skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An open source web front-end for Apple's Turi Create
One of the final tests, mandatory for regulatory acceptance:

Produce accident on target individual within timeframe
A lot of times people will use the same Google Analytics or Adsense code on multiple sites. This lets you find all the sites a particular code is used on.
That seems like a good reason for relocation. I would probably relocate any that lived in my yard (if I had a yard at the moment) simply because I wouldn't want my two 60 pound dogs to try and "play" with it.
That is a file server and intranet server you're talking about. I'm talking about the type of server which most people around here think of when they contemplate the word 'server' - an internet-facing server, often living in a herd of such in some remote facility. Running Windows NT and its successors for file and domain services is doable and probably a good choice for those who have standardised their office environment on everything Microsoft. Outside of that environment, not so much.
> Where does YouTube censoring all videos with gun-assembly instructions fit into a culture where gun ownership is legally a human right?

Constitutional rights and human rights are a completely different beast, best not conflated.

Straight from Wikipedia:
‘They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being", and which are "inherent in all human beings".’

As you can see owning a gun does not fit that description. Otherwise, is owning a car a human right as well? A computer?

Edit: lovely, someone brought in his gunbros to brigade. This went from 1 to -4 in a span of a minute.
Technically possible, but sadly prohibited by their T&Cs[1]. It's a bit annoying, if they wanted to charge per impression they should charge by impression rather than having per-api-call pricing but forcing you to call the API repeatedly for the same thing.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/terms see section 10.5.d
I'll third this! Brent's class on the art of recursion really taught me quite a lot about how to think about problems in a different way.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis39903
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This, Android things, for example, is only offering guaranteed updates for 3 years which is not nearly enough support time... and people usually Volvos for 15-20+ years... Even Microsoft understands this better.
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> they would do well in saying so.

IME, the simplifying assumptions are often explicit, so they do.
Oh, easy. Even if owning a gun were actually a "human right"

Self defense and self determination are human rights.

xkcd "showing the door" strip applies

That strip is one of the stupidest things Randall Monroe has ever done. For a society to work well, the letter of the law should be a minimum safety net. Someone assiduously supporting free speech only to the letter of the law is like someone assiduously being non-racist only to the letter of the law. As someone who grew up in a "hypo-minority" situation, let me tell you that people being non-racist only to the letter of the law can be pretty darned obnoxious.

The future belongs to societies which can support a real marketplace of ideas. It's substantive testing of ideas which brings progress and creates wealth. If a society has to resort to oppression/force/intimidation to enforce its ideas, then it is effectively admitting it has lost to everyone but itself. The history of the 20th century shows this very clearly.

It's repression and intellectual dishonesty which is the problem, and which creates the distrust that fuels the worst toxic extremists. It's this kind of extra-legal social repression that people once tried to use to keep homosexuals closeted and Jewish people out of the halls of power and influence. The future doesn't belong to merely those who can muster more force. It belongs to those who can muster the best principles.
What is SEO?
Whatever freedom might be I can be sure freedom is not that.

Yeah, it's all kinds of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It's common for parents to tell kids stuff like "If someone other than this short list of names wants to touch your private parts, scream." And I wasn't comfortable telling my kids that. I felt that would be robbing them of the very innocence I desired to protect.

Instead, I taught them that affection required permission and if anyone did not respect their answer of "no," come get me. That worked remarkably well.

I don't know how to translate that to adult security issues out in the world. But there are definitely inherent problems with the current course we are on that increasingly reminds me of what I heard about East Germany: that everyone was reporting on everyone just to try to cover their own butt because everyone lived in fear of the government and it's surveillance state tactics.
There are very few people actively trying to prevent lower class people from getting into the upper class, but it's competitive to be in the upper class and there are only so many spots. You don't get to be prestigious by letting everyone in.

Yes, again, that's the point. The entire paradigm exists to justify the unjust concentration of power and wealth in a small upper class. It doesn't require an active conspiracy, it just requires people to accept that there is something objectively 'right' or naturally ordained about this state of affairs, as you apparently do.
It's the "moderator's dilemma" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7xGcyB7RNdfDe5vxL/moderator-...: if you censor/moderate _anything_, you can be held responsible for _everything_.
I'd agree with that XKCD strip, as long as it's remembered that each community has the right to take a completely different stance.

I think it's understood that Youtube is legally allowed to silence gun videos, but of course other communities are legally allowed to complain about Youtube's decision.
Just like said community might legally gray out your post complaining about their complaints.

