skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think it takes being a psychopath at all. All it takes is convincing yourself that the company's mission is inherently noble, instead of just a way to generate profit. I've seen this many times, where nice, reasonable people convince themselves of the morality of some business decision, without really questioning that all these "moral" decisions also just happen to be the ones that make the most profit.
Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017?

"Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.
You might be interested in his recent interview on Freakonomics:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-...
It's the opposite. Middle aged people used to work in manufacturing, farming, and other industrial positions. Now that these industries have either died or gone automated, they have to join teenagers in service jobs as well. It is not a matter of how many children they have either because families used to be a lot more numerous in the past and it was not considered a problem at all.
Strong Towns is great! There's another concept I was introduced to via Strong Towns that I think is important: infrastructure is not an asset. It is a liability. Yet, most cities account for them like they would an asset.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/8/19/is-a-street-an...
I'm sure it's a bit dangerous, but when you run it as done in the article, behind an Apache Reverse Proxy with Apache authentication, you're relying hugely on Apache for the sync security, and that has been well designed to protect against a very large attack surface.

Another advantage is that you're just different. So if someone (or some State) attacks a commonly-used service, this will be protected simply by being different.
that is the goal, but working 1-on-1 with a non profit first allows me to learn all the needs so that the platform can have all the stuff they want vs what I think they want.
Very frugal living with their Dyson AM09 on the floor
To be fair, Grantland was an ESPN subsidiary. I believe this model can be a success, but the definition of "success" for The Athletic and for ESPN are probably very different.
I know you hear these crazy stories about these tech companies and they are so so so far outside anything i have ever experience at place of business and i am 41. Granted i am a guy but these things just don't happen where i worked when things even get mildly outside the box HR steps in and people fix their behavior or they terminated depending on the offense.
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Start creating, and not just writing code, start creating outside of development.
Start writing, making music, painting, sewing, designing, woodworking. Try going out with friends to different events than usual and try different things - new kind of music, new kind of food, new kind of drinks.. Smoke some weed and lie in bed thinking about your life.
Not sure why all the defense of "humans make this mistake too" in this thread.

Isn't the point of SDC that they are better than humans? Shouldn't we support a diverse array of sensors to cover all the eventualities that we can? If some form of radar + camera solves this problem, what's the point of arguing humans would get confused by it too?

To be clear, the article alludes to the existence of three types of cars in the wild,

(1) Cars with many types of sensors
(2) Cars with some types of sensors
(3) Cars with no sensors

All other things being equal, why are people voting for (2) rather than (1)?
Excellent idea. Would love to see the final product.
For some reason that animated underline makes me feel like I can only read one word per minute.
The big problem seems to be the lack of affordable housing in the area - when I was looking for 1br apartments, none of them were under $2700 a month (plus 300+ for car parking), and they were all brand new luxury rooms.
About half of minimum wage workers are at least 25 and three-quarters are at least 20.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi...

>Is every single type of profession required to support a family of 4?

"A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation."

"They who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged."

"Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."

All from Adam Smith.
I'm going to take a contrarian stance on this one: I believe there is no story here — adding an ad for an opt-in cloud-based tool to dev tools is not spyware. It's opt-in! It's clearly stated. Would people raise a fuss to find out their CI service like CircleCI or linter service like Code Climate had access to their code (it's sufficiently obvious)? I don't really see why this tool is any different other than they are one of the first to make a code analysis service that runs in realtime.

I beta tested the Kite product when it first launched maybe two years ago. I don't use it today but I would try it again. Since then they've only tightened down on permissions and made things clearer.

Kite was also not the first to run ads in an IDE plugin (Wes Bos has sponsored several), at least not in Sublime. Personally it's not my preference to have ads either but ultimately this is up to the maintainer of each repo. The tool is still free to use. It clearly states that using the cloud engine will upload your code to do analysis in the cloud. It's 2-3 sentences, not like it's buried in some long EULA.

Shame on the article for labeling inserting an ad as "taking over" and labeling an ad as "spyware"… pure clickbait targeting non-devs.

The new Kite engine also clearly states it is a cloud-based service and they build integrations for their service. The whole industy works the same way. You don't have to use their engine to use autocomplete-python and its opt-in too.
Don't you have anything else to do?
Overpaying because not reading terms and conditions?
Recently I have found that my Virtual Office service by company Regus,
(2 months into the auto-renewed 12 months contract) cannot be terminated because small print in terms & conditions says that "The cancellation will be applied from the first day of the renewal start."
So, basically even though I am unsatisfied with service in order to terminate I have to pay for 10 more months of service I will not use.
Has anyone had the similar issue and is there any way out?
Of course without paying full amount?
Ask HN: How to market a new project?
I would like to ask here because Google returns a bunch of lists that probably made it to the top via SEO. What have you had success with? what wasn't worth the time or money?
We are struggling, philosophically, with anti telemetry posts (like this one).

