skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a very apt analogy. Google is perceived as a benevolent or neutral service bordering on a public utility. They collect vast amounts of personal information / intelligence because people willingly give it to them.

Google assisting in drone strikes is like the military using the electrical grid to electrocute people in their homes or delivering lethal poisons via the Starbucks Rewards program.

What if your favorite cereal brand started participating in assassinations? It's not inconceivable to deliver poison that way. What if, due to a software error, instead of terrorist #41253 your daughter was delivered poisoned Cheerios.

There is a huge ethical gap between private arms manufacturing and a non-militarized company with this much reach participating in a non-wartime, "preventative" military campaign.
The main revelation made at the creditor meeting today is that the bankruptcy court trustee recently sold 35,841 BTC and 34,008 BCH to cover the amount of approved normalized claims.

What happens with the remaining ~166K BTC remains to be seen.
This isn't actually correct, or at least it's not a correct interpretation of the data. The absolute number increased, but it decreased as a percentage of population, which is the relevant number here.
$27,000 / parking spot? I like how the total cost of the building or percentage of total cost is suspiciously lacking.
I'd be concerned about living in any structure that was built shortly after any major natural disaster. I'd be paranoid about the inherent pressure for fast, slapdash construction. For example, I wonder about buildings in the Marina and other areas that liquifacted in 1989.
I work since 10 years as SEO consultant. Still almost every ecommerce site I audit don't get the basics straight. Sometimes is just pure overindexation / duplication caused by facets, filters, tracking params.., others just wrong implementation of canonicals, robots-tags, hreflangs...

So even today in 2018, fixing your SEO issues can be a game changer for some businesses.
> There would be a bot guiding through opt-in to receive dividends of my wealth into their wallets/bank accounts...

The bot is called a “lawyer” and the process by which someone receives your wealth is called “executing a will”.
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Hackers,

i am looking for some reference to understand how to apply transfer learning for detecting certain human activities in a live video feed.
Could you tell a bit more about where, when, how you found it?
There's a huge difference between forgetting and letting go though.
Personally I think WeWork is pretty exposed to any kind of economic downturn as most of their customers are burning cheap VC money. If half those companies were serious about getting profitable they'd go somewhere else with half the amenities at a quarter of the price.
I'm starting to love Flutter, but I'm afraid to invest in it -- Google has a history of abandoning projects they get bored with. I took a long time to come on board with Golang for the same reason...
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Now all Google users should be outraged too!
How have people always dealt with this? Wills and lawyers. Why is HN trying to (poorly) reinvent probate law? Yes, give the keys to your lawyer. Or, if you’re uncomfortable with that, open a safe deposit box and keep important documents there that your lawyer/family can access after you die.
The problem with Proposition 13 is that it also applies to commercial real estate.

A personal residence can only be about 30 years out of date in terms of assessment. And, when the owner dies, that assessment corrects.

Commercial real estate will get buried behind layers and layers of sublease agreements in order to avoid triggering a reassessment. At one place I worked, we had to find the actual original building owner because someone drove a car through a support beam and the rework was going to cause everything to come up to code. We moved out because nobody could actually get through all the layers of subleases (11 layers when I last checked) and guarantee a completion date.

The solution is to remove the Proposition 13 protections from commercial real estate. Good luck. Every company with real estate on the books in California is going to fight you tooth and nail.
> The median-priced home in San Francisco sells for $1.5 million, according to Paragon. It's not uncommon for buyers to bid hundreds of thousands above asking and pay in all cash.

Who are these people? There are a lot of homes there, so there must be a whole lot of buyers with $1M in cash. There are enough of them that they even try to outbid each other by slapping an extra $100k no top of asking price.
Have you ever considered that it’s not your upbringing but rather your own abilities that limit your success?
How, specifically, is zoning different in Mountain View from elsewhere in the Bay Area?
Well, while you’re joking the original idea of communism and what I’ve been taught about Lenin was about excatly this - communism is inevitable because of technical progress. Call it what you want - universal income, handouts, we will end up in communism.
That's what "software engine" in the title is supposed to describe :)
Using Flutter in a real-life application with 200k downloads
Not everything related to quality can be easily identified by the end consumer. I trust major food manufacturers to have products without high levels of arsenic, lead, and mercury. I don't trust that counterfeit food manufacturers are ensuring the same.
> ... On the blockchain?

The index is market capitalization weighted. "The market capitalization of each constituent asset is calculated as the price of the asset multiplied by the supply of the asset" [1], where the "price for each constituent asset is the last trade price on the GDAX USD order book" (2.6).

The market capitalization, and thus weighting schema, is an entirely internal product of Coinbase's data.

