skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a similar situation about 8 months ago—You just have to pick up a pencil and go for it.

I had just finished college and found a great job. With all the free time I didn't have in school, I decided to buckle down and start taking art seriously (instead of doodling cartoon figures). I knew I need to start out by building a solid foundation, which meant that I have to really familiarize myself with the basics and maintain a daily habit of learning+practicing (even if my brain no longer wants to operate after 7-9 hour of work). That's what I have been doing in the past 8 months.

It takes quite a bit of self-discipline and sometimes it's just hard to get yourself to commit to it, but it the end it's all worthwhile. I have made (small) decent progress... It's a wonderful feeling, to know that you are able to confidently produce something that you would've not been able to do so several months ago. Here are some of my recent practice sketches: https://i.imgur.com/gtR8T2t.jpg

Proko has several tutorial series that I strongly recommend for beginners that are looking for somewhere to start: http://www.proko.com/
> To flip this around
And that is to flip it a lot. The talk was about direct help to commit crimes against humanity. Your examples don't apply at all.

I think that helping dictatorial regimes to commit crimes should be itself a crime. "I just did it for money" is not an excuse legal nor moral.
> This is precisely CP.

Hum. I would prefer to call 'precisely CP' a system that shutdown one of the partition, not one that cannot restart after a partition. Even if formally you can use both (i.e. CP/AP)

> VoltDB changed the way our product behaved in version 3.0 to aggressively kill nodes if there is any potential for split brains. We originally intended this feature for the cloud only,

Quite interesting.
Maybe a term like proto-domestication would better serve.
Discourse was really, really close for us. The breaker was the lack of a real WordPress import support: https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possibile-to-import-exist...

That being said, that evaluation was done before we found out how difficult it would be with Disqus.
Ask HN: How do you feel when the Internet insults you?
So easy for the Internet to be negative to your comments/blog posts/tweets/whatever.

How do you feel when you are the target of negativity or attack or insult?

Do you take it on board, does it hurt your feelings at all?
> The security compromise is that performing some operations reveals a "little bit" about the encrypted data.

How big a problem is this?
> Taxi companies already have all the raw political power they need.

I think if you read the link in my prior post, then I think you might agree that the taxi companies are out of their league facing Uber, their $40 billion, and their massive lobbying effort.

Anyway, I don't think the conversation was about taxis in particular, but about any Uber-like startups.
Awesome, thanks!

Edit: eek, looks like it's been removed by the author :( https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/youtube-disab...
I'm fascinated by the accidents. The AV is stopped at a light. Someone rear-ends it. Minimal damage.

Probably similar accidents are occurring every minute between human drivers, going unreported as the rule.

AVs might one day even avoid this "victimization," if these events keep following a predictable pattern. AVs could exaggerate the gap, leave a precisely calibrated amount of extra space. When anticipating a rear end collision, the AV would honk and flash brake lights while scooting forward.

Google's absolutely correct that its AVs are never at fault in any of these accidents, legally speaking. Does blame change though if there are ways the AI can prevent this series of similar accidents, but they choose not to?

The AV yields to those running a red light, even though getting t-boned wouldn't legally be the AV's fault. That seems wise to me. Is it inconsistent to expect the AV to avoid getting t-boned, but not expect it to avoid getting rear-ended? I'm not sure...

Or, more broadly: How do you divide blame between two parties when one has superhuman faculties? Is the AI responsible for everything it could have conceivably been programmed to prevent? Or do you just hold it to a human standard?

Like all hard problems, neither extreme is very satisfying.
> Presumably they add a degree of quality control, something government is notoriously ill-equipped to provide.

On this point, I'm not sure I agree. My water is clean, my roads are safe, my airplanes don't crash, robots drive around Mars and fly to Pluto -- the government seems particularly good at quality control.
You are misunderstanding the language being used.

Add-ons are brower extensions like the examples you provide.

Plug-ins are Flash, Silverlight, Unity Web Player, and the Java plug-in.

Only the going away of the latter is being called for.
IIRC (and I may not RC), ND traffic is supposed to be constrained to a local link.

If this is true, then it would be totally safe to drop ND traffic that didn't originate on your network, and drop ND traffic that occurs on networks that you manage that have manually configured addresses.

So, how would you DoS anything other than your upstream router [0], or the nodes on your own LAN?

