skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." -- Words of wisdom from a career bureaucrat.

I think the simplest way is to just set up a site and make sure you cite your sources. The site under discussion here would be a primary source and should be listed as such on every single page that references any of the data found there.

Beyond that, it really depends on what the GP intends.

Start a blog and write a little blurb about each winner as separate blog posts? I don't think any permission is needed. Just write whatever you want to say about the project and note that they are the winner listed here and link to the page where they are listed.

Start a clone of the site that adds additional info? Yeah, you maybe need to go talk to folks and find out if they are okay with that and get it in writing.
Sure! The app can be installed from https://github.com/apps/lock if you do not wish to host your own instance.
The second step is to add the config file to your repository and you're all set.

https://github.com/dessant/lock-threads#usage
- Mattresses (Casper)

- Eyeglasses (Warby Parker)

- Creating a website quickly (Squarespace)

- online backup (Backblaze)

- shaving products. (Dollar Shave Club)

- Mesh networking devices (Eero)
If I understand it right, this is the biggest blind spot of all the automated driving systems. The software just ignores stationary objects because the sensors don't have the resolution to determine whether they are in front of the car or on the side of the road. And if it didn't ignore stationary objects the car would come to a halt at every garbage can, mailbox, and bush along the road. Until they can work lidar into the system this will not be preventable. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the vast majority of accidents that were the fault of the self-driving car happened because it hit something stationary in the road (or off to the side of the road, in one case I recall).

Since I've learned about this blind spot in these system I no longer trust them. I think everyone with a self-driving car should understand this. But maybe it's not in the interest of the manufacturer to explain it, or people would demand they fix the problem, which they cannot do just yet.
It would be nice to have that "raw" decent source in C++ to compare to, as well as Java. Although nothing is stopping me from doing the same ...
Man I was really hoping they would bootstrap something awesome. Since they were acquired by Geely I was thinking that they would go there own path and pave a way for AI cars in China’s future.

Maybe they are just evaluating it to get an idea of what to copy in the future?
That's not how a sonic boom works. A sonic boom doesn't occur just at the moment that an object exceeds the speed of sound; it's a continuous phenomenon that is experienced by a stationary observer as a momentary event.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
You ride 100KM in jeans without chafing?
> There aren't many topics with such a wide audience.

What now? The number of people who develop in angular actively is probably in the low 6 figures. In the context of the world that's a very small audience.
Perhaps this Nick Szabo essay? http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
That's not what I meant, though. A Kubernetes PV is an abstraction that causes a controller allocate a GCE disk (which of course is another abstraction), but if you create a GCE disk through the CLI/UI/API, then you don't get a PV.
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Hmmm, this seems a bit problematic to me. I agree, a majority of the big religions and churches no longer fit with the times. People will always crave spirituality, but these days they are rejecting religions. I think that's ok.

That being said, I don't think rituals can be trivialized in this way. Some of the most powerful rituals are definitely packed with the wisdom of thousands of years of practice, some of which is only now starting to be understood by modern science (fasting, and how it boosts immune health comes to mind).

We are losing touch with that ancient lineage, and I think that's a mistake.
> This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks.

Honestly I would think that automating a slow moving vehicle in the city would be a much harder engineering challenge. City driving can be a lot messier than driving on the freeway.
Anyone with concerns about privacy and thinking about buying a car in Europe should have eCall in mind.

An European citizen unwilling to have an embedded system that tracks location, accesses mic and transmit GPS data has three options: burn the SIM card module, buy a pre-April-2018 car or something outside the EU.
would be great to hear your thoughts on how to gather info on investor appetite for a round in advance of formally kicking off the round, ie keeping a fine line between informal relationship building meetings and formal pitch meetings. you touch on this a bit in the post but would be great to hear more details, as you say the details are where the challenge lies!

have heard some people advise taking initial intro meetings specifically for "advice", then once you start to raise doing "batches" of investor meetings to learn more about appetite for the round. thoughts on this?
We do it for many pedestrian crossings across railroad tracks, so it's not unprecedented, but obviously on a different scale.
The sonic boom is continuous at speeds above Mach 1
I've always liked birds. Magpies and crows of course are common where I live, and they are really quite intelligent. I always try to interact with them. The magpies respond to me sometimes, and sometimes follow me for a while if I've said something to them and I'm walking. Maybe I look nuts trying to talk to birds, but they know you're "talking" towards them, unlike some other common city animals (jackrabbits where I live) who assume you might be trying to harm them.
Perhaps you have missed some facts. ZTE repeatedly (> 100 times) violated the terms of a court ordered probation, intentionally gave misleading information, despite being levied a > 1B fine (the original reason for sanctions: sending some US-origin items to Iran, obstructing justice, and making a material false statement). The Government decided to go this route after they realised that the sanctions route did not lead to the right behaviour.

