skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it's very remarkable on how bad the voice recognition is, and how Amazon can knowingly ship this crap to people, putting it in their homes, recording their private interactions. Ya'll recorded people having sex yet?

It sounds like the machine learning models are tuned for specific phrases and have terrible, terrible false positive rates. "Evaluating options to make this less likely"? Now I don't even know what mental model you guys are using (if you are from Amazon). This shouldn't be a matter of "likelihood". But OK, fine, let's use math. AFAICT there is about a 0% chance that a human would make such a string of errors interpreting human speech, but let's call it 1 in a trillion. If you guys aren't doing better than about 1 in a trillion for this string of at least 4 interactions, then one of those terms is stupidly, stupidly high.[1] It actually interpreted random conversation as the name of someone on a contact list? Horrible.

trust--

[1] Not even to mention, a human has context, understands boundaries, preferences, and has a ML voice recognition model developed and tuned over decades of interacting with real people. A human would also be smart enough to understand the other human's situation, context, state of mind, and realize that even just the cadence of the conversation not changing in response to queries was indicative of the humans not acknowledging the query. Machines are f'in stupid.
> Also there’s newer MS Edge: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webvie....

You can see Chromely as an alternative to this.
You can just leave the house empty without selling it.

You just need to pay taxes and mortgage but not utilities for your empty house.
The problem is that security is often the feature that has the biggest gap between how much the end user cares about it and how much the IT buyer cares about it, which makes it perfect as an upsell.
I've kept my hands off the wheel for much longer when driving cross-country. I don't see how they're related, though.
In India, this is not how it works usually.

I mean if a train is late by 5-30 minutes, the train is said to be on time.
Having a shared inbox makes team collaboration inside Gmail a breeze, here's how
GM's Super Cruise has eye tracking [0]

[0]: http://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-c...
The "agree by closing this popup" tactic is, as far as I can tell, not allowed under GDPR. Here's hoping all the companies that do that get slapped with a fine.
If I go to Twitter on my mobile phone (using Brave, not their interface), I consistently got an error message preventing me from seeing anything. It says I apparently hit Twitter too many times (when I try to load a single tweet).
I think the navigation system, which is company independent, is fantastic.

For those that have never been to Japan and using Tokyo Metro as an example:

Every metro line has a name and a color. For example: The Asakusa line (A) has a reddish color. The A designation is only used by the Asakusa line and each station has a number.

Higashi-Ginza is A11. It's also H09, because it's also a station for the (gray) Hybia line.

The system is extended to other operators. All Yamanote line stations are JYn, where n signifies the station number.

That (and a Pasmo or Suica smart card, which lets you switch systems seemlessly) makes navigation, even in the Tokyo transit system, which is arguably the most complex in the world, very easy and intuitive.

The same system is applied in every other Japanese city I've visted, alas the system is usually much simpler.
I take it from a quick glance: you either own/work for Fauna and it’s a completely proprietary product? If so .. I’ll pass, I like building things atop stuff I can control. :)
I will never have these cia nsa sponsored mics in my home. Fact !

I do not trust amazon, google, facebook or absolutely any organization anymore.
> over 90% on time

While true, this is a factoid.

1. Some trains never run. For the commuter this is like a very late train. You need to add the "did not run" numbers to the late trains to get a total effective lateness figure.

2. Some trains run but are so full you cannot get on them. Try catching a train from Prahran to the city at 8am. Nonetheless, this counts as an on time service.

3.On time is defined as anywhere from 1 minute early to 5:59 late. To me six minutes late is not on time.

4. The fraction of late trains is much higher in peak hour, when more people are affected. So the effective late % is higher than it looks at face value.
I would be curious to hear how this pattern could be considered to conform to the GDPR. From what I understand it has to be opt-in.

I don't speak polish but I went on the website you're talking about using Google translate and indeed I can't see any way to refuse to give them my info. The "if you click X you agree" bit is probably the shadiest of them all.
I think a lot of factors could be ironed out by a solid mathematical grasp of the problem, instead of letting customers become guinea pigs or running simulations and then deduce a blanket solution that looks okay in those average cases, a room with a bunch of mathematicians will surely state the problem, limits and solution in a infinitely:) more solid way. I have seen this happening with software countless times, spend the money on a math ph.d and save endless testing time with half guessed solutions where limit cases are ignored...etc.
How GDPR will affect sales teams (Q&A webinar)
Actually how I see it, Google and Facebook are blatantly trying to downplay user rights under GDPR and people must be blind not to see it. I think they deserve a harsh punishment.
Friend of mine that worked in the fields as a kid mentioned picking strawberries was terrible back breaking work. Because strawberries are close to the ground you have to bend over to do it.
You know.. I found a special box (PowerMac Pro) in the "special closet" that had been moved like 5 times. It was Blane's old desktop and it had the twitter codebase checked out from like ~2007 era? Kind of nifty seeing just how much had changed since that got tucked away.
Take a look at your Twitter timeline 10 years ago
[Google plays David Bowie, Klaus Nomi, and Joey Arias performing TVC15 on SNL]

https://youtu.be/ogUJ7JwkLNs?t=3m7s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVC_15

>The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fueled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator's girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her.
UK, US, Malaysia, even India pays well (if you look carefully).

