skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've heard/read the process is very opaque and you may never truly know why it was removed, or flagged.

Why not back them up to some physical storage you're able to control rather than letting a 3rd party delete your backups on a whim?
That DoConvo logo looks really, uh, familiar.
... and most of their profit comes from AWS.
Society has to come to an understanding that mere existance of a video that hasn't been cryptographically authenticated by special camera equipment is no longer evidence of anything.. Like it is with digital photography.
I understand and appreciate the concern for privacy, but something important was diminished when Google Maps started blurring the faces of people who appeared in Street View. I was surprised by the degree to which the previous sense of immediacy and vitality, the feeling that "you are there" was so severely crippled when the face of every human became a blur. :(
To a first approximation nobody gets bit by rattlesnakes, while one in twenty Americans will eventually need an appendectomy.
That final game is crazy hard.

The logical steps needed to solve it requires crazy amounts of concentration.

Make an assumption about where there is a mine, follow its implications until you find an inconsistency and then you know there is NOT a mine there. (however if everything checks out and then you know there COULD be mine there)
I too worked at UPS during college. First as a loader and then as a part time supervisor managing loaders. I made about $1500 a month in the early 2000s for working about 20-30 hours a week. Not bad for a student.

What you describe is accurate, we use to get entire trucks of "Total Gym" boxes that weighed 70+ lbs each. Turn over was high and there was accountability similar to what I read in this article but with two key differences. Hourly workers at UPS were unionized and the carrot at the end of the stick seemed much more realistic as numerous guys were promoted to supervisors and drivers who could make 6 figures. I was promoted to my part time supervisor role after a couple of months in fact.
I think you're trying to ascribe too much to the efficient market hypothesis. It's not the rational market hypothesis.
Manipulation of Data and People in the Future Internet
Not everyone can up and move like that.
> I have yet to encounter any arguments in favor of sticking with Windows 8.1 vs. 10

I would assume the same people who liked 7 better than 10 and wanted to stick with it, and for the same reasons.

For users Win 8.1 was basically a better 7, even though it didn't have any chance from recovering from the (deserved) critics against 8, namely "why did you put tablet minded stuff like that tile screen on my desktop OS, and where is the start menu". 8.1 fixed those issues, and was really "win 7, only better.

> Isn't it pretty much universally regarded as a dud release?

Yes and no, 8 overall is regarded as a dud, mostly because of the "here's the new windows 8, oh wait no we didn't mean it here is the real one named 8.1".

> It seems like the smarter move here would be to kill the LTS for 8 than devote a bunch of effort to supporting their most popular product on their least popular platform.

For a company that makes the majority of their money from b2b I wouldn't call "kill the LTS of a major version of your major product after you sold it" a smart move.
Looking at miles before disengagement shows things a little differently.

2015: ~6250
2016: ~7692 (+1442)
2017: ~8333 (+641)

Personally, I think a self driving car with 1 notified disengagement per year as perfectly usable. Not so useful for the blind, but still very helpful.

That said, even reporting the same number every year could still represent progress if they keep pushing the car harder. AKA, if 2015 = highway driving in the day with nice weather, 2017 = inner city driving at night in a snowstorm the same number of disengagements would still represent a lot of progress.
I would argue the biggest issue with the "miles driven" metric is that it isn't contiguous. Your test drivers can handle all the rough stuff, and your mile counter ticks up on the straight shot highways. (Arguably, you could be super dishonest and handle every single intersection manually, and still have a massive miles driven statistic since most distance is accumulated on straight-ways.)

Disengagements is a useful number, and the disengagement numbers say so much more about the real state of self-driving cars: That they fail as often as a non-synthetic oil change. And if humans had driving system failures that often, we would not be considered good at driving.

