skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Niantic is a Google spinout and basically suffers all the arrogance and inertia that Google suffers from with none of the upside of being gigantic.

This is topped off with a technical staff that doesn't really have any greybeards to hit people with a cluebat when necessary.

Finally, Niantic is privately held, so it's executive staff are not subject to being fired after having repeatedly screwed up (Pokemon Go basically suffered from all the same problems that Ingress suffered from only even moreso).

Put all that together and you have a perfect storm to create multiple, high-visibility fuckups.

For a long time with Pokemon Go, I assumed that the problem was that Nintendo put so many shackles on Niantic that Niantic really couldn't do anything. The more I hear about Niantic, the less I believe that to be true, and the more I believe that Niantic management are just idiots.
Five important biomedical technology breakthroughs
I mean... in that very article the 80MP camera looks worse than film (tho more sharpened, go go digital image processing!)

You appear to have provided counter evidence to your own position.
"run emotional experiments on news feeds" > I believe this happened once, for the advancement of science. Personally, given that FB is the only place where such real social science can happen, I wish they'd do it much-much more. I don't think any social scientist can perform an A/B test outside of Facebook.

"silently logging all Android users' calls and texts" > I also don't like this.

"allow proliferation of fake news" > I think the "allow" part is disingenuous. It's not like FB people are able to guess all the bad vectors in advance and have advance alerts set up. Also, remember, 2B people are on FB, so there will be a lot of shit, because that's what people are like. I actually think they reacted pretty quickly, after the first time there was a credible attack.

"allow buying of propaganda ads from state actors" > Not sure what you mean? US elections are okay to use ads, right? You're saying other countries shouldn't, if you don't like the gov't? This is a lose-lose on FB I think, either people like you bitch that they're enabling a bad gov't, or they're seen as a censor. Believe me that a lot of smart ppl are trying to figure out what the "least wrong" thing to do is on things like this.

"zero safeguarding of data to ensure it wasn't sold by app creators/devs" > bullshit, they stopped this is 2015. But I agree, the way it worked before was really broken and asked for this to happen.
Donald Trump slams Amazon for paying ‘no taxes’
No async/await yet in lambda, it’s really sad. Serverless in AWS is stuck in 2015
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Interactive RE tutorial for beginners (ASM and GDB basics)
Did you read my comment? It ended with, "and, of course, for some drugs the patient." Sometime we could connect directly with patients. Sorry.

Knowing this changed my use of pharmacies.
You can use Webpack and Babel, in the meantime.
I'm mainly a Windows user and I regularly have a dozen or more explorer windows open, all showing directories of interest to my current work. From that perspective, using a file manager with only two effective "windows" feels more constraining.
PS4 4.55/FreeBSD BPF kernel exploit
it ends being about 12-15k per apt

How much MTA revenue is made from each apartment today? I seriously doubt that it's over $100/month average per apartment.
Please don't post duplicate comments to HN. It lowers signal-noise ratio and makes it hard to merge threads.
To differentiate between needs and (economic) wants, I found the "fundamental human needs" framework quite useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_human_needs
(as developed by Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef).

Basically: Subsistence, Protection, Affection, Understanding, Participation, Leisure, Creation, Identity and Freedom.
Have you read any HN’s opinions on self driving cars? There is a strongly held belief that individual deaths don’t matter as long as, on average, deaths go down. You can argue the connecting people is inherently good, so how are Boz’s opinions any different?

Boz’s pieces over the last few years tend to fall into the “Strong opinions, weakly held” category. I also suspect he argues a point that is stronger in sentiment than he really believes, to help his message stand out.
I think the better method would be FBIFO (no pun intended)

FBIFO = first bad coin in - first out.
Presumption is that bad coins are urged to be laundered first. So even if good and bad are mixing in - the bad ones ought to be first out
I think the above macro works without knowing the size of void or int.
Node is not the only supported runtime. I'm happily deploying stuff in Golang, so no real runtimes to worry about.
I am fresh early. The point is that this is on a school level not individual so I think the performance of my sons school is pretty important example of the the report probably not being very conclusive.
But does "autopilot on" mean that "autopilot has exclusive control and driver inputs are ignored"?
> This sounds fair enough to me!

Furthermore it would be negligent in my mind to put them in a job where they might suffer more concussions.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16721197.
Yep, working from home, I take 2 hours lunch break to exercise a bit, eat and nap for an hour and after that I can be productive again in the the few remaining hours until 16:30
1. borrow n coins

2. deposit n stolen coins

3. withdraw n coins (clear)

4. settle loan with tainted coins
Facebook's issues stem from historical overly-permissive API access that could effectively harvest your graph via a single node's acceptance. Some small facsimile of that is represented by your example but not to the scope it was with Facebook. It's a one-to-many but not a graph. I think this is important natural constraint and a noteworthy distinction. It makes connecting data more of a crapshoot.

