skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! In future I'm sure we'll all be extra careful to run checks ensuring folks' backgrounds have real epistemological relevancy before privileging their experiences in publication.
Sure gssbzn, please go to http://www.saasler.com/contact/ and let's schedule a talk
My personal feeling is that you are right: the best/only way this will work long term is if it works without humans needing to be in the loop.
I have all my bad email addresses forwarded to me. This is better than a bounce since I know immediately. The only issue might be that I accidentally see private email intended for someone else.
This is awesome. Not only did the have an excellent write up but also contributed the patches back.

I'm not the biggest fan of PHP (mostly because I learned it on PHP4 and it encouraged bad coding practices back then). However I can't deny how many people use it and how easy it actually is to get started.
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experimen...
> many developers (and tech leads) can't separate [o]ptimization from design...."

brilliant--a few words that belongs somewhere more conspicuous.

'make it work' then 'make it fast' makes sense of course, but who wants to optimize code in quadratic time that could have been originally written w/ linear time complexity.
Mercedes has had the ability to keep a safe following distance for a decade or more. The lane assist is not something I've heard of, but I stopped staring at the latest and greatest features on cars around the time that Mercedes came out with the follow feature.
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The title is a bit misleading. I have a 2016 Civic Touring that has the Sensing Package. It's effectively a sensor package (cameras in the top-middle of the windshield and below passenger-side headlight) with integration with the steering and powertrain systems and very basic logic.

When you turn it on the car basically tries to stay in your lane by looking at the lines on the road. It actually tells you when it can and cannot see the lines. When it detects you going outside of the lane (without using your signal) it takes control of steering and corrects for you. You can also set it to stay within some distance of the car in front of you and it will control your speed. Supposedly, it will also auto-brake if you are in danger of collision but I haven't had a chance to test that yet (and hope not to have to).

The whole thing is more like a driver assistance system and if you take your hands off the wheel for more than 15 seconds or so a bunch of alerts start going off and the system disengages. After using it for a few months I think this is probably a good idea. There are quite a few places in the SF Bay area that have worn out and faded lines on the road and once the system loses sight of the lane markers it just stops working. Not a great moment to have your hands off the wheel or your eyes closed. ;-)

For the price its incredible that Honda offers something like this. Suburu offers something similar but the next best thing is buying a Tesla for much more. I treat it sort of as insurance on long trips. If I start dozing off or am distracted the system keeps me in check but it is not reliable enough to be truly autonomous. So yeah, it can sort of drive autonomously.

As a preview of the future it gives me hope and it's possible this may be the last car I actually buy (when cars drive themselves it could very well become a service industry).
From the article:

> After a decade of spending much of its time and billions focused on boosting fuel-efficiency, Washington is increasing its focus on technology that could save lives.

This ignores that one of the justifications for fuel-efficiency regulation is the lives saved from reduced pollution.
The WSJ is a paper for stock market professionals, their traditional customers want over-simplified "predictions for one sector vs another sector" and you see it in a lot of their business reporting.

There's also the possibility that this story (including choice phrases) was handed to the author by someone in PR.
This fallacy is known as "pseudoreplication": the erroneous belief that multiple samples (or a long measurement) of dependent data (i.e. the same person year after year) is equivalent to getting many independent samples.

If you measure the same two people year after year, you just measure their genetic predispositions and personal habits more and more precisely. You cannot distinguish them from the results of your coffee/tea intervention.

http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/pseudoreplication.html
You can compare it to more targeted forms of chemo (for a narrow range of cancers) that don't have those side effects, and to surgical procedures. The common thread here being that killing or removing the cells remediates the problem. You can also demonstrate that other things that cause similar side effects don't affect apoptosis (programmed cell death).

I mean, it isn't like researchers pull these ideas out of thin air. Some forms of cancer are more thoroughly researched than just about any other topic in medicine.
unbelievable... ^^
If you're lying down sideways and as you buckle in airbags inflate around you before you take off, in the event of an accident other than a rude awakening you should be in better shape than today. Accidents should be far less brutal anyway once we ban human driven vehicles.
-Why ES6/ES2015? Because I got used to it before. You can use Babel to transpile to ES5.

- What are the advantages over Knockout? I didn't use Knockout since a long time, it was a source of inspiration, so I can't fully answer this question. DOM99 doesn't tell you to use the Model-View-View Model pattern, but lets you organize your application as you want. This can also be a disadvantage if you are doing it wrong for example.

- Why does it weigh so much if its only ability is two-way data binding? Because you looked at source files that are not minified.

