skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two largest complaints in cities with scooter sharing are (1) users riding on the sidewalk because they don’t feel safe on the road and (2) users parking on the sidewalk because all street space for storing personal mobility devices is allocated to 4,000 lb cars. A climate conscious city can get more people using zero emission vehicles like bikes and scooters and solve the issues above by (1) creating protected bike lanes so scooter users of all ages and abilities feel safe riding on the street and (2) converting one or two car street parking spots on every block to bike and scooter parking.

However, street parking has been a 3rd rail of local politics in American cities. Demographics are pointing to change: last year SF added 8,500 residents but car registrations dropped by 1,800. More protected bike lanes, less personal cars, more ride sharing/autonomous cars and more scooters is the future - most boomer politicians running American cities today just don’t get this yet - they and their friends live in highly appreciated SFHs,have a personal car and a place to store said car, maintain a low prop13 tax rate, and reminisce of 1974 when people were moving out of cities and they could always find free parking right in front of their favorite restaurant. But the demographics are changing, our streets will transform as a result and for the sake of our planet, it couldn’t happen soon enough
The deeper abstractions are lost on you, young padawan.
Sorry, but a zero tolerance policy of is the only way to stay sane. I don't have time to keep up with every policy change and update on what every app and tool I use has done lately.

I ditched windows for a reason (several, but privacy was one) and I've got no intention of checking every 3 months how far down the slippery slope ubuntu has gone. And they will go down that slippery slope because it's abundantly clear that they as an organisation they don't value privacy.
A 63 year old man tripped over one on his birthday and ended up in the emergency room with injuries.
> if they saw the first classified document, then pulled down the rest of the trove hunting for more..

Per the articles: nothing was "classified", it was an archive of public documents that the government published periodically. The issue is that a small subset weren't redacted properly - but there's no apparent reason the teen would have known that.

It appears that someone simply archived a bunch of documents they reasonably believed to be public information.
There are no shortcuts with math. If you really want to learn it, you must be willing to put in a large number of hours over a long period time in order to master it. Are you willing to do that?
You can say “Hey Google” now, though it’s not quite as smooth as Alexa.
If you applied the same philosophy to Honda and Toyota, the scooters would win hands-down.
Any forced adjustments we make to reduce false positives, will increase the false negatives.

That's just not true. You can have systematic errors caused by bad training data which can be fixed without an increase in false negatives (otherwise new ML systems would never improve over old ones!)

In the physical world a good analogy is crash testing of cars. For decades (until 2011!!), crash test dummies were all based on average sized American males. That led to hugely increased risks for female passengers:

the female dummy in the front passenger seat registered a 20 to 40 percent risk of being killed or seriously injured, according to the test data. The average for that class of vehicle is 15 percent.

Fixing that problem didn't case any increase in accident risk for men.

It's the same in machine learning.

There is no free lunch

This isn't what the no free lunch theorem[2] says. That says that all optimization methods are theoretically equivalent.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fem...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
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Should you move into management?
Is it just me or is the tone of that article extremely condescending?

I realize they feel like they are 'educating' people, but is this really the best tone to take when you are under such scrutiny?
National slights aren't ok on HN, so please don't post them here. (Unless I've misinterpreted this comment and it means something I've missed completely, in which case sorry.)
Attitude.

Skills and knowledge can be developed.
I don’t know. It actually seems wasteful to transport batteries to Mars. I’d want to figure out if I could build a fuelcell that would work on Mars and be replenished with chemicals/elements plentiful on Mars. Only if that was impossible would I consider batteries.
Just letting you know I'm using Pocket Casts and it's available now.
Told my sis to put on her most raggedy clothes you can still wear. I put on some threadbare shorts, some worn sandals, and a t-shirt with the collar fraying. Then we went car shopping. 3k off a used car's listed price for her, lol.
I've tried LimeBike and Bird. LimeBike had a bit poor acceleration (felt like software throttling), but was taller and a bit bigger than Bird, had a screen. App wasn't as good as Bird's.

Bird requires US licence to use (lol), although manually entering garbage data let me use for single use. Had much better acceleration, but a protruding control box felt a bit annoying.

Both scooters miss hardware locking feature. As a tourist it's common to drain your phone battery to dead leaving you with no way to end your ride. Also, it would be nice to unlock multiple scooters with single phone. Lack of suspension is sometimes uncomfortable, but not too bad.

Safety-wise I've felt probably just as worried as in any foreign city on a bicycle - not great, but city traffic is slow enough to make it ok.

