skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes according to the Red Cross, and experts in International Human Law (aka The Rules of War) - there is an obligation for people to develop these systems (or not) responsibly and TO ALWAYS KEEP A HUMAN IN THE LOOP [1].

Note Nov 2017 was the first annual meeting: the law on this is literally being determined on the fly, so simply running from it rather than providing input and working to determine limits isn't very helpful.

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/expert-meeting-lethal-auton...

https://www.un.org/disarmament/publications/occasionalpapers...
You can make anywhere from 3 to 5k just off youtube views/ads for that size of subscriber base. We don't really do anything that goes viral, so that can go up the more views/viral views you get, but we always considered the youtube ad money to be an added bonus. The actual subscribers are worth nothing, it's the views they give you and non-subscribers give you that you make money from. YT is a marketing channel for us, so we don't really think of it as a large revenue generator. Do not build a business around youtube ad money unless you're only wanting to do videos with the mindset of trying to go viral multiple times and get millions of subscribers.
Ask HN: SaaS company, customer wants to sue, what to expect?
I know this is a question for a lawyer, and we are working with one, but I was hoping some of you had similar situation and can give us some idea what we should be ready for.

We are a young US based SAAS company, and due to many unfortunate events (including a customer's mess in data and our system failing to have a proper backup, as well as our customer support probably not communicating with a customer clearly enough), a customer wants to sue us for loses in their business. We are profitable, bootstrap, making less than 1M/year revenue, and the lawsuit would wipe out all the money we saved for paying taxes, growth etc. The money a customer requests is ~50k.

We have a standard for SaaS T&C on our website, written by a lawyer, T&C states that we are not responsible for loses in a business etc., a standard BS, not sure how much this protects us?

Any experience in such cases? Happy endings?
> US bastardisations

(iirc) color and favor are the 'original' english spellings, which are more alike to latin. the additional U is a result of french influence, specifically via the norman conquest of england.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this comment, but if you mean that their approach would be similar to MAC, in the sense that "super private browsing" would have to be enabled in about:config or through an extension: that would make sense.
I think you're falling into the perfect market fallacy. Quality AI work is not a commodity. It's entirely possible they either won't be able to find any credible bids or they'll find a bid from a less competent party and the project will have to be scaled back because they can't accomplish all their goals well enough.
It is absolutely true that 'the rocket equation' doesn't account for thrust. It also doesn't account for gravity gradients, aerodynamic drag, relativity, solar wind, the cosmological constant...

It's very accurate when those things contribute little, and totally inadequate for modeling spaceflight if any are significant.

There are more complex versions that account for those things, but 'the rocket equation' is always understood to mean Tsiolkovsky's equation.
"What does your ideal home office look like?" from 3 days ago might give some ideas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17182211
I see you have nearly 30 different third-party frameworks in your iOS app, some of which are purely for user-tracking and analytics purposes. Furthermore, it looks like you’re using AWS (AWS Rekognition) and Azure (Microsoft Face API) AI/Image/Face recognition services. Although your Privacy Policy mostly covers what you’re doing, a more prominent permission request screen and more explicit warnings about this is warranted. Your iOS app is basically just a shell really. All of its functionality is provided by cloud services. Although this is the norm nowadays, I think the burden of informing the users falls primarily on you, the developer, especially considering the main subject of your app is infants and children. All of this is further alarming since your app isn’t free so even the Facebook excuse of “it’s free!” doesn’t really apply here.
>So, generally and from what I understand about US drone operations, these strikes target people like ISIS and other Islamic extremists.

While that is the official reason/target, the question of who actually gets killed in those drone strikes is a contentious issue:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/15/90-of-peopl...
Already years ago deleted Photonicinduction his whole Youtube chanel because he said it was to much stress. People allways wanna see something bigger. He also had a problem when other people started to copy his content and others went to huge HV Labs and said "I'm better and can do it bigger than Photonicinduction".

So he deleted all his content.

But he came back and still do some videos.
https://m.youtube.com/user/Photonvids/featured
What she said resonates with millennials in general. A lot of our parents worked dissatisfying jobs to give us a (relatively) comfortable lifestyle. They instilled this ideal of not choosing a dissatisfying job and instead finding our dream job. They also pushed the idea of going to college as guaranteeing a job.

It is a little shocking finding out that well, no, I can be unhappy even working in my dream job. I am not always going to be comfortable. There are going to be things that I have to face that don't coincide with the reality of my childhood.

It's okay though. You're going to be unhappy and uncomfortable. I don't think it would be normal to be happy all the time. There are people who have it harder and who make it through.

