skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect a lot more from AI. Years ago I could play Quake III Arena and get pwned by bots.

I expect modern AI to recognize every car, pedestrian and physical object. I expect it to recognize all hostile targets and avoid them when feasible. I expect it to predict every possible move for both automated and manually controlled vessels and pedestrians. My AI needs to have an anti-gang mode that will protect the occupants even if that means acting as a weapon against hostiles. After all, people may be sending kids to grandma alone in the car (you know they will).

I expect all of this to occur without the need of network connectivity. My vehicle is to be prohibited from communicating without my express permission until after reviewing the data it wishes to upload.
Was it a push notification? Or did you have to open the app to see it?

It's silent unless there was a proactive message to you from Facebook that your face will start to be recognized. This facial recognition happens even when you're not using the app.

So Facebook is waiting for you to take action before telling you anything. That is not proactive, it is silent.

What if you don't go on Facebook any more but have an account? You'd never know this was happening.
Frankly, it's hideous. I don't know why the adjective "pretty" is used here, it looks much worse than normal underlining.
> After the faces are located, they’re matched against a set of candidates (which I would guess is an enumeration if all your Nth order friends [who don’t opt out of this], to reduce computational complexity.

Face recognition is usually done by first transforming the face into vector space and than looking for the closest vector from known, e.g. openface[1] (which is based on google 2015 paper "FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering"). Facebook itself opensourced[2] a library for efficient search of nearest neighbors in such spaces.

It doesn't seem likely that generating set of Nth order friends (which grow very quickly with N) would be better than just having a global set or a split of global set by some characteristics (e.g. gender, race).

[1] https://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/
[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
I intuitively agree with you. However, the decoupling that's observed can partly be explained by lag. For example, a farm might have diesel powered equipment, tractors, etc. that last 10 years. Eventually they might switch to electric equipment. However, the innovation isn't stagnate, so its holding consumption constant. What the electricity is used for is actually changing as new uses become economically viable.
Show HN: Pymash.com – facemash for the most popular Python repos
France in recent years relied on energy imports during winters, because they heat a lot with electricity[1], and e.g. in 2015 they had to temporarily shut down a lot of their nuclear plants due to "quality concerns"[2], tho that was not the first time other European nations had to save them from going dark.

Germany mostly has a positive import rate (importing more than exporting) during the summer mornings and evenings, mostly because it's less windy in summers, it's dark so no solar, foreign surplus energy is readily available and cheap so that it doesn't make sense to increase hard coal energy production for a few hours each.

But the coal plants are far from maxed out, and Germany does not rely on imports. E.g. during summer mornings when Germany imports about 4 GW to make up for lack of wind and solar, the hard coal plants produce 4-12 GW, meaning to avoid those imports you'd have to run them at 8-16 GW. Those plants alone can produce 19 GW easily, and that's just hard coal.

If you like playing with interactive charts about energy production in Germany and the import/export rate, Fraunhofer ISE offers https://www.energy-charts.de/

PS:
Since 2006 up until now, Germany had a negative annual import rate (more exports than imports)[3].
And the last month Germany imported (not necessarily had to import) more energy than exported was September 2011.

[1] https://energytransition.org/2017/01/france-cant-meet-its-ow...
[2] http://www.powermag.com/frances-nuclear-storm-many-power-pla...
[3] https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p... and make sure to enable the Import stuff in the graphs
Our Family's Journey Away from Nonstick
just like working out it gets easier as you train, for quite a few serious runners 10 miles a day is par for the course (100mi training weeks are not that uncommon).

My dad played for a living in the 60s and his band played TWO shows a day (afternoon and evening, so the schedule was get up around noon, breakfast, show, lunch, show, dinner, sleep) 6 days a week during the summer, it's just like any other type of physical labor and listening to him it definitely beat working 12 hour days in the fields which is what he did before...
Maybe it's something they're A/B testing?
Actually I would have been very glad if other vendors adopted the Dart VM, and we got a new fucking web language to eventually replace (or supplement) JS, instead of the pile of hacks we got.
Mine was off in the US
The fines are up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover – whichever is higher.

Of course, paying the fine doesn't mean that you can continue with the action - it'd also likely involve imposing a temporary or permanent ban on data processing and ordering the rectification, restriction or erasure of data gathered unlawfully.
Stephanie Hurlburt has a good list: http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2017/7/14/beginner-friendl...
Mary Roach. Her books are quite fun to read.

The titles are good too.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
> I'd sincerely hope they introduce a tax on vehicles driven without driver.

I sincerely hope they do the exact opposite. Taxes are often added to behaviors the state wants to limit (ie. Sin tax on Alcohol/Cigarettes/etc), it would be in everyone's best interest to convert to driverless cars so the tax should be on people without driverless cars and/or more importantly on people who don't carpool.
> He is and pure capitalism is the problem.

