skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really weak-sauce dictatorship, come on! In a real autocracy, Facebook would simply suspend all involved journalists' and editors' Facebook accounts for 6 hours with a message that Big Brother is watching and the suspensions will be formalized if they don't drop their story.

Any editors or journalists that don't cooperate should have their Facebook, Whatsapp, or any other service suspended. (If any other service starts gaining network effects, Facebook can just buy it when it has < 100k users - this is how a monopoly works under network effect)

Anyway Mark Zuckerberg, my message to you is if you want to be remembered as one of the worst autocrats who ever lived, you are really going to have to step up the retaliation. Maybe introduce targeted executions of journalists?

Just some thoughts.
Ah looks interesting. Contains my two favorite things: unix history, and slickgrid.
Wow, I never thought about prisons as commitment devices for drug addicts. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Despite the usefulness of prison in your case, there is plenty of research showing that alternative means to incarceration are better for everybody (for the offenders and the taxpayers). For example, this paper shows a drop of 40% in recidivism for electronic monitoring instead of incarceration: http://www.nber.org/papers/w15602. Also, there is a lot of evidence from drug courts. This is one example: https://crimesolutions.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?ID=70.

I am not affiliated with Promise.
California Housing Problems Are Spilling Across Its Borders
Male actually but that’s a longer story.
I see Baidu's PaddlePaddle in the logos but no mention of it in the article.
Explaining trades is more profitable than doing them
Tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad
That is interesting. A lot of my family served in the military, including both my parents. I was under the impression that there was a complete 180 from the Vietnam era where people blamed draftees for serving. I thought there was enthusiastic support for individual soldiers, but overwhelming condemnation for the quagmire we face in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is crazy to me that people had negative reactions to your military experience. I think it points to a certain stratification of society that people would not have family members or friends in the military to help them empathize.
Not necessarily. That gives them a financial incentive to send people their algorithms deem "iffy" to jail instead of accepting them into the program.
Well, there's the chain of custody of the live footage to worry about and ensuring it hasn't been tampered with. And cops have to be trained in how to look at it, there are probably special tools. In the long run we're going to have an FAA equivalent for autonomous cars with standardized black boxes and formal accident investigation committees and so forth so hopefully every accident where an autonomous car is at fault can be the last of its type. But currently we're still figuring out how all this works which means both that we don't want all that structure yet and also that relevant authorities have to learn by doing.
Seems like a business that could be extremely profitable that is bad for society if I'm honest. Sometimes the answer is reversing privatization, not more of it. You're going to use an algorithm to judge suitability for your program but these algorithms are known to embed degrees of the biases already present in the justice system, in that case your service exists to extend the reach of these biases. But also I have trouble with a company whose social mission requires that it 'keeps it's hand out of the cookie jar' so to speak. On your end there will be pressure to further monetize the 'promisees', there will be pressure to restrict their freedoms further, there will be pressure to offload the costs of your program back onto taxpayers. Even if you manage to avoid those which I'm skeptical of, there will be pressure on the government side to push the costs of your program off onto pretrialers, further commoditizing an already over-commoditized system.
Petty theft or burglary.
Isn't the whole point of the blockchain that once something is there, there's no way to get rid of it (without invalidating the entire thing)?
FTA: "Nearby signs show the speed limit was either 35 or 40 mph, though the 40 mph sign was closest to the accident site."

Unlike earlier articles, this seems to imply that the SDV was not speeding.
> If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have believed you could program without loops.

What's he referring to here?
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Was disciplinary action taken against those drivers? If they continued to be associated with Uber, without consequences, then Uber is complicit in their behavior.

>Steele’s suit notes that Uber corporate were not especially helpful in resolving her ongoing denial-of-service issues.

Seems like Uber is the ultimate root cause.
If a bus driver is allergic to a dog, then it's usually not an issue because the dog won't be very close to the driver, but in the case of an uber, it could be a real problem.

I'm sympathetic to this person wanting to take an uber, but uber needs to be able to allow drivers to mark their cars as "dog friendly". That way she can get a ride, and allergic drivers won't suffer.
Then you don't actually know Vim.

Vim is at the end of the day also just a text editor, so no, there's no things that it does that you cannot achieve in some way or another with any other text editor.

The point is how quickly you can achieve these things.

Vim requires a lot of learning before you can use it effectively, but if you do know it, you can do things with it quicker than you can with other text editors.

For example, to delete the last three words in a line, you can type into Vim's command mode "$ 3b D".

The $ moves your cursor to the end of the line,
the 3 does three times whatever comes next,
the b moves your cursor back a word,
and the D deletes everything to the end of the line.

