skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people think too rigidly to accept that some people could really benefit from owning a car.

For me it's a much tougher decision because the costs are much higher due to mandatory both-ways insurance being required. I basically can't afford to have both savings and a car where I live. Damn shame though, because I would benefit immensely from having a light truck (something the size of a Hilux).
If I want to bring handguns to a range, the law basically requires that I own an automobile. If I want to get construction materials or inexpensive/exotic Korean groceries, I need an automobile.

Your estimate for the cost of owning your vehicle is actually considerably lower than just having a public transit pass for that same year where I live.
New York State has laws like that. They're awfully clumsy, as laws tend to be, and prevent me from posting my entire apartment while I'm in Europe for two weeks. I think there are more specific ways to tackle this problem legislatively like limiting to a certain number of nights rented per rolling 6-12 month period.
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> I live in Germany, where socialist always means that kind of one-party authoritarian system.

No, it doesn't. There are plenty of anti-authoritarian self-styled socialists in Germany.
> For Germany it is a general speed limit, but trying to introduce that would be like a general gun ban in the US: If you really think about it, probably a good idea, never going to happen.

And, most importantly, for now the speed limit isn’t even necessary – all the dangerous areas already have one, and the Autobahn is still one of the safest highway systems in the world.

(And as liability goes up a low the faster you go, there’s already a kinda speed limit anyway)
iPhone 7 review roundup: A very good iPhone, but not a clean leap forward
Facebook Took 2 Weeks Figuring Out Difference Between War Photo and Kiddie Porn
This is a good point. For example, I hate going to the grocery store. Buying good food to cook for a night is fun, but the general grocery shopping is a horrible experience. A combination of Amazon Subscribe and Save, Pantry, and services like Blue Apron mean I rarely go to the store. And things like subscribe and save mean I never have to think about when I'm out of toilet paper, it just shows up on a schedule which I have figured out now.
I'm the CTO of a startup that's trying to solve this very problem. Online activism isn't very effective, so our thesis is that small groups of determined people can affect change when they meet in person around specific issues and legislation. To facilitate this concept, we've built basically a mashup between Twitter, Meetup.com, and an API feed of legislation.

The goal is to find events going on in your area and you can join and be a part of the change. Sometimes just being able to find the events going on about certain topics is the hardest part.

We're launching on October 1st, so I'm hoping we can make a small, meaningful impact in fixing this.
Ahem, Cloud to Butt is enabled ;)
Why the downvotes? Your comment was low-grade snarky flamebait and and added very little to the discussion.

(And furthermore the 3-year-old iPad mini 2 is probably stretching the definition of "shiny new"...)
I don't see it passing in the lame duck session. Winning republicans will want to see President Elect Trump not need to veto it, while loosing republicans will not want to add TPP to Obamas legacy. So both groups will band together to stop it. There just isn't the votes for it.
e.g.

> someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.

...

> China and Russia would be my first guesses.
Would you actually want drug research to _not_ be regulated?
RS232 over audio I/O of smartphones and other computers
Awesome article, thank you!
NASA administrator seems to have little faith in Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
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So it is a cheap plastic sex toy then ;)

A good cup of coffee is about as good a sex. It's in the same ballpark.
Look for Uncle Bob's talks on SOLID design.

http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod
Because the route was occasionally navigable, dependent on season and weather; but if trends continue, the route will be consistently navigable.
Microsoft will soon bring WebVR support to Edge in Windows 10
Could medical marijuana be a therapy for autism?
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> Of the 3 possibilities for granting pardon (Obama, Clinton and Trump), the only real chance for Snowden is Obama.

Yep. I'd put it as zero with Clinton, non-zero but statistically insignificant with Trump, and 25% with Obama.
I doubt very much any of those issues will show up relevant values in a profile run, which is what actually matters, not the theoretical value of a few ms more that the user hardly notices.

There is also room for the AOT bitcode optimizations to hoist many of those checks, specially since the AOT compilation takes place at the store side with lots of resources available.

Android and Windows Phone have already proven that those issues aren't an actual issue from the user point of view, specially on the Android side if you take into account the market share.
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Taking down the internet and blaming it on China or Russia.

They are already trying to pin the DNC insider leaks on Russia. Clinton is threatening physical war for "cyber attacks".

