skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An intersection of the political and the technical is not that unusual: PE Trump's meeting with industry leaders back in December is one such example. Likewise, the ongoing Manning & Snowden sagas tread ground in both territories. These are subjects that don't necessarily qualify as "off topic", but aren't as solidly technical as, say, announcement of a new Rust release or a disclosed software vulnerability.
Wonderful.

If you like this, you might like these other two pages which exist -- like this page -- to demonstrate the breadth of human experience:

https://paperplanes.world/
http://radio.garden/
Not so much the "every day" user, but more specifically those people not savvy enough to title their videos or set them to private. I'll guess that 1/3 of these videos the author didn't even know they were public. The other 1/3 doesn't really care if they are or not, and the final 1/3 got as far as uploading the video from their mobile device and didn't even know it made it online for all of us to see.

I bet if you did an analysis of users leaving the default titles on their videos, it would be the same group of people that leave the default name on their home routers. Technology simply doesn't fuel these people, it is just a vessel they hop on and hop off when they want to accomplish something. We, on the other hand, live in it every day. This astronaut site is very interesting in that it shows you what a disparity there is between the savvy and the non.
Absolutely, agree 100%.

(I even tried to get unsafe renamed to "trusted"... that didn't work out.)
No, there are no per-exisitng conditions clauses anymore.
Trump team reportedly wants to strip FCC of consumer protection powers
Its all about self-sufficiency.
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Numbers are higher than I've heard anywhere else. The guy apparently spent time at Microsoft, Google, and Groupon (he joined right before it collapsed), so he should know what he's talking about. Or he's trying to make a name for himself.
Apparently YouTube's history page doesn't include videos watched while signed out. Thanks, though.
Beautiful quote. Never heard of Durant before. Any recommendations?
I can agree it's honest but being honest doesn't suddenly make it good from the employee's perspective.

I'm not saying a fixed contribution is a terrible decision that will ruin all hope of hiring/keeping good employees. But it is something that is clearly in the company's best interest at the direct expense of the employee so it's going to be a factor just like everything else is.
> We must strengthen our cultural norms to prevent this invasion!

Fundamentally this is about how the EU commission perceives unregulated markets and it's desire to legitimize them through regulation, or at a minimum producing a 'framework' for their existence.

The whole process is Napoleonic.
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They had to have been pretty damn smart to get a large party across a sea gap. Proud of our ancestors haha!
I could understand this for larger batteries, I'd hate to see the damage a Powerwall or something similar could do when someone lets the work experience kid do QA for a few hours.
Everyone keeps saying they saw such beautiful things

I just got stuck watching a guy eat an entire jar of mayonnaise without stopping

[EDIT] Just realized that the websockets that fuel the video transitions are suffering the same 503s as the other assets — so the feed 503'd, and I got stuck on an unending, non-changing video of a guy looking into the camera as he ate so, so much mayonnaise.
None taken :)
The “Fiduciary Rule” and Unintended Consequences
In addition to the other comments, I wanted to point out that many employers also provide Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance, which would cover the "incapacitate you for a long time and leave you without income" scenario.
YEs, CORS is the reason for this and the code for this proxy is open source and very simple[0]. I didn't want to add disclaimers to clutter the UI nor did I wanted to build a browser extension as it would suffer from same trust issues (you still need to trust the extension developer).

For full transparency, the proxy is hosted on Zeit's `now` service and I don't even have access to logs so accidental leaks should be pretty safe.

[0] https://github.com/jorilallo/jsonbrowse-proxy
Conversations isn't derived from ChatSecure. Newer versions of ChatSecure were (are?) going to be derived from Conversations.
And that is why i read hn.
>Despite what you may have heard, the Amish aren’t against technology. Communities adopt new gadgets such as fax machines and business-use cellphones all the time—as long as the local church approves each one ahead of time, determining that it won’t drastically change their way of life.

This alone is the most interesting point of the article. People not belonging to the community, like myself, have a fixed preconceived notion of what it's like to be Amish. I still don't know much about Amish life and culture, but it's fascinating to see where my assumptions are wrong (and what else I may be wrong about!)
Beautifully written.

I've not yet had the pleasure of using Rust, but you've described my experience of recapitulating ML-style functional programming in terms of the C# type system.
It has roughly 100+ engineers. That is indeed VERY anecdotal, how could you claim something else? Even compared to Google worldwide (~25,000), but compared to big companies that employ thousands of engineers in France, Capgemini for instance: 22,000, Dassault Systèmes: 3,000…
> UK has never been EU.

What? I'm trying to find any context where that statement makes sense, and I can't do so.

