skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets just start with "rape" being used as an all encompassing term for all sexual crimes, which can get very confusing, after all it happens everyday where someone willfully engages in sex and is simultaneously the victim of rape (e.g. statutory rape). So it is a word covering a vast topic.

Historically, victims of rape were more inclined to keep it to themselves than tell someone, because they were not believed; when they were believed nothing happened to the perpetrator; and sometimes the victims were made out to be deserving of the rape. This is not just true of women, but there are many stories of children who told their parents that people at their churches touched them and then the parents did not believe their own children (double victimization).

Lets take a single modern day accusation...Jameis Winston accused of rape by a freshman college girl. Just look online and you will find opinions on everything from: people assuming he is guilty because he is black she is white; people feeling its just another white girl making up lies about a successful black man; that the redneck town of Tallahassee was persecuting a poor black kid; that the good ol' boys club helped cover up a rape for the start football player; that she was just a drunk freshman slut or a gold digger; that he later didn't pay for crab legs from publix so he must be a rapist...it just goes on and on. The reality is there is one fact, no one knows what the hell happened, maybe even the two subjects don't know because of alcohol, but everyone has an opinion as to what happened instead of an honest conversation about prevention.

You generally won't have these types of controversies with genocide victims, because...well the victims are dead, and its hard to fake dead. Then again there are still many holocaust deniers around the world. Further, still there are many people who don't know there are active genocides taking place right now, and I'll tell you this I have talked to people about Darfur who claim that is not a genocide and I have to admit that makes me pretty damn uncomfortable.
Sounds like a lot of complaining and you-problems. You sound like the person who always complains about everything and anything.
Actually drone delivery is much more simple than autonomous driving. Algorithm: grab package, fly up, fly directly to delivery point, drop package, all faster than driving.
Compare to autonomous driving which needs to take into account road users (non-autonomous), traffic laws, visualization, etc and it's obvious why drones are more efficient and easier to program.
No plans on if they fall out of their special zone and onto my roof or my head though?
Are you sure? IIRC the last LTS version I tried (14.04) still has Amazon search on by default.
Yeah they're pretty rad! Here's more in a similar style:

https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/221858048/sega-dreamcast-lon...
https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/239251010/windows-japanese-l...
https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/221858970/n64-long-sleeve-t-...
Facebook is not monopoly. The real definition of a monopoly is the sole provider of a good or service, which has apparently been forgotten. FB is not the only social network, nor will it ever be.
Who does have the ability to use force to create artificial monopolies though?
That's definitely true, but counting function parameters was only a small part of the difficulty. Weren't most of the problems related to optimization being harder and less effective than predicted?
The irony being of course, as an Apple owner myself, that Apple kept the app, and removed the entire drive.
Well anyone can be discriminated against, though some argue only those with institutional power can be racist. I tend to go by these definitions:

http://racismschool.tumblr.com/Racism:Definitions
In the very rare case that there is a clearly defined Problem which has been presented to from Above, which you can work on in isolation, and which you should prioritize to the exclusion of all else, then sure, distracting them will cause the Solution to be delayed. Many engineers like to view this kind of situation as their only responsibility and only avenue for adding value. I'm not sure it's accurate.

We have to use a more broad and nuanced perspective on the value we provide when we talk about how that value is affected by our work environment.
If there is magic to be found, it may be in that question. Why about graphs (namely the subset that are deep neural networks) allow them to not only contain such powerful heuristics, but also allow them to be created from scratch with barely any knowledge of the problem domain.

As a side note, I was playing a board game last night (Terra Mystica I believe) and wondering if you could get 5 different neural networks to play the game and then train them against each other (and once they are good enough, against players). I wonder how quickly one could train a network that is unbeatable by humans? Maybe even scale it up to training it to play multiple board games til it is really good at all of them before setting it lose on a brand new one (with a similar genre). Maybe Google could use this to make a Go bot.

But what happens if this is used for evil instead? Say a neural network that reads a person's body language and determines how easily they can be intimidated by either a criminal or the government. Or one that is used to hunt down political dissidents. Imagine the first warrant to be signed by a judge for no reason other than a neural network saying the target is probably committing a crime...
There's OANDA for forex.
I used this in Brazil this last March to read menus. It works extremely well. The mistranslations make it even more fun. Much faster than learning Portuguese!

