skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like everything, ymmv. You are correct about lower junior salaries but taken in the context of an even lower cost of living...go to Berlin. Also sounds weird to say but germans are 1000x nicer and more welcoming than the French. Berlin good stuff is that the tech scene soeaks English, all the hot iot, telekom, autonomous vehicle stuff is in berlin and its the cheapest of the cities to live in. I am coming from a background around 10 years in the industry with a lot of finance and defence experience. Plus I just always apply for 5 jobs then let them duke it out ;)
> stunt driving swerves

You've put a lot of emphasis on how dangerous and crazy it would be to have not run over the pedestrian, but in other jurisdictions learning how to do an emergency stop is required for all drivers before being allowed on the road independently. There are many reasons a car might need to stop unexpectedly (including the possibility of cars in front behaving erratically) so stopping along with maintaining safe separation between cars are basic driving skills expected in many countries. From your description AZ might be an outlier though.
> You do realize the CIA was responsible for the Snowden NSA leaks

You'll have to provide proof to back up that claim, otherwise there's no reason to believe it.
Portaying Nintendo a kind of example to follow is a pretty poor choice though. They have created a lot of unethical business practices as well.
I disagree with this comment. I'm way down from middle class and I just got back from a very long trip in a developing country.
The experience has changed me from head to toes in ways I wouldn't have conceived. I am so happy that I had was able to change who I was and to deviate from the life that I would have lived if I hadn't gone.

Not everyone who travels does it for "status" (in fact I would say that people who do that are a vocal minority)
> It is way better to spend 1 month working and living in Ethiopia than 1 month visiting all the famous attractions of the African continent

Is it though? I have lived on a bunch of different continents, traveled both fast and slow, and this kind of weird elitism about getting a “true cultural experience” is way overdone.

You want a true cultural experience? Catch a local tropical disease. Pay a bribe. Get in a road traffic accident. There’s nothing special about getting bitten by a dog in the Caribbean as opposed to Bali. People are about the same everywhere.
Show HN: Twttrshot – Tweet to Screenshot
I built this little Tweet-to-Screenshot-service last weekend and thought that maybe some of you might find it interesting or helpful.

Basically it's fetching data from the Embed API/service, piping it to a headless chrome (gives the best render result IMHO) and optimizing the output with Imagemagick and optipng.

Screenshots will be saved after their first generation to improve delivery speed, but will, right now, not be updated after that, so "like count" and more will not be updated. Might look into this as an improvement for v1.1.

Once a Tweet is deleted, the screenshot will also be deleted on the next call. While I find this unfortunate from the point of archiving tweets, I think it's necessary so people don't misuse this to mirror content which is considered to be harmful or illegal.

Next to using the website to generate an image, you can also directly call it. Take the link of a tweet and replace twitter.com with twttrshot.de. The result will be an image you could hotlink or save.

Feel free to play with and use it and drop me a line (mail address is at the bottom of the site) if you find a bug or something else.
Polygonal Fort
> Tech Nation, the Giant Ape, has no sign of intelligence and is there to destroy beautiful things that go beyond her comprehension ability.

Man, somebody's got an axe to grind...
Wingman Drone
cool site.

In this line, one thing I've been looking for, but unable to find a good option for, is a robot which you can control over a wi-fi network which has a camera on it and it can roll round your house.

So my use case is to check up on my cats when I'm away. I've not seen a load of good options for this...
I don't think people are arguing that a pedestrian has an absolute "right to be avoided every time they step into a street". But many of us (I think) do believe that a driver -- or an autonomous driving system -- does have some responsibility to take reasonable care to avoid accidents, regardless of who has the right of way.

While the concept of right of way may often have a bearing on who is held at fault for an accident, it does not -- or at least should not -- entirely absolve the driver of any responsibility to drive attentively and carefully in all circumstances.

