skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the longest time the argument for banning The_Donald wasn't to silence their voice. It was to tell their users to fuck off if they can't follow the site rules. They would constantly manipulate the vote counts or brigade smaller subs, more recently the spotlight has been about reddit's rules regarding advocating violence.

The problem was always that they hid behind the guise that they were the unofficial Donald Trump fanclub when there really never was an alternative one with a more moderate userbase. The_Donald is fine to exist but they seemingly refuse to stay in their playpen and ahve their fun, they need to sling mud throughout the rest of reddit while they're there.

And just to state it, I don't think TD is the only sub guilty of this behavior. I don't think its even an issue exclusive to politics but I really wish Reddit took a more hard look at their rule enforcement to make things clear and had clear transparency for their enforcement of the rules.
So my advice is this: buy
Pinker’s book and read it.
Then work for a future where
the book’s optimism is justified.

I personally hope most get to the conclusion of this review and take it's advice.
The word "censor" doesn't exclusively apply to government actions though.
That a company's mission is to make money for their shareholders does not mean they pursue that mission to the exclusion of all else. They can also pursue side goals, from making the company a nice place to work at, to giving back to the society which allowed them to exist and grow in the first place. Some of these goals may have little to no tangible results on the bottomline, which is ok as long as they don't compromise their main objective. You seem to like to view the world through a cynical lens which is no more true to reality than a naive lens.
I'll take a wild guess as to why.

Because you are young.

Most people working for government you know are also young. So you hear about the crazy amount of work they do. But here is the thing: they have to work this much because old government employees do nothing. And after 5 or 10 years busting their asses while they see lazy people not getting fired and getting their raises they'll start putting 2 and 2 together and cut back on work to focus on their family and hobbies. Or work at office politics as it is the best way to get a better pay.
The discussion on lights and cameras in this case is a part of determining who is responsible for the accident.
We're not going to see eye-to-eye on this topic and that's okay.

We can't uninvent the gun and we can't, realistically, make them illegal.

As for shooting drones and tanks, look to our wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam. It doesn't take much to bog down a well-oiled fighting force like ours.
>YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that... links to sites that sell firearms or certain firearms accessories.[1]

This effectively cuts off any revenue stream other than crowdfunding, as practically every sponsor would sell guns or accessories. Furthermore, direct firearm sales and instructions on how to make (and indeed, actually making) firearms are entirely legal.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7667605
Anyone care to explain how we can get this data?

I tried going to facebook > settings > download data, but that's only data that I manually uploaded to facebook.com (posts, messages, photos, etc).
You deeply underestimate the wealth of the infamous "1%".
lack of competition in the banking industry

I can think of 11 banks off the top of my head, some are big banks, a couple credit unions, a brokerage with banking services like Schwab. If I googled for "local banks" I would get a lot more. What is the lack of competition you are referring to?
This technology is really cool. My question would be, "What happens when your AI detects chainsaws or logging trucks?". Do you contact some policy authority, some international authority? Also, why are their cell phone towers in the middle of the jungle? What about areas deep in the wilderness where no cell towers exist?
You can also note that "the heads of the top six American intelligence agencies unanimously reaffirmed Russian interference" without being a conspiracy nut.
What gun vids were removed from Youtube? I heard about this controversy yesterday, I just looked up "Glock 19 safety tips" and there were over 200,000 videos.
> In the 1980s the media hated Reagan about as much as they hated Bush or Trump. Before that it was Nixon. But you really only heard about it if you watched the evening news, and that was 30 minutes of the day. It wasn't being fed to you continuously like an intravenous drip on your phone.

While I wasn't mature enough then to form my own opinion about it, I'm under the impression that the media was also more restrained and professional back then. Now it seems a lot more tabloid, generally. There also seems to be a burring between "opinion/editorial" and reporting, especially online, which fuels the polarization.
I'm a heavy user of Slack, but Slack 3.0.0 running on my MacOS 10.13.3 laptop is using less than 100MB memory. FWIW
Maybe there should be some limits to when these vehicles may travel until they have proven they can deal with more difficult situations.

Driving at night or in a snow storm is a very difference environment than on a nice day.
In Korea they ate / eat tires...

A dictator can stay pretty long with enough force.
It is worth adding that both sides of this political cold war are actively attacking the democratic process. These bills were largely driven by the political establishment, but remember Trump’s response to the recent shootings: He urged everyone to err on the side if reporting suspicious behavior to federal law enforcement.
Where did the fake news come from, if not from Facebook?
Your second sentence is literally whataboutism.

