skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your only "vectors" are that Samsung has competitors and countries have spies. That's not nearly specific enough to be interesting
Regarding possible long-term effects: Modafinil was invented in the late 1970's. Some people in Europe have been taking it for over 30 years. People in the US have been taking it since 1998. No study of modafinil has found it to be neurotoxic. A few studies have found slight neuro-protective effects. In a review of modafinil studies[1], the authors really had to stretch to find disadvantages and dangers.

In short: If this drug is bad for you, it's only slightly bad. And it's far safer than the drug it substitutes for: amphetamines.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654794/
And yet I dont see anyone complaining about Intel processors being unable to do FP calculations. People made jokes for a while with the FDIV bug but Intel just did the recall and moved on.

Samsung will get over it. So will consumers. The brand is
a juggernaut.
I think situations where one has to choose between someone outside the vehicle and its occupants are not very common.

They do happen. In fact, I know someone who almost had to make such a choice. It was in France (he's French). He was doing somewhere around 140km/h (call it 90mph) on a rural limited-access road, and came around a curve to find a car stopped in the left lane of a two-lane roadway -- apparently on account of a flat tire. One of the occupants was out of the car and walking toward the right lane, as if about to cross to the right shoulder. The timing was such that my friend was able to pass by in the right lane before the pedestrian got there, but had he been two seconds later, as my friend said to me, "I would have had to hit him".

All that said -- it was 20 years ago that I heard this, and I don't recall hearing any similar tales since. This one obviously stuck in my head, so I think I would recall. I've certainly never been in such a situation myself.

So the argument that self-driving cars will reduce fatalities so substantially that we don't need to worry too much about these edge cases makes a lot of sense to me.
I agree, but whatever algorithm the car makes in that situation will be implicitly endorsing one or more ethical philosophies, meaning people who subscribe to a different one will have cause to object.
Given that SPAs tend to have payloads in the MBs, high conversion rates must be based on the end user having a very fast broadband connection. They probably wouldn't stick around for the initial page load otherwise.

Modern browsers are very good at caching resources. For server-side apps the browser is often just downloading the html for the page and nothing else. Compare that with downloading json from the server and applying changes to the virtual DOM. The difference is neglible wrt to speed and is, IMO, oversold.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...

Read this article.
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Amid debate, all 2016 American Nobel laureates are immigrants
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Accessibility is out of scope for this article, but with some additional work, it could be done, I'm sure. Maybe I should write about that in my upcoming articles.
Also, I've provided a link to Github demo so everyone could see the full code.
Note that .net core supports sha1 through sha512[0]

[0] - https://github.com/aspnet/DataProtection/blob/00d593f1f29884...
Meanwhile in the US, depending on which set of numbers you believe, something like 13-20% of the US population (including perhaps as many as 25% of women) are dosing on antidepressants.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/246755...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/women-and-prescript...
~20ms, and there is no parallel burden, so it's usually faster in medium to high traffic scenarios.
Yes, yet by 'not making a choice', you still chose a definite probability distribution of outcomes. That distribution will need to be justified.

If some people die and others don't, people will ask 'Why did this person die and not that other one?'

I highly doubt that 'We flipped a coin' is going to be an acceptable answer.
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No idea if it works or not. Sorry I can't help.
So just because you don't drive means they should kill themselves to save you? Ridiculous. Clearly the morally right thing to do is to prioritize the driver, which the car exists to serve (within reason)

I sure as hell wouldn't drive a car that makes the exact opposite moral decision from what I would make, killing me in the process
Or less fancy depending on how you look at it.
The point is not that the complaint is invalid. The point is that it is not an interesting enough contribution to be repeated endlessly.
As a journalist, I disagree. In this case the technique is used more to portray the way Holmes is perceived publicly (a "neurotic and delusional powerful woman out of control" -- not my opinion, just what the photo conveys), than to add a spin to a story that's already independently and factually spun in a very clear direction.

The use FoxNews does of this photo-picking with President Obama or liberal politicians is much worse. Or check the tabloids, they're masters at that.

This one? Just fine.
I also want to point out that the picture is all but an outtake. Photography agencies publish photos like this on their online collections all the time, they won't discard them. Exactly because they know outlets may pick them for a story where they would fit.
Plausibly also amphetamines. Any guess to the proportion of our elites pounding adderall and modafinil (yes I know, not technically a stimulant) at least at ages 15-30 or so as they grind their way through school / billable hours / medical residency / etc?

