skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A retired fireman pissing his life savings away into a slot machine hurts me, because now I have to either support him, or deal with him sleeping between the dumpsters, in my building's back alley.

Slot machines are a hack that exploits human psychology, to the loss of everyone, and the benefit of... Casino owners.

I understand that people want to gamble. I also think that it should be aggressively discouraged.
I suspect it's more expensive to make it not machine-readable, considering that it likely starts out in a computer, and if it is not stored that way, it become essentially inaccessible even to the people who stored it.
There's plenty of this stuff at the US government level for data exfiltration and the fact that ordinary websites can have XSS or other funny business going on. For instance there's EINSTEIN https://www.dhs.gov/einstein.

There's also the opposite of what the initial boon of DPI gave you for egress traffic and instead doing DPI on ingress traffic in places in front of critical applications using things like SSL bump and so on. This seems worse but better in a way, where the DPI is part of the secure system instead of doing a carte blanche decrypting streams (the traffic that the internal secure system receives is in fact the traffic that it is party to instead of just wile e coyote to the universe). It's very hard to detect targeted attack to third party enterprise webapps otherwise.
I'm not sure about the ability for your parents to manage to use it... Either you're configuring a media app and a paid service for better streaming options and a vpn on top of that if you're careful. Alternatively you want to go through a handful of torrent options, download to a seedbox, then download to a local file share then watch on TV.

I mean, I'm willing to do this for some thing (often because a new release on a streaming service breaks 3 episodes in because of capacity issues), but not everyone is willing to do so.

I'd be willing to pay $25/month if they got all the content that is no longer available back and included the disc at a time service back. Right now, you can't even watch most of the entire line of movies they do have (like all the MCU movies, or all the die hards, etc). Most of their original content I don't care for, a lot of the rest isn't great. And the dropped the handful of shows I really fired up the netflix app for.
Nice! More recently (Jan 2019) from the same group:

De novo Design of Potent and Selective Mimics of IL-2 and IL-15: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0830-7

Lab's accompanying media post: https://www.bakerlab.org/index.php/2019/01/09/potent-anti-ca...

" Potent anti-cancer proteins with fewer side effects. Today we report in Nature the first de novo designed proteins with anti-cancer activity. These compact molecules were designed to stimulate the same receptors as IL-2, a powerful immunotherapeutic drug, while avoiding unwanted off-target receptor interactions. ..."

A remarkable and powerful achievement.
The ECJ is so hated by Leavers that taking their advice could see Parliament being burned to the ground.

It being legally possible is not the same as it being even remotely possible at this stage.

What needs to happen is the Leavers need to realise that No Deal isn't acceptable (they don't), and that more time is needed for a better deal or that it gets democratic backing.

Unfortunately, Parliament has already kind of voted no deal into law, and seem to have forgotten that, a fact the "European Research Group" - a bunch of Leavers in Parliament chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg - is keen to remind them of that. Constantly.
To get acquired by a bigger company.
Its a moving target!

Of course todays top skills will be broadly available in 10-20 years...it will all be common sense. But what ever the next frontier will be, again only a bunch of experts will exist for it.
This could definitely revolutionize the electric car market by removing one of the main complaints, slow charge time. The other pending issues for even greater mass adoption are availability of charging stations & range. If charge time decreases, the turnover of cars at stations could dramatically increase thereby improving the economics of charging stations. We could see more charging stations then and more quickly remove these barriers.

Has this AI approach been used in other charging applications? Curious to hear more details on what's going on behind the scenes.
Maxims that act on the symptom rather than the problem rarely help in the end, as the problem just evolves to support its needs through other means.

For example, sending a unique identifier is not the problem. Tracking people through a unique identifier is. So, depending on your goals, you can design a unique identifier system that does not allow tracking (or at least makes the tracking period so small as to be unuseful for purposes other than designed) as outlined in the article through changing the identifier on the client side weekly.

If all you want to do is get a good estimate of how many users use what types of configurations of your software (major and minor version), a UUID that rotates weeks on the client side is perfectly acceptable to use for those statistics to a fair degree of accuracy.

On the other end of the spectrum, people long ago started reducing their trackable footprint online, and the online tracking ecosystem just evolved to finding people through other, trickier methods, such as browser fingerprinting.
>unique user ID (UUID) for each installed system that would be sent with DNF mirror-list requests. It explicitly calls out privacy concerns: "We don't want to track; just count."

If Fedora server is compromised they can serve different packages to different users.
I am pretty sure what the parent is saying is to buy puts in lieu of shorting. There is no hedging here, just limiting downside.
The "unfavourable trade deal" would be of the kind that could command more support in Parliament, i.e. was more favourable to HMG's position (presumably with the Irish backstop removed, for one).

