skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't say he would contest a loss, he said he wouldn't make a decision until the election actually took place. How anyone expects someone to predict the future is beyond me and the logic of the question shows that it was totally a trap so they could write sensational news headlines.
Sorry, I thought I was in and out before anyone had seen my comment. I added a clear edit mark to fess up.

I originally wrote "kill" to mirror your original comment, but I changed it because it (as I perceive the word) presumes a level of intent that I don't think NHTSA operates with: I don't think that NHTSA has any intent to destroy this company. In fact, if comma.ai reached out to NHTSA, I would expect NHTSA to assist (within reason) in answering the letter.

I do think that these are straightforward questions for a group that has its act together. Part of having one's act together in a regulated environment is maintaining open lines of communication with regulators, so that questions would be asked should come as no surprise. Keeping up to date with the regulatory environment would also be expected, and given the recent autonomous driving publication the content and scope of these questions should come as no surprise.

If these questions kill the company, I don't see that as being the fault of NHTSA, I see that as being the fault of whoever is in charge of regulatory affairs at comma.ai.
Some interesting bits:

"I’ve only got the Touch-Bar-lacking 13-inch MacBook Pro, but I was still able to pull off a trick that I wasn’t able to do with the MacBook: attach a peripheral while also charging. (...) I was also able to (...) connect the two machines together to transfer files—all while the MacBook Pro kept charging. Imagine that."

"Well, it’s my sad duty to report that the MacBook Pro keyboard has the same key travel as the MacBook. Apple says the stainless steel dome switch beneath each key has been honed to give you a more responsive feel, but to me it feels just like the MacBook’s keyboard. (To be fair, I don’t have a MacBook available to test directly. It’s possible that this keyboard does indeed feel more responsive than the MacBook, but I would never mistake it for the old MacBook Pro or MacBook Air keyboards or even the Magic Keyboard.)"
Thank you for your input, indeed I have interned in an R&D lab of prestigious European company.

However they are in a hiring hiatus. I was given a very positive recommendation. However, they didn't offer any position to any intern.

>what's your master, your school and the technology stacks you know?

- Masters (IFI) : Computer Fundamentals and Engineering

- School : Polytech Nice

- Stacks:

PHP (Native, Laravel, Symfony)

Node (MEAN, Sails.js)

Frontend HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery

.. and some JAVA
In a world of bitcoin any address could be anyone, but as addresses are shared (or posted on someones public website) knowledge is revealed about who they are. You can, thanks to how bitcoin works, track all the transactions they do and who they send it to. You may know somehow who the other side of the transactions are (or find out in the future, since the blockchain is forever).

This isn't how cash works, which is the real "money" in our system. At some point (even if on credit) cash is transferred for stuff. I don't want people to know which places I have a news subscription for. I don't want them to know who I donate to just from the blockchain. I have a choice to want them to know that. This is a practical problem because that means either I need to use shady services to hide these facts for normal purposes. That, or never use them except in a few cases where I don't care people know (but I also might regret that).

I think from a practical perspective, this makes bitcoin really hard to use. How do you make transactions that aren't easily traced to you by literally anyone? Answer: it's hard and possibly won't work completely.
> If a normal citizen were to have done the same -- a citizen which didn't have the same profile, stature, or benefits of connection as Hilary, the "reasonable-ness" from the prosecution's vantage point would likely sky rocket.

Then again, a normal citizen doesn't really have a lot of people sending them classified emails. I don't think this is a situation where you can extrapolate from VIP to non-VIP…
The emperor wears no clothes and its skin is rotting off too.

How long is it gonna take before people realized that the voting system itself is gamed toward these two politically marginalizing mob organizations?
I’m not blind either, but I too would be interested in contributing.

Send me an email; my address is in my profile.
I work as a full time C++ developer and the stuff in this article is just arcane magic to me. I feel like there's a level far above what anyone normally works with, and I'm an engine programmer for game dev, so it's pretty close to the metal already.
Or because they were imposed to.. like, Visa/MasterCard/PayPal to Wikileaks. Cryptocurrency is the way to avoid this kind of power and censorship.
Wow, thank you for posting the document. That seems like an incredibly reasonable response compared to what I'd expect from a US gov organization. They're basically ensuring he's done due diligence that the product he's selling isn't going to kill/harm people... I found the whole thing extremely polite and reasonable.

Since he hasn't done the due diligence he's throwing a fit. Sigh... Looks like self-driving isn't something that can be accomplished Today without a good amount of resources.
New Emails in Clinton Case Came from Anthony Weiner’s Electronic Devices
This is how I know you've never listened to anything Trump has said on the campaign trail. In fact, just yesterday, he said the nation should cancel the election and name him the winner: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/politics/donald-trump-cancel-e....
I think there's a nonzero chance that slavery reemerges in a different form in the next century. We're not that far from it now.

