skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, it must be said that technically the robo-car was not at fault. It was struck by a semi that was backing up, and really just grazed — none of the passengers was hurt.

I get that it wasn't the Driverless car's fault, but this brings up an important use case that the driverless cars currently don't seem to be able to handle.

In an ALL-Human situation, what would've occurred is that the parked car (if it had a passenger inside) would honk at the car that is trying to back into it, or open the door and yell at the person trying to back up, and the accident would be avoided.

Driverless car doesn't (or didn't) honk even if it does detect something backing up into it. Hence the accident.
Very interesting. Also brings up the suggestion that Trump speaks like an algorithm that is brutally optimized to win an election in the 21st century. Is he really clueless?
There are sweeteners you can use to get people to move, like signing bonuses, or a bonus after a year, or upon termination, to alienate the concern that you wont be able to go back to a more expensive place after layoff or termination.
>I also think it's easy to dislike the "down with central banks", "fiat money is fake money" faction of bitcoin

Thats the most appealing part. Most people dont like the government, they just want it to do something different.
Isn't this basically how Mimic starts? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)#Plot)
With the Bitcoin Hardfork Cancelled, Bitcoin Cash Becomes THEE Scaling Crypto
Let me ask you something: doesn't it bother you that something like Nix is necessary for the problems Nix claims to solve? Why is a system so fragile as to require what Nix provides?
Somewhat surprisingly, this is how Common Core arithmetic is taught nowadays.

Some parents are making a fuss because 'that's not how they learned arithmetic' [1], but actually anyone who is good with mental math uses these sort of tricks, particularly taking advantage of commutativity and distributivity.

In fact this builds far stronger intuition for the properties of numbers and is a good way to prepare for algebra and proof-based approaches later on.

Same sort of mental shortcuts for two-digit squaring:

52² = (50 + 2)²
= (5 ⋅ 10)² + 2 * (50 ⋅ 2) + 4²
= 5² ⋅ 10² + 200 + 4 = 2500 + 200 + 4
= 2604

[1] https://www.salon.com/2015/11/28/youre_wrong_about_common_co...
As a kid i recall seeing dump trucks on the American side.

I have to see if i have any 35mm slides.

Now everyone has a camera to document every little change. How times change.
> In addition, if Bitcoin disrupts the banking industry and a portion of wall street, we'd have to subtract their energy consumption.

Do you seriously think that? The cost of stuff like VISA's server farms or office buildings (and the rest of the financial industry) is probably globally negligible. Not to mention similar institutions would inevitably appear for cryptocurrencies (or already have, like Exchanges, etc.).

What remains is the horrendous cost for a Bitcoin transaction vs. the negligible cost for a 'normal' transaction in most trust-based systems.
OpenCV is licensed under the BSD license. [1]

"BSD (unlike some other licenses) does not require that source code be distributed at all." [2]

Looks like there is no legal obligation to provide their source code or changes. But I really hope they did push their changes upstream. It is a real shame when companies that benefit so much from the open source community don't give back.

1. https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/LICENSE

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
My girlfriend self-describes as a revolutionary Marxist. Trust me when I say I have yet to see a single genuinely “hard left” comment on Hacker News.
Is that what has happened in polygamist groups?
We have a hell of a lot of evidence that learning, planning, processing sensory input, sending out signals to move muscles etc. are all happening in the brain.

> Could it be those with extensive amputations of gut and an articial heart could be "less human" in a broader sense than just mass?

If that's the case, it's pretty subtle. People with an artificial art don't act much differently than those with a normal heart; compare that with people who've had frontal lobotomies.

> But you seem awfully sure there is consciousness. Perhaps there is no such thing and you only think there is?

This line of argument generally rapidly devolves into semantics and quibbling over definitions. Giving a formal definition of consciousness is difficult. You either end up with a definition like "that phenomena where people think and consider themselves a single entity", in which case it's trivially true that human beings have consciousness; or you define it as something vague and metaphysical like "having a soul" in which case it's unprovable whether humans are conscious or not.

I like this passage from the Macmillan Dictionary of Psychology:

"Consciousness - The having of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings; awareness. The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible without a grasp of what consciousness means ... Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it has evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it."
The game itself is here: https://egamebook.com/vermin/v/latest/

I just played a round while I was on the train - it's _really_ good! Not only the play, but even the presentation of "loading" the next part of the game below the current text, as if it were any other book, is perfect for playing on mobile.

I think this could really open up a whole new genre. Personally, I'd love to have a variant of this that I could interact with through my (in-home-corporate-surveillance-microphone-product-of-choice). I love interactive fiction, adventure games and DnD, so this really presses a lot of buttons for me, and if I could play a game with my voice rather than listening to podcasts while working all day, I think that'd be the sweetest spot of all.

