skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're focus is only pre-trial persons who can't make bail, I don't see how you'll stay in business.

Bail is to be set based on the seriousness of the charges and the likelihood that the accused will skip out on further proceedings.

If your clients don't have enough assets to 'make bail', either the charges are very serious or they have made very poor financial decisions (maybe both). Either makes them a flight risk and there is a reason they'll stay in custody.

Your program will essentially take in the worst of the accused and try to get them to the court on-time. I don't see anything in your well-meaning plans that gives proper motivation or incentive for them to follow through and not just skip the county/state/country.

To work, your candidate selection will have to be very vigorous and my guess is there isn't a large enough user base to make all the red tape of working with local and state governments worth it.
Having been through voir dire, sat on a jury and been asked to hold the power to take a man's freedom, I don't consider it ethical to lie during voir dire. The whole premise of the trial is that the jury is impartial. To knowingly lie is to deliberately corrupt that. I wouldn't want to be tried by jurors that were wilfully dishonest; I cannot then in good conscience lie, or countenance my fellow jurors lying, imagined purity of motive be damned.
"Correlia Biosystems is able to analyze microsamples of blood"

This sounds familiar ...
This is right. Though nothing about the construction of the word "testilying" is specific to the police.
Thanks for posting about newsdiffs.org. I didn't know about this, it's awesome!
Using Little Snitch to block all Facebook connections is like using goat to land on moon...
Even better would be doing it on a device. It's a reason to have an intelligent router on your network where you run a custom dnsmasq or whatever, then you cover your phones and all the hootenanny that comes with a digital life. Like your fridge.
Always and forever, surveillance is a precursor to and enabler of extortion.

The extortion we usually hear about is people forced to testify, often to lie, about others still under investigation, or to recruit other informants and exfiltrate secrets. We hear about it because it is useful for us to have heard about it. In the other instances there is no reason to tell us, so the only way to find out about them is to be extorted.
That's clearly not the way it's working out for private prisons.
No. It supports no wildcards at all.
People who expect to be exempted from consequences then attempt to lie about what the video represents or things that are out of frame.

Until there is a culture of routine and serious consequences for police lying in court, police will continue to lie in court.
You perfectly highlighted the problem of using this to penalize a company!

How do you punish a misbehaving company without hurting the people using their products?
Going at or below the speed limit would cause autonomous vehicles to be a hindrance to traffic as real humans know that it's safe to exceed the limit by 5-10 mph. If you hard code the vehicles to arbitrarily go exactly the posted speed then adoption will likely be very difficult and it would actually make the roads a more dangerous place to be as normal traffic would need to veer around the car.
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Of course you are! But snarky internet dismissals are sort of a lazy substitute for real criticism, which (a) engages with the actual core of a thing and (b) adds information, so the readers can learn something and decide for themselves.

I understand the temptation to post snarky internet dismissals. It's a quick way to vent annoyance about something where it can take a lot of energy to react substantively. Nonetheless we don't want them here—not because we want HN to be criticism-free (on the contrary, there is plenty of good criticism in this thread) but because they make us all dumber and the site lamer. On HN, people need to do the work of processing their annoyance, figuring out what the underlying substantive point is, expressing it in words—and then post that. Or, alternatively, just don't comment. That takes even less energy than snarking.

This isn't something we arrived at a priori, by the way, or some moral sentiment about snark. It's a pragmatic assessment of what works and doesn't work on HN.
The woman cannot go from being "not in path" to "in path" instantaneously unless you believe in teleportation. Supposing the woman got about 1 foot into the path of the car before being struck, the car would have had a minimum of 1 ft / <woman's speed in ft/s> seconds to react, assuming total blindness until the woman was "in path" (I can't think of a real world scenario where this assumption would be strictly true). Suppose a speed of 12 ft/s (~8mph), the car would have had a minimum of 8/100ths of a second to react. Supposing 3 ft of visibility before in path (about the distance from edge of car to lane), the car would have a minimum of ~1/3 second to react. That's assuming the woman was biking along at a good clip already, which is unlikely given that she was crossing a road. So, in all likelihood, the car had over 1/3 of a second to do something. That's just above the typical reaction time of a human (~1/4 second), but I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation for an autonomous vehicle.
What a funny example, why is that?
Why do you think the US would stay the same if it became closed like China? What makes you think that the freedom is a liability?

You're essentially advocating to reverse decades if not centuries of policy that justified US foreign policy actions, because the US assumed moral high ground on several geopolitical fronts. IMO it would degrade the USs standing on several policy issues. "trust us, we're the good guys." no longer works. I'm sure China and Russia would love to park their navy outside of Florida in international waters because the US does similar things.
did u see the term "scheduled"?
I'm super frustrated with Facebook, but this is conspiracy theory territory. Place the anger in the right direction.