I took a few screen shots. Aligning the phone, focus, light, shadows on the small menu font was difficult. You must keep steady. Sadly, I ended up hitting the volume control on this best example. Tasty cockroaches! Ha! http://imgur.com/j9iRaY0
Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Responds to Critics
Did I get it right that you support the shitstorm against Eich and Card?

In my book, SJWs are by far much more evil and destructive than anyone from my list.
There's an enormous difference between banning things with direct links to the murder of more than 6 million people, in the hope that no-one gets hurt in the years immediately after the event, and the banning of a word which hurt tens of people's feelings over the internet.
Ask HN: Snapfix – get instant advice. Would you use that?
I just came up with an idea and would be happy to hear your opinion on it.

Nowadays a lot of people have no basic information on how to repair a car, fix the internet or the leaking pipe. They don't know who they should call if their car breaks in the middle of the street or if they should drill in the wall without the fear of drilling through electricity.

What if there was a simple way to ask a professional for advice? Something like Uber for advice.

You pay 5$ and you can talk to a professional who is online. He will tell you to check your cable and restart your router. You can get advice on how much should covering tiles cost or what should you do to get your car going.

Would you find that useful
Does that really help? "Random noise" over TCP/IP doesn't really exist in the wild.

Now, if you made it look like well-encrypted HTTPS traffic, that might be borderline non-suspicious.
The line between insensitive and offensive is so blurry, it would be extremely difficult to make any consistent distinction between the two. It would effectively reduce the discussion to definitional pedantry.
I wish I could see the statistics on how many successful founders have successful parents.
For pithy, I prefer this reply: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w33mawVRXdE/VL6Wd6Bc3rI/AAAAAAAABE...
According to this article [1] on Wikipedia about unregistered trademarks there could be some legal issues.

These might become even bigger if either one you decides to actually register the trademark (or has already done so).

In other words: Go and see if you can get some advice from a attorney specialized in intellectual property law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark
I think the gain that people are aiming for is "write once, run everywhere."

Especially if you're a lone developer - it's one thing to learn the intricacies of one platform (like web), but learning the ecosystems for Android, iOS (maybe you don't even own a mac to develop with), and native desktop apps... it's just too much work for one person. But if you could just write it once and have a good experience on each platform, wouldn't that be amazing? I guess that's what React Native is trying to solve, too.
Understanding Proxy Browsers
Tempted to give this a shot anyway.
It ain't VR, but check out HyperRogue: A roguelike game in hyperbolic space.

http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
jscheel, can you confirm that you have the 3rd gen iPad? If so which os?

I seem to only be able to replicate this on the 3rd Gen iPads.
Implementing a Text Search Engine with Ranking in Python
You have a pre-Windows XP machine?
HN isn't limited to either tech or start-ups.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

If this article had been about a typical crime, in a typical city, with little else of interest, then perhaps it would be overwhelmingly unsuitable for HN.

I can't speak for anyone else, but the article gratifies my intellectual curiosity. It's fascinating to find out about such an important abuse of information, spanning decades, at the highest levels of the judicial system.
Sounds like a LOT of complaining, making engineers here look like a bunch of divas who are never happy. Stop whining and do your job instead of making up excuses why you can't.
Fragments of a wing washed up on Reunion could be wreckage from MH370
An Antarctic Appeal
> But there is a lot of work for the compiler here, wow. Knowing the maximum number of registers that is needed for any function call made within a function? Ouch.

Compilers already do that, to allocate outgoing argument space that can be reused between procedure calls. Saves needless stack manipulation for spilled outgoing parameters.

> And again, rotating the registers to avoid hitting the stack, incredibly powerful.

SPARC did this too. It's a classic RISCism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_window
What happens when programmers don't want to program
If you are that concerned about security you should be willing to deal with the effort of encrypting it client side and understanding how to also decrypt on the receiving side.

