skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how having the capability to either take a picture of me or possibly have a video conference improves the end user experience? First of all - doing the latter would involve me being forced to stop a moving car to engage in such an interaction. I have a rental car because my intent is to drive somewhere, not interact with someone I do not know through means of video. "Personablity" does not play into this conversation at all unfortunately - unless a random Hertz employee complimenting me on my attire or hair style at a given moment is a contributing factor to my car rental experience.

Regarding "it is very easy to get riled up about security". Yes, it is - as it very well should be. What happens if I hand a credit card over to a passenger and the "NeverLost" snaps an image of the digits? Highly unlikely but plausible - is Hertz going to guarantee PCI compliance of the footage? What if a group of individuals working for a defense contractor rent a car and are all discussing a secret, or top secret, program they are all cleared for? What are the implications of controlling that data?

I fully understand there is a gray middle-ground - however people have an expectation of privacy in a vehicle today. There are just as many counter-point scenarios to the "dog pissing" one presented (which is rather weak in my opinion).

That leads me to the question: do rental car companies have that much loss with which can be offset by having monitoring capabilities (video and audio)? There is considerable risk and infrastructure cost to implementing and protecting this "feature". I doubt that the amount of loss with regard to the vehicles themselves comes close to an all-encompassing monitoring system which could be based on the features that seem to be apparent in the latest version of "NeverLost". If the utility is for customer experience improvement - again, it's a large risk for Hertz to take on to provide minimal improvement in a rental experience and I doubt they've considered the edge cases that may put them in more fiscal predicament than not having it at all.

If anything these devices should be opt-in, meaning they can be removed by any customer prior to taking the rental vehicle. Customers will make choices based on privacy, if that seems minimal it may be today. But overall awareness exists and is garnering more consideration over time.
Unfortunately that was the time where developers could make a game alone from A to Z and it would be considered as one of the greatest.

Nowadays except for a few indie games, developers are just cogs in the system and producers get all the fame.
When you do find an alpha, it tends to exist for some systemic reason. The financial system is organized in some way that systematically presents opportunities to make money. It may have to do with slowness of large players, information leakage from weak order placement systems, ideological disposition towards disregarding some phenomenon, etc.

The way to think about it is not some efficient calculating machine, but as an ecosystem. Can you imagine a tiger saying "hey, there's more prey here than I need to eat and reproduce. Must be something wrong with the system"? No, he just eats and shags. Evolution keeps things in check, meaning things don't go obviously out of whack, but now and again local imbalances occur that can be exploited. The fact that they are exploited also obscures their existence from a high level.
I would rather say that they need to be willing to discuss specific architectural details in order to even sit at the table, sure.

We are in violent agreement then. When I say roadmap I certainly don't intend to mean that each step needs to be perfectly detailed.

The field of "AI safety" needs more engineering and less philosophy. But that doesn't require unity around a single roadmap, or any concept of deliverable dates.

Exactly exactly and well said! That is 100% the point. Mind meld complete.
Thanks Augusto :)
The repeal of prop 13 is straightforward. Let property taxes rise more than inflation each year. It could be capped at 2x or 3x, etc. It would be slow enough to let people prepare, but fast enough to be painful.
Both Swagger support and code generation are coming in the next release :)
Thanks for making my point. I live in Spain.

Fifty years ago there was a dictatorship here, people weren't even able to speak their minds freely, without fear for their personal safety.

Castillan language and identity were forced upon Catalans, Galicians an Basques, that hold grudges for that even now.

No longer than ten years ago there were still regular terrorist attacks by ETA, with dozens of innocent victims.

Saying that things are worse now, regardless of the employment rate, it's just idiotic, sorry if I'm being blunt.

In general, the EU, which is seen by some (especially far right and far left parties) as the cause of all evil, has given Europe 70 years of peace, in a continent that has been at war for all of its history.

I'll gladly weather the occasional economic crisis for the privilege.
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>All you need is something that, given a sunny day and a highway, beats the human at driving the truck, and suddenly you lose three million jobs when it hits the market.

I don't see how, given a sunny day and a highway, an autonomous vehicle can quantifiably beat a human driver to the degree of 'destroying the trucker industry overnight.'

Unless you're assuming that there are few human drivers capable of managing a trip down a highway under the best possible conditions, the results between the two would have to be more or less equal. Those human drivers can, meanwhile, still manage night, sleet, snow, fog, and arbitrary backroads and detours.
Author here.

