skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
f) Try putting car in reverse with the engine off

[as someone else already said]
I think actually that’s what I meant by dependence on the group for money or wellbeing (livelihood?). Separating those things from ego (pride)
A third option: some people may understand and accept the history, but try to change the org and culture from the inside out. Maybe that’s a different kind of naivety.
These kinds of articles, especially in the context of the Republican tax changes are veiled attacks on Trump. The taxes have much to do with transfer payments from wealthy to poor and reversing those transfer payments.

Rent-seeking -- the use of politics to create politically induced scarcity (in this particular case, housing) causes higher prices which in effect is a reverse regressive tax on the poorer populations to the very wealthy. The proper fix is to remove the market failure of rent-seeking and let the markets do their work.
This article was flagged unfairly. It's substantive and grounded in personal experience. Those are good qualities for an HN piece whether one agrees or disagrees, so I've turned off flags and rolled back the clock on this submission to give it a second shot.

If you want to comment here, please (re-)familiarize yourself with the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, including this one: Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Edit: I feel bad about not being able to find a way to let the author know that her article is currently being discussed on HN, so if any of you know her, could you give a heads-up? When people submit an article, it doesn't get attention, and then we re-boost it, we always email them if we can.
I'll try and reproduce/file a bug when I get a chance! I know that's a meaningful contribution to the project!
Automated crypto mining on Linux with Nvidia
Are you a Russian trollbot? I just read your comment history.

The agenda seems to be:

1) disrupt empathy/modern thought on mental issues

2) promote Russia

3) demean the US

You literally wrote you were in awe of Russia’s builders and that the US is at fault for North Korea. Wtf????
Slightly tangential, but does anyone know if word2vec can be used in a compound form to build up "concepts"? I'm interested to know if it could be used to identify parallelism in works of literature e.g. identifying plagiarism, parallels between the old and new testament, or intertextual works like Ulysses by Joyce and the Odyssey.
That was in a level 2 system, in which the driver is required to constantly pay attention. Many companies have shipped level 2 systems, and that one death is not the only one.
The best way possible would involve learning a lesson that prevented it from happening again.
As a non-american who hasn't followed the FCC debacle, this blows me away.

A government agency acting blatantly against the interests of its people and allowing such tactics is terrible. I hope for appropriate consequences for all involved parties who acted maliciously.
The response headers are kept in a SQLite db that you can perform regex queries on. It's surprisingly easy to find particular devices based on the headers.

And, yes, it's just making basic HTTP requests on port 80 so it's overlooking tons of devices. But I run this from my own devices and doing blast scans of ports other than 80 can look a bit suspicious.
The Tax Bill That Inequality Created
Part of a series, actually.
Humans have atrocious reaction time to become aware of danger/lift foot/press brake, whereas machines can react instantly

> Reaction times vary greatly with situation and from person to person between about 0.7 to 3 seconds (sec or s) or more. Some accident reconstruction specialists use 1.5 seconds. A controlled study in 2000 (IEA2000_ABS51.pdf) found average driver reaction brake time to be 2.3 seconds

From http://copradar.com/redlight/factors/
I wonder how fast you'd get blacklisted if you mumbled something about unionising whilst on one of these jobs. Maybe outside union organisers could start turning up; they'd probably get roughed up by security and ultimately arrested, but the cycle has to go through that phase again before it reaches the next phase.
I realize this contradicts a core CompSci idea of bad data in, bad data out, but if I recall right then at the higher levels of rationality like neural networks we have similar counterintuitive results.
Didn't know that python was actually older than java
All this and they still haven't done anything about the basic problem with the front page: I don't want to see things that I've already watched or that I'm explicitly not interested in.
The secret to bitcoins success is that if you cry wolf enough times, and take away peoples freedom to such an extent that they are impoverished by the wealthy, they will find a way to exert their power. This is what happens when you lose the moral high-ground.

Freedom is hard. Actually requiring probable cause before being subjected to the justice system used to be a thing. Then the US government started stealing peoples money without ever even charging them with a crime. So now we have crypto. So the government can't do it anymore. "But but but what if they are committing a crime!" they say. Prove it i say. You know. Rule of law. That's what democracies are supposed to be about aren't they?

That attack on freedom now has crypto as a response. The thing that it is counter-intuitive about crypto, is that the solution to electronic anonymous and censorship resistant money, turned out being record everything forever. When someone can flick a switch and take everything from you, you don't have freedom. When you can access the ledger from anyone, prove that it it is valid, and be able to send your money to anyone, for whatever purpose, you do. This technology has been developed as a direct response to the insidious and anti-democratic implementation of AML/KYC laws on a global scale over the past 30 years. The extrapolation of these laws, given a long enough timeline, is slavery. Not figurative slavery, actual slavery.

