skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah...

You haven't had the misfortune of having to witness REAL slavery. Real slavery is going on a walk outside the embassy and seeing a 6 year old domestic girl given a LEGAL black eye by the fist of her mistress. And there is nothing you can do about it.

That's when I learned... if you can call the police or get the authorities to intervene... then it's not slavery.

Slavery has got to be the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. Worse than combat even. Because there is nothing you can do. It's just in your face. This was way back in the early 90's... and I still remember the girl look up at me afterwards... a few seconds went by... and a trickle of blood started to come from her nose.

Yeah...

I just went back to the embassy. Certain parts of Africa back then were just not tourist spots.
Same here. I hope I don't see it in my lifetime, but just imagining a pair of sociopathic, skilled FPS players controlling 2 drones makes my blood run cold, and sounds alarmingly feasible. With a little bit of 3D printing and some sort of hobbyist community nudging the gun/drone integration forward, it just sounds too easy. I expect a serious re-examination of the 2nd amendment when weapons that were plausibly sold as tools of self defense a few years ago become WMDs with the aid of drone technology.
Few follow up points:

1. The knowledge necessary to create chemical weapons is chemistry. Are you sure there are not many positive uses of chemistry?

2. Military drones controlled by humans that can also be controlled by AI also need to go in order for this proposed ban to be effective.

3. The scale of the research matters. Yes you may have some groups who choose to ignore the treaty and develop autonomous weapons, but you can monitor for large scale stockpiling of such weapons and counter against their use. What we don't want is for these weapons to be easy to come by in large enough quantities to pose a widespread security risk. We'll never eliminate the development completely, but we can make it a smaller problem than widespread use could be.
The Abacus clients whose aborted closing sparked Ken Yu’s termination lost their deposit on the property when the loan fell through. They went to the police and filed a complaint, mentioning that Yu had falsified their mortgage application. The police referred the matter to the DA.

Besides the unfortunate but I suppose inevitable detail that the applicants lost their deposit to the property owner, nothing new or unacknowledged by the bank.

its loans wouldn’t have met Fannie Mae’s income requirements, and the bank depended on Fannie’s money for a significant chunk of its profit

The jury, AKA the finders of fact, disagreed with the allegation at the beginning of that snippet, the latter is just gilding the ragweed.

ADDED: as FireBeyond notes, ~30K/year isn't much profit. Per this http://www.ibanknet.com/scripts/callreports/getbank.aspx?ibn... its most current annual net income is 430,000, but that's certainly weighed down by the 10 million the NYT article reports they had to spend defending themselves. So ~30K/year is, as our intuition suspects, minuscule, certainly not "a significant chunk of its profit".

In April 2011, Yu pled guilty to grand larceny, fraud, and falsifying business records, and is cooperating with the investigation

Entirely congruent with the claimed actions and position of the bank, and mentioned in less detail in the NYT article.

The accused employees include Yiu Wah Wong, the bank’s chief credit officer, who reported directly to Jill Sung; and Wai Hung “Raymond” Tam, the loan origination supervisor, who trained the bank’s loan officers and processors

Well, yeah, and mentioned to some degree in the NYT article, but, again, the finders of fact disagreed with the prosecutor's allegations.
>"You're not being realistic. Structuring the court system so that the most expensive option to the public is also the option with best expected outcome for the one selecting options is obviously inefficient. And an inefficient justice system is a bad justice system."

You have to define what you mean by efficiency before you can declare that one system is more efficient than another. I agree that the post you are replying to proposed an expensive system, but it may be more efficient if your efficiency metric takes time spent by innocent people in jail into account as a cost.
yeah, and the "about" section doesn't really answer the question very well:

What is ether?

Ether is a necessary element -- a fuel -- for operating the distributed application software platform we are building: Ethereum. Without the requirement of payment of ether for every computational step and storage operation within the system, infinite loops or excessive storage demands could bog down Ethereum and effectively destroy it.
may I ask why? It looks like an attempt to clone QuizUp that went wrong (sorry). Was it a personal challenge?
> You don't measure productivity by the number of hours worked. There are just different cultural norms at play and it doesn't make sense.

The article doesn't. It measures productivity in terms of actual monetary value per worker and then compares it to the number of hours worked.

> The effect of automation is very hard to quantify because it tends to displace low-skilled jobs that don't pay much in the first place. But the social impact of this is huge -- you take the people at the bottom of the economy and take away the only jobs that were accessible to them. Social unrest is inevitable. This will likely impact the economy in negative ways in years to come, and we need to understand this.

Again, addressed by the article. Would you have considered milkmen or household servants high-skilled jobs? Both these jobs have been all but replaced for the majority of people, yet there wasn't that much social unrest when the refrigerator or washing machine was invented.
Who wants to watch me code?
There is no 'hindsight is 20/20' here.