Why is it bad? Because it leads to no good? That's your view, and I disagree - understanding that this approach doesn't lead to results is actually a way to let people like him understand that results come from a different strategy. In this sense, saying that he's wrong DOES good to his cause.
Thank you! Not the stat I remember, but sounds like it is in line. As others have pointed out, the ROW includes sidewalks, and the planting strip used to protect sidewalks from vehicles. If I add to this all the off-street parking, then 33% sounds pretty darned plausible / in-line with this stat. Aside, Jennifer Wieland is one of the most awesome public servants I've ever met.
And not just an invention after the fact! "Jaywalking" was a word made up by the auto companies to sway public opinion in their direction (and paint pedestrians who use the street as stupid).

99% Invisible did a nice episode on it a while back: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
> Marvin Gaye's biographer, David Ritz, sided with Gaye's family, though he said he's uncertain whether from a legal standpoint "Blurred Lines" technically infringes the copyright on Gaye's song. But looking at the case in reverse he argued that the jury's verdict was justified because, "There would be no 'Blurred Lines' if there had not been 'Got to Give It Up.' It never in a million years would have happened."

By that definition almost every song-writer since since ~1967 owes Bob Dylan some money, and Dylan owes half that money to Woodie Guthrie who owes it to a thousand other musicians that came before him.

Blurred Lines has had a target painted on it from the beginning, I've never seen a song so hated. I've even heard feminists refer to it as a "date-rape anthem." (edit: see the almost instantly killed comment in this thread that just says "Finally". People hate the song so much that they don't care if it sets bad legal precedent so long as something bad happens to Robin Thicke.)

Worse than no copyright law, maybe worse than bad copyright law is vague copyright law that's selectively enforced to police message and content.
Another casualty of net neutrality I'm afraid.
You can expect privacy in your home through clear windows even if the shades are not drawn.
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The way that people are using the DOM:

1) Large interdependent libraries that try to "fix" the DOM (and provide widgets, MVW, etc.
2) The common practice of loading scripts over external domains. This compromises privacy & security and is possible because of the same-origin policy.

The DOM is not idiot-proof. But the way that they are using it causes undue problems.
"You can definitely save cost by subscribing to reserved instances, but the downside is you have to put down money upfront (...)"

This isn't required anymore.
AWS introduced new Reserved Instances options few months ago, including a "no upfront" option which still gets you ~40% discount over on-demand prices.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/simplified-reserved-instanc...
Maybe someone who cares about this should submit patches? All of the major browser engines are open-source.
For development yes, but for the consumer apps you might be used to using (or have paid for) it could be difficult switching.

YNAB, Fluenz, & iTunes are things you might want a mac for.
Really?

"It is very unlikely that climate changes of at least the seven centuries prior to 1950 were due to variability generated within the climate system alone. A significant fraction of the reconstructed Northern Hemisphere inter-decadal temperature variability over those centuries is very likely attributable to volcanic eruptions and changes in solar irradiance, and it is likely that anthropogenic forcing contributed to the early 20th-century warming evident in these records." - http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-...
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Yes. So much, in fact, that having a gun in your car (in some states/situations) can be considered carrying a concealed weapon.
It's not for bragging rights, but if someone is doing their "due dillies" and comes across your profile, that might speak to your credibility in particular domains.
That essay, I think, should be required reading for anyone who argues with other people on the internet. Or anyone who argues, full stop.
This is an interesting one for state wiretap laws, especially if there's a hot mic. Is there an expectation of privacy in a rental vehicle? Tapping a vehicle you own would definitely violate most state wiretap statutes.
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See this article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-hi...
Hi Mike!

Thought you might be interested in my Elixir impl, though not as featureful: https://github.com/rickhull/backoff/blob/master/lib/backoff....

Example usage: https://github.com/rickhull/backoff/blob/master/examples/dem...
We get free inter-DC connectivity for free with Softlayer. There really is no difference for us between connecting to a server within a DC or between datacenters (aside from added latency, of cource) – the same private address space, the same access rules (we see all of our machines in a private backend network from any datacenter).
Hours worked per worker is slightly down from 1950: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr2812.pdf (Table 1). Inflation-adjusted single earner income is flat since 1950: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/cah_slides.pdf, while HHI for two-income households is up over 15%. In summary, people have made the choice to have more money instead of having one parent stay home.

