skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you look at the financial code, it would fit on a screen

This is exactly why people shouldn't be afraid at somebody else looking at the code. What is important here is not specifically the code that is implemented, but the ideas, model testing, analytical thinking that went into the writing of those few lines. The problem with many researchers in this area is to think that it would be easy to go from an idea or simple implementation into a full investment system. Most of these ideas have already been published, it is just that few people know how to use them to make money.
Plus the obnoxious Bloomberg habit of writing a sentence, then writing it immediately again in A HUGE FONT SIZE for no obvious reason.
I doubt they'll turn major arteries into quiet streets, especially at rush hour.
Yann LeCun: “Research cannot be done in secret”
Totally agree, this South Korean style of task management should be occasional.

I mean, Facebook still does the all-night Hackathon, and that's once a year I believe.
It does indeed look nice, however the pricing looks worse than MS SQL in the long run (for the enterprise version).
As someone who remembers 300 baud modems used in a trans-atlantic connection, I also remember that you could get stuff done if you set your expections accordingly.
Sure this is the case sometimes but generally you need to check and make sure you aren't gaming some odd property of the tests somehow; does your algorithm give up speed somewhere in order to recover it somewhere else. Is there a worst case in the tests you're not noticing. It's easy to miss something small. Proprietary algorithms are by and large not fundamental general breakthroughs in the field, rather they are incremental upgrades or modifications or tradeoffs or completely non-general algorithms for a very specialized purpose that happens to align with the business goals of the company
It'll do wonders for carjackings, that's for sure.
Most? Maybe on luxury brands.
> Once self driving cars reach a certain penetration level I wonder how long it'll take the remaining human drivers to start taking advantage of that fact by assuming most cars will automatically stop for them when they try stupid maneuvers like this one.

I don't understand this argument. If you do something abusive in front of me ... I will do what a robot will do. I will stop. Because I don't want to crash. I might open the window and yell some profanities at you ... but I can do that anyway, regardless of who triggered the stop, whether it was me or the on-board computer.

If you're arguing that the on-board computer has better reflexes and therefore people will engage in even more demented behavior ... that penetration level would have to be 99%. If it's something like 90%, then 1 out of 10 times you do something that abusive will result in a crash and you'll die.

By the time penetration reaches 99%, you essentially have all cars with automation built in and it's likely that using that automation will be mandatory. Cars that aren't automated will be illegal on public roads exactly because of this problem.
Question, if you are new to surfing, where to do you go in Southern California without the threat of bullying by locals?
What kind of dichotomy is that? Doesn't intelligence affect your personality anyway?
This is going to be amazing
I really hope a robust community steps up to continue it as an open source project.
>Socrates, Buddha and Confucius we're alive at the same time, yet we don't call that "age of philosophy".

Actually we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age

>During this time, according to Jaspers' concept, new ways of thinking appeared in Persia, India, China and the Greco-Roman world in religion and philosophy, in a striking parallel development without any obvious direct cultural contact between all of the participating cultures of the Old World.
vi is built-in in arch installation. so...
Similar to a namespace package I've been using for 6 years.

https://github.com/mckoss/namespace
Why do you want an alternative? Not sure there are any as far as price goes.
There is a great PBS Nature episode on the Coywolf. There is footage of these animals leaving in close proximity to humans near major cities.

Link:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/8605...
Agreed... it will be similar to putting your hand into a closing elevator door knowing it will open for you.

I'd imagine new laws will be made to restrict pedestrians from egregiously abusing the self driving car.
I can't provide any specifics other than to say I've used all these version of Windows over my lifetime:

Windows 3.x
Windows for Work Groups
Windows 95
Windows Me
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 10

Of all those systems, Windows 10 is by far the worst system I have had to use.

Everything has changed, nothing works like it once did, things that should would just don't work!

But wait, not everything is bad. It does boot really fast!!!

I purchased all new hardware and took Windows 10 as the $AUD 250.00 OS option.

I could have got Windows 7 as a cheaper option and should have done so......
Thank you both for inciting a fascinating combination of uncontrollable laughter and existential dread
People studying machine learning are not like people running a psychology experiment. If you give the same code, data and computers to two different teams, they will get the same results, and they will understand why that happens.

That's because a machine learning system has been built up from known principles and hardware; whereas the human brain is not fully understood, so researchers must work their way down from observed evidence to induce theories.
It depends on what your expectations are. If you are accustomed to earning the salary of a medical engineer with 3 years experience and expect to get near that as an entry programmer with no experience (which is essentially what everything you listed boils down to from a recruiters perspective), then its going to be a very difficult road and you will have to work much cheaper than you want to.

Certifications only help for specific fields like cisco network engineers or certain types of admin jobs, in my experience little if at all for programming positions. So i wouldnt go that route.