This would have been pretty uncontroversial under any other President.

Read this for more detail on ZTE's malfeasance: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-...
I have a do-nothing job as a junior dev in a different area, but what you describe is my day-to-day.

Maintaining outdated, undocumented applications on obsolete and unsupported hardware and software platforms. Everyone here knows how to do a good enough patch job to keep things moving smoothly.

I openly complain a lot about the lack of any dev process - literally people do whatever they want, including copying the entire source tree to make changes - and absence of any tools. The usual response to change is "go for it and show us it will work", but I'm not familiar enough with the software to go off on a rewrite on my own. And honestly if I had that level of skill I'd be a consultant charge 3x what I get paid.

I have sought a different job in the past and ended up here. Part of me feels like I wouldn't cut it at a "real" dev job and I'm not secure enough to risk a cushy job for the adventure. But it does drive me crazy.

p.s. the guy next to me is sleeping in his chair - this is not unusual.
Reminded me of my high school physics project on tuning a guitar using beats on harmonics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
> the benefits of authorship were reputational

LOL. I published a book through Wiley about 8 years ago. I got an advance which I did earn back, and I'm still earning a small bit on sales every year. Reputational? The only time it's ever come up was when I was interviewing for the job I have now and one of the interviewers asked, "oh, I notice you wrote a book about SSL. Do you know stuff besides SSL though?"
I mean... no one has a right to due process in media and public perception, only in government dealings.

Only a repressive, fascist society would attempt to enforce a guarantee of 'due process' in public perception. I hope that day never comes in America, but given how liberally some people seem to take protection of speech and due process, I worry we may be closer now than ever.
Right, but there are other places to get this.

Casual sports for adults.

You local maker space.

Having friends over - for a while we used to host a Sunday dinner and have guests over weekly (pasta and sauce is cheep and easy).

For myself kids, and their demands in modern America pretty much killed all of these things off for me... Now my rituals are their activities.
I assume that I suck at security, everything I have ever built is badly compromised and I'm too dumb to know it. I'm so bad at security that evil criminals actually celebrate my birthday.

Since I'm this bad, I assume that any monitoring tool I could install on the boxes themselves, up to and including all my logs are compromised. I'll usually still install monitoring tools for compliance, basic diligence and because they make wicked graphs that impress my superiors.

Since I'm that bad, I'd rather not invest 40 hours a week combing through fake logs unless I'm validating that I've taken care of the basic security fundamentals for my threat level.

Rather, I like to make sure that my security fundamentals are taken care of so that I can stop the simple attacks. If my threat/compliance model dictates, from there I'll possibly step things up into a web application firewall (WAF).

But, through all of this, I know that there are people out there who are so much smarter than me that the best I can do is little more than an annoyance for them. So, again, I like to assume that I'm badly compromised. This implies that I'm very careful about what data I keep, and I take efforts to protect my data at rest.
What I don't understand about some of these sites is who is the target consumer? I mean I get that the customers are startups, but who is going to the site looking for random startups? What do they get out of it?
Essentially make the freeways "car trains" as the autobahn implies. Eventually over time you add automation to other kinds of roads.
You’ll have to excuse me as I don’t have a car with Apple CarPlay but can’t you just use Google Maps with an iPhone in preference to Apple Maps?

At least that’s the case for normal iOS use.
If you want to go the same distance for 1/10th the cost

And remember that both BA and Air France got their Concordes “for free”
Between 10 - 10:30pm, though sometimes as late as 11:30pm.
I think the point is that I don't have to touch the cloud provider's control plane in 99% of cases. Which brings the portability that first attracted me to Kubernetes.
@jamesrcole

The reason you're being down-voted is because liberalism believes in a clean slate for human beings. Heritable genetic traits that provide advantages or disadvantages goes against this model.
Here is an article written by Thomas Sowell in case someone wanted to read from him first hand.

https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/10/01/race...

I am not well read enough on the subject to have my own opinion. My summary of his words: The average score of an IQ test is defined as 100, so the raw intelligence each score represents changes over time as population intelligence changes over time. Some nations have seen an increase in average IQ of 20 points. There is a difference of IQ between African Americans and the rest of the US population, but that can be explained as being socially isolated, and the same difference can be found in other socially isolated populations.