If paranoia is this high, why would a security policy text on a web page make any difference? They could claim anything they want, but you wouldn't have any idea if any actual encryption was happening, so best to do it yourself.
Sometimes I use this one to validate certs: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html

The Qualys SSLlabs scan does not accept an IP address. I'm often in the situation where the cert is installed and ready, but the name is not yet pointing to the new IP address. The above URL can verify that you haven't left out the intermediate cert.
ADS-B also solves the tracking issue for Amazon, as each drone wouldn't need to use a separate communications channel to notify its controller of where its is; Amazon could simply tap into existing ADS-B data streams.
Part of the problem with the adversarial system is that if one party has bad lawyers, you can end up with bad case law as a result of them failing to properly argue their case.
How to Stay Safe When the Big One Comes
The compiler problem here was in explicit scheduling, not counting outgoing registers. Modern C compilers for x86 architectures already do the latter.
Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access to internal systems
Well, they are not suppossed to do so...
Not one browser implements TCO, and Babel only implements direct recursion, not mutual recursion. Sigh. Trampolines are your only option aside from Babel. I've written about trampolines here: https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/functional-javascri...
Gah, I really hate it when google routes the first link in a result through their servers...

http://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/57-6-3.pdf

Versus

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
“Imagine the Internet without HTTP and TCP/IP” That's quite an absurd analogy to push forward Amazon's drone program.

Even though I am quite fascinated by the innovation of this idea, not so much about the practicality of it. I believe it is good for rural areas where highway system is not streamlined and major shipping carriers don't encourage frequent routes.
>>They are, but once you start learning about them, you realize the "black magic" part comes mostly from their mathematical nature and very little from them being "inteligent computers".

Oh humbug! The black magic comes from the vast resources Google drew to obtain perfect training datasets. Each step in the process took years to tune, demonstrating that data is indeed for those who dont have enough priors.
I think the the things they highlight are all attributes that define hungry/ambitious people, and/or they correlate to things that would hold people accountable and keep them on track.

For example:

Ivy League School and working at a prestigious company? You don't get either of those by being a slacker.

Younger team, woman co-founder and more than one founder? You better believe there is going to be more pressure to prove yourself and not sell early or give up (vs. being a single founder or an older proven founder).

Standing out from the crowd at demo day or getting noticed out of all the noise of social media? That takes some dedication. I guarantee that the people who did get noticed that way didn't just send one email or one tweet. They were hustling their idea hard.

Great read though. I loved the point that startups don't have to come from SF or NYC to be successful!
Because it had been posted over a year ago prior to being posted a week ago. And yes, you are right in pointing out that the same person submitted it twice in two days, but the first time it appears that nobody saw it. IMO, this is within the HN repost guidelines, but that's a matter of interpretation.

But I agree with you that "If it gets voted to the front page it is because people want to see it..."
It is most certainly not. The inefficiency of USPS doesn't speak to the inherent inability for buses, trains, postal services and internet providers need to be subsidised. That it a huge claim you've made, one link on the inefficiency of USPS(a government funded service...) does not suffice.

The inefficiency of the USPS speaks to the inefficiency of government services. They've lost $47bn over 10 years. Why? Because they have no incentive to care about their business model, because they can be apparently infinitely supplied by taxpayers.
Fixing How the World Eats, One Genetically Engineered Cow at a Time
It should be straightforward to design corridors for drones where, if they were to fail, they land on structures instead of people. Amazon could design this as an additional OpenStreetMap layer, using existing satellite mapping data to create areas to avoid where people are likely to be.

Avoid roads and sidewalks.
I imagine it's because airspace (at least up to 400/500ft) can be relatively empty compared to road traffic in large cities which can be very congested (especially at peak times). So it could lead to reduced delivery times as well as potentially being cheaper than cars. This depends on exactly what the drones are capable of delivering (not your grand piano, of course).
I'll throw my .02 in. For me a good developer is someone who has a natural aptitude, great problem solving skills, persistence, and willingness to learn new things. Every one I've ever managed who was great had those traits. That didn't mean everything they did was perfect - we are still dealing with people,but they were more versatile than most and were able to not only get things done, but the quality was there. Formal education is great, but I don't consider it an element. Reason being that technology is changing at such a pace most of what you learned is in school is now out of date, and anything foundational you learned at school (ie algorithms) is something that you can p/u from a book or online course.
I'd expect the opposite. People will make money de-anonymizing others, and those others won't be able to reverse the process no matter what they pay.
> conversation starter at best.

I agree. We need to be critical of this idea because, as one of my design professors taught us, designers often "win" because they are the first ones to get their ideas out there and thus control the conversation.

