skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this to be an interesting article and I'm left with mixed feelings. On the one hand, it may be that the article that they published was lacking in scientific merit--however, if it had passed peer review and was to be published--to yank it because of the names of the people involved seems wrong. If there was a problem with the research, it seems like it should have been caught at the editorial or the review stage. Otherwise, it seems like it should have been published and if people found errors with it, then a comment could be made...

So, ignoring this particular scientific case, I'd be curious about what other people think--should publishing be double blind? In the past, I would have argued that it shouldn't...
You can see what Mobileye does. It's available as an aftermarket car accessory, and there are lots of videos.[1] There's a technical paper.[2] It's supposed to be able to detect pedestrians. It should be able to detect a stalled car.

But Mobileye doesn't know the steering plan. It warns of possible collisions, but can't warn of every parked car because of its genesis as a driver-warning system. So it may be set up to not warn of collisions which could be easily avoided by steering. So the steering control system isn't told of the avoidable obstacle.

Big arguments over this are now becoming public.[3] The Mobileye CEO says he personally warned Musk not to allow hands-off driving. A former Tesla engineer considered the system unsafe. CNN: "Musk’s philosophy seems to be, 'To make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.' He is aware that there will be deaths and injuries while Autopilot is in use and is prepared to accept a few negative events in order to prevent many more."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpiyLUEOOY
[2] http://www.movon.co.kr/download/board.asp?board=blog&uid=865
[3] http://gas2.org/2016/09/17/spat-mobileye-tesla-goes-public/
I've never met a more awesome person than a kiwi, too. Just about all of them.
Censoring email addresses on a copy of the PST sounds a bit more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redaction

"Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out."
> Having a US representative for every 30k residents would, in many cases, result in congressional districts that are smaller than currently existing State legislative districts.

That's something of an understatement...Los Angeles (just the city proper, not the metro area) would have more members of the House of Representatives than there the total members of the California State Assembly and California State Senate combined. (133 vs. 120).
Agreed for US spelling. TFA chose the Queen's spelling for some reason so I just passed it on.
To be fair most of human "intelligence" seems to be pattern recognition and extrapolating data from those patterns. My guess is that if you made a robot that is really, really good at recognizing and extrapolating from arbitrary patterns and then gave it some intrinsic goals then you are pretty much at "true" AI.
As it stands though, kakfa is no where near as complicated as setting up and managing a hadoop/yarn/spark(etc etc) cluster.

Without using something like Hortonwork's Ambari, it's a right pain trying to get everything installed, working together and managing it. Then you have to worry about how you are going to upgrade it.

Currently you can use this chef cookbook https://github.com/mthssdrbrg/kafka-cookbook , along with the yahoo kafka-manager application and you can get a cluster running without much effort or complication.

The cookbook has a coordination feature which allows you to use a locking mechanism ( I use consul as we use it for dns/auto registration), which allows you to roll out changes across the cluster, restarting each broker one at a time, it also allows you to upgrade in a similar fashion.
Ask for equity (and pay) equal to the CEO and take the startup job. Otherwise stick with contracting. Do not succumb to the startup culture of exploitation, where software engineers are given the same level of responsibility as other execs but far less compensation.
Heat pollution might be the bigger problem. But it's probably no worse than burning fossil fules.
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Twitter is not the Internet.
Let's assume it's not just 0.1% but 0.001%. That still leaves us a comfortable runway of 19 million years at our current levels.

But also let's hope it's not 0.001% because I'm pretty sure the core will cool more than that on its own over a shorter timespan than 19 million years.
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I have seen OPs concept applied to apps for workout regimens and the only app that I've really seen that was successful was one where those that went got money from those who didn't. I think that's kinda what you're describing paraknight and should be something to consider for the OP.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tZq47h6jg7NX4ddhTS_H...
An interesting titbit Aston leaves out about his early days is that he was actually cofounder of AutoAdmit.com[0], a law school admissions forum, semi-notorious for its defamation lawsuits and being an incubator for troll, Michael O. Church[1] (banned on Quora, Wikipedia, and Hacker News for being a thorn in Paul Graham and Dan G, sides) that formed after the great Princeton Review Discussion Board exodus and has persisted with an active user base for almost 13 years now. I wonder if he's ashamed of that history since he fails to mention it (despite it being on his early resume!).