UK has never used the Euro, but that's not what "EU" means.
Agreed. We have the Machine right now, it's called China and the Midwest + Rail/Tractor Trailer Trucks + Walmart.
JSON Browse is like a glorified JSON prettifier with some `jq` style filtering features and not really a REST client even though it features remote fetching for convenience.
MLK Day: Why racial segregation continues to exist today
Someone living in California making $100k pays:

Federal income tax: $18,047
State income tax: $6,288
Payroll tax: $7,650
Total tax: $31,985

Someone living in Australia making $100k pays:

Income tax: $24,632
Medicare levy: $2,000
Medicare levy surcharge (?): $1,000
Total tax: $27,632

Unless I've missed a tax (I looked at payroll tax rates too but it looks like those are only paid by the employer?), it seems like the Australian actually pays less tax unless you live in the US in an income tax-free state. But then once you add in the cost of health care, Australia ends up cheaper again...
That might be true if the borrow checker were sufficiently advanced to always know better than you.

But in reality it is overly conservative and you have to expend effort just to get things to work.

When that happens it feels a lot more like fighting a war, a waste of resources that ideally would have been avoided.

Of course this may improve in the future, but right now I would leave the rose-tinted glasses in the drawer.
Probably random. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
No, the consulting is not a 'day job'. Remember, I work 100% from home, in fact my clients are in other states. Currently the one client I cut it back to is in New York. I may not talk to the clients for weeks at a time. Generally we only communicate via email, and very rarely no one is waiting for an immediate response. I might work from midnight to 7 am and then not work for 2 days (and only because that's when I felt like working). Last year was an anomaly, I decided that renting a condo in Tahoe was a waste of money, so I needed money for a down payment and costs associated with buying a house. When I was working full time on my game, I didn't make any money and therefore it really killed my eligibility for a home loan. So last year I ramped up the consulting to not only make a 30% down payment, but to build up $150k (after tax in the bank) for when I go back into full development mode again. Since I have a good, flexible client right now, if things keep going I'll pay off the house end of this year, so if it drags out a little longer it seems like a good trade off. With a paid off house I can live on $1500 a month in Wyoming. With money in the bank, and what I learned last attempt, I'll be able to launch the product and never have to worry about money.

I understand the point though, most consultants are really contractors that are embarrassed to admit it. They have to show up at the client site every day and put in face time. That's not what I do.
I don't know anything about the vaping space, but have seen some of those horror headlines of them exploding in people's pockets.

Why do people have to build their own coils? Do they have to do some DIY, or can you just buy a vaper off the shelf?

I don't need to know Ohm's Law to use my cellphone, etc. Why for this product class?
Ah, you're right. Privacy Badger (which I love for exactly this reason) was breaking it.
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Yow... Reminds me of the bug on the first Android phone where all keyboard input was also quietly fed to a root prompt, such that you could reboot the phone by typing "<enter>reboot<enter>" at any time. (https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/08/11/08/1720246/bug-in-an...)
Saying that India has better engineering programs than the USA really makes me believe this is some sort of satire.
> * 5 weeks holiday + public holidays

In some companies you get even more weeks ("RTTs") to compensate for the hours you do over 35hrs/week. The company I work for gives me the usual 5 weeks plus 3 weeks of RTTs which brings the total to 8 weeks, i.e. almost 2 months per year (!)
I once explained to a co-worker that we needed to buy a packet of "ethernet aglets." They knew exactly what I was talking about, and to this day I still don't know what the actual name for the things is.
You are definitely forced to pay.

Noawadays, it's even picked and forced by your employer (but taken on your pay). You may not be able choose or deny the plan you're offered. It's messy.
The truth is it is a lot more complicated than you make it sound.

There are some schools which are relatively young and focus on coding. Historically they were expensive (for French schools), even though one of them is now free thanks to the generosity of a French billionaire. They recruit students with different profiles than the traditional "Grandes Écoles" and they get much less recognition from French employers, especially large companies. Because of that, their top students may indeed be inclined to move abroad, where degrees matter less.

In the more generalist, traditional engineering Grandes Écoles, however, the phenomenon is a lot less prevalent. Some students do move abroad, but my experience is that it is not correlated to their competence. Those with propensity to found companies are more likely to go to the US, but that is mostly because the ecosystem there is like no other. On the other hand, you may have noticed that some large US companies (Google, Facebook...) have been opening research labs in Paris, while top French companies such as Criteo send their marketing department to the US but keep development in France. This is not only because talent is cheaper (others have already explained how low salaries for not mean low costs) but also because top technical talent doesn't necessarily want to emigrate. This is cliché, but Fabrice Bellard is still living in France, and Yann Le Cun moved back. :)
> >Extremely unprofessional and irresponsible.

> Agreed

How ungrateful. Someone puts in free work to make the world safer by fixing someone else's problems and they're a jerk because they didn't pamper them enough in the process.

> considering the timing with Christmas and New Years holidays, they probably could not get the word down to their engineering team.

