skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, I believe the rules and procedures in binding arbitration can be different than in the court system, which can further stack the deck against the consumer.

I have a friend who lost a real estate arbitration case because of that, and got no compensation for serious structural issues that weren't disclosed and were caused by a remodel undertaken by the previous owner.
Good to know. I never made the distinction myself. Then again I do wonder, isn't sexual assault/harassment a matter for criminal courts? Who decides?
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In 2015 Alphabet changed their motto to "do the right thing". If you interpret "right" as "correct", then "doing the right thing" can mean 'correctly' bombing civilians.
Your argument is: "By making war more efficient/effective, we will reduce its use."

Say a government only has nuclear bombs in its arsenal and they really want an enemy of the state dead. Do you think they're willing to nuke an entire city to kill one person?

Now imagine a government has electronic kill switches. Imagine it being almost like The Matrix, they can just flip your life off at the flick of a button. Do you think they willing to just flick off the lives of anyone who they don't like?

You're effectively arguing that the latter is better than the former. Societies use more of a technology the far down the learning curve development goes and the cheaper the technology is. If there is no cost to violence, violence will be endless.
It seems you've answered your own question?
I once worked for a large industrial group in Europe. The kind that has a bit of a piece of every little pie there is - military, transportation, etc. I was pretty happy working there .. until I got a demo from the 'defence' group.

They demonstrated the willingness to push the company's technology into heinous, heinous territory. The kind of thing where a drone would be able to follow a single person in a crowd, and target them for execution - unguided, of course.

I quit the next day. Those of us who make technology, need to be very sure we see that it is not used destructively against the human species. The responsibility is very, very high. And, the danger is extreme. These people were revelling in the fact that they could develop targeted assassination drones and sell them to any country in the world.

Heinous.
I want to know it. I have to manipulate the mathematical objects computationally using proof techniques to know it. That just takes time. Thanks though.
Wouldn't this require repositioning the person's eyes in the video? Not saying that isn't doable..
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>>"I fail to see how this (or any) feature is distinguishing when describing how one should build an ethical framework into an engineered system. "

My point is that human ethics is grounded in human values and those are grounded in our evolutionary history. As we share an evolutionary history it would be not strange that there are a lot of values that we share. Maybe they are difficult to see because they appear to us as obviously true, but this is not going to be the case with machines.

Presumably, we want machines that care about the same things that us.
Python 2.7 has been stable and supported for almost 8 years -- how much more long term do you want? Even releases of Java only seem to get about 6 years of support.
I find them to be at least somewhat useful in a language like javascript. I imagine they are more useful in a typed language with proper inference, but I wouldn't say they're entirely useless in a dynamic language.
My "temporary workarounds" are still in use today, in production, so I must have written them well enough for people to understand.

Maybe the reason the temporary workarounds persist is because nobody understands them well enough to replace them ;)
Its great that the NFL is supporting biomechanics research (and will hopefully help the sport as well).

However, while the models are open source they seem to be created for LS-DYNA, which is a fairly expensive program. I'm not aware of any good open source finite element packages, but I bet this will limit uptake of their models.
> How can people still work for this evil company?

Uber has been doing a lot recently (i.e. as of about mid last year) to fix itself - things like better misconduct-handling process for employees, more frequent background checks for drivers, the implementation of tips, a top-down directive to permanently halt spying-related work in intelligence gathering, cooperating with authorities on the Tempe incident, etc.

Generally speaking, people aren't inherently evil and want to do the right thing. Uber's new leadership now does too. Uber moves fast and I think it's time to re-evaluate whether the data points backing your opinion are outdated.
Very true.

My learning actually accelerated in my 30s because knowledge pays compound interest -- the more knowledge you have, the faster it is to acquire new knowledge. Assuming one has continued to pursue learning, someone in their 30s would have built up a significant enough semantic tree to pin new knowledge to.

Most people find it hard to learn in their 30s because they lack the energy, environment (+kids, +spouse, etc.) or internal drive that provides them the impetus. Others find it hard to learn because of bad habits and a poor foundation (their semantic tree wasn't that well built up in their youth). But their actual abilities (even memory) haven't actually degraded all that much.

And of course, there are some who find it hard because they have reached the limits of their cognitive abilities (un-PC as it sounds, this is a real thing). You have to know if this is the case. Most of the time it is not.

I would start by building up a good foundation. Learn the basics well but don't get hung up on understanding every little detail.

Chunk your learning and use your little victories to drive you (brain hack: humans are a sucker for little victories). Use the Feynman method (learn by teaching).

