skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really suspect of this being actually useful for highly technical work. Why? Because I work with R, and the math that is done has very specific results that fudging floating point numbers may be a concern. I don't know enough about Javascript to be certain, but I feel like (from memory) that it does not maintain numeric accuracy at a certain level.

I am not the R nerd, my friend with the PhD is, I just do the coding around it and help clean up his brainy coding. (ie, he can code ok, so he creates the initial R code, and I clean it up so I don't go mad having to work with it) But he explained that even Excel (which I will bet is more accurate than JS) will put out inaccurate results because of number fudging at some level. (again beyond my nerd level to grok)

All of this is too bad, because R syntax is just plain rotten icky stuff. (but I may be seeing things with some of the examples looking like awful R syntax... maybe I need sleep)

Edit: Here's a comment on JS number accuracy, basically what I recalled. (this is a quick search, so take some salt with it). The issue being how JS decided to "fix" the numbers for me, felt like the magic semi colons, only not as predictable.

"In JavaScript all numbers are IEEE 754 floating point numbers.[1] Due to the binary nature of their encoding, some decimal numbers cannot be represented with perfect accuracy. This is analagous to how the fraction 1/3 cannot be accurately represented with a decimal number with a finite number of digits. Once you hit the limit of your storage you'll need to round the last digit up or down."

[0] http://adripofjavascript.com/blog/drips/avoiding-problems-wi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
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Fair enough, I fully admit to not being an expert on voting and don't know about any reforms taking place. I was simply stating that a blockchain solution might be better than just casting a plain paper ballot. The way OP worded his response made it seem like paper was the most secure end all be all solution. If there are other reforms in place I might agree.
Depends on where you live. Uber has a per-minute rate in some places.
Their response on Twitter is hilariously out of touch, considering that a few of them will certainly go to jail- “If success breeds envy and scrutiny, then so be it. There are countless firms that have used our tactics to get information on target customers.”
>>The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck.

>>Tempe Police Chief Sylvia Moir said that from viewing videos taken from the vehicle “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway.

A lot of comments on here are faulting machine learning for this or algorithmic flaws, but unless we see the video it is really hard to blame the algorithms. Based on the quote from the story, it sounds like someone stepped out into the street, not in the crosswalk, at night, directly in front of a car going 40 miles per hour. How could a human or any algorithm cope with that scenario?
Anecdotally, WebOS survives on TVs.

I love my LG webos TV, overall I find the experience better than on my previous TV powered by Android..

Except that WebOS can't read mkv files and VLC is not available either :/

It is sad how app support can kill the usefulness of an US
According to the news reports on the case that tweet is about, the police in fact ticketed the driver. A judge dismissed the tickets later, against the recommendation of the police.
Need feedback. We built this in between our classes.
Melinda Gates on the problems money can’t solve and diversity in tech
I do think we get their best and brightest. Gaming credentials is an art form in China and can't be taken at face value.
I live in Lincoln, Nebraska and this has been clear to us for years. We've a few startups and agencies of decent size and reputation that have made their home here.

Quite interestingly, it's not been that terribly difficult to find tech jobs paying 80-110k here where one might find a good rental for 600-700/m (I should add home ownership in Nebraska is quite large).

I quite like the idea of the west-coast salary in a midwest cost of living. Hoping it stays that way :)

If interested you could check out http://siliconprairienews.com/
I dug through some files in the build-webos repo and it appears that the raspberryPi is the only build target. I am looking for a pre-made qemu image so I can at least try out/look at webOS OSE. The README says the build needs 100GB of free disk :O
About a year ago, I asked similar questions about the 80-20 rule and income distributions. It seems that the simple explanation works surprisingly well. Simulate the following system and it matches real world distributions surprisingly well.

r1) Actors have normally distributed abilities
r2) Actors are chosen randomly based on current winnings, the more you have won, the more you compete.
r3) Winner of competition wins one point from the loser

You can find what I wrote about this at

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~arnold/research/80-20/

including the code. It's interesting!
same as @eropple - will reach out! :)
Extra History has a great series on the South Sea company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kndKWJKB8
It keeps Uber honest. I have no idea at any time if Uber surge pricing is reasonable, being able to check against another app will help.
Sure, it's great to have a 1+ days/week to work from home, but to do that you're still living in the same city.
Raytracing is great, but are we really close enough to get reasonable quality in realtime?

My feeling is that, like VR and strong AI, we are still a ways off.

OTOH, even if raytracing just gives very low-quality, but acceptable results, it could be a great way to sell more powerful GPUs. The thing is, for low-quality to be accepted, it must be better at something else. (Like, smartphones were less powerful than PCs, but portable and convenient).