Those trades were part of his 10b5-1, a scheduled trading plan set in place at a minimum 3 months ahead of time and typically extends out 12+ months. Trades in the plan are protected from insider trading accusations and considered an "affirmative defense" [1].

While you can trade shares outside your 10b5-1 plan, those trades aren't protected from insider trading accusations.

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/03/24/a-guide-to-rule-1...
> "Maybe there’s a yoga retreat for people who are really great at yoga, and I can’t get into it. Does that mean that it’s exclusive?"

> "There was a moment when they served coconut water..." he thought to himself, "These guys just get me. You know what, I’d love to support this project."

I mean, we all say dumb, entitled shit, but then again, I am not making a club where I invite people with a "correct psychographic".

At least they are self-aware. /s:

> "It’s not good when the world forms bubbles and loses connections. But I feel like that’s unfortunately been a big part of the history of the world. As you become more successful, you get your house and your gate, and you move into your bubble and your friends, and you just totally lose connection. And I think that’s clearly what we’re seeing in front of us."
To clarify, I whitelist my browser entirely in Little Snitch and delegate to uMatrix and other extensions.

I also don't pre-emptively load in rules into Little Snitch - I have it running in active/interrupt mode, so it prompts me whenever it tries to make a new connection I haven't signed off on before. Unsurprisingly, not very many apps try to connect to Facebook.
> Where's Zuckerberg in all of this?

Working out scheduling for testimony to a UK parliamentary inquiry, a couple US congressional committees, and the US FEC?

More seriously, the question is being asked everywhere, even, apparently, within Facebook: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/20/technology/mark-zuckerberg-f...
If the car was really in the right lane, I don't think an autonomous vehicle has any excuse for not reacting in this situation. A real person might not see the crossing pedestrian in bad light, but a self-driving car should have plenty of sensors capable of detecting a pedestrian crossing three lanes until they're actually in the fourth lane where the car was driving.
The reason they can't make bail is because it's either set very high because the charges are very serious or they've made very poor financial decisions. Either case, they are a flight risk. It's very likely they'll bolt if let out. Your program doesn't address that.
The article is NOT about Google News, it’s about the Google News _Initiative_.
It isn't odd to take issue with the bit's that is wrong.
Clarification - the article you posted is about the Waymo technology, not the Uber technology. It's possible that Uber does not use those capabilities.
I like that idea! Gonna buy a bunch of those, amplify their signal and spread them throughout the city I live in. That will ensure that there's not going to be a single crappy autonomous car being beta-tested in my vicinity!

Another idea would be to just throw them right in front of an autonomous vehicle at full speed. Let's test those brakes!

(sorry, but the original idea is just so ridiculous that I am incapable of responding in a non-sarcastic way to this...)
He deserves it! A great thinker! Here's a series of lectures he gave outlining some great fundamentals of his view on mathematics ( with very little prerequsites ). - https://video.ias.edu/The-Practice-of-Mathematics
or that at 50mph, a foot away, you're likely to blow the cyclist over ....
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The commisioner has argued that Ireland agreed to a special deal for Apple. Ireland and Apple strongly deny that there was any favourable tax deal offered. The ECJ will decide the case and unless the EU wants to undermine the entire system of transfer pricing which is the basis for international trade, they will side with Ireland and Apple.
Why so much faith in non profits? If they have some specia sauce I’m not sure what it is. They still require the prisoners in order to exist and grow. And economically there’s this old joke...they’re not for profit, but they’re not for loss either.
It does however work in Chrome Mobile
As far as I can tell the corporate tax in Ireland the 2nd lowest in the EU, with only Bulgaria being lower. Calling that "in the lower half" is reaching a bit, isn't it?
Consider something like Pi Hole (https://pi-hole.net/) as the DNS on your network. Where it will affect all devices on the network.
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> "Remember that the utilization of SOD [information obtained from the NSA] cannot be revealed or discussed in any investigative function," a document presented to agents reads. The document specifically directs agents to omit the SOD's involvement from investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony. Agents are instructed to then use "normal investigative techniques to recreate the information provided by SOD." [aka parallel construction]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...

That is, they are instructed to testilie.
That's curious, because the OpenStack Swift docs say "Objects are stored as binary files on the filesystem with metadata stored in the file’s extended attributes (xattrs)".

As far as I know, the advantage comes from exposing a course-grained API over the network, which is generally more efficient and reliable than doing many small operations. It would be hard to implement Minio's distributed mode using the filesystem API.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of...
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I saw it once and can't remember what it was.
Exactly. Saying "I will evaluate the officer's statements along with the other evidence produced to determine if his/her statements are factual" is not going to get you kicked off a jury.

