skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting idea. The trouble here is that analysis like this tends to document the symptoms of failure as if they were the causes. The actual causes are more likely to be very complex, based on circumstances unique to the startup/people running it, require deep insider knowledge of the company, and in some cases be things people aren't willing to admit or recognize.

It's the flipside of a similar problem in analyzing why companies are successful. [1]

The little disclaimer at the bottom really says it all.

The attempt is a noble one, marred by data and insight quality issues. I think it could be useful if the site can source insightful analysis from founders/insiders and make it easy to search by market/product category. Perhaps even adding a badge to information which came from a founder.

[1] http://www.tomorrowtodayglobal.com/2011/12/09/good-to-great-...
Yep! And the best thing is that nothing could possibly go wrong and there is no conceivable universe in which humanity comes to regret the exact way we're building intelligent machines right now. :)
Flying to North America from Europe? Please fly to Canada first and enjoy using your laptop onboard. Then take a short hop to your US destination on which you can also use your laptop since your flight originated in Canada.
I think it's a false dichotomy to assume that we cannot have a level playing field and respect employment laws without having absurdly onerous taxi regulation.

Uber drivers are clearly not contractors by any useful definition. All taxi companies should be regulated the same. We don't want regulatory arbitrage to be the main competitive advantage of new companies just because they call themselves tech companies.

Surely, that doesn't mean we have to defend the sort of ridiculous protectionism that taxi companies enjoy in some cities.
> Using IClass naming is considered best practice in the .Net world AFAIK.

No, it's the opposite. IClass is the norm, for legacy reasons going all the way back to the early COM days (it all started with IUnknown[1]).

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
Especially Moloch.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The alarming rise of female genital mutilation in America
Unless I missed it, they didn't answer their own question, and instead just listed a few emotions that get people riled up the most.
Agree completely, facebook "stories" feels cheap and forced. My anecdotal data point, is that most people I know (my age twenty somethings, younger, and even parent's age) enjoy using snapchat, partially due to the regular and fun updates to the computer vision / AR filters. And that very few people communicate with fb stories or use it aside from promotion (they run a business, or are a model, etc)
And yet, fly as a private passenger on your own jet at a public airport and you're also just as able to bypass almost all of these checks, too. And while a chartered Citation X isn't as likely to be as capable of destruction as a laden Boeing, it could sure do or carry some threat.
Creating a User Research Program That Drives Itself
Just started the Keto diet and its working wonderfully so far. (Lot) more info at http://reddit.com/r/keto/
Hope for fixes for stuff like npm, too.
I've was once "rejected" by the gate-machine when I accidentally gave them an old boarding pass - however, this was on EasyJet, an airline which actually runs on 21st century software.
More-less the same as "an American", the two places are comparable. Situation may differ from city to city, but since the article is saying "Europe", I want to point out that many places in Europe had figured out all the legal Uber "innovations" long before Uber itself showed up on the continent. So we would be totally fine without an actor that doesn't play by the rules.
Cute little girl dances to Ed Sheeran
It's been possible for a while. I used it, maybe it was https://github.com/alwsl/alwsl
It's true that Cloudflare left themselves that loophole, but the general tone of the rest of the post seems to suggest that they're going for the throat. I wouldn't expect them to back out on paying the $50k even if the immediate withdrawal of the suit would allow them to.

I get the feeling that they won't be getting sued by patent trolls again for a long time, they know that, and they'll be grinding this one into the ground as far as possible.
how did you clear the Cloudflare cache?
>do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

yes. Please. Please give me a world without Uber / AirBNB / Whatever is the hip unicorn of the year.

It's all just a bunch of shit.
there are several MSSQL drivers, but i could not understand from the project file structure support should be added to jinjasql or SQuealy ?
> ...if one of those stops, we're going back to unavailable, dirty, unsafe, cabs with perpetually broken credit card readers.

I think it's disingenuous to suggest that there's no middleground to between complying with regulations and providing poor service.

There's definitely an argument to be made that the laws should be rewritten to be more conducive to competition while maintaining consumer protections, but let's not pretend that Uber isn't a taxi service and doesn't deserve to be treated as such.
Microsoft is so frustrating.

On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging.

But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privacy invasions you can't disable and ads in deeply inappropriate places like Windows Explorer, which is just a huge buzz-kill for the exact type of person who the other stuff is so clearly meant to appeal to. Which gives the whole effort a real Keystone Kops aspect.