What does raytracing have going for it, even without throwing pixar-scale resources at it?

e.g. without the need to fine-tune layers of hacks, it might be better in dynamic, non-designed environments; or, for graphics to be put together with less (expensive) expertise and time.
Look, this is a super sad story & it obviously illicits many emotions & thoughts from all of us. As a community of programmers, this is a topic very near & dear to or hearts.

But we have to be realistic here. Fatalities caused by automobiles are always going to be a problem. I don't care if 100% of vehicles are automated & they are all communicating to each other through the internet. There will still be fatalities. Errors will happen. We can't even program basic websites without some chance of errors & some chance of the whole thing come crashing to a halt.

Why would anyone think we could program cars to drive themselves without an error every now & then? I don't care if we knew that the AI driving tech was 100% perfect. There would STILL be fatalities. You can't teach a computer program to break the laws of physics. If an person or vehicle crosses in front of your path, & it is unreasonable to predict, by human brain or computer, you WILL collide with it.

Let's be real. We don't know what happened here & maybe never will. It's unfortunate & we all share our sympathies with those involved. But this isn't the 1st death that involved an automated vehicle & it won't be the last. I think the self driving tech we have is already amazing so let's not diminish it. As programmers we can't break the laws of physics. Freak accidents will always happen. (I'm not saying this is what happened, because I have no idea) but if a pedestrian or bicyclist falls in front of a vehicle at the last second,no human or computer driver can prevent that. Physics takes over.

These moments will be important, now & in the future. how about we stop fighting with each other, & figure out how to process tragedies like this & communicate to the public that automobile fatalities will never be solved with software?
How to Play DVD Movies on XiaoMi Mi Box?
Heretofore is a fairly uncommon word but it's not an incorrect one. It means "before now".
Yes, the focus is on Python 3, definitely..
Have you tried 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python'? It strives to be exactly this -- a guide on installation, configuration, and usage of the Python runtime and development toolchain.

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/
A tamper-proof log of votes is how you make it possible to buy or extort votes. That works pretty well for the kleptocrats and dictators.
>Keeping all the data locked away an never letting anyone make use of it?

Using the data internally to target ads. Once you let it out the door, you no longer have an exclusive asset on which to charge rent.
But it demonstrates nothing if no one clicks. The channel may be insecure, compromised and no one knows - not the author or the parties who are supposed to have the secrets.

I see what he's trying to do, but this isn't the way I don't think. Mathematical proofs that verify that a payload is observed, opened, or accessed work. They are deterministic. They are also way more complex. I think this is trying to solve a problem in a simple way but it's still just as nondeterministic as without this solution IMO.
I think the argument is against adding rules to tags to create a default set of styles, not against using semantic tags throughout the page.

If my understanding is correct, the argument is to use

<style>
.my-article {
background-color: fuchsia;
}
</style>
<article class="my-article">...</article>

rather than

<style>
article {
background-color: fuchsia;
}
</style>
<article>...</article>
The problem is that what they did was poor form.
"walking your bike" is just an expression, you can certainly run while "walking" your bike – especially across a street
Would 'nanoprocessor' be a good word for it? (Or 1 sq. mm is not that small by today's standards?)
JavaScript uses 64 bit floats for all numbers. Unless you deal with particularly huge integers I don’t think there will be problems.

“According to the ECMAScript standard, there is only one number type: the double-precision 64-bit binary format IEEE 754 value (numbers between -(253 -1) and 253 -1). There is no specific type for integers. In addition to being able to represent floating-point numbers, the number type has three symbolic values: +Infinity, -Infinity, and NaN (not-a-number).”

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data...
I actually find R to have the elegant parts of List, with a more traditional language syntax. I frankly like a lot.
my friend who works at an israeli startup otonomo was boasting about a big deal subcontracted down cambridge analytica. they were putting together profiles of people car data.

i was just enamored and amused by all the targeted adverts that will know my driving habits. i'm floored to see this. this is rather frightening.
Discuss: how secure is C++?
Probably a lot. He was a virulent racist and anti-semite as well. So he's got that going for him.
They might have meant skid marks indicating an emergency stop though with the prevalence of ABS that is no longer a surefire sign.
Viewing an image obviously doesn't harm anyone directly. What's the chain of causation between that act and the harm, assuming no payment.

Normalization of behavior is a worry that always comes up with "immoral" information. Violent movies, violent video games, adult porn, strip clubs, prostitution, open homosexuality, etc. You'd need actual evidence to support the claim that it makes things worse not better or neutral.
No idea why you’re getting downvotes, seems like a clean way to do this.
> They are the most dangeorus thing that most people encounter on a daily basis.

It's actually yourself, and it's worse when you're at work. Deaths due to vehicles: 36k per year. Deaths due to suicides: 44k per year. Deaths due to accidents: 190k per year.

