skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems clear to me that a single entity (from a legal perspective) has to "own" the self-driving car software.

That's not clear to me at all. It seems clear to me that the person operating the vehicle has ultimate responsibility for how it is driven, whether they're personally driving it or not.
I think that $400 million could be a lot more complicated to handle than most family accounts, especially if the family was aggressively trying to minimize their tax liability, which they were. And the finances really started to get complicated because the husband started to hide the money when Pusgrove found out about the affair. Also, the legality of the business is questionable. It looks like the money was made from adware. So I would not expect Pusgrove would want to take much credit for the management of the company.
This was an upstream Firefox bug, so you should probably quit using Firefox if you're concerned about bugs like this.

(Using Tor does change who can attempt to attack you with such bugs -- and maybe who is motivated to.)
I disclosed in the parent post and the linked post. Not sure what more you want me to do there sorry.
not if you have a free-fall dump going on. This happens when investors lose hope in the long term future
Are people wearing capes these days?
> Is there any validity to this? I don't do much OS-level programming, but is the Win32 API really that much more powerful and extensible?

I certainly don't think so (although there are some nice things about the Windows kernel, if one comes from a VMS background), and it's certainly not the reason for the success of Windows. Remember that MS-DOS beat Mac OS; Windows 1 beat Mac OS; Windows 3.1 beat Mac OS; Windows 95 beat Mac OS. None of those was technically any good whatsoever, and only one of those had a UI that was worth shaking a stick at.

The reasons for the success of Windows are non-technical: Bill Gates's mother served on a charity board with the chairman of IBM; business bought IBM computers because no-one ever got fired for buying IBM; IBM clones were cheaper than Macs; IBM clones were more extensible and hackable than Macs; Unix workstation vendors thought they could keep milking their cash cows; Microsoft engaged in noncompetitive behaviour; random chance.
Why does it have to be remote? Try asking to be an intern at a local startup or small company? If you don't know any, ask at the local university.

As many said, finding a remote job as a first gig is very hard. Heck, it's very hard for established people - I've worked for 15 years and I only had one remote gig.
> "they’re not doing their job" --- their job being what?

Their job is to carry out their orders like good little figure-heads of state that they are.
I built in an incentive structure. Each grant includes a certain amount of "overhead" in addition to what the researcher requests, which keeps the lights on, pays for common infrastructure. I negotiated to fund a big portion of ongoing costs for data storage out of the overhead. (Capital costs were mostly paid out of funds from a large settlement, private grants, etc.) We found that when there were no limits to usage, researchers would just duplicate their data over and over with tiny changes, which was incredibly costly.

To solve this problem, I tried giving "monopoly money" to the professors, allowing them to trade data storage and cluster time for favors, analysis, and so on. For the researchers who didn't need as much storage, they could give their excess up. For those who gobbled up storage, they could "buy" the excess. It ended up failing because I didn't have backup from leadership to say "no" when I was asked to do things that were irresponsible:

Yes, you can buy a 2TB HDD for $100. No, that isn't the same as 2TB of storage on an enterprise-level storage array, clustered, with local mirroring, offsite tape backup, etc. No, I won't plug your 2TB USB HDD into my compute cluster.
> I never claimed that Haskell can't be used to write simple software

I can assure you our software is not at all simple. Standard Chartered has industry leading portfolio compression and XVA compute. Barclays has industry leading pricing of exotic derivatives (including pricing on GPUs). Both industry leading solutions built in Haskell on top of frameworks/APIs in Haskell.

> No one is interested in type-safety or purity for their own sake (except for aesthetic reasons).

So are all forms of static verification just aesthetics to you? Or just those offered in Haskell?

> I'm interested in better, cheaper software.

Then hire good people and let them use the tools they want.

The only evidence I could ever hope to offer is that good people build good software. But that would never make an interesting management report.
From the article: On the stored procedure side, we are planning to support Perl, pgSQL, Tcl, and JavaScript (via the V8 JavaScript engine). We are also planning to support all of the PostgreSQL features and extensions that are supported in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Since they listed "planning to" I assume these aren't available yet, so if you use any extensions or stored functions you'll probably need to hold back until these are available.
When a school with ~4000 students has a multimillion dollar flower replacement budget, it says a lot.
Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
You are sorely mistaken as to the difference between gross and net profit. R&D is in there, sure...along with a billion other things that also don't get accounted for in cost of goods sold.
I think Ben (who I generally think is right on) in this post misapprehends the effectiveness of generalized data for machine learning services and thus the effectiveness of this approach in Google’s strategy here. Perhaps the slide makers in Mountain View have the same misapprehension.

1 - Prediction API - you provide your own data there, so no data advantage from Google there.

