skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect with UberX you've already reached the point where you're not going to cut costs much by going any further downscale. There are things to criticize about Uber but "their prices are high because the cars are too nice" probably isn't one of them.

Rent a Wreck is still around and I know people who use them on a regular basis.
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I had a colleague who used to have very long pauses, but only after saying a few words very quickly first in a way that ensured he held the conversational baton. So he would say something like "I don't agree because..." followed by a 15 second pause before continuing the sentence.

Pretty sure it was not intentional, it was just what he had converged on as his optimal conversational strategy, but it was incredibly frustrating for others. Partly just the endless pause, but also I think (after reading this article) that everyone is busily optimizing a response in real time while he talks, but when he stops talking mid sentence, suddenly the algorithm has no more input to process yet still knows there will be more coming at some point soon, so cannot complete and also cannot swap out, so instead goes into an uncomfortable spin wait state that gets quite exhausting after a while.
The race for the master algorithm has begun (Wired UK)
Harmless yes, but with carotenosis you might turn orange.
The founder of Mozilla has a crazy plan to solve the ad-blocking crisis
Lenovo outsourced support and maintenance of both to IBM for various markets, but that's as far as it gets.
I like to skim through their gitter channel from time to time, to see what they are up to. But lately, it's not clear.

Does anybody here have more data on this? What's next for ceylon? What's the status with the intellij plugin? Or with the android support in general?
It would be really neat if this could be used with Google Streetview. Another cool addition would be an accelerometer on the handlebars to enable steering (though I guess that would be problematic with a stationary bike).
I think it's more in reference to him being cryo-preserved. According to one of the other comments on this thread.
I tested whether any HN pedants would sink this low and you passed.
Decades in power?
I think the big big points for git initially actually were: 1) performance - everything comparable but open was way slower back then
2) a usable and relatively small per-checkout history

In the cvs & svn days I used a fair amount of hacks to get those two, and pretty much always failed. For svn svk was a partial solution. For cvs there was rsync, but also something else I can't even remember. Bad memories fade.
no, but I am a co-founder of a fitness startup, and try to get a lot of exercise! 8-12 miles is more than I do, and I do not have a kid.
The ubiquity of DTS in the PC and hifi market is probably scaring the crap out of them.
I think you got lost on your way to /b/.
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Could it have been a thick stray cloud combined with some light reflection/refraction effects from the ground or maybe stars/planets in the background ?
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I dual-booted Mint on my 2011 MBA the other week and it was a nasty experience. I feel like Linux users have low standards, or maybe I've been away too long. Here's four things I found immediately:

1. The fans don't automatically react to temperature without a background daemon (?!).

2. Multi-touch trackpad support is terrible. The default synaptic driver can't handle you resting your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad. The alternative driver doesn't support momentum scrolling (and is still a bit shit). At least palm detection has been solved; well done Linux, it only took you 10 years.

3. It cannot seem to handle using left Alt as a third-level activator (e.g. for # key on EU keyboards) at the same time as actually letting you /use/ your Alt key (e.g. for activating menus). I think I eventually solved this, but how hard should it be?!

4. As others have mentioned; battery life.

I was impressed that sleep, audio, wifi and display brightness all worked out of the box though. Progress, eh?
Human brains are really poor at interpreting new brief visual stimulus "correctly". Furthermore, our first impression can affect the perception of the stimulus even if it lasts several seconds.

I'm 36, and visually quite acute. I've seen my visual system doing the craziest interpretations in various situation, and observed my interpretation of a visual field completely changed by a sudden re-interpretation of some small detail.

Given proper conditions I could have interpreted these as apparitions, ghosts, materializations or whatnot. The difference is, all of these situations happened in calm mundane situations where I had the luxury to pause and look at the thing for a long while and figure it out.

The craziest was a low-lit room where I saw the patterns of a carpet as my son, walking. I had woken at night and presumed it was because my kid was awake. When I came closer I realized it was the carpet.

If I can mistake a rug for a human being I do not find it unlikely that a pilot trained to be aware of bogeys to interpret unexpected stimulus first as a vehicle (this interpretation is very hard to shake off).
> English did not won.

Apparently not.
Docker is one of the tools that was concocted (by brilliant people!) after I began programming professionally. From my understanding, Docker allows you to containerize your applications so they function properly anywhere you (so to say) "place those containers".

Now, does if I'm working with say Django or Flask, and things behave differently on an AWS server than they do on your local machine, for example — relative paths for file uploads work on localhost, but mess up on AWS. Also file permissions are irritating to work with on AWS, but never an issue on localhost (on a Mac). In such a scenario, is Docker for these issues? I imagine I use Docker, make a "container" and setup everything properly in that, and then just move it to AWS when I'm deploying?
I've seen a few around. Here's one HN post that I can quickly recall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216299
Working remote and got cabin fever?
All the other terminals I've tried seemed lagging or incomplete. Like they only supported certain programs or ran in a box rather than on the file system.

