skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI filter trained to recognize such images can theoretically help here. Kind of catch-22 though here as training of such AI isn't practically possible (except by specially assigned/cleared FBI agents on the FBI database of child porn). Even if trained, deployment of such a neural net would also be problematic as the kernels in the deep layers would bear some resemblance to the parts of images it was trained to identify.

Though there are seems to be a kind of some partial solution here, and i wonder why Snapchat still seems to not have it - train 2 nets, one to recognize porn/erotica using completely legal adult images, and train another net to recognize young adults and children vs. adults on legal completely innocent images. While obviously not catching all illegal images, both nets producing positive signal may probably catch significant share of illegal images.
SpaceX rocket engine explodes during test at Texas facility
Also distinguish between the willful use of parent-approved devices by teenagers old enough to know what is acceptable behavior in a public space (whether perception of the internet as a conceptually public place is clear or not) and photographic evidence of abuse of a minor (statutory or otherwise).
Right, age of consent is 16 in most of the US, so you could meet up and do all sorts of things, but if you take a picture of your consensual sex you are a felon. Hmmmmmm...
Google:

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/
Ted Cruz Stands Up for Godless Coastal Elites in Tax Bill Negotiations
"kill me now"

That's exactly what's happening now. 37,000 deaths per year just in the US.

But it won't be the deaths that will cause the change to happen: if the US actually cared more about preventing fatalities than "freedom" it'd regulate guns. The trigger for outlawing manual driving in cities and on freeways will be the convenience factor: 150mph travel without slowdowns for congestion will cut travel time to less than half.

If you want to drive manually, go to the track, just like you do today if you want to drive over 100mph.
Unlike Intel ME, these are all possible to secure in principle.
You can replace a vulnerable piece of hardware. You can limit memory and bus access using IOMMU.

You can run the drivers in a locked down virtual machine.
You can theoretically reverse engineer a driver if required.

None of this is possible with Intel ME. Similar with SMM blobs, but these are optional. Firmware is replaceable in at least theory with something like coreboot, and if not, you still have multiple options on various mainboards.
Futures on the forked coin were trading north of $1000 earlier today.

After the announcement, the price dropped to $1, and has since rebounded to $200.

https://imgur.com/a/XOvWS

Maybe the $1000 BT2 price wasn't really a bet on free money, but on the prospect that BT2 might replace BTC.

If the expectation was that post-fork BTC + BT2 ~= today's BTC, that means that today's BTC price was depressed by this possibility.

Now that BT2 is cancelled, the value flows back to BTC.
You rock, rock.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15638694
You are most welcome. You are correct, I did not include them in the personal income you receive as I have created the example in the way you would do your tax return calculation. So the expenses are deducted from your company profit before tax as it is your company that is incurring the expenses.

You do get reimbursed for those expenses if you make them via your own credit or debit card, otherwise if you use a company card for them you will never have that money touch your own bank account. I do agree that you benefit from being able to use "before tax" money to pay for some of your expenses.

The tricky thing about expenses is that not everything is allowed to be deducted as an expense. If for example you take your client out for a meal and a few drinks and you account for that as Business Entertaining, that amount is not eligible for tax relief and thus you cannot deduct that from your profits to reduce your company's taxable income. It will then get taxed at the company level.

What I am trying to show is that the argument that Freelancers in the UK "avoid" paying tax compared to permanent employees is not true anymore. Yes we do have the ability to plan our tax better. However there seems to be this idea from permanent employees that freelancers are paying only 10% income tax when that really is not the case. There is a slight benefit, and from the above example a little more than £1000. Obviously there are other options and scenarios with spouses being made directors of the company etc. But it is hardly reducing your tax to the 7% achieved by Apple.

One also takes a lot bigger risk since personal injury, illness and non-paying clients do have the ability to derail your earnings in a really big way. If you get the flu and are out for a week that hurts. Or heaven forbid you have an accident and are unable to work for a few months while recovering.

Most of the freelancers I know do it because of the freedom and flexibility they get out of it, not because there are substantial tax advantages.

I would be very interested to hear your thoughts after you have run the numbers yourself.
It's a good metric for success at giving everyone equal opportunity at birth.
Yeah, but it really feels like they have gotten away from the original vision. I remember when malls had arcades (ok, and outdated concept in itself) and regular community events. But it seems like these don't produce enough revenue, so malls have optimized themselves into a revenue model that removes their natural appeal as a third place.

