skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wherein they completely reneg on paying out the $30000 as previously promised.

Leaving the researcher with a pile of security research that is ostensibly worth at least $30000 to somebody, no contractual obligations to anybody, and a possible "unclean hands" defense to any action DJI may subsequently bring against him.

If I were employed by any intelligence TLA or drone/UAV manufacturer, I'd already be at their door with warm smile and a briefcase full of cash.
I think you just answered your own question there. Look up the price of a 3-axis mill with the capabilities you're looking for. The cheapest you'll find is probably the Tormach 440, which starts at about $7K. A laser cutter in the range you're likely looking for runs about the same. Now look at the unit economics on that and figure out how many people like you would need to pay to use the machines before breaking even, before even getting into rent, maintenance costs, insurance, and the inevitable repairs needed when a non-professional uses it and breaks it. It's just not worth it to have that level of machinery available to the public unless it's part of a bigger TechShop-like setup where dues are a grand a year and classes that much again (there's a similar place to TechShop in Orange County, for example, with an almost identical cost structure).

For what it's worth, I run a 3D printing shop (we also have a laser cutter and woodworking equipment) and we let people prototype on our machines occasionally. 3D printing is an order of magnitude more accessible than milling, and probably about twice as easy as laser cutting, and if one of our machines goes down due to user error, it's cheap and easy to replace parts and won't stop operations since there are plenty of others.
Agree, HN should be for rather unconventional technology news.
Then there is the situation where, one day, your source code control system tells you there are no files .... because someone in the org you are working at figured noone was using the server and wiped it. This really happened on a job I was on. Luckily we still had source dotted around a dozen or so machines, at various levels of up-to-datedness, so it was possible (with a load of scripting code generating some helpful timeline pix) to forensically reconstruct not just the tip but a decent portion of the history too. Fun times.
Woah, 60%+ off ($40) right now? https://amzn.com/dp/B01IU5ZTKC (referral: http://amzn.to/2irAi7v)
the firmware update angel is orthogonal to wether or not you have linux or bare metal. I don't have a strong opinion about Linux on IoT, but I do think that if you really want a mean lifetime of 20 years then your IoT device is going to need to be upgradeable, the internet is going to change and you are going to have to make changes. Also I'm not insane enough to think that I could write network drivers for bare metal and DNS resolvers without pulling in libraries, and HTTP code, etc. At some point you will realize that you will save yourself a lot of headaches with Linux and be far more likely to get your 20 year life out of your IoT devices.
Ford does produce cars that are not for the "common folk". Same with Mercedes, BMW, etc.
If you believe that taxation is theft then what is morally wrong with doing everything within the law (and withoutince it is written by those whose primary interest is in maximizing state income) to counter that theft as much as possible?
Tesla also announced the semi truck "Megacharger." 400 mile range (at less than 2kWh/mile) in 30 minutes. That's about 1.5MW. One and a half Megawatts. Made feasible by using a Tesla stationary battery to buffer the load to the grid and/or solar panels. And a flat 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.
I guess I'll be eating my hat then. I'm pretty amazed that you'll be able to keep it planted that fast around corners, but if you can, this will be an incredibly fun (or maybe very boring!) car to drive.
> DJI responded with onerous legal terms and threats.

And they sent him threats after they offered him the highest ($30,000) bounty, waited a month doing nothing, and then finally sent him a terribly restrictive non-disclosure agreement which he'd have to sign to actually get the cash.
If there are plenty, and you are familiar with them, please name a few. It's not possible for us to "investigate on our own" if we don't know what you are considering "equal measures of vitriol".
> The panelist, having been harassed and dogpiled for many years by the racist misogynist attendee

... which is, of course, not true.

> sat on the front row with many of his fellow harassers

Who also didn't harass her.

Honestly, this isn't rocket science.

If I make a video calling someone an idiot, asshole, etc. That in no way is harassment. They don't need to see it. It's not directed at then.

The same goes for other form of communication. Were these people sending harassing messages directly to her? The answer is "maybe once or twice, but there was absolutely no pattern of harassment".

I think you (and her supporters) are misconstruing criticism, and hostile criticism for outright harassment. It's not.

In contrast, there is no question that her behavior violated the rules of vidcon. There is no question that the behavior of the alleged harassers did not violate the rules of vidcon, while they were at vidcon.

> because he is a verifiable shithead

Uh.. is THAT against the rules of vidcon? No?
Udacity nanodegree programs in india
How much recognition do nanodegree programs from Udacity have in Indian tech sector??
will they help a c++ software developer with 3years exp into product development to switch into other tech domains

https://www.udacity.com/ai
>There's no onus on these privately owned web sites to be your definition (or mine) of "politically neutral."