[0] Even this DoS seems trivially preventable by dropping ND requests that happen too frequently. If you assume that there is one router on each end of a link, then the rate of ND messages would have to be very low in the ordinary course of operation, no?
The type of stuff that Uber lobbies for, though, generally opens up the market to a variety of participants. I.e. Lyft, Sidecar, Shuddle and Wingz can quietly ride the coattails of Uber-lobbied regulations.

I haven't seen yet some lobbying effort where Uber would try to lock up the market for itself (like car dealerships), but maybe I wasn't looking close enough.
The thing that really stands out here isn't that the accidents occurred (which is sort of amusing), but rather the excellent analytics the car produced. The car knew where it was, how long it was stopped, the conditions at the time of the accident, and the relative velocities of the vehicle that caused the accident. This is going to change the nature of automobile accidents entirely. The amount of data we'll be able to collect from even the simplest fender bender will be fantastic.
> You act like this only happens in the tech industry. That's your problem.

Read more carefully. I was addressing this particular case.

> This is the real world. A lot of crimes go uncaught and unpunished

Uh, yeah, exactly. Which is why your earlier "It's better to stay silent and let police investigate" is not sufficient.

> But I guess getting attention and pointing people to your Patreon solves a lot of life's problems.

In which you reveal yourself:

1) Those rape threats aren't real threats.

2) Everyone wants to stop hearing about the threats you get.

3) You're obviously just bringing up the threats because you're attention seeking.

I mean...seriously?

> Ever heard of the expression "Don't feed the trolls"?

Whoops. Should have listened.
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I remember seeing a doco that was discussing the 'what is art' question. My favourite response was from an eccentric artist/rancher, who had made the three letters A R T in giant vinyl-covered foam blocks, and stacked them against a fence. His opinion on the definition question "What is 'art'?": 'art' is three letters up against a fence.
Yeah. It is a trivial assumption. In my experience with Comcast Residential internet, one's IPv6 prefix remains the same for as long as one's IPv4 address, which is to say that they remain the same forever.

Comcast hands out allocations as wide as /60, but even this doesn't help much with privacy; if you're being unusually proactive with your network renumbering, that's only four bits of entropy that you're adding to your identifiers. :)
It uses libglib, etc, from the GNOME project, even if it doesn't require the GNOME desktop environment.
Just because people like a question doesn't mean it is on-topic.
I believe that was addressed in canon, the Vulcan scene in ST2009 notwithstanding. However, in Into Darkness, I recall an aside that the Enterprise would incinerate on reentry unless shields were restored, indicating utility beyond weaponry (that they did not, even though the pivotal moment was long after they were in blue sky, was a bit confusing).
ctrl+f "FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM" to find his writeup of the actual difficulties of fast VAX implementations, including ways that x86 is easier than VAX. The big whammy is string ops where the length operand can be indirectly-addressed.

x86 string ops, which are a lot simpler, were slow until pretty recently.
I saw one on Rengstorff the other day.
> The /64 is the same for your whole local network.

This means that -at best- IPv6 "Privacy Extensions" give advertisers no more information than they get today with non-Carrier-Grade IPv4 NATs. That's not a big win, in my book. :/
Copy Errors Reported to CA Writers Guild

Given the time we’re spending on busy scripts, we’ll inevitably be involved in writing bad copy; sometimes it’s impossible to overcome the realities of speed and deadlines. Thousands of minor creative failures happen every day in typical American copy, 94% of them involving human error, and as many as 55% of them go unreported. (And we think this number is low; for more, see here.) In the six years of our project, we’ve been involved in 14 minor grammatical errors of more than 1.8 million words of autonomous and manual writing combined. Not once was the autonomous writer the cause of the error.

(CA regulations require us to submit CA WG form OL316 Report of Copy Error Involving an Autonomous Writer for all errors involving our writers. The following summaries are what we submitted in the “Copy Error Details” section of that form.)
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The Communication Event Loop
> Someone's gonna do it anyways?

You can apply this reasoning to justify for absolutely anything that you want to do. And it is false.

> On a separate note, we should be free to pursue scientific and engineering knowledge without having to deal with consequences of idiots that misuse such things.

Completely agree. But this people are the "idiots" that are taking the scientific research of others and putting it in bad hands. And what they are doing should be punishable by law.
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> Consider another problem the vehicle already solves. The AV wisely yields to those running a red light, even though the AV has the right of way. If it didn't, but was instead frequently t-boned... Google could technically still say its vehicle "never caused an accident," right? It'd never be at fault for these, but the AVs are still designed to avoid them anyway. Is this inconsistent with a choice not to avoid rear end collisions at intersections?

