skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say a significant amount of our problems are not transaction log failures - they are authentication/identity failures. The catch is that blockchain technologies force you to solve both (you cant take part in a transaction without an identity, can you?). Plenty of people who've lost wallets will concede this is still hard (what happens when you lose your government issued private-key, for example?).
That is not an explanation. Where do the debt and assets come from in this example?
You can't project the actual cost without sufficient testing.
> Often there’s an argument to use tags to create a default set of styles. For most sites, it’s usually a good idea. However, if you’re just overriding those styles pretty much everywhere, I’d say don’t bother. Put them in generic utility classes (e.g. .paragraph, .heading-1, etc) and use them as you need.

Please don't. Tags have semantics for important reasons. Even if you're removing one of those by overriding the default styles, the semantics of tags are still used e.g. for screenreaders. It's not a mistake that HTML 5 added a ton of new semantic tags like <article>, <header>, <footer>, <aside> and <nav>.
NTSB already has jurisdiction here, as well as on all rail accidents involving injuries, in addition to aviation accidents.
They pay the investment into your company, you pay out what you need. They don't monitor expenses etc.

Visa wise most people I know travel on an ESTA (visa waiver, 3 months) or get a B1 if needing to stay for longer than 3 months.
Go's crypto interfaces, in the standard library, don't hew to this "accept interfaces return structs" rule. NewAES, for instance, returns a cipher.Block.
But the delay is specifically so you can internalise the fact that downvoting here is a stronger claim than on, say, reddit.
Sure you could test it privately. Probably quite extensively. But if you have any inclination as to how deep learning works you might agree that this would not be sufficient in any way. The only way that will really work is on real world streets.
I think culturally we've accepted that political propaganda is different from run-of-the-mill corporate advertisement. Even the words we use are different: few people would call a TV spot "propaganda", even though both seek to influence people to act in a certain way.

People understand and accept the concept and execution of advertisement. Propaganda is not received in the same way.
While we're at it, Italian cooking appliance brand Smeg invokes something quite different in English.
I think your parent poster was stposting. I doubt Ola will allow cash payments in Aus. In India lot of people carry cash hence they allow cash payments from what I've heard.
dangit Safari... you should show that when I cmd-f "agora"
> Because we have the driving records of all self-driving vehicles.

We do? Because one of Uber's apparent reasons for testing in Arizona rather than California (FWIW, Waymo has since moved from AZ to CA) is that there are no requirements to disclose driving/performance records, as there is in California [0].

The most we know at this point is that Uber has claimed to have driven 2+ million miles [1], which means it has a fatality rate of 50x the rate of human drivers (~1.18 per 100M miles). Yes, it's not fair to extrapolate like that, but this is just to point out that you need to cite evidence for "[self-driving vehicle] accidents per 100,000 miles driven is far superior to the average driver"

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/12/22/ubers-self...
That was from a leak. So how do you know he doesn't say it anymore?
Finding any tidbits on what actually did happen has been very difficult. I get that the investigation is of course ongoing, but that's what I want to know - did the tech actually make a mistake here?

And a mistake in a broader sense - was it an avoidable accident? If it wasn't this barely feels like news, other than as a milestone.

Also... I don't see how her being homeless has anything to do with it.
This article accuses others of selectively choosing what to graph, but does much the same itself. It graphs gun ownership vs. firearm homicide rate for:

1. All countries

2. Countries with low firearm homicide rates

3. European countries

but neglects to graph rich countries, which would make the United States stick out like a sore thumb in the top-right corner.

It goes on to cite a graph from Vox of precisely that, and criticize it on various grounds, including its lack of R^2 value - but without providing a substitute graph, or a substitute R^2 value.

Admittedly, the R^2 would probably still be low (though I don't know how low). And even if the graph has the United States in the top right, a single data point that's an outlier in two measures would not itself establish a link between those measures.

But neither does a lack of correlation between the measures in other data points, by itself, rule out that they're related in the case of the outlier point. For example, consider the amount of time I spend using my phone in a particular hour, versus the amount of time I've already spent using it since its last charge. Most of the time, my guess is those factors are positively correlated (revealing how non-busy I am that day) or uncorrelated. But on rare occasions, the latter value approaches my phone's battery life, at which point the former drops to zero. In other words, it's an outlier case where the correlation suddenly becomes negative.

To determine whether a connection might exist, it's useful to ask:

- Whether there is a plausible mechanism for causation (there's a pretty obvious one in this case), or more generally for the two measures to reflect aspects of the same underlying processes (i.e. gun culture).

