skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would happily pay 20 dollars a year for a social media site that
> does not track or advertise if anyone is up for building it.

It costs me $20/mo to run a Mastodon instance. Might cost me less if I spent the time to seriously optimize it. Someday I should get a Patreon up so some of the other people using my instance can kick in a few bucks and bring the cost to me down. No ads, no tracking, I just run it because I want to help actually make “social media” actually be about talking to my friends instead of being fed Popular Tweets From Celebrities.

You could also just start running your own blog. Host it yourself, use WordPress Blogger Medium Tumblr, whatever.
Great advice for getting started creating business value from your data.
have you looked at plaid api. I was thinking about just something that called the api and dumped the data to a database.

I just want to be to set a budget per category and/or vendor for each paycheck period. Then be able to easily see if I was able to stay within.
i think its interesting that they can tell if someone has finished all episodes of a series and would be waiting for a next one.
No, technically you need a license for every single copy made; it's just almost never enforced.

You also need a license to play music at the workplace, and the PRS or equivalent will chase you endlessly about it.
Go get a free consultation from some lawyers and see what they have to say. I personal would sue If you don't mind burning that bridge for good. But I think no matter what you do talk to some lawyers.
To give full credit, the designer was adapted from https://github.com/PolymerLabs/wizzywid
Some DCs do, but the need to keep them spinning 24/7/365 is a big maintenance issue, so given the advances in battery tech, I'd assume batteries would supplant flywheels for cost and safety reasons.
And yet: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44089161 -- did they maybe get lucky?

I tend to believe there's still issues with the technology and/or data in/data out issues (unless, for example, the Chinese have REALLY good photos of people to start with -- that's the excuse the British police gave in the above story for the 91 percent false positive rate).
I worked at Apple doing phone tech support during this time and it was a big issue. You could take the iPhone and hold it one way to drop the signal almost completely. For users, it was incredibly frustrating.
Why not just program it in Rust if you want to guarantee that the system doesn't have any security vulnerabilities?
I think these commits were taken out of the release. At least I couldn't find them when I took a quick look: https://github.com/facebook/react/commits/v16.4.0
I made a number of emergency calls from my pocket on my Nokia 1100 even with key lock enabled. It was infuriating. It happened once when I was having a heated argument with somebody and it took some work to convince the dispatcher not to send a law enforcement officer. (There was nothing physical happening and no threats of violence, but we were speaking very sharply to each other.) I do not miss that about my Nokia 1100 at all.
Fun, crass, friendly. Met him at a Knight Foundation event in Miami. Kevin Marks, if you are reading this, you needed a ride to BarCamp and this is who we hitched a ride with.
A significant proportion of the 500 million citizens of the EU are "privacy oriented".

If you can't keep our data safe, why should you be trusted with it?
> Please explain how, exactly, what other sources you would collect data from and how the central server would process it to determine if I want the lights on.

The more data, the more smarter. In fact, the only difference between a thermostat and the human mind is the number of datas. This is because the Law of Averages predicts that half of all datas will be relevant.
Session Hijacking and how to stop it
Batteries don't like insulation, in fact preferring active cooling.

Which is itself a good thermal-runaway damper, to speak to the second sentence of your second paragraph.
You should slow down. Those people you are describing sound like they want to cross the street, and they probably have right of way, so yield for them.

Also, my two year old will sometimes walk towards the curb, but she is very good with streets, so I am not worried. She always stops and waits to hold someone's hand before crossing. This behavior freaks some drivers out, causing them to slow or come to a complete stop, which is the nicest outcome because then I can take her hand and cross the street. When I am walking by myself drivers rarely yield even as I am stepping into the street, even at marked crossings.

I guess my point is if my two year old exhibits the behavior you ascribe to a hypothetical non-child pedestrian then how can you be sure your hypothetical pedestrian won't just "keep walking"? What if they are blind, or drunk, or reckless? Perhaps you have been lucky before and never struck a pedestrian but I strongly urge you to assess your behavior. Stop for pedestrians, it's the nice thing to do and it's probably the law where you live.
> are really good at driving the price down to bare material cost via aggressive production line automation

I've noticed this with steel products and plastics.

Brings up one advantage batteries have, they are small. That you need to make a trillion of them works directly towards the cost being a small percentage over material and energy inputs.
I don’t think my phone is listening, other than the wake word. Same deal with my smart speakers. I think either one could, if hacked or just updated by the manufacturer with nefarious intent.

