skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is he doing that?
Former tronc chairman and investor accused of harassment
It’s not me alone who expects that, communication between vehicles has been in discussion for long time: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/09/magazine/tech...

Every car has plenty of communication and localization systems today. Nearly every pedestrian carries an electronic device with potential for exact localization. It makes no sense to not use that data, and solely rely on still-not-perfect computer vision. The optimal system will necessarily be a combination of both.

As for standardisation, maybe realizing what an enormous number of fatal and many more forever life-altering accidents we currently consider normal will finally get people off their backsides. I wish somebody would start a media project revealing how insane the current situation is..
Here's another part that I think contributes to the "... inequality persists in part because individuals are not averse enough to inequality,” based on my own perception of the situation in my part of the country.

I think people are generally less willing to share what they have when they feel insecure about their future. There is a LOT of uncertainty in front of most people at this time, and in that case the reflex is to squirrel away as much as possible for a rainy day. When you feel secure in your future, it's easy to be generous, and it takes less stuff to fee like you have a surplus. When you're worried about what the future holds, taking care of yourself and your loved ones takes precedence.

I'd look at this as an interesting data point that probably gives some kind of estimate of the combined effects of different levels of uncertainty about the future and the social views of income inequality in different places, but I don't think it's nearly as clear-cut as it seems to be in the article.
They could just watch the channel 4 documentary that just aired. As the other post on the front page now kind of says, they were just using Facebook as designed to spread disinformation.
I think it would be insane to expect 100% safety from any technology, let alone new technology. People do crazy things on the road, I am witnessing it almost daily. And if you look up dashcam videos on the internet, you'll be scared to ever drive again. Expecting that some magic technology can deal with all this craziness with 100% safety is impossible. And then we'll add bugs and malfunctions, which absolutely every technology has, especially - new one.

So, brace for the incoming wave of similar news. These things will happen, and these things will be heavily publicized. Hopefully it won't cause stupid overreaction to the tune of banning the technology altogether or surrounding it with a bubble of regulations so think as to make in infeasible.
"Mixed traffic speeds" is a concept for 4-lane highways, not 1 or 2 lane city streets. It would not take many law abiding vehicles to bring a one or two lane road down to the speed limit.
The headline is misleading. 22 percent of Germans chose to fully equalize the endowments (or "help others") compared to 17 percent of Americans. This seems striking for how similar the proportions are, not how selfish the Americans are.
> Theoretically the reputation cost would discourage for-profit organizations from releasing unsafe self-driving vehicles for testing on public roads.

This assumes that the reputation costs are comparable in weight to the acts that they commit. Based on the past year and what I hear about Uber's growth[0], I'd argue that their reputation and their valuation are quite uncorrelated, but it's hard to know the truth.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2017/08/23/despite-...
Exploring Google Analytics Data with MapD
That’s not correct. The worst that can happen is falsifying votes before they’re written to the blockchain. And there’s nobody who will check the „blockchain“ for his vote, because people want to vote and get over with it.
“Vertical farms have nailed leafy greens.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oprah-winfrey-old-white-pe... - FALSE
How does the math work out on indoor farms?

This particular article gets into numbers around water, but also mentions growing fruit such as strawberries which are 92% water. But they claim they can grow 350x per acre what outdoor can do and with 1% the water...

grown indoor or outside... the water in a pound of strawberries is a constant...

currently in CA, an acre of strawberries yields ~60,000 lbs of strawberries per year... 350x that is... 21,000,000 lbs of strawberries per ace...

so per acre, it would require a min of 231,377 gallons just for the fruit alone

currently it takes about 12 gallons of water in CA to yield 1lbs of strawberries, but that's the entire plant, fruit and all... 1 acre uses 720,000 gallons per year...

...to get 21m lbs of strawberries, you need 252m gallons of water

1% of that is 2.5m gallons

2.5m gallons weighs 20,850,000 lbs

21m lbs of strawberries is really just 19,320,000 lbs of water

so 92% of the water consumed in total goes to fruit...

which means they have strawberry plants that require virtually no water

and then you have the inputs... if it costs $40/lb right now... a test acre of strawberries alone... would cost $840,000,000 at their current rate...

and then their best case scenario mentioned would be $1 per pound so... $21m/acre

it currently costs $23,000 per acre in CA to grow 60,000 lbs....

so 350x that... and you're still at $8m an acre

so in their best case scenario... their inputs are still 2.6x today's current costs... startup costs are billions... and water numbers are off...

it would be interesting to see what they're telling investors and what is actually possible given that inputs like water are a constant no matter how a fruit is grown on a per pound basis
A key takeaway from the study:

"They also found that participants who were most willing to take money from a “wealthier” cardholder were less likely to give their own funds to a “poorer” one."
GetContact: another threat to our privacy?
We still have to wait for the exact FoV, and the eye tracking seems interesting but it doesn't seems to be better than the Hololens, and won't be from the 2018-2019 Hololens.
Is there a premium TV brand where I can pay $100 extra to not be burdened with smart TV features?

