skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. There is a very small percentage of the population that will always do those things, but the only time that happens on a large scale is if something more fundamental is wrong. Fix that fundamental problem (e.g. lack of food and water) and people behave better.
All of the data was taken without consent. The user might have clicked some 'I agree' checkbox, but they were not in a position to give consent. We could, to compare it to other similar issues involving lack of consent, call it statutory data theft.
There's some really good examples of this in Wes Bos' (free) javascript30.com course - 30 short videos all using vanilla Javascript and showing some really neat new features.

Another really awesome new feature which I can't remember if it's in that course or not, is fetch - super simple AJAX API using promises. It's also used in this app: https://github.com/toddwschneider/stocks/blob/master/index.h...
As a Python dev it looks like I need to do some reading as I am still using virtualenv (it usually works fine but I have do encounter the occasional issue).

Can anyone give me a rundown of the benefits of other systems over virtualenv?

On a side note I hope Python isn't going to turn into a shambles like JavaScript - its certainly starting to look like it as far as package managers go.
It was also unclear to me when they did the contest as to whether Watson only had access to the analog audio and/or image of the questions asked. So did they have to parse the question the same as Ken.

Also, it was clearly optimized for a specific use case. If the questions were reworded with more clues that were puns or needed inference, I think Ken would have done about the same but Watson would have faired much more poorly.
I'm not even convinced Watson is a platform. My impression is that it's just a consulting division of the company that deploys teams to build solutions that are in some way related to AI, with each solution or implementation potentially being completely unique from the ground up. Perhaps someone from IBM can correct me though.
In swift it's the type inference and operator overloading combination that causes long compile times. The operator + for example can have a lot of implementations, and since types have to be inferred instead of being declared upfront, the combo creates slow compile times:

Ex, there is this infamous error in swift:

"Expression was too complex to be solved in reasonable time; consider breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions"

for something like this:

matrix11 = (g(x23(x12+x32)+x13(-x22+x32)-(x12+x22)x33) * sin(a)) / (x13(x22x31-x21x32)+x12(-x23 * x31+x21 * x33)+x11 * (x23 * x32-x22 * x33))

C++ would have no problems compile that expression quickly.

Since rust and swift are similar languages, there is probably a similar issue.
Good read (via Mercury Reader, anyway) -- the concepts apply beyond games, to UI design in general.
The real plus of V100/Volta is better performance half-precision/FP16 training of deep learning models, which surprisingly isn't mentioned in this post. (more info on NVIDIA's site: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/inside-volta/)
EU bashing aside, we 've seen this play out before. Search for old HN comments on the cookie law: It was supposed to reduce traffic by 90%, but nowadays its worse than useless. GDPR will fail too, because it does not address the crux of the issue: that most people do not care about willfully handing over their data, and in fact many of them take pleasure at being public. Most people will not care to delete their data from the service they used for 1 day. They will not ask their local bakery to hand them over reports etc. Most people spend most of their time on facebook, and most of them have already opted-in to the kind of processing that facebook does. Google, amazon, netflix, spotify etc are in line, because people are not going to give up on the most useful tech services.

Some of the worst private offenders in europe are actually public services like tax authorities who dug up tons of stolen data from banks, financial services, or who use google maps and facebook to find out who is flaunting their wealth. While not NSA-level, police authorities are catching up. Registries of all kinds with very private info have very lax access rules in EU countries outside the rich north.

Sure, some techies may feed their entitlement by going after some glaring cases of violations for a few months, but the case remains that, if privacy is a big issue, people are going to have to pay for it (i.e. they have pay a premium). Cryptography/decentralization remains another option.
Remembering Photojournalist Shah Marai
A velocity report is the only real way of pro-actively catching fraudsters. something like ip address by alias or something similar.
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-...
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. --Will Rogers

Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/will_rogers_128073
What would be the combined fed+state corporate income tax rate for a Delaware LLC?

Quick google says this is 21% (federal) + 8.7% (Delaware). Is my understanding of this correct, that a Delaware LLC pays 29.7% taxes on its profits?
If you look again, you will see the charge is that there are now 10k fewer first line support workers who previously could help citizens and (for some reason) the legacy hardware.
It seems to just pass around a null struct file pointer and special cases that.
Am I mistaken in thinking that any country in the EU can pursue any business in the EU for violations of the GDPR? Corruption in one country can affect businesses in other countries.
More than likely, it will shoot back a question: "Why the hell did you make this so complex?"
Lab Notes: Adding Support for Joins on Virtual Tables and Multi-Row Subselects
Beat you to it but thanks :P
I don't want to run services as root, except for services that grant login rights (It's probably better to have one ssh daemon, than allow/force every user to run their own...). And even then, keep the code that can change user I'd to a minimum.