Some things have a universal comfort - I think a lot of times with my generation that a universal comfort is nostalgia. For me personally, it's going outside, breathing in the air, and just appreciating nature.

I think philanthropy should come naturally... I get a sense (especially here) that people are "outrage philanthropic" where they get overwhelmed by the state of society rather than focusing with a smaller more profound contribution. Even charity organizations sometimes seem disconnected. I think there are a lot of spontaneous, mundane things that can be done that help people and it doesn't have to be all about appearances or some preconceived notion of philanthropy.
I wouldn't mind forced updates if they were only used for critical security updates. They are not; Microsoft abuses the privilege, and therefore may not be trusted to have it at all.
Why is there a buzzfeed article on hackernews? Have we really scooped that low?
MS just want you using Azure and don't care whose toolchain you use. If they bought GitHub it would be entirely so they could get people _not_ using other MS products onto Azure. So there is no way they kill off the OS toolchain and turn it in to another VSTS.
> 25 km/h top speed

In California, mopeds can go 30 MPH (48.3km/h). I think it's 25 or 30 in most US states. The GenZe has 4 horsepower which is the CA limit (used to be 2) but some states only specify displacement as 49cc or less.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

Mopeds are also allowed in bike lanes in CA, though police & cyclists don't seem to know this.

Moped laws around the US: https://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Moped_Laws:_United_States

edit: did some more research. US doesn't have the equivalent of a German Mofa (25km/h) only Mokick (45km/h) https://smartexpat.com/germany/how-to-guides/transport/drivi...

Though the stand-up scooters in CA do happen to have a 15 MPH limit.
try that with bitcoin.
Right, I guess that's good if you want to contribute to the Tor ecosystem, but if you want to browse anonymously, that's no good. Unfortunately, even as a somewhat tech savvy (though in hindsight obviously naive) person, the repercussions of logging in somewhere in Tor Browser weren't immediately clear to me.
> I see the MBP as a hybrid use-case device, much like the Nintendo Switch: it throttles when freestanding (because it has nowhere to dissipate its heat to), but it runs more quickly when "docked." So you can use it for light things portably, and for heavy things at a desk.

MacBook Pros throttle even on "docks". They can't magically dissipate more heat when stationary on a desk.

> New companies need render-nodes, right? But they aren't, because these apps are only for these "legacy" media companies that already have render-farms and don't need Apple selling them render-nodes.

Companies need lots of things. One of them is a Pro Apple laptop. Apple has no problems charging Pro prices, they should in return give a Pro machine.

> No, but a keyboard that'll keep working when you spill bacon grease on it, or a computer that won't choke in a sandstorm, is pretty damn ruggedized.

You are being unreasonably extreme. No one is asking for anything more than what we already had. A keyboard that is defeated by dust particles, dust!, is a failed product at any price and in any category, let alone in the luxury non-pro market where you want Apple to focus on. You should be even more outraged than the rest of us! Which Rolex dies when you eat a sandwich wearing it?

> See, this is what I was getting at with the difference in perspectives here. A ruggedized workstation would work just sitting around outside in the heat and dust and light of the savannah. Whereas a professional workstation is—like a server, or (in previous decades) a news crew's satellite uplink—something that exists in a designated editing-room in a designated trailer you're hauling around with the crew.

You should tell all the pros carrying their laptops into war zones that they've been doing it wrong all these years. No, wait, they have been working fine even in the dust and in sunlight, despite not having armor.
That could be how they came up with "Maven" in the first place, and not the Java framework.
Check out Hetzner Cloud, too. Found performance and services much nicer than Scaleway, although in some places less functionality like firewalls
What is the post-Soviet era peace built on?
I thought civil asset forfeiture was outlawed around 2014/2015. Looking closer it seems that was only in a few states. I found this map from 2015

https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7195521/c...

Has much changed since then?
It would be cool to optionally integrate SVG placeholders, a-la: https://medium.com/@jmperezperez/using-svg-as-placeholders-m...

(previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696596)
Welcome to self-employment: Twice the work for half the pay.
That’s simple: with third world bribery, you pay the police for a favor. With asset forfeiture, they just take your money and don’t do anything for you.
> But in real life, do you actually expect we will stop climate change before it causes any serious harm?

No, we obviously can't, it's already causing serious harm. We can mitigate the rate at which it proceeds so that it's within the range that, with concurrent reasonably acheivable adaptation, doesn't cause global, cataclysmic harm.

