skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> keeping the price of textbooks very high

Why don't people just scan or photocopy a textbook, if the price is too high? Do American students give even higher value for their time than the cost of a textbook?
Have you noticed how much US political coverage is based solely on anonymous sources, often ones whose political biases and level of knowledge about their claims are not disclosed to the reader?
Regular software, yes, they crash all the time. But I would think these systems would be more safely handled. For example, nuclear energy, air traffic control, bank systems and automated train lines don't crash nearly as often, for example.

Being such an important feature (not crashing) it shouldn't be ignored. I am also skeptical but we have examples of reliable systems so I believe they can work.
The Neutron Enigma
Del.icio.us and Tumblr is also acquired and killed by Yahoo. Also Geocities, like it's hard to serve some static files.
For a family of 4. That's the critical bit left out of the article title. 104k is low income for a family of 4, in some areas.

Which makes sense when it's hard to find somewhere to live alone, in SF, even at 100k. Finding a place big enough for a family of 4 plus all the costs related to 4 humans? Not surprising in the least.
I know we know how to do it. It's just that the cost-benefit analysis usually falls to 'let it crash' rather than 'let it crash and put a supervisor on top of it'. Besides the fact that most developers don't care too much about their stuff crashing (for instance: one valid excuse for not digging in and solving a problem is 'can't reproduce', whereas those are the worst problems to allow to persist).

In the end it is all economics. But I really would like to see some real life stats on how these self driving cars perform over the longer term in less controlled situations and with an honest accounting of the root cause of any issues. Fat chance that will ever happen but that's the sort of rigor that would get me to switch from driving myself to being driven by a pile of software.

That's the good bit about Google being involved: at least they really 'grok' software and reliability engineering. As opposed to your average car manufacturer where software is a dirty word best outsourced to some contractor.
New censorship tactics combine the worst old practices and the newest technology
Google's car clearly isn't going to work in the real world (can it follow detour signs? Get out of the way of emergency vehicles? Understand a cop directing traffic?). Why is Google pretending otherwise? Why are they doing this?
> Since reading here I've done some research and learned the Cambodian Genocide claimed around 1/3 the death toll of The Holocaust, yet I'd bet most people haven't heard much, or anything, about it. Could you name the leader in charge of it, or how it came about?

Pol Pot? This was something that was literally covered in my World History class in high school. I remember that mostly because we watched "The Killing Fields" and I was happy to have what I assumed would be an easy week, but that movie is pretty profoundly impressive.

We also covered Native American atrocities and read "A People's History of the United States", which at the time (20 some years ago) might have been out of the norm but now seems relatively common.

None of this is to condescend to you or to suggest you are uneducated generally, but rather to point out that something you are extrapolating as systematic in education is not. And for what it's worth I went to public high schools and public college in a not too progressive place.

I also didn't mean to imply you were aligned with anti-semitic groups, rather that anti-semitic groups use that misunderstanding as propaganda and you should probably be aware of that.
Hahaha I can't believe there are downvotes for offering an explanation that makes the symbolic use in this way comprehensible. Too wed to the satisfaction of being sure it's a misuse as if this process of negotiation over meaning isn't how language is created. Nonsense is where new sense is discovered. I downvote your downvotes, at last a conversation.
I've hit 55. I need to lose a whopping 7 pounds to get back to the weight I'd like to be. Don't knock skinny - in a decade or two, it will be your friend.

(I'm not saying don't try to gain some weight. I am saying be grateful for your basic body type.)
Former Fox Host Claims Network Hacked into Her Computer
this is made with convnets. so just point me to a dataset with a thousand examples per type, and I'll give you a working app in days. of course, finding and preparing that data is the real challenge
I always wondered: what is the point of taking laptops out of your bag and putting them in a separate tray?
To be fair, temporary adjuncts are being paid next to nothing.

The full professors don't have any such excuse, though.
>how attachment reduces stress

Although I'm in the process of reading the article, the title was quite striking to me - the Buddha said almost exactly the opposite - that it is attachment which is the cause of stress, clinging to changing phenomena, hoping they were permanent, or even without realising at the emotional level that they will fade.
It's a low income if you are supporting a family of four and only one person is working. It doesn't mean the salary is in the low income bracket for a single tech worker on six figures.
Non-paywalled (take your pick):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/marissa-mayer-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/25/yahoo-mar...
> Their second problem was not embracing mobile early enough or well enough.