I certainly don't want run big, rapid-changing code as root. Not the countinous integration pipeline, not the build pipeline.

It's a misfeature of docker that it needs more privileges than a traditional chroot/fakeroot build (probably a good reason to build on those tools to build docker images, rather than rely on Dockerfile/docker build. Build images and reserve Dockerfiles for pulling in ready images and setting some parameters for configuration).
Well, unfortunately we also believe that corporations are sacred, so when bad things happen we shake our fists and collect a couple dollars. But the guilty corporation is never put to death. (Well, rarely ever..)
Brendan Gregg diagnoses a performance problem on Netflix servers. He starts with CPU Utilization, but CPU Utilization metrics from top or ps don't give enough detail. He checks out more detailed performance views (including flame graphs, and some custom tools he wrote himself) to eventually narrow the problem down to the TLB: Translation-Lookaside Buffer. The mechanism the CPU uses to implement virtual memory.

Finally, he realizes that TLB-Misses were caused by Meltdown / Spectre Patches. Which is a difference between the two servers he was diagnosing the performance problem for.
After Settling with Uber, Waymo Targets Engineer Levandowski for Trade Secrets
Eight Criticisms Not to Make About Group Selection
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193749.When_the_Air_Hits...
The real question is why we have a tax system that would need 10,000 additional customer support reps. The problem isn’t a lack of reps, it’s a system that requires that many reps.

The flat tax, file-on-a-postcard system proposed by 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz was mocked by the establishment because it seemed tha politicians on both sides have a vested interest in a complex tax code — it is the means by which politicians derive their power. See Milton Freidman on the subject:

https://youtu.be/TruCIPy79w8
I noticed this in the news... I can't believe someone actually tryed this.

Tesla owner faces 18-month ban for leaving the driver's seat
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/29/tesla-owner-faces-road-b...
You are very mistaken about the legality here. Probable cause only matters to law enforcement agents. It has no bearing on private citizens.

The private citizens rights to seize property, turn it over to LEOs, report someone, conduct a search, do not change if they have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. So, if I'm your boss and can legally read your emails, I can just turn them over to the law enforcement agencies no question asked – they're "my" emails after all.
This is what Knewton is all about. knewton.com
> Suggesting that people and companies are independently and collectively spending 1 trillion dollars for zero results without any form of verification is absurd.

> But, if you really want to go there. Plenty of companies only advertise online and 'magically' end up making money selling real products to real people.

Then quit the hand-waving and provide convincing proof. Also address the issue of bot-farms and other kinds of fraud that could cloud the metrics.
For the benefit of American readers, I'll link to a few of these adverts below. It's worth emphasising the fact that ads of this sort are in every break of every match. The disembodied head of Ray Winstone bellowing in-play odds has become a cultural fixture. I'm a gambler myself, but I'm troubled by the ubiquity and sheer aggression of gambling advertising.

https://youtu.be/l4INTKhOLSs?t=20s
"Self-driving" is not the same as "Never going to crash."

People just assume that if a computer does something, it's going to be perfect. It isn't.

Most humans can't even "self-walk" without occasionally stumbling and falling. Does that make human locomotion dangerous and false?
How are they retaining staff with the skill-set to maintain that code?
> I think that consciousness is a collection of experiences and observations ('data'), nothing more. I am curious what lead you here:

Consciousness is part of having an experience. Observations don't require consciousness, since they can be performed by measuring equipment, although one can get deep in the woods on the whether observation needs a mind to make it meaningful, and thus an observation, not simply a physical interaction.

> I am curious what lead you here:

Being a self isn't about crunching data, it's about having a body and needing to be able to distinguish your body from the environment for survival and reproductive purposes.

An algorithm has no body and thus no reason to be conscious or self-aware. That it's even an algorithm and not just electricity is an interpretive act on our part (related to the deep semantic debate over what counts as an observation).

A robot might someday be a self. It would certainly be advantageous for robots to avoid damaging themselves, and being safe around other robots and humans (treating them as selves). But how we go about making robots self-aware, and more problematically, how they have experiences is something nobody knows how to do. Saying it will emerge once the robot is sophisticated enough is the same as saying nobody knows how to make a machine conscious.
Many people also die when they fall from the stairs.

But if you build faulty staircases that make people slip, they can still put you in jail or sue you.

Same if you push them down the stairs.
It's not that cut and clear. Yeah killing and maiming is bad but those things always (and will for the foreseeable future) happen at large scale and you have to be able to have a reasonable discussion about the trade-offs. "Well we can't guarantee we won't kill anyone in an edge case so let's all just go home" isn't an option.

