skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can usually get the shift points for a model from its technical manual. Depending on the car, those shift points can be modified as well (using the appropriate software and cable).
> Isn't that where catalytic converters come in though?

Diesel exhaust is too oxygen-rich for the cat to effectively catalyze the NOx. That's why recent passenger car diesel systems have a Diesel Exhaust Fluid system.
You may be interested in Date & Darwen's work on The D data language[0] as presented in The Third Manfiesto[1]. It addresses these issues with SQL and many more.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...

[2]: http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com1
Plans to bring Asimov's moving sidewalks from the Caves of Steel to life
A while back, I was friends with someone who was a forensic accountant and former state senator. She talked about gerrymandering quite a bit. She'd say "you don't choose your representatives, they choose you."

She said both parties cooperated in drawing safe seats for everybody, and claimed that most of the people in our state congress were corrupt. Anyone who didn't play along with the graft would find their district redrawn out from under them, if the timing made that possible.

This actually happened to another friend who was a former state house member. The two of them were instrumental in revealing the corrupt activities of state House Speaker Jim Black, who ended up serving time in prison.
In the underground cities of The Caves of Steel, people got around on complex moving walkways. They were arranged in a series of strips that moved at different speeds, with the fastest moving walkways in the center. People skilled at navigating the system could fluidly move through the crowds going from fast "express strips" to slower "off ramp" strips without breaking stride or zooming past their destinations. It looks like this is exactly what they want to build in London.

It makes me think of how Neal Stephenson lamented the rise of "pessimistic sci-fi" because he believes that big ideas in fiction can inspire people to strive to implement those ideas in the real world. It's not a stretch to think that someone who grew up reading Isaac Asimov might be driven to build a robot or a moving walkway transportation system. Elon Musk even credits The Foundation Series when he talks about his inspiration to start SpaceX and get to Mars.
Ok on the difficulty issue.

But forcing Microsoft to reveal their crown jewels (they sell software) vs car companies reveal how an internal controller works (they sell cars), is not comparable in any way. Its disingenuous to imply that.
Full disclosure of found software vulnerabilities and mandating that companies provide access to source code are two entirely different things.

One component of Schneier's recommendation is protecting researchers who practice full disclosure ("...attempt to muzzle security researchers who find problems"), but that's not really the core of his message in this post.
Do we have the bad VW code? Do we know it happened how you allege?

Do we know that the code was written by hand and not auto-generated based on real-world testing/calibration?

Do we know that a programmer has final say on the code that is shipped?

Are you sure management couldn't select from a number of programs based on the criteria they like, without needing additional input from a programmer?

Why didn't management review the codes and put in place procedures to ensure the codes reviewed are the ones actually being used?

Why didn't management implement testing procedures so that the reviewed codes could be verified?

Do you have the specs/requirements the programmers were given?

Edit: Really? Downmods?
A hamburger made at home is no better than McDonald's if you eat them every day too McDonald's is just a restaurant no the Devil.
Actually, a lot of my whitewater paddling friends favor minivans over SUVs for a combination of being able to haul a lot of gear and ease of shuttling people.
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM

~Terry Pratchett

Of course it's not just the privilege of a free mind, but also the privilege of relative freedom from stress, free time, and to an extent the education that leads you to aspire to more stimulation. A cure for boredom should probably sit atop Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Is Google's Chromebook Pixel C Just a Microsoft Surface Knockoff?
I did some tests on a long drive last week, for the Smart Forfour I had this was the fuel consumption. It was all along flat, straight parts of the highway. Reports were based upon the cars own fuel efficiency monitor.

- 135 km/h 7.8l/100km (30 mpg)

- 125 km/h 6.5l/100km (36 mpg)

- 115 km/h 5.4l/100km (43 mpg)

I never realised speed made such a difference!

(Mpg is US gallons)
Sex+Trafficking:+Today's+Slavery
Sudoers NOPASSWD means you don't have to type the password for that feature. Sshd without-password means passwords are disabled. Not the same thing.
failed at "google" :)
Should we trust Apple to give us the news?
You're also assuming that execs necessarily knew about everything. There's a reasonable chance that the execs set the targets and feed it to the middle managers who pass it along to teams.

Somewhere along the line I imagine there are those who are terrified of missing those targets and perhaps losing their jobs and resort to bending the rules a bit to hit their goals. And there's a very good chance that these people aren't at the top.

The same was most likely true in the subprime mortgages--I imagine that some of the worst actors in that weren't necessarily the people at the top, it was the guy who is decidedly mid-level who is looking to make a nice bonus to put in a swimming pool for his kids.

And to figure it all out is going to take years and years of investigations to assign blame (whether in this case or in the subprime case). By the time it's sorted out, it could be a decade after the fact, and even then people have moved on to other jobs, records are difficult to dig up, and at the end of the day, what has been accomplished?

