skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will check if i can produce an epub easily! Thanks for all sugestions..
Well, you do waste minutes of peoples lives.
Let's see: 100 mio people driving 250 days/year, losing 10 min each way (so 20/day). That's about 12k lives of 80 years. It's actually worse, because you are wasting "awake time", so add 30%. It seems America isn't /that/ far of from the optimum. Maybe better driver education or better roads would be more effective?
As a contractor, how is this better than upwork.com ?
Police have clarified that the victim was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760
Ex-Equifax exec charged with insider trading before 2017 data breach revealed
This is generally the case. Anecdote:

I worked in call center many years ago with a dude that worked for Enron. He was just an employee in a cubicle farm. He left work one Friday with a job. Monday, he found a box with his personal effects from his desk where his cubicle had been. That's how he found out he lost his job.

He worked at the call center because the fact that he had Enron on his resume made folks hesitant to hire him, unfortunately.
Is there any evidence that Cambridge Analytica's targeted manipulation techniques were effective?
We once had a Hitler. Therefore any warnings of genocide are just convenient bullshit stories, and people just need to grow the fuck up.
Water Wars: Conflict in the Maldives Between Major Powers
Every time one of those images is viewed it's an attack on the person in it, the person who could not, and never can give their consent. Also the normalisation of the behavior in the images enables abusers.

The law is there to protect children, profit doesn't feature in the calculations.
Is this FAQ still valid as of 2018?

In particular, is the following still true?

> Q: Can you apply to YC with just an idea?

> Yes. We accept companies at a wide range of stages into the batch. Cruise, for example, had been working on their idea for just two weeks when they applied to YC.

and

> Q: Can you apply if you haven’t launched?

> Yes. Fewer than half of the companies we fund have launched before they apply.

Looking at the list of YC companies in the recent batch, it seems like many of those companies have significant traction by demo day, significantly more so than YC companies in batches from a few years ago. Obviously, there are many factors that may contribute to this:

1) Advances in development tools as well as SaaS for startups: e.g. Stripe, Stripe Atlas, Clerky, etc.

2) YC's brand name / perceived value has gone up + YC's deliberate outreach efforts. This could mean more and better companies are applying to YC so the bar has gone up.

But even controlling for those factors, it seems like many of the current companies are still further along by demo day compared to previous batches. Are there any examples of YC W18 companies that applied pre-traction or at the idea stage?

I guess the more common question than

> Q: Is YC just for early stage companies?

is probably

> Q: Is YC just for companies that have already found product market fit / have shown traction?
Ahh, of course, Lithuanian is probably where one of the human group consciousnesses keeps the convolutional network it uses for recognising stuff about bees.
In Atlanta, bicycles are cars share the road (with or without a bike lane) at 45mph speed limits.
It's fascinating that so many brilliant people in this thread can talk so casually about any single loss of life for the tech built by the very same people in this thread. I would be devastated if I learned my code ended even one person's life.

You're in a bubble if you think a world hyper connected to social media that's in the same world scared that autonomy is about to kill millions of jobs in one jab and would NOT over-react to a single accident.

From the article it's impossible to know if the cyclist was at fault, so I won't jump to conclusions, but we can't, especially as the creators of the future of autonomous vehicles talk so dissociatively about human life. Either we go out into the public roads with very high certainty that OUR software and OUR hardware won't kill someone, or we wait till we get there.

Public opinion on human driving is doing just fine with human drivers right now, so we can and should take our time to get to the future we want or risk a backlash and a guilty conscious.
Why can't we legislate regulations on Facebook, like Europe is set to do? They've already done the hard work by laying down the groundwork.
You are assuming that they will release a turn-key working product. Its possible for them to just release key parts that are unique.
For example: https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source

This game designer only open-sourced his code for the player object. As I am not a seasoned game developer I have enjoyed going through this code and learning some of the techniques.

Maybe Digg can help bring up the next generation based on their techniques. Or maybe it helps foster a discussion around how not to implement something.
I am :)
Google: anticompetitive practices, and the no poach agreement with Apple, Adobe, and Intel, off the top of my head.

Berkshire Hathaway was investigated for insider trading, resulting in Sokol’s resignation. Four former execs of BK’s General Re were found guilty of fraud.
That study shows lowering sugar and replacing it with alternatives helps loose weight. My post says using those alternatives cause diabetes in the long run -- nothing about weight loss or weight gain.
Most poeple aren’t a fan of LSD microdosing, including me. I’m a fan of studies which honestly account for confounding factors and draw a line between causation and correlation. This ain’t that.
> Unless your goal is to increase ticket revenue or appease the "think of the children crowd" there's no point to lowering speed limits. It doesn't do much to affect traffic speed. To do that you have to modify the road or do something to change the traffic flow.

