skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wouldn't be an issue in a number of jurisdictions.

As in, the authorities define what is legal as what is beneficial to them. Good luck arguing the finer points of legal doctrine with a HiLux full of grunts with Kalashnikovs, &c.
My two cents on this.

I have met and interviewed plenty of well educated, degreed individuals that couldn't find their way out of a problem no matter what help you provided them. It doesn't mean these are poorly educated or unintelligent people, just proves that a degree doesn't provided you with critical thinking or problem solving abilities. College only provides you the opportunity to develop these skills, which you can find in other places as well.
Privacy? Everything you say & do in the cars will be recorded, and Uber isn't the kind of company that would treat that data well.
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It seems like the essays they want would be similar in spirit to Douglas Hofstadter's books: "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and "I Am a Strange Loop"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
I have read pieces of it and didn't find anything compelling really, but I guess it depends on the perspective.
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These came up in the comments of the WSJ yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz45fETw078&feature=youtu.be - John Christy Climate Change Denial Testimony Highlights May 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=potLQR7-_Tg&feature=youtu.be - Climate Science Debate : Global Warming Alarmist VS. Global Warming Skeptic
This is a very good list, and I'd like to expand on point four: even among city-life-specific dangers, murder generally ranks fairly low.

Where I live, the annual pedestrian and bicyclist death count is is comparable to the St. Louis murder rate. And, of course, far more evenly distributed across neighborhoods. Add in car crashes and I'm probably at far more risk here than I would be in St. Louis.

I'm at more risk from smog and water pollution just by living in a city, and to fight that I should move not to Toronto but to a ritzy suburb. But dense populations mean good emergency response times, which argues for city again!

The list continues - you're absolutely right that safety isn't the only goal, but even on that basis it's not clear that murder is the statistic to observe.
No, it's the other way around — the private industry's self-driving car technology is based on research funded and carried out by the military-industrial complex. See: Uber's takeover of the CMU robotics lab (NREC).
This seems really out of date. I put together a list of ML books not too long ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900448
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I would suggest avoiding bootstrap - not only are the results poorer, it's more complicated than doing it yourself.

Use flexbox (with scss and autoprefixer to keep it neat).

Pick a small, uncomplicated JS data-binding framework - vue is very popular right now, svelte looks like a good bet for the future.
Interesting history tidbit about London. Do you have a reference/book about it?
Or... they're trying to learn the nuances of operating with and around real customers for their actual application.

Too many tech companies (and esp. robotics ones) do their development and testing under limited conditions, and then they're blindsided by real-world realities.

Getting contact with customers early is key. It's like the old military adage: No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. In this case, the "enemy" is the real world.

Kudos to Uber for getting out there and working with customers -- it's much better than Google's autonomous cars, which have driven millions of miles and never had a single paying passenger!
"why do we think we can stop the 6?"

We don't know, but it doesn't mean we should be actively trying to make it happen sooner. Heck, there's a pretty big difference if next mass extinction happens few years/decades from now or few thousand years in a future, when we might be better prepared for it. We all gonna die one day, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve our lives now or make it better for our children.
I don't know if I agree with this.

Even with paper ballot we still have to trust the people/devices counting the votes.

As an American citizen theres no website I can go to and check my vote. How do I know it was even counted, or properly registered.
America is the USA. Mexico is Mexico, the United States of Mexico to be exact. If you're thinking of the continent North America and South America, that's a different thing. Besides, America is a common name for the USA. You don't call Peruvians "Americans." But you do call the United States nationality "American."

North America isn't "the north part of America" -- the continent is named "North America."

So the nationality is American but citizens of the continent are North American or South American respectively.

The people's of North and South Americans aren't collectively known as "Americans." In French americain refers to "one who is from the United States." It's the same in multiple languages. Even Spanish refers to people from the US as americanos.

This is a subtle thing and in the grand scheme really makes no difference unless someone feels so strongly about it that they want to change multiple languages.

The American Embassy is not referred to anywhere (in English) as The United States Embassy --

edit: actually "US Embassy" is common, sorry for the misstatement. However American Embassy is very commonly used by diplomatic personnel and in general conversation.
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I don't understand why a certain subset of people, generally from South and Central America have such an obsession with this. Canadians never refer to themselves as Americans. In fact, many would resent such a thing.
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Being in Italy, just by reading the title there was 50/50 chance that it wasn't.
> the planet simply has periods of warmer temperatures and periods of cooler ones

Here's the problem with people like you: In the face of assured doom for yourself if you're young enough, or most likely your children or siblings' children, you choose to either:

1. Make highly ignorant statements without doing even the slightest bit of research, in a manner that is consistent with people suffering from a clear lack of skill in critical thinking.

or

2. Troll people.

And it is completely impossible to tell on which side you fall. As such it is entirely impossible to approach you in any kind of sane or rational manner.
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I was thinking about doing a side project based on this a couple weeks ago. A few issues I ran into:

- How do I actually know that my customers have been properly opted out? I have opted out of snailmail marketing using these types a forms before and as far as I can tell my request was sucked into a black hole and I continued receiving spam mail from them.

