skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, although that's hardly common and completely impossible on many embedded devices - devices which are only becoming more common.
> Big Box Retailers have overconsolidated markets so much that there's no venue to sell this "less-than-perfect" produce to people

I disagree because we, the individual consumer, are the ones who buys, therefore we may have the power to make this to change to some extent, and I see what you do as an example of that. If people would buy more from local producers it's expected for the Big Box retailers to see their revenues drop. At that point they'll need to make a change.

> It can be quite difficult justifying the price tag on that bag of apples when you're not sure you can get through the whole bag, and two individual apples will end up costing you just as much as the bag because they carry the bullshit "organic" label

This may be another key issue. Do we really need to buy a whole bag of apples, just because we see it as a bargain, even if we end up throwing half of it away?
Kickstater – behind the scenes
I think self-awareness is still so far off that it is not the most pressing problem.

The more serious problem is that once we make life-changing choices using machine learning models, the models should be just and accountable. Obviously, these are vague terms, but in terms of machine learning models they can have concrete meanings:

* Just: choices should be made on what we consider (morally) relevant inputs.

* Accountable: choices should be traceable to inputs and parameters (or eventually training data).

E.g. suppose that we find drones that stun people with a weapon acceptable. Such a drone would be just if it decides to stun a person because they have a weapon. Such a drone would be unjust if it decides to stun a person because they have a particular skin color [1].

Now, suppose that such a drone stuns a person robbing a supermarket with a fake weapon. Regardless of whether we consider this to be just, we probably want to know why the drone misrecognized the gun as real (the model should be accountable).

[1] There may be a non-uniform prior distribution p(weapon_use|race). But I hope we all agree that using such prior distributions would be absolutely unfair towards the individual.
Wait. Are there still computer systems in 2016 we can fully understand? Except maybe some simpler embedded systems.

Last computer system I can somewhat fully understand is OCS Commodore Amiga. CPU, chipset and software.
Discussion of Verge article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081059
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My favourite fact - it took 185 person-months to develop PowerPoint for Windows at a cost of $500,000 :)
Fans develop first-ever game for prototype 'Nintendo PlayStation'
> What part of illegal did you not understand?

The "why" part, actually. Why is hate speech illegal? Where is the line drawn? Who gets to draw the line? Can the line move over time? Could politicians eventually move the line to suppress undesirable speech (political dissension) under the guise of hate speech?
What about FM radio? I know that the iPhone doesn't support FM, but other phones do and they use the 3.5mm jack as the antenna. sure they could include the antenna in the phone, but I am not sure that's as practical as using the 3.5mm jack (please correct me if I'm wrong.)
I made no mention of Lua. The context is C and assembly programmers as an audience.

But let's consider Lua. Most of the Lua pogrammers I know also know C. How do they handle the so-called "impedence mismatches"? (Should this be plural? What else besides 1-based arrays?)

As far as I know Lua's target audience is, at least in part, C programmers. That's why it's made to be easy to embed in a C program.
This is great. We love being part of the Scottish tech scene. There are some really great meetups around Edinburgh and Glasgow areas too.
yeah, USB/lightning in general have never really been designed for being tumbling around in my pocket/backpack while connected, like my headphone jack has learnt to expect.
The whole point of this is that static analysis can find bugs that people have missed. If your IDE finds most of these, it just means that its static analysis is mostly as good as the Intel one.
> Good question. It's not safer.

I think it is. Given the number of Autopilot miles driven, you'd only expect one death so far, so that we have one doesn't really tell us anything.

However, injuries from car crashes are (fortunately!) much more common - roughly 60 times as likely. So you'd expect to have about 60 Autopilot incidents resulting in injury by now. I don't really keep up with Tesla news but, based on the reaction to this story (where the guy wasn't even injured), I'm going to assume the actual number of injuries is tiny.

