skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. I don't shop for that stuff, generally. For sporting equipment, I usually go to craigslist as it's often really cheap and I like to reuse for environmental reasons, but for consumable items, it probably only makes sense to buy new. But, I've bought weights and the like from craigslist sellers.

Electronics is really my only big/expensive habit and NewEgg gets a lot of my business. I bought my last laptop directly from Dell Outlet during a sale and saved about $300 off of the same refurbished machine from Amazon. Though the ordering process from Dell was stupidly inconvenient as I had to get an agent involved to apply the discount and to deal with payment, as for some reason my business debit card wouldn't work. It took half a day, so it's not something I would do for less than a significant discount.

And, as I mentioned, Walmart is often a better choice for regular stuff, and they now have a quite large online selection including stuff that is not stocked in stores.

Oh, yeah, I buy truck stuff, parts and the like for my old pickup. I buy about half from Amazon market sellers and half direct from diesel specialty dealers. And parts for my old RV, same story. Big items never come from Amazon, though; my rooftop AC replacement was purchased from a local dealer for $240 less than the Amazon price.

I guess Google Shopping is how I've found most of the specialty shops.
It's unbelievably horribly fucked up.

I think the only reason anyone can think it's OK is (1) they haven't had a major medical expense yet and (2) their political tribe tells them capitalism is the answer for everything.

Honestly, healthcare in the US is so broken I don't see how we avoid a crisis in the next few years because of it. Maybe it will somehow pop like a real estate bubble (sad when that's the most optimistic thing you can hope for).
For the curious, there's a similar take on Slavic languages called Slovio.

http://www.slovio.com/
From your first link:

"The analysis measured not whether a city would make an attractive target to a terrorist but rather how well it could withstand an attack, Piegorsch said."

In other words, Boise is ill-prepared to handle an attack, but no statement is made on the likelihood that it would be a target. That likelihood is, of course, quite low.

For the second, the goals of an individual nut who couldn't even make his plan work aren't all that interesting.

Characterizing my advice as "just don't be where all the people are" is super misleading. There are a small number of likely terrorist targets, and my advice is not to be there. If you're worried about terrorism, then you should probably avoid Manhattan, downtown Boston, major airports, etc. And most people paranoid about terrorism probably already avoid these places. Chicago or Miami or Seattle are probably fine. Places away from the centers of likely target cities are probably fine. "Don't visit New York" is perfectly viable advice for a fearful person in Iowa.

You can easily reduce your risk of being killed by lightning, but remaining perfectly safe is hard. Taking shelter isn't necessarily sufficient. Lightning can conduct into buildings, and it can also start fires.

I don't think the fear of terrorism is down to its unpredictability and unavoidability. The same is true of car crashes (someone else's mistake or malevolence can easily end your life on the road, and avoiding the roads is not an option for the vast majority of people) and yet people give little thought to those.
Ask HN: Best books on AI
It feels like the whole world wants to make sure the whole world knows how they feel about AI/AGI. I'm curious what the best books are to get a better understanding of AI than I can from just reading Medium and Techcrunch posts?
> Drawing parallels between any news station and "Fox News" is an insult.

I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
I guess that makes sense to count axioms as strongly typed.
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I'm saying that maybe left-wing outlets didn't mess up, maybe understanding a Trump voter really is just that difficult. I still can't, and I don't think better coverage would have changed that.
My Neato Botvac works the same way with the one exception that the second it touches my rug it immediately goes over it in a snake pattern without any exploration. The rug is thicker than the floor by about 2-3 cms so I dont know if it has some sort of special programming to recognize rectangular rugs
I'm sorry that all of this is happening to your family. You're going through something terrible.

My email is in my profile. If you'd like some editing help, reach out. I can't solve your immediate situation, but maybe I can help strip it from your writing.
India has one of the highest number of road fatalities in the world (In top 5). 400 people die everyday on the road! 1000s of more accidents happen which don't get tracked. People who did nothing wrong get killed because someone was not paying attention.

Driverless cars or rather augmented driving will save lives but the minister doesn't care for those. Driverless cars will create more jobs in engineering, training and monitoring because driverless cars will not come one fine day but over a period of 10 years.

As someone who is working on self driving tech, this saddens me.

India needs more eyes on this problem because of our roads and our bad traffic sense. The fact that we don't drive on the same side of the road as the western world means their tech won't be adaptable directly. So much potential and opportunity but I guess the minister wants us to keep doing the cheap menial jobs.
Or you just start taxing corporations and rich people again. Some stupidly huge percentage of dollars are just sitting in their coffers doing nothing.
Is there an easy way to comparison shop on Amazon?

