skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chance of choosing 0.5 from the interval 0 to 1 is 0. So if you want the change of choosing between 0.4 and 0.6 in that interval, you can't just sum all chances between 0.4 and 0.6 you'd have infinity x 0 which isn't 0.2 .

Instead, to deal with this 'a lot of really small things' we need a slightly different approach. Then draw a pdf, and talk about area under the curve. Perhaps relate this to the discrete case where the curve is just really blocky.
I meant to say this for a while. I'm increasingly annoyed by this "long read" format. It might be just because when I'm skimming through hn I'm looking for quick information rather than a long read. But it's at least partly because these pieces seem to have all been written by the same person. They have the same exact structure, which is probably taught in some journalism school: long winding narration, interspersed with flashbacks and side digressions, that present its subject as a suspensful adventure composed of multiple intertwining threads and leading to some unexpected discovery.

I understand that this format somehow works, but at the same time I can't escape the feeling of being served something out of an information mcdonald's, prepared and wrapped always in the same exact, proven and average way. And now when reading such a piece my brain screams "skip that stupid flashback and digression and that new character's introduction, say what you really have to say and let's end it here".
> extremely bad drivers tend to have their license taken away, and thus are no longer drivers at all

Your optimism about rule-breakers' adherence to the rules is heartening. A lot of that long tail of bad drivers we are talking about have no issues driving without a licence...
GitUp is a good app. Beautiful UX, pretty simple to do commits.
So, I was joking when I said the next thing will be `println as a service`. This is not helping to disprove that prediction.

What language doesn't have random string generation available either as a standard part of the runtime, or as a reliable library?
> Because when you are in a public place, you cannot expect privacy.

There's a difference though, between expecting the public to witness one's own actions in that very moment, and having everyone, at any time, forever, being able to replay a recording of that moment.

The latter is something only public figures, and only in their public role, should have to expect.
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nice you like firehol.
iptables is still very hard in certain context. Try for example to setup a load balancer for non-sibling IPs, with client affinity, or use SYNPROXY together with NAT. I have spent 3 weeks in fulltime to handle all these cases properly in firehol.
Glad to see a more unified approach, particularly with .NET Standard and Xamarin [0]. I've been experimenting with Xamarin.Forms recently and put together a little mobile game. There are a couple of blog posts coming on that, including the whole shared projects / PCLs / .NET Standard thing.

[0]: https://unop.uk/net-core-1-0-1-and-net-standard
> Needless to say, OpenSSL is looking for contributors. Beyond contributing patches, interested developers can test the pre-releases, report bugs, and help to close bugs. The presenters concluded by saying that they would like users to get in touch, especially those who are distributing OpenSSL further downstream.

... and just a few days later they closed ~ 150 bugs, some with patches attached, "because they were too old":

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2016/10/12/f2f-rt-github/

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-dev/2016-October/0...
I can't help but find amusing their statistic that "30% of young people have been bothered by an ad in the last 12 months". I don't know about the UK, but at least here down south, the really disturbing ads are the official ones, particularly the safe driving campaigns. The Spanish ads in particular are often very graphic and gut-wrenching.

I do agree that apps (or videos) directed at children shouldn't show non-child-safe ads. I just don't see what does that have to do with the proposal under discussion.
But doesn't understanding statistics require a solid understanding of calculus anyway?

Or do you mean statistics as a bunch of applied methods, where you follow some recipes without understanding the math behind them? It's taught that way even at university level, but I can't see how this could be helpful in the long run.
Is Twitter Shadowbanning Dilbert?
Does this mean that Tesla owners could band together and sell all this massively valuable data to Google?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FNC1ma...
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Great! Congrats! I'm 33 and I start to feel old too when applying to some jobs and when I see what you did this boost my motivation too! don't stop!
Most bars aren't public spaces.
I suppose it's a similar argument as answering the question "why shouldn't sicker people pay way higher insurance premiums instead of driving up the average cost". For health insurance I think the pool of insured people to protect against black swan type problems is reasonable and ethical (it protects people with birth defects etc.). However for car insurances I feel like this argument doesn't hold as your driving behavior is very much in your control.

The interesting question is if it might actually be a smart strategic move to announce such a use of data. It's a bit counterintuitive as that would limit your customer pool. However I think there are benefits to limiting your customer pool to more "positive" cases. Let's say Tesla would announce that they'd collect data on reckless driving, warn the drivers and upon ignoring the warnings a couple of times inform insurers about it. That would probably result in less reckless drivers buying their cars which might actually not be horrible since that would also reduce the number of accidents etc.
The big issue is of course that it would violate all reasonable privacy laws I can think of (I guess they could make it opt in).