- Why the heck do I need to use Browserify for something that will NEVER EVER run on a server side?! You don't need browserify at all. I wrote the readme a bit too fast and forgot to mention other methods. You can also load it like any normal js file.

Hope I helped, I will update the readme in a few minutes to show how to use it without browserify. If you have other questions just ask.
You're right, I didn't explain myself correctly. What I meant to say is that Javascript from one site is forbidden by default from operating on the contents of another site. So if you didn't copy the text from site A in the first place, it is not possible (at a basic security level) for site B code to access the text from site A which never made it into the clipboard.
Mars TGO mission heads for Red Planet on methane quest
WSJ editorial board does not like the electric vehicle, emission and carbon tax credits, considering it crony capitalism http://www.wsj.com/articles/voters-should-be-mad-at-electric...
Humans are mostly terrible at handling unknown complex situations on the road.

For many human drivers on the roads right now, the response to a sudden weird situation is either going to be "brake heavily" or "swerve dangerously."

You don't have to get "undefined behavior" in response to an unknown situation. The AI can simply default to braking to a stop in the absence of any better programmed alternative. This will already put it on par with most drivers. Better, in fact, because the AI can begin braking instantly.

I personally find that the majority of driverless vehicle talk vastly overestimates the average human driver, and demands unreasonable perfection from the computers.
Yup. Coming down the pipeline will be hashing of suspected password lists being posted too.

(I am the creator of Canario)
Within the same site, sure. Cross-site, it cannot.
Agreed. It's one of those subjects that people love to be fascinated with, and they see how lucrative the field is, so it gets a ton of attention. Unfortunately, they all want to shortcut it, and there are plenty of organizations who will help them try, but machine learning requires math, stats and arguably CS proficiency at at least an undergraduate minor level. And not many people have that.
I also really enjoy my Subaru EyeSight. I've only run into one terrible experience, and that is when I went into a automated car wash. As soon as the first big scrubby thing approached, the EyeSight flipped out and slammed on the brake, which was jolting and scary. Kind of obvious looking back on it, of course, and now I remember to turn it off when I wash my car.
Seneca: a microservices toolkit for Node.js where the transport is pluggable
So the number one most important feature is, "it doesn't constantly crash!"

Not very complimentary to the Linux software market there.
> ./configure && make && make install dance rarely gives me problems, unlike all of these "modern" build systems that are also language-specific package managers that do not even have the concept of a configure phase.

./configure && make && make install is wonderfully simple -- iff your system already has all of the package's dependencies installed.

Otherwise you're left to manually track down ./configure && make && make install every dependency, and all of their dependencies, etc.

In reality nobody does this, and system package managers are imperfectly providing for C/C++ what language-specific, cross-platform package managers are providing for the communities of Rust, Ruby, et al. Consequently the C/C++ community is more balkanized/less integrated across platforms.
Is quantum indeterminacy related to the Uncertainty Principle? Also, isn't it assumed that quantum effects don't bubble up to the classical level?
And it's not like Washington has stopped its drive towards greater fuel efficiency either. What a weird attempted connection!
That is like saying that the US Federal Reserve is a more valuable non-publicly traded company. The writer is implying that there is no public market to value that business. While Saudi Arabia mulls over bringing ~20% of Saudi Aramco public, this is still a far cry from the business having a proper market valuation on par with the likes of Apple or Google.
I will make some system improvement before I calculate those kind of things, but I guess it will be less than 2 KB.
From personal experience a lot of people would benefit from Blinker Usage 101.
>The car will always be better at driving than the human.

I don't think this is true yet. We can interpret the incoming data incredibly well in ways the machine vision can't yet match. This is absolutely vital for driving. The difference between an empty trash bag in the road and a toddler in the road is a matter of vital importance, and correctly identifying the difference matters a lot.

Humans area actually capable of being incredibly good at driving. The problem is we are also incredibly unreliable.
1. Talk to a lawyer.

2. Do you have any patents or other defensible protection?

3. Build and iterate faster than them so you are the market leader.

4. IANAL, but unless they blatantly copy your site word for word, and image for image, you are going to have a hard time doing anything from a legal perspective (unless it is a past employee or a situation where you may have a NDA or a non-compete in effect).