This is the kind of stuff you can do with it. And well, you can mix and match these to do lots of different things.

It is somewhat ridiculous, but for people who actually know these commands, they have every right to feel horribly slow in any text editor that doesn't work like this.

And aside from that, Vim is really extensible, so whatever feature an IDE might offer, you can probably get that in Vim, too.
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People speed because of poor road design and poor enforcement of speed limits.
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Maybe they haven't accepted it yet. Though their blog posts were always few and far apart.
Those are both post conviction. We are focusing on pre-trial. Primarily, people who would be incarcerated while waiting for a trial because they cannot afford bail.
It's not a net win if, for example, someone is let out on bail because Promise calls them a low risk and they rape someone.

I agree that there is a huge need for reform in the system. My point is what evidence is Promise relying on when they promise to make improvements? Why should I think they're better and how are we going to verify in 1, 5, or 10 years that they are?
The latter. I don't have specific examples in mind, just that if you do not trust a company's data collection policies, the collection capabilities of an installed program are much greater than when viewed through a web browser. See [1] for an example from a few of years ago.

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-messenger-app-logs-way-more-da...
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the reason the Google Books interface is so limited due to a court decision? Essentially the book publishers threatened to sue Google into the ground due to the copyright infringement of making full scans publicly available without a licensing agreement.
Ask HN: What data can Whatsapp share with Facebook given encrypted chats?
Whatsapp was ordered to stop sharing data with Facebook[1], but what data could it possibly share given conversations are end-to-end encrypted?

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/18/16792448/whatsapp-facebook-data-sharing-no-user-consent
Sure. 3 MPH would have made a difference. So would 3 MPH less after that, and 3MPH more... heck, if it had been going 2 MPH total she'd probably be fine! In the aftermath of a front collision it would always have been safer if the car had been going slightly slower, regardless of the speed limit.

The strangest part of watching this story unfold has been discovering that some people have faith that speed limits are anything except a rough guess as to what's mostly safe on a given road. Oh, and subtract 10% from that guess to compensate for the fact that human drivers under 60 years old almost all speed by 4-9 MPH.
Saw these guys break down news bias on trending news. Looks like they are mainstream reporters who decided to form this new method to run algorithms to rate bias in news articles, and then break down to facts.

I've only read a few articles, but they seem to be fairly non-biased, but they are really new. Seem non partisian, but they are have some reporters have worked for left-leaning MSM.

But I support the idea of a fact only news outlet without the bias.
The broad societal assault on vets is over. But it still happens in some areas and from some subgroups.
https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fi...
You appreciate the question so much that you avoid the answer?

What is your business incentive to reduce crime rate? How reduction of the crime rate is making your business more profitable?
I've encountered some hostility when I've said I've been in the Army (I don't volunteer the information out of the blue - people ask me what I did before I did my PhD so I tell them).

As the other person said, some people I've met at conferences have ended the conversation with me or told me they think it's immoral.

One person at a major Ruby conference casually literally asked me if I enjoyed killing babies.

Many people have the craziest ideas of what the military and war is like that have no connection whatsoever to reality. It's scary that civil society understands so little of the military now that it's so small and professional.
This Washington Post article has details. Obama Supporters clicked OK on apps, those apps pulled their friend graph (including the state of residence of friends) to generate outreach such as emails encouraging the supporter to evangelize specifically named friends on behalf of the campaign: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
[Not OP]

One very surprising thing about the US justice system is that most first time inmates do not reoffend. A person released from my state's prisons for the first time doesn't go back 80% of the time in the next 5-10 years (whatever the tracking period is).

So there's two entirely different inmate flows, the one timers, and the all the timers. If you made a magical, pre-trial system that could completely stop reoffending, you'd still have a pretty good flow from just first timers, who keep showing up as long as humans are humans.

At the same time, preventing reoffending would make prison populations drop dramatically, since most people in prison are there for violent crimes and usually repeat offenders.
Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Still Sowing Terror and Destruction
Based on the info in the r/spacex thread where all of this was first posted, it seems like this facility is mostly for developing the prototypes of the BFR/BFS before the vehicle goes into full production.

My guess is that your second thought about their rocket building expertise being in LA caused them to choose LA for the prototyping and that a BFR/BFS factory at Boca Chica or Cape Canaveral is still a distinct possibility.
How is it free software if I am unable to produce a build from the the source code that is made available. This clearly violates freedoms 0 and 1.