Apple is equipped with far more resources at present to deal with app review than Facebook has. They've traditionally been far more draconian about their own rules than has Facebook. This means something like what you describe is less likely to fall through the cracks or propagate the way abuse did with FB in the pre-2014 days.

You're 100% right that any access is effectively a vector, but that's needless reductivism. In 2018 society seems to accept some level of visibility but not unfettered visibility. This is the balance that social media and data gatekeepers will have to contend with.

That said, it doesn't take much to tip the scales these days. People tend to have a healthier skepticism toward the giants of tech these days, and if you burn a little bad PR it can have some terrible consequences. Which is why Facebook has pulled some plugs in a panic on the developer side of things in response.

As has been mentioned countless times in the wake of this kerfuffle, MySpace was the defacto social media company until one day they weren't. It's eas(ier) to introduce competition to Facebook over, say, Apple or Microsoft.

Finally, Facebook's product is, well, data. One could argue that it's a platform and data, but the former is a loss leader for the latter.

So for a number of reasons I find it unlikely that even were Apple to have a PR misstep like this that they'd face the same existential crisis.
Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing
Perhaps this is just because of the current stories, but what's the difference between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com ?
My mistake. The Canadian (and EU) versions appear to have been set up in the last 6 months.
Discussing stuff outside work is different from leaking internal communications verbatim.

I left Facebook for a place where the stakes are a lot lower, but information leaks like a sieve.

It’s really disheartening to know that a lot of new coworkers would prefer to leak their “spin” to the press and actively try to damage the company when they don’t get their way.
Dude, work in a factory until you get a programming job. If I was a CIO I would hire you in a heartbeat. You got passion, chops, and obvious dedication, and honestly could probably be got at a steal. I wouldn't give up, personally.

It's like penetration testing...no matter what kind of defenses a company has built... it takes is ONE opening to own all of it.
It's four (million) or more

Not in the vast majority of SV, it isn't.
Quantum Gambling and the Nature of Reality
Einstein and the Quantum
Have you considered that it might be intentional?
Where should I be looking?
I thought this was common enough knowledge not to want citations, but I think you will find these satisfactory.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/sw...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/independent-...

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-everyone-gets-wrong-a...

The last piece has a short summary of the salient point:

> In fact, according to an analysis of voting patterns conducted by Michigan State University political scientist Corwin Smidt, those who identify as independents today are more stable in their support for one or the other party than were “strong partisans” back in the 1970s. According to Dan Hopkins, a professor of government at the University of Pennsylvania, “independents who lean toward the Democrats are less likely to back GOP candidates than are weak Democrats.”

> While most independents vote like partisans, on average they’re slightly more likely to just stay home in November. “Typically independents are less active and less engaged in politics than are strong partisans,” says Smidt.

> [...]

> The conventional wisdom holds that the parties need independents to win general elections, but the reality is that they’re increasingly devoting their resources to getting their own voters—including their “closet partisans”—out to the polls rather than trying to sway the dwindling number of genuine swing voters. “We’ve seen a huge increase in technology and the ability to turn out the vote,” says Smidt. “So in terms of a cost-benefit analysis, the parties and candidates see that it’s much easier to turn out people who agree with them than it is to change someone’s mind. And then there’s also the question of how many of us are even open to changing our minds.”
The missing introduction of React.js
What makes you say that? They are well known for their IP reputation based captchas. The IPs with bad reputation are often services which exist to provide anonymity (vpns and Tor). They have done some interesting research into using zero knowledge proofs to allow good actors to bypass that without compromising privacy. There would be a lot of easier options if they were "vehemently against anonymity" than to make https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
> In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers.

Also note that this includes trucks and motorcycles, which have much, much higher fatality rates than passenger cars. Motorcycles are around 10x-50x higher fatality rate than cars! So already Tesla's blog is doing a misleading comparison to more deadly vehicle classes.

Additionally, there could be all sorts of other variables that make it hide even comparison. Are Tesla drivers physically comparable to regular drivers? Are they older? Younger? Both elderly and young kids have a higher accident rates. Are Teslas driven in rural areas and urban areas the same as regular cars? Because rural areas have a higher fatality rate.

So we need to make sure that the Tesla driver matches driving conditions of typical cars to make autopilot comparisons valid.

Right now, it appears Tesla's autopilot is a death-trap.
Did anyone use AboutFace?