> I'm not convinced having access to a large order lists doesn't already open the door to insider trading?

Currently, an insider could (a) give their orders better execution than the market or (b) foment a spike/crash by "painting the tape". This is risky and leaves a paper trail.

"The Coinbase Index Committee consists of one member representing Coinbase, and two unaffiliated independent members who have experience in index creation and oversight" (7.4). Those people are powerful. They can take economically-significant actions based on their subjective determinations. Convincing one of them to (a) tell you how they're rebalancing or what assets they're adding/removing when or (b) rebalance in a way that helps your portfolio can be done entirely over a glass of beer. Still risky and illegal. But less detectable than before.

This structure of incentives (small group of subjective decision makers operating on the basis of internal data) historically fails. (See the Libor scandals [2], where we only nailed those involved because they coördinated over instant messages.) Even if the first batch of three are honest, all it takes is one bad apple to spoil the bunch.

[1] https://am.coinbase.com/documents/cbi-methodology.pdf § 2.4

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
>>But "person who refused to interview at Google" doesn't sound as nice as "ex-Googler" to most.

You could have gone a bit further, and been a "person who refused a job offer from Google". That, imo, would carry more weight.

It's similar to the way some companies specifically look for newly admitted Stanford/Harvard/MIT students, then pay those students ridiculous sums to give up college and work for them instead.
I don’t really understand you mate, what are you suggesting, stop technical progress? Sure it harsh and one day we will be next but so be it, it’s life.
Why dont American mothers love their sons more? or at least the same as their daughters? (emphasis mothers because in America they have overwhelming influence on the childs upbringing).

Heck, Howard Glasser himself shows that giving a boy more love is a viable method to manage a boys hyperactivity.

I wonder how much a coincidence that the last three presidencies(first family) before Trump had no sons, only daughters and whether this influenced subtly our perception and bias towards daughters over sons.
>>Currently, the issue is that the history of India is written from the British POV, which has been tweaked later by Russian and American POVs.

From the tooth brush in the morning to the mosquito mat in the night. AntiBiotics to Cancer treatments. Electricity to Internal combustion engines. You could even breath and there would be some Western innovation that would be driving it.

They invented it, so we study about them. If we had invented all this we would be studying about our people inventing it.

>>Many basic mathematical concepts like pythagorean theorem

These low hanging fruit science achievements were done by everyone, you could pull a Amazonian tribe randomly and there will be fairly decent algebra going on, because you if you have to live you have to do basic arithmetic and math.

And then of course 0. Guess how people in the past, say 100000 years back, who hunted two deers and eat them, counted the remainder? You got it right. 0 comes to existence that moment you start counting things.

India didn't produce a Euclid, heck it didn't even produce a Pythagoras, Newton or even a Al-Jabr.

Let alone achieving anything, most people here didn't even have the rights to study for thousands of years. We are the only nation on earth, with all these favorable and luxurious weather and agriculture conditions, with a civilization continuity over several millenia which has nothing to show for.
Sure, that's a reasonable point to consider, but this website is clearly not factoring in inflation's effect on income value. It says the same thing whether you want to retire this year or in 30 years.
A lot of people will pick inaction over action in situations like this. (There is also a link to a TDWTF article where someone held a button for the better part of a day)
> been one of the most open minded places in the country

Not at all. I've lived in several states and I think you're conflating the "liberalness" with open mindedness. If anything, the Bay Area is one of the most closed-minded places in the country. There's absolutely no room for conservative ideas
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'...Amazon, by its very nature undermines the entire rationale for buying Lacoste.'

I don't know about Lacoste, but of the brands I do know about, they do a pretty good job on their own of undermining that rationale.
You are wrong about the 95% number. They entered India few years ago.
Hardware compatibility is a good start. Your tone aside, you have a point. But that's only the first of many problems with Linux.
Genotype, Fenotype, Upbringing, Selftraining. May be you just cannot succeed in term you described, but you may live 100 years as happy raw vegan and best didgeridoo player.
I've known a couple of folks who worked in gaming and it sounds pretty hellish.

I would second thrownaway954's comment about finding jobs that take advantage of your programming background, and especially in security. Being able to understand the deeper technical aspects of systems and to troubleshoot issues that you spot can be a real differentiator over people who have some technical knowledge but can't really do much drilling down past running security scans.

If you're not hostile to federal employment or have personal hobbies that could cause obstacles to such employment, there is a lot of handwringing about finding good cybersecurity people. That is going to be a kinder work week, too.