If you say "You shouldn't believe anything a cop testifies to" will get you booted pretty quickly.
it could be that they never saw someone pushing a bike across a road in tests before, maybe it confused that with someone riding on the road at a different angle
what could he say to make you feel better about the whole clusterfuck that's unfolded in the past few days? 'I'm stepping down' is probably the only thing i'd buy.
Under that law, very few sane people would testify at all.
The boots problem is basically solved at last, Altbergs are excellent
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Any way to do this at the router level?
well yes that too, but no police department should be hiring anyone who even perjures themselves a tiny amount .... the real problem here is a cultural problem within police departments and it's their civil oversight that needs to solve this
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https://blog.ycombinator.com/readme-yc-w15-creates-crisp-doc... ?
Except they don't pay 12.5%.

Apple paid 0.005% in 2014.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/how-apples-irish-subsidiarie...

"When you hear a claim along the lines of "Apple only pays 2% on its revenues in Ireland", it's because the vast majority of the profit is taxable in the US not in Ireland"

No, this is not the reason. They pay an incredible low tax rate for all EU profit because of special illegal deals.
Because it is completely impractical. I used LS but it's a waste of time to check and block ads servers or malicious domains, which is why most garbage should be blocked from hosts or dnsmasq.
So genetic programming, but for NN's? Hasn't that been done?
IANAL, but I'm curious - Can Parliament issue a Crown Court Bench Warrant compelling a non-UK subject to appear? And if that gets ignored, presumably the person can't ever enter the country unless it's to respond to the warrant. But what about a Commonwealth Nation - would that person have to avoid entering Canada?
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While breath retention is part of pranayama techniques, they are NOT beginner techniques, and misuse certainly does have the capacity to do damage.

Consider the inner breath as a pneumatic tool. Can you imagine holding in a powerful sneeze or cough and hurting yourself? That’s the power of the diaphragm. Getting it under control cannot be done overnight, and retention techniques increase the risk of accidental injury.
I think there is definitely space for improvement for 2 and 3, but then you would need to collect your own data. Are you a developer? We should talk if you're considering CoreML as we (Polarr) have ready to use, battle tested CoreML models for various computer vision purposes (email in my profile.)
Don’t stop at “wow”, Be calm and think Why
The USA is a strange place. Thanks for the explanation.
> Note: do not give your lawyer this evidence until the perjury has occurred. They may not be happy with you and inform the DA thus cutting you off at the knees (it's pretty incestuous at times.)

Seriously? Are these public prosecutors, or ones you pay good money for? Is it that the defenders think you are guilty but are going through the motions of a pretend defense? Either way it is a scary thought.

In general I thought you would want your lawyer to know as much as possible so that they have as many options as possible for constructing an arugment for you in court. If you have to second guess that, then you are in a bit of a lose-lose situation with every piece of info.
Apple’s fighting to regain its position in America’s classrooms
I think a major point of contention is still if the Irish made special accommodations for Apple. The European Commission claims so, and it doesn't seem a far-fetched accusation [1]. The Irish government still energetically denies it [2].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.de/how-apple-managed-to-get-its-t...
[2] https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0125/935933-leo-varadka...
First, I agree with halflings' comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633122

Second, there are two sides to a deal. The parent's plan will penalize the seller as well the buyer, both buy reducing demand and by taking away the best deal.

That's a problem with all trade restrictions. If your country won't buy from others, why will others buy from you? Only North Korea tries to go without trade to a large extent and even they smuggle goods.
> Castels are nowhere close to the most interesting things to see in France.

Not everyone comes from a land with "boring" castles everywhere.
Letting rich landlords accumulate land without paying any taxes on it is how you get feudalism. I don't think most people want to live in a feudal society, do you?
Well, it depends. I mean, when I was last questioned by a CHP officer about an auto accident recently, sure, I took the risk that the officer wasnt looking to frame me for a crime and answered questions fully, completely, and accurately, and even volunteered information (even though I was at fault for the accident, and knew it.)

But, you know, different circumstances—or even different questions—and it might have gone differently.
My main argument for incompetence vs. malice is not necessarily that the NYT is too good to be corruptible/pressured, but because the purported gain (in favor of FB) is so small.

Let's assume the NYT can be influenced to change/kill stories. After all, the Obama administration was able to get the NYT to delay/suppress stories on national security grounds [0], and this doesn't count all the stories that have been starved because of discouragement/apathy by editors.

But these are stories that have been stopped before they saw the light of day. This reference to Sandberg was published in a widely-publicized (i.e. banner breaking news headline on nytimes.com) breaking news story. To censor it for any reason is going to be a difficult and embarrassing and noticeable decision, and one that is going to piss off someone in the editorial chain (e.g. the reporter, or her editor).

