skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple wins $533.3M from Samsung in latest iPhone patent retrial
>>I like that there are people who, in the face of giants, pick up the stone.

Just upvoting this quote.
How to Be More Proactive with Your Data
That is a fair point, using it as a litmus test of what technology leaderships believe.

However, I have this crazy idea that a technologies worth is not tied to the political affiliation of the creator or maintainer. I would like us all to focus on the technology and less on the individual or group.. I imagined it would be easy- as on the internet, nobody can tell you're a dog.

But apparently I'm wrong.
Fantastic input.

That said, this would be a good learning experience as they don't teach "How to be a free lancer" in college.

I shared my thoughts here and would like to hear what you think (besides the awful formatting)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17148628
You're not the only one
> and its Android software is nearly identical to the stock version running on Google’s Pixel phones, giving it another unique sales proposition.

Is it just me?
>And the ideology you are promoting would have the disabled murdered for being unproductive. And indeed, it already has.

Don't put words into my mouth. I don't promote punishing people for not being contributing members of society I promote not rewarding them.

Your ideology promotes punishing success and rewarding idleness and stupidity. The world needs more intelligent people and society should work to reward positive traits.
I have to echo this sentiment. I described it to a friend as me losing confidence in using Time as a reference in a semi-formal graduate paper. It sort of became an entertainment classification in my mind after that too.
I was 100% prepared to buy an essential until I saw photos from its camera. What a disappointment.
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If you're interested in this subject, Robert Hughes wrote a fantastic reflection about the mythic days of generous staff expense accounts at Time. Truly unfathomable today.

(1) https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/robert-hughes-the...
That they are still violating it tomorrow and they are giving their users an excellent excuse to contact the regulators because they cut off communications. This is about as dumb as it comes.
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You are conflating IQ with criminality. These people live and exist and breathe and eat and occupy space. Where are you going to put all the bodies when you're done?
Sounds like No Code Of Conduct would be up your alley.

https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC

>1. We are all adults. Capable of having adult discussions.

>2. We accept everyones contributions, we don't care if you're liberal or conservative, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between! In fact, we won't bring it up, or ask. We simply do not care.

>3. Nothing else matters!
Using the yooper "You's guys" boosts your IQ by about 50 points btw - a proven fact.
Wait can I use US netflix from Germany for free then? Oh gawd pls
David got there first, I believe.
Keeping 2B Android devices safe with machine learning
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There is also a thing when user closes consent popup and the site won't redirect to invalid ip address. I have seen plenty of sites where you can close the consent popup and continue to use the site - that means they collect your data without your consent. Grotesque.
I agree. I think a more direct statement of the state of American society is "American society increasingly gives more money to people who know how to make more money by providing goods and services that people are being convinced to pay money for." Or even more simply, those who are adept at acquiring money, will acquire more of it. People fortunately or unfortunately value you based on what you can do for them.

Whether we agree with the goods and services individual people chose to pay for and whether the setup is myopic is another thing. That said, it does seem to be the fairest way thus far until we can figure out a way to base our economy on human kindness. It's better than alternatives of ways of rewarding humans. Basing it on beauty, strength, most weapons, most cruel, etc. seems worse off for society.

I also curiously wonder if some of the extreme income inequality is actually partially due to the fact that most rational people will stop adding more stress to their lives because they realize making more money after a certain point requires more sacrifices then they personally are willing to make (i.e. 24/7 emails, constant travel, etc.)
The law came into effect on the 14th of April. The 'enforceable' does not mean it comes into a effect, it means that regulators have their powers unlocked to go after offenders.

> Yes, but that was a different law. It required different things.

It actually required a lot of the same things, but because companies decided to ignore it it was revised.
Exactly, swatting DOESN'T exist outside the U.S. (save a rare counterexample).

Cops in my country aren't great, but they don't do this, ever.
Sooner than later you will be able to spontaneously generate films from books or scripts. You will then do some high-level editing by clicking through latent spaces, and voila, you have your own Hollywood-grade film. It's gonna be weird.
Maybe yes? Lets do s/AI/ML/g and we now that ML/DL is just stats. It's great at picking up patterns that are repetitive. The key is that it really generalizes well over things that are in fact repetitive and settle into a single function->domain response. Unfortunately humans are extreme creatures of habit. That habit creates patterns and therefore I suspect we have no home long term of privacy. Time to be open!
you don't need AI for that and,and it's pretty much already dead. Have you looked intk xkeyscore and the prism program? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

> Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's internet traffic acquired

That coupled with malicious Tor relays(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attac...) makes practical low latency anonymity extremely difficult to achieve. You can have some confidentiality though.

