skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I’m surprised all this is shocking people. Guess people knew about this, but only now are suddenly realising the implications ?
Here's mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16959980
If Moon truly did say that, I think it would be farcical to give Trump the award. It's not clear that Trump's actions were decisive in creating this climate of peace between the leaders in the north and south.
Furthermore, even if his actions were decisive, his behaviour at home and abroad shows he brings significantly more division than peace to the world.
Trump called out China's continued coal imports from North Korea in a manner that threatened China with loss of face on the world stage. For the first time ever, China enforced their embargo. The North Korean regime rapidly changed its tune.

Investing in a belief system stipulating that Trump can never accomplish anything makes it increasingly difficult to explain or comprehend the world around you. If you apply more logic and less emotion when forming a world view, you'll find that you are happier.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/28/trump-very-d...
Interesting write up! Hope this can incentivize python/r users to give Julia a try.

I'd be curious to see if there is any progress on the matlab interoperability as well (my field is mostly matlab).
Watson might not be able to see what Tesla is trying to insinuate here...
So what's the point of your argument? Should we scrap GPDR because it isn't 100% effective in curbing personal data misuse? You could argue along similar lines that almost any law gives you a false sense of security - why do copyright laws exist, do they give the music industry for example a false sense of security that their audio files can't possibly be copied or shared? No, but they do provide legal recourse and they do set up a framework for acceptable use. If facebook shared your information with another entity without your consent, that would be a violation of GPDR and you would again have legal recourse.
Clarification: the outrage machine does exist as a phenomenon in American politics. It's real.

I agree that stewardship of the environment is very important.
We are running the latest Python 2 release, compiled from source. Windows Server 2012 will be supported until 2023, and CentOS 6 until 2020.
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I'm a big fan of Simone, and I'm a big fan or her morbid sense of humor. #tumorhumor

Obviously I can't predict the future, but it seems like she's going to be okay.
Not exactly, I specifically left out 'right to be forgotten' part. Also, I didn't see anything specific about tiers for companies and data (I didn't read the whole law, only its explanations) - when you clearly know what applies to you. With GDPR as you said small company could be fined nothing, but it also could be fined a lot - that's the problem, you don't know for sure and that's a risk which streetlend.com was afraid of. If they could just look at GDPR and say "ok, we're a small company and we don't hold any highly sensitive data, so according to the law we just need to provide users with clear ways to stop using our service; ok, keep going" it would be much easier. One of main problems of GDPR is uncertainty around it. Also with gradually I meant geography - only within EU for its companies, because frankly I don't like idea of countries deciding to apply their rules in the internet worldwide - it can get messy pretty quickly.
If the user gives you their email address to register, you can ask them for consent to store it. In fact, most European websites that collect any kind of personal data have already been doing this for over a decade.
Flagged, that link is to the png only, this is the correct link: https://xkcd.com/1987/
It's basically better and allows you to be more productive with fewer bugs than any other language.
Oh to have this problem. Let me guess, your side project is multi-cloud replicated, CDN fronted, data center backed?
I checked out whitehouse.gov recently and they now feature a guy who previously co-starred with Stormy Daniels.
Check Zillow right now -- Ferndale is not particularly cheaper than Ann Arbor these days. More importantly, my Ann Arbor Area to Detroit-ish commute is shorter (in time, not distance) than my friends working in the same building coming from Ferndale. When Ferndale was "cheap," I could have bought a literal mansion in Detroit with my sophomore intern money, cash in hand.

To the GP's comments, Detroit has done a lot to come up in the world on its own, though I'm not sure I like the idea of Ford buying the old train station, nor am I entirely in love with the $2~3000/mo apartments in midtown and I kinda wish it still had more of its grunge pricing to go with the definite grunge feeling that still lingers...

To argue more specifically with the parent's point, the statistical area certainly counts Ann Arbor, and that count is no less reasonable than Oakland being counted with SF. Commute times from Ann Arbor <-> the rest of Metro Detroit are entirely reasonable compared to the rest of the major cities in the country. Whether you're willing to accept any commute longer than walking across the street is a personal decision, clearly a significant fraction of the population will accept it.
> You said:

"From the description Streetlend didn’t violate the GDPR in concept though. Addresses are public record, available in public databases, and there is nothing stopping you from doing lending eBay. All it needed to do was clear it’s records every 6 months and let people delete their accounts."

> But the comment you commented on said:

"The problem is what happens if a legal firm or an agency targets you. Even if you adhered to the spirit of the law, they can dig up evidence that you didn't obey the letter of the law (since GDPR is quite loose and ambiguous)."

The issue seems to be that the resources required to resolve a delta - from Streetlend's pov - are perceived as excessive. Too much risk; not enough reward.

