skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "Solid object".

In the lab, opaque textured objects in sufficient lighting are pretty easy to localize by a variety of methods. Reflective objects are quite a lot harder, but there are methods that work. Reflective objects through distortion like rain/fog... harder, but often doable. In low light? Depends.

The weird thing with environment modelling in computer vision is that there are a lot of overlapping methods, but sensor fusion of these methods is rarely attempted. Most robots end up with a pair of laser rangefinders or a pair of cameras or something equally simple to program. Creating a high-reliability automated vehicle that can bypass all the edge cases where these things fail is another thing entirely. You want overlapping, inter-reinforcing models of the world, with algorithms that not only identify items in a well-calibrated system, but calibrate the system in real time based on items identified.

My lab was really excited about replacing stereoscopic computer vision with monocular computer vision for 3D modelling, but the opposite direction is where you want to go if you care about as many 9's of reliability as possible and hardware is cheap. You want a few dozen cameras with fixed orientation, you want parallax laser rangefinders in a variety of bands, you want time of travel LIDAR units, you want a {GPS + 3DoF gyroscope + 3DoF magnetometer + 3 DoF accelerometer + barometer + thermometer}†, you want ultrasonic and radar rangefinders; You want everything you can get. You want enough lenses that if one gets obscured by water, hey, there are others that will pick up the slack, and do it without bothering the driver.

You want to shrink the 'no coverage of object in environment' surface as small as possible.

Nobody seems to respect this on the academic software side. Novelty, sure, but people don't seem to earn grants publishing extra 9's using a mashup of a bunch of pricy sensors. 'Less is more' is not how you get the data needed to make things reliable, it's how you get best-case detection rather than worst-case awareness.

†This combination is now found in quadrotor IMUs. Each individual sensor is inaccurate enough that it would be useless for automation, but combine them to check each other's deficits and you get a remarkably elegant system.
Out of curiosity are you ethnically from somewhere in India / South Asia, or a foreigner?
I used to have a coworker named Jack Ma. LinkedIn is now my source of all news about Alibaba.
> Indian markets, products and the economy in general is really bad and unsophisticated. There is no way they can compete with american, European and Chinese companies.

Lots of previously poor countries have industrialized via exports.

One can argue they used protectionism at home---misguided as it is. But nevertheless their companies managed to sell to fickle foreigners in the foreigners' home markets---all sophistication issues aside.
What about the level of hardware failure with floppy disks?

CF cards seem pretty suitable. They're simple and well established; there's likely to be a supply of them for a long time, and it seems feasible to have a batch custom made if that's necessary 30 years down the line.
This was more than likely caused by the other person Facebook searching for her profile.
If your web page doesn't work without javascript it is probably doing something between malicious (Like refusing to let me download an element displayed on a page) to staggeringly malicious (Like tracking me with analytics) to petty (Like dictating how I read a page).

It's not that nothing should change, it's that change should make things better. I firmly believe pages made better by javascript are such a small minority as to be an rare exception, but overall the web is so much better with that 'feature' disabled.
A decent teacher might be expected to consult a resource like is provided here:

http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/columbus-day-grades-k-5.htm

The resource aimed at 6-7 year olds confronts the world flat issue head on.

So I think it is certainly some sort of folk myth in USA that people in the middle ages believed the world was flat, but it isn't so dire (it's used to teach reasoning skills!).
I have no relevant experience in academic finance, but I sincerely doubt it. The brand and reputation of the universities are what allows them to charge so much for tuition and get prestigious faculty (i.e. grant money).

Besides, at a large research University, tuition is usually not the majority of their income (http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/about-university/budget)
I have been suffering from RSI in both arms for a decade now. It started after coding 10+ hour days working at a game company. The pain ebbs and flows with usage, but the inflammation and tightness has never disappeared completely.

Over the years, I've met a number of people who also also suffer from RSI in various forms. Fortunately, the majority of people I talk to suffer for some period of time, but do eventually recover, and are able to continue on with their lives having to be carful to avoid future flareups. A handful though, including myself, seem to fall into the "for life" category.

I've tried everything you can think of to varying results:

* 15+ doctors in various specialties
* Physical therapy
* Massage therapists
* Chiropractors
* Acupuncture
* Most every ergonomic keyboard and pointing device on the market
* Various desk/chair/keyboard tray ergonomic adjustments
* Addressing TMS (See books by Dr. Sarno)
* Taking a year off of work (multiple times)
* NSAIDs

This is resulting in me spending a lot of time looking into other career potabilities, but I keep ending up back writing code to some extent.

Voice coding is literally the first thing that comes to everyone's mind when you tell them you have arm pain, but it's a dead end in my mind. I tried to follow in the footsteps of Tavis Rudd, but I just ended up with voice strain from talking too much. You might have better luck though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

At one point in my life, I had an intern who knew how to code type for me. No voice rec system will ever be as good as a human who knows how to code... and even dictating this way was slow and frustrating, though at least my voice wasn't strained.

