skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's what EU is trying to achieve:

> “A purpose that is vague or general, such as for instance ‘Improving users’ experience’, ‘marketing purposes’, or ‘future research’ will – without further detail – usually not meet the criteria of being ‘specific’”
Is java has linker feature?
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16sessio...

This is a resolution passed by the Human Rights Council, but it is not a human right. It does not disallow anything. It talks about promoting and encouraging respect, deploring discrimination and violence, noting concern, recognizing contributions, etc. These are all soft, non-binding commitments.

The only actual obligation is "to prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion or belief and to implement measures to guarantee the equal and effective protection of the law", which does not conflict at all with freedom of speech.

It also includes "the positive role that the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart information can play in strengthening democracy and combating religious intolerance", which seems to address your concerns.
> The baker should be able to deny baking a cake to gay couple?

Protected class.

> A pharmacist should be able to deny knowing options about birth control based on religious rights?

> A hospital should be able to deny removal of life sustaining device when I don't want it anymore?

You want to get into the special laws and regulations the medical field operates under? Really? Really? Because I can guarantee you don't. I can guarantee you are not qualified to do that, and do not have the patience to even start.

Leave it alone. It is its own world and always has been.

> What if Mead stopped you from using their notebook to write down a thought that they don't agree with?

It's more useful to have competition than regulation, because regulation can be gamed. Regulation is required when competition is not possible, does not happen, or when the potential for harm is so high that we cannot simply trust to competition, as in the medical field.
Prices doubling every 7-10 years, and Berlin is still by far the cheapest big city in Europe to do anything in. I love going to Berlin because it's so cheap to do everything.
Thank you for writing this, and for posting here.

We need more people like you to write about and help demistify Bitcoin, to counter the hype surrounding blockchain technology.

I hope you get an opportunity to write about this for a lay audience too, because mainstream media, with few exceptions, has done a poor job at covering the technology.
Occupy Wall Street wasn't that long ago, most of those people are still around, and the message definitely creeps into the mainstream regularly. Just look at how many people voted for Sanders in the primaries last year
To be honest, the fact that 60% is a failing grade is a failure of the grading system, not a fact to take for granted. We've basically lost the entire dynamic range of 0-60% for no good reason.
I've only ever heard it called dead code elimination. Tree shaking appears to be more a javascript thing? Not sure I don't participate in that community at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code_elimination
Isn't this capitalism working exactly as intended?
I liked him until today. Entitlement is an ugly trait.

Yes--I'm projecting. I just see to much of it these days.
The problem is that Travis thinks it's still possible to defend their monopolistic market share but I'd bet (just personal opinion) that investors don't feel that way. Honestly, what could Uber do to ensure their monopolistic world market share would last? They want to IPO soon so they can get some return. Uber has had years and billions of dollars, I don't blame investors for wanting to push the bird out of the nest and see if it can really fly.
While you're here, I'd like to say thanks for Aleph and Manifold - they have been very reliable and powerful workhorses.
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.6.2/Lib/collection...
I found [0] a few months ago which was a nice starting point.

[0] https://github.com/a0viedo/demystifying-js-engines
Since 1.5 (and backported to 1.4)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15133942

The person said that she/he was a Diplomat who negotiated this law.

>negotiating laws and charging corporations are very different things.

I agree. UN is toothless in enforcing anything, it is just grandstanding anyway. That was the point of my question, when do they propose on doing something about the corporations who invalidate the rights to speech. To show just that.
It's about time their investors get a massive liquidity event. I tend to think the lack of an near term exit strategy was one of many reasons Travis got the boot.
Hah I'm an idiot. Thanks.
How exactly do you go about finding that out? Just during interviews?
I guess she wanted the extra liability when he has an accident and the victims look for the deep pockets! ;)
Zoox got some Uber engineers too since earlier.

I wonder if the company will produce a working product or if they will aim on getting bought, like Otto etc.
That depends. Do you mean free market capitalism or crony capitalism?

To decide whether this is what free market capitalism intends, we'd have to determine if their wages are large due to free market forces (e.g supply and demand, etc) or if there is some government collusion going on inflating their wages.
Would love to see a shot of the collection on /r/headphones.
You wouldn't see a quadcopter on a human-scale craft. The efficiency is too low. The reason they are used in drones is that you can get 3 axis control with only varying motor torque, instead of varying blade pitch/tilt.

Less efficient, but much simpler mechanically.
No, again, it's the actual machine. Historically, printing and publication were regulated (often with licensing requirements to even set one up) over and above speech [0], so “freedom of speech” did not adequately communicate the right to use a printing press to prepare ideas for distribution.

