skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, AI will eliminate huge amounts of wasted road even during peak times and with traffic that can't be scheduled for off hours (like people going to work/school). A networked self-driving car can know where the traffic is and route around it. It can provide tools to everyone (from city planners to individuals) to maximize the availability of resources and minimize the time wasted on waiting. Red lights can cycle at the most efficient rate at all hours of the day, reversible lanes (like many large cities have on their primary highways) can be closed and opened on a dynamic schedule rather than on the preset schedule. When all cars are AI-driven and aware of all other cars, they can drive at exactly the right speed, allowing faster merges and exits, etc. Humans are wildly variable in their response time and unpredictable in their behavior in so many situations on the road, that replacing them seems likely to increase the capacity of roads by a dramatic amount. Maybe doubling? Maybe tripling? I don't know, but it will be a huge difference.
I hope it won't bring me trouble.
You don't need "selfishness" to create traffic jams. You need only "latency in response"; if you response less than instantaneously to the car in front of you slowing down, and you response less than instantaneously to the car in front of you speeding up (especially if you accelerate even a bit conservatively, let alone late), you very quickly get amplifying waves.

Your post, if we're going to trade snarky political barbs, is a great example of how some people think that some magical form of "regulation" can regulate basic control theory right out of existence. Thinking that any form of regulation could somehow fix this is exactly the same as thinking that they could "fix" gravity. The physics is actually pretty simple at the core, even if the details are complicated. Anywhere you get negative feedback of a certain very, very popular and easy-to-hit form, you get waves. Can't be stopped.
>> "Mounting evidence suggests a hacker trained the weasel to take down a particle collider."

Right, that's believable - what's next, killer dolphins that take out submarines?
Thanks for sharing your experience! That's very helpful.
Great, I skip reading the daily run meeting slides once, and then find this in the news (I work on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC [1]).

There are a couple of nasty images in the (internal) presentation. That poor weasel tried to eat a cable or something and got completely fried :-(. For those wondering how this can happen, it looks to me like a normal outdoor transformer station, like there are many all around the world. I actually wonder why you don't hear about power outages like this (not at CERN, but in regular cities) more frequently. Maybe public power supplies are more redundant?

([1] Note I'm only posting as a private person and not in any official function. Disclaim disclaim yadda yadda.)
So it doesn't change what is legal, just who determines what is legal. Which is arguably worse given how fast (and presumably biased) some districts are, i.e rocket docket, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...
Could Bezos somehow take these profits and invest it in Blue Origin?
> They [women] are less likely to be promoted because they are less likely to want a promotion.

I don't think anyone could ask for a better example of systemic entrenched sexist bias than this quote. "It's okay, don't worry about it; they just don't want to be promoted as much as us men."

This is not that much different from the old "women enjoy being in their husband's kitchen and tending to the house, so it's okay most women are there instead of working independently!" Evidence clearly exists that lot of women used to enjoy being in the kitchen, but that doesn't mean women are less suited to work outside the kitchen -- to make an extreme example.
I agree. It muddles the message. I've updated the article and removed that image. It was intended as a sort of defiance against their Cease and Desist however, it was indeed, in bad taste.
Which feeds right into Prime, a subscription service locking the customer into Amazon's closed ecosystem. It makes sense to have full vertical control.
There's quite a few consequences, though - wrong as it might be. Regardless of how preposterous it is, imagine it to be true. What would that do to our concept of "science: the art of disproving falseness"? Science already struggles with the precision of components (telescopes, as an example) and, what's cognitively pleasing, is figuring out how you would devise an experiment for that. It doesn't matter if it was not true, how would you prove that? How do you say, for certain, that particles are not travelling back in time?

That's the wonder that science has seems to have lost.
Most teams I have seen have either template scripts or boilerplate that generates datasets, and share both the generated data and the scripts via normal ways that people share data and code: disk, S3, github, emailing of notebooks, etc.

It requires a fair amount of set-up, but works surprisingly well once there is a core team and problems established.

We are building mldb.ai to help bring the data and the algorithms for ML together in a less ad-hoc manner and to help move things out of research and into prod once they are ready. Many of the hosted ML solutions (Azure ML, Amazon ML, Google Data Lab, etc) and other toolkits (eg Graphlab) are working on similar ML workflow and organizational structure problems.
Traffic jams exist because humans drive cars, and humans are not designed to process data at 120 kilometers per hour.

