skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think culture helps to keep the house price low as well.

1. They don't like secondhand homes, they rather rebuild it[1]. So houses are not a good investment vehicles.

2. They values good business practices in housing. (I don't have any data to support). Few months ago I was finding a room in Tokyo, the agent told me people usually live in the same place for years without rent increased. It's not usual to raise the price because it's considered rude and it's something the yakuzas do. It's an entirely different story in Hong Kong where I came from. HK people almost always increase the price so much that people are forced to move every 2 years. AFAIK there is no rent control in both HK and Tokyo.

[1]: "the ratio of used homes circulating in the entire housing market remains below 15 percent, substantially smaller than in the United States and European countries." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans...
In addition to the NYT, I also subscribe to my local newspaper (The Daily Freeman, http://www.dailyfreeman.com). It doesn’t have the resources of something like the NYT or WaPo, but I feel like local newspapers are essential for local democracy, at the very least by keeping local politicians on their toes. Also, local drama is always entertaining.
Confused why you were downvoted, this was massively confusing in the title.
Yes! The Georgia Tech online master's is priced at their cost to deliver the courses: ~$7k.

https://newatlas.com/georgia-tech--graduate-computer-science...
Lets have a #wirelesslessday
Reddit bans communities trading firearms and drugs
> Hitting her on purpose would not be criminally negligent homicide, it would be homicide

Any killing of a human by a human is homicide, even the kind that is not criminal; what you probably mean is that it would have been murder (or maybe voluntary manslaughter.)
The quality of the video is completely unrelated. The car should have stopped. It's as simple as that. This is night self-driving mode 101.
Better than humans on average or better than the best human?
>Does the Uber car really capture video at 480p and 15fps?

Probably not, but it isn't like the inputs to the self-driving models really need to be better than that. Lower resolution helps your processing time a lot and there's little point in having an FPS higher than your processing time.
It runs under the wrong assumption when it comes to digital advertising. Advertisers care about engagement. Its not about adding more ads or increasing view time, its about delivering ads that are more relevant to the user so advertisers pay more.
Yes, but while we all love the first amendment when it's something like this, people will go to great lengths to point out corps are not subject to it when it would protect an undesirable element with unpopular opinions.
The article says that to make more money, FB must "acquire more users and show more advertisements to existing users". There is a third option, which is to show higher efficiency (higher CTR) advertising to existing customers.

This, of course, does not invalidate the main thrust of the article's argument, as the way to increase advertising efficiency is to accumulate and exploit ever more data about its users. Recent events suggest that this is not in users best interest, as FB has proven an untrustworthy custodian of user data.
The car didn't slow down even after it hit her, I think there was a different problem.
It was so boring. North and South Indian music is wonderful-I love it. But hearing Vijay break that down was mind-numbing. I like some of his music. Wadada can be great too! But I really wish we could stop justifying jazz by the labor it takes to produce/understand it. I need a break from jazz versions of Radiohead and Hendrix tunes as well. This trend is heralding the content crisis I'm afraid.
Regarding raising prices: isn't a stagnant economy also the reason why prices stay the same?
Wow, this is inexcusable. I hope Uber is found liable for this death. Someone walking across the road at night? That is literally the first test case I would add if I were building a self-driving car AI.
This is a big topic. You probably need to narrow down some questions or find a mentor that can help you.

There are also lots quite a few blog posts and templates floating around. I can think of two accelerators that have published some of this.

If you narrow the scope some you might get more direct answers.
> 2016 Trump campaign, data was used to stir up FUD and/or discourage voting.

How so? Unless they were working with the rest of the media outlets and pushing the "Trump has no chance" / "He will never be the president" story. Do you know of any such campaigns? I mostly see it as a mass media hubris. The same outlets Clinton was expecting to help her ended up undermining the election for her, because, well if Trump only has 1% of winning, why bother putting on the shoes and going out to vote.
Serverless back ends for scaling modern mobile apps
I'd have to dig through the TOS again to confirm my memory on some of this stuff. You definitely could create a custom audience and target your fb app users based on UID.