You can build a highway overpass with a center support on the median for X and there will by a small chance of someone crashing into it and getting killed. You could design one without a support on the median but it will cost Y (Y is substantially more than X). Now scale that decision to all overpasses and you've got a substantial body count. At the end of the day it's a trade-off between lives/injury and dollars.
If you're primarily looking for pass-through taxation it might also be worth looking at electing your C-Corp to be treated as an S-Corp: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

(not a tax advisor / CPA, talk to one for actual specifics)
> not something you control, but a penalty after action

I’m fine with punishing companies after they violate data protection/privacy laws.

> You also have an agreement with the bank as such

I’ve not read many bank agreements but I don’t believe they say anything like “the bank can’t take my money to the casino and put it all on black”. Yet if they do that they’ve broken the law.
> Not sure how we fix that

How about prosecuting them for false advertising? Seems like a classic case, albeit in a new domain.
That sounds great. I will definitely be following up very soon! Many thanks for taking the time to respond.
I'd like to make a plug for my company (http://www.cyc.com) whose "AI" is not machine-learning based, does actual cognition and generalized symbolic reasoning, and lived through the AI winter of the 80s. We've gotten some contracts as a direct result of companies being disenchanted with Watson's capabilities.
IME compiling C++ in debug mode (-Og) is decently fast; faster than Rust.

Are there any languages with fast compilers that aren't designed from the start for fast compilation? When I think of "fast compilation" I think of Wirthian languages.
What's wrong with dist-packages?

Sure, it caused a lot of grief for Debian packagers (because the name "site-packages" was hardcoded everywhere) when it was introduced back in the Python 2.6 era; but I don't think I've ever had to worry about it as a user.
Could you please link to a time code or mention which time to seek to? The video is 2 hours long.

While I'm here, here are the popular discussions about this story from the last week:

“Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case” - 195 points - 2 days ago - 144 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946478

“Microsoft Convinces Judges to Jail Man for Copying Software It Gives Out Free” - 71 points - 3 days ago - 22 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16940722

“ ‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling Windows restore disks” - 86 points - 4 days ago - 11 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924587

“E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term” - 388 points - 5 days ago - 257 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634
I'm currently sitting in a meeting about implementing the Watson Enterprise Search product in my company and that is more or less the impression I've gotten. They sell it as a platform that is easy to customize and then once you're in they bill you tons of hours to help you because the system is indecipherable and poorly documented.
Everyone is in agreement that public tweets are public. Twitter also has Direct Messages [1], which they represent as private:

> Direct Messages are the private side of Twitter. You can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with people about Tweets and other content.

I think @stingraycharles was surprised by the response because the discussion surrounded publicly accessible information. The poster might not have realized that Twitter had information that is reasonably considered "private" as well. If DM information (metadata or raw messages) were made available, that would be surprising to millions of Twitter users. And I think we will see more scrutiny of Twitter and other companies in the coming months regarding the use of "private" information.

Unless, of course, you believe that SV and tech companies are not to be trusted in the first place, in which case none of this would be surprising or shocking.

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/direct-messages
Afaik as I've been able to figure out, it should be possible to implement the plan9 filserver in userspace, and combine user-mode file-sharing with convenience and performance (esp. for a local host). Unfortunately, I've never been able to find a combination of utilities that actually work and allow this. Which I guess leaves user-mode nfs - or more exotic things like ipfs.
HTMLx: One Template to Rule Them All
Yep, as shown by the stats in the latter half of this article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exagge...

Disclosure: I am one of the co-authors
Unless you have presence in Delaware (offices or employees), you don't pay corporate income taxes there just because you formed as Delware LLC or C Corp. You pay a nominal franchise tax, and you're taxed in the other state(s) you operate in.
> It IS lower compared to human error,

What is lower and compared to what? I am tired of this vague misleading statements by Elon musk, Tesla and their supporters.

They claimed Autopilot + driver is 40% safer than a driver alone. And that includes Automatic emergency braking. Is it a surprise that AEB reduces accidents?

Why is that used as proof that Tesla's software is FSD. FSD implies that the car is capable of driving without a driver.

Is Autopilot alone safer than a driver? There is no proof of that

But what you should compare is Autopilot alone compared with a driver assisted by Autopilot. So, is Autopilot better than Driver+Autopilot? I can assure you its not, the driver still adds value.
Its tough to recruit for, so you really end up with folks who have job security for the forseeable future and others who become retired-in-place because of the rarity of cleared folks eligible to take on the post.
>I'm not sure what "safer" means.

You can define it however you want. By any common sense definition of safety Tesla has not proven that their autopilot is 'safer' than a human driver.

>10x or 100x the number of deaths would be small price to pay to get everyone in autonomous vehicles.

