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Thank you. That is an important distinction. I think wikipedia defines it properly as "specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights"
> Townhall is a well-known conservative website.

I didn't know that, and apparently neither did the poster of that link.

> Or do you think those headlines are outside the bounds of reasonable discourse?

My only intention was to point out potential bias. Now that you mention it though, no, I don't think a headline like "Liberalism Must Be Destroyed" is making a good faith effort to start a reasonable discourse. I think it's pandering to the kind of destructive tribal political think that has rendered productive political discourse basically nonexistent these days. And I would say the same if the title was "Conservatism Must Be Destroyed"

Edit: I read the articles. Those headlines might honestly be understating the level of bias. I don't event want to sully HN with that level of pathological tribal political nonsense. For example, regardless of your opinion on guns (I own one personally), to pretend like this is what healthy political discourse looks like is completely unacceptable.

> Ignore the liberals who want an America where you disarmed and defenseless against the tyranny they dream of imposing. Ignore the hateful teens MSNBCNN spotlight and the Hollywood virtue signalers who harangue you from behind armed guards. Ignore the blue falcon Democrat vets who think their tour in Iraq means they earned some sort of moral authority to dictate to you what guns you do and don’t need. If that’s how it works, I did 27 years, so doesn’t my guidance that you should totally buy an AR-15 count? No? Oh, right – their vetsplaining is just manipulative liberal baloney.

> Instead, be guided by science. The science, supported by experience, make clear what you need to do. Buy guns and ammunition. Get an AR-15.

> Gee, why do liberals hate science so much?
For the record, SpaceX is attempting to make the same flight in 30 minutes by suborbital rocket. Elon claims that it will be about the same price.

External estimates of a BFR launch, combined with his stated goal of 850 passengers, comes out to around 9k. Which is more. But...30 minutes...
If you want Next-Gen infotainment with Assistant and Maps, you need to buy a new shiny Volvo car... or, you know, just use your Android phone and hack a Raspberry Pi and install Crankshaft on it.

Crankshaft does all of the above, plus it doesn't talk to the cloud, doesn't require you to be connected to "the cloud," doesn't collect your data, doesn't ask you to buy a new expensive car, doesn't nudge you to subscribe to any service, and has a stallmanism approach to software freedom.

Disclaimer: I made it.
Pivotal and VMware are working on this. From what I’ve seen (yet to play around too deep with this yet) looks promising. You’ve got it spot on though, just needs to be simple.
https://pivotal.io/containers/deploying
No, it isn't. This is ソニー株式会社. The rootkit scandal was Sony BMG, of which Sony America was a partial owner.

Like most megacorps, Sony isn't a single monolithic entity.
Um, do you have a driver's license?

Nobody said anything about 100% safety in some provable way. But certainly it is very much the driver's responsibility to pick a safe speed. Driver's Ed (at least in most? EU countries) teaches that the posted speed limit is just that, the maximum legally allowed speed. As a driver you -- and nobody else -- are responsible for picking a safe speed depending on the environmental conditions.

In particular, the following are explicitly taught in Driver's Ed:
1) Don't overdrive your visibility (headlights, curve)... you must be able to look sufficiently far ahead such that you can stop in the event of an obstacle appearing. (In case of two-directional traffic in the same lane, you must be able to stop in half your visible distance.)
2) Reduce speed according to weather: Rain (aqua-planing), Snow/Ice (slippery), Fog (reduced visibility as in 1)
3) You must be aware of situational dangers and be ready to stop if necessary (e.g. parked cars on the side of the road between which children could emerge...)

Nobody else will tell you what the maximum safe speed at any given moment is. You're supposed to learn how to handle your vehicle during driver's ed, and then act accordingly.

Overdriving your visibility is just plain stupid -- you simply will not be able to avoid a collision with an object in time; you're basically driving blind and hoping for the best.
I prefer safety post tuners. You can get accurate ones for cheap and string changes are super fast and easy. Usually enough winding to make for stable tuning.

I’ve found slightly over-tightening most locking tuners will break the string. Not a frequent occurrence for me, but frequent enough to bug me. Usually happens when I’m in a rush.
Not actually that hard. You want a WaveShaperNode. Of course, tuning the curve and other parameters so it sounds _good_ is nontrivial.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WaveShaperN...
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> not possible to make today with with unlimited budgets

The Lofstrom Loop is possible today for a few billion dollars. Though "catching" an incoming capsule with a Loop is going to take a while to human-certify.
A majority of people can believe a lot of things.

For example, the majority of people in Saudi Arabia believe that gay people should be stoned to death.