We are turning on telemetry in the next release for our open source tool. https://github.com/getgauge/gauge

We are small team with limited resources.

In our tool, it's easy to turn telemetry off, inspect what data is sent and the data collected is public.

The data "really" helps to make the tool better and an opt-in skews the data.

We've published an blog post https://blog.getgauge.io/why-we-collect-data-b19df366b677 and will put it up in the release notes and the download section.

What else can be done so that users don't blow up?
Hopefully it can just cover some basic costs. The goal isn't to build a $1B business round it. Just to cover some basics, so it makes sense to allocate time. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Yes, I was in no way suggesting that this was a practical alternative for Chinese researchers needing to bypass the Great Firewall. Besides the expense, I presume there are laws against Chinese citizens using international SIM cards for the purpose of bypassing the firewall.

I was simply making the point that the government has made accommodations to ease the use by international business travelers.

I'll also add that my ExpressVPN account (which I used from different Wi-Fi networks) often failed to connect, presumably because the Great Firewall is looking for VPN network patterns to block.
I think, on a local level at least, this kind of model is the way to go for most hard-pressed local and regional news outfits.
Radicale is really just the server and doesn't have its own import functionality. Instead, the clients support importing vCards. In the article, the CardBook Thunderbird plugin was used for this purpose.
Didn't they kill it back in Windows 7 (or maybe Vista)?

The whole attraction of Paint was that it was a KISS pixel-level editor, and it ceased to be so in the latter versions of Windows.
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I'm sure someone will show up with a counterexample, but DC doesn't have any that I've ever seen. I feel like they'd make a killing if they just stepped up their vending machine game to be more like Japan, though eating and drinking on the metro is supposed to be banned in DC, so I guess that would send mixed messages.
Not necessarily. My policy (with close friends) is that if I invite someone, I'll pick the place and pay. They can pick the place and the tab next time.

I don't want to have to worry about my friend's finances when inviting them out (I want to grab sushi with Irene, but can she can afford it?).

They can pick a cheaper place or invite me over for a home-cooked meal if they can't afford to invite me out to a nice restaurant.

I work in tech while most of my close friends are still students, the point is to be able to do nice (more expensive) things with them, which we could never do if we always split the bill.
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Reminds me of Person of Interest.

I'm still amazed this show had a full run on mainstream TV. One of the best TV/movie treatments of "Hacker News topics" there has been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_serie...
It has been attempted, and the only thing to show for it is perhaps America's most over-hyped ghost town[0]. Few Californians or transplants to California want to live anywhere but near the coastline. California's climate is not as pleasant once you go further inland.

Also, the coastline is seismically active, and does not pose as a great location for Manhattan-style skyscrapers. (For that reason, I have always found San Francisco's skyline to be underwhelming).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California
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Aren't cafeteria workers stereotypically ("in the old days") older women? (AKA "lunch lady")

I used to work at cafeteria [non-school, for employees] part time and all the full timers were old woman who fit the stereotype to a T. The part timers were all teenagers though. The only people who see part timers where those who worked outside typical business hours.
History has proven time and over it's generally a very bad idea to be dependent on others' good will that is by nature self interested and ephemeral.

I think people are interested in their basics, income, job, family before any other priorities.

Some people infact become so paranoid about this they may overlook even support unethical action as long as they are safe.

Surveillance, profiling and dark patterns by leading SV companies including Google, Facebook, Palantir etc composed of tens of thousands of engineers who may at one time have loudly proclaimed contrary values is just one example of this.
I remember HoloLens being announced to be available in "windows 10 timeframe". Still awaiting (EDIT:) Cheaper consumer version.
If I was a betting individual, DK Sports would be in the top 5 bets of things I would never see on Hacker News! Ha!

I actually subscribe to the Post-Gazette for my local sports news. I think Ed Bouchette (despite some of his flaws) is quite a solid beatwriter. Sadly, they pulled Dave Molinari from the Pens beat. This also allows me to get local and national news from a newspaper, so it is a win-win for me. I'd encourage others to do the same, especially if you have good reporters on the local sports beat.
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> I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint

Have you tried mypaint?
I would hazard a guess and say the market is probably there for publications covering beats that have fans/readers passionate enough to spend money.
And if it contained gold, it's actual theft.