Look at what happened with Thiel and Gawker. Right or wrong is irrelevant if the opposition has deeper pockets and can bleed you to death (in legal fees).

> Startups will find a way to make money that isn’t selling your data.

Perhaps, that could be true. But plenty will not want to be caught in the crossfire in the meantime. And that too is a biz decision.
As someone who is currently working on successful commercial product with a strong a expert system component, I agree with the sentiment. The funny thing about this project is that the product owners nor marketers and not even the coders ever use the term "expert system". It just doesn't sell any licenses nor garner any attention.

My view is that expert systems are a ubiquitous part of many products to the degree it's hard to even recognize them as such. They're not the main focus of anyone's marketing budget, because that makes about as much sense as promoting your "revolutionary axle technology" to sell a car.
I said "poison" to refer to something that is sold for the purpose of being devastating to many forms of biological life. I and many very smart and well-educated people I know prefer to avoid exposing ourselves to industrial poisons if we can avoid it, even if they target different species.

Speaking of LD50 values: I know some people who ingest borax as a mineral supplement, and its LD50 is higher than table salt, roughly double if I recall correctly. I bet I can't get you to try it as a dietary supplement! The point is that there is more to consider than that one specific measurement.
Most users accepted this as a fact. Behind the scenes and not transparent to the user FB was allowing much more access. Now they are understanding the implications.

Not everyone is a highly technical person and to lump everyone into this category is not right. Try explaining this to elderly users.
This makes me very sad, but I've also gotta highlight her skill at perfectly nailing the tone of that video. Humor, sadness, gratitude, and fear, in excellent measure.

Plus, I'm thrilled to see somebody else with a nice sense of gallows humor. Sometimes, we have to laugh so we don't have to cry.
Yup, they can spend some time in the cornfield[0] if they want!

[0] The cornfield was a type of purgatory/hell in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilig...
That is a laughably dumb excuse.
I don't believe Trump deserves the Peace Prize, but many of its winners have done despicable things. It seems

Turn away Jewish refugees from Nazi death camps - win a peace prize. (Cordell Hull)

Repeatedly refuse peace, call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of all Jews - win a peace prize (Yasser Arafat)

Promote a war that appeared to have served no purpose than cause anguish - win a peace prize (Henry Kissinger)

I think we need two prizes, one for those who contributed and one for those who we hope might learn basic ethics.
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I disagree. I read this article a few years ago. It is true about IBM, but other companies have significantly more interesting and useful applications for ML right now.
Sorry, that might have been badly written. When I write on my blog I normally hire an editor to catch those kinds of sentences, which can be misunderstood. Maybe the safety net of having an editor has made me lazy. When I write a comment on a place like Hacker News, I should really re-read it to make sure it is clear.
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Do you own your own business? It's definitely possible to earn that much when you run a successful website or app. But I have a really hard time believing developer salaries are $300k+ at companies outside of CA/WA/NY.

The national median is right around $100k.

Developers that earn significantly more than that have significant ownership stakes in the company, highly desirable skill-sets, or notoriety in the field.
Unfortunately people take that marketing literally https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tesla-autopilot-...
In its core mechanics, it's not that much simpler than, say, a recent Fire Emblem. You can google your way to interviews with the authors where they talk about the amount of time and fiddling it took them to get the UI to where it is. The design evolution of FTL's UI over the years is another good case study. This doesn't just happen by making the game 'simple'.
Poor Geoff doesn't know what side of the car a driver sits in the UK...
So, imposter syndrome can help break you out of bad groups too? :)
The purpose of the law is one thing, the means through which the law is enforced is another. One can agree with the purpose of the law (people should have control over X) but not with the means (civil damages or criminal penalties).

"To have legal control over your PII" and "To have legal control over your possessions" are similar in nature. The fact that such purposes are implemented in different ways, for mostly technical reasons, does not diminish the argument.

The main technical reason is that, right now, loss of control over PII is widespread, and individually processing each claim would likely overload the judicial system of EU countries which usually don't have class action lawsuits. GDPR simulates a class action lawsuit using regulatory bodies, to be triggered by refusal to comply with a significant number GDPR requests.
Kernel space has the benefit of a very clear public/private boundary. The kernel internals have much worse docs than user space once you get over that wall.
What I find an even more interesting is that every story about rust have posts whining about hn posts about rust. this is such a boring, ever-present “question” that i don’t actually believe you asked it honestly.
Sad news. I'm glad I waited 'til the end of work before I watched this and turned into a crying mess.
"Legitimate Interest" is pretty easy to claim if PCI requires it.
I believe every state requires you to register your business in that state if you have a tax nexus there. California is particularly onerous about this, requiring LLCs to register and pay a minimum $800 franchise tax every year.
> Maybe you are referring to their paid service, Gnip? Yes, you need to pay for that one, but they have a free version that you can indeed access within minutes.

