skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. No.

Apple makes it a point to do as much data processing as practical on the phone. They don't override your preference to not have your location tracked. They are developing new ground in differential privacy so when they do collect data, it's both useful and not personally identifiable. They don't do underhanded tricks with cookies to circumvent your browser privacy settings. And they're not in the business of selling you to advertisers based on your private data.

In short, there's no comparison between Google and Apple.
In Turkey, the very next step is being thrown into jail for voting for some political party which the ruling party doesn't like. Yes a successful coup would have been a hard-to-reach "even worse". An unsuccessful one is a nightmare too: I see many people asking each other: Now what?!

It's like a broken, rotten implementation of IDemocracy. It satisfies all the API but throws a lot of exceptions, and people in jail. Internals has been spilled all over, and you don't know who has access to what and with what kind of execution level.

Go to Istanbul as a tourist and you will see absolutely no problems whatsoever (Well, a different story if you speak Turkish and can understand people when they're complaining). OTOH, being a citizen who has even once touched the surface of "wrong" politics is a game of waiting in fear.
Having the same problem. I have a lot of job offers for the bay area but can't make the jump because it would destroy my family life due to the high cost.

Middle class families are basically priced out of Silicon Valley.
To be honest, that was the only time it resulted in quick action in my experience. Other jobs, similar things happened with no repercussions. In fact one manager told everybody "No way am I going to hire her. Did you see the guys fawning over her? Nothing would get done around here." That manager is now CEO at a Boston company (with offices in Sunnyvale and Munich). I wonder what their hiring statistics are.
It'd be cool if they have more than one "AI driving personality" and users can rate them.
I live just a bit outside of pittsburgh, but I'm not in town often enough to need an uber. I'm still probably going to head down and try to get picked up by one, though.
Seconded. This book does a very good job at telling you why and when you'd want to use a specific design pattern, and why it would be better than the alternative.
>Wonder how much of it will succeed in developing nations, where many roads are not well laid out and most importantly not well mannered

Not to mention that the difference between cost of AI equipment (fixed) compared to driver salary (order of magnitude lower) is not even close to developed nations.
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> And wtf, since when does hardware have a subscription cost

Well there is a pretty important software component and I'd guess that this allows them to fund ongoing development of that and give you regular updates (this is a pretty early version so I'd imagine at least monthly software updates after purchase).

> Wouldn't you need like multiple gpus to process all this camera data in real time

Hotz demoed an early prototype on the road in Nevada to a reporter months ago that was wired up to a single Ubuntu-Linux powered laptop if I remember correctly so I'm assuming probably just 1 integrated GPU required.
Someone else being wrong (and a straw person at that) doesn't make you right.
I was about to chime in with the same message. An important part of this book is that the language used--not just the code language, but the writing language as well--is very easy to follow and understand. This is not a book you'll regret reading.
Studying Soviet law outside the context of how it was "applied" in practice is very likely to lead to misunderstandings.

There's an saying from the time "Был бы человек, а статья найдётся" (lit. "If we have the man, we'll find the law paragraph [necessary for a conviction]" attributed to either Beria or Stalin, but considered illustrative of the applied law.
Google Play is tracking you – and that’s just the tip of a very large iceberg
Let's say you are right that he was born into the top 1% in the US. I am not confident that is true without data but let's say that is it for the sake of argument.

.01 * 330,000,000 = 3,300,000

So yes, millions. And yet there are only a handful of Americans like Bill Gates.
one of my concerns regarding this is the likely increase in patenting of genetic plant material, but specifically for the plants that are used in medicine. This will especially be problematic when it comes to medicinal cannabis. Monsanto will engineer a "perfect strain" then make considerable profits off it. That's concerning because it's about to shift the drug war and I'm not sure where it will go.
TIL the United States is a socialist country.
Bayer CropScience is very small, just 2% of the global market, so them merging with Monsanto isn't really a massive game changer, which runs 23% [1].
I don't think it's going to shake up the market very much, could be that they even lose market share when the merged company consolidates its offerings. For example, Bayer's Liberty Link cotton is used when the local pests have become resistant to Monsanto's Glyphosate/Bt cotton, at some point Glyphosate/Bt sales will go down.

In other news, Syngenta (9% of seed market) was recently acquired by ChemChina but that deal is waiting for European authorities.

[1] Biased source: www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms/10558-the-worlds-top-ten-seed-companies-who-owns-nature
> I think IoT is creepy futile tech living on hype, and it also vastly increases the attack surface of a house (i.e. an attacker can theoretically remotely inspect or damage it).

That is exactly what I have been thinking!