It feels like there's different groups inside MS that are working from fundamentally incompatible premises, and Nadella either isn't willing or isn't able to wrangle them into all pulling in the same direction. I guess it's an improvement over the Microsoft of old to see the company's basic orientation go from "competent evil" to "incompetent good," but when you consider how few good things there are in the universe it's always sad to see a potential new one kneecapping itself.
Does anyone have a source of data for the variance of the home prices in the U.S.? Getting within 10% sounds spectacular, considering that I think you could get close to 10% price differences between different combinations of buyers and sellers on the exact same property. If someone were to come up with an algorithm for predicting the price of a steak dinner at a restaurant, using spotty 5 year old data, I think everyone would be impressed at getting it correct within $3 of $30.
Well, it's also possible that without the space program we never would have invented Tang at all. This scenario seems more realistic when you apply it to the Internet, the design parameters were pretty nuts -- they were trying to come up with a communications network which could survive a nuclear war. And no one was really saying that we needed the Internet until we already had it, but afterwards it was obvious how great it was. Without DARPA who knows if we would have gotten anything like the Internet we have today.

Point is having lots of people out there doing very random and diverse research is a good thing. It may not be the most cost efficient path from A to B, but serendipity provides for some remarkable outcomes we might never have achieved otherwise.

It can unearth "unknown unknowns" to borrow from Rumsfeld. Or "black swans" to steal from Taleb.
Using Windows at work, and Fedora at home, the font rendering on Windows always drives me crazy. My monitor at work is kind of awful, but the font rendering just doesn't have to be as bad as it is.
So instead of a mix of 4 different ui kits, Windows will now be a mix of 5 different ui kits?
Do Uber drivers even have an expectation to earn a minimum wage? But to answer your question, yes, I do avoid stores and businesses that are known to treat their employees poorly and e.g. block unionization.

As for "Uber drivers can just quit", I think that's a very simplistic argument. Uber are pricing competitors out of the market (using venture capital!), turning what used to be a fairly decent job into something that's barely enough to scrape by on. The people likely to driver for Uber likely don't have as many options, and probably fewer by the day as jobs that don't require are lot of skills are increasingly being turned into temporary jobs and platform gigs. I'm from Scandinavia, which has a very high degree of social cohesion and low economic inequality, and I see it very mch as a regression and a danger to society.
Journalist: But that URL fine for me.

/s
The six-character confirmation code you get when you book? That was the block address on disk of the start of your PNR.
Amazon investment in Nucleus set a bad precedent
A bit late on this, but have to wonder what fire departments think about this roof/panel? How difficult will it be to vent a roof? Will the roof present an electrical risk to firemen (even assuming there is a cut off below)

Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of municipalities have given too much thought to widespread solar use and I wonder if this will fall afoul of possible future regs.
Chinese click farm: They make fake ratings for mobile apps [video]
HoloLens is still for developers, developers, developers
Or the upcoming adams-westworld crossover where George III reveals that america is a theme park, the revolution has been fought many times and memory-wiped, and he only fought the war to get the americans past their julian jaynes preconsciousness.

(Of course this is revealed through G-III interviewing a nude john adams on a stool).
Yes they talk about death in the self-serving "how can anything in this life be important when there's an eternity of unimaginable bliss and continued, but changed, eternal life ahead?" sense.
This is interesting. It really shows how deep learning has become almost "Lego-like".

1. Imagine the problem, add a camera or two (or more).

2. Build/use a pre-trained ImageNet model as a starting point (probably using TensorFlow/Keras).

3. Build a dataset, split it into test, train, validation sets.

4. Train the model further.

5. Test and validate the model. Lower the error rate (don't overfit though!).

6. Profit?

As far as what language to use, depending on the speed of whatever you're trying to do, Python would likely work fine in the majority of cases. If you need more than that, C/C++ is around the corner.

Oh - and OpenCV or some other vision library will probably be used (but just to grab the images, maybe a little pre-processing).

You wouldn't have to use this exact pipeline (you could substitute other deep learning libs, other vision libs, other languages, etc) - but the basics are to start with a well-known CNN model, preferably "pre-trained", then apply your own dataset(s) to the task to get it to work better. Not much more tweaking needed, the biggest thing is to get (or be able to synthesize from what you do have) enough data to throw at it (and have a fast enough system to train it in reasonable time).

We've seen this approach many, many times; it seems to work well for a ton of domains and problems. Again - very "Lego-like"...
http://fluent.microsoft.com doesn't render in Safari properly
Fixes for what, specifically?
> Which gets at the real question.. what is the scanner actually checking?

That's the question that's been nagging me since the day I read about this particular mistake. I wonder if there are any active public subreddits of airline workers; somewhere where I could hear a first-hand account of what those scanners are checking.
Europe does, unfortunately, have a lot of those problems too, even if less pronounced.
> rich leeches to force poor people into "voluntary" deaths

What is wrong in rich people parting their wealth to help poor people while benefiting their family members ?