5. The real fact is there will always be competition, even if it didn't exist when you started, someone is bound to come along. You just have to show more drive, be the better product, and win in the end. Everything else you do is a waste of time/money on your part IMO.
The advantage of a modpack like feed the beast FTB is they take care of all the incompatibilities and making sure Tinkers Construct Bronze is ore-dictionaried to be the same as forestry bronze same as all the other bronzes. Also tweaks to ore generation are important. Finally one important feature modpacks do is make the style uniform. It would be weird to have a 99% technology based modpack with 1% being terra firma craft. Or imagine a 99% magic themed pack full of witchery and thaumcraft and blood magic (not really my thing) but 1% AE2.

The role of a modpack group like FTB is almost perfectly analogous to linux distro. You could figure out all the dependencies by hand and namespace everything, but the Debian guys did all the sweating for you, so may as well use their metadata.

A long time when I was starting out I was a little overwhelmed by the modpacks having a hundred mods. So I'd start up with exactly one mod installed, lets say IC (the original) or just railcraft or whatever. But that leads to heartache and wasted effort (what, I need BC pipes to hook a railcraft boiler to a turbine?).

What seems to help is hard core quest mode packs. Crash Landing might scare people away, its kind of intense (but intense in a cool way). Agrarian Skies? Some HQM packs are so confusing they almost require watching youtube videos to figure out how to get past the first steps. Maybe FTB infinity evolved in NON-EXPERT mode?
You are what your parents ate
There's an OpenStack driver for LXD.
Rainbow Theremin
base II*II+II?
> This is why majority of sane driverless vehicle talk has concluded a human driver must always be in the driver seat, ready to take control.

Would add also something that requires an actual driver to take the wheel periodically to not get lazy and forget what it's like to drive (as apparently what has happened with some airline pilots?)
Even if you have a cluster of Rabbit nodes, the logical RabbitMQ cluster is still a single point of failure.

This is a fundamental problem with message bus architectures that advocates seem to ignore. It's even more problematic in a microservices architecture, where you (presumably) do domain-driven design in order to allow overall forward progress in the face of partial service/component/datastore outages. To throw all that out the window by coupling everything to a message bus... I still don't really understand.
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Most refugees don't get out so yes it is like winning a lottery.
I blame Elon Musk for this shift in the meaning of "self-driving".

It used to be a term that was only applied to driverless cars, but last year Elon announced that they plan to make the Tesla a self-driving car at the same time as announcing similar driver assistance features.

While Tesla's driver assistance features are much more advanced than these, it's not much of a stretch after Elon already fired the first marketing shot by shifting the goalpost of what it means to be "self-driving" so much.
thanks for the kind words.

But this is a hot-button topic for me. I've made this mistake before. So it's really best if I just avoid it until I can talk about it in a way that's compatible with HN rules.
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It's just another one of the pile of vitriol against electric vehicles. Day after day, whenever someone mentions Tesla or Prius Plug-ins or the Nissan Leaf or whatever, it seems to kick in a auto-response of "what is the ROI of electric vehicles? You'll have to drive a million miles to get your investment back!" (as if buying a new non-exotic car is any kind of financial instrument). They also always talk about how many fossil fuels it takes to manufacture (or even charge) the electric vehicle, ignoring the fact that it not only takes the same amount to make the ICE car but it still has to run _directly_ on fossil fuels. When all of these arguments are refuted, the last argument is always about how cars sound better with gas engines and the rumble and other appeals to manliness or whatever rubbish.

There is a very large contingent that wants the status quo and either hires astroturfers outright to spread FUD, or influences opposition via media/ad buys. The rest opposed to electric are just old-school fuddy-duddies and the kids they've managed to influence. And, I've seen these arguments play out on everywhere from car specialist forums, YouTube comment sections on Teslas racing ICE cars, to right here on Hacker News when talking about electric cars.
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You're describing supervised learning. Reinforcement learning is more like you stick random things in your mouth, and if one tastes good, you learn to stick that kind of thing in your mouth more often.
My mother has had cancer twice. My father: twice. My sister: four or five times. My brother: once. My mother's mother died during treatment for cancer. At least three of my mother's sisters have had cancer. I took care of my sister after her first mastectomy.

They do pump cancer patients full of poison. The patients know it. The doctors know it. Maybe I am a little too deep in the weeds here, but I am astonished this assertion is being questioned at all.
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From a business perspective, this is probably the right decision. Businesses are interested in marginal gains, i.e. they want performance improvements only if those will lead to more customers or customers that pay more money. Any extra effort is better spent on things that will get more customers or more money per customer.