Maybe you should/could ask if ML would enable "good enough" anonymity through intelligent route selection and avoidance and traffic fingerprint normalization.

ML is a double edged sword.
Not sure how they could persuade if they won't go after lower visibility infringers? I can't follow your logic.
Using PIA for years, unfortunately its IPs are well known so everything knows you're on a VPN and you get tons of captcha.
Comman crawl may be good place to start
The car should have stopped automatically, but that system was disabled. The pedestrian shouldn't have been there, but made a bad decision. The pedestrian should have been more aware of her surroundings, but was impaired or not paying attention. The safety driver should have been paying more attention to the road, but was also monitoring system displays.

This crash didn't have a single cause. Any one of those factors being handled correctly would have prevented it.
> And who's to say that Instapaper did not contact the authorities and discuss a plan such as this to mitigate the problem temporarily?

If that's the case, why can't they simply tell this?

I side with the GP: Preventing access doesn't absolve you from complying with the law.
Some of the keys match up, but many are different. The actual way of thinking and composing actions while you're editing is similar, although I'd say thinking in terms of selections rather than movements makes things easier.
Gone fishing.

I think you did that on purpose.
They also tried to bring their Video Game UI to the phone after a phone UI had already been established. Then it felt dirty for them to dial back to generic android.

They could have been successful if they wanted to just make a phone, but they wanted to make the phone on their terms.
sounds like a technical reason to me. what provision of gdpr does it break? contact the regulator about what?
Deployment to me means to release into the real world, otherwise it is just a test and whether that test is in a closed course or even in a simulation makes no difference to me. That environment would not endanger random strangers.
I was 100% prepared to buy an Essential until i found out it was just another mobile phone.
I didn't read very far but the article didn't seem to spend much time considering art theory, which seems odd when I would think that codifying those rules would build better AI. This paper builds a mechanical assistant to the mechanical act of drawing, which, I guess, is good, but like you say that AI will never be able to get the work to 100%. Which means real artists won't have much more to be concerned about.

Also that Marshall Mcluhan quote sounds more appropriate in a bitcoin thread. The world don't need a cult of A.I.
Except no one drives that way and no one would put up with it. Do you slow down every time someone on the sidewalk takes a step toward the street? I doubt it (and, if you do, please never get in front of me.)

So, yeah: dumb.
That's a great point. I don't know enough to answer, though.

Here's a short, interesting article a quick Google search found: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/understanding...

What caught my eye was

"And when the flat reaches 69 years, CPF savings cannot be used to finance the mortgages."

CPF is the mandatory savings program, sort of like Social Security and Medicare, except you can borrow against it. So basically if there's only 30 years left on a leasehold you can't borrow against your CPF account. My guess is that as the leasehold nears expiry your ability to securitize simply goes down to nothing, probably long before termination. And even before then you probably start paying a premium because if you default the bank is stuck with a rapidly depreciating asset.

From what little I've gleaned from my travels and from the academic literature, I think Americans enjoy an exceptionally liquid property market and efficient financing market, particularly for residential property.
A fractional reserve means you keep a fraction of your total assets in cash and the rest of your assets in loans or investments that are less liquid, but entirely real.

It doesn't mean that you have assets that all total up to be a fraction of your liabilities. You're severely misunderstanding what fractional reserve means.
You can just import these into JS modules and use them in JSX. Interop is fine for attributes.

I'm perfectly calm dude.
There was a period in my life when that was what I would have liked to have done. But it was always a superstar type of industry and it was at the tail end of the culture in any case.
Amazon Is Banning Customers Who Return Too Many Items
I'm not limiting it to China because the same syndrome has happened elsewhere to multiple people, and a cause must be found. Brushing problems away because of one subsequent potentially-questionable report does not solve them.
I would guess the profit margin on meal kits is much higher than the rest of grocery. I know prepared food has some of the highest margins of anything in a grocery store.
The ability of users to access their data, to edit their data, to delete their data and to export their data.
Different [1] is one of my favorite books on how to find a unique niche in crowded markets. It is written by a (brilliant) marketing professor but is useful for product strategy. Also see Blue Ocean Strategy [2] on this topic.

Essential had neither of these approaches.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Different-Escaping-Competitive-Youngm...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Expanded-Uncontes...
I remember riding on a train in Japan when some schoolgirls sitting across from me were just chatting in an excited way...nothing that seemed out of place, but man did they get it. Things seemed fine to me, especially on a hot summer day in an uncrowded train with the windows down (plenty of atmospheric noise).