> There are many age and other cohorts of the population for which the leading cause of death is vehicles.

This is not true for any cohort. [1] And yes, I'm aware that accidental deaths include vehicular deaths, but if you dig into the FARS data [2] and do a comparison between the two sets, you'll see that this statement can't be correct.

It is; however, true that young men 15-24 exhibit the highest risk rate in vehicles compared to anyone else.. it's even 8x higher than females of the same age, but it doesn't make vehicles the greatest risk they face.

> And compare against commercial aviation, which has a per-mile death rate three orders of magnitude less than driving.

Yea, but a "deaths-per-journey" that's three times worse [3]. By the way, the aviation insurance industry uses the per-journey statistic, not the per-mile. Which further reveals my point, I don't think you can't take a single axis view on this information and come to any meaningful conclusion.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_dea...

[2]: https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...
My LGTV definitely can play .mkv files (much to my surprise). We bought it last Christmas, and it's running WebOS 4.

It's model OLED55B7A
This is, sadly, 100% true. I know because I've been there. I've been that engineer who was so interested in the technical problems of what he was doing that he didn't think about what it was being used for, which I think is the gist of (B) at the least. The banality of evil is very much real.
In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs
The #1 cause of collisions is inattention, which ought to be impossible with automated cars.
The only places I am seeing now that get away with this in Victoria are small towns/ holiday destinations.

I don't see the economics of cash only working anymore here anywhere where there is decent competition.
You certainly would be entitled to make that decision, and many do! The point of my original comment was that we have sufficient talent to build and scale tech companies here. It's certainly not going to attract every talented worker (like yourself), but not even the bay area has that going for it anymore.

For entrepreneurs thinking of building in the Midwest, you absolutely can. Let's not let that point get lost in a discussion about personal values.
Accessibility of sheet music software (OpenScore)
With the upcoming gutenberg editor release there will be a lot of changes to the way plugins are written. Expect to see a lot of server side code to be moved to client side (where possible) with react.
Yes, and I’m hoping that these “scandals” make people reevaluate their previously held beliefs.
is there a slack channel that has been developed in addition to this learning?
If only there were some sort of safety harness system installed in the car to prevent that sort of thing...

(Yeah, I get what you're trying to say, but I couldn't resist.)
Considering it is mostly just for photo ops (my understanding is that is what they're mostly used for), it probabbly doesn't get much attention. They could pay the dude cash and get the same thing.
TypeScript, having a purely structural type system, means any class has an interface. Unfortunately, if the class has any private or protected members, its interface becomes unimplementable.
Just to clarify because this is widely misunderstood - hate speech is not a crime in America. Though it is in other western countries like Germany and New Zealand.
Isn't that kind of what a Chief Compliance Officer is there for?

So that if something goes so badly wrong that the CEO would otherwise be the one put in jail, in this case the CCO goes instead?
Lots of Mac users with out of date OS :S https://uriteller.io/ZBt0gGoUHtIsyQ7KFwikYg
>My argument about the attribute is not invalid because they are doing it the wrong way.

The problem with this argument is that just a few years ago everything ReactJS does now was the wrong way, but for some reason today, it's the best way. So which is it?

It seems to me, that unless it's broken, or goes against an explicit rule from the browser/code designers of html/css etc... it's totally valid. And if it doesn't "feel correct", then maybe it's a trend waiting to happen. <sigh>inline javascript styles</sigh>
My experience hiring here right now is that we have more interesting, qualified candidates than we can possibly hire. If we were struggling to fill open positions with great talent I wouldn't be here. Compensation has gone up across the board to remain competitive, which is a good thing. This has changed dramatically in the last few years, especially as remote work has changed the hiring landscape.

It's a great time to be an engineer anywhere, including Madison.
> Why do you think that?

Your comment implies philosophers think panpsychism is true because it brings them "comfort" (i.e. your example "I want to be loved by a god and live forever"), which is a ridiculous claim you haven't provided any evidence for. If you are going to accuse someone, especially a professional philosopher, of basing their views on pure wishful thinking, you better be damn sure you can back that up.

Your comment also claims panpsychism is "injecting the same old beliefs (?) with new language (?) into whatever narrowing gaps (?) exist in current theories". What is this even supposed to mean?
I would like the speed limit on my interstates and highways to go up to 70(they're all straight. 55 is just the only speed limit around here). Driving at 65-70 feels safe in normal conditions. Driving above 70 feels a bit too fast.
Speed limits should be more variable depending upon car size and braking power though. I hate having to fear that I might be pulled over for going a bit above the speed limit when there are so many more threats than just speed. I don't believe speed limits should be anything more than a suggestion with dangerous driving being the focus.
Just wanted to point out your numbers are pretty realistic except for $200 utilities. My power bill alone is usually over $300. Basic no channels cable + internet around $100. Water around $50. Cell cheapo plan around $50. So we are up to $500 for no frills utilities.