Bitcoin is the technical response to that problem.
> Way to go Spotify, you paid more for that advertising space than you did to the artist for streaming their their content to your users.

How do you know what they paid?

> Using someone else's art as a surveillance marketing tool?

They're not using someone else's art for these statistics.
Finance sector is 40% of US GDP so while it's cool to throw around theoretical "solutions" they would need to account for this simple fact. So let them fail was not a realistic solution.
You could blacklist the originated address and then algorithmically ban any addresses they have spent money to, recursively.

If your address is banned by being downstream, you have to do an in person ID check or whatever and explain where you got the coins from.

Edit:

I have always wondered about the fungability of bitcoin. The case above would mean you have some 'hot' bitcoins that are probably worth less than market value. Someone may buy them with freshly mined ones for an exchange rate < 1.

Another scenario is really old bitcoins from 2010. Would they be worth more to 'collectors' if you can get a nice lineage.
What's interesting about this is that it barely scratches the surface.

Assets and money are just some of the things that people inherit from their parents. Many people inherit their entire careers from their parents through social connections - These people would probably be classified as 'self made' which makes the statistics seem more benign than they actually are.

I bet if you counted out all those people who were raised with a silver spoon, the percentage of real 'self made' people would probably be less than 1%.
Devil's advocate: what is harmful about using anonymised data this way? In an actual "this is how it will negatively affect you" sense?

I ask because while I share your concerns (perhaps not to the extent you do) sitting on HN agreeing with each other does little, and neither does cancelling our accounts. What you'd need to do is explain to a vast number of users why this is problematic in very clear terms, and I'm yet to see anyone actually do that.
The fine article says:

"In fact there is quite a wide band, between the westernmost point of Bulgaria at 22°31'35.2"E, and the easternmost point of Slovakia at 22°33'32.1", which passes through no less than 26 countries. This is 22 km wide at the equator, but obviously narrows as you get closer to the poles."
Probably there is not a way to accept death. Humans forever fight against death. Probably death truly should be scary and offputting, and it’s inevitability drives us to do crazy things like believe it’s ok. We probably should fight death with all the strength we have. It’s one of our evolutionary imperatives!
Bitcoin is just a chain of transactions. This address to this address to this address to this address, right back to the block it was created in. It is not terribly difficult to validate whether the payment you're currently looking at existed as bitcoin in that address at some point or another. Like I said though, even the ability of that is likely to be undermined over the next 3-4 years.
I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me that a village culture would do even that. I couldn't say, though. I just am suspicious when I see outlier stats on something which is fairly universal in human nature.
Amazing series!

Open question I still have - what is the "geometric interpretation" of the transpose operation? A^T?

Considering the fact that the transpose shows up all the time, I'm very surprised that I've never seen a good explanation of how I should be visualizing it.
> They must be either ... or ... or...

Or, like many things, they're made up of a mixture of good and bad people. Also, the CIA has either changed a great deal since the Black ops days of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, or they've gotten much better at cover ups.

In any case, they've indisputably saved Western lives in the past ~20 years. Even this week, Putin (!!) thanked the CIA for their help stopping a terror attack in Russia.
I have that on my Mazda 3 and it's absolutely brilliant. The range and sensitivity of that system is rather amazing.
1. You accuse me of being disingenuous. Yet the purpose of my comment was to challenge the assumption that someone is guilty because they settle. Whether a person is poor or not makes no difference to that point. Please tell me why you think I was being disingenuous.

2. If I'm interpreting your comment correctly, you're claiming that anyone who is (a) wealthy and (b) settles to avoid further legal costs is automatically guilty. Is this correct?
just count the mainland.
I have no idea of what his exact meaning was, but your comment to me seems like a perfect example.

You have absolutely no context of any of these conversations, yet your first presumption that he has some opinions on race realism? This mainstream behavior of seeing a racist behind every rock, or every innocent comment having some underlying racial motivation is I suspect exactly what he's referring to.
Risks Abound with Ethereum and Its Application Developers
Multiple manufacturers are already selling cars that can self-drive on the highway, to varying degrees.
In an object-oriented language, specify the functions which an object may call, and how that object calling those functions (move("run","100%-speed","straight-forward","low-alertness")) might interfere with functions you may call (move("drive-car","2%-speed","straight-forward","full-alertness").

Pre-process a few of the child's available functions, and some of yours, to find any collisions in the data. Decrease speed on a gradient equivalent to the probability of collision. (Step 1 - access child's datastore, or be a similar-enough neuroprocessor that the same data is replicated to you locally.)