[0] http://www.autoadmit.com/
[1] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
Because 1) for brand new startups, which all kind of seem like dumb ideas or impossible ideas at the beginning, only a very small fraction of very talented people are willing to join, and 2) at such a small team size, there's so much more than talent that matters. You'll end up working with that person so closely that they can't just be smart or talented -- you have to trust them to be a partner in helping steer your company towards what it's eventually going to be, in product, technology, culture, etc.
Google Destinations expands to the desktop, rolls out worldwide
Nice! How does it compare to the Lily -- https://www.lily.camera/

It never shipped, but just curious
None of these suggestions were particularly helpful, I doubt he was successful in scrubbing these addresses.
If I did any UI pieces it would probably be in React talking back to an API handled by the core server.
> This is pretty incriminating.

It is, but it isn't.

One could argue that someone, let's say Bob, happened to overhear some guy named Paul needing to do exactly this. He overheard it at a bar.

Bob then thought "oh, well if it's someone really VIP, this could make for some good lulz with my efriends. Who does Paul work for that is _really_ VIP? Let me Google Paul."

"Oh, here's his email address... stonetear@gmail.com. I wonder if he's on reddit. ... Guess not. Let's make a post that's pretty obviously incriminating."

I think that'd be the first argument made, at least. IANAL, but I do have some courtroom experience.

An IP is also not a person, https://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-not-person-140324/
This is actually a great point.
> If that’s what you want, you should just use a log scale and count twelfth roots of two.

I don't want to count in twelfths, I want to count up the scale.

> call the ground floor of a building “0”

I'm a Brit, we do that here already.
How I read this: "we will double down on license audits, if we found you breaching our contract we will pardon you if you move to our jail or face the fines"
Wow. Must have been fulfilling.
Essentially a marketplace accepts funds and disperses some of those funds to another party. One example is Uber: they take payment from the rider and give some of that to the driver.
Ask HN: File sharing for startup
I am part of a small startup ~ 10 people. Several of us work remotely. What's the best way to share files? We need to have the latest in everyone's hands and we need some granular permissions on files (directories). Should I look at Google Drive / Dropbox / box.net / AWS Zocalo (we host as AWS)?
this solves only 1 part of the problem. at least based on the video, it seems like you'd need to have the hotel and places pre-selected. that's not how it usually works for me. I find having to plan a trip with all the restaurants/hotels/bars to visit beforehand incredibly painful so prefer to just choose the major cities/towns, and explore them after getting there. I also prefer the advice of locals vs tourists that visited and left reviews (because then you get stuck in most touristy places).

This approach requires research in wifi zones and talking to locals.

i think a better problem to solve would be actual suggestions that don't suck. perhaps crowd sourced from reputable users. and get all that pre-cached!
I don't think asking the question is silly, but bear in mind that the internal heat of the planet is escaping whether we tap into some of it or not.
How about C?
> "After a planned early 2016 planned release, Karma is finally ready to take flight."

"Finally" seems harsh to me in this context.
There is no way (from a type perspective) to guarantee in C# that an instance of a class can never be null -- this has to be ensured by code logic, conventions, etc. As application gets bigger it becomes easy to overlook a case that leads to a null reference exception.

The type system in F# can guarantee that an instance of a class can never be null and you can always refer to it safely.
What is the connection between AutoAdmit and Church? I don't understand how he's relevant here.
Does this mean that they're charging 1.5% + $0.50 on top of their 2.9% + $0.30 total?

It's unclear how all the pricing works. Does the normal stripe fee occur for the user of the market place in addition to the marketplace fee or does it only trigger when you the marketplace owner receives the payments? Or does it not trigger at all?
Oh, are all your old emails regularly examined by the FBI and a hostile press, and published across global media? When did you testify to Congress about it?
With network applications, you're often trying to optimize performance. It seems to me that the Go GC would make it a non optimal choice for network applications. I think writing it in Go would be good for the prototype.
I'm not saying don't do anything and sit around all day arguing. What I am saying is don't be mad, or ignore people, that come up and say "you could do X a different way and it would be objectively better for your use case"
Report it to the park's ranger. UAV operations are not allowed within U.S. National Parks.
Up to a few years ago, iTunes was full of these things. They've refined it over time, and most of those actions are now non-blocking from a UI perspective.
I picked a convenient number. Feel free to provide any sane projection and see how the numbers fall out.

Or you can fear monger and oppose change and prefer that we burn fossil fuels indefinitely, I guess.
How so? About 1% for about a month (30 days) is in the ballpark for A/R acceleration, isn't it? The "about 1%" for the 20 day lag on the issuing side collections cycle is from the merchant paying for about one month of cardholder interest.

The Visa/Mastercard oligopoly's fee structure isn't Stripe's fault...

EDIT: Gosh - it looks like they're building it around ACH in the US and taking the risk "on us". That's bold. I wouldn't even for 1.5%.
>Portia and insects in general

Spiders are not insects!
> My main point was that foreign states need not become one of the United States to be protected by certain rights clauses in the U.S. Constitution.