Someone else here mentioned TMS. A good friend of mine who was suffering for months with arm pain was greatly helped by looking into and addressing it. I recommend Dr Sarno's book "The Mindbody Prescription". Even though it wasn't a cure for me personally, I did find it helpful to mitigate some of the pain.

As far as creating a community goes, I've never found reading about others suffering to be any help or comfort. If anything I've found it better to not dwell on it and just move on with life.

OTOH, a resource that offered suggestions and opportunities on how to make the most of the capabilities that are still available might be nice. Knowing there's still a lot that one can accomplished, even if you can't code for 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week.
There are dating apps entirely based on this model.
It doesn't have anything to do with a commit breaking anything. It has to do with reproducability. As others have mentioned, a Dockerfile isn't perfect (I'd argue Dockerfile+Nix is pretty close) but at least you don't have to ask "Oh god, what did OJ Ford run manually before commiting the image we use in Prod." That's truly horrific and simply isn't a problem if you use a Dockerfile.

>Not everything's open source.

I don't know what that means. Whether the source is closed or not has zero impact on the use-cases I'm discussing for Docker. Even if the source of the base layer isn't available, it doesn't stop you from using that base layer in a new Dockerfile, at all.
At much greater cost, I might add. I ran my kill-a-watt for a few days, and, IIRC, it uses something negligible like 7 cents a day. I'm looking at Emerson's webpage and they're quoting 6 cents per day at $0.0986/Kwh so my 7 cents seems about right in a more temperate climate but with electricity costs more like 15-16 cents/kwh. Their numbers say .6kwh, so call it 219watt-hours in a year. Or, in other words, 1/365th of my house's normal standby power consumption when nobody is home.

And I've got a tankless hot water heater for our main hot water supply which is of course a savings in orders of magnitude more than is 'lost' by the instant hot.

The instant hot also probably uses negligibly more energy than the other ways we heat water; microwave (for beverages) or running a burner on the stove on full blast for minutes at a time just to get a large pot of water up to boiling.

Of course, you can see from the fact that I bother measuring electricity of new devices with my kill-a-watt (and replacing all bulbs with LEDs at great cost) that I'm somewhat sensitive to electricity consumption. But I choose to spend my consumption where I think it makes the most sense.
What part of this triggered a downvote? Am I not up-to-date on the current status?
I'm way too late responding to this, but yes, I do; the chemicals of nature (except for recent extracts like sugar and white flour) are things we co-evolved with.
Yeah I noticed that... I ended up going with "No" as I think the summary would be more correct than the expanded description.
None of these societal things I bring up have anything to do with the actual account of the author's fantastically awful and absurd experience with that CEO.

He clearly intended this to invoke a much wider discussion about race and system racism at the end of his essay. That's what I'm responding to.
"Color" means nonwhite. "People of color" means blacks, Hispanics, Middle Easterners, Asians, the entire aggregate of discriminated-against nonEuropeans. Not to be confused with "colored people" which is a deprecated term for blacks only, now considered archaic and racist.
Well, there are audio recordings of bank staff asking to demonstrate the flaw and there are also recordings of the same staff telling me that going public is within my rights, but they don't seem to understand the underlying issue.

Not sure about lawyering up, maybe it's something that I should do (should have done?)..
Unrelated but: It's easy to believe that yr peers are cheating. But I believe there are a lot of hard working people that know the concequence of cheating your way through.
Point taken! I have edited the article now, there has obviously been some confusion and was an oversight on my part not to have explained that properly.
Columbus wasn't looking for America. He had miscalculated the circumference of the earth and thought he could sail west to India. The Portuguese laughed him out of the country because of this. Note that the Caribbean was called the West Indes for this reason -- Columbus thought he had hit India.
I guess I'm thinking about libraries here. The LoC is a HUGE library.
International students are a boon for "good but not top" private colleges. Those lose a lot of money giving top students full rides to improve their ranking/chance at graduating a billionaire or something like that. They make it up by admitting tons of international students who pay full or near full price because back home any decent US degree is seen as amazing.

My sources are anecdotal but I went to a university like that. Some classes were 70% Chinese international.
Hardware is the differentiator.
The numbers are not arbitrary. There are rules that govern the chosen numbers. Over time we learn that a 2 lane road in a commercial district with street trees is a 35 zone while a 2 lane road in a residential district is a 25 zone.

I agree that at some point cars could learn the rules as well.
Microsoft U-turn on 'nasty trick' pop-up
Technology is changing how we live, but it needs to change how we work
It's not baiting, in the wonderful world of work, you can expect to be on the receiving end of such comments. I speak from a position of experience.