State mandated monopolies is not pure capitalism.
From the article: "“It is a known observation among the vulgar that the saliva is efficacious in cleansing foul wounds, and cicatrizing recent ones,” wrote the 18th-century physician Herman Boerhaave. He was correct. Wounds that would take several weeks to heal on one’s skin disappear in a week inside the mouth."

But the author of the article (not Boerhaave) seems to be missing several points:

1) a wound inside the mouth is protected by tissue all about, and body temperature is maintained as well. An external wound is ~half open to the world and has no temperature maintenance on the open surface. Temperature is important for the immune system to perform.

b) concerning the phrase "saliva is efficacious in cleansing foul wounds": what Boerhaave is saying is that licking one's wounds is efficacious. He's not merely speaking of saliva floating about a wound inside a closed mouth. The common phrase "to lick one's wounds" is not a false euphemism and is not limited to animals other than humans. Licking a wound can help heal it, sucking a wound can remove material that has been inserted into a wound and can quickly route fresh blood to a wound site, aiding healing and flushing out foreign material.

https://www.quora.com/Does-licking-your-own-wound-help-heal-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723094841.h...

http://www.science20.com/news_releases/histatin_why_licking_...
I get the point you are trying to make, but there’s a lot of things besides just USB that are susceptible to frying your hardware. The root cause is shitty manufacturing, there’s almost nothing practical the laptop can do to prevent a badly built device from doing at least some kind of damage.
I don't live in the US. And besides that there is a huge difference between just making a photograph and making a photograph with the intent of publication. That's when you get into portrait rights and such, especially if the person you are photographing is the main subject of the photo. Then it is mostly a matter of respect.

For celebrities and politicians there are yet more rules and exceptions.
>Was thinking about this ... I reflexively hate bots, but it might be a UX thing -- maybe it's the popup. The pop diverts my attention from where I was looking on the site and feels like an intrusion. Same as if someone comes to your desk and grabs your mouse. So .. maybe an improvement would be to have a status-line or ticker-like text field that doesn't pop up or obscure any part of the underlying page design.

But it wasn't nearly as bad when the avatar was male or nonhuman.
Its not just work though. It can be learning a new framework to build an open source tool or something that can generate side income. And in my experience, I sometimes get unstuck on "work stuff" by a chance conversation at an event/bar, which makes me happier/helps my career :)
> React Native still _feels_ native because it is native

A lot of React Native isn't "Native", but that term is hard to define. They certainly display plaform-own widgets, but afaik they use their own layout functions and such.
I think we have way worse things to worry about our governments than censorship of Google results.

Whereas personal privacy is an actual, very real problem for people.
> The killer feature of building UI elements in code is that you can build up more complex widgets from simpler ones using composition.

You can do this in XAML since 2006, and JSP since 2004.
They want to reduce peak power demand but see overall use grow at a steady, predictable rate.
How many cold calls can you make per day?

What if they're 52 minutes long?
Dart is a perfectly fine opensource programming language with a familiar syntax. Is it perfect? No, but it's good enough.

There is nothing about Dart itself that would remotely justify the shit it gets heaped upon here.
Wine on Android: A Saturday Afternoon Diversion
I wonder which ways the prevailing winds blow? (Do they follow the jetstream?) Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles all suffer significant air pollution from neighboring states and cities- air pollution is a regional, not local, problem. In other words- they ship the cars off, but the pollution could blow right back to them!
Well they are certainly very good at building big honking machines with our tax dollars! :-)
After a quick peruse, about half the exercises included new material for me. Anybody learning NumPy would do good to review this. Bookmarked!
> What's the minimum amount of data? Who decides that? Is it dependent on context? I'd hope so!

Elizabeth Denham, UK's information commissioner in charge of data protection enforcement, had this to say:

"Having larger fines is useful but I think fundamentally what I'm saying is it's scaremongering to suggest that we're going to be making early examples of organisations that breach the law or that fining a top whack is going to become the norm. Our office will be more lenient on companies that have shown awareness of the GDPR and tried to implement it, when compared to those that haven't made any effort."

In other words, the compliance decision is not in your hands, but there's a promise of certain lenience. At least to start with.

A practical trouble is that once a company reaches a certain size, they no longer even know what data they have, never mind why. Do we already store personal data? Where? Is it important data such as "names + credit cards", or some god-forgotten IP addresses in a log? Email archives and attachments? How about GoogleDrive and SharePoint? Then, do we redact it, or delete it? How? How do we answer Subject Access Requests?