This is a major repost but still misses the main problem. When you look at a car in front of you, you perceive it as a stationary wall, not a moving wall. When you slow down, you're trying to avoid hitting where the car in front of you is when you press on the brake pedal. You're not smart enough to realize that you should be slowing down to avoid hitting where the car will be when that car stops.

You do this, and you should not be driving cars. Leaving space in front of you is an inefficient solution to this problem, now you're overcompensating even more for the problem.

You can try watching one car ahead of the one in front of you to predict when the car in front of you will slow down and need to stop. Your passengers will freak out, constantly thinking you're going to hit the car directly in front of you, because they perceive the car in front of you as a stationary wall. In reality, you're driving more efficiently.

The day when us unevolved meat sacks stop controlling two ton metal bullets can't come soon enough.
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5 downvotes? Alright, I guess I'm wrong. "The 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week", but also, it's not accounted for by any of those things, and doesn't exist.
You don't have to guess... you could read the article to answer your own question.
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And that's not even mentioning the fact that the husband was an ethnically Jewish Nazi.
Long answer short: the maintainer has a vested interest in promoting harrow (his company).

I am sure there are many technical solutions to avoid the dependency.

I, for one, see no issue with this whatsoever. This is just a minor self-promotion in return for a great piece of software that I get for free. I wouldn't have known harrow before this otherwise. How is this any different from gmail or youtube or whatever which bombards us with bazillion ads using our data? Want to use the free software, put up with the ads.

Maybe the maintainer should make a paid version that removes this dep and see how many people are willing to fork up the money (my guess: very few).
You're welcome?
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Q: "Sorry, we can't proceed without this information." If you're a highly-competitive candidate with multiple offers, that's fine, you can ignore this company or convince them to give you an offer anyway—but if you're the sort of person who would be strongly hurt by revealing your old salary, that doesn't help you because you're also probably less competitive, at least on paper. So this very response exacerbates the gap.

Alternatively, Q (aside): "She's pretty abrasive, should we really hire her?" There are studies that this sort of self-confidence is often perceived as a positive attribute in men and a negative attribute in women.
This is what I am getting when I open it http://i.imgur.com/ewrMsY9.png
Ask HN: What are some good books about the founding of companies?
I recently read both Creativity Inc and Masters of Doom, and I loved reading about the founders, the challenges they faced, and the ingenuity they used to get through them. Does anyone know any other good books that are similar to these?
Just tell them what you would like to get. If pressed super hard, give confusing answers in the same way companies give you. Like total compensation, if you add days off, perks etc.
I had the same experience, and also a lowball offer about 4 years ago. I find these all day interviews to be very infantile and pointless. It's even more insulting imo when you're interviewing to work at what is basically a giant call center, which is what rackspace is at the end of the day.
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No one is in the same league as HNs God King Musk.

Jeff is only worth about 50 billion dollars (only what, 4x Musk?). Plus his rocket company is only landing suborbital flights. What scrub.
But that isn't an immediate expense it's a balance sheet asset written off over a period of time.
"It is unclear whether the animals are trying to stop humanity from unlocking the secrets of the universe." Ok, that made me smirk.
> Overflow is defined by the language as an illegal operation

Is it? What do you mean by illegal here? Overflow can't cause UB madness in Rust like it does in C; the compiler does not optimize loops assuming no overflow.
what kind of physical ailment?
So kind of like Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead from series 4 of Doctor Who? Or Dark Water/Death in Heaven from series 8?

But the idea is definitely an interesting one. More so if humanity decides to avoid the science fiction cliche of the simulated worlds all being like modern day Earth and actually has them based on any wacky theme you can imagine. You could let people live in a simulated version of the time period they were originally frozen in. Or an historical period that'd just be interesting to experience. Or even a fictional world with fantasy elements, cause there's probably a certain amount of people that would love to live their main existence in the likes of World of Warcraft.
replacing the perma-button on the taskbar? and a short-cut key?
The quality of reviews of conference papers is mostly terrible, though. I've been on both sides of it, here are some major complaints:

* There is only one round of reviews, with a binary accept/reject outcome. In case of rejection, feedback cannot be incorporated. In case of acceptance, there is basically no incentive for incorporating feedback, as the paper is already "through" and putting in any more time is considered a waste.

* Assigning papers to reviewers is very arbitrary and often the reviewers are not at all familiar with the field. Getting a paper reassigned to another reviewer is often so complicated and time-consuming that reviewers just do the bare minimum (if asked to rate novelty/originality etc., on a scale 1-5 they give it a "3", which given the usual acceptance rate of <50% means the paper will get rejected).