So I really don't think pointing to that XKCD strip again really brings anything more than a touch of irony to the discussion.
Camera's, bro. Automated micro-ticketing on facial & misdemeanour detection.
The car could also honk to warn and check for a reaction. I wonder what the rules and social conventions well be for autonomous horns!
I can't say enough good things about the fast.ai courses. They may not be for everyone but they are definitely for me. The teaching style is a perfect match for my learning style. The style is to get some code working and then dive deeper and deeper to understand it better and better.

Note this link is for part 2 of the course which is significantly more advanced than part 1. Start with part 1 if if you are new.
Totally agree. Gun education, practice, and information make people with guns FAR SAFER.

When I buy a new stock/trigger/bolt carrier group I sure as hell appreciate a video showing me how to properly install it.

Hiding this information is the gun control equivalent of "abstinence only sex education".
I care about privacy in absolute terms. The difference to me, personally, between the advertisements I'm served after using AdNauseum and TMN running in a tab for 6 months vs the ads I was seeing using other blocking protocol (such as UBO and Privacy Badger) for longer periods of time have me convinced that the only way to gain any amount of privacy on the web these days is through obfuscation. I couldn't care less about page load time(as long as the hit is <500ms), bandwidth consumed or CPU/memory load on my desktop.

I hate the tracky nature of the web nowadays, and feel that AdNauseam is fighting fire with fire. UBO is fighting fire with CO2, fine unless the fire has it's own oxygen supply, which I would argue the online ad industry has in the form of copious numbers of inattentive and uncaring users.
GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist site
I didn't realize that most of the braking on landing was handled by the landing gear. I'd always assumed that the obvious sound of the engines reversing when we landed did most of the work, but some casual googling suggests that it's only supplementary, to reduce the load on the landing gear.
Hm I think you might be misunderstanding what kind of book we're talking about.

I think it's helpful to divide computer books into 2 categories: those with a short shelf-life and those with a long shelf-life.

Most (all?) O'Reilly books are in the former category. They probably sell 90% of their volume in the first couple years (at least one comment in this thread said something like that).

How many copies a year do you think jQuery books are selling right now? Especially if they haven't been updated since 2009? Are publishers even asking for updates for those books?

jQuery was extraordinarily popular and a real innovation -- probably more popular in relative terms than Angular is now.

So time spent writing it probably matters. It probably makes sense to get the book out when the technology is on its upswing, which may only be a window of a few years. Especially with frameworks, less so for languages like Python or C.

I think this is fundamental to the subject of programming. On the other hand, computer science is knowledge that lasts longer. I think it's justified to spend more time on a computer science book, but perhaps not a programming book. Of course many books are a mix of both.

I have several old programming books, like "Programming Pearls", "The Awk Programming Language", Computer Lib by Ted Nelson. Although I have to say that I have no problem finding those books used, so I don't need to buy new copies.
I don't doubt that it looks ridiculous, merely because the opinion is so widely held and expressed, but function dictates form in this instance.
Freedom of speech applies to all americans and it's disgusting that 1) this article posits freedom of speech is only for white people, 2) they are labeling Kanye as "white" like it's a bad thing to be white, and 3) that they think all black people must support one ideology and they are not allowed to think for themselves.

This is a super racist article.
Getting to the early signs of success (product, revenue) is cheaper than it has ever been in this industry in most problem domains, and growth and customer acquisition is harder than ever. Before a VC invests in you to tackle the second, why wouldn’t they expect to see the first?
They could easily buffer the last N minutes of recorded data in a black box. Not doing so would seem pretty irresponsible.
Planes don't spend all their time flying. A significant part of the time they are being boarded or people are stepping out, and freight is being loaded and unloaded, and the plane is service, fuel tanks are filled, catering material brought in, wings are de-iced.

The turnaround time -- time needed for everything that happens from when the plane arrives at the gate to when it departs again -- is only comparable to flying time for smaller aircraft doing shorter domestic hops.

