skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So could one define an "inverse" JPG standard that works with the current version but has the advantages that tialaramex spoke about?
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It would be great to have just the right term for it, because then there would be a better chance of the community absorbing the idea, and that kind of feedback loop is the only thing that can alter behavior. So far I don't know of one. I use the distinctions 'specific vs. generic' and 'reflective vs. reflexive' in moderation discussions a lot, but those don't quite cut it.

Alan Kay pointed out that Kahnemann's slow-system vs. fast-system also applies here.
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"The relevant question is how this affects the technology"

Is arguably the whole problem with our industry in a nutshell. The more relevant and largely ignored question should be "how this affects human beings".
Easy: wordpress.com . If you get more serious buy one of their very very affordable plans or export your blog and setup your own wordpress instance.
Why Silicon Valley is effective at startups is because the insitutions and people that can help you have already formed and there are strong networks and resources to get stuff done. Sure some jobs can be done remotely but being face to face with both talent and VC is still something important. A bunch of these articles pop up with this premise but it mainly is an advertisement for local cities or other places in reality.
Depending on the state law, the right-turning car probably is supposed to yield to a cyclist in the bike lane going straight. But of course, every experienced cyclist knows that what is right is not what is safe; you should aim to travel just behind the car's rear bumper to give yourself time to stop if they swerve right.

This is the insanity of (most) bike lanes, that you have a lane to the right of a right-turn lane that can go straight. And that's why I don't use most bike lanes. They're trouble.
There is https://attractive.se/games/papergame/ and then
http://www.quivervision.com/ does something similar with drawings.
I think what bothers me is that the whole story gets dismissed by one idea: that this event doesn't matter, it's only the overall statistics that matter.

That this event doesn't necessarily reflect a larger trend is not incorrect--it's just that it's obvious. That self-driving cars could potentially reduce fatalities in the future is not only obvious, it's also somewhat off-topic when the story is that a person just died.

So my question is, when a computer kills a person, can't we do better? Better than stating the obvious, and better than being dismissive.
I bought an Acer PICA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_PICA) back in the early 2000s, obsolete by then, just to play with it and Windows NT 4. MIPS still seemed exotic, and there was little free software to use on the platform. I think a port of Office existed, and maybe an early Internet Explorer.

I'm not sure what the point of the ARC ports of NT even were, except Microsoft's attempt to keep its fingers in as many pies as possible and crowd out competitors.
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OK, keep calling people names and see where it gets us as a society in life. Good luck.
I believe the main alternative is to drastically cut down on the amount of news that's consumed - which may or may not be something you need to do. Otherwise, how about listening to local radio for a short while when you're getting ready for the day or doing chores?

I'd say for most people, there's really not much true value that comes from news (compared to books). Sure, it makes us feel more informed and provides topics of conversation for friends and strangers but really, it produces so little nearly all of the time.

Unless your job or hobby is closely linked with news or activism, so much of it is simply consumed as entertainment to idle time away.

However, if your usage of it is so infrequent and only for finding out about transport disruptions; maybe it's not such a problem that needs an alternative? Or perhaps not knowing wouldn't really inconvenience you that severely anyway - that's entirely up to you.
Apologies for the tangent - I have never been to the bay area, but I am frequently reminded many times when I meet a “pure tech company” ala google, msft, amzn, fb software engineer (I’m only 3 years out of school, studied CS) of this self-righteous and condescending narcissism that I haven’t seen repeated across other workers in other industries and a kind of deep sense of self-congratulatory entitlement. It is a little bit akin to what you see with Ivy League students -> Banks/Mgmt Consulting, but infinitely more detestable given how flippant toward the rest of the world the tech attitudes can be.

Silicon valley is obviously the new wall street in terms of attracting the big brains and bringing a focused collection of hard working or brilliant individuals - yeah, we need the infrastructure to make the world spin faster but it can really bring out the worst and most myopic visions even from the “best and brightest”. I like automation and disruption, purely for its own sake, because we can. But the hyperaccumulation of wealth driven entirely by advertising is absurd and is effectively non-productive and I hope more people refuse to take classical VC funding and instead opt for organic growth and/or pure public raises. The only reason a web app development company (basically all these startups) that is 6 months old needs 5 million bucks is to create a legal fiction that from its inception is designed to create liquidation events that make VCs extremely wealthy, done in a way that gives the impression of “risk taking” without any real risk being taken because of the ability to create unicorns from deliberate successive raises - all of these entities exist within the same monoculture, with huge overlap in board of directors and investor groups.