In this case, it does sounds to me as though the pedestrian was at fault -- particularly in the context of AZ law -- but it also sounds as though both Uber and the "safety" driver were seriously negligent in their responsibilities, and their negligence was a major contributory factor in the pedestrian's death. They should be held to account.
Powered flight is a matter of boring straight lines, at least outside the Star Wars universe. If all the technical details are solved, we might discover that the toy appeal just isn't as big as expected. Or are there many motorcyclists that prefer straight roads? Doing curves withhold reason (like on a big flat open surface) would be much exciting either.

For SAR applications, another interesting application of the control advances from the drone market might be a powered rescue winch harness: use the line for power delivery from the helicopter mothership and as a safety fallback, but gain hugely increased agility and precision from using a local set of fans for lift instead of swinging under the helicopter as a passive pendulum load. It would make helicopter rescue from steep slopes much less risky and open up vertical walls (or even overhangs) for helicopter access.
I'm actually curious why this wasn't done yet, or maybe I'm missing something
We are not talking about simple websites here, but full fledged web applications. Note that Slack does exactly the same thing for non major browsers by blocking them out completely.
I’m sorry, this is a dumb argument. I will not interface with people who think Nazis are a slippery slope. That’s bullshit and you know it. This is a bad faith argument
Tesla used electric fields, not magnetic ones, for his wireless power tests..
It's better to add the subtlitle to the submission: "Fold: An explanation of the Composability of the Clojure Transducers"
Show HN: Spring Boot Style Guide (WIP)
Announcing Maru 0.6 Okinawa
I was ONLY seeing clockwise in all images until the counter-clockwise one went about 8 rotations and all of a sudden I saw it counter-clockwise. Now I can’t unsee it.
>Genuinely curious, where did you see the "0.074% decrease in death risk?"

I was generously assuming that if I follow their advice, I eliminate bowel cancer risk entirely. Since only .074% of the population has it (74 per 100k), that’s the max change in risk of death.

But you’re right, I really only decreased my risk by 13% of that .074% by eliminating red meat. Still don’t see the enormous upside.
Because reducing the number of immigrants has been a hot topic politically for over the past decade.
A Performance Analysis of Python WSGI Servers: Part 2 (2016)
It's not a full list, I'm adding new entries every day. Happy to include Turkey if you send over the details.
Did someone still use Skype?
UBER is not criminally liable, but THE DRIVER might be, since she was watching a TV show. Subtle but important detail. Looking at the comments, I suspect many comment without reading the article.
Taken to the logical extreme, the question is: "how many intrinsic symbols do we need to convey any meaning when presented to a fully logical being", to which, in my opininon, the answer is 1 (or 2, really, since 1 is only "possible").

You might not have words for it, but a fully logical being can decipher any bitstream given enough interactivity.

So start from 1 and 0, form basis of mathematics and symbols, then start with physics from all the way bottom.
Is the visa hard to get? How long did it take?
Even if one can just use `pwgen` on most linux plateforms, it's a fun exercice, and one that is always welcome in classrooms.

You need to parse the cmd, make sure you use the proper random generator, and accumulate different source of characters.

Options such as --allow-unicode, --exclude-similar-chars or --group-chars all provide small additional challenges in different areas.

It's something all students should code at least once, if not for pleasure, at least for practice.

But honestly I find it fun enough that I just wrote one again after reading the article. I'm pretty sure a timeline of all the attempts is telling of ones progression in style :)
ISTR there was a complete programmer's guide available from Commodore, but it was a separate purchase.
I can actually answer this question. Back in the day I was going through Oxford Dictionary and it mentioned that all the meaning use words from a like of about 3,000 words. The list, IIRC, was also at the back of the dictionary. And it also mentioned that on rare occasions they have to use words outside of those 3,000.

Source: My memory of something I read at British Council Library 17 years ago.
Did you read the article? The "driver" was watching a TV show, while instructed to keep eyes on the road
Technology is not the only “moat” there is. A photo sharing app is ultimately CRUD but it’s pretty hard to take down Instagram.
You've just defined a business transaction. Being paid for providing a service is not the central premise, and completely misses the whole point.