I saw ads for chrome extensions but I don't know if they are good.
FWIW, on the 'un-friend' comment, I think that's really just a backlash from the unabated friending of people that you had forgotten why you fell out of touch with.

Then they post stupid shit and you're like, "oh that's right, he's always been an idiot". And unfriend/unfollow.

Political discussions were historically off-limits in many social settings and a quick way to end real life friendships. Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but hanging out with like-minded people has always been a thing.
At least customers get paid for giving them that information (in the form of the discount that the price-matcher gives). I've done it, too, at Fry's when I needed some hard disks and a laptop on short notice. Saved about $100 in one trip (they were expensive hard disks), just by pulling up Amazon and pointing at the price for the service rep.

Competition is good.
> I'm pretty amused that you guys think I'm advancing a pro-Trump position here. The reason he's doing this is clearly because he's a vindictive authoritarian that wants to suppress the free press.

do you really believe this or are you just virtue signaling?
NPR may lean 'left', but it tries to be journalism (Fox News is entertainment and propaganda); if you want to find something like the Fox News of the left, check DemocracyNow, or ThinkProgress
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BECAUSE people believe that. If everyone who wanted to vote third party actually voted third party, they’d actually stand a chance.
I strongly feel the most popular image/video formats are dependent on how they sound when people speak them.
https://agency.reuters.com/en/products-services/products/new...

Yeah they sell the wire service and its not really publicly available.

The closest free equivalent is:

https://www.reuters.com/theWire
I suspect RRP/ MSRP have nearly always been useless. Comparison is the only way to get a true sense of what a regular market price is for something. Too often I will see something on a 50%+ off sale which might just be matching the market or actually 5-10% off where the rest of the market is at.

After all, why would a retailer ever discount more than 10-20% off what everyone else is charging, outside of a clearance?
>>Driverless technology is AI based i.e. it learns the same way a human does.

Not as of today.

Its not generic AI. Also to an extent you need good road infrastructure for these things, which we don't have it here in India.
I do remember I had to jump through a couple of hoops to get something (about $8000 worth of something) shipped to an address not on file with my credit card, which is not something Amazon has ever done (I'm always shipping to weird places because I travel mostly full-time in an RV), but it wasn't too traumatic.

I can't imagine why they'd ban someone permanently. I mean, they want money, right? That seems weird. But, also sucks.
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Why would you want to guess at a 3d mapping from a 2d image when you can get 3d data directly from a sensor, like lidar?

Getting 3d from 2d images is certainly interesting and will have its applications. It's less accurate and more computationally demanding than using 3d input directly, however. Cars can and should have more than 2d input.

The point of the article is that using a diverse array of sensors in cars will help the algorithm make better predictions.

There are many edge cases out there that aren't covered,and we shouldn't expect engineers to plan for them all. What we want to do is throw a lot of raw input at an algorithm and run it through a ton of simulations. All steps of this are non-trivial, but with more data, it is easier.
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It actually reminded me of woot.com before they were bought by Amazon.
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The weird thing is that it occured after all my transactions happened. I wasn't buying anything from the account. It was really weird.
up vote for the no agenda show. Unfortunately, what passes for journalism today is an over-processed product designed to cram more ads in front of your face and prompt more consumption rather than inform.
Paying for transfer isn't the same as paying for bandwidth. If I download something in the middle of the night vs at peak usage, it's the same transfer billing, but one utilizes bandwidth that isn't scarce and one does.
Due to this requirement, you will probably lose out on multiple valuable candidates. Especially because you use Auth0, it's possible to change the requirements easily, and you could easily require Github or LinkedIn, rather than just LinkedIn.
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http://codesimplicity.com/ for fundamentals of software design and improving code bases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839745
Article needs editing for length and clarity.
> you will become an API for fraudsters to check the validity of Visa numbers.

Anyone accepting donations via PayPal
MaxMind's minFraud[0] was the most popular last time I checked. You give them the credit card info, the IP of the user, their email etc[1] and $0.005 (per credit card transaction you want them to check) and they tell you the probability that it's fraud.

At my company we use Stripe as our payment processor, which has their own fraud detection called Radar. But still, a bit under .1% of our transactions are fraudulent.

Credit card fraud is honestly a great business, even if they know you're doing it, the police wont do anything, and the merchant has to cover the cost and pay $15 for the privilege of being defrauded.

[0] https://www.maxmind.com/en/minfraud-services

[1] https://minfraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Sorta related, turns out there are anti-fraud services for fraudsters https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/anti-fraud-service-for-f...
Some of these: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=windows+8.1 though I'll grant most of the ones on the front page at least are basically just "everything from 7 on".
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Yep.