The longest number a company should be marketing is how many miles they've driven between disengagements. Like the "days since an accident" sign at a workplace: Fail, and you go back to zero. The numbers will be smaller, but they'll be a lot more meaningful.
What are you going to tell them about crypto?
"It shows his bias, which is a clear conflict of interest, and something that at the very least should have been disclosed to the FISC for their consideration for the warrant.
"
Actually no, legally, it has no impact or relevance.

The same way that whether a prosecutor likes or hates you doesn't matter to a warrant application.

It matters whether they have probable cause or not.

If they have probable cause, there is no malicious prosecution claim you can make.

Judge is supposed to look at the evidence, see if there is evidence of probable cause, and if so, approve it.
Otherwise, deny it.

Either that happened or it didn't.
Either all the relevant (and again, bias is not relevant) evidence supporting the warrant were provided or it wasn't.

The judge is the neutral adjudicator, not the investigator.

There is a lot of caselaw on this because bias of informants is always challenged (and pretty much always loses):

http://reason.com/volokh/2018/01/31/the-dubious-legal-claim-...

"Legally, if there is even an apparent conflict of interest, an FBI officer is supposed to recuse."

This is not correct AFAIK.
There is no legal statute or local court rules i'm aware of saying any such thing.
If you know one, please cite it.
(I used to be very heavily into this area when i interned at the Center for Democracy and Technology many years ago).

The FBI is only driven by the attorney general's guidelines, which are not overseen or approved by anyone else, and carry no force of law.
https://www.scribd.com/document/370599274/House-Intelligence...
I wonder if I'm alone in the opinion that whatever method is used to create a complex layout, the method needs to be Turing Complete. I can understand the appeal of being able to create some tags and not having to worry about what happens after that, but you really only end up with a good design if you're just trying to do something simple. We often see people so devoted to the idea of CSS they end up with something incredibly complicated that could have been done in just a handful of lines of code.

edit: Fixed spelling of "Touring"
To prevent scammers from scamming and imbibe confidence about a currency (or any store of value) in the general populations, you need regulations, security practices and insurance. All those cost money and transaction fees is one source to pay that cost.
and everyone has access to them

The ordinary taxpayer isn’t in a position to exploit interactions between n jurisdictions tax codes, are they?
I’ve seen them, and still think there’s lots of space for innovation. I’m not just thinking about its ability to fly, but as a dynamic, interactive AI companion. Just how the smartphone now isn’t a purely functional device for communication like a brick phone was.

Edit: maybe a scenario illustrates this best.

Me: “Mimi, what do you think of this? Is it right?”

Mimi peers, no doubt fancy AI tech whirring in the bg.

Mimi: “Looks good! I would also suggest recapping sohcahtoa.”

Ding-dong.

Me: “Mimi, can you get the parcel please.”
Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3GA Adds CI/CD Support for Streams, Java DSL
I have some questions about American health care system.

If patients are being charged this much for anything, the money must be going to someone? Who's making all the money? Drug companies? Hospitals? Health insurance? Doctors or nurses? Why don't people honestly follow where the money end up and actually solve the problem once and for all. Increase the supply of X or many other bottlenecks by deregulation and result in decreased price?
One question: doesn't the definition of a Yojana vary a lot, with differences across texts and times? I am also very curious about Ancient Indian math, but I think we should also question how results were calculated.

For instance, 108 is a sacred number in Hindu and Buddhist cultures. Some people say it was chosen because the ratio of distances of the Sun and the Moon to Earth is 108 times their respective diameters, and Ancient Indians knew that! But how did they know that?
I do some embedded hardware work, and have tests for the C code in python vi FFI. It's also amazing to be able to graph out scenarios with inputs and outputs in Jupiter notebook.

But I hate, hate, hate, cffi's parsing of include files. Makes my life miserable every time I make a change there.