- Whether there's independent reason to think those processes would act unusually for that data point (there is, because the U.S.'s gun culture is unique).
Hillary Clinton had a $1.2 billion campaign budget, along with the vast majority of active social media users, the whole of Silicon Valley, and most of the press on her side. If Democrats didn’t show up to vote for her, the root cause wasn’t less than $1 million worth of ads for fake news stories.
Beta testers needed for robotics swarm tech
No free plans? How about https://healthchecks.io/ though?
well, somebody is going to be scapegoated at FB when FB's attempt to push full weight of the blame squarely on CA fails. And Security Chief i think wouldn't be a bad scapegoat ... I expect some other high people also to leave to avoid being made to take one for the team.
Yes, we absolutely fund companies at the idea stage, and often companies will pivot mid-batch -- in fact, one of our fastest growing startups from last year did exactly that.

One of the things I hear most often from our founders is that they accomplished more in their 3 months at YC than they did in the entire year before. Also, keep in mind that press is selective, and some companies wait years before publically launching as a YC company.
I agree that blockchains do not solve all of the problems with elections. Here's what blockchain can offer, assuming you have a cryptographic identity mechanism (which has its own problems, of course):

1. Any person can validate that their vote was counted.

2. Any person can validate that their voted counted towards their intended candidate.

3. The collective can validate that no person (i.e. no crypto-id) voted twice.

4. The collective can validate the exact true number of tallied votes (and, e.g. make sure it doesn't exceed the total number of eligible voters).

5. The collective can validate the tallying process. I.e. they can count all the votes on the chain, and themselves reproduce the sums.

That does not address the following:

1. Ensuring that a crypto-id was used by the appropriate person (Although if someone stole your ID, this would likely be discovered by the person it was stolen from, due to previous property #2).

2. Ensuring that a person was not coerced to use their crypto-id against their will.

Which are real problems that I would love to see solutions to. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to solve those first 4 as well.
Update from his twitter account:

> Despite the rumors, I'm still fully engaged with my work at Facebook. It's true that my role did change. I'm currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433
I thought retail, where businesses have to expend tons of capital on inventory (or get large lines of credit), is the definition of a low cash flow business. If the majority of your cash flow is entirely spoken for by debt servicing costs (aka, avoiding certain death by default), then it's not really a large free cash flow.
"Despite the rumors, I'm still fully engaged with my work at Facebook. It's true that my role did change. I'm currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security." 2 minutes ago

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433
As someone who works in a lot of Java codebases, I would say that good Java code is more similar to how you describe Go and less similar to the bad, over-abstracted Java code.
Very well put.

It boggles my mind that a forum full of computer programmers can look at autonomous cars and think "this is a good idea".

They are either delusional and think their code is a gift to humanity or they haven't put much thought into it.
OK, let's take Canada:

You call house prices 6-10 times [1] the family annual income reasonable? What planet are you from?

[1] In areas where people actually want to live in Canada, like B.C. or Ontario

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-fina...
> There's breaking reporting that Facebook just had personnel in the Cambridge Analytica offices before the UK authorities could get there with warrants

Do we have a reputable source corroborating this claim?
I agree with that. But that point is orthogonal to the (in)validity of the "CAs are effectively regulated by browser vendors" argument I was commenting on.
Call it hyperbole, but in light of the last few days Facebook revelations, these terms of service contracts are suddenly quite interesting. On one hand, this one at least, is written in marketing speech and legalese, switching narrative voices frequently, salesperson telling us how thrilled they are about entering a legally binding agreement with us, smoothly segueing to lawyer explaining to us, without a glimmer of salesperson's self-awareness, the lopsided agreement that has both salesperson and lawyer so frickin thrilled.

I hope we are rapidly approaching the day of reckoning where these types of agreements are actively struck down as categorically irrelevant. Claiming up front, complete lack of obligation or blame for anything negative that may ensue from the use of, and the claim to exclusive rights to anything positive that may ensue from the use of, your software, is bogus, at least in the manner these terms of service do it. If you really claim all of these things, and want anyone to believe your marketing spiel about enthusiasm for legal arrangements, print it on a T-shirt, and go tell the world about it. Don't bombard me with marketing, and then take me off in a corner and get me to sign away any rights just as I've decided to use your product.

I don't advocate for companies being defenseless, but it seems to me that this imbalance of culpability, and ownership rights, if they truly exist as the terms of service claims, might inspire the type of hubris that leads to what we see being revealed today.