“The press” in “freedom of the press” is, literally, the printing press (and, by implication, it's necessary paraphernalia, including paper for printing, type, etc.), not the news media or the people working in it.

[0] e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_of_the_Press_Act_1...
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle (and ignoring our request to stop). That's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Content Is Still King: Driving Traffic to Your Site with Search and Social
Can't argue that. Can you imagine the liability from the ambulance staff if they just didn't pick her up though?
Alexa and Cortana can now speak to each other
Exactly. What I'd like to have is a tool that analyzes what I do, and reminds me what shortcuts I can use to be more efficient. It would be awesome to have that on my smartphone screen like the solution on display here.
"Some kind of custom connection" is the real issue here.
Do you have any advice / links on how to do that? May be you should write a blog post about it. :)
Put another way: what should be left after linking is just the parts of the CLR + BCL that the runtime needs to function. Apparently that takes 12MB today. There is a JIT, GC and Execution Engine all in there.

The number might shrink as the linker gets more aggressive but i wouldn't count on it much.

The application IL code is perhaps 50 bytes to for hello world.
> If you can make that cartridge dirt cheap, you will have invented an exciting new technology.

Step 1: Have the idea.

Step 2: Implementation.

We're already half way there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
Suggestions for a better startup incubator application
That's not quite as interesting to me as the fact that no one has cracked this nut yet. No one. You've got the top tech companies on the planet trying to be first and as of yet not one of them has managed it. I thought Apple would be first or a close second with a better and more refined solution. But they have supposedly given up on the larger picture and are focusing on the software.

If I was an engineer this is clearly where I would seek to work, this is obviously one of the harder tech problems to solve.
I guess the problem is that (going by Google's target of 100m users with this feature by winter) Apple have vastly more of those users.
There is a good plugin for Chrome "Amazon Sort - Number of Reviews".

It helped me to push chinese crap way below the fold and focus on well-researched items on top.
Urban maths: tipping point, or, what is the bias of perfect dice?
You are not crazy (see other excellent comment). They are evil little beasties. I have been enjoying the descriptions here, like nasty little balls of hate and invasive species made of spite. Those are much more poetic and apt descriptions than I can come up with.

My brother was once sprayed with them by the lawnmower. He was in shorts (so his bare legs were inundated) and he reacts a lot worse to them than most people I know. I took over the lawn mowing for a few weeks after that.
It's actually not a new kind of distributed algorithm:

1. Peer-to-peer algorithms: BitTorrent would like a word with you.

2. Distributed consensus: Paxos would like a word with you.

3. Proof of work: hashcash would like a word with you.

That said, I find the Bitcoin paper to be a delightful synthesis of a bunch of well known ideas.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and especially not on divisive topics?

If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well on the left they get silenced when they get too loud (evidenced by the post) I'd bet the same happens on the right. Lots of the biggest funders of libertarian think-tanks are also big corporate donors or individuals who made it rich on the back of a big corporation so I'd expect what happened to Barry and his group here is liable to happen to libertarians of the same mindset.

>all of them (plus neoliberals and many financially conservative folks) can agree that competition is at least one of their most important economic tenants

Note that this isn't true. Lots of free-market mindset people (libertarians and otherwise) believe that if a monopoly can provide a lower price then that's all that matters. That's part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place.
Yeah except that would create massive amounts of electronics litter..
F11 is full screen, not headless. Headless means you can't see the browser or the website content, it's built for scripting purposes (automated web testing and web scraping). The only time you can see the content is if your script requests a screen capture.
My comment does not conflict with that because by "process" I mean the mechanism purporting to increase subject safety, not your experience.
there's not a difference.
Google and Facebook will find a way. Problem are small/young startups
I have R in a nutshell. It is a pretty good reference but maybe a little brief and outdated.
Does anyone know if there any other initiatives beside PixelQi and e-ink displays for producing (modern) displays that can be used with passive light?

It would be fantastic to be able to bring my laptop into the sunlight for work. And with the expectation of greatly improved battery life.

Edit: Ooh, I found Liquavista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tzaIgZKs0

Edit2: And Electrowetting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf1GjCaYzYg

Hmm, why isn't this in use.
You're parsing now. Protecting yourself from an immediate threat is of course your responsibility. However, the government can hold the person liable for any harm they caused you. So immediate is a poor word as it can be easily misinterpreted and that's my fault.

What I mean for example is it's not the citizens role to form a mob and hunt down a suspected criminal. That's the governments role.
18 months isn't much time to present financials that would support a high IPO price though, is it?