I see no difference, privacy-wise, between the two. I don’t care how they’re advertised, I care what they’re capable of.
Yes, unfortunately. It’s more of an academic exercise than a production compiler.
Does any regulator actually give a damn about a self-driving car braking too often?
My most embarrassing moment in my life so far included underage me, alcohol, a fjord, nudity, and a group of Norwegian strangers...

What would I give to swap that for "I recommended SU to a literal surfer" :D
> People who’d swerve off a cliff rather than use a pejorative for race, religion, physical appearance, or disability are all too happy to drop the s‑bomb: Indeed, degrading others for being “stupid” has become nearly automatic in all forms of disagreement.

Indeed, people will flip out if you say something negative about people at the lower extreme of the intelligence bell curve, but saying things about people a little higher up (but below the median) is fair game. It's completely nonsensical.
That seems like an extreme perspective. Kind of like the tech version of abstinence only sex ed. Sure, it's the only 100% safe way, but it's not useful for most people. It doesn't weigh the benefits against the potential cons, or even take into consideration the actually likelihood of data being leaked.
Google quickly fixed the issue caused by the person putting it in the bathroom and causing the button to stick.

The person that it happened to got a pre-release version. Google even went to the persons house on a Friday evening to resolve. The person found the problem on the same day. None of the units sold to the general public had the issue. Realize Google literally dropped everything to take care of the issue. Now that is what you want to see.

The reason you buy a Google Home is because they provide a much better user experience and why Google has already passed Amazon even though they did not get to the market until 2 years later.

"Google takes top spot in global smart speaker market, HomePod nowhere to be found"

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/23/google-takes-top-...

We started with an Echo and then purchased the Google Home and then several more Google Homes.

My son had graduation earlier this week at an arena that has a name that is difficult to pronounce. It is named after someone that gave a lot of money to the University.

There was also a MLB game that night that started 15 minutes later than the graduation.

Walking through the kitchen asked drive time thinking no problem as people are leaving the city usually not going to the city.

Google got it the first try and gave drive time which was 2x more than normal.

Google saved my butt as quickly got ready and left and would not have otherwise. Asking our Echo and Siri the same question and neither could handle.

That is why you buy the Google Home. Well also because of new things like Duplex coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08

Google is just so far ahead in every layer of the AI stack and just going to be able to provide a far superior product.
Yes and no. Check out Foucault. He was a radical philosopher that discussed the treatment of mental health and was a critic of institutionalization. I don't know enough about him to agree or disagree with him, but he is an influential point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU
Robin “Roblimo” Miller, Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away
I imagine most companies trust the ISP with sensitive company information more than they trust Pornhub. I am not saying one is more trustworthy than the other, but I am quite certain others do.
More than once I've run across situations of everyone sitting around going "we need to scale up the server or switch the database or rewrite some of this frontend stuff or something it's so slow and there's nothing we can do" and solved their intractable performance problems by just adding an index in MySQL that actually covers the columns they're querying on.

Lots of people seem to want some silver bullet magical software/technology to solve their problems instead of learning how to use the tools they have. That's not software development.
I distinctly remember reading article that they fixed this on later production runs with some sort of coating. Wasn't the white iPhone 4 delayed for this?
There's zero proof they have anything in there account.
Fractional reserve banking is not what failed in the financial crisis. Multiple things failed, including credit ratings, mutual funds/pensions/etc investing in high risk investments, etc. The biggest risk people think of for fractional reserve - they won't have the money when you need it, a run on banks, etc - didn't really happen in the states in any significant fashion.
> The loss of any "GO" signal would result in an emergency stop.

That's an E-stop chain and that's exactly how it should work.

But the software as described in the NTSB report was apparently bad enough that they essentially hardwired an override on their emergency stop. The software equivalent of putting a steel bar into a fuse receptacle. The words that come to mind are 'criminal negligence'. The vehicle would not have been able to do an E-stop even if it was 100% sure it had to do just that, nor did it warn the human luggage.

The problem here is not that the world is so unsafe that you will have to make compromises to get anywhere at all, the problem here is that the software is still so buggy that there is no way to safely navigate common scenarios. Pedestrian on the road at night is one that I've encountered twice on my trips and they did not lead to any fatalities because when I can't see I slow down. If 6 seconds isn't enough to make a decision you have no business being on the road in the first place.
I would be interested of the reason because we've been fighting this successfully for a number of years with our clients IT departments (while we were smaller). They hired us to make the developement process better and one of the things we always found problematic was that when the software developers didn't have normal internet access (but instead tunneled everything through some bottleneck http proxy) they both lost the good developers because they were fed up with not being able to do their job efficently and thus the quality of their software went down.