Face value is worthless.
If you read many other posts in this thread, you will see it's the exact opposite. Unregulated markets nearly always result in lower prices. Pharmaceuticals are, by far, one of the most register markets.
Except this post was not about work but rather about everything else.
Local Police Using and Abusing DNA and Other Biometric Technologies
(Over)using inheritance hierarchies can have negative effects, but if you think that in general OOP results in more code then you need to go and develop some serious C. You spend a lot of time manually accounting for multiple instances of things, in a way that you get for free in an OOP language like C++.
So, most of the things on these list are avoidable. Some are not.

Doing the laundry is a good example. With a 4 person household, this takes up a lot of time! A robot to take this chore away from me would be extremely valuable. I can't wait for technology to advance so these become available.
It looks like your widget displays roughly the same information each time but costs you a new map load per user, who may or may not be interested in hotels.

The event planner who is using your widget is not sharing in any of the cost. I think charging them is probably not what you want, so the alternative is to lower your service level to them.

By this, I mean simply display a pre-generated image of the map, and make users who click open up a new tab to your site. That way, you only load a map to users who might convert.

You could try other map sources, multiple ones to get you as much free tier as possible, but eventually you'd run into the same problems again.
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Snowden hasn't leaked anything since 2013. This is kind of a trifling point but it's one that the US government has intentionally misconstrued in the past. Snowden handed off his documents to journalists in HK and hasn't released anything personally. He doesn't have the capacity to release new material because he doesn't possess any of it anymore.
Why isn't this on top of some subreddit as well?
> Do any such tools exist?

One such tool:

https://github.com/LLNL/spack
> We have to pay to exist?

No. Existing is free. You have to pay in order to live in a dwelling you could not afford.
My take away from this post: Facebook is the new AOL. For you youngsters, we've been through this before. Nothing lasts forever, and this too will eventually wane.
I disagree with

"Why didn't [Engineer X] know enough SQL to understand that query would break the database?"

being bad (While "We need to shut off his/her access." is).

Post mortems have many different levels, technology -> people -> processes -> org -> culture. It's not wrong talking about people, it's wrong to blame them though and stop with people. Asking 'Why?' only stops with company culture.

Usually people make mistakes, they don't want to break things. It doesn't help to not talk about people, but it's important to ask why the person in question acted the way (s)he did. Would others do the same? (most probably) Why? UI issues? Documentation issues? Too many concurrent warnings? etc.

Also important to look from the situation forward (incident happening), not from now backwards (hindsight).

To the SQL question one could ask about the training, reviews, ...
Not all bioplastics are created equal
There are ridiculous levels of regulatory capture. E.g. epi pens are off patent and there are many competing companies in Europe, but the FDA refuses to approve any of them. Or cancer drugs that have been used for decades in Europe very effectively with tons of data there to support them, but the FDA refuses to allow them. One time they even required a drug to have a trial with more patients than exist in the US with that disease. They kill way more people than they save by preventing terminally ill patients from getting life saving drugs. And raising the cost developing them.

The FDA needs to be shut down. Perhaps replaced with something like a prediction market, where people can bet on how likely a drug is to pass a trial or even work in specific patients.
Monsanto accepts sweeter bid from Bayer
There are certainly area of the UK where this is true, but not all. I guess it can seem that way because we have dense areas of population where the good and bad parts are so close together?
Reading some more of this person's tweets, it appears they're upset about Google Fonts. While I agree this is a potential privacy concern, the tracking isn't "by design" of the theme developers or the CMS. Their intention is to include attractive fonts without dealing with distribution licenses.
Clinton pardoned Marc Rich [0] who was, at the time of the pardon, a fugitive in Switzerland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
As an outsider (largely worked with PHP/Java codebases, recently started C#/.NET Core), the naming conventions are awful. I'm still not sure what the differences are between:

* ASP.NET

* .NET MVC

* .NET 4.5

* .NET WCF

* WPF

It's a nebula of names, but I've been ridiculously productive while trying to grasp .NET core. I'm currently trying to make a job to take DB data and dump it on Elasticsearch. It honestly feels like PHP7 with async, it's great
Jupyter (IPython) notebooks features
I want drug research (and approval) to _not_ cost billions of dollars per drug just to justify the salary of a few bureaucrats.
I'm for a pardon for Snowden, but not Manning. Snowden released info on a deeply classified and unethical program, targeted to dismantle the programs in question. Manning carte blanche released TONS of data about TONS of things, trusting only Wikileaks to filter out sensitive data.
Apple works to fit the smart home under a single roof
> Even worse though: Most totalitarian countries fit that description, too.