From an overall social welfare pesrpective, there is something to be said for going above and beyond the customer's minimum standard. Indeed, most of the work that goes on at big companies is of this type (it's no coincidence that the original author works on the compiler team at Microsoft). Just understand the context in which you work - if the company is going to go under with its current customer base, it's irresponsible to focus on things that are not going to get more customers - and that it can be hard to measure the effectiveness of work that doesn't directly lead to new sales.
Can't help you much, but I think a good example of what you are trying to achieve is SugarCRM.
Well the salient word in the phrase is "premature". As opposed to optimization after careful observation and measurement, which everybody agrees can and should be done.
This looks really nice.

I build out major productions systems on top of LXC at Heroku, and to this day it is still working incredibly well.

So I am really looking forward to further iterations of the tools by Stéphane Graber and co at Canonical.

The main thing that jumps out at me is a REST API for this layer. A REST API with Golang bindings to run containers feels so much better than old-school systems programming with exec.

I'm currently all in on Docker in production for this very reason. Coordinating stuff with a golang client over HTTP is really really productive.
And that’s when people start using script blockers and block many CSS features just to be able to load + display webpages in ping + 16ms.
> Sounds horribly magic/incomprehensible

How is compiling everything in a given directory any more magic/incomprehensible than any other build tool?

> I don't think the work of doing it in Maven with an IDE could be called substantial. Push the button, choose the scala template, give it a groupId and artifactId, done

What IDE comes with a 'scala template' out of the box? What if you are not already in the JVM ecosystem? With SBT, the set up is:

- Install SBT/Activator

With your suggested equivalent, the steps are:

- Install Maven

- Install IDE

- Install Scala IDE plugin

I think the SBT option sounds like they would be much less imposing for a beginner.
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Microsoft to use minecraft for general AI research
I've used gh-board before and really like the ability to "merge repos" You can view all the PR's across multiple organizations and repositories, which makes it very handy for someone who's a member of multiple projects. Plus it's open-source!
But you only have to program it once and then all the cars get the update. That's a lot better than hoping every individual human got properly trained and remembers what to do.

The list of situations a car has to react to is not infinite. You can program a reasonable response for a broader list of situations than you could for a human. And really, a human would fare very badly in your situations so a computer could hardly do worse.
I have spent the last year of my life on the finest intellectual playground I have ever known. The task at hand is to rethink everything about the way humans interact in our economy and society, then build the software to help them do it better. Come play with me. Come learn Ethereum. Come join the decentralization movement.
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I tend to think the "A human driver must be ready to take over" line of thinking has a lot to do with liability as well. I just think it sets up an unfair situation where the human will often fail.
Mercedes also has active lane-keeping assist functionality.
Ah, alright, thank you!
And that’s when you discover that (a) electricity isn’t unlimited, (b) ressources aren’t unlimited, (c) money isn’t unlimited, and (d) maybe you should just save for the sake of efficiency.
Unless i'm mistaken, and it's entirely possible that I am, the only enumerated 'inalienable' rights are "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (albeit prefaced with the weasel-words "among others".) The Second Amendment is part of a framework of law which allows for its own legal repeal, so it's not inalienable.
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That doesn't (necessarily) mean a proof can't be found that a certain ruleset leads to optimal play. Tic-tac-toe can be solved without examing the entire state space of the game.
There are things you can do to scale well, that you tend to have to learn from longstanding error, that don't take a lot of time up front. You don't spend much time on them, and these efforts bear fruit later. Then there are things that do take a lot of time that are unwarranted. You have to avoid these.

Knowing the difference is key, and this is why senior engineers should be in charge of making architectural and design choices up front, and on an ongoing basis. Of course, most businesses can't attract such people, as scalability is not common knowledge outside major internet cities :(
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I can only speak for Roman Catholicism. The only required Lenten restrictions are abstaining from meat on Fridays and fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. These restrictions are for everyone (apart from age and health exceptions).

Traditionally, Catholics choose to do additional self-discipline during Lent. The big three things that the Catholic Church encourages are increases in prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The fasting part is where people often give up some type of food or drink, like coffee.

So the practice of giving up a personally-selected thing is not required, but it is encouraged and traditionally done as a way to come closer to God and prepare for Easter.
Why are you focusing so much on process isolation? It's easy and natural for an Erlang process to remain alive indeterminately and serve arbitrarily many requests to arbitrarily many clients, potentially communicating with many processes in its lifetime, both on its own machine and on other machines. That's a lot more like a web server than Nginx processes are. That's what I use it for, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to get Nginx to do it. I hope you won't claim it's just as easy and natural.

Armstrong was making an analogy, and it's useful to be charitable with analogies to get the most out of them. All analogies, descriptions, models and metaphors break down somewhere. He's been doing pretty well as an Erlang advocate so far.