But that's about as unlikely as the code containing trade secrets.

Plus:

- For copyright infringement, they'd need to actually redistribute the code. Using it for machine learning and distributing short snippets wouldn't be copyright infringement.

- For that trade secret stuff you'd need to prove intent.
They do though; almost all of my mac apps are from outside the app store.
Works fine on Windows 10.0.16241.0
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> If we can afford a program to feed the poor, we can afford a program to feed everyone

This isn't actually true, which is why means testing exists. If San Francisco gave every resident just $200/month for food, it would cost the city over $2 billion/year. And that's assuming only $200/month and no other assistance programs.

The only way to get rid of means testing while maintaining existing social services would be to drastically raise taxes.
Yep, it's absolutely faster - a command line is simply more responsive than moving a mouse and clicking dialogs if you know exactly what you need to do. I've always used an IDE but I exclusively use the command line for VCS. Setting up a commit is much easier to do if you know all the commands over the tedious drag/right click/choose dialog.

As to your use case, git diff has never failed me.

This is all aside from the fact that the CLI is ubiquitous. One day you'll be in a situation where it's all you have access to, and you'll thank yourself for having learned it (or kick yourself for not).
You are delusional or you have serious maths problems: if you can afford to give 100 to 10 people, you automatically afford to give 100 to 100,000 people? What logic is that?

Then you just say "the evil is means testing" but not why.

tl;dr you have no arguments to back up your slogan.
Clearly it doesn't kill the fun for the people that play that way (and I know you're expressing a meme, but competitive smash is much more than fox only, FD).

What kills fun are people who want to play a game together but have entirely different expectations and are unwilling to try it the other way.
I’m not sure how what is presented is much different (or better?) than local sports coverage already present in these cities?

I can go on Cleveland.com (the plain dealer website) and find quality coverage of Cleveland sports for free.
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It clearly states in the diagram that the code you run Kite on will be analyzed in the cloud. If it truly uploaded "all of the source code on [your] computer" then obviously that is radically different but from my experience with the product, it did not upload my code besides what was directly related to what I was working on and understood would be analyzed in the cloud, just like Code Climate or any other code analysis service.
Hmm, it's a fair question. I pretty much have written off LENR as has most everyone else, my comment was that I try not to disparage people who haven't written it off, I just set my expectations that something that will come from it at zero.

The difference is that I feel it is a perfectly legitimate scientific pursuit to understand what is going on in a LENR experiment producing unexplained results, even if I personally don't expect it to produce any meaningful results. I know its a fine line, I totally dismiss creationists trying to 'prove' that the world is only 6,000 years old, even though they tell me they have approached it 'scientifically.'
Update: it's just because I was doing it on my phone. Having a blast learning this!
> what do you do when the data from redundant systems disagree?

Self driving car systems' rules aren't directly decided by humans. The system is trained to come up with its own rules given sensor input. So ideally, you have more different types of input from diverse sources. Machine learning is a lot easier when you have a diverse dataset.

> having more data sources means dealing with more edge cases.

Yes, and that's a good thing. You want the system to be able to handle the edge case from the article, and a diverse array of sensors can do that.

> a single reliable data source (as in the limitations and biases are well known) is better than two less predictable ones.

Can you provide an example of a single vehicle sensor that would be preferable to two others? I can't see why this decision would be made, aside from attempts to lower cost. Two sensors provides more reliability than one.
I agree that the Wrights deserved to be rewarded handsomely for their achievements, but so too do the others who made important contributions afterwards, though perhaps not to the same extent. The issue of the fair reward for innovation still has no satisfactory solution to this day.

The Wrights also had to fight with the Smithsonian over their historical legacy, with the result that the original Flyer was displayed in London's Science Museum for many years, where its significance was properly recognized.
You probably copied the url, I think tortoisesvn puts the content of the clipboard as repository url if it's a valid url.
I know - my comments were more about the initial demand, and it's a little bit of a misunderstanding that people immediately compared it to me trying to invalidate the nuremberg trials.
> Smoke some weed and lie in bed thinking about your life.