Everyone knew what Google was doing was monumentally stupid on so many grounds.

There was widespread criticism over the real names policy and linking across properties.
I'm not sure where they saw it, as I can't find the source either. The only $10M value I saw was an investment from Alibaba. I did find this though, but we don't know if $10M was the final value: http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/15/razer-grabs-the-struggling...
How to get lucky
It's wasted relative to other methods (e.g. proof of stake, Stellar) that many people believe can provide close enough to the same properties.
In my experience using malloc over calloc make it much harder to find subtle bugs that result from off by one under set errors (i.e. you malloc 100 bytes, only set 99, and then you later read 100 bytes). When you use malloc the 100th byte is filled with random garbage, while with calloc you get something consistent.

Finding bugs where you write 101 bytes are easy to find with tools like Valgrind, but finding bugs where you malloc and don’t initialise the data structure correctly are a real pain.
I've been saying this for years. Google needs to provide security updates to all versions of Android which don't change APIs or functionality. Just drop-in replacements to fix exploits. These need to be offered for a period measured in years to every version of Android they release.

Microsoft still releases regular security fixes for Windows Vista!
Flat taxes are regressive. They're simple, but they don't work.

You consider it "fair" because everyone pays the same. Not everyone should pay the same tax. Some people should pay more, some less.
Introduction to Neural Machine Translation on GPUs, Part 3
Gun-toting drone is probably legal, police confirm
I can't speak for cats, but it's certainly possible for dogs to do fine on a vegetarian diet. I know several dog owners who do this. You may have to do blood work, and be more observant about their health.

Note: Dogs, not cats, and vegetarian, not vegan.

I notice you were careful to make these distinctions in your first paragraph, but then (IMHO) went too far with "Your friends are literally killing their pets."
The site in Poulsbo, WA had been flooded for years. When I was a high school student, we used to go have parties there. The whole campus was 10-20 acres and most of the buildings were still intact, although pretty ransacked. Similar to the sites I visited in the Anchorage, AK area. I think it was about 10 years ago they started to prep the site to build a new Walmart. The construction crew pumped all of the launchers out and let me go down and take a look around. It was pretty neat to see everything that had been under water for most likely 30 years. I took a bunch of slides I'll have to dig up one of these days. I still haven't made it to see the museum. Most of these neat military sites are private property now, although I think most of the Nike installations were given to local government orgs.
Therapy can be provided through universal healthcare if you'd like.

What work would you like to make up for people when technology has replaced everyone's work? Salespeople? Digging ditches and filling them back in?
That's not how PR speak works :) And to be fair, Google+ does have a few million users doing their thing there, it won't be displacing Facebook anytime soon but it's not entirely dead weight for them, so whether it worked out or not is relative.
Their June talk was about their compiler and toolchain, which borrows heavily from LLVM. It's almost certainly not done, but they do have something more than just an assembler. They've also started working on implementing it for FPGA, but only as a proof of concept rather than something intended to be ready to make into an ASIC.
A nitpick that is somewhat related to the thesis, but I think still relevant: I dislike how success in this context is completely centered around raising money, and nothing to do with actually running a profitable company and delivering value.

The main point of the article was to run a LinkedIn ad to get accepted into AngelPad and raise money, and that's totally fair (and commendable!).

But sprinkled throughout the article, there are quotes like:

> I've co-founded two startups that have raised ~$90 million in venture capital (Shyp and Vungle) and have created hundreds of jobs in five different countries.

> Vungle has grown to hundreds of employees and over $25 million in funding.

Is that really the metric of success we're going for? Give anybody $90 million and they can pretty trivially create hundreds of jobs.

I don't know what Vungle's revenue is, but if we're not in a bubble yet, raising a bunch of money, leaving the company, and touting it "hustling" isn't helping.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify briefly that I'm not downplaying raising money. Going out and fundraising is really hard (I've done it), but so aren't dozens of other tasks at a company.

+1 to anybody who is able to successfully bring in funding, but I've met too many people who have felt like their company has "made it" once they've raised money -- when in fact that's just the beginning.
Why come to the office if there is no one there?

How is it better than just working from home?
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> That's when I learned... if you can call the police or get the authorities to intervene... then it's not slavery.

Did you read the article? These women are beaten and raped and the police are helping the business owner ensure that the women remain his legal property.
> Please note that while your password was potentially modified during this period the password itself was not revealed.