Resizing the data, changing the video compression, and potentially changing the text(!!) is not the data that I, the customer, asked them to deliver nor is it what I'm paying them for. Let me and my device worry about requesting the bits... And Verizon wireless can worry about sending me those bits at 40Mbps without worrying about how our why I want them and certainly (!) without modifying what the server sends to my end application. That's exactly what net neutrality is fighting for!

I perfectly understand the argument they're making (the link you provided is superfluous). It's just total BS; a red herring.
Partly because of ad blockers. But ad blockers became popular due to the rise in obnoxious ads. It’s an endless cycle that advertisers and publishers aren’t working at all to fix.
And public violence is a common sentiment over there, too. Not even in a joking way. If prompted, they will inform you that peaceful methods will never work and fighting in the streets is necessary to seize the means.
This is one of the reasons I gladly pay for a LWN subscription. I'd love to see more journalism like that, where insiders are paid a small fee to write articles about subjects they're already experts on.

But then again, my interests are much less in world events or pop culture, and much more in science and engineering, where expertise is more easily measured.
So I did a Google image search for "poisonous mushrooms" and it gave me a picture of "Galerina marginata" from Encyclopeadia Britannica[0].

According to the app:
I think it's: Psilocybe zapotecorum
Or perhaps Psilocybe subtropicalis , Psathyrella piluliformis , Psathyrella longistriata , or Kuehneromyces lignicola or something totally different!

Warning!!! Many mushrooms look alike and many are toxic!
Champignouf makes a lot of mistakes!
Do not eat mushrooms without being sure they are edible, you could die!

Thanks, but not helpful.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/list/7-of-the-worlds-most-poisono...
Yes. If you create an etf or stock index or public stock, you have massively created the number of dollars in existence.
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I use Google Shopping ( http://shopping.google.com/ ) to compare prices. We saved over $300 on a King-sized bed when we wanted to upsize our bed.
Can someone help me understand why, from a technical perspective, it is necessary to capture the handshake?
The way NPR does the lean is quite interesting in that it's not usually obvious.

When they slant something what they will do is either pick someone on the opposite side of something who is off the rails or ineloquent. Or, when the opposition has an argument, they often will challenge the argument. When they have the side they agree with on, rather than challenge they tend to ask supporting questions.

That said, Greene and another do make an attempt at being fair while still showing their side, as opposed to Hinohosa or McEvers, for example.
I really liked how you presented the API, both docs and the Chrome Extension for Google Sheets.

I have to say it was a little bit unclear at the beginning, I suggest you to make it more clear in the landing page or in the extension description. I agree with other comments regarding target audience and what problem you're solving or potentially the API can solve (examples are a charm).
> I really want to see a subscription system that rewards quality over just views.

That's called exactly that, subscription. If you like a news source, subscribe to it and pay the subscription. I could get most of the content of The Economist and the NYT for free, but I subscribe to both.
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I agree, as long as it's adjusted to account for inflation, changes in housing costs, and truly meets the minimum thresholds... I think we should institute consumption taxes though to help fund it, and maybe have a different rate for those w/ state id's that are 'verified' citizens vs those who aren't citizens.. Basically so immigrants/tourists pay more to be here than the rest of us...

I also think that we can only get rid of all other programs as long as GBI also includes medicare for all. Medical is a basic need as much as a roof.
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By the same logic, should Tor be shutdown as well?
Facebook actually is trying to [build their own housing](https://sf.curbed.com/2016/7/27/12299438/facebook-housing-de...) now.

Ultimately though its a failure of Menlo Park that it hasn't allowed enough housing units to support the number of office units its allowed to be built.
The Pi zero phone is a cool hack but I doubt many would opt to use it as a 'daily driver'.

Broadcom, according to the wikipedia page for VideoCore, did however make a couple of Cortex-A9/A7 SoCs that made their way into low end 2012-3 era Android phones.

Perhaps a startup might recycle old Broadcom-based HTC and Samsung models in collaboration with the RPi team.
They are not unable to find people to staff their DCs and their DCs are typically in small cities (though not all). So it's not that.

I'm sure they could find talent in BOS for example, but they don't have major offices there (as opposed to LAX, & LON, for example).
I don't think that's been true since windows 7. Almost all new viruses rely on user stupidity.
Yes, which is why single-payer systems generally do a tiny bit of research, pick a reasonable amount, and pay that.
I think it can replace min wage..but defintely need medicare for all also- - but with GBI -- less people have to work to maintain life -- which will mean more jobs will be open for those w/ the initiative to earn more and enjoy more feature comforts -- w/ more open jobs the wages will increase naturally as a result of supply/demand of jobs.. GBI is actually one way to raise the supply and lower demand of jobs so that prices re-stabilize and such that working actually makes more sense....
> build large systems

DP are oft misused, but I think the main idea is a pattern language - a way to communicate to other developers what the architecture is. This is especially important on larger, more complex projects with more developers and developer turnover. Understanding the architecture of a project is crucial for grokking it, but usually not well documented. Even just "DPs are naming conventions" is helpful in this regard.