I personally don't give any legitimatecy to majoritarianism. There are things that are right and things that are wrong, and this doesn't change because a majority of people don't think the same way.
What if I see it and I'm completely willing to accept that risk?

What if I'm willing to accept that the government suddenly turn into a dystopian authoritarian nightmare that tortures and murders my family in front of me, if we get rid of the right to own guns. I'm totally willing to accept that.
Aircraft fuel can be carbon neutral, if the fuel is made by CO2 reduction (CO2 to methanol/methane and Fischer-Tropsch). It's just not economical today. CO2 reduction will never compete with electric cars, because it's just too inefficient, but for aircraft, even throwing away 2/3 of your input energy might make economic sense if that energy is clean.
If you do it on demand instead of in bulk it isn't abuse. I could take your email and search Facebook myself, or could have before they removed the feature anyway
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> That strip is one of the stupidest things Randall Monroe has ever done.

It's consistently misapplied.

In the US we believe certain rights are inalienable and we should protect those rights.

Every time that xkcd strip gets posted people treat it like it's a conversation ender - but all it is saying is people don't have to roll over for assholes.

Here the clear assholes are Google and Facebook.
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I think you may have just grown differently, he might very well think you're not focusing on the right things either at this point. Assuming you're both reasonable people and you want to fix things with him. You could try this;

Get away from the office and have an uninterpreted "strategy session". Sometimes leaving town and relaxing a bit helps. Do something fun, not business related for a night then the next day have a conversation. Start with facts he can't dispute that are not personal. Something you can both agree on. Like, can we both agree that the business is sinking and only has X months left? If you can agree on that, the next question is what do we need to change to fix it? You can bring up some of the issues without personally attacking his style. A la "I think we need to listen closer to customer feedback and focus on revenue generating opportunities within their feedback"

I've worked with a lot of personalities that sound familiar to your co-founder, the trick is planting the seeds so they think it was their idea/or they were at least apart of the ideation process - when really it's exactly what you wanted them to do and your purpose for engaging in the conversation. Not everyone can just be directly reasoned with or is receptive to direct feedback.
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Hi everyone. I created a side-project which scratches an extremely niche itch that I have--having to fill out forms with data that I've already entered beforehand. This app extracts your name from your email address (in ~20% of the emails in my dataset, the first, last, or both names were included in the email) and puts them in the form for you. I'm hoping that this app can also increase conversions by offering a more personal experience to filling out forms, and reduces the number of fields the user has to enter.

For example, I signup for a service on a website. The website wants my first name, last name, and email address. Normally, I would have to fill in all of these boxes separately. However, I created an app which takes your email address (for example sarahjane@example.com), and converts it into a first and last name by using a modified sliding-window algorithm to maximize the match (I get around 90% accuracy on some test data with 100's of pairs.)

You'd only have to fill in the first email box, and the other boxes (first name and last name) automatically fill in with Sarah and Jane. It can also handle some complex cases (such as johnimble@example.com and converts it to John and Nimble, as "joh" is unlikely to be a name.)

It also properly capitalizes the first and last name based on previous data (e.g. MacDonald, McDonald, deJoan) and correctly places accent marks over your name if needed.

The problem: autofill. Autofill is very popular (included in all major browsers), but I can't find any hard stats on how many people use it. Of course, this would reduce the usefulness of this app to around zero, since all of the information would already exist.

Would you pay for this if you were a website owner? Would you find this useful if someone were to implement this on their website? Perhaps it could customize the login flow after you've entered in your email address (so it'll say "Hi Sarah" after automatically extracting your first name.)
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This breaks the HN guidelines by being ideological flamebait. Nothing good can come of this, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To somebody who understands the function of each of those tools, your statement reads as “grep, sed, awk, perl. And you say Linux isn’t complex?”.

I think you’re overestimating complexity based on lack of familiarity.
This is common both in the Southeast US (where I'm from; for example "about an hour up the road from here") and in LA (where I live; for example "like 20 minutes from downtown, 45 with traffic")
I'm of similar mind on this. Free speech is a concept that transcends law, and while you absolutely don't have to agree with it I expect service providers to. The second they willingly remove content that is not illegal, I cannot trust they will treat my content fairly should it come under scrutiny. Should I find myself under the scorn of an internet lynchmob, I could very well find my content removed.
I suspect that the total number of books written on SQL/C/C++/C#/Java etc probably significantly exceeds those written for niche languages. Similarly, Windows/Linux/Unix/iOS or MS Office or Visual Studio... across the various CS domains.
You can hardly blame our banks from licking their licks at the prospect of this...if all goes well they can make huge profits. If it's a debacle, they can get bailed out by the taxpayers again, followed shortly thereafter by giant bonuses for amazing performance recovering from the massive losses to massive (taxpayer funded) profits.