I'd say my higher level comment though is to echo that short stints of employment aren't dealbreakers, and don't get stuck thinking too negatively about your experience or your resume. Get a second and/or third opinion from other people who can give you an impartial impression of your resume and talk through how you address those experiences in interviews. I've been involved in the hiring process recently for several positions and especially for younger people I actually expect them to be moving from company to company pretty often, if for no other reason than it can be hard to make meaningful salary gains without doing so. If you don't hate the day-to-day activities of the work, don't give up on it - just put more research into finding better environments.
Interesting how meaning changes. Back when Wolfenstein was made, "without a graphics API" just meant

mov ax, 13h
int 10h
> when the owner dies, that assessment corrects.

When you inherit property from your parents the Proposition 13 tax basis is preserved. Many of the kids I grew up with still live in their childhood homes for this reason. Seems a bit ironic: those who can afford to keep inherited property continue to benefit from the Government subsidized tax break, while those who can't afford to are forced to sell.
Are any of the outraged employees actually doing anything about it, like, say, resigning from Google to work for companies that don't act as enablers for the military?
Linux has 2.3% marketshare (counting ChromeOS and not accounting for users blocking scripts, which is also disproportionally large on linux)
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But companies don't vote.

If the people wanting that very change simply organized the requisite petition drive, I'm guessing it would pass easily. That's how Prop 13 was installed in the first place -- the Jarvis-Gann initiative amendment. Same with the California Lottery and legalized marijuana (I think the latter was just statute law, which has a lower number of required signatures.)
I'm of the opinion that many abilities are engendered by upbringing. But yeah, I'm lacking in that department too.
There actually aren't a whole lot of homes on the market (much of the city's housing stock is either rental properties or is owned by longtime residents who ain't moving anytime soon), but to answer your question: anyone who's been at Google, Apple, or Facebook since 2009, got stock options, and held them. Google stock has appreciated 7x since then, Apple 10x, FB a whopping 35x. $100K in stock options is actually a pretty small options package over 4 years, but if you got that much in FB stock when the whole company was worth $15B, that's now worth $3.5M.
I have always wondered how we can reconcile that things "are" objectively so great and yet "seem" subjectively so bad. In my experience both online and off, there is a pessimism about work, poverty, and basic security that persists (or is even getting worse) despite these changes. To my eyes, it has to be larger than just the state of the media.

We have a few of things we can quantify, and that are often brought out in discussions such as this one. Healthcare outcomes, wages, life expectancy, basic material goods, access to education, casualties from war, etc.

I heard another commenter here talk about the human experience being understood as a vector, with twenty or thirty dimensions. Most of those are moving in their positive directions. But the problem is that when God made the human experience, he crafted it with uncountably many components, most of them themselves unquantifiable.

Unfortunately for us "objectively" exists only in that limited set, not in the greater whole. "The number of species going extinct per unit time is more than it has ever been, maybe ever." What is the cost, paid in pessimism and hopelessness rather than dollars, of knowing that? Does it counteract a 2 month increase in my projected lifespan?
Assuming poster is a relative of Ruth Graves Wakefield..his user profile seems to match this story.

"On March 20, 1939, Wakefield gave Nestlé the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name. In a bargain that rivals Peter Minuit’s purchase of Manhattan, the price was a dollar—a dollar that Wakefield later said she never received (though she was reportedly given free chocolate for life and was also paid by Nestlé for work as a consultant)."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sweet-morsels...
"2 locations" sounds little because your mind is psychologically focused on the number "2" and not on how economically powerful those locations are.

The Bay Area economy alone is larger than most countries in the world. You can add up 100+ cities in the world and it won't compare to the Bay Area
Especially because AI/ML can used to generate fake reviews as well.
This is a terrible deal. A 2% annual fee is a hedge-fund-esque fee. For 2% I'd expect an actively managed fund that gets in on ICO presales, carefully vets teams/technologies behind new coins and gets in early, has a strategy for hedging risk, etc. etc.

Instead you get a passively managed fund with FOUR assets that are all tightly correlated with each other (they all crash at the same time), that is only rebalanced once a year, and offers no tax benefits. Tax loss harvesting, for example, is not possible - there are only 4 assets to choose from!

You could replicate this yourself in a few minutes, and you wouldn't need a script.
> What if, due to a software error, instead of terrorist #41253 your daughter was delivered poisoned Cheerios.

Using your analogy, isn't that exactly what the Pentagon is trying to prevent by seeking Google's assistance in more innovative solutions? Otherwise, what's the alternative?
I'm confused; would better image classification not reduce the potential for civilian casualties and other unnecessary collateral damage? I don't think the government would stop drone strikes if Google weren't involved, in any case.
Just because solar cells don't work doesn't mean photosynthesis wouldn't work.
There should be Awesome List with small simple implementations of any kind, like this.
> I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

Are you from US? You might not be. Sounds like are not aware of the multi-billion dollar (maybe even trillion dollar) military industrial complex.

