skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have a shallower and less genuine set of social media connections

I don't think you have to be "shallow" to be biased towards posting highlights.

You spend a nice vacation in Asia? Your kid managed an important accomplishment? Found a restaurant that's awesome? Aren't these the kind of things that you naturally have the tendency to share?

In contrast, you spent your saturday doing nothing at home? Your kid did an average thing? You ate food that's just "okay"? Am I shallow if I don't like posting these things? Sure some of the days I might want to post about some average or bad things, but I think I'm still biased towards the highlights
Remind your FB users about alternative auth methods
It’s too early to say anything about it and I dont want to share any opinion about what is happening with FB. We know it’s not going anywhere but still some users are considering to #DeleteFacebook.
If you’re running an online business and you have users authenticating via FB. Probably you want to remind them about alternative authentication methods.

Because of all activities around #DeleteFacebook, perhaps some of your users are going to delete their accounts and perhaps you don’t want to lose them. (Yes! FB has recover option.., but you still want to support your users properly)
On the contrary, many major companies, especially finservs have multicloud strategies to avoid lock-in or concentration risk (a real concern of regulators). Platforms like pcf and K8s allow for (easier) porting between clouds rather than building directly to cloud provider api's.
You can count me in! :)
I believe it about google. I don’t trust uber at all. Or Tesla for that matter.
Also mbasic.facebook.com, the JavaScript-free version of the site.
LaTeX for the humanities
You quoted death by cancer rates, not cancer rates
Canada does have some laws to protect similar issues related to freedom of press (e.g anonymous sources[0]) and some organizations fighting for it[1].

[0]https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/3kp7n3/canada-passes-law...

[1]https://www.cjfe.org/
I dream of an open source linkedin. A system where recruiters can reach you only if they provide the info you specify, thereby reducing information asymmetry.

Recruiter wants to reach job-hunters with vague info: can reach 1000 dev;
Recruiter wants to reach job-hunters with salary info: can reach 2000 dev
... more information more reach
I'd start with the end goal. Is the acoustic signal from the motorbikes likely to be traceable to particular bikes? If so, would the local police actually be interested in following up?

There is value in quantifying just how noisy the bikers are and for just how long they disturb the neighbourhood, but you'll probably need the perpetrators to be people the police are able and willing to stop to get anywhere.
I don't see Uber on the list, what brand are they under?
So, in Germany, all vehicle-pedestrian incidents result in civil and criminal penalties?
> We’ve hidden modified smartphones powered with solar panels—called “Guardian” devices

Question, how is the electrical PV power budget vs load budget calculated for these? Having implemented PV projects ranging in size from 300W to 30kW, I'm very interested to know what their predicted Wh per day generated from the solar cell is vs. what the load will consume (what's the actual load of the cellphone, how often does it wake up every day, etc).
> When Mr. Khosrowshahi took over as Uber’s chief executive, he had considered shutting down the self-driving car operations

As I thought, it seems extremely likely that Uber is going to cancel the project now. Ethically there would have to be some kind of meticulous safety audit which would put them even further behind the competition. Even if they wanted to continue, there's hardly any point.
I worked with Chernoff faces long time back and love how this is an interesting way to visualize how discriminative your features are.

The idea is that you take features of your dataset, and use those to represent a face. Say for example, you want to classify 100 people based on different features. And let's say you've collected 15 features for each person (e.g., height, weight, shoulder width, length of first name, length of last name, type of car driven, etc.). Now try mapping each of these features to Chernoff faces. You'd map it in the following manner: height->area of face, weight->shape of face, shoulder width->length of nose, length of first name->location of mouth, length of last name->curve of smile, type of car driven->width of mouth, etc.

Once you've mapped in that fashion and visualize the faces, you can observe how discriminative your features are. How do you interpret this? If your Chernoff faces tend to show a lot of variation in expression (e.g., smiling vs. sad), you say the length of last name is more discriminative. On the other hand, if the faces all appear to have same area, your first feature (i.e., height) is not very discriminative.

Other features used for Chernoff faces could be:
location, separation, angle, shape, and width of eyes;
location, and width of pupil; location,
angle, and width of eyebrow, etc.

