skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rich 0.01% can’t own everything in a free market because they still need to profit by selling their products and services to the rest of humanity. And for that to happen, the rest of humanity still needs to be earning money. The market will solve this by itself, if governments don’t fuck it up.

If everything is owned by a small group of people (which communists say it’s the government) that’s communism not capitalism. Capitalism requires people making transactions in order to achieve the main goal of generating profits.
That line starts to get blurred when you have leviathan banks in an oligopolistic industry like Citi, who only exist because they were bailed out by the gov't, making decisions like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/business/citigroup-gun-co...

There's also a conversation to be had about free speech as a cultural norm. I'm within my rights to shout down everything you try to say in a public forum but I think we've seen that society suffers when that's commonplace.
As a heavy user of QtWidgets (and GTK+, FWIW) apps on Maemo even today, I can say that's entirely not true.
I would go as far and say that people confuse bad luck with with bad execution.
> Everyone who saw the video has said it's the fault of camera for seeming so dark

Not by a long shot. The /r/video thread has a comment with 20k upvotes purporting to demonstrate that the hit was inevitable "doing some basic math": https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/86756p/police_relea...

The first two responses (sorted by "best") respectively blame the safety driver and provide their own anecdote of hitting something at night, you need response #3 (500 comments below if you don't fold subthreads) to see LIDAR mentioned and #4 and #5 to note that the dashcam footage is not representative of real visibility.
>How about saving human time that would otherwise be spent on driving?

There may be solutions for your wasted time driving that not costs more human lives, like public transport.
An AI is will never have the intuition of a human brain, so you can try compensating with better sensors and faster reaction time, but if you have worse sensors and reaction time then a human then you do not have a self driving car yet, such toy projects were made by students years ago.
One should look at the history behind why certain currently banned obscenity is banned, and what the goals of the groups were who originally pushed the ban.

>Given that history, one could be forgiven for thinking that some of these groups see SESTA as a mere stepping stone to banning pornography from the Internet

This is one of their main goals.

>blurring the legal distinctions between sex work and trafficking

I think this has largely been achieved.
“Perfectly fine” —- well, you’re only two weeks in! Enjoy the wild ride :)
Discoverability is already pretty shitty on YouTube, imagine if everyone had its own server. How do you find anything relevant? We need to solve distributed search first, maybe something like the YaCy project.
UBER is a terrible company period.
It's not on the BBC News England page now (8 hours after story was posted in the early morning UK time). I did find it, as you say on the Politics page, and yes it was one of the smaller headlines with the title "Police admit role in blacklisting workers".

Nothing to imply the security services were involved or that there was a risk to our democracy, sounds more like they keep a list of people who do a bad job painting police stations.

I would go to the politics page if I wanted to follow the twists and turns of UK politics. I wouldn't expect to have to go there to find out something so serious.

I guess I'm going to have to look again at where I get my news. The Today programme is very good, but I can't scan it like I can a webpage, so I don't listen often.
I remember when I first started working full time (in the UK). There is (was?) some kind of EU working time directive that prevented you from working more than some amount of hours per week, but could be opted out of. My new manager gave me the form, and I got the impression it was just a formality - everyone opts out.
And let's not forget these are the small government, personal-freedom pushing Republicans perpetrating this shit.
While I am sympathetic to the idea of unionizing development and IT work, I have a hard time imagining a practical path. Vaguely libertarian ideologies seem to be the norm in these professions.
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I think the best explanation for the very poor quality of the video released by the police is that it's a video of a video, as if they recorded a video of the original video being played back on an LCD display.
I have writen about why we scape-goat Facebook here - basically we are trained to be highly sceptical of illusions (cf. Plato's allegory of the cave):

http://iain.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.html

And this kind of scape-goating - throws the 'baby out with the bath-water' as it were. Basically we need illusions and they effect how we all live. Especially when we all agree on what illusions we want to share...
Notwithstanding the fact that a typical visible light imager in a driver assistance system alternates exposure times between frames, especially at night: one over-exposed image to discern dark texture, and one under-exposed image to find the color of point light sources, such as traffic or brake lights.

The released video looks like the latter, though it could also just be standalone dashcam footage. It is also pretty mangled by compression, especially the dark parts are just completely blocky, so it is probably not a good indicator of what the vehicle saw.