What do you think?
I guess that depends on how quickly you made the game and how many games you could make like that. Would the paperwork be the same amount for your second game? If not, it sounds like it'd be worthwhile to try to churn out simple games this way in the evenings/weekends (think: flappy bird, 2048, etc) and make a decent profit on the side.
Just a reminder that we are the only country with the first amendment and a constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech.
On the streets and subways?

Hell yeah it would be worth it. If I had to choose who gets my data I think I take Google over an A Mobile ISP like At&t or Verizon
>3. Tesla's autopilot behavior after a crash is terrible. It doesn't stop. In the semitrailer crash, the vehicle continued under power for several hundred feet after sheering off the top of the Tesla driving under the semitrailer. Only when it hit a telephone pole did the car stop.

This is actually the most distributing part to me. In these situations, graceful failure or error handling is absolutely critical. If it cannot detect an accident, what the heck business does it have trying to prevent them?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12078958

This headline is misleading. It suggests that this is news. It isn't - PewDiePie disclosed that he was paid to promote WB's game and did so from the start when he made the videos. The FTC investigation was over whether the existing disclosure was enough, and it was determined it wasn't.
> "You can't start a science textbook like that" ... actually, lots of math and science textbooks assume a certain level of knowledge, and start more-or-less that way.

Fine, but regardless, there don't seem to be any music theory books that start with the very beginnings (as this submission is trying to). I share the author's deep frustration with existing music theory books: they all assume some magical vocabulary as though you're just supposed to know what they mean already and how dare you question what 'diatonic' means! Fuck that shit.

I teach a class on sound, of which music theory plays a part, and I start with raw sound and human perception: consonance and dissonance. This is the only way you can ever understand WHY there are music theories at all (and don't get me started on how most music theory textbooks don't even MENTION the history of tuning systems. equal temperament ONLY makes sense once you consider the historic alternatives, like Pythagorean tuning).

So I absolutely applaud this effort. This will be a huge help to music students of all ages who aren't comfortable with just accepting a bunch of mystical (and exclusively western) 'wisdom' from on high.
Ceph can use RBD (rados block device) to provide block storage.
This brings to mind a moment in the movie Apollo 13, where one of the supporting characters says something to the effect of: "Leave it to NASA to make a moon landing boring".

I think it says a lot of great things about NASA that people consider putting a satellite in orbit around Jupiter to be routine. Further great things from the fact that they really want NASA to stop being "boring" and invent some crazy new thing and push the boundaries of what humans think is realistically possible again - after all its been like a whole year since they blew our minds last time.

All for the low price of ~.03 militaries. (Not including the fact that NASA does some stuff for the military...)
Perhaps they should be better at marketing, so they don't have to wait until right before they shutdown, to get your attention?
I'd like to ask the question from the other direction: what do you propose should be done to law enforcement officers who collect evidence illegally?

As it stands today, we accept a sort of compromise. Law enforcement is typically not punished for collecting evidence illegally, but the evidence is discarded, giving them a strong incentive to follow the rules.

Do you accept the evidence but throw the responsible people in jail? That's probably going to have a major chilling effect on law enforcement in general, since they encounter a lot of ambiguous situations. But if you don't punish them, then collecting evidence illegally might as well be legal.

Think about it this way: it's not a waste to discard illegally collected evidence, it's a waste to collect evidence illegally. That ends up saying the same basic thing, except it directs the blame at the party that's actually responsible for doing it wrong.
Hypothetical question: would you send the bill for bumper dent-repair to the parents of the child who died making that dent?
Embedded devices and public WiFi seem like an odd combination. Do you have any examples in mind which embedded devices you'd like to connect to something like that?
That coincides with what I have seen, those studies definitely made me and my friends curious. With better evidence I will definitely be trying tDCS for accelerating learning.
A non-trivial volume? Seriously?

What a load of nonsense. What else of equivalent utility would be put there, a cure for cancer?

