skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side is that the cars will not be prone to exhaustion caused by unrealistic deadlines levied on human drivers -- speed will be regulated at the law (i.e., 55mph max).

Right now you have truckers driving for 18+ hours at 10-15mph over the legal limit. I'd much rather the road be trucked by software that won't speed and will defer to the side of safety always.

The fact that it is carrying freight, too, is a plus, as the truck driving software can always make the decision in favor of the other drivers on the road (whereas passenger self-driving cars will be focused both on the safety of the car itself and other drivers, a much more difficult decision tree).

e: my references to law are to US law, which isn't exactly applicable to this specific story, but the arguments stand (I'm sure there is a similar max-speed limit for trucks in the UK)
Only if the variables are independent, right? Because I would expect a tall guy to have longer arms than I have.
Control?
I too prefer to work in c++ (or c#). But I work in java too, such as when I'm working on android. I never fire up Android Studio and sigh about the lack of respect random internet twats would give me if only they knew what I was doing. As long as I get paid at the end of the month it's all good!
I'm not even sure what you could possibly be trying to say.
> The Aero Medical Laboratory hired Daniels because he had majored in physical anthropology, a field that specialized in the anatomy of humans, as an undergraduate at Harvard. During the first half of the 20th century, this field focused heavily on trying to classify the personalities of groups of people according to their average body shapes — a practice known as “typing.” For example, many physical anthropologists believed a short and heavy body was indicative of a merry and fun-loving personality, while receding hairlines and fleshy lips reflected a “criminal type.”

Also, for what's it worth, this was during (or at least not too far removed from) a time period where researchers were trying to ascribe all sorts of random characteristics to people based on whether they were "Negroids", "Caucasoids", or "Mongoloids".

This says a lot to me about how people thought about physical characteristics back then. If researchers assumed male-pattern baldness was associated with a "criminal type", then it's not a huge stretch to imagine that researchers assumed there was a "pilot type" with a large number of clustered or heavily correlated characteristics.
I left out that chunk, but only because I didn't think it changed the nature of what was said. The way I read the sentence it was the act of coding was the humble part; the fact that he did it in front of other people implied that he was "a man of the people". (frankly, I don't see how coding in front of people makes a person humble -- I would think it's unrelated. If anything it requires confidence, not humility).
You're thinking of coinbase. Coindesk is s blog
Ah - libraries. Never used any outside of the standard ones supplied with the compiler, and I've never felt the urge to look at the source of those.
I'm sure the same has been said of many other sorts of everyday technology that we all find commonplace now.

The machines are coming and there's nothing you can do about it -- adjust and thrive, or don't. It's going to happen either way.
When that's happened to me, I didn't take the job.
People keep on saying that academic journals provide no value, since all of the work is being done by the scientists anyway. I have another take on this. I think that they're providing a (virtual) meeting place for scientists. Just like banks, whose job is to provide a meeting place for people who want to stash away their money in a deposit and other people who need to buy a new house. From this point of view, the sooner journals stop extorting readers for reading the articles, the better. The readers are innocent bystanders in this game, and in any case free distribution of research is in the best interest of the players (the scientists).
Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles (or self-plagiarising, which is a slightly different issue), not copying entire puzzles. That's a far cry from what you describe.

I don't really have a huge problem with that, even if he's selling it. Yes, it's plagiarism, yes, it's copying, yes, it's considered "intellectual property theft". No, I don't see why it should be considered such a big deal, nor do I think every crossword benefits from being created entirely from scratch at additional effort.

If someone comes up with a great clue theme and someone notices a few years later and reuses it for others to enjoy, why should I get angry about plagiarism rather that feel happy that a great idea has been shared?
> Interning is a trade-off: you get decreased memory usage (if you use a lot of long-lived duplicated strings) and faster string comparisons (for pairs of strings that you do intern), at the cost of extra work to create the interned strings.

For garbage collected languages the benefit isn't only memory consumption, it's performance, since using canonical objects eliminates the additional allocations and garbage collections.

The string comparison argument is a bit of a dubious one though. Comparing length is only an integer comparison, and depending on the architecture, you can compare up to eight (or more) characters per cycle.
The original assumption before Daniels was that the data would follow a normal distribution and so there was an "average" pilot.

He showed that was wrong.
Even as late as the 1950s, Jim Baen could publish Tolkien in the US without permission because copyrights weren't properly registered.
Also important to note that WordPress guru Otto commented the following on the Sucuri post about the vulnerability[1]:

"The plugin has been updated to 0.9.8.9, which is a copy of 0.9.8.6 (the last good version). This will remove the malicious code from the plugin, but not any code that was added to sites in the meantime. Please follow through with the Mitigation steps given by Denis in the post."