The central premise of sharing economy is that people have access to resources, whether they are goods or services, that are underused or even wasted, resulting in an unnecessarily high level of economic inefficiency. Thus if a system is set to encourage those who have the resources to make them available to potential clients for a fee then everyone involved wins. A key concept is to set a centealized service which handles the hard part of a business such as transactions, business models, and disputes.
Mistakes are what we learn from!

1) I like to have things in my own hand. On one hand It’s about having control over who could possibly have access to my mails. If I were using Gmail for example I’d have to put up with data mining and the entirety of Google and their advertising partners possibly reading my mail. In my case only my Hoster, whom I trust, has access to my server. On the other hand it’s about flexibility. It’s my mail server and I can adjust whatever settings I like. I haven’t been using any spam filtering for example but It’d be trivial to set it up and tune it to my exact needs. I can also use other domains without much setting up. I’d just have to register the domain and point it to my server and all my addresses would work with that domain. I’ve unlimited addresses, some just forwarding via .qmail some running a full virtual IMAP/SMTP account with separate credentials. Those .qmail forwarding addresses are super useful btw! I’m using a unique address for every service I use which makes it trivial to find out who’s selling my data/where spam comes from. Delete the virtual address and voila, no more spam from them. Running my own mail server also makes backups easier I’d like to think. I just backup the right directory with cron from time to time.

2) Sure, there are hundreds of TLD’s to choose from. I’m sure I’d find one that’d be alright but I’ve used kevingrahl.de for as long as I can remember and all my friends and customers are accustomed to it. Using a .de address has the added benefit that in theory my government should drop all captured packages intended for surveillance (Germany can’t legally spy on its own citizens, it is known that they filter by TLD as a first step).

Thanks!
> Evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor includes some description of how the backdoor might work...

It would only work one way with an API relying on a PKI with a single CA, zero transparency, and trusted keys named after spy agencies suddenly appearing out of nowhere. I'm gonna bail here, because I'm now not sure if you honestly don't know what the CAPI was in relation to the NSAKEY - or if you're trying to waste my time by getting me to explain the most basic principles of public key infrastructure.
Moving from Node.js to Rust in 2019
I have not find a way to send email from Gmail, using either the web interface of their SMTP server, from a custom username (left side of @ symbol). I have a custom domain using Google Apps, but to send mail I use a third party SMTP server to customize the username portion of the From field.
You'll probably want a full blown privacy section, and self-host the fonts instead of using Google to serve it.

Small improvments a) loading indicator while you're generating the image, and b) a quick way to copy the image URL (maybe with buttons for bb-code, HTML or just URL).
The neural network is likely handling it just fine:

A classifier generally outputs a vector of weights, so it’s likely classifying, say [0.8, 0.75] and then the output is selecting the highest and saying “bunny”. Then you rotate it, and the classifier says [0.75, 0.8] and the output says “duck”.

This is completely reasonable on the part of the network: all things being equal, animals generally appear in certain orientations and we should prefer the interpretation of the amigbuity which respects this alignment, slightly. Example: “bill” down, it looks more like a duck because rabbits rarely have their head in that alignment, while “ears up” it looks more like a rabbit since ducks rarely hold their bills that way.

The problem is actually in how we represent probabilistic information to humans, aka “why the weather man is always wrong”, so it seems like the classifier is randomly flapping when it’s actually perfectly correctly adjusting its distribution of answers based on information we give it.
So I guess 'wallhacking' in online multiplayer games may now somewhat be seen as realistic. Soldiers are going to love this type of tech.
Come On, China. Tesla's Just a Shiny Object
We're at the forefront of "pay to skip the grind" in AAA single player games as well. The YouTube reviewer Skill Up has some really thoughtful commentary on this as pertains to AC: Odyssey in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrKtZsoy30

Basically, he argues that the game has a really strong start, and an excellent climactic chapter, but the enormously bloated midgame is full of arbitrary level-gates and other nuisances which force you to grind on cookie-cutter side quests. The concern is that this is an attempt to sell impatient players a real-money XP booster. And if it works out for Ubisoft and isn't adequately called out, that we'll see a lot more of this kind of thing going forward.
This is an indication that user commitment is very low on Facebook.