2 - Cloud Natural Language API - the effectiveness really depends on what type of text you want to understand. If Google’s training data includes information about my type of text application great, but if it doesn’t then what? How do I know that?

3 - Cloud Vision API - likewise. Can I subset the training set? Provide my own examples? If they subset, can I inspect the examples?

4 - Translation API seems like the exception here, mainly because the odds are that customers of translation service are unlikely to have collected language pairs and this collection is more highly specialized. But it’s unclear that this one API would be the deciding factor for many companies choosing which cloud vendor to use.

ML services as a differentiator have yet to be proven out. I am highly suspect. Yes, some big general data sets will be better on some applications than others, but an enterprises’ own data about their problem will always be better than a huge, general data set. And if you’re using your own data anyway, you’re going to care about all the platformy things Amazon has already been winning with.

Barring proprietary breakthroughs in unsupervised learning, I don’t believe that this strategy as outlined will work in practice.
How would plus-addressing prevent them doing something nefarious? I would think that if they're selling it, they could strip out anything post-plus in the process easily.
Version 5 is going to include a full SVG framework.
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Knowing a breakup would have a lot of painful consequences encourages me to focus on making my marriage work. Carrying a "get out of jail free card" would me make more reckless during arguments, this increase the chances of failure.

What's missing from this thread is the psychological effect of breakups - on you, your ex-partner, your children, your friends, etc. A prenup doesn't wave away all that damage.
What are the killer features of that tight integration for you? I use VS but run on other platforms with a fairly simple git push. Does VS have some other features beyond deployment that integrate directly with Azure?
You can generate both. That gives you ninja for development (which had a problem you described) while the official builds still can use the makefiles that should result in the same output.
I'm pretty sure Amazon is just trolling us with these photos.
I really enjoyed this talk about Xi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKtQgFBRUvQ
To be fair, writing code better than the median software quality is not a tremendously high bar to pass. There is some truly awful code out there, and plenty of mediocre CRUD apps to add bulk around the middle.

It is far more worrisome if software can write better software than the best software-writing humans. After that point, there is no job any human could do that would be competitive with AI.

At that time, meat-humanity will just have to retire from the workforce, move in with its AI grandchildren, surrender its drivers' licenses, and eat discounted ramen.
The Future of Personal Machine Learning
A good way to recognize a stock photo is to look for brand names or logos. If you see any, it's not a stock photo.
Ack yes about that I tend to use Twitter as the fence to connect then will provide email/DropBox link. If that's not a path for you I can say it'll be public early in 2017 I think.
If I had absolutely no experience with drugs, but had my current knowledge, I would start not with psychedelics, but with low doses of an empatogen (MDAI, preferably, which is hard to obtain but still legal in some countries, if not, then MDMA). This experiecne is much more manageable than psychedelics and if I would meet any resistance (which can happen), it would be easier to climb down. Only after that would I try psychedelics (mushrooms, for a shorter experience or LSD, for a longer one). With an experienced sitter I can trust.
Gooulo, your hate-filled rhetoric is exactly what's wrong with this country. Rights are rights because we are human; you can't repay the squandered rights of yesteryear by infringing on rights today. Rights are inalienable. Your brand of SJW-fascism is toxic and vial.
To further complicate it...would this be standardized? Would a cheap economy car opt to kill the driver, but a Mercedes try to preserve the driver at all cost?

How much say would insurance companies that insure the automakers have? What about the government?

Also, what level of information about how this logic works is necessary to share with a potential buyer to judge them sufficiently informed?

I know I'd sure as hell want to know if there were scenarios in which my car would decide my life was not worth saving so I could do my best to never even come close to making one of those scenarios potentially possible.
Guile Emacs isn't a bottom-up rewrite of Emacs [1], but a project to replace the elisp runtime with Guile. One important thing it does not do is get rid of/convert any ELisp, because of how much is invested in it: 71% of the ~2M LOC codebase is ELisp: https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs

Guile would run the ELisp code. What's holding the project back, IIRC, is that it doesn't yet do so perfectly.

[1] which is something I (and likely most users) frequently think it sorely needs, until we realize A) the monumental size of the task and B) how much refinement the current version already has, as per http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Carrying out and enforcing immoral laws makes you as much of a criminal as anybody.

The police state doesn't carry out showy public executions like the cartels do, but they have ruined many people's lives for no good reason and they have put plenty of otherwise innocent people in a grave.

And guess what? The American people pay for both sides. They pay for the cartels and they pay for the police state.

If the war on drugs never existed there wouldn't be any cartels in the first place. It's pure idiocy compounded with greed and profiteering on other people's misery.

