skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have the old reports too, and even though i did not learn something i didn't know, i wish i could have new ones, with the added knowledge from ~5 years of research.
For UBER it's great - they get highly targeted access to large amount of people needing transportation - AND that are willing to sit next to other people to save money.

So as a first step, they could offer those people to share their first/last mile with other passengers, in a 6-passenger minivan. The price will be cheap/cheapest, and the trip fast(the route will be optimized).

That would be an easy sell. Probably viral. And it would increase transit ridership - and lead to other transportation authorities cooperating.

And Google can't compete with that.
Yeah. You don't think that's a goal? Uber desperately needs to show additional revenue streams as the (un)reality of self-driving cars and food delivery sets in. Muni tickets is big business. Look at Cubic Transportation Systems.

> Initially, the ability to purchase tickets via the Uber app won’t be available, but it’s on the horizon. The in-app ticketing portion, in partnership with Masabi, will be available in the coming weeks, Reich said.
For what it's worth, I've always harbored a creeping suspicion that the 2003 Iraq invasion was really cover for dumping ethics within the context of military research.

In a war zone, there's lots of opportunities to answer questions and explore malignant curiosities that cannot be negotiated within the context of all those pesky laws and rights that get in the way of progress.

Now, because of Iraq, we know that round-the-clock close air support is the best way to dominate an asymmetric adversary, when applying mechanized armor to an urban scenario, and if it's carried out with drones? Even better!

We also know that the cold stare of eyes in the sky can all but eliminate the strategic advantage of hugging civilian populations to the point that thousands can be smoked on the ground, while keeping the cost of friendly personnel down to a number you can count with one hand!

And when you're done, and the power vacuum settles out, you can leave the entire region to descend in to a biblical war of technicals, garbage trucks of POW brutality, concubine trade, and refugee overflow frothing over into neighboring countries to the point that it destabilizes half the world, and no one will even raise an eyebrow!
Directors and writers don't have to have to know how to do stuff the characters do or how things work in the world, but they should do research, study and consult people to find out.

It's just laziness not to do hat. Many films are just collections of outsider impressions. Stanley Kubrick didn't know much about space but he had work ethics.
Have you tried this wonderful tool yourself in -30C weather? :-)
I don't know why, but this bad practice seems to be in place in so many places. Live tracking seems to be almost uniformly code for Timetable tracking in public transit. In the UK I can stand and watch the live information for the train departing from Waterloo - it'll say the train is on-time for leaving at 5:30. I can go into their own app, identify the physical train that is going to terminate at waterloo and become my train and find out that it left the last station 20 minutes late. Clearly the system is driven by timetables which are then modified by manual entries rather than some actual underlying representation of the trains (which clearly must exist for them to be able to manage their fleet of trains).
Well, one that got a bit of press recently is making false statements which I found out about when they got Flynn for it [0]. I thought it was interesting, because the test for lying is 'is it material to the case', so there might be no crime but if you mis-remember some relevant fact while explaining the situation to government a crime suddenly comes into existence. Particularly when you are up against entities that potentially have a better idea of your online and call activity than you do and have lawyers with a better understanding of what 'material' means.

But realistically, the problem is that America has more laws than anyone can read and has also developed a secret legal apparatus so has case law on the books that essentially nobody is allowed to know about [1]. Since an American can't possibly know what the law is, it seems like a stretch if they claim to be following it. Particularly if they do something off the beaten track like run a business, live overseas (byzantine tax system), talk to government officials (see above) or communicate with other people using the cell phones or internet (I think teen sexting laws in the US might be a federal crime, for example, which is sometimes a nasty shock to many minors).

Also note that for all this stuff the tests involve dangerous legal words like 'reasonable' and 'contemporary adult community standards', which we all think we know what we mean up until it turns out that they mean something slightly different to everyone and the lawyers have very different standards to on some topic. Everyone is unreasonable on something, hopefully there not on something there is a law about, eh?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
IBM Facial Recognition Dataset Aims to Tackle Gender, Racial Bias
The government, of course, is the persecution in these cases. The defending lawyer is the bone they throw their victims.

But the judges keep convicting, keep the system going, despite the large scale violations of the constitutional rights of so many.
Excerpt: "The GPU cores run a real time operating system called ThreadX. This operating system is closed source and rules the system without the open source Linux Kernel being aware of it."
Amazon to fund computer science classes in NYC ahead of new HQ2 campus
Maybe, "Anything that can be Written in Rust Will Eventually be Suggested, and then Celebrated with Great Fanfare on HN as the Obvious Future of Reality."

Atwood's Law was a prediction about the future that was based on something that had already happened (zillions of apps and libraries rewritten in JS). I'll quote your law when we have anything like comparable evidence that this is happening with Rust.
Mermaid – Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
You’re not parsing that correctly.