If the United States judicial system is so terrible that you aren't willing to subject yourself to it in matters concerning your behavior, fix the judicial system. Don't run to some parallel system you've captured simply by sophistication lent by your resources.
Can't speak for Uber, but Waymo/Google apparently has billions of miles tested on closed track, vs just 4+ million miles on the open road:

https://medium.com/waymo/waymos-fleet-reaches-4-million-self...
And if you had any inclination as to how robotics (or indeed engineering!) works I’m sure you would know the value of testing dangerous and extremely immature equipment with people who consented to be your test subjects and in controlled environments. “Deep learning” is no excuse.

Certainly in the long run we would want to test in the real world. The argument is whether or not we are there yet. Other commenters have made a compelling argument, again based on the statistics, that we are not there yet. Do you disagree, and if so, based on what facts?
Remember Snow Crash?
Response to your bullets with their corresponding number.

1- The story I am talking about was 5 years ago, at that time you could not select Kurdistan in hometown. it was the previous version of facebook profile (before they change it and it was like that for more than 10 years) we fought 10 years, hundreds thousands of pettitions. so your screenshot is Irrelevant.

The story of kurdish accounts being banned for having Kurdish flag is still true, specially during the massacare that happened in the city of Afrin Massacre just a few days ago.

2- I did not work at FB, FB reached out to me to hire me, I went there and I asked them the questions inside FB. I will NEVER ever work for FB. Crappy technologies, Crappy company, not inline with my values.

4- They invited me to W hotel in Chicago, I might still have the conversation in my LinkedIn, what are you trying to say ? are trying to imply I made this story up ? I believe the the recruiting team (including managers and developers) was visiting Chicago, and the job was not in Chicago.
Sometimes I just wish Valve* would pop up and announce: 'oh so HL3 is coming out soon, and it will be a Steam Linux exclusive for the first 6 months.' While not likely, something like that would be a really interesting gauge of how likely genuine Linux adoption could be...

* I use Valve due to their apparent Linux push with SteamOS (what's the go with that btw!?)
I really liked the HP tablet with WebOS, got it for $99 when they blew them out and it was useful for a couple years and then the web browser became too obsolete.

It would be interesting if some kind of political rift propelled WebOS back into phones.
Our city (which is pretty small tbh, 150k) had 424 DUI arrests just this past weekend (Fri-Sun) due to St. Patrick's day. This is despite availability of uber, lyft, taxis, public transit, and bar services which will give you a ride home and allow you to park your car until morning.

Ignoring these facts is just as intellectually dishonest.
If you happen to be an Indianapolis-based (or surrounding area) developer reading these comments, please tweet me @_swanson and I'd be happy to get you invited to our local Slack instance.
Stamos's response

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433
I had an idea for Firefox, which is to restrict copy/paste overriding completely from the DOM.

This would put a stop to Google's BS of overriding normal links top google-analytics-full redirect urls.
Note that doesn't contradict the NYT story, which claims that he essentially gave 8 months notice in December, which he would now be ~3 months into.
> With TrapFi, we try to fix this with a high degree of transparency regarding the quality of work that the developer is charging the client for.

This sounds a bit ominous — you do what exactly to create a high degree of transparency?
> What if the end-product saves 10,000 lives a year?

You can't have the certainty to make such statements without "sufficiently testing" the product.
When Stamos left Yahoo, I assumed it was because of the leaked accounts information. I wonder if he saw similar compromises at Facebook that were not disclosed.
My point was not that it was good. My point was that it was very similar, but still a little different in terms of the app, to what the Obama campaign, and to a lesser effective extent, the Romney campaign did in 2012.

My second point is that advertising, to include political advertising tends to be manipulative. So many ads are deceptive, so many play on fear. I do agree that populist messages around the world tend to be simplistic, but that is more of a criticism of political advertising in general than anything specific to this campaign.

I am not convinced this use of Facebook was more effective than a typical ad targeting operation. While the people involved may have had other aspects of the operation that were more sinister, the surprise at how Facebook and ad targeting works has been widely reported in the last election. The extreme response to these events seems to be more about who was elected than how.
Her conference room is also called “Only Good News”
First off, I consider no e2e enryption by default a big deal, given even WhatsApp does that. In Telegram it's so inconvenient — "they" obviously don't want you to use it. So yeah. But for me all these apps are broken on more fundamental level. First, as somebody else already noted that I'm "confusing security and privacy" let me introduce my custom definition (or rather a trait) of "security" for the sake of this argument: no 3rd party can access any data of mine without explicit permission, unless it's absolutely necessary for the app to work. So any messenger that must use a phone number for a log in without giving me any choice is shit, regardless of whether its crypto is broken or not. Any messenger that can non-locally access all of my contacts without asking me which contacts I agree to share — is shit. Any messenger that won't work without Google Services or cannot be installed without Google Play account — is shit. And so on.