This is just a DRM play in the guise of making the phones sexier.
Consider d) phones necessarily require DACs for their speakers so they'll always be able to dump analog signals onto the usb-c pins. All that's needed is an agreement of what to expect from the connector when analogue audio is playing and not fry equipment expecting something else, and best-case scenario all those pins can now be used even for balanced 5.1 audio (there are 6 positive-negative pairs free for alternate use according to wikipedia). So the dreaded adapter, while still unappealing, can be as simple as connecting pins to the correct 3.5mm pins (altho if usb requires some acknowledgment to get to that point it would only require a small finite state machine to achieve, I couldn't say what the impact of that would be on adapter size)

e; it occurs to me i have no idea the different impedance for usb signals and line level, so this could all be hogwash
Does the Tesla autopilot system use deep learning ?. I assumed it was all control systems and tracking.
This gets down to the notion of EU "Right to Explanation." We can make all the anti-bigotry laws we want, it won't do any good if people can lock illegal profiling into machine-learning algorithms and excuse bad effects with "The machine said do it, so I did it."
It's really a balancing act. Gotta have the right amount of comments. In general I prefer code that is written such that comments are not necessary, but in the context here the "clever" tricks should always be commented. And to that end, the code should be peer-reviewed and determined by other individuals whether it's confusing or not.

While comments can certainly become stale, we're talking about portions of code that will most likely not change frequently. If there's a clever solution it better need to be clever otherwise it's just bad style.
I've found that the more urban and compressed the environment, the more headphones you see. I started doing it too when riding the bus or working in my "open plan" office, to the point that I wore them on average 10 hours a day.

Now I live in the countryside, my nearest neighbor is a mile away, and I haven't used headphones in 6 months, nor have I even thought about them until reading this article. And I still don't feel like using them.
I made an investment in a CAT-DEV more than a year ago. It was very hard to get working and their support wasn't great. Their forums were a lot better and I could find answers by reading threads. They use the Green Hills Multi Compiler and a version that doesn't even support C++11 yet. If you wanted Visual Studio support you had to be a member of Wario World developer program, in which I was denied, because they thought that having more than one idea meant you couldn't complete even one of those.

I'll check this out again now and see how the offerings have changed.
Not really. It's object storage with other stuff layered on top of it with varying degrees of success.
> Why is that any different?

Murder is uncommon. Sexual abuse of children is very much more common.

Most murderers only kill one person; it's not premeditated; they will never kill anyone ever again. Child abusers don't commit a single act of child abuse. They commit many offences against the child, sometimes over years of that person's life, and sometimes moving on to other children.

The crimes and the criminals are very very different.
Article is light on what it would take for Uber to be compliant as a legal dispatcher service.
Minor nit ...

Was anyone else bothered by the phrase "show their working"?

That's the kind of thing that grates on me because it's just slightly wrong. When I grew up it was always "show your work", not "working".

Is this a regional thing?
Finally! I've been using web.skype.com for over a year now, lacking video/audio calls (usually handling those from my phone)
Well, we hope it is. I don't think we can say that with much confidence though unless we understand what the computers are doing. Take some massive datacenter with petabyte sized deep networks doing neural networks. Think of the dimensionality of those matricies. Do you really know what's going on??
Not to nitpick, Max Tegmark is a cosmologist. I only recently learned the difference when I called a cosmologist friend an astrophysicist. Cosmology deals with the big stuff, almost philosophically, like: "where did the universe come from" and "what is the fate of the universe", while astrophysics deals with the nature of the things within, like: "how do stars form" and "what happens when black holes collide".

Max is deeply invested in modeling, analysis and prediction software, and I suspect did the bulk of the work in the paper.

Henry Lin is a student who is focused on astrophysics. He gave an interesting TED talk (http://www.ted.com/speakers/henry_lin) a few years back about studying distant galaxy clusters.