[all assuming non-automated driving]
I've often wondered if it would be possible to wear something that would prevent your face from showing up in a photo, unless you wanted it.

Something outside the visible spectrum which would cause a anomoly on the pixels on the CMOS sensor.

Any thoughts?
We have a very poor record.

Slavery is old yet still with us (and not isolated to "barbaric" cultures, like we tell ourselves).

We treat animals horrifically.

If past (and present) action is any indication, it seems inevitable that we'll abuse AI. The difference being that while the seamstress, farmers and cattle can't stand against our might, AI could. And we'd probably deserve it.
Also, self driving cars can follow eachother and communicate closely. A group of cars could be like a train going along the road. Thus, much less roadway space is needed and valuable real estate brought back into use.
Can you do another good deed and require your posters to include salary range in their job ads?

It's the norm in the UK and we successfully forced this in Poland (though posters almost NEVER post salaries here). How? The companies need IT staff so much that almost all IT job boards (at least the most popular ones - like FB groups or https://nofluffjobs.com) started requiring the salary range.

I think your idea is praiseworthy, but I'd never ever create a website like this with hidden salaries. Especially in your case - it's so cool people post jobs on your board, but what if they do so, because they're offering 10, 20, 40% less because it's a place for "old geeks that noone wants"?

I'm really super proud that if a IT ad in Poland has no salary range most of us just ignore it. And it took us maybe 2 years to get to this place. I think every other country should follow the lead and end the "competitive salary" trend. I don't want to spend 3 days on interviews just to discover that the salary offered is way too low for me. Salary missing from an ad is a big lack of respect, the sooner people realize that the better.
Have you seen the e-Golf? I'm pretty sure they stole that design from somewhere. Hard to believe but it happens to look like a regular... golf. I'm sure they will get in trouble with VW. /s

http://i.auto-bild.de/ir_img/1/1/6/2/7/2/7/VW-E-Golf-1200x80...

There is also the Kia Soul EV and Skoda Octavia Green E Line which basically are just their regular line up with the major difference being that they are EVs.
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Detecting a round yellow object is harder than you might think: think of all weird illumination and white balance settings the camera may have, the yellow might as well turn green or pink. Detecting the logo is probably easier especially for custom machine learning approaches. And in this particular case the logo has enough distinct geometric features for the stable feature point classifier.

Though I'd use Random Ferns [0]-like approach for the detection, it combines the speed of decision trees with robustness of stable feature points.

[0] http://cvlabwww.epfl.ch/~lepetit/papers/ozuysal_pami10.pdf
Just read on Black Mirror; it seems interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. For those seeking more knowledge on DNI and the validity of cryonics as an elixir of life, I highly recommend getting a copy of Michio Kaku's book, The Future of the Mind.
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It is not a virtual machine and doesn't involve Linux in any way. It is an implementation of the Linux syscalls for the Windows kernel.
> If I'm reading it correctly they're just using CFFI to load and call a shared library - it's really not embedding anything. The fact that the library was written in Rust is interesting, but as far as Python is concerned it could easily have been written in any language that can create a shared library.

Of which there are not that many that would make a shared library that can be safely loaded into a Python process. Traditionally this was limited to C and C++. As far as embedding goes: Rust like most things needs minimal runtime support and that is embedded in the dylib.
Thanks for bringing up foreign policy!

My impression is that most vocal progressives (even here in Europe) have stopped caring about the big picture in favour of domestic social justice. Killing a million people abroad = normal establishment politics, saying misogynist crap = unique threat to democracy. It boggles the mind.
Often when people talk about demotion, they implicitly mean a drop in salary.

Since you specifically say that you are not concerned about the money aspect. Your post sounds like you have an attachment to whatever title you currently have.

If you are truly interested in working on "real business problems" - then as a consultant, with a bit of networking, you will find plenty of them. Wouldn't that satisfy you? I seriously doubt that partners at consulting firms think of themselves as having been demoted. To the contrary, most are pretty pleased with themselves.

I suspect that you have grown fond of your impressive title at a recognisable big company. You are worried about what people will think of you if you have a less impressive (in your opinion) title at a less well known company. Dare I ask whether there is any social pressure from friends and family?
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Cameras sense the visible spectrum, so unless your face is invisible to people's eyes, it'll be visible in a photo.

