skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have ridiculously performant image processors. The dynamic range and light sensitivity of top shelf CMOS sensors continues to improve, and consumer tech driven image processing software which can extract useful data from all sorts of lighing conditions has made leaps and bounds.

Behind that is computer vision, revolutionized by deep learning. It can identify street signs, makes and models of vehicles and other road objects, it can keep a car centred in a lane when there's limited information such as snowy conditions, or with chaotic visual information such as a sun dappled country road covered in leaves.

Google has patented a method for interpreting the hand signals of police officers. They can read cyclist signals, and interpret the body language of pedestrians to interpret whether they intend to cross the road or not to avoid false braking incidents.

And Nvidia has demoed a way to build 3d point cloud fields (like Lidar) using off the shelf cameras. Robust computer vision is heavy on compute, but they're doing it.

But behind all this is the higher level reasoning needed to deal with tens of thousands of edge cases- this is the hard part.

Google made a special project out of programming their cars to effectively assert themselves at four-way stop signs, which is one problem amongst many.

No single edge case is unsolveable, but taking them all on, and getting the whole rube goldberg machine to six sigma reliability is an epic slog. This is the part that's going to take another 10 or 20 years, though we'll probably see L4 applied in a constrained capacity fairly soon.
It would be awesome if some of wolfram's datasets were openly accessible. E.g their weather and stock data.
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It's a good thing for future whistleblowers to know who should get their stories. WP just took themselves out of that list.
I'd prefer to see on the first page exactly what the offer is as a live page, vs some text that explains it and asks for a sign up.
What do you mean? You can file 83(b) elections when you exercise your options. Usually that's done when you leave the company, but sometimes it happens earlier.
> yearly reserved citizenship cost

a.k.a Prime membership.
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Thanks, that's really helpful.
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I guess I could have been more general: the ability for employees to be granted equity and put off paying taxes until they decide to sell said equity would be a good start.
I always felt P.O. boxes should be free for those that are homeless. If said box goes unused it is put back into general use.

Verification could be supplied by the county.
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I've read that catching stuff like this is a major reason that OpenBSD maintains (e.g.) SPARC64 support. Due to differences in MMU architectures, addressing modes, alignment requirements, etc., this kind of problem will often end up throwing an exception rather than silently doing almost-the-right-thing-usually.
https://www.corsix.org/content/dll-injection-and-wow64 ... "The solution I've settled on is to create a 3rd process, which I call the proxy process. The proxy process is an x64 process which is connected to the x86 process via stdin/stdout pipes, and whose job is to call CreateRemoteThread."
I'm not the one curled up with a dog-eared copy of The Bell Jar weeping "oh whoa is I"...

If you really want some pop psychology...the HN generation clearly lacks in proper father figures...sadly our fathers are as emasculated as us. Sorry the iPhone 7 didn't complete you as a person.

I have terrible news for you all...the day after your funeral the sun will rise and people will worry about revolving debt and football.
I agree with that. I felt that the question really asked what frontend boring framework would I choose, but you are right.

I try to avoid having to put up Angular or anything big on the frontend and just scrape by with jQuery. However, when the interactions are supposed to be "rich" and have a lot of animations, drag/dropping, complex forms that validate on the fly, etc etc...things can get really complex. Then you're back to the old dilemma: you are either going to introduce a full-fledged framework, or write one yourself. In those situations, I pick Angular.

- Angular 2 also looks fine, but that defeats the question which asked about "boring", stable frameworks
If you are "fighting" a loss based algorithm TCP stream it's virtually impossible for you to get your fair share of bandwidth without getting packet loss.

While I agree with the general sentiment, a UDP algorithm matched with a block based FEC, can actually get far more than its "fair share" simply by ignoring the packet loss. Its bad enough, that if your routers aren't deprioritizing UDP traffic you can generally consume really close to 100% of the available bandwidth. Particularly if you pace your packets and pick an algorithm that can handle somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20% packet loss before backing down.
not as bad as ".... considered harmful"
"Both my grandparents and his mother dumped a lot of cash into him but nothing helped."

I believe about 2% of people are like this.

They want to 'live free' kind of thing. Some of them are lucky and inherit money. Some live smartly-cheaply. Others are like bums.

I have a cousin who is 35 and still lives at home, way out in the country, he doesn't have his drivers license. He does nothing. Always has. His father is 'cheap wealthy' (he has money but you'd never know it). He does nothing, and won't do anything.

He cannot be motivated to do anything, ever.

Some people are just like this.
Yes, but that's the opposite end of the market (e.g. industrial pronting, very large size or volume). I am wondering if there is something in the middle.
For those like me: http://acceleratedvesting.com/what-is-an-83b-election-and-wh...