You should not care about the rate, but the value of your work. In other words, it's about trading in value, not time
PARSEC: Asynchronous and Permissionless Consensus (by Maidsafe)
> If we can, cameras can too.

A camera is not a replacement of how our eyes work, how our brain distinguishes between objects and understand from prior experience and can make independent decisions on the fly.
But neither does LiDAR, but with LiDAR and good machine learning (ie, Waymo), you can drastically improve the reliability of your autonomous system.

Elon is insisting on a no-LiDAR system at the same time advertising tesla autopilot as an autonomous system and has said multiple times that All Tesla on the road is already equipped with the hardware needed for fully autonomous driving. This is dangerously false.

There is not a single autonomous car out there (at least serious ones that we know of), that has a non-LiDAR system.

Reality Distortion Field is strong with Elon, Unlike Steve Jobs and Apple products, this one will kill people.
I wonder what the longer term consequences are.

OK, sure it's nice that right now every site or company I ever had any interaction with no longer feels like they can keep my email on file to continuously spam me.

But this state won't last right? I assume that everything I sign up for in the future will have a load of legalese to circumvent this as much as possible?
you just described a smartphone
School Bus tracking software in India
Code of conducts are not really more specific, though. They just say things like "don't make people unwelcome" or be decent, which in the end is not really more specific.

But if there is a CoC, you know they will have assigned some SJW as an overseer deciding what is OK and what is not. You know whose side they will be on. Which is not your side if you happen to be a heterosexual white male.
They complied. It wasn't hard.
Can you find it on archive.org and link it for reference?
> Expression blend was, and still is, much better.

I was thinking about Blend just the other day, and wondering if was still a thing?
MAB Kargo in another oil and gas charter – Air Cargo
This is kind of a kicking-a-dead-horse discussion, because as others have pointed out, "autopilot will fly you into a mountain" (complete with warnings).
Outsourcing Software Development to Eastern Europe
Nowadays most stations are also subtitled in Latin writing
If you like CefSharp with WinForms, then likely you will like Chromely too. Chromely on Windows is like CefSharp hosted on Winapi ("thinner" WinForms, if you may). And Chromely has a lot of implementations out of the box, that lets you hit the road in minutes.

I hope you will give it another shot sometimes later.
A quick google search puts the average number of deaths due to car crashes at 3,287 per day [1]. Another one gives me a list of four deaths attributed to autonomous vehicles [2]. Not four per day. Just four.

Ever.

Memory leads me to recall that statistical reports indicating that vehicles with assistive features like autopilot have a better than traditional safety record [3].

I especially disagree with your thought experiment, because I've watched YouTube videos of situations in which Tesla's autopilot avoided accidents both through stopping and through swerving out of the way [4].

I don't agree with your claim that robotic cars tend to have more severe accidents than traditional cars.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=average+number+of+deaths+via...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_car_fatalit...

[3]: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/stay-within-the-li...

[4]: https://youtu.be/FrJ2uPRRtz0?t=46

The short seller thesis for TESLA is that since the company is one which is valued based on its story, not its underlying fundamentals, it follows that its price will be volatile in response to negative press (accidents, missed projections, etc). There is a clear path from this observation to making money via negative press.

If you're interested in hearing more about how the world is a lot better than you thought it was, but the truth of our situation is distorted by competing forces, here are some cool TED talks [5][6].

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ

[6]: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...
I remember all those iPhone suckers having to download special apps to remove conversations in the early days since it only allowed you to delete them one at a time. =)

I also remember getting on a bend to make all fake alerting go away after I started only to find that like 50% of the configured alerts couldn't ever succeed and had been paging every 10 minutes for over a year. We got that stuff sorted out pretty quick. Once we started getting good visibility it helped us make much better decisions about where the problems actually were.

The first six months felt like everything was just on fire constantly and nobody know what was going on, but then things started falling in place and it felt like everything was still on fire, but some people actually had fire extinguishers for a change. =)
Funny thing is, Linus Torvalds would probably have been booted off the Linux developer community very early on by those standards.