"All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek"

http://www.amazon.com/Really-Need-Know-Learned-Watching/dp/0...
Your point is actually one hundred percent valid... I wouldn't be surprised if he was lying... but in this case he really isn't claiming that unusual a situation. Its not like he claimed dude came out in a grand dragon kkk robe and asked him to do a jig while eating watermelon... seems plenty of younger white people especially with all the hip hop radio songs saying it are truly perplexed why they aren't supposed to say terms they hear on the radio 50 times a day... Its only suprising that the interviewer delved into this the first time of meeting in a business setting...
What do you mean? Daylight is very close to a blackbody.
Because all the information you add to your LinkedIn is public information that you want everyone to see.

It's not like Facebook where people can get access to personal photos or intimate conversations.
That makes sense as the closest answer (but still guessing).

They could further limit it by location/region or companies mentioned to improve the quality but that may be overkill and reduce the number of notifications too much for their tastes.
As a way-too-simplified answer, I would also posit that opiods in general kill pain, so you don't get shit done, but you don't care about getting shit done. Amphetamines in general provide some euphoria, though not as much as opiods, and provide energy, so one can get done a lot more stupid boring shit and work harder while still having a bit of fun doing it. Take that overly broad comment and apply it to socioeconomic trends as you will.

In terms of rx opioid DEATHS which is what this is about(nothing here about prevalence of use), I would posit totally anecdotal possibly BS theories like this: most people that seek out heroin addicts and are addicts do heroin at least a little smartly. I'm not saying every junkie carries a bottle of Narcan, though I've known many that do, but when you are doing heroin in a group full of people and building up conventional wisdom over years, you know how much to take and what happens if shit goes sour. Prescription opiods on theother hand come with a doctor's signature that says - hey, this is basically safe, don't worry about it (in the mind of the user) -- your average 18 year old experimenting with drugs kid is much more likely to take a few too many oxys than inject too much heroin. Fentanyl is a whole different thing and pretty much, even though I'm a libertarian in terms of drug use and prohibition, I'd be happy to snap my fingers and make it go away. I /know/ it is useful as a pain reliever of last resort, but it is just so damn strong to be on the street, especially when not sold as Fentanyl.

To put more simply, responsible use of all substances is possible, but requires both self-control and some knowledge about those substances. If I have to do some research about responsible dosing or I have friends around that do that research, I'm likely to stay within pretty safe margins. However, if I'm an opiate naive person that's given a few pills in a prescription bottle, I'm much more likely to think that they are "safe" even though they are functionally the same substance in my body. This may just be conjecture, but I've been around drug users and abusers my whole life, and have been dedicated to harm reduction, and I rarely have seen people be as reckless with heroin as they are crushing up oxys and doing lines.
But often the consequences are rather light. I can't think of anyone facing any serious repercussions -- the worst was failing an assignment.
It is not about a group of people. He was asking him because of his skin color, not some group of people. And when the interviewer continued to ask YOU questions about your ethnicity is disparaging terms and would not talk tech then what? You may not identify with your ethnicity or skin color but the CEO certainly did. You would have taken the job with someone who only saw you that way? Where is your self respect?
Fixed. I imagine a few other people might have as well, so you probably more than made up for it. ;)
In some urban environments it is necessary to nudge very slowly through pedestrian crossings to thread through gaps; if the car brakes at the sight of any perceived obstacle and waits for a totally clear right of way, there are certain crosswalks and right turns in Chicago you will not pass for several hours.
I can confirm. I was taught this in middle school.
LinkedIn Open-Sources Kafka Monitor
I want a car to drive me to work, then drive out somewhere and find some free parking for the day (or circle the block all day) and then come back at the end of the day to pick me up.
FUD! It's a fine place.
How are the Caribbean islands not American?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the second line of your post, so I apologize if that's the case, but the whole idea of the PID namespace is so that the container's init can run as pid 1 in the container without access to the rest of the host's processes. Likewise for root and user namespaces. (Though I understand that one is really tricky to get right)
I have no issue with JavaScript itself. I have issues with what web developers do with it:

- Hideous wastefulness of resources, causing constant unnecessary repaints, enormous RAM usage, etc

- “Experiencejacking”: things like scroll hijacking, back button hijacking, etc

- All the privacy invasions that JS enables

These wouldn’t be issues if sites suffering from them were the minority, but they’re not. Most sites have mountains of poorly optimized JavaScript that gives zero thought to performance or resource consumption. Once it works, it’s shipped.