All of a sudden a conductor (not sure if you call him that, he was in the back end of the car) popped out of his enclosure and yelled at them like they had just trashed his living space. He did use the word "urusai," but more than that (as is often the case in Japanese) his tone was just _dark_, fast, and loud.

All I could think was that he put on that intervention for us few foreigners who were being pretty quiet, and who really weren't bothered, but I still have no idea.
Glad to know others exist that just want a basic device that will last a week without charging without massive bloat and apps I don't care about.
Crowd Cow Beefs Up with $8M, Adds Ashton Kutcher as Investor
I like the question posed at the end of the article: should humans interpret this as a natural expansion or an invasive species. It's hard to tell, that's for sure.
Youth, beauty, looking rich and being a celebrity are celebrated far more. Intelligence is only pertinent to education and academics whom passive-aggressively call people stupid whom aren't gifted or more. In fact, large swaths of America are vociferously anti-intellectual: GWB, Trump; sports: Nascar, American football, etc. and Hollywood.
how do you know they collect your data?
This is a good point I haven't run into before (which is itself frightening). So what could they do instead? Could they retain the actual 'read later' content, associated with their EU users, but delete all of their own personal data for now?
If you listen very hard, you can hear my eyes rolling through your computer. But I enjoyed reading the story and begrudgingly admire your pedantry on the matter!
I really had no trouble navigating Tokyo stations and I don't speak a word of Japanese besides すみません (excuse me/sorry to bother), so I'm quite surprised to see this comment!

Google maps and other transit apps are really good in Tokyo, paying with suica/pasmo makes things quite smooth--just keep it topped up habitually when you go to a convenience store--and I didn't really have the trouble you seem to have had with color/line navigation... I was definitely a bit flustered by the busy-ness but never really had a problem getting on the correct platform.
> Seems like this can radically narrow the focus of a dictionary attack

It does until you look at the charts, or read the text more carefully.

The charts look impressive because they're showing ranges up to hundreds or even thousands of bytes. But look closer and they're very noisy when it comes to narrow ranges. It really is easy to distinguish "The bells, they grow ever closer and I fear this night will be our last fair Susanne, but we must hold fast against the light and promise ourselves that we'll fight on, until the last drop" from "123456". But "password1" versus "ckjones4ever" not so much, which means it's not very practical for any actual bad guys.
> I don't know how you can read that and think "whether it's a hoax or not is not the OP's point"

the op's point seemed more about training and response/behavior, and the hoax bit was just the matter of the present circumstance.
Yes. However, few businesses rely as much on the ignorance of their customer base as much as blockchain.

Basically, someone figured out the internet/tech MLM.
I know that, nothing was an exaggeration, but gold's virtually meaningless in the context of Gold vs Wonder. You would never, ever leave your top production city producing Gold for 20 turns early/mid-game.

It's a really frustrating mechanic. Some other commentators clearly didn't play the early games which didn't include this mechanic.

There's loads of really bad mechanics in Civ 5 that they made kinda ok with the DLC, but it doesn't make them "thoroughly thought through".

Like the other really frustrating mechanic for me is the puppet cities nonsense. You used to conquer stuff, now you sort of own it, but don't at all. It's to try and counter the steam-roller effect, but it's really obviously gamey and unsatisfying. For many play styles civ 5 was rubbish. If you accept the flaws, you can have fun, but it doesn't hide that there are loads of flaws still.

Honestly, the best Civ game is still Alpha Centauri by a long shot. I feel like the Endless series is doing a better job with the legacy than the Civ series, even though it has it's flaws (Endless Space 1 I found was competent but a bit boring, Endless Legend and Endless Space 2 are great).
It said that the lights led to a 84 percent decline in suicides attempts. That may not be true, but it is definitely way higher than "regression towards the mean" would cause.
I feel like you’re making a bigger deal out of this than necessary, unless you’re doing some shady stuff with our data.

Seeing this completely false sentiment repeated over and over again is getting exhausting. Only a tiny fraction of the companies avoiding EU traffic due to GDPR have any intention of “doing shady stuff with your data”.

GDPR is highly complex, and as of tomorrow, allowing EU traffic invites massive liabilities that most companies outside the EU won’t be willing to take on. While Instapaper likely will eventually relaunch in the EU because of its footprint there, the reality is that EU residents are going to be blocked from a large percentage of the world’s websites. The liability is just too great and the rewards too small for most companies outside the EU. You guys chose to make your traffic radioactive. These are the consequences.
That is not what I see in my Firefox:

https://imgur.com/a/v3Oo1uy

It is probably some kind of weird configuration in my computer though.
> That's the literal reading at least. However since CoC violations are filtered through basically one person, personal biases will weigh heavily in how the rules are applied.

