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Interesting.

I have no desire to dump on UBI -- I want to see how these various experiments pan out -- but I am reminded of a thought experiment.

Imagine it's 10,000 years ago. You arrive in pre-history with all of the technology of today: electricity, communication, medicine, automation, and so on. Your mission? To destroy mankind.

Assuming infinite resources, how would you go about doing it? Sure, you could build out an infrastructure, create a robotic army, and begin hunting humans down. Or, you could build out about the same amount of infrastructure and just give people whatever they want: food, housing, warmth, and so on. After all, what would a bunch of hunter-gathers really want? It'd probably be easier than hunting them all down and fighting them. As long as you're not under any time pressure, what's the difference between killing them immediately and waiting four or five hundred years for them to stop breeding?

The premise of UBI is that this would not eventually eliminate the species, that individuals here and there would still learn new skills and advance knowledge. The main criticism of UBI (aside from the moral one) is that while stress and struggle for individuals can be a terrible thing, for the species as a whole it results in evolutionary survival.

It will be interesting to watch these populations over time to see how adaptive they are compared with control groups.
LO on the web is in progress. It'll have collaborative editing, the one killer feature of GDocs.

GDocs is a terrible word processor (with absolutely shocking OOXML conversion abilities; I don't believe this as a serious objection to LO any more) and a terrible spreadsheet. The one feature it has is live collaborative editing.

I am enormously pleased that LO 5.2 has working two-factor auth to GDrive, which means I can use a proper word processor or spreadsheet with it transparently. Even MS Office still doesn't talk transparently to GDrive out of the box.
This is an important point, particularly considering official Norwegian policy for most of the Vietnam war was to not question the US warfare.

There'd have been no way a Norwegian government at that time would have objected to censorship of an image like this, not least because everyone knew that the US would have reacted strongly, given that the most senior Nordic politician who dared speak up caused quite a stir:

When the then Minister of Education in Sweden, Olof Palme (later PM), took part in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in 1968, the US withdrew their ambassador from Sweden. In 1972, he as a PM compared the US bombing of Hanoi to the bombing of Guernica, and the US froze diplomatic relations with Sweden for a year as punishment.

Norway itself saw a spate of people imprisoned for refusing conscription citing Norwegian NATO membership and the US war in Vietnam (I have an uncle that was in prison for that; my dad was also imprisoned for refusing conscription in part because of the past Norwegian attitudes to the Vietnam war, though his case happened after the war had ended - it took years before the Vietnam wars effect refusing conscription subsided)

It's easy to stand up for free speech when it involves something this old. It's far harder to stand up for it when it is happening.
It wouldn't even need to be a stupid person. Just a person who probably won't get in trouble for erring on the side of caution, but could face serious consequences for failing to enforce Facebook's policies.

That's usually a decent approach, and in most cases it doesn't cause an uproar. In the few cases where it does, the hot potato gets tossed up the chain of command until someone reverses the decision.

Or, as others have mentioned, the deletion was triggered automatically when the image was flagged by too many people. I sympathize with the deletion algorithm here. If I slave over a hot CPU all day just trying to do my job, the last thing I want to do is get sent to /dev/null because I failed to delete an image that really was inappropriate.
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No mention of accuracy here... Are any of these services worth a red cent?
Everything that happened was completely predicted, because it had just happened with Apache Harmony when IBM pulled out of that.
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How is it better than the 20MP Zeiss optically-stabilized DNG enabled camera in my Nokia 930?
The article reads like a big and not very trustworthy advert.
>> No, it's harder to read.

Don't worry, I had my humour removed at birth also. It grows back, eventually.
I use Spark at work, it's really good when you need to do some large scale analysis with your own custom code. Everything else it does is just ok. It certainly doesn't subsume ML tools.
Legal obligation, of course not. I don't think anyone involved in the current incident was arguing for a legal obligation for Facebook to do anything in particular.

Moral obligation, now that's a different beast. Assuming that free speech is valuable to society as a whole, one might argue that everyone (including Facebook employees) has a moral obligation to promote it, or at least not inhibit it too much.
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Counterpoint: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

Nixon's Chief Domestic Advisor, quote:

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

This is not the only thing the government did, or continues to do, to destroy various peoples' faith in it.
Given the amount of generalised irrationnality I don't think that qualifies as an equality function when observing human behaviour.
One leads mostly to a lighter wallet (people with access to homeopathy are not particularily underexposed to medical coverage to begin with), the other to a missing limb. In terms of impact I'd argue there's a world of difference to the affected.
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The product mentioned are expensive entreprisey products, mostly sold business-to-business.

