skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I am an Australian living in Finland, and there's no reason that I can see that I can't work for whomever I wish (ie perform contracting services) so long as I myself am incorporated / employed and pay the relevant taxes etc. For example, in finland (similar to australia) you can work as what in Aus is called a 'sole trader' or in finland something like 'name business', which basically means self employed entrepreneur. I can do work for local clients, international clients, whatever I like, so long as I take care of my/my company's taxes. I don't see why it would be much different in other EU countries.
Think about how upwork and elancer etc operate.. those guys can work for whoever they want.

That said, saying 'we want to hire someone in Europe', is ... rather vague, you realize? What do you want them for? Sales, tech? To start a foreign branch? You'll probably have to narrow your purpose down (to get decent advice, or for your own benefit as well?)

Good luck
That's a shame. Hopefully a company with better ethics will come and pick up their idea.
Courts are equivalent of exceptions in computer programming. You should have them for exceptional circumstsnces but you shouldn't use them in your program for routine control flow (because they are slow among other things).

Unless Python.
or maybe even smaller, say 50 pieces broken out by region.
probably not, don't think they make frequent updates.. but you can use stylish plugin to change CSS on hackernews or any site really.
human driven cars are currently, as we speak running people over on the streets and they have human drivers who don't particularly want to run over other humans. It was inevitable that this happened, and no matter how many people self driving cars run over will be worth it, since it will still be less than what cars are currently doing in terms of death toll.
Actually, a webOS phone with a software-keyboard was in fact coming down the pipeline. https://www.webosnation.com/windsornot-webos-slate-smartphon...

One could also (as was tradition) infinitely hack around most of the Palm Pre line to enable it in the end. Just before HP gave up the webOS ghost, it was a popular homebrew thing to do for a certain contingent.

As for the original hardware, it could have really used time when there really wasn't any time to spare in the competitive landscape.

I also had a (Developer) Pre 2 which was incrementally better, and while that was a nice piece of kit, the Palm Pixi was a horrible misstep (with its minuscule size and--gasp--magnetic headphone jack) I first witnessed at their unveiling in San Francisco. The Pre 3 was the only webOS phone that had a genuine shot left, but the HP Touchpad debacle pretty much sealed it. There was even a smaller HP Touchpad in the works at the time (fully working prototypes are found now and then) to diversify the line.
I voted it up. I read the article because I'm interested in Sierra Leone and was interested in keeping an eye on developments (like how exactly blockchain was involved)...

I should probably raise my standards for upvoting.
PDF is terrible to read in a Kindle. This book would be much more valuable in a ebook format.

Every time I tried to generate mobi files from Tex they were terrible formatted. O'Reilly does it fine with some open source books, but I've never managed to do it myself. Are the good publishing tools for ebooks just avaiable for specialized publishers?

Which techniques do you have to convert these Tex books to mobi (the Kindle format)?
That cost has long since been dwarfed by private investments. IMHO that was tax payer money well spent.
I’ve worked in places that were pretty fubar. People work very hard to find ways to whitewash what they do. Nobody wants to be the bad guy.
LOL - I'm reading this as I'm checking my home nagios server to see why I just got an e-mail about the Raspberry Pi at my parent's cabin up north.
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But your HTML is uglier.
>Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads?

Some phase of testing will necessarily be of public roads. The fact that they started that phase prematurely doesn't somehow mean that "private for profit companies" should never test on public roads.

Boeing tests new airplanes in the public airspace too, over public areas.
People say this constantly, as if attacks against DNSSEC would require intelligence services to alter the DNS across the entire Internet. But of course, that's not how states attack Internet connections and never has been: they subvert ISPs (which are often stated-owned, and almost invariably state-controlled) and pinpoint individual connections to manipulate. There's a hundred million dollar business of tools to facilitate this.

It's not one of my best arguments against DNSSEC, but it is a valid one: the fact that the people designing and advocating for it don't appear to understand the Internet threat model.
Traders are always looking for an edge. It's a bit presumptuous to think that all of his successes have been from this one illegal act, or other illegal acts.
"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"

Most lawyers actually don't make that much money compared to CEOs (median income of $118k vs $748k).[1][2]

[1] - https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/lawyer/salary

[2] - https://www1.salary.com/Chief-Executive-Officer-Salary.html
Giving a tax break for a payment is the same as subsidizing the entity giving that payment.
^- e.g. what a wonk says
Yahoo just delivered a full-screen, "Your computer has been infected with digital ebola" page when I visited that link.
I'd say those businesses will have to evolve or die out. There is a great Japanese place in our town that I stopped frequenting purely because they didn't have an EFTPOS machine, and I often have to cash on me when returning from a customer visit etc. and I wanted a snack to bring home. Since they (finally) installed one after new owners took over, I go back there frequently now.