Overall I was super satisfied, can't wait for them to appear everywhere (and get better top speed).
Not to put a damper on things, but it's not like the Hippocratic oath means anything as attested by[1]. It's only good if people heed it, otherwise it's meaningless.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...
I'm not saying that I agree with you, but I'm curious: does antisocial behavior mean it's illegal?
You seem to be getting downvoted here. I agree with you: the Smart Keyboard is fantastic to type on, imo. And it’s impervious to spills and crumbs.
I'm confused on why a launch with proper permits and communication with the city would change the situation. All the same complaints about clutter, bad riders, and sidewalk/road disruption would still be valid.

The idea of an "ownernless" vehicle is flawed. They seem cheap, and so they are a treated like trash. Only if the companies picked them everyday to charge, repair, and redistributed would this work. That maygive them some intrinsic value, and people might respect them enough to not properly park and care for them. However, this is not the case. No one wants a business whose model is to litter the city with trash.
Nuclear weapons simulations, drone AI, smart bombs - all good. But don't you dare abuse a marginalized group!
$3 for a single 30 minute GoBike trip is expensive? 15 minutes on a Bird Scooter is $3.55. The GoBike stations are fairly dense you might have to walk a block or two. https://member.fordgobike.com/map/
Can We Judge People by What They Look Like? In Fact, Yes
Mud in this small Japanese island could change the global economy
>>What American is excited to get email from some stranger who literally doesn't have two nickels to rub together?

I don't know, but tying the expansion of the email system to the reach of the US financial system seems quite limiting and archaic, and totally contrary to the international and open nature of the internet.

>>Or to do it over a relatively open network like e-check or wire transfer, where there's no lock-in possible.

Making a wire transfer to use email? That'd be ridiculously expensive. You'd need a payment system built on top of the bank wire system, and it would need to be truly international in scope, and open, which no trusted third party based financial system is.
You did a great job illustrating exactly what you referred to in that comment. Thank you for the sensory journey!
> Paying for a car and being defrauded is in no way related to being tracked by websites.

This is incorrect: they're both examples of informational asymmetry being used to disadvantage a consumer. In both cases, that consumer needs to possess technical knowledge in order to understand the ways that the counterparty entity is exploiting them. In the case of the car dealership, at least the consumer is aware of the stakes when they step onto the lot, i.e. they are planning to buy a car. The problem with Facebook is exactly that people aren't aware of how they are being monetized, and that there is an explicit financial incentive to obscure that from them. They are stepping onto a car lot, or more accurately a surveillance operation, that has been made to look like an amusement park. "Personal responsibility" is a convenient fig leaf for people who want to pretend that the amusement park wasn't the sales pitch. If you don't like the original analogy to a used car salesman, consider the need for similar regulation around financial services, clean water, pharmaceuticals, etc. etc. etc.
Sure, when people begin to be born, live, work and die in the same building, until then, people will also need long distance transport modes.

New entrants have to cede priority to established systems and work within a framework to augment the systems -- else we end up with things like the millions of dead ebikes we see in China, for example.
Agreed. We changed the title to that of the actual article. Submitted title was "China's Weibo backs down from censoring gay content following backlash".

Submitters: rewriting titles like that is a violation of the site guidelines. If the facts have changed since the article was written, you can explain that by posting a comment about it to the thread, or by finding a more up-to-date article and submitting that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We've changed the title. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16855849.

On another note: a username of the form "recognizable_person_is_evil" crosses into personal attack, which isn't allowed on HN. You may not owe better to billionaires, but you owe better to this community than to break its rules with every post. So I've banned this account. Account renaming, which we'll have soon, would be a more elegant solution, but it's not ready yet.
> As Mark said last week, we believe everyone deserves good privacy controls. We require websites and apps who use our tools to tell you they’re collecting and sharing your information with us, and to get your permission to do so.

I have NEVER been told by a website that they are doing this, let alone asking for my permission.
I def did not mean to suggest human value is tied to a persons fortune. Before this much more insightful comment you argued that the value of a human was zero (worthless), now you argue the opposite, that human life is priceless. If that's an accurate summary of your position, we agree.
In an ideal world, society would compensate you when they would like you to assume a risk below its market price, rather than forcing you to pretend not to notice the risk.
Whats the median age in downtown San Francisco tho?
Although the Hippocratic oath has no teeth, or real enforcement. Hopefully popularizing a code of ethics, helps move the needle toward a better direction.
"...we also pretend that all corruption that takes place is in the form of campaign finance."

I thought the revolving door principle was a known deficit in the western style political system (contra some others where politicians just get direct 'gifts').

Maybe not, then?
Biased models can cause ethical and legal problems. While your specific example is not a huge deal, the article gives the example of making hiring decisions in part based on sentiment analysis of candidates' text reviews. In this context, an engineer has responsibility to ensure that the model has no gender, race, or age bias towards candidates' names.