Why would you tell people this? :-) The worst that can happen is that they figure out password re-use is a bad thing, panic and change it on all those other sites they use it ;-)
Lotsa issues but I think the big one is the procurement process. You often seen companies like BEA pitching projects that are not at all in their technology confort zone, because for government work ability to "deal with the process" trumps ability to execute.
Please stop spamming this site every few days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9947181

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942116
Absolutely true. It's very clear a platform that can't ensure security fixes in a timely manner doesn't belong in the hands of anyone who handles private data. "Android for Work" isn't much of an option for anyone who values security.
Question isn't clear about what aspect of tech you are interested in.

Still, i'd suggest to familiarize yourself with the underlying process of how startups/products are built. For eg. here's the Lean process: http://theleanstartup.com/principles

Find out where you can contribute and collaborate on the process or better if you have managerial skills go execute the process.

For a tech product there is more to writing code.
It's like if you have a blueprint of house engineers will build the house for you.

Learn to draft, pitch and execute that blueprint for your tech interest.
Yes, it's bad algorithms/bloat/poor code efficiency that are the immediate cause, but as Socrates pointed out re the Presocratic philosophers, describing only immediate causes can yield quite shallow explanations. The real question is why the bloat and awful code and algorithms? I'll add to my previous reply to that question, with an idea that occurred to me last night: one answer to prisoner's dilemmas/tragedies of the commons is to appoint a supervisor whose word is law, say when programs are running...

And what do you know, we already have one - called an OS. Someday, I expect that OSes will be smart enough to examine the executables they have been given (note that that can be done in parallel) and reward tight code with more cycles, and punish sloppy code with lower priority (unless the user says otherwise, which she may.) Our A.I. might well be good enough now, for that - to do at least crude reverse engineering or pattern recognition rapidly (doesn't have to be real time, of course.) This solves the prisoner's dilemma (which is also a freeloading problem) by punishing the freeloaders and rewarding the cooperators; now good code isn't slowed down just as if it too were bad code; and most companies are forced to start tightening things up, and to actually compete with each other to produce better code than most other outfits. (For webpages - either the browser or OS could police webpages after examining the code and load of pages.)

I do believe that's a patentable idea. Or two. Pity I'm working on another patentable idea I like still more - but if someone wants to front me some real money, please do drop a comment here.
What do you mean survive? I am 31 and still doing web development.
The title is a hack. They are hustling for your attention.
You think warning Israeli citizens of missile strikes is silly and pointless?
US State of Georgia sues 'terrorist' for publishing its own laws on the internet
World rejoices as first-worlder solves slavery problem. Millions of slaves around the world now considered free under new definition

Humans held and treated like property will henceforth not be considered slaves if their country has laws against the practice. When asked how he came upon the genius solution to the century-old problem, marknutter nodded at the portrait of former President G.W. Bush hanging above his fireplace. "I was inspired by President Bush... I mean... enhanced interrogation... genius!"
Opening paragraph, the honest version:

"When we launched Google+, we were scared of Facebook winning over the internet and knew how powerful the network effect is. So we decided on a douchebag move - abuse all of our monopolistic powers and superior engineering in order to shove a Facebook killer down our users' throat at maximum speed, integrating it with each and every google service in existence (whether it made any sense or not) and killing social features that actually work in exchange to experimental G+ social features that might work eventually. According to our analytics, it didn't work, so... Never mind."
New extension to this idea: retarget people who visit your landing page. Frequency effect loop.
Bot+Human? You're describing a drone, and you're right, it works great. Might work better if they could upgrade the optics a few notches, but I'm sure that's already in the works.
My 1.5 cents: probably coincidence. It would be difficult to get naval vessels to follow him around the world, for example during his trip to land-locked Mongolia:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/vic...
> They are carnivores and cannot live without animal-derived nutrition.

I'm curious what nutrients can only be animal-derived. Some nutrients are probably cheaper to get from animals, but I am curious what nutrients can only come from animals.

I know several people that "make their own" vegan cat food, and their animals are not sick, sickly or dying. It is quite possible that their lifespan has been shortened by the vegan diet, but I would definitely not state boldly that they "cannot live without animal-derived nutrition" because they are clearly living without animal-derived nutrition.
Let me get this straight:

1) Your plan for AI safety is "no one will be stupid enough to build a self-improving AI".

2) You are currently working on self-improving AI.

I'm sorry to say, but in my eyes you've just lost the right to criticize the LW/MIRI school of thought :-(
Just occasional coincidence? Looks to me more like there's very common (almost uniform) coincidence, with occasional exceptions. But we don't actually call that "coincidence", we call it "normal behavior".
Thailand is a huge culprit here and they get away with it because they managed to sandwich themselves as valuable allies to the west.

I do wonder if there is any sort of image parsing and other analysis we can do on the oceans to spot these slave vessels.
Wolff Olins Is Hiring a Front End Developer
Not to be confused (as I was) with the 1986 film with almost the identical name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistle_Blower

vs the one you speak of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistleblower
That's a hard question really without knowing more about the business (you are welcome to email me if you'd like, contact info is in my profile).