This is called defensive driving. You as a human are supposed to avoid getting killed even in cases where you aren't legally liable. This includes making sure the intersection is clear before going in. It includes checking if anyone is coming down the wrong way of a one way street before going in or crossing it. It involves something as simple as making sure "right lane must turn" actually turned before someone magically appears out of your blind spot.

And, importantly, it also includes knowing what's behind you as much as knowing what's in front of you. If you see someone is going to rear-end you, you should at the very least step off the brake to make the collision less violent. If possible accelerate forward.

And I know this isn't possible [/practical] in most american cars because they're automatics, but don't hold the brake when you're standing still. It makes potential rear-endings work out better. And never turn the wheel before you intend to turn. If you get rear-ended you could get pushed into oncoming traffic.

All this is to say that while only one vehicle is to blame for a collision, two vehicles are responsible. (unless you hit a tree or some other static barrier, a tree cannot drive defensively)

Or, more bluntly, it might be the other person's fault, but you're the one who's dead.
And on the other hand, there's Wordpress.
Cross-platform development is not like the other problems (too many poor quality frameworks, unsolved problems like scaling, etc.) The main problem with cross-platform development is that the creator of the platform usually has no incentive to work with other platforms; quite the opposite. That road leads to commoditization. Users and developers want commoditization, but sellers do not.

Another problem is that often if you create a platform, it is because you want to do something different than established platforms. This inevitably makes cross-platform difficult.
> I think it's pretty clear that this won't be their last effort in this area.

> There's a perfect fit between self-driving technology and ride sharing

In Google's case, that would be continuous advertisement inundation to the product(s)[1] as well as even more data collection on the product[1].

1 - product: previously known as "a user[2]".

2 - user: archaic form of the term "person".
Good questions.

This was a MicroAge computer store selling equipment in 1985-1987/8 when I was there.

We had no QA beyond burning in kit ourselves before giving to the customer. Everything was simply vendor-supported hardware and software.

In this case it was Novell hardware back when Novell ran on your PC and there was no such thing as a dedicated Novell server. Those came after the hardware I'm talking about.

The software was a point of sale system (the name of which I no longer remember) and had to be network aware. From memory it was so the software could push transactions to another PC.

Anyway when the sales guy approached me and asked if we could sell the system I said no. The vendors had made it clear that the mix of network card and software didn't work and wasn't supported. We learned the hard way when another customer (the guy's brother) started having problems when we expanded his network.

It turned out the network vendor (Gateway?) had upreved their cards and the new ones caused reboots when used with this point of sale software. We had to call the distributor and beg for some older version cards to make the brother's system stable.

So the sales guy hears this explanation and goes to the boss and asks for permission to sell the systems since "We can just request old cards." Boss asks me, I say no because we can't guarantee getting old cards and as stated everyone in my support chain have washed their hands of this combination.

But the customer is price sensitive, it works for his brother and he's saying sell me this or no sale. So the sales guy writes a quote anyway. He knows my boss will feel obligated to honor the quote, and he did, so we sold the system.

In the end the store owner was screwed by his investment partners but that's a story for another day.

Hopefully you understand now why I thought the sales guy should pay for the replacement.
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It's so important to realize that just because someone gives it away, doesn't mean it doesn't have a cost. If you use the service and want it to be around, it needs to be supported.
> And so if I consume immediately, I get $80 worth of consumption for every $100 I earn, whereas if I invest I consume only $77.2 of consumption for every $100 I earn. That's the core of Sumner's argument.

With the numbers you gave, the first number was correct ($80 of consumption on $100 in pre-tax labor income), but with investment the actual number is $88.75 on $110 of pre-tax labor and capital income, or $80.68 per $100 of income.
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"The first 1/3 of CS61A in scheme had no mutation. That is almost impossible in Python to do..."

Pretty unambiguous to me. GP had a very thoughtful reply to be clear.

If the desire was to teach idiomatic python, that's totally legitimate. But the decision to whether or not teach FP concepts is in no way constrained by the choice of language.
You and jerf both have me hopelessly outnerded. I bow to your superior knowledge.
Perspective (from the comments):

"Is this type of study also being done on the descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade?"
I dislike the abundance of color schemes with low saturation. This lower contrast, and I can imagine I'd have to turn up screen backlight to the max if I used it in sunlight.

I tried to use colleague's android and I found it unintuitive to use too (it wasn't obvious what elements you can interact with, and animations were annoying).

