skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that you're half there. You'd have a car that could navigate roads, but ultimately it couldn't get you to where you want to go.

Here has been dedicated on making maps at a quality level that is needed for automous cars. A few issues with the data that is available currently is that the data isn't very detailed, and you're at the mercy of volunteers (tiger(old), openmaps data), or for a company that's main focus isn't maps. (Google)

http://360.here.com/2015/06/02/take-create-autonomous-cars/
It's not a No True Scotsman when there's inherent vagueness.

People define themselves by these terms and the terms are also widely used. If you can't figure them out, that's on you.

Is that so? Because I've heard definitions of "right" as variously economically liberal, economically protectionist, socially conservative, socially liberal (as in classical liberalism), non-interventionist in foreign policy, interventionist in foreign policy, anti-statist, statist and so forth.

In fact, all of these contradictory views have belonged or continue to belong to various movements categorized as "right-wing".

So I'm asking about what you mean. Or perhaps you don't mean anything and are simply looking for an ax to grind.
Like Bruce Jenner?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/27/br...
You're missing his point; he's saying whomever happens to be the larger group in a given scenario will be the better spender of the money. Which is a point, given your stances, that you should be agreeing with unless you're just purely anti-government. He's saying the government is a better spender than the 'wealthy oligarchs' precisely because that's such a small group and the government is the bigger group but that the poor and middle class are better spenders than the government because they're the bigger group..
> However, it should not surprise someone in the sciences if they are passed over for job opportunities based on their religious beliefs.

In the US, its generally should, since its pretty blatantly illegal in virtually every case.

> Those beliefs may limit your capacity to effectively perform your job.

There may be some specific religious beliefs where that is true for some jobs (in the sciences or otherwise), but, in general, that's not even remotely true.
Huh, I did exactly the same thing for a few years. At one point I had about 25 iPods (almost all 3rd gens) in various states of functioning. I made a little money, but nothing crazy.

The one and only 3rd get I still have and use daily I bought on ebay listed as "completely dead, doesn't do anything" for something like $30. The day I got it, I turned it on, and it has worked perfectly every minute I've had it.
People need things to comfort them. Parent's believe in an afterlife is obviously a comforting thought for them. I wouldn't call that being juvenile so much as being human.
I agree on all 3 points, none of which run contrary to what I said. Downvoting without commenting is cowardly, lazy, or both.
I think the comment to which you were responding was both thoughtful and, yes, provocative. You took the bait, but you didn't add anything of substance. Do you think that attributing some of the shift in how computing is done to tablets/smartphones is "not in touch with reality"? Because if you can show some data or link to other arguments, that would be really interesting. If not, why post?
With a conditional move the processor executes both sides of the branch, but only "commits" the side that actually should be taken. Mis-predicting a branch on a modern OOO superscalar processor can be much more expensive than executing both sides.
> Depends on how you define "better". Who is to say that "better for society" trumps "better for the individual"

Society of course, thus democracy.

> There's no particular objective reason to take that position over the one favoring individual choice.

Yes there is, the will of the majority.
Fencing. Besides the fact that sword fighting is fun, it should help my brain and reflex as I age; 44 now.
Google Login will be mandatory for Firebase accounts
but most of the stuff people complain about in gameworks is multiplatform in the same way - especially hairworks
Show HN: EmojiViewer - An Android app for decoding iOS9.1 emoji
I had to patch the client to get the authorize_account-command to work (interactively):
(ed: lets put that in the righ order, shall we - the dict-key needs two
dashes):

diff -u b2.orig b2
--- b2.orig 2015-12-17 02:01:55.500314405 +0100
+++ b2 2015-12-17 02:00:31.032066222 +0100
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@

def authorize_account(args):

- auth_urls = {'-production':'https://api.backblaze.com'}
+ auth_urls = {'--production':'https://api.backblaze.com'}

option = '--production'
url = auth_urls[option]

[ed2: quest #182330 "Bug/typo in CLI tool" created -- that's a nasty bugtracker you've got there. Is it possible to just email support somewhere? I get grumpy when I need to run javascript and fill in CAPTCHAs just to file a simple bug ;-) ]
Are you really? Sincerely. Because these days, that seems to be the mode of "Debate" that is most popular, alas. I feel like anti-intellectualism has taken hold, such that "Debate" at its best is citing some authority (who usually isn't really an authority, eg: a politician taking a scientific position) and much more commonly engages in ad hominem of the form of attempting to discredit people as a form of argument.
Wait....are you telling me that used a computer today? And the day before that? And the day before...

Ah, you're probably behind the times and not very techy anyway.
Links to data would be appreciated... rather than just saying "data contradicts this."
I think you're delusional if you don't think there's incidents of discrimination against minorities or those with non-hetero sexual orientations.

