skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're on the fence as to whether Uber demonstrates hubris, we're probably too far apart to have any meaningful debate.

On the "knew about these downloaded files", that's not the story Waymo presented[1]. They said an email from a supplier had attached files of a Uber lidar board that looked a lot like a Waymo proprietary board. That is what prompted a look into the logs.

[1]https://medium.com/waymo/a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-...
That's more-or-less what I was thinking. The receiver would require understanding of the signature to white-list the message; the sender just sends to an email address as they would normally. No or invalid sig would fall back to our current anti-spam methods.
Who on earth are we going to sell these to? - People who want to be looked at!
I could see this being a great asset in a department store. Outside of the privacy stalls in the dressing area, that is, and supplementing the part where you walk out in a prospective outfit, get Look'ed, and then use the store iPad to view the photos/video/panorama.

But I don't see the need for home use, at least with the tradeoff in privacy versus what I can already do with my bedroom mirror. I'm not usually making purchasing decisions when getting dressed for the weekday.
Humans bring slaves and stolen goods to the market. Neither of which were supplied by slavers or thieves.

Same thing as natural resources. You are conflating two separate things.

What gives Land its economic value and meaning is its relative difference in productivity ie marginal vs inframarginal Land.

The Saudis are rich because their oil reserves are cheap to exploit relative to those found at the margin of production, like Canadian Tar Sands.

That difference isn't due to the efforts of the Saudis supplying it. It is purely natural advantage ie Land.

What is true of oil is true of all natural resources, but particularly 3D space ie Location.

Hope this helps.
I'm not sure what that wall does, but the easiest way to find intersections, roots, etc. of Bézier curves is to use their convex-hull property and recursively bisect them. The convex hull property is that the curve is within the convex hull of the control points. So given two Bézier curves, if their convex hulls don't overlap, then they don't intersect. If they do, then split them both in half and see which of those Béziers' convex hulls overlap. Recur until you reach a tolerance, then just approximate the curves by a straight line and find the intersection point (or basically equivalently, just use the average position of the control points, since at that point the line is pretty much straight).
I'm fascinated by the fact that Amazon clearly did enough market research to think that this will go down well, yet I wouldn't personally consider allowing one in my home.
Maybe they'll topple Facebook's leader-status on narcissism, insecurity, and invasion of privacy? This definitely falls into the category of tech designed to make you sad/insecure (in this case, so you'll buy more clothes from Amazon).
This is great; thanks!
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Also, will men be reviewing men, and women reviewing women? And will the owner have the option to retract pictures sent?
Count me in too.
It depends on the brokerage. There is Reg T. margin and then there is portfolio margin (the latter has significantly higher capital deposit requirements).

It also is not a straight 1:1 ratio. You generally can't go absolutely nuclear with leverage unless you have portfolio margin. Typically, brokerages will require collateral in the account equal to the risk (for defined risk strategies) and you will need a higher trading clearance on your account for unlimited risk.

Your buying power is a function of how long the trade will be held as well as the risk profile.
Even with Gmail I still find enough false-positives on spam to make me troll through it daily to make sure important emails don't get sent there.
My observation is that this is far more a function of the business' product/market fit than it is the size or age of the business. When you're struggling to pay salaries and bills, and there's no end in sight, often the business (knowingly or not) overworks and stresses their teams to try to make up ground. Unfortunately, the last 3-5 years have seen a lot of very high-risk seed investments in products that seem to have no actual viable path to revenue, which fuels this belief that startups are the problem.

This is not to say startups are without risk; they obviously carry risk. My point is simply that you can absolutely find a startup that will provide you with a reasonable work/life balance. Remember, interviews are as much for your benefit (if not more) than they are for the business. Use the opportunity to ask them about their product, their revenue, their roadmap. You'll probably get a good idea of how hectic things are.

And for any founders/employers out there - respecting the personal lives of your teammates will actually make them far more productive, not less. Aside from just being the right thing to do, it also has the benefit of earning their trust and respect, which will keep them with you.
The core idea of this post is that closing non-ideal deals or making promises to customers for exceptions to your product roadmap create product debt, and Jason argues for being more mindful of that by saying no more.
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Front running would be going the same direction (buy for buy).

In buying order flow, you are usually going in the opposite direction, selling out of you own inventory against a buy.
For about a century, coal has been the cheapest, most reliable fuel for utility-scale power generation. For most of the eastern seaboard, coal has only been supplanted by natural gas (slowly) over the last ten years. Competing fuel price fluctuations dictated the change. Natural gas prices before fracking were both higher and much more volatile. There have been periods of ebb and flow that many workers and their families have managed to "wait out" in the past.

