, it's the captain's fault because he wasn't properly monitoring the situation.
Highly Available Block Storage
Google: How We Fight Piracy
What does "man bites dog situation" mean? Looking at the Wikipedia explanation for the phrase in the context of journalism it supports my question about the title: Extreme and rare events are more likely to be reported. Obviously shipping "Rust code" is much less noteworthy than "shipping Rust" would be.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but it's interesting all of your alternatives are solitary activities? How about talking to the people you are travelling with (family/friends)? Seems to me that's the kind of thing the article is hinting at.
You did describe it in a way that implied it was useless if NIH wasn't your thing.

And no, I don't argue that NIH doesn't exist in other suckless projects, merely that it isn't the rationale for sent. Sent has some solid advantages over anything else out there, at least for me.
LetsEncrypt companion container for Nginx-proxy
Thanks, I may well track down that book.

I've never explicitly thought about the issue in utilitarian terms but it's given me something to think about.
When you encourage violence against a certain group it is incitement, simple as that. All jews should die, all white people should die, all muslims should die, this is all incitement of violence, and it is punishable act of crime.

Also, white people are killed at higher rates and police are more trigger happy to kill white people than blacks, so their problem is non-existent. It serves a sole purpose - racism against whites.
thanks :) So i most likely am not missing out on anything, i understand the the CLI is not for everyone, but i spend half of my day in the CLI anyway so i don't mind :)
> This seems like a very important paper, basically showing that Markov models with exponential decay of influence of tokens by distance are often a poor model, where as deep neural networks with LSTM (long short term memory) has power law decay of influence decay, which performs better for a variety of sequential data.

As someone outside of this field, it seems to me that this kind of result should have been very obviously foreseeable, hindsight bias and all that of course - but I would never have considered Markov processes to be an adequate predictability model for natural language. Though obviously the formalized results are important.

Could someone with more knowledge comment on what the current working assumptions were prior to this paper and what the consequences would be?
They didn't seem to have a monetisation strategy, so would more interest help?

From their FAQ:

> How much does Weave cost?

> The service is absolutely free. We're venture-funded and will monetize in the future via premium (even better!) services for our members.
Society will not tolerate a robocar that cheerfully kills our children to avoid some inconvenience to its occupants.

One might think that we're not talking about inconvenience, but we are, because after all any car may be driven slowly enough to avoid killing children in the road. A particular robocar that is not driven that slowly (which, frankly, would be all useful robocars), must avoid killing children in the road above all other priorities, including the lives of passengers. A VW-like situation in which this were discovered not to be the case, would involve far more dire consequences for the company (and, realistically, the young children and grandchildren of its executives) than VW faces for its pollution shenanigans.
Iran says France agrees to cooperate on nuclear fusion project
I try not to police grammar, but it ought to be Hitchens' or Hitchens's. On a side note, he is sorely missed in a lot of contemporary conversations.
I agree. I lived for a bit in downtown Detroit. People seriously need to visit the hood before they talk about the police.
> is really a demand for effective mass surveillance

Yes, like it or not communities require trust. States are communities. There will always be a level of mass surveillance.
Interesting about the stats and the sudden increase in 2012. I have personally been listening to music in public since 2004 and days of iRiver [1] for the reasons the parent post mentions.

[1]: http://www.superfi.co.uk/images/product/large/100001914_1_.j...
‘Web of Science’ to be sold to private-equity firms
API for Changelog Nightly
Given it's domain name, was this an india thing?
Nah, I really love it actually! It's a really good error page.

I hope anyone who thinks about it for more than five seconds will realise it's a joke.
Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'
"It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder"

Doesn't sound like the recommended use case for autopilot? I thought you were only supposed to use it on a limited-access throughway?

Anyway, good to hear no one died this time, but both of these accidents do sound like there's a lot of user culpability involved. It seems like it would be reasonable on Tesla's end, since all Teslas know where they are, to limit autopilot to only roadways where it is reasonable to use it.
When the OP's assertion was that Irish identity is:

1) nothing more than being opposition
2) inherently racist (focussed on being anti another ethnicity)

then I will take your rebuke and downvote as evidence of either a lack of thought or a deliberate attempt to insult.