The voluntary part however is very important and in a country like USA that part can generally be achieved much better than say India or China. Give instant green-cards to the family members of organ donors from India and China instantly and USA will not have a problem of organ donation queue while helping millions of Chinese and Indian people live a better life.
Well this wasn't submitted by pg nor (presumably) did he ask anyone to submit or upvote this. What exactly are you complaining about?
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Yes, indeed. The German constitution clearly states

"Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good."

(https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...)
Nice graph-based menu.
> Secondly, I am referring to the end-game: many places want Uber to be illegal, period.

Nobody wants Uber to be illegal. Everybody wants Uber to compete on a level playing field and "win" through genuine cost-lowering innovation -- y'know, like capitalism is supposed to work. But most if not all of Uber's price advantage has not actually come from innovation, but from VC-enabled price dumping, pushing costs from companies onto drivers, and being incorrectly classified.

If Uber still can't win once they're actually classified correctly, then they don't deserve to be a continuing business
What I want is a company with a business model like Red Hat working on ride sharing. Open source and free to use, or you can pay them to host it. Cities can choose to set the rates as high as they want and keep the income, or even subsidize it for rides in certain areas (or for vulnerable populations). Once self driving cars are reliable, a city could purchase its own fleet of vehicles and add them to the app. This way everyone benefits, more money stays in local economies, and drivers make more.
You can remotely wipe most phones today, no?
Clustering with Scikit with GIFs – Dashee87.GitHub.io
Ask HN: What types of chat do you use?
For work, or open source, or personal communications. What IM (not email) app do you have open all the time (Slack, Hipchat, hangouts, Gitter, etc.)? Why that one?
Let's assume you have a python object "userquery" that has the user specifications - including dimensions, metrics, filters and the cube to query. I'm also assuming you have whitelisted all the parameters in this object per your database model, otherwise you are open to security issues.

Here's how you could write that in jinjasql. I'm writing this out of memory, and it has errors/issues - but I hope you get the idea.

SELECT
{% for metric in userquery.metrics %}
{{ metric.id }} as '{{metric.description}}'
{% endfor %}
FROM {{ userquery.cube }}
WHERE
{% for filter in userquery.filters %}
{{ filter.key }} {{ filter.operator }} {{ filter.value }}
{% endfor %}
GROUP BY
{% for dimension in userquery.dimensions %}
{{ dimension }}
{% endfor %}

This way, your template doesn't have to map to exactly one visualization.

Now, another interesting this in the security aspect. You can also pass the logged in user data model, and then append a where clause that restricts the rows based on the logged in user id or his role or whatever else is your application security model.

I'm not sure how much effort it would have saved you, but it does help us a lot - mostly because we don't have to translate between SQL and the way SQL ALchemy / ORM works.
> In the end, is it truly that much different than the prevailing economic structure disproportionately forcing the poor into high-risk or hard-labor occupations that result in significantly degraded lifespan and/or quality of life?

You are right but I am unable to see why might think it is bad. Poor people taking more risks to come out of poverty is very natural and should be encouraged. Why do you think I left my homeland, left my parents, friends and Gods to come to Silicon Valley ?

If you are not going to allow poor people to take risks and make hard choices you are keeping them in perpetual poverty.
I assume there are probably a 1,000 people that cross the US border a year where there is a very compelling case to check a phone. The same argument does not work for 10,000,000 people. So, I assume when you ramp up the people your adding have a much lower threshold than the old group.

Further there is a long history of random inspections as people cross borders without a warrants meaning it's simply doing the same things with different means. Basically, border security is one of the core functions of government and the expectation of privacy is minimal.

Or put another way, if you are going to open 1,000 laptops a year then I assume that getting a warrant would not be difficult. If you want to open 100,000,000 laptops a year then your not acting on any kind of evidence just going fishing. But, that kind of fishing tends to be ineffective and expensive both directly and by discouraging people from visiting the US.

PS: The same argument exists in other areas. Having 100 H-Bombs on ICBMs is a very powerful threat. Having 10,000 H-Bombs on ICBMs is just more expense without really changing the threat. You increase the risk of bad things happening, spend ~100x the money and gain what exactly?
The introduction alone is worth the read!
that's cool. Google always WOW people.
> Things were evolving fine in Europe; from our POV, Uber isn't doing anything innovative - they're just a personal transportation company (we have those) with a cute app (we have those) that tries to outcompete everyone by unilaterally deciding that laws don't apply to them.