Henry is energetic and almost viscerally inspired by the beauty of science and mathematics, such a wonderful quality! His voice is definitely in the prose of the paper.
don't post job ads as stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You can't get rid of the dumb "while you were away" thing, but you can block it. With ublock origin, add this to your "My Filters" settings:

twitter.com##has-recap
WebSockets in Play framework
> The problem is nobody is willing to pay $30 - $40 for a mobile game.

Good Nintendo games could be very profitable at $5 to $10 per title on iOS and Android because of the volume.
Keep in mind that the standard of proof in a civil trial is a lot lower. Being found liable in a civil trial doesn't mean he should have been found guilty at the criminal trial.

I agree that OJ probably did it based on what's known, I'm just nitpicking that one bit.
This looks like legacy code from before compilers had good loop unrolling. If people have large code bases like these to maintain, they'll probably be happy to find the bugs now, and worry about rewriting it all later.
Been a while since I used AWS in anger, but EC2 instances were massively (hair-pullingly) variable from one moment to the next. I can't see any detail on either blog post (GNU/Linux or Microsoft Windows) regarding how they catered for this, how many runs they did of their custom benchmark code, and what kind of variances they were seeing in each iteration.
This is a bummer. I was just looking forward to being able to take more Weave meetings next month...
I have heard Dr. Andrew Ng point out the "well known" fact (in the computer vision community) that nobody, including Dr. David Lowe himself, really understands why SIFT works either. So at least for those of us in the computer vision industry, this isn't maybe such a surprise.
That's really great, congratulations! Sometimes I wish I could have my own bit of land to grow my own food!
Weren’t they? Honest question!

They are both definitely recent enough that a use case like that must have been considered during their design.

I don’t know whether that was considered, but you seem quite sure about that and I don’t know where you get your certainty from and I would like to know.
Would you feel the same way were the ban on sodomy or support of gays?
How to run a startup in 2016:

* No homebrewed tech allowed. It's too "complex"

* We should only use off-the-shelf libraries and SDKs because bar-to-entry isn't a real investor risk ("Just trust me, I'm a charismatic CEO who played golf a few times with the best friend of the college roommate of the guy who helped the guy close Series A for Baidu")

* Soft skills, soft skills, soft skills! Smiling > coding

* I don't know what technical debt is, but I'm sure we can safely rewrite our core product from scratch in between Series B and Series C. Product owners, customer support teams, and quality assurance re-on-boarding is a money problem, not a leadership problem.

* Security audits? I have no idea what those are, but lets incorporate IoT into our product suite somehow. That seems hot right now to VCs.

Bubbles. Bubbles everywhere.
I only looked very briefly, but yes in this case 5.1 driver hasn't made any changes other than the version. But doing a quick vimdiff with a few of the other drivers show that the files have seen some substantial changes over time, and in some cases the small differences between two versions of a driver are to work around bugs, whether new or newly identified.
I would hardly consider "spray and pray" to be a "professional" approach to investing, although this aligns perfectly with my experience with many VC firms. The key skill there is sales ability with the types of investor that also allocate large amounts of other people's capital on the basis of gut feels and lunches at expensive eateries.
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Google's business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data to you.

See Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff's video on Surveillance Capitalism, https://vimeo.com/110222526

NYC has the leverage to negotiate better financial terms for capturing the value of city residents data. The money generated from harvesting city resident behavior can then be invested into city infrastructure and services for residents.

Data and networks are here to stay. What is open for negotiation is the split of revenue between city residents and vendors. For example, kiosks could be funded as neutral infrastructure that could be shared by competing vendors. A city itself is "shared infrastructure".
Isn't that the essence of this particular approach though? To "learn" a solution in ways us humans would not conceive of? It's a clear consequence that we cannot easily follow that path of "reasoning" easily.
A digital ocean VPS is $5 a month. Is village voice.com really that big a draw?
Yeah, I suppose that's possible, but it doesn't make sense for the artists, the publishers, or the streaming service, who make money by having people listen to their songs.