One drawback (as listed in the Wikipedia page) is that we humans perceive the importance of these faces by the way in which variables are mapped to the Chernoff facial features. If the feature mapping is not carefully chosen, your largest varying feature may be ignored because we appreciated the change in expression more than the change in eyebrow length.
GPUs are already too expensive for gamers and now you want to do this?!
One example might be Jordan Mechner, who wrote Karateka between the ages of 18 and 20, which went on to sell 500,000 copies. One of his journal entries mentions he got 15% royalty, and one of his videos mentions that the original retail price was $34.95, so he may have made a couple million from it.
Stories like this are how companies end up on my mental boycott list which is fairly indefinite especially when their value-add over competitors is limited or non-existent. I'd be glad to read the other side of this as I usually don't like to draw conclusions from pieces like this, but I suspect it's pretty clear in this case. /me slots Marriott just above Nestle in mental Rolodex. Bet they can't quantify that, I don't have a Twitter account.
While not the full experience, Figma does work offline for already-imported files if you use their desktop client.

https://help.figma.com/faqs/offline-mode
I just looked it up -- The first iPhone was officially released 3 days after Dropbox received their YC check (June 29th, 2007 vs. June 26th). Astounding.
Wow, they have a complete disregard for safety and just care about their stupid valuation. This isn’t even a case of “hacking” for innovation. The company seems to be rotten to th core with everyone just salivating to profit from the IPO.
From Signal Propagation to Consciousness: A Potential Connection Discovered
Physical violence is obsolete. Rioters are futile. The only way to victory over tyranny is inventing a kind of media efficient, reliable, anonymous, invisible and easy to establish enough to set information flows free without any compromises, totally or almost totally impossible to control, limit, eavesdrop or detect. I believe this is what separates the humanity from the next major level of development. The new messiah will be an engineer, physicist and/or a mathematician to invent whatever will make this possible.
one of the problems is that true near-realtime satellite imagery (90 degree angle direct overhead, visual spectrum or IR spectrum to detect tree cover) is quite costly, in terms of $$$ per square km, if you want images that were acquired recently. The older the data is, the cheaper it gets. This could be a huge recurring cost to buy new satellite imagery.

If you want almost-true-realtime satellite imagery for land-use law enforcement purposes, you're looking at a project that required the financial resources of a nation-stage IMINT apparatus (US NRO) for example, with dozens of polar-orbit, LEO satellites. The best you're going to get from commercial sources is a couple of days old, up to a few weeks old.
Yes, I read somewhere (Wikipedia probably) that they are called the Three Sisters. They are symbiotic to some extent. The beans, being legumes, do nitrogen fixation in the soil, which benefits the other plants, and the beans grow up and twine around the maize stalks (at least for the creeper kinds of beans).
Isn't this good for gamers? They get to sell their idle gpu time and basically get a gpu for free. If he's really paying 2x more than cryptomining, this translates to paying off a gtx 1080 in a few months even taking into account electricity costs.
But how else do you imagine scenarios like these are tested? Normally there aren't a lot of people willing to jump randomly out in front of cars to test their reaction.
Unusual map projections like these are often curiosities, but the can also be useful for certain topics, like mapping migrations[1][2][3] or showing airline routes[4][5].

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map-of-human-migrati...

[2]: https://nordpil.com/static/images/redknot_migration.png

[3]: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature2/map.html

[4]: https://imgur.com/5TFPcDa

[5]: https://imgur.com/6X91323

Additionally, this project is a generalization of a feature that already existed in D3 (clipping spherical polygons to map boundaries -- previously you could only do this if the boundary in question was the antimeridian or a small circle centered at the origin). That generalization will make it easier to use some more common map projections that were already supported in d3-geo-projection[5] like as Goode's interrupted homolosine and Mollweide projections. These are useful projections for showing things like population density[6] where you care about preventing distortion in the landmasses but don't care about the oceans. While these projections were possible before, they required the use of SVG clip-paths and other tricks to prevent drawing outside the map bounds. In theory they could now be simplified using the polygon clipping implemented in d3-geo-polygon.

[5]: https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-projection

[6]: http://www.jakelow.com/essays/mapping-the-world-population
Flutter should have been a predecessor to React Native
Last year they had not been in operation long enough to require disclosure.
You gotta love the uncaring, cynical dev with more interest in his own pocket than the effects of automation and the well-being of his technical and non-technical co-workers. Apparently, he only believes that innovation is possible everywhere else besides unions and collective bargaining. Be positive my friend, I’m sure we’re capable of creating a new type of union in 2018.
Publish on Your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
Up next, all atheists and homosexuals get fired from any company that deals with Saudi Arabia.

We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.

Marion should be made an example of in the US. Say a wink wink nudge nudge major tax audit of every single Marion hotel.
> Exactly. Just look at how the US government quickly and easily wiped out all those insurgents in the Middle East.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is...

Not sure about wiping them out but US got pretty good at killing them and not getting killed themselves in the process.

> Armed citizens defending themselves and their families on their own turf against modern militaries using asymmetric warfare techniques have actually proven pretty effective.

Examples? Preferably of last decade or two because modern military technology is ... well modern. And your future insurgency won't be countered even with today technology but future one.

