skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't find your perspective persuasive because I don't see why I'm not any more of an individual at risk when another human hits me, and society won't hold that human liable due to absence of mens rea. Many people get hurt or killed in a situation with no criminal element. I don't see how it's any more or less personal if I'm maimed or killed by a machine versus a bounded human mind. I also don't care to blame either, because I don't see why blaming the one person who hits or kills somebody I care about is going to protect the next person who gets hit or killed. Moral blame of the stressed cognitive system seems so useless and self-indulgent.

Is it less creepy if a caring mom or dad of 3 boys maims or kills me? Is it interesting to the victim that hypothetical Joe the Dad expresses remorse over the media and then business goes on for society as usual?

What matters to me is that less people get hurt or killed from preventable accidents (the simple-minded utilitarian perspective that does not weigh rich vs poor, young vs old, but just wants less people dying), because I understand that the next anonymous individual getting killed by either Joe the Driver or a Google / Tesla Car could also be me or someone I care about. So I really do care about the numbers.

The utilitarian perspective actually establishes a negotiable definition as its goal and it discusses the relationship between means and goals -- a position to talk about, disagree with, and measure.

Discussing how over 30,000 people die a year through the lens of Driver Joe, Dad of 3 Girls, is the same as discussing economic disparity through the lens of Plumber Joe, and it's a game that media and narrative elites play better than you, and can swing in any direction they want -- they can say, here's Plumber Joe, now support my economic narrative, whatever it is, because it helps Plumber Joe (does it? who cares about creepy data-backed perspectives?).

I feel that citizen decision-making improves with basic descriptive statistics over Plumber Joe, but they really prefer discussing things in terms of Plumber Joe, or in this case, Driver Jane, Mom of 3 Boys.
Mine was specific to the Austin area. I've met good and bad cops. This was definitely a bad cop.

Every opportunity he had to make things better, he made them worse.

(I stopped digging early and fast, I'm not stupid.)

Much of the situation was the context and interaction of the stop itself. This kid wasn't doing himself any favours.
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Google used to have public Code Search
I can choose to use explicit type signatures for functions I write, but I can't choose to use them for all the functions I read. I read a lot more than I write.

We also may just disagree about what constitutes a "high" amount of overhead. Thinking about the contract of my method does not seem like overhead to me; I have to do that anyway.
Truck driver invents new tires that let you drive sideways
Privacy respecting easy to use personal finance and budgeting software
Lua and Ruby use the keyword "end" to signal the end of a function or loop. I much prefer that.
Absent national PKI like what the EU appears to be working on, I don't really see how else you could expect it to work.

Additionally, while the "original intent" is reproducibility, it's not really difficult to duplicate a signature, and physical signatures are only really secure with neutral, third-party human witnesses.
You know a lot of corporations that give authorized access when they screw up? Every scandal or expose is a result of unauthorized access.
I was a sergeant in the infantry and went to Iraq as well. There is no better preparation for managing a team to solve a problem under intense pressure. I ran my own development business for many years and intend to do so again. The US Army Infantry is responsible for who I am today. I am confident the Army gave Ray Jennings skills he will be able to use for the rest of his life.
I don't know what to think of this... On one side it makes sense that the person who was acquitted of a crime shouldn't have their name in the mud for a lifetime. At the same time, the internet is a powerful tool for keeping government in check in Latin America and the political stabilishment there will definitely use this to censor information that is against their interests like what has always happened with the traditional media.
And most importantly, guess how wealthy they were and ask yourself if a poor person with the same skin color would get the same sentence.
A lot of it is me getting annoyed at something that certainly impacts many others. It's gone down some interesting paths. What I've found in general is that the small things not only add up, but they help find where the root causes are. So, if you can help fix the small things and enough people do it, the better the world becomes in general.

Things like, "Why has that lamp been out for a month?" can become very interesting if you pursue them to a certain depth. :)
If we are talking web apps, all this great beam features don't mean much if your database doesn't have them. Today, scaling and providing redundacy is the easy part for a web app in most languages, having fault tolerance in the database is much harder.
Toxic to what? You should have asked exactly what they mean by toxic.

I suspect the corporation may be "toxic", and they are trying to knock you down because the system is not working properly and they want you to just shut up and toe the line.

Spotting problems and vocalising them is not something that should be ignored. You are probably complaining to the wrong people however, and probably in an unproductive way.

Anytime you feel like something is hindering your job, I would suggest putting it in an email to your immediate boss and listing why it is a problem. "I just wanted you to know that I am trying to do x, and it has been delayed because of such-and-such a reason. Is there anything we can do about it?" That way the problem is now your managers, not yours.
Great question. The upgrade path is a rolling upgrade from v2.3.y series to v3.0.0 series. This is how all of the etcd upgrades have worked since the start of v2.x.y.