Drill yourself with exercises rather than trying to understand everything -- math is one of those things where it is easier to learn hands-on by working on problems BEFORE understanding the definitions fully... understanding comes later (the patterns will emerge once your semantic tree is solid). It's a process of cognitive dissonance where you actively wrestle with problems rather than passively work through them.

People who try to understand math by reading alone (or by watching videos) tend to fail in real life -- they tend to be able to recite definitions but their ability to execute on their knowledge is weak.

This is a standard rookie mistake, and the reason why so many American kids are weaker at math compared to their Asian counterparts. Drilling--even if mindless at frst--really does help, especially when you're starting out on a new subject. It helps you develop muscle memory which in turn gives you confidence to move to the next level.
Wasn't aware about those options, thanks!

I think those features should be build by browser vendor. Why? Because pretty much all the existing extensions claiming to "protect privacy" are doing a poor job at it. They all rely on an internal database of "bad guys" as if it's technically possible to even build such a database.

For example, Cloudflare already control a large amount of website through their CDN. They are sending cookies regardless of the do not track headers. I haven't seen 1 of those extensions blocking website using Cloudflare. The do not track header is also a funny joke that even the W3C doesn't respect (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWtqPzFUQAExO2h.jpg)
You should see the videos he made for Egghead.io! Stop motion hedgehog! I know some people complained, but Egghead backed his unconventional teaching methods which is pretty cool.

- https://egghead.io/instructors/brian-lonsdorf

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_tkIpwbsxY

I'm pretty sure he's the only person to make this topic so approachable. I'm glad he's into having fun with it. Quite refreshing!
> One small tip my cofounder learned in business school: I don't remember the exact terminology, but analyses that go from the inside outwards are more respected by investors than ones that go from the outside inwards. Don't take huge figures like "Number of Americans" and multiply by "Percent of Americans that do 'x'", but rather find localized, small figures, and extrapolate those up/outwards.

Not sure if it could be considered the same, but in physics there's a concept of "from first principles" where you obtain something starting from laws which you know are true (within the domain of applicability of a theory). "From first principles" is in contrast to making comparisons for example reasonings like "I know the answer in that other situation, so in my situation of interest I'm going to estimate the answer is X% more".

Calculations from first principles are tipically more robust but harder to do.
That's amazingly good (and long) and lots of it still seems relevant today.
The GDAX servers are hosted on AWS. Us-East-1 if i remember correctly. This allows anyone to have basically free colocation. So not sure why they give colocation as a selling point here
Yes that is definitely better. With better materials engineering one could imagine an "active" material that crumpled and then "uncrumpled" itself. Perhaps the uncrumpling would require electric power?
In serious academic crypto circles, "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a clown. I don't think a "Satoshi" algorithm would stand much of a chance either.
Emacs freezing the display server or location services hijacking focus are macOS bugs, not bugs in these open source projects.

I can accept that the location services bug is not fixed, since it primarily affect XQuartz. But an application should not be able to crash the display server.
Re. Kinect for Windows, manufacturing was switched from a separate Windows-only SKU to an adapter that could be shared across Xbox and Windows, however even that ended in 2018, giving Kinect 8 years of sales: https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/2/16842072/xbox-one-kinect-ad...

The last SDK release for Windows was SDK 2.0 in 2014, whose page now says:

> Manufacturing of the Kinect sensor and adapter has been discontinued, but the Kinect technology continues to live on in products like the HoloLens, Cortana voice assistant, the Windows Hello biometric facial ID system, and a context-aware user interface.

> Microsoft is working with Intel to provide an option for developers looking to transition from the Kinect for Windows platform. Microsoft will continue to provide support for the Kinect for Windows SDK via our online forums, premiere and paid technical support. As developers transition from Kinect hardware, Microsoft encourages developers to look into Intel's RealSense depth cameras.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/kinect

For those who find this comment later via Google, there are libraries that support both Microsoft and Intel depth cameras: https://github.com/jing-interactive/Cinder-DepthSensor

As noted later in this comment thread, there now exists Project Kinect for Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/kinect/ To me, this sounds like Microsoft using the Kinect and Azure IOT brands to provide their own SDK/hardware for Intel RealSense cameras, but it's unclear what the tech. is under the hood. It's certainly not compatible with older Kinect sensors and the old SDKs.
Agreed. My point was merely that this is a great move from the consumer perspective, one that I doubt other companies will follow.
They say that Warren Buffet's favorite book is The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.
I’m with Hunter S. Thompson on Wolfe:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/you_thieving_pile_of_alb...