The streaming API is heavily rate-limited, so you can't realistically stream "millions of tweets per day within minutes", in the context of the original article.

The new Account Activity API, which replaces Site Streams, is what I was specifically referring to. https://twittercommunity.com/t/account-activity-api-beta-acc...
For those curious about the HF danger mentioned above, Wikipedia has an interesting (and scary) summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid#Health_and_s...
Almost more like "McDonalds sells hamburger to Cambridge Analytica researcher."
There is a phone setting to leave screen on while debugging.
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This is Marketing 101 though. It's easier to sell someone a dream or some emotional state than it is to sell an actual product/thing that you have. I'd give people a little more credit. Adults know what advertisements are and that they're all phony.
The problem is that mexjulia is the established package for those bindings, but it needs an update for newer versions of MATLAB (https://github.com/twadleigh/mexjulia/issues/58) which won't happen because the author moved on (https://github.com/twadleigh/mexjulia#mexjulia-embedding-jul...). If anyone is willing to put time into building/maintaining the binding libraries I'd be willing to use them. The issue is that, for any non-OSS language, the essential tooling (CI, benchmarking, accessibility) are absent, making it hard to maintain bindings for.
Everyone's so hung up on Trump that they forgot this is actually about Moon (and the two Koreas). Moon found out that Trump has a huge ego, and he's playing it to benefit his own agenda, which luckily happens to be peace in Korea. Hey, cut us some slack, this is how diplomacy works, and it's not like we're invading Crimea or something.

Do you guys think Moon actually gives a damn about who's getting the Nobel Peace Prize?
Same here. This is one of the major opportunities to slow the effects of climate change.
Who supplies the fuel though? It's not like charcoal forms at low temperatures...
IBM's customers probably understand that Watson (the jeopardy-playing bot) isn't really relevant, and that what they're buying isn't a pre-written software package so much as software consulting services. But there's still a serious problem, which is that a customer of Watson would reasonably believe that they're getting the team of engineers that solved Jeopardy. In reality there is no overlap whatsoever in personnel between Watson-the-PR-project and Watson-the-thing-you-hire.
Who is being deceived? Non-Tesla owners?

Or are you suggesting that there are Tesla owners who are (a) sitting in their driveway wondering why their car isn't driving them to work or (b) returning their cars upon finding out many of the features on the Autopilot page require regulatory approval?
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> it seems most developer prefer to build complex systems using simple languages, rather than build simple systems using complex languages

According to TIOBE, 1% of programmers are using Go, whilst 23% are using Java or C++.

If that is to be believed, developers do not appear to prefer simple languages. Or, Java and C++ are simple languages. Or, language selection is not based on preference.
>Everyone in America doesn't want to stare at a computer, drink $5 latte's, and eat farm to table food. There is nothing wrong with a town that has $3 beers in a plastic cup and a crowd of people screaming until at the TV until they are horse. There is nothing shameful about marrying a man or woman while holding each other's calloused hands at the alter.

Sure, but the money for that has to come from somewhere.
Nowadays, "working-class, blue-collar" stuff does not make money, and if "working-class, blue-collar" people identify with the economic system which designates their labor as a cost to be repressed rather than a service to be rewarded, I'm not sure how much I can do about that.
> Self driving cars?

For safety reasons, self-driving cars on the road don't rely on ML as much as you may think. It's much better to run algorithms with provable guarantees rather than black-box neural nets on a multi-ton vehicle. When the judge asks your company if you did everything in your power to prevent the death at hand, it helps to point to decades-old well proven techniques, rather than band new unproven, untested, trends.
Oh damn, she’s an inspiring person, and I hope that this goes as well as possible for her. No matter how tough and funny you are, a curveball like this is always going to be a terrible shock, but the strength and humor will definitely help with recovery. I’m confident that her many fans (myself included) will wish her well and be waiting for her return when she’s ready,
> Detroit is mostly reviving because Ann Arbor, where U of M is, is way too expensive.

I wouldn't say "mostly." It's mostly due to huge numbers of job moving to or being created downtown by Dan Gilbert's umbrella of companies(mostly Quicken Loans). Additionally, many businesses in metro detroit are moving from the suburbs to downtown.

I'm not so sure Detroit is any cheaper than Ann Arbor these days, either. At least not in the downtown & midtown areas.
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I worked on data systems that fed weather data into Watson.

IBM's technology, and IBM's marketing are very different beasts. The marketing is somewhat trivial, but the reality of ML and the Watson data systems is incredible. They are pumping a huge amount of data into it and they have data scientists doing incredible things with the data already. It is the largest growing segment of the company (and maybe the only growing segment of the company.)