I really disagree with the idea that most DPs are particularly clever or helpful - they are just the way you'd end up solving those kinds of problems yourself. If you look at your own pre-DP code, you'll see design patterns. What they give is a standardized terminology ("pattern language").

Sometimes an architecture seems more complex than necessary, but makes sense as you better understand the whole problem. e.g. how curl handles http. e.g. youtube-dl. (for me, when I reverse-engineered mini-versions of them, then studied their source)

tl;dr "DPs are docs"
I can't cite anything to back this up, but Esperanto is a lot easier for native Japanese speakers to pronounce than English is, plus the grammar is more regular.
If you really want to save money on household type items, go shopping in the 'market' area at your local IKEA store. Compare that with Amazon prices for pretty much everything and you'll be blown away by how cheap IKEA is.
In the divorce papers you can read how the founder embezzled funds to spend on prostitutes,

http://gotnews.com/boom-wesearchr-mike-cernovich-release-800...
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The demo looks messy and gave me the idea that the tool itself will get messy if I'm part of a team. It's cool it's collaborative but what else? Would suggest to improve how you demo the tool.

Personally, I liked how the tool solves the problem and the simple design.
I write a lot and post the results to places with lots of visitors, and I watch the job board in a few different Slack channels and reach out to people seeking help.
Why do you need generic AI to solve driving? Driving is a system of visual recognition followed by path planning. You see what is on the road and then decide acceleration, brake and steering angle. Enlighten me if there is anything more to driving. As for object detection in an image, AI is more accurate than an human today.
The point is that it delivers real, tangible quality-of-life factors, which typically matter more to someone's well-being than his feelings about aggregate wealth inequality.

I could stick it to the rich bastards who own energy stocks, but I'd rather be warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
That may be fair. I only read the first paper with the spaceships and mazes, which are much more traditional problems.

It sounds like the second paper is the more interesting one from your description though, so I will give that a read.
India won’t allow driverless cars that take away jobs, says Government
Could you give some examples?
Why is this stuff on HN? It reads as pseudo-science.
Ask HN: Is Nvidia 1050 enough to learn CUDA?
I just bought PNY Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card to learn CUDA on budget. Will it be enough to learn CUDA programming ? Or I need to buy a different card ?
As a long time customer I'm sick of having Prime constantly shoved down my throat. I use amazon, I'm a paying customer, stop bothering me. I've been getting a lot of Walmart. The shipping is great, the prices are competitive, and as someone else said, the whole experience has improved drastically in the past few years. Of course they don't have quite the selection that Amazon does though.
Most economists, and business experts have pegged the job loss at 40% by 2030 -- that's permanent non-replaceable jobs by automation. This isn't the same as the industrial revolution, this is going to be much harder, even President Obama addressed this in an interview, and lots of other people much smarter than me, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

It's not a matter of IF, but when.
Here are a bunch of blogs from my RSS reader that I think are worth reading. Some of them haven't updated in a while, but the archives may be worth a look anyway.

* Blogs with a math focus:

http://blog.sigfpe.com

http://bit-player.org

http://mathr.co.uk/blog/

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

* Blogs with a programming languages focus:

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com

https://bluishcoder.co.nz

http://blog.ezyang.com

http://akkartik.name

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org

http://mrale.ph

* Blogs with a UI design focus:

http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/

http://interuserface.net

* Blogs with a graphics / 3D rendering focus:

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com

http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com

https://directtovideo.wordpress.com

http://graphicrants.blogspot.com

http://www.reedbeta.com

http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/

https://blog.demofox.org

http://eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.html

* Other interesting / more general programming blogs (many of these have a "systems" focus):

http://danluu.com

http://ewontfix.com

http://chneukirchen.org/blog/

http://neverworkintheory.org

http://apenwarr.ca/log/

https://www.snellman.net/blog/

https://www.pvk.ca

http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com

https://randomascii.wordpress.com

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com

http://blog.plover.com

http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/
> maybe understanding a Trump voter really is just that difficult

Well, over 40% of voters last time around certainly understood. I've read thoughtful and/or insightful things as well, so there's media out there. It's just a matter of people with appropriate credibility consuming, curating, and re-explaining these things to their audiences. I could repost things I've found compelling, but until the Terry Gross's and John Oliver's of the world start taking white blue collar concerns at face value (not just people not smart enough to be cosmopolitan socialists yet), I'm not sure it will help much.