By definition that would mean the EU giving more in the negotiation, i.e. it would be less favourable to them.
>>We're just getting to replacing the rear-view mirror with a camera

And I wish we wouldn't; on average, 2019 cars seem to have far worse rear and rear-corner visibility than 2005 cars, and cameras are no replacement. They are either too low res, too narrow of a FOV (minimizing situational awareness), and even if they are perfect, 2 minutes driving in slush/mud/rain makes them useless.

/grouch grouch grumble grumble :)

In all seriousness, I see value of cameras complementing visibility (especially for low-height obstacles when reversing), but the current trend of replacing visibility leads into far less overall safety.
Author here - having caregivers certainly changes it, but I was focusing on a possible technical solution in addition to caregivers.

It would still be nice to have some impartial device tell you or confirm that what is going on, is actually going on.
Please share the script!

So essentially it's taking the average churn for a given customer, and running a monte carlo simulation to see what the expected scenario is?

Turns out, low churn and high margin companies are worth a ton! Especially with low interest rates and a public equities market that shouldn't return more than 4% real over the next few decades. Not a lot of other places to put your capital.
Here's the EIP (Ethereum improvement proposal) causing problems. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1283.m...
For anyone outside the UK, it's worth taking a look at the European Commission's Euromyths page. Since 1992, the Commission has been producing regular bulletins to correct erroneous stories about the EU in the British press. The absurdity and quantity of these stories is quite staggering.

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
Major recession, food and medicine shortage, 1 million british citizen deported back to the UK, 3 million EU citizen leaving the UK and civil war in Northern Ireland is what the most alarmist have predicted.
You are at the mercy of you investors. Any unexpected cost would "wipe out" your profits and you would generate net loss.
Many [newer] cars have 'adaptive headlights' that angle the light towards the corner you're turning into. Works pretty well.
I didn't flag the link, but fwiw Yasha Levine is not a good person. An incident from a while ago: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3n8p/that-time-...

(Disclaimer: Andrea Shepard is an internet friend of mine)
Do people in the US take 15m to visit the pump?
"pizza in frankfurt am main" is terrible.

Scrolling with shift (!?) doesn't work at all in my FF.

I can't change the search term on the map page...

The satellite view doesn't have street names (????!)

Edit: the link I click is a yelp.com link. Why are we even talking about Apples privacy here and not yelps?

What a horrible step back...
There's not much time left. Brexit happens March 29th. The EU countries are hiring more customs inspectors. Shippers are planning new shipping routes to avoid transit through the UK.
The UK's financial services sector takes a huge hit. UK financial services have already moved US$1 trillion in assets out of the UK, and that's picking up as the deadline approaches.

The City of London will be much less important soon.
I know of a guy who has 3 employees who coordinate aboit 800-100 properties.

He probably turns over something like $20M, and can use the portfolio to write off profits from other businesses.
The directly expressed will of a minority of the UK was for "brexit", not "brexit no matter what".
I guess it depends on your definition of digital economy...I was referring to companies of the size and influence like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, Airbnb, Tesla, SpaceX, etc
Valued at $31 billion in 2017, raised $4.4 billions.

Probably at least worth between 50 and 100 billions now, I would say $80-$120 billions.

YC will be funded for a couple centuries with that IPO.
Does it apply to state governments?
It's not a consistent metric. You'll get both spikes around new releases and changes that reflect the automated reporting/ease of reporting changes.
Amazon has definitely posted profits.

https://qz.com/1341589/amazon-can-make-loads-of-money-when-i...
Apple Maps has seen impressive improvements in the past couple years. With Mapbox/OSM in the mix as well, I look forward to seeing where the competition in the maps space leads us.

Mapkit JS took me by surprise when it came out. But so far, it seems to have been a solid decision, especially at a time when many were looking for new solutions after Google Maps changes finally rolled out. And for the most part it looks pretty good.

(Disclosure: I work for Google but not on Maps, opinions mine and not my employer, etc etc. I wish I didn't have to write this so often.)
Apple can buy the same search index access DDG has (and probably would have to re-negotiate DDGs existing contracts when taking them over) if it wants to get into search. Although DDG has some additions on top of that, if it'd be cheap enough those could be a reasonable deal for Apple.

I'm not sure Apple wants to get into the mess that offering a major search engine is.

Google is paying them quite well for the opportunity to be the search engine on Apple devices.
Thanks. I looked for reference to this but couldn't find any. I did see an article saying that Tesla pays for the installation of the gear but doesn't pay for the spot. I also saw an older post saying that T posts signs inviting non-tesla drivers to park there (presumably if no other spots are available).
Wonderful. I guess I'll now have to find a way to regenerate this UUID or to spoof it every time Fedora tries to phone home.