A year ago we've been bought by a big company to help them do what we did untill then but on a much bigger scale. The first thing we did was to get rid of the restricted internet. And now we again help our customers (big car manufacturers) to make their processes better. And even for here every developer has free access to the Internet to be able to work efficiently.

But as I said in the beginning, I'm really interested in the reasons for this behaviour of those large companies. My suspission is that it's just easier for the IT department to work against the developers instead of helping them to do their job.
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The problem is that drivers rarely maintain the safety distance they should have to not endanger themselves. BUT in that case, the car should have also noticed if there were near traffic behind. Doing nothing in that case doesn’t seem the right decision at all.

Very good write anyways... indeed many things will have to change - probably the infrastructure, the vehicles, the software, the way pedestrians move, and driver behavior as well.
What Write Skew Looks Like
>I would happily pay 20 dollars a year for a social media site that > does not track or advertise if anyone is up for building it.

The problem is that your willingness to pay puts you in a tiny minority.

A smartphone survey found that 70% of users won't even pay $1 a year to avoid ads.[1] That's just 8 cents a month. Since surveys always overestimate actual money spent, one should round up that 70% to ~90%.

A general purpose social website requires most everybody to be on it. (Six degrees of separation and all that.) Therefore, any payment of even 8 cents is a huge barrier to adoption.

[1] https://www.tune.com/blog/mobile-ads-70-of-smartphone-owners...
I think the perception is that those with a genetic disorder that causes mental handicaps cannot help it, whereas everyone else is on a level playing field and therefore are at fault for doing something stupid.
Head Shake – The Mechanics of the Dance
The article quotes an accountant from the 1950s:

> hiring decisions were “based on a candidate having a critical skill or two and on soft factors such as eagerness, appearance, family background, and physical characteristics.”

To me, this looks like the 1950s accountant preferred to hire WASPs. (Especially the last three items.) Now that we've mostly agreed this kind of thing is bad, what we're left with is critical skills and eagerness. So intelligence becomes a bigger factor in hiring decisions because the other factors were pretty terrible.
Government is a corporation. Corporations are the government.
Inefficient and poorly run things die in down cycles but so do new things and innovative things. Efforts to innovate must usually burn money for a long time and are more vulnerable to downturns since in downturns people become more conservative.
Honestly nothing about that seems very professional from either side. You called him names, he called you names, and everyone's feelings got hurt. That sounds like one of those "friendship" business arrangements.

Agreeing to equity might muddy the waters. Equity is worthless, but by agreeing to it in lieu of a fixed amount, you've set a value. So you likely aren't getting 17K but may get the equity you agreed to in writing (assuming you haven't already).

Hopefully your invoices contained a due date, and your contract a clause allowing interest or penalty on late payment. If he is passed due, continue to send him notices but do them via tracked postage (and include interest if applicable).

If you plan to sue, which it sounds like you'll need to, start getting everything in writing. No more phone calls at all.

If he ignores your late notices get a lawyer to write a letter giving him a final settlement amount before the suit is filed, and then have them file if he ignores it.

A layer will take this, but expect them to take the lion's share. It still might make financial sense, even based on the settlement figures you yourself suggested in the OP.

By the way:

> After him shutting down communication, I reached out to his investors, which got him talking again.

I'd make sure to honestly tell the lawyer exactly what you said to his investors, a countersuit for defamation could ruin the case (make it cost-not-viable).
Mycroft https://github.com/MycroftAI

Jarvis https://github.com/alexylem/jarvis

Jasper https://jasperproject.github.io

there are others if you look around
> Ive been enjoying all the emails from companies

I've been receiving so many "here is our policy, if you continue your use, you accept it, kbye" emails... I truly hope EU will take the default-opt-in problem seriously.
I don't think 'likely' is enough to stop concern. You have to act under the assumption that you will get the worst, not just hope that you will get the best.
After the second time, why would it matter?
>However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons (i) wearing traditional holiday costumes;