The fact is that front end web dev culture as a whole places very little value in things like performance, battery life, resources, and ultimately, respect of the end user’s desires, and that’s a huge problem. As long as the whizz-bang shiny flashy checkboxes are checked, it’s all good.
Cheating is and always should be a pox that needs to be eradicated. But let's not turn a blind eye to what's happening here locally. Parents in the 1% spend an extraordinary amount of money and resources on college-prep companies, many of which tell the kids exactly what extracurriculars to take, what to do after school, and virtually write the entire outline of their admissions essays. It's little wonder that schools like Harvard are playgrounds for the ultra-elite.
Assertive when asking a black man why he can't use the word nigger to his face? Politically assertive or meek and subservient to this asshole?
Vendors like Spice and Intex are Indian companies. Companies can sell imported products in India, they just have to pay import duty on it.

India have FDI restrictions in retail sector to prevent big box retailers like Walmart from destroying local retailers.

Most of the popular brands including Apple already sell in India, but they have to partner with a Indian retailer to do so.
I have an Acer C720 Chromebook on which I tinkered with crouton, before re-purposing the device as a YouTube player for my toddler. It was a cheap little novelty that I enjoyed playing with for awhile, but I just don't fully understand the impulse to turn these things into Linux development workstations.

You have to more or less root the device... press a Ctrl key combo during every boot in order to keep it rooted... and then open a shell and type a sequence of commands to enter a crouton Linux session.

Look, I have fond memories of using Slackwhare back in the 90's, and feeling like a wizard every time I figured out how to make my PC do something it wasn't "supposed to do". So I assume that hacker ethos is much of the appeal.

However, today Acer sells the Aspire One Cloudbook for the same price as the Acer Chromebook I bought two years ago. It's 14" instead of 11", has the same battery life, and is a full unlocked Windows PC (easily replaceable with Linux). So if you just want a cheap Linux PC with good battery life, why in the world wouldn't you go that route rather than buying a locked Chromebook and jumping through all the hoops? Using a Pixel would be even more bizarre, because at that point you're in the Macbook Pro price range.

Chromebooks are well-suited for school students, and non-technical business people at companies that revolve around Google Apps. You CAN squeeze those square pegs into round holes as a programmer, but it really doesn't make any practical sense to do so today.
I've taught university classes, and failed students on the class for cheating. But it's true that I haven't seen anyone kicked out of a program or a university for cheating.
Hmm, looks like we're both wrong although you're less wrong than I am. Copernicus supported a heliocentric view and the Church didn't consider it a problem. Galileo was accused of biblical interpretation, positing that the bible isn't intended to be an authority on science, which then explodes into an anti-heliocentricism position by the Church at that time. Cute.

I'm gonna guess this confusion happens for the same reason as then: politics vs facts. This same thing happens where school boards what simplistic explanations for certain things they want deemphasized and politically biased yet detailed explanations for ones they want emphasized. Its annoying.
Shockingly, his first question had nothing to do with technology. “Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school?” he asked. I was taken aback but tried to explain the social dynamics that might be at play. He followed with, “Why is it no longer okay to say nr?”

That's just insane. What on earth would make someone think those questions are anything relevant to work?

Maybe it's because I'm a "person of color" - even though I'm not "black" - but race is the last thing on my mind when I'm interviewing candidates or trying to push a new release to production. I've been patted down by store managers because they thought I was suspicious. I've been turned away from bars/clubs because I would "cause trouble." None of these things relates to how I comment on code, implement a design, build some architecture etc...

Conversations like this are difficult to have in the workplace, but ultimately necessary in creating an inclusive environment.

Sorry I disagree here. I don't think they are necessary. It's certainly helpful to relate to and have a great relationship with your fellow co-workers, but there are literally hundreds of other aspects of someone's life to get into other than ethnicity, sexuality or religion - the hottest button issues around.

That is taking into consideration that race is such a big part of daily life for black and "dark" people. If nothing else work should be a place where race questions aren't even in the air.
you got some points... but honestly discussion at this point is not going to 'improve' anything. Racism of all kinds has been around from the dawn of man and will be around till the dusk of man. The USA has actually outside of the legal/police/corrections system reached as good a point as can reasonably be expected and is among the least racist countries in the world.
I am Indian.
Yes, this is fairly common in all of South Asia.

The way to get around this is to look poor and be brown/black. Whenever I go back:

1) I buy a local school bag back ( put my expensive laptop and phone in it )

2) wear wife beater that is slight dirty.

3) do not shave.

4) speak only in Hindi.

5) wear only chapal ( bathroom style )

7) let your hair grow and do not comb.

Once you look poor enuf - no one will disturb you.

Since my job is programming - I really do not need to look presentable since people know who I am. But I do feel sorry for anyone who needs to wear a suit.

Unfortunately the only way you be be rich in public is if you have a bunch of body guards.
Sadly, not a new thing and not just US universities.

Ghostwriting scandal that hit a bunch of Australian universities about 18 months ago:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/students-enlist-mym...

"Australia's international student market is a $15 billion industry and the country's largest export after iron ore, coal and gold"... and money talks.