I think the major innovation that's overlooked (because they haven't rolled it out in many markets) is UberPool/Lyft Line. Being able to match strangers with departures/destinations on the same route leads to significant savings for the customers and better car efficiency (one car for two trips, instead of two cars).
Do you think even 1% of consumers would know what that means, let alone care?
Fun fact: all of the Pacman ghosts actually behave differently:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie...
Prosocial also works
It's easy to understand: http://i.imgur.com/3zbOPJI.jpg
Courts around the world haven't been especially lenient towards websites and services which deliberately facilitate the breaking of laws.
I'm not sure why you say "Nobody wants Uber to be illegal" when the taxi lobbies in many places do.
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It's also for manifest reasons. They need to have information on who and what is in the aircraft to calculate takeoff distance, power, flap settings, etc. and to account for everyone in the event of an accident or someone at CBP getting bored.
Agreed. You can't make a mistake when there's no decision to make.
​HPE hasn't abandoned OpenStack, releases Helion OpenStack 5.0
I have a terminal diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer at the age of 27. I'm receiving treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the disease is under control.

However, it's still incurable, and making the patient aware of this was clearly difficult for my doctor, despite his incredible bedside manner. It was actually sort of humorous because the news didn't phase me; I had already come to terms with my death months ago.

The reason I mention this is because today I finally went over the long term plan for my life and death. Essentially Sloan Kettering embraces palliative medicine and combination therapies and they don't give up on you even as you transition from a control-focused treatment plan to a palliative one.

Furthermore, your team of doctors orchestrate all of this so you and your family do not have to stress about how to manage end-of-life care. It's really amazing.

So in my case, I will continue treatment until the disease becomes progressive and we've exhausted all treatment options (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc). Then comes the experimental stage; MSK is a research institution so they could potentially have experimental treatments I could trial.

Failing that, my primary oncologist will work alongside a doctor here specializing in palliative medicine and coordinate all future care together. Once the cancer has progressed to the point where I can no longer live a normal life (I'm still working and living life fairly normally, with caveats), they will coordinate hospice and such.

It's nice to not have to worry about that stuff despite the terminal nature of the disease. My hope is that MSK will be "good at death", to paraphrase the title, when it comes to my own. So far I have received amazing care and treatment here, so I am very optimistic. All I know at this point for sure is that I'm going to keep hacking until my last breath.
An expert is someone who has made all of the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field.

(Not the definition of 'Expert System' I was thinking of, however)
Why use Uber in Germany? I can call a Taxi on an app. That was the "big" invention by Uber, and now it's commoditized.

The idea that anyone can be an uber driver doesn't help me the passenger much, as long as I can get a ride.

OK, I get that in the US taxis are notoriously bad and generally older cars (and no Mercedes). But UberX just substitutes beat down American cars for a beat-down Prius, Kia and smaller cars. How great is that win?

I don't think the haughty arrogant attitude of Uber is good for any society.
I use Pancake (https://www.pancakeapp.com/) for my invoices, expense tracking, proposal/estimate writing, and reporting. They don't offer a native app, but the site is responsive and works well enough on mobile. Pay once and run on your own server.

I previously used Toggl for time-tracking, but have been transitioning out of hourly billing and haven't been tracking time for months.
I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?
I meant "exactly the same" in the sense of the article - "letting old technology abuse their customers".

These old industries are dinosaurs in "the age of the internet" and have no clue what they are doing with regard to IT / Systems.
I've built a few systems for low-cost airlines in South America. There shouldn't be a lot of difference with bigger airlines around the world.

The boarding software usually checks that:

- The boarding pass is valid (checksum)
- The flight state is correct e.g. 'boarding' and 'open'
- The passenger did check-in
- The passenger haven't boarded yet

More advanced implementations can match the gate with the flight, this is optional.

The beep usually is a response from the reader indicating that the code has been read successfully.

The result of the operation is displayed in a screen and the attendant has to read it and act accordingly.
I am aware that this was also happening in previous administrations and is slowly getting worse, but as a European I can only describe this as "communist-like", and wonder what the US citizenry, of all people, have come to that they accept such things? (Clearly this not some form of elaborate investigation, and they're only harrassing random passengers.)

We are now in a Bizzaro world where we're safer "in our letters and effects" when travelling through the airports of Communist-controlled China than in the US ones...
The third sentence of the fine article:

> The gap between simulation and real world remains large especially for perception problems.
Yahoo!'s market cap is above $45B and Snapchat is far above $3B and will be for years.
Well because if a human crashes a plane, that human doesn't stick around long enough to learn from that experience and do better next time.

Also the cost of a human crashing a plane is a bit more than a drone crashing itself, such that it's probably better to save on planes, and invest in simulators - whereas developing an accurate physics simulator for the purpose of training a drone might take more time/money than just letting it crash, and figure it out itself.
Not commenting on that since I'm not aware how UberPool works exactly. How does it compare with BlaBlaCar though? Is it the same space?
ok, you gotta be a little more subtle with the sarcasm there, lol