Also not sure what is meant by "democratic discussion". Who are the constituents here? Everyone, employees, tech people only, HN users?

> kill people 'incorrectly'.

Right. I think that tells us where Google stands. It is already helping kill people, it just helps kill them "correctly" of course. In some kind of a nice, non-evil way presumably
The assessment can live on after the owner dies, if the property is inherited by a child or grandchild. Nobility titles are a thing in California.

https://assessor.lacounty.gov/proposition-58-and-proposition...
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GDPR wants absolutely undeniable consent including that if you give consent, the corporation involved has to keep proof that you consented. It is very much opt-in.
> if you want to get the kit and test your DNA out of fun, at least make sure your identity is not obvious.

Once a relative uses the service with their real identity, even if you don't use the service yourself, wouldn't the company know your family (and thus you) have a high chance for X disease or traits?
I hope peace triumphs.
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If this is a web based app (rather than a local app based on web technologies, like webos or windows phone), you should move as much of the processing server side as possible. Aim to not use a client side framework at all, if you can get away with it.

Obviously there's a trade off to be made between performance and development speed, but the more work you make the client do on a legacy device, the worst the user experience will be.
In the article, a Google spokesperson states that "The technology flags images for human review, and is for non-offensive uses only." The "killing machines" statement in the headline seems like an exaggeration when it should really refer to "surveillance machines."
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Hypocrites. Maybe they should stop paying taxes too, because the military is funded by tax income.

The military, just like Google, does the right thing an overwhelming majority of the time. Enabling them to do their job isn't a bad thing. After all, the military is the one providing defense against entities who'd take away Googlers right to be outraged, and other civil liberties that modern society enjoys, in a heartbeat.
Please tell me how I do it right, then, 'cause that's exactly what I'm seeing.

That paying much more would still be cheaper to them is irrelevant; in SF/NY/LN they have competition for developers, in Lisbon the few that made the jump are still the top dogs.
It requires a 2/3 majority to change it. Good luck.
Agreed. I've brought a number of small to large-scale products to fruition using DipTrace. At the time I had a choice (more then several years ago now, I admit, so perhaps things had changed) KiCAD was a mess, while DipTrace just helped me get stuff done. The developers were always responsive to emails also. The cost of the license still leaves you many dollars ahead compared to other possibilities, taking into account time saved and mistakes with PCBs not made.
Writing Elixir Plug library from the ground up
>But I'm not sure the EU has any moral/ethical right to dictate that business models that have supported highly successful businesses with literally unprecedented levels of popular support should no longer be viable, and the conditions we're talking about here look awfully close to allowing that.

I would say that being popular does not correlate with being good and moral. Being successful does not correlate with being good and moral either.

>Most people I know demonstrably are willing to give up some privacy in return for the convenience that Facebook provides to them.

The patient is not always right. A lot of people would give up privacy for facebook because in the faustian bargain, the short-term benefit outweighs the long-term consequences.
> Starting earlier

... is a race to the bottom.
Can confirm that he is an alien--we're just not sure if extraterrestrial or extradimensional.
What I mean is, that mission statement is going to be hanging around in their company somewhere. Every time an employee looks at that, he's going to think "Am I really helping humanity thrive with my little python script I write here daily? No." I know I and many others like me would think so.

Contrast this with someone like Sony.

> "At Sony, our mission is to be a company that inspires and fulfills your curiosity. ground-breaking new excitement and entertainment in ways that only Sony can. Everything we do, is to move you emotionally."

The products they release resonate with their mission statements.

Have you used Asana? I recommend you give it a try, once you try it, you'll realize how exaggerated their mission statement is. This thread is a good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271279
"23andMe demonstrated a high level of accuracy (greater than 99% concordance to Sanger sequencing) and precision (demonstrated by studies yielding greater than 99% reproducibility and repeatability)"

Sanger sequencing is pretty accurate, on the order of 99.9%. So if 23andMe is matching those at over 99% accuracy and precision, a full sequence may not be necessary. The FDA took a long time to approve this, so I'd imagine it passes their standards as well.
Here's an opposite example:
I have a friend who has amazing grit[0]. One time he figured that the cheesecake he's making would use some improvement so he experimented with a sort of an evolutionary algorithm where he would change one or two things, note the results and combine some of the changes on another try(or that's how I understood his process).

After over forty instances he has perfected the cheesecake. It's now much better than store bought in terms of taste and also usually better looking. The recipe itself isn't secret, but you'd be hard pressed to replicate his work. Apparently it's rather the skill than the procedure that makes it so great.

[0] He rewrote "The Hobbit" in Tengwar several times using a fountain pen.