You're right. However when there are copyright violations on Reddit, they claim it's a platform and they're not responsible for the content on it - ultimately the users are responsible. And then the courts agree and decide that ultimately the violation rests with the user and not with the platform.

However, as they increase the moderation of their platform, they move closer and closer to being responsible for the content. At some point of restriction, they're completely responsible for the content on their platform.

They're welcome to operate the site however they want, but they shouldn't reap the advantages of a public platform while advancing their private interests.
That's a position a lot of people share, and a politics ban was recently tried. It was reverted because it's very hard to draw a clear barrier between them.

Perhaps a tagging system would help, but HN is allergic to features.
The driver is probably 8 feet closer to the front of the vehicle, though.
I disagree, I think you can tell them they're wrong and list the reasons why $proposed_ideology is better, but talking down to people and considering murder for believing something is absolutely abhorrent behaviour.

FWIW, I hate the left and the right movements in equal strides, the left want me to feel terrible for being born a straight white male in a western post-colonial society, the right want the poor and under-priviliged to suffer and horde things like medical care.

Understanding that there is a grey-scale and that ideologies are not absolute is the only way to proceed in my opinion. Being polarised only turns into fighting because nobodies view gets represented properly instead both sides put up strawmen.
Thanks! Definitely some useful info here.

I just want to bring up some observations from the point of view that the information you provide is the purpose of this project.

Since this is static information, Javascript shouldn't be necessary to accomplish the main purpose of the project. With Javascript disabled, this website provides nothing but a <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>.

With that in mind, Javascript can be used to enhance the information, such as the search box and sidebar you've included. That is supplementary to the main purpose of providing useful information.

Lastly, with that more limited use of Javascript (to enhance, via a searchbox), the next decision point is whether a framework such as React is even needed?

Main point: Always have a clear purpose, and make technical decisions based on it.
Facebook quietly announces youtube competitor
All these companies have been pushing this "Russia did it!" narrative with very little evidence or reason backing their claim. My theory why the whole Russian conspiracy is a thing is because its easier to dehumanize Russia as "the bad guys" rather than face the facts of how many people are opposed to you in your own country.

Edit: I'm not in denyal that Russia had nothing to do with the election but I think Russia's involvement is grossly over represented. Its so much easier to say "Russia did it" while ignoring why subreddits like /r/thedonald or the right propaganda caught on so much.
| Both of these Papers were revealed by an organization with the cumbersome name of The International Consortium of Independent Journals (ICIJ) — a group in need of a new name and a publicity agent

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The name is fine and the authors (extremely basic) facts are wrong.
What would you have it focus on: Franken's need to apologize (he did that), status of the victim's case (she accepted the apology and dropped it), need for an ethics probe (Franken proposed one)? The only thing left of interest in this story (beyond the general theme of institutionalized sexism; which let's be fair isn't going to generate conductive discussion online) is the marked difference to how this was handled in comparison to how Trump, Moore, et al have chosen to conduct themselves.
It's strange, but I've never considered Reddit a cesspoll. The fact of the matter - and this is why Reddit is successful - is that it has lots of unique subs and a pretty decent voting system which pushes trolls to the bottom, often collapsed.

But if I want to really see what these people are writing, I am free to browse any sub, sort by controversial, and expand the collapsed threads. Win - Win.

Hacker News, OTOH, just seems to 'disappear' wrong-think.

There's a big difference.
HN is getting extremely political (it has had a political slant for a long time but it's getting worse now). I agree.
Indeed. The only reason to bring money back into the US would be to spend it on consumption. If you want to invest it, or leave it to your heirs, or borrow against it, you can leave it offshore.
This is why Brave has a limited future as it is.

You can't pay me cents to pick a worse browser. It's like the days when there were those pay to surf companies. The promise of money is nice, but most end users don't benefit that much from it. There's a lot more incentive for the company for their product to work than there is for the users to adopt it.
I’ll bet there is a technology angle to this. Maybe blockchain could help here, too?
Higher top speed than a Cessna.
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Brave also blocks ads. I would think youtube have a better chance at suing them.
Doh, completely missed that reading the article on my phone.
Any HN mods want to jump in here and suggest maybe HN is a tech forum and not the appropriate place to promote political violence? Or perhaps this brand of hate and hysteria has completely infected this community as well.
Because my non-programmer friend can use a website, but not write a program.
The Amish love sugar as much as the next group along. Jams, jellies, preserves; pies, cakes, and cookies are all part of their diet.

They are probably less likely to consume large amounts of prepackaged desserts, sodas and snack foods than their "English" neighbors, but that varies from community to community.
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tldr:

DJI started a bug bounty program, but mismanagement and dick moves ended up costing a guy a deserved 30k bounty.

longer tldr:

The problems found revealed they were in fact in desperate need of the help.