Stick to Scotland friend. You may actually know something about it.
3.5mm audio vs. USB Type-C: the good, bad and the future
If you're calling the political system in the United States a 'regime', then both Sanders (as a legislator) and Trump (as a member of both parties and donor) are both a part of it. Both Sanders and Trump support the American political system as much as Clinton.
Easy and portable quick fix lunches for work
I sometimes listen to music, through headphones, when I'm travelling on my own on a train. Since I regularly make the same journey, it can get a little boring. I'm not always in the mood for work and I don't always carry a book/magazine with me; music is an excellent alternative. I wouldn't dream of playing that music out loud, inflicting it upon everyone else.

That's the boring explanation. It may lack the keen social commentary that the article speculates on, but it happens to be true.
>In this incident, the driver was using autopilot in a fashion that it should not be; twisting road at high speed. The driver IS at fault.

I disagree on this point. In any system that's supposed to be sophisticated enough to drive the car and but also carries a giant caveat like "except in these common driving situations..." failure is not instantly down to "user error." Such a system should gracefully refuse to take over if it's not running on an interstate or another "simple enough" situation; otherwise, as many have noted, the threshold for "is the driver paying sufficient attention" should be set much, much lower.

That the system is lulling the users into bad decisions is not automatically the fault of said user. Some blame, maybe most of the blame, has to fall on the autopilot implementation. When lives are on the line, design should err on the side of overly-restrictive, not "we trust the user will know when not to use this feature and if they are wrong it is their fault."
The real killer app would be the complete opposite, i.e. turning an interactive tutorial into a README file...
Obtain Financial Gains of Small Cash Loans for Unemployed People
For folks apologizing for Tesla: people ignore instructions and prompts from their computers or gadgets. That's not driver fault: it's a part of the design problem that engineers have to deal with. As an engineer, you take the world as you find it.

I had a professor in college who specialized in airplane cockpit design. Her philosophy was that everything is a design failure. If the pilot pushes the wrong button, the design must be fixed to keep that from happening. It would seem to me that principle applies with even more force when we're talking about consumer products operated by random people rather than trained pilots.
> Sequential values tend to index well because they don't require large sections of the index to be realigned

Erm... What? I don't understand this sentence at all, and I know well how
indexing works.

> [MySQL performance] Notice the nearly consistent insertion time of a long integer vs. the UUID.

Oh boy. You just found out that (a) MySQL is a subpar product and (b) that
inserting 4 or 8 bytes is faster than inserting 36 bytes.

How about inserting 8 bytes (int64) vs. inserting 16 bytes (deicated UUID
type) in PostgreSQL?

> Auto incremented integers will almost always be smaller, meaning scans against tables/records will be more efficient.

And this is because...?

You know how B-trees work, do you? And you do know that you very rarely need
a sequential iteration over artificial key in a database?
How to use sales funnels to create consistent income for your business
The only material I have seen which does this or comes to this is the Andrew Ng Machine Learning class on Coursera and Academic Earth.
With the Right Software, PCs Can Outdistance Supercomputers
Automated transformation of variable distribution to normal distribution
Here's an implemented Markov + word2vec chatbot http://lexcognition.com/lexi.html
On Device Research said the overlap was only 24% in the USA. 45% only used Facebook and 31% only used WhatsApp.

Also, WhatsApp was strong in some parts of the globe where Facebook was weaker. In particular, WhatsApp was used in mainland China where Facebook was banned.
Securing client-side public API access with OAuth 2 and Symfony
No wonder given low wheat/chaff ratio this article has.

Most people are working and can only quickly scan through it trying to find the main points.

If the smart people in ycombinator get the wrong point it probably means the article was poorly written.
>And it was legal for people to send this image to others, and to post it online unhindered

Even if child pornography were legal, that doesn't remove all laws about personality rights. You can't make and freely distribute any pictures of me without my consent (or the guardians consent in the case of minors).
Oh, damn! Haha, not sure how I missed this. Thanks for the link :)
>“Do people really like music this much?” I have wondered, incredulously, while tallying endless white earplugs.

Does the New Yorker really pay good, honest money for such laughably sheltered premises? It's no accident Taylor Swift's take-home last year was $170 million. Sometimes people wear headphones simply to tune out the grocery store's bland Adele-centric easy listening. Loving music is pretty much a human being thing.
> Tesla is better, Elon Musk is better

Perhaps you live in a bubble, as most car makers barely raise an eyebrow over tesla as a competitor so far. Making tonloads of batteries is not necessarily better than making efficient, safe and less polluting "gas guzzlers".