Consider that Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto spent a whole chapter tearing into other socialist ideologies, ranging from ideologies they saw as reactionary and anti-democratic and even feudal, to utopian systems that were basically anarchist.

Socialist ideologies have historically spanned the spectrum from extreme libertarianism (the term libertarian was first used for a political system by a French anarcho-communist that was so anti-authority he criticised Proudhon - a prominent early anarchist - for not going far enough) to systems that basically argued for technocratic feudal systems with welfare.

Using the term without specifying more is meaningless if you are talking about a specific ideology or system rather than generally about systems with certain shared characteristics.

For the record, though, I agree with you that the definition in the comment you reply to doesn't make sense - it would exclude many prominent socialist ideologies.
Big Data Helps Automate Pricing Strategies
I think you need to adjust your tinfoil hat. FISA does not have jurisdiction to hear any criminal complaints.
If you knew for sure that an IP src address involved in a DDoS attack was not spoofed, we could easily design a control protocol that allowed a recipient to contact the origin ISP and enable a block on that particular {src,dst} pair. Unless you know for sure that the src address isn't spoofed though, such a mechanism would itself be abused to deny service. Having the ability to validate a source address would be the enabler for proper defense mechanisms.

We wrote about one way to do this about ten years ago, but no-one was really interested at the time: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/papers/terminus2007...
Note that companies have also been fighting for such standards in order to prevent new entrants and restrict competition. So it's not just governments at fault, there is complicity between the two.
External librairies can also support the migration by providing "fix-its" which helps the compiler display an helpful message whenever a Swift 2-era line has not been updated to Swift 3 (see for example this PR: https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/pull/114)
> I find driving a lot more relaxing than public transport

+1 from me. Public transport in London is a nightmare during rush hour, I'd happily trade that for an equivalent drive. Probably wouldn't be (much?) more expensive either.
I have to fundamentally disagree with Marc here.

Someone who actually DOES AI is Fei Fei Li at stanford. She's focusing on creating datasets like imagenet and more recently the visual genome:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/545906/next-big-test-for-...

A lot of AI startups' best assets are their data which google also has plenty of. Major advancements in AI will come from less glamorous things like labeled data available for models to learn from.

The code without the data is useless. The algorithms are only part of the equation here...and giving them away without the requisite data is useful, but not the critical path from profiting from AI. It's also not going to advance AI much.
These AI labs publish subsets of the research they actually do (even if it is still a generous amount which is great).

We can even see this from OpenAI's gym efforts. These environments are creating fundamental infrastructure for pushing the boundaries on reinforcement learning.

That being said, research is a component of the problem, but even most "AI" startups just git clone some open source code and run something pretrained (say: opencv, kaldi for audio,..) and then wrap it in a nice gui.

The main things these startups focus on is delivery of the product just like the rest of these startups, very few are actually building novel algorithms. A lot of it is just them collecting data.

That being said, this is also why a lot of the novel research happens in the major for profit ad tech companies.
They have the data to do research on and they can choose what to publish and what to profit from in products.

Disclosure: I work at an AI startup.
You are saying the value to the buyer is far, for more than the cover price.

I agree completely; it's a really important point.

But not everyone on HN is a professional programmer, and there are students, self-improvers, and individuals in other countries for whom the sentiment of "just buy it; it's sufficiently valuable to you" is tempered by the opportunity cost (yes; the opportunity cost of $10) and the need to get the best value/dollar.

This is probably why poverty is so self-sustaining: because you have to burn ridiculous effort over trivial nonsense. Your thin budget gets even thinner, and now you're stuck.
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Everyone seems to forget that Snowden didn't just leak information about domestic spying, but also about unquestionably legitimate spying on foreign countries. There's no way he gets a pardon for that.
FB is AOL done right, but this shows some strategies that could work against them.
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Survey: 2016 Coding Bootcamp Graduates Report 64% Lift in Salary
> I openly don't (and I can't stand the narcissism that is involved in the reason). If you look at the parenting most parents do, they do it as if the child should be like them, just smarter or achieve more - but otherwise similar (as I said: narcissism).

