skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cuba has a lot of inequality too. There's a massive gulf between those with family abroad and those who have to make do only with the income from the (broken) official system.

On the other hand, there is very little crime or drugs, and consequently few sirens.

So even though Cuba does have slums, there are elements that are better than a poor person in the US would experience. You also don't need a car or need expensive shelter, so there's less chance that everything will crumble if you hit a financial snag. My understanding is that is a major source of stress for US poor.

I don't have enough firsthand experience to know whether family structure is affected. But there are definite class differences you can note when talking to people.
> The estimated cost of owning a real dog over its lifetime is approximately $27,000 - $42,000.

Wat? Our dog takes about $30 worth of food per month. Annual vet visits total about $150 (including heartworm meds). If it lives to be 15, we're looking at about a $10,000 lifetime investment. If she got really sick and needed a $5,000 surgery, it'll still be about half the cost of your low end estimate.

Also, my dog loves to cuddle. While Aibo can do some things my dog can't, my dog can do many, many things that Aibo never will.
I'm kind of curious about the person whos mental construct crashed. How long did it take before her mind was able to interpret the math again? Was it a slow boot up or was it instant?
I think it means ego is just a label for a thing in the world.

What exist itself is the truth.

Not the label.

The call for a try to define ego as a precise as possible ("as a mathematician") and in the sibling post from user blueprint probably shall make you attemt just this, but fail at it. I think the "ego" dies when you see what you are looking for in what it is. Not in words not in labels not in labels. Just become aware that your model-maker is trying to model the world that really is there. You are what you are beyond the modeling process.

What exist itself is the truth

How could you describe it? How could you speak of it? Doing so requires modeling it and therefore it is not the real thing anymore. Therefore you can not really speak about "it" without just referring to a experienced experience.

No one can speak of something they haven't seen as it is.

Trying to thinking about the "real" world behind and trying to grasp and feel and see it all at once as it is gives me funny tingly feeling in my stomach. But thats is probably not what the they mean.

One fun thing to consider: When there are no models no labels no boundaries no judgements, where does something start and where does it end? Does that even make sense? Objectively the real world is just what it is, one. No things at all. These are just models. The underlying world is still what it is. One.
So, if you invent something and tell me about it, you'd be totally fine if I go ahead and claim it as my invention, file a patent, copyright it etc., since you don't suffer from inferiority complex, right?
Basically $1000+/day consulting rates. You still have to do the legwork of getting the gigs, but justifying those kinds of rates are much easier when you literally wrote the book on the subject of your contract. Having written it for a well known, respected, even iconic, publisher does a lot of the work here too, self publishing would have a lesser effect.
List of Useful GDPR Links
I’ve been collecting GDPR links that have helped me get my company prepared. Hope it is useful to you. Add any you’ve found.

Official Text of the General Data Protection Regulation
Eur-lex.europa.eu
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:FULL

GDPR Text - Neatly Arranged
Gdpr-info.eu
https://gdpr-info.eu/

Wikipedia Summary of the GDPR
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Developer’s Guide to the GDPR
Inversoft
http://bit.ly/2rpKjpy

Are We Covered by the EU GDPR? A Warning for U.S.-Only Businesses
Locke Lord
https://www.lockelord.com/newsandevents/publications/2017/12/are-we-covered

Role of Data Protection Officer
GDPR-info.eu
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-38-gdpr/

Introduction to Developing Privacy-friendly Systems and Services
Enisa.europa.eu
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/privacy-and-data-protection-by-design

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, deadlines and facts
CSOOnline.com
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3202771/data-protection/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-requirements-deadlines-and-facts.html

What is GDPR? The need-to-know guide
Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-gdpr-uk-eu-legislation-compliance-summary-fines-2018

What is GDPR? Everything you need to know about the new general data protection regulations
Zdnet.com
http://www.zdnet.com/article/gdpr-an-executive-guide-to-what-you-need-to-know/

Yes, The GDPR Will Affect Your U.S.-Based Business
Forbes.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/yes-the-gdpr-will-affect-your-u-s-based-business/#42f2209b6ff2

What You Need to Start Doing Now to Be Ready for GDPR
AdWeek.com
http://www.adweek.com/digital/what-you-need-to-start-doing-now-to-be-ready-for-gdpr/
you should patent your algorithm and take advantage of your discovery

you might simultaneously advocate for a change in the patent law

in my mind you have two obligations

you have an obligation to your self which should not be ignored

and you have an obligation to society at large

i see a future where copyright and patent are not necessary but they exist now and you should not suffer when there is another option

i think you might be an even better advocate for patent law reform with a lucrative patent in hand
I read a few of the tweets and it's all gibberish. What is the purpose of such a bot? Is the purpose being accomplished?
> If the cause of a fatality is 10 seconds of failure, not 5 minutes, humans have greater than 9 9s of reliability.