I think that malls could make a huge comeback with a focus on events that naturally draw people in and an emphasis on the kinds of high-touch products that people generally do prefer to buy in person.
Somalia's Innovate Ventures graduates the 2nd cohort of startups
There will not be an on-demand service for everything. How would one load up trash in the back of a pickup truck to take to the landfill? How would you take a fishing trip off road to the edge of the lake? A lot of what I read would work fine for urban environments. It would not cover all the use cases we currently have for our vehicles.
"An end user of the machine has to take manual steps to specifically enable the functionality for remote management."

Nah, the stuff is already there, running, listening, and able to do things. Your tools enable you to see it doing it or extra functionality on top of the base software. Here's a nice presentation by a team working to replace as much of it as possible to show all the horrors:

https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...

The difference between this and all those peripherals you brought up is that we wanted the peripherals because they were useful to us. They were even publicly advertised in the store or online description of the computer. We neither asked for nor were sold on a pile of software running things like web servers that we couldn't turn off, see, or secure. As in, we already buy security and monitoring products since that matters to us. Yet, we can't even see that software much less secure it.

An intentional, unwanted backdoor and hidden OS is different concept from accidental flaws in firmware on peripherals we found useful. Also, we have options with those ranging from not buying the peripheral to using one with little programmability to isolating it with IO/MMU. Not for CPU backdoors. And again, there's other vendors using open firmware showing all this secrecy and lack of user control was totally unnecessary. It's like Intel and AMD have an ulterior motive in not letting us turn off features that were built to support DRM and/or spying.
No, seriously: sourcing external data puts you at the mercy of the providers (somewhat mitigated by SRI). What makes self-hosting so unappealing? (I do understand that it's a breaking, backwards incompatible change w/o notice - that's what would anger me)
If you've been there that long your opinion of the other people there will have been formed by their contributions long before you can take a good guess at describing the person behind the keyboard.
Doesn't Denmark have all kinds of rules that make it very hard for a foreigner to find an approved job in the first place though?

They have to demonstrate that they can't find a citizen to do the job etc...?
Just to be clear, the power requirements for a supercharging station and a gas station are wildly different. The supercharging station might be putting out 75KW per car, and have a dozen cars charging at any particular point. A whole gas station might pull less than 75Kw easily.

The requirements for the kind of grid hookup you need to handle that power are wildly different. Alternatively, you can have a lower powered grid connection, and local batteries to buffer energy and lower peak power, but that is even more expensive, and only works if your charging station has low average usage.

Once built, the supercharging station might need less maintenance, but it is WAY more expensive to set one up up front. This won't stop them from proliferating, IMO, but it's still a big barrier to entry, and a nice commercial "moat" for Tesla to offer their customers.
I'm a great fan of Hetzner services. It's not that their servers don't break - it's the way they react to hardware failures. Average response time is in minutes - they quickly replace the faulty equipment and everything gets back to normal. I'm using their services intensively and it always amaze me how quickly they can fix the problem.
Watch Chomsky's Requiem for an American Dream if you want a great analysis of the cyclical nature of corporate power being further and further entrenched as they gain more power to write the laws that benefit them.
Snap: Use Extreme Caution
https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/

You're welcome.

(Not my creation, but I've been using it for every website I have a say on.)
front page already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654411
This is incorrect, and you know it's incorrect. You're talking about it like it was a Level 3 system, but it's Level 2.
Ask HN: Examples of company-internal capabilities to become available publicly?
I'm looking for examples of former company-internal capabilities [medium business value but high quality] that later became available as services offered to external parties, thus increasing the company's business value. Amazon offered AWS... but what are other well-known examples?

Things like: Shell to provide _moving_ oil rig services for other petrochemical companies. A company to offer their own security guards providing safety at large sport events. Hotels to provide dry cleaning services to other (possibly competing) hotels and restaurants. A salary-processing dept. of a company to offer payrolling services to companies nearby. [All these are examples I just made up - but I hope the are more in real life.]

Anyway, any case in which a former internal service is turned into a revenue-generating external service, most likely being made possible by a high (technical) quality of that service. I guess it's a likely to be a new service that is orthogonal to the current activities in the company's business model.

Just like in Amazon's case: they offered their excellent infrastructure hosting capabilities to other organizations, in addition to using those just for their own e-commerce needs.
They couldn’t see the details because the object was 1,000s of years old, dirty and covered in limestone.

Below is a link from another poster.

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/unearth...
On the low-end there's Dollar Tree (DLTR) and Ross(ROST). Mid-market Costco(COST) has also been doing well. Prices at Ross are much much lower than Amazon if your time is cheap or you like shopping. Similarly, grocery delivery is expensive if your time is cheap.
I’m hesitant to answer you, because the internet has made me jaded, and I foresee getting into a long discussion about what constitutes an unregulated market and what constitutes a monopoly.

As to how natural monopolies arise, Wikipedia has a good article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Check the make file:

https://github.com/keratin/authn-server/blob/master/Makefile...

