skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So all of the corporate breaches show that the entire private sector is irresponsible with data too? Maybe the problem is a little deeper than "government is irresponsible?"
Exception?

> A futuristic new kitchen appliance that is being called the "Keurig for food" could forever change home cooking. Called Tovala, the countertop machine is a broiler, steamer, oven, microwave, and toaster in one ... The price of the machine will eventually go as high as $279.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tovala-will-replace-every-coo...

> The June Intelligent Oven can detect what you’ve just popped into the oven, and will heat up or cool down based on how you’ve indicated you want it cooked. It’s connected to your phone, so it can tell you when your food is ready. This countertop convenience comes at a steep price of $1,495 per oven.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/June-Intelligent...
That sounded pretty painful for Larry. It sounded to me like Levandowski's lawyers were trying to get on the record that everything he got compensation wise was in exchange for past accomplishments. I don't know if anyone is seeking to claw that back or not.
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Use of "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" in this context is meant as a term of abuse, at least by conservatives who have started using it.

If your goal is to signal that you despise that party, then by all means keep using it here, but it seems closer to the kind of substantive discourse that HN encourages to avoid it.
Damn, how did I not know about that site before. Good show mate
I'd say the big externalities affecting non-customers are increased congestion and a questionable insurance arrangement. There are also the handful of cases of sexual assault and similar that have happened that arguably could have been avoided with background checks, but perhaps the incidence of these is small enough that you could write it off.
Minimalist, arguably useful HTML/CSS snippets
I haven't. Just wanted to add my anecdote, so that it gets counted when they do a meta-study of hacker news comments.
The comment section is cancer in this link. Classic zero hedge crowd.
Any way to download from Amazon video? I miss 1.X speed feature of VLC.
The backseat cam is a valid potential use case, but I'm surprised they wouldn't have put that on the larger S or X, if so. ;)
Wow, I rented a MB once and it did that, which was absolutely the right call. The thing was that I initially ignored it and thought MB used a timer or something but 15 minutes later, I became aware of it and it was quite acute by the time I was aware of it.

I've always wondered how it knew that.
That is low man. It's like saying: "I don't care if you're right. I don't like you so I'm not listening."

But if that's how you feel, I think there is reason to like Exxon.

ExxonMobile has done an unbelievable amount of good for the modern world, which li was built on and runs on oil. Everything you have, from the food you eat at the grocery store, to the house you live in, was produced or transported using oil. Even tesla cars are built with materials that are shipped with oil. There is just no other energy store we have that is as abundant and efficient and versatile as oil at this point. Yes it's caused a bunch of pollution but I think the world is still better for it.
Only one mention of Microsoft. They're eating the software world, and have one of the best data platforms.
Not sure why you found that so noteworthy (or scandalous?).

I know that there is a lot of general waffling on Larry's part there (for obv reasons) but the reasoning he offered sounds reasonable—Google is trying to run mini-startups within its orgs, and to attract talent, is offering those people 'bonuses' (or whatever you want to call it) of the order of magnitude that the co-founders of a successful startup would get.

That provides them incentive to work within Google instead of on their own.
Has he considered authoring a paper on the subject? I mean, if a cat can publish one[0], it would be embarrassing to the canine race if dogs can't.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/philosophy-journal-cor...
I know. You can't use most of these "tips" in your monolithic monolith. But you could.
What exactly is awesome about it? What are they actually achieving that is impressive.

This is basically doing something at low resolution and applying the transformation to the high resolution image using a bilateral filter to make the interpolation respect edges. There isn't really anything new here except for the combination of buzzwords in the title.
Interested in learning more. How can I get in touch?
However, it may significantly increase the size of measured effect if you can go back and re-classify the patients - in your example, it may turn an earlier study where only 30 of 100 cases showed improvement to a study where 30 of 30 cases responded to treatment well.
You're comparing different things - one is current levels of CompSci (small, limited, sample size - hell I wouldn't show up in CompSci numbers) which is also basically at an all time high. The other is a total size metric that won't show churn.

I get what you're trying to show but the comparison doesn't follow.
>Q: You're saying it's not unusual to pay somebody a bonus of over $100 million?

>A: I don't -- I don't think characterizing it as a bonus is correct. I think it's more like a start-up compensation, which would be more like equity. We have executives that are well compensated and certainly make a lot of money and so on.

> So anyway, I don't think that it's so far outside of the norm for Silicon Valley compensation.

(emphasis mine)

Even in context, this seems crazy! Is $100M+ really not far from the norm for non C-level non unicorn execs here?

Am I unknowingly on a forum of 8-9 digit zillionaires?
Drowsiness detection with OpenCV

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/05/08/drowsiness-detection...
This is a fantastic effort. It is absolutely crucial that we do a better job of helping those who have served their time have a chance to become productive members of society.
> I don't recall...