Further, if you've lived your entire life in a coal town, the sheer scale of the plants, mines, railroads, and other infrastructure can make them seem permanent, reliable. It is very difficult to imagine so much specialized infrastructure simply ... going away.

Imagine if you had spent your entire life as a datacenter tech, as had your father. You knew the business inside and out, understood the network of suppliers, the customers, the hardware, everything. You've gotten into arguments about different rack configurations and which you prefer to work on. This is your career. You got into this business because it would provide a stable life for you and your family, and you were damn good at it. Then people started telling you that we would no longer need datacenters - at all - in 5 years because there were now cheaper, better alternatives. You wouldn't believe them.
Spoken like someone who has never visited a desert.

As a Southern California native, I am intimately familiar with the Mojave, Anza Borrego, and Sonora deserts. I will tell you that these deserts are far from "crappy land that nothing can grow on" as you put it.

The North American deserts are areas of huge ecological and geological diversity. They are also some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring landscapes that exist on this planet.

We do utilize a lot of area in the Western Mojave for solar and wind power. For instance, there is a HUGE field of wind turbines in the San Gorgonio pass near Palm Springs at the intersection of the 10 and the 62.

That said, I am no way in favor of scarring any more of our deserts by covering "a fifth to a tenth" of them in solar panels. However, I am not against concentrated solar facilities several square miles in area as long as they remain contained.

I have thought about how we can "disperse" a solar panel network into a system of smaller panels and batteries and the best idea I can come up with is requiring all commercial buildings to cover their roofs in solar panels and maintain on-site battery banks. Also requiring all homes and apartment buildings to have at least one solar panel per household. These ideas come with their own trade-offs although.
You are reading this wrong. Sanofi, the company that filed the lawsuit, had pricing in line with EpiPen:

"In 2013, Sanofi began selling Auvi-Q, which works to quell life-threatening allergic reactions, just as EpiPen does. Sanofi priced Auvi-Q on equal footing with EpiPen. And, initially, Sanofi claims it showed promise of gaining market share and providing real competition to EpiPen, which at the time had more than 99 percent of the market, according to Mylan. But that all changed when Mylan began using dirty tactics, Sanofi alleges."

Looks like Sanofi sold the product to another company - the $4500 number is a price from the company Kaléo.

"In 2015, Sanofi pulled Auvi-Q following quality control issues. The device has since been put back on the market by another pharmaceutical company, Kaléo. The list price of the newly released Auvi-Q is set at $4,500."
I found the noted acceleration in time to 50 million users to be very interesting:

radio 38y
telephone 20y
tv 13y
cellphone 12y
internet 4y
ipod 3y
myspace 2.5y
facebook 2y
youtube 1y
angry birds 35d
It's a very small amount. Don't eat it! Then it would be highly toxic.
Or just looking at what set of fonts the system has: that's pretty OS dependent. There are so many fairly trivial proxies for OS that detecting OS seems… uninteresting.
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Every post on lwn or mailing lists by "PaXTeam" is quite obviously spender with another handle.
Was hard to get through the rhetoric and falsehoods like "When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, the marginal cost of that electricity is essentially free"

I read on until "The natural gas that comes out of these wells is practically free"

Then I had to give up because its obvious propaganda with no real interest in the truth. I am all for clean energy, but unfactual propaganda isnt good for anyone.
I get more spam and more robocalls every single day. I can't rely on even Gmail's spam filter, because it has a non-negligible amount of false-positives.
Mailgun and Sendgrid send plenty of spam. It boggles the mind that they have a "good reputation" when nearly everything they send me is unsolicited.
We started out in a similar way, doing parties and shows, barely surviving. Then HD came along when all our hardware was PAL (720x576) i.e. useless. We couldn't afford to buy replacements for our MX50 (never mind that such a beast didn't and probably still doesn't exist), EDIROL V-4s, reliable DVD-players, projectors, multi-channel MPEG decoder cards, etc. We have several rooms full of PAL hardware we will probably never touch again, and which nobody would probably buy except for nostalgic purposes.

I continually experimented with automating sound-reactive video, but it was unpredictable and difficult to get a pleasing, "fluid" result which didn't cause seizures, so we always did it by hand using hardware such as EDIROL V-4 or the MX50. It was also a lot more fun to punch buttons and slam sliders to the beat of the music ;)

Do you mean current or previous pipeline? Unfortunately most projects are somewhat unique and require at least some variation, if not a complete overhaul in workflow, depending on what the customer wants. I never got a chance to use VVVV in a commercial capacity, although there is an upcoming project where we are seriously considering it. Generally we used custom in-house software (e.g. for 360 projections using 2x 4-channel MPEG-2 decoder cards) or VJ software such as ArKaos and Resolume. Like I said before, these days it's purely content production, so the pipeline is relatively similar to a game studio. We still encode everything into various QT formats and we rent hardware for shows because as you said, it's hard to keep up with ever-changing hardware demands.