OTOH, bikes can be notoriously hard on image recognition, for example it is not unheard of that reflective rims are interpreted as continuation of a curb or lane marking. LIDAR and RADAR should see them, though, and they probably did, so it is indeed unclear where it all went wrong.
> There is very little a MS in CS can teach you that a BS in CS with some free time and books can't pick up

Well... let's be realistic - this is true of undergraduate CS work, too. If you're going to college to learn how to program computers, you're probably going to be disappointed - the point is more access to experts in the topics who can check your work, offer guidance, and help you get unstuck if you get stuck.
Ask HN: Where to migrate? - Google App Engine nightmare story
We have been using Google App Engine flexible for our backend since Feb 17. In Jan 18 we started getting 502 errors because of an issue in the load balancer. This issue was internal to GCP, our code was not at fault.

When the issue first appeared we were using the free support plan. To raise a support ticket I upgraded to silver plan which costs USD150/month. I explained my issue in detail that we have not changed anything at our end and suddenly 502 errors have appeared. It took me 15 days and a lot of back and forth emails to get an answer from GCP support. They gave a mysterious answer that there is an issue at GCP's end and they will reply back when it gets resolved. No ETA, no workaround, no information on why it happened.

I gave a lot of thought about moving to Heroku but it being so closed and locked in didn't feel right. AWS needs devops to keep it going. For our other app we have been using app engine standard without issues for 3 years, so I decided to go along with GAE for the time being. The issue got resolved in by Feb 1st week.

Today on 23rd March 502 errors appeared suddenly. I decided to speak to tech support. To do this I had to upgrade to gold support which costs USD400/month. I spoke to a support staff who said he doesn't have any information on this issue and I will get a reply back in 24hrs. No other reponse or help was provided.

I have finally decided to move away from GCP. Getting errors suddenly for 15 days and no workaround is too dangerous.
And the support is too hard to get. Google it seems will always stay away from human interaction. They just don't want to deal with people directly. Getting support is hard.

I need help from the community to suggest some other managed services. Being a co founder and the only backend engineer I cannot do devops.

I know only 2 options: aws eb and heroku. Please give feedback and suggest more options.

I want to deploy: django + postgres + task queue
They were blacklisted because they were organized?

Aren't almost all construction workers organized?
You shouldn’t be driving so fast that stopping distance is longer than visibility.

It is irrelevant what average humans do. That is the current rule set for all drivers.
Most of the illumination when I drive comes from my headlights. All of it that I need, no matter how dark or "shadowy" it is (give me a break).
Then he must be the biggest presidential failure in history. I write this as I enjoy the nice tax cut he put in my pocket. (Does that count as a failure too?)
I wonder what he would have to say for my example:

I did a 4 year BS CS degree and graduated in 2005. I did calculus, linear algebra, real analysis, mathematical statistics, etc. until 3rd year and then the typical CS curriculum of compilers, distributed systems, programming languages, artificial intelligence, etc.

I've been working in industry for 12 years doing typical systems/software development, but got involved in more "Data Sciency" things in the last 2 years. I liked it so much that I decided I want to change career directions and move away from just "building software" to more "building software that runs on data as the fuel", like machine learning/deep learning/NLP related problems.

So okay, I have no real problem with doing anything that involves manipulating the data, building pipelines, or implementing things in Tensorflow or Gensim, etc it's just programming. Easy, peasy. I also understand most of the mathematics, and what I forgot was not too hard to "re-learn" very quickly.

The problem is it is difficult to apply for jobs as a Data Scientist when you only have a BS CS, even with real world experience. I'm not "formally qualified" as a Data Scientist.

So I enrolled for a 2 year course-based MS (1 year course work, 1 year dissertation). Basically it allows me to slap on my resume that (a) I have done university accredited courses in mathematical optimization, machine and statistical learning, deep learning, ethics, big data, etc. and I suppose the dissertation says that I can do more advanced work on data in an academically rigorous fashion. So basically I'm using the MS to change career trajectories 10 years after doing a BS CS.

I suppose you could do the courses through MOOCs but I appreciate the dissertation part as I am forced to read journal articles and learn how to do things more "rigorously" than I would otherwise in a plain old MOOC.

Isn't this a viable option for pursuing an MS? I don't think it's necessary directly after an undergraduate, but after a decade or so you might want to "specialize" into something that didn't really exist when you did your undergrad. BTW, I did this part time while working (you can kiss away your weekends and evenings).
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One of the problems is this line in particular:

The term ‘participation in a venture’ means knowing conduct by an individual or entity, that assists, supports, or facilitates a violation.

"facilitating" means "make easier or less difficult". Hosting a website that allows people to talk about things, potentially including sex trafficking, certainly makes it easier, and under this law, any such website would be liable.
See also Cody's Lab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj0aP-ricRU
I think it’s just about disabled kids and their parents not wanting to be treated like they have the plague.
I would love to see it, too. The good news is that these are all solved problems. It's more about tailoring the information and distributing it. It could be the online equivalent of a Sears article on how to build a shed.