This is for a basic ranch starter home, though, not an apartment.
It's because one day Amazon will be the only place anyone buys anything and thereby it becomes the only company that would need to buy ads, and in a monopsonistic auction the winning bid is zero.

Seriously. The less competition for ads the less money Google makes. Google has every reason to want a crowded marketplace and not a single 800lb gorilla as its only customer.
I think the main point is that the type of social collaboration that is inducive for creative innovation fall within the realm of close physical proximity and whatever benefits that entails.

I don't know if this is substantive but I think that's the argument.
In Satya's Microsoft, it's pretty much guaranteed that DirectX is going to go the route of .NET and be largely open and multi-platform. I almost bet within a year, we'll get a Hacker News article with just that announcement...
Well, the errors I ran into were happening within 4 decimal places. And the research I did at the time said you simply can't trust that the numbers will be accurate. Is this just an issue with floating point numbers in general then? This was a few years ago, maybe something has changed?
> pre-tender process

If that wasn't intentional, it should have been.
This sounds like a speed issue. If you’re doing 20 mph on the sidewalk then yes you weren’t in view when the driver started backing out of their driveway.

I don’t fully think I’m a bike I get right of way. If I see a car reversing ahead I move into the street then prepare to full stop but proceed with caution and watch the cars acceleration to see if they see me. If I get the hint they don’t. I stop. It’s scratch on the bumper for them and life for me I am more than glad to yield.
What does all of this have to do with panpsychism?
I agree with you, but wanted to make a correction. MKULTRA was the batshit scheme to hypnotize and mind control people where they dosed people with LSD. You're probably thinking of COINTELPRO, the FBI program of activist and political suppression.

And none of these people or institutions were meaningfully punished or even paid in any way, so I don't see much reason to think they've changed. Just takes time for this stuff to come out. Even local cops use infiltrators on the most harmless of movements. I was attending the university at this time and this was a huge scandal:

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/2013/03/01/undercover-ucpd-det...
> Free up drivers of even more responsibility when they kill people?

That's a strange way to put it. Surely if someone is not driving their car, they can't be responsible if the car kills people (assuming of course the car was well-maintained and the model was legal). I don't see how that's a bad thing, since they have zero control over the situation.

Do you mean that it could make car users feel less responsible for deaths, even though cars will presumably still kill people?
I'd argue that in the pursuit of upping engagement, they've shifted to pushing our buttons too much over the past year or so. Or at least that's true for MY buttons.

Over the past year my view of Facebook has shifted from "I kinda don't like the privacy implications, but it is very useful for following what my extended family (most of whom live literally across the country) and friends are up to" to "why is this fucking thing sending me all these useless notifications all the time? (rhetorical question, I know why it is...) am I getting enough benefit out of it to be worth all of this or should I delete it?"

YMMV.
people who signed up for the app knew they would be explicitly
allowing this Obama-connected app access to info/friend data.

But the targeted friends had no say in the matter and gave no consent to being isolated and targeted.
Sounds like Saatchi & Saatchi
See: https://www.nacha.org/system/files/resources/Network-Admin-F...

Essentially $0.000185 per transaction ($18.50 per 100,000 transactions) + the cost of maintaining their own infrastructure.
My car has cruise control with brake functionality. Not sure if I've ever seen it actually do it - I only really use cruise control on the motorway, where I expect wind resistance is a major factor - but apparently it will apply the brakes to maintain the set speed when necessary.

At town speeds I would expect it to use the brakes a lot more readily. At 30mph in 3rd (2000rpm) or 4th (1500rpm) there's not really all that much engine braking, and wind resistance won't slow it much either.

(Mine is a 2010 model, but I think this stuff was introduced in 2004-6, something like that... it's not exactly new technology.)
Prior art in this area by Shopify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159994
They aren't just scumbags they are snake oil salesmen. No one in the political world thinks of them as anything but snake oil salesmen. Their company is about tricking people into buying their service and never delivering any results. Look at their track record. A lot of people will point to them and say "see, this is how Trump won the election" but that's just not even remotely close to the truth, and honestly just melds their marketing of snake oil with their shadiness. Many political people have paid them and subsequently dropped them because they didn't deliver. This was no different.

The abuse of Facebook's API/Graph is much less of a story about a secret genius agency (far from the truth) and more about how Facebook policies are lax on privacy of users. Facebook knew about this for a while, and sat on it. Facebook also acknowledge it was not a "breach" it was just exploiting things Facebook had already allowed through their shifting privacy policies and permissions.