skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GCP Developer Advocate here:

The Java 8, Node.js (just announced at I/O) and GCF environments use a new sandbox that should allow you to run any binary. Of course there are limits, and you have to pay to run things on App Engine past the free tier, but most things should run just fine.

The older GAE sandboxes didn't let you do this (and had a ton of other limitations as well)
Simple is not available in Canada, which is what the above poster is referring to. Few (no?) Canadian banks offer email notifications for debit (Interac) transactions.
The only way you'll get that is to use something like electron that gives you access to node resources. The browser is sandboxed for a reason, and what you're talking about would be a violation of that. The good thing is Electron apps are incredibly portable.
What about translation of rule subsets to other enforcement mechanisms? ACLs and rules for physical infrastructure like switches and routers being one possible target where embedding the agent itself may be impractical. I understand that SDN dominates the core infrastructure, but more traditional infrastructure is frequently in place closer to enterprise users. The point being defense in depth, rather than relying on physical infrastructure as a sole enforcement mechanism.
Plus, they have a lot of vertical market apps (POS systems for a start) that only work with their database, which is where the shakedown begins.
If you claimed your comment was in French instead of English, even though I can clearly see it's in English, why wouldn't I disagree?
Yes, of course. It's usually an hour-long lecture. There's a lot more content than will fit in an HN comment.
Available in multiple languages here : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/other-events/video?...
Are you really saving money, if you wouldn't have spent it otherwise?

I mean, how can you know that even the worst postgresql installation wouldn't require only 10% of what you're paying now in contractors/support?
For Lisper's overall claim to be valid, you only need the weaker result that an isolated couple's expected number of children living to adulthood is less than 2.
That's assuming that each of those cars can be produced without any costs, which they require large amounts of raw materials and labor, and that Tesla also doesn't need to spend large amounts of capital on R&D to improve manufacturing or new product lines.
It does, however, suggest that whether Amazon's doing it today is irrelevant, if any org with the resources of mlthoughts2018's org could cobble together a system that performs sufficiently to their needs with open-source solutions and some locally-grown or publicly-sourced training data.

This barn is devoid of horses and is getting chilly from all the airflow.
You bet. Glad it was useful.
>I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for

they don't expect to be the ones facing oppression.
He was able to negotiate a better price than free? Or were you paying for Postgre pro and a support contract?
The Social Graph Is Neither (2011)
Indeed, though more generally the "four boxes of liberty".

It is left as an exercise for the reader to assess where we are at with each box in contemporary America.
Partitioning for one. Postgres is getting closer but Oracle blows it out of the water and has had the feature for many years.

Oracle also does clustering out of the box, again for years.

Those are the big ones off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more.

These features are very expensive and full of pitfalls but they exist and Postgres isn't really even close to feature parity. I say this as a huge fan of Postgres.
Oh did someone vote for the NSA for example? As far as I know no candidate on the major sides were against it.
Here's the same paper without the maddening UX:

http://www.juggling.org/papers/limits/
Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Doesn't Work with the Grid Down and How to Fix It
People have limited attention and time. It's perfectly valid to point out how the media is withholding information and distracting from more serious things on purpose. Otherwise it is just bike shedding.
All VCs are willing to give you a checklist of what they're looking for. I've never seen a VC actually willing to fund solely based on a checklist of objective metrics. This doesn't change based on region.
"Tell someone", just stop smoking, leave the drugs, find a career... be happy! Unless you are in jail. Realy is it that easy?

I think getting to a point in life where you are alone and haven't maintained any meaningful relation is very hard. It is not easy to just speak to someone random but also not sure it helps, unless the relation develops.
> At the risk of misunderstanding “eyeball planet”, you’re living on the most obvious example.

You should read the articles on this website please.
Agreed.

I don't see much benefit to pushing back against the technologies themselves; they're here, they're easy to apply, and we're well past the point where trying to ban them will just push them underground. Misapplication of the technologies and erosion of fundamentals of evidence-based action are a real problem.

Contrast the California police using genealogy datasets to narrow the realm of potential "John Doe" serial killers. As court evidence? Shouldn't be admissible. As a tool to focus the search to a subset of the population? Extremely good idea.

Similarly, the face-recognition camera can tell the authorities where to turn their eyes but should never be the be-all and end-all of adjudication; they're too easy to fool (as Maryland discovered when it started auto-ticketing cars that blew through red lights at camera-tagged intersections, only to find a wave of high-schoolers thinking it was hilarious to tape a photo of an unliked teacher's license plate across their own and then blow through an empty intersection at 80 MPH at 2AM).
Awesome! (Where were you guys 5 years ago when I was doing my PFM ;).