I just want an on/off button, a good panel, and a single HDMI input. The TV displays what comes in from the HDMI input.

From the searching I've done, apparently this is too much to ask for.
> They could just watch the channel 4 documentary that just aired

Link please?
I wanted to add a number 4 to your list and that is the user experience to the client. I work in a digital agency and our main focus is on WordPress (after coming from the start-up world, this is sometimes painful for me). But, the ubiquity of WordPress and how consistent the software has been over the years, it is a no-brainer decision for clients.

Plus, with the ability to create your own REST endpoints and pipe that into js, it's been pretty nice to work with. We've built some great data vizs with WP, Vue, SVGs...
IBM’s latest computer is a blockchain-ready CPU smaller than a grain of salt
It's almost like people are thinking of blockchain as a global immutable append-only log with source attribution.

Then the main question is, is what you're willing to pay to append a record more than what the operators (miners) are willing to accept to append a record? In the case of elections, I don't know a lot of governments that would be willing to pay to do what they do for free today.
Funny how it's always only the people who steal millions that go to jail, never those who steal billions.

I guess aiming big is the way to go in the finance world.
There are many ways to subvert blockchains, especially being the authority in charge of data entry, without breaking crypto.
> large internet forums

what in the world did you think i meant?

you can try and pretend all you want, it ain't my fault if the mirror ain't a pretty thing to behold.
You can find dozens of videos of Elon or Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX COO) saying how helpful NASA has been to SpaceX.
One bad thing about CSS is cascading. Too bad that's the main thing. Some styles like colors and fonts move like a plague into every nook and cranny, all children elements get infected. Others like border get applied only onto the targeted element. Heavily nested selectors is another one, good luck overriding a style on a bootstrap element, their selectors strictly follow html nesting levels. You want to override a td style by a adding a class, you mean .table > tbody > tr > td.yourclass. Ugh. Sass only helps you write even more convoluted CSS if you don't know what you are doing, it's like C and C++.
If we're going that way, you might as well include that particular file only on that page.
Hmmmm, seems like the independent can't really make up its mind on this one: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-ne...

>America has been named as the world’s most generous nation in the world, where its citizens give the most to charity, according to a new report.

IMHO independent.co.uk is in the same tier as huffington post, buzzfeed, daily mail etc. clickbait farms. This story is no different.

America is consistently rated as the most charitable country in the world. Just because people don't support whatever specific form of wealth redistribution this study was looking at, it doesn't mean that suddenly we're all greedy jerks.
Inequality has one obvious and intuitive effect: the decreasing marginal utility of money causes a decrease in total wellbeing with ncreasing inequality. In easier terms: a wealthy CEO gets less use out of the $1000 they spend on a bottle of champagne than a poor person would get from spending the same money on food for the family. This is basically a truism as long as people do any meaningful prioritization (which they obviously do).

There is a countering effect where inequality is a needed byproduct to incentivize people to, for example, start businesses. This is also obviously true in general.

The question is where these two curves intersect, I. e. whee the benefits are no longer enough to compensate the loss from unequal distribution.

It seems likely that the US is long past this point at least in gerade to the compensation of lawyers, top executives, or stock traders. After all, these professions also exist in more equal societies and there’s no reason to believe people cut out to be high-charging CEOs in those countries choose to become couch potatoes and leave the $15,000,000 job to lesser individuals because they require $150,000,000 to even bother.

On the startup side it’s a little more murky. But keep in mind that almost all startup founders come from the financial security of an upper-middle class family, and even in the US, the success of a Silicon Valley is rather unique. It may be easier attributed to network effects, excellent universities, the status of the English language, or the availability of capital.

Wikipedia has this summery with some empirical evidence:

Effects of inequality researchers have found include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods,[112] a lower level of economic utility in society from resources devoted on high-end consumption,[113] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption.[114] For the top 21 industrialised countries, counting each person equally, life expectancy is lower in more unequal countries (r = -.907).[115] A similar relationship exists among US states (r = -.620).[116]

2013 Economics Nobel prize winner Robert J. Shiller said that rising inequality in the United States and elsewhere is the most important problem.[117]

Increasing inequality harms economic growth.[118]

The economic stratification of society into "elites" and "masses" played a central role in the collapse of other advanced civilizations such as the Roman, Han and Gupta empires.[119]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects
Is it really that different from the 2012 campaign?