Moreover, if we don't act to mitigate it, it will eventually—and in not too long—reach a tipping point where that is no longer the case.
Hmm, I guess you have a point there. That said, as a primarily-frontend-web-developer, multiple implementations of Javascript definitely is a thing, and I would never optimise solely for V8. (Although unfortunately (but it is unfortunate!), I see that as a trend that is starting to appear more and more. But I guess that's the point of the post as well.)
Millionaire charged after worker died digging nuke shelter
Where is the new mawk please?
Yeah exactly... this guy thought the crime & corruption was bad in Albania.
You'd still need to combine that with getting rid of FPTP, you can look at California this election cycle for an example. The multiple Democratic candidates running against 2 Republican candidates might lead to 2 Republicans in the runoff even if way more Democrats turn out to vote. For the Democrats running dropping out is a prisoner's dilemma situation. It's giving people a bad opinion of that system.
Ask HN: What web framework would you recommend for a greenfield project in 2018?
It's really hard to keep up, they're changing and coming and going all the time. Between now and the time I last looked into the latest frameworks, Angular has jumped from 1 to 2 to 4 and now I think it doesn't even have a version number? And React blew up but Vue is keeping up, Rails seems to be losing traction, ClojureScript and Elm seem to have had a brief spike in popularity, then there's Ember, and in general I'm very confused.

In particular I don't have a lot of particulars. I plan to deploy to EC2 and there is a need for a little bit of JS on the front-end for some stuff that can't be done server-side, but other than that it's all a very standard web app.

Comparison articles come out all the time but it's really hard to judge the competency or bias of the author. So I'm turning to you HN considering your reputation for being at the front of the game.
Feature updates can be delayed for up to a year.
It already has a large number of performance issues. The store is slow to open, and it's slow to switch to my library. Even slower to view my inventory.
Yeah, I used Windows NT for a while in the late 90's and named my user account "root" just for cognitive dissonnace. But then when I'd launch an IRC client, it would put that in my identification string and I'd get kicked off of channels (or whole servers) with the message, "Don't IRC as root."
I was at a container orchestration conference the other day, and got the distinct impression that microsoft are not the great satan, and azure is probably a really good choice for cloud service. I can't believe I'm saying that. I'm having dinner with a prolific debian maintainer tonight, maybe he'll beat some sense into me.
Small government can also provide border controls and customs. Small, in this case might refer to the scope of the government's powers rather than the size of its budget or number of employees.

Reasonable limitations in this case might include a requirement that property seized temporarily be the subject of a criminal investigation, with a short, strict time limit for either filing charges or seeking an extension from a judge, who should be expected not to grant it without exceptional circumstances. Forfeiture of property could require a felony conviction, and if the felon isn't the owner of the property, additional proof that the owner knew it was being used illegally.

I have no illusions here: these restrictions would sometimes prevent the government from taking the assets of real criminals. That seems like a reasonable trade. The sort of criminal behaviors that civil asset forfeiture might be effective against are not such a significant threat to the stability of the USA as to justify taking the property of innocents with less legal protection than they would have in the criminal justice system.
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>> Owning an EV will never be less limiting than owning an ICE vehicle.

Never may be too strong a word. Electricity is likely to continue flowing to more locations for longer than petrol stations will continue to get restocked.
why is relocating smog and all of the industrial waste associated with the production of a new bus and bus batteries a "public benefit"? Diesel engines last a long time, as do bus bodies, I don't have first hand experience managing a fleet but I'd be very interested to know how the pollution stacks up--is generating, transmitting, distributing, and storing the power, with all the losses incurred, along side making the batteries, which I assume wouldn't last that long in a fleet vehicle, really that much better than just burning diesel?

I need to see a spreadsheet or something.
> What could the US learn from Canada on asset forfeiture? Canada does it too! How to do it better?

So does the UK, Australia, NZ, and many other countries. But somehow only the US has wannabe-military police rambo types doing it, to stock up their SWAT vans, machine guns and other gizmos. That does not exactly inspire confidence.
Correct. Gov Davis made a series of expensive moves which rendered the manipulations ineffective. Enron was caught overextended in the wrong direction when the market shifted which directly lead to the end of Enron.
Babylon and Samsung Join Forces to Offer Digital Health Service in UK
Most of the golang ecosystem, I think. Not to mention any other language-specific package managers that support pulling from GitHub...
One way to help that avoids this is to operate a bridge node. Bridge nodes are used as entry points into the Tor network for people in regions where Tor is blocked, so efforts are made to keep the addresses of bridges confidential. Which makes it less likely that people who don't know what they're doing will wrongfully put it on a block list.
> Two-round elections in which a candidate that doesn't get 50%+1 in the first round must run against the runner-up (and no one else) in the second round is a significant improvement over the single-round First Past The Post structure in the U.S.