The number of objects in motion in a roadway space can make this processing prohibitive, which is why we failover to humans. Also, adult humans have more experience (data) at being a child, and so are much more capable of analyzing and predicting with this data, than a self-driving car - at least today.
that's kind of why my family left...

failed revolution in the 1800s...
I am intrigued, but is this an improvement over existing game-as-a-state machine languages? I'm thinking of Stanford's Game Definition Language [1] and AI-ai's Modular Game Language [2].

[1] http://games.stanford.edu/games/gdl.html

[2] http://mrraow.com/index.php/aiai-home/mgl/
I'll answer your question with another question: how much money did they lose because of this power outage?

Until the money lost is greater than the costs associated with adding redundant, backed up power supplies, they probably won't be added.
"But the people behind that stunt were only trying to help, and I'm sure they feel especially terrible right now too."

Are those responsible for this stunt still employed at mozilla? If so, you can say goodbye to trust of most of the technically aware world. I cannot recommend Firefox while idiotic stunts like this are institutionally viable - have you got the message?
> Fascinating chart: more than half of all private wealth has been inherited in Germany, UK, Switzerland, France — trend: rising fast!

> Ever less private wealth is accumulated through own work, increasingly more through inheritance.

A massive part of people's motivation to work is to provide for their children. That an increasing portion of wealth is inherited rather than build in an individual's working life-time is indicative that the system is function as intended.

The graph seems to indicate there was a bit of a golden area after WWII up until the early nineteens, and that the nations included on the graph are returning the regular state of affairs.

But what does any of this mean?
> it requires classification systems and object models of the world that modern AI has yet to reproduce.

i'm pretty sure that during millions of miles of say Waymo's video captured, there has been a lot of people (incl. children) stepping off the sidewalk to cross the road - you don't need that to happen right in front of your car - so their system analyzing the images does recognize the pedestrians and thus their potential for movement.
This seems like a good illustration of the soft bigotry of low expectations. Yes, we should make an effort to be inclusive of all individuals, but when that's done by putting people on a pedestal simply because they're a minority, it's superficial, cringy and embarrassing for everyone involved.
At my secondary school, someone put hot glue on the back of someone else's hand, leaving a permanent scar. There's always one idiot.
Source for numbers?

Half the "police" I see are PCSOs or "Traffic Officers" (who appear to be impersonating police AFAICT) are they included in figures?

In our UK city we don't have traffic wardens (who were part of the police authority I gather), instead there are private parking attendants and PCSOs do an occasional blitz.

Police used to be regularly on patrol in the town centre, but there's only volunteers and private security now; maybe that's atypical.
I guess that one could solve this by making Wikipedia more semantic-driven: imagine being able to filter through the laundry list by measuring relevance using Github statistics (is it still maintained? was it starred by more than 100 people?) - you could have a lot information and still be able to digest it by prioritization. What do you think?
Eurostars are awfully simple to board on a wheelchair. If a platform hasn't been already provided (as it should be if you booked online) you merely need to ask for assistance at the check in desk, they'll call for a ramp. If push comes to shove, somebody will lift you up. Total time of the operation = 50 seconds.
> Don't you mean the last administration?

Both. Obama appointed Pai to the FCC; Trump appointed him chair.
Time to revisit the 500 miles email... http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
While I'm pro net-neutrality, lets not delude ourselves thinking that this is some david vs goliath battle about small people vs some nebulous megacorps. It is not a question if web turns into cable tv, it already has.

"Overall, streaming audio and video now accounts for 71% of primetime traffic across North American fixed-access broadband networks — and is expected to increase to 80% by 2020, per Sandvine"

http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-bandwidth-share...

Of that 70ish percent, about half is Netflix alone. Throw in the handful of big players (Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook), and that is essentially what modern web is for large part of population.

I've been thinking if net neutrality is such a big deal in US because of cable tv has been relatively more important there than for example in Europe, combined with the situation that those old cable tv operators have become also major ISPs.
During the recent gun crime argument in the wake of the Vegas shooting in the US, someone pointed to Japan as an example of strict gun laws.

Japan has more than double the suicide rate than the UK, and noticeably higher than the US.

I wonder if some murders in Japan are written up as suicides in order to close the case quickly?

Plus I would would guess Japanese people are more likely to kill themselves than go on a murder spree of family members or coworkers, but that's just based on what I've seen as an outsider.
It just got tougher too :)
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>For instance, local entropy, the loss that Entropy-SGD minimizes, is the solution of the Hamilton- Jacobi-Bellman PDE and can therefore be written as a stochastic optimal control problem, which penalizes greedy gradient descent. This direction further leads to connections between variants of SGD with good empirical performance and standard methods in convex optimization such as inf- convolutions and proximal methods.