Maybe not well enough, but they were certainly early enough; see this press release from 2001 [1], where they were making mobile search available (in 2001, Y! was using Google for search, so don't freak out about that part)

As with many things Yahoo, they were there early, put in time and money, saw results that weren't great, so they backed off, and may have come back too late. PS, you can read old Yahoo! news releases to get good ideas for what to do today :)

[1] https://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=17431...
Anyone care to give a first blush comparison vs protobuffs/json schema?
Books can be shared in study groups, lent between students, checked out from a campus library, bought and sold between terms, and photocopied. Much the same could be done for a DRM-free PDF.

The only way to complete MyMathLab homework is to pay out for a poorly-written Flash app.
I'm curious, under this train of thought, vehicle hardware should also be open source, right?
Math for Game Developers
Cue the standard responses about lack of development, rampant NIMBYism, Prop 13 and rent control.

There's really nothing to add at this point.

All of this is also why I really prefer living in NYC, which actually has the infrastructure for this sort of thing (meaning if you're a lower to middle income earner in the tri-state area you're not totally hosed like you are in the Bay Area).
Success as a human is not a zero-sum game. The more value each of us contributes, the more value the entire system has.

If you like the race analogy, it'd be like a race where each person is a member of the same crew team rowing a boat. The harder each person rows, the faster the entire boat goes.
The problem is actually getting administration to enforce their zero tolerance policies: expel cheaters despite the fact that they pay a hefty tuition.
They're on the Widely Adopted list [0] for the library.

I would give them extra time to respond. I don't see a valid reason or motivation on their part not to fix it.

0: https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets#widely-adopted
You don't get that rush of endorphins which makes you feel godlike, if only briefly? Then try doing it harder. (And with better music.)
Are you deliberately avoiding the rest of what he wrote? The point is that he doesn't care to involve color at all, having only one color would remove the "it's color X smiling" choice.
50k images is too few for that many classes
I don't know much about SF salaries, but in NYC, 100K is really middle class. With enrage rent at 2k/mo, salaries have to be high in order to keep up with cost of living.

Everyone makes a huge deal about the number but shouldn't it be more of a ratio? Like the cost of living to base salary? That should be a better statistic to judge quality of life.
Don't forget Yahoo Pipes. Another great idea killed by Yahoo.
If that is the context their analysis is bad.

There's little evidence that anything Tesla has deployed is an important step towards viable self driving vehicles.

They are apparently mapping the locations of odd situations, but that is pretty meh (and doesn't require the mapping system to be in control of the vehicle).
Print the agenda of the meeting with decent whitespace between points.

Fill in agenda with points covered.

Have decent minutes, which can be as simple as a snap of the filled-in agenda through to a list of follow-up emails. Whatever fits whatever hole. Camera phone shot of pen marks on agenda works well; important dates highlighted and calendar updates done to back up.

It seems incredible you take meetings without taking a record. Record meetings are hugely useful for others around you - attended or not - to stay in the loop in a formalised not 'do you a favour and tell you what we discussed' way.
Which must be doubly frustrating since they have a copy of https://github.com/websockets/ws in the node_modules folder, and that has the appropriate license text (MIT in that case)
This was my thought exactly.

"Wansink added another note to his blog post, acknowledging the problems and announcing that a statistician would be redoing the analyses."

With all of the issues lately around replication of studies it seems like having a statistician review the math should be step one of any peer-review process.
Debugging is a valuable skill that some of us were lucky enough to pick up by chance. A friend recommended an excellent book that very nicely explains the process: "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems"[1]. I found myself nodding along while reading. I think this would have been a hugely valuable primer if I had been exposed to it before I figured out how to do it on my own.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PDDKQV2
Scientists Create Artificial Womb That Could Help Prematurely Born Babies
Glad to see Phoenix getting some love.
For anyone else slightly confused at first: the Discord Linux release (https://discordapp.com/download) includes uWebSockets in ./resources/bootstrap/discord_rpc/uws.js.

This is only the JS source code and there is no licensing information attached whatsoever.

This directly conflicts with uWebSocket's licence (https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets/blob/master/LICEN...), which clearly states:

"3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution."
> nuclear energy, air traffic control, bank systems and automated train lines don't crash nearly as often, for example.

Bank systems crash with great regularity. Source: worked for a bank, customer of a bank.

Industrial systems and anything related to flight is typically much better from a design point of view than your average bit of firmware. Redundancy is built in from the first day and all failure modes are tested in so much as feasible.

Also, and this is very important, such software is kept as simple as possible to reduce the surface area bugs can hide in.
>The savviest rotate the problems from semester to semester to ensure zero resale value.

Not trying to tell you that there aren't some jackasses who do this for extra loot, but one good reason to rotate the problems is to prevent students from showing up with an answer key. ie: When I was in college our IEEE club had a more comprehensive question bank than any single prof at my uni.
> Everything was fine, except the left rear motor with a bullet hole in it.