No, it's not. It's one of the two systems in the US that are both referred to a FPTP (the two are more specifically known as plurality and majority/runoff, and both forms are widely used in the US.)
I agree that the US offers a whole lot that other countries do not. I would disagree that the US government offers anything other governments do not.

Of course, the US government has a role in the other attractive attributes the US has, but I personally think that role is exaggerated. I think the US would still be an economically dominant world power if it had the government of, say, Germany.
America is effectively a giant poorly documented clinical trial for a wide range of untested new chemicals.
If you pay everyone equally, I don't think I'd want to work there.
Didn't British police ignore the rape of a thousand children in one city alone?
Not all countries. Iraq has a bioweapons program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_biological_weapons_progr... at least in 80's, and probably into 90's, and there's no indication they ever decided it to be "counterproductive", even though they abandoned it out of fear for repercussions for BWC violation. USSR had bioweapons program which it never declared "counterproductive", and even though Russian as USSR successor did, it is not really confirmed the program was effectively dismantled. There are pretty credible suspicions that Iran has an advanced stage bioweapons program, and same is suspected for North Korea. In fact, check out this list by PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/glob_nf.html - may be a bit out of date, but enough to realize "all countries have pretty much decided" is unfortunately an exaggeration.
It seriously takes me 2 seconds tops to plug or unplug. That's zero as far as getting in the way of my life. And it isn't necessary to do this every day either.
A huge problem here is that the government has zero skin in the game. Random people working for some three letter agency are able to plunge you into a bureaucratic labyrinth at the flick of a wrist, and even violate their own guidelines with an extremely low probability of accountability or repercussion.

For example:

> Under federal forfeiture law, the government was required to initiate a forfeiture case within 90 days after the Kazazis responded to the seizure notice. If it failed to initiate a forfeiture case within that window, it would be required to promptly return the money to the claimants.

> That deadline passed over a month ago, on April 17. CBP has not filed a forfeiture complaint; nor has it returned the money.

This kind of behavior should be severely penalized. The Kazazis should be awarded a minimum of 10x the market value of the asset, or about $570,000, and NOT to be paid out of some magic bottomless government account funded by tax dollars, but directly from whomever the head of the offending department is.

Then the horrible life experiences they're afflicting on innocent individuals might actually be bumped up from "P4 - Low priority" to "P0 - Get this shit fixed now"
I think the post I answered was referring to PGE's Solar Choice program, which I agree is not a good deal for a consumer.

But it's marketed specifically as a program where you pay a premium to fund the greening of the grid [1][2]. It actually states that you will pay a premium for this plan.

1. https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehicles/opt...

2. https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/PG-E-s-eco-friendly-...
I had a concept designed to target the un-boxing video trend, but it failed really badly.

It's called a "Re-Boxing" video. First kids are happily playing with a mess of toys. Then a parent comes in and tells them it's time to put that shit away.

The sad kids then have to put their toys away in boxes, and then put them completely away neatly in closets and such. The camera then just focuses on the nice clean floor.

Now that I think about it, maybe I should have targeted these videos at parents instead of children. Well; Live and learn I guess...
This is after decades of widespread use by most of the population.
Help and about and FAQ seems empty on my tablet view
They don't have it anymore. Now it's "do the right thing". What is "the right thing" of course is up to the management to decide.
The California “jungle primary”effectively creates a new system—top-two/runoff—distinct from either form of FPTP, especially as usually practiced in the US where those follow a partisan primary.
Please do not suggest people use TLDs that are not a part of the gTLD, ccTLD, sTLD, or any other TLD system. Just because they are not used now does not mean they will never be used. We just saw the effects of that with 1.1.1.1 DNS system, where people assumed it would never be used, and when it does, now things break.

Currently, the only reserved TLDs are:

- [RFC 6761] example

- [RFC 6761] invalid

- [RFC 6761] localhost

- [RFC 6761] test

- [RFC 6762] local

- [RFC 7686] onion

With the exception of localhost, local, and onion, these can be used without any worry about future use. Any others should be considered real TLDs and not be used unless you actually own the domain name under that TLD.

[RFC 6761]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761

[RFC 6762]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762

[RFC 7686]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
The government has perpetual rights to the work products generated under this contract. How is that better?
I don't think you're being truthful here. EVs actually do better in stop and go traffic than driving flat out at 75 mph, because of the lack of wind resistance and the ability to do regenerative braking.

The Model X 75D has 237 miles range. At 504 miles total trip time, you should have had to make exactly 2 stops along the way. 5 would be completely unnecessary.