[1] https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/03/when-wordpress-plugin-goes-b...
> Opera

Which Opera?

This question is important, because it is hard to trust a potentially destructive tool when the creators either conflate, or are unaware of there even being, 2 wildly different software suites under the same name.
And with the clever twist that behind the "Tweet", there is an actual article. With actual information.

So yes, like Twitter. ..if you only use it to share Medium posts.
Whatever "culture" of radical honesty they have does not translate at all to other workplaces. My first experience with an ex-BW manager left me crying at the coffee machine all afternoon. just my n=1 anecdote.
It's a real pity that we feel we don't have the ability to make decisions against "the inevitable" where that outcomes aren't good for people and that we should "deal with it".
Maybe. But I think you're not realising that when people say "meritocracy" they almost always use that to say their hiring practices do not exclude people who aren't young white men with not disability, when in fact trivial examination of their practices reveal plenty of exclusion.

People claim their system is a meritocracy when it clearly isn't, and so now the term is poisoned.
Yes it absolutely means we should.. at least to avoid the hundreds or thousands of accidents per year caused by truck drivers.
Everyone loves to talk about the free market, but then are shocked when price discovery raises fees with high volume load
That doesn't matter, humans are a lot of water and the density of humans seems - after a quick search - to be essentially within the density of water plus or minus ten percent. In this context that's constant enough for me and definitely way to small to possibly offset the variability in body weight.
But what about more hardware oriented bio support system. BIO+ MECHNICAL/ MECHATRONICS Like prosthesis, bionics arms, artificial limbs etc? The one you mentioned is more on bio and chemistry side which I don't have a long term focus and interest.
If your transaction eventually got confirmed, contact the vendor with the transaction hash. The last three times I used bitcoin, I had to do this; I've yet to be refused by a vendor.
> threads should only be used to exercise multiple CPU cores and never as a way to work around blocking IO

Never use threads in C++. Gotcha. Good thing I'm learning Rust, then.
Well, it's at least a decade away. If you knew your job might disappear in 10 years, couldn't you plan for it?
Your metaphor is a bit confusing. Do you mean that both services depend on the network effect to provide value? The more scientists contribute and take from a piece of work, the better it becomes, and the more people deposit and borrow from one bank the more it can provide for new customers. The comparison might be a stretch but I can see where you were going with it.
Why do we care so much about reformulating ideas in our own words? If someone expresses an idea in a good way, why shouldn't we be able to repeat it verbatim without being raked over hot coals for it?
It should be possible (and default in the X server really) to isolate X clients by only giving them access to the contents of, and events on, the drawables created by that particular client.

Combined with a way to authenticate privileged apps (which have permission to sniff for any input event and scrape any drawable), you can have your... security cake and eat your... screen grabbers and Guake hotkeys... too?
Why markdown everywhere, don't we have better markup languages?
Spelling mistake in the headline.

Spelling mistake in the first paragraph.

The article itself is poorly written and badly needs an editor.

Gaming "journalism" is a fucking disgrace and so is focc.us
>>> "speed will be regulated at the law."

That doesn't need robot drivers. That is and can be deployed today. Why it isn't ... that's an open question.

>>> "the truck driving software can always make the decision in favor of the other drivers on the road"

I've really wondered about this. Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B faster? Why think that the same pressures that force drivers to act like jerks won't also be applied to software?
Add an easy way to link to other pages without having to type the full URL, and you've got a radical improvement on a wiki.

Perhaps you could use double-bracket links like GitHub wikis use, so this would be a [[ubpdk|link to another document]].
In the case of JMLR it's not 10USD per-view. It's 10USD per article published. I'm not sure if that was clear from the comment above.

Commercial journals generally charge far more than that per-view. JMLR charge nothing per-view.

When open access, commercial journals will often charge 1000s to publish an article (compared to the 10USD JMLR says it costs them).
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Really? What are they?

Markdown seems perfect for this case where the markup is the rendered content.
It is a market. I don't think the word 'free' adds anything, except to perhaps avoid analyzing why the market has the structure that it does. Changing the block size changes the market. If the market is currently free, would it still be free if the block size were increased? I think yes. There's no distinguished natural market structure for bitcoin, like all markets. What do you mean by free?

Is the market efficient in the technical sense? Is it as useful as it could be in the human sense? I wouldn't be surprised either way of the answer to the first question, but i'm pretty sure there's a whole 'lotta people who think bitcoin would be more useful to humans if the block size were changed.
Very interesting and I think many have suspected as much for quite some time. Our culture of late has tended to place kids in a metaphorical bubble preventing them from many things which current research now seems to confirm may be harmful long term in the development of healthy immune protection.