It is convenient to have a bad memory.
No, it's saying "this source is known for biased corporate propaganda so take that into account when evaluating the content".
It was exactly this kind of fun that led me to stay in my altcoin holdings and not participate at all in BCH. Liquidity puts a serious damper on a lot of slick crypto trade ideas - it's a "tortoise and the hare" kind of scenario.
Pattern Matching in Java - Brian Goetz
How would you explain P vs. NP to a child?
Blue Apron for Home Brewing?
You are being paranoid. When you purchase the car it will be matched to your implanted chip and it can get your biometrics directly.
> unmeasurable, unverifiable

It would be if it was either of those things. It's really not. The accuracy of the measurements you can debate but it's certainly verifiable.
> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life

Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for this Monty Python skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgHHhw_6g8.

Francis Galton, a product of a thoroughly Protestant society, was already worrying about the negative correlation between socioeconomic status and fertility very shortly after the Industrial Revolution.
Care to explain how your product has been around for 6 years and you're just beginning to push it?
"the day after his panicky global warming film"

This is a really amateurish attempt to smear Gore and the renewable energy movement in general.

I realize that different groups have different opinions and agendas, but this kind of hit piece is really only going to appeal to those that are already true believers - who will then go on to repeat it. (This is true on both the left and the right - but this article just dripped with unnecessary sneers.)
Yes, the gender roles discussion is important - feminist literature for 30 years has been talking about how patriarchal social roles affect women and men.

This isn't news to me - or anyone with any interest in this area.
Maths in lisp is like learning a language with a different alphabet, it's confusing at first, then becomes natural. I myself prefer lisp's syntax especially for maths and parenthesise heavily in other languages because in you can never know how tightly they follow mathematical association rules, and that can be a source for really annoying bugs. Generally the total absence of syntactical ambiguity in lisp is really relieving (tho lots of complexity is shifted into macro expansion, which is less intriguing for me as macroes allow easy inspection whereas core language constructs not so much).
The future of meetings: starting them in SF and ending them in Tahoe. Maybe it's a cheap video conferencing platform :)
I'm really excited that established companies like Netflix are using D. And I think this is true for most of us in the D community.
Sure, but their youthful experiments are involving billions of dollars worth of money. Or at least they claim it does.
I think you're sort of agreeing with me.

I'm saying that if women are doing that and not men then the gender-specific pressure (on both genders) is a part of that.
I guess it's strange because the founders of successful startups have generally founded a successful startup.

Paying $100,000,000 up-front to someone who hasn't yet delivered the same success seems to be putting the cart before the horse.
Perform sentiment analysis with LSTMs, using TensorFlow
Sure it is, it is a completely different thing. The only way I could see thoughts and concepts being property, is if human law defines reality. But it does not, it just tries it's best to model an idealized version of reality. This really starts to become apparent where legal English diverges from dictionary or common English.
It's not just drug offenses. Now you can go to jail if you speed over 20mph over the speed limit even if your being safe about it
This doesn't make any sense to me, at least coming from mathematics.

If I'm writing writing a paper about my ideas, it would be unethical to "make my friend a co-author" if my friend didn't contribute to those ideas.

Yes, it would be strongly preferable to tell readers where they can find the info you are citing. But if that info is unpublished, then that's life.
It's missing some click bait title tho, may I suggest:

"You WONT BELIEVE Whose home is using THIRTY FOUR TIMES the energy of a regular home!!"
Any user should know that illegal material stored in the cloud is not private.
It's pretty easy to find with a google search, but I'm referencing the "classic" tools of spycraft. Hand-written messages that actually self-destruct (self-immolate), invisible ink, short-wave radio, burst transmissions, leaving physical messages at dead-drops.

While steganography usually refers to the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video, it can be extended to the practice of hiding information in plain sight. An example is encoding a message into what passes for street graffitti. Or laying out rocks in a formation that only a drone or satellite can make sense of.

One of the smartest people I've ever met explained to me that more or less all digital communications are compromised if the resources of a nation-state are aligned against you and that the only practical solution for private and secure messages is hiding information in plain sight.
Reminds me of @dhh [1] except with causation. The example he used was Facebook but I think the oncoming adtech implosion might prove him right .

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
I wanted to get into Pixie but last I heard it was a dead project.
some VCs do look at what non monetary value their investment generates. I.e. Reddit.
> One of my complaints was that yes, WebAssembly for some reason decided to target C++ first.

It's much easier to support C++ in WebAssembly. C++ and other statically typed languages can be compiled ahead of time to low-level instructions that manipulate memory or registers in a virtual CPU.

