skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a side note; who was that goofy guy that Rose melted laptops with?
How about analyzing whether the projects funded by ICOs make any sense? With the current mania the token sales model hardly matters. Also after the mania is over, probably no matter what the model, people won't be investing, since the stupid money will run out at some point.
Are there any cases of security-like instruments being explicitly declared out of bounds for the SEC?

I'm thinking specifically of bond-like assets or "evidence of indebtness" emitted by private persons on MMO rpg assets which have real-money trading options either as proposed by the game editor or in third party markets?

Even more specifically I'm thinking of EVE online's PLEX items who area open to in game market and have been known to change hands within various ingame organisations for very real money. Some of these organisations have schemes to offer tokens of indebtness in exchange for the acquisition of these digital items that could be construed as a proper security if I read this right. Am I missing something?
What the poster seems to have meant is that LIDAR is essential hardware. Which is not some universal truth, so it is they who should justify it.
IBM researchers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/computers-hav...

You can find other figures, but many are in the petaflop range, well above what could be realistically installed in a vehicle.
I interpreted @humanfromearth as not talking about end goals either: presumably setting up shop on some near earth asteroids is easier than Mars. It is arguably more useful too.

So yeah: I suspect that in 1000 years time when we look back at the history of space colonisation (however the heck it happens) my guess is that Mars will not figure strongly in the story until we are much more advanced than we are now.
By that list, it does not sound like many EU countries require you to keep it with you with threat of penalty. Certainly very far from "most". Netherlands sounds like a strange exception to the rule with otherwise liberal society. Serbia is a relatively recent civil war zone so kind of understandable.
The amazing this about this particular application is that an oracle is not required at all. So it's completely automatic and trustless. The contract (think of it as a class in Java) has a single function which looks something like this: function acquire_name() { if (msg.value > $200) {self.registrar.transfer_ownership(self.domain_name, msg.sender);}}

registrar is a pointer to an instance of the domain registrar that keeps track of all names. Here's an actual implementation of the registrar: https://github.com/ethereum/ens/blob/master/contracts/HashRe...
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No, that's not what it means. It's past tense.
They understand they exist because people go there. V3 Digg will alaways be burned in their minds. Replace them and that lesson is lost. And another Voat will replace them. Hopefully without being taken over by a bunch of broke Nazis
The idea was that code-as-contract was clear, unambiguous to all participants, and obviated the need for human intervention to enforce correctly.
What a controversial opinion /s
Uber just emailed riders to tell them, “We have fallen short”
you are right. Just enter your full name after you hit the buy button.
If true, then it seems rather disingenuous to advertise that all Teslas are capable of self driving, if it costs eight grand to turn the sensors on. I wouldn't expect a car advertised to have 1000 horsepower to require a multi-thousand dollar software patch to be able to use more than a hundred hp.
> You can now experience Enhanced Autopilot features including Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, Autosteer, Auto Lane Change, Parallel + Perpendicular Autopark, and Summon

Scary stuff, really. No consumer wants (or needs) autopilot "features" - at least not from a marketing standpoint. If you ask me, the car either drives itself or you are driving it.

It's a bit ridiculous to expect people to use these things safely. If anyone has to think about when the car is or isn't in control, I'm sorry, but you've already lost in my book. Humans just aren't that good at switching context or remembering what a product does (or what this particular version of a product does).
Is anyone here educated enough to explain the implications of ICOs as it relates to national boundaries? If I'm outside the US but sell to an American, am I responsible to the SEC? What if I'm an American, but I register my organization in another company (like Augur in Estonia) am I immune from the SEC then?
Related story from The Atlantic(2014)[1]. HN discussion about it[2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11752317
There is a Chrome extension that does this for you for IP addresses (I think). All ethereum wallets are also implementing support. You can make your Ethereum domain name point to anything you want. So instead of sending your transaction to a long hex string, you can send it to "johndoe.eth".
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Tesla: We can't place restrictions on fully owned vehicles? OK, from now on we don't sell cars - we rent them for 50 years. Now can we place restrictions?
China International Book Trading Cooperation (CIBTC) offers the original version of Capitalist Realism online to Chinese readers for 141RMB delivered. CIBTC is a company started/owned/managed by the Communist Party of China.

https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.1.WxB4yL&id...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is more interesting, apparently, there are hundreds of vendors selling it on taobao.com, including the Xinhua which was started/owned/managed by the Communist Party of China.