Then this serves as a notice that they need to be able to - in about 15m, 365 days a year. Reality calling. fwiw, fixing a problem like this is almost always trivial. Not making the product bullet-proof, but simply disabling logins or whatever is needed to keep it from being exploited until it can actually be fixed.

A change of mindset (and stopping blaming the researchers) is all it takes to go from a many-month patch cycle to shipping mitigations inside of 12h.

Can you imagine a real engineer complaining about warnings, for instance that their bridge supports were crumbling, and how the discoverer didn't go through the reporting process.
We live in a state where some things are generally supported by both parties, like sadly surveillance of society to find the bad guys. Other things are different, like support for gay and trans rights.
As a French living in Paris and having created a company before I'm sorry but some of your points are simply not true and/or not relevant.

> $130k in the US [...] vs. $50k

Just no, a $130k salary in the US would be at least 70k€ in Paris. In others city it would probably be less but the cost of living would be much less too.

> there's even talk of actually forcing men to take paternity leave

Just because one organization (OFCE) ask for it 3 days ago doesn't make it a reality.

> even something as simple as getting business-class internet requires a SIRET number

I pay 30€/month for 1Gbits/250Mbs. If you need more than that, you're already a business and have a SIRET. Same for the phone line. I don't know about incorporation paperwork in the US but I did it alone in France and it was really not that hard. It took me a week max to get everything.

> Paris -- expensive, somewhat dirty, a dreadful public transport system

It's 73€/month, and half is paid by your employer for unlimited access to all transport in Île-de-France. Do you really find this expensive? Paris also provide the "best access to public transport in the world" according to some recent article. http://www.thelocal.fr/20161011/parisians-have-best-access-t...
Yes some place are dirty but isn't that the case all over the world?

That said Paris is far from my favorite city in France. And as you said the job market is probably far less liquid than in the US because of the CDI. Even if I personally think that this is a good thing. In software development/operations there is still more jobs than applicant at least in Paris.
Tesla driver is stranded in the desert after a spectacular technology fail
The blotches in the example on the right resemble what happens when you run an ordinary raster image through some freely available raster-to-vector image processing tools.
The goal is to reach 65mph, which isn't too difficult of a task. The only parameters that need to be changed to reach that goal are the learning inputs (the area around the car), and the network configuration. I found that having some buffer on the sides and front are helpful in recognizing the conditions for passing a slower car. The size of the hidden layer should also be big enough to take into account the different kind of situations that can happen in the simulation.

Making it on the leaderboard takes a bit more effort. I'm struggling to figure out the insight that takes me over the 70mph mark. I've toyed with the input parameters, types of hidden layers, the weighted random moves, and learning size. It's been frustrating, and has taken me down a deep rabbit hole about reinforcement learning.

If there are any tips for getting past the 'good enough' solution, I would love to hear them.
Apologies. By "posting this", I meant the person posting to Quora, not you. I have edited my above response to clarify.
I've never seen/used the raido one before but I did see/use paperplanes.

While I enjoyed paper planes, it was quite brief. I played with it for 15-20m max before I stopped. I've been watching this (on another monitor) for probably half an hour. Way more engaging and deep. Love this.
What skills you have are laregely irrelavant; just find something that annoys you personally about [your favorite client here], dig in, fix it, and send in a patch. Or, if you're not a developer, use whatever skills you have, mock up a way that a UI component could work better and send it in, or write documentation, or simply file bug reports. Everything helps :)
So you spoke only to French people having left the country, who, obviously, do not regret having left, but to no one happy to have stayed...
Convolutional Neural Network Plays Atari “Demon Attack”
I can't find anything online about that note from a ministry, do you have access to any sources? (either French or English)
Well I am french, top 1 and it's false... Sorry guy just open your eyes and go to the dynamic part of the french society.
Exciting stuff! Thank you for publicly releasing this. Deep learning and self-driving cars are exciting spaces, and will definitely see more activity in the future.
Closed-loop body weight control
During the dot-com bubble some of the largest companies on earth were Internet-related stocks. Didn't go so well; consider this graph of technology sector from 1998 onwards:

https://www.google.com/finance/getchart?q=XLK&x=NYSEARCA&p=4...

Still hasn't recovered.
A lot of those cities have the apartments built and sold before they put in commercial areas and most importantly things like subways. There was an episode of Sinica where a guest was talking to a person that bought one of the ghost apartments but wasn't living in it because there wasn't a subway line. The guest went back to the area once the subway opened and most of the apartments were full and roads were being used. I think it was this episode[0] but not 100% sure. I know the section I'm talking about was towards the end of the episode.