I assume the current financials still show pretty big losses due to the subsidized pricing.
That an employer requires a degree does not imply that the purpose of a university education is solely to facilitate employment. Many people disagree with me, and I think that's part of the problem.

And the $30k/year is a problem. No argument from me on that. By most measures, tuition has outpaced most other commonly measured consumer costs.

When I attended school, a good state college wasn't cheap, but my middle-class family was still able to pay for it without borrowing money. I would be hard-pressed to pay for a 4-year degree today without incurring significant debt or dramatically changing my lifestyle.
>only 20% of homeowners have flood insurance.

Whoa. So, what happens? You're up a creek without a paddle or do you sell the land or...? Seems crippling to that 80% that live in Houston.
Guys this is somewhat fake news. The question was what his thoughts were on IPO. He basically said it's up to the board, but 18 to 36 months seemed reasonable. It wasn't like he's actually planning on IPOing in 18 months, it was an off-the-cuff response and gave a ballpark figure. That's all, don't read too much into it he hasn't even officially started yet.
>Concurrency generally means preemption

No, it doesn't. Concurrency is about the logical structure of the code. From Wikipedia:

"In computer science, concurrency is the decomposability
property of a program, algorithm, or problem into order-
independent or partially-ordered components or units. This
means that even if the concurrent units of the program,
algorithm, or problem are executed out-of-order or in
partial order, the final outcome will remain the same".

And from "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell":

In many fields, the words parallel and concurrent are
synonyms; not so in programming, where they are used to
describe fundamentally different concepts.

A parallel program is one that uses a multiplicity of
computational hardware (e.g. multiple processor cores) in
order to perform computation more quickly. Different parts
of the computation are delegated to different processors
that execute at the same time (in parallel), so that
results may be delivered earlier than if the computation
had been performed sequentially.

In contrast, concurrency is a program-structuring technique
in which there are multiple threads of control. Notionally
the threads of control execute "at the same time"; that is,
the user sees their effects interleaved. Whether they
actually execute at the same time or not is an
implementation detail; a concurrent program can execute on
a single processor through interleaved execution, or on
multiple physical processors.

Note: "program-structuring technique", "Notionally" and "implementation detail".

Concurrency is NOT "running in parallel" (running simultaneously), as you seem to believe, and not even about your code getting preempted. As long as it's structured concurrently, that is.

But if you have concurrency AND preemption OR different independent processes etc over multiple cpus you can have parallelism. In a sense concurrency is a more generic principle.
Right, that's where libraries like ImmutableJS come in.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON

> the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten

I'd say it depends a bit. IBM still throwing money at POWER is interesting. The openSPARC is interesting for certain embedded applications that deal with signal processing - where there's real work to be done both in software and hardware (asic / fpga) - like wireless communication. Having a few sparc cores that run Linux well ready to drop in on a fpga is very nice.

But for consumer hw... Yeah, it's difficult to compete with arm on one side and Intel/AMD on the other. Remember that even transmeta had to throw in the towel trying to compete in that space.
Per [0] they are allowed to drive in the US, and do not have higher accident rates than hearing drivers[1]. Also, "There are now devices available that can be used in r cars that react to the frequency of sirens and which emit visual warnings of approaching emergency vehicles to assist deaf drivers and those with hearing loss" (which could presumably also "assist" self-driving cars).

[0] https://www.enddd.org/end-distracted-driving/enddd-presentat...

[1] This web site's bona fides aren't clear, but its mission does not seem to specifically include advocating for the deaf, so there's no obvious reason for the information presented to be biased in favor of the deaf.
Again IANAL and not english native speaker, but my understanding is that they are not independent.

Consent is presumed not to be freely given IF it does not allow..., OR IF the performance...
But why wouldn't those jobs be replaced by robots, given that we see pretty much every job being replaced by robots?

If the time it takes to mechanize a new job is shorter than a generation, the economy crumbles from the churn and permanently displaced workers. (I'd argue we're on the cusp of this.)

Everyone is addressing that we've seen displaced labor before, but not a lot about the fact that the rate at which we're displacing labor is rapidly accelerating. (Or that massively displaced labor often only gets better after a generation of massive hardships.)
Moody's: Amazon is the weakest of the big U.S. retailers
The spam list is 711M emails. The post indicates that it's made up of several existing datasets combined together.

I wasn't implying this was just LinkedIn data, apologies if my tl;dr of the article wasn't clear.

You should just read the blog post.
It would be really nice to see see GPU / WebGL support here!
Please, can you give any information of any of those companies working for EU customers without having any presence in the EU?
> You haven't solved much of anything with automation if the final word is "don't worry how it works, we'll come over and bill you to fix it"

Odd, because that's how almost all "automation" in everyday life works. How many people actually understand the operation of, or could fix, their dishwashers? Their cars? Even their coffee-makers? Yet dishes are washed, cars are driven and coffee is made, mostly uneventfully.