Potential market gap here: gunshot-resistant drones, exclusively for the US market.
There are lots of simpler ways to reduce traffic deaths that we could be funding.
Define "taking a risk." Every time we get in a car, we're taking calculated risks based on our evaluation of the physical environment, how we expect other drivers to behave, and expected behaviors of pedestrians/bikes/etc. At least up to the point where you create a traffic hazard, there's always the option to take things slower and more conservatively.
Not sure about the merits (or novelty) of that flying thing, but the video strikes me as astonishingly tone deaf.

No wonder the comments to the NYT article (on the NYT website) were so vitriolic.
Haven't really thought about the safety and maintenance part of this before. If people own their self-driving cars I suppose there's also a chance they can opt-out of software updates, which would potentially be very dangerous. I do believe that the autonomous car future will have room for owned vehicles, but at this stage I don't think any of us really know how it will shake out.
Wow, this resonates with me. In 2013 my wife and I were living in the Bay Area and had just welcomed our third child into the family. I was making 105k/yr at Apple (which seemed like a ton at the time!) but I felt like I was saving very little of that.

I was approached on LinkedIn to take a job with matching pay but that was fully remote. I could live anywhere I wanted in the entire country. I jumped at the chance and felt like I became rich overnight! I miss working at Apple, and would definitely jump at the chance to work remotely for them, but I don't think I could ever afford to move back to California.
Recently moved to NYC from the bay myself and could not be happier with the decision. At almost any price point, NYC is a more ergonomic place to live.
> LITERALLY DESTROYING ENTIRE INDUSTRIES AS WE STAND DEBATING WHETHER IT'S POSSIBLE?

Except that's not true. Never has been. This kind of hyperbole just makes people switch off and stop listening.
GM, Apple, and Uber are all testing in the Phoenix metro area, so I don't think that's valid - more likely good wide roads, weather, and regulatory environment.
>These problems can all be discussed in the prism of restraining property rights for public benefit (e.g. restriction of copyright for quoting). In Uber's case, though, there is no public interest in restraining Lyft's rights.

The public interest is in maintaining a fair and open market. You can't blind your competitors and expect to get beneficial competition.

IMO we need to be much more aggressive about this and err toward keeping the market accessible for new entrants v. keeping an ideologically-pure sanctum for corporate property rights. The powerful will always use try to use their influence to get the government enforcing rules that are to their benefit.

If you think it's absurd for Target to be able to issue a blanket ban on Walmart employees shopping in their stores in order to "protect their intellectual property", you should think this is absurd too. "But, Target could've sold information about their stores to Walmart! Walmart employees are stealing by going in there without their Walmart hats on!" Give me a break.

You're speaking in favor of treating intellectual property identical to real property. It doesn't work that way. Information can co-exist without diminishing or blocking anything, whereas occupation or usage of real property cannot.

Some IP rights are reasonable, but contrary to real property laws that merely codify the natural human behavior to protect and preserve physical property, IP contradicts the natural human impulse to spread information far and wide. "Information wants to be free" and all that. IP is a government-granted monopoly on information, and it's something we should be very wary about.

>None of these regulation relate to liability of potential thieves, but to public safety.

That's because no theft is occurring. Theft requires illegally taking something. Uber hasn't taken anything or caused any actual deprivation. The theory that they maybe COULD HAVE sold it to Uber is ridiculous. We can't protect everything based merely on its hypothetical, untested market value; the fact is that Lyft was giving this away.

>The nature of that deal is codified in the terms of service. While most terms of service may be seen unfair towards customers, in this case, 1) Uber is not a customer and 2) the aspects of the terms that were violated are hard to consider unfair.

I disagree, I think they're easy to consider unfair, and I think people would readily agree if the parties had swapped positions.

>Uber's action fits none of these legitimate uses, and is actually a good example of why CFAA was introduced in the first place.

The CFAA was introduced after a panic caused by the Matthew Broderick film War Games. "The internet" was not something that the public had even heard about, let alone had in their homes. It was intended to prevent hacking into military, industrial, and financial computer systems.
Yes, but then you have to look all those people you fired in the eye while you pocket your payday.
I agree, but the incentive for hourly is to wait as long as possible to introduce the candidate, right?
Matt Stoller recently wrote an article in The Atlantic that discusses the culture and values of that time period and how it has been diluted/devalued in modern times [0].

"By the late 1970s, the populist Brandeisian anti-monopoly tradition—protecting communities by breaking up concentrations of power—had been air-brushed out of the debate. And in doing so, America’s fundamental political vision transformed: from protecting citizen sovereignty to maximizing consumer welfare."