"But the Obama team had a solution in place: a Facebook application that will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future. For supporters, the app appeared to be just another way to digitally connect to the campaign....
That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists. In an instant, the campaign had a way to see the hidden young voters. Roughly 85% of those without a listed phone number could be found in the uploaded friend lists....in those final weeks of the campaign, the team blitzed the supporters who had signed up for the app with requests to share specific online content with specific friends simply by clicking a button."

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-...
I think this conversation is missing a big piece of what made SV in the first place. Namely, the military industrial congressional complex. I can't remember the author but he gave a good Google talk on the origins of SV from war engineering.

I think since the type of warfare of the future is largely informational, and governments are increasingly neo-fuedal and authoritarian, in the future SV will be seen as a base of operations of the enemy of tech. Not only does tech not need SV, but they are going to largely be at odds. SV will probably still have the highest concentration of VC to IPO cycles but the problem is so many of them aren't solving problems with products or services and are generally focused on how to turn customer data into an advertiser money pit while they angle for the IPO boom and exit (betraying users more and more the closer the exit is)

I'll tell you what tech does need though... non SV big money representation on the hill.

That said, there some good things in SV like the EFF, and I don't have much knowledge of the area other than riding my Harley up 1 to visit a friend a few times. I do know Pelosi is a a horrible authoritarian in democratic clothing and it surprises me SF hasn't gotten rid of her yet.
> let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election

I know you're posing a hypothetical, but your scenario is impossible. Over a dozen Russians have already been indicted. Russia was involved. Period.
Here’s how Uber’s self-driving cars are supposed to detect pedestrians
GM killed 124 people with faulty ignition switches[1], yet the brand still survived. It's a cost calculation: will the brand damage outweigh the benefit to the company? Sadly, human lives don't factor into that equation.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/10/news/companies/gm-recall-ign...
> DNSSEC doesn't actually protect DNS queries at their most vulnerable points

That would make it useless if true. Are you talking about trusting an external resolver? I haven't seen any real world deployments like that.

> you have to trust your TLD provider, and the root operators completely

You already have to trust them. They are the authoritative source of who owns a domain. In a perfect world, they could assert that ownership cryptographically.

The bit about weak crypto deployments however are completely correct. That needs to be fixed. Improving the situation takes time, and there are aligned economic and national interests in maintaining the global CA model with its numerous trust points.
It's a sense of control. I as a pedestrian (or driver) can understand and take precautions against human drivers. If I'm alert I can instantly see in my peripheral vision if a car is behaving oddly. That way I can seriously reduce the risk of an accident and reduce the consequences in the very most cases.

If the road was filled with self-driving cars there would be less accidents but I wouldn't understand them and with that comes distrust.

Freak accidents without explanations are not going to cut it.

Also, my gut feeling says this was a preventable accident that only happened because of many layers of poor judgement. I hope I'm wrong but that is seriously what I think of self-driving attempts in public so far. Irresponsible.
Actually this is the second time webOS is open sourced.

First time was by HP after the acquisition and Palm more or less went poof, just about 4 years ago.

In fact, the original repositories are still available on GitHub:

https://github.com/openwebos
Why marketing is going agile (and how you can too)
The site guidelines ask you not to editorialize in titles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Cherry-picking one detail and putting it in the title is not just editorializing, it's the leading form of it.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please do so in a comment. Then your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's.
There seem to be fairly regular (at least, more regular than one would like) AmTrak derailings in the US. That isn't to say I think it is AmTrak's doing specifically, I think it is like you said a maintenance issue coupled with everybody else who isn't on the train interacting with it.