I think that ICO related innovations can help in potentially mitigating the development and solidication of this monoculture as we have seen in Wall Street, but unfortunately the criminality of some of the newer players in this field is staggering and equally disappointing

Tech almost certainly doesn’t need Silicon Valley and a decoupling of peoples thinking in those terms will be very useful step in the right direction
I don't advocate Facebook deletion (or the opposite: people can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned), I just constantly forget to use it. So your comment doesn't ring true to me: I'm not anywhere near socially "hyper competent", my life just isn't organized around being invited to "important events". I just go to work, go home, and ping my friends from time to time or respond to their pings if I want to hang out. It isn't clear to me where Facebook would be a critical tool in any of this.
This is the first public release of the SDK. Nobody's had an opportunity to build anything on the platform before now, other than ML themselves.
> .. about a company that has received over $2billion in funding is pretty childish.

We don't complain about companies as long as Theranos about their technology.

Sorry, I meant to write "as long as they're honest about their technology".
Computers simply do as they are told for better or for worse.

The radar operator at Pearl Harbor misinterpreted the "awfully big flight" of incoming planes as friendly U.S. bombers, not enemy bombers. About 55 minutes later, the attack started.

After this attack people were outraged at the radar technology, describing it as "nothing more than a freak gadget". Many simply wanted the technology gone. Ironically the radar was working fine.

In response, the military created the receiver operating characteristic to identify operators who misinterpret enemy planes as allied planes. Named appropriately, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-270#Use_of_SCR-270_radar_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
Not really. You could have a keyword ALL and UPDATE should require either WHERE or ALL.
What activity are you talking about, that is feasible at 40mph in an urban environment but not at e.g. 25mph? Can you not imagine a different way of conducting that activity?

There is a fundamental inequity between the operator of dangerous equipment comparing hours and years of life, and the pedestrian who suffers the consequence of that comparison. The USA auto industry is built on this inequity, which is why no one ever talks about it.
The self driving car craze baffles me. I would only trust it if it were on a road made for it and the cars communicated to one another.
It’s not arbitrary at all. The market sets pricing, it’s not magic. If we fully deregulated education I bet you’d see teacher’s salaries rise. Of course then only the wealthy would get an education but it’s disingenuous to suggest demand and its impact on price is “arbitrary”.
It's basically the same mechanism that causes the tax liability though, I wasn't arguing for the size of the issue

In the stock option case you only get a tax liability if you buy something that's worth more than you paid for it - if you have options, either buy them the day they are granted (and take the risk that you wont stay, or the company will die, etc) and lock in the lower long term capital gains tax, or wait until the day you sell the stock and do an exercise/sell transaction which will likely be taxed at source and end up on your W2, at your full marginal rate.

The thing you should not do is the middle thing - buy your stock between these two dates then you'll pick up a tax liability on the capital gains to that point.

Talk to someone who understands ISOs and taxes - when you are first granted your stocks and whenever you plan on changing their state
There was a recent discussion about (not) sharing CSPRNG state with fork-ed processes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15759855
AMD has a free ray tracing renderer called Radeon ProRender
https://pro.radeon.com/en/software/prorender.
Supported by Maya and Blender among others ...
>Yes, this intentionally violates the letter of the traffic laws...

...so you probably won't find any support for it in this crowd.

> there's no fundamental reason that computer-controlled cars can't do this.

Sure, there's no fundamental reason you can't swerve but you need to identify the thing in the road you're trying not to hit before you can decide whether to swerve or brake. Self driving cars can't yet reliably ID things well enough to take the only evasive action they know (stopping).
People jump in front of the NYC subways multiple times per week in an attempt to commit suicide, how often do you read about the train engineers going to prison for that? Literally never. If someone tries to commit suicide by jumping in front of your car then you're generally not legally liable, as long as you're not intoxicated and you pull over immediately and phone it in.
A platitude, if no case facts or statistics are given in support.
No, postgres can't work without accessing files or having a working shell (latter kinda works in some limited configurations).

And I don't think it's a reasonable idea to not have a superuser at all. But you can have it password less and only accessible from the local machine and a specific account (eg root).
Something of a self-driver car Rorschach test. On the one hand there is the tragedy (car hits person, person dies), on the other there is the technology (computer doing the driving), and then there is the fog of reporting where actual data is hard to come by because people are people and report on the things they saw/heard that were important to them.

Last night there was a story on CBS about the first 'self driving bus' going live in San Ramon California. [1] Where the reporter steps out in front of it to see if it will stop (spoiler alert, it does).

And while it was a tragedy, its unfortunate that because it was a 'self driving' car this fatality gets more coverage than the thousands who are killed by 'human driven' vehicles. Bicycle advocacy groups have been arguing for years that better, separated, bike lanes would save lives. Perhaps the companies behind self driving can get behind that effort to protect bike riders from humans and make it easier on their cars.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20180319105443-california...
Yeah exactly, is registering an account really automated behavior? It's so obvious they just want my phone number and they are never getting it.