With Termux I was quickly able to grab everything I needed with the package manager. It certainly didn't feel laggy at any time. (Yet)
Resurrection from cerebral hemorrhage seems unlikely, though. How would they do it - wash it out? A brain that thought about the brain for a lifetime, wiped out in minutes.
The Soviets managed to fool the US government into believing that they had many more strategic bombers than they actually did, using the same tactics.

> At the Soviet Aviation Day demonstrations at the Tushino Airfield, ten Bison bombers were flown past the reviewing stand, then flew out of sight, quickly turned around, and flew past the stands again with eight more, presenting the illusion that there were 28 aircraft in the flyby. Western analysts extrapolated from the illusionary 28 aircraft, judging that by 1960 the Soviets would have 800.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap
I think hg was/is important, to provide competition to git.

But I don't really understand all the people arguing that hg is so much easier to use, and so much cleaner. Sure, in the first few years that was true, and there's architecturally better choices (not a mess of scripts, embeddable as library). But from a day to day usage, hg seems worse to me. And that includes the documentation, something that really surprised me after I had to restart using hg a year or so back.

The whole thing how hard it is to actually get rid of branches (no, I do not want to merge that branch. Yes, I don't want any central record anymore. No, I don't want to ssh into the remote box. Uh....), really bugged me. So does the need, slowly abating, to activate a lot of random plugins to get functionality that git had for years (pagers, incremental add, staging area, ...).

But I very well, and I actually mean that, might just be mind warped by having used git so long and so continually that I just don't see the problems anymore and it just seems easier. I do remember some initial difficulties understanding it, but that was in the quite early days...
> User generated content in the music business has been tried over and over again. MP3.com, MySpace, Garageband, and many others. The problem is that the consumer wants the hits, the names, the current hot artists. They don't want the long tail of unknown artists.

I think Soundcloud has a very different audience. In my opinion hardly anyone cares about the hits over there. And it isn't a requirement to feature the hits in order to be successful. Ask Bandcamp, they are doing quite well with their endless niche catalog.

Personally, I consider myself a mostly digital crate digger who loves to explore obscure music and forgotten gems. Soundcloud is really helpful when trying to keep up with some of my favorite labels - an institution Spotify & Co. couldn't care less for. Soundcloud surely doesn't have everything but at least it fills some of the huge gaps, that Spotify, Apple or Google aren't interested in at all.
Considering the rise of Dansk Folkeparti in Denmark (sort-of a "nicer/cleaner" version of Sweden Democrats), and the very low quality level of the current Danish political debate, I'm not sure the Danish approach is doing much to defuse right-wing populism through letting people air their grievances. They can, but they just they do that in addition to voting for populist-right parties, not instead of. In any case it seems to be a much broader phenomenon than the political discourse norms of any one country. Right-populist politics, in the various local flavors offered by DF/SD/Trump/Szydło, are gaining across many countries despite quite a few differences in those countries.
Just because something is conceptually simple does not make it simple to use.
Similarly pointers are simple. They are things (usually variables) used to point to other things in memory by storing the memory address of the target.
They are simple. And yet their usage is very complex.
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Us iPod users still (have to) do that. However bad iTunes may be, iTunes+iPod is still by far the best listening experience for many.
It is pretty obvious to me that this is a natural trend in a lot of areas of entertainment.

Game design techniques are refined with time it is only normal that "classical" games get to the back rack as games develop to be more subtle, simple and refined.
tenderlove is the best. Not only does he work on both Ruby and Ruby on Rails, he's also very active in the community (conferences, workshops, talks) and working hard on promoting a spirit of humility and respect (see the humorous Adequate HQ, the Friday Hug, the overwhelmingly positive and generous attitude he's always had towards anyone, famous or not, in the Ruby community). I have nothing but respect for that man and I'm glad he's working hard everyday on the language I so love.

Thank you Aaron.
The "microstate" of Taiwan is larger, in surface area and population, than Belgium.
The HN handle is "trollian". Enough said.
EFF is wrong. This guy[0] owns the law.

0. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/docum...

(Don't believe me? go read the 1984 concordat between Rome and the US.)
It's an absolute beauty, and all hand-drawn - none of this murky photo rubbish, it's the wonderful fusion of technical illustration and cartooning. When I draw, I aspire to that warm, friendly clarity.
Seriously, there are guys researching this topic for years, applying sophisticated linguistic analyses and then finally propose a novel hypothesis to the world - then comes a guy on the internet and after a quick snap of their thoughts destroys their work and claims they're wrong, it is no more than common experiences.