For a real life example, in 2017 Google was more likely to filter the comment "I am a woman" than "I am a man": https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/01/google-perspective-comme...

Or consider the impact of any bias in AI for criminal sentencing recommendations: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...
Advantages of Having Both Android and iOS Versions of the Apps
That's one less dollar you're spending at the restaurants they work at or at the other businesses that employ them.

In reality people don't visit a city and spend a precise, calculated number of dollars.
WhatsApp drug dealer convicted using fingerprints taken from photo
I know I have some OCD. But this... just a bit much.
Salieo – Intelligently responsive images
Bird is just a Xiaomi m365 scooter with a "Bird" sticker on it.
Another important thing is having some kind of resource to find work for new developers. E.g. I want to devote my free time improving XXX framework. I'm visiting its website and if I'd find something like "issues for newbies", that would be a great help, because I could just get one issue and start digging.
Heh, the article actually really didn't say it. I was thinking maybe you just didn't read it carefully. Here are articles that explicitly say it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/asia/china-weibo-ga...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/china-weibo-ba...
How to Make Dynamics CRM Adoption Easier for Your Team?
"And who the hell can agree on just what 'embedded' means these days?"

Or what it'll mean in 10 years, as power/radio/processor/sensor specs continue to improve. I'm speculating, but perhaps MS is banking on the low-end to grow, up into the Android/iOS space. So instead of our current 3-10 devices per family we'll have 30-100 devices. Hopefully, those devices will be secure. Maybe they'll be useful :-)
As someone with an formal education in Art despite a background in Tech, I'm growing more and more disillusioned with currencies beyond actual Legal Tender... I almost agree with the 1792 Mint Act's attachment of a death sentence to the devaluing of our coins (silver and gold in particular). Money is at best Artwork and even then it's only by devaluing it that it gets passed around like it's nothing. What is Bitcoin's value other than a secure means of Bank transfer again? It just seems like a means of reinforcing what from a religious context would be called Simony. Show me the Money.
Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos for Massive Facial Recognition Database
See my other reply, there are articles that explicitly say that it actually happened. See other reply for links. Perhaps change the link instead?
TIL featherbedding ~= sinecure
Another fun fact: censorship is a business in China.

Profitable, lucrative, serious business. Every branch of government want its own little kill-switch button. e.g. 舆情系统. Lobbyist plays a key roll in all this.
They were paying gig economy workers to collect them after 8pm, charge 10-30 at a time in their apartments, and redistribute from 5-8am. They paid some of these people to show up today and talk about how great it pays. I really wish they could talk to some Uber drivers from 2010.
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How about control box?
More people are using cbmc, the non-llvm variant, but otherwise very similar tool. I find cbmc much easier to use.
The Legal Industry Now Has a Standards Body: Announcing SALI
Linux processes can understand that already: SIGTSTP/SIGSTOP, and SIGCONT. There are many signals a Linux process can respond to.
Streets are full of danger then.
Does the First Amendment Let Us Punish Pure Thought?
Eth0002--DEADPOOL--2018.pdf
This is circular reasoning. Web Apps are not a replacement for a proper application because they are being sabotaged.
There's understood conventions for when doors can/should be opened.
There's also understood conventions for when it's OK to access a resource served over HTTP.

If the response code is 200, it's OK. The response code (not to mention the transmission of the file) is literally permission from the system to have the resource.

If you don't want someone to come in your door, don't put up a sign that says "come in."

If you don't want someone to see a resource at a URL, don't send them a 200 response code or serve the resource. That's the convention for the web.
If you buy something you shouldn't have to jump through hoops to own it. The fact those data collection features are there at all for a paid product is bad in my opinion.
With Spectre & Meltdown patches, looks like we took a step back.
You have to be careful with this. Ethics can also be used to discriminate against people for religious reasons. These people think they are as ethical as you think you are.
Electric scooters can do 25km, which is a pretty decent distance.
For those who aren't aware, @rspeer has been taking this problem seriously for years.

His ConceptNet NumberBatch embeddings[1] are one of the few pre-built releases which attempt to fix this.

[1] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet-numberbatch
Dockless bikes are $1 per 30 mins... having one 20 feet from you vs two blocks is a qualitative difference. And zoom out on that map – the GoBikes only cover one small part of the city.
Streams in Scala
Just like in our generation there will be people in our kids' generation who will want to know how the sausage is made and it will be a tragedy if the only way to do so would be to grow up, join a big firm and sign a NDA.

Even for the others, an open platform means a greater variety of software for end users. Creating toll gates on the way to software development or suppressing software which reduces the platform owners's profit is not good for end users. Many people who will never touch a command line still benefit because a Finnish computer science student could decide to start writing a PC operating system of his own and that OS now powers their phone or allows others to provide online services on servers that runs that OS.