In addition, based on this study, I wonder if it is worthwhile studying whether there is a "point of no return" in terms of protecting anyone from severe allergies. For instance, if you haven't been exposed to a severe potential-allergen prior to the age of 5, does it become exponentially more difficult to develop any kind of immunity that lasts long term?
It's probably just me, but I always struggle with the "latter" and "former" construction, especially when they are reversed like that. I had to read it several times before I understood. In case it helps someone else, it translates as:

To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I
switched from Chrome to Firefox, and have felt that that
Firefox has some serious performance advantages over Chrome.

I wonder sometimes if my inability to parse sentences like this relates to my preference for C over C++. The "former" and "latter" abstraction reminds me of Eli's examples here http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/returning-multiple-values-... of first->first and first->second.
A self-driving truck wouldn't have a blindspot, unlike a human-driven truck that you can't even safely pass on the right. It'll have a much easier time being able to see you in the first place.
There isn't any middle ground though. I want most of my software to be stable with a few packages of the same version. Windows does this scenario. Also I have trust issues (after mint who should blame me), is there any rolling release that is backed by a company?
I don't know a lot of the history of the Czech Republic and Czechoslavakia but this makes a whole lot of sense. I think people make this way to black and white. Governments don't really represent people. I love music and would try to make music regardless of who is in charge of the government. Car people are going to try and make cool cars regardless of their budget
Lies, damn lies and statistics.

The Emory study cited by that first article (http://cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DezRubShepDeterFinal.pdf) doesn't inspire me much. Show me an observational study which the researchers claim "eliminates the bias arising from unobserved heterogeneity", and I'll show you a study that was conducted by overconfident researchers who're overselling the strength of their evidence.

And no, after reading the paper I'm not personally convinced that they did deal with unobserved heterogeneity. I'm not even convinced that the authors fully understand what the unobserved heterogeneity problem's really about. They seem to think that it's something you can whisk away by just throwing a bunch of covariates at your data, which is not how it works. If they mentioned their conditional independence assumption, let alone attempted to defend it, I missed it.
It is customizable with XML config files:

http://docs.bleachbit.org/doc/cleanerml.html

For Opera:

https://github.com/az0/bleachbit/blob/master/cleaners/opera....
Those types of transactions have been non-standard and non mined by default anyway. The opt in flag has been designated for replacing transactions from day one, and plenty of wallets will recognize it and warn.

Individual merchants shouldn't be accepting zero conf anyway without risk assessment (it's been demonstrated how easy it is to double spend well before RBF), and if they use an external company to accept then that company will check for the flag.

Re 75% is enough: remember the fork that happened just last year on a soft fork with 95%?

https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2015-07-04-spv-mining
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I don't think you can. If on every trade you flip a coin, but intelligently limit your losses and ride your wins, you will beat every fund-manager on the planet. Nothing to do with smarts or algorithms.
And even if you have good risk management, if you trade long enough, there will always be the perfect-storm 'meltdown' scenario. However, as I originally said, it's all probability and there will be a small group of managers who will never experience the meltdown (or the meltdown is waiting in their future).
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I agree with you, window management in OSX is really poor UX with insane defaults.

BetterSnapTool and alike help, though.
I cringe at the breakdown rate. Loaded trucks cannot be moved nearly as easily as cars. But at least when they do there is a human driver to manage the situation. I've heard that the google cars are pretty slow at intersections. Lord help those stuck behind Optimus Prime when his gps fails.
10,000 sites is 10,000 sites too many for this type of vulnerability. But it's a relatively trivial install base, given that a competitor plugin (ACF) has over a million installs:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
Are you seriously doubting the premise that people mature as they get older? Biology bestowed the high horse here.

I don't mean this as dismissively as it may sound, but it seems possible you'll figure this out in a personal sense over the coming years.
Public institutions wouldn't necessarily find a druggable small molecule, but every last step up until that point is almost assuredly being funded by the public. That'd include verifying that diets rich in garlic or what have you have an affect on overall survival.

My point still stands, private funding is not the bottle-neck. If garlic or low glycemic index diets actually made a difference in overall survival, it would mostly likely be discovered in a publicly funded institution. A private institution would then jump on the opportunity to "discover" and develop a small molecule that is suitable for drugging and IP'ing based on the findings of the public lab.
And 'robot' means 'slave'.
I think you may be unfamiliar with Snapchat because Snapchat has some of the richest of interactions of any messaging or social network. You're literally communicating to your friends with videos and photos. The only thing that could be better than that is being in person. For some users, they're sending Snaps to dozens of friends every day, that they wouldn't otherwise talk to.