Yeah. To me, that part of the explanation read something like "we found democratic governance to be a lot of work, so we've given all our power to a dictator to make things easier for ourselves."

Democratic and consensus-based governance is hard and takes work, but there are well-understood reasons why it's a better way to run a community.
To be fair it hasn't taught you not to say such astonishing things either!
ANYTHING? Would you pay 20x the price of a bloated smartphone? In the developed world, that's what it'd cost due to the small market for such a device. Unfortunately, the price point for such a device further reduces the market ... essentially to zero.

not a rhetorical question. Does ANYTHING include 20x cost factor?

I wonder what they do in the developing world. Previous gen bloat-phones or simple flip phones, or something market-specific, closer to what you're asking for.
It's really a shame the Yota[1] phone never took off. I'd kill for a e-ink on the back, screen on the front phone with software that was built to take advantage of it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/5450258/yotaphone-e-ink-d...
Please take my comment within the context of the comment I was replying to.

>You can argue that inequality is necessary to create incentives. I don't personally believe that's true, but I understand the argument as a reasonable moral position. But to argue that some people are morally worth more than others is to discard the very notion of human equality.

This statement is a twisted idea of equality. People are born equal but they do not remain equal. A doctor is not equal to wife beater.
Qualitatively: experience, hustle and common-sense best genius almost every time. Having genius with all of the former can be helpful, but it's only a handicap for certain ventures.
Damn you, down-voting Philistines.
So therein lies the rub. If one officer shot, they all should have shot, if that's what their training says. Yet only one felt the need to open fire, despite the same visual stimulus. So if he was doing what he was trained to do, respond to a threat, then the other nine officers failed to appropriately respond to a threat.
True, and I'm with you, though I'd bet every dollar I have that, if people routinely randomly slammed on their brakes we'd have a whole lot more rear end collisions. We don't expect people to do that, and when it does happen it's rare.
I agree, it's not just the cost of the phone, it's the monthly service fee as well. And the Starbucks. And the avocado on toast. Etc.

Wealth (at least relative wealth) can be obtained, by anyone. The secret formula has been public for decades: Save a good percentage, invest it carefully, don't spend beyond your means. It works for everyone at every pay scale.
>I don't promote punishing people for not being contributing members of society I promote not rewarding them.

Punishment and reward are relative in a connected economy. If you think that "A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing." then you are proposing their murder via starvation.

>Your ideology promotes punishing success and rewarding idleness and stupidity.

My moral premise is the society should strive for the creation of the greatest utility for humanity. Withholding utility from some group humans, for whatever reason, directly harms that goal.

It can be argued that an unequal allocation of resources to individuals creates more overall utility by creating incentives, and I'm receptive to that argument, although I don't agree with it.

But arguing that the less productive individuals deserve less means your moral premise is no longer about creating the greatest utility, it's about creating utility for those you deem worthy.
hate to say it, but yeah, saw that one coming. is it me, or does $100MM seem like too small an R&D budget for a halo phone?
Thing is an industrial business is ultimately responsible for insuring that safety procedures are followed by not only employees but contractors as well. Because the law and regulators assume they are not idiots. (unlike a home owner or a flower shop)

Friend of mine works at a place where a few years ago an electrician was burned when a 440 panel blew up on him and they were shut down for 6 months while the house engineers, maintence personal and contractors were 'retrained'

Then again they aren't 'Tesla'
Is this necessarily different from a car placed in normal cruise control (automatic throttle, no braking), where the driver is under the obligation to managing braking in an emergency? It seems like the human driver here was still under that obligation, but failed to act. (Possibly because they were distracted, but that's not unique to this situation.)
is there a requirement that this ability is 24/7/365?

I mean , knowing GDPR , i would guess at best the provision would be something like "a reasonably long amount of time but not long enough to be unreasonable based on appropriate considerations of data subject's patience"
My company didn't start with this zero tolerance thing in our minds, but it turns out our self-delivering electric bicycles

That actually sounds like a really interesting concept, one of those ideas that seems obvious only after someone suggests it. What company is this?

Right now, in the Seattle area, we are basically seeing a new littering epidemic in the form of sharable bicycles being left to rust away, unused, at random places. If the bike could cruise to its next user autonomously, that would be really be a game-changer. "Bikes on demand" would turn bikesharing from (IMHO) a stupid idea into something that just might work.

Plus, the engineering challenges involved in automating a riderless bicycle sound fun.
I was really hoping for more examples of crowd management and station design. This article only has a few examples, and none of them really explained why Japanese trains are so efficient.