Doc is here: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/upg...
Did You Know? Edison Coined the Term “Bug”(2013)
Heard something similar in a class ~"Your code could lose a company a couple of million dollars or get someone killed. If your not going to be a professional, then please chose your jobs carefully or leave the profession".

I-35W was seriously bad news, plus the cell network went down.
You absolutely can challenge a Canadian traffic ticket in court. I have friends who have done so. We also do have the occasional questionable photo radar trap, though admittedly I know of none as egregious as the worst small American towns.
As interesting as this might be, what problem exactly is it trying to solve?
"The 12 jurors convicted Ray, then went to a candlelight vigil with the victim's parents."

Words fail me.
If you want help with something like that, I'd love to. Oh, the dogfooding possibilities..
That's very likely what occurred and I've been pretty impressed with how the Co has handled the turnaround however---

Could the former founder make an argument the valuation and structure was artificial. It sounds like they basically diluted him to oblivion by ramping up RSUs and doing a down round. That would open them up to litigation as well.

Perhaps the end result is- Conrad doesn't want to get sued - and so they are gambling that he won't sue himself. That works as long as everyone is on board or they get a release from Conrad (in turn he'd want one as well).
Are there fleshed-out arguments for why one has the right to be forgotten by the web more than they have the right to be forgotten by the mind?
Has the live query stuff performed well? i.e. subscribing to some arbitrary db query for new records?
Directing for Virtual Reality
I actually winced reading this
For what it's worth, we're hoping to integrate these APIs into our iOS version of the TensorFlow runtime, so you can maintain graph portability but still get the benefits of the optimized implementation on the platform.

We only just got iOS support in TensorFlow last week (https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/tensorflow-v09-now...), but this is something our team would like to get done, so stay tuned!
> Open carry laws in Georgia are not meant for dark-skinned Muslim men.

Nor for dark-skinned men in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
> at least it doesn't lead the driver to think he can take his hands off the wheel and not pay attention

Tesla reiterates every time and makes you confirm you understand that this is not the case. If the driver did it, that's completely on them being irresponsible.
This is a stellar response. I'm kind of appalled at some of these replies, but as was noted earlier today it's nice to have a forum where differing views are espoused (even if some are broadly ignorant)
This is a ridiculous statement. Are you seriously saying that birds regularly fly at over 30000 ft? Or are you trying to imply that autopilot during landing/takeoff actively tracks birds and tries to avoid them?

In other words, the plane autopilot doesn't "deal" with wildlife at all unless you count running into it. Which is apparently what Tesla autopilot does as well.
Your guess is probably wrong. My wife had a black friend in a small town (~5k) without many black people. There weren't enough to have a "black part" of town but her friend was still constantly pulled over by the police. Driving while black might sound like a joke but it isn't.
How does Apple keep secrets so well?
Seems the key is to continually use the underdog.
>“You go from working 50, 60, 70 hours a week to zero,” Moen says. “And it very much affects your identity. Who am I? For men, the answer usually is their job.”

I feel like this is a problem our whole life however it is only once we retire that we are forced to confront it. Until then we are able to avoid dealing with a lack of fulfilling activities outside of work, limited social connections and a weak sense of identity outside of work by simply working more. When we retire that coping mechanism goes away and you are left with no hobbies, a weak social network and a weak self image.

Personally, I strongly recommend trying cutting your work commitments to something like 20 hours per week. Do this for a year or so. It will give you a chance to realize that many of the things you previously did whenever you got the chance (sleeping in etc) become extremely boring when you can do them all the time.

After a while you will likely start to crave some sense of structure and accomplishment and the sooner you start filling the void outside of your work the better. Having a meaningful existence outside of your job will make you happier both now and in retirement.
DDG is a meta search engine that uses mainly Yahoo and/or Yandex (depending on the region).

Yahoo had turned their Yahoo BOSSS API (acccess to Bing search engine) from free to pay-for-each-1000-queries and completely discontinued the API earlier this year. So now we learn DDG gets access, but no one else of the smaller fishes (other meta search engines, etc).
I'd love to see an active record (npi) of that 2m active web sockets. It's trivial these days to make 2m connections (it's just a RAM problem), but marshalling data between them is the non-trivial problem, as is actually having active data crossing those sockets.
I was about halfway through reading this comment without noticing who wrote it and thought to myself "This is a very insightful comment, I bet grellas wrote it".

Yup.
Walmart Labs is basically a Bay Area software/analytics start up- Kosmix that was acquired by Walmart. Hardly surprising they do this.