I went looking for a Go library for your API and the plaid one says it's not maintained/supported anymore. Is there a replacement (third party or not) for it?
This seems very similar to the ideas expressed in "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Indeed! I recently tried Rekognition's "celebrity detection" and was surprised at the no. of false positives - "doppelgänger detection" would've been more like it.

Some examples:
https://medium.com/@deepak.gulati/trying-amazon-rekognition-...

That said, it could flag faces for manual screening. Or cross reference other data (License plates, Geo data from phone) to boost confidence. Also, once they get more data as part of some of these deals they'll get better.
> Isn't that already universal knowledge what you are describing here?

Not only is it not universal knowledge, there are substantial cohorts of people who will vehemently deny that it is true. In fact, there are people asking for additional evidence in other branches of this very discussion!
On-device machine learning coming to Chrome OS
Well this is a terrifying thought.
If you are on windows you can use this awesome tool to have it globally: https://zerowidthjoiner.net/negativescreen

nice plus: inverted mode with correct colors (only brightness inverted)

You could even write your own translation matrix. It's a bit tricky at first, but fun. e.g. true black and white without greys.

For your own matrix this might help (but definitely another format :/ ):

https://kazzkiq.github.io/svg-color-filter/

http://alistapart.com/article/finessing-fecolormatrix
This is one of my favorite words. I almost never find a way to correctly work it into a sentence, so was happy I managed to do so here.
Also see (Claude) Shannon's Juggling Theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling#Mathematics

Shannon also built juggling robots. (But not, to my knowledge, machines to measure human juggling.) Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=sBHGzRxfeJY
Does this effect or render incomplete the results people get from services like 23 And Me? The doctor treating the baby had to do multiple DNA tests to verify the mosaicness, and was only able to determine the 5%/12% bad cells in the heart right/left after it was removed.
Ended up reading bunch of your blogs. Nicely articulated. As a developer, communication with analogies really helps :) cheers!!!
Competitors are closer to 10%.
General Thinking Tools: Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems
They aren't offering unlimited supercharging on the 3. It is just pay per use. Unlimited has a lot of value to it over a lifetime.
The outrage isn't over what these people do with their money, but over a tax loophole that allows rich people to get tax breaks for effectively doing nothing.

As for promoting specific unmet needs in the Valley, there's no shortage of that, but apparently the rich would prefer to get big tax breaks than actually meeting those needs.
> It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.

Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you're like most people.

There absolutely should be a clear delineation between what is possible and what is allowed when considering state surveillance.

The 4th amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

It's right there. You have a right to be secure as a person from unreasonable searches. Massive face recognition of 'criminals' is a violation of exactly that, and should be prevented without question.
A side project I have stewing in my head is to try to hack something into a Postgres plugin to provide a nice AST format for producing specific query plans. I think this can be done, given that there are some old plugins that allow stuff like saving query plans, but I haven't looked much into the details yet. My thinking is that once you have that, you open the door for a lot of experimentation into query language alternatives that still maintain the power of SQL. And since you're cutting the query planner out of the equation (and moving it instead into a compilation step), you can hopefully take some of the frustrating black magic out of it.

Key assumptions I'm working from here are:

1. Actual programmers (in contrast with SQL's original target audience) generally know exactly what data access patterns are appropriate for a particular task; they just don't want to write them from scratch and have to worry about stuff like locking and transactions at a fine grained level.

2. Being able to switch plans on the fly based on query input and data statistics is not a huge win in most real world scenarios, and isn't worth the unpredictability that it entails.

3. Most of the shallow pain of working with SQL comes from the fact that it was a strange paradigm to start with, and then had a bunch of features hacked on top of it.

4. Most of the deep pain of working with SQL comes from the fact that it abstracts too much, forcing you to reverse engineer the desired query plan through those abstraction layers. And like a lot of reverse engineering, the result is fragile and might change to something far less efficient in the future for inscrutable reasons like database upgrades or subtle changes in how the data is shaped.

Pretty much any replacement can address 3. Ideas that really excite me address 1 and 4, and it seems to me that those are more likely to look procedural than purely functional. But like I said, the main thing is that having a low level target to compile to would allow us to try out different ideas and see what works.
You know, at first I said WTF? — but you are right. Frankly, I've noticed the Times is increasingly resorting to headlines that wouldn't be out of place in USA Today or the Daily Mail. :-)
> New account, go deep into threads, experience throttling. No mods required.