And who can blame them? I love being a parent, but child care is messy, often gross, and physically exhausting. It's blue collar work. Across the economy, people eschew physically-demanding blue collar work for service jobs, even when the former pays more. So it's totally unsurprising that, given the choice, women (or men for that matter) would rather go work, even if most of the money goes to child care, instead of staying home with kids. You don't need to create a false rationalization about the economy forcing both parents to work to explain the labor trends.
"A cost control normally afforded to the privilege of owning"

This is the most important line here. This article is about reserving rights to the already privileged. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is all very vague theorizing of course, but I believe that once we reach a level of artificial intelligence that resembles biological intelligence, scaling it will be quite feasible on a silicon platform. You've also removed the element of maintaining a body (exercise, eating, hygiene) as well as expanded potential interfaces (direct connection to the internet) so that even a 1:1 silicon brain would presumably be more efficient.

The next thing you can do is optimize the time step element, so that for every 1 second of thinking in a silicon brain, it has performed the equivalent of 10 seconds of thinking in a human brain. At that point, you've surpassed human intelligence. It's also safe to assume that if we do reach this point, we've learned a lot more about how biological intelligence works, and may be able to use to our advantage the beneficial intelligence properties of savants.

The really big downside with all these approaches is that the intelligence will be built from a blueprint that includes emotions, and we may do something that is very morally wrong towards the intelligence that we created.
It would be interesting to do this in three dimensions. With a perceptual color space such as HCL it could be used to pick N distinct colors, e.g. for data visualization.
Given how important water is, the consequences of contamination etc, safety was given first priority, then simplicity. How would you have done better?
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The generic repository is just a lazy anti-pattern (2013)
This would probably cause regressions with other GIFs that neglect to specify a delay but are supposed to have one. It's hard to imagine this universal behavior is accidental. It's probably like everything else on the Web — a hack to keep things that shouldn't work from actually not working.
It would seem insane, except that one of the main purposes of the Proposition was to de-fund government. If you weren't around at the time, "drown government in the bathtub" might not ring a bell.
You might be interested in reading the travel accounts of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan (full name Ahmad ibn Fadlān ibn al-Abbās ibn Rāšid ibn Hammād), an Abassid envoy who travelled all the way up to Russia in the early 10th century and apparently witnessed a Viking funeral:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan

His account is collected with a few other Arab travelogues in the North in "Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North"

Someone created a reconstructed map of the possible route: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e83699d...
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I think you're simplifying it too much. It's easy to come to that conclusion in the current market with so much cash floating around, but if the growth rate is there, then it can make a lot of sense to continue spending for that growth.

Brad Feld had an interesting post as kind of a back of the envelope for what your finances should look like (http://feld.com/archives/2015/02/rule-40-healthy-saas-compan...). Of course it's intended for companies 'at scale', or around $1M MRR for a SaaS company.

There are plenty of examples of companies that operate like this that you probably wouldn't consider reckless with their spending. HubSpot comes to mind.
Sometimes I code for work. Sometimes I code for fun. Sometimes I'm even lucky enough that my coding for work is fun.

I think that "programming" can be as broad of an over-generalization as "you spend too much time on the computer." Don't mistake the glyphs on one screen for being the same to me as those you saw a moment before. At any point you may find the same machine that causes me to work to be used to learn new things, or to adventure into new worlds.

I understand that not everyone is built like that; but don't set up a false premise that drawing a parallel to old world thinking somehow applies to all of us.
But before that the majority of human history has either both parents or both parents and the children (as they are able) helping out to sustain the family. We need to be sure to survey a long-enough time-line to understand the actual norms and what may have been a relatively small period of recent fortune.
Here's something rent control proponents also ignore: there are also other nice places in the Bay Area, that are way cheaper than SF, where you can live with good access to public transportation. Most public transportation in the Bay Area has good, cheap access to SF.
It would also not be the first time that the US used torture for its own purposes...
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> It sucks

Why does it suck? The market should be allowed to work.
Not just your infrastructure, your code base too. I've seen a lot of developers practice what I call "debugging by superstition," where they make random changes until it appears to work. I prefer to keep digging until I understand. Sometimes I make a hypothesis and test it, which superficially resembles debugging by superstition but is different.

One benefit of experience is that you gain a better intuition about your hypotheses, and you know how to more quickly devise "experiments" to test them. Also if you know more things in depth (because of prior digging) you don't have so many rabbit holes to explore.