There are some cheeky ways to defeat flash photography, but flash photos are pretty rare.
Sure. Or else you would see no Uber Teslas right now.
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That's not how it works. Imagine you had a medical device that had a high rate of operator-error that would result in serious injury or death. Now imagine someone made a fully automatic device performing the same function, but which would kill or injure a person half the time a manual operator would. Would such a device be allowed on the market? Of course not. The first time a machine did any damage to a human it would be recalled and would disappear off the market, no matter how much better it is than a manually operated machine.

If an automatic car kills a person through software error(and I would argue it has already happened with Tesla) the public backlash will be severe, even if those errors happen much less often than human mistakes in manual cars.
In Germany you get an invitation card to vote put into your mailbox. In more than 90% of the cases you only show that card at the voting booth. If your identity is in doubt (e.g. your age doesn't seem to match the one in the voter's list) you need to show an ID. The polling clerks can require you to show an ID for any reason (or without one) but usually that doesn't happen.

If you want to vote by mail the ballot is put into your mailbox without any additional ID verification.

It's important to note that while the ID is not free, people are by law required to have one and almost all do. The fee is also taken into account when social benefits are calculated. You also are required to register your residence whenever you move and all the letters regarding an election outlined above are only sent to that address.
That double-grew is awful, certainly if the log files are large and contain hundreds or even thousands of such calls.

Also, I don't see how this would work when using tail ("one of my coworkers brought up the fact that it's quite annoying to be tailing the log and constantly seeing requests for /lbhealth (or similar) 'polluting' the log.")

I would log this to a separate file or add a /lbhealth marker that can be easily and robustly grepped for to the log lines (might be possible by configuration of your logging software)

I would also consider normally only logging errors from these calls normally, hiding the 'normal' lines in debug logging (the web server log has a record of the calls being made)
Some microdrones can be hacked to run custom builds from Multiwii code

https://github.com/silver13/h8mini-acro

https://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/eachine-h8-...
> I would prefer those would be kept separate issues

Wouldn't we all! But unfortunately that's not how the real world works. I think you dismissed my point though...

For example, when someone says "build a wall," it's easy just to say "you're racist and hate mexicans." But if you actually let that idea play out, you'll see it's not really about disliking mexicans, it's a response to drug problems in the US, security issues, and an economy that has failed millions (while still succeeding on the whole). I don't doubt there are some pure racist chanting "build a wall" as well, but they are in the minority (no pun intended) and if you actually fix the above concerns a lot less people would be shouting "build a wall".

But my point is, you have to let that "racist" idea be heard to understand the problem before you dismiss it as an "ignorant solution." Again, I believe racism is more often the symptom, than the problem itself.
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The problem is that the format you describe is employed whether or not the actual content merits the lengthy treatment. Sometimes its just a 30 second story jammed into a 10-minute container.
Wasn't really $20,000/day was it, more like $2/day with a $20,000 spike. These articles are such crap.
Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas
> The "volatile" option indicates that the code has side-effects and should not be by removed by optimizations.

I think volatile also means don't change the order with respect to other volatile operations.
WiSH is a websocket alternative byte stream protocol over HTTP
Childhood friends on Facebook
I'd love to do that from the other side, and I've tried via freecycle, local facebook for sale or free groups, and so forth, but people are just irritating to deal with especially when you are giving things away for free:

* They don't turn up when they say they will and don't bother to let you know that they can't make it

* Arranging a time in the first place is a faf (they'll say they can collect any time, then reject the first few times you suggest

* If I list things as "available to collect at <these times>" or "I can deliver by cycle to <this range of locations> at <these times>" the first few responses are are people asking if they can collect at a completely different time or if I can deliver to somewhere many miles further away

* When you are having a clear out and getting rid of a lot of stuff and say "preference given to someone who wants to take it all in one go" (to save arranging several collections/drop-offs, without fail I get someone who says they want it all but when they turn up (or I travel out to drop-off) they've "changed their mind" and "can I just take <one specific item>?"

* People ask questions that are already answered and get offended when you respond with "please read the original advert" or similar.

* When you've updated the listing to indicate that the items are gone, for days I sometimes keep getting "do you still have this? Can I have it?" messages.

And so on. As much as I hate sending things to landfill after the last few time I've tried to give spare parts or anything else away I've decided not to put up with the hassle in future, I just don't have the time to deal with people.

> Just pulling caps out of that and selling them at hamfests could make you some nice pocket change.

Would you really have the time to do that at enough scale to make it worth while (it would be quite a different matter to scavenging parts for your own projects) and nothing else you'd rather be doing with that time? Do you have enough space to store parts waiting to be processed? And a way to get rid of the unsalvageable left-overs (in many areas you'll need an appropriate commercial waste license, or should pay someone who has, as soon as you are disposing of anything beyond normal personal waste)?
The new “Rich Kids” social media app has a membership fee of $1,000 a month
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Same for 'analytic', 'tracker' and related keywords.
There's https://cvdazzle.com/, but it's against facial recognition, not the photo itself.
Conversely, we're planning on rewiring a 1950s house and shielded Cat6 is definitely in the requirements.