On another note: a quirky thing I encountered on Twitter was Target hiring category theorists. https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/734129734569709568
my insurance estimates the average driven per year is around 12k miles so 100000 miles in 10 years is about right or a little low.
Sure, it's maybe a bit deflated. My point stands: the cost based on current empirical evidence is negligible. There certainly hasn't been a statistically significant increase in fatal crashes while on autopilot.
Right, but it's worth mentioning that no part of WebAssembly is ready for general usage, as it is not yet released. :)

Just like other components of the technology preview, I think it would be useful to have interested developers try it out and give feedback in the form of bug reports -- understanding that things are incomplete and going to change.
> Is it? I always figured “true colour” would be whatever you’d see with your naked eye from an approaching or orbiting spacecraft, or the nearest approximation that (say) a consumer digital camera would give you. Can we get anything like that from our current compositing techniques?

For many astronomical observations, the wavelengths of light observed are ones our eyes are not sensitive to. In this particular example of aurora, it's the ultraviolet. For others, it's infrared, millimeter/radio, or X-rays. For those, there's no way to way to make an image that our eye would see, because it wouldn't see anything. Some of the color images from those wavebands are described as "representative color" because the images are created to show certain features linked to the underlying physics or properties of the objects that are being shown.

For images that purely in the visible portion of the spectrum, in principle one could construct an image "as the eye would see it". However, as @dakr noted[0], color astronomical images are composites of several black and white images taken through different filters. to create an "as the eye would see it" image requires combining those black and white images in a way that considers the relative sensitivity of the different types of color-sensing cones in our eyes.

But, if you really want to get it right, it's more complicated than that. The shapes of the frequency-response of the cones probably differ from the transmission of the filters used in the astronomical observations (not to mention the quantum efficiency of the CCDs used to take the observations). So one would also need to correct for the difference in filterobject versus eye_coneobject (both of those as a function of wavelength). This is typically referred to as a "color correction" (meaning the "color" of the light emitted by the source), and requires some knowledge of the intrinsic spectrum of the source.

And there's even another layer after that. If emission (or absorption lines) from atoms lie within the observation filters, those can contribute a non-negligible amount to the signal in an observation with a given filter. Those wouldn't be properly corrected by a color term (for a broadband filter) because they only emit within a relatively narrow wavelength range. So that's another, second order, "color term" to consider.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013377
I generally have no problems with it. I've tried FF/Chrome on Win8/10 and Arch. The load time might be marginally slower than google but the UI is fine.
Calexit is USA version of brexit
Zoox raises $200M in Series A funding for self-driving cars
Hit CTRL+C in the middle of composer install, and you will probably get an inconsistent state. Following composer commands will throw exceptions and exit.
This is not a problem when it's pip.
they had a pretty sweet set up. electric rail line to the top. alpine tavern. ocean view. beautiful big trees.

but, yeah, everything burned down.
We've had good luck with "pdftotext" from poppler/xpdf. The only things that were garbled were intentionally obfuscated. (The files had a mangled character encoding table that was added to the pdf to prevent copy/paste.)

You're also gonna have problems with all-image pdfs (scans) that have low quality OCR results layered on top of them.

If you want to decode tables, "pdftotext -layout" is a good starting point. If you need more detail, try "pdftohtml -xml -fullfontname".
Yes, but your definition for "carcinogenic stuff" most likely would be interpreted by activists to include e.g. glyphosate - which is now classified as "category 2A possibly causes cancer" and is getting a lot of attention. In reality, category 2A also includes manufacture of art glassware, hairdressers, and shift work, and the more dangerous category 1 includes e.g. beer.

Still you can bet the activists would use our murder charge approach to attack glyphosate manufacturers, not beer manufacturers.
the prevailing online sentiment about Hans Reiser was that he'd been stereotyped and then railroaded into a conviction

Setting aside the issue of how prevailing that sentiment was, it seems like a questionable comparison - Reiser could have walked away with murder if not for his own hubris and obstinacy. And surely nobody thought he'd been 'railroaded' after he was convicted and led authorities to his victim's body.
Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions
No, March '13 to Aug '14. But yes, many people called it a mild winter. While we had previously spent 5 years in Dallas, and 4 in Boston. My wife is originally from Idaho, and I from Michigan, anything less than multiple feet of snow, is "mild" :)
> In other words, ignore the colors.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "ignore". The colors, though somewhat arbitrarily chosen, do convey physical information. It may not be a "what your eye might see" image, but it does tell the viewer about the relative emission from hydrogen, oxygen, and singly-ionized nitrogen (for the Cat's Eye Nebula). So, the coloring isn't something that could be ignored.

One way to describe those types of images is "representative color".
Actually, it would be really useful to me for my truck I use to deliver portable buildings. As my truck and trailer are 40 feet long, it sometimes takes some jockeying to line the trailer up to the building to load. If I could have either the trailer wheels shift sideways or the truck shift sideways, it would be much easier.
Fair enough. I think the framing matters a bit though.