https://list.tmall.com/search_product.htm?q=Nineteen+Eighty-...
Spoiler tags is something that really should get a nonCSS solution though, as they work really crappy on mobile.
From what I have read, the Model S, at least, had this before Tesla and MobileEye had their falling out. This implies that they can do it, but the software cannot at the moment.
What do you advertise?
Today's typography is not going to change in the manner it did in the past, for the same reason why dialects are less pronounced: the prevalence of mass media and the Internet makes things converge rather than diverge.
Sibling comments here from people who've been there notwithstanding, if you're afraid your laptop has something "bad" on it when you return, how can you in good conscience give it to an unsuspecting donee? That's like wondering if your doggy bag has food poison, so you give it to your neighbor.
Having two planets with launch capability makes resupplying, servicing, and responding to emergencies for eventual facilities in the belt would make logistics across the solar system an order of magnitude easier. Suddenly, you have twice as many launch windows over the course of a year to any given point as well as two 'ports' to return to if something goes seriously wrong.
Is there a chance he is mistaking china with north korea? China is very welcoming place, passing trough the border is smooth experience.

Unless you are an activist they don't care about anything.
It will use the Autopilot cameras (there are no additional sensors), and the Tesla Vision software on AP2 hardware does not support detection of rain on the windscreen. The driver has to turn the wipers on manually. My Renault Zoe, which costs about 25% of my Model X, does this automatically.

Tesla Autopilot is cool, but the software is very limited at present. The original link is essentially what Tesla think they can achieve with the AP2 hardware, but the production software is nowhere near capable of these feats.
Dude, I work on high performance machine learning and machine vision 12 hours a day. You don't need to tell me it sucks, I know. But it's superhuman on some tasks already, and in a few short years, it'll be superhuman on a few more, and little by little it'll get there. All you get from that lidar is a depth map. You can do that without a lidar, using two or more cameras. If you also interpolate across a series of predictions, and have sensor fusion (which Tesla does, they also use radars and ultrasonic sensors) you can even make it robust. Truly, people who say it can't be done should not interrupt people who are doing it.
> The police state that is China doesnt care about summit attendees, it cares about social harmony.

Well, the Cultural Revolution was a crazy time.
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Yep, exactly right. The hardware is capable, but the software hasn't been created. Just like the original link - the hardware will (probably) provide enough input data to allow software to do all these cool things, but it's not been done yet and production code is a very long way from what is outlined.
I have an AP1 car and a AP2 loaner (for the last month). This is just reaching parity to AP1 autopilot capabilities. AP2 has been crippled since launch.

There a few new features that my AP1 might not have like Perpendicular Autopark, but I won't know till I get it back. From what it seems it's just gotten to the level that they were with with the previous generation that was developed by or in conjunction with MobilEye.

I think they will need a hardware revision for actual full self driving perhaps 2 years away.
on a desktop we'd just setup an ssh tunnel to an ec2 instance and use SwitchyOmega in Chrome.
I wouldn't say that. It certainly not exclusively software and I don't think it is honest to divide a system like that into "soft" and "hard" components, since neither one has value for customer on its own.
There are many teams building projects similar to the DAO right now (except much more thought out), for example https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/. In the future, we will definitely see more DAOs - read this article if you're interested https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-...

The original DAO was just a preview and it was too early when the whole Ethereum ecosystem was young (and still is, it's less than 2 years old).
Recently Reddit introduced a new kind of user profile where you can make text posts to your own profile. It got a huge amount of negative feedback (although I'm coming around to it, personally), and many obvious features, such as being able to mix a user's posts and comments together like on the old profile page, were missing. They claimed they were all-hands-on-deck adding these highly requested features, and even now, over a month later, the only thing that's changed is a slightly bigger hyperlink to the comments page. That to me sounds like fixing what's not broken while ignoring what is.
It's memory + control driven with visual feedback, not much more. You don't have to solve anything if you already sorta know the solution, and can adjust it for the goal.
We are working on electricity trade using blockchain, enabling renewable energy generator to trade with neighbours in local grid.
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Is it really considered exporting if they already have it?
Not GP, but current systems usually are not manipulation proof. Using a blockchain makes post-clock-out modifications visible immediately.
Still it's early days, but watch these talks on IPFS[1] and Golem[2] to get a basic idea.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGinj5K3tcI
As long as ICO is not a 'security' then you can sell it to Americans.
I don't really believe that the hardware is enough for what they are trying to achieve. There is almost no redundancy e.g. on sensor level except for the front radar supporting the front cameras and ultrasound for close distances, however if one of those rear-facing cameras fails due to a defect or dirt on the lens the vehicle would have to stop because it wouldn't be able to detect oncoming cars. I am also not sure about the processing power, handling video streams and doing deep learning for up to eight cameras in real time seems a little too much for a current gpu?
I sure hope it works, for the sake (and lives) of people who own them. And for the people who have to drive alongside them (everyone).
Fremont is where Tesla builds all vehicles currently.
But they don't quack. Tokens do not represent a share of anything, nor any right to present or future anything, nor do the companies selling them ever claim such. They are disconnected from the success or failure of the underlying venture in a way that other stock-like instruments never have been. Indeed, the quoted paragraph specifically excludes currencies.
You can do immediate payment - and with this, hard spending limits.
Just new? My understanding is that all applies to every single Model S ever produced.
In my experience, having driven or been driven by the autopilot v1 hardware and software for thousands of kilometers, it is not ridiculous to use this safely. You configure how you use it once, you don't have to remember the state of every feature.