It’s very simple, put speed cameras on every corner, and fine in terms of day wages. E.g., one week of your income as fine for going x% above.

Several countries are doing parts of this already, or moving towards it.
Atwoods law, R port to JavaScript
My port to JS of R librMath.so
https://github.com/jacobbogers/libRmath.js
FB is big enough to have developed factions and I can totally see Zuck not being up to the task of controlling them.
>you didnt address it, you proclaimed that products wont be inclusive (whatever that means) unless you have someone advocating for it, which you then describe as having someone who looks different.

And gave examples of that happening. Repeated, continued examples in the same context (facial processing).

>its not like people cant understand other perspectives, its not that hard, and focus/user groups would catch all the of examples you cite

But empirically they don't. Yes, they should. But they don't. This keeps happening, which would imply that the user groups aren't actually catching these examples, or maybe they are, but again without an advocate, a single complaint, or even some complaints, doesn't matter.

So let me ask you, who is more likely to advocate for changes to fix a bug: an engineer who is directly affected by that bug, or one who isn't?
It’s right there in the quote: “...according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters“.

And before you criticize anonymous sources: that’s how journalism works. The publication, the New York Times in this case, takes on the risk to its reputation on behalf of their sources to allow information from unauthorized sources to become public.

Edit: editing your post to erase your embarrassing ineptitude to read (and to make the people correcting you seem foolish) seems kinda assholish.
The author's criticism of other analysis have some merit, though his chief complaint is that the others include suicide and accidental death. But isn't his point that you shouldn't selectively exclude contrary data? Since those who die by accident or suicide are just as dead, it's hard to argue for their exclusion except as another way of "lying" about the relationship between gun ownership and death by firearm.
I was saying it in the context of what Tesla has to offer to experienced automotive production engineers. Most of them are probably located nowhere near the Bay Area, making the move a bigger deal, especially for families.

Anyhow, my original claim was never that it was impossible for Tesla to get the right experienced people, just that what they had to offer was probably enough to get their hands on some of the right people, but not most.
SSH does not operate with trust-on-first-use when using DNSSEC. It will not store key information locally in that case, specifically to be able to operate with changed endpoints over untrusted networks.
> Claiming that Obama's campaigns were the true microtargeters, and that if we are angry at the actions of generic people, we must then be angry at Obama, because he did these very things. That is the Whataboutism, or tu quoque fallacy.

Obama's campaigns were pretty well known to be engaged in extensive microtargeting. Here:

https://www.mediavillage.com/article/how-data-and-micro-targ...
I'm not necessarily arguing for this, but one viewpoint might be: A vehicle that can autodrive the freeway (i.e. most of the way), and reverts to manual control for the shorter sections before and after the freeway, would have a significant convenience benefit over a train.

Take the train, and you have no vehicle with which to go from the destination station to your endpoint. Also, you could travel at any time instead of being held to the schedule.
If it's not obvious to you, then the crimes of these people must then be obvious, no? https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/

Care to share a few of them which generated their wealth?
In political circles, this is what is called a "Kinsley gaffe": when somebody accidentally tells the truth (and then has to hastily walk it back)
The man makes some extremely reasonable points. I just wrote a comment along the same lines. I'm glad to see there is some common sense at Facebook. Stamos always seemed a bit too rational to be working at a company like that. I worry what will happen to Facebook after he leaves; they were lucky to have him.

Also, I think the real problem here is that the media is attempting to politicize the term "breach," and security professionals are rightly offended.
I'm not sure how wishful thinking it is. AFAIK no self driving car has been at fault in an accident. They have always been caused by a human driver and, at worst, the self driving car failed to avoid the collision.

For better or worse, I don't think a self driving car will be commercially successful until it shows it is at least as safe as a human driver. More likely it will have to demonstrate that it is significantly safer. It might be the case that whichever company first launches doesn't correctly gauge the safety of their car, but I definitely think the goal is to be safer from day one.
People get found not at fault for hitting pedestrians all the time.
> I don't understand why he deleted that

Well it made his company look bad and now he's gone from that company ahead of schedule. Sometimes things are as simple as they seem on the surface.
I find it curious the number of comments blaming government regulation, instead of greed and massive private misidentification of risk and indeed the lifting of government regulations surrounding mortage backed assets as well as firewalls between banks and financial investment firms.

The QE123 fix had little to do with regulations, and everything to do with money connected to power structures in the US...

The one big unnoted loss is of many individual lendees who had their equity taken in foreclosure, while the issuing banks had all the effects of their bad judgements pulled off their books by the fed. In effect this give banks an immediate cash boost and indefinite timeline to work out liquidity issues while countless individuals were left to the whims of the economic downturn with little gov't backing and much less time or resources.
Alex Stamos sure likes calling attention to himself and making a fuss when he leaves a company in supposed protest.
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/tempe/tem...