To lower the standards of quality that are expected of something.

Or

To lower the standards of quality that are required for something.

Lowering the bar is a reduction of quality. Lowering barriers is not the same thing.
Expanding 3-D-Printing Network Aims to Improve U.S. Veterans' Healthcare
Jigsaw is using AI, human connections, and AdWords to fight ISIS
GAO expands and elevates tech assessment – FCW
Lots of people offer whole genome sequencing. Dante Labs is currently offering it at EUR 259 (no affiliation: I got their mailshot because I bought their lower still Black Friday offer). Typical lab costs are thought to be more in the $1k range, with the assumption that some of these offers are made with the intent of rapidly acquiring a large corpus of anonymised full genome sequences which they hope most of their customers won't opt out of being analysed for commercial scientific research.

https://www.dantelabs.com/collections/our-tests/products/who...
I ended up booking two flights recently because Kayak sent me a "booking failed" email after I tried once, it failed, then tried again, and it worked. Then an hour later I got an email from Kayak saying my flight booking had failed. So of course I booked another flight. They would NOT admit the slightest wrongdoing. Never using them again.
Congrats to Jason and Cai! I don't know how much their product/service has changed, but I remember it making my life so much easier when I was raising money for my company.
Oh don't worry about that. The prosecution also doesn't get any budget at all to prosecute these people. They get the large advantage that the judge defaults to believing them though. So states, despite directly behaving untrustworthy, trust themselves and make these people the victims of that assumption of trustworthiness ...

Corporations aren't involved, this is criminal law.
..."The stock will either be worthless.."

".."the math tells me choose the equity.."

"..in the process of closing a $100M round.."

Yea, go with your first assumption. More than likely, that will happen. If you are young, take the cash and you can always do more next time. I am big into risk taking but if you really want do it, do it your way. Run your own startup. Otherwise, your chances are very very slim of getting any significant payout, if any.
3D print all at once - Additive manufacturing via tomographic reconstruction
AppArmor and SELinux address this problem.

But -- speaking from experience -- they are painful to use; most users prefer convenience over heightened security.
EuroPython Society – Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer
Two things can be bad at once.
I understand not backing up AppData/Local, but everything in AppData/Roaming is supposedly important enough to sync it over the network (if you use domains or another mechanism to give you the same Windows account on multiple computers). Any default policy which doesn't back up AppData/Roaming seems ill advised.
OpenWrt comes with a gui to. It's called LUCI.
This is the consequence of enterprise practices of hiring el-cheapo, hit-and-run contractors or outsourcing development to middlemen in “cost-efficient” regions.

End developer is inexperienced, temporary, not valued and hence his deliverables
Perhaps camera sensors could digitally sign their output using an invisable watermark? It's been an idea I've had since deep fakes became a thing.
I’d suggest looking into taint analysis tools, though those are usually aimed more at finding things like unsanitized input ending up in a call to system.
*years
Facebook unveils plan for preventing spread of misinformation ahead of elections
Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of biometric privacy
I don't understand the whole Snap thing. Not a single snap has ever worked in any of my computers in the past 5 years (I've tried maybe 5 or 6), and they always say they'll add themselves to the system. Add where? Where are these beasts hiding?
Iran inches closer to unveiling state-backed cryptocurrency – News – Al Jazeera
If you're never using them again, why not do a chargeback? (Apparently services like Uber or Airbnb ban you if you do this, so it's "mutually assured destruction"). Or call the airline and tell them how Kayak messed up.
Radar technology used to target grit and salt on Scotland's roads
I'd like to believe that, and I think I still do, but it just seems odd the way the judge phrases his opinion. I agree that the defendant's wording is ambiguous, but that last sentence gets me:

> In my view, the defendant’s ambiguous and equivocal reference to a “lawyer dog” does not constitute...

Maybe it's just in jest or intended to be a (racially-coded?) slight at the defendant. It doesn't change the overall argument, but it stands out to me. Why wouldn't you just say "lawyer" there, probably without the quotes?

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I would like to imagine legal opinions are written carefully. Hopefully I'm missing something.
It’s a shame Unix doesn’t have a chhome utility that functions like chroot.
It's amazing the amount of mental gymnastics the American left will perform to justify racism.

I don't care if your parents were poor or if your great-great-great-great-great grandfather was a slave. If you're not the best applicant, you shouldn't get admitted. Period.