From the outside, it seems there is a push to revive the american car industry through EV, supported by lenient and eager to see results US regulators. Of course, time will tell, and in the process hopefully we will all have safer and eco-friendly cars.
I agree there's not a shortage problem. We are who definitely need to change our mentality. As an individual customers, not wanting only the pretty and shiny ones. As a company, by not wanting only max profit disregarding environment harm. Considering that this may never happen, it would be good if there would be no logistic issues/transportation costs (maybe subsidized by the government?) in order to ship this perfect fruit to the hungry.

Once I did and experiment, here in the UK. I bought a bag of apples from Aldi (non organic ones, but not sure if this makes any difference) and stored one on top of the refrigerator. Six months were passed and it was still looking pretty and shiny. That scared my ass off.
More funding I guess?
> It turns out that observers have been fretting about headphones—and the disconnection they facilitate—for decades. Early Walkman prototypes included a second headphone jack so you could share your tunes with a buddy ...
Ember.js – A JavaScript Framework to Create Web Applications
I expect an inflatable driver to appear and take the wheel, requiring only an occasional top up of air to keep things on the level.
I've edited the hamburger menu like you suggested and have also made some changes to the UI.

Link: http://imgur.com/a/cvNRi
Thank god. While vine may have some significance, it's a wasteland of content, full of stupid crap, and unfunny memes that even /b/ would hate. I think that Thomas Sanders is one of the very few people on Vine actually producing interesting content. And most things on vine could be recreated as gifs with subtitles without missing much.
Uber to suspend operations in Hungary due to govt legislation
> In this incident, the driver was using autopilot in a fashion that it should not be; twisting road at high speed.

I don't understand why, if the car's GPS co-ordinates are known, the car even allows autopilot on anything but roads known to be within spec.

> The driver IS at fault.

I'm not sure legal liability is that clear cut.
Tesla drivers do tend to be higher earners than average.
I'm thinking your sarcasm may be lost on many readers.
> Weave had previously raised $2 million in funding from Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Vulcan Capital, Eastlink Ventures, and others.

Does anyone know if they had a solid business model when they raised? Or was it valued on mostly hype?
Italian mafia boss Bernardo 'the tractor' Provenzano dies
For sure this could be a solution. Unfortunately I see no way of this to happen.
You're wrong in agreeing that it does not, democracy is a perverted form of government (see Aristotle). That's why most countries implement a constitutional republic or something similar instead.
No. I know it was available in the Bay Area but I'm not sure if it was in other cities.
Clearly it's a scale, though. Do you think a man with a full, long beard wearing large sunglasses is just as recognisable as one without?
> I would never have considered Markov processes to be an adequate predictability model for natural language.

Would you consider LSTM an adequate model?
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>I think it's a pretty good heuristic though, the innocent pay a (hopefully) small price from time to time, in exchange more "bad guys" get caught.

The architects of our legal framework thought otherwise:

>it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.

-John Adams' Argument for the Defense: 3–4 December 1770

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/05-03-02-0001-0...
No, let's not leave Hitler out. Do you also admire Hitler? Why or why not?
"I would say at times there is 25% of the crop that is just thrown away or fed to cattle" One of these is waste, one not. Perhaps their definition of waste needs to be reviewed.
Here is how you do it.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/164083#settings
Ex-Googlers have spent 2 years secretly solving 'the hardest problem in banking'
You should report yourself as you are spreading mental image of child pornography.

If ideas aren't bad, why racism is bad, or sexism? 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? It isn't real violence at all, I just call everyone to kill you and your family. I don't kill you myself of course, I'm nor criminal. But I make it very clear that I would be congratulating anyone who killed you, and I would make sure he is not punished for that.

This is what you are advocating for.
Semi-related, worth viewing: http://www.callmeluckymovie.com/
Markdown or HTML?

From the example:

1. <a href="https://app.storj.io/#/signup" target="_blank">Sign up</a> for a Storj account.
> Do I get extra points for finding an exploit in their game?

The highest "badge" that you can earn by completing the 15 questions is <trollface> "won by tricking the system".

So: yes.
Of course, you can.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/164083#settings
With UUIDs for keys, you can shard your database, then later merge or migrate parts with no issues about collision or reindexing. That's useful. Whole coding tasks (and whole classes of bugs) disappear entirely.
Hi, Dan from stacktile here.

thank you for pointing this out -- the above user is pointing out a provision in our Privacy Policy. Our privacy policy is very much a work in progress -- we're a small team that put this policy in place as a first attempt, although I know that's not a very good answer. I fully agree with you that that clause in particular is quite draconian.