> In any case, you're assuming an all-out civil war where the government has free reign to send in the military against its own citizens with no concern for political fallout, using whatever level of force is needed to achieve their objective. In practice they don't have that much freedom even when dealing with a foreign group intent on causing us harm.

If you own a gun to shoot your foot or spouse, government will happily restrict itself from interfering with your freedoms. Try to use it go gang up with few dozen of hundreds of citizens and oppose some tax regulation or something government actually cares about. You'll have FBI on your ass before you ramp up, and if that's not sufficient, yes, also military. And don't be so sure they'll restrict themselves then, especially if you fire even single shot at them. Even pointing your gun in their general direction could be enough to lift any restrictions.

> Under more realistic circumstances, the mere possibility of armed resistance serves as a major deterrent to tyranny vs. the ease with which unarmed civilians can be rounded up for "re-education".

I wonder why so many western countries don't descend into tyranny even though their citizens don't own guns.
Very similar. Dropout during training will force alternative redundant "routes". This is using dropout to give clues to see what contributes to the final signal.
"One just could be tricked into believing that the people suggesting that Linus doesn't care much about security could be right."

I've got the impression over the years that Mr T does care about security. However, security is only one aspect of kernel development and stomping on hand waving when it is used to justify badly thought through bodges with a single purpose in mind seems fair enough to me. That is something he has done time and again and once you get through some of the rather harsh language, he invariably has a good engineer's approach to what gets released.

We don't simply use computers to "be secure" - that's nonsense. We use computers to do something and they should be secure as well. There are many, many design constraints imposed on OS kernel devs. The complexity of OS kernel development borders on the ridiculous to me sometimes (I'm just a sysadmin - I'm happy that I can compile and install the bloody thing when I need to by hand).

I did see your wink 8)
Most humans can't do large square roots in their head either. I still expect my calculator to do it properly. What's the point of adding lidar to cars if they aren't going to use it?
I'm failing to see how your comment is any less cynical than the comment above.
Oh good, then China has nothing to worry about and can leave everything as was is.
Tests allow irresponsible people to blame the test when their system fails, I worry that a system like that will cause the opposite of your intentions.
This is just the beginning, next #deletegoogle
It's a cliche that everyone thinks this about their own particular area, but it's true that people in different areas (sometimes within the same state) drive badly in very different ways. Just another factor that SDVs will have to test.
Someone with a twitter account should tweet this at Donald Trump.

That will be a real black mirror episode.
http://archive.beefjack.com/features/matt-smith-the-fall-of-...
I don't really see any steps to reduce PR backlash. I do, however, see a lot of steps taken to reduce liability, which is a bigger concern if they were targeting a demographic.

The only PR steps seem to be ones to reduce liability, namely that no one involved should talk about it.
Film unions don't regulate indie films — hopefully this will be much the same.
Is this a metric that is being used any where?

Would be interesting to have 'resilency' metric in addition to the normal 'accuracy' and 'loss' metrics.
"When the pedestrians shoes first become visible in the video there is approximately 59' between the car and the pedestrian, in 1 second the car will have already covered 52.5' of that gap leaving 6.5' left to stop the car.

"In order for a human driver, or the driver in this car to have avoided this collision by merely hitting the brakes and traveling in a straight line, "as is the reaction when startled by something on the road" there would have needed to be at least another 127.5' of distance between the car and the pedestrian."

Wow, that comment is...bad.

(As an aside, the stopping distance of a car, including reaction time, traveling at 35MPH is about 100 feet.)
I hope async programming doesn't become the standard in Rust. So much work has gone into allowing clean and safe threading, but people seem to be led towards the async libraries, which IMO solves a scaling problem only 1% of users will have. It's great that they exist, but if you're not expecting to have a c10k class problem, you can use threads and you'll probably have a better time.
Seems an odd question. Do have some reason to think it was speeding?
"your liberty stops where others' begin" they say...
The thing is that it doesn't really matter. There are only 2 options here. Either, the car should have seen the woman and taken corrective action or it was driving faster than it can see. Just because the speed limit says X doesn't mean that's the speed you should be going. Often, actual conditions require driving slower.
They don't publish the names of their members and they don't have a tiered structure of who does what. Everyone presumably reports to a small group of leaders.
Thanks for not taking it personally :) that's not always easy!

> For one example; we're working really hard right now on getting async/await shipped, and dealing with ergonomics problems around it. The recent changes are to make it simpler, not make it harder. For example, you should need to think a lot less about future composition, since you'll be able to borrow across futures, as just one example.
>
> There might be a disconnect between what we're working on and what we're perceived to be working on. Messaging is hard!