- Some of these companies require a gross amount of information to opt yourself out. Another commenter mentioned transunion requires you to submit your SSN. I wouldn't be comfortable collecting that information and I dont think customers would be comfortable handing it over.

- There also a trust issue, how can you assure users that you won't turn around and sell their complete data to someone else?
Paper works, and it works well. Anyone that can count can validate a single precinct

Add to that there's not really a need to speed up deployment of the results for elections and referendums in Switzerland.

Except for the "house of representatives" (Nationalrat) where it can take a tad longer due to the complexities of the vote, results are usually in at voting day before 6pm (Voting closes at noon).

I'm also deeply reluctant to accept the necessities of electronic voting. Given all parameters it's a really hard (if not impossible) problem to crack.
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Yup. I was expecting tech elites to move to Europe or other liberal place and stick to principles.
oh lol. Could have thought about that when i saw the green.

Sorry stranger, english is not my native language and "to" "too" is something i might never understand :3
It's not just an optimization, it's necessary for correct operation. With a non-power of two buffer the integer wraparound causes a discontinuity.
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Consider having a continuity plan next time. Personal tragedy is not an uncommon occurrence.

> He's adamant he wants to continue, and he's seeking help from a counselor.

He's doing the right thing, both in seeking counsel and in wanting to continue. Taking time off is extremely unlikely to help him.

Grieving affects everyone differently.

Whether you are a start-up or an established small business, chances are the bulk of your value is in your management / founding team. That means the three of you, working together as a team.

> The 3rd co-founder and I find it demotivating and frustrating when he disappears.

That is your problem, not his.

> I feel as if the best thing for the business is to let go of him, but it's a shitty thing to do. Moreover – I feel as if his depression would worsen if he lost his place in the team.

Wrong priorities. If you're not looking after your team you're not looking after your company. Help the guy first and foremost.

Give him honest support, don't complain, take up the slack, man up and swallow the frustration. It may well be you going through a rough patch next time.

These things suck but it's part of life (and business).
I installed VS2015 + xamarin + VS emulator for android, downloaded some samples, hit F5, and they all ran fine.

The tooling is actually pretty good. Now the problem is a lot of the libraries I want to use are native android/java which means doing a lot of C#/java interop.
Have you seen his appointments so far? They matter a lot more than an interview, and he is not surrounding himself with people who are going to tell him that climate change is real.
I meant the wait time increase. If I don't like you (or am just a jerk in general), I'll just write a script to automatically retry 0000 after the lockout period. I'm not trying to break into your account; I'm just hassling you with a DoS attack.
I didn't thought of it that way round! I was concerned with cameras & microphones inside the car, but as you say, it's likely that there will be microphones on the outside too.
Somehow I don't think it is just the alt-right that has trouble suspending disbelief with a social justice enthused media. There's a good reason why South Park has a character called 'Token'. These political messages are shoehorned so bluntly into fictional television shows there is no reason to hold back from describing them as political propaganda. I'm glad I catch only brief snippets here and there through Youtube and Netflix.

It's the recent BBC Sherlock that really took the biscuit though. Sherlock Holmes could not be less interested in solving crimes when it is a proto-feminist movement murdering men. Great job guys.
This is not my experience at all. I've often observed C programmers that were visibly embarrassed if a single segfault -- let alone an exploit -- was found in their code.

I've observed C++ programmers who were completely indifferent to segfaults, shipped 5 more releases with the bug and continued instead discussing their latest abstractions and how awesome and secure C++ is.

Also, for yet another time: The majority of CVE-worthy programs is written in C (for good reasons), why don't you look at Windows instead?
I use a password manager. The password in question is one I type all the time, in dozens of different contexts, on a computer I don’t own and can’t modify :(.
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Really digging the first name. Another troy here.
Not the same project (look at the number of commits, and the top issue).
The only way I think this can work is if the customer who reports the incident describes exactly what they see in the report. Then the human who receives the dirty car and cleans it verifies that the car is not only dirty but meets the description of the reporter. How else could "dirty car" reports be audited?