Unless I'm reading this interface totally wrong

http://www.jonloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/create-f...
High-quality exists because the human eye is that sensitive and discerning. And there aren't plenty of options that can detect objects at night. IR isn't any cheaper, and then you have to figure out what IR bands you want to detect.
The last video of uber's system view i'm aware of is https://youtu.be/4CK0RhM-fos

(2016)
I'm fine with fewer chemicals, more bugs and higher prices but that's because I could still afford to eat. I'd venture to say if half of Earth's population was going to starve in order to keep the planet viable everyone reading this would be in the 50% which survives. What's the solution?
I want to 'react' to so many comments on that post. But then again I don't know how the data from my reactions would be used. Oh, the irony.
> Nobody ever did what Trump, Cambridge Analytica (Mercers/Bannon), Russia, Wikileaks/Assange

Wait, how did Russia, Assange and Trump coordinate? I keep hearing people talk about it, never seen any clear explanation.
Good thing Facebook owns WhatsApp and Instagram. They’ll be fine. Losing a few million won’t hurt since they have > 1 Billion users
This does not seem reasonable. Should it drive at < 35 MPH on highways at night? That's probably even more dangerous.
Japan also has an entirely different relationship with residential buildings and real estate than we do.

It’s so foreign to me that I have a hard time even believing it and I can only vaguely describe it. But, effectively, houses don’t appreciate in Japan and they don’t like moving into houses other people have lived in before. It seems wasteful at first, but they also build very different types of homes. And, their homes are more optimized for the particular people living in them. And, the economy seems to greatly benefit from the adaptability this provides.

But, please do your own research. I have visited and seen it for myself but still have a hard time comprehending all the differences.
By default, after an update, Android installs a new recovery image during the first boot of that update. We currently have this disabled. If you relock the only way to ever update your recovery image is to unlock (wiping the device & losing encryption keys), flash a new image, and relock. This would need to happen for any discovered kernel exploit (read: about once a month) to avoid having an insecure device.

If the update feature's enabled, there's a chance that after an upgrade, recovery gets updated to a version that no longer boots. We don't QA every build like you see from an actual OEM, they're provided as nightly builds (on a weekly basis). One bug and your expensive device is now a brick.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-mone...

$275M last year, $305M this year. Absolutely no accountability for the spend and no metrics to figure out if it's actually doing anything. It's a complete waste of money.
There in lies what might be core to the issue though. "An edge case we hadn't tested" Perhaps how we DO AI right now just isn't quite ready for situations this complex yet? Maybe AI based on "oh I've experienced something like this before" is not quite enough? Are we able to do better in getting a system that can infer what's about to happen and make decisions without experiencing it directly... or even indirectly? I know some AI systems are able to do this now with limited cases... but it does make me still wonder if 0.05% of the time the complexity of this task is still just a little outside the capabilities of our learning systems. And maybe we only see the results when something bad happens in that tiny window of time when the AI is unsure.

I am obviously no AI expert, just what I know from loosely following the field. But things like this cross my mind from time to time.
Hmm, now I need to track down a copy of the first edition, that sounds really interesting.
Alibaba and Twitter backer makes first-ever India bet
> I'm no where near an expert here, but at that expense, why not just give them the money?

If you give them the money then all the money goes to the people it's supposed to help and there is no cut for the middle men. But the middle men are the ones with the ability to successfully lobby for programs to exist.

It's the same sort of thing as low income housing subsidies. Landlords lobby for them because they pretend to address high rents when their actual result is to keep rents high. Or even increase rents by stimulating demand without increasing supply.
Is Our Obsession with Women in STEM to Blame for Theranos?
Intel’s Chipped Chips
We know how to build pretty much soundproofed units; it is a matter of cost / priority.
Karma does not mean shit. It just means you are complaisant. I think the proper way to use things like HN/reddit is to always use a throwaway account and always speak your mind without the fear of negative karma...So I also agree 100% with the parent. Reply the comment, not the commenters, their karma or their entire history.
Do they do that in Paris? Or do they suffer there as well?
It's not fake scandal. The real scandal is that Facebook and Google collect more data on free citizens than KGB has ever dreamed possible. Blatant invasion of privacy and data collection by Google and FB is a national security issue, as recent events have shown. Orwellian!
Bloomberg makes all of their money from terminal and data services. In terms of the business model, the consumer news service is basically a vanity project, so I don't think they are that concerned with what newsfeed changes have done to them.
But if by behavior we don't mean movements by the body, and instead the whole state of the brain (the entire thinking process), then the theory is again trivial and useless (because it doesn't explain anything).

Indeed I don't claim to have read too much about it, but I think the main stream of behaviorism is literally that the functional response (i.e. black box response) is essentially all that matters. I'd be happy to know if there's more nuance than what appears.

I have a number of qualms about functional explanation of consciousness (which goes back to the Turing Test, probably earlier). I've seen outright denials that a representation of what is currently on your mind (the "mental theater"), often associated with consciousness, and indeed all similar abstractions we often use referring to our own minds, as "illusions" -- the brain is seen (by I believe at least a few currents) as a single monolithic black box function without a usefully interpretable internal state.