It's much more difficult to compile dynamic languages. Consider a JavaScript statement like:

let result = a + b;

If this were a statically typed language, the compiler would know "a" and "b" are integers and can compile it into a single ADD.INT assembly instruction.

In a dynamically typed language, that "+" symbol could be an integer addition, or a floating-point addition, or a string concatenation depending on the types of "a" and "b". So what should the JS-to-WASM compiler generate? It has to generate different code to handle all the different data types, including throwing an exception for invalid types.

There would be a few problems with WASM code generated by such a compiler:

1) the generated code with all this extra checking is not going to be performant,
2) the generated code would be much larger, which would hurt transfer & parsing times,
3) the compiler would essentially be outputting the JavaScript interpreter in WASM by adding all these runtime guards for types.

> Beyond the MVP, another high-level goal is to improve support for languages other than C/C++. This includes allowing WebAssembly code to allocate and access garbage-collected (JavaScript, DOM, Web API) objects

Adding GC and DOM interop will help WASM adoption, but you'll still have the issues I described above if you try to compile JS codebases to WASM.

> statically typed languages for web development

Yes, people can use statically typed languages for web dev, and if they compile them to WASM after it has GC and fast DOM interop support, they will get performance wins vs transforming their codebases to plain JS.

But there are productivity advantages from using dynamically-typed languages during development and there are existing, very large web app codebases written in JavaScript which cannot be typed.
Can you list the BOM with links to buy.
What's the point of this, when audio is likely to be far more sensitive? I haven't heard of anyone covering microphones, and 99% of us carry one around 24/7.
On the flip side, do they not have a certain amount of responsibility to scan for certain content, such as this or ones that result in communications between groups that are coordinating the transportation or exchange of individuals (human trafficking)?

If they did not scan the contents based on specific words etc. would they not just be providing a haven for the exchange of illegal material?

I can see both sides but I would have to err on the side of safety. Since a computer is scanning the contents of files, the contents are only looked at by an individual(s) if Dropbox's predetermined filter highlights specific files.
That's the kind of argument they have to make to the general public. What else could they say to justify the technological need for that camera to be there? People in general don't respond to facts most of the time. It's a fear-based concern and they are saying "there there, it will be fine". And it works.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-...
The "wild west" model doesn't disallow anyone from providing quality control, it just doesn't enforce one particular person or entity's idea of what quality control should be.
No it wouldn't. All you have to do is change the proof of work algorithm.

Bitcoin Cash literally did thus, by reducing the the difficulty.
Would you mind having a person following you around 24/7, examining everything you do? It would "improve" advertising significantly.
Do you have a source for this? My understanding is the Mercedes "Attention Assist" is based off driving behavior and not a camera pointed at the driver.
M-x calc!
Well, you have to have surveillance coverage when people aren't looking at their phone and are away from their Samsung TV and Microsoft XBox 360.

"If you see something, say something."
How to View 3D Movies/Blu-Ray Disc on Huawei VR?
It is a pull. You bear the costs of fraud whether you notice them or not. The fact that the credit card company hides those costs from you doesn't change the fact that their architecture is broken, and that you are still paying for it by virtue of the fees they charge merchants, which create higher sticker prices for you. Costs like that don't simply disappear into the ether - you, the consumer, pays them.
Then why don't you go start a company and employ minority women for half the price of the competition and leave them in the dust?

In a competitive free market, people are paid according to their worth. And their worth is what they are paid. Arbitrages are naturally found and eliminated.
Success is defined by Google. Clearly Google thought he delivered or they wouldn't have paid him.

I'm guessing it was tied to shipping that autonomous car with no steering wheel that they made awhile back.
New Web tool tracks Russian “influence ops” on Twitter
Do you have a PDF link?
Whoa, people value things higher than or equal to what they pay for them(unless there is coercion as in the case of paying health insurance premiums in the US). In other words, price must be lower than or equal to value.
Existing 409A valuations already take all of that into account. When an employee is issued options, the one thing he can be reasonably sure of is that they are not in the money. Options have to be issued at or above the FMV for common stock, or it is taxable compensation to the employee. Note the "at or above" language. An employee's option has to be out of the money the day it is issued, but that could be by .01 or many dollars. The Board almost always has a valuation report done by a third party that values each class of stock separately, taking into account the various preferences and so forth. All of that is taken into account when assigning a value to the common options being issued.
That module is actually already in Linux in the form of dm-integrity: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

I'm using it with mdadm right now and it works pretty okay.
And why is so much money getting dumped into these constructs? AFAIK, it is speculators that are inflating that economy, not the coin devs hyping it as an investment.