I would suggest any of the other things you listed to get experience (internship, freelance, work cheaper). You will have to work your way up, but thats pretty much always the case whenever you jump ship into a new field. Id also suggest trying your luck at a startup since they usually dont have strict HR processes like larger companies, and might be willing to overlook lack of exp if you can bring good engineering skills, and other qualities (passion, etc.) to the table.

If you gave more info on where you are or want to work (EU country, US, south america, etc) and what programming field you want to work in (web, embedded, etc) we could give you better help.
It would make sense that killing demand kills supply. Uber drivers would divert to areas where they are more likely to get a passenger now, rather than run to surge areas for the chance at getting surge pricing, but having a lower chance because there are fewer potential passengers.

I'm interested in how the algorithm will evolve, as more people figure out ways to game the system to save money on fare.
arch is much shorter feedback loop I think.
The result is the same, but thanks for that clarity. Your point clears up a misunderstanding I've had about how that works for a while.
I fail to see how it's not a perfect analogy to say that this is just like a guy whining for an end to all internet meme images on the basis that photography has a long artistic tradition and should not be debased.

I get it that "joke haiku" are low-effort imitations of a noble and ancient art. So what? There's a place for low-effort dumb humor. That's okay. Your noble and ancient haiku are still there, unharmed. There is no poetry currency which is being devalued when cheap product floods the market.
mainly because a limerick is much more difficult to form correctly. A less than infinite number of monkeys could turn out a haiku in quick succession, a limerick on the other hand.
I think you're wearing rose tinted glasses. You say "are becoming" but do you have real evidence that the past was a utopia of rationality where propaganda fell on deaf ears, nobody was ever scared of any threats and everyone loved deeply religious immigrants?

Because the UK I know from my history readings has things like the cold war, the Falklands war, massive tribal struggles between political left and right, and if you go back to Orwell's time you find he found it tough to get published because the idea that Stalin was a bad guy was deemed terribly gauche.

The UK has not had any truly evil governments for a very long time (perhaps, if we judge them by the standards of their day, the answer might be that it's never had an unusually evil government). It's not like Germany where they're super sensitive about privacy and democracy thanks to their experiences the Nazis and then the communists. So not very surprisingly, British people tend to be very trusting of their governments as they never saw how bad things can really get. See: popular support for Cameron executing a British citizen by drone strike, merely because he was in Syria and GCHQ promised cross-our-hearts-and-hope-to-die that he was a Bad Guy™.

This lack of experience doesn't excuse things, mind you .... just explain them. British people (like me) should look to the experiences of other countries to learn from their mistakes and should make sure to avoid them.

But modern UK is not significantly worse than even the recent past where it did things like run a global empire, persecuted gay people, had no minimum wage, etc. And Cameron, for all his faults, has actually been a pretty centrist PM (for a Tory). Certainly more than his backbenches would like.
MSFT wiped the "hide" mark already once:

http://au.pcmag.com/windows-10/39165/news/oops-update-glitch...

"Mistake my rear end!!! Microsoft got caught re-re-releasing KB3035583 and other related updates and now they're trying to walk back their outrageous and unethical behavior."
Editorial: AG Bondi shouldn't fight feds on clean power
By patenting though, you reveal your technique (that's the whole point: you get exclusive rights in exchange for disseminating knowledge). Once you file and receive your patent, you've basically published your results and everyone can benefit (although they'll have to pay you, of course).
> “Without surge pricing, Uber is not really Uber — you can’t push a button and get a ride in minutes,” an Uber economist and an Uber data scientist wrote in a blog post last month about a different report on surge.

> It analyzed what happened when a glitch caused surge to stop for 26 minutes in New York City on New Year’s Eve, Uber’s busiest night of the year.

Hmm. Call me crazy, but this exposes a pretty glaring hole in Uber's model: the inability to hail a car by hand. If - at some point far, far in the future - cabs become obsolete, how will you get a ride when either your phone is dead or the Uber network no longer responds?

Unrelated: is it possible that at some point unscrupulous drivers might try to pick up riders late at night in popular areas just by claiming they're Uber, or having an Uber sticker of some kind on their car?
You know how when you write something in Microsoft Word, and then copy it out into an editor, it takes terrible and broken HTML markup with it? That is exactly what has happened. The author has written the post in Word copied it to blogspot, and wham, bam, thank you ma'am, you get that clusterfuck.
Yeah, I'll do that when my friends' ghosts show up to tell me that I should do it. And even then, they might get run through another link in the food chain first--maybe even two--because I don't want spongiform encephalopathy (kuru).
This video came out in 2013 of a pro surfer riding the Wavestorm in the big waves of Jaws. It helped fuel Wavestorm's sales, if it rides pretty well at Jaws, it will be just fine in a 2 or 3 foot beginner swell.

https://youtu.be/0s2cCHg5EEs?t=1m51s
That doesn't make any sense. You treat a human being as one entity and a whole animal species as one entity. Almost nobody would see any problem with killing a particular wolf that repeatedly attacks people.