A while ago I heard that some home automation systems allow locking/unlocking the doors remotely. My first thought was burglars were going to have a field day[1], but now I think more along the lines of ransomware - "If you really just want to go to bed, why not just pay the 100 Bitcoins?"

[1] Especially if you consider that once they have owned your home automation they can monitor if you are at home.
The internet on your phone is kind of uniquely addictive. You can basically replace any downtime with playing on your phone.

The sad thing is it can jump into the middle of any activity. Getting lunch, wait one second text message which you need to respond to right now.
Might I suggest you include the title and author in your comment?

I also suggest you drop everything in Amazon links that isn't necessary, which is most of it. I rarely click on a link without looking to see where it goes, and Amazon links are particularly suspicious because the affiliate program gives people a financial motive to get link clicks.
Citation needed. I can at least turn off or opt out of Apples data collection. How do I opt out of google reading[1] my email when I communicate to someone who had a Gmail account?

Edit: [1] and by reading I mean: reading the contents of my email and forming a profile about me even if I don't use Google services.
Warning: Naïve laymen "answer" from me :)

I think the 'direction' is the same 'direction' describing the process of say, a non-reversible chemical reaction, like catching something on fire. The reaction happens in one 'direction' only and cannot be reversed. Maybe? Of course, there are some quantum phenomena that do not obey this directionality?
I do think it's cool that they are letting anybody ride in these. It will help make the transition easier for rolling out this feature if people have already ridden in the cars.
>I guess it's just this perception that important people are busy

Perhaps but I'm sure the primary thought in their subconscious is "don't back down or they will punish you by inventing new burdens for you."
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I'd be very surprised if the NSA doesn't collect these signatures for later matching. Doesn't mean that you'll have black vans following you around because of it - they have lots of lists for all kinds of things.

The most obvious application in this case is that you would be automatically disqualified for a security rating in the future. You'd never get to know the reason of course, you'd just be rejected.

EDIT: I still think people should sign of course. Let's not let them win by default by letting our fear control us. Do you really want that security rating if these are the requirements?
Do you guys think this list is accurate. Are there other projects that should have been on this top 5?
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> Truly doing much with little data may simply be impossible; its not a magical black box after all, but just as ideal a learner as possible

This is interesting, and something that needs further explored IMO. I've been doing research on extracting mutual information from noisy, shifted copies of a ground truth signal, and it turns out there is a crossover point where recovering the ground truth essentially becomes impossible (in an information theoretic sense). What's interesting is that this crossover point is sharp and it looks a lot like a phase transition that one might see in statistical physics.

We need more research that provides limits on what we are capable of predicting from a given dataset — an upper bound, in other words. This would let us know if it's worth it to spend time trying to get more predictivity out of a dataset, or if the data just simply doesn't contain sufficient enough information.
Because America refuses to swallow its pride and admit our health care system is flawed and completely inefficient. All we have to do is follow a health care system that actually functions, but we refuse and just keep doubling down on stupid. It's the sunk cost fallacy. It's just like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and gun laws. America is in denial.
any chance this could help the perception of GMOs in Germany then?
Because America refuses to swallow its pride and admit our health care system is pathetic. All we have to do is follow a health care system that actually functions, but we refuse and just keep doubling down on stupid. It's the sunk cost fallacy. It's just like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and gun laws. America is in denial.
Here is the long video from awhile ago about his adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
A few things of interest here.

1) They're basically duplicating the early Google cars with mostly the same sensor suite bolted on top and integrated in the side panels. This is good because it means that unlike Tesla, they're planning for fully autonomous.

2) Since the human driver is still responsible for switching lanes, it looks like this is very early stage testing and data collection.

3) I think it's great that they're taking the approach of giving customers a view of what the car is doing via the back seat tablet, and even encouraging them to share. This is a great way to get people comfortable with the tech.

4) It still saddens me that everyone is keeping their autonomous data proprietary. How much faster could development go if Google let anyone have access to their million+ miles of driving sensor data instead of needing to collect it all from scratch?
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The modern "printing press" is decidedly not expensive!
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I find this incredibly interesting. Do you have any more information on the subject you can point me to?
Has Google made this information public? Or are they just indexing it?
The same way you opt-out of Apple or Yahoo! reading your email when you communicate to someone that has iCloud or Yahoo! mail.
You are right, the leaks weren't that surprising (I had not read the actual ant papers until recently, they are pretty cool) - I do actually question the possibility that the leaks themselves were psy ops though, here's my reasoning:

The power of the NSA, et al. was probably overstated up until a few years ago - for example, if you're so powerful and omnipotent, why trust your top stuff to booz allen contractors? Also, Natanz was amateur hour - inside sources have essentially admitted that - it's not the sign of a robust or mature operation that had been in place for a decade. Also, only a small amount of the software/tools that the papers mention has actually been verified (if any at all, I have not been following it recently).