Why not address the point of the article instead of talking about communism, which nobody mentioned?
It probably comes as soon as you install their app on an iPhone or Android device.
If useful, I wrote a media literacy guide for engineers that touches on a lot of things discussed in this thread:

Hacking Engineers and Engineering Media

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer
It seems like a dirty tactic for a federal law to be passed making websites that promote prostitution illegal while the legality of actual prostitution is left up to the individual states to decide. I bet this isn't the first time this type of tactic has been employed.
"Independent" "fact-checkers" will make sure of that.
Here's what Merriam Webster says censorship means:

>1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring

>"They oppose government censorship."

The example use calls out government censorship as a specific type of censorship. If "censorship" meant "the government censoring things" you would not need to specify "government censorship" in that sentence.

Yes, I know that dictionary definitions are not necessarily the final word on what something means, but they're absolutely correct here. It is a broad word and it is widely used in other contexts. People other than the government can censor things.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship
In Hungary, I felt rich...but then they were not using the euro.
> Why do we have to "believe"? There are many examples to learn from, to see what works and what doesn't.

The discussion was about abuse, not about total number of trafficking incidents. Those _estimates_ are not actual numbers but extrapolations of the actual numbers in the opinion of the study's authors.

Germany also failed to properly regulate its brothels with the same vigor as they apply to other industries which was genuinely unfortunate.

All it takes is going to legal brothels with business licenses and checking citizenship status.
Almost every major show on Netflix and other media companies is filled with Nudity. It’s like America loves butts, boobs and bullets.

I don’t get why prostitution is not legalized when more states have weed legalized.

I spent quite a bit of time in Australia, where it is legalized. There was a time when Brothels advertised in newspapers in lesser read sections.

I’m glad that America is not the rest of the world, because it sure has some weird culture. They would rather have easier access to guns than sex.

Not that I support prostitution. Every man and woman for themselves. I do support their right to live their lives as they wish if they aren’t interfering with others’ lives.
Isn't the auto brake only active at lower speeds? (<50 km/h is a figure that rings a bell). The car was driving 61 km/h which is higher than normal "city speeds".
I'm a heavy Slack user (dozens of channels, open for weeks at a time), but Slack 3.0.0 running on my MacOS 1.13.3 laptop is only using ~75MB memory. FWIW
It wasn't pushback. It was a reasonable line of argument where the second video claimed the accident occured (in the much less illuminated area after the stop light).

Wish I had read this before I made my edits to the two original posts.
The non-nerds are right and the nerds are being weird pedants.

Going all well-actually and giving people the verbal equivalent of xkcd 1357 lets everyone know you're one of those people.
I'd strongly argue that my view isn't about being ideal, it's the minimum.

Fact: We don't know what they do with our data

Fact: They refuse to show us what they do with our data, even though they could

Fact: They have taken actions that, while I obviously don't have direct evidence of this, looks extremely like they are handing over control of other people's data to someone else, who is known to be abusive with it

Fact: They can design their system in a way that avoids all of this, yet they continually choose not to

All of this points in one direction, and there's very little evidence pointing in the other direction. It seems pretty obvious to me that their pro-privacy standpoint is all just smoke and mirrors. I'm sure they care to some extent, but they clearly value money over their user's privacy.

If I say that I care about my health, but I eat terrible quality foods, don't exercise, and ignore people who try to encourage me to be healthier, then it it obvious that I don't care about my health, despite what I say.
Most monetary transactions involving victims of sex slaves involve money, should we remove it too?

He's saying that this affects far more legitimate users than sex traffickers by multiple orders of magnitude, while at the same time not preventing sex trafficking from taking place anyway.
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There is another aspect of this as well that is important to consider.

I will 100% bet that the police had to interact with/rely on Uber to provide them with the video and data. With Uber's history, and the importance of this to the company, can we trust they didn't manipulate the video (i.e., make it darker)?. In the end, as much distaste as I have for Uber, this isn't even about them...its about process and chain of evidence.

In a non-autonomous accident if there was a fight between two opposing drivers, the vehicle manufacturer is a neutral party and it seems reasonable to rely on them to extract and hand over data. If, however, the fight was between the driver and the manufacturer (e.g., the driver asserted a failure of the vehicle) there is no way that the manufacturer would be allowed to extract the vehicles' data logger. It would be done by an independent third party.