I have brought this to our team's attention and we will be reviewing it as soon as we can (A.K.A. as soon as we're done dealing with the huge influx of new users from HN)
You could make the same argument for why serial killers shouldn't keep trophies ... but they do.

The trophies are said to allow the killer to relive their crime - perhaps the ledger is an effort to validate the paedophile's acumen as a business person? Or maybe he was making enough cash that he needed to accurately launder it through his other businesses?
For most people the word autopilot historically has meant full autonomy.
And with the abusers in jail, the amount of abuse would drop too.
Yes feeding cattle excess (over demand) crops could be called recycling for instance. Get something of value out of it instead of e.g. burning it.
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Did Tinder have a business model originally?

The goal of an app like this is network effect, and then you can monetize once you have a lot of users. I bet they figured if Tinder could make money, a professionally-focused app could too. I'm sure at some point they threw out a list of things they could do to make money (pro accounts, recruiting fees, etc), but likely their early focus was on getting as many users as possible.
But in this case it isn't a bystander, it's out in the middle of the road in front of a moving vehicle.

If a child runs in front of my car then it is most definitely at fault and I'd honestly much rather it be dead than me, if those are the options.
Announcing SFO2: Hello Again San Francisco
Solar Probe Plus will fly within 8.5 solar radii of the Sun into the hottest region of the sun, the corona, approaching speeds of 200 km/s and withstanding temperatures of 1400C.

We don't know why the corona of the sun is hotter than the surface of the sun. SPP will provide data to help us to better understand and create better models of coronal heating and the solar wind.

[1] http://solarprobe.jhuapl.edu/science/index.php
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> This seems like a very important paper

> mark_l_watson

Hah, I'll take your word for it, then. :) Are there any recent comprehensive monographs you'd recommend for state-of-the-art NPL, for someone who has yet to enter the field?
> The standard reply is that evidence obtained from torture can't be compelling because it is by definition unreliable

You're conflating the reason evidence from torture is inadmissible with one of the arguments against torture.
Evidence from torture can't be admitted because we won't condone torture, ever (or, that's the theory, the real world is more, erhm, nuanced). The fact that intelligence from torture is unreliable is just one of a suite of arguments against torturing people in the first place, not a universal fact which is true for any information obtained through torture.

> since some claims can easily be independently verified

That's basically the Jack Bauer school of torture: You have a bad guy, and you know for a fact that he knows where the bomb is, and if/when he tells you, you can confirm immediately. If that situation occurred in the real world, I would assume that most people would bite their tongues and accept torture. But there is no evidence that it does. It's "What was your role in planning the attack? Who is the person in this picture? Who knows where Osama is hiding?" [source: Zero Dark Thirty] -- Sure, eventually, you can sort-of confirm these things, but torture really isn't effective if you have months-long feedback cycles.
The Science Behind Smarter Decision Making: 7 Mental Models You Should Know
Gogs – Faster and easier to deploy GitLab alternative written in Go
Privacy row over FBI iris scan 'trial'
You are not alone in that, but perhaps in a minority. A child cannot truly be 'at fault'.
I like their straight forward pricing. $0.10 USD per GB per month. No IOPS limits.

That said, how do you prevent a rogue droplet from going crazy and hogging up all of the SSD I/O?
Or you can think the other way around: it is THE space station because countries around the world collaborated to create one large one, instead of each one trying to launch a single small one.

There is a lot of synergy from having a single large space station vs. many of small ones.
On the other hand - a failed console won't result in the company coming to a halt like Sega.
If the robocar were to warn once, and then steadily slow, all drivers would learn to take over when warned.
Yep. After all, the political problems of the ones you cited all goes back to the American regime.
> The war has begun.

There is no basis for a war. This "war" is entirely a creation of elites to aggitate the servant classes so that they have the required fig leaf for an official police state and martial law.

Please get a clue.
"Hacking on a side project is one of the things you could do once you stop spending hours saving dollars."

Hacking on ever recurring side project can also be a huge time sink, especially since projects tend to have a disproportionate reward at the end.
US research confirms radio-to-streams shift amongst teens
Thanks! We're working on something kinda' like this.