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-dem...
The cutthroat jobs strategy Amazon uses to conquer retail
I know the CEO vs Employee payout has been discussed time and time again, yet news like these really make my jaw drop. I guess its just as well so no one will feel bad not hiring her again for anything, ever.
Definetely, Waymo is ahead of everybody, but the race is closer than one would think. In addition to Google and Uber, there exist about a dozen smaller players but with competitive technology.

For example, nuTonomy, the start-up at which I work, has deployed a similar trial in Singapore in August 2016. (btw, we are hiring in everything!).

It's not a "race", it's more like a "marathon": there is a big difference in making something that works 99% of the times (sufficient for a trial like the above), and something that works 99.9999...% of the times (a product that can be actually deployed).
I assume she's waiting on a call from Uber now. She has an established specialty of piloting ships already headed for the rocks.

Edit: And she's probably a good candidate to purge the misogyny problem.
Last time I checked Tumblr was still well and alive with two disjunct communities (tumblr-bullshit-feminism and porn curation).
Even the post-hoc analysis isn't invalid as a way of discovering potential avenues of future research. But you really have to run new experiments designed to test your new hypotheses.
i think i can do it
Here in Boulder CO, the cutoff for "affordable" housing subsidies is ~80k for a family of four. 104k in the Bay Area seems about right.
I graduated from Oregon State in '92. The less-tech predecessor to this process was that they would sell homework packets at Kinko's for $20-30.

I've often wondered whether a legal case could be made against universities for price gouging.
Secret Origin of SVG [2010]
I doubt they added it as actual source code.

https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/0.0.1/discord-0.0.1.tar...

expand that out, then navigate to:
resources/bootstrap/

expand out:
discord_rpc.zip

note the presence of uws.js which is the source code for this library.

Thus this is a distribution of this library as source, not binary.
Uber Used Private API to Access iPhone Serial Number
Oh, don't get me wrong, I certainly feel a strong sense of civic duty to pay taxes, and I completely understand the benefit that comes from them. But from conversations with other people, I get the feeling that a large number of people would not pay taxes if they knew they could get away with this. Of course, now that I verbalize this, I'm realizing this could just be a sampling bias, as people who aren't upset about paying taxes are probably less likely to start a conversation about them.
Seems a bit gimmicky (it's the hyperloop after all). If the self-driving car is the vehicular equivalent of a hot desk, why not just exit it and walk into the hyperloop pod, instead of transporting tonnes of weight of interchangeable self-driving car? Then just hop into a different one that's waiting at the other end.
from 1924

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16179923

"Radium treatment for blindness is limited
in its usefulness principally to two types of
eye disease, Dr. Francis H. Williams, of
Boston, the discoverer, said on September 5"
Ha! I was interpreting it as "namaste".
That effort doesn't suddenly become meaningless because a copy is made.
Have none? Probably not that many (although Flickr probably is comparatively interesting for a large part of that demographic). Willing to share with a random service on the other hand...
Video Games Are Better Without Stories
Ever fired a person? Single breadwinner for a family of four with a mortgage and a dog? Slept well that night? Now multiply by a few thousand.
So this post gets 60 upvotes in 30 minutes and is immediately censored by HN and taken off the front page. Right, thank you very much for stealing my work, giving me no credit and then censoring my appeal.
The median annual family income (for a whole family including all earners) is 50k. 100k for a family is in the top 20% of NYC.
How could Google solve this? I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say.
Sometimes, to build immunity, you need to be exposed to the raw, unfinished stuff.

If you manicure everything you will lose the ability to build critical thinking and discern among various opinions.

From this angle, the "curation of fake news" looks very paternalistic, if not even a sign of patriarchy. :)
Uber is heading for the rocks? What did I miss?
If you fly your drone over private property, get permission. How hard is that?
> I guess its just as well so no one will feel bad not hiring her again for anything, ever.

Companies will line up to hire her again.
I got kicked out of YC startup school
what are your options then? legit curious
NYC != Manhattan. Yes, 100K is middle class in lower Manhattan but in the outer boroughs, you could live quite well on 100K.
I assume a lease program with baked in maintenance costs and a lockout if maintenance is skipped would suffice.

Edit: And I assume the car could drive itself to preventive maintenance appointments if it's something that can't be done OTA.
I am not op of the Reddit post, only thought it might be relevant.
It's so the scanner operators can tell there's nothing hidden underneath your laptop. I'm not sure whether the laptop case (or just the battery?) can actually block the scanners, or it just makes the output image harder to interpret. Either way, I guess they want to be sure...
Once upon a time, a family of four had the same number of working adults as a family of one.
AND I can tell you as a co-founder of the company this is 100% false.