With PayWave becoming so popular for even $1 transactions at the counter by literally waving your debit card at a machine, I haven't carried significant cash in my wallet for years now.
So on a modern machine that might mean a user can submit a 1GB password?
Thanks for pointing this out. Changed with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/....

Advancedness is not a criteria in open sourcing or not open sourcing. There are advanced features that are open source, such as Review Apps[0]. There are basic features that are proprietary, such as File Locking[1]. The criteria we use to decide which version the features go in are documented on our stewardship page[2].

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/features/review-apps/
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/features/file-locking/
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/#what-features-are-ee-o...
I live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. We used to make kids clothes, now we make trucks(military trucks). I've been writing animation software for the past 2 years. I work 3 hours a day freelancing to pay the bills ( my rent is 540 / month for a 2 bedroom ). When the software is done, it could be a multi million dollar thing, but for now I'm living on beans and rice. It's quite a hard thing, quite giant project for one person to do. Hopefully I think it was all worth it, if and when I get through it.
You're linking to this thread; I think you mean to link to this one, which has 500+ upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598210
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Correct. What bothered me was that the people who did things right and had no responsibility lost a lot whereas the responsible people stayed or walked away with a lot of money. At minimum some bank execs should have lost everything. Absolutely everything and then some more.
Braking distance ... for a 30mph is 45 ft

Apologies for going off topic here, but I'm curious about this. I've tested every car I've ever owned and all of the recent cars with all-round disc brakes have outperformed this statistic, but I've never been able to get agreement from other people (unless I demonstrate it to them in person).

I'm talking about optimal conditions here, wet roads would change things obviously but each of these cars was able to stop within it's own car length (around 15 feet) from 30mph, simply by stamping on the brake pedal with maximum force, triggering the ABS until the car stops:

2001 Nissan Primera SE

2003 BMW 325i Touring (E46)

2007 Peugeot 307 1.6 S

2011 Ford S-Max

I can't work out how any modern car, even in the wet, could need 45 feet to stop. In case it's not obvious, this is only considering mechanical stopping distance, human reaction time (or indeed computer reaction time which is the main topic here) would extend this distance, but the usual 45 feet from 30mph statistic doesn't include reaction time either.
"I hope these self-driving cars will be able and designed to work while completely offline, with no built-in way to ever connect to a network."

Don't hold your breath about that. There will be a huge load of data ready to be sold to advertising companies just by listening what passengers talk about when passing near areas/stores/billboards/events etc.
A little alarming to see this headline from The Independent. If this isn't a scandal then the word has no meaning.
One aspect that comes from this is that now car crashes can be treated more like aircraft crashes. Each self-driving car now has a black box in it with a ton of telemetary.

So it's not just "don't drink and drive", knowing that they'll probably reoffend soon anyway. Every crash and especially fatality can be thoroughly investigated and should be prevented from ever happening again.

Hopefully there's enough data in the investigation so that Tesla / Waymo and all other car companies can include the circumstances of the failure in their tests.
>Theoretically the reputation cost would discourage for-profit organizations from releasing unsafe self-driving vehicles for testing on public roads.

And theoretically the only people who can regulate banks are the banks themselves.

Funny how you hear that argument every time a horrible industry is trying to keep profits high by eternalizing costs: meat packers in 1900, tobacco in 1950, oil and gas till today.
I think it's very unlikely you'll get motion sick in AR, _especially_ AR with a small FOV. The vast majority of your vision will still be filled with reality, so it won't be all that different from wearing a pair of regular glasses, at least from your brain's perspective.

Not to mention that Magic Leap's multiple depth-of-field display will likely simulate normal vision much better than current-generation VR displays, and that there's no artificial locomotion in AR.
Tort law covers death. Manslaughter is a criminal charge but wrongful death, etc. are how tort law handles the situation. You may recall O.J. Simpson was sued for wrongful death and lost.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/11/us/jury-decides-simpson-mu...
> This assumes that the reputation costs are comparable in weight to the acts that they commit.

Rather this assumes reputation costs times risk of having those costs while undertaking some action is comparable to gain from this action.
> Much of political campaigning, and advertising in general, is exactly as you describe, "using manipulation and psychological techniques to convince".

Please, just call it what it is: propaganda.

Whether you're selling a product, a service or an idea, you're still doing your best to manipulate your target audience. The techniques are the same.

And I use the term in a purely clinical sense: manipulation at scale, the subtler the better.
Confirmation bias is a feature, not a bug
"Uber's going to need to geofence locations and use different rulesets for different cities."