Diseases that are part of erradication programs used to kill or cause lifelong disability to millions. Diseases that kill thousands could be recommended to vaccinate aginst for those at risk. There would hardly be any research into a disease that kills 10 people a year.
I'm still without an answer, put a request in via the contact form, and also sent to apps@ycombinator.com with an alternative contact email and still nothing at either :( Kind of a piss off at this point.
Colonialism and enlightenment happened at the same time. Was that really news to anybody?

Only if you stop and think about it for a second: the use of "enlightenment" to refer to a set of ideas about freedom and liberty which were in practice only extended to white men. The only way to reconcile the "we the people" of the US constitution with the actual historical facts is to assume that the drafters meant that people == white men. Because the rights weren't extended equally to women, slaves, or Indians.

You've substituted "accomplishment" for "enlightenment", which isn't the same thing. The article refers to the Enlightenment in the context of its modern marketing campaign: why are people talking about the Enlightenment so much now? He postulates that this is in contrast to Islam, as part of current habit of painting the West as morally and racially superior to the people of the near East.

> "The apotheosis of this turn came in the early Twenty-First Century, when Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis identified “Enlightenment values” with the prosecution of the “Global War on Terror”. And so, it appeared, we came to bomb and torture in defence of the Enlightenment."

There's also an assault on the "Whig view of history", an old academic hobby horse; a reminder of the importance of the Haitian revolution; and a general call to seek out and include in the Enlightenment canon those who were an important influence on it but not white or European.
The Discovery (or History) channel, I forget which, has a facinating series of shows on Ancient Aliens.

This story reminds me of a story in the above mentioned series about a group of researches who appeared to have been killed by some force in Siberia. Upon further investigation, there appears to be some domes buried in the ground in Siberia.

The domes are theorized to have killed the researchers. In the show, they said an autoposy was done and some of the researchers were killed from the inside out. In other words, there was no visible trauma to their skin but their rib cage bones had been shattered.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread544351/pg1
https://soipost.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/what-is-the-purpose...
http://www.utaot.com/2013/02/27/scientists-prove-ancient-ali...

I don't get much of an opportunity to talk about these things at work or within my family. They think I'm nuts. But this really fascinates me too.
This is one think I don't understand. Dear automakers, it's 2015, please just leave a big hole in the middle of the front panel with USB-C connector and don't force your obsolete technology on me. Any half decent tablet with Android is vastly superior to whatever "computer" you designed into the car in 2007.
ZODB is no database. ZODB is a persistance layer. Where is the SQL in ZODB? The level of sophistication in the query interface is laughable.
Detroit is a little more willing to build killing people into its business model.

Hence the 30,000+ death toll on the roads for the past century, their big push in the 1990s to replace lightweight cars with big heavy SUVs, and their present push to build big automated distraction screens into the middle of cars.
Why is that any better? If I want to go home on New Year's Eve and I can take annoying public transport or a quick Uber at the same time as everybody else, it makes sense that I should have to pay more.

Economics dictates as demand goes up and supply remains the same the price should go up. Once either supply goes up or demand goes down the price goes down. Uber is literally modeling economic theory.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> How does it relate to writing C++11 without using raw pointers.

Rust's safety features are similar to those, but even stronger in a number of ways. There's two aspects to this: 1. more guarantees. You can write code with uniq_ptr that segfaults, but you cannot with Box<T>. 2. safety allows for patterns that would be dangerous in C++. For example, shared_ptr uses atomics for thread safety. Rust has two variants, Arc<T> with similar atomics, and Rc<T> without. If you're not using multiple threads, you can use Rc<T>, safe in knowing that Rust will give you a compile-time error if you introduce multithreading. In other words, there are ways that you need to be defensive in C++ that you do not in Rust.

> does it have the capabilities C++ has regarding making classes,

Rust does not really have OOP, exactly, we have structs and traits (concepts). One major difference is that we don't currently have inheritance, though proposals are being worked on. But since we already have the concept equivalent, we have extra power there. Tradeoffs.

> operator overloading

Rust lets you overload certain pre-defined operators, but not create new ones.

> templates?

AST based, hygenic macros, instead.
Small detail: most Rust programs do need glibc installed. Unless you've built with MUSL specifically.
Obama expected to deploy US forces to 'assist' in Syria
The liability scenario you claim will fix everything has already been the status quo in Android-land from the beginning. It clearly hasn't fixed the attitude OEMs have towards updates and security in thee last 5 years and other than outside pressure (Apple) continuing to make them look inept at update and support, I don't see any drive from within to fix the situation, and the Android-enthusiest attitude of "just put a custom ROM on it to fix your broken, abandoned product" only reduces the number of people who understand the problem and would be angry enough to file lawsuits or give bad PR a year after their purchase.
Iron Workers: http://www.iron.io/worker/

Most new breed Docker hosts like http://tutum.co can give you a quick DIY version.