The program was managed poorly. DJI had a chance to correct the situation, but instead acted in bad faith to researchers who had went out of their way to help them, even threatening leagal action for no good reason.

The guy legit earned the 30k bounty, but effectively had no way to get the money due to legal threats and/or requirements to sign draconian restrictive legal documents.

Important subject, interesting story, takes forever to get to the point. Reads like this was partially due to the guy having no sleep and being worn down after a long period of emotional exasperation.
I understand your point. I lean conservative myself, but go with me on this.

If the people that liberals want thrown from helicopters ( fascists ), are only in that group because they want to throw people from helicopters....

Isn't that the same logic as "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun"? The liberal subs HATE, HATE groups. They aren't calling for random white people, religious people, or fiscally responsible people to be thrown from helicopters.
Nazi's came to power because a strong feeling of victimization of a group of Germans.

Most of the atrocities around the world are justified because of a feeling of victimization.

I think both sides of the political spectrum feel victimized by each other, and that scares me.

When GP asks for impartiality, think GP would settle for reasonableness, which i think both sides have lost track of years ago.

All i say, is think inwardly, question your beliefs, and most importantly don't question other peoples motives.
However unlike the thousands of others, /r/politics is a default sub, giving it a certain nod of credibility from Reddit the company.
Only if the solution is implemented in Rust, of course.
I didn't expect it to take the world by storm, but I expected Hack to be a lot more popular by now than it seems to be.
Totally man, from now on HN will be curated specifically to your interests and feelings.
I was pretty convinced that microtransactions were going to become super ubiquitous and solve a lot of monetization problems. Particularly in terms of press / media. I think you could make arguments that this still might be true in a long-term sense, and theres some movement in this space still, but I don't think this has panned out to be the slam-dunk hit that I thought it would be.
Oops, I meant Maserati.
This is an interesting idea. I believe this already happens with real estate but I can't find what it is called.

Another problem I could see coming up, if you do not get the full benefit of making improvements to your house, you will have less incentive to make improvements to your home. You would also have to figure out how to grant permission to make any improvements as investors would want to make sure any changes to the house would increase the value. If you needed a new water heater, who would pay for it? Could you convince the investors to buy into a high efficiency heater, even if it did not add any value to the house over a regular heater?
The site has a bit of Webkit-only CSS. Tip: don't use bleeding edge CSS like appearance, and if you do, at least test it in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

You can fix the broken CSS for Firefox by adding -moz-appearance in addition to -webkit-appearance.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-moz-appear...
Maybe I am biased by my field - economics - in which even having "access" doesn't mean they are "accessible." There are very very few people without a PhD who are able to understand most of the good papers. There is an even smaller number who would be able to contribute to scientific discourse, which is the main reason these papers are made available.

The other thing that may only be localised to my field is that every author recognizes this problem and makes a copy available on their website or university's working paper site. I would only rarely resort to going to an actual journal because Google Scholar was way easier to find a copy of the article.

This is, of course, going to differ for a number of fields and there is a growing trend for authors and journals to open up their articles.
Found the banker shill!
This isn't about hate speech. Hate speech is illegal and should be removed. This is about material that advertisers don't like. Advertisers aren't cops. They don't necessarily care about illegality. Rather, they might tolerate some degree of hate so long as it gets eyeballs. This is about marketing.
Stumble on this video from last night where a few lucky invitees could feel the experience of riding in the new Roadster.
https://youtu.be/C6nN-GlghAc
Exactly. I've done this multiple times (always letting people in on it afterward, of course). I have almost no skill in slight of hand, but it fools people every time.
The amount of loop holes and workarounds that our tax system allows is ridiculous. Maybe we should move to a tiered flat tax system No deducations, No credits to eliminate as much grey areas as possible.
Additionally, these trucks come with a one million mile warranty. I don't know how many millions of miles a conventional truck is expected to last, but with a Tesla truck, the maintenance costs should be fairly low, at least the first million miles.
Patreon is really cool. Thanks for sharing.
I haven't said they're making up the 0-60 time. I'm saying show me a test against the competition that lasts for longer than 1.9 seconds.