*
Edit: I am embarrassed to have linked to such a publication, but will not modify my original words.
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2nd'ing fail2ban, it's simple and awesome.

Beyond that, tripwire or it's modern equivalent.
Traffic monitoring, "deep packet" inspection on the network side. Run all outbound through a proxy.
Who is they? Google or Volvo?
Of course an Indian startup can't compete with Amazon and Walmart! But they can easily ban foreign companies and let it grow organically in the country, they might get it 5 years later but they are not bankrupting all of their local business with no upside for the economy!
Seems like a neat idea, but controlling the tuners with the mouse is really fussy and annoying. There seems to be some kind of delayed reaction and I frequently overshot the frequency I was targeting (a problem I don't have when tuning my actual guitars).
This article is specifically discussing brain development in children age 0-3 from families living under the poverty line.

Babies cannot control their circumstances, nor do they have any free agency. They are entirely without any control.
Poverty and limited financial resources aren't really the same thing. I get what you are saying, but it is something I have thought about a whole, whole lot. It's a distinction we don't make clear enough. We talk as if poverty is just about a low income. It's really not.

Let's posit two scenarios:

1. There are people with low incomes whose lives work reasonably well.

2. There are people whose lives don't work and one of the results of their lives not working is a low income.

I think poverty is really that second item, not that first. I think we conflate low income and poverty too much. There were lives that worked well and lives that lacked critical elements long before modern money made it convenient to assign a dollar value to our idea of what constituted poverty. In so assigning a dollar value, we risk boiling down a whole lot of qualities to a single number that doesn't necessary effectively capture what is going on.
Xamarin for WPF is also coming which should allow you to keep your VB code unchanged, I don't know the specifics however.
I have posted two questionable comments as satire but I'll stop. Thank you for the courtesy.
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Since I don't have to worry about a basic income (online business, not part of some experiment) i do a lot more for me, society and my future income.

Therefore I highly believe also other people would adapt this way given a real chance.
I don't know whether it is practical or not, my argument is: knowing your audience is a crucial point of the content business (specially if it's "free"). If I'm a writer, a publisher, etc I need to know my audience. Outsourcing ads to third-party means I don't care (enough) about my audience.
I think it's pretty easy to detect adblockers and hide content for users with adblockers. Some sites do so and I leave immediately. It's not like their content is valueable for me. Usually I got there by accident (clicking random link in SERPs). Actually, it would be a cool setting in search engines to hide sites which don't allow adblockers - better for everyone.
That was my first assumption, given the circumstances involving the sensory-deprivation tank as the site of death.
I got 3 ticks in the past but luckily no lime disease... it's crazy how you don't feel them get in your skin.
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During the week: 1 hour before work and about 2 hours after work.
Weekend with my family.
I agree with you so much. I was never raised in organized religion really, but I was raised around folks who valued spirituality and participating in community rituals like singing together, sharing food, dancing, etc. I'm only now realizing how important and beneficial those kinds of rituals are for well being.

I understand why you would reject religious practitioners or groups that impose outlandish and outdated interpretations of morality, but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water!
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Usually "legacy" refers to something bequeathed in a will.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/legacy-is-not-a-pejorative.html
I completely agree! I learned a lot through the experience of writing the book. I probably put more thought into the topic than most people during the same time which helped me refine my definitions and become more of an expert as I was figuring things out.

The only difference I think is I'm very happy with how our book turned out. It was a ton of work but I'm grateful that other people have been able to learn from our experience.
Good example for chromes autoplay policy breaking the web
One problem is that people understandably don't want to create a dev process for maintaining outdated applications on obsolete, unsupported hardware. That's simply be because a nice dev process is something that looks forward into the future. You do it because you believe you're developing some nice stuff that you believe will be going somewhere.
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I'm looking forward to seeing the full NTSB report.

This hints that Uber's mindset is focused on "obstacles", not "flat road". The first job of automated driving is to drive only on flat surfaces. Doesn't matter why it's not flat. Then you worry about where to go. That's how the off-road DARPA Grand Challenge vehicles had to work. "Flat road" is a pure geometry thing. Not much AI needed.

On road, non-flat road is rare, and you don't have to worry much about going off cliffs, rocks in the road, and such. So it's tempting to focus on "obstacles" to be tallied and classified. Tesla definitely has an "obstacle" focus, and a limited class of obstacles considered. Waymo profiles the ground. Looks like Uber had the "obstacle" focus.