Of course if there is blatant wrong-doing, execs should absolutely be punished (the peanut company CEO comes to mind [1]). But it's extremely difficult to pin down blame on any one person, exec or not.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-usa-georgia-sal...
Have you ever measured a 2x4?

probably not
It does seem like it wasn't trained in the most optimal fashion.

- The conv layer has only 20 relu units, I'm not sure if that suffices to memorize the rules. The net might be "underfitting" the rule set, and therefore making mistakes in rare pixel arrangements.

- More worryingly it's also strange that the author uses a fully connected layer right after the conv layer (this is implicitly added in ConvNetJS when you specify a loss layer). This means that the output neurons are a function of the entire preceding CONV layer activations everywhere, while the game of life rules are local. The way to do this would be to instead use a 1x1 CONV layer with 2 neurons on top of the first 3x3 CONV layer, and interpret it as computing the class scores at every spatial position. However, in this case you'd want to apply the loss on every spatial position, and this "fully-convolutional" loss use case is not supported out of the box in ConvNetJS, but could be written.

- However, with a fully-convolutional loss zero-padding of 1 used around the borders might cause trouble. Normally this is okay with images, but here this might cause trouble because the neurons all share parameters spatially (and hence compute the same function) and don't "know" if they are at the border on in the middle of the image. I'm not sure how how this game of life handles boundary conditions, but if borders obey different dynamics then you'd want to distinguish the border pixels with a special "border" feature vector at the input. E.g. each pixel is a 3-vector, with a 1-hot encoding for (border, positive pixel, negative pixel).

- And it's also strange that the author uses "regression" loss for some that is a binary classification problem.

So, nice attempt but several funny choices, and clear why it didn't fully work :)
Meh... vorg posts on nearly every thread that mentions Groovy and rants about all the perceived wrong-doings in the Groovy community. Some of his points have some merit, but he seems to tend to make mountains out of mole-hills.
Or like trying to play a video game one keystroke at a time.

If it turns out anything like the "Twitch Plays" series, it will probably start chaotic but become more coherent as time goes on, usually because the troublemakers get bored and move on.
To make matters worse, the debian openssh .deb, that i installed to get the client, configured an autostart for sshd, without asking.
I imagine Jim Black was a sacrifice as well - he didn't play along with somebody, so he got tossed to the wolves. And the public thinks "Well, that's been dealt with" and the rest of the corrupt remain safe from further scrutiny. For a while.
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Is your truck gas, or are you towing way more than 5000 lbs?

My guess is it would get better than 50% of its range because while you're (practically) doubling the weight, that doesn't matter because of the regenerative braking. Electric cars spend most of their energy fighting drag (as evidenced by people taking a model S almost 600 miles on one charge at 20 mph) and a 5000 lb trailer probably won't double the drag profile.
I would look at vertx.io with reactjs.
Yep. I love the performance of Tesla's cars, but a humble minivan already has (far less attractive) sliding doors with very large openings.

To be fair to Tesla, Elon Musk did address this around two-thirds of the way through his presentation yesterday, saying "when the minivan door is open I can't even get through that space." I suspect he'd also say the Model X's doors provide a vertical opening in addition to a side opening, which can be useful for adults in the second or third row.

On the other hand, I've driven a Honda minivan quite a bit and I can't think of any times when I couldn't squeeze through the available space when the minivan door was open in a parking lot. So there is a bit of solving a problem that may not be very much of one.
A9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundry
3 things that weren't leaked before the Google Nexus announcement
We use Play for www.faqt.co, and it's been nice, but (like any framework) you start hitting random limitations that takes a lot of work and occasional Scala code to get around. Sometimes I wonder if using something like dropwizard.io for a single page app would of been better.

But if your project is only going to be a crud app with limited traffic volume/life time, I'd personally probably pick an interpreted language and framework.
This announcement was packed with details about products for consumers - and just one for both consumers and developers - Google Voice leaped ahead of Siri with the announcement that the Google API will be opened to independent developers, letting them create voice-enabled apps.
I have one of those cars and it actually gets more mpg than what the sticker says, not sure how it would be possible to be 50% off from that, people would figure that out pretty quickly.
I consider coherence seriously mainly because Edward Kmett supports it, and he has immense experience regarding the relative merits of coherent vs. incoherent classes in practical development. One core Kmett argument that I subscribe to is that 95% percent of the time there is no newtype noise needed, and in that case coherence is very nice, since one doesn't have to think about class hierarchies (which can get very complex, with many alternate instance derivations) as far as the code typechecks.

But aside of that, I'm not all that convinced of the importance of coherence in a dependent setting either! My intuition is that types should encode all the properties that we'd like to be able to use in instances. In other words, even if we don't get coherence, we can use types to constrain the implementation of instances as much as we like.