Excellent work, OP!
do you mean specifically preserving continuity from one frame to the next?
Well i actually got more from the government that what i put in, but at this very moment, i certainly give more than what i get, and even with kids in the picture i'd still give more.

And even when my overall contribution to my country will be highr than what my whole family got (and it will eventually happen), i'd still be happy to pay my taxes so that other kids can have the same chances i had.

I believe in meritocratic society and i don't see how to achieve that without socialism and some taxes until everyone stop being petty, greedy and/or self-centered. Then we can all be libertarian.

Finally i'm an utilitarist (well, a negative utilitarist following Popper's definition) so my moral values are not abstract.
Probably so. The kind of technology company where selling upper management on investing in security, maintainability, testing, open source, heck even version control is going to be difficult, because the people at the top don't have the expertise to evaluate such proposals.
Are you recounting the plot of Jupiter Ascending?
>This also tangentially ties into a hypothesis I have on US presidential elections, which is that once it's down to two candidates, name recognition is all that matters. Every time (I'm aware of) that a president dominated the mass media of the time, he won the election. From FDR on radio to Kennedy on TV to Obama on social media and now Trump who rode on the public obsession with gossiping about every stupid thing he did or said.

Makes more sense than blaming Russia and Facebook.
>"“He leaned close to my face and said, ‘Can I ask you something?’ I said, ‘Yes,’” Ms. Corry said in a written statement to The New York Times. “He asked if we could go to my dressing room so he could masturbate in front of me.” Stunned and angry, Ms. Corry said she declined, and pointed out that he had a daughter and a pregnant wife. “His face got red,” she recalled, “and he told me he had issues.”"

It's unfortunate because he clearly has, as he apparently recognized, "problems". I wouldn't say he's close to being on the level of a Harvey Weinstein type predator. It would be unjust if his life and career were destroyed because of these allegations. Hopefully he can get the help he needs and start fresh.
I don't know about Sean, but if it just dawned on me one day that my $2.5B was dirty money, my new full-time job would be undoing the damage.

Parker is a smart guy. If he were even half-way serious about what he was saying, he would be doing something a hell of a lot more effective than tweeting "conscientiously" and donating 10% to medical research.
Never even heard of it.
They moved from a CVS/SVN repo to git. The history from this old repo is missing, but the (leaked) git repo is recent.

Author:User#142
Date: Fri Oct 30 09:58:22 2015 EDT User's Guide date corrections.
You probably haven't used it since pre-vista if that is your experience. Microsoft changed a lot of internals that really improved the situation on Windows. For instance: WDDM can recover from a graphics driver crash, with the added benefit of allowing you to install and use new graphics drivers without rebooting or even losing your open windows.
Seems unlikely, but that would be incredibly beneficial to society.
So they're a tech company in the silicon valley model.
What's Yahoo doing there? Why is she still employed by anyone? LOL...
I've observed the same but regarding fancy Office documents my experience has mostly been with amazingly complex Excel spreadsheets.

People who have no programming background, no knowledge of modern tools like jupyter somehow are very proficient at crunching data and making graphs in Excel.

I've seen some outlandish things like all invoices being generated by Excel templates and data gathering done by vbs. Or an entire datacenter mapped up in Excel, like a poor mans racktables.

Granted the vbs was done by a programmer but that's a tiny slice of what I've seen done in Excel.

So if you're going to force these people that I work with into google docs then you need to offer an alternative they can understand. Either a devops department that can script these things for them easily, or training in new tools.
That's a slippery slope.
I'm not sure why people are making a kerfuffle over this, entomologist have used this before to great effect. Cochliomya hominivorax, the primary screwworm fly, was eradicated from the US using very similar methods. Due to this, we do not have to worry about miasis or maggot infestations.
SF simply isn't the only city with tech job security or mobility.
If you believe there's not a gendered component, and that it's just generic bullying by some "subset" of "teenagers", then I invite you to just read the replies on Twitter to women who speak out about, say, diversity in tech.

Or start moderating a forum. I mod a couple of subreddits, and from that experience it is literally impossible for me to believe that you are correct.
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Really? Do you think that an adopted child would prefer their birth parents over their loving adoptive parents if their birth parents were abusive alcoholics, criminals or drug addicts?

Children who have been adopted are also "tricked" but I don't think all of them prefer their birth families.
facebook allows people to connect and communicate with friends across the world. profiting from ads is one intent, but it feels biased to say it is the only real intention.
Interesting thread.