It makes texting/email/fb feel so boring and almost formal. I feel comfortable Snapping my friend I haven't talked to in a couple months something random, whereas I would be less likely to hit them up randomly on text.

Stories, the Snapchat broadcast medium, also let you feel more connected with your friends and loose connections. I don't need to talk to some friends every day, but it feels nice that I can share these silly, mundane experiences with them.

This is a much richer experience than browsing my friends' highly curated photos on their Instagram, their boring/activist/humblebrag FB statuses, or their pure text tweets.
"the middle 30% of the range" is ambiguous. I interpreted it as mean ± .15 * [max - min]

Also it's only impossible from the beginning if you assume the values are uncorrelated. That's an even worse thing to assume than the existence of an 'average person'.
I find it funny how all talk about decentralization, but ignore the fact that most mining is in China, a known bastion of freedom.

Yesterday it made illegal movies depicting homosexuality or one night stands. Tomorrow it might decide to make bitcoin mining illegal (as it has forbidden some forms of bitcoin trading in the past)
It's also verification and storage, including RAM for the mempool.
You also forgot "it's probably not his/her choice".
And yet Mandelbrot thought the market was random.

Now I'm not sure who to believe, one of the most important mathematicians in the last 50 years, or a dude who left the academic community to start a hedge fund.
> I never fire up Android Studio and sigh about the lack of respect random internet twats would give me if only they knew what I was doing.

You're painting this like sticking up for your profession is only for glory boys that want attention. People generally treat you like you expect to be treated, and when programmers pretend like our status doesn't matter we make things worse for all of us, collectively. To quote the Simpsons, "this is why we can't have nice things".

> As long as I get paid at the end of the month it's all good!

Sure, but your pay is largely based on the status of your profession.

I'm not asking for glory, but my personal opinion is that programming is a high skill activity with a large amount of business value that takes a long time to master. People are free to disagree, but it's not in my interests to participate in a community (the Java EE community, in this instance) that doesn't share that perspective.
Some jurisdictions have rules to restrict convoying, many trucks following each other as a group. I'm not sure I want to see road trains just to save a few bucks on that second/third driver.
If I saved some money, I'd rather stash it in a trustworthy institution like Bank of America (bear with me for a moment) than search for someone to lend it to on my own. Similarly, if I wrote a research article, I will submit my article to Nature or Science, who will find an esteemed scientist to referee my paper and give it their stamp of approval. I could try to find such a scientist directly and ask them to write an endorsement letter for my research, but Nature or Science are much more likely to be successful at this due to their stellar reputation.
I'm not sure that trucks with drivers are any safer, at least here in Canada.
Deliberately putting your company at a competitive disadvantage goes against what makes capitalism work.

There is time to plan for this change.
You can totally repeat excellent wording verbatim! It's just that you have to add quotation marks and cite your source.
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So what's encoded are the closed variables along with the gensym'ed name of the closure (effectively a pointer to the code)? If so, that's pretty useful. For some cases it's better than serializing the code, because then you don't have to pass a copy of the code around everywhere, only the state that you don't keep a copy of.
Non-repetitiveness is precisely what makes a crossword good. If you are seeing a lot of repetitiveness, you are doing the wrong puzzles.
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I've never understood this argument. Is it "we should keep inefficiencies in the system, because some people make money off of those inefficiencies"?
"up to" being the key word in the title. Don't pay enough fees and it'll take even days.
Look at what Oracle is doing to Google for the sin of refusing the JCP process. Do you think they wouldn't do the same against any Java fork with a realistic chance of supplanting their implementation? The details are not important, they'll throw the book at you and find something that sticks.

The current situation (OpenJDK open but not a realistic choice in most production deployments; Oracle JDK/JRE remaining as de-facto gold standard; a process that forces strict compatibility tests on any competitor) can be fine from a certain point of view, but in practice it means that Java is not a traditional community-led OSS program. Rather, it's a program where the OSS community helps a company improve their software. RedHat is not the only Linux build with significant marketshare, and I won't get sued if I write a different POSIX system.

> at this point there's not enough motivation to do it.

No there isn't, that's what Rhaman is saying. But what he's also implying is that the direction of travel has changed inside Oracle, and people outside do not seem to realize it. IMHO it's fairly obvious where things are going (you'll stop "installing Java", and only develop and deploy in the Oracle cloud or similar Oracle-sanctioned environments).
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Led Zeppelin famously copied, adapted and evolved others people's songs, leading to legal issues on songs including Stairway to Heaven. I'm suggesting they had it right in the first place and our obsession with "plagiarism" is wrong-headed.