As long as users are actively involved there is no need to send emails.

Sending emails is a (bad) trick to make people curious and make them login to your platform again.

I think the Facebook app is just 'dead' and Facebook is lucky to have Instagram.
On Chromium, Skype loads but clicking "Join call" does nothing.
The image was created specifically to fool humans, it's one of the classics in the optical illusion genre. It would be a shame for ML if it required specific trickery on both ends to reach that outcome.
> "When you hit a pedestrian with a car, you're in the wrong", it doesn't become more unambiguous than that.

Even if a pedestrian runs out onto a highway and it's physically impossible for you to avoid hitting them?
But does it see a blue or a white dress?
Show HN: Platform to Solve Some of “First Impression Influence” Problem
Ambulance helicopters already exist for that purpose, and a flying motorcycle wouldn't make a great ambulance to begin with. And if they did, motorcycles with wheels would still be more efficient and less dangerous to everyone involved.

Assuming this even pans out (still waiting for the Moller Skycar...) it's going to be a luxury item for rich kids who want to pretend they live in Star Wars or something.
So in Arizona after running over and killing a careless pedestrian, human drivers just drive on at the same speed with all care and attention and don't slam on the brakes in fear and panic and usually spin?
Depends on jurisdiction, and possibly the design, i.e. if it's very artistic it may be protected, if it's a standard theme with a few colors changed it may not be.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
>The US doesn’t acknowledge dual citizenship

How is that a gotcha?
Unfortunately, depends on the server. Node says this:

"Sending a 'Connection: keep-alive' will notify Node.js that the connection to the server should be persisted until the next request."

The article seems to confirm this behavior.

So clients have to account for non RFC compliant servers.
Those Jetcat engines are listed for sale here http://www.zedjet.com/jetcat-turbines.html with prices from £1700 to £5000 which doesn't seem so crazy expensive. Not sure about the reliability.
Inflation adjusted you're paying far less. (NES games went for about $50, which is around $120 now).
> I think it should be giving a 50/50 classification of duck and rabbit at all rotations if it was working as expected.

This would likely give incorrect or worse results when, eg, classifying ducks and rabbits in wildlife photos — animals come in orientations, and you’ll do a better job classifying them in practice if you respect that.

It’s also not the case that a human would classify it 50/50 in all rotations — it certainly looks more or less like one or the other as you rotate it. Humans are even program,Ed for that compromise: we see faces in one orientation much better than rotated 180 degrees.
reading that post from that woman literally triggered me.
mom of 3 shouldn't be spending most of her time in nurse school and then driving for uber WHAT THE HELL?
If you are going to adhere to the XDG Base Directory specification, please respect the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.

If you are going to use format specifiers and printf, please do so consistently. clear_line() is a mess, especially in comparison to the move_cursor() function that immediately follows it, which in turn misses out guards against option-like arguments as seen in ellipsis().

SGR 0 resets everything, to reset just colours look at SGR 39 and SGR 49.

The Bourne Again shell's internal mechanisms may be slightly more efficient than command substitution with an external seq process.
haha, I know the feeling.

Every single post I make "Performs better than 95% of posts on my page" ... "Click here to boost NOW!".

Ugh.
> "When you hit a pedestrian with a car, you're in the wrong", it doesn't become more unambiguous than that.

Such a general principle would be unreasonable. I'm all for putting pedestrians' safety first, but a driver who is following all rules and safety principles can still hit a pedestrian without any fault - the extreme (but not only) example is somebody who decides to suicide right when you're driving by.
>Contrary to popular belief, the more RAM you're using, the faster your system will be (assuming it's using the RAM efficiently)

Is this a joke? If I have 16GB of RAM but my programs use 18GB then my system will suddenly become faster?
Here's my biggest pet peeve when using password generators: passwords containing special symbols like (but not limited to) "-\/({^$:%" will just break in some random service and you'll stay a long time trying to escape them in the correct way until they work

Keep your sanity and avoid special characters.
The 18th-century contest to build the White House
Thank you for your feedback!