But to give you a very specific example, you may remember this from the news this year:

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

If you're going to be that snarky, at least be right.

> the number of minorities in my little hometown has increased at a startling rate the past 3 years

Sorry we startled you.
The reason I like R rather than Stata (actually, there are many, but the initial reason) is that I can run R on as many computers as I have access to simultaneously without worrying about license compliance.

When I submit 1,000 jobs to a compute cluster to process genotyping, I don't worry that I'm violating a license.

When I sold my business that used R as a core tool, I didn't worry that I had enough licenses.

I think that is a valuable reason to actively prefer free as in beer and free as in liberty over even inexpensive but proprietary.
Exactly. The Windows "OEM" or "System Builder" edition is only valid for computers that are sold on to the final end user. They aren't legal for personal use by the original purchaser. [1]

[1] = http://www.howtogeek.com/197232/microsoft-is-misleading-cons...
If that AI has, say, one-third the risk of accidents as I would have, then I want it driving my car even if I enjoy it slightly less.
The article is pretty light on details. What's revolutionary about 8 GPUs in a PC on a shelf?
Telegram gains over 500.000 users from Brazil within the last three hours
It isn't a fanboy war. The Android permission system is terrible, and users cannot get a sense of what apps are able to do. I've used Android since Galaxy I. I've never used an iPhone.
Yup. These same people find these rights somehow engraved in their minds (from education in the civic religion and other socialization) and consider them to be eternal and obvious truths, which were nevertheless somehow not apparent to anyone for approximately two million years of human history, which is full of people murdering, raping, and enslaving without the slightest consideration that it might be violating people's rights.

I don't mean to pick on them, but just to strengthen your point: almost all of us believe in something supernatural (which doesn't make it any more real, of course.) But what really characterizes people who believe in something supernatural is they believe that thing is natural. Devout Christians do, of course, believe that God transcends nature, having created it, but God is for them an entirely 'natural' thing, a perfectly obvious and eternal truth that everybody should just know, you'd think, an inalienable part of the natural world.

This kind of fundamental belief, or axiom, or cognitive bias, or whatever you want to call it, is very difficult for most people to really identify and understand in themselves.
what if a driver does a mistake, like running a red, and doesn't get a ticket?

who validates all this data?

attaching a dnn to a driver as a training set is a pipe dream, for now. maybe after we understand how our brain perceives time and build models of future outcomes, we could apply it to build better nn. For now, nn are just best used as classifiers in a controlled environment, not from an environment with unpredictable states.

and especially not in an environment with adversaries http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...
Leader or Manager: which type of person are you?
I wonder if it would make us pronounce the trademark symbols...
I trust Google's and Apple's software more than I trust the software that we use in many hospitals, to which people do approximately trust their health.
>In the US, its generally should, since its pretty blatantly illegal in virtually every case

A law that cannot be enforced isn't really a law. Making a case for religious discrimination is difficult. And the subject of this thread revolves around whether discriminating based on beliefs should be allowed. If you worked at Bain Capital and openly supported Bernie Sanders, would you be surprised to not get promotes?

> There may be some specific religious beliefs where that is true for some jobs (in the sciences or otherwise), but, in general, that's not even remotely true.

See my comment below regarding skepticism and science.
I'm not applying because I'll be working then and have no experience with Laravel. I'm interested in how much you're paying for the 20 days though.
There's no way a provision as "nice" as this would go through. Of course lawmakers want ways to sneak things in.

Oh, what are those last few pages you added? Never you mind, those are tertiary. This is all in the name of protecting the environment, and its citizens, and their metadata...
Kafka for Rubyists
Can anyone confirm if that is the case with uber? On Android, if location isn't enabled, you can't use uber.

And before anyone claims location services are necessary to find the user and stop ddos attacks - I've ordered uber before for people in other parts of town, and I'm a signed in user with a track record of making payments.
Why did you name it that?
You might like this alternative: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
"Frankly, I think belief in the supernatural should be screenable in an employment application": screening prospective employees on the basis of their religious beliefs is illegal in many places. For example, in the US see http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm and in Australia see https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-g...

I think there are good reasons for these laws. If it is legal to discriminate in employment against religious minorities, that can contribute to their disconnection from broader society, which could promote radicalisation and similar problems. You also have to consider that there are many countries where religious discrimination is official government policy - how easy is it for an open atheist to get a job in Saudi Arabia? - and for Western countries to prohibit religious discrimination is a good way of sending a message about it at the global level (whether or not anyone in places like Saudi Arabia are listening.)
Not mentioned in the article is the effect air conditioning had on where people go for vacation. Atlantic City was one of the escapes from the hot summer heat. Now you just turn down the thermostat.
I know it does formulas and charts. We use it for various things; some accounting, budgets, cash forecasting, marketing metrics...
This is an idealized view of science and academia that has no grounding in reality. People in academia feel a lot of pressure to research specific topics. The pressure is not necessarily from the market, but from publications. If you "explore your interests" without looking at what would be publishable or not, chances are you're not gonna get a job in academia. These considerations of publication are often quite short-term oriented. Conversely, you find investors comfortable in investing in businesses having slim chances of profitability before at least 10 years, because fundamental research can lead to huge market gains down the road.

