skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crack the code in these Lego artworks and you get $10k worth of cryptocurrencies
The book also says how that world was incredibly violent and unsympathetic to the elderly/sick.
Part of the problem is how asymmetric internet connections are now. My home connection may be 150 Mbit down, but I only get about 5 Mbit upload. And I gather this is fairly standard for most (American, at any rate) ISPs.
To play devil's advocate...

If the DNC were responsible for their own 'hack':

They CHOSE to release embarrassing and damaging information right before a major election, in case they lost, so they would have an excuse if it happened?

And the DNC is so competent at information security that they were able to deceive 17 (or whatever the number is) government agencies and several independent researchers?
Cross platform code coverage library for .NET Core
(Assuming it's the same as aviation, with which I'm very familiar), NTSB factual reports are the only reports admissible into court. NTSB preliminary and final reports, which are the ones which contain findings or probable or contributing causes are statutorily barred from being admitted into evidence of other trials. (This is to encourage open participation from potential parties to future lawsuits.)
Mumbai's leopards have killed humans – but could they also be saving lives?
>>I can't believe that radar and LIDAR were completely unable to see this woman until the visual cameras picked her up.

The worst part is, that the car didn't react at all - if it started breaking when the cameras saw her, it would still be better than what happened. But there was no reaction. Nothing from LIDAR, nothing from Radar, nothing from visual recognition - which to me, suggests only one thing: she was picked up by all three sensors, and then Uber's algorithm decided she wasn't an actual obstacle and could be safely ignored. Like a leaflet in the wind, or an immobile traffic sign next to the road. That's far worse than a straight up hardware malfunction.
Well, there is some seasonal work, but it's not the norm and it's probably difficult for most people to live working only half the year.
Elon Musk Is the Henry Ford of His Age. That's Bad
Both. Wages first of course. But plenty of people don't want to be limited to part time hours.
Hmm, it's not great they intend to send this information to the great firewall in the sky. If it were mozilla's own servers, I'd re-enable the usage collection on nightly.
Bit more of the same with the screencapture features, it's a shame we can't host and configure our own services....
Why did you join if the CEO is so-so? I think it can work out, if one of you leaves. Why are you so worried about his compensation compared to yours? If you feel you are undercompensated then demand more. If you feel like he is overcompensated, then question the board's judgement. It sounds more like sour grapes than anything the way you want to structure your equity with respect to the CEO.
On the Move with Blue Thomas of Updater
> The reasoning goes: the reasons why we need degrees are certification and reputation. By certification I mean that we only let people who we all trust practice medicine, as that kills people directly otherwise. So we restrict the people who can to those with the appropriate degrees.

That is why in Germany such degree programs (medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, food chemistry, law, pharmacy, teacher's training certificate, forestry) end with Staatsexamen (state examination), which is a special kind of degree that is much more tightly controlled by the state.
> However, the driving footage is from after release of the story. The moon on the 21st had illumination of ~17%. The night of the accident was the day after the new moon with an illumination of 1%.

Most of the illumination from the driving footage clearly comes from the street lights, not from the moon. In the Uber dashcam footage, the street lights barely illuminate their own foot, some seem to not even reach the ground. The phase of the moon is essentially a non-factor.

Not to mention LIDAR is not affected by external light source. So the phase of the moon is doubly irrelevant.
I heard they were moving to voat.co, a reddit-like site.
There's upside if they don't get caught, and Uber has a history of not making good choices as far as legality and ethics are concerned.
The chaos coming out of an equity battle will make the 2 of 2:1 worth less than making the thing successful. You have no power here, as you should know as a c-suite guy, so suck it up, work hard and wait.
I've been thinking about this a lot this morning.

I think almost every vice would be less damaging to society if it was in the open. Polite society doesn't want to see sex work or drugs, but they still exist. Hiding them makes things much worse for the people directly involved. It's trafficked kids with broken immigration status who are more scared of the cops than their captors. It's drug addicts who OD on tainted drugs.

Bring it all into the open. Have the government certify providers directly. Crack down on unauthorized middlemen. Tax it. Use the taxes to pay for programs that help people leave when they realize they can have a better life without it.

We need the classic American Market here: free trade enabled by regulation that ensures market quality and protects participants from fraud.

Unfortunately I don't think this is politically possible. It would take a long, well funded campaign. The people who are willing to do that kind of work are motivated by stories of individual tragedy and focus on draconian solutions like this mess of a law. The people who would push for openness can make more money elsewhere, and don't want to make their name "Advocating for drugs & sex."