0 - http://supchina.com/sinica/beautiful-country-middle-kingdom-...
A VAT does tax all of those in a perfectly sensible way. A business income tax arguably works as well. The point here is that robots are displacing humans, causing less money to be paid into targeted social programs that are funded based on taxing humans.
Woman smashes car into T-Mobile store after dispute over cracked iPhone
Small correction: the trial period is capped at 8 months.
This is quite addictive. Spend a good 15 minutes watching this before "waking up" from this collective dream. There were video-snippets that disturbed me(dog fighting, voyeurism of sleeping people in transportation[not sure if there is a special category for that]), but otherwise it was a pleasant experience.
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I actually think Prisma sends the image to their servers for processing, their app size is way too small to contain that many trained networks. Also it doesn't work without an internet connection if I'm correct.
Which number is hidden ? Certainly not proportion of people working outside France (e.g. it took me 2 mins to find the one from my own former school, ~25 %).

I am dubious because as mentioned by hiq above, you would need to wait much more than 2 years to figure out who are the "best". Another reason I am dubious is that working in France or at least in a French company is still the best way to climb the hierarchy fast when you're coming from X/Central Paris/ Mines de Paris/Telecom/etc... except for a few specific fields (finance comes to mind).
In a banal sense, it's correct to say that there's no searcher, no goal to evolution. As far as we know, "natural selection" isn't "real" in the sense that electromagnetism is "real"; natural selection is just a staggeringly convenient shorthand that refers to the multitude of ways organisms can die. But if we go further, and think of evolution as a mere random walk through state space, we've suddenly lost all explanatory power. The independent emergence of echolocation in whales and bats, for instance, becomes a brute mystery.

Evolution only makes sense if we think of it as as some kind of massively parallel Monte Carlo that's weighted to explore regions of the state space with high fitness. So it's perfectly valid to talk, as biologist do, of selection pressures and directional selection, because- and here we've come full circle- there is a goal to evolution: to exist.
Yeah, and it's absolutely uncorrelated to what the company feels comfortable with.

Maybe 24h? If you can't respond and mitigate within that time frame you aren't operating on internet time.

> From policy quote in sibling post: "[...] currently known in-the-wild security bugs under active exploit."

Nonsense. Every bug you discover could have been discovered by an attacker, and attackers are constantly scanning. If the bug is in release software you have to assume it's known and being exploited.

btw, for the downvoters - I know I speak the truth because I've worked dev in an internet-security company, and in security in a major cloud company. We can turn patches (or mitigations) out in hours and have them canaried and live in 24h. This is absolutely doable and should be expected. This months nonsense is when the company doesn't want to fix the bug.

What it takes is the institutional will to disable a feature you bill for until you secure it. When a $millions/day loss is on the table you find that obstacles evaporate. If a company tries to keep their vulnerabilities under wraps there wouldn't be this cost, and thus no will to fix it, in an ever-worsening spiral.
An interesting idea. Current evidence however suggests that people already effectively living in a post scarcity world - the rich - seldom refrain from further empire building, politics, gambling or media in order to enjoy outdoor pursuits.
I think consumerism does make people happy. Call it shallow, but people enjoying buying new things like TVs, cars. Its not like we have all been brainwashed to think that way (contrary to what some people think). Even as children, we have this urge to get things that other kids our age have, a new console, a new toy.

Consumerism and capitalism allows a particular level of freedom where if I want something I can get it if I do enough work. The machine is almost a socialist construct, with limited jobs available, its up to the machine to determine whether I can have something or not.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a decent introduction (at least the arguments were fairly compelling)
I find it's also easy to fall into the trap of attributing more cohesion than there is and simplifying all of the groups into some sort of average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#Use_of_technology_by_dif...
> US median disposable income is far higher than France

Did you subtract health insurance premiums, co-pays, and deductibles? Nowadays, for a family of 3 that could run around $500 out-of-pocket per month for employee premiums alone. And that's before adding employer-paid premiums, which are usually 80-90% of the entire premium cost, which could otherwise be going straight to employee pocket.

> I use the direct demographic comparison, because it would be absurd to compare an 8th generation French family to a first or second generation Latin American family in the US

And yet you're comparing a 5th generation New England family in the US to a first generation Lebanese family in France? OK then. And yes, Lebanese would be statistically white.

> The US has a superior university education system.

And a superior college debt system. Did you subtract college debt payments from your "median disposable income" as well by the way?

> The US is superior to France in:

Capitalism. Yes, US is indeed superior to France in that. Which is exactly what GP meant by benefiting 5%.
If we want to assign credit for the LSTM to one person, his student Hochreiter is perhaps the better pick
I'd go beyond "general problem-solving skills". Physics gives you high quality math training (albeit somewhat truncated with respect to number theory), coupled with demanding experimental methods, and a deep, principled understanding of the foundations of the universe. Nothing is beyond your reach. Any other quantitative or logical discipline is just laying there, waiting for you.