So it's far from being a case of intellectual freedom against quick profits.
There should be an automatic ban against anyone who attempts to shirk responsibility.
No, that's wrong too. I have no idea why you think there would be a relationship like that. The two things you're trying to relate aren't even on the same scale.
You ignored everything he said, because it disproves your point.
OEM pricing only applies if you have receipts for desktop components. To put Windows in a VM costs a good bit more.
I don't think he ignored it. He said he just didn't care.
I also did exactly the same thing, and I'm the same age! I now have a small collection of old iPods. I didn't make much money, but I collected a large amount of music, and made friends. In fact, the iPod & iTunes were a major part of getting things started with all 5 of my ex-girlfriends, and a major part of holding those relationships together long-distance. I did make a little money from an iBook repair business when I was 15, but then I spent it all to upgrade one of the iBooks with an 80GB disk and 640MB of RAM.

These days I'm using an iPod Video 5.5G with a Tarkan iFlash-Dual SD adaptor, with a PQI Air Card for integrated WiFi.

Check out the thread of iPod collectors on MacRumors:
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/calling-all-ipod-collect...

And of course, the Head-Fi modding thread:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/566780/official-ipod-video-classic-...

I was a moderator on the iPodLinux forums back in the day, and I've kept in touch with a couple of guys from there. Say hi if you remember Podzilla!

If you're a developer and can help me patch Rockbox to add serial Rx, I want to turn my iPod into a USB HID keyboard. I'll get around to it, but these days I'm busy with work.
http://hackaday.com/2015/06/27/keymouserial-solves-your-rasp...

"Nanos? Forget about it."
- Watch this space. I now work for a flash memory manufacturer in Taiwan.
> point blank denial of facts such as that of human-caused climate change

Science can't prove/disprove AGW because there's no control, which means that it isn't and can't be a fact.

(I believe we should assume AGW to be safe.)
Half of Australia's 1300 public companies pay zero tax
:( ugh not again
I'd like to check this statement from the article: "'Many geologists, we’re looking at the possibility of a ten-to-thirty-foot range [of sea-level rise] by the end of the century,' he told me." I have not seen any published figure that high.

I've actually been rather surprised at how LOW many predictions of sea-level rise are for the century ending in the year 2100. The United States Environmental Protection Agency writes,[1] "Since 1870, global sea level has risen by about 7.5 inches. Estimates of future sea level rise vary for different regions, but global sea level for the next century is expected to rise at a greater rate than during the past 50 years. Studies project global sea level to rise by another 1 to 4 feet by 2100, with an uncertainty range of 0.66 to 6.6 feet." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change document on sea level rise[2] projects a lot of uncertainty, but doesn't seem to predict such major changes in sea level.

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/science/future.html#sealev...

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/cop19/3_gregory13sbsta.pdf
What about situations where the person buying the car is not the person driving the car, like a company car or a rental agency? I could see it being cheaper (for insurance purposes) to not allow a manual override.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Oh! There's also a breakdown by state, including "Table HC6.10 Space Heating in U.S. Homes in South Region, Divisions, and States, 2009".

GA has 1.7M homes heated with gas, and 1.7M heated with electricity, out of 3.5M. That has the highest percent of homes heated by gas.

In FL, and in line with my observations, has only 0.4M heated with gas, and a whopping 5.7M out of 7M heated with electricity. That's the lowest percentage, which is reasonable for a place with little need for winter heating.

Overall in the South, some 13.3M homes are heated with gas, 24.2M with electricity, 0.6M with fuel oil, 1.9M with propane, 0.8M with wood, 0.2M with kerosene, and 1.0M have no heat.
>and when faced with someone who claims to be a scientist, living in the west in the 21st century, and who actually believes this stuff (e.g. the afterlife) then it is just difficult to take them seriously

Is this something you have to do regularly, make judgements on scientists based on their speculations of an afterlife?

Wouldn't it be far better to make judgments based on their contribution to their field?

Does this mean we should not take Francis S. Collins seriously?
I sincerely am, here, because one of the purposes of discussion here is to talk about ideas for what they are, not for the window-dressing that they're presented with.

In the vast majority of places, no, I'm not surprised at all.