If you are interested in our projects, check out http://www.motionlab.at (go the old site for now, the new site is WIP).
Many times it's both: personal circumstances will make someone want to retire, but if things look good in the markets, they'll hold on for a year or two, and if things start looking tapped out that'll give them permission to step back. He's 2 years late, after all.
Nah. We were talking to lowercase three years ago and Mazzeo was already running the day to day for Sacca to spend more time with his family. This is a personal thing and has been a long time coming.
DP produced the vehicles to their own specs to use.

VW would have produced the vehicles to sell, based on some amalgamation of inputs, and 1000 vehicles would not have been a cost-effective run.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Bump to Robotbeat. Fission reactor designs, with many clever advances in safety, have never been tested because of the lack of support from U.S. DoE. Pilot-scale reactors are expensive, but would really help to advance our working knowledge of these new technologies. Overall, nuclear fission has gotten a bad wrap.

As for the cost of storage, that was worked out 20-30 years ago via the Yuca Mountain facility. If one of the local managers hadn't shifted to a "organic-based storage medium', that was not pre-approved for that application, the fire wouldn't have happened and everything would be fine.
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You're right.

I tend to think about what you need to learn to actually work in a IBM Mainframe environment which is greater than just learning the language.
Yup, even with my story the very first start-up I worked at wasn't that bad with the hours. We had the occasional crunch time, sure, but I rarely worked more than 8 hours a day. It really depends on management style, the stage of the start-up, and how technical management is (the less technical the more customer promises and more hours for employees to work, in my experience, because they don't entirely understand what is or isn't doable in a specific timeframe and burn-out is a lot harder to explain to someone non-technical).
I had the same thought when they announced those push buttons for products.

Unfortunately, the truth is that pretty soon you will be able to send nudes just using your voice.
Leaked NSA tools, infecting over 200,000 machines, will be weaponized for years
I'd like to introduce you to a two-bit politician called Ted Cruz.
One possibility is to enforce opinions like yours. In the light of this all of a sudden Echo isn't as strange in comparison. It's a way of normalizing Echo by releasing something more "outrageous".
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The longevity is usually great but if the PSU is low quality and it ends up malfunctioning, it tends to kill other components as well.

That's why I always invest in a great PSU.
I will vouch for this. A large company in many cases behaves like

$startup_dysfunctionality + $dysfunctionality_from_fast_post_startup_growth + $years_of_wild_hiring + $years_of_reorgs + $useless_and_obstructive_policies_and_standards
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More succinctly: it is a Keynesian beauty contest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Sorry I worded that sentence poorly. Let's assume two scenarios:

a) We create a 200 square mile solar field in the Sahara, from which cables run to Europe to supply electricity. To take this plant out, one just cuts the cables. There, you just plunged Europe into darkness.

b) We create a 20x 10 square mile solar fields in the Sahara, all dispersed over a very large area. Well, this is an engineering and construction project on the scale that dwarfs even the previous project. It is truly vast. Nevermind all the political issues again.
I'd been thinking about doing something like this with AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. Chalice (https://github.com/awslabs/chalice) should make it relatively simple to make and deploy...
Flash makes it easier to get some of the information like your system fonts, but JavaScript get the same information it's just more difficult. It has to cycle through a list of fonts and test for them individually rather than Flash which just gives the full list of fonts you have installed.
It's amazing how the human race is 'leaping ahead' the nowadays. Historically we've taken evolutionary steps, e.g. the steam engine to the combustion engine. A well-established paradigm is mastered before the next. Now, while we have people exploring 'easier' forms of fusion, we have people exploring the harder forms of fusion.

Although we don't live in the most exciting times (space-faring and everything after being the most), we are at the crux of all future human endeavors. Exciting times.
That also provides a vector for experienced COBOL devs to make _serious_ money as instructors. Banks would fly out trainees anywhere on the planet for any fee if it meant critical systems have the necessary ops guys.

It's also a great proposition for a grad student. They don't have to unlearn much, they're in a perfect position to absorb a new language, and the term 'set for life' can be thrown around liberally.

Wouldn't be surprised if this was already a thing, probably in the form of COBOL-specific Consultation services.
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I said a fifth or a tenth of the land in the US used for ethanol production. NOT a fifth or a tenth of our deserts. More like 1%.

And my point is we can install solar on land that has no other use. Like land contaminated by industrial waste, etc.
Great. So my friend's homes, which have already been equipped with microphones, will now be equipped with cameras.
Cats are cool. They love you and hang out regardless.
I've followed this pattern recently and realized that there is a balance that can be met in the middle. Do the easy stuff all and any of the time and do the hard stuff as little as possible. That way you can make the $$ and stay sane.