False. This account is just as new.
Why would the police only use pictures of known criminals? Unless there are negative consequences for using something they will use whatever they can get their hands on...
But what is the price change of that same house? If the house of old is worth more today, its higher value for the same unit of space (and also stock decay).

Are old houses cheaper or more expensive today, taking into account house depreciation?
I know it’s cliche to bring up in these examples but there was an unintended negative outcome to Germany requiring people to register and pay some of their taxes to their church before ww2. The Nazis used that information to collect up and brand Jewish people and ultimately kill them. It is hard to imagine this tech will solely be used for good forever.
I don't think you'll find a financially literate person who'll agree with the statement "Tesla's current $50B market cap in 2018 is fair given their current financial situation". Of course it doesn't make sense, nobody, neither Musk, bulls or bears believe that statement.

Tesla's current price has high expectations built into the price, so the game is that Musk and the bulls have to demonstrate that they're meeting those expectations, while the bears have to portray everything as a failure. Unlike normal companies though, there are A LOT of bears and they have a shit-ton of money riding on Tesla stumbling and they will go to absurd, surreal lengths. I mean, in what reality is "Mid-level Executive Takes Vacation" a major news story?![1]

And no, there can in fact be a far better quote, because it doesn't even begin to describe the upside of Tesla, even though they have plainly stated their intentions to pursue those upsides. They're merely comparing them to Ford (same market cap), but Ford does not:

- Intend to take on Uber

- Intend to compete on price with rail cargo shipping

- Intend to make and sell batteries.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-engineering-chief-takes-...
It feels equivalent to auto-identifying license plates.
Yes, that is exactly where this example comes from. I've added a credit.
Copper being diamagnetic has a very low magnetic permeability, basically the same as air, but now you have an eddy current brake.
You are required to register an account with them to access JDK downloads, sql developer, their help forums etc. Its really quite a pita. It may be these accounts they're targeting?
When I was a beginner, I found this extremely slow & burdensome. So much boilerplate!

Working in a huge codebase, I don't feel this pain at all.

I wonder if the beginner experience is off. When you add functionality to a huge application, the ease of threading through state is so much easier than just always winging it like I used to.
Reachlocal is hiring DevOps Engineers
It seems misguided to dismiss the technology itself, rather than scrutinizing specific uses. It reminds me of David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity, which has an extended anecdote about a scientist who deeply objected to the development of color TVs because "people didn't need them" and he could only think of examples where bad actors would use them. Fast forward several decades, and color TVs are used for all sorts of important outcomes, like life-saving medical imaging technology, or sharing video of an important life moment with someone who is too sick to travel.

You could imagine similar things for face recognition. An Alzheimer's patient who has a large digital photo library of family members and events, and would like some information retrieval tool to help search for a specific memory, family member, etc. Or someone who takes stock photographs and wants to photoshop bystanders out of the photos so that nobody's image rights are infringed when submitting the stock photo for publication-- might want face detection to aid in the person-removal task.

I agree completely with scrutinizing motives and refusing to work on tech when the goal is unethical. But I don't agree this allows us to point at a generic, amoral technology in and of itself and say it's conceptually unethical for existing. Maybe there would be some extreme or contrived cases when I would agree to that, but even this face recognition stuff is very far from it.
What about this. Fill in the blank:

1. Pay employee in Venezuelan bolívar 2. Bolívar inflates to the point where a month's salary gets you a chicken bone 3. Employee __________
Then don't buy at all, and work in selling houses :)
Reasonable people can disagree on the definition of "unreasonable," however.

Is it "unreasonable" for the Amber Alert system to co-opt the eyes and attention of ten thousand citizens around a kidnapped child? Hard to say. Most people seem to think 'no.'

If that system could co-opt camera feeds instead of human attention, we could get most (all?) of the benefits of the existing Amber Alert without having to burn civilian resources on it. Wouldn't that be a strict improvement over the current system?
Because free supercharging easily makes up for the price difference. Some poeple use something like 4 supercharges a week, which at $20 a charge means $160/month.
Don't mistake modern density for a requirement. It's hard to find instances of anyone living alone for long periods, but that likely changes as you go back and there where fewer people and those people where more able to survive in the wild.

I remember going into back country with some friends as a teen, miles into 'the middle of nowhere'. Second day camping I see someone run by in yoga pants pushing a stroller as it turns out we where about 300 feet from a ski trail and people would run down the mountain in the summer for fun.
Also Charles Blow. No idea why the NYT continues to employ them.