This led me to a paranoid psychotic break when I was 21.
Second Greenshot. It satisfyingly solves "turn a specific part of my screen into an image" as smoothly and simply as well as is probably possible.
Sounds more like the problem is means-testing with strict cutoffs. Mean-testing is good in helping to even the field, the problem is that (some of) our current programs don't slowly fade out as you climb up.
Many early adopters did these things. I haven't seen a phone with 1.0/1.5/1.6/2.0 that didn't have either. It was so bad, that many thought that you must root your phone to make it usable.

It changed during 2.2/2.3 era, when it became mainstream. With 4.0, even the hardcore early adopters didn't bother anymore. At that age, the OS was already well established.
It's not theft, neither sorted nor random.
It has been available for more than a year.
Listening to Simmons over the last year, it is clear that part of Grantland's failure was being under the ESPN umbrella and not chasing what ESPN considered "small dollar" advertisements and partners. In a recent podcast, Simmons said that his BS Report podcast (an iTunes Top 10 mainstay) was just thrown in with the Subway deal for years.

It is also my interpretation that had Grantland and Simmons not been so intertwined, it may have had a better shot at surviving the messy Simmons/ESPN divorce.
"AI" might be, "AI ASIC" is pretty cool though!
Not really, no, but Chrome supports some files: pdf, txt, images... View mode only, obviously.
The minimum should be a clearly presented option to turn off telemetry either during install or at first startup.
It's education inflation.

a college degree is the new highschool diploma. Even with a 4 year degree in a "real" field of study (business/stem/finance/whatever) it's becoming more and more difficult to land entry level jobs. If you pay 30/60/90k for said degree, you are going to feel entitled (rightfully or not) to working in a position that's not for the "uneducated". These positions still need to be filled though, because they are generally the jobs that make day-to-day life happen. Nobody wants to flip burgers but they still want to be able to eat one at lunch.

I'm of the opinion that yes, even minimum wage jobs should be able to get the bare minimum expenses of an average family covered (housing/food/medicine), let alone two incomes making more than minimum wage.
The protocol is likely uninteresting rather it's the models, training data, and training configurations which are most interesting and the least likely to be open sourced. I don't work in the autonomous vehicle space but I would be surprised there's a set of deterministic rules that are easily reviewed instead collections of deep nn models.
Also, the coastline is seismically active, and does not pose as a great location for Manhattan-style skyscrapers.

So is Tokyo, yet there's plenty of high buildings.
They had an issue with abusing monopoly power, once upon a time. It's only recently that people stopped coming at them with torches and pitchforks every time they added a feature found in third-party apps.
These basic image highlighting features are so useful that Apple made them available in the Mail app (https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht204093).
It is possible that with sufficient investment in tools for writing safer code, unoverridable smart contracts will become useful enough to outweigh the risks.

It's also possible (and I feel that this will be the case) that in the end the risks will be too large anyway for large adoption, so we'll collectively decide that for most use cases smart contracts are useful only with a "social" mechanism for overriding them, contrary to the current "code is law" policy of Ethereum.
I seem to remember Grantland having all sorts of stuff about culture, movies, music, etc. As a sports fan, Grantland always felt to me to be a bit like Slate or NY Mag crossed with Sportsnet: The Magazine.
If possible, it would be great if you could make it generic, so that more than one non-profit could use it.
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They must be paying a lot of rent for the garage. Otherwise the numbers don't work (or... not work, as it were)
MacDonald's is also a multibillion dollar corp., nobody in their right mind thinks they can raise a family working at MacD's without additional income or subsidy.

It's a job for teenagers to get experience and for blue collar retirees to make some money to and to their SS checks.

People should stop thinking teenager jobs sustain families. It doesn't have the value add. If you want to make a living open up a stand and maybe if you do things well, you'll survive and thrive.

Even in developing economies, this is ceasing to be the case. Never mind mature economies.
It's a good idea to ask what people need, rather than just dream up a product that nobody wants.

I wonder, though, if this approach is efficient, and what the most efficient way is to figure out what people actually want.
Ah, I was unfamiliar with criminal penalties for copyright infringement. Could you go ahead and link me to the relevant US Code text that provides for such penalties?
Could be that they're not getting the hours to actually earn anywhere near $75k.
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A lot of the "no one will own cars" folks need to get out of their bubble more. The typical car is a sort of moving storage locker and has often been customized for preferences and needs like carrying various types of sports gear. (Also car seats for kids.) Plus, a lot of people just like having a car that they're comfortable in.
Do you have any idea of a situation where means testing results in better outcomes? I tend to be wary of hard and fast rules regarding most anything, so I'm hoping you can round out your comment and, by proxy, possibly my opinion.
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