From the SFLC Guide:

"The Corresponding Source definition – both in GPLv2 and GPLv3 – has not been typically read to include the compiler itself, but rather things like makefiles, build scripts, and packaging scripts."

These are not provided with the source code, and they claim the distributed binaries are licensed under the GPL. How is this correct if they do not satisfy the 4 freedoms?
There is plenty of evidence showing that alternatives to imprisonment reduce recidivism and are cheaper. Government-managed or not.
You left out "espouse noble ideals" - "connecting people" or "making America great again." It's behind these public "facades" that the litigating into submission and threatening into silence is done.
> maximizing both oxygen intake and carbon dioxide excretion.

Assuming you're a reasonably healthy person (i.e. you don't have a chronic breathing condition like COPD), then your tidal volume isn't the limiting factor in either of those things.

Your respiratory rate is driven by the level of carbon dioxide in your blood. Your body will adjust the rate up and down to keep it at an appropriate level (this is an important tool in your body's toolbox for maintaining the correct pH of your blood). Getting rid of too much CO2 is also bad (it's why someone who is hyperventilating ends up with spasms in the hands and feet). Getting rid of CO2 requires much more air movement than is necessary to keep your blood oxygen levels up.

tl;dr; "Maximizing" those things shouldn't be a goal. Your body is already managing CO2 and O2 levels appropriately.
We love these questions because they are at the heart of why we founded this company. I am a woman of color whose family members have been in the system and Diana is a criminal defense lawyer by trade. We have spent a lot of time looking at assessment tools. At this point, we need both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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This is the fourth time in this thread that you have attempted to reiterate this argument.

Nearly everyone disagreeing with you is contesting your implication that an embryo is "a human" as opposed to "a potential human", and they further believe that "a potential human" does not have the same rights as "a human".

You don't appear to have a follow-up to that argument other than "isn't that just your opinion." In order to convince people, you will probably need a better answer.
[Go] Proposal for making modules versioned (and GOPATH optional)
Ask HN: Content-Based Recommender Systems
Are there recommender systems that base results on content? Specifically I'm interested for music.

Are there recommender systems that use the audio file to extract features, rather than metadata about the song?
Why do companies deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore?
What do you think these radios are doing? They aren't just voice radios, you do realize that right?
Data firm boss suspended amid Facebook row
Redesigning: Architect vs. Team Consensus
Our project is getting 7 years old now and is sagging in parts and would benefit from a bit of a redesign.

I'd like people on the team to evaluate alternatives and agree on a great solution, but I'm not sure how well that would work. I'm worried about design-by-committee problems, maybe its best to choose someone to do it their way and everyone else help out.

Anyone have experience or suggestions?
To give the original creators (who pre-mined something like 17 billion tokens) a giant amount of money.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6bi958/ripp...
And pray tell me what Oracle, Microsoft, and the friends in the BSA do if you're caught violating the terms of the license?

Do they kindly ask for apology? Do they offer, at cost, to make their licenses good? Are they a good steward when they find license mishaps? Or, why should Free Software foundations accept this against companies making decisions to cheat all of us?
> Because even if I didn't like it, I could accept it as an opinion on future human interactions

But why could you accept it, from a person who is not affected by this vision anyway?

Did he provide some intimate look into his sphere of privacy back then?

Or, did he offer any transparency intiative regarding the Facebook company?
More likely than Pakistan to back terrorists? The current likelihood of Pakistan backing terrorists is 100%.
Also stuff like having someone else habitually take credit is less than inspiring to bring forward your best work.
The fundamental issue is that we are focusing on poor people who are bail eligible and incarcerated only because they cannot afford bail. Yes, some people who have been accused of a crime, do commit an additional crime. However, it is fundamentally unjust to only incarcerate those who are poor and mostly black and brown.
See also
https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Category:British_Military_Procu...

Warning content contains squaddie humour potentially NSFW.
It always bothers me when people lay out the defense "but it was their choice".

Sure. It was. It was a choice made within a context created by someone else; to deny the role Uber played in that choice is just as problematic as blaming Uber for the loss of taxi jobs.
No, it could ask users for permission to turn over their friend's photos/events/etc as well. Mad.
The only way to close the channel before the deadline is by having all participants (in the channel) sign a closing transaction with all the updated balances.
”If the woman suddenly walked in front of the car at the last minute, I don't see how the situation could have been avoided”

Likely, but not necessarily. Depending (hugely!) on what actually happened, it might be that the car should have started slowing down before the woman changed course.

As an extreme example, if you’re driving at 50 mph and come up behind a kid cycling at the side of the road with a foot separation between the extrapolated trajectories of the bike and your car, should it be OK to continue your course at full speed, or should drivers take into account that kids are kids, and may move erratically?