The trick there is to at least do the hard stuff some of the time so you stay up to date and ready for the next thing.
One problem that you will run into is that X (the phrase in the comment) might be a permutation of a book title. Or perhaps even a title of a book being mentioned in a comment where the author did not intend on it being interpreted as such. This is mostly due to ambiguity & information density in language as well as how we assign names/titles to things.

Ex. If I write a comment saying "The number of our clients went from zero to one instantly", in this sentence, "Zero to One" will match Peter Theil's book.

If you are willing to put up with such "noise" in the output, then you don't need to train a thing or even use ML. Just chunk the given piece of text and look up all the tokens permutations of given length (from 1 up to N) in your SQL Entities Database.

You can generally find this kind of Entities Databases by aggregating a lot of datasets from all over the web or even use something like google books datasets:
https://books.google.co.uk/

https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2... - This is an ngram set but there should be one with only book titles somewhere. Can't find it atm but you can search for it yourself!

You could even (if you are brave enough) try to use wikipedia's dumps to mine book titles from articles
No, but while learning to fly I'd describe it more as terrifying. OK big wind gust or whatever we're getting too low, too low, too low, floor it, ... and a second later we're 50 feet up moving very fast upward and that's the new problem.

Pilot induced oscillation, never fun.

I can hover around 1/3 throttle so that would imply 1 G of thrust so you can guess that flooring it would be 2 G vertical acceleration. So 64 ft/s squared so one second after I floor it I'm going 40 mph straight up.. It feels like throwing a $300 volleyball as hard as you can straight up.

To stay underweight I use small 500 mAH lithium poly batteries which lead to both high acceleration and short flight times, like 3-4 minutes tops. I think I have a 250 somewhere which is really small and light. I could probably physically lift 2000 mAH batteries or larger, but would then be over the FAA 250 gram limit so I'd have to register as a drone pilot, which I'm OK with, other than I haven't done it yet. Great, another government list to find myself on, just what I needed. Once you're on enough lists, one more won't hurt...
Sounds like marketing genius to me. Everyone buys clothes.
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HK articles on finance sadden me. So much bad information.

The firm isn't buying days later after a price craters. They are usually buying or selling out of their own inventory. Sometimes this is speculative trades, more often it is more mundane like saving transaction fees (and a higher certainty of transacting) from going to the market.
The HN reaction to this device is what I expected: we're somewhere between suspicious and terrified.

I'll be really fascinated to know how the wider market reacts. I was one of those who believed consumers would look at the always-on living room microphone with suspicion. But I think the lesson was pretty clear that people will trade privacy for convenience. (Likely an overabundance of trust or a lack of understanding of all the real implications and potential for exploit.)

One bit of perspective: When I was a kid, a photo was kind of big deal. My kids take and share photos of themselves every single day. I'm not sure they consider this to be the same privacy invasion that we do.
Machine learning for fashion advice sounds hilarious to me.
Truthfully in the medium term next generation modular fission reactors seem like the way to go, as a complement to intermittent and variable solar/wind power.

If the LPPFusion approach eventually works out, it will be a giant win compared to the Tokomak or implosion fusion reactors.
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It failed to recognize my browser as Edge, it thinks it's Firefox

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It seems so obvious why hasn't Google Now done it already?

Is it because of security concerns that a home device can "spy" on you at all times in your own home?

By the way, there's a new marketing approach that's been trending lately: Instead of saying "this is a Alexa with a camera", they say what it's for: "look your best".

Eventhough we all know adding a camera can do a lot more than just checking if you look good in these clothes or not (ie security monitoring). Apple Watch has been using the same technique lately. It's been focusing the Apple Watch functionality mainly on sports, eventough it can do a lot more than just sports.

Are you guys seeing the trend? Are you going to use it for your own products and services?

I surely will try
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I am not sure I fully understand your comment.

> Seems more like a convenient way to not having to address the article.

There is no need to address the article as there is nothing wrong with it. It's a fine article! In fact, for my sake we may even call it perfect!

> I increasingly see people who find themselves disliking the consequences of their decisions (often without realizing they made them in the first place).

And here we actually agree! People don't realize which decisions they have made (and thus also don't realize what they've gotten themselves into)! My attempted explanation for why that is is that they absorb too much information and use that soup of ideas (which almost seems like white noise to me) as a reference for their decisions instead of waiting for an impulse from within (which in my experience occurs if you allow yourself enough time - just like you get sleepy at night or hungry in the morning - insofar I believe what I've described is more of a rule than advice).
Whether or not they do their own thing or want to follow a school-like path - that again doesn't matter I think but they have to "own" their decisions.