I personally really enjoyed the "Links" sections at the bottoms of everyone's Web 1.0 pages.
I'd be surprised if it was actually modified seems too big of a liability.

If it was, someone should be going to jail as a result, since that's the footage they seemingly handed over to the police as evidence in the investigation.
Why do voters need to align their preferences with the US Constitution? Even assuming that the second amendment only allows residents to own weapons for militia use, I think it’s reasonable for citizens to say they won’t be happy until that right is expanded. If nothing else, they may mean that they support an additional amendment to carve out more rights.
Big question is if this will actually survive judicial review. I am quite sure someone will make a test case out of something. There's enough of "offending material" to make hay off.
I think this says more about you than about Google. By stating what they retain they've set themselves up for legal action by their users, if they deviant from those statements. If that's not good enough for you nothing would be.
-> The trouble is that all the solutions we have to wealth inequality are totalitarian and generally against the grain of enlightenment humanism. The most effective economic levelers are authoritarian socialism and warfare.

Really? Is the democratic socialism practiced in most of Europe totalitarian and authoritarian?
> In my MS it was about 65% Indian BS students and 35% local students

I can top that. When I was doing an MS in CS at UT Arlington between 2005 and 2008, I was one of two US citizens in the entire program.
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But why we should allow such a car that is not safe, it could be 10 times faster but 10 times less safe, for years we are trying to make transport safer, this included making cars more expensive so why should we go back in our investment in safer cars because company X wants to be the first on the market.
Before Google and the big aggregator silos like Reddit and Facebook existed, people were able to discover content on the web just fine, it just took a bit more effort.
Some things are worse than others.

In my mind, the only worse thing he could have said was that he would have him quartered, drawn and hanged.
I signed up. My initial impression is that 15% is a pretty hefty fee (despite the marketing of constantly saying "low" when talking about it) but at least that fee is passed off to the client rather than disguised as part of the freelancer's earnings (a la Upwork).
Tsk tsk—not a single iota of quantitative analysis. How can we know that the value of a CS degree is declining? By what measure of “value”?

This is pure “appeal to authority” as the author is a CS professor-—better to discuss Aline Lerner’s research which he references
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Working extremely long hours is also demonstrably detrimental to quality
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What I meant was profit/loss and other systems of accounting are meant to sum up the quantities within and the flows across the boundaries of a given system. If you externalize all of the profit and internalize all of the cost then of course it's going to look like a university loses money.
My guess on Maduro, is that he has less than 12 to 24 months left to live if he doesn't leave the country.

The average Venezuelan reported losing 24 pounds [1] of body weight just in 2017 from lack of food. The system won't survive much longer. They're at a stage of collapse where cannibalism will probably start to show up. People are flooding to Colombia and Brazil. The army will very likely remove him sooner rather than later. There's no cult loyalty system built up around Maduro as with someone like Kim Jong-Un for example.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-food/venezuelan...
> it's unfortunate that the 1st amendment doesn't extend to companies

It does. The companies have the freedom of speech to NOT host or promote speech they do not support.
Looks like they are willing to let Russian authorities block the app.

https://twitter.com/durov/status/976083990938517509
It's generally the legislators that are drawing the districts.

In Michigan there is a constitutional referendum coming up that will take that power away from them if it passes.
It's a tautology and irrelevant to say guns enable shootings. Guns make murder convenient, just as the Internet makes certain crimes convenient. But in both cases, the majority of the user base is benign and law abiding, and legislation would negatively affect them, arguably more than it would affect the bad actors.
As of two months ago, I could still purchase Arduinos & peripherals on Aliexpress for less than I could buy the raw parts and assemble them myself.
You mean the recent story which broke by Dutch intel?

There is no public video recording to substantiate their claim. You'd think this entire debate would be settled if on YouTube we could all just watch visual proof of Russians hacking the US.

They also claimed that the video feed came from a university building in Moscow's Red Square. I challenge you to find such a building on a map of the Red Square.
Someone didn't "suddenly walk in front of the car". The time they stepped into the road, you were still half a mile away.

Time to learn some new favourite german words. The first would be Sichtfahrgebot; you may only drive as fast as you can see. If your stopping distance exceeds your vision, you are driving too fast for conditions. This is doubly obvious with autonomous vehicles.