The europeans laws offer little protection to companies. Consumer laws apply only when selling directly to consumers.
When we were in Sweden, they had similar ticking buttons that had temporarily been reprogrammed for Eurovision. So the ticking was now the metronome for a gentle monophonic synth version of either "Euphoria" or "Heroes" (Swedish Eurovision entries)
So how to ensure that the autonomous vehicle isn't full of fast food containers and used condoms when picking up a new customer?
What do you suggest they do to fix it?
> In pgsql if the columns are the same type and number then we can use a union, otherwise the suggested alternative seems to be to just make 2 queries.

If the two commands have nothing to do with each other then yes that's usually the best option. That does open you up to understanding transaction semantics if you want to ensure both see exactly the same snapshot.

Another option is to use JSON as the great normalizer. Any row can be converted to JSON via row_to_json(...) or manually via the more low level functions. That allows you to "stack" multiple, distinct, JSON responses atop each other. Probably a bad idea 99% of the time to use something like that but it can come in handy that one time you want to jam things through in one query.
I'd love to hear from negative consequences directly attributable to homeopathy and not caused by the state of mind of those seeking it exclusively.
> Third and worst, when I use a browser on HN, every single link now asks me to select an app. Not once, but for each different link type it seems. After the fifth time (choosing 'Remember my choice' each time), I was so annoyed I uninstalled Materialistic.

That's Android's fault, not the fault of Materialistic. I have the same problem totally random on my phone, too.
stereo depth still has a lot of issues - eg. if you're shooting a white wall or other feature-less object. Not sure if they have better algos but if you use an off-the-shelf stereo package from OpenCV or ROS there are lots of holes in the depth map even in ideal cases.

They probably focus on the portrait application because it has the least amount of corner cases.
Time to wheel out pseudo-Greenspun again:

"Any sufficiently complicated NoSQL program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a decent RDMS."

Or maybe: "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it"
I'd tend to agree. But the private sector has show an unreasonable effectiveness at improving lots of industries.

Believe me, I don't sleep well at night, knowing you've got to motivate people to generate huge profit, so they can create great companies like Stripe. But it appears to be an ongoing trend.

Even the recents efforts made by GDS or USDS will be overshadowed by new, hip, fintech (and govtech?) startups.
I'd tend to agree. But the private sector has show an unreasonable effectiveness at improving lots of industries.

Believe me, I don't sleep well at night, knowing you've got to motivate people to generate huge profit, so they can create great companies like Stripe. But it appears to be an ongoing trend.

Even the recents efforts made by GDS or USDS will be overshadowed by new, hip, fintech (and govtech?) startups.

These agencies capture very well the current state of open-digital-api-ux trends in the industry, but I'd be surprised to see them create the next set of trends (whether it's AI, bots or biotech pigeons :p).
To the contrary, idiomatic Scheme also uses a lot of stateful data.
> The slides are from mid-2013, how many points are still valid? Has there been progress in the last 3 years?

From skimming through, I'd say the vast majority. Not sure about the PDF doc link issues as I only use the online HTML Docs but the overall generation of the docs is still a black art.
Modern-day tech journalism: cut and paste together some quotes from Hacker News comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464730
Of course it's not revolutionary. Lisp is the past technology of the future. And indeed lots of people have done things like this, with Lisp or Forth or Basic or microPython or Lua.

I believe a very early Raspberry Pi prototype was an Atmel chip that ran a Lua interpreter with bit-banged VGA display. It was extremely cheap but ultimately deemed not capable enough.
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What makes you think there's no strings attached in this case? For one, these Kenyans are being experimented on.
Is this an article or an advertisement?
Indeed. And stop doing whatever crazy CSS thing is used to implement the upvote/downvote arrows and just make them images in an href. Why? Because on some touchscreen browsers there's a fuzzy snap to nearest link, which turns a press on the upvote into a click on the username.

My own personal solution to this was to write an intercepting proxy in Perl CGI like it's 1999. Then I can fix the HTML with regexes.
>In some Australian cities, in the central business district, the traffic light push buttons don't work at certain times — for example, 7 am to 7 pm, Monday to Wednesday, and 7 am to 9 pm, Thursday to Saturday.

>The rationale is that between these busy hours, the road traffic is relatively constant, and also, the pedestrian crossings are in continuous use.