I don't understand how people can be okay with major universities discriminating against asians, but be furious when mom and pop bakeries discriminate against gays. University admission is such a critical part of a person's life. If we're prosecuting bakers for discrimination, we need to be looking at universities with an electron microscope.
That's not great at all for your back though, so even laptop don't solve that perfectly. But it's the best we have.
File extensions are trivial to fake, don’t really have a strong association with the application that is supposed to handle them, and in this case often doesn’t even apply because most of the files in my home directory seem to lack an extension.
Linux’s Hyperledger to give developers supply chain building blocks
Pentagon's Cybersecurity Found Unable to Stay Ahead of Attackers
StanfordNLP: A Python NLP Library for Many Human Languages
Caltech seems to be considerably less Jewish than Harvard. Caltech is about 3x as Jewish as the general 18-21 population. Harvard is around 14x as Jewish as the general 18-21 population.

I'm getting this from a chart about halfway down the the following very long article [1]. (Note: I have not read that article. I just searched for info on Jewish enrollment at colleges, and found that chart).

[1] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of...
Explain who is a sucker and why? Because I haven't experienced that.
I have been diagnosed with celiac disease by blood test and biopsy.
> The GIL comes with great convenience as you don't have to worry about a whole host of data races.

This is true, but it doesn't mean that a GIL-less Python would need to have an option for "enable GIL so I don't have to worry about data races". It means that a GIL-less Python would have to ensure that there are no data races, without having to have a GIL.

> it will be a great amount of work to make every library compatible with GILless python

No, it won't; libraries won't have to change at all. The current interpreter makes a guarantee that those libraries rely on: "you don't have to worry about data races". A GIL-less interpreter would have to make the same guarantee; it just wouldn't have to have a GIL to do it. That requirement is what makes a GIL-less Python interpreter hard to do.
Present tense. The GP comment was in present tense, not a long time ago.
That sucks. No transactions ? I think companies like Kayak can get way with loose consistency guarantees and just push the onus on the user or have some money saved to reimburse you. You should file a dispute with your CC.
This is already solved by Linux, as you probably know. You can just use groups and users if you want. Also you can run Docker containers if you want, just don't force me to do it, as they're stupid.
I was just being unclear, sorry.
Half the comments on HN lately are complaining that the NYT covers Facebook too much and that they’re reading it less as a result.
I suspect that curating accurate transit data is a lot of boring, never ending work, and on the other hand, Google don't think they will have big enough money there(without building something like UBER, not their style), so they don't bother.
A brief history of saved games
This is a provocative comment although it begs the question:

Can you easily run OpenWRT on Orange PI 3 immediately after purchase?

If not, I think that could be a factor in why someone might pay more. They might want to leverage the work of OpenWRT developers.

I too recently picked up another pocket-sized SBC with Gigabit Ethernet. Compared to Orange Pi 3 it has two additional Ethernet ports, better antennas (no dongle needed), more TF card storage (128GB vs 64GB), well-tested OpenWRT support and everything to build from scratch is on Github. Like Orange Pi 3 it uses U-boot and one can easily recover from accidental bricking without opening it up.

Also has customer support, automatic updates and an additional GUI which are not things I needed but probably increased the price.

Orange Pi 3 has a GPU, HDMI port and jacks for audio and composite video. Is the buyer intending to "build a custom router" paying for specs she does not need?

What is the estimated power consumption for Orange Pi 3?

What are some examples of "overpriced routers"?

Imagine for the sake of argument we posted specs for various SBC's here without giving the "brand name" and let readers bid on what they would be willing to pay. Assuming readers could not see each others' bids, how widely would the bids vary?

Is each spec worth the same to each buyer? Do all buyers have exactly the same needs?
No I don’t think that wouldn’t work long term at a public insurer. Expense measures are fairly well understood by analysts, investors and regulators. If expected claims got out of wack with pricing it would become a problem for an insurer.

Many insurers have near fixed acquisition costs due to distribution channel realities. Agents take a commission, Google and Ad networks take a referral fee, etc. and those with large direct to consumer portfolios may experience challenges in underwriting profitability as is. Insurers will certainly try to manage those acquisition expenses efficiently and to optimize underwriting performance. Executive comp would be anchored on those things rather than allowed to underperform and compensated for.

If you call beating actuarial models a trick, then yes that certainly can occur but that’s kind of the name of the game. You’d rather companies figure this out because models become more efficient, pricing becomes more segmented and risks are priced accordingly.
> of Caribbean origin

I'm curious, what would be the rationale behind this?
Are you not a native English speaker? I ask because most non-native speakers will accept and appreciate the correction. Only a native speaker would confidently defend their interpretation. And yet, I find it difficult to understand how a native speaker could possible misinterpret this statement.
It's basically impossible to implement a CPython-compatible language without a GIL (or you lose single thread performance by using very fine-grained atomics/locking). Python has very specific multithreading semantics that are a function of the CPython bytecode and the GIL, and programs rely on this.
> Isn't it obvious?

Well isn't it condescending to assume that Angola can't have reasonable safety laws while Germany can?