Perhaps you ought to dress up as Santa Claus when you want to rob a bank, then
CIX supplied Ameol (a most excellent offline reader) which could connect quickly and disconnect. In the UK we didn’t have the luxury of the US’s free local calls, so that was an added expense on top of that.
Testing self-driving cars in urban areas is challenging but necessary
If you buy occupancy switches instead of vacancy switches, the light will stay on until you actually leave!
You can try the ThunderX on packet.net.
#Macs users have been infected with a new #Monero #Miner
Simply: no one else is dialing via my butt.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17146609
How China Acquires the Crown Jewels of U.S. Technology
Which simply means it is because the car's AI isn't good enough to classify that object as something it should slow down for versus something it can ignore (like an empty plastic bag drifting across the road.)
It's not though, please reread the comment above. Water brought and stored in buckets from an outdoor communal well would not be nearly as clean or as plentiful.
There's a reason we have indoor plumbing and convenience is just one of them. And I can't believe I have to explain this here.
Canterbury+New+Zealand+earthquake+loss+continues+to+creep
I had the inverse experience. My wife's laptop had a touch screen and I thought "What a dumb idea, what use is that?"

Then she'd ask me for help and rather than have to wait for her to find what button I was talking about I'd just tap the screen a few times and we were off and running again!
Neat article, but I'm skeptical of machine learning to make art easier.

I spent some time using PaintsChainer, a ML tool to autofill colors based on a few starting choices and the results were... rough.

The problem with ML art, is that it lacks the ability to polish. 90% of the impact of art is in the the last 10% of work, where the artist meticulously refines the piece to turn it from a loosely colored sketch, into a cohesive and complete picture.

Many of the tricks and tools to create this polish are heuristics that are not quantifiable or teachable via image sets. They come from an understanding of the "Gestalt" of a picture, or what the "gestalt" should be and then doing the necessary steps to get it there.

The other problem is you can't teach an ML algorithm about the hidden volumes in art. Much of drawing/painting is about tricking the eye into perceiving volume when none exists. An ML algorithm can perceive volume and identity after color/light have been applied, because those categories carry data. However, an ML algorithm can't infer what color/light a circle should have to give it the correct volume/perspective. A circle can be a doorknob, a pie, a ball, an eye. Each needing different data applied to it, which the ML algorithm doesn't (and won't ever) have.

Personally, I'd welcome a tool to make painting easier. It'd be amazing. However, I don't think we are all that close to a machine creating polished artwork.
The regulation was in the making since 2012. Plenty of time I'd say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

The german Wikipedia has a lot more details on the history and development of the regulation: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenschutz-Grundverordnung
From the HN example, does this include other comments that referenced my username? What about comments that might have linked to my GitHub profile? What if there are server logs that include my IP and a time which can correlate to when I posted a comment or something? What about this information on Algolia, must I contact them separately? Also, I wasn't aware...I can ask for my password hash? Can I request all of this information be deleted? (genuine questions btw assuming I were in the EU, not trolling)
But maybe Netflix's advantage over a traditional TV channel like HBO is that it can offer ten shows 1 million people will watch instead of one show 10 million will watch?

Traditional channels have limited slots. Obviously there's costs to produce shows, but making 10 small budget shows that attract 10 different types of viewer might be a better way to lock in subscriptions than a small number of "prestige" shows.
That looks interesting. Thanks.
I mean, it would be a kind of crazy business model not to take into account what the ratings of shows were...

Then again, Netflix is bathing in an ocean of cash, so they just might be crazy enough to be throwing out anything and everything to see if it sticks.
On the Echo at least, there's an option to have the device make a thump-type sound when it's activated. There's also a light ring that activates out of the box and shows where it believes the audio is coming from.
That seems unlikely.
This highlights an interesting general point - in many situations, there is no simple safe fallback policy. On a highway, an emergency stop is not safe. This is a general problem in AI safety and is covered nicely in this youtube video, as well as the paper referenced there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJUIqZNzP8
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No.

Brutal honesty: I have no intention of complying with GDPR. I do collect plenty of data from Europeans; but I am not a European, I do not directly use the data for commercial purposes (though I publish some of it) and I have no physical nexus in the EU.

I don't know if GDPR applies to me, but I can't be bothered either way. I've seen mixed interpretations about whether or not the data I collect, and my subsequent use of it, is relevant for GDPR. I don't care enough to spare the mental overhead. I welcome Europeans to contact me under the GDPR, but I'll likely ignore them completely unless I can be convinced any possible litigation would both impact me and actually come to pass.

Until I'm forced to do something, I'm not going to do anything at all about it. I don't expect that to be a popular opinion :)
Compost your egg shells also!