Will be interesting to see if any voices of concern make it outside of internet forums.
If I was looking for a sneaky way to get huge number of followers, this kind of sob story might be the way to do it. ;)
Typo in title - should be Sublime Text 3.1, naturally.
IIRC the hull of much larger Russian nuclear subs (the ones that are always near the US East Coast) is made of titanium too.
I've been thinking about the concept of censorship by tech companies lately, and I've come to a question I'm not sure the answer to. Ethically, why is society ok with forcing a company to provide a service they find morally reprehensible, for instance the baker who was sued for refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, and at the same time we argue that YouTube has a right to refuse to provide a service to customers because of the content of their videos?

It strikes me as incompatible. It seems we ought to either believe companies are legally required to provide their service to all comers or they're not.
You’re absolutely right, it’s absolutely admins seeing the “ooh shiny” aspect of these things. I have a feeling the company pushing these boards has really good salespeople.

And I’m an officer of a robotics team, so I feel your pain. We get zero funding from the school. Most money comes from members’ pockets or fundraisers. Eventually, we want to ease the burden on members by getting corporate sponsors, since we obviously won’t get any money from the school district, who’s busy cutting library budgets and buying smart boards.
Video sharing sites are generally protected from that kind of liability by section 230 of the CDA.
That's one thing about bootstrapping, your P&L practically mirrors the cashflow statement so we had to be profitable from the get-go. We're well past that take-off stage where I was unsure if the business was going to fly or not, so now I'm following the Bezos strategy of re-investing all earnings back into the company (sure beats coughing up income taxes). So yes, with the caveat that I'm not paying myself a cent, since as majority shareholder I think of equity as my comp, it's profitable.

It helped a lot that on Day One we had $5000 of AWS credits, two founders with spare time and tons of business & tech experience, a market segment ripe for the picking, an enthusiastic (and well-connected) launch customer for the MVP, and disruptive home-grown IP that created more customer value (even in MVP form) than anything else on the market. I couldn't have asked for better initial conditions for a bootstrapped company.

(yes I was surprised the account ID wasn't taken already. maybe I won't throw it away)
Yeah, and trying to explain all these concepts to devs, qa folks, data scientists, etc. when you tell them they have to start working in a Kubernetes environment, then actually working with them to make changes to their apps to make that happen is a long journey - unless you happen to have a first class team on hand that really knows the ins and outs of how the entire ecosystem works.

Kubernetes has some great attributes, but being simple isn't one. I feel sometimes that Google really pulled one on us, and this is just training people to treat the entire system as a black box, locking them in to services only top tier cloud companies have the expertise to provide and maintain reliably.
I appreciate the point you're making, but I don't feel my comment was made to attack the website while ignoring the argument. I merely pointed out what they choose to display as their "trending articles".

Do you find context to be completely irrelevant when engaging in political discussion?
If you read the linked articles here it was exactly that attitude that allowed the US to tell itself that it was impossible that the Russians had the capability to make a Titanium sub for about a decade.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015111
Would be nice if they provided performant .Net wrappers around some of the more popular open source ML libraries (pandas for example), assuming that is technically possible.
Disclaimer: I'm a product manager for Flutter at Google, so I'm paid to say nice things about Flutter :)

Probably the two most obvious architectural differences are that a) Flutter paints every pixel on the screen, whereas React Native uses the stock iOS and Android components; and b) Flutter uses Dart which can be compiled ahead-of-time to native ARM machine code, whereas React Native code is written in JavaScript.

We think the combination of the hardware-accelerated graphics engine, native-compiled code and customizable UI widgets is a powerful one, as exemplified by demos like this one:
https://www.2dimensions.com/b/225-flutter-showcase

My favorite feature of this demo is that the translucent slider control is overlaid on the animated graphics beneath: this is often difficult to do with other frameworks because they don't have the same level of control over what is painted, or can't do it with the required performance.

Your results may vary, but this demo runs smoothly on my budget last-generation Nokia 6 phone, which I bought for about $200.

Hope this helps a little?
Such precociousness is often[1] an indicator of abnormalities and handicapped general intelligence. For example, if our son independently began to read too early the initial reaction of my spouse, a Speech-Language Pathologist, would be to freak out rather than to be filled with pride.

Perhaps you know this and used "gifted" in its more euphemistic sense. In any event, I mention this not to correct you but to address the parental anxiety engendered by examples such as you gave.