There are moments when you have to think about what state the car is in. But in opinion it is by far offset by how much less tiring it is to drive a long way.
The OTC penny stock market still seems alive and well.
this is probably one of the most ignorant and short sighted comments i've ever read on HN and reaks of competitive shilling.

It's like saying we shouldn't have released seatbelts because people moght not have used them. Or maybe we shouldn't have released vaccines because you still need booster shots.

Safety features, even incremental ones, make the world safer for everyone.
Graphene-based computer would be 1,000 times faster than silicon-based
The add-ons are software unlocks. The old 60D models actually had a 75KwH battery pack, but were software-limited to 60KwH unless you paid for an upgrade.
Ask HN: What did you undervalue when younger?
Alternately, what do you undervalue now? Or what do you feel other people overvalue now.

I can answer the first one easily. When I was younger, I undervalued humility.

And not for any reason like, "if you are humble, people will like you more."

Specifically, I came to realize humility is valuable for a very selfish reason instead.

When I overvalue my own achievements I noticed that two things happened that didn't work very well:

1) I would think myself "too good" to do such a such a job, opportunity, or thing. And I missed out on some things I didn't know the great value of, but could have, if I hadn't been so arrogant.

2) I was overcompensating. I mean...why else arrogant? And that doesn't work because it meant I was undervaluing the things I was actually good at...I mean...if I fully accepted those things and loved them and saw the good that I could do with them....my natural skills and so on...why would I need to "overvalue" things that weren't as good. Know what I mean? And if you undervalue stuff you are actually good at...then you sort of get skewed off a path that works for you in the world.

Sure I think some good things happen by going along many different paths...and this is my reflection. I would have toned down the arrogance, trusted my natural skills more and valued humility. What did you or do you undervalue? Or what do you think other people overvalue?
well, it yells at you if you let go of the steering wheel and will even disable itself if you keep doing it. It's not that scary. And the features are real. At least it gives owners the confidence that things are moving forward and if they buy a Tesla today they will have full self driving some day.
You do more than that when calculating the trajectory of a ball thrown that you have to catch. Just not with numbers.
When you buy a car, the title is signed over to you, and you become its owner. Microsoft Office is information that Microsoft agrees to share with you subject to certain restrictions on your use of it. To actually purchase Microsoft Office the intellectual property, as opposed to a license for it, would cost you about 9 orders of magnitude more.

They're also restricting their customers' actions in meatspace (you can't drive people around in exchange for money) while the Office restrictions (you can't create business-related files) are IP-related.

A more accurate analogy would be if Microsoft banned you from using a Surface for business purposes (or for business purposes while running Windows, but it's impossible to install a different OS).

IANAL so I don't know if Tesla is on solid legal ground (I would guess that probably they are), but I think there's certainly a clear philosophical distinction.
Unfortunately, "rigorous" and "byzantine" tend to go hand-in-hand.
I love the idea of Smart Summon - it reminds me of one of the Assassin's Creed games where you would whistle and your horse would magically appear a moment or two later!
this isn't totally on topic, but today's acquisition of Whole Foods seems like anti-competitive behavior as well. There is a lot of precedent for the prevention of vertical mergers.

Amazon doesn't seem to be too concerned with how anti-trust law might be interpreted. I think they'll just count on the impotent FTC not having the resources to bring a case against them.
Ubers self-driving cars have LIDAR. Tesla autopilot is fully based on view from cameras that can be obstructed.
It could be, yes. Similar to how, just because something is classified has been published, individuals who "needed to know" still can't talk about it until it's been declassified.
Not really, humans are horrible drivers with miserably slow reaction times.
But they are only using two of the eight cameras in AP2 at the moment. There is more capacity in AP2 hardware to tap into.
https://electrek.co/2017/03/30/tesla-autopilot-2-0-camera-8-...
Ubuntu (and eOS et al) login screen privacy issue still unfixed, X11 blamed
My favorite by far if you happen to have Visual Studio Ultimate around is DGML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graph_description_lan...
Having driven a long distance in the vicinity of a Tesla that was presumably on autopilot, I found it very unsafe-seeming, darting around within its lane, sometimes drifting onto the lane line. You may not realize if you aren't paying attention, but your car might not drive as well as you expect.
\tangent Antartica is a bit more similar.
> why [...] not just space-fairing civ? the tech we need for either seems kind of the same to me

cstross has a web of old blog posts about the difficulties of spaceships, generation ships

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth...