"The day after college graduation was a busy day for Adam Grossman, a 1993 graduate of Williams College. He was becoming an entrepreneur, founding Atlantic Media Corporation (www.facebook.com), the creator of AboutFace. AboutFace is the computerized company-wide directory that maintains names, photographs, biographies, and floor plan locations for every employee in a company. AboutFace is accessible via a LAN or intranet from any computer within the company.

The idea behind AboutFace evolved while Grossman was still in college. He developed, printed and sold a facebook his freshman year that included students’ photographs, home addresses, and birthdays. By using information already available in the Williams College database, he eliminated hours of typesetting and reduced production costs."

https://web.archive.org/web/19991007181610/http://www.aboutf...
https://web.archive.org/web/20071020073143/http://www.aboutf...
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120120522/https://answers.y...
Yes, that's a good point. Russia, Cambridge Analytica... anything that allows people to feel like the Trump phenomenon is a nefarious foreign import rather than homegrown. I'm no fan of Trump, but I'm incredibly dismayed that all the Democrats have talked about since he was elected is "Russian meddling."
I steal 100 bitcoins. I then transfer a satoshi to as many legit bitcoin addresses I can find. Now any transaction those addresses make will be illegal?
Great article. About 18 years ago at E3 Sid Meier was running a Q&A and I asked why he hadn’t included regressions (like lost technologies and the like) into Civilization, even though history is full of examples of them. I believe the answer was ‘it wouldn’t be fun’.

Given the stories that emerged since around Civilization’s hasty development (it was a complete oddball project for Microprose and completed on a tight deadline for Christmas season, and wasn’t anticipated to be much of a success), my sense is that it would have taken a lot more time to explore anything other than a simple progress narrative, and likely would have been infeasible.

Civ also came out shortly after Railroad Tycoon, which did a great job simulating the progress of rail in the industrial revolution, and its pretty obvious that the game’s mechanics and gameplay were heavily drawn from RT. Sort of like in many science papers how authors overstate the implications of their findings in the conclusion, Civ took the notion of rail progress and applied it to all of human endeavor throughout history.
It is pre-mature to say this. Why would they say "AutoPilot seems to have made a grave error here, and steered the car into the barrier." if it is possibly not their fault ?

If indeed it was auto-pilot's fault, they will likely put the statement out later.
In keeping with the "Autopilot" terminology, this was "Controlled Flight info Terrain".

Tesla demonstrates their usual abuse of statistics. 1.25 fatalities per 100 million miles is the average across all types of terrain, conditions, and cars.

The death rate in rural roads is much higher than in urban areas. The death rate on highways is much lower than average. The death rate with new cars is much lower than average.

The autopilot will not engage in the most dangerous conditions. This alone will improve the fatality rate, even if the driver does all the work.

Tesla cars are modern luxury cars. They appear to have done a great job building a well constructed, safe, car. This does not mean their autopilot is not dangerous.
When viewed in the context of a conversation of whether “the company's driving mission was the universal good that leadership thought it was when it was adopted.” can you see how Boz’s post could move conversation in a positive direction?

I know this is hard to believe from the outside, but most Facebook employees believe that Facebook can have a positive influence on be world. It’s deeply ingrained in the company’s culture. An executive doesn’t just come out and say “it’s all business, fuck the consequences”.

This is why not leaking things is so important. The context and culture within a company change how a message is interpreted.
> And having tried to cut out sugars and processed foods in my own life, it was certainly not easy and required a significant monetary and time investment to cook my own meals, and buy fast-expiring produce.

I've been doing it for two years, and there are solutions to those problems. It's cheaper and faster to eat healthily and restrict calories than to cook a typical US diet -- it just requires a different perspective.

I wish I weren't busy at the moment, so I could build a website about how to manage it.
Even if we presume those sentiments are completely sincere and disinterested, I don't know why we should believe he is an authority on US elections whose claims can simply be accepted at face value.
It's time to head back to RSS?
It's only anthropomorphizing in the sense that we're discussing two systems capable of propelling automobiles around. Presumably, they're both in the business of avoiding concrete barriers.

If one system is steering the vehicle into things that the other system would, in most conditions, reliably avoid, it bears some discussion.
It's also present in Elixir!
This is for soaking up renewable energy that either isn't connected to the grid yet, or is being generated at the wrong time. Since there's no fuel cost for wind or solar, you might as well do something with it. Anyone willing to buy electricity at inconvenient places or times will help make renewable energy generation more profitable, so more will be built.

There are lots of potential competitors, though: other kinds of energy storage (such as charging a battery), industrial users that can run in the off hours, or maybe generating Bitcoin. It's probably too soon to say whether this technology will win.