Highly ambiguous instance resolution (like a bunch of Monoid Int instances lying around) is a bit of a pain though, and there could be some "using instance" feature/syntax that locally throws out all instances except one.

Additionally, as of now there are no large production code bases that use Coq style type classes in a proper dependent language. There are very few sizable applications in dependent languages to begin with. So we don't know a lot about the practical caveats of that design, while there is a lot of experience and know-how about Haskell-style classes, which is one reason why we should at least consider salvaging coherence in future languages.

Generally, I think that type classes are a rather ugly and haphazard construction compared to the succinct elegance of the type theories of core languages; still, eventually type classes worm their way into languages (Agda, Coq) because people really like them and like to use them, so a language designer should consider them. I wish there was an elegant/general formal treatment that captures the essential features, in any case.
Did you even bother to do watch the video?
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Well the sample size is good. You could validate the data by comparing self reported averages against actual averages from a sample group.
Agreed, but it doesn't need to be routine behavior, it can be anything that doesn't suit you in particular moment. So, it's kind of unsolvable problem :-)
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Mr Daga's initial site was $9,000 and they will convert the idea or something like that. It will be harsh of me to say it is a "scam". That has being scratched to this new site. My problem with his approach and questions on HN is what exactly is he hoping to achieve? Does he want to across as an expert? I don't understand it really. I am looking at his responses to the people who responded and don't even know what to make of it.
I think August Lock would even take the need for an API away, just need to manage users via existing features. I think it even lets you timebox if you only want certain employees to have 8 - 5 access vs 24 hour access.

However, it'd be an extra step and not integrated with some central employee list so the risk of forgetting to remove someone may be too high if using existing features, so that point may be moot.
It seems that the structure is already defined as standard pop/rock verse,verse,chorus,verse etc.
And I guess it will result in people gravitating towards popular chords progression and melody. So at the end it won't be noise but a perfect Kate Perry/Shakira/Nickelback/campfire song like https://youtu.be/JdxkVQy7QLM
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What research are you basing that off of? I've not seen any research on this. It's a valid hypothesis, but said as a statement is blatantly fallacious without research being done.
You can see the stats at https://crowdsound.net/stats

There are parts where the crowd is divided and I guess you could call those areas "noise", however there are other parts where the crowd has strongly decided what should come next. The future pattern is generated piece by piece by the crowds judgement about how the next bit of the song should combine with the previous patterns.

So perhaps if there are some places which are random noise, it is regularly brought back to coherence by obvious subsequent patterns, deduced by consensus.
I suppose Google-Fi is still in it early, water-testing stages and they're trying to be careful not to imply that the new phones only work with Google-Fi. Still, I'm ever wary of adopting an innovation from Google. I don't change carriers often and I'd prefer not to adopt Google-Fi, only to have it be shelved a year later.
One way or another, regular folks will pay for it. If it's directly by paying this tax, that's straight forward. Otherwise, the company will take the hit, and the cost will flow towards stock-holders, which in general tend to be unions, 401k plans and such. How much of your 401k are you willing to lose due to that cost? How much of your parents' 401k/union pensions is OK to forfeit?
It's more likely that it is kept secret to reduce potential liability and to maintain competitive advantage.
Debian's policy is that if you install a service, you intend for it to run by default. Since services aren't installed by default, this is a fairly defensible position, though it's been commented on many times.

It's possible and fairly straightforward to disable autostart of services through either old-school SysV init or, I suspect, systemd.

Upshot: running complex systems isn't entirely trivial.
Could you share "C:\\Users\\Daniel\\Documents\\Programming\\AMAbotData.txt" as well or it is not neccessary to run the bot?
Not exactly the intended use case, though, is it? Do you expect your mother to play NFL football? No? Not everything is built to compete.
That sounds very nice in theory, but in practice I've never seen an implementation that is as easy (for me!) to follow as Github's or Discourse's linear flow. Links to the great implementations that I've missed are very welcome!
Not googling wrongly at all. Just missing that the proteins that the mother ingests make their way into the breast milk. Therefore, when my wife ate dairy/soy then pumped and bagged the milk, it is no longer usable for our son since it has the proteins from her consumption in it.
Which presidential candidate is winning at digital marketing?
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> But forcing Microsoft to reveal their crown jewels (they sell software) vs car companies reveal how an internal controller works (they sell cars), is not comparable in any way. Its disingenuous to imply that.

This makes two assumptions that I disagree with.

The first assumption is that software isn't a core component of cars. I think this is already not true. And to the extent that it is true, it won't be in 2-5 years. Software is at the core of emerging differentiations, such as self/assisted-driving features.