You can't have the one of the highest percentage of the population in prison and call yourself a free country. It's bold faced contradiction. The USA beats out Turkmenistan FFS.
You can take either approach. I opted to do it in code[0] as a personal preference since it reduced the amount of time spent jumping between Xcode and Vim, but creating a xib or storyboard and referencing it from Rust using NSBundle resources is just as possible. Maybe I should add examples of using resources to the code samples in the blog post. Thanks!

0: https://github.com/kattrali/webkitten/blob/6ac4ced187b44fe91...
no, Butler has it right.

His use of the term "bill" refers to the cost of US participation in war; All of the wars he's talking about took place outside the US, so de minimis US citizen casualties

still i would agree, and i bet Gen Butler would as well that civilians suffer the "biggest part of the" damage, but Butler's statement that you quoted was more specific.
Hi Liz, how long does it typically take to onboard a new customer/organization? And do you charge for setup?
That's a big part of many bootcamps' marketing model. Start in web dev, move on to other things.
It sorta works, but it's hard to keep it working, so people don't really do much with it.

Shockingly, the compatability was pretty good, last I checked.

If you really want an emacs written in a sane Lisp, and don't mind losing gnuemacs compatability, check out Hemlock. or Edwin.
It's must be said Hetzner have much cheaper offers on their auction:
https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

There also have no setup cost for these dedicated servers.
This is a variation of the classic ethical debate of the Trolley Car Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

There is really no "right" answer in the absolute sense, but it's a great party trick to toss out there for a group of people to debate over.
I don't think this is over- or under- kill. This is the correct amount of kill and done earlier than it needs to be. This is a move that is always wished for in hindsight after something bad happens.

In an alternate universe where they don't make this change and raspberry pis are included in a massive attack because of their intentionally well-known default root account is listening on a running-by-default sshd, everyone would be screaming about the raspi foundations rampant incompetence.

The only place this will sting is in un-maintained 'how to set up your new raspberry pi's SD card' tutorials.

I believe that most users who want to set up a headless pi can handle this change with no problem.
I don't think you read the article. They only mention putting them in private places, as a honeypot to alert about an intrusion.
I signed up to the waitlist and received an invite within a week. There's no evidence that they're not inviting from the waitlist.
That's just in Tech -> Software category, not all of Kickstarter.

The most funded projects can be found here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?recommended=fa...

Pebble Time = $20.3M

Coolest Cooler = $13.3M

Pebble 2 = $12.8M

Pebble e-paper = $10.3M

Baubax Travel Jacket = $9.2M

And if you look at the software

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Shenmue 3 = $6.3M

Bloodstained = $5.5M

Torment = $4.2M

Project Eternity = $4.0M

Mighty No. 9 = $3.8M

Double Fine Adventure = $3.3M
> Therefore, I ask why do you feel it's logical to continue down the path of further monopolizations which inevitably harm the economy as a whole and individuals in their pursuit of material betterment?

Why do you assume I'm in favour of a particular form of patent law? (Let alone any patent law?) I'm not (though it's not a super-strongly held prior), and I think that this is perfectly consistent with supporting a very market-based system. I think a no-patents system would probably be more innovative and competitive than what we have now.

>But if you demanded a toll for a stretch of road that happens to be out front of your house that would be capital and it would be rent seeking since the act of ambulation isn't improved by the mere act of crossing your part of the road.

Are you talking about somebody charging a toll on a road they don't own and don't maintain? Because that's not what I'm talking about or proposing.

I mean, who built the road? Someone has to build it and maintain it. It must be refreshed constantly with new investment. It's also not a monopoly on anything - no more than the door in a house is a monopoly on entry into that house. And "ambulation isn't improved by the mere act of crossing a road"? I think roads (and sidewalks, and boardwalks) very much improve ambulation and transportation of all kinds. Building a road and then tolling it is not rentiership in any sense.

Capital is not a fixed pool of items or goods. Owners of capital are not inherently rentiers. They can be, in many cases, but that's not because they own capital.

> It's not gigantism because it's not done at a national level. I support radical localism.

Well, now you're back to, essentially, private property. Some "radically local" entities are going to be more successful than others, and become more prosperous, making membership in them more valuable. They will have to trade between themselves, making prices and property (even if collective) necessary. And unless you're prepared to keep people in their locality permanently, you're going to see localities that change size radically. And if you're going to keep localities of a similar size, who enforces that? And if they do, you're back to gigantism.
I would prefer to log everything on an owned system and test out bots through third-party APIs. Poking around with options now, but will probably just bootstrap with human operators and pre-canned responses until something makes sense.

It's also worth pointing out there is a huge difference between using the bot for a critical piece of your product vs as a supplement to customer support.
There are a lot of services like this (Google Cloud Vision, IBM Watson, CloudSight, Clarifai, Imagga) but I'm yet to see one that lets me provide my own dataset. That's what I'm most interested in.