> how simple can you make a minimal self-maintaining interstellar transport system"?

> To a first approximation, the best answer I can come up with is "not very".

Separately from "the tech"

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/designin...

> If you can crank yourself up to 1% of light-speed, alpha centauri is more than four and a half centuries away at cruising speed.

> We humans are really bad at designing institutions that outlast the life expectancy of a single human being.
Which city are you in ? If you're in Delhi, I'm happy to share stories of my misery ;) I'll buy.

91springboard events are pretty good and non-hypey. Headstart Network (though they have reduced their activities quite a bit).

Hasgeek events in Bangalore are borderline - the tech content is good, but has a fair amount of "unicorn" domination, which tends to worsen the therapy.

We had organized a "Reboot Conference" in delhi for failed founders [1]. Pretty damn awesome... could not follow through with it because of lack of time.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/akshayblitz/reboot-conference-del...
I think that you raise some interesting considerations, but I don't think it paints a full picture, and some of the missing parts of the picture are important.

While there are some parallels between coins and penny stocks, there are also some fundamental differences which means they aren't so easy comparable.

Sure, penny stocks are very highly speculative, just like coins, however unlike coins they have very well defined "value". That is, they are fractional ownership of a legally defined entity.

The value of a coin is much more difficult to understand and/or appreciate.
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Most non-Americans have issues with US immigration because they're extremely rude for absolutely no reason.

US customs is fine. TSA is a mixed bag. But US immigration are unfathomably rude and disrespectful for no reason at all; they treat you like scum. I've been through US immigration & customs a lot, been sent to secondary three times, ironically the people you deal with in secondary are more polite/reasonable than the people in the little glass booths, but still very "respect my authority."

Ironically going into the US feels more like entering a police state than going into Russia. The Russians were just super disinterested and to-the-point. The US is fine once you're in, but getting in as a non-American is a bad first impression (the UK has this issue too).

I'd hate to think how much worse they would treat me if I was non-white and from a country with traditionally bad or mixed ties to the US. From other people's anecdotes that I've read or spoken to: Bad. Just by what their official union supports (and who) you can get a sense of their views on other races.

Last year the US just started a new policy of asking foreigners for our social media credentials. It is starting out as option, but like all of these things it is just a matter of "when" not "if" it will be made mandatory.
A Tesla is OFF if it is in Park. Yes the computer is still running, but for driving purposes if it is in park, no driving can happen.
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A pastebin dump isn't an attack vector, it's what an attacker might do with the loot after compromising you.

Or are you referring to one of your personal passwords ending up on Pastebin? Use unique passwords, set up SSH keys, and set "PasswordAuthentication no" in your SSHD config.
What they're saying is humans can't recontextualize themselves fast enough when the system fails and it starts yelling at you.
I think his concern is that it's unsafe because you might trust it when you weren't supposed to because it's too complicated to figure out who's in control at any moment.

However, since the number of features is quite small, I'm sure owners will quickly get used to what the car does and doesn't do. The autopark and summon is surely going to run over far fewer children than human drivers do in those situations. That leaves just adaptive cruise control and lane changing. Well, if you forget to change lanes because you trusted the car, you still won't crash since the front crash detection (and your eyes) should protect you from that. So I don't see any safety issue there.
How can I cash out my github stars?
> isn't because all of a sudden average people are using it to buy groceries or pay their bills.

Now that it's in the media: why couldn't this quickly and quietly become reality?
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Hi, I've been using Laravel since a year. But what I've seen, mostly, programmers working in other ecosystem than PHP get more per hour billing. Please shade some light.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Happy weekend :-)
I would like to respectfully disagree with you here. While I believe that self driving cars are infinitely better than human drivers, in this case I'd exercise caution. The issue here is that the vehicle is not fully self-driving–it still requires a human to be paying attention. The problem is that the system appears to be automatic and as such reduces the driver's focus; I've heard stories of people simply tuning out while this "autopilot" on, not knowing that they must be alert for any exceptional circumstances. In this case, the autopilot may actually make it slightly less safe–not from its inherent design, but by human psychology.