The other is Betriebsgefahr. It was your decision to drive a multi-ton vehicle with enough power for the electricity needs of a city block. She was walking, you were driving - you introduced the vast vast majority of the risk and it was your choice that is responsible for the lethal injuries. For this mere fact, you bear a significant percentage of the fault, always.
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What do you guys use for VPN services? I have a family of iOS, Mac and Windows devices and ideally i’d like to set this at router level but happy to set it at individual device level. Also is there a way to do this for streaming devices - chrome cast, Apple TV etc.
Laser is the sauce, wasn’t it?

Tesla is showing a video, clearly speed up, on their site and it looks like autopilot slowed down as they drove by a pedestrians on the side of the road. Around 1:30 https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware... it looks like it is very cautious at stops and when there are things roadside, almost too cautious

I tend to agree with you, I’ll even give their culture a tiny bit of slack if they are simply a ride share/taxi company (very tiny, you shouldn’t abuse or harass people ever) and I think it would make a ton of sense for them to partner with self-driving partners but it seems flawed that they made it into an existential issue that they do their own. It’s ironic, ride share has provided a very reasonable option to driving after a bar visit, with measurable results in some places, safety is something they could sell on.
It does indeed affect my liberty and perception of (and actual) safety.

How do I know you're not a crazy person? Or that you won't have crazy moments (like most people do)? Or that you're not crazy, just evil, or megalomanical? Or just the kind of dishonorable person who thinks a gun can win an argument?

I don't want to have to arm or defend myself against any of those possibilities, just so you can satisfy your desire, which can easily be acted out in controlled areas; shooting ranges, hunting parks, gun theme parks etc.

Or better yet, you can examine your desire, understand it, dissipate it. Try meditating.
I was an exception to what regehr said in at least one regard: my public speaking improved pretty dramatically while working toward a coursework-only MS. I don't think it was anything more complicated than just needing to hit a lifetime threshold of presenting in front of people some number of times.

The rest seems pretty valid, although at this stage, I doubt if there's any well-founded way to determine whether a given degree will prove to be worthwhile in a purely financial sense, if there ever was. With rising costs it's probably just somewhat less likely...
Instagram’s suggestions are out of control. It recommended that I friend the receptionist at my old dentist’s office. I didn’t even have Instagram when I went to that dentist. I can’t even figure out how it would connect us. Even if she had my phone number in her phone and made the decision to share her contacts with Instagram, I didn’t share my number with the service. I used an email that she wouldn’t have. Maybe I browsed a website with Facebook tracking while in the office and it knew my location and made a guess, but I don’t believe that it recommended anyone else from that building. Strang
> So even though joining this startup seemed ideal, I'm finding that the CEO is out of his depth and I can't follow him.

> I'd love to do this with the CEO in a lesser role.

Is this about equity or about who wears the pants?
Yeah, 99% of the time I side with the CTO in these types of posts, but unless the money raised was trivial (sub-6 digit) then just get to work. I get not wanting an idiot to lead the company, but that is something you work out with the investors, not something you bring up to the CEO directly. I fucked this up myself in a startup in the past so I get it, but for now just work as hard as you can to get to product market fit. If you really can't stand behind this guy, consider leaving the startup and starting a new one quietly with a better management team. The fundamental rule of startups is to only team up with people you've worked with successfully before. Otherwise you'll get unlucky with fit / competence.
It's exactly like email in this way. They could quote bscphil@evildomain.email, too.
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Respectfully, even if there was a strong recognized militia they had a tank I cannot follow the reasoning. We're a troubled democracy, but the army is practically saintly to many. A sample size of 1 is small, but does anyone here NOT know someone in the military? If so, would you shoot your fellow countrymen? I understand how quickly people abandon their principles in times of crisis, but in 230 years and we've had one civil war?
"Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc."

"All that behavior will do is paint you as naive. Sure there's room for honesty and responsibility, but only when used appropriately (strategically). Strikes me as acutely inhumane every time my career is rewarded for suppressing those behaviors."

The corporate world is only a reflection of the society that makes it up. There are plenty of people who are dishonest and manipulative. There is no real way to "fix" the corporate world.

Ergo there are only two ways to fix it, both of them only involving yourself:

I see a number of comments here opining that the current workforce health crisis is driven by a "money is happiness" society.
You know what money buys you in this case? Freedom. The freedom to act how you wish and not care about this game.

Once you are free from that, it is a matter of perspective:

"The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."

- "This is Water", David Foster Wallace
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf
Why host videos rather than torrent them?
Once, I might add. He did it once, and was willing to wait years with no reason to believe anyone noticed.

That totally says "false trail" rather than "fuck up" to me. /sarcasm