The marketing of AI, and the realities of ML are always going to be disconnected. Sure, you will likely just get an email that says routine maintenance has been ordered on your elevator, not a box in the corner that tells you in a sexy, clear, non-robotic voice. As for Bob Dylan's songs... Christ. AI winter isn't coming unless the term AI gets squashed and people start calling it ML. This article is pretty FUD.
So...one person died?

Do you know how many people die in normal, non-self-driving cars? It's never possible to get 100% accuracy.
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GitHub seems active.

Lack of a big community can be explained by the language's role as a domain specific embedded language and it simplicity.
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I've coded in Ada. Storage pools are not as safe as Rust's affine type system. For one it's a lot easier to leak memory with Ada, since they're mainly built off of reference counting.
It is probably cheaper to confer cities with huge geodesic domes with high reflectivity and deal with excess heat.

Ecosystems may have some trouble with it.
How does this improve upon Pandoc?

https://i.imgur.com/tMkMjNV.png

In the image, ConTeXt generates PDFs. The EA box represents HTML documentation exported from Enterprise Architect, but could be any structured document that pandoc can parse. The source repository contains various themes for the final PDF.

Using ConTeXt offers several compelling features, such as: citations, cross-references, and ability to produce EBPUBs.
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oh man you can say that again. Look ma i can perform linear regression on a bunch of data , i'm a data scientist!!! Even better i just heard a new term 'IA', local tech meetup has a presenter with headline

"discussing an Intelligence Augmentation (IA) approach to human-assisted artificial intelligence."

oh god now we have IA and AI. holy shit!
> All the persons I know of in my country who works at Google or Facebook got their job through competitive programming.

Are any of them bad developers?
Can an mod add the date to the title? This piece is from 2015.
The difference is, at least in theory, that boom-bust cycles from bank-fuelled speculative frenzies could be controlled.
That is amazing too me. When I did inside sales for a VAR in college in the 90s, we wrote a little app that would note the customer's account notes a few months after a printer installation to ask about toner.

It had a high conversion rate and better still got us referrals to the head executive assistant (who was usually the boss's assistant).
I never said the incubator is less focused on money, and I don't believe that. I just think the incubator believes the best way to make money is to be passionate about your work, and that by being benevolent, people produce better quality products that make more money in the long run.
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If you are implying that it is the "optimizing compiler" I mentioned, I have not seen good performance numbers that show it as being any better than the official Go compiler.

Were I going to start the company to produce the compiler, the question of "why isn't gccgo about 2x faster than Go?" is one of the first I'd examine, though. I personally have zero idea what the answer is. Or, indeed, if it's even still true. However, I am active enough in the Go community that if good benchmarks were going around I'd expect to have seen them. (They'd probably make it to HN.)
Time for a fork of https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt.
I agree; OP is one of those articles, that start to make a reasonable point only to frame it with a highly debatable specific example.
OpenCV red eye removal

https://www.learnopencv.com/automatic-red-eye-remover-using-...
Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs?
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If those people die because the car fails catastrophically, and predictably, rather than the usual reasons it would be news. This is not about 100% or “the perfect is the enemy of the good” or any bullshit Utopianism. This is about a company marketing a flawed product deceptively for money, while letting useful idiots cover their asses with dreams of level 5 automation that aren’t even close to the horizon.
Microsoft guidelines appear to state that given the Ship of Theseus nature of machines there is a two-factor of sorts authentication for the license of that machine: the license code sticker, and the original recovery disc (as a harder to counterfeit physical token than the exact state of hardware of a machine; remember all the XP era relicensing woes when you swapped out a RAM chip?).

If you sell all three together on eBay, that's entirely fine, and it doesn't need a relicense fee. It's when you start to lose one of those three that Microsoft asks you pay a relicensing fee.
The equivalent is doing more dead code analysis at the MIR stage before sending it to llvm. This is where rustc loses most of its perf. LLVM is usually 50-60% of execution time, mostly because rust sends teams of ir to chew through.
> Not sure what you are using, but speech recognition is amazing on my android device and has been for years.

Let me guess: white male native English speaker? Your Android device was built by you and trained for you specifically.
I feel that way about Baltimore too, although I've only visited a bunch.

I think there's a really fine line though between a city like Baltimore and one like Buffalo, where I did live for a few years and revisited after a decade absent.

Buffalo seems to try to redevelop a neighborhood, but after not finding the success they hoped for will abandon that neighborhood and move on to try another.

When I was first in Buffalo in the early 2000s it was downtrodden but had promise, but my visit there last summer was incredibly depressing.