> Codified at 26 U.S.C. § 83(b), this election lets you decide at the start of your vesting agreement to be taxed for the entire amount that will eventually vest at the present value. Rather than paying tax each year then, you pay all the tax up front based on the value of the stock when it was granted to you. In order to make this election, you have to send a letter to the IRS within 30 days of the grant being made.
Out after 14 months wouldn't be unusual today. Assuming he didn't use any form of physical violence or threat thereof, some states take a very lax approach. Colorado's 2-6 years is not odd. This is one of those areas where the states differ greatly in both how they define and punish this crime. These are also very old laws, that some states have not officially revisited for generations.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/jud/rpt/2003-r-0376.htm

Statutory rape can be both very easy and very difficult to prove. DNA/blood tests are powerful, but limited by time. Unless the guy was caught in the act and evidence collected relatively quickly, prosecution will rely on the girl's testimony. That's a tricky case. Given that prosecutors are loath to put such girls on the stand, it will plead out at a much reduced sentence. What is different today is the sex offender registry.
You have an outdated expectation of Greenwald; he is an outspoken opponent of "the view from nowhere."
There's nothing wrong with that. I'll let Will McAvoy of Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin) answer that for you. Take a look at one of the first season's episodes.
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This is an important article and adds some real context to Washington Post's editorial. This quote sums it up.

But still, if the Post editorial page editors now want to
denounce these revelations, and even call for the
imprisonment of their paper’s own source on this ground,
then they should at least have the courage to acknowledge
that it was The Washington Post — not Edward Snowden — who
made the editorial and institutional choice to expose those
programs to the public.

The Washington Post's editors decided these stories were in the public interest and should be published, not Snowden.
It's pretty despicable to profit from printing the information and then argue that the person who provided it shouldn't have done so. Surely if you think Snowden should be prosecuted for providing you with the information you should equally be prosecuted from printing illegally obtained information that you don't think was in the public interest. And to make matters worse that information (specifically PRISM which they call out) is still being published by WaPo [1]. Talk about hypocrisy.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
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> I wonder how much of the push towards LP64 (ints are 32 bits, pointers and longs are 64) was to match Java.

It was to avoid breakage when porting existing programs.

> I think this is one place where Swift (among other modern languages) has it right.

We used to do ILP64 in Rust and we got a huge number of complaints; there was work by a significant segment of the community to fork the language over it. The memory usage argument is still very important to a lot of people.
I think you're overestimating the choosiness of the average rapist.
Thank for clearing up such a common misconception. The misinformation flying around about drugs and drug use these days is disheartening.
It could be honest, but only if they recommend themselves for prosecution as well. Somehow I don't think they'll be doing that.
I'm really hoping that Optane delivers on the hype, in which case our durable storage could be just 10x slower than RAM. At least, I imagine that it would be really helpful for speeding up even this approach.
What would be the possible ramifications for you in choosing the startup? The contract?
"outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal rich countries."

Causation is not correlation.

People who are not healthy, may not be able to be as motivated and productive, and are 'pushed out of the economic system'.

America is a highly competitive place, in comparison to most other countries and I think that all of these factors have feedback cycles.

Also - America does not have socialized medicine or 'full coverage' and I think that really skews the numbers.

Some countries with high inequality also have totally different cultures / groups living side by side, and that also changes the numbers.
Awesome, thanks for pointing that out.
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I agree with you but I think you might make the same mistake as the author -- to say truly gifted people act as you do, which is to compartmentalize and move on. IMO there needs to be some more substance to support that association.
everyone on HN is gifted! they even have a degree to prove it!

keep the downvotes coming, it just confirms how "precious" HN is
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>What about the mental health and drug (etc) issues that created the environment for unsustainable work...

We have to find a way to house people who have mental health problems and drug addictions. If you look in any rich neighborhood you'll find lots of people who meet this description living in relative comfort.
I would like to thank the team behind this proposal, very much, by the way. I have not tinkered with Ruby in a few years, but this looks like a major breakthrough.
It seems you're willfully conflating an implementation with the theory. The success or failures of the DAO has no bearing on the idea of digitizing and decentralizing financial services.
I'm familiar with it, but I'm not saying an equivalent program can't achieve equivalent success rate, I'm saying that an equivalent program will have an extremely disproportionate cost of implementation if housing costs are higher.
>>But a quite decent improvement from the era when the company bribed government officials to purchase bulk licences for pupils and govn't, distorting the job market
> IIRC they're still doing that. In India I think?