Notice it runs "go test $(shell glide nv)"

`glide nv` is a command that gets you all packages except the vendor directory https://github.com/Masterminds/glide#glide-novendor-aliased-...

then read the go doc for test https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Test_packages:

> 'Go test' recompiles each package along with any files with names matching the file pattern "*_test.go".
We're launching a separate app to help you manage your properties. Also, we have partnerships with property managers so you can get a good deal on management if you need it. We're highly involved through the closing process. What services would you be interested in after the sale?
Ridiculous predictions. Human drivers legislated away in 20 years max? Please, as if the police or public services would trust their transportation to an algorithm, publicly.

More likely the insurance companies will aggressively raise premiums on drivers who insist on retaining their option to drive themselves. Markets will price people out of the driver’s seat and into the passenger’s.

And the idea that people wouldn’t buy their own cars or that luxury cars would fall by the wayside is ridiculous. The FIRST major self driving cars are going to be in the luxury market, and the companies doing so are already there (Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz). Having a self-driving car will become the ultimate status symbol among the upper middle class. And you can bet that Hollywood and Madison Avenue will inundate the populace with scenes and ads of attractive young people stepping out of luxurious autonomous cars as soon as they’re on the market.

And of course no discussion whatsoever on rural areas or even people that don’t want self-driving cars. Personally I hate driving but most people I know do enjoy it and wouldn’t fully trust a self driving car not to get hacked and fling them off the nearest cliff.

Something the article absolutely misses is that cars are not simply a means of transportation. They are also a moving storage shed: Umbrellas, rain boots, an extra jacket, diapers, child car seats...

For an article chock-full of futurism, it was surprisingly low on genuine imagination...or even robust analysis.
What has always annoyed me about this is that < and > (de)indent but also unselect the text and put you back in normal mode. Why? I often want to indent more than once but don't want to count ahead of time how many it will take, but that means I have to reselect the text N times. Is there a good way around this?

Edit: just found that gv will reselect the last visual mode selection, which makes this much less cumbersome.
I'm in eastern Canada and I agree with your weather statement. With 100km/h winds, -25C and 1m of snow it's not worth going out. I wish we had a subway system here and underground shops.

Montreal and Toronto have huge indoor shopping areas connected by subway, I suppose technically they are malls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(Toronto)
after this discussion I realized that there is no more safety, and plan to dump my smart phone for a nokia.
Yeah, name/pass sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? But doing it correctly, securely, with a service architecture? That gets interesting.

> It would be much more interesting to me if it also did Oauth2 login with Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc.

Totally agreed. The reason I designed AuthN around accounts first is because I believe that's the best way to launch an app. OAuth2 and OIC logins are powerful, but they're secondary to the classic login.
You only partly receive benefits based on having paid in. You can also receive benefits based on a live, dead, or even ex-spouse having paid in. Or a live or dead parent.

Given that some people don't qualify at all it isn't a particularly well designed anti-poverty measure. You can say that it isn't supposed to be until you are blue in the face, but that's certainly how it was and continues to be sold. Given that if you died at age 60 without a wife or children your estate gets nothing, it isn't a particularly well designed mandatory savings program. That is another way it was and continues to be sold. Given that there's no underwriting it isn't a well designed insurance program (annuity).

Like our tax advantaged retirement savings options -- with its grab bag of different programs -- or Medicare with its bizarre A/B/D distinction (not to mention C) no one would actually set out to design a system like social security. People defend it because it is the status quo and they fear the unknown that admitting ought to replaced would open up.
In some parts of the US, the weather is bad for half of the year. In those places, malls are bustling with activity every weekend.

I think this is a regional thing; in warmer climates, outdoor shopping centers with community-centric areas have been all the rage for years.
Chrome does support keyboard shortcuts, though. Go to chrome://extensions/, look for "Keyboard shortcuts" at the bottom right, and configure away for a quick save :)
> This is a fundamentally different meaning of the word "archiving" than GitHub is using.

I think the difference is not in the meaning of "archiving" but in the meaning of "repository". Github repository is far wider concept than plain git repo:

> Archiving a repository makes it read-only to everyone (including repository owners). This includes editing the repository, issues, pull requests, labels, milestones, projects, wiki, releases, commits, tags, branches, reactions and comments.
> How do you propose fixing the problem?

Teach your kids better. There are several factors at play here. One is the technological ignorance you mentioned. Kids don't understand caches, archives, downloading media? Teach them. It shouldn't be hard to explain those concepts at a level that will allow kids to make better choices.