But the courts argument is irrelevant to that. To the extent that the US Constitutional rights (or other rights under US law) extend to foreign nationals in foreign territory, the existence of a US court on their soil is irrelevant to such protection, it has no effect either way. So the whole court thing was a non sequitur.

> If there are no district courts outside U.S. territory, suing the U.S. as a foreign person may become prohibitively expensive in relation to the magnitude of the offense.

That might be a practical concern, but it is irrelevant to the actual legal concern, which is that it is well-established law that many protections of the US Constitution do not, in fact, apply to foreign persons outside of the US in the same way as they apply either to US citizens or to persons within the US (some don't apply at all, and even for those that do, the differences in factual circumstance between US and foreign jurisdiction and the fact that the US government has express granted powers in governing relations with foreign nations changes how they apply), and that, in fact, to be protected by those rights in the same way as would be the case for those within the US, the states they were in would, contrary to your argument, need to become part of the United States.
While longer prison sentences do deter crime up to a point (
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/03/criminal...) I've not seen any data that would grade effectiveness of prisons based on their awfullness. No matter how "cushy" the prison environment is, it's still a prison.
Awful prisons only dehumanize convicts and guards alike for no purpose.
Twitter certainly beats G+ and the boards that I like in terms of quantity. I just took issue with your claim that you can't imagine conversation of that quality taking place on another network. That's a much stronger claim than "Twitter has a higher quantity of good conversation",whjch I don't disagree with at all.
Go's standard library is pretty nice.
Then I asked another question, one that had played in my mind since I first learned about the collection. Did the interest of her photographers in the sensuality of her body ever extend into real life? She counted. There were two artists she had slept with. I silently calculated this number, over the twenty-two years that she worked, to be around one per cent of the artists she had worked with. “In life, this sometimes happens,” she said.

Interesting lady.
The problem with the go pro in a drone is that you lose either 1) the durability/waterproofness of a go pro case (the key selling point for me), or 2) the ability to live view through it reliably. If go pro had an interface to use their normal go-pro mounts on a drone, but had a special case with a control port passthrough, they'd be in good shape. It is attractive to know that if I crash my drone, at least the camera won't die.

This looks like it gets neither good range/quality or durability, unless the camera is one of the "spare parts" that their site so glibly advertises.

Having flown DJI phantom 3s, and some custom drones to lift Canon 5D3s, I can tell you that the biggest source of nervousness in flying for me is recovering the camera. With a DJI, I am willing to take closer, riskier shots that often end up better. With the 5d3 and now 5DSr, I can get MUCH better shots, but it is risky. I suppose I would feel different if it were professional and I had full coverage insurance.
Go is great for I/O bound applications.
Most food is grown on a single year basis - grow that year, eat that year.

Coffee is a tree it takes many many years to grow and develop. It's quicker to "harvest" money from aid agencies.

PS. Your reply is very strange, since the answer to your question is quite obvious. Are you actually trying to get info, or are you trying to push the message you desire via questions?
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This seems like enough to demonstrate intent (the big thing they couldn't prove previously) is there any reason this isn't enough evidence to open a case by the justice department?
Nope, it's exactly pixel art, because in the real world pixels were never simply point samples - indeed, few things are because they're not physically possible. (It's a reasonably approximation for audio, mostly because there's a truly massive amount of oversampling happening behind the scenes to make it work.) Pixel art takes advantage of the fact that pixels are not point samples and never were.
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I think what needs to happen there is that the US needs to promise not to extradite him in exchange for him surrendering to the Swedish authorities for the rape claims. I don't believe he should be extradited to the US to be incarcerated under criminally draconian anti-whistle blower; I do believe that he has to submit to a fair trial after being legitimately charged with a unambiguously horrific crime. Assuming (and I believe this is the most likely seniario given the info I have) that the Swedish prosecution is acting in good faith and believe that they have a legitimate case, the US refusal to rule out extradition is, quite frankly, obstructing real justice for the parties to the Swedish case. Dealing with rape cases is far more important than grudges against Wikileaks.
About the Pontiac Aztec mentioned in that post, some 4chan user found 2012 Google street-view images of what is/was apparently his house (there was a Paul R Combetta that lived there) with a Pontiac Aztec in the driveway (he asked for help with his Aztec in /r/cartalk 3 years ago)
@whoa generally wired networks have been preferred in most industrial-scale sensor networks to ensure reliable connectivity. Until very recently I wouldn't have even considered doing an active control network over a wireless network. But recent IoT hardware and mesh networks have gotten surprisingly good!