Don't get me wrong it's a deeply impressive vehicle. I'm just not an Elon fanboy and the precise milisecond that what Porsche, McLaren et. al. customers want something like that is when they will start making it. It's not like one company is the future and the rest of them are dinosaurs. One company is small and loosing money and the others are making it, enough of it to buy Tesla any time they feel like it, which being realistic is what's going to happen eventually.
First hit on google: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5545200/
The effects of exercise and cold exposure on mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle and white adipose tissue

Seems like you need cold and exercise, at least in mice to get the effect in fat.
I'm a creator, and your logic impacts me financially, although I don't depend on this money, here's why: Advertisers don't even know my channel exists. The only thing an advertiser knows about my channel is that my viewers tend to watch tech-related videos, and can be associated with other related metadata produced by deductive reasoning alone. When it comes time for XYZBlenderCorp to invest in advertising, they don't get presented with a list and short bio of all the channels their ad will be displayed in conjunction with, they get presented with a friendly demographic filter with sliders for age, and combo boxes for geographic location and other classifiers.

If an advertisement for a video tutorial series teaching people how to use the 3d software Blender should happen to show up along a "Will It Blend" video, nobody should lose their job (or your money) over it. This mentality is ignorant of everything we know as technology professionals about how this business is run; so much of this process is automated and there is no conceivable way for it to not be. There are not enough humans needing jobs on this planet to manually sort video for prospective advertisers in the way you expect.
I felt the same way when I toured the Austin Techshop. They touted some hugely expensive machine and I was thinking 'How many people need to cut an 8 inch block of marble with precision?'

Honestly, I think a similar concept would work with much more basic equipment.

The various Hackerspaces seem like a good bet.
Nothing.

But if your ability to avoid taxes is mostly due to your wealth and you can end up paying less in taxes than a normal family then something is obviously out of sync.
Isn't this what Apple pay basically does?
Very creative! I'm a lawyer, but not an ADA lawyer. Interesting idea though.
I did no such thing. I said their market was not billion-plus consumer applications as the case with much ML research, and that this might explain some of the lack of commercial interest mentioned upthread.

I won't take a position as to whether this robot is a "bad idea". But pretty much anyone can see that (relative to the problem difficulty) it's a "worse idea" than, say, photo recognition.
But then the question becomes what do these guys offer which Patreon doesnt?

Still my understanding is that Patreon doesn't automatically allow people to view YT videos ad free. Sure people get donations and the amount of donations drive the number of videos etc but they don't go into YT's territory.
The funny thing is that a blockchain ledger could help maybe.
Probably. I imagine that Tor browser would provide standard styles rather than the OS supplied ones.
> The trust could buy US property.

The US tax policy deliberately draws that line, though, on the grounds that there's only 2 ways for that trust to exist:

(a) the income was earned outside the US. The US says this isn't taxable until or unless it comes into the country for corporate or personal use. See slides 10 - 12 of https://www.irs.gov/pub/int_practice_units/FEN9434_02_01R.pd... for more - basically, if any party treats it as a personal bank account, it's not a trust.

(b) the income was earned inside the US, and thus already passed through the US (and taxes were paid on it) before it was moved to the trust. Moving it to the trust isn't a taxable event, and any gains will be taxed if or when they are brought into the country (see (a)).

Don't trust me, though, form your own opinion. These are good summaries of what an offshore trust can and can't do:

* https://www.irs.gov/pub/int_practice_units/FEN9434_02_01R.pd...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_trust

* http://nomadcapitalist.com/offshore-trust/ (covers a few countries)

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/08/offshore-tr... (UK-specific but interesting)
What is the "Indian Tech Sector?" Indian the country or Indian the race?
Sure, but you used to be able to just browse the front page. Try looking at the reddit frontpage from five years ago and comparing it to right now. And yeah, there are good subreddits but not very many of them are highly active.
> Offers solution to a perceived problem.

> Rather than critically discussing why you don't want the feature you deflect from the idea.
There was also this one:

> For a modest 22% commission, the service will deliver suitcases of cash to New York or Vancouver. Guaranteed.

Given that the author leads with how the superwealthy aren't paying the 20-30% tax rate that he claims the average tax payer does, it seems weird to call a 22% service fee an effective avoidance mechanism.
It does the same with much more overhead for the user as far as I can tell. The point of Brave is to have everything working behind the scene for the user, so no friction.
These are (currently) just the really exceptional cases though. Youtube is building far more monetary value on the whole through ads.
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It would in some cases.
I think Snowden, then Aaron Swartz, more or less opened the floodgates for political content here.
We're heading to another tech bubble. I've been talking with local economists and fund managers, Most of them that unless the new tax plan really takes off the tech and housing bubble is going to burst late 2018 or early 2019. Yes, housing is coming back hard again.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4050332-new-housing-bubble-...
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Newsflash: there's no such thing as a Godwin's law for politics because everything is [eventually] political, for politics is everywhere. Whenever people say something isn't political or that they prefer such content they're in denial, and likely trying to sell you something.
If anyone is looking for something like this for Ruby, check out Helix:

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