As these accidents happen (and no matter your perspective on this one/cars/autonomous vs. human drivers/etc. - they will happen) there needs to be methodology for extracting data and assessing it from the vehicles that does not rely on the manufacturer or any other conflict of interest party.

Further, this hole debacle shows how important it is that experts be involved in these decisions, discussions. The police chief has no knowledge or experience with the technical details of autonomous vehicles. His statements have, from the beginning, been irresponsible and inappropriately deferential to Uber at the expense of a citizen of his town.

The rush for LIDAR/Radar technology makes clear just how much of autonomous tech relies on the nonvisual range. However, the chief obviously...based on his statements...is judging performance entirely on the visual range. He is not an expert. As an ex-Tempe resident, I doubt Tempe has independent autonomous vehicle experts. I would almost guarantee they are relying on the companies being truthful and open with them.

That is bad.
I agree, there is definitely a broad spectrum in terms of what amount of background a student needs to be able to complete a given MS program.

But I'm not entirely convinced that it's appropriate to argue that the only "true" MSCS is one that requires a full bachelor's in that subject as prerequisite. That seems... overly restrictive.

What if you got a bachelor's in math or engineering and want to further specialize in CS? Should your only option be to complete another bachelors degree? What if you did a minor in CS? There's lots of people in these categories that can and do get an MSCS, even from very reputable programs.

Obviously coming from a related field will prepare you better than say a liberal arts degree, but where do you draw the line?

In my experience most MS programs have a certain set of prerequisites that generally equate to a minor in CS.
Not necessarily. Can be also a contamination from an external source of DNA. The article claims a mixed chilean-european DNA but we don't know how many moved humans had touched this skeleton before

And there is the fact that we share DNA with other species. It seems [1] that we shared a 93% of DNA with Macaca mulatta for example.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/1411-monkey-dna-points-common-hu...
I get it, but my question is how do I download this data from facebook? I would like to see what they have on me.
I'm Eric, the other cofounder at Kapwing! Our product vision for now is an online video editor (think iMovie in the browser).

We're definitely not a pre-planned acqui-hire play haha. We're completely bootstrapped and just trying to build a website that can pay our bills and make money so we don't have to go back to the corporate grind. We would love to build a reputation for the product but it's hard and takes time. For now, we just wanted to share about our startup experiences along the way!

The video editor itself might not be too relevant for the HN community but I think our startup learning lessons definitely can be.
Have you finished the MS yet, and has it improved your job prospects? Also, I'm curious which program you've chosen. The GaTech OMSCS program has gotten a lot of good reviews lately.
You can access ZeroNet through Tor.
But can it identify lyrebird's?
Any potential security issues here? Could this be potentially exploited? I guess you could ask that about anything, but I'm asking.
I agree, they worked in the winter, as modern farmer do as well, but not nearly as hard as the spring, summer, fall.

I was just going with the "up to 1/2 the year vacation" from the article.
Made a gif of this from the game:

https://imgur.com/a/6NXQ7
Open Speech Recording
Most consumer internet contracts contain clauses that prohibit hosting. Independent ISP's 20 years ago didn't have such clauses.
What exactly does her being on the board have to do with ANY of this?
Or did they put a couple hundred kilos of computing and sensing equipment and batteries into the car and change the weight distribution such that the headlights now point up?

Or did they darken the video?
> wouldn't even be the least bit surprised if I heard they ate a bullet tomorrow

I know it's hard, but I think you have a responsibility to step in when you see things like this.

I've been severely depressed before, and if someone, even if I didn't know them very well, had done something to indicate that they knew what I was going through, it would have helped. Sometimes people who are suicidal are convinced that if they did eat a bullet tomorrow, no one would care.
This is incorrect. The oligarchs took vk.com away from Pavel Durov (the founder of vk.com and later Telegram) by force with some help from FSB, then banished him from Russia. Both Pavel Durov and Telegram are now out of the reach of these oligarchs, and Durov has no desire to aid people who robbed and exiled him.
Very true to all of that.

But the live-in servants have been replaced by external servants. People who are expected to be working when at 11pm I decide I want to eat a bite of food, yet are paid below what it takes to raise their own family and are working 2 jobs at once to make ends meet.

The boundary between nobility and servitude is more blurry, and yes there are a lot more ways to rise out of servitude than 7 centuries ago, but I'm reminded that all the niceties I currently enjoy are still coming at a price for those working in the system that supplies them to me.