I'm really hoping DragonFFI takes off.
OpenMP Has More in Store for GPU Supercomputing
What's the best way to learn iOS development with Swift?
Hiking in the hills outside of Bangalore I found some absolutely ancient stone dwellings completely covered in thick shrub. The villagers down below told me that they "belonged to an ancient race of dwarves." And a few km away, I stumbled across an obviously very old cave painting in a style I've never seen before anywhere in the world. Not soul in sight and miles from the road. My guess is that there are huge archaeological discoveries waiting to be found in India for anyone who takes the trouble to look for them.
Disputed GOP-Nunes memo released
The claim is not that he was getting pissed on, it is that he paid prostitutes to pee on a bed that the Obama's previously used.
Steele was never an FBI officer.
From the end of TFA:

Indeed, it’s so incredible that some might see in this accomplishment hints that there could be more at work than nature here. Even before these measurements were taken by NICER, a group of researchers at the Free University of Brussels led by Clément Vidal explored whether these x-ray millisecond pulsars could have been arrayed around the galaxy on purpose. In a preprint titled “Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering,” they examine that albeit remote possibility.
The memo's so short, its interesting they choose not to reprint it instead of trying to add their spin to it.

From reading the actual memo, it's clear there's nothing in it that reveals anything detrimental to national security. On the contrary, it reveals top FBI officials acting in a way that is clearly not designed to protect US persons rights.

Hopefully this will be the start of a process leading to some much needed reforms of FISA.
Simulating a UUCP Network with 4.3BSD SimH Images
Why? Obsessing over your battery gauge is not helpful and should only be done if you're doing something that you know is tremendously power-draining.

For that matter, I only occasionally glance at my fuel gauge in my car too. If it as at 3/4ths 10 minutes ago I don't need to double-check to make sure it hasn't suddenly hit empty.
Right, but this doesn't seem to describe what happened here. Before Amazon moved in, people in San Bernadino weren't working for efficient businesses paying great wages; they just didn't work.

How long should we have kept them unemployed to wait for a new high-paying business to show up?
>"I don't know your situation, but it's highly likely we had a significant influx of demand that suddenly softened, and we had to back-off on the hiring."

Except that I replied in response to a "who's hiring" thread and the interviews followed very close to my responding. So why would you even be posting that you are hiring if you had "demand that suddenly softened"?
Strong ties from salary to bonus can tend to misalign economic interests when it comes to the dirty work that makes a company successful. When the value of the manager's bonus is substantially more than the line worker's the manager has an incentive to push harder than the value of the line worker's bonus to a rational economic agent. The money might be better to put to the company's interest by incentivizing the line worker or improving the efficiency of the line work...by 'better' I mean relative to incentivizing the manager's economic self interests.
Making a Crypro Utopia in Puerto Rico
Ask HN: 'Data Scientist' or 'Developer + Data Scientist'
I am a current intern as a Data Scientist at a large company. My manager has offered me the dual role of a Product Developer(60% of work, mostly backend) + Data Scientist(40% of work). I have an offer from another team to join them as a full time Data Scientist. Which would be a better option to choose, in the long run? I have a master's in CS (specializing in ML) and a background in Development. One of the reasons I did my masters was to consciously move from Dev to Data Science. I've been hearing suggestions that having Backend Dev + Data Science skills is more valuable. However, with the first option, I see the career progression more as a Developer than a Data Scientist. Hoping I can get some insight from people who've been in a similar situation before.
Probably not [1]. But shouldn't we reach for something better?

Really, I'm just upset about my own disillusionment. As a little kid I thought Silicon Valley was going to usher in a new era of technology and plenty. Something like Star Trek's utopian ideal of a society where scarcity is a thing of the past.

What I see instead is the same old corporate bullshit of maximum exploitation for maximum profit.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/walmart-warehouse-workers...
A version of minesweeper I used to play was called stormsweeper. I think it was written in BBC Basic and ran on RISC OS. Instead of flagging mines, you got to remove them, and the numbers of the already revealed squares were updated. Every few seconds (time depended on what level you were playing) all the numbers were covered back over and all the remaining mines moved up to one square each. Blank squares stayed blank, and they were safe to click on as a mine could not move 2 squares.