For aircraft doing the kinds of inter-continental segments a supersonic airliner is targeting, there's no real comparison. And airlines most certainly do optimize for time spent in the air; a plane on the ground is a plane making no money. So you see a single aircraft bounce around among a bunch of hubs all in one day, for example, or larger, longer-range aircraft doing rotations of where they fly to (like having the same aircraft do a flight from the US to South America and back, then off to Asia and back, to optimize for arrival/departure times and minimize time spent not flying)
Well, a linear function is a function where you can only use the parameter once when expressed in its Taylor expansion. E.g. these are not linear: x^2=x*x (used twice), exp(x)=1+x+... (used infinite times). It’s a very symbolic way of thinking about it though, and not what you usually consider an important property of linearity.
Hi Jeremy - For someone who doesn't like to watch lectures, will you guys ever be releasing a textbook?
I don't have practical experience with Japan, but as I understand, for many years, #1 has been the main issue. In the West, in recent decades, #2 has eclipsed it.
You have a right to be cynical, this is the same Sony that distributed rootkits on audio CDs they sold only a decade ago.
I think what he means is that the slippery slope concept isn't a fallacy, by the definition of the word. It may be wrong, but it's not a fallacy - that means something else.
Without any accusations, tell him the path where you‘re heading in written form. You can add potential remedies and the end, but in essence, describe what will or might happen.
A good phrase in these kind of messages is

“Unfortunately you didn’t have time to look into XYZ. I’m truly sorry that we now face ABC. But if we do EFG we might still have a chance in fixing this”

In general: use written form, avoid any phrases that put the blame on him, describe accurately what happened and the consequences and end on a hopeful note or idea.
Great article Aaron! This is such an interesting part of fundraising, since while every founder has "seed round" stories, only a subset have Series A stories. And even then, it's a further subset of founders who have had multiple successful Series A. So the vast majority of Series A fundraising is done by first-timers. Making it hugely valuable for YC and similar groups to share this kind of advice.

Riffing on this topic, some non-obvious learning for us as Series A "first-timers":

(1) It was very tough to actually determine which funds would be a good fit. Funds that we had developed early pre-fundraising relationships with -- and who seemed to check all the boxes, like great partners, great reputation, great thesis for what we were doing, etc -- turned out to not be that good of a fit in the end. But it took getting exposure to truly "great fit" funds to see the difference - how quickly things moved, how they already knew the space, already knew our strategy with nuance, etc. Huge difference.

So the learning to me was to not hold too tightly to your initial strategy of which funds are worth targeting (because you might be wrong). 20 funds is probably a good number though I'd probably err on the side of being looser / targeting a few more.

(2) Having experienced advisors helping us was immensely valuable at every step (defining the strategy, building the deck, getting intro's, refining the deck, tactical advice on specific funds, and then of course negotiating the term sheets). We also learned that you actually have to listen to these advisors. e.g. In reference to my #1 example above, early on in my fundraise, one of our advisors told me that the funds I was talking to were likely not the ideal funds... but I didn't really want to hear it... I wanted to believe I was mostly done. Luckily, the advisor changed my thinking enough that we kicked off a proper process in earnest.

(3) Some of the best leverage is to just straight be killing it in the business during the fundraise. If your ARR/MRR is shooting up and to the right quickly, you're making big hires, signing big logos, etc - you have more ability to dictate pace. If in the time between your first convo and final partner meeting you've grown your ARR 100%... that gets a reaction. Adds momentum and FOMO (the investors know that other investors are seeing the same momentum... so how long until someone cuts them a check?).

This last point is kind of like the "don't be ugly" dating advice. You gain leverage by being an awesome company. But it's worth repeating - the antidote to most startup problems is quickly growing revenues/users.
I need Google maps more then most as have poor sense of direction. But so dangerous looking at phone. Love to just have Google maps built into the car.
Perhaps so, but I'll agree with pg_bot - there actually are times when he's followed through on donations. I'm not sure what percentage of his promised donations they are, but he has donated at least some of the money he's pledged to.
Thank you so much for a very thorough answer. To be honest, my Japanese is ok, but probably not good enough for this type of game. Nevertheless I am now considering making a team of people who would work well in such an environment as room-type, since we'd all be beginners. Thanks again.
> First of all, in this scenario, the woman would have at least shared some of the blame.

Possibly. But a distracted driver is definitely at fault, no matter what. Driving is a full time occupation.

> Second of all, what are the odds that a human who just killed a woman would admit even to themselves that they were the one to blame in such an accident?

Pretty good. Most people are honest, even in a bad situation.

> Practically zero.

You speak for yourself.

> Cognitive dissonance won't allow it. In their minds, they weren't distracted, at least not enough to take any of the blame.

Well, you probably have your reasons for writing this under a novelty account. But it's clear that when you are at fault it is best for everybody involved to recognize that fact, even if it means discomfort for you.