Buying electricity at a low price and selling it at a different time or place at a higher price is basically a form of arbitrage. Hopefully energy storage will become more efficient at getting electricity to customers when they need it, so they can outbid things like Bitcoin mining.
How does the computer know that today is the first day of the month without already having a complete calender implentation?
Simulations can make use of random number generators and could in theory, following the lead of a project like afl, adaptively find algorithmic weak spots.
Education and media need fixing.
Distraction, misjudged timing, sudden health problem, etc
At that particular point, what I see the most is people deciding that they either need to exit or not and abruptly crossing from one HOV lane to the other. Lots of crazy shit. So I'm not sure your scenarios have much relevance -- how many times have you driven through this intersection? I've been through it maybe a thousand times since it was built.
At the same time Denmark is quickly becoming the wet dream of Erich Honecker. Everything is recorded about everyone.
Doesn’t that sound like an unaffordable loss?
Drivers crash at this particular point all of the time.
Right, I was just trying to confirm an analogy. It seems like this stuff is like a lossy codec for traits.
It's not about which subjects build on each other. These two are the subjects that have mandated federal testing in the US [1]. Low test scores in reading and math have consequences for schools and their leaders, so they get the priority slots.

[1] https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/every-student-succeeds-act/...
> human driver who was paying attention

true. here’s the location (post #62)

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-x-crash-on-us-...

but the average person in the US anyway is not a good driver. i very often see people get aurprised at the lane ending at that exact spot. they should put a rumble strip leading up to it.

So, my question is, is it fair to compare AP to a human driver paying attention or is it more fair to compare it to an average driver.

I mean that just for the sake of argument. In this specific case, NTSB or someone should ban AP. It is so obvious what’s about to happen there, an AP should do what a driver should do which is take the ramp whether it’s a wrong turn or not. So many a-holes try to squeeze in last second (oops) when they should just take the damn exit or miss the damn exit as the case may be. What AP did here is what a poor and panicked driver would do and that’s just not acceptable.
"Fully aware drivers" are all the many drivers who manage to navigate that area without driving into the barrier, minus the ones who didn't mean to get off there or meant to get off and didn't. The latter groups are aware enough to drive safely through the area but still spacing out a little.
No one shipping a Level 2 system provides insurance for it. The definition of Level 2 is that the driver has responsibility.
I'm kind of surprised that the article doesn't mention aws-serverless-express [1], a node module provided by Amazon which makes it fairly trivial to expose an existing Express app as a Lambda function via AWS API Gateway. The Lambda handler module basically just consists of the following code.

const awsServerlessExpress = require('aws-serverless-express');
const app = require('./app');
const server = awsServerlessExpress.createServer(app);

exports.handler = (event, context) => (
awsServerlessExpress.proxy(server, event, context)
);

It's really convenient to be able to develop simple APIs using Express, and then to expose them via Lambda functions using aws-serverless-express. After you've done it once or twice, it's really easy to throw together single-purpose APIs and deploy them in a matter of minutes. For example, I was recently frustrated with the fact that CircleCI's API for accessing build artifacts is perpetually broken, and I wrote a little microservice to expose the same functionality [2]. It's definitely awesome to be able to deploy one-off projects like that without needing to worry about any sort of server maintenance.

[1] - https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express

[2] - https://intoli.com/blog/circleci-artifacts/
Please don't post ideological rants to HN. They damage this site and break its rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Public shaming is now not only appropriate but important? Should we reintroduce tar and feathers in order to make sure nobody else thinks its a good idea?

If we think that the statue of limitation is to short then say that and request a change. If we think that the criteria for finding someone guilty is too high, then change that. Extra judicial punishment is a terrible method to punish perpetrator and scaring others to not commit crime, and has a long history to prove it.
I'm going to have to disagree that a missing space in a comment is a fundamental flaw.
Also, they've had 3 fatalities so far. If one fully occupied model x (5 people) crashes and kills everyone... it's back to the average. If the people in the other car die too, it's less than average.

That safety advantage can be wiped out in a single accident. Tesla has been lucky that all 3 have been occupied by a single person.
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> doesn't absolve Tesla's software of any error

As someone who works on software for one of the automakers, I also want to note that there seems to be a lot of focus on the software... but it's also very possible the problem was with the hardware: something in the vision or sensor system was incorrectly installed, defective, was calibrated incorrectly, lost calibration during use, etc.

I'm sure the software can always be improved, but if most cars are driving through this stretch without a problem and his always veers, that sounds like something unique to his vehicle which points to hardware in my opinion. In cars, the software can only ever be as good as the data it receives.