Krugman is obviously writing comedy pieces...
It's possible they are more abundant, because (according to a post above), red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in this part of the galaxy, and any habitable-zone planets around a red dwarf are most likely tidally-locked, meaning they'd be eyeball planets.
I must be missing something about the benefit. Given that these funds charge a fee, what is the benefit of them, over just making charitable contributions directly to non-profits? It's not a tax benefit, is it, since the contribution size can be written off either way?
The classic work on this topic is "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, and its more technical sibling, "The Extended Phenotype."
Terribly confusing article name.
Hey! one of the founders at Moltin here. Thanks for the mention @blackdogie, always a nice surprise to stumble across! Coredna looks interesting (nice explainer video!).

@jsntrmn we often see the need to de-risk technology choices for decision makers at larger retailers which can sometimes be in conflict to what a developer looks for when selecting a tool or service. We're trying to get the right balance at moltin as we think both voices need to be at the table.

Happy to chat with either of you if you would like to share learnings/experience or if I can help in any way, just drop me a message adam@moltin.com
I don't think I understand your point, prolog is a logic programming language, some problems are easy to express like facts and rules so Prolog is a good solution, you can see examples in this HN thread of real usage.

It is like recursion, some problems can be solved nice with recursion but you do not use recursion everywhere. Also you can use a library in your favorite programming language and not use prolog, examples were presented in this thread.

My point is that a good programmer should know about the concept not to use it everywhere, I never had the chance to use prolog so far for my work.

Btw I am also past the stage where I have a favorite language and OS, every piece of software has it's issues.
It's really amusing to see people who were outraged when the Trump Foundation was taking advantage of tax law turn around and suddenly find it acceptable when Silicon Valley does the same. For the record, neither are acceptable -- the actions described are a clear perversion of the intention of charity.
> What is the major moat you have around a battery production business?

https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory
This was the purported intention of cellphone location tracking data. Instead it has been sold to marketers and data aggregators, and so poorly secured that likely for over a year it's been possible to get location data via phone number as a service.

Companies and governments have demonstrated that they are not sufficiently responsible to have these databases. HIPAA-like laws and severe criminal penalties would be a start.
I'm not so sure: the Wikipedia article quotes Justice Sotomayor:

> "More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties. This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks."

Gorsuch may also be on board:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

> [Gorsuch] appeared eager to apply originalist principles to contemporary technology in a way that shields cellphone users from law enforcement overreach. Indeed, Gorsuch seems poised to build upon the jurisprudence of his predecessor, Justice Antonin Scalia, to establish real constitutional limits on the government’s ability to track our movements through our mobile devices.
> I hate to break it to you aspiring numbers jugglers,
but no human will ever juggle 100 balls.

I hate it when the in first sentence author makes a categorical sentence and then half a page later cites "a - acceleration of gravity = 9.81 m/s^2" as if it's a some sort of fundamental constant :) .

Here is an example of juggling under simulated different gravity: https://blog.ted.com/athletic-machines-raffaello-dandrea-at-...
Show HN: A living collection of worthwhile videos to watch
This is a weird article. It strongly implies that donor advised funds (DAFs) are storing money indefinitely and not distributing it, but the average disbursement for DAFs is about 15% per year. In general, people committing the money to charity now even if they haven't decided what they want to fund is something I strongly support, because it means they can't later change their minds and keep the money.

The article also seems to evaluate DAFs primarily on how much they spend in the Bay Area:

And even when it did give out money, the
Silicon Valley Community Foundation often
spent it outside of California. Last year,
it gave out $436 million in grants to the
nine-county Bay Area, which was just 34
percent of the $1.3 billion in grants it
dispersed.

The Bay Area is one of the richest regions of one of the richest states of one of the richest countries. There are definitely people in the Bay Area who need help, but overall I think it's really good that donors are becoming more interested in figuring out where their money can do the most good as opposed to only donating to organizations targeting the region they happen to live in.
Design ate content.
This is one of the reasons why I chose Purescript for my team's projects. Also it's got a more complete type system, a simpler FFI, and compiles to less javascript.

This is not to say that Elm is bad. O think it's great as a path into FP, and in fact _was_ my path in. But it does limit you in what you can do and learn.

Also, Purescript has this interesting property of being hard to learn (because it is powerful), but dead simple to use (because it compiles to JS). So you only really get stuck on figuring out how to do things in PS, as opposed to how to get PS working, and therefore every time you get unstuck, you have leveled up. So it's hard, but rewarding.

I'm probably off topic by now, but I do think that Purescript in the frontend is a better option for solid application development.
The Philip Cross Affair
You've got that right.