Then there are the cases of engineers who are distracted and what not, but I'd imagine we're talking autonomous so that (hopefully) wouldn't be an issue.
I simulated 100 screens with different numbers of pixels where the probability the first pixel is bad in a screen is p0 = 1e-6 and the presence of each bad pixel increases the probability of the next one by the same amount (ie probability for a second bad pixel is 2e-6 and for last pixel is p0*number_already_bad_px). A screen was accepted if it had 0 bad pixels. The results look pretty much the same:

num_pixels frac_accepted
1e+01 1.00
1e+02 1.00
1e+03 1.00
1e+04 0.98
1e+05 0.89
1e+06 0.32
1e+07 0.00

Of course this was just a convenient scheme to simulate. The greatest number of bad pixels was 86k for the 10 million px screen (so chance the last pixel was bad was ~9%). It does show that the independent pixel model isn't necessarily very far off though.
The trust issue is something I can confirm. Until 2008 I believed that the market was fair overall and you gain if you do something right and lose if you do something wrong. Then I had to learn that there is a whole group of people that can't lose. We have to admire them and listen to them while they make profits and when they screw up we have to bail them out and still listen to their "wisdom". This definitely made me very cynical.
Phoenix transportation infrastructure is notoriously bad at handling pedestrians and bicycles because so few people are going to be out biking in 120F summers. There's a knock off effect of exclusively designing a city around middle class car and house types of folks. It's why I left after 20 years in Phoenix and Tempe.
Even worse: There are people who test their DIY self-driving hacks on public roads:

https://youtu.be/GzrHNI6eCHo?t=100

Using https://github.com/commaai/openpilot , which is cool but not on public roads.
The headlines aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
I think you're correct. I also work on a remote team, and found that I have to make the effort to go out to meetups or connect to a community in some way to get the best ideas.

I think, maybe, there is less effort involved in connecting to a community if the community is also very local and very large (like it is in SV)? I don't really know.
Agreed, your parent post was strawmanning. Is there a name for this second-order sort of meta-strawmanning, in which we imagine people's unconscious inclinations, rather than merely imagining their arguments?
It is surprising to me how easy Internet companies are bullied into censorship. Services should start carrying the "Banned in Turkey" flag as a badge of honor. "Banned in China" is required nowadays if you want to be taken seriously anyway.

For individuals, "Banned from Facebook" has a similar note. For a time now, Kurdish interests have been prosecuted by Facebook. And not just in Turkey.
Here you go: https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
Self driving cars could potentially save tens of thousands of lives a year not to mention all of the other social benefits and quality of life improvements. No doubt whoever gets it working first will make a ton of money, but society will see a massive benefit as well.
I think Facebook may already have done the first one. That's probably not going to stop someone like Trump, though; his campaign staff mainly seem to see clever targetting techniques in terms of cost optimisation, as a way of not wasting money on showing people messages that are less likely to convince them. If people want to spread the other ads for free, that just saves them some money. It's not even clear that sleazy tricks with microtargeting are actually a winning strategy; people really don't like finding out they're being tricked and social media is pretty optimized for spreading that kind of discovery.
Isn't this just lobbying?
how is this news to anyone? Just about every player in the free to use game will use or share your data either directory or indirectly.
How was this a dupe?
I cried in pain when I got to securing my app (uberauth, guardian etc). There's too much to grasp and I ended-up just copy pasting code in frustration.

Elixir & phoenix are fun though. I really like how much easier it is to test an elixir app (functional language).
Please stop using Safari on Windows. There has not been a single update to Safari for Windows since 2012.
Actually, that appeared to be a pithy comment not requiring a sarcasm tag.
Ask HN: Can the Hacker News maintainers darken the user submission body text?
The text of the body of user submitted stories is very light and difficult to read. Is it possible to darken it a couple shades for legibility?
Crypto: Merkle Trees and Merkle Roots Explained
Really?

As someone who has spent a long time in New Zealand it was striking to me how many places you needed cash for in Australia. EFTPOS is not ubiquitous there like it is here.
>One bad thing about CSS is cascading.

This is an odd statement, considering that the C is CSS is "cascading". Maybe it's a perspective issue, because I really enjoy the cascading part of CSS. Don't you think it's better that we _don't_ have to set a color for each element/child element individually?
She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists and Now She’s Been Identified
The sheer fact that it routed to a line that rang is enough for them to know it's a good number. Their auto-dialer could be configured such that answering it increased the cadence of calls or something such as that. But the absence of the call being routed to a not-in-service/no-longer-available response is enough of a signal for them to know it's a good number.

Source: I did data management for a company that performed a high volume of outbound business dials (not consumer lines). At one point we evaluated productizing our non-valid numbers list, so that businesses could do things like flag when their main contact at an account was no longer at the company, triggering an automatic alert to follow up with the remaining contacts at the company and re-establish a relationship. CNAM lookup services like Twilio Lookup[1] don't do so well at this use case, since companies tend to reserve a full block of phone numbers (always showing as active when doing a CNAM lookup), but when an employee leaves their line will temporarily be de-activated internally until it's re-assigned to a new employee.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/lookup