Anyone that has in fact experience programming computers will know there usually distinct caches, and clearly distinct subsystems that process information alternatively or in parallel, and algorithms operate recursively or iteratively over the memory until reaching a solution. I don't see why those insights shouldn't hold value for explaining consciousness, and perhaps explaining that even if an algorithm (e.g. a simple machine learning system) is indistinguishable from a [median] human in one or all tasks, then it is still not necessarily conscious, because the details of its inner workings lack certain features of a truly conscious being. For example, its internal representation of emotions may not be equivalent that of a human, such that it does not actually "experience" emotions, but because our own capabilities of verbally communicating emotions are quite limited, it may well beat the median human at this ability after utilizing gargantuan training sets.

So you can see themes of data efficiency, internal representation, etc emerge that are completely left out of behaviorism and related theories.

I intend to write a little about this (in an article), but there is probably at least a few academics exploring this more complicated, and complete, understanding.
I want to write application code, I'm not interested in writing build systems
Unfortunately it seems that most programming jobs these days include a large component of doing non application programming - writing code that supports the build process.

Essentially meta-development - writing software to support writing software.

But I'm just not interested in this, which apparently makes me unsuitable for most jobs.

I love writing applications but don't want to get bogged down in all that stuff.

I'm thinking I need to do some other line of work and program for a hobby.
Employees are looking around. I've interviewed more of them than I can count. At this point most of the good people are gone.
The knives are coming out tonight. How many anti-FB articles on the front page today? Had it been a coordinated attack, it would not have been more prominent.

Not defending FB, but this is something else. I'm pretty certain they'll survive this, albeit wounded. But it almost answers the question, what will turn FB into the next MySpace? Maybe a big exaggerated scandal.
I've been passively looking for a good FB alternative for a couple years. And I mean a web site not an app (don't get why anyone would use social media apps). Perhaps I need to more actively look. But I figured some on this thread have done some research. With a good alternative, I think I could get enough of my friends to convert.
Haha haha. Source: I have tried this.
Yeah - _maybe_.

A website that "does something weird" when you use a single quote in your password... That _could_ be "the only situation you have to worry about". It is _way_ more often a sign of at least the whole category of SQLi bugs, and likely indicative that the devs are not aware of _any_ of the other categories of errors from the OWASP top 10 lists, and you should soon expect to find XSS, CSRF, insecure deserialisation, and pretty much every other common web security error.

If you had to bet on it - would you bet this incident is more likely to be indicative of a "person pushing a bicycle in the dark" bug, or that there's a whole category of "person with an object is not reliably recognised as a person" or "two recognised objects (bicycle and person) not in an expected place or moving in an expected fashion for either of them - gets ignored" bug?

And how much do you want to bet it's all being categorised by machine learning, so the people who built it cant even tell which kind of bug it is, or how it got it wrong, so they'll just add a few hundred bits of video of "people pushing bikes" data to the training set and a dozen or so of them to the testing set and say "we've fixed it!"
> But he can't effectively attack someone's image the way Bloomberg is attacking his right now.

If you were in control of Facebook you could do a whole lot more than attack one person's image.
It's an agency issue. If I use an attributed channel it's like meeting you and saying "hey remember your friend the CS guy? Our company is looking for someone like that. Could you pass the word along?" vs pretending to be chatting with you when all I'm looking for is relevant recruiting leads which I will then use unbeknownst to you.

For hiring this isn't as touchy a subject, but surely there's a qualitative difference in these two interactions. One is based in an above-biard interaction. The other in subterfuge and hidden motives.
> a space it has next to no information about

The car is equipped with more than just an RGB camera sensor wise, such as the Velodyne LiDAR, so it does have information about the scene despite being pitch black to the naked eye.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-custom-lidar-tech-not-re...

http://velodynelidar.com/hdl-64e.html

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/ford-lidar-autonomous-car/
While I fully agree with you I think the key part is what you say at the end.

> some number of them will not obey their conscience.

Let's just hope that as time progresses that more will follow their conscience. I honestly think that as our other needs are being taken care of that people are able to act more on their own personal ethics. It is substantially easier to be ethical when you can put food on the table.
What happened to Launchday? (website builder)
I remember signing up for the beta of Launchday (http://www.launchday.io/), which actually looked like a promising, fast website builder.

Getting tired of how time consuming all the non-Squarespace (puke) sites are to build, looking for something I can easily build then customize.

Anyone know what happened to Launchday?
> If you’re a fan of self-driving cars

I’m actually not. I’m agnostic about the technology, and I don’t care for Uber either for or against, and am not defending them nor am I interested in attacking them.

Just being realistic, looking at the big picture. Realistically speaking, this tech will be improved in time.
When did "idiosyncratic" come to describe a country where people are polite and keep their society clean and running punctually?