For that matter I would be totally unsurprised if many of our political candidates had some chemical augmentation on the campaign trail as well.
I don't want to get into details. I got baited and switched that made me ineligible for any benefits.
Can't echo this more. The Scala Functional programming course on Coursera is another such example. I am yet to finish the assignments, 2 months after enrolling.
OTOH, the deep learning course from Udacity was a cakewalk in comparison.
I wonder if it makes sense to build a good recommender for MOOCs based on a student's appetite for challenge. Something like the adaptive questions on GRE but for MOOCs.
>Some cyclists are incredibly self-entitled
...
>you can ride behind me. No need to pass

The bicycle stops balancing itself as you slow down to 2 mph due to reduced gyroscopic effects. The probability of bicycle accident might be lower at 5 mph, slightly faster than walking speed.
I'm pretty sure interns get paid at least 50% more. lol
> "This is the opposite of what it should do" ... "As someone who cycles, and who has over 300 cycling websites"

Something about self-serving? I think you only feel that way because you don't drive. Other self-serving people will naturally want something to protect them. Duh.
Given what ScottBurson said, though, it's unlikely cars will be stuck in such a tough spot.

In my opinion, it should be optional on the passengers' part. Maybe some benevolent individual doesn't mind prioritizing other people's lives over their own. But those who choose to save themselves will end up having to explain, possibly in court, over their decision, rather than it being the car manufacturer who will never have a "correct" answer no matter which option they choose.
Of course! The occupant will usually be richer and much more well off in society than some peasant who still uses its feet to move from a place to another.

It's not classism, it's probability!
Not Kapeli's apps. There is no indication that there were fraudulent reviews of Dash, nor would it even make sense for there to be since it's so popular. Kapeli's own account was only used for Dash.
You expect to type PRO and have people know what your talking about? I certainly don't, and unless you are talking about the wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRO_%28category_theory%29, which it doesn't sound like, I don't think it's reasonable.
The syllabus says prerquisites are 10-701 and 36-715.

Could you say something about 36-715? I can't seem to find any details.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12677385
I was going off of this article: https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-the-future-of-software-a...
If you call the bar hazing, then isn't pretty much any exam you've ever taken hazing?
> it refers to the fact that your CODE (applications and software in general) should not be AWARE of being executed on a physical or virtual machine.

With the exception of para-virtualised device drivers, what code is ever aware of being executed on physical or virtual machines?
You? Introvert? I'm not so sure...
I don't think it has to do with the way the application is written at all. It's how it's deployed and managed.
> you only feel that way because you don't drive

I do drive too. Most cyclists are also drivers.
They really should make it the option of the passenger. It removers manufacturer liability. You can always force the passenger to decide before driving, just like forcing Windows upgrades.
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I love zappa, there's also chalice: https://github.com/awslabs/chalice
Not the case - it runs with all dependencies cached if its called multiple times. Inconsistent calls will incur the delay though.
>So the argument that self-driving cars will reduce fatalities so substantially that we don't need to worry too much about these edge cases makes a lot of sense to me.

Even more so considering this case likely wouldn't form part of the "edge case" pool, since a self-driving car presumably wouldn't be driving at 140 km/hr down a non divided rural road. The speed limit on such roads in good weather is 90 km/hr.

Perhaps the limits were higher in the past, but I can't imagine they were ever that high.
I'm always surprised at the lack of discussion around database connection reuse with AWS Lambda.

It's a pretty big deal that every single API call requires a new database connection. The only solutions I've seen so far are to run a separate app to interface with the database, or moving the connection outside of the handler (which still has issues).

Am I missing something or is everyone just really happy to use DynamoDB?
I would be interested to diff the user agreement and business agreements.
High correlation between data loss events and numer of SMB in US states
> For dealing with something as simple as diarrhea, you have to understand the anatomy of the GI tract...

You don't have to understand it. You can say "Hey, usually when you take this pill things get better" or "Just keep him hydrated with a water/salt/sugar mixture, and these things generally take care of themselves."

Human life is cheap. There are 7 billion of us. Why are we optimizing for the very few to reduce medical care for the masses?
"because it enables peer-review, guaranteeing there are no backdoors."
Thank you for deleting my "I think"./sarcasm It was an important qualifier on my statement since I obviously don't know much about you.
I'd recommend checking back in for a hot minute every few months or so. The development velocity on this service is pretty rapid.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/amazon-api-gateway...
> So just because you don't drive

I do drive too. Most cyclists are also drivers.