Imagine this: you are offered an LEC (Lifetime Employment Contract) with some property owner. The contract states that you are to give the holder of the LEC 8 hours a day of your labor, and that's it. Beatings and other forms of physical punishment are illegal. In return, you get guaranteed room and board, education for you and your kids, free medical care, for life, even into retirement. And in exchange for that contract, they will give you 500,000 dollars. And hey, you can always work extra hours and buy your contract back, right?
Of course, if you learn new skills, your contract will become more valuable, so harder to buy back.. but if your contract is bought for more money, then your new contract holder will likely put you up in a nicer residence anyway.
Would you make that deal? Or the real question is- if you offered that deal to that lady working at the local supermarket checkout counter, would she take that deal? Of course she would.
Slavery is evil and soul-crushing even if it could be stripped of its racial and more brutal elements. But how different is the life of my hypothetical contractual slave from the life of the average low wage worker today? If anything, I'd say they are treated worse now than they would be under slavery. I mean, how free are we really? It seems that the situation described in the article where slaveholders run the government is not too different from our situation today, and I'd argue that people with a lot of power think like slaveholders too.
Why didn't I see the same buzz around Monero?
That reminds me of http://multivax.com/last_question.html
Just checked the Wayback Machine for other few random countries (US, France) and the prices for the Mac Mini did not change yesterday evening, whilst in the UK the 3 Mac Mini options rose by between 15-16%.

How do you explain this?
The faux-outrage over Russia and Wikileaks "interfering" in the US election was good for a laugh, considering America's long and storied history of rigging elections (or overthrowing governments when the election didn't go their way). This is just icing on the cake.
I have asked for some friends to recommend me, I got 2 emails from their companies, but one didn't respond to my response and for the other I will have a second interview with them next week.
I am saying that scientists should dabble. In fact we should force them to dabble.
A non-Scribd source please?
“This is purely about skill,” said 28-year-old Vivek Ravisankar, a HackerRank co-founder who used to work for Amazon.com Inc. “Most really good programmers learn on their own and just continue to build their skills. Probably the really good programmers are college dropouts.”

As a co-founder of the site, I wonder if he has any data to back that up.
Exactly. The anti-Trump hyperbole is ridiculous and ruins any credibility people have when attacking him.
I agree with the effects but I disagree with the desirability! We should be making these choices rationally. Taking an action which causes some people to die but saves a more overall is typically a good thing. Asking, "what if it's your family?" just makes it harder to make the correct choice, and that makes it more likely for your family to be a casualty.

I guess this all boils down to what you think of the Trolley Problem. I'm one of those who say, yes, of course you pull the lever if you have no way to save everybody, it's obviously better.
She's Just Not That into You – How Privacy Will Make AI More Personal
He won't be suing anyone from the Oval Office. His lawyers will be suing people after the election for making up false accusations, which is still this year, still during the Obama administration...

Does anyone REALLY think that someone who was sexually assaulted by a BILLIONAIRE wouldn't have cashed in already?
I've had both experiences. A few where somehow my card got leaked and other times I had to authorize a charge via a text message (which of course I did not notice until after I had decided to use a different card to replace the "declined" one.
Lots of infrastructure work needs doing.

We could also shave work weeks back to 20 hours and subsidize the rest.
Eh. I'm using Dvorak, so most of the keybindings in Vim are total madness anyways. For most regular typing, my fingers stay on home far more than you Qwerty typists.
> honesty, bias, and personal ambitions of the people

As long it's humans that write and execute laws, this is strictly unavoidable. It doesn't depend on the particular details of how we do regulation.
When your argument against Trump is a "FEAR UP" campaign without any substantive support or details, you've lost the argument. Trump supporters are not going to be frightened by your hyperbolic claims, and on the Hillary side you're talking into an echo chamber. It's easy to refute two gross generalizations you made:

Enforcing immigration policy, even pausing immigration in certain cases, is not "closing" open society. It's recognizing that there's a dark side to allowing arbitrary numbers of immigrants and refugees bypassing the normal immigration process, and it's taking a step back and figuring out in advance, rationally, what policy we want to enforce, rather than not enforcing any meaningful policy and getting stuck with the results down the road.

The free speech threat from regulating big (and maybe not-so-big) media is troublesome, I agree. However, it's accepted, even more on the far left than on the far right, that pretty much all media, advertising, and entertainment is propaganda. What happens if we continue to fail to recognize this propaganda as a threat to the kind of democracy we hopefully want—a democracy built on rational inquiry, rather than one built on the crest of emotion, on propaganda-fueled mass hysteria?