* Reviewers usually get a lot of papers to review. They don't have time (who does?) but have to finish by a two-week deadline. If one of the papers is relevant to the research of the reviewer or has been written by colleagues they know (double-blind does not help, you recognize who wrote it..), that paper will receive attention; the other papers are seen as distraction and are dealt with as outlined above.

Peer-review is important, though. Some fields of research, particularly those where a lot of research is done by actual practitioners and not just pure research scientists, are mostly driven by conferences with short (one page or less) abstracts without full papers. There are often very few citeable sources that have been peer reviewed; conference websites and abstract books vanish over the years. An arxiv-like repository can help with that, but it does not solve the problem of peer review. Community-run open-access journals seem to provide a solution, but rarely take off.
If you buy processed foods that are advertised as fat-free or low-fat variations of foods that would typically be expected to be other than low- or non-fat, yes. A head of cabbage doesn't have sugar added to it to make some kind of low-fat cabbage.
I guess they dont want to be under facebook's thumb (didnt they invent torch?)
There is a better Gherkin compliant testing framework in Python known as BehaveBDD.
This is a pleasant surprise. The more people that work on TensorFlow the better, especially as the DeepMind team will be more aligned with extending TensorFlow's research potential.

I am curious how well TensorFlow fits for many of DeepMind's tasks though. Much of their recent work has been in reinforcement algorithms and hard stochastic decision tasks (think gradient approximation via Monte Carlo simulations rather than exactly computed gradients) which TensorFlow hasn't traditionally been used for.

Has anyone seen TensorFlow efficiently used for such tasks? I'm hoping that DeepMind will release models showing me what I've been doing wrong! =]

(note: I produce novel models in TensorFlow for research but they're mostly fully differentiable end-to-end backpropagation tasks - I might have just missed how to apply it efficiently to these other domains)
The article title is kind of clickbait-y, isn't it?

I kind of agree with the article that the diet changes are more important for the weight loss angle. However, when it comes to being healthy overall, I actually think exercise is more important. You can be overweight by BMI, physically fit, and better off overall health-wise than a thin person who is a couch potato. http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit...

Anecdotally, I know someone who has gone from 300lbs to 140lbs using a combination of exercise (walking) and diet changes (Weight Watchers). I think both were equally important to her success, personally.

Some of the article to me was, er, a bit of a stretch. Take point 7: "Exercise may cause physiological changes that help us conserve energy". And the only linked citation is to a paper outlining that people with different genetic composition respond differently to exercise, and a meta study that involved both diet and exercise? "Starvation mode" to extreme diets is well documented, so where's the paper that links to just exercise causing slower metabolic change? I mean, perhaps it's possible, but it runs against the consensus I've heard, so basically, [Citation needed], because what was provided doesn't say what that paragraph said.

I do agree with the article that policy should focus on the low-quality food angle.
Sounds like internet explorer 6 all over again.
This is something that in hindsight would seem to be obvious, but really isn't. If you've spent almost your whole life weighing 100+ pounds, it's really hard to imagine the rapid heat loss that is experienced if you weight 1/10th of that. This applies to pets, but also babies and small children.
My #3 would be people seeking a low barrier to entry cushy corporate job. Unfortunately for me, I encounter way more #3's than #1 or #2's...
In short, my answer to your "why" actually rhymes: ROI, that's why.

A gifted, talented, socially well adjusted person has an extensive potential to do amazing things. Thus, it's my perspective that starting with those who have un-actualized talent - those with the capacity, aptitude and attitude to rise high in achievement - is more compelling than spending extensive time and money on maximizing the use of a limited capacity. That's kind of the whole thought behind trying to identify smart and capable people - it's their potential.
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Inherited and incurable, that's the most I disclose publicly. I grew up in a pre-HIPAA world and still keep some things as private as possible.
Truckers (professional drivers) do this all the time.

If ever there is a traffic jam on the highway, you will see the big rigs consistently leaving hundreds of feet of space in front of them.

They also seem to concentrate in the center lanes of the highway for reasons I haven't figured out yet.
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Actually, my first thought about this was, how can the public add to it? For example, I have found fossils in Western New York. My find is not documented anywhere, and I am not sure if it would be valuable knowledge to know what and where I found it, but being able to share my own finds might help complete the picture. It would be like crowdsourcing the problem. If they allowed people to upload info (albeit, unverified), it could be shown as a layer and verified over time maybe?