If you want to count users, ask for permission during firstboot. If that's too much to ask, then I'll be in the market for a new OS. Maybe I'll finally go back to my first love: FreeBSD.
Firefox Test Pilot shutting down
Scatter now has built in token exchange
we're getting super off topic here, but my understanding is that 'black' is actually becoming more PC and acceptable largely because many black people are neither African nor American
It's independently profitable, though.
I think it is very interesting to see all of this come down and the criticism it receives. Back in the day, it felt like many people (I have no hard numbers here nor would it be easy to find them) wanted their cable provider to offer channels a la carte. They wanted to select and choose what they watch and only pay for the things they need. Now these big services (Netflix, HBO, Disney...) which helped bring the downfall of cable are doing what everybody originally wanted by breaking up into a multitude of services for you to pick and choose what you want. People are once again upset but now for them having to subscribe to so many different services. I think it mostly has to do with price, but I still imagine paying less for a handful of services than the cable packages we were all forced into.
I'd argue that those examples are a higher bar to hurdle than failing to recognize a spear phishing attack, and can be mitigated by solutions like always-on VPN.

And if the malware doesn't work because it has certificate pinning, well, that's a win too. Its not a 100% solution, but you can significantly raise the bar on your attackers.
But one more thing to break. I’ll take one order of parent’s solution that turns on and off based on steering angle.
One thing Google Maps does have that I don't think Apple Maps has is crowd sourced edits. You can actually propose edits to Google Maps as a user. It's especially prominent with business information, but it is even possible to adjust road geometry.
The assumptions in your screen capture are dramatically more aggressive than any company in history. E.g. You are showing 60% yoy revenue growth 10 years in. For comparison: Google in year 10: 31%. Amazon in year 10: 23%. Dropbox in year 10: 27%.
If these kinds of growth rates were possible, there would likely be much higher discount rates to go with them.
Lots of investors do long term DCFs like this (and almost all update 5-year models on a rolling basis).They're just not as useful as a shorter term model given lack of visibility that far into the future and likelyhood of having to return funds well before then.
> It doesn't work well on the web

It doesn't work in magazines and newspapers either, but certain writerly circles (mostly American ones) consist of telling each other that this kind of fluff is a good idea.

You will find this kind of writing in Time magazine, but not in The Economist. Which is one of many reasons why TE is a better paper.
> Not sure what machine can possibly completely test a problem with a 32-bit input space in any "practical" or "reasonable" time.

Any modern machine: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...

It's the same order of magnitude as your CPU frequency, and trivially partitionable (and thus parallelisable), how fast exactly depends on the complexity of the function being tested, but assuming the entire thing happens in native code it's on the order of 1~10 minutes to go through all values, call both the FUT and the oracle and compare the results.

> Once states are added in, it quickly explodes beyond a simple 32-bit input space.

Then you're not testing a problem with a 32b input space anymore. My comment specifically points out that it's doable for small input states and gives 32 bits as an anchor at the upper end. If the program under test is fast enough and you're fine with hours-long tests you could get up to the low 40s and still be able to test every single value but since every bit doubles the number of states (and thus the time spent testing) it grows unreasonable extremely quickly.

> I know in my own work, we don't even bother.

Of course not, the average program is billions of orders of magnitude beyond 32 bits of input state. The current HN homepage is 42.5KB, that's ~350000 bits of input space. If you take an input file or some such you start stacking exponentials just so the number of bits in your input space doesn't get unwieldy.
The games link in the footer of Qwant is a bit odd. Doesn't really belong with the other links.
plenty of talent, and for stability and performance all that talent spends millions of dollars on top of the line proven solutions. Applications rely on live migrations for load balancing a farm, and it happens automatically in the background around the clock to rebalance farms. Hardware maintenance is another use case. So is a bucket of water. So is change control - I want to load new HBA firmware? I'll evacuate the ESX to somewhere else first.

no one contemplates blockchain, but for someone CIO level, gartner quadrants present a quick high-level summary of where the industry is going. and $100mil+ for hardware is completely normal to run things that process billions of dollars. The US treasury department is a great example. Mastercard is another.
A referendum is about as direct as you can get.
Wow. I'm surprised that 90% is domestic for the busiest airport in the world, but I'm Canadian.

Thanks!
Also a rather large portion of the population didn't take the vote seriously. When it came out that it was a complete clusterfuck, those voters who either voted just to stick it to the man or didn't bother to vote are now rightly panicking that this train wreck that we can't look away from is like the asteroid that hit the Yucatan peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs and there's fuck all we can do about it.

Oh well, you live and learn.
Read the whole article. They seem to have decided against that and for a simple ‘countme’ flag on update requests to mirrors. Possibly by only a random subset of machines.