So far the only solution I know of is to take Google's Inception net and train/host it myself somewhere.
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Azure has spending limits for the subscription which is what is being discussed.
Dude. That was comedy gold! Downvotes? Really? Come on!

That was funny. Down vote all you like, that was funny.
How many instances did you have at the time you received the email?

Usually, when I receive an email like this, the amount is equal to the monthly bill of the instances I have active at the moment.
Awesome, I never knew what happened to these guys!

We used to use it to count faces and get some basic demo data from the photos our animated GIF photo booth takes. One day it shut down but we didn't know why until now!
As I note elsethread, Guile Scheme is not a 'faster, more modern Lisp,' because Scheme is not Lisp. Scheme is a Lisp-like language, which does have a place in the world, but it's not Lisp, and it's not (IMHO) well-suited for large software projects like emacs.

I personally oppose a Scheme-based emacs because, having moved from C to a more Lisp-like language, I don't think there would be the will to actually move to real Lisp. You might accuse me of letting the best be the enemy of the good (which is a fair criticism, both of my position re. porting emacs & of Zaretskii's re. the dumper), but part of why I use emacs and Lisp is that they are not good: they are the best.
Or is the purpose of an economic system to make people happy... or happy enough, anyway?

There is no purpose.

Markets arise out of aggregated self interest eg. I need to eat and I can work on something that someone else wants that they will give me food for; or I want to play sports, people will pay to watch me play sports.

The history of humanity is that we build technologies that optimize for most efficiently satisfying human needs and wants and we are doing amazingly well at it. Worldwide poverty is at an all time low, violent deaths are at an all time low etc...

Currently the majority of humanity choose not to produce their basic food needs, so about 2% of people do that work.

Ok, now extend that to everything, both need and want.

In such a system if an individual wants to build their own X and company Y produces it more efficiently, and the plurality of others choose that more efficient one, then they will not be able to compete and there is nothing for them to do.

It's not a value proposition it's a math problem. It's also not condescension, it's reality. Do you feel bad for horse carriage makers?
Well, that's me in a nutshell though. If I don't get the answers I need soon, I get frustrated and it becomes nearly impossible to stay focused or motivated. With web development, I was lucky in that I had teachers that were willing to humor my curiosity, and I could also hop on the internet and IRC channels.

Self learning is the opposite of the classroom issues I had. I can start a webpack tutorial, it'll mention Make, and I can click links and chase down information, and just keep my stupidly ADHD brain entertained with more and more new new new things. This is how I have to learn things, apparently.
this is why people set up companies, which in the UK costs 13 pounds/year to keep operational

limited liability, can't really beat it
This is not an acceptable comment on Hacker News. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Near the end of the article it said that they were finding out he may not actually have the $400M after all (It was just a claim to get a loan), or that has lost/used it all up over time during this case. Then he will have to prove his real hidden wealth, along with how he did it, otherwise risk paying out the $200M that he may not even have.
That's not relevant, if I have 10 cars and you need a car ... then all that matters to you is that you need a car, not that I have 10 cars sitting there doing nothing. People sitting on IPv4 addresses don't care but new entrants cannot get new IPv4 addresses since they're all allocated.
$15K to make a proper video for kickstarter?

This is kind of defeating the purpose?

I mean - there's prob. another $5K in expenses + all the work ...

That's a lot of risk - which is what it takes to be competitive?
But having the hardware is vital. You have to test your design a lot. You're still going to need Vivado (which isn't cheap) and you'll need instance time to test the design on the real hardware with real workloads, along with any syntheiszable test benches you want to run on the hardware.

The pricing structure of the development AMI is going to be meaningful here, because it clearly includes some kind of Vivado license. It might not be as cheap as you expect, and you need to spend a lot of time with the synthesis tool to learn. The F1 machines themselves are certainly not going to be cheap at all.

If you want to learn FPGA development, you can get a board for less than $50 USD one-time cost and a fully open source toolchain for it -- check my sibling comments in this thread. Hell, if you really want, you can get a mid-range Xilinx Artix FPGA with a Vivado Design Edition voucher, and a board supporting all the features, for like $160, which is closer to what AWS is offering, and will still probably be quite cheap as a flat cost, if you're serious about learning what the tools can offer: http://store.digilentinc.com/basys-3-artix-7-fpga-trainer-bo... -- it supports almost all of the same basic device/Vivado features as the Virtex UltraScale, so "upgrading" to the Real Deal should be fine, once you're comfortable with the tools.
> I don't really understand why someone would not just stay with $200M without hassles, instead of hiding $400M.

Pride. It's not about the money, it's about "winning".
Our usual onboarding time is around a week although our record is 1 day for a company that was in a tight spot. We don't charge setup fees for most situations. It's built into the price and we want our customers to stick with us because they like the service - not because they've forked over a large upfront fee!