If you're driving by the textbook, then you have two seconds to react to the car in front braking; the assumption being that you take one second to react normally, and get one extra second for safety.

On the other hand, in something like a play street law grants you exactly zero seconds of response time.

The question is now, of course, whether only those <<10 s intervals count as the failure, or your entire approach to driving (e.g. driving while texting).
The Media Agency's Guide To GDPR And EPrivacy
Ad Exchanger.com
https://adexchanger.com/agencies/media-agencys-guide-gdpr-ep...

MarTech Today’s Guide to GDPR — The General Data Protection Regulation
MartechToday.com -
https://martechtoday.com/guide/gdpr-the-general-data-protect...

Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Information Commissioner's Office
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

What is the General Data Protection Regulation?
Facebook Business
https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr

EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, experts warn
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/gdpr-data...

GDPR - How it works. A little bee book
IBM
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=I...

HPE Explains What European GDPR Privacy Regulations Mean to U.S. Firms
eWeek
http://www.eweek.com/security/hpe-explains-what-european-gdp...

GDPR - A practical guide for developers
Bozho’s Tech Blog
https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/

Preparing for the EU General Data Protection Regulation
IAPP.org
https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/TRUSTe_GDPR_Repor...

GDPR - What you need to know and how to prepare
SendGrid
https://sendgrid.com/resource/general-data-protection-regula...
Pulse Survey - US Companies ramping up GDPR budgets
PwC
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/increasing-it-effectiveness/public...

Fair Information Practices
Robert Gellman - Privacy and Information Policy Consultant
https://bobgellman.com/rg-docs/rg-FIPshistory.pdf
They were advocating not misaligning incentives, which is definitely not making the best of a situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_subma... the list of sunken Soviet submarines is much longer than the list of sunken US submarines, how is that explained?
Feature I've been dying for: "Added ligature support for symbols"

(aside: mods, can you edit the title to fix the typo?)
Or jaywalking will become more strictly enforced with policing or physical barriers.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/4/2/automated-vehic...
> people were still trying to understand what a computer was

Did they succeed, or did we (meaning the tech industry) just change the abstractions that are presented to the use to match what they thought a computer was?
Not related to the article but I want to chime in on your point. Having spent some time in VA, aggressive driving and dangerous scenarios were infrequent from my experience. Then having spent some time in FL, aggressive driving was the norm and driving laws did not exist for most people. So I wonder, do self-driving cars needs something like driving profiles for certain regions, where defensive/aggressive response behavior is ramped up or down in accordance to what is observed? In a passive region where you only have to slam your breaks or jerk the wheel in rare instances, the profile would be tuned to give gentle responses to changes in traffic conditions However, in regions where aggressive driving is rampant, the profile would have to be tuned to be alert that sudden responses to other drivers frequently breaking the law and putting people in dangerous situations is common and to respond in kind. For example, to not slam the breaks when you get cut off, or not to speed up when an impatient person is literally 1 foot away from your bumper even thought you're doing 5 over the limit already. Now that can all be bundled into one, and already is I think in current self driving cars. I'm asking specifically if it would help self driving performance and decision making if the decisions could be influenced by knowing how rough things can or can't get in that area.
Not in my experience. If I'm coding, and I can demonstrate that I'm checking stuff into Git (or SVN or CVS or Clearcase), and I have something to demo every couple of days, they're happy, even if there's theoretically a faster way to get from point A to point B. On the other hand, if my only progress (for a whole day!) is "researching" some software, they go into full-blown panic mode. I've found this to be absolutely consistent over a career of now 25 years and 10 different employers.
Welcome to humanity. You should read up on the centuries old newton-leibniz calculus debate.

But regardless, the modern number system is one of the seminal achievements in human history, along with the wheel, alphabet, paper, etc. It shouldn't be too surprising that people want correct attribution/credit.
Adaptations are still localized.

Pedestrians have "adapted" to just expect everyone to brake always on most college campuses.

If you treat a factory floor or intermodal facility like a collage campus nobody will be surprised when someone has to use a garden hose to wash you off of whatever multi-thousand pound metal thing you got in the way of.
Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox do not use exactly the same OS, or expected set always present hardware, thus they are by definition not the same platform.

Cross platform does not mean it works in all OS ever written.
Do you actually believe in al jazeera?
I think there's some room for improvement though. Instead of "just one human in there", they could put them out in teams of two, and have periodic "awareness checks" that you have to respond to by pressing a driving-irrelevant button.
'Rybka' is the diminutive of fish - 'Ryba'
> Surely you can't expect the effect of UBI to be the same between, say, cardiologists and minimum-wage workers

Hm. I'd be far more likely to spend my basic income on booze if I were a cardiologist or highly-paid tech worker than if I were a parent barely scraping by.