I wasn't aware of this. At least the IT textbooks in my home country write about “text processor” and “spreadsheet tool” and not explicitly MS Word or Excel. The programming classes don't require MS Visual Studio project files to be submitted either.

In 2008 Hungary paid $162M for the “Clean Software Programme” for 3 years. In 2011 it became $54M for an other 3 years, in 2014 it was reduced to $2.8M. I don't hear stories any more about their legal bullying team called BSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance) which with members of the local police they appeared time to time at business offices asking the for proof of purchase. Even they had no search warrant, they used a psychological terror with the presence of the police to threaten the businesses.

This is one of their ads from the past http://img.index.hu/cikkepek/0101/tech/bsaplakat2.jpg It says: “Don't use illegal software! _Users_ of illegal software can sentenced to 2-5 years. _Have you been inspected today?_
When the victim thrusts himself into the public sphere, it's sensible to raise alternate hypotheses and call his story into question ... if only to conclude that he is, indeed, the victim!

This knee-jerk cry of "don't blame the victim" is just that: a knee-jerk response. Few people want to humiliate victims, but I don't see a reason not to ask pointed questions.

I mean no disrespect, but I think comments like yours lower the level of discourse and are pretty toxic despite their good intentions.
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I don't think it's 'one hidden thing'.

It's a 'million little things' in the system, and most of it is cultural values, some of it is social policy, some of it is not evident, for example, 'inequality' in SF is driven simply by the fact that some people are creating so much value, making so much money it skews the numbers.

When some people in a community make a lot of money - it makes it's way into the housing system and really screws things up.

Also - a lot of the most 'equal' societies are very poor, so having 'equality' should not be a social objective in and of itself.
Good question! I don't know the answer, but I did find a forum comment by a host with servers in the Netherlands, Bulgaria & Ukraine who say they comply with DMCA requests because they are also a registered business entity in the US:

https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/415046/#Commen...

[Of course, taking legal opinion from a random forum comment is probably a bad idea...]
I'm going to say never. The energy demands of data centers will be skyrocketing due to increased demand for machine-learning, those GPUs and ultra-multicores will be hungry for decades to come.
I am not sure I understand where you took your numbers from.

Regardless, you compare apples to oranges. I believe it is HIGHLY incorrect to compare the number of homeless people from cities located in DIFFERENT countries.

Comparing to the US, Canada has much stronger social policies including financial aid and free health care that lead to a smaller number of people sleeping on the streets who ended up there because of financial troubles and losing their home/livelihood.

Quebec province is even better in this sense. In Montreal specifically, our hobos are mostly drunks and young people who had troubles at home.

Here are the numbers of people experiencing homeless state on a given night:

Canada: 35,000 / 35,749,600 = 9.8/10k [0]

USA: 56,4708 / 320,090,857 = 17.64/10k [1]

[0] - http://www.homelesshub.ca/blog/infographic-homelessness-cana...

[1] - http://www.endhomelessness.org/library/entry/SOH2016

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I've been a prime.memner for about 18months. I live in a major city, I primarily have it for the video service but prime deliveries and music etc are a good bonus. Great service and will continue to use it.
Not to mention, a "company" owned by the government of Qatar. You couldn't hope to enforce this against a private company in Qatar, and there's no way you'll enforce it against a national government.
More like "Sign-up to be a cog in our Space Mechanical Turk."
Wrt basic science, that would imply that two people can reason and understand deeper than one person, which afaik is not true.
I think Go is one of those languages that really benefits from an editor that performs static analysis.

I use Atom and go-metalinter catches this on a daily (if not hourly) basis. Variable shadowing is a sharp edge of the language that's very effectively dulled by proper tooling.
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As Greenwald himself says, the editorial board does not speak for the reporting staff. Usually, few if any of the news editors are on the board. That's why you'll sometimes see the editorial board of a newspaper endorsing a candidate that their investigative reporting team just ransacked.

That said, this is probably a first.
have you seen fiscalnote.com ?
Japan-only just means that there was a marketing and distribution effort by Nintendo there and nowhere else. Third-parties could still have imported the GB Light consoles to places like Germany. Could also be that the GB Light consoles you saw ended up in your area the same way my friend got one -- through family visiting Japan.
Underrated comment. Texas can't build transmission lines fast enough to export their wind power, and some utilities are giving power away for free at night because of it.
No, Paris happens to have cleanup crews, in addition to public garbage bins... which are contraptions which contain a clear plastic bag. They are not actually a bin/can format, and they are indeed everywhere.