That said, Matrix/Riot probably is the only messenger out there that has any chance of becoming not-shitty messenger. But nobody uses it.
The tweets are from Carole Cadwalladr, a journalist at the Guardian working on Cambridge Analytica stories

Twitter: https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla
Guardian Profile: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/carolecadwalladr

I'm sure we'll see an article published by the Guardian on it by the morning in the UK
It has been well known for a while that the FBI threatened and blackmailed MLK Jr. while he was engaging in peaceful protest.

This revelation should come as no surprise to anyone.
Facebook had enough time to cleanup this mess with Cambridge Analytica (CA). The news about how CA exploited their platform was out just after 2016 election results. If FB was even little bit serious about it they could have done at that time what they are doing now
can't markup documents, which is why i moved from Sumatra to Foxit reader. bloated? sure. but I need markup
Yeah, that's the irony of other cities trying to compete with Silicon Valley. If a city succeeds at this and a lot of well-paid engineers move there, that city will end up a lot like Silicon Valley, including the high housing prices and the traffic.
This seems like a fig leaf, because Facebook has no authority or ability to fully inspect all of Cambridge Analytica's facilities and data throughout the world. There certainly won't be a police raid in London to seize hard drives or anything like that. And short of that kind of intervention by the authorities, we'll never know what Cambridge Analytica has or had.
"Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook , often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters."
A learning driver on their first day has at least 16 years of experience with traffic (and life in general), and thus a fine model of which actions can map to injury and loss of life.
Every day self driving car is not tested in real life environment is a day self driving technology delayed and a day worth of hundreds of human lives.

If anything, we are morally obliged to double down.
First, I'm speaking for myself, not the orthodoxy. Martin Luther was 500 years ago, after all.

Second, what am I supposed to realize via that link?
Let’s look at the actual numbers. Here is a link to one such comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620968
How is ad targeting undemocratic?
There's a difference between Uber playing fast and loose and industry wide bad practices.

The latter needs to be addressed by government. The former can be addressed by concerned parties using their political connections to get existing law aggressively enforced.
"Free" = For use in Unreal Engine only.
They did not default - there was a 10% haircut on accounts > 100K. The haircut was possible only because most of the > 100K accounts were held by rich (mostly shady) Russians.
you really should not be downvoted, anecdotal but I have remarked on similar. I have a relative who is part of a few groups and they "managed" certain subreddits for a PAC.

its all well established, get enough people together and you can nuke any story you want and take over subs with time. Facebook's crime was getting caught helping the wrong people
Certainly, humans will never be perfect but there is the wicked problem of how we interact with systems that behave correctly 99% of the time but require human attention the other 1%. There was an excellent Econ Talk podcast about this topic a while ago:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/david_mindell_o.htm...

However, in my opinion, the driver and by extension his employer Uber must be held responsible in this case. Uber have a license to test their self-driving cars only if there is a human driver in control at all times. Regardless of the crazy things their software decides to do, the human is there as a person of ultimate legal liability.
Circumstances basically force them into betting the farm. Whether they want SDCs or not, if someone scoops them on SDCs, it's an existential threat to their business.
> As the article admits, exponential population growth can never be finally solved by technology.

Only in the sense that maintaining a population in the first place can never be finally solved by technology. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure the universe has more than enough energy and matter to support as many meatbags as we could ever want.
If your package itself defines multiple implementations (or you know of multiple packages that do) feel free to preemptively define/return interfaces.

Other than that interface definition should be done at the call site, not the implementation site. This is true in Java also. Golangs structural typing doesn’t change that, it just removes boilerplate in the most trivial cases.
Citation for the claim that "beowulf" is "bee-hunter" ?

I'd learned from a graduate school course in germanic linguistics it was likely bear-wolf...but i'm curious where you got your claim.
I never made an excuse nor said we should be testing these on live streets.

What I did say is that with deep learning it simply is not possible to "test" in a simulated environment to any level of certainty.

You can use simulated environments with test subjects to help develop such as system (and should do so). But you will never be able to adequately test such a system in this environment.

Why? The state space of traditional robotics and engineering problems is far more constrained. So much so that you can't even compare the fields in my opinion.
Note that Stamos' clarification doesn't contradict the NYT, which says he effectively gave 8 months notice in December, a notice period he'd now be just 3 months into.
That’s right: TrumpCoins
I find it curious the number of comments
blaming government regulation

I'd rather blame politicians for bailing out the companies than accept that the market mispriced things, that quants with educational backgrounds like my own weren't competent at their jobs, and that sometimes technocrats like me need our actions regulated by politicians.
Not particularly. Most would interpret it here as "plucky". Small player tackling bigger players, having to work a bit harder and smarter, etc.
Only when the truth is convenient.