If it's any consolation, money doesn't disappear, it just becomes someone else's. It's still in the economy. Think of it as an overpriced research project, that the media went nuts over.
I agree, truly sickening. The world is worse off because that comment.
The point is with lisp you can automatically and unambiguously parse and format code regardless of whitespace. Giving that up in favor of whitespace sensitive languages has real world drawbacks, no matter how many "no true python programmer" arguments you make.
At least Google photos seems to work done with Indian faces. No recognition problems and even classifies photos by people. It even recognised my photo in which I was 3 years old.
Interesting! Thanks for the info though, always been something I found quite interesting
Why would that be? If rust proves the concept works, I'd expect more languages to try it.
I wonder if people have spent as much time listening to algorithm music as we have reading articles about them. Seems like these approaches generate a lot of press but I wonder how much people actually listen to the music on a recurring basis
I would think the incentive would be to play nice with the city and the TLC that regulates the industry. I think they will have to do so eventually anyway.
I'd guess a lot of the BCH volume is from well informed momentum traders riding the volatility wave.
> But BTC hasn't really lost any value since the spinoff, still trading at about $2,700. So just before the spinoff, if you had a bitcoin, you had a bitcoin worth about $2,700. Now, you have a BTC worth about $2,700, and also a BCH worth as much as $700. It's weird free money, if you owned bitcoins yesterday.

Doesn't this throw up any red-flags to the btc/crypto apologist? This type of behavior is not how healthy markets work.
A pity they didn't consider Bcachefs [0]. I understand it's a new project but it's made some good progress and it seems like a relatively cheap investment.

Anyone from RedHat, have you considered talking to Kent, the Bcachefs developer, about this?

[0]: http://bcachefs.org/
How does this work with tooling though, like step debugging and refactoring in IDEs like PyCharm, or with iPython notebooks?
Hi Richard,

What's your plan when the number of people with criminal records reaches 80 million, 90 million, etc? Have you already acquired the other domain names?
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Presumably you'd know about this prior to buying the car. In which case you can wait a few more years for full self driving car.
"The facial recognition stuff seems odd to me"

Any type of "authentication" wouldn't make sense, that'd be as silly as a finger print scanner. Smile detector might be fun but certainly not worth the privacy trade off. There's only 1 useful feature I can think of and I've yet to see it done: when my head is sideways and the phone is sideways, I'm lying down, don't rotate the frickin' screen. Still not worth the privacy trade off, but people who don't care will be very happy.
This is not unique at all to Google, or even tech. People complain and whinge about leaving, but never actually do (or don't for a while).
Vint Cerf on the virtues of under-specification
This could have been summed up with one sentence, "Just like most people on earth today, former VP Al Gore does not always practice what he preaches."
I agree with the other responses here, but I don't feel like this deserves to be downvoted to death either, so I'm upvoting.

I did this, quit my job and ran my startup idea full-time, without enough funding, and I have a family and a mortgage. I loved it, and I regret it, and I don't regret it, all at the same time. I had some savings, but I've used it all. I've been going full-time for a lot longer than I thought I could, but I have to get a job again. My startup is making money but not enough to pay the founders, and it will be a while before we can go full-time again. I underestimated how long bootstrapping takes, and I've since watched other people underestimate how long bootstrapping takes.

It has been more fulfilling to go full time. I'm doing exactly what I want, and I'm responsible for my own success or failure. I have learned more than I would have by doing the side project on the side. We did run our project on the side for a couple years, and it was really frustrating. Going full time was a huge breath of fresh air, and a lot more fun than adding 20-40 hours a week on top of a 40+ hour full time job. I've also have a lot more time for my family, it just came at the cost of not having a lot of money for my family.

My main takeaway from having tried this is next time I'm going to do more preparation and have a runway in place before I quit and go full-time. Whether it's savings or VC funding or whatever, not having control over the end of the runway has been a mistake.
Most of the code doesn't have to be loaded immediately. For example, you write in your comment, that Facebook can play 360 degrees videos, but the player doesn't have to be loaded until the user tries to play such a video.

I decided to look at Facebook code more closely. It is modular and contains several thousand of small modules. For example, on a news feed page the browser has loaded 66 JS files with total size of 5.7Mb containing 3062 modules [1].

But it is clear that many of those modules are not necessary to display a page. For example, a module with a name "XP2PPaymentRequestDeclineController" that is probably related to payments is not necessary. Or a module with a name "MobileSmsActivationController". Obviously Facebook preloads a lot of code for different dialogs that might be unused most of the times the page is loaded.

Of course I understand that it is very difficult to optimize code when a large team is contantly writing new code and everybody has strict deadlines so there is no time for optimizations, especially if they require serious refactoring.

[1] https://gist.github.com/codedokode/cb506cee367bdb9e1071bc186...