Here's generally what I look for when I am looking at a company that is in a market with a huge enterprise competitor. Huge enterprise market competitors aren't a problem as long as you aren't competing against them. Often times the large enterprise market competitor has a gap in their software solution that a small company can capitalize on filling. For example, maybe the industry uses a huge enterprise inventory tracking system but that system doesn't have a good mobile reporting solution. A small company could make tens of millions of dollars on a mobile reporting solution specifically for the large enterprise inventory tracking system.

If I were in your company I would be looking at WHY customers are currently buying your product and then work on capitalizing on that. If there really is no market left (which I doubt, honestly), then look for a gap that your competitors have which you can fill.
"Total calories in this product" should be the metric.
Johannes' fine graph seems to me to show that,
over time, Debian tends to depend on more
packages.

I suppose it may suggest increasing code
complexity and effort to maintain.

For what it's worth, I also tried to quantify how
robust Debian is my measuring the ages of
packages installed on my main computer.

My results are at

http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/lib/exe/detail.php?id=technolo...
Hi! One of my first real apps I ever developed for Android (back in 2011) was an online trivia game very similar to the trivia games you see nowadays (asynchronous gameplay, 4 options per questions, 5 questions per turn, etc).

When I look back to it, it was very weak at the technical level. I developed the Android client and the API while learning stuff at the same time. So, 4 years go by, and I decided to have another shot at it. So, in a sense, you're right, it did start off as a personal challenge to see just how much different the end product would be, given that I've now been working full time on Android for the past 4 years.

But other than that, it's actually quite different than QuizUp since this game is real-time and seems to have steered heavily away from what a normal trivia game is like. With their latest releases, they've sort of created a sort of massive social network around the questions/answers genre.

I wanted to make an app that went back to the basics. Something you can use here and there while killing time..open the app, have fun answering a few questions, and done.
More reading about this case here:

http://www.law360.com/articles/419166/the-most-unlikely-fina...

I suspect the real reason is the quote at the bottom of the page:

"Vance — and by extension, New York’s entire state and federal regulatory regime — gain credibility for their tough stance against an allegedly sketchy institution. The mere indictment builds political capital, regardless of whether there’s any factual basis for their claims."

In other words: this case was brought to Enhance Vance's stature, not because of the gravity of the case.

Yu's supervisor was as far as I understand the case the only other person that should have faced charges, the rest is either operating on instruction from Yu or simply did not know about it and did the right thing once the situation came to light.

Yu's supervisor should have probably caught this in an earlier stage, it went on for too long.
What you have described is called 'under capitalized.' What that means is that the company had insufficient capital to achieve all the milestones necessary for success. There is a variable of course, which is that some teams execute against a plan better than other teams, but overall the goal they set out to achieve was basically a $50 - $75M budget item. Which they started with maybe $2M (the rest of their Kickstarter money is really funding the COGS of their box and controller).

Its interesting to read the comments from the announcement here on HN and elsewhere which echoed a lot of the challenges. It is really too bad they weren't more successful than they ended up being.
> broken beaks, brain, spinal cord tissue, bones, lungs, intestinal tracts from slaughterhouse wastes of dead, dying, diseased or disabled animals

I'm no zoologist, but this seems exactly the kind of thing that a carnivorous/omnivorous wild animal would happily eat.
> User interface design (and yes, we are talking about your "boring" invoice capture screens here) may seem easy at first glance to be dismissed as unexciting, but almost every real world example is a challenge that requires creative thinking.

But how does this tie in with the manager who says 'it's just an invoice screen, why are you taking so long' probably based on the mentality that $ revenue is proportional to # features.
Thanks for your input! Do you usually attend live webinars or watch session recordings? If live, do you find the discussion part of webinars valuable?
Exactly this. I don't understand this need for introducing additional units of measurement.
Ohhh man this is hilarious! I used to say Milliard (minus the d) when I was a child to over exaggerate a number :D. I'm actually laughing right now because I used to think I made up that word.
Re: Youtube comments - http://www.theonion.com/article/local-idiot-to-post-comment-...
I was hoping they would talk of all countries using 'local times' instead of UTC.
I realize that phrasing is getting me down voted. If I'd phrased it as "Why is it so terrible to be rewarded for not exercising your right", I probably wouldn't be getting down voted. But really, what's the difference?
Slavery doesn't involve kidnapping if there is a legal framework for selling people (which by definition isn't kidnapping).
There really can't be a one-size-fits-all. New devs must earn the right to commit without review (post-commit-review), devs with proven quality records get post-commit-review, sensitive code areas get pre-commit-reviews.