Is industrial technology different? A little, but not that much - if it doesn't work, there's someone out there who can fix it, for a cost. If communications are too difficult, you might keep them in-house and pay them a wage. If not, maybe they work for another company, and you pay them for their time. Or just buy a new machine when the old one stops working.
I mean, he didn't say it was handled by the IRB. He just told me it was more strict. Maybe that was specific to MIT.
People like to talk about the great employee environment, open source contributions, and philanthropic work of Google, but what projects will get cut when Google finally has a bad quarter? Is Google at it's core actually different - or is it more of the same, merely enjoying a circumstantial utopia period for its first two decades?
Google is not a private entity, it is a public corporation with share holders.

We hold government with highest demands for equality, we hold private individuals and fully owned businesses with most freedom to discriminate. We hold public corporations somewhere in between.

>Google's house

Sure. Nobody cared when things were being said about Egypt's Mubarak. But say something that some Google executives don't like, you are out of there.

Is there a difference between a private entity and a public corporation?

If I run my own plumbing company, I can hire my son without putting up an ad in the paper. Should a Google executive be allowed to hire her husband without putting up an ad?

We hold public companies at a higher standard that private individuals, correctly so.

What if Mead stopped you from using their notebook to write down a thought that they don't agree with?
As long as you're sharing the network you'll be vulnerable on some level. One easy fix could be to setup a VPN so all of your traffic is encrypted.
There is actually a pretty clear distinction. Here is one persons explanation if you want to inform yourself.

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/richard-ebeling-free-...
What does this definition of "opt-out" mean?
What sort of collusion would increase their wages?
It's far from unstoppable. They might have market share in the US because of their first mover advantage, but they ceded to Didi in China and to Yandex in Russia.
>Averages (even with the post's approach) still have the problem of not being "honest" in the game theory sense. For example, if something is rated 4 stars with 100 reviews, a reviewer who believes its true rating should be 3 stars is motivated to give it 1 star because that will move the average rating closer to his desired outcome.

Also I'd like to know if a 5/10 rating is mostly 5s, or an average of mostly 1s and 10s.
Is that true though? They are still subsidizing 60% of the cost on all rides no? Eventually there will be a reckoning and will really determine if this is a viable company.
Uber ICO? Please speculate on possibilities and help the press to collect data points so they can mash together 2 of their favorite narratives. Bonus points for looping in autonomous vehicles.
Algorithms and Data Structures You Should Know
This is one of those projects that at first, is easy to dismiss as "silly" or "useless". On the surface, sure. But looking at the imgur album and reading the comments (and I would imagine going to the website, etc - which I haven't done), it becomes clear (and the author even says so on the album) that this project ultimately served a larger purpose:

From start to finish, this project has helped the person develop a complete (or nearly so) set of manufacturing skills. An idea was taken from concept, on through a multitude of other steps (design, prototyping, software development, hardware development, etc), to producing a final working "product".

Now - it seems from the comments in the album that this isn't the authors first go at such a project, but it may have been one of the most complex or largest they have done. Regardless of that, it has helped them to hone and develop a complete set of skills very few people have.

Heck - I would encourage the author to try turning this project, or something similar, into a MOOC in some manner; I don't know if this is possible, or if it has been done before, but I bet there's a growing audience of people who'd love an all-in-one course to study to gain such skills. Part of the problem of implementing such a thing as a MOOC is whether a person has access to the needed tools and equipment; maybe that could be part of any pre-req's? Or, maybe people would pay for such a course, and parts or tools could be provided (kinda like those "boxed recipe meals" you can get)?

Ultimately, I liked seeing this project; even though to me it seemed "frivolous", it really is a physical form of "random play coding exercises" software engineers do from time to time, in order to learn a new language or framework, or just to try out ideas or whatnot. Such a project thus becomes a education and learning opportunity of a very intense sort.

If this individual hasn't gotten any job offers or such, I would seriously question "why not?" - they have shown a level of competence and follow through rarely seen in a single individual, and they should be considered a valuable asset to a company (that, or this person needs to create a startup or something).
>Regulation is required when competition is not possible, does not happen, or when the potential for harm is so high that we cannot simply trust to competition, as in the medical field.

I contend that social media platforms of YouTube/Twitter/Facebook are at that level now. Competition is not possible and harm has clearly been done.
Since you asked:
http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2016/11/08/voxsplaining-vox/
lobbying/bribing for laws intended to limit competition is the most common weapon of choice.