I get that in todays climate it's what you can get away with, but I don't think that strategy will hold in the longer term. It's way each and every lawsuit is appealed to the highest courts because nobody bothers to just admit their errors and it's why when there is a car accident the perpetrators will sue the victims. But that's wrong on many levels and I refuse to subscribe to that view.
You did CS at Hendrix College? I did too ('11) and can't help mentioning it even though I have little to say... because hey, small school, tiny department, it's not often you run into another Hendrix CS alum, even virtually. And after years in "industry" I really appreciate the surprisingly good CS education there for a not well known school

How's the dept doing these days? Is Ferrer still there?
In Poland there's an unwritten custom of saying thanks by flashing emergency stop lights for two ticks. The most common use case is when someone lets you through when they don't have to.

On freeways the same is used by cars coming from the opposite direction if there's a radar ahead.

Still, in peak hours pretty much everyone is a dick, even usually chill Uber drivers.

Edit: it's also used as a "sorry" signal too.

Also, this is not local. I've seen it used all around the country.
> "It's a classic chicken-and-egg problem. WordPress supports ancient versions of PHP because they want to be deployable on as many web hosts as possible, including ones that only provide ancient versions of PHP."

Is the extra 2% of market share worth it? Anyone reasonable would say "nope." Especially when it's handcuffs speed as well as sec.

So then - perhaps - it's about ego and other nonsense?

Put another way, WP has the power and position to lead, yet it chooses to __not__ act in the best interests of its users, hosting companies, and internet users in general. For what, 2% market share points?
This is just another article that causes me to kick myself. I graduated from Stanford in 2010 but now am a pretty average, non-Silicon Valley programmer because I didn't want to do anything after graduating from college.
A tip of the hat is necessary to John Piña Craven (deceased), the Chief Scientist of the US Navy Special Project Office at the time.

He made mention of his days on the Mississippi River and the occasional "Underwater cable - Do not drag anchor" signs that dot the riverside. When asked, "What? You mean we should look for signs that say 'Underwater cable - Do not drag anchor' written in Russian?"

His answer was pretty much "Yes, that's exactly what we should do."

Craven was a colorful character and worth anyone's time to look up more on his contributions. I'll second the recommendation to the book "Blind Man's Bluff."
> So, if I understand what you are telling me, when, for instance, Krugman, write his text book and his New York Times columns, he is just writing a simplification.

Any time an expert is writing for a non-expert audience, they are usually writing a simplification tailored for the audience and the purpose of the writing.

> Because he thinks that the notion that private banks create money as an account operation, and they search reserves after giving a credit, and not before, is too complicate for his readers.

Or because the general idea of a multiplier effect works either way, and his columns are unlikely to depend on the mechanics of the simplified computation of the multiplier as an estimator of the maximum level of the multiplier effect under the simplifying assumptions that apply to that calculation.

If you have a specific problematic column in mind, we could have a less abstract discussion about the problem you have with it.
Heard where? Highly doubt Google is going to pull out of the wearable space.
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Re the lie. Maybe he means something like this?

https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/entreporn-the-fallacy-that-w...
Aaron, "Deciding when you’re actually ready to raise an A, or run any fundraise, is tricky. I’m working on a better framework for this decision" -> this is the part I'm most interested into, especially because we're not a b2c company and we've heard conflicting advice on what will constitute a proper "series A phase" for us.
>I'm going to assume you aren't in the US because that simply isn't true here.

I'm pretty sure most of these comments are about Amazon India since that's what this discussion is about.
Have you done any fiction? Or exclusively technical books?
Yeah, the way Gotoh locking tuners work on string changes is great. And, Gotoh parts are top notch. Their high end bridges are beautiful chunky things (I have a G&L bass and guitar because I love a big ol' chunky bridge).

So, sure, it's nice to have more convenient string changes. But, I don't want cheap tuners, no matter what. It's one of the big things that tells me immediately whether the guitar I'm playing is cheap or expensive. I used to think Klusons looked cheap and old, when I was a kid, but I have grown fond of them after so long playing. It's what's on both of my really expensive guitars (came from the factory that way), and I've never felt the need to change them because they've worked great for decades.

That said, if you've got a cheap-ish guitar and want to improve it, tuners, nut, and bridge are where I'd start (after getting a proper setup, and getting the frets in shape, of course). Also, while I'm ranting about the onion on my belt...bone is a poor choice for nut/bridge material. It has wildly inconsistent density and hardness, and just plain isn't as good as modern materials (and we can note that many of the very best and most expensive guitars today, like PRS, do not use bone).
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