Another benefit of waiting until you understand is that you don't make bull-in-a-china-closet edits to unfamiliar code. As a freelancer I have a strong bias towards adopting the style/patterns/architecture of whatever code base I'm working in. I wish more people did this! More often programmers skim through some code and start making changes, without trying to learn why the code is how it is or what other parts of the system need it that way.

Since this is the Internet I feel compelled to add: of course moderation in all things.
Well children were also being beaten and abused 50 years and previous to that. Let's not act like everything was homogenous in one regard or another in different time periods.
Android actually has functionality built in that can recognize certain URL patterns and offer up a chooser of which app to open the link in.

You can register something like https://example.com/posts/{post_id} and have it open the posts activity and show the specified post (if the user chooses to open the url using the 'Example App'). If the app is not installed, the url is opened by the default handler of https...
Imgur, popular on Reddit, actually recognized the problem and invented GIFV (which is HTML-wrapped mp4/webm)

http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/

Unfortunately Facebook doesn't allow easy video embeds.
27% ROW, minus the parts for pedestrians and the parts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, plus all the off-street parking (including driveways)? 33% sounds pretty darned plausible to me.

But you're right, this is one of those academic stats I should be able to cite properly. Since I can't find it (I swear it was on Seattle Public Utilities website once upon a time), perhaps this will be an afternoon task to validate. Should be doable by carving up the city into grid cells of some appropriate unit and then using orthophotos to aid blocking out car-accessible hardscape in a random sampling of grid cells.
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and you could go back to 1888 for a great blizzard, or even before then. The issue before us is that we don't have great records for an extended period of time for areas like North America. Get over to Europe and the Far East and we likely could come up with some historical accounting.

The take away is this, severe weather, is easy to exaggerate the causes because so much of it is still unknown. The part I appreciate about the faux panic over climate change is that each day seems to bring about more understanding of what is happening and why.
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> There is no way San Franciscans renters should give up rent control without landlords giving up Prop 13...

What do these have to do with each other? And I guarantee if you gave landlords the option, they would jump on that offer. Prop 13 is saving long-time owners a few thousand dollars a year, which would be easily made up (and more) with higher rents.
> discourages exchanging one property for another, because doing so increases almost always increases effective tax rates

This is not strictly true, if you're 55+ and moving from Ca to Ca. http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/faqs/propositions60_90.htm#1
Many at-least-once systems support dead letter queues natively, and if not, support isn't hard to add on yourself.
Weather news is the easiest way to push climate change propaganda.

Just remember, the next Florida hurricane will prove global warming to be true!
I'd have assumed that people would flee from iTunes given the chance :) Perhaps it's improved in the years since I last used it (bought an iPhone when they were the New Hotness here in Australia) but I doubt it.

When I migrated off iOS I encoded my iTunes music to .ogg, which was a pretty good experience. I don't know what the state of the art is now though.

According to the forums, YNAB runs in Linux on WINE. Also people have reported some success with Fluenz on WINE as well. For music I run Spotify, which has a good Linux client these days.

I'll grant you it isn't always easy, or even possible, but there are usually alternatives.
> Misunderstanding when models should and should not be applied is one of the core reasons we got into an asset bubble in the mid-2000s. Banks were pricing financial products using models whose assumptions did not hold over the long-term.

IMHO there's nothing wrong with economic bubbles, there's no economic law that I know of which says that economic growth should only happen linearly.

What was wrong with the financial bubble of 2008 was the way it was handled, starting with the Bear Stearns bailout in early 2008 (of which not many people speak anymore, is like everything started with Lehman Brothers in September).

Yes, banks had made some very wrong assumptions and they should have paid dearly for them, like in any free market. That didn't happen.
Yeah, I was going to point that out too. Here's more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_southern_Ita...

At one point in my life here in Italy, I had a blonde housemate from Sicily.
As others have mentioned, the JS for the crypto is fetched from the server every time, which is a weak spot because the server could give you duff crypto code.

I've looked at similar things before, and I became very interested in Data URLs. Here's an example that PGP-encrypts files and uploads them to DropBox: https://bitbucket.org/geraintluff/encrypted-drop

The idea is that you can fit a very small implementation of SHA-256 as inline JavaScript in an HTML page. This means that you can produce a 1500-character Data URL which loads, SHA-256 verifies and executes the external resources needed to bootstrap your app.

I started a whole module loader based on this concept, so you could do fancier things like async/parallel loading, adding more verification methods (e.g. public key, once that module is loaded) and so on: https://bitbucket.org/geraintluff/caution.js