“thieving pile or albino warts”
This deserves so much more attention.
What is the ‘legitimate interests’ basis?
Awesome- what hardware are you working with? Hit me up (email in profile) if you want to chat about what you're working on.
Watch the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

These videos are frankly better explanation of college-level math concepts than most college classes.

Also, now you probably care much more about the intuitions of mathematics over the raw mechanics of it. Once again, this channel perfectly exemplifies this concept.
Probably nobody would even consider it. It would be like standardizing a cipher proposed on reddit r/crypto.
It was a bit of a rhetorical exercise, yes.
Can you send me an email?

I'm interested in talking with you
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It changes the answer you give to your kid's question: "Daddy/Mommy what do you do at work?"
Hard to tell if those people were planning on leaving anyway, and just wanted to make a splash. How many people quit each week in a company with 90,000 employees?

Only a small percent of engineers at google are AI experts. Sure, more people use it, but they probably just make a service call and get some magic results back.
Do you still run the Bot?

I'm interested in talking with you

I'm currently running a bot on GDAX
> They all rely on an internal database of "bad guys"

Not all do. uMatrix comes with a whitelist-based approach, so all 3rd party requests (modulo images and CSS if you so choose) are blocked and need to be whitelisted to unbreak sites.
People who disagree with you often disagree with each other as well. This doesn't come through in a media (of all political leanings) that tends toward a narrow set of well-funded viewpoints.
> The big thing I usually look for is if the PCB layout matches the reference layout.

How do you do that?

I mean, where do you look for the PCB layout of a potential card you will be buying? Do you physically open the box and take a picture?

Also, why would the PCB layout make any difference?

I mean, I've been buying 3D cards since the original Voodoo but I just never heard of this metric. Sounds interesting but would be nice to have some more details :)
F16's are used in many countries. They were developed in the US, but many, many countries use them (some of our NATO partners since the beginning)

Since they were first developed, NATO partners: Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway
Other European countries as soon as the mid-80's: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania
Middle east since the mid/late 80's:
Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, Jordan, UAE
Africa: Morocco, Indonesia,
Asia: Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
South America: Chile, Venezuela.
I hear you. But as as society we need to make hard choices.

As a society do we value homeless or contributors ( taxpayers ) more?

When you enact policies and taxes like this you reward being homeless and push out people who contribute. You say, 'yes, it's ok to shit on my sidewalk and leave needles everywhere and accost my children as they're walking to school.' And yes, that's an extreme, but it happens everyday in SF. And, to me, it's unacceptable. It's unacceptable that we allow that.

In short:

You: "But, What about the homeless people?"
Me: "What about my children who have to step over their shit on the way to school?"
Yes, I appreciate git's power. That's why I suggest a layer on top. It's just that for many ordinary use cases, the workflow is too complex. I'm sure that for e.g. the Linux kernel, that power is essential. Thanks for your links.
I don't know why this is downvoted, but the process of writing and working problems on paper, at least for me, helps cement the knowledge.
Edit: Pope Benedictus XVI served as Pope from 2005 to 2013. The current Pope is Francis. Bear with my ignorance of the world's current news. I don't watch TV, nor Facebook-too distractive-. I'm a Hacker News addict. I come here on average 5 times/day.
If project maven worked as planned, wouldn't the USG kill fewer people?
I will answer you with a song:

It's been a long road
Getting from there to here
It's been a long time
But Py3 is finally here

And I will see my dreams come alive at night
I will touch the sky
And Py2's not gonna hold me down no more
No it's not gonna change my mind

In other words:

Let it go, let it go...
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"Distrusting" one of the simplest "mainstream" ARX ciphers entails a little bit of tin foil. That's not really why ISO isn't moving forward with them.
A number is simply a state; a concept held by a state machine, such as a human. Numbers do not exist, but to the enumerator.
It's good to see an operating system begun with the idea that all of the terminal emulation for a console belongs in application space not the kernel. In case you are interested:

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/linux-console-daemon.html

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/user-virtual-terminals...

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/177209/5132

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/178807/5132
I'm in a similar situation to you. I have been really enjoying the 3blue1brown videos on Youtube. He has a sequence on calculus and linear algebra and both of them are worth watching and thinking about before going through a book. I also recently started watching some of Dr. Norman Wildberger's math lectures. He's a finitist crank, but most of his class lectures are great despite this. This inspired me to get some more textbooks and try to go through them. I'm pleased if I can make it through a chapter at all on any time scale, and I think having low expectations is probably healthy.