Top-notch scotch and expensive wines instead of middling whiskeys and passable table wines. Of course, some amount might also be donated/saved/invested. But I'd probably spend a far larger percentage of that base UBI payout on luxuries/vices than your typical out-of-work joe.

> The parent's point was that it might subsidize behavior of certain groups more than others

Not quite. Parent asserts that those behaviors will happen anyways. And that therefore we are more than justified in pulling the carpet out from under those folks (because the money's not going to help anyway).

Playing out this same argument in the context of a cardiologist lets us cut to the heart of the ethical differences between typical pro-UBI and anti-UBI arguments.

Consider the cardiologist is an absent father who squirrels away his money to avoid supporting his family and then spends that money on various vices (luxuries wine collections, absurdly expensive cigars, etc). Is his employer justified in paying a lower salary? Are his customers/debters justified in not paying up? After all, we discontinued social services for the poor booze hound in the earlier scenario!

Most visceral UBI opponents would find that question absurd on face! The money was earned through hard work and education; the employer has no business prying into the employee's personal choices about how to spend his wages, and a customer or debtor refusing to pay is straight-up theft.

Conversely, many visceral UBI supporters point out that the work ethic on display in that reasoning becomes outmoded as work itself becomes outmoded.

If we don't choose some other metric for decision making, and stick to these ethical imperatives, the conversation more-or-less grounds out here.
This is already happening in the trucking industry. Self-driving trucks are being developed to be able to drive 99% of the trip that's on highways and then human drivers take over for the local 1%. To make it easier, transfer hubs are being built near cities off major highways to make everything easier and non-disruptive. The same thing could be done with cars without the need for the transfer hubs and it basically is already done.
> Some people think addiction is a moral failing

That is, at least in my experience, what leads to comments like these: "He did the world a favor and hung himself."

What an incredibly harsh thing to say, especially for a situation that is rarely as clear-cut as "person A is bad therefore they should die."

The uncomfortable truths you mention are like bubbles rising to the top. As a society, we're starting to think about things like alcoholism, drug addiction, childhood abuse, etc. and that will hopefully lead to having fewer of these clear-cut moral judgements. I think UBI will also help, because a lot of these mental traps (bad situation -> abuse -> drugs -> bad situation -> abuse etc.) are magnified by poverty.

What's funny is that some of the pushback against UBI (and welfare) is that same moral judgement. "We shouldn't have UBI because some people will spend it on drugs and alcohol."
I hope AIBO RoboCup soccer returns as a result.
Do they know if any of the affected base had ad blockers installed? Pandora does get ads skipped when I use uBlock Origin as does Spotify web player.

Also, not that I expect them to model it, I am willing to guess that users with a hardware volume knob are less likely to care about ads or workers that take breaks during ad time.
Implementing and Testing the Bulk Insert/Save Pattern in MongoDB
Stopping is only one option slowing down is another.

However, I suspect a car may be aware a person has stopped significantly before a person would enter their lane. At 30 mph a car takes ~2 seconds to physically brake and at an average walking speed a mph moves 9 feet in 2 seconds. However, to stop before entering the cars lane they would need to start slowing down even sooner.

So, I guess you really need videos with calculated velocities of people jaywalking to really tell if this is going to be a problem or not.
They're more innovative. Move fast and break things, right?
The video was from a cheap dashcam, not any of the sensors the car uses. The LIDAR would have seen it clearly. So would your eyes, which have wider dynamic range than any but the best cameras.
I think before MIT or anyone else decides to support or oppose any regime, they should ask themselves, "What are the reasonable alternatives?"

But first, an aside - I wish I could remember the name of the YouTube video that described the UK as a theocracy - because the Queen is also the "pope" of the Church of England.

A lot of people - MIT and myself included - fall into the trap of comparing places like Saudi to a theoretical perfect state which we'll call Utopia. The pitfalls of such comparisons I leave as an exercise to the reader.

But let's talk about MIT's overall contribution to the advancement of human rights. How many of their grads have gone on to work for the NSA? How many of their Chinese students now find employ with the Chinese government? How many government contracts for intrusive surveillance or weapons of mass destruction has MIT taken over the years?

Answer: Classified. But probably a lot.
That was just a dashcam, not the vehicle sensors. NTSB reported that.
Sorry for the snark, but there's a joke in here about:

"Uber business development saw but ignored laws it broke."
I don’t think that is a sound comparison and it’s missing my point

Look, I don’t want to insult anyone. That’s just a conclusion I’ve made over the years. My background is also such that my native people always complain about past stuff like that instead of changing the here and now
Ask HN: What do you present to children on career day?
A teacher I know in a small town in Texas, has invited me to speak to 3rd-5th graders about what I do for a living as a software engineer. I feel comfortable talking about what I do day-to-day with adults who aren't technical, but I'd like to show the kids how cool and powerful programming can be to get them excited to learn on their own.