Feel free to purchase such a car, just don't have the expectation that crowded urban areas will permit vehicles that externalise their danger. There are more pedestrians and cyclists in London, with a much stronger lobby, than there are those who drive here, and even the pro-car press will delight at the chance to lay into self-driving cars.
At least that means it converges and we can estimate it to some useful degree.
What is a SMB?
If you design your correctly (at least in Python), you can cache and reuse your open database connection.
They mean the Pro version, as in – the paid version of the app. I think only the free features are open sourced.
Logic. Apple called him and conceded that the reason they thought they were the same "entity" is simply because both used the same credit card number. If Kapeli wanted to be deceptive and create another account to commit a bunch of fraud on that appeared unassociated with him, he'd use another credit card, bundle ID, etc.
There's no limit on zer0net, if you pull the hovering 0 in the top right corner to the left with your mouse there is a menu where you can set the limit to whatever you want - or if any website wants to use more a dialogue pop up will ask you if you want to reset.
Nope, new sorting algorithms are still cropping up all over place. Already published sorting algorithms are still being implemented. And people are still accelerating the already existing implementations on GPU, SIMD-capable and FPGA devices.

This doesn't even cover security issues such as side-channel timing or entropy attacks (hard to believe?) or handling of denormal numbers (which will reduce your processing speed by upto 100x). Ever heard of using Fast Fourier Transform to achieve asymptotically faster sorting under certain conditions? All of the above have practical applications.

As you yourself said, there are interesting challenges in all communities. Let's not be dismissive of the algorithm design community.
Yup, the same health benefits appear to be in decaf.
What is the appropriate phrasing, then? "This website is a surrogate for apple that posts their press releases without analysis?" I just don't see what the practical difference is: we're all adults, we know the point that's trying to be made.
"it does not help for fast prototyping or small apps imo"

I can understand this sentiment---React really is meant for serious apps. There is a decent learning curve. There is small overhead. And though it now only requires just a tiny bit of setup thanks to create-react-app, it might easily require a very significant change to workflow habits. (And the fact that CSS is still held by some as an ideal way of maintaining UIs rather than a temporary requirement given what browsers can consume in 2016 is a testament to how how hard habits can be to change. But I digress!) If you're not already knee-deep in it, React is almost certainly overkill for a marketing page or a mostly static form-y interface for some rails backend.

But just to give an alternative opinion: I think React is great for prototyping. The big reason is that React allows you to easily build and use custom abstractions. When you get down to it, that's sorta the whole point of the library.

If you need to do something---maps, a text editor, a flipping clock---there's a decent chance a catalog like js.coach will already have a React component for it. And at just a single line import away, unlike old jQuery "imports" which typically required more setup which then was more fragile once you wanted to make a change somewhere else (like, you know, renaming an id).

And over the years, like many others I'm sure, I've evolved my own toolkit which happens to be perfect for prototyping. I can vertically align <Rows /> and <Columns /> just by passing "center". I can add a modal simply by typing <Modal isOpen={isProfileVisible}><Profile /></Modal> right next to the button which opens it. I can add data persistence and real-time updating mostly just by typing <FirebaseWrapper /> and tweaking some config for the new app. I could go on and on. And these are just little personal things which make life a little easier. There's also projects like react-flip-move which smoothly animates transitions in a line of code, react-sortable-hoc which gives, in a line of code, a sortable with pretty good touch support and essentially infinite lists......

Obviously in principle you can get these benefits in other frameworks. But React is one place where lots and lots of people are actually contributing to the ecosystem.
How exactly have you been doing that? It would be a cool blog post if you had the time. I've been thinking about really high volume applications that connect to haproxy instances that do DB load balancing but even that has it's own set of initial latency issues. I haven't fully figured out that architecture. In python in particular I'd really love to know how to setup the connection reuse.
If it raises mandatory costs for all freelancers, doesn't it effectively equalize freelancer rates across the market? So insured freelancers don't have to compete with other freelancers that save costs by going without health insurance.
As far as I can tell it has only been observed in stars. Whether it is proportional in the same way to other objects remains to be seen.
> sample size of "1 person"

There are a few different problems here which should not be confused with each other.

1. Variance. This is what people normally talk about when they talk about sample size. Maybe thomyorkie just happened to randomly be horny in those specific instances? If they tried it sufficiently many times that would give a high sample size and eliminate variance problems.

2. Blinding / placebo. Maybe believing that they will be horny causes them to be horny.

3. Representativeness. Maybe thomyorkie just works in their own way and the results wont generalize to other people.
Connection would only be pooled on a per-instance basis, which can be cached but sometimes are not for many parallel running processes (to my understanding).
This photo from Bloomberg photographer David Paul Morris has been used in several dozen stories about Theranos over the last 11 plus months.