Evolution at work. Parents who tried to make their kids different than themselves did not raise parents.
You don't think a real estate developer, who's the son of one, isn't exquisitely aware of the importance of interest rates? He did, after all, start during the period when they were a more sane ~5%, and experienced the run up to the peak of 21.5% on December 19th, 1980 (http://www.fedprimerate.com/wall_street_journal_prime_rate_h...) and the lengthy decay---my goodness, it wasn't until 2001 that they got back to ~5%, and that was of course due to post dot.com crash Fed intervention.

I can attest from my family's businesses in the very early '80s that it was very hard to do more than keep them afloat while hoping they went down to something more sane. Now that we're in a regime of financial repression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression) they're earning a pittance out of their retirement savings, they're as I recall getting more from Social Security (!), and due to their work history in a very low cost of living that's not all that much, significantly less than I'm getting having worked in the high cost Boston and D.C. areas.
I know ;).
Not only it's expensive, but tons of existing drugs have been approved with loose standards (a single trial showing better efficacy than placebo, wow, big deal!). Every new drug should be benchmarked against the best drug in class, and period. Instead of that you end up with doctors who have no idea which drugs work the best and who rely on companies to "educate" them, with obvious conflict of interest.
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10 Years in Prison for Online Pirates a Step Closer in the UK
Nitpicking, but "runat=server" and *.aspx are not "Classic ASP". They are ASP.NET Webforms features. "Classic ASP" is what came before ASP.NET
I don't want to have to ship apps containing the entire runtime. I'm waiting for the stable ABI.

As well, I'm happy to let the keen early-adopters be the guinea pigs. Xcode 8 only came out today. If you have production apps, it's madness to upgrade on day one. I'll wait a few weeks/months for the remaining bugs to shake out.

Don't get me wrong I'm very pro-Swift. But I'm also mindful of my time and sanity. Switching to a new language sure sounds fun, but not exactly productive (in the short term). When I do switch, I want everything to be rock solid, stable, all the tools, docs and everything.

But I have created a couple of toy projects in Swift, and I'm very excited to start using it properly in a year or two.
Periscope Skimming, a new ATM threat spotted in the US
It still does not work on Fedora 24 :-(
> It would be illegal for the article to call lobbying a bribe

which law would be violated?
Elon Musk wants a different Tesla than the one he’s built. What could go wrong?
This is an extremely irresponsible attitude, and I'm shocked to see it expressed on HN!

As engineers / technologists / experts, we have a duty as a community to ensure our products are safe!

Of course, end users also have a duty to ensure they use our products responsibly -- but the whole point of autonomous vehicles is that the end user has no control. They are entrusting their safety to the product.

The situations are in no way comparable.
* .NET 4.5 = v4.5 of the .NET framework

* ASP.NET = Web subsystem of the .NET framework.

* ASP.NET MVC = MVC framework that is part of ASP.NET (not ".NET MVC")

* WCF = Communications subsystem of the .NET framework (not ".NET WCF")

* WPF = Presentation layer subsystem of the .NET framework
One does not know what a whistleblowers intent is ahead of time. Further, we are talking about secret service stuff here rather than all whistleblowing.

No whistleblowers in this area does not mean no oversight or no checks and balances. It's just that as an audit mechanism, it presents a lot of risk since it leaves what can ultimately effect national security to the discretion of the whistleblower.
The ratio developers/ratio most be in a historic low level (at least here in Brazil). Everybody is a consumer of a siloed technology nowadays, producing content for them for free (or earning scraps), while not getting the internet bigger picture.
I think the praised "nerds" you are referring to are not the original nerds. While nerds are celebrated in shows like The Big Bang Theory I think exceptional interests or abilities are mostly not included in the pop-cultural definition anymore. It is mostly about being a virgin, bad at sports and playing video games.
how about travelling out of the US, get treatment where it's cheaper, and come back when you are better?
Snowden will not get pardoned, because (1) exposing illegal domestic spying was only a part of what he leaked, and (2) he admits that he specifically took the job with the intent to get information about NSA hacking of foreign computers to release to journalists in those foreign countries. See this comment someone posted on Reddit for details with links to sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/52k179/edward_sno...
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I've tried a few of them: GNUCash, YNAB, and BudgetSimple. Neither of them were useful to me. What was useful was just every other week taking a half hour with my wife and looking through our accounts and recent spending and medium-term plans and just talking.

I fail to see the value in sorting my personal spending into categories, especially when it means that I have to take a couple hours a week to either manually enter each item or to correct the mislabeling.
Shell scripts do run on many platforms, but it's pretty ugly to code anything non trivial in.
I am asumming this is sarcasm.
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