The second assumption is that that software doesn't or can't reveal sensitive information about (other) core components of cars. I think you'd be surprised at how much you can deduce about a physical system from its control software.

Finally, there's no clear bright line on which companies should or should not get to protect their IP. For Microsoft it's open-and-shut, but e.g. Google doesn't sell its search engine software. And what about IoT companies? "We're a software company that sells IoT appliances, not a lightbulb/car/robot/etc. company". So the only way to write such a regulation would be to write a regulation for the auto industry -- which is insufficient for the same reasons that Schneier talked about IoT and car companies in the same breath.
Why doesn't Linux do it by default, by the way? It wouldn't hurt desktop Linux either.
What happened at the start of the presentation when Musk was just about to start talking about safety features when suddenly, quietly, and slowly, a Model X drove up onto the stage. A random guy stepped out, left the door open, and handed Musk the keys.

Musk: "..Right, so about those safety features."

Did the guy go up to early? Or was he late? Or was that planned? So confused...
HEPA is not just to avoid smells or pollen. It's the only filter that can remove PM2.5 (particulate matter < 2.5 microns in size). WHO terms them as group 1 carcinogens and in most cities including NY, Houston etc, PM2.5 levels are far beyond safety limits. It's a shame that other auto manufacturers don't include a HEPA as their cabin filter. That might be because of gasoline engine limitations.
I thoroughly recommend reading his book "The Trouble With Physics", where he shares some (from my perspective) great insights on some of the mis-steps the Physics community has taken over the past 30-40 years.

I second this motion. I'd also recommend reading the book Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit. This book covers similar ground (and, coincidentally, came out near the same time as The Trouble with Physics) and makes a nice complement to TTwP.
>Who buys a car based on the software?

I imagine in the next few years more and more people will. Tesla have just announced that they will have self driving cars in 3 years.
The execs get all the credit when it goes right, they should get all the blame when it goes wrong.

Lock a couple of these people up, and suddenly they'll start caring a lot more about the legality of what their underlings are doing...
Isn't that how it should work?
Nice solution for Windows users.
Evernote to close Singapore office as it fires 13% of global staff
Hybrid cars have been available in Europe for 15 years. So not that recent.
Multicultural emoji approved for Unicode 8.0
In the Launch Event video, Elon goes into more detail around the 10 minute mark.

The filtering is effective down to 0.01 microns. During testing, they were not able to detect any measurable level of spores, bacteria, or viruses in the air passing through the system.

Two separate filters, and the main filter has three levels of activated carbon.
First: Universal (hydrocarbons)
Second: Acidic gases (sulfur)
Third: Alkaline gases (ammonia)
I see this a lot. And I generally agree. However...

For software it's hard to see where to draw the line. For other engineering disciplines this can be pretty easy. I can release a little mechanical toy and not be an engineer. The public won't try to use it to drive around town.

But if I make a pet software project millions of people might decide to use it to "drive around town", and some portion will hurt themselves.

I think that if you build stuff for certain things (such as 1 ton objects zooming around at 70+ miles per hour), it's obvious. But what about financial software? What about social networks (privacy issues)?

When I first started programming I built a D&D utility for a friend. He passed it to his friends. Soon around 10 of them used it. If it had a serious bug, should I have been prosecuted? Should I have been unable to build it for him in the first place?

If you say all of this activity should be restricted, how do you get from here to there? Some of the best "software engineers" in the world aren't technically software engineers.
How a fiddler and an astrophysicist brought predictive analytics to Cincinnati
so oracle's purchase of mysql was the best thing that happened for postgress. does this mean that go/c# might be postgress of programming languages ?
The same way you get paid to "donate" plasma, I guess. Maybe "donate" isn't technically the right word for it.
The systemd-nspawn man page has an example that might help:

Example 6. Run a container with SELinux sandbox security contexts

# chcon system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c0,c1 -R \
/srv/container
# systemd-nspawn -L system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0:c0,c1 \
-Z system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c0,c1 -D /srv/container \
/bin/sh

In addition to -Z and -L, there's also --drop-capability.

Apart from privilege escalation bugs, any shared resource can theoretically be used to escape containers. For example, access to main memory via a device with DMA, access to the same /proc as the host, access to a shared filesystem (replace a binary that the host executes), etc.
It wasn't for safety. Compact trucks have too small of a footprint to get away with the CAFE requirements for their size so manufacturers either supersize them (Dakota) or eliminate them altogether (Ranger).
"It could be that the Internet is in fact set up and operates in such a way as to allow easier coordination on complex ideas," he said.

I'm not sure if he's being sarcastic. I thought that this was the explicit original purpose of the internet.
The cochrane collaboration have a nice document about what we know about caffeine and health.

http://www.evidentlycochrane.net/caffeine-and-health-evidenc...

It's a short list.