But that's unlikely and I do support a pardon if the accepted version of the events is true. Even if it did end up being psy ops, they might have jut been showing nefarious material to enough contractors until one inevitably leaked it. Honestly the way they are written is kind of odd, not like technical manuals an engineer would use. edit* - and yeah they're not even billed as manuals, just as a catalog. They kind of strike me as realistic ideas or concepts, maybe even with some prototypes - thrown in with a couple of things that do exist. There's nothing technically amazing about any of the things it describes though - if you watch old def con videos you could probably figure out how to do a lot of that stuff anyway (which you alluded to)
.Net isn't IIS. It's just one web server that can host it. And I'd take IIS over WebSphere any day!
Do you walk around with a body camera and microphone everywhere you go? And constantly upload those recordings to a big public database somewhere? Because that's my understanding of sousveillance.
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The faz says that in other news ChemChina is buying Syngenta - these are two big companies; Are there any hidden reasons why agriculture tech companies are so interested in mergers these days?

Hmm.. here [1] it says that "three straight years of declining prices for major crops have pressured profits and forced companies to scale back staff and research."; Does that explain the pressure for mergers in this area?

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/chemchina-details-changes-to-str...

and that is supposedly because a glut in corn and soybeans is driving prices down;

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/High-corn-yield-hurts-...
As my favorite history teacher said, to great amusement of the class, "Original Sin is an empirical observation".
The best way is to refresh your 'memory' with a good course[1].

[1] "CS 108 Object Oriented System Design":

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs108/
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Yep that what I was trying to say
Oh, so it is. Good catch.
Yes; our system makes it very difficult to put horses back in the barn. I heard one physician say that Tylenol would not make it through today, or at the very least it would be prescription, because of the slim toxicity margin.
You were faster than me, I wanted to submit this as well. Golden read.
How to invent your own evaluation criteria when management is vague?
I'm a year into my first programming job. I was the one with the least experience and knowledge among a team of senior+ level developers. I was supposed to be doing game development on a mobile app, but... that's not how it turned out.

I've been shuffled around tasks, had things pulled out from under me, been taken off my team and put back on it, and had to tackle huge and multifaceted tech stacks without support or previous knowledge of them. When I ask about what I can do to earn a promotion, or what is expected from me, or what goals I can set, or what skills my leads want from me, I always- from a variety of leaders and leads- have gotten either a vague answer or no answer ("That's a question for so-and-so", "It's different for everyone so I don't want to put a time table on it", "Here's our vague job tiers outline that says 'be able to complete tasks on time with help from other devs' which is what you're doing"). This has gone on for a long time and I can't see it improving. I'm unsure how to evaluate myself in this environment.

My job feels more like a liability since most of what I do is learn the idiosyncrasies of our code base and chip away at busy work my lead gives me for lack of anything else to do. I know I'm not gaining marketable skills here but I'm having trouble finding another job. I experience imposter-syndrome big time in that regard. I've had phone interviews where they ask me about what I do and I have a hard time distilling it. I'm asked what I make, what I've contributed- but debugging legacy code and wasting a lot of time in the scrum processes we follow don't cut it.

Anyone else been in this bind? How do you tell potential employers that you hate your current company because they're stuffing you in a hole in which you can't grow or develop your skills? Are there places out there that know how to foster the novice programmers in a professional setting, or is it selfish of me to expect that?
Reminds me of Psycho-Pass where everyone is basically assigned a criminality rating and you're arrested or killed on the spot if it gets too high.
Since the article didn't answer the question of why, I'll submit a partial answer. People put a minimal value on their free time and so it gets sucked up with things of minimal value.

One place I've noticed this in that placing a high value on my own time comes off as self-important. As well, wondering why colleagues aren't placing a high value on their time, leave me bewildered.

Just the other day, a friend was showing me how he was playing around with React to create a calculator to show how much money he could save by getting gas over the border. Since we're on a US/Canada border town, we can save 5-10 dollars by filling up over the border. He's made his calculator just to help learn React. I asked him why he went to the US to get gas and he told me it was to save money. $5! It makes the 5 min job of getting gas into a 30 min chore. He's a freelancer which I think my company pays around ~100/hr. He doesn't think this is strange and no one else who was listening did.
This is my current favourite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558
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> If they don't meet reserve regulations at the end of the day, they borrow at exceedingly low interest rates to cover the gap.