In any case, this is very cool, and as a fossil enthusiast, I am super excited to see it!
The submitted title was "Court: Oral sex not rape if victim is drunk or unconscious". That breaks the HN guidelines about titles, which ask you to use the article's own title unless it is misleading or linkbait. Rewriting the title to make it more misleading and/or linkbait is exactly the opposite of what we want here, so please don't do that.
Muscle requires a lot of energy to maintain, so when your calories drop your body starts shedding it to be more efficient so long as you are also inactive.

If you stay active you will lose strength on a calorie deficit but you will not lose muscle mass. That's why you can do a cut, and your lifts will go down but you still look great at the lower body fat. The muscle mass is still there.

http://fitnessblackbook.com/main/starvation-mode-why-you-pro...
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Seems a little weird they're using something that resembles more or less standard guage rail.

Imagine if they scaled it up where instead of a few rail cars you scaled up to something along the lines of NASA's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler-transporter but on rails instead of tracks.
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TensorFlow makes some things difficult in truly baffling ways.
For example, the last time I checked there's no built-in way to get gradients w/r/t say a single weight, rather you get a gradient sum.
So if you want to do anything with the Jacobian (e.g. contractive autoencoders) you are better off using Theano.
Yes, all (but one?) lane going in the "to/from work" direction based on traffic needs will make a huge difference!
> I wonder what mental things are easy for an elephant but hard for a human?

Controlling an articulated trunk with tens of thousands of muscles for one.
"Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston is fantastic.

She interviews the founders of companies such as PayPal, Yahoo!, TripAdvisor, Fog Creek Software and many others.
The book focuses on the very beginnings of these companies and shows with how little they started and what challenges they faced. Highly recommended.
I used ACC on my mom's hybrid Accord recently and it was an aweful experience. It was like regular cruise control, but broken. Lagging start, unnecessary distances, slow responses. That and the out of lane beep whenever I passed a car (staying in the same lane but getting to the edge of the lane for increased margin of error) was really annoying. If this is the future of assisted driving, just give me fully automated driving.
The only thing it is explicit about is that full-time working women as a whole get paid less than men. There is a vague assertion towards the fact that a gap still exists "after factoring in the kind of work people do, or qualifications such as education and experience" but no numbers are provided.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that women as a whole get paid less than men and that minority women even more so. What I have an issue with is that by being purposefully vague, proponents are acting like employers somehow just hate women so much that they become blinded by this hatred and throw all business-sense out the window by deciding to pay men a load more than women. It's completely dishonest, proposed "solutions" only serve as a band-aid fix, and distracts from the actual issues at hand.
I'd go with effectively being able to dumb down complex concepts while correctly understanding the limitations of the project.

You don't have to be able to replicate a tech project to get a correct understanding of all its parts. Learn to communicate with software engineers in a way they find useful and act as a bridge between them and the clients you want to reach. Know the limits of things you're offering and present the product in a way that will concisely display its value.

I think any technical partner would immensely appreciate someone who has a great grasp of their work without the burden of under delivering on an ambitious sales pitch.
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We're introducing `now alias` to handle any alternative domains to the links you receive :)
A 40' shipping container-sized box filled with lead would be roughly 90 metric tons, so multiply that number by three. Now you've got ~45 seconds worth of energy.

(An actual shipping container would break before you hit this point; a standard 40' shipping container has a maximum gross weight of ~30 metric tons-- you're not likely to fill it to its volumetric capacity with rocks or lead.)
Would love to see more projects default to https. You'd be surprised at the kind of test data people use.
Man builds working homemade hoverbike
What is Diffie-Hellman (?)
`micro-list` is more comparable to that, which we just open-sourced: https://github.com/zeit/micro-list
I don't understand why you are being down voted so I clicked the upside triangle.
Have to admit, I originally thought it was going to be about Disney too, and was actually somewhat looking forward to the depressing tale of an ex theme park employee.
There's also a contest going on to win one, if you can think of a creative way to use the new IFTTT integration.

http://blog.ifttt.com/post/143084444158/onhub-on-ifttt
> In practice, for anything which isn't a micro-benchmark, it's a negligible performance hit.

Citation needed? Every paper I've seen has indicated a non-negligible performance hit in real apps.

> I see a strong correlation between people complaining about overflow checking overhead, and people who don't actually care about the safety features

I'm a counterexample.