"The fleet of self-driving Volvos arrived in Arizona after they were banned from California roads over safety concerns."
Doom 3 was the first game Id did in C++ instead of C, which helps explain a lot of the coding conventions.

From Carmack himself[1]:

In some ways, I still think the Quake 3 code is cleaner, as a final evolution of my C style, rather than the first iteration of my C++ style, but it may be more of a factor of the smaller total line count, or the fact that I haven’t really looked at it in a decade. I do think "good C++" is better than "good C" from a readability standpoint, all other things being equal.

I sort of meandered into C++ with Doom 3 – I was an experienced C programmer with OOP background from NeXT’s Objective-C, so I just started writing C++ without any proper study of usage and idiom. In retrospect, I very much wish I had read Effective C++ and some other material. A couple of the other programmers had prior C++ experience, but they mostly followed the stylistic choices I set.

I mistrusted templates for many years, and still use them with restraint, but I eventually decided I liked strong typing more than I disliked weird code in headers. The debate on STL is still ongoing here at Id, and gets a little spirited. Back when Doom 3 was started, using STL was almost certainly not a good call, but reasonable arguments can be made for it today, even in games.

I am a full const nazi nowadays, and I chide any programmer that doesn’t const every variable and parameter that can be.

The major evolution that is still going on for me is towards a more functional programming style, which involves unlearning a lot of old habits, and backing away from some OOP directions.

[1] Originally as a comment on https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/01/the-exceptional-beauty-of-... , but it seems to be missing now.

Side note, I love C# in general but it'd be nice to have something the like const methods in C++.
You can use this as a standalone tool without working through the Upwork marketplace.
Translation, "I pissed off my boss"
1. I seriously doubt self-driving cars will be viable in irregular roads

2. Who do you blame when a faulty algorithm eventually kills a person? Who do you get mad at? When a drunk driver kills your family member, you can go to court and look at their face and look at the faces of their family members. When that happens with a self-driving car you'll just be looking at corporate lawyers who will shrug their shoulders at you and say "lol sorry our dumb machine killed your daughter".
I just hope for you that this software has something different from other existing software.
Perhaps this is how growing up looks like
It's easy to start wildfires, that's what paid agitators do and likely did. The problem is - of course - millions of Americans were (and still are) very susceptible to particular kinds of bullshit. (InfoWars, religon, guns don't kill people, "gay agenda", anti-vaxxers, other new age fuckvoodoo, and so on.)

Yes, it's probably unknowable how effective the russian bots were exactly.
Not when it isn't enough education to support yourself or get even a job requiring vocational education. It sometimes isn't enough on its own to go to universities in other countries. (The local university requires a certain number of AP courses with passing grades on the test or 1 year of university-level education to be considered eligible to go to school there if you are from the US).

And not when it means that we aren't actually getting the best candidates for certain fields. To be a doctor, not only do you have to have the intellectual capability, but the financial ability as well. Yes, I know there are loans, but burdening folks with debt deters some folks from even trying... let alone the expenses required to apply and attend college.
Honestly, he's not a great C++ programmer. I think he'd agree that he's learning, and got away with C for far longer than normal just by being a phenomenal programmer in general.

IIRC the Doom 3 renderer was originally written in C and he ported to C++ to match the rest of the codebase.
When an unusual situation causing the autopilot to disengage happens in the air, you often have minutes of time to deal with and correct the issue, almost never less than 5-10 seconds. In a car, you're lucky if you have even a single second, and that's just not enough time to take over.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned using the Shadow DOM yet. That provides you with a very good means of scoping your CSS; e.g: within custom elements. Just look at Polymer.
joke

your head
I've also gotten 0 responses unfortunately :(
"Facebook WAS inside Cambridge Analytica's office but have now "stood down" following dramatic intervention by UK Information Commissioner's Office.."

Uhh....that's not good.

In effect, this is a sanctioned data breach. Facebook opened the firehouse of user data by knowingly keeping very lax access to their developer APIs while not at all preventing developers from storing the data they accessed.

That's a very serious breach of consumer trust. A terms of service is only as good as your user's ability to understand it's implications. Just because users check a box doesn't mean Facebook is any less liable.
+1, yup yup I see it!
Signing was offline, until everyone realized that offline-signing was unworkable. Now it's a bastardized version of both online and offline signing, with an insane NSEC3-whitelies system of distributed password hashes and fake zone entries that is de facto BCP for real-world deployment.

I don't know how pure offline signing would have made anything better for DNSSEC (I think it makes a lot of things about it worse), but let's at least be clear that the offline signing design failed.