@PaulHoule those are some good points. I would've agreed up until recently, but the newer IoT mesh radios have gotten surprisingly robust. The frequency modulators and collision detection baked into the last few iterations of lower cost IoT chips (like DigiMesh/Nordic chips) really have improved. We've been using DigiMesh 900 MHz units in a greenhouse setting with great success (especially compared to 2.4GHz which drops packets with abandon), with no measured packet loss to date. Pretty sweet!

To wrap that up, low-throughput but hi-scalability mesh networks combined with better firmware, network configuration, tuned mesh protocols, and proper software support to make the "throw a few of these down and forget them" scenario a real possibility. Check out the Beep networks blog for a longer explanation: http://blog.beepnetworks.com/2016/09/messy-networks-for-the-...
Right. This always surprises me. Americans are especially guilty of this feeling that the rest of the world is a dangerous, lawless hellhole. When in fact, 99.9995% of the world's population is just trying to get by with the least amount of trouble possible. Also, thanks for sharing your comments. They are inspiring and cool.
>combinatorially explosive amount of information that we deal with at every single moment

What are you referring to? The sensory input to the brain takes, as a ridiculously high upper bound, perhaps terabits per second. In reality it's probably a few megabits. It's really not much. Vision is, I suspect, by far the highest bandwidth input to our brain, and computer vision has met or exceeded human vision in many tasks.
> Fair, I plugged my number in upside down. The production 50 years ago was ~46% higher than today, or today's is ~31% lower.

For such comparisons, we should always use either explicit ratios or (even better) a logarithmic scale. “X% more” and “X% less” are confusing constructs which are easy to screw up.
One of the reason I can't use Firebase for a mobile app is its SDK for Android relies on Google Play Services. And that app needs to target China market. And most Android phone in China has no Google Play.
Stonetear's post history spans for years, is quite extensive, and includes photos of himself and his family, and references to a car and other items, all of which apparently match up to the subject in question. I became pretty convinced within a few minutes of reading it (and checking the primary material to see if it checked out, which it has so far). If true, this is incredible, that a subreddit was able to uncover publicly available evidence that the FBI missed.
Unless Reddit was subpoenaed and they linked his account with a known email of his.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The intent of this system is to protect regional interests, many of which are still with us (natural resources, garbage disposal, and employment are three obvious examples to me).
It isn't court of law incriminating, but it's more than enough for the court of public opinion.
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I'm not sure perception and memory are all that different. What are memories except echoes of perception? I actually wonder if memory is not our perceptual signals caught within neural loops that are able to feedback and trigger pattern detection circuits. When this happens for multiple patterns in synchrony, we form associations. Is it right? Who knows.. no idea how even neuroscience can start to answer that..
Sublevel has a 640 character limit. It works great for some people while very few reach that limit[1]. Along 480 characters is the perfect limit of characters or 3 SMS messages merged together.

So 200 characters won’t make any difference for Twitter.

[1] https://sublevel.net/re/21971/
Twitter stops global engineering work at Bangalore office, lays off staff
This actually surfaced on many different sub-reddits, but kept getting removed due to the 'anti-doxxing' policy, which I think is generally a good policy to have, but in this case the whole point of the story is linking a real world person to an online alias.

Anyway, I don't have a horse in this race, just thought it was an interesting story both politically and from a security perspective.
>Eh, sure, if it's a pretzel or a piece of candy or whatever, we (in my country) will pick it up, blow on it a bit, wipe it a bit and eat it. It depends on where it fell and how sticky the food is, but obviously "time spent on the floor" isn't really a factor.

It might might not be a conscious following of the 5-second-rule, but I'm sure the people in your country would still pick it up fast and not let it collect germs kana eikosalepto before eating it.
Yak shaves with circular dependencies are the worst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElLpKewnxp4

Come to think of it, this is also how bug-reporting interactions tend to go. And I wasn't expecting to hear Harry Belafonte doing an Irish accent!
On the topic of Torvalds, you only hear about him when he post a nastygram email because it makes for clickgrabbing headlines.

But more often than not, he only do so when someone senior in the development chain screws up and thus he has to come in and make the final call. And likely the bickering has gone on for days if not weeks, and that part of the kernel has thus slowed to a halt because of it.

Another problem is when politeness gets weaponized. This when people come in and try their outmost to rile up existing group members such that said members violate some rule or other.
You also get a stabilizer which is like osmo.
I wouldn't really call "return values" a "l33t feature".

Exceptions are absolutely a "l33t feature". They break whatever is currently happening. They are an uncontrolled return working its way up your structure.

While you're attempting to recover from that Exception I gracefully catch my error and can even use the multiple return values that came back successfully from my function, despite there being an error.
I think the point is that the US system encourages players to form a "coalition" before going to the polls, rather than afterward.