Once a family start using wireless devices, even on two channels ( one each on 2.5 and 5 GHz ) the throughput drops dramatically. On more than one occasion I've been found sitting on the stairs near the router with a cable plugged into my laptop...
This actually looks like it might be the least-worst solution, thanks!

This is the product page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/azure-informa...
You certainly can't learn it as separate things. I had classes called "Mathematics" every year, all the way to the end of high school.

Got a bit more separate at university, but not really.
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“Only members of Rich Kids can share photos. To become a member, users have to subscribe to Rich Kids Membership. To ensure the quality and exclusivity of our members the membership is set to be $1,000 per month.”

This is pure genius if you ask me. Hits them right in the Ego. It's going to be a huge success.
Or they have given up on voting for a shit sandwich vs a dirty douche. Either way you vote you lose.

This covers a vast group of people in the united states.

As George Carlin (loosely) said: If you voted for the people in power, you have no right to complain when they do things you dont like. You voted them in. I on the other hand... Did not vote for them and have every right to complain about the mess you made and I had nothing to do with.
> and more about how to make sure data is useless outside of its domain.

This explains why most enterprise applications and platforms are a nightmare to work with. This class is called "UserView" oh but you see comrade it actually does not have any view or user, in fact its sole purpose is to be compiled and thrown away - nevermind the JIRA issues for bugs in it. Everything is "business logic" "business specific", noone who hasnt been at the place for 3-5 years can understand that this is not actulaly what it says it is.

This kind of feature was called before JCR, "Just for Curious Russians".
19" monitors are like the smallest you can still buy, and have been for some years. But sure, Browsers are not always maximized, and there are small laptops and tablets and smartphones… but modern webdesign has with responsive design really a good answer here that takes that into account, and that also considers the font size. So yes, that can be aggravating, but not in modern webdesign per se, only in bad design in general.
I'm mentioning Rust to make clear the direction I'd like things to go and because there isn't really an alternative that allows for similar reusability and is practical for developing cryptographic libraries. That being said there are also implementations of TLS in other languages like Haskell or OCaml, that also wouldn't be vulnerable to these kinds of issues.

I agree that this is a difficult problem but I don't think that's really the barrier here. AI is also difficult and there is no shortage of improvement in that area. The real problem isn't the difficulty of implementing a TLS library, the real problem is inertia and an unwillingness to change.
It's also true. But really the core of it is that usability is hard. A lot of ux designers cargo cult it, a lot of techies don't give it a second thought and now we are all in this mess.

To be clear though ux designers are often better than non-ux people but people confuse "designers" with ux designers.

Today, it is not a requirement of designers to build something usable. A lot of designers don't even build something interactive, just a Photoshop design that has to look good.

The necessity of good ux on a site is as apparent to somebody that doesn't know ux as the necessity of a test suite is to someone who has never programmed.
I believe that is an amazing idea and something that I would love to use...

No idea on the technical side thought...
I 100% agree that more dangerous drivers should pay a higher premium, but there needs to be a fair, equal, transparent way to determine what dangerous is. Between law enforcement agencies, speed cameras and red light cameras, we have established well-tested legal frameworks which determine whether a driver is dangerous or not.

We we don't have are any legal or moral frameworks for passive, always-on methods of observation. Until we do, we shouldn't be letting private companies arbitrarily determine whether a driver is dangerous or not.
I want to explain why I have added this link.

Scott Adams is increasingly disappearing up his own behind and is showing some worrying signs of instability.

That's not why I have posted his article

Scott is seemingly supporting Trump - and is trying to explain away the horrible things Trump is saying as Clinton-propaganda. That's not why I am posting

Adams says he sees Trump as the only/best chance for change in a country that desperately needs it.

That's why. Not his obvious attempts to rationalise away the horror that is his candidate

I am slowly coming round to understand why we voted for Brexit. It's complicated but we can book it down to

- for thirty years Britain has had obvious changes and improvements to make. And basically done none of them (am listening to "Yes Prime Minister")

- Even "radical" politicians with huge mandates like Blair or Obama have become bogged down in politics as usual

- Global inequalities donreach even into our western society

And yet we are not fixing things. Yes change is needed - and for some reason we cannot get there - so we hire or threaten to hire people who will burn the lot down and hope for a better fresh start

I bring warnings from the land of Brexit.