Twitter is dying anyway, at least that is the feeling I have about the website.
> the vehicle was northbound...crossing from the west side of street

So, she approached from the left. That would make it significantly less likely that she just suddenly appeared in front of the car, right? It's not a narrow street.
You could also put it in something like your 1Password Vault. Although, if that's been hacked/accessed, you may not have time to save yourself.
Not done a slackbot (yet?), only a few small app and a large 7-yr-project, but with Rails it's really about whether or not you love Ruby. There's still Sinatra but that's about it in regards to web-frameworks.
Rails is perfect for punching out a prototype quick and heroku (which started as an online Rails-editor) make delivery very easy.

Try ruby and see if you like the language.
>Channel 4 BBC

Just a side-note, Channel 4 is an entirely separate wholly commercial public-service broadcaster, whereas the BBC is publicly funded via a license that's required to watch live TV
Okay, well at least they've made physical representations, that's something positive. However, my general point still stands, why so much secrecy over a device that's meant to launch this year?

Compare this with the launch of the Oculus Rift, where you had multiple public iterations before the release of the CV1. To me, that's a sign that you had a company that was interested in pushing forward the medium. At the moment there's no clear indication that Magic Leap have developed anything beyond the current market leaders in AR (HoloLens, etc...) in terms of user experience (aside from a smaller form factor).
Speaking as someone who has (a bit) worked with Firefox OS, the answer is very much yes. Also, that's only the start of your worries.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
>bow and arrow

Check again. Bow and Arrows are often considered weapons at the same level of firearms, and so many laws apply.
This just seems like a rhetorical trick to me. Obviously we're talking about humans, it's just through the lens of technology. The website has to be about something in particular besides "aren't humans great??".
Reporting that I read said they suspended him because he wouldn't sign what I inferred was an NDA to advise them on how to understand and mitigate the problem.
The author is associating highly controlled cultivation of greenery with highly authoritarian power, and a view of human life as a resource to be controlled. Somewhat plausible: Microsoft is famously monopolistic, Apple has FoxConn, and oil fuels a whole lot of war. The wealth necessary to create such greenhouses largely comes from tech and oil.
I have a personal story from inside facebook to share. and when I shared this story on my facebook my personal facebook was suspended too.

5 years ago Facebook recruiter reached out to me and invited me to the W hotel in Chicago. I was very excited -not for the job- but for the opportunity to meet with senior Facebook managers and tell them about an evil thing Facebook does.
Here is the background story:

I am Kurdish from Iran. And Iran has many provinces. one of them is called Kurdistan. In Facebook profile section for Hometown you could pick all of the Iranian provinces except Kurdistan.

And at first I thought it was a bug. For years and years we submitted bug reports and collected petitions for Facebook they never responded why the Kurdistan province cannot be picked while other provinces could be picked.

Till one day, An internal document -guidance- leaked out of Facebook. That explained it all ! One of the pages was talking about Kurdistan. In which they had explained any reference to Kurdistan is considered terrorism. That was on the request of Turkish government.

In "Turkey", the word Kurdistan is forbidden. and many people in Turkey been prisoned for speaking Kurdish. however in "Iran" we officially have a province called "Kurdistan Province). and Iranian government recognizes the name Kurdistan for my homeland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Iran

But Facebook decided to enforce the Turkish government racist rule on other countries that have Kurdistan (Iran, Iraq, Syria...)

Also in that leaked guidance memo. Kurdistan flag was considered illegal. And hundreds of Kurdish pages and accounts got banned for having Kurdistan flag.

While Kurdish flag is illegal in Turkey. Kurdish flag is officially recognized in the Constitution of Iraq for Kurdistan regional government.

So when they invited me to W Hotel to recruit me. I was like yes finally I can meet the people in person. Because as a Kurd I have no importance and they will never respond to me but a software engineer I am pretty attractive on the market.

So I asked the question from one of the managers. And told them my story this for years and years I send them emails and nobody got back to me and we made petitions about this so-called bug.

He said these things are decided by higher management.

I told him how often do you show this disagreement to higher managers or Mark Zuckerburg's policies if you have a different opinion. He responded if I disagree with them I wouldn't work there.

I left the W Hotel in Chicago 5 years ago refusing to proceed with a job on FB. I knew Facebook is on the wrong path. And today I see that prediction coming true.

Even today when Turkey committed a massacre in Kurdish city of Afrin, Facebook blocked many voices inside the city who were showing massacres by Turkish government.

10 years ago FB came after kurds and you said not my problem. Today they are coming after all of u
I recently launched a website for those who want to download their Instagram photos, videos or stories for offline use. I am hoping it attract user and get early attention. https://www.savefromweb.com/
> Doesn't this kind-of defeats the purpose? It's pretty clear who is who in this scenario.