Frustrating.
"Just look at the GDPR when you get above a certain size" probably won't be so easy. You'll have already committed to lots of things, lots of services, business model(s) etc. It's much much much easier to think about it from the start.
There is definitely upside. You know, not getting caught with a crap system that shouldn't be on the road.
By that logic we should remove all speed limits on roads. Does that seem like a good idea?
> You weren't paying attention—except for blasphemy, those things were from across the spectrum:

I didn't say it was only the conservatives/religious. I said it was usually them. Sure, tipper gore was against rap, but it was also the liberals who defended rap music.

> It wasn't a liberal Congress that just passed the bill that has is discussing censorship, so I think again you are falsely attributing something they exists across the political spectrum tomone side, just making the error in the opposite direction.

Once again. I didn't say only liberals are censoring now. I said the liberals are the ones spearheading the push for censorship.

The conservatives/religious have always been for censorship. Now the liberals have joined them. Even more, they are the ones spearheading censorship in much of the internet, etc. I'm sure the conservatives/religious are more than happy to follow along.

Just because I said liberals are bad doesn't mean that I think conservatives are good. Liberals seem to always think that because they live in a black and white world. Liberals and conservatives can both be bad.
Is Uber paying off the police chief to blame the victim?

I'm with the majority here -- the LIDAR should have picked the pedestrian up and decelerated. Uber's self-driving tech is less safe than a human driver, and should be shelved.
3. Using notepad.exe, Dave typed the GRU IP address into the server log before passing them on to Susan for her analysis
Sure it is, for the moment. We can't require a high bar from the get go. To use an analogy, where would we be if we required the reliability of modern airplane from the advent of the Wright Flyer?
Good point. And all of this is exactly what needs to be resolved.

How? I would love to see some initiatives in that area (beside IPFS)
GP didn't say self-driving cars should be less safe, only that they don't need to be safer in order to provide a benefit.
Undoubtedly supressors do decrease gas discharge from the muzzle and increase the safety of the system to the user. However, I feel you've chosen a best case scenario and haven't addressed my other points.

Subsonic ammunition is easy to press and real suppressors use closed rubber wipes which are only good for a couple shots. I hadn't intended to make that point a technical critique of suppressive technology so much as an indication of the perceived need over other options. When would I need a suppressor? If I'm not shooting on a range where everyone SHOULD have headgear, then I'm hunting far away from hopefully all society and being safe about it?

Regardless, I appreciate your candor.
Why do we only have the dashcam videos? I want to see the LIDAR data. Also, Uber definitively has ways to render all the sensor data into a video which shows the objects which was detected (or lack of detection).
Modified? We would never! No, we simply, uh, compressed it. So that more people could view it without bringing down the server. Standard practice.

"So what does the uncompressed footage look like?"

Intern lost it.
it was possible in 2011 when I did
There needs to be a process in place for autonomous cars accidents. Required telemetry and data provided to independent organization (financed by manufacturers). If it deems the car (hardware or software) was at fault, whole fleet needs to be immediately disabled until the issue is resolved.

Dead pedestrian here and there won't hurt the companies financially. There's not much reason for them to push for perfect products. They can just shoot for 99% and account for the rest in damages. Disabling their service will hurt them.

This needs to be treated like planes, trains, or medical devices are. Not like consumer device.
The difference is that this approach could work against IVRs, but not against sex trafficking.
That’s the case for most American CS masters; the linked one is specifically for people without a bachelor’s in the field and is by far the less common type (though generally the American bachelors is 4 years, and the American masters is 1-2 years depending on the program and how many classes at a time a student is willing to take).
> This is another one of those stories that ought to be shocking but is unlikely to move the dial.

No. This is an outrage and the British people will rightly be outraged. The effects of this will and should be felt in the next election and beyond. Your sophisticated world-weary cynicism is counterproductive.
Nobody will talk about "common sense media control" for some reason. It's common sense!
Sure that's all fine if you are aware of it and agree with it.

Isn't it the same as Cambridge Analytica? That was a feature of Facebook to share your friend information... it still makes it bad.

The fact that Mozilla has good intention doesn't change how it was done. Secrecy isn't the solution, it only pushes toward these kinds of publications and outrage. If it was known, believe me, we wouldn't be here having that discussion, it would be a non-issue.
How does one use gerrymandering to sway a presidential election?
As long as the economy is doing well things will be OK. From the outside China looks pretty well run so I'd expect them to last for a long time. It's not like the Soviets where it was blatantly obvious that things are mismanaged.
Moon or not, the Uber video shows the headlights projecting less than half the distance they're rated at. They're functioning so badly, in fact, that it wouldn't be safe to drive with them, human or bot.
The circumstances in Russia are more complicated and by far not as good of an example of a 1984 situation as China is.
Not to mention, the big selling point with AVs is that they use LIDAR which is superior to human vision. So where's the LIDAR data? Why didn't the car see this person using its non visual sensors.