In another case, a customer could actually throw garbage in the car and then report the car dirty - causing the previous customer to be fined. The only safety net against this I know is to record video inside the car while a customer is present.
Estonia's E-Voting systems backend code is also on GitHub (for already quite some years): https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine
In a credit union, you must give them money to purchase a share of the CU before they'll take your money -- you literally have to buy in.

Requiring a Twitter account just changes the form of payment from being all dollars.
I wish my key layout were the problem.
I think nowadays it's a bit of a misconception that C++ is unsafe regarding memory; RAII essentially takes care of it for you when you talking about IO or other resources, and under the circumstances that you really need a pointer you can either use a reference or a smart pointer, which essentially just delegates the management of RAII to the smart pointer object.
I don't disagree with the impetus for neveragain.tech. What gets under my skin is that it takes a political scare to make developers talk about taking ethics seriously.

There already exists a code of ethics developers can choose to follow. There is no need to join the ACM or start writing a code from scratch. If it has inadequacies, blind spots or overreaches, we have a starting point for discussing the broad principals as well as finer details.

I want the idea of ethics in development to actually take hold. And while backlash to the idea of a Muslim registry is great, nobody that signed the never again statement is currently employed as a cog in a system used to deport muslims. A person I respect has a saying that your "principles only count when they're uncomfortable to uphold." There are some names on that list that have Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Buzzfeed or IBM next to them. I wonder how much they critically examine and stand up to their own practices and business goals.
i have done research, its just clear people like you have made up your mind and won't listen to research that does not align with your own beliefs.

the problem with people like you is you think you've done all the research and figured it all out and try and act like you are a level above everyone else. i guarantee i have done more research than you, i just don't find the need to argue with arrogant people like yourself.

i also love how you judge and make assumptions about people from posts on the internet, claiming you know their abilities to think without knowing one thing about them...jesus christ some of you are pathetic
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SpaceX depends on government contracts far less than say ULA; so far SpaceX has had 17 successful private commercial launches and 15 successful government paid launches, and ULA has only had 1 private commercial flight on an Atlas rocket since 2010 (WorldView-3 Digital Globe). And to top it off ULA gets USD1B a year for flight readiness regardless of how many launches it makes (although this will probably go soon).

EDIT: company name fix.
I felt the same way, but I'm happy that he can be sensible about it and accept that Trump is President for the next 4 years whether we like it or not. We need to make the best of a crap situation.
What is the agenda of taking better care of our environment?

Let's suppose for a moment that climate change is a fabrication, what's the harm in taking better care of the place we live?
Firefox 50 onDrag event does not set mouse coordinates. (Bug reported 2009)
Good job on detecting CSS loading failures.

The little-loader also has a section to detect JS loading and errors in IE8/9 (with a dedicated sub-section for the former), I didn't see anything like this in LoadJS... Did you find a terser workaround?

https://github.com/walmartlabs/little-loader/blob/42d233f360...

I'm somewhat familiar with little-loader because I've worked at making it smaller, but I'm not competent to judge whether its approach is necessarily the best...
Kalanick is an obvious choice for Trump, being a self-proclaimed Ayn Rand fanboy.

Musk is a much more surprising choice, not just because of his obvious environmentalism. Both Kalanick and Musk are well-known for not being very worker friendly. At least Musk leads by example. He destroyed his own marriage through overwork and expects his employees to do the same.
The code review here is excellent and supportive. I'm very impressed.
Jeff Bezos is also on this "advisory team" and he's close to a mortal enemy of Trump.

I predict this is no more than a sunshine squad for PR reasons. Trump met with Al Gore for many hours as well, then nominated the most ardent climate change denier as head of the EPA the next day. As long as that kind of thing doesn't change (e.g. Trump literally comes out and says, "OK, I was wrong, I finally believe in climate change"), there's nothing here.

Particularly when it says, “meet with the President frequently to share their specific experience and knowledge as the President implements his economic agenda.” - this is a man too lazy and detached to even be interested in his own intelligence briefings (http://www.npr.org/2016/12/13/505348507/what-exactly-is-the-...). All evidence so far points to him not caring at all what new ideas this panel brings, if even paying attention at all.
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"in this respect because he clearly values his own opinion over everyone else."

Musk or Trump? :)

Musk might be liberal on some kind of social issues, but he's more of a libertarian than anything, he's not remotely some kind of 'bernie' guy.

Musk told his wife, as they were having their 'first dance at the wedding' - that 'he's the alpha' in the relationship. Does that sound progressive? Or how about dumping his wife who bore 5 children for a girl 1/2 his age? Prog cred?

Also " very staunch flat earth, climate denial, intelligent design type conservatives "

... this is casual bigotry on your part. 'Flat Earth'? Seriously? You're just going to throw that in?

And you do realize it was Father David LeMaitre - a Catholic Priest and Physicist, who conceived of the 'big bang'?