You want democracy? This is what Hillary's "democracy" looks (sounds) like: http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-cl... (direct soundcloud link https://soundcloud.com/user-30899546/hrc-determine-who-win-1 )
I agree that Hillary Clinton should be subject to the law just like everyone else; that's not my point.

The FBI has the power to influence elections if it chooses to. Re-opening the investigation 11 days before election day fits the profile of trying to influence the election; it's an "October Surprise". But 'fitting the profile' is not conclusive and it's also very possible that re-opening it now was apolitical. We don't know enough right now to prove it either way.

My point is that we should seriously consider the possibility. Nobody wants the FBI trying to influence elections. Recall that another institution, the Supreme Court, decided a recent Presidential election on a party-line vote. A core value of the U.S. is that voters decide, whether or not I happen to agree with their decision. I'm afraid that could slip away if we turn a blind eye.
It seems to be climate, CO2, and limits-related work that is most prone to being censored.
And that's why we're all worried about this thing called "overfitting".

I generally hate it when people post XKCD comics in response to more serious posts, but this one contains a compiled list of presidents who were elected despite some precedent saying they wouldn't: https://xkcd.com/1122/
It's not the bank that's blocking me, it's the merchant. Since merchants are the ones on the hook for card-not-present fraud, they refuse to ship items anywhere but the address registered with the credit card.

I don't know which debit cards you're referring to but I'm almost 100% sure that the cardholders are not liable for fraud. Meaning someone else along the chain is liable and is monitoring/blocking transactions to reduce that liability.
Everyone shouting "lock her up" doesn't know exactly what they're "locking her up" for, except for something vaguely relate to emails and the fact they don't like her. Oh, also, they've already decided she's guilty of "emails." Either the FBI says "Clinton is guilty of emails" or the system is rigged.
They've been doing this for years and years and years. Italy (https://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/italy), Greece, Korea, Japan, etc.
I feel like another part missing in the comments here is that most US regulations allow an individual pretty extensive free reign when it comes to risky ventures (see experimental aircrafts, make your own guns, electronic devices and a couple others). The regulation hammer really kicks in once you start trying to market it to other people, or 'what are you actually selling to people.'
The following quote from his site speaks volumes about the hubris:

"we didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost
-- nokia, or car companies in 5 years"
I'm curious, how did they calculate entropy? My first thought was to do something with Huffman encoding.
I feel like the touchbar is going to make this worse. You will get into the habit of touching it and since your hand is already near the screen....
Hotz started an AI company and the autopilot system was a relevant application but not the core product or mission.
Since Lenovo preinstalled spyware/malware they can no longer be trusted.
Well, the information requested, if you read the actual definitions, uses a lot of "any" and "all", so if you take that literally it's not exactly an elevator pitch style description they are asking for.

"Describe in detail the features of the comma one"

and

"Provide a detailed description of the conditions under which you believe a vehicle equipped with comma one may operate safely ... [and] a detailed description of the basis for your response to [the previous question] including a description of any testing or analysis..."

and

"Describe in detail any steps you have taken to ensure that the installation of the comma one ... does not have unintended consequences..."

I'm not saying the request is unreasonable, but to say that "the information requested is not that great" isn't really true. To completely answer those questions would take a lot of effort. (Assuming of course that he's done such testing. His canceling the product rather than respond makes you think he realized his answers would not be credible...)
This is the kind of advice that young programmers need to get earlier. I'm new to Vim and I'm slowly realizing that A) Vim is way more powerful than I originally gave it credit to be and B) I'm vastly underutilizing its power.
Applying for a sponsored job in Europe is going to be difficult. You are a high risk, you do not have any experience and you come from a different country with a different culture. If I am a recruiter with several candidates, I would consider someone else before. (Sorry to be honest with this)

So, as I said they are special program from big companies for international students/recent graduates. Try to find them and apply to them. You will gain experience and you will probe you can work with people with different culture. Meanwhile it is not going to hurt you to get a local job in something you like. You will get some money and experience.

Things are not going to come from one day to another, but if you have more or less clear what you want, then you can make a plan to accomplish it. It will take time, but focus in making small steps. Get some local experience in the things you like, try to get some international experience, then try to find a better job, probably in a different country, and keep moving. It is going to take some years, but it pays off. Just remember it is a long trip and you have to focus in small steps.

UPDATE: I have just read you have a master in another country. That is good. And also a interview with a company of one of your friends. That is also quite good. Don't give up! It takes time but it seems you are closer than what I was picturing in my mind.
I totally agree on this. Putting my life in the hands of software makes me nervous. I've seen how software is made. But I do it anyway....

I'm not sure if it's entirely relevant here, since the comment above presumes that these systems are safer than humans, and the reply doesn't seem to be questioning that.