Some colleagues suggested using Scratch, but I'm inclined against it because I'd rather show them something in a language they could get paid to write. My first guess was to build some Selenium stuff in Python that would drive a browser, because that blew my adult mind when I first saw it, but everybody I've suggested that to has said it's lame, so I need ideas.

Ultimately I'd like to leave at least some of the kids with the impression that learning to write software is a generally applicable skill that isn't restricted to phone apps and games, and that it doesn't necessarily pigeonhole you into a specific career.
Very well written, very good illustrations too. A very good museum indeed.
Doesn't work on Chrome 66 due to recent policy changes with regard to autoplay

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

I checked it out in Firefox. Very neat :)
Pointless jobs are much wider than this. Most jobs I can get are to perform a useful role in a useless pursuit.

Capitalism is supposed to be all about efficient resource allocation. However having the smartest people of a generation work on putting little text ads next to your search results and stock market chicanery is highly inefficient.

There is so much real work to be done. We shouldn't be wasting our time with fruitless pursuits in order to literally not die.
Not sure why all these people are saying it totally makes sense that technology can provide a magic 10x improvement in efficiency.

If you want to go the same distance for 1/10th the cost, you need to use 1/10th the fuel, have 1/10th the maintenance overhead, and have 1/10th the staffing cost all at the same time.

You can't go over 100% efficiency in any area, so to see 1/10th the cost you would need the entire aircraft industry in the 1970s to be operating at under 10% efficiency, a low bar I am highly skeptical of.

It's not like Aeronautics engineers or the Airline industries were gorillas banging rocks together with no understanding of what they were doing, and I find it hard to believe there is enough room for a 10x increase in efficiency from the 1970s even with a perfectly efficient aircraft and airline behind it.

But hey, if you really believe it's possible, invest in Boom because they must have designed a cold fusion reactor running on tap water to power their jet and everyone who invests will probably become a trillionaire overnight once they reveal it.
I'd imagine 'breaking the build' is, for almost everyone nowadays (and in most situations), a very minor issue. But it's still, all else equal, a net negative, however small.

Breaking a build once, for whatever reason, probably isn't a big deal. But breaking a build frequently certainly could be.
If Icarus tought us one thing- then its to never set foot into a boeing 747 or an airbus.

Look at the ISS, just look at them, tar and feathers everywhere, because they flew to close to the sun. They are still falling. Every day.

He who challenges the gods soon develops a liver problem. He who develops a vacaccine against the liver problem, challenges the writers of moral outrage pieces.

Author of said piece, would still welcome a working liver cure. Cheers!

PS: Projecting the hatred of ones own cowardice onto the late explorers is not considered enlightment.
Also see the man page for the col command, which is used in my m script:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/col.1.html
That's the main reason I would write a book: to tell people that I wrote a book.

You can literally say, "I wrote the book on that."
It seems like it was actually Uber who disabled the safety settings that were there to prevent this according to Volvo. "Uber Technologies Inc. disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona last week, according to the auto-parts maker that supplied the vehicle’s radar and camera."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...
Is this a binary decision? I normally slow down when I see a something at the side of the road.
exactly, act according to context.
driving in SF is totally different from nearby places like Lakeshore or San Leandro (people from those places complain about how bad people drive in SF)
http://www.eternal-september.org/
> There are scenarios where the less-sophisticated collision avoidance radar could do the unsafe thing where the self-driving system has a more holistic plan.

Like, for example, this plan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5YG6kBrJs

I believe the whole thing will require better conceptualization of something that we call crew resource management for human teams. That is, how do you respond if you have conflicting information?
"human beings inevitably have to impose their BS on other people"

Welcome to planet Earth! ;-) Humans do this with everything, regardless of whether they are sincere believers, religious zealots, strident atheists, or Silicon Valley humanists. :-)
Unfortunately the way they pop out is, IIRC from Boy Scouts, at least in part, vomiting. So I was always taught to never induce them out because you'll still risk infection from the excreted stuff.
everything is about the environment. If you have an under stimulating environment then even your health is affected.

Read about the WWII pregnant survivors of holocaust where their lack of food evolved into the fetus being stingy with proteins and sugars and now they are experiencing health problems because now their body stores more than it needs and weight gain and other health factors arose.

So yes, environment can be detrimental to not only brain, but full physiological development
It shouldn't matter at all how dark the roads were, the vehicle was equipped with LIDAR.
You should reconsider the name.
Not everyone will think of sonic boom when the word "boom" comes up in context to aviation.
Some baby ticks are smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. They're very easy to miss, even if you are looking.

Baby ticks can still carry Lyme, and can infect you with their bite.
I find this post to be deeply anti Semitic.
Pure Python vs. Numpy vs. Tensorflow Performance