The fact that people in Paris litter is unreltaed to the garbage "cans" being present. It is probably somewhat related to the fact there are cleanup crews to deal with it though. Hate to think how gross Paris would be if there were no cleanup crews (would probably smell more like NYC on garbage day).
"As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs." - Lisa Simpson

https://flowingdata.com/2008/06/20/lisa-simpson-on-happiness...
IIRC, and I don't know if it's the same with this alpha version, but I remember messing around in a level editor for the original Duke Nukem 3D, and mirrors were done simply by having an adjacent room with mirrored geometry :)

(and, I assume marking the wall between as a mirror so it knows to also render the dynamic objects mirrored--but I don't know for sure, I was quite young and didn't have a lot of success with this level editor because I didn't understand it fully)
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you're certainly not gifted, but you are an ignorant hypocrite.

why would you introduce the additional multisyllable word "statistically" when you were already talking about things in "probable" terms, thus implying a statistical approach... but then you have the audacity to claim you're reducing your point "in short"... no... no, you aren't. a gifted person wouldn't do that. a gifted person would call you an idiot.

you're all idiots.
Slate (especially their headline writers) is kind of notorious for a style of smug contrarianism mixed with condescension. It's unreadable.
There's a terrific test of the accuracy of a pendulum simulation, one that many workers overlook. The test is based on the fact that, for a swinging pendulum, gravitational potential energy (GPE) and kinetic energy (KE) must sum to a constant everywhere in the arc. The reason is that energy is conserved. So if a simulator shows a deviation from this constant sum, there's something wrong with the simulator and/or the underlying mathematics.

This thinking also applies to orbital simulations -- in an elliptical orbit, an object's radius from the central mass, and its velocity, are constantly changing, but (barring friction) its energy, the sum of GPE and KE, must be a constant.
As a Swift programmer Go programming seems riddled with a need to be perfect. I'd rather the language help me not make errors rather than assume I am perfectly aware of all the gotchas. Swift isn't perfect but it does make things less likely to confound you later.
This should be an option, so that if your black ink has run out but your color ink hasn't, you can print something without having to go buy more ink. But as a default I agree it shouldn't do this.
Damn good point! I never really realized that before, but you are totally right. Watches and glasses are (maybe due to Luxotica) in the fashion category, you can't hide them in a pocket like you can with a phone. You want to show them off. Other items include bracelets, earrings, teeth/braces, anklets/armlets, and rings. Many of these are female specific though, at least in the US. I would not be surprised to find that these fit-bit things are aimed towards being a 'smart' replacement for bracelets, as a way to 'signal' that you are wealthy. The new earbuds for Apple may be a foray into replacing earrings with 'smart' earrings. The next things to look out for are then 'smart' versions of rings, anklets, and (somehow) braces, though I imagine only the braces for Asian countries where braces are seen as a luxury good and not a medical one. Other far-future things would then be hand-bags, clutches, wallets or belts, shoes, and dresses, possibly even 'smart' make-up like lipsticks and mascara holders. Basically, Apple is maybe deciding to become a techy fashion and signaling mechanism for wealthy and upper middle class people. The price is very high, but the quality is also very good too, though maybe not enough for the price. If this is true, expect more things that are 'exclusive' and tied towards appearance.
Great critiques! Please understand that when you write a pitch the tone has to be a bit assertive. It wasn't meant to be insulting but rather invigorating. However I apologize for any offence if might have caused. We didn't mean any of it.

Having said that you raise many important points. Let me try to respond to them

>Where does the assumption come from that banks aren't aware of this market.

I'll concede that they probably are aware of this market. Now we want to build a service that caters to this market. And in the process make a profit for everyone involved. We know that there are businesses like revolut that have proven a part of this concept. We want to take it further.

If the market has been observed, services have been shown to be deficient and the concept proposed has been shown to be working then it should be smooth sailing.

>"not all business models try to maximize "eyeballs", or customers and that some attempt simply to maximixe revenue or profit"

There may be some business that don't try to maximize eyeballs or customers. But banks are not one of them for sure. If you look at the history of original credit cards they were made popular by

>"mass mailing of unsolicited credit cards (actual working cards, not mere applications) to a large population.[1]

It has also been my personal observation that banks put on large advertisements to attract new customers based on attributes like interest rates and after a certain period of time these attributes
get constant across banks. We are suggesting that it could be beneficial in the long run to look for a different set of customers.

>And how on earth does one compare near lawlessness of Facebook with the most heavily regulated sector of banking

But we didn't suggest any lawlessness!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.#History
Damn, what a dick move. Who is this Hannes von Haugwitz?
Yes, garbage bins are everywhere.

Plastic is an import.
Plastic takes forever to break down.
Plastics have side effects (think BPA, etc).

Biodegradable versions of these products exist. Why not use them?