I'd prefer to work with Linus Torvalds, and bear it out if he calls bullshit on me...
Ask HN: Best online video courses to learn basic math?
Hey everyone! I want to understand the fundamentals of math, mostly out of curiosity and for AI/ML learning. So I probably want to start with calculus, linear algebra, probability/statistics.

I can't commit to it with extreme intensity and put a huge amount of time/energy into it, I'm just looking for something with a low barrier to entry to get started and begin gradually making some progress (and have some fun learning).

I know about Khan Academy and 3blue1brown, they're pretty great, but I'm wondering if there's more good stuff out there.

Can you recommend some good courses? (can be free or paid)
It would seem that having to be GDPR compliant would dis-proportionally favor large companies with a lot of lawyers and engineers to implement the needed features company-wide.

If this is not working out for Google, perhaps it's because the business is fundamentally incompatible? But I have problems believing that. The outcome would be too good :-)
Yes, it's not open source (for now). Managed cloud and on-premises edition. We will have a free download soon.
> I am exactly ten years older than the internet

Wait wait wait, does InterNet have a precise date of birth?
Could be a problem if you plan on sleeping, but you could some rules to get around that
> If the client could simply send a hashed password over as an authenticator, then hashing the password database would provide no protection against theft, because you could simply use the stored hash as the password.

I'm not sure I understand this sentence. Are you reading the parent message as proposing hashing client-side using the same algorithm as the server-side hash and comparing directly on the server against the database-stored hash. This would be outrageously stupid of course, but I'm certain the commenter was not proposing that.

They said:

> hash on the client side first to avoid sending the password to the server, and then hash again on the server.

Note, hashing again on the server. To describe this slightly differently, think of the clientside algorithm as effectively being a password generator, with the user inputting their own memorable password as a kind of encryption* key for their "real" auth API password—the main advantage is fighting password reuse.

*encryption!=hashing but I'm just using the term here to illustrate intent.
Back in 2005 I was actually wondering why ipsuite wasn't part of standard Debian, tbh, which at the time was very big in the networking world
What I meant to say is that cryptography will always be a niche compared to the general public if they adopt crypto as their name.
Actually, you can in Europe. Context of law is more important than letter of law, as opposed to the US.
Here's a link to the app mentioned in the OP: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/billy-currency-converter/id1...

@timojaask developed it and I designed it
Totally agree with the other commenters (importance of design, punitive nature of damages,...), but there's one additional aspect:

> entire profit .. demand .. single-handedly

You are conflating/confusing profit with overall sales/demand. The overall sales are driven by all the things you wrote: the "brilliant displays", the battery, etc. However, even with all of that, you may not have any profit whatsoever, as the rest of the mobile industry shows. Particularly because design, by itself, doesn't have any additional production costs, unlike batteries and displays, though it may lead to higher cost manufacturing.
Might I suggest disclosing it when you post about it? Clicking through your profile revealed it, but it seems like it could read off better for you in the future. :)

EDIT: either it was edited above, or I’m blind. I think it was the earlier?
In bold letters on the same page:

> Please note that Self-Driving functionality is dependent upon extensive software validation and regulatory approval, which may vary widely by jurisdiction. It is not possible to know exactly when each element of the functionality described above will be available, as this is highly dependent on local regulatory approval.

Are you suggesting that it's not the people's fault they can't get to the bottom of the marketing page before going out, buying a Tesla, ignoring obvious UI warnings, and driving it without knowing that it currently doesn't full drive itself?
Especially if you completely rewrite Mnesia.
Here is some code from their examples page if anyone else (like me) is more interested in how the actual code looks like.

To be honest, I'm not sure how much clearer this is to read than for example Python.

http://www.availlang.org/_examples/guess-the-number/Guess%20...
Imec develops new fast eye tracking technology
One of the nice things about the legislation is that it's quite specific about not allowing consent to be buried in legalese. While I imagine things will soften up a little as companies realise they're not going to immediately get slapped with a fine, most companies will at least be more careful since its simple for complaints to be made. Most do not want to bring the ICO's attention to themselves.
And yet I bet nobody mentioned the "fire rain" in our first data center, the load bearing mac mini, or the surprise Snoop Dog visit/party! =)
Rayo, a set of super fast frameworks
Hello guys!

The last few days I have been working on a new idea; a set of super fast and minimalistic frameworks for the modern web.

Please have a look: https://github.com/GetRayo

I started with the Nodejs version and in the next days I will start to expand with the other languages I have posted. Please have a look, fork it, submit PR, submit issues.

Contributions in the other languages would also be very welcome.

Helping spread the word would be highly appreciated.
Star it. Watch it. Follow it. Save it. Share it.

Thank you.
Also I am much more willing to ignore issues and quirks on a budget phone if it does what I care about.