I think its a given that visual only data is pretty lousy for AV purposes. You have too many issues with it.
> Self-driving cars don't promise to save time. It's still driving.

Not having to drive the car from and to the parking lot saves a lot of time.
Also many people can get work or other things done while being driven to their destination, for example doing phone calls.
Author here. Indeed, our work is closely related to dropout. However, as we discuss in the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06959), dropout doesn't really encourage the network to be robust to deletion generally; it only encourages this robustness up until the dropout fraction used in training.

So, for example, if you train the network with a 50% dropout rate, dropout will encourage the network to be robust to dropping 50% of the units, but the network could completely fail once 51% of the units are deleted and the training objective would be perfectly happy. As a result, dropout doesn't change the shapes of ablation curves, but rather simply horizontally scales them such that the left edge of the curves is at the dropout fraction rather than 0. In contrast, we found that batch normalization actually pulls the curves up and to the right, rather than simply scaling them, though we only have hints as to why that is.

Hope that was helpful!
Which would be wholly rendered illegal and anyone hosting any part of it held liable if there's e.g. child porn uploaded into it. Like what turned out to be true for bitcoin yesterday.
> The only explanation I can think of is that I had used my phone number to sign up, and they scanned all their users to see who has my phone number stored in their phones.

Simple. Those services ask permission to access the contact list of their user so they can "check if they already have them in their system". And while they're at it, they just keep everything. Permission included so they can store new contacts when you add new ones.
It was perfectly clear to me - I felt like they go out of their way to tell you that using Nightly collects some data about your browsing to make Firefox better. That's literally how they advertise using Nightly.
Different ages and cultures will give different spins to the same old human needs and inclinations.
The rider inside the Uber car didn't die...
This is like ranting that Google couldn't have developed Chrome because their PR person doesn't know how to code.
If self driving cars are equally good at driving as humans then there is no trade off. It's the same level of safety with more convenience. That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for greater safety, but I think the original poster might have been a bit over zealous with his words.
I don't think this is accurate. I'm not a lawyer or even very knowledgeable about law, but I would be very surprised if the driver is at fault here. This is anecdotal, but I know someone who was in an eerily similar accident (as the driver) and unfortunately killed a person who walked in front of his car. While tragic, he did nothing wrong and there were no legal repercussions.

I live in NYC, where jaywalking is a way of life, and I've adopted two policies over the last few years:

1. Never jaywalk. Just don't do it. Find the appropriate and safe crosswalk, and wait.
2. Never assume it is safe to cross a street, even when you have the right of way. People laugh at me when I look both ways when we have the right of way, but logic is simple: just because I have the right of way does not mean the drivers coming from either side are aware of that or are paying attention.
That seems like a correct read of this. They didn't react at all. If the data shows that all three systems picked her up just fine and no reaction was made, that's really damning about the quality of the software that Uber has.
My understanding actually is that the ridiculous Grumpy Cat thing was actually a pretty purposeful and managed marketing campaign to build a minor meme into a brand. I believe it might actually be an example that proves the opposite point from what you're trying to make here.
>I know some people will say that they could work on their way to work, but I can't do work in a car.

But some can, and they would benefit from a self-driving car that can drive _at least as safe_ as themselves. Granted, it'd be great if they could improve on safety, but I think GP's point is that this is not their only possible use.
I don't think it's a "different spin to the same old human need;" I think it's a phenomenon entirely different in kind. This is, I think, as clearly as I can possibly state my argument.
Certainly not. As long as the cars still require someone to sit behind the wheel for taking the fall when something bad happens, putting your citizens up for inverse target practice creates a handsome number of VC funded low qualification jobs: all you need is a drivers license and, apparently, something to read against the boredom.
> require that you have completed an appropriate amount of foundational CS courses

In fact, I went back for an MSCS degree ten years after finishing a BSCS, and even then I was required to take a couple of foundational undergraduate courses before they let me start my graduate coursework, since there had been enough advances in CS theory since I graduated a decade ago that they felt (correctly) that I needed to catch up.
The ignition switch scandal is horrible and disgusting, but it helps that Google hasn’t before had to build any products that could have life or death impacts on their users. I suppose the closest you can get is when the revelation came out that Google had been uploading locations of Android phones even when the settings were flipped off, people criticized the danger this posed to domestic-abuse victims.
Yes, I meant the Java uberframework beloved by architecture astronauts. I suppose I should have been more clear - I haven't uses RoR since version 3, so my knowledge of that ecosystem isn't very current :)
> The lidar should have enough time to detect the pedestrian (who is crossing the road at a leisurely pace)