Might be the sandwich machine with a slack interface...
This a solid five years behind schedule but I'll take it.

I believe any solid grab for a more open handset os starts here.
FirefoxOS, Tizen, and WebOS all used this concept. (As well as Ubuntu Mobile, to a lesser extent.)
There's no exploit here, superusers can do things, that's it.
Same thing with cars, TV’s, airplanes. Basically every piece of important technology was selling to the public before the first “good” iteration.
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Ask HN: How can my startup hire a remote employee in Europe?
Working for a startup with about 30 employees in San Francisco and we want to hire someone in Europe to work for our team. The employee would be a remote hire.

* What do we need to know to hire someone who lives in the EU to work remotely for a US company?
* What are the laws / tax implications of hiring someone in the EU?
* What are the differences between hiring someone in Italy vs Spain vs France, etc.? Are they vast differences between hiring from each EU country or small?

I've tried doing research on how to hire, but all of the search results seem to be based on getting hired as a remote employee... not how to hire a remote employee.

I'm doing research for our Founders and will present the info/data to them. Also, using a throwaway account since the position is not listed publicly yet. Thanks!
Tren Griffin was using the craft beer revolution to point out the absurdity of certain measures of GDP and productivity recently: https://twitter.com/trengriffin/status/975077311857950721

When will the American hipsters craving hoppy IPAs ever think about the economist's productivity statistics?!
"benevolent" wasn't being used to describe the organization, it was being used to describe a particular action.
I recently read a book called The Chickenshit Club that shined a fairly unflattering light on the rationale behind SEC and DOJ cowardice/enabling. I'm not sure that the SEC could have changed overnight, or if they're still going after slam-dunks, and these popular examples just fit the bill.
For me, it’s a one time fee that I can self host or run against AWS or something of my choosing.

But I’m pretty weird. I suspect one that has really simple and easily measureable prices. Like $500/year for a terabyte of storage in as many bases as you want. This should let most small businesses not worry about cost. Kind of like how FoxPro let people build so many solutions.

The model now is not very predictable so it’s hard for small businesses to use.

I think 365 charges $100/user/year for 1TB. That’s for write/edit permissions. Maybe double that or something. So 5 users would give 5TB total for $1000/year.

Raw storage may not be the right measure, but it is better than cells since it is easier to report on. Just constantly showing raw or logical space.

Imagine if gmail charges by number of email messages in inbox and number of recipients rather than storage. That would be hard to predict.
"Are you saying X" is a pretty aggressive way to frame your argument.

The above poster seems pretty clear that it is NOT obvious that cars will necessarily drive safer than humans on average, in the same way it is NOT obvious that we will ever have General Artificial Intelligence.

These are very complicated problems, and the machines are currently (significantly) worse than human drivers, so I think it's fair to question the argument that "everything will work out eventually"
If you look elsewhere in the comments, you'll see some numbers. Autonomous vehicles are new enough that they come out as more dangerous even with one death.
> But it does give us information. This incident, along with all the other incidents and non-incidents that do or do not occur, as measured by incidents per car-mile. One cannot simply wish away this one incident and make it disappear. It is now forever part of the statistics which will either prove or disprove the hypothesis of autonomous cars being safer.

Can you point out the part of the article or the post that I was responding to which mentions how many car-miles were traveled?

This is exactly what I'm pointing out.

> The same way that I expect the same version of Notepad to open my text file exactly the same on this computer as on another computer.

Notepad doesn't have to read your text file through a lens with slightly different focus, viewing area, and patterns of dust on it each time.

> The alternative being that there is some undeterministic behavior in the driver that is not tied to input...

The undeterministic behavior is that the hardware which collects the input will never be the same. I don't know whether the software is non-deterministic (it wouldn't surprise me) but I know the hardware is never going to be identical--hardware is always made to tolerances and always has some degree of variability.

Your claim is tantamount to saying that if we put the same person in the same situation but with two different sets of eyes, the eyes would have no effect on the results.

> However, we cannot make that same argument by replacing human drivers. Because each human is, in fact, different.

Autonomous cars are, in fact, different. Just because they're running the same software doesn't mean they're the same; even if the software is completely deterministic, software is only a component of the autonomous driver.
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> The SEC was an enabler. Years and years of Potemkin audits blessing Madoff and his Ponzi scheme as a worthy investment allowed hundreds of individuals and investors to rationalize their participation in the fiction.

This doesn't sound right at all, the SEC doesn't conduct audits. See, for example, [1].

[1] Investigation of Failure
of the SEC to Uncover
Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme
- Public Version https://www.sec.gov/files/oig-509.pdf