Sufficed to say that I can't wait to see these improvements come out. It may end up being the case that I simply got started on this project a little too early — six months from now many of my problems may have evaporated already.
Early reports said the police stated the AV was going 38 in a 35mph zone
This is why the right to bear arms is so important. If only the wealthy are able to arm themselves there really isn't much available to keep them in check.
AI research demand is a lot easier for AMD/Nvidia to project, which allows them to ramp up production and keep prices stable.

Side note: AI research is more beneficial to society than running a few instances of Crysis 9 at 4K 120HZ.
Libertarians should, in principle, be okay with people exercising their personal freedom to form a union.
This is the exact wrong approach to incident management. A business intending not to make this kind of mistakes again would hold a post mortem and fix the system failures encountered. Marriott just needed a scapegoat.
The grandparent comment implied it was speeding:

> and an algorithm which encouraged the car to speed 3 mph over the limit when it was dark conditions

But the linked NYT article said 40 in a 45 zone.
Yeah. A little surreal getting asked for opinions in order to read an article about someone getting fired for showing an opinion.
Maybe by market share, but Tinder predated Bumble, whereas Lyft predated Uber.
Not as easily as an HTML page
That’s easy to say, but one look at their recent investment call transcripts shows that’s a pretty naive view.

To make it clear, number of users is great, but revenue growth is much much better.
Not really. I am arguing that what can be enforced, either by state or by an organization, are laws for the former and rules/bylaws/etc for the latter. Which may or may not be ethical.

Maybe I _am_ splitting it a bit too finely, but I just don't see ethical norms (which do change over time) as something being enforceable.
From what I understand, a website can ask you for anything but they need to explicitly get consent (unlike say cookies policies) and they need to inform the user what the data is used for.

In your dating example, the user agrees the company can use the data to get a match. The company can't use the data for other purposes.
I thought the same thing. Why bring gender into this? Bullying should be discouraged in all walks of life, whether the victims and perpetrators are male or female.

Interestingly, all of my female friends who use Bumble are actually annoyed that they must act first to open the dialog with their matches. They don't seem to notice or care that the feature is placed there to empower women, nor do they know or care about Bumble's feminist origins. They use it because it has more attractive males than Tinder.
> We called them savages for living in harmony with the land.

I thought the "living in harmony with the land" thing has generally been considered discredited along with the rest of the "noble savage" tropes out there... (e.g. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/60/7/516/234159 )
[disclaimer: I work for Pivotal]

I'm sorry you had such a disheartening experience at Pivotal; it's uncommon — in general, Pivotal people tend to be very warm and kind, and not snobby at all.

When I joined Pivotal six (seven?) years ago, I assumed that I'd stay maybe two years, tops, but the people were nice, and that's what has kept me here.

Also, the comment you heard ("Oh I think we already know how [Database X] works") may have not intended to be snobby but rather a nod to one of the developers there: if the database company was InfluxDB, and the office you visited was the NYC office, then there's a good chance that they were referring to one of the Pivotal developers, John, who was one of the early developers of InfluxDB along with Paul Dix and Todd Persen. [1]

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[1] https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-1-0-ga-released-a-r...
Representative pricing for multiple sources including Planet's RapidEye: http://www.landinfo.com/satellite-imagery-pricing.html

Purchasing a before and after image of a specific logging site isn't cheap once you've factored in minimum order sizes, but it isn't unaffordable. Purchasing images to look at deforestation on a national scale (if you're looking at individual trees, not woods; open data will give you the latter) is millions of dollars per annum, but worked very well where tried to prevent illegal vegetation clearing in Australia.
1. no i haven't since it will most likely result in the site owner coercing me since its his content

2. i can def. make a blog about it which is the point of this
Ultimate Proposal
What part of the Constitution would bar this?
Please smart people, spent your intelligence on clean approaches such as memory-safe system programming languages such as Rust or so instead of wasting time with old broken legacy languages. I want to see secure systems before I die.
I really don't know. Even with all the hours of recorded road time by Google/Uber used as a testbed for proper driving conditions, most machine learning systems still suffer from figuring out ways of cheating[1], and in those cases it could be fatal.

[1] "The program even learns how to take advantage of bugs and glitches, like timing jumps so that Mario begins falling again at the exact time that he makes contact with a Goomba. Mario's invincible when he's falling, so the touch kills the Goomba, not Mario, and it gives him a further jump boost." http://www.wired.co.uk/article/super-mario-solved
No no. In the dark days people believed various things were true because authorities said so - authorities such as the Church, Plato, Aristotle, whoever. People confused truth with source and also believed that some ideas were certain or self-evident. The Englightenment was a rebellion against these attitudes. In reality we are fallible and we now expect that some of what seem to be our best ideas are in fact wrong, including our current values. If this weren't the case, progress would not be possible, as I think you rightly acknowledge.
Notice the narrative: to attack Bumble is to attack women's empowerment.