Once you had cleared a bit of the screen, if you then got stuck, you could wait for the next storm then some of the mines would likely have moved to a solvable position.
NASA ISS Image Detective
I didn't say, nor do I think, that Microsoft has fewer features, more bugs, and lower profit than everybody else.

Rather, that the goals of pretty much everyone in the software business are features, fewest bugs possible, and most profit possible.

I'm not even sure I agree with the great-grandparent post that MSFT needs to jettison legacy. Frankly, I don't know enough about their numbers to have an informed opinion. My point was that it seems pretty clear what the poster meant by "move faster". So the question "to what?" isn't all that helpful.
> Is it worth spending tens of millions

> We don't have infinite resources.

You tell me why it costs tens of millions and yet the overall healthy girl after a minor procedure ended up in a condition like that. And why the butchers are still doing their butcher thing rather than being in prison for medical error and negligence?
Is/will this be searchable?
Who's making all the money? Drug companies? Hospitals? Health insurance? Doctors or nurses?

Yes.
GOP Memo Released (Scribd)
> While trying to take a selfie with some rattlers, Fassler got bit.
If we consider remotely controlled vehicles, they seem like the perfect step for self-driving cars: Assuming self-driving on simple conditions(like the highway), while letting people do the complex driving, and maybe people with lower cost of living and salaries, such service may be cheaper than a taxi.

And this could create a large business, doing many miles every day, which would be the perfect means to gradually expand the role of self-driving.

Yet,non of the big companies choose this(and i'm sure they're aware of this). Why ?
A fun way to play minesweeper is to not use marker flags. Instead, start to recognize patterns, and sense the landscape of mines mentally as you go. One nice side effect: Lots less clicking needed.
It's not a sonic attack (experts agree), but it's very likely not mass hysteria either (an unproved speculation from a medical doctor not involved in the investigation).

More research is needed (and not by journalists looking to capitalize on a popular story).
I predict: No.

It's been possible for a long time for big-budget studios to make convincing fakes. The new thing is that it's being commoditized so anyone can do it. Studios had to worry about being sued for libel or appropriation of likenesses, but individuals with an axe to grind won't be deterred.

We lived for a short time in a world where amateur recordings were more convincing than professional ones. Before the 90s, fake-news photos were more likely to be amateur since professionals had some sense of ethics and, while they enjoyed making fictional photos, generally labeled then as such.

So we're going back to the world where only the professional reputation of the photographer is a guarantee of authenticity. It may be better overall.
Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Version that was introduced in 1982 was a water downed version of the original plan, the Social democrats lost an election because of the original plan in 1976 against the popular opposition leader and farmer Thorbjörn Fälldin. Fälldin broke a 40 year long social democratic rule. Fälldin described the plan as DDR style economics with the subsequent removing of personal freedoms.

Original plan was to create funds to would buy up more than the majority of the stock of all major companies in Sweden, all controlled by the labour unions. That would have been de facto socialism. Why? Because the labour unions was married with the political power, the Social democrats. Biggest labour union of them all, LO, controlled Social democrats with funding and forced memberships.

All political power and economic power in one entity would have been very dangerous.

After controlling the major companies in Sweden, they would have of course continued with the non-public companies, because the main goal of Löntagarfonder was to create equal salaries between high profit companies and low profit companies.

Taxing profits in moderation is not breach against democratic principles, but using the companies own money to take ownership over it is.

Right to run your own company was established already in 1864 in Sweden. Löntagarfonder was a direct opposition to that.

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

There is nothing wrong with worker ownership if the workers create it by themselves, taking other peoples work is not okay.
Repeatedly posting the same link with the same copy-pasted text just based on a keyword doesn't seem any more acceptable just because you've declared it a "ritual".
about the two square playfield: iirc there was a rule that the first click could never be a mine.
Yeah, you can't "review" something that isn't even close to finished.