No tracking, just simple numeric data for for purpose.
Children should not be able to vote.
> She will go back to the EU and demand a new deal, likely with a hard time limit on the NI backstop, the main issue that caused tonight's defeat

Don't think that's going to be enough to swing 230 votes.
The deal was the worst of all worlds and deliberately designed to fail. The whole project since the referendum has been to work towards the palatable introduction of a second referendum whilst spending the intervening time demonstrating the impossibility of a good deal and the awfulness of no deal.

We will now proceed to run down the clock towards the no deal 'cliff edge' and as the precipice looms go to the EU asking for an extension. The EU will say you can only have an extension for a second referendum, which we will hold and remain will win.
Booking is at 78.68B. From first hand experience I think Airbnb's technology is at least 10x better than Booking's (I visited and talked to both Airbnb and Booking.com employees in their respective offices).
> Unless there is an intelligent system actively tracking
oncoming vehicles

VW has the tech available since 2017: https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/dynamic-light-assist-...

YT videos showing it on the road: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vw+dynamic+ligh...
Cases like these could be made after any election ever, and we're going down a dark road by presuming this time is any different.
Show HN: T-Shirts literally filled with your Instagram posts
Literary, but not literally, thank heavens.
How much does it cost to lose one pound?
The wikipedia article [1] suggests that this is formal only and that the army is under the control of the parliament, which was also my understanding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army
Citroen had that on the DS back in the stone age.

https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-stock-photo-citroen-ds-...
1996, dad set up firstname@ email addresses for us on his new mail server. By 1999 I had to move to a new one (not firstname@ this time, but a unique name) due to spam.
Inefficiency and high expense is the primary burden of open governments, representative governments, and democratic governments. If you want a cheap, efficient government, you want an absolute monarchy. This is why corporations tend to be structured into rather strict hierarchies that bear no small resemblance to feudal kingdoms. That's also why they're terrible at meeting worker demands.
Hmm, I think I'm reading this differently.

There are fun and less-fun parts of programming -- building a new feature? Fun. Analyzing requirements, or doing code review, or spelunking through a crappy and undocumented 3rd party API? Less fun. But all can be part of the same 'job' of developing a feature.

The article is saying the amateur is the one who skims off the fun parts, and avoids the others, whereas the professional does the entire job -- gets to done-done, vs just 'it works'.

On golf:
You are correct that Tiger Woods did not pick up the ball on the putting green when playing amateur tournaments. I don't think the article's making a point about the official USGA definition of 'amateur'.
But you and your significant other are not the only players in the game. There are other people who will have children, regardless of what you do. So your choice is between a future that contains your children, who share your disposition and are indoctrinated by you into a specific worldview, or a world that does not contain them.

How does your side win if it promotes a strategy of not even showing up to the game?
No, it's usually more like 5 minutes
> compile-time type checking is obviated by exactly 1 test

I’m pretty sure this is an indefensible argument
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Yes I'm aware, since they suggested puts instead of calls. I'm not sure what your point is since my argument applies in either case. It's much less probable to be right about both price and timing. You won't have unlimited losses, but you will likely be wrong and lose money, unless you're the one writing the regulations.
Some old cars too. Here's a discussion which indicates 1904 as possibly the earliest implementation: https://forums.aaca.org/topic/288789-first-vehicle-with-adap...

This comment gave me a chuckle: The Motor Cycle.....every one ever built has at least one.
So, basically, you have three groups:

1) Angry idiots

2) Idiots

3) Realists

I feel sorry for you. It looks like you have the same problems as US politics.
Chargers already pay attention to charging curves and temperature. Is there really much room for safely charging existing batteries faster?
> If only for the reason that it would set an exceptionally bad precedent and everybody would want their own deal, to pick and choose the parts of EU membership that are favorable to them, leading the EU to implode.

The UK already picked and chose the parts of EU membership they wanted. They opted out of the Euro, they opted out of Schengen, they opted out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights--all of this, and more, on the threat of leaving the EU.
Perhaps just put the banking app on a tablet/smartphone and change the login? (My banking app uses a separate pincode.)
The system uses AI to optimize the charging systems in electric cars.

Here's one thing that stinks about current/last gen electric cars. I drove with my wife from my apartment in Nob Hill to Santa Cruz, using up about 92% of my range. I was able to find a charger and get fully recharged for my trip back. All of that is fine. What was disturbing, was that while I was climbing those initial hills out of Santa Cruz, my range figure dipped way below my miles to go figure. As I left behind that initial climb, my range figure then went comfortably above my miles to go. This is one place where some judicious AI could help. (Along with integration with GPS/Maps and destination information. I should also update my electric car to technology ca. 2019.)