Germany is hardly immune to corruption (as a German speaker I am well aware of this) and that indeed was part of the reason why this loophole (placed there at the behest of German medical device manufacturers) was ultimately removed (thanks, EU!) while plenty of poor countries manage to have non-corrupt governments and reasonable protections in place in particular against the depredations of foreign companies.

As it happens Angola this week removed the laws barring same sex relations, making them more liberal than bigger and so-called "more developed" countries like Russia, China, et al.
Their cropping uses deep learning for the crop[1], but I often notice that screenshots are clipped weirdly. It makes me wonder if their training set was all photographs.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
I used to drink it and like the flavor, but haven’t tried it since I have been diagnosed with celiac. Oats are very commonly contaminated with gluten, so it would have to be lab-tested (certified gluten free) every batch. Then, there is a question whether some people with celiac react to oat protein.
I didn't know paypal is still a thing in 2019. Stoped using it about 5 years ago for the same reasons like in the article (high fees, random payment rejects, high profile accounts closed for no reason). I am better with good old credit/debit cards and now with crypto.
Even if I knew I was guilty and that the state had all the evidence to prove it, why would I ever take a plea deal that was no better than the worst-case trial outcome?

DA could make a mistake; I might come up with a particularly recalcitrant jury; I might end up with an appealable matter.
New, related article: Anand Giridharadas on 'We're all passengers in a billionaire hijacking'. https://www.businessinsider.com/anand-giridharadas-billionai...

Another (from Sep 2018): Nick Hanauer on 'This is going to end badly for everyone'
https://www.businessinsider.com/nick-hanauer-capitalism-reje...
The "3G" model is not the model you linked. The 3G model requires you to flash proprietary firmware and then associate the router with a Xiaomi account using mobile apps for God only knows what convoluted reason. I would not trust this router even with OpenWRT running given the amount of blobs it requires and the hoops Xiaomi makes you jump through in installing an aftermarket OS.
> If I had $400K in cash, I wouldn't spend it all on shares in this company - it seems to risky to me.

This is your answer. Your investments really don't care if they started as stock options or were bought with your own cash. And neither should you.

You would be effectively spending $400k on start-up equity. I know it doesn't quite feel that way when the money doesn't go through your own bank account but the effect is the same. You need to have very high risk tolerance to choose equity over cash in this case.
When I went to get global entry, there were tons of people showing up 12 hours early.
Harvard does not discriminate against Jews today. They have historically. Now they do the same to Asians. This, one supposes, must be an example of moral progress.
Despair, Thy Name Is App Store
If you have no experience trading stocks yet, the best bet is to make enough money so that you can get a rate of return. S&P over the last 100 years has returned an average of about 10%. So to make 180K gross, I would say you need $1.8 Million cash and then invest in S&P ?

If you don't have that, you are in for real fun. I mean most people lose money in stocks or investments. Heck, my 401K investment funds cannot even beat S&P on a constant basis and I have tried to rebalance the heck out of portfolio.

I am sure there are folks making 180K gross by investing in stocks but I would bet most of them do that because they have plenty of cash/capital already that generates something along S&P index.
If you are capable of learning to do the kind of problems they want you do and willing to put in the effort to learn how to do them, you've answered the two questions that kind of interview is supposed to answer.

Not helping candidates would (further) bias the process towards savvy people that had the connections necessary to get the inside scoop some other way.
I sure hope not, because in that case that thing has been broken for the whole 2018!
I was heading back home for a month. I went and took my dog to the kennel, bussed down to the airport. Was all ready to go after a couple days getting ready.

Went to check in and realized my flight was 6 weeks in the future. They let me cancel, but a flight that day was hundreds more and I wound up sitting at the airport all day.
I triple check when I book flights with google flights now.
SAT is great at measuring who spent the most money / who goes to the best grade/high school but not a whole lot more than that.
That would suggest it's a feature, not a bug. I remain unconvinced.
As a grain product it’s important for it to be lab tested or certified gluten free to under 5 ppm. Rice is one of the least accidentally contaminated at the sourcing, along with corn, but it also depends on later processing.
> Probably they were arrested for something that shouldn’t have even been a crime in the first place.

I wouldn't say that.

> [T]wo juvenile victims told investigators that Warren Demesme, 22, sexually assaulted them. Baddoo said one victim reported that Demesme “would portray the rape as a game, and the child articulated the sexual contact caused her pain.”

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_1ecdd37...
We're not the target audience.

When grandma googles something, and sees a "quick answer" does she trust it ? probably.
Not yet. Just watching to see if becomes serious.
I'd send you a bottle of wine for saving me the time and effort.
This seems far less like a revenue stream and far more of a way to get people to use Google Maps less. I am sure they have data showing that very many Uber trips in most major American cities starts with a comparison against local public transit.