Another thing to teach kids is about anonymity, falsehoods and trust levels. You want to connect to your friend Michael on Twitter? When you next meet him in person, ask him for his username and give him yours. Anyone you randomly "meet" online might not be who you think they are or who they say they are. You don't have to automatically assume someone is hostile, but never automatically assume someone is benign.

Above all, don't give your kids means to get themselves into serious trouble until you've taught them. That means that if the kid is too young to properly understand these things, don't give them a smartphone. If you wouldn't send a toddler to walk alone to preschool a few blocks (and pedestrian crossings) away, why would you give a 10 year old a smartphone?
Anyone who has worked with redis at scale knows exactly how the persistent queue approach of Kafka is far superior for any robust system that relies on the queue for truth and scales out (aka not your tiny crud app).

And Kafka is hard to deploy ? Please... If you deploy a redis cluster without knowing the pitfalls of distributed systems, you'll have the same problems as with Kafka. Also, soon enough you can deploy brokers over jbods without ZK, what will be the argument then I wonder...
No one economically literate would ever say, "Not to any economically literate person.".
> So if it takes 3 mins to compile your code, allocates 2GB of memory and then crashes, take that as a warning!!

As someone who used to spend a lot of time in C++ and LTCG I got a good laugh out of this(aside from the crashing part, ICE are always a bad thing). Our release link was ~40 minutes on each change.

Fun "bug" though.
>segregated witness makes things more likely to rely on centralized infrastructure

elaborate?
Retail stores don't sell what I want. Their inventory has become too limited.

After the dot com bust/mini recession, most department stores stopped stocking clothes in my size so I buy much of it online. I frequently try to hold out and find some electronic item or replacement part in local stores. I almost always fail and resort to Amazon.

I'm currently looking for a cheap Bissel vacuum that is available on Amazon. I have yet to see a retailer anywhere carrying that model. Expensive, overpriced vacuums are all you can get retail these days.
Doesn't feel all that surprising. My contributions to Wikipedia are generally fixing typos, light grammar. If you count me as an editor, I wonder how many more like me there are that skew that number?
"This really challenged my perspective on technical know how."

A good 25% or so of "tech knowhow" is just thinking that you can in the first place. A lot [1] of "tech ignorance" isn't actually tech ignorance, but people who have for one reason or another simply decided they can't.

[1]: And as I've come to learn the Internet's ability to misread things over the years, let me note that had I meant to say "all of", I would have. There are some who have decided they won't, for instance, and that's different, along with all sorts of other special cases. But I know a lot of people in my life who can't use tech because of what is basically a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Ask HN: Lined up clients, gave 2 weeks, offered double salary
I got myself into a predicament, I've been with my current employer just shy of 2 years, and have strongly felt undervalued the last ~10 months. I make just over 6-figures at my w2 and lined up 2 clients to effectively bump my take home to $150k.

I gave my employer my two weeks, and their first counter was a supposed title/salary bump I was apparently due for, still less than what I'd lined up. I respectfully declined. Now I'm staring down a counter-offer that's near double my current salary and worth almost $50k more than what my contracts will pay..

I know counters should really never be accepted, but even if only for 3 months, it's a lot of money. I certainly feel I've contributed enough to command the salary, and can always pickup more clients.

Which bridge do I burn?

Doing my own thing is enticing, but cash is cash is cash.
I read this same article in 1965.

I'll believe it when I see it.
The problem isn't that republicans want to tax graduate students (I think they should be taxed). The problem is that Universities classify their "employees" as students and then pay them very little. The underlying issue here is that graduate students are not paid well and are not really students
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "hit a bucket of 10 properties". We sell portfolios of properties and you can buy any number of properties all at the same time on the site. Our fees are WAY lower than buying through a traditional realtor. Can you elaborate on what investment structure you're thinking about?
Self-driving cars are inevitable, but I still feel like everybody is focusing too much on the vision of them being the primary mode of transportation well into our future.

Cars as transportation should be dead in the next 50 years, outside of fairly niche (relatively speaking) use cases like construction/maintenance/etc. workers who need to carry large loads or people who live or need to travel well outside of city limits. Research into self-driving vehicles is an important part of improving road safety, but I think we need to focus more on public/mass transit rather than "everybody gets a self-driving pod to go from Point A to Point B".

As someone who loves to go outdoors, and regularly visits family a couple hundred miles away I can't see my families need for a personal vehicle completely going away. But 99% of our road time could just as easily be served with a couple trains and busses instead, freeing up valuable land that is needed by our massive road network as well as the horrendous city designs that have spawned from the assumption that everybody has their own personal vehicle.
I don't see the single stagedlog table being a bottleneck if you're just doing inserts to it. Postgres is already doing appends to a single WAL internally.
Niklaus Wirth – “No backdoors and no sidedoors”