Anyhow - I'm not going to defend any of that necessarily, but your remarks amount to a casual kind of bigotry which is the bane of political discussion these days. Try to avoid this crude kind of stuff.

And FYI Trump was a 'NYC tough-guy Democrat' for most of his life. The Clinton's went to his and Melania's wedding for gosh sakes.

Anyhow - neither Trump nor Musk could truly be considered classically liberal or conservative in either sense of the term.

Funny: both of them are good businessmen, but neither of them have the faintest grasp of economics.
I believe with politicians, it's better to just judge them on what they do. They make so many conflicting statements(especially now), it's hard to tell where they actually stand, and they prefer it that way.

Trump has appointed an energy secretary and head of the EPA who both believe climate change is a hoax and want to gut any carbon related regulation. The questionnaire they sent to the energy department also makes it seems like they're preparing to purge climate researchers. The only silver lining is that Perry seems to be very open to renewable energy tech based on his time in Texas, and I think the economic argument for it becomes stronger each year, so it becomes harder to deny.
Yeah this... Hey guys you don't need erlang to solve this problem... just use this tool built in erlang.
I hope so, we need more libertarians like Travis close to power.
I personally would want to advise someone I disagree with more than someone I agree with. If I agreed with them I'd let them do their thing...
Trump doesn't necessarily need to believe in climate change; renewables are becoming competitive and make sense from an energy security standpoint. Trump just needs to be convinced that subsidising coal makes no sense. Elon may be able to convince him that the jobs that the renewable energy industry can provide are better than those the coal industry can offer.
So it's safe so long as you're using the safety features.

So, unsafe.
He may very well be a crony capitalist, but he is OUR crony capitalist. And if money is going to be dished out to cc's I, for one, would much rather see it burn on the altar in the Church of Musk than anywhere else.
Show me some data from over hundred thousands of years, it has been warmer and it has been colder. Nature will have its way.
Surely this must be a "hoax" perpetrated by Mother Nature on Humankind...

...just like the "Little Ice Age" that led to harsh weather, droughts, famines, wars, and various epidemics in Europe from the 14th to the 19th century.[1]

[1] http://www.history.com/news/little-ice-age-big-consequences
That doesn't help. If there is any way to prove your vote, then you can easily sell your vote.
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I thought about that, but that would mean it's then probably not possible to review the images you've taken to ensure that you got the shot you wanted.... I guess you could keep a second copy in a buffer somewhere, but I think however you handle this you either sacrifice a lot of usability or add quite a large vulnerability...

There may be a more elegant solution I haven't thought of, however.
I'm curious how things changed? Advising someone doesn't mean you have to agree with them. In fact wouldn't you want to advise someone you don't agree with? Try and direct them more towards your opinions?
Verlinde's paper [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269 ] is the wrong place to be looking for an argument against dark matter.

It starts with simply accepting that dark energy is part of the unremovable background of spacetime (in particular, his paper considers a de Sitter vacuum with a straightforward positive cosmological constant, and treats it as fully described by classical General Relativity (GR)) and then proposes an emergent thermal-entropic force that may produce deviations from General Relativity on galactic and cluster scales by way of a long-distance entanglement among the fundamental material from which this take on perturbative gravity emerges.

That fundamental material -- strings (sec 2.3) -- generating the thermal-entropic force does not feel electromagnetism, and so is dark. That fundamental material additionally is a component of the matter tensor in the low-temperature General Relativistic limit of his theory (eqn 4.23).

Verlinde's theory is, in fact, a "cold" "dark" "matter" one; as the cosmological constant is involved too, it unsurprisingly reproduces the successess of \Lambda-CDM. (CDM == cold dark matter). The only qualification of this is that "matter" is the standard GR definition of everything that is not the gravitational field content. It's not much like the matter of the Standard Model (SM), while WIMPs are expected to be by virtue of some extension of the SM. (MACHOs, by contrast, can have very little to do with SM or extended-SM particles.)

Nevertheless, the major difference between Verlinde's theory and the standard cosmology is the emergence of the standard cosmology from string theory.

Quoting the paper: "in our ... framework one has to add a dark component to the stress energy tensor, which behaves very much like the cold dark matter needed to explain structure formation, but which in its true origin is an intrinsic property of spacetime rather than being caused by some unknown particle".

In other words, the paper proposes that some (sec 8.2) of the dark matter of the standard cosmology can emerge from strings in a way that does not produce a particle like a heavy neutrino.

(The paper is interesting many other ways, though.)
That's definitely shocking at first glance, but it is Transunion. They're not just a random data reseller, they're a pretty major institution that probably has your SSN already.