But in general they (Amazon) are (currently) the best of breed and I have only positive things to say having used the JS and Java versions.
Hardly. The Kotlin designers specifically call out Scala's mistakes when discussing why they do things differently.

In my experience it works well. I've yet to encounter anything surprising or leaky. Actually the abstractions it provides are fairly thin: you can normally look at Kotlin code and understand quickly what it compiles down to.

It may be that in the end, Kotlin succeeds where Scala struggled, simply because the Kotlin designers do a better job.
Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning – 422% funded
Also - when you swipe the page right (to go Back in a mobile browser), it instead navigates you to the previous blog entry. Argh.
Would love to see how self driving cars perform on crazy Boston roads and with Boston drivers especially near hvd square, route 2,3 ;)
I think it is an over-statement to claim that "Most modern cars come with similar collision avoidance systems."

Many have collision WARNING systems (i.e. no auto-braking), and even then only on the highest trims or with an expensive options package ($3K+).

However collision avoidance systems do exist, and manufacturers like Subaru have made them so inexpensive that there's little excuse to not buy it (e.g. Subaru Legacy Premium W/Eyesight is $25-26K, similar to a mid Camry or Accord, and those lack CAS at that price point ($30K+ Limited trim to get CWS in other cars, let alone CAS)).

Aside from the luxury market (which Tesla is in) a lot of cars lack CAS or make it so expensive that they may have well. Subaru is the only manufacturer that makes it within the realm of your average joe (e.g. sub-35K).
It's just the conclusions that need to be reproducible. In fact, science as a whole works better when researchers devise alternate experiments to test the same conclusion.

For example, say I measure gravitational acceleration on Earth by dropping a feather repeatedly. I get a number and I publish it. If other scientists just repeat my exact experiment, they will get a similar number and my result will be confirmed. Yay science!

But if scientists decide to check my number by dropping a wide variety of other objects, they will illustrate the flaws in my original experiment and everyone will get a clearer picture of gravity.

So it's not about just reproducing an experiment; scientists seek to test and expand upon each others' results.
I fear the day that google has broken the political barriers and car manufacturers release different software that turns into headlines of automated car crashes. I sincerely hope that google's software is licensed at a reasonable rate such that every car manufacturer will use it.
There is a way: A lot of traffic these days is people looking for a parking spot.
If the car leaves the area right away after dropping you off, it will be less congested there.
How ISIS Spread in the Middle East
Well that's basically what happened. Smart people are very good at finding ways to convince themselves they're right and the whole world is wrong.
Some very small and not complete tests on my code show an improvement of ~20% in building time, apparently this is in line with other people's results [1]. However, you can find in the comments on reddit that it is really not uniform.

[1]: www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3qqdqk/announcing_rust_14/#cwhfnhc
No you don't understand: if 99% of the traffic is automated and resilient to idiots, what prevents me from passing a red light? What prevents me from going the wrong way on the motorway? You'll have overstressed idiots that will get that and start driving like fools to meet their appointments.

It has already happened in some way: the overconfident TMAXes that don't think the laws of traffic apply to them.
I think you can likely argue writing less code means creating fewer bugs. But there are a billion counterexamples where more code accounts for more conditions, and thus means less remaining bugs.

This is a great read on why that's the case: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
The SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example (2008)
There's always a Facebook-shaped niche. It used to a CompuServe-shaped niche. Then it turned into an AOL-shaped niche.

But it's the same niche, for more-or-less the same user profile.

And it'a a very vulnerable niche. FB may seem unstoppable at the moment, but it really isn't.

The number of ways it could be replaced is non-trivial.

Zuckerberg knows this, hence internet.org, which is really just a way to promote lock-in in the developing world. But that's a lot less useful than it seems if FB loses traction in the developed world.
"There are security bugs" does not mean "pile of crap". Everything has security bugs. The question is how bad they are and how much it costs to buy a zero-day / the use of a zero-day.
From the source on TMC the user in question that posted this said he was using AP at the time. While the final braking was AEB I'd still say the title is fair.
It has some magic, but we already have to use polyfills to support multiple browser versions. I see something like Babel as the global polyfill of the future. Use latest es features now and have them go native over time.
Not sure many people would consider Volvo, Audi, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, Skoda, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen to be 'luxury' brands.
Is this sarcasm? I know you know that this would turn Uber into regular taxi cabs.
Inside the ubiquitous 741 op amp, the circuits in silicon