I think it's very likely that these systems will rapidly become far better than human drivers, and probably already are in the domains where they're meant to be used. But we definitely can't just take that on faith and hope it's being done properly.
we still don't have something that writes reasonable html/css. do you think we're close to something that can put most programmers out of work? too optimist.
And? People do illegal, immoral things every day.
I'm really excited about the prospect of learning new skills through VR.

someone is working on a sailing trainer in vr. Think about it. It can put you on a realistic boat and you can actually learn how to sail. Imagine stepping on a sailboat for the first time in your life and already knowing what to do from vr.

I know it wouldn't teach you everything but learning the concepts from actually doing it in vr seems so amazing to me.
100% true! I'll admit, I intentionally avoided addressing that in the post, I wanted to focus on the tactics rather than the larger question the efficacy of these tactics raise.

There's a counter-argument even I would make which is: if it's true that it's easier to raise pre-launch for these reasons, does that mean you should? Not sure.
FiveStars (YC W11) hiring experienced consumer PMs to make commerce human
FiveStars was founded five years ago as a loyalty program. We replaced the punch card. That product has done well for us - today 16 million consumers check in 1.2 million times every week.

Our mission, however, transcends loyalty. Our mission is to turn transactions into relationships.

In a world ten years from now, when we can get anything we want delivered to our bedsides, I believe we’ll get out of bed in the morning to experience human relationships. It is this desire to connect that will drive us into restaurants, coffee shops, or our local bar.

Five months ago I joined FiveStars over other great options because of our opportunity to serve this desire - to make commerce human. That opportunity is exciting; and ultimately I chose it instead of joining one of the familiar tech giants where I’d be scaling someone else’s product.

To seize this opportunity we must build a product that helps consumers understand we’re more than a punch card replacement. Consumers must seek out FiveStars as a way to connect with the stores they love. Consumers must seek out FiveStars as a way to share the rewards they love.

If our mission excites you, and you’re up for the challenge of helping us move past loyalty, then we want to get to know you. Shoot me an email with your prior startup or product experience. Resumes are fine, but optional

Sam Odio
odio@fivestars.com
> they merely need to find a merchant which uses Stripe for bitcoin payments [...]
> or even better, set up to automatically refund bitcoin overpayments

Any idea what proportion of merchants using Stripe's bitcoin handling actually do this automatic refunding?

It's a very interesting vulnerability and I enjoyed reading the write-up and thought process, but I'm not sure how practical it is if it requires interaction from the merchant to perform the refund. I think an overpayment and refund request weeks after the initial payment (when coincidentally the BTC value has reduced) would definitely ring some alarm bells - hopefully with both the merchant and the team at Stripe.

I guess you could spread out your overpayments amongst different merchants and try and limit the time between the initial purchase and the refund requests but the entire thing seems a bit convoluted to pull off.

In any case, kudos to the author for the responsible disclosure and for Stripe for handling this professionally.
Continually uncomfortable at how ads read my private emails
He was obviously not serious in a literal sense of his words. He was making a point. It'd be like being a football coach shit talking before a game - "the other team should give up, they don't stand a chance". He doesn't literally mean they should give up.

This is so blindly obvious to me and anyone else who's capable of a rational thought. I cannot believe you are seriously try to suggest he meant that in the sense that he wants to subvert the election process.
Yes, the US has been doing this shit for decades in extremely unethical ways. It's the status quo. Listen to Noam Chomsky, he breaks it down.

for example, Patrice Lumumba: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matte...

I'm so sick of it and am seriously getting ready to vote third party. I'm tired of my vote being bulldozed by this election system.

When's the last time my educated, well-formed opinion held weight in a presidential election? Never.
For more than 6 months now... My skull canyon NUC system supports 32g SODIMM DDR4-2133+ @ 1.2v.
To jail his political opponents? That sounds like a convenient way of spinning the fact that he wants Hillary Clinton to be properly investigated, the fact that she is a political opponent has nothing to do with her crimes.

Dang... a President who wants to follow the laws and not give special passes to those in power? We can't have that!

The fact that Hillary is able to get away with criminal behavior WHILE IN OFFICE is one thing, but why anyone would want her in office again is beyond me. Why would the democrats even want to risk that?
If the Senate convicts, the impeached individual is removed from office, they don't need to resign (and I guess won't save face by doing it once they are impeached).
Aha, so you prefer the way that your sight just go back and forth between screen and touch bar.....?
Your stack seems fine to me (PHP & JS are the most used technologies in web dev).

Did you look for any jobs in Paris (99% of the companies are here)?

Did you try any startups/small companies?

But, as you said, the VISA sponsorship is surely a factor. :(
What's wrong with that? Soylent is _disgusting_, that's what's wrong with it. It would be hard not to question the judgement of anyone who eats that stuff.