Apropos, this book may be of interest. I had come across it a while ago; I have read part of it:

Producing Open Source Software

How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

by Karl Fogel

(Consulting: Open Tech Strategies, LLC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Fogel

Excerpt from his Wikipedia page:

[
Karl Fogel is an author, software developer, Executive Director of copyright activist non-profit Question Copyright,[1] and former board member of the Open Source Initiative where he served as the Board Treasurer.[2] His work, Producing Open Source Software, is a well referenced source of information about the human side of open source software.[3][4] Fogel is currently updating the Creative Commons licensed (CC BY-SA 4.0[5]) book to a second edition following a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com.[6]
]
The fast, open and secure display server for any device
Man, this is awesome!
Fair enough. Still, I'd suggest that the wealthy group indicate opiates scratch an itch which is probably unrelated to inequality. Even if we drastically reduced inequality, that itch would likely still exist. I'd also find it interesting if there was a comparison of the per capita ratio of wealthy addicts to poor addicts. It seems entirely plausible that a causal, not simply correlative, link exists between unemployment/poverty and 'bad' addictive behaviors, but something is hooking highly functioning, wealthy humans on opioids, too.

On a tangent, while I've never had chronic pain, I've had friends who have, and I know it can destroy anyone's life. I don't want to see the abuse of effective pain meds by some lead to difficulties in obtaining pain relief for those who really need it. Someone in chronic pain has enough to handle without worrying about maintaining access to appropriate medication.
Keep reading, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Love the idea of only using stock Python.

Congratulations on the article.
Read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
if you want such a simplistic view, then no, you don't really produce wealth, you accumulate it. we create value and that is what we accumulate in the form of wealth. money is used to abstract that value into a commonly exchangeable medium, which is the form in which wealth is generally accumulated. it's a pretty neat system at its core.

the concept of stealing is entirely beside the point.
Thanks for the feedback - it's an area we'll definitely be looking at closely.
Only if you ignore Social Security and Medicare which add up to 15.3% income taxes paid by all working people making federal taxes more regressive than you might think.
Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10
Just a minor point but I know actual psychologists (PhDs in clinical psychology) employed by Facebook, so it's definitely not just data scientists running a/b tests.
They are actually planning to shut off the falls again, soon: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/new-york-is-going-to-turn-off-...
> The FBI never even examined the server themselves

You don't need to look at a physical server to make these conclusions.

> just took the word of a campaign affiliated and funded company

Literally a company PAID to provide security.
Gotta count the energy cost of staff food, transport, facilities, etc. for every VISA employee to really make an accurate comparison. Plus power drain of each of millions of POS systems, cost of maintaining redundant secure backups of records...

Bitcoin requires no other infrastructure than computers. VISA needs a lot of various things to keep it's infrastructure working.
If I recall, they don't do traditional OCR, rather they build a term probability database that lets them do matching on search terms. Both Evernote and ABBYY seem to have ties to a specific Russian research group.
Ford has tons of engineers of other disciplines making $120-150k
Of course. We are familiar with the concept that, in general, people will act in their own short term self interest. An open, compatible computing world sounds great to you and me because we are computer people with heavy investment in the future of computing. This is not the case for most workers or their managers and executives.
Ask HN: Which mobile platform has better future?
Hello, for indie devs or job availability perspective which mobile development platform(iOS/Android) is ahead? Does anyone have any data?
The client needed an OCR solution for supplier invoices with a variety of layouts and a combination of printed and hand-written characters, and didn't have the budget for a bespoke solution. To be fair, it's a very hard problem, I was just surprised that given all the much hyped recent advancements in deep learning for computer vision, most of the solutions in the market seem to be running on decades old technology.
VueJS component for social share. A simple way to share links in social networks
> It's just one of the least productive things you can do if trying to save money.

... in SF.

In most other cities with many tech employers, NYC excepted, living with roommates instead of in a 1BR isn't going to save you $2k/mo. Median 1BR in Austin or Seattle is less than $2k/mo. Yes, housing is still your biggest cost, but it's so much cheaper than SF, and the taxes are lower than California. The marginal savings you can get by reducing your standard of living aren't as huge as in SF.
This cultural divide has existed in Washington for a long time - but its not really a King County/not King County split - it has more to do with the Cascades. I'd also suggest that the outlying counties are not as broke as you seem to think they are.

Western Washington was an extractive economy that transitioned to manufacturing in the 20's and 30's - Eastern WA was and is primarily agricultural. It's a cultural divide that is usually pretty well bridged.

Why would you be afraid of Trump voters? They're Americans just like you are, and are trying to pick someone who'll solve their problems - which I'd note, are probably different than yours - a good reminder is, more people in King County voted for Trump than did in any other county, and King County accounts for 1/5th or so of the votes he got.
Perhaps, in a way, "saudade"?