You didn't really address what I said. My argument, which I think is pretty straightforward, is that it is not in fact harder to carry out pinpoint attacks on DNSSEC than it is to do so on TLS. In fact: it's easier; in many ways, modern browsers act as hundreds of millions of sensors in a distributed CA surveillance system, one that has gotten multiple CAs killed. No DNS software works that way.
It'll be faster than Redshift and about the same as ClickHouse, +/- depending on hardware and setup.

It's a great system, we used it for 2 years and it's one of the most polished databases out there with a simple MySQL interface. It's more general purpose than kdb, with a nice rowstore + columnstore architecture. I believe they're adding full-text search indexes in the latest version too.

If you need the query language, the advanced/asof joins, or the tightly integrated query/process environment, then there's no match to kdb though.
I doubt it. If you exclusively kill people outside the vehicle who are walking or riding bikes, you encourage people who don't have a car to hire the vehicle.

The only possible costs would be if they're made to pay a price in a court of law, which seems unlikely since the woman who was killed had a bike with her, and it's unknown if she was on the bike at the time, but she's been described as a pedestrian outside of a crosswalk. Clearly Arizona authorities just don't care about safety.
My 2 cents on Bird as a newcomer to Santa Monica and why I think electric vehicles like Bird can reshape urban transit in the US:
https://medium.com/@danielzahler/bird-is-the-word-e-scooters...
I have not been following the development of self-driving car tech very closely, but I have some familiarity with the difficulty of the challenges involved and I have a feeling that we are at least two decades away from having fully autonomous tech authorized for use on public roads. Am I underestimating the progress of the tech? I have the impression that there is a tremendous amount of unjustified hype in this field.
There are quite a few ways he may have to get around an NDA: a congressional subpoena requiring testimony superceding NDAs, and so would any testimony in court if this spawns any civil or criminal cases.
> anticompetitive practices, and the no poach agreement with Apple, Adobe, and Intel, off the top of my head.

Almost all of those were done (temporarily) well after the fortunes were made.

Any examples you'd find I'd bet 95-99% were either the result of subsequent monopoly or as a result of government intervention either directly/indirectly benefiting them.

The 1-5% which weren't were likely punished. As the examples you mentioned were...
Hackers worth their salt work in air-gapped environments.

This is a signal, but not a game changer for security pros.
Waymo is already using autonomous vehicles in AZ without a safety driver behind the wheel. There are fully autonomous Waymo vehicles driving around in parts of AZ.
For those who do not get the reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
Thank you for adding this perspective. Honestly I am not sure how to rationalize the dueling thoughts in my head.

On one hand, the "just one isn't so bad" argument is rational. In terms of fatalities per mile, self driving cars already seem to be safer than humans as a class. Therefore it would be wrong of me to say that this tech does not belong on the road when I believe I should be allowed to drive.

On the other hand, you said it best. If I ever wrote code running on a machine that killed somebody I don't know how I'd continue in my career. Hell, I work at Google very far from Waymo but if one of our cars struck and killed someone I'd feel some personal responsibility.

So ... I guess it's complicated.
I mean, maybe that's true, but I'm not entirely certain it's a fair assessment. Yahoo and Facebook are arguably some of the largest targets (different eras of course). Being a CISO at both and not getting fired from either are huge achievements, given the CISO is generally a sacrificial role (largely ignored when done right, and beheaded if something goes wrong, regardless of your actions).

So either way, he picks hard jobs. The question is, does he truly step down when he feels he's got no remaining option to protest (which is quite respectable IMHO).. or is he simply outmaneuvering the board when his spidey senses tell him they are about to drop the axe because of recent corporate sins? Either way, style points for both I'd say.
Australia has regulated interchange rates so credit/debit card acceptance has been higher. Credit cards are capped at 0.8% and debit cards are lower. Mastercard published a list: https://www.mastercard.com.au/en-au/about-mastercard/what-we...

NZ's government thinks (or thought, it's changed recently) that the market would sort it out so the current rates are up to 3% for credit and 1.5% for debit, again Mastercard's list is here: https://www.mastercard.co.nz/en-nz/about-mastercard/what-we-...

EFTPOS transaction are generally fee-free for all parties.
CEO of Cambridge Analytica caught on camera saying they have used bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians.

https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
> demonstrably, but only marginally, safer road users than humans.

I believe the claim is 38 multitudes better than humans, significantly better than marginally.

> accept some increase in traffic fatalities

No. And the question is more about "some" than "some increase"

> accept a slightly higher risk in exchange for tangible time savings?

Texting while driving and even hands free talking were becoming laws in many states before smart phones -- and my experience is that many people readily accept this risk and the legal risk just to communicate faster. The same can be said for the risk of drunk driving -- it's a risk that thousands of Americans take all of the time.