Japan has little litter even though there are few trash cans in public.

In the NYC subway, there is a ton of litter in the tracks even near a trash can.

Maybe it is the West that is actually idiosyncratic?
info coreutils
All good points. I just wanted to be cautious but it’s probably not fair for me to imply his stance was stronger than you describe.
Russian hacked the DNC and Podesta. They coordinated on the content and messaging around cherry picked emails with the Trump campaign, and they were released through Wikileaks as an intermediary.

The hacking part is me just repeating the assessment of DHS and CIA, per congressional briefings. The coordination is my suspicion based on known interactions with high level Trump campaign surrogates (Trump Jr, Stone) and Assange. The DNC/Podesta hack attribution is Crowdstrike's.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/words-trump-russian-meddli... might provide you with more of the information you lack.
If people knew the amount of info collected and sold they would abandon everything. Even 7 months before your born, someone has a profile on you. What CA did leveraging data for targeting is just the beginning, ML applied to data in the future will make what CA did look like amateur hour.

Like others have said with elections, this all started long ago with social, CA just happened to do it better this time. Even without them, sophisticated targeting can still be developed regardless, so it's just a matter of money and audience reach.
No one is ostracized, just confronted with economic reality of competition for space and the laws that distort it. I love living in a house but it’s a little silly to mandate that a house is the only thing that can legally be built on land that’s valued at over $2M/acre.
MSR also has Tony Hoare.
Kubernetes doesn't support multi-region load balancing with GSLB yet.
From the words of the person in charge of this:

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997

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They [Facebook] were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

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You just have to be on the right "side" that's all.

I wonder if anyone went back and ensure they deleted all the data they harvested, then went back and verified that they didn't lie. And in case they didn't, wonder what the media response would be and how many articles would be written about it.
Oh god it's the electronJS of currencies!
Exploring Word2Vec
If you could it would be very valuable if you did a test at that location and shared your experience
It's a difficult question. Because we cannot just dive into it assuming that the toll (in life/safety) of beta testing AVs on public roads will result in a net benefit within a reasonable timespan. The human driving fatality rate is ~1 death per 100 million miles. Uber has 2 million miles driven and 1 fatality. It's obviously unfair to extrapolate and say that Uber has 50x the fatality rate of normal driving. But that means we have to keep testing Uber AVs on public roads.

What if an Uber AV accidentally kills someone at the 2.5M mark? That's still not enough data to statistically compare apples to apples. Maybe the next 100M miles of Uber testing is fatality free...that still wouldn't be completely enough (right? I'm not great at stats but I would think we need at least a billion?). Of course, it could go the other way, with Uber AVs killing someone every 1M miles.

As a general tech optimist, I'm inclined to think tech will get better, overall. But let's face it, that's not a given. And in the meantime, it's likely the tech upper-class won't be the ones who suffer the most while tech improves. The case at hand being the prime example: a homeless recently-imprisoned woman was killed.

Earlier today someone submitted an interesting RAND study that argued that the testing time for autonomous vehicles to meet statistical reliability for safety testing would be on the order of decades, or even centuries, and there would still be no guarantee that AVs would be safer. I'm hoping RAND is just being really pessimistic here...

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1478.html
Just curious, why the aversion?
Active discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641550

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16644915
Set out to make payment solutions
Do you remember the reaction test where a ball is rolling onto the road and you have to hit the breaks?

This situation is more akin to a ball laying on the road already and you drive over it.

This situation is very clear cut. There is an object (a subject even) on the road directly in front of the vehicle and the car just straight forward drives into it. It doesn't even swerve. It doesn't break. Nothing. This is a total fail of the system.

What if there is an accident and people are standing on the road for some good reason? What if it is a deer in the headlights? What if a kid is running loose? Is the vehicle supposed to just hunt them down?
You really think drivers have carte blanche to run down people in the road as long as they have right of way? That drivers have no responsibility to avoid killing people as long as those people aren't on crosswalks? That's what you seem to be saying here.
I disagree. I believe that the biggest blocker for federated social networks would be the lack of "good" censorship for things like spam, terrorism propaganda, child porn, etc. I don't want to use a social network and have to deal with that in my timeline.
> Yes and at one time AOL occupied a similar role.

This time they have algorithms that can prevent you from wanting to leave.

I doubt it's the same thing.
No one I know clicks on Google ads. Does that mean Google's ad business is probably illegitimate?
He is a CEO in damage control mode. The cynic in me wants me to ignore everything he says right now. The ashes of the privacy debate will be swept under the rug the once the fire is out.

History says making money is more important to fb than being ethical.