[1] Depending on the activity and age of onset, they can be so strongly correlated that attentive educational professionals would recommend diagnostic tests to identify any condition (often some category of autism) and permit early intervention to minimize the negative developmental aspects.
freeway driving causes less accidents than street driving
Sounds like an issue for the board of directors. Do you have a board of directors? If so, I suggest reaching out directly to board members one-on-one to raise these issues with them.
The “majority of the world” neither supports same-sex marriage. I suppose you’d be fine with removing that kind of content from YouTube as well, right?
Frank Herbert Dune, Minority Report.

These people were profits warning us of the danger of A.I. and writing about it for a long long time.

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We see it with human beings; the higher the intelligence can come at a cost of empathy as they don't view other humans as their equals.

That said certain countries would program the A.I. to hunt certain people; Drug Users, Criminals. Arresting someone for thinking about a crime... thus removing more freedom
> oh but they aren't "hurting consumers.

Of course they are. And I bet a lot of judges would rule against them under our existing laws.

Even just what we could find in discovery would almost surely provide enough information to get the EU with its stronger monopoly laws to make a case.

> and you don't have a right to put up videos on youtube.

Of course - but we can ensure YouTube is broken off from Google and has to compete in the free market.
OK. Doesn't anyone else who read this now think, "Well gee why would I ever write a book then?" You could easily make $23 an hour as an entry-level server in a diner if you include tips.
Dark pattern. Why are we signing into browsers again? Happily using FF without that bullshit.
I just logged in to say that I love you for creating both this specific application and for software you are creating to make things like this. I loved the explanation, I love the execution, and I love the spirit behind this. More power to you man.
Isn't most of this stuff just managed with UX? Do people click "no" on cookie messages? or just "dismiss" which I assume means "whatever, just get this box out of the way"..
You mean they shouldn't have disabled the car's own autonomous, non AI braking system and kept it as a backup for when theirs failed? Yeah, but that would take a responsible, caring player and we're talking about uber here, a company built on ignoring laws, best practices, and common sense. This can easily be a case of manslaughter, but their cozy relationship with the az government will probably prevent that from happening despite uber's egregious recklessness.
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Rocket flight would have to get a lot safer before that ever becomes a reality. Nobody is going to sign up for that if they have a 1 in 270 chance at rapid unscheduled disassembly. And even that rate hasn't been demonstrated to date - the risks for both Space X's rockets and NASA's space shuttle have so far been higher.
Who belived that humans would fly! Or I would send you a message without a horse in an instant time!
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Well, that's not exactly a general purpose computer anymore :)
Because unless you do backflips on the way to the table without spilling a drop, you’re not getting asked to do any $peaking engagement$.
If a company wants to maintain the legal immunity for user generated content, then it MUST be content neutral.

So fine YouTube can censor content if it likes, and in exchange every single time any one of its users posts anything illegal on the website, then police should go to the YouTube office and arrest someone.

You either get the legal immunity by being content neutral or you don't get it at all, and now you are subject to arrest for your user's content.
Hi Jeremy.

Just wanted to ask a quick question if you recommend any prerequisites before taking this course? I am a second year Computer Science student looking to get into AI, and I was just wondering if this would be a good starting point for me, or should I take some other courses and learn something else before?

Thank you.
The other comments about grant proposals and politics is true in a lot of instances. For a different approach, look at a liberal arts college that has a CS program: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/2/212444-liberal-arts-ac...
We should be applying far stricter standards to Google and Facebook - in many ways they have effective monopolies in a way that a baker doesn't.
To me, that reads as passive aggressive. "It's unfortunate you didn't do your job..."

I think it's a better approach to say "The problems are X. We know this because of Y. My proposed solutions are Z. If you agree, let's get together and figure out how to do Z. If you don't agree, let's get together and figure out where our analyses diverge and how we can come together."
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No, usually not. In countries that actually have legal jurisdiction to compel Google/Youtube to censor things, it's usually to do with hate speech or privacy laws. It's common to see notices about that on google search results within European countries.
> For this word "Indian" has been abused as no other word in the language; almost every time it is used it has to be qualified. There was a time in Europe when everything Oriental or everything a little unusual was judged to come from Turkey or India. So Indian ink is really Chinese ink and India paper first came from China. When in 1492 Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani he thought he had got to Cathay. He ought therefore to have called the people Chinese. But East was East. He called them Indians, and Indians they remained, walking Indian file through the Indian corn. And so, too, that American bird which to English-speaking people is the turkey is to the French le dindon, the bird of India.

Source: Sir V.S. Naipaul on East Indians, 1965 http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2004/10/naipaul-on-east-indi...
Because the bakers are discriminating against certain people doing the same behaviors as other people, but content hosts are discriminating against certain content, regardless of who does it.

We don't allow Google to censor homosexual content, and we allow bakers to ban gun cakes.