Sometimes HN tries to be too clever and I don't mean to direct that at you but basically every sibling and cousin comment in this subthread.

HN Challenge: next Theranos thread don't upvote comments about CEO's appearance.
No need to impugn Zuckerberg himself from 2005 when you can talk about the company:

2006: http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?men...

2010: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/127409/faceboo...

2013: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047804/facebooks-new-face-re...

2016: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/business/international/fac...
I'm pretty sure they meant pot plants. It's a plant, but that's in a pot, not in the ground.
" A self-driving car identifies a group of children running into the road. There is no time to stop. To swerve around them would drive the car into a speeding truck on one side or over a cliff on the other, bringing certain death to anybody inside."

Call me cynical, but such behavior seems logical. I would not drive myself manually to a certain death to save pedestrians that violated traffic rules, so why should autopilot do that to me? That raises an interesting possibility of future cars marketed by their "ethics".
"we could say similar things about pretty many (most?) ancient works we still have"

One would not say that the historicity for the old and new testament documents is comparable to "many" ancient works. On the contrary, the number of MSS for old and new testament documents is like a nuclear explosion in the timeline of ancient history. There are no ancient works which even come close.

"Judaism had adapted a posture of reverence for scripture"

That's a strange statement to make? It sounds more like modern-day form criticism creeping through than an objective understanding of events.
What the history of automobiles can teach us about the impact of autonomous cars
Looks like a preonic. Nice work. :) I couldn't type on a ortholinear keyboard at all... Switched back to a happy hacking :)
I hate the term serverless.
It involves a server. AWS Lambda is a service bound to a port therefore a server. It runs user defined functions, true. But it is a server.
One way to do it is to stand an http rest API middle layer in between with something like http://postgrest.com.
If facts could speak for themselves you wouldn't need journalists to put them into words, photojournalists to render them in pictures, editors to package stories, and publishers to deliver them to millions.

Of course it's important for the people in that process to be judicious and scrupulous about their handling of the facts so they can deliver material that provides reliable impressions. But showing unflattering pictures of people found to have done seriously unflattering things isn't some egregious departure from these requirements. Indeed, to the extent that a picture can say a thousand words, it's a useful - and generally appreciated - bit of data compression.
Java (+ GWT for the web)

I recently found out about http://www.ninjaframework.org/ which makes the process even faster.
That's my point. It's unsolved. We are allowing corporations to make choices for profit that humans have not resolved for ethics. We should categorically reject these sorts of automations because they present a danger we can't determine, according to the ways we evaluate danger.
Large parts of LibreOffice are not Java IIRC.
Check out the handler source code in Zappa for an example of a pattern like that. Similarly, if you use Zappa to deploy your application, if you create your database connection when the application loads, it'll just work.

Stop by the Zappa slack if you want to explore this in more detail! https://slack.zappa.io It could always use more investigation, but there are quite a few Zappa users at extremely high loads now without any issues.
Which is why we should not enable machines to make ethical decisions.
> pedestrians that violated traffic rules

You might be able to make this call as a human, but can we assume the car is capable of deciding on that?
As a human being I would choose my safety over that of someone I don't know and I would choose my family's over mine in all circumstances. If I'm ceding control of my car to an AI wouldn't I want it to do the same?

Especially when the probability of the issue being the pedestrian's fault continues to rise as the driving systems get better- I wouldn't want my car to put me in danger because someone else screwed up.

That being said, if it got to the point where it could deduce the likelihood of injuring the pedestrian vs. the probability of risk to the occupants while maneuvering to not injure, that would be best.
I am cynical enough to believe that ethics will have very little to do with it. They make good PR, but don't hold your breath expecting them to play out in real life. Ethics are complex, and complex in computing implies brittle.

Because life has a tendency to imitate art (satire in particular), I'll just note that SwiftOnSecurity captured the essence of the dilemma: https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/77302259638836019...
So we shouldn't make self-driving cars?
Wow, this reminds me of GISMO from 1991 or so. Teams of 8 tanks, 2 bases, terrain included water, mountains, forests, and plains. Implemented in dos and required a modem to compete.

Neat framework, well before it's time, very few competitors that worked. They resisted the recommendation to support TCP instead of modems and linux, even after it was ported.

It was modeled after the M1 abrams as part of a research project in AI controlled teams.

I tinkered with it, I liked it because the terrain was complicated enough to lend itself to quite a few strategies. I've not seen anything similar since.

http://stars.library.ucf.edu/istlibrary/104/