If building iPad clones with an open hardware specification like the PC's becomes possible for multiple vendors I'm sure we will see a software ecosystem that will easily beat the walled gardens. The problem is that currently the number of firms that can build the hardware is small enough that they find it in their self interest to use closed specifications.
Try Korean dramas. When there's food, you get detailed close-ups of the food.
absolutely, but also a chicken and egg problem.

a lot of immuno-onco is currently only approved for late-stage cancer patients. basically once you're near death and chemo/radio is done, you get the new stuff. and even within those groups you get people that are cancer-free within weeks. astonishing.

long term survival is unknown - sure. no one has been treated ten years ago with this stuff. besides a time machine there is no way of knowing, just waiting.

watching companies like https://www.modernatx.com/ building whole platforms is super exciting though. as someone who has lost family and young colleagues to cancer, this shit cannot come soon enough.
The online ‘echo chamber’ is a myth
It is a shame though, with vulkan available
Thoughts on the role of Incident Commander
Did you try to search for "straight men"?

If there is no sexual content in the photo, what would be the difference in a picture of a gay or straight man? They would look the same.

By specifying sexual orientation you are by definition requesting sexual content.
Totally agree. The OLPC didn't fail if the goal was to lower the price of laptops. I would think it inspired the Chromebook.
They are not at all safe on a road, and if people aren't assholes, they are fine on the sidewalk. The problem is, people are assholes.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/world/asia/china-gay-ban-.... Thanks!
Thank you. I came back here to specifically higlight that bit because Jesus Christ guys you can’t ask for ads that don’t auto play and complain about this thing at the same time.

“The vendor should figure out what I want” is a really easy thing to say...but this is how they’re doing it!

At the end of the day if you want a tiered permissions model you need a strictly tiered authorization model. Right now you implicitly authorize an app/website/service/whatever to do certain things by explicitly installing it as an app. On desktop, web apps explicitly require your authorization for things like pushing notifications (isn’t it weird that EVERY WEBSITE wants to push notifications now?) or using your location data.
These cars don't always stop when a collision is imminent.

The incentives around Autonomous Emergency Braking is to avoid false positive at all costs because unnecessarily braking on a highway can easily injure or kill.

Avoiding false negatives is somewhat less important.
$270 USD? That can't be right. Full retail price is only $199. Amazon and Newegg both sell Windows 10 Pro retail download for $189, and Windows 10 Pro 64 bit System Builder OEM disc for $143. These aren't sale prices, just regular prices.
I think you missed the point here. The author is showing exactly why this is a big problem in NLP, beyond the test/train split issue.

Even with test/train splits you still need to smooth your model's predictions because it will always get unseen words. That's just the nature of word based lanugage models.
I live in Beijing, and the bike and scooter shares are everywhere, including blocking sidewalks and in huge piles and it’s absoultly great. They’ve been a terrific improvement. It’s great to use them, and it’s great to see so many other people using them.

Yeah, they’re kind of a pain to deal with them sometimes, but it turns out you can just move the bikes, and walk or ride around the piles. I have yet to see anyone get stuck in a pile. And somehow even people that don’t use the bikes seem to be able to lend some value to the idea that other people do (this was very strange to me at first, having grown up in the Bay Area).

Beijing is pretty much the perfect city for them though... completely flat and ridiculous spacious and open (except parts of the old city). I can see it being more painful in tighter cities. But they’ll figure the piles problem out; it’s already gotten better, and the net benefit has been pretty large.
When you have nothing left to reach for, what card gets played? True or not, it's like clockwork. And using CA cities as an example is downright funny/offensive to most Americans (including most CA'ians) btw.
Cheap outrage is great for upvotes, but what's the substance here? Factual basis? Commenters to this site need to do better than this.

This is not a defense of Amazon, and I probably feel similarly to most people who read HN. But that's no reason not to hold ourselves to a fair standard.

Commenters: if you're not in the mood to hold yourself to a fair standard, please comment somewhere else until you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There have been "watch ads for coins" businesses before. They all failed for reasons that were clear to everybody except their investors

I’d argue this is easily the most successful business model in the history of the world but hey what do I know.
Guy I know was in a bind and rented a house to a undocumented family from Mexico. No credit, no papers, no nothing. 12 years later they moved out (bought their own place) and the house was spotless. Rented it a pair of married lawyers, gentrification yo. Two years later they up and vacated the place with no warming. They'd let their dogs pee and shit inside and he had to remove the carpets and sub floors.

You probably don't want to be a landlord. I don't.