(I'm a WP user and it's THE UI I like best.)
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I found the linked TED talk [1] fascinating.

[1]:https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_...
This is an interesting philosophical point. I said nothing negative about Amazon, just a recommendation to applicants.

Further, many people commented in this thread about jobs and companies in a positive light - even if my comments were negative, why are positive comments allowed, but negative are rejected?
:-)
Yes, I had a good education. My wife often points out when I am lamenting the current state of education that I was lucky enough to go to very good schools in the sixties and that education even then was also pretty bad if you were unlucky, lived in a rural area, deprived inner city, etc.

Anyway, back to my poorly made point: I think that the example sentences show that even 'educated' British and American English are in many ways quite distinct dialects.
While most human drivers have a hard time avoiding rear-end collisions in which they are the victim, it would save a fair number of people from gruesome deaths if they would build some sort of rear collision avoidance logic for situations where it may be possible for the system to get the car out of harm's way. There seem to be hundreds of accidents like this [1] annually where large trucks smash into cars stopped at red lights or that have slowed down during traffic jams.

Perhaps the cars should constantly be planning escape routes while slowing down and stopping with appropriate distance from those in front of it to allow for escape should it detect an inevitable collision from behind. Even where the only possible escape route involves hitting another car, it should be able to make the decision that a light collision with a vehicle in another lane is perferable to a large truck hitting it at 70mph.

[1] http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/traffic/2015/04/12/fatal-cras...
I explained in my reply if you'd like a better explanation.
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Why is there so much dysfunction around everything they do?
Q: What attacks is it secure against?
A: ...

Q: How do you know it's secure against anything at all?
A: ...
Goldman Sachs' $38MM options trading error [pdf]
Sounds like you did something and then you got better. Sadly, post hoc ergo propter hoc is not a treatment modality.
I'm thinking the same-thing but they could even take this data out of the self driving car, apply it to a normal car and even in that case it would be a huge change that could be incredibly beneficial!
It's a pretty interesting sequence of events that turned on configuration errors and humans overriding automated pauses (what the Order calls circuit breakers) without really understanding what was going on.
> Google's absolutely correct that its AVs are never at fault in any of these accidents, legally speaking. Does blame change though if there are ways the AI can prevent this series of similar accidents, but they choose not to?

By definition, we don't do that with human drivers that don't meet the legal circumstances to be "at fault" even if in the specific case it would be possible for them to avoid the accident but they didn't. Why would do that for non-human drivers?
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Go listen to the live Q&A moot did at the end. Yes, all eight hours of it. All community managers should strive to be at peace with the world as moot was. He truly understood his community and understood that no matter what he did, there'd still be people hating him.
First of all, No, a protocol or application is not fundamentally centralized because it uses IP. IP already supports multiple forms of addressing and routing and both centralized and decentralized services use IP.

Second, snow does not change whether an application is centralized or not. It's the application which is centralized, not the address. Your host's address can be "1.2.3.4" or "abcdefghijklmnop", this does not change how the application works at all.

Third, snow is just a tunnel. Any tunnel would "fix" an application the same way by simply translating addresses and encapsulating communication.

This is basically just onion routing, but snow doesn't really exist to be an onion router. The real purpose of snow appears to be that the author wanted to use the features of IPv6 (secure connections and the ability to address and connect to a host behind a network firewall) without having to actually use IPv6 in his application, and doing all this on top of an IPv6-only network. This is what sets it apart from every other NAT-tunnel. The public key stuff is a red herring.
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Stack Overflow works by teaching people how to ask good questions. So far all I see in the article are terrible questions.
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ supports SC too.
Skype killer.
Or BoringSSL: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/
> I'm not sure I understand reddit enough, but how you can harass somebody with a sub if said person never visits the said sub?

You can't. The whole problem here was that those subs were not restricting themselves to posting within the sub. They were harassing people outside of the sub.

According to one of the Reddit admins[1], all of the banned subs had "numerous complaints that they were harassing people both on and off Reddit".

The problem here was not that they were saying mean things on the internet, as you seem to be claiming. The problem was that they were very legitimately harassing people outside of the subreddit. The people being harassed did not have to visit the sub in order to see it, and didn't even have to visit Reddit. And that's what makes it harassment, and what makes it against the rules of Reddit.

[1] ekjp, I think this was somewhere in the same thread where he posted https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...
A lot of startups and even big tech firms don't care about degrees anymore. I know google doesn't.