Reminds me of all those internet scientists that ask "but what about the sun?" when the topic of AGW comes up. No shit, Sherlock, never thought about that blinding thing in the sky before!

Sorry for the rant and attacking you, but sometimes a bit of humility is warranted when it comes to science.
Amazingly, according to this 1981 interview in the New Yorker, Minsky's first neural net was itself randomly wired!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/12/14/a-i

"Because of the random wiring, it had a sort of fail-safe characteristic. If one of the neurons wasn’t working, it wouldn’t make much of a difference—and, with nearly three hundred tubes and the thousands of connections we had soldered, there would usually be something wrong somewhere. In those days, even a radio set with twenty tubes tended to fail a lot. I don’t think we ever debugged our machine completely, but that didn’t matter. By having this crazy random design, it was almost sure to work, no matter how you built it."
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Random weights but the spacial organization of inputs follows the input geometry
If it makes dumb product decisions like dropping the audio jack just to make a slimmer phone, I won't be thinking of iPhone anymore.
There are already some training bikes that license Google Maps data - https://www.ifit.com/products/tdf
Just as every person has a finite amount of money in the bank, there is also such a thing as "political capital" and a politician must choose carefully how it is spent, because you cannot spend it well on many things. Obama used most of his political capital to overhaul healthcare, that was his top issue and it took years and years to do it. Now that it is more or less set in stone, he's finally had the opportunity in the last couple years to look at other important items to him, namely climate change (for which he also did some important policy-making work), guns, immigration, and the prison system. It is not easy to make sweeping changes to any major policy, and even getting one big thing done in 8 years is hard to do in the current political climate.
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Volvo buses on the other hand have had a really poor safety record, at least here in India. Here's one incident for example:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/45-killed-as-b...

And it's not just this. I've personally witnessed at least 2 Volvos on fire on Bangalore roads, although thankfully, there weren't any fatalities. The positioning of the fuel tank is reportedly flawed in these buses.
Cool I guess, but it only serves to make me re-realise how much I dislike the grid layout.

Edit: To be clear, it is nothing against the project itself. Only in general that it makes it hard to scan pages with layouts like this.
At least I contributed more to this thread than you. I answered the OPs question. This is not part of stock Windows. It is aftermarket crapware installed by the OEM.

I apologise I made two mistakes. First I brain faded and wrote IBM. Second I didn't edit it within the second of realising because I mistakenly thought HN wasn't full of trolls who are just waiting in the shadows ready to pounce on such a harmless mistake. Oh well. In case anyone is offended by the word crapware, well sorry but it is a recognised buzzword: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crapware
I know, it's very unfortunate. And who knows, maybe the damage is irreversible even with potential and futuristic medical advances, simply due to information loss.

But, as someone who plans on being cryo-preserved eventually, I'd say that whatever chance there is of reviving whatever remains of this individual, it should be taken. I'd want to live in the future, even if that meant not having my full cognitive abilities. Maybe not as very cognitively-impaired individual, but I guess I'll put that type of stipulation in the contract if I was worried about it.
Checkout Convox.com. Stellar team behind an awesome project.
Let's say I'm going to live until 50 (head+body), but then get a replacement 20 year old body when I'm 40. What happens to me? Can I make it to a higher age now? Will my mind eventually just turn into mush anyway?
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Research, yes. But Research alone can't pull this off. And most of the rest of the company can't tell logistic regression from a hole in the ground.
Man, I wish we were allowed to wear headphones in the office here.

The boss is old-fashioned as hell and thinks its unprofessional. He also thinks we have to wear a shirt and ties every day and that trade unions are communism.

I'm currently looking for other opportunities lol.
SNOBOL pattern matching is on strings; SASL is the origin of pattern matching on algebraic data types.
"i order drone strikes on innocent civilians on a weekly basis but i think the way we treat criminals in the US is inhumane"
Dukakis also suffered a major character blow in the eyes of the public during one of the televised debates when he said he would not support death penality even if his wife had been murdered (or something along those lines). It was an awful question to ask, but his reply was seen as unemotional to the audience when he reiterated that he still would not support the death penalty. I often wonder what the U.S. would have been like had he been elected. In any case, the American public apparently had a similar notion, since they kicked out Bush Sr to elect a Democrat anyway, just 4 years later. But that moment in the debate is often held as the defining moment that crashed his chances to win. A little silly, I think, but that's politics.
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Aren't Chrome extensions just zip packages that contain bunch of HTML and JavaScript? Couldn't you "easily" just see what is in it? Of course author can update the extension at anytime and the JS can be obfuscated.
Marvin Minsky: Education and Psychology (2009)
> Updating the routing table seems to temporarily fix it,

can you share a link ? thanks
Disregard me. I didn't realize that he actually put it in place. I take back everything I said. Obama actually comes out looking good, and I'm an asshat
Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
The price point is fairly low if you are prepared to make a hobby of it: You can do the image capture with Raspbery Pis. (1)

The storage is slightly more expensive though.