May be not. Regardless of the street crossing law in a specific city, it is a bad idea to kill pedestrians.
Bad bits? More like code correctly, use already existing CSS features to your advantage, and use common sense when naming things. Then the so-called "bad bits" tend not to happen.
What did it for me was well before the financial crisis, an earlier real estate crash. The bank at which our software/network business had a credit line lost a bunch of money on bad real estate loans. Their response was to turn the screws on all their customers. Although we had literally never been late on a payment in years, and had run up and down the credit amount, we were literally days away from having our entire loan called, requiring us to suddenly come up with far more cash than we had on hand that week, which would have ended the business. The only thing that saved us was the luck to have a relative that could co-sign for us. Other local businesses didn't have such luck and were shut down.

The banks do a lot of marketing telling you how much they are "friends" of business, "there to help you grow", etc. It is utter nonsense.

Never mistake a banker as a friend. If their incentives so dictate, it'll only take a New York Minute to stab you in the back.

Edit: typos
It's not an ask when made a condition of employment.
You should be killed by an autonomous vehicle because you jay-walk under any circumstances. I hope you realize you are comparing being fined for a tiny crime and getting killed.
Thanks. This was a more detailed answer. I didn't see this anywhere in the article.
Who would be liable? The owner of the AV? The manufacturer?
Ray Tracing is also a lie! Are they giving us an unbiased renderer?

Looks interesting anyway.
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> Let's say that halving the death rate is what we can reasonably expect from the first generation of self driving cars.

What's your evidence for why this is a reasonable expectation? The fatalities compared to the amount of miles driven by autonomous vehicles so far shows that this is not possible at the moment. What evidence is there that this will radically improve soon?
It's on purpose to discourage that type of submissions. The links in the text are not converted to real links. And also, these submissions have a penalty so it's more difficult for them to reach the front page. If possible, I recommend using a normal submission.

Anyway, if you want an official reply from the mods, try writing an email to hn@ycombinator.com
How about if we start with a test no human driver is given:

Identify the objects in pictures.

We take our biological vision systems for granted, but it seems one autopilot system couldn't identify a semi crossing in front of the vehicle...
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Not if they are gasoline cars, particulate pollution alone kills tens of thousands.

An electric rail network on the other hand would have real positive externalities, but isn't as easily privitazable so won't be built.
The only thing surprising about this is that people are surprised about this.
Comments like these come up on bank security all the time. Now the bank isn't completely retarded. They have to deal with customer support (at a minimum) when hacked. How many people are being hacked due to 14 char limit? Probably zero, relative to malware and phishing.

You're only allowed a few guesses before the account locks. So I fail to see how case sensitivity is relevant.

Not defending these limits but to imply they have a very strong predictive power on bank security is probably wrong.
If you believe that then you need to change the entire economy.
TCPDump, and the care and feeding of an intelligent SDN
If it's the case that Sierra Leone did not use blockchain for any part of its election, I think TechCrunch needs to own up to its reporting, which seems very thinly sourced:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-...

In fact, it seems completely sourced to "Leonardo Gammar of Agora", "Agora" being a company that is trying to sell its "blockchain-based digital voting solution" [0] and thus has every incentive to hype the usage of their product. The TC reporter apparently made no attempt to contact anyone who actually works in Sierra Leone's government/elections, or anyone who actually lives there.

[0] https://agora.vote/#about

edit: looks like the reporter has just decided to reach out to authorities:

https://twitter.com/johnbiggs/status/975841632661786624

https://twitter.com/johnbiggs/status/975814093994151938

Quartz also wrote about Sierra Leone's alleged use of blockchain, and like TC, solely sources it to Agora: https://qz.com/1227050/sierra-leone-elections-powered-by-blo...

It does link to this page though, from Agora:

https://agora.vote/sierraleone2018/

It is possible that Agora was accredited as an independent observer of results. But it's problematic that they use their Sierra Leone results page to advertise their services, which don't seem to have been used as described:

> Agora is a Swiss foundation providing decentralized digital voting systems based on the blockchain technology. Agora’s solution will enable secure and remote voting from digital devices, as well as allow each voter to verify his or her untampered vote in the final count.

When you go to Agora's "results" page, all you get is an aggregated tally of votes. I don't see a ledger of any kind:

https://agora.vote/sierraleone2018/results
I'm for a middle-of-the-road way of doing things at first: make some highway lanes for autonomous cars only. Separate those lane physically. Remove the speed limit there to encourage people to get cars which can use those lanes.

Implement a way for the highway operator to affect the cars on it: make way for emergency vehicles, adapt to infos the operator can aggregate and transmit, change the speed of cars to the slowest one around etc.