If you have a "flat road" detection system, things the obstacle detector doesn't understand get stopped for or bypassed. So the vehicle isn't vulnerable to this flaw. There's a higher false alarm rate, though. And a non false alarm problem. A piece of trash on the road is likely to result in a slowdown and careful avoidance, not a bump as the car rolls over it. Still, better to take the safe approach unless you're on a freeway and the cars ahead of you just got past the obstacle successfully.

The Udacity self driving car "nanodegree" trains people to build obstacle detectors and classifiers. That may be a problem.
But there's this from a fairly influential former googler: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/honestly-i-cant-stand-k8s-48...

It's a quick read, but to summarise: it's almost as complex as google's internal borg system but the benefit isn't even close (partially because nobody else has google problems). I can't down K8s personally, as I've never used it myself. But I wonder if there's the possibility of a system that's more 80/20 of google's borg rather than the seeming 20/80 coming from k8s. And I wonder if Grab will release it next year.
not sure if I miss something, but I haven't figured out how to use the tuning knobs :( I tried mouseover, click, click+drag, in vertical and also in horizontal direction, but the tone didn't moved in any direction.
I can see how such a story is against the 'right/racist' narrative as they think race has a major influence on intelligence, but why doesn't it fit the 'left' narrative which seems to categorize humans based on their social class?
You are assuming I carry any device Google is capable of tracking on my person. If a car comes with Google Maps built in, it is no longer a car I can consider for purchase.
>We'll save your list to localStorage so that you can come back to it later on the same computer

This will work really well on the HTPC (where all the debating happens) - thanks for replying.

All I really want, and am still failing at, is something where I can say "I have Netflix, Amazon and HBO" and then have recommendations from all of those, but just those. I don't know if I want to browse HBO or AMazon, or whatever, I want a TV guide to tell me what I might enjoy chosen from the services I have access to...
Probably I'm not their market target, but what for do I want a Aibo? I prefer a real dog.

What most people crave is a robotic servant.
I think this just strengthens the case against ratings-oriented broadcasting decisions (side-note: broadcasting, by its very definition and due to the scarcity of spectrum, necessarily requires making decisions for others. The only question is whether ratings are the best way to determine what people really want!)

Our office has someone in charge of food. That person used to pay attention to what people would/would not eat and then purchase accordingly. LOTS of pizza/brownies, not a lot of salads. We (unanimously!) asked that person to just ignore our gluttonous choices and gather explicit preferences. We now eat more healthily. Of course, our preferences did not change -- we'd all totally opt for the pizza and brownie over the salad. But the choice is easier to make on a ballot than when both options are in front of you and you're salivating... needless to say, the person who just does what we explicitly ask them to isn't manipulating us into eating more healthy food.

Similarly, pure ratings-driven programming in an ad-driven business model almost necessarily means setting up others' lives (building viewing habits) to achieve what you want (selling ads)!

So, de-emphasizing ratings is NOT equivalent to manipulation! And emphasizing ratings can sometimes be in service to a manipulation!
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Hi there!

I am a developer fully specialized in Android and have been developing for about 4 years. I've recently begun to learn Kotlin and will use it exclusively moving forward, though I am not opposed to working with Java if necessary. I am big on best practices and following TDD. When developing my own apps, I use the following libraries/technologies:

* RxJava2/RxKotlin * MVP Architecture * Dagger2 * Retrofit * Testing (Junit, Robolectric, Mockito/MockK)

Feel free to contact me by e-mail if you're interested in working together.

Thanks!
Did you change jobs? Were you able to negotiate a higher salary because of the book? Seeing as this book was just published in November I'm curious to learn how to leverage it into a more long term success.
I don't know much about weather but something like herd immunity is definitely testable.

Firstly, even a smallish percentage of immunity would still see population wide benefits.

Secondly, as diseases are transmitted to people physically nearby, this could be tested by immunizing a large percentage of a single population, such as a small town full of people who don't travel much.

If you are truly concerned about the population wide effects of UBI, then you could do something similar, like fund a small poor town, and give EVERYONE in that small town UBI.

Unfortunately, I expect that of such a test were attempted, you'd see the same exact criticism of it, though. It'd probably be something like "you can't see the benefits unless the entire WORLD is on UBI!!!" or some other further doubling down on the unprovability of it all.

My point being, that this scepticism of actually testing the damn thing seems more like a defense mechanism against the possibility of being wrong. It is just the same lazy approach that everyone has for their pet theories, as a way of deflecting any and all criticism by declaring it unfalsefiable