This supposes a couple things. Mainly that autonomous vehicles will become safer than human drivers, that you know roughly how many humans will have to die to achieve that and that those humans have to die to achieve it. Those are all unknown at this point and even if you disagree about the first one (which I expect you might) you still have to grant me two and three.
I'm definitely not part of the team that works on HN but my impression is that HN strives to be as simple as possible. I actually like the current minimalistic username+password scheme. No activation email, no captchas. What's wrong with that? Not every site needs a NASCAR-like login screen.
I loved Snow Crash ( https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1491515... ) too.

Something I find interesting is that the instructions described in the book, the Sumerian 'Me', actually existed. They were instructions on how to do fundamental things, managed by the priests and which the Sumerians believed came from their gods and goddesses. The concept of neurolinguistic programming by the Sumerians is a nice fiction, or at least there's never been any evidence of it.

A good book on it is Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character, by Samuel Noah Kramer.
https://www.amazon.com/Sumerians-History-Culture-Character-P...

An online version can be found at his university:
https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/...

Interesting bits around the Me are around page 116.
Can you apply for atlas if you already have a stripe account in use? Or can a new entity be linked to an existing account?
it's just a PUN guys

and yes, this is just an acronym
> How can two private citizens attain the equivelant of "attorney-client privilege"

By one of them employing the other as an attorney (attorneys are private citizens).

(There are other similar but not strictly equivalente privileges, such as physician-patient, accountant-client, clergy-penitent, and marital privileges.)

> What is the reason that such privacy 'rights' are exclusive to conversations between an attorney and a person/entity.

Attorney-client privilege is needed because effective assistance of counsel requires people not to fear increasing their legal jeopardy through honest communication with their attorney.
Source that Microsoft lied? Gov Exhibit 17. There are probably many more.

I'm not finding this via Google searches... What incantation should I use?

Which parts of the exhibit are
you referring to?

[edit: I did find this, which is from the defense. The defense doesn't claim that Microsoft stated that the value of each restore disk was $25.

"The Government provided no proof of the price at which the Microsoft software was sold in any market without a license or product key. Indeed, the Court had no proof that Windows software was ever sold in any market at any price without a license or product key. Thus, the Court had no basis to determine the retail value of the infringed item, i.e., the Microsoft software without a license or product key. With no proof of the retail value of the infringed item, the Court was left to assume that the Windows software without a license and product key had the exact same retail value as an installation disc with Windows software, a license, and a product key sold to refurbishers. In concluding that the infringement value of the software was $25 - the price charged to refurbishers for an installation disc with copy of the Windows software together with a license and a product key – the Court apparently did so." https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/wp-content/uploads/si... ]

There are about three or four lies on there, which anybody familiar with the computer recycling business can confirm.

For those of us who aren't familiar with the computer recycling business (myself included) could you confirm them?

The rest of your comment is speculation.
If I meet you and write down a note about you afterwards, is that your data? I would argue that no, it is my data even though it is about you.
Gill Pratt, the head of auto-car R&D at Toyota, has been agreeing with you since he joined in 2015, essentially saying that auto-cars must be better than very good human drivers in all parts of driving, even those that occur rarely. But mastery of those rare events that will be hardest to acquire, since few useful examples are available from which to train. Thus those last few yards to the goal will add years to the development time in subtle ways that will be maddeningly invisible to the public -- until seemingly clueless crashes arise on public roads, perhaps like the one last month which terminated all of Toyota's auto-car testing on public roads until further notice.
Society wide utility. Every time resources are diverted to someone who uses them unproductively we lose the opportunity to use them productively.
One thing that amazes me about the modern PHP ecosystem is that when it comes to distributable PHP packages, there is only one package manager (composer) and one central package repo (packagist).

When it comes to binaries it's still a bit of a mess (homebrew? pecl? yum?) but the native PHP code story is clearer than any other language ecosystem I've seen.
LOL, haven't check if this XKCD was posted today, but it was particularly timely as I've spend the day debugging a Python + Jenkins + autotools + setuptools + RPM spec (mock etc) setup...
what happens if someone enters identifying information that you did not ask for, e.g. users who use their real name instead of (pseudonymous) username
These are start-ups, right?
The article is talking about Fortune 500 companies, not start-ups.
Having said that the top 2 ones are pharmaceuticals. I wonder whether the fat salaries trickle down to their bioinformatics divisions.
Representing Control in the Presence of One-Shot Continuations (1996) [pdf]
Indeed! Looks like Martelli made a mistake in that quote.
Formal as in somehow written into the contracts that govern your company.
That's why when I setup a browser for anyone that's not too technical I select pretty much all social blocking lists (among other).

No one yet complained that they can't Tweet while watching porn.