That strikes me as a bit stupid. The slight increase in capacity is really only needed at peak times. They could just do away with the buttons entirely.
Among other reasons, GiveDirectly chose to operate in Kenya because of the widespread use of M-Pesa money transfer system which allows poor people to directly receive money by phone text message. This is a very efficient way to transfer money and eliminates opportunities for graft.
They don't all (in the UK) make a sound. In particular, crossings where there are multiple light controlled traffic streams near to each other will have no audible signal to prevent the problem - mentioned up thread - of zombie pedestrians (like me) walking into moving traffic at the prompting of an adjacent crossing signal. Crossings in residential areas will either not have an audible signal or will have an audible signal only between certain hours. The one outside my flat for example stops bleeping at 8PM and doesn't resume until 6AM.

Source : when you are initially registered blind in the UK a rehab officer comes round and explains all the workings, including the largely unknown spinner on the underside of the switch box. And yes, please don't stick gum there.
This isn't a difficult problem. You give your car-calling app a "reject" button, which will send the car back to a central location for cleaning, and send you a new car.
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It would be interesting to see the main building blocks of Atlas and if any of it have relations or takes inspirations from Blockchain Tech (e.g. Ether-based http://otonomos.com/).
How their local representative responds is troubling:

>They find it "hard to believe that a new organization like GiveDirectly would give roughly a year's salary in cash, unconditionally," Le writes. "As a result, many people have created their own narratives to explain the cash, including rumors that the money is associated with cults or devil worship."

Le creates his own narrative about the locals as less educated and less civilized than himself - why else would they refuse his charity?

It is clear that neither he nor his organization see the locals as equals.
The director of the entire diesel department signs a plea deal, and you complain that no higher ups are indicted?

He wasn’t just an engineer, he was also a manager.
>They don't all (in the UK) make a sound.

But this is about the design of an Australian button, and the Australian button we are talking about always makes sound.
I also took a look at the paper, because the topic is pretty cool. So what they actually found:

Figure 1 in the paper shows that six and eight year olds are a lot worse than adults, while 10 year olds are only somewhat close to adults. In this figure they asked the participants to classify if a bark was barked in three different context (stranger, alone, play). All age groups were able to tell when a dog is barking at a stranger, that seems to be pretty hardwired into our brains. The rest seems to be experience.

In figure 2 they asked the same age groups to associate different emotions to the barks in the three contexts. Similar classification findings as in the figure before. The authors discuss though that associating human emotions with the dog's real "inner state" is difficult and maybe not possible.

So the content of the linked article is very misleading and suggest that the journalist didn't really care to take a look at the paper. But the paper itself is interesting.

It would also be fun idea for a novelty app that can tell you how your dog feels. MVP might be to turn the data from table 1 of the paper into a very simple classifier. The data is however only based on 8 dogs from the same race.
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It's likely a usage-related calculation. If an intersection is known to nearly always have cars but rarely pedestrians, a walk signal makes sense.

In Washington, DC, most intersections do not have a traffic button, so pedestrians and cars are equally accounted for in the signaling. Only a handful of intersections, where pedestrians are less likely, have traffic buttons.
Same in Austria. They also have a button on the bottom.
Before an self-driving car is allowed on the road it is going to have to pass some sort of driving test.

What you are talking about is assisted driving and auto-pilots.

Therefore, to most consumers, all real self-driving cars will be driving good enough, whether they are powered by Google, Tesla, Ford, BMW or Apple, but some are going to look nice and have a thought-out design.
That last comment is ironic, given that Dropbox would literally not exist today without the runtime patching of the Finder.

There was no other way to do what they did. The only reason Apple added API was because Dropbox came up with an idea that demonstrated the need for such an API to exist.
Given a perfect depth map there is no reason lens blur can't be replicated exactly. They probably just chose some bad photos for the demo, or possibly there's some placebo effect happening.

Any flaws aught to be in the depth map generation, so things being inappropriately blurred.
> [...] Dropbox’s Ben Newhouse, from its desktop client team, told TechCrunch.

TechCrunch, FYI: quoting an HN comment doesn't really count as "told TechCrunch".
Office Integrations: Worthless for a huge swath of users who don't have Office. Also undesirable for a large group of users who have Office but have no use for the integration.