One thing a friend of mine said, which I think has been very good advice, is to get several books on a single topic. Eventually every author will lose you and you'll get stuck; having alternate discussions will help you get through it. This is easy to do and inexpensive if you pick up some Dover math books, but I've been making heavy use of the local academic library. The math books you want to read are not in high demand at the library! You can get three or four and see if any of them are good enough to warrant a purchase later on, because you probably won't get through them in a month or whatever.

I find that for many topics there is a really good text. Calculus by Spivak is a great example, it straddles the line between calculus-in-college and analysis. Every topic seems to have a few really good books like this one, and there are often books that will take a totally different approach, like H Jerome Keisler's nonstandard calculus book using infinitesimals.

I used to see it as a real problem that I was learning math outside class, but more and more I see it as a benefit, because you can pick up the stuff you want at the resolution you want and benefit from the best books rather than whatever the publishers are bribing professors to use. Going at your own pace, you're not going to go through as much stuff as quickly, but you will actually _really_ learn it. I've spent the last three weeks or so thinking about the construction of the real numbers... in a classroom setting, you would be forced to get through this quickly to get on with the rest of the curriculum, even if you aren't interested in the rest of it.

I think both our roads are eventually going to lead us to differential geometry, and the only thing I know about that is that there appears to be a very good book on Amazon (Tapp, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces), and that you may want to avoid older books that use the older notation for it. I have heard great things about the book Gravitation, but I'm totally afraid of it, not ready to go there yet. Also check out Physics from Symmetry, that book looks amazing to me but I haven't read it yet, just flipped through the contents, but it might be exactly what you're after, since it discusses the math right before applying it to specific areas of physics.
I’d like to offer the point of view that if the drones become better and more surgical in their precision, it would reduce civilian casualties.

Like it or not the world is full of extremists who would like nothing more than to hurt innocent people. There is no “oh just send the cops and arrest them!” route to take.

Shit, just look at the time Osama bin Laden could have been bombed with a tomahawk missile during Clinton’s presidency. He didn’t do it because of the potential to kill a Saudi prince he was meeting at that time.

Would those angry Googlers be against surgically killing Osama? I think not.

Better drone software might help track a potential target and present with the optimal window in which a target could be shot and have reduced civilian casualties. It could also present with better intel to let a surgical ground strike which would put more American soldiers at risk but would allow for better intel and again less civilian deaths.

Lastly, it could offer new knowledge and experience in tracking humans with drones during humanitarian disasters. It could also help in tracking victims of kidnapping, are the Googlers opposed to rescuing the hundreds and thousands kidnapped by Boko Haram and company?

Who is going to go into the African heart of darkness to rescue those people? Is it the arm chair Googlers who pretend to know better?
> This feels like a pretty weird ruling that is all about the details of how the federal law was enacted, rather than the intent,

Intent may be a factor in resolving ambiguities in the text of the law, but the perceived goal of a law does not substitute for the text of the law in determining what the law is. For a law to be valid, it must be within the Constitutional power of government as written, not just serving an apparent purpose that some other formulation might validly address.

Aside from the problem of transferring legislative power to the judiciary, your apparent preference here would not give citizens subject to the law notice of its actual parameters, since the “real” law restricting their behavior might be something unrecognizable in detail from the text of the adopted law that happens to serve what some court sees as the same purpose the legislature sought with the text they adopted.
> Filenames with spaces (lol) do not happen unless you do it yourself.

This is a cop out. File names can totally contain spaces, and the difference between the Bash and Python solution is that one will continue to work when a file with spaces inevitably shows up and one will fail, possibly silently.
Hah. I figured Xerox was dead, but didn't know it yet back in 2011 when they outsourced their product engineering to HCL (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/xerox-explores-outsourcing...). You can't enter new markets if you don't own your own engineering.
> "If ethical action on the part of tech companies requires consideration of who might benefit from a technology and who might be harmed," the letter reads, "we can say with certainty that no topic deserves more sober reflection—no technology has higher stakes—than algorithms meant to target and kill at a distance and without public accountability,”

My understanding from the reading I've done is that this project is to analyze drone video after it's collected, to automate tasks like picking out when people enter and exit buildings and to read the license plates off cars. If that understanding is correct then this quote seems disingenuous. Google's project is no more designed to "Target and kill at a distance" than the designers of the drone's camera, or it's engine. Arguably even less than those, since those components are in use when drone actually launches strikes. Google's project only comes into play after drones have returned and they have time to crunch the data.