We've built a product to help companies take care of the most common "private data" cases (https://gdpr-tools.eu), but we're not fooling ourselves that we've solved "personal data". Or that the task is even solvable. That whole space is very much in turmoil and how hard the GDPR whip will get cracked remains to be seen.

Funnily, one of the common fears that clients have is not about the general public. It comes from disgruntled employees ratting on the company. Employees know best where personal data is stored (and often no one else in the company does), so they can really do some surgical damage by reporting their employer to the "authorities".
From what I understand, the only people that are charged access to the service are large organizations that want callbacks when new data that matches their users is entered. This seems like a very reasonable balance between making money to pay for hosting related fees, and providing a free and publicly available service.
Apple encumbered tech will never be the tech that wins the future
The GDPR is not that far from existing laws in the EU. So EU company have a headstart
I've broken more Samsung phones than I can count. I broke my S8 within 3 weeks of getting it, even with a case on it.

They have a reputation of having the most breakable phones for a reason. [0]

By anecdotal comparison, the last Nokia I owned was a windows phone, did not require a case, and lasted me 3.5 years without a scratch.

For me, if Nokia can create an S8 looking phone with the handset quality they are known for, for me it would be worth the investment.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/hold-the-phone-samsung-galaxy...
>LCD TVs instead of monitors

I don't think it really matters that much (maybe apart from the builtin shutdown timer):

Mid-90s 32" Trinitron CRT 120W

Mid-00s 32" Bravia LCD 130W
Probably your friend did. And Facebook knows you were in the same location. That seems more reasonable than eavesdropping on your conversation...
Two separate thoughts:

> In the past, investment was been encouraged by allowing these companies a set rate of return on capital investments

I've worked on so-called "cost plus" government contracts before, and the results were astoundingly bad. As a curiosity, what's your take on "cost plus", but with the "plus" being fixed profit on the initial bid instead of on the final invoice. The contractor will still be made whole on all of their costs, but there's a reasonable incentive against prolonging the contract indefinitely (i.e. the fixed margin)

> Puerto Rico is one example of public energy company. Didn't do so hot.

To the north, Saskatchewan has a 100% government-owned power company (SaskPower), and the result is generally quite positive. We have a land mass of 251ksqmi (approximately Texas) but only around 1.1M people. Agriculture makes up a significant chunk of our economy, and one of the big picture benefits of SaskPower is that urban and rural rates are approximately the same, even though the marginal cost of adding a new rural customer is waaaaay bigger than that of an urban customer. Our rates (once factoring for currency conversion) are pretty similar to Texas ($0.11USD/kWh here vs $0.08-0.09 there).
> All that matters is that the candidate does have a basic competency in algorithms; anything beyond that is completely optional (and I believe I have written as much).

What it means "optional"? Either this options have their influence on your decision, or have no. If they have, than they are not optional. If they does not influence, than they are not options. You are speaking about them, it means for me that they are not completely unimportant.

> If you already see making any mistake as a threat (instead of going back-and-forth to an optimal solution), you would burn out on the actual technical challenges within a month...

A mistake in competing environment and a mistake in collaborative environment are different kinds of mistakes and leads to different feeling. If your working environment is a collaborative one, but candidates see your tests as competing environment, than you are measuring something that does not matter.

> cramming the Right Exam Answers wouldn't have helped you on that job, as there weren't any.

Yes! I do talk about the same. Exam strategies learnt by candidate is not interesting to you, but by making from tests a stressful competing experience for candidate you probably measuring this strategies, not the other strategies which are more relevant to you.
Creating reusable components in XML layouts has always been a feature, for example XAML and Facelets.
But cars need lots of space as well too. If you actually run the numbers in practice, a section of track is actually more likely to be physically occupied than a section of roadway.

Numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16196483
Rust's library documentation has this feature as well; each item has a [src] link that takes you straight to the code being documented; see for instance [0], and you'll find the link to the right side of the heading. This even works for crates not in the standard library because it's actually a feature provided by rustdoc, the standard documentation generator; for example, you can get to the source for functions in serde (the most popular Rust serialization library) directly from its documentation [1].

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.tru...

[1] https://docs.serde.rs/serde_json/ser/fn.to_string_pretty.htm...
> So what is the government telling me to purchase?

At least here in Germany, the message is clear: everything is fine, as long as the replacement interval is as short as the industry needs it to be. If the carmaker lobby could get away with it, they would make the government outlaw all cars already sold biannually.