You're totally right about the fonts, I will fix this in the evening. Also will have a look at outputting image URL and BB code, that's a great idea.

Not sure about the privacy section. I really dislike the full blown law text when there are really only access logs on the Apache and nothing else. :-/
Mike Amundsen has released his Microservices book for free [pdf]
Don't worry too much. It's mostly quantum linkbait and quantum exaggeration.

The underground vision will have a very low resolution. Your can detect if there is a basement, but not if there is someone there. My guess is that instead of using of a single Rubidium atom (as described in the press article) they are using a Bose condensate with a bunch of Rubidium atoms. This is a cool (cold :)) quantum phenom, but most of the current electronic equipment use other quantum phenom, like the quantum LEDs, the quantum CCD of cameras, the quantum transistors in a microprocessor, ...

The vision around corners may (a bey big may) have better resolution, but probably only enough to detect big objects. Maintaining entanglement/coherence after bouncing in objects is very difficult, if the objects are not perfectly still. It's more difficult to imagine what quantum thing they are using that is not used in common cameras.
I don't have a direct answer for this, but I do have a suggestion - while you are looking for for a better job for yourself, maybe you can use the extra cash that you have to support those that are already doing life changing work (doctors without borders comes to mind, for example)?
exactly. I had the same thoughts... and she thinks that is okay or even she thinks this is great for her.
@gonsanchezs, please add Latvia: https://startuplatvia.eu/startup-visa

Cost: 100Eur

Family: Yes

Must be board member

Requirements: Not employed at other company or member of another board. Within 6 months 30'000 Eur investment, 18 months another 30'000;
>that effectively doubles the cost: the int, and now the pointer to that int.

Empty objects aren't free either, so you pay triple.
What able person in their right mind would want to go to the EU?

It would be helpful to also note various income and other (eg VAT) tax rates so that people can estimate how much of their prospective paycheck would be taken by various governments, from local to the EU.
Why didn't you just download virtualbox, download a Windows 10 iso, and pirate >= office 2016 just to please them? If windows deactivates before the book is finished just run kmspico one more time.
You can always open /dev/random and read bytes from there as well
Train Neural Nets with JAX
Microsoft didn't make Skype, they bought it and have been slowly grinding it into dust ever since. It's nothing like it used to be.
what about a quality of those services? a full time driver drives much better than someone who does 4 different gigs part time
SpaceX Crew Dragon Return Flight to Earth Stream
Ever thought about pitting one of those tiny cameras on your cats and make them upload the pictures to the cloud? That way would not have to find them with the robot.
this is so awesome!

but how is it that we have RNN solutions for handwriting when we don't even have a standard, canned RNN for OCR?

I know tesseract and related projects exist, but when I've tried them they have been fairly brittle with lower accuracy than I was expecting. Accuracy was especially problematic for letter combinations like "-ing" that would consistently be recognized as "-mg".

Is there a good ML OCR library I'm missing?
Since everyone was socially conditioned to desire and believe in free will. Similar to the past with God but I would have been hanged. It will change and it’s her not him.
> By one count 48 million people in China lack sufficient drinking water. The number of people facing severe drinking water shortages doubled to 5.9 million in early 2008 because of a severe winter drought. China has more than a fifth of the world's population but only 7 percent of its fresh water.

Not from the article, but if there was a startup needed and one that could jump start their sector there, a significant problem to solve is clean water.
Came here to say exactly the same! Great minds think alike!
The site does have a RSS feed at /feed.
Really cool stuff! My phone isn't big enough to do handwriting on, so I'm not really sure where this is supposed to be used? On a tablet I guess?