I agree with what you're saying.
Also relevant, how do we know they're not injecting a pdf exploit into the final document? There is no real company information to hold anyone accountable. There could be a dozen websites like this for people to use for "free" that will inject malicious script which most antivirus apps won't detect. Not saying it's not useful, and awesome if legit but there should be more accountability. This is almost the internet equivalent of a stranger in a car waving free candy at a child walking down the street. My workplace was hit yet again today with a Cryptolocker variant (second time this month) which required us to restore thousands of files from backup. All from clicking on a link in an email.
if you met a scientist who openly admitted to believing Elvis is still alive, would you hold the same opinion of them professionally?

Basing your professional opinion of someone on anything other than their professional work strikes me as very 'unsciency'
Skype for Business is a completely different product than regular Skype. I'm going to bitch until they give some sort of API access to LyncOnline/Office 365, because it makes my day job writing extensions for it more difficult, but as an IM platform and Gotomeeting-esque screensharing tool it's actually quite good. It's not terrible as a softphone, either, if you are making calls between or within federated Lync/Skype environments. Administering and deploying it is kind of a PITA (just look at some of the architecture diagrams[1], or try to set it up as an on-prem/cloud hybrid...), which is why Office 365 is really taking off, but I'd say it compares favorably to IBM's out-to-dry SameTime, or any of the XMPP variants I've encountered.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398095.aspx
By that standard, science also can't confirm human's shared ancestry with apes, or the Big Bang.

Science doesn't fit in a test tube.
A simple, declarative, and composable way to fetch data for React components
See, this has been a solved problem for literally decades and this is the only comment in the whole thread that has gotten anywhere near it. The idea that I need socks that can talk to my TV for _any_ reason is just nuts.
"Completely dead", until you plug it in with FireWire, which will force-charge it. USB's request-charge system still bugs me.

It's awesome that you're still using an iPod daily. Did you mod it at all?
Hi all. I wrote this 3+ years ago. This wasn't a crazy operation but it was a pretty lucrative and fun side gig in my teenage years. Happy to answer any questions here or on twitter @teddy.
As the article says, this is a much bigger problem than just Miami.

> Globally, it’s estimated that a hundred million people live within three feet of mean high tide and another hundred million or so live within six feet of it. Hundreds of millions more live in areas likely to be affected by increasingly destructive storm surges.
Did you actually read the article, or are you just randomly claiming that qmail is superior?

This is an attack against the SMTP protocol that is run through an SMTP client library. There is very little that an MTA could do to mitigate the attack.

AFAIK qmail doesn't have an API that accepts untrusted input like this.

It could be interesting to see whether there are similar attacks against local MTAs in which a malformed email ends up sending unexpected requests to the remote server when the local server tries to deliver it, but that's not what the article is about.
I agree, I'm from Iowa, there are lot's of smart people in Middle America. There are also a lot of condescending people on the Coasts.
Hi and awesome. :)
> A law that cannot be enforced isn't really a law. Making a case for religious discrimination is difficult.

To the extent that it is difficult to enforce, it is because it is difficult to know when it has occurred. But, that doesn't reduce the surprise one should have when one discovers that it has occurred, because that means that it is one of the cases where the problems that usually exist with discovering that it has occurred (and which pose a difficulty for enforcing the law) are not present, at least at their normal level.

> See my comment below regarding skepticism and science

Religious beliefs in general are not incompatible with skepticism on questions within the domain of science; some specific religious beliefs may be incompatible with skepticism in some areas of scientific inquiry, but, again, that's different than the generality posed.
I wrote a primer on git's least-intuitive and most useful commands
Clippy’s Revenge – Smart Messaging as Platform Shift
Median household income in Detroit: $26,325 83% black (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html)

Walk a block over to Grosse Point: $89,492 93% white (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe,_Michigan)

Royal Oak: $52,252 90% white (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Oak,_Michigan)

Livonia: $68,973 92% white (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2649000.html)
Thank you for your insights! Have you thought about a cheaper once-a-month option instead? Say $15 for 1 delivery per month? Might help to get some people on board who have a mental limit that's right below $25.
This is just an educated guess, but the cmov is probably going to stall the execution stage of the pipeline, which could end up backing up the front-to-back-end queue, the reorder buffer, and perhaps even fetch itself. You're getting no help from the branch predictor at this point since the dependency runs through an ALU instruction, whereas in the branchy code, you at least have a coinflip chance of predicting the right direction.
Yup. My thesis advisor flat out told me to stop wasting my time with "crap" like neural nets. He came up in the time when they were disparaged by researchers competing for funding in AI so he didn't like them. He didn't care that I was using them to solve problems he was interested in, he wanted me to solve problems he was interested in using methods he approved of.
Google's Dumb Nexus 6P Policy
Ah! Fair point, I'll fwd to our web folks!
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (2011)