"saudade" (Portuguese) - a deep, nostalgic, and melancholic longing for something or someone, often accompanied with a denied fact the what one longs for will never come back;

For some of us, it could also simply be homesickness.
Wait a second... Go doesn't have generics, only has string-based error handling, and has poor dependency management? This is literally the first time I have heard these complaints. I can't believe no one else has ever complained about this in the comments of every article ever submitted about Go.
So basically, self driving cars will be worse than human-driven cars until ALL cars are self driving cars? This is the first fully autonomous version of "No True Scotsman" that I've seen!
The race to build a robot ship is picking up steam
CLEAN Code: Count and Say Sequence
Nah, you're right.

It'd be cool to have a codecademy-type course on getting a project like this up and running. I'd sign up for $10 or so.
What is TS/SI content?
It's not about the absolute wealth of the neighborhood so much as customers per linear foot of fiber (with some scaling for how hard it is to lay that fiber). Apartment buildings with lots of potential customers can end up being much more attractive than mansions with huge yards and one customer in each, even if the mansions' uptake rate is 100% and the apartments' uptake rate is much lower.
I've worked in technical jobs for non-technical managers - you don't need to understand the technology to be able to manage people working on it.

To wit - why would they care about most of that - or for example, version control - why would they even try to argue against version control - version control is a free problem at this point, as in it doesn't cost money to fix - and it wouldn't even rise up to a non-technical managers level.
Nanocarbon Ribbons and Gas Sensor = 100x More Sensitive to Molecules
Only if it gets again more love from .NET team.

As it stands, I would rather bet on OCaml.
Thanks for your insight. Do you know how well the Molescan system compares with manual identification? My wife has had a few suspicious moles flagged and removed (none tested positive yet, thank goodness).
Character recognition might be "hello world" but full page OCR definitely is not. When I read the article and think about all the obstacles dropbox overcame, it looks like a pretty huge achievement. I can tell you, it would take me a lot longer than 8 months do pull it off.
Puerto Rico Outage
13,000 Previously Redacted JFK Files Now Public
The current front-runner is ASV Global, an Anglo-American firm based in Broussard, Louisiana and Portsmouth, UK. https://www.asvglobal.com/
> Google Docs is a fierce competitor of Microsoft Office.

Only if one likes to give all private data to Google and the respective Microsoft Office knowledge resumes to a simple typewriter letters and basic data in tabular format.
Show HN: Impostor Roster – Suffering from Impostor Syndrome? You're not alone
And yet grown-ass adults can believe that an alien overlord flew their souls to Earth millions of years ago in space-faring DC-10s and blew them up in volcanoes, or that you can baptize the idea of a person long after they have died, or that the strongest wolf is held down by chains made by dwarves from widows' sighs and morning mist, or that the Earth is flat, or that putting money in a brass dish will spread your values around the world.

Smart children know. Very smart children hide it from you, so the loot keeps coming. Children that are too smart for their own good denounce all the cargo-culting rituals, introduce a cleaner, less obfuscated, and more efficient process, and end up getting socks, underwear, and mechanical pencils.

But obviously some kids never figure out the tricks, even long after they are grown. I am thankful that if I did have a kid that thick, I could hire a Japanese man at $50/hour for the express purpose of spoiling it for them and telling them to grow up, even as I insisted that yes, kid, there really is a Santa Claus. I guess you never know for sure that they are on board with the program until you're a grandparent.
Your comment echoes my own experience debating the idea of agency / sentience / existence.

No one who makes these types of arguments can justify why they continue to defend their side of the argument if nothing they do matters.

If you truly believe that you do not exist, explain it to me in a way that does not assume your existence. Most of these arguments start with the two words that the most famous argument for existence does, "I think therefore I am".
For the same price you could live in a nicer whole apartment, in most of america. I pay $1200/month for 1664 sqft in a nice townhome, with a garage, next to a park, as a software developer with plenty of opportunities and no I'm not going to tell you where I live or else you'll all move here lol.
David Foster Wallace would be relieved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sincerity

Also this good video essay on DFW, irony, and postmodernism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doZROwdte4
Okcupid was there first. Tinder was just more exploitative.
These documents were previously released in redacted form. As
of today, they are no longer redacted.

Documents: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release
Here's a little blog post I wrote about it on the eve of deploying: http://vcavallo.github.io/blog/2017/03/01/launching-the-impo...

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The distinction remains: do you have advocates for technical best practices at the top? Not every SV-style tech company has such people, but lots of them do. Whereas companies which emerge from a different tradition don't have such people and don't even know what questions they should be asking.
After asking the same question on LinkedIn, I guess we found another (but just one good one) example: Flexport. They started with gathering (and selling) knowledge about freight forwarding via a software platform: shipping lines, availability, prices.

Later, they started to use those capabilities to become a freight forwarder (shipper) themselves, actually transporting stuff (on behalf of customers) using the knowledge that they gathered for other purposes originally.

Read for example https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/container-full-of-cash/.