(Except for vintage cars, which are sacred temples of brand heritage)
As a backend developer I find flutter great. Recently created an app that uses Go compiled with gomobile as a backend for flutter UI. Widgets are great, Dart lang is easy to learn and understand :)
Udacity grew its revenue over 100% year-over-year in 2017
Your joe blogger using somesmallwordpresshosting.com and you have a freeform comments page. People post 'private' comments of others. Who is responsible for what? How the fuck do you know if its of an 'EU citizen' if that isn't made obvious? Can you get fined literal millions because you fucked up some detail for your blog newsletter's email list?
Agreed, if that page is accurate, than basically it was all very best effort, except some things about requiring consent.
“Solutions exist, and we can find better ones”
That.. sort of supports my argument :-) He could cache it indefinitely instead of 30 days if he's going to invalidate the cache anyway.
Bare metal means I'm not running on VMs, but on dedicated servers, like the ones you can find on OVH and many others.
It depends. Tourist taking picture of Dam Square and I'm walking by: no problem. Tourist getting up-close and personal and making a picture where I am the subject of the picture will probably find me very annoying. Friends and family already long ago gave up trying to take my picture for their Facebook pages, the last instance I remember was two years ago in a restaurant in Amsterdam and on first request the image was deleted. People in general are pretty reasonable, whether they have a legal obligation or not is usually trumped by good manners.
I thought I was weird for getting irritated when my gf's mom sticks a camera in my face unannounced.
Other forms of advertising don't make my office phone ring while I'm in the middle of something, or make my home phone ring while I'm eating dinner to ambush me. Cold calling makes e-mail spammers look polite by comparison.

Also, despite the fact that I despise and block everything the internet ad industry throws at me, that industry arguably provides something in return for the trouble of putting up with their bullshit. Cold calling provides me with absolutely nothing beyond a rude interruption of my day at best.

I don't care what you're offering, because I subconsciously tag anything associated with cold calling as a scam and file it in the same mental folder as that "free cruise" I "won".
https://www.troyhunt.com/microsoft-regional-director/
Along those lines are there any tools that are really good for that? I'm looking for a program that can do some things like IDA does for assembly where there's the ability to label blocks/variables and then see where it's used elsewhere etc.
Moore's Law has been hitting - and going through - walls for the last 30 years.
20 Memes on Recruiting Struggle at Startups
It is interesting that it is claimed that Craig and Kleiman are stated to have claimed they were working on a digital currency 6 months before bitcoin was released.
One of the only reasonable defenses I know of (assuming that your picture is already stored in the attacker's db) is this https://cvdazzle.com/.

Even so, it doesn't scale well, given that you do not have the guarantee to fool more than a given set of algorithms (the technique above targets specifically OpenCV haarcascade face detection algorithm).
Doing layouts by code does not make it better, specially in rich UI/UX ones.
Being honest, what I would do: schedule a time for the call back and make sure to not pick up the phone at that time.
If your company is not targeting the EU as a market you are out of scope of GDPR.

If you explicitly accept Sterling/Euros, provide localisations for EU countries, talk explicitly about your EU shipping options etc. then you would probably be seen as accommodating the EU market and might find yourself in scope.
if your definition of life is that broad then God could also exist
Note that Flutter offers hot reloads that are often sub-second: https://flutter.io/hot-reload/
I don't care about your rights because I don't like them

Where have I heard that before.
I find that a little bit sad. Both of my parents have passed away (fairly young), and they were somewhat camera-shy when they were alive (not for the same reasons you are, but the result is the same). I have barely a handful of photos of them, and that's often a source of disappointment and sadness for me.

I get that rampant data collection is unacceptable, and companies are terribly poor stewards of our personal data, but at the end of the day I have precious little in a visual sense with which to remember my parents.

I think it's entirely reasonable to request that your friends not post pictures of you on social media, though, and get pissed at them when they ignore your wishes.
> Can you say, briefly, what you mean by "pure capitalism?"

> To me, pure capitalism would be laissez-faire, within the context of a rights-respecting society.

I mean withOUT the context of a rights-respecting society. The capitalism that we have only respects the rights of others when compelled to do so.

> Sometimes, companies respond by innovating solutions that deliver more value at a lower price.

Yes when there's competition or the consumable isn't a necessity. In many municipalities it's a legal requirement to have running water and/or electricity, particularly if you have children or the elderly in the house; which means not buying is not an option. Utilities are commodity service providers; Southern Company's electricity is no better than Duke Energy's. They do not have any competition because markets have been carved out and consumers do not have a choice. They mostly don't develop the delivery technology, they just purchase it from others (e.g. GE).

With all that in mind, what is the motivation to innovate? So that the customer will be less angry at you as they write you the check each month?

What's the motivation to reduce costs? Lower costs might drive up demand which might put additional strain on infrastructure (look at the issues in Australia) and drive up maintenance costs. Lower costs might also require additional capacity which means capital investments.

The best place for a utility is to convince to you use as little as possible while charging you as much as possible in static fees each month.