So if Sandberg has the ability to pressure the NYT to revoke this reference, why would she do it now? The story is already a major clusterfuck for Facebook because it ties the abrupt dismissal of Facebook's entire security team to allegations about Russian/CA malfeasance on FB's platform. How much face does Sandberg save when the entire company is eating shit, with Sandberg at the helm and being conspicuously absent from making a public statement?

If Sandberg had editorial power, don't you think she would've exercised it by having prior review of the entire story? If the NYT editors were so afraid of her that they'd cave in to pressure to retroactively edit a story in her favor, don't you think they would've brought this story to her attention before publishing it as a breaking news item and spreading it all over Twitter?

NYT famously has one of the most anal-retentive social media policies among all media organizations. If Sandberg had real influence, NYT reporters would not be tweeting this kind of stuff about her:

https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/975899584550465537

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/975793549076611072

FWIW, the author of the NYT article in question has responded to the claims made by the submitted Law & Crime article:

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/976156184909553664

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/976157825331216384

[0] https://www.wnyc.org/story/nyt-reporter-james-risen-reportin...
The way out is up.
Why would you block WhatsApp?
> This is by far the most insightful comment in the entire thread.

lol
Just out of curiosity, ehst benefits do you get from privacy mode over several profiles?
So? Which chain is the real one, Have to ask stellar.
The culture of using the horn differs a lot between countries. Would they use locale aware honk schemes?

And similarly are self driving cars listening? Will they detect emergency vehicles by the sirens, or even listen to other cars honking at them?
Allegedly.

That aside: Ireland has a lower corporate tax rate than say france, so for example a soap company based in ireland doing business in france pays the irish corporate tax rate, it's not illegal and they're not part of the "mafia", now the EU is saying that soap companies will have to pay 3% tax on soap sold in france (in addition to VAT) further still they have no problem with non soap companies and that it's a coincidence that most soap companies affected come from the same country.
Just tested it by searching for “spline”. This is great! Can someone elaborate on how it was made? Specifically, how it integrates with Google Scholar. Is that done client side or server side? If server side how come it hasn’t been blocked by Google seeing as Google don’t seem to like robots using their regular search function so my guess would be they wouldn’t like it for Scholar either. Perhaps it is proxying requests and would also pass on any CAPTCHAs presented? Still in that case I would expect all requests to get hit with a CAPTCHA. Perhaps it just hasn’t had enough traffic yet?
It is a trending story for me on Facebook.

Interestingly the lead article is, "Here's how to see which apps have access to your Facebook - and cut them off".
I looked at this a couple weeks ago. The numbers depend on how you measure 'user' and 'location'.

Silicon Valley: 5% - 14%;
US: 32% - 56% (including SV);
Europe: 28% - 35%;
Canada/Australia/New Zealand: 7% - 8%;
India: 2% - 7%;
China: 0.5% - 3% (including Hong Kong). From European countries, the UK is 5-8% (of the HN total), Germany is 4-7%, France is 1-3%. The Dutch and Swiss are stereotypically stable at 2% and 1% respectively.

These ranges include measures like logged-in-ness. If you only look at total users then SV is less than 10%, and the US comes out less than 45%—or even as low as a third, depending on what's specifically measured.
So should a cop who murders someone, but that doesn't even happen.
Of course you can't imagine anyone using it because (a) you are not the target audience and (b) you are being deliberately contemptuous about the product because it was built by IBM.

If you simply re-read all your own points from an objective standpoint, it should be apparent that this is geared towards individuals who have minimal or no machine learning (much less deep learning) experience; but nevertheless feel they need features like custom image recognition in their application. Rather than spending time and money hiring a 'seasoned ML engineer' such as yourself, they can try this and see if it works well enough for their purposes. Everything from the HTML interface, dearth of model customization, no parameter tuning, etc. points to this use case. Yes, it will be tedious, time consuming, and perhaps a bit unintuitive at first but it will be nowhere near as difficult for them than if they were to build an equivalent data pipeline, neural network, and evaluation setup on specialized hardware using Tensorflow. From that perspective, this could be a great product for application developers.

Finally, there are tons of REST APIs that enumerate all the functionality found here. They are all part of the Watson Cloud catalog. This includes loading data, training, and deploying models. Moreover, is it really necessary to insult IBM engineers by insinuating that they haven't kept up with the broader paradigm shifts in the field? They build what they are told to build by management (just like at the Big 4).
Not allowing people to put money in retirement accounts just means the govt has to support those people that much more when they get to old age, instead of them supporting themselves and getting tax revenue from the withdrawal.

And a %5 tax increase sounds like a pretty good deal. For most people it's going to be $25-$50k total, and you have no bill due when your unemployed.
That made me laugh out a boogie.
Owned by FB.
/etc/hosts won't work for your VM, probably
Can't they do both? I don't think they're going to be in short supply of prisoners anytime soon. And running as a for-profit, they're going to have significantly more resources.