And had already crossed an entire lane, they were struck on the right-hand lane of a two-lanes street.
It's worth noting that National Geographic is now owned by the same parent company as Fox News:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geog...
Was privacy your main driving factor for purchasing a Talos?
Additionally, handing over non-trivial tasks to someone else carries a non-trivial cost.
The subtext of Mister_Snuggles response was "that's a ridiculous question", which, I also agree with. Instead of flagging silly posts, I like to turn them into reddit threads and spend a little of my hard earned karma.
I can't be sure but time and again doubts are cast over China's data: economic output, rising incomes etc. Local governments were recently encouraged to report if they fudged their numbers:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Chinese-loc...
While I happen to agree and appreciate your input, let's avoid words like hypocracy for now. It tends to nurture hostility and I'm trying to get some real insight.
All the terms and templates we are using legally and in the media... they are painting a totally (imo) misleading picture.

FB's "crime" is painted as data security. The "criminals" are trump, Bannon, Putin or whoever is alleged to have used this data to "manipulate public opinion." This misses the entire point.

FB's business model is based on using large datasets of mundane (in isolation) information in order to "profile" people. More specifically, score people for likelihood to do X, where X is refinance a loan, go to a diet seminar or whatever an advertiser wants.

The key point is large quantities of mundane data, not necessarily stuff that is protected.

Someone got a hold of a small subset of FBs dataset and presumably used it to target political messages or whatnot.

This is exactly what all FB advertiser's do every day.

If we're calling this incident "manipulating public opinion" or "foreign meddling"... Then the problem is 10,000X times bigger than this case. This stuff is all around us.
>Demand characteristics always come into play with such tests, at least when it comes to evaluating groups of people like any group of 4chan or reddit folk

Even if, the desired choice had to be established somehow.

>I was determined to be INTJ

Answering honestly, yes? I asked because I thought "I could have written this" (well except the book writing part); I also get intj.
Of course it's gameable, but when answered honestly I found it works very well for clustering (intp/intj as one cluster); the personality description is irrelevant. I started from the position of extreme skepticism.
It's possible it's less reliable for other personality types.
I wonder why they don't want to show its LIDAR "video", I thought that all autonomous vehicle are using it. I agree that a cause of the accident can be that LIDAR had failed but I wonder why in this kind of technologies they don't have redundancies system. :/
Yes.

The current thought is that cancer arises by tissue stem cells accumulating mutations at a low rate until it goes out of control. Every division there is some chance of error. If you have more divisions, there is a higher chance of cancer.

If you always keep this in mind: cell division -> cancer, so much will make sense. Anything requiring an increase in cell division will increase the chances of cancer in that tissue (smoking damages lung cells which need to be replaced, uv damages skin cells, being larger means you have more cells).

That is not to say that immune surveillance for clearing these bad cells plays no role, or that DNA damage sensitivity/repair can't be increased/decreased, or that those rates need be similar in different species. However, the main idea behind the entire modern cancer research programme is that cell division -> cancer.

More info:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54830/
I would assume the compensation for a software engineer with 20 years of experience vs one with 5 years considering the output each of them can do. I would assume the younger software engineer can do as much 'typical' programming work as the older one for less pay.

However, I feel the older software engineers shouldn't be writing as much as the younger guy but should be utilized for architecture purposes, handling requirements with clients or internal product people, and even mentoring while having some programming tasks. I think that is where they really earn their significant compensation and bring much more value to the company.
Going to repost my canned response:

>The government supports free speech because it's important and a Good Thing. Just because private companies aren't required to do the same doesn't make it any less important and a Good Thing.
> I do wonder if a standard driver would have also been deemed not at fault by the police. The answer is likely, "yes".

But it seems, we do not for sure, that the sensors completely failed and on top of that the human driver also failed, so the question is :are this tests safe? next time the failure could happen on a crosswalk , IMO the question of who is to blame is not as important then the question if is safe to do this tests on public roads with such poor hardware and software.
Not really. The equivalent would be criticizing the Wright brothers for (hypothetically) having built and deployed a plane over a city that they knew had a strong risk of crashing and killing someone, when that risk could have been averted by basic engineering available and known to them. We are talking about negligence, not sure why you are trying to change the subject.

No one is saying that self-driving cars need to be perfect. People are asking whether it is responsible to deploy unsafe ones on public roads.