If a flagship device came with glaring flaws - even in functionality I rarely use - no way I'm giving them the money unless it's really revolutionary in some other aspect I care about.

So working out initial problems on a budget phone makes sense.
> they should be charged with murder as they did not commit any actual murder themselves.

So you're saying if one would order a hitman for 25k to hit someone and he executes it but police finds it out the person who ordered the hit should not be to blame?

What's wrong with you?
The language could include all of the possible expressions as valid alternatives. There are good reasons why most programming languages don't do that (it really helps comprehension if there's only one standardized way to do something), but if a language wants to be as close to English as possible, it will have to include the whole kitchen sink of synonyms. It might have to educate the users about the difference between a minus and a dash, though, if "1-10" and "1–10" (that's an en-dash) should evaluate to a number and a list, respectively.
what about a computer controlled ballistic parachute? It could be a lifesaver in icy conditions if you could reliably avoid collateral accidents.
What you write applies to regular investors, funds, investment banks, portfolio managers, etc. Speculators in general.

But you should really read up on what HFT is. I recommend the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis. HFT traders do not "trade" in the market in the usual sense. They don't optimize markets, they don't bet on anything, they don't take any risk. Every other investor takes risks (calculated), and that's their contribution to the market. They hedge risks and discover prices for those underlying assets you are talking about. HFTs are exploiting the markets, take no risks and siphon the money out of those investors that actually provide a service for the market.
Love it. Gives me plenty of ideas.
> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story.

Search "Tesla Orange Trick"
> Until someone gets into your phone using your finger while you are sleeping. Or muggers steal your phone AND cut off your finger with a cigar cutter so they can unlock it.

If someone malicious has access to me while I'm sleeping I have far greater problems than whatever's on my phone. Same goes for muggers: if I feel threatened I'll happily give my pin away because my integrity is far more important to me than whatever data is on my or my company's device.

If my face fingerprint get cloned the baddies will still need physical access to my phone, which takes us back to my first point: the data in my phone is worth nothing compared to the worth of my physical integrity so it's irrelevant.
As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.

Would be very interesting to see the actual probabilities assigned to these "unlikelys"
Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal
I hope you didn't mean to imply that `intercalate` is a _well-named_ function... I've no idea what it means, and even after a dictionary search it's still not obvious to me why you'd ever name a method like this!
The rich have taken far more of the gains, and seem like they would prefer a feudal system at times.
TotalBiscuit, gaming YouTuber, has died
The following quote from the paper in my opinion applies to coding interview tests:

"The competitions reinforce the notion
that either you ‘have good math genes’, or you do not. They put an emphasis on being quick, at the expense of being deep and thoughtful. They emphasize questions
which are puzzles with some hidden trick, rather than more realistic problems where a systematic and persistent approach is important"
Illustration in the App Store
European Banks Are Caught in a Data Dilemma
Overall a great read. There's a bunch of funny lines. I like this one:

> You may not get fired for buying IBM, as the old saying goes, but it is increasingly likely your employer will go out of business if you’re in an industry where technology matters.
On a whole different level, if you are merely interested in FPGAs in your computer then the PicoEVB neatly goes in the same M.2 slot as wifi cards do and communicates over PCIe, even if just PCIe Gen 2 x1. As far as I am aware this is, by far, the cheapest way to get an FPGA on the PCIe bus.
To be fair, don't the Alexa service and the Echo devices run on Linux?
That seems like a weak benefit. I don't think the fpga part will be cheap. In fact it will probably be significantly more expensive than the CPU. So then why not buy a chip with twice the cores if running twice the VMs is what you want to do with it? Also you can buy an AMD EPYC chip with twice the cores for about the same price you'd pay only for the CPU part of this chip/half the intel cores.
You are confusing autopilot with unmanned vehicle.
Google didn’t pay for stock footage used in the Selfish Ledger video
How to Record PC Gameplay
How digital cameras really work
Well, let's take a famous example. The €4.2bn fine given to Google in 2017 for abuse of its market position in pushing its own shopping results.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/27/google-brac...

Shocking stuff.

Except the Commission actually gave Google quite detailed advice over 5 years earlier about what it needed to do to be compliant.

https://www.ft.com/content/564a284a-a334-11e1-8f34-00144feab...
That company might fruitfully make their system available within a datacenter / "VPS"-type context, eg the way Cloud9 does it. (https://c9.io/, you make a free account, you instantly get a Web based editor connected to a Debian VM)

If their system accepts "mostly ordinary" code in eg C, a fair amount of stuff would probably work with it, so it could scale beyond educational exploration/tinkering, too.
Yes, I get "rate limited" on a single request on mobile web quite often. It's strange.