"4 Times Deadlier!" certainly comes across as sensationalist based on such flimsy data (never mind that the real figure is actually 3.2 and the parent chose to round up rather than down to serve his/her purpose).

Whereas Tesla's statement comes across more as a statement of fact (albiet quite self-serving.. no question about that).
I think that sentence was the only clue to how it "kinda" works, and it is gone quite quickly.
You might try getting in touch with a local Quaker Meeting. Quakers tend to care a lot about social justice (many have backgrounds in social work) and often support the types of organizations that help folks find things like housing, food, and clothes.
A diagram of human consciousness
That happened quite some time after his conviction. It was debated on Reddit and HN; check out those threads.
> 1. They're not dropping out when the product becomes less profitable...if some drop out, others take over

I mentioned we’re open to moving to FOSS if we can create a business model that supports it. I should also say that, if worst comes to worst and we have to shut off the lights, one of two things will happen: either we will sell Craft to one of the thousands of companies with a vested interest in the product, whom we strongly feel is capable of continuing to move it forward, or we’d give Craft a GPL or MIT license, making it FOSS. There is no scenario where we would just drop it and pretend it never existed. Even if we wanted to do that, it would ruin our professional careers and probably result in a few lawsuits, so no thanks! :)

> 2. There are many people looking at the code and fixing bugs.

We recommend that plugin developers familiarize themselves with Craft’s codebase, because it’s the best place to find examples of how to do things when developing plugins. As a result, we’ve received hundreds of bug fixes from the community (including suggested code fixes). So this is definitely not an exclusive benefit to FOSS software.
That hardly convinces me he is innocent.

My problem with Serial is that people listened to it and concluded some travesty of justice occurred. But the other side doesn't get to tell their side. Whenever you hear just one side of the story, you can be sure that the truth is significantly different.
Speeding is a chicken-and-egg problem due to the culture of driving 10-15 over whatever the speed limit is. It's generally safe (weather permitting) because the speed limits are low enough to offset it, but it creates an atmosphere where police can pick and choose who to pull over.

If the speed limits were raised to a level where speeders were genuinely unsafe without a major attitude adjustment among drivers, the roads would be considerably more dangerous.
Yes, in California a judge can allow a plea to be withdrawn if it "serves the interests of justice." This is the same mechanism used to expunge someone's record after, e.g., completing probation. They are required to set aside guilty pleas if they learn that the party isn't guilty—even if the defendant doesn't ask them to.
I own a small business in OC (miltonsecurity) and I have a Vet program where I hire them for up to 6 months, pay for training courses (CCNA online at the office) and rotate them around to different groups (sales, support, engineering) If they get their CCNA we then advance them.

I would be willing to do this for him (its not a lot of money to start, but its something, and he can get some training while he waits for the DA)

jim
I am saying that planes use auto pilot (e.g. Terrain-following radar and Autoland) have to deal with birds and yes they hit them.
Can you certify they're running on renewable energy?
I don't see why anyone would find this superior to a stack trace.
It sounds like you're undervaluing concurrency. Concurrency is huge for a web application. If you were say doing image manipulation or other DSP where you needed "raw speed" you'd want to choose a language like C, Go, Rust. But in a web application you're handling hundreds, thousands, to millions of requests per second; concurrency is crucial for that kind of throughput. A developer on my team did some quick benchmarks and found that that Phoenix gives an order of magnitude better performance than Rails. Thats not negligible.
I love Dr Hartl's pedagogy - it reminds me of the Feynman Lectures in terms of presentation of information. I worked through the book over the course of a few weeks, then wrote a rails project on contract from scratch quite comfortably.
Yay, Jeremy Evans spreading some Sequel knowledge ^_^

Big fan of Sequel; it's super sleek. As a side-note to Jeremy's comment, while (i guess) he used Sequel.& to demonstrate that OR and AND conditions can be combined freely, there are more succinct ways of expressing that particular query:

# Using the a "virtual row" block:
Post.where(id: 1).or{(id =~ 2) & (name =~ 'Foo')}

# Or, if you don't fancy that kind of block magic, simply passing a Hash,
# the same way as with .where
Post.where(id: 1).or(id: 2, name: 'Foo')
Keeping Earth up to date and looking great
And it isn't a very good one at that. The aurora overlay seems to be on a different rotational axis, as if the Jupiter image was taken while the planet was at a very different angle. It makes me wonder whether I can trust the height of these things, which in the image extend well above Jupiter's visible atmosphere. Is that reality, or a poorly-aligned overlay.
Isn't it true that all open source projects need a Contributor License Agreement like this, or else someone could contribute code that is patented by them and later say "I contributed the code, but never said you could use my patented technology. You owe me money." in court?

If that's the case, how do so many open source projects get away without them? Do companies individually vet patents for projects they use? (doubtful.. but maybe)