Windows Phone was originally supposed to eschew apps for some sort of focus on views, I forget what they called it. Now Windows 10 Mobile is more or less just Windows 10, with apps. I won't mind if someone finally finds a new model and makes it not suck, but when you're early in the product design phase is when you try crazy ideas to see if they pan out, the final product ends up looking more normal.
Thats almost 1.6ns/hour. If you have a stable oscillator you can compare them to compute the time/date.
> So the language that forces me to do just that for the sake of convenience for the language designer and compiler writers is just plain stupid.

Nothing prevents you from getting the same ABI hiding in C++, but the users of your code will greatly benefit: no possibility of memory leaks, ownership is enforced since copy & move are disabled, etc:

/// Adder.hpp ///
struct Adder {
public:
Adder(int, int);
~Adder();

int operator()();

private:
struct Impl;
std::unique_ptr<Impl> impl;
};

/// Adder.cpp ///
struct Adder::Impl {
// your private stuff
};

Adder::Adder(int x, int y)
: impl{std::make_unique<Impl>(x, y)} {

}

Adder::~Adder() = default;

int Adder::operator()() {
return impl->stuff * 2;
}

/// main.cpp ///

int main() {
Adder adder{1, 2};
return adder();
}

/// your main.c ///

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
struct Adder* adder = adder_create(); // must not forget
adder_setup(adder, 1, 2); // must not forget
int res = adder_operate(adder); // note how all lines are longer
adder_delete(adder); // must delete
return res; // we had to introduce a specific variable just for the sake of keeping the return value else we wouldn't be able to delete
}

Of course, your code wouldn't pass code review in either cases: introducing indirections through implementation hiding like this kills performance, in C and C++ likewise. And it's not like hiding your stuff in another object file will prevent anyone from knowing your impl... disassembly & code recreation tools are extremely powerfuls nowadays.
Wouldn’t remote control cars require a near zero latency network connection at all times in all areas?
If they had only put "cost of anti-venom 150kU$S" this wouldn't have happened. I say its only a problem of price transparency!
I recommend reading the linked article by Molly Osberg as well

https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-182255515...
In this case, the judges were not shown the evidence. This is the weakness of courts - they can only rule on what is presented to them.

Again, an FBI officer is supposed to recuse if there is even the appearance of a conflict of interest. That's the legal standard. So, obviously biased FBI officials should not have been involved in preparing or approving the FISA warrant application.
The only thing that would accomplish would be to make people less aware of the problem so when the actual bad guys do actual bad things, fewer people would spot it.
I've been using ctypes for the exact same purposes and it has been pretty painless. Why have you decided to use FFI?
Is Search Encrypt a Virus?
Breaking Bad would still be a show!

Walter White was a chemistry teacher, which implies he had health insurance that would cover chemotherapy. He also has a son with cerebral palsy, who almost certainly has needed medical treatment before.

The thing is, he only wanted to go to the "best" doctors, which his insurance didn't cover. He also refused to let his friends pay his bills.

You could still make this kind of choice with socialized medicine -- "I don't want the in-network doctors, I only want the best!"
On the other hand I don't get the obsession with level 5. There are a lot of use cases for fully autonomous level 4 e.g.

- pick me up in the parking lot

- drive out of parking garage and meet me there

- trip from LA to SF etc
We don't follow the money because the people who are getting that money have a very strong interest to stop that investigation.
"The compensation for more experienced employees is substantially higher"

Citation needed. Higher than compensation for experienced employees at Google/Facebook? I am not even disputing Amazon pays more later, I am saying Amazon never pays top tier AND treats employees badly AND has no perks or particular benefits to make up for it, so nobody who has the option (that I know of) wants to work there.
You see overgrown mounds all over central america, and not all of them are volcanic. There's an immense amount of undiscovered history there.