1) http://blog.snapdragon.cc/2012/07/16/using-raspberry-pi-for-...
Isn't HN supposed to be a forum popular with entrepreneurs? You sell the high-computation device as an optional extra.

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The idea that a remote network is somehow a requirement is patently absurd.
Hah, news to me.
France, the US, among others.

First thing I got when I moved to France (admittedly 12 years ago) was a checkbook. Hadn't heard of them since the 80s in Sweden.
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for my daughter slowing down the animation was very useful, having time to watch each operation happen helped her understand
When I first came into contact with AI at the University, I really enjoyed reading his Essays. As A Undergraduate I wasn't really ready to read his papers, but publications like "Why People Think Computers Can't" and "Matter, Mind and Models" (wich where recommendations of my prof.) really got me interested in this field.

Rest in peace, Mr. Minsky.
Some of the blame needs to go towards Anandtech and their pagination spam.
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I'm confused. "It's not true" -- you seem to be saying that solitary confinement is better/safer than normal prison life. But then you say that people in prison are not so bad.

I don't think that people in prison are "inhuman", but I do think that they are "hard" in a way that would be extremely difficult for me as a very sensitive person. I think they'd have to be to get by in an environment like that. For example I can't watch Orange is the New Black -- it stresses me out.
I'm aware; that was what I was referencing in the second to last sentence of my post, about it applying far too rarely but applying in this case.
Because you can simulate from the network. If you were right, this couldn't happen:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/adi/index.htm
I think right wing populists benefit a lot from the general feeling that the established parties and the media refuse to even admit that there might be a problem caused by mass immigration.
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Obama has been holding various public offices since 1997, Carter between '63 and '80.
This is more or less a case of overfitting. The algorithm works on the training set but doesn't generalize well. Tweaking the algorithm by decreasing the number of nodes in the hidden layer and doing cross-validation usually can help with this.
This is pretty astonishing research, not so much for the results, as for the methodology.

Doing research on what people eat is VERY hard, it's very hard to get accurate data.

Pairing people and having them eat identically is brilliant. I hope it's also scalable for longer term studies.

By pairing people they are likely to give much more accurate reports about what they actually eat, and it allows direct comparisons.
Agreed - It seems trivial to build a Street View API integration into Unity or Unreal Engine 4.
Speaking as a developer who uses a macbook, I kinda agree. Overall, keyboard support on OSX is way inferior to Windows (and, presumably, Linux - it's been a while). Not only do you have to learn really awkward combos for pagedown, end, etc. but each app interprets them slightly differently (or not at all), so it's not even worth the effort. If it weren't for the unixy innards, I would probably move away.
In France they are still very common. In particular, checks cannot be refused by members of small-enterprise associations recognized by the fiscal authority.
Italy as well, even if with more and more restrictions and difficulties.
I saw that film a long time ago and had no idea what it was called. Thanks for the link!

Also, it would be a great idea for fun exercise if this technology could be used to make multiplayer cycling games (think Mario Kart, but on bikes.. or maybe Road Rash) that allow people of varying fitness levels to compete, race, and get fit while playing.
You can display 80 columns on a MUCH smaller screen than that. I wonder how anyone puts up with carting around a laptop bigger than 13 inch.
But you might not be able to (legally) modify the source, depending on license.
A civil lawsuit as the sibling comment notes.

For which they'll settle or pay some insignificant fine, and continue about their same business.
New airliner types are actually pretty uncommon. New models of existing types happen more often, and are typically incremental improvements on the basic design, and usually do not rebuild/redesign the wings or other major flight-oriented components of the airframe.

Consider that in the past 15 years only three new types (Airbus A380 and A350, and Boeing 787) have entered service from the two major manufacturers, while the same time period has seen nine new models of pre-existing types from those manufacturers (the A320neo, the high-takeoff-weight variant of the A330, the 737-900, 747-8, 777-200LR, 777-300ER and the 787-9).
Have you ever seen a population density map of Taiwan?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_o...

Edit: Spoiler: the inhabitable area is about the size of Puerto Rico, a country it has 8x the population of, and something someone who had been there would know...
Precisely.

Just because there private hotfixes that deliver custom tweaks to specific customers. in fact, that's exactly how Microsoft has had it set up for years.