Other Integrations: Too vague to justify what is potentially a large security threat. You've really got to do better than that.
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This is my number one gripe about PGSQL. It's never had "real stored procedures", a feature which has been on the TODO list for a long, long time and nobody is even working on it. See Server-Side Languages/Implement stored procedures items and associated notes/threads here - http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo

Beyond that, my other gripes about PGSQL are all surrounding the fact that it's simply not as polished or as widely used as SQL Server. I can't just drop PG in at some business site and expect the IT staff to be able to handle maintenance.

The Postgres GUI tools are extremely lackluster compared to the standard Microsoft SQL Server tools. Even the third party apps like Navicat are simply not as robust or as trustworthy as SQL Server Management Studio and the SQL Server Profiler. And there is literally nothing out that that compares with SQL Server Data Tools.
Great to hear from someone who uses Spark at work. I see what you mean - subsumed is a bad word choice and I should not have tried to paraphrase. What do you feel about the phrase that the presenter uses - "One tool that fits everything"? (I am new to data science)
Short answer: to encourage diversity.
In my last comment towards the Apple Car i talked about it being the best out of a bunch of bad choices when it comes to capital intensive businesses ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161248 ) .

This seems to me like the recognition of the fact that its not fun competing in the space where the large margins are to be found in the services and components, less in the assembly and sales aspect.
Actually, that's not the EU law. EU law states that the retailer is responsible for a 2-year guarantee, full stop. Member countries may then legislate stronger protection if they like.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guar...

Thus, local legislation in an EU country may give better protection; for instance, here (Finland) there is an additional defect liability which says that if an item is supposed to last longer than 2 years (e.g. a dishwasher), then the liability "wears out" over the reasonably expectable lifetime of product. You won't get a refund if a 6 year old washing machine breaks (yes, I won't buy another LG), but you can get a partial refund if a 3 year old machine breaks down.

This liability falls on the retailer; importer/manufacturer has only secondary liability.
As in a useable account? IIRC in the UK we had to show birth certs, drivers licence, have an interview, present a business plan, sign several lots of dead tree, provide details of other finances ... just to get a deposit account.
How is that surprising? I don't understand. Prison sentences work as dissuasion. How else can you send a message to people to not commit those crimes?

Not saying it's a good solution, but it's one way to prevent crime.
It's very bad, but it's not on the market yet, possibly because it's so bad. Considering they have real depth information though, I don't see why it can't be made to work correctly. We'll see when it's actually released.

Also my understanding is that there's no blending of images between the two cameras at all. You literally use only one camera or the other. There are existing systems on the market that do this correctly to obtain a much higher quality of image than what is possible with only one camera alone. I would expect Apple to implement this in a future software update.
I'd love to hear what exactly folks consider to be wrong with that.

I've seen this sort of criticism in a few places before, but especially in cases such as this where someone from the company responded and talked of making change, being on top of happenings like this seems like a reasonable thing to do.

It certainly seems better than the old 'ask random people for their opinion' approach of conventional huge media.

I'm struggling to find links to posts about this, but it's not too hard to point to cases, both mentioned online and through my friends, where utterly unqualified opinions were sourced based on journalists using indicators like 'owning a domain name' as proof of a person's authority on a topic.

Edit: at least on HN and social media you can verify the full text of what someone said after the fact and oftentimes even look up their background!
As an Australian, whenever I travel overseas I get subtly confused by the lack of audible and touch feedback on pedestrian buttons in many places. I'm not disabled and I still find the aural and tactile elements of an Australian pedestrian button to be a key part of my road crossing experience :)
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If there are other people responsible, there is no reason for him to not talk...
I quite like your app. It's way better looking and serves my functional purposes of reading and voting. Of course improvements can be made - it's an iterative process. More power to you.
Extra relevant link cause when you try to go to 'main page' from that article you get a postgresql error!
«[...] Dropbox’s Ben Newhouse, from its desktop client team, told TechCrunch.»

He wrote this on HN..
I don't think the usual criticisms of NULL are satisfied by it becoming slightly more type-safe.
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How can this work? A link is just a reference to a mutable destination and there's no way to guarantee that what's pointed at stays legal after the link was put up. It can change at any time and turn into something illegal, even though the original content was not.

I do get the intent here, but it absolutely misses the point.

Edit: The ruling acknowledges the target is mutable, but it also says that the poster of a link on a page that's for-profit must check the target content. However, I cannot find anything how one should prove it was legal at time of linking. The only sensible thing I can find is that once notified a link has to be taken down. Did I miss something?