I personally don't want anything dangerous or loud flying within a quarter mile of me. It's a cool hobby to do in a field, but those things in suburban or city environments could be looking into windows to see who's home, aiming bullets at kindergarten teachers or piling up C4 on a mall rooftop with next to no accountability or policing. Cars and people can do all the bad things I'm talking about, but there are license plates and cops. Looking at the frequency of attacks where non-traditional policing is the only option (e.g. online) tells us drone crime will be rampant, perpetrated by a spectrum of interests from foreign governments to financial crime syndicates, abusers and corrupt and paranoid politicians. All other dangerous networks like highways, runways and gas pipelines are tightly regulated. Drones belong in that category.
The NY Post is going to have a real selection of headlines when some drone crashes into some poor person walking down the street. Depending on the cargo, I expect they will rise to their tradition[1].

1) http://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-c...
Agree, seems like a pretty big disclaimer.
Obviously there are three kinds of selection bias here: companies which raise money; companies which approach First Round; companies selected by First Round. So it's possible these aren't overall trends, but specific to this set.

I think that probably explains the "no tech cofounders do better" bias in Consumer; the bar is probably higher there.
Zach, here. There's actually an open source project called Sigrok that's compatible with a ton of logic analyzers, including the one-chip knockoffs from China.

http://sigrok.org/

Your second scenario sounds pretty cyberpunk too! I'd certainly love it if more people purchased our games, but piracy is unavoidable. I'd rather have a Russian 12-year-old pirate our games than never get a chance to play them.
Lol at the downvotes. Not my fault that a privacy oriented filesharing service has a domain with the words use, tor, and pedo all in a row.
I ran into the same issue trying to use a video as a texture in WebGL. Worked beautifully on desktop, mobile and even in an iOS UIWebView with inline video allowed. But in Safari? Nope.

I do get the reasoning why it was done when the iPhone 1 came out, but come on. Everyone ends up using animated GIFs instead, which just chew up more bandwidth.
This does not solve it. Consider little guy suing mega corp. Little guy's costs may be covered if he wins, but with only 50K to spend, he still could lose because mega corp can drop 5M on the case. This could even make it worse, because without the ability to recover costs, little guy has a small chance at victory and losing the 50k and a large chance at losing the 50k with nothing. With the loser having to pay, it changes to little guy having a small chance at victory and losing nothing and a large chance at losing 5M + 50K.
I don't get it. They say they use a dictionary, and they say it works without an Internet connection. How can both things be true? I'm pretty sure there's not, say, a Quechua dictionary on my phone.
What it takes you to get motivated
No worries, we will just build other drones that hover at 100 feet above ground level, and are programmed to detect falling drones or drone parts, and then cast a net to catch the falling parts. Then, we will have other drones, that hover at 40 feet above ground level and are programmed to detect falling drones responsible for catching the parts at 100 feet, and...
There are people who specialize in evaluating patents and being the middleman if they believe there is value in licensing and/or asserting your patents. They are often thought of as just another breed of patent trolls.
Why Is iTunes So Bad?
I like the idea of rivers serving as a natural drone highway. They weave through most cities/towns, provide insulation from populations on the ground and relatively easy recoverability (as opposed to being destroyed on impact).
No privacy policy, no technical details on how the files are stored / "securely deleted" / etc., no definition of what "illegal" means (i.e. which national/state/provincial/local/etc. jurisdiction is relevant for this site). Looks cool, but I'm certainly not touching this without client-side encryption until those missing things are made not-missing.
RISC or CISC?
No, "idiot" is exactly a synonym, in even a strictest definition. And both versions of your sentence are equally wrong, deliberately misleading and twisted. Words have absolutely nothing to do with "opportunities" and "basic humanity".
What happens to your digital life after you die?
I think their methods can only be as good as the honesty of the input. Depending on how they validate, this company might be an easier target for people who will just cook the books on their scores. I'm hoping that they thought of that ahead of time.

Far as character, there's an old legend where JP Morgan was asked by Congress on what basis he lends out money. He reply was the person's character, not ability to repay. His reasoning in the story was that people of poor character, but having the money, would make up any excuse to avoid paying. Whereas people of good character would do everything they could to get the money and pay up. Realistically, ability to pay is a huge consideration but the story's lesson about character was wise. Interesting seeing it in action and automated to a degree.
>Under this ruling could they charge themselves exorbitant rates, then the few times they do win makes up for the times they lose?

Not to mention that the costs to the losers the few times they win would really scare anyone who isn't able to eat the massive costs anyways. Would you sue someone from stealing thousands from you if there was a small chance at you owing them millions?
The (Next) most dangerous game. A discussion of ethical hunting