Borrow from whom? I've heard this idea before that the loans issued by a bank are essentially independent of the deposits, and it makes sense to me from a logistical perspective - is some BofA loan officer going to load up BofA's financials to make sure they have the money to issue the loan? No, they'll just do it, and it's someone else's job at the end of the day to "make it work".

But who are the banks borrowing from? If it's from other banks, doesn't it mean that in the aggregate loans and deposits are tied together?
This actually matches what seems to be the prevailing attitude in the US. There's a lot of hate for Monsanto (extending all the way to conspiracy theories) but I don't hear Bayer especially called out as evil (at least compared with some others like Pfizer or Nestlé)
Those of us who don't live in the united states have rights too, including that of privacy.
Well, I stand corrected and my faith in humanity is (somewhat) restored.
Take a behavior. Pull the nouns (classes) and what they are told to do (methods). Finally, I don't need to know how you do what you do, that is your problem, not mine.

Very oversimplified, but that is what it is. See the pieces that you are playing with, and they can receive messages asking them to do something, this will be method calling. This describes objects and message passing.

Sometimes different parts need to respond to the same message, think on a car: push pedal, it means to release gas into the engine to the gas pedal, but it means squeeze the wheels to the brake pedal. Welcome to polymorphism.

And when I press a pedal I don;t need to know how it accomplish what I am asking to do. In a gas engine means releasing more gas, but in a tesla it means reducing resistance between the batteries and the motors. That would be encapsulation.

And by the way, think also in the instrument panel, they don't go asking then engine "what are you doing now", instead they just display whatever information the engine is volunteering. The engine makes a little wire spin, and the speedometer shows the speed. That would be the bases for the observable pattern. There are others, but this one helps abstract the engine it self from the car body. In other words, the UI should be nothing but one example on how a user can interact with the engine, for this you need to build your engine without thinking in ui. This would be how to structure an oo app.
That screams conspiracy!
Yes, it's possible to pardon someone for past unindicted crimes. Nixon was pardoned for Watergate by Gerald Ford, for example.
Yeah, Evernote being bloated was also the reason for me to stop using it. I wanted to take a few notes here and there, not document my entire life in all available forms of media. I can't believe that they are still adding even more things onto it.
No. GMOs are more or less banned throughout Europe for legitimate ecological concerns, with plenty of grassroots opposition in Germany. The fact that it's a field dominated by one of the more evil companies in the world is secondary.
In the company I'm working for I'm using a bash script that keeps track of my development builds, because I need to store multiple pieces of information for each one that are not readily available.

For this reason I am storing stuff in a small sqlite database. If I was ever to do this again, I would strongly consider using QuineDB instead.
I think it's rarely that you actually need to respond to any text message immediately.
Object Oriented Analysis and Design, by Grady Booch.

That's the fellow who invented UML, and wrote the foreword to the GoF Design Patterns Book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch
It hasn't happened yet, but I'd suspect the merger will be approved. First, the general assumption among most competition authorities these days is that companies should be free to merge unless doing so would raise serious antitrust concerns. The focus of antitrust theory is on companies that compete directly with each other (e.g. Microsoft versus Google compete directly in search). Vertical integration (e.g. Apple buys Netflix), in comparison, doesn't raise the same concerns of immediate and direct reduction in competition.
This isn't recent, but it is my favorite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
They have turned it from "can only be found by a dedicated person" to "anyone can find it".

Societies usually ban that difference.
I agree. I think Google should follow suit on this. I think it will lead to quicker acceptance. That's not the lawyer in me talking though.
And it's not "free electricity", you know as well as I do Israel collects taxes from the PA and Palestinians.
When I was a kid in the 70s, you could listen to distant shortwave stations and if you heard them on a certain time and freq, you could send a note and get a postcard to collect. So we picked up Moscow and thought that would be cool for the collection. We wanted to make sure we weren't going to get in trouble or a watchlist (McArthy was very fresh on our minds) so we called the FBI office first; they were amused we'd ask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSL_card
This Wikipedia website has great potential.
GNU parallel, that's when Unix philosophy rocks
I still don't understand how GRS is the solution. It seems like an extreme, expensive, permanent "fix" to alleviate symptoms of a mental illness.

This is why I always discount people who say that "mental health treatment" is the solution to X class of problems. It seems like we don't really know how to treat mental illness other than to ask the mentally ill person what they want and give it to them.
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I'm familiar with this, my family has some Ingrian ancestry, part of Estonia that is now Leningrad oblast. When Estonia became part of USSR before the WWII, land owners were "relocated" to Siberia, remaining population either fled to Finland or changed their names to disguise themselves as russians.