Having lived in Europe and in the US, I'm aware that there's a tradeoff between having excellent service to the wealthy and decent living conditions to the poor.
This is exactly what I was thinking as well, even if it's only as good as a human, humans comes with a whole host of other problems which impair our driving abilities.
But why would they alter the recorded bits? An imaging sensor streams the RAW data (w/o tone curve). Wouldn't they prefer just storing the RAW bits (which probably have a higher dynamic range anyway) and then apply various transforms - contrast, edge-detect, etc.
"Liberal agenda" <= really?

I don't know what you mean by that. Please explain.

(EDIT: Legitimately don't understand the downvotes here.)
Yeah, just like FB would never abuse the trust people put into them, or Microsoft has way too much incentive to lie to their users, so they would never do that either. /sarcasm

I could list a thousand companies who say one thing, and do another. I find it extremely naive to believe them at face value.
There is: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
Right, but if you could have health insurance and a decent standard of living while working part-time, who's to say that would still be the case? That's so far from the world we live in that it is hard to imagine it.
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Funnily enough, lack of exercise, alcohol, meat can cause obesity. and not eating enough veg gives people fibre deficiency.

Also to note none of those causes of cancers are protein deficiency.
I understand people are focusing on the video because that's all we have at the moment, but it entirely misses the point: this is primarily a LIDAR failure. This should have been prevented even with the cameras off.
The takeaways from this tragic accident for me are:

1. We need to have better suited (much better low light performance) frontal cameras equipped for self-driving cars and dashcams. Be it a dual sensor/lens setup or whatnot, if Apple can make it for iPhone X for $35 [1], the technology is available now and shippable now. Compare to the cost of tens of thousands of the price of a car and hundreds/thousands for the price of packages/options manufacturers to add on to a new car, that's virtually nothing.

2. We need better more sophisticated headlamps and new laws to better suited for today's technology advancements[2] - something like a 3rd mode of wide beam on top of hi/low bean modes. From ubiquitous adaptive headlights to matrix laser beams, these improvement can increase driver visibility and perhaps save lives in situations like this.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-x-teardown-parts-cost-...

[2] https://blog.dupontregistry.com/mercedes-benz/why-are-adapti...
If you had no assets in the UK and you accept you can never enter the UK....

You could get away with saying No. As long as the UK doesn't talk to the US and ask them to turn you over (which likely requires some serious criminal activity rather than curiosity).
We should not expect an early statement to be authoritative.
Not just "direct" firearm sales, but content that "intends to sell firearms". This can mean any review, unboxing, etc.

Also "instructions on manufacturing a firearm, ammunition" are expressly prohibited, even though if it is legal for you to possess a gun or ammo, it is also legal to make it for personal use (and with appropriate licence even for sale). There are plenty of gunsmithing and reloading videos that are now going away.
> Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country?

According to 10 U.S. Code § 246[0]:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are—

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

So, the majority of male Americans belong to the militia of the United States, and the vast majority of those belong to the unorganised militia (arguably, this section of the U.S. Code should be extended to cover women as well). Bearing private arms is simply arming oneself as a member of the unorganised militia.

> How does a suppressed destructive device on an unregulated currency exchange make our society better?

A suppressor is simply a safety device to save hearing; it's not a magical silencer.

> How does your right contribute to the security of the state?

An armed populace is better able to suppress insurrection, e.g. during the LA Riots back in the 90s.

> Why should the second amendment be treated with any less discretion?

It shouldn't be. We reasonably prohibit firearms to felons, domestic abusers, the mentally ill &c. Honestly, if the Second Amendment were treated like the First is, the New York Times would publish op-eds urging that concealed-carry be mandatory …

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246
That's a poor example, since self-checkout scanners have existed for a while now. But notice how they aren't used exclusively. The bigger orders still require the manned scanners, and the self-checkout always has someone on duty.

A better example is plumbing. How would you go about automating a human plumber who handles all sorts of piping and crawl spaces in a large variety of settings?
I imagine that's probably what the author would argue, but I'm not convinced that should be the only option. You can get a masters in a lot of different fields without needing a bachelors in the same subject. The question is whether CS should be an exception or not. He seems to value the MS more as a research-track degree and not as a professional degree. I'd argue the opposite: If you're research-track you really don't need to be getting an MS, just go straight to the PhD. That's how most top programs operate anyways.
This is more or less the "argument" I bring to bear in gun control debates. There is no point arguing. My go-to "argument" is a form of the following:

I don't argue what should be, only what will be. And this is what will be: If a functionary of the State comes to take my firearms, one of us will die. Period.