Once the majority of people have self driven cars and those have been proven in this controled environment you can think about allowing them on open roads. Or not. Or adapt those open roads to what self driven cars need.
How would this be different than, say, bountysource (which backfired quite a bit)?

edit: spelling
This is really great input! Thank you.

We will definitely take this into consideration for the next iteration.
If enough people are interested, i may try to do something with pandoc to generate an ebook!
Had some fun the other day when our IT department asked me which SSD I wanted as second drive in my laptop. Replied with the 30TB Samsung which raised several emails which were waaay to serious in nature. Seems I have to email again that I was being humble and could have asked for the 100TB.
Wouldn't one typically press both charges? Wrongful death to allow the family to be compensated, corporate manslaughter to punish the company and incentivize not killing people tomorrow. It doesn't seem like it's necessary to choose the non-criminal case.

To state the obvious, I am not a lawyer.
Facebook sure was political, though. From Davidsen:

> They came to office in the days following election recruiting & 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.
The news article literally says she was crossing outside of a crosswalk. That’s jaywalking. She was not and will not be cited only because she is no longer alive. They should should add “illegally” to the end of the headline, only then would it be accurate.

Your response and others like it are in keeping with the Valley liberal view that people should not be held responsible for their own bad decisions, but unfortunately, in the real world, they have to be. In this case, she decided to walk in front of a moving automobile, and paid a heavy price for it. That’s terrible, but ultimately her fault.
I'm not quite sure how you think this will work. Is Google going to commission hitmen to kill 10s of thousands of people each year to make up for the deaths they prevent? Are they going to prevent those who can't drive now from using their cars? Or play irritating sounds in their cars to replace the stress of driving?
Some additional context via NY Times coverage on the entrapment aspects of Cambridge Analytica's operating procedures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/cambridge-analytica-al...

Note: I tried to post this here, because it seemed worthy of its own thread, but it was marked as a dupe for some reason - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16622761
> I really have to agree with this: using your friends as personal assistants is not cool.

From personal experience I can say: asking your friends to sign up with some questionable service, when you don't care about privacy but maybe they do... and forcing them to make a choice of either giving up on their privacy or being excluded from social activities... that's totally not cool either.
Decentraland Leads: There's Ways to Improve Blockchain for Use in Social VR
Wait, the Hololens has eye tracking? That's interesting, I'd never heard that before.

Anyway, I think the main innovation Magic Leap seems to be pushing over its competitors is its multiple depth of field display. It'll be interesting to see how big of a difference that actually makes in practice.
Do auto accidents fall under criminal law in Arizona? In NY where I live, unless it's DUI or otherwise reckless and/or intentional in some ways, it's just a traffic violation. You could take the offender to civil court, but that's still crazy. In this particular case, I think Uber, if they are at fault, would have to pay arms and legs to get out of this.

While the woman's death is tragic, I hope this doesn't set us back on whatever progress made in autonomous driving.

EDIT: removed "While this a serious f*up by Uber and"
Googling around, all I find so far is that this is generally measured by the Gini coefficient, where 0 is everyone is equal, and 1 is the top dog gets everything. The US is around a 0.38, Denmark is 0.25.

I'd rather visualize it as a line going from left to right, that curves upward as it goes to the right. A Gini-0 would be horizontal, a Gini-1 would basically be a hockey stick. So the US is generally going to be steeper on the right side than Denmark, but in reality each region's line is going to have a bunch of wiggles.

So I wonder if there's an ideal "line". Either scored by some metric, like at what point does some measure of mobility or entrepreneurship increase or decrease... or some measure of system stability.

For instance, I've seen a few references that the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it increases. If every wealth holder were taxed logarithmically (so that the tax bill "hurts" everyone equally), and the proceeds were then distributed to everyone equally, would that push the line to some sort of stable shape, no matter how unequal the system starts?

If so, you could consider that a line of capitalism, with anything on either side being disproportionate in some way. The line should still curve since talent/skill/etc will always have an impact.
If self driving cars are limited to speeds that allow them to stop within their lidar max range is that too slow? Humans don't have the pinpoint accuracy of lidar but our visual algorithms are very flexible and robust and also have very strong confidence signals e.g driving more carefully in dark rain.

Cameras are not accurate enough though, their dynamic range being terrible. Wonder how humans would fare if forced to wear goggles that approximated a lidar sensors information.
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Yet another reason not to use Gnome. They seem to have decided to make the DE as unusable and obtuse as possible.
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Safety rules are written in blood. Often someone has to die before action is taken. But eventually people forget, get sloppy, or consider the rules completely useless. See: nightclub fires.
> the reason today's cars are safer than those built 20 years ago isn't because the free market decided so, but because of regulation.

All safety functionality was introduced and used way before regulators even knew that it's possible.

Edit: please explain the downvotes, ideally with examples
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