Also (again purely hypothetical), if the car had already had several similar events on that road that resulted in near misses, should it have slowed down before it even entered the street, knowing the road segment to be particularly dangerous?

I think human drivers, even though they are horrible at attending to the road for extended periods, get into accidents relatively rarely because they know when they really need to pay attention.

Finally, I do not rule out that that “driver behind the wheel” reacted slower than would have happened if (s)he was actually driving the car.

Disclaimer: I’m a layman, and haven’t seen the video ⇒ Let’s wait and see what the NTSB will say about this.
Sure, the Obama campaign itself did not do the above, but liberal-leaning SuperPACs did
Isn't that necessary for Sign Into Chrome? The whole point is that you can transfer your history/cookies across browsers.
Perhaps back in 2013 they were not so careful to avoid collection on Americans. But now they certainly are. Nobody wants to go to jail.
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I'm not saying that Apple is staunchly against FOSS or anything, and they absolutely do release a lot of FOSS stuff (which is awesome!), but their platform is absolutely not FOSS. I still can't compile my own iOS or MacOS.
Anyone can deploy a node, but who owns 97% of the tokens?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6bi958/ripp...
> It's not a net win if, for example, someone is let out on bail because Promise calls them a low risk and they rape someone.

So if a bail bond company grants a bond to someone and they rape someone, is the bail bond company at fault? Or the judge that permitted them to bail out?

And I'm willing to bet that for each person who commits a serious crime while out on this program, they will have hundreds, possibly thousands of people that don't - that are able to continue working and providing for their family when they otherwise wouldn't. Still an absolutely massive net win.
I think you may be right. They use the terms Jail and Custody instead of prison and incarcerated.

It's not that clear from the information presented though.

I also assume that they intend to be presented as an alternative to a prison sentence, if the judge is so persuaded. Just having a track record of compliance with Promise before any sentencing happens would probably be quite helpful.

I think this is one of the neater startups I've seen. However, privatized jails/prisons seem to be rife with abuse... privatizing parole seems like it would suffer the same temptations.
We agree on general concern about for profit prisons. Diana and I met working at a non profit. She founded the Ella Baker Center and I worked in the labor movement. However, we created a company with those values because we believed this put us in the best position to scale the solutions we believed in.
Waymo discovered sections of Mountain View where "the flow of traffic" was routinely 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and driving at the speed limit was actually more dangerous because it caused human drivers to try and go around the vehicle.
Contact lists. All data the app collects about your device, e.g. device ids, other installed applications. How often/when you use the app. From what IPs you use the app. To whom you are talking how much.
No I mean, devoid of fact. 100% emotional opinion.
This makes sense. If instead of a dog it's a wheelchair, it's undeniably "not your fault" if you car literally can't handle it.

The other issue is that we, as a society, subsidize the additional cost for the handicapped; I doubt that Uber subsidizes the additional cleaning for transporting a service dog.
Thank you for opening and sharing your thoughts! We have been speaking with sheriff departments, district attorneys, public defenders, probation departments, judges and other parts of the criminal justice system. They have slightly different motivations but most agree that Promise could benefit individuals going through the system. Thank you for your idea. We will definitely look into that.
A payment system that’s only useful with a credit card is useless in many countries, though.

And Google has managed to fuck up every payment solution they’ve built yet.
To date, 90 percent of the population we are working with in our current counties have smart phones.
There is a new Washington Post article that covers the Obama campaign story - it's not being entirely silenced: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...

I agree that there is a pattern of bias to all large media outlets on both sides. They may put a piece out like this one to appear impartial but only post-facto and if it supports the rancor of a news cycle that currently leans in their side's favor.

Anyways, there is bipartisan benefit to people becoming more aware of their online presence. Maybe people will use social media less and become less fervently partisan?
Doing secure encryption of multicast radio is anything but trivial. You have packet loss, the group is constantly changing and for narrowband technologies you typicaly have small enough MTU that normal cryptographic constructions have larger per-packet overhead than what is left for the useful payload (this is also issue for many long-range IoT radio layers)
You seem to assume there is no legitimate use for a gun. Try to expand your views a bit.
Overtime.
"Rather than merging into bike lanes early to make right-hand turns, as per California state law, the Uber vehicle reportedly pulled across the bike lanes at the last second, risking collisions with oncoming cyclists"

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14020720/uber-self-drivi...
Just checked out your site - nice! Interesting to hear about your Discover feature. What does it do exactly?