You clearly didn't read the article. What are you commenting on, then? It seems to be about your own understanding, since it's certainly not about the article.
I'd say that this procedural fail makes it impossible to recommend Firefox at present.
Doesn't work for island countries. Think Japan, Philippines, or Indonesia.
On the contrary. It generates massive value for people living in countries with unstable currencies and governments. I assume you're living comfortably in a country with a stable currency, but not everyone is.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-bitcoin-1.4447568
Academically, yes. But it's easy to say when it's not you.
Your comment makes me wonder how you believe this data is viewed in the business. I work in BI, who are usually the developers who turn such data in to insights that can be comprehended by the people in businesses who don't know the first thing about databases. Just from my personal experience in such analysis, I think it's highly unlikely they're looking at the "who" behind the weird listening patterns they're reporting on.

It's much easier to report anamolous behavior in the form of anonymous aggregations than it is to report on such a fine granularity as individual listening patterns. A simple SELECT statement with an DESC order by and a SUM aggregation could yield that Sean Spicer statistic, without every touching a specific individual's data.

Such detailed reporting tends to actually be counter-productive, as it usually leads to information overload. I highly doubt that any analyst within Spotify has ever looked specifically at your history.
I was reading about this a long time ago, and remember the de-programming research experiments were initially proposed to be done in US, but was rejected based on ethical grounds. So they just took the project up north.
Humans have existed a lot longer than science or the contemplation of nature vs. nurture.

> no evidence of the opposite

There's plenty of evidence that romantic behavior is culturally determined. Just look at how much it has changed over the centuries even though, biologically, humans have hardly changed at all. There's also the wide variance between cultures geographically in which we're all biologically the same.
I think a lot of "normal" people can rationalize away these things to get into positions of status and authority. The shame is that they still somehow have that status is western culture.
> If someone happened to find it when running a memory profile they'd probably go and ask the lead about it and be let in on the 'secret'.

Perhaps the obvious question here is "hidden from who?" Blinding the entire dev team to the trick might be possible for the lead, but sounds like a pain.

But squirreling away a bit of memory that won't be announced to PMs/artists/designers/producers? I can certainly picture a couple of programmers realizing that the person calling the shots intended to push them to the absolute limits of "what will fit", and deciding to fudge those limits. Hell, hedging is common practice for programmers and freelancers today when they anticipate bad requirements, and everything I know of the game development's history says the problem used to be much worse.
Heck of a time is positive!
You'll still get an increase in the number of things you can have loaded into RAM at once that's proportional to the reduction. That'll give you far more leeway in when trying to load resources on the fly, which most games still struggle with. So reducing memory usage is definitely something you want to do regardless of how much you have.

Also, if it's a PC game, you're looking at memory limits far below what the HW may offer - at least if you want it to run without annoyances. Windows limits the amount of memory it'll allow to be committed to the DRAM size + (current) pagefile size (may only be 4-8GB on SSDs); note how that doesn't include GPU memory - and allocating that counts as commit due to how residency works. Then you're looking at the OS eating 2-3GB of that, plus 1+GB if the user has a browser opened, plus anything slowly leaking memory. And a LOT of recent Windows applications leak memory or actually use insane amounts (including, amazingly, a built-in service on Win10) - if they never access it again it'll eventually get evicted from the working set, which means it only counts towards committed memory; task manager doesn't display per-process committed memory by default. That's only a fraction of all the problems.
Just fix /browse/just-added, the only useful page on all of netflix.com. None of this algorithmic crap matters, the catalogue is _tiny_.
It is impossible for me to determine your level, I would expect it to be straightforward enough.

But probably best to stick with the kernel that the doc is written for.
Well Donald Ewen Cameron lived in Montreal at the time and had the means, The CIA was interesting in his work on Psychic Driving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving .

His move to Montreal was funded by the Rockefellers, he was given Sir Hugh Allan's mansion, and he was endored by the pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield.
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I always think about Windows Vista when I hear "unlimited memory". Somebody looked at expanding memory and processing, and decided "let's have an animated 3D background for the OS, that'll be good". Memory is always going to be pushed to its limits unless devs and users alike go out of their way to keep it intact.
'Twas a joke based on a series of other highly active threads on this site. I assumed it would be taken as such. My error!
> It has ~5 years of battery life, knows days of the week for the next two thousand years, and has a handy RPN calculator.

I wonder why two thousand years? All the common day of the week algorithms should work as long as the current leap year pattern [1] continues.

[1] (year % 4 == 0) && ((year % 100 != 0) || (year % 400 == 0)
Old transaction outputs will be worth more at very least because future forks will try to legitimize their distribution as being, at least, no worse than Bitcoin by cloning its blockchain. Though that tactic may have run its course by now, if you already hold old outputs you probably aren't inclined to move them anyway, especially if they have the potential to spawn new, disposable offspring.