skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This autopilot problem is entirely user's fault. Tesla never promised complete driverless experience. It is users who have the idea of autopilot being a replacement for driver. It's not. Just because it was in public consciousness and imagination for decades, it doesn't make it real. People are imagining autopilot being different than it is.

Only "fault" from Tesla is not being more clear about what the autopilot is for.

Also what I would do, at least until they make it better, is to raise the threshold of uncertainty after which the autopilot stops working and human driver is required. Just stop the car and force the driver to take the wheel.
When drinking tea, I drink tea. [1]

When coding, I code.

When listening to music, I listen to music.

When sitting on a plane, I sit on a plane.

Resist the urge to distract yourself and see what happens.[2]

[1] There is the story of the Zen student whose teacher taught him "When drinking tea, just drink tea." The same student later discovered his teacher drinking tea and reading the newspaper. When confronted the teacher said, "When drinking tea and reading the newspaper, just drink tea and read the newspaper."

[2] I believe that boredom and frustration tolerance are important life skills worth developing. Also I have found that many things that at first seem boring become more interesting if you pay close attention to them.
@mark_l_watson -- the paper also seems important in another respect -- in the conclusion the authors suggest abandoning loss functions as optimization objective functions in machine learning and replacing them with mutual information functions.
Racism and sexism is allowed. It's not illegal for a person to express a racist or sexist opinion and it should never be—it's just discouraged by most of society these days. There's a clearly defined legal line for where expressions of support for violence become credible threats or incitement of violence, and it sounds like some or all of these did not cross that line, which means the police acted emotionally and illegally to arrest them.
I benchmarked the new block storage and it is not that faster than the virtio disk.
Sony is settling a class-action suit with people who bought PS3s while relying on the "Other OS" feature. So, it's not about technical ability to re-enable the Autopilot feature; it's about being liable to their customers who relied on the feature being present when they shelled out $70k+.
I am from Latvia. We did not own any colonies and we were slaves ourselves. But we are democracy and we are for rule of law. We have quite high standard of living. And this standard of living was not created by slave labour or oil. Don't fall for politicians who blame everything on West. You have been independent for some time already. Killing of people without a trial will not make Your country any better. It will make it worse.
I did the same. Advantages of Uber - no tipping and the pool service usually combines two users rather than three with Lyft.
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>but the thrown away food is hardly the reason people are hungry.

What is the reason?
Uber can hedge its insane market cap to buy a fleet, and then make effectively free money from that point forward selling rides.
The logical conclusion of your reasoning is that the police should gather all evidence that's physically possible. Just go and ransack people's homes, looking for evidence, no warrant involved.

Once they've got all the evidence they can collate it all and decide which people were probably really nasty, try to build a case - or in really extreme cases, just claim that the already-gathered evidence shows something so heinous that they needn't bother with that.

But that initial ransacking of our personal space without warrant (i.e., without probable cause) is the problem, not just the use of that evidence in a trial. People should be secure in their homes without needing to worry about law enforcement deciding it's time for periodic fishing expedition.
Well, NSA's mission is foreign intelligence and counter intelligence. Fighting crime isn't related to their tasks at all. And I would really prefer if it stayed that way.
Um, that's pretty much not the case statistically. Its a meme that refuses to die?
Incapacitated? The software needs to fail more gracefully than this when the driver is a dependency and isn't responding.
Very nice work. If the eBook is reasonably priced when the book is done, I will buy a copy to support the author. I have read, or at least skimmed through, many ML books, and it is interesting to see how different authors think about and organize the material, and different perspectives help. I make the same comment on the ML and data science classes I have taken online: I like to get different perspectives on the same material from different teachers.
My problem with our laws has more to do with the crimes that don't have victims.
- Individual in high school takes provocative picture of themselves and sends it to their significant other... pedophile.
- Person writes story involving underage sex... pedophile
- Person draws picture involving underage sex... pedophile
- Take a picture of sexual situations with someone that looks underage, but isn't... pedophile

These things (arguably?) don't have real victims, yet people have their lives ruined over them.

There's also the argument that being a pedophile is a mental condition. The fact that a person with such a condition can use fictional (stories, drawings, etc) material to mitigate their desire for actual damaging materials can be considered (once again, not with argument) a good thing; they are aware they have a problem and are looking to handle it in a way that does not cause harm to others.

Note: I'm a father of a young daughter, the very concept of young children being harmed by pedophilia sickens me. But the fact that a teenage boy can have their life ruined because their girlfriend (voluntarily) texted them a provocative picture is almost as horrible.
SpaceX might launch a Mars lander during the 2018 low energy window. Though I am guessing more likely the 2020 window following that.

NASA is fully cooperating with SpaceX by doing things like providing detailed data of previous Mars landings. NASA is SpaceX largest customer and financier. Many ex-NASA people workmat SpaceX. These data are public. But it helps to have good communication channels.
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...or periodic planting expeditions.
Edit3: Remountable/movable flexible storage for DO instances is what this gives you and it's kind of pricey. The comparison to B2 is not valid. Leaving the original mess for posterity.

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TWENTY times (edit) the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.10 vs $.005 per GB per month). It is one of the more expensive ones. But that gets you two things:

* (moot See edit 2) SSD! (significant iops improvement)

* (moot See edit 2) No transactional costs! (not sure if just between digital ocean instances, but they say none)

Improved performance and no transaction costs MAY (edit) be worth it for some applications.

Edit1: made it an order of magnitude cheaper in my head after looking at backblaze. It is no where close to the same price. Thank you for the catch, scq!

Edit2: and I'm just all kinds of off on this. Block not object storage. Essentially storage you can mount and move between digitalocean instances. That makes no transaction costs moot. You still have to get data out of the instance.

Thank you all for quickly catching how backwards this post was! I need coffee.
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Possession promotes exploitation of children. It's very different to possessing content of dubious (to some) but consensual participants. Relevant case law is linked elsewhere in this thread which discusses why child pornography (and possession and transfer) is outside protection of free speech.
Two wrongs don't make a right
It's well known windows performs better in these sorts of situations. Probably because of the reasons mentioned, they have their own products that rely on good performance for these code paths.
> [...] A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language

Mmmh

> [...] We show that in many data sequences — from texts in different languages to melodies and genomes

Hum, ehrm

> [...] natural languages are poorly approximated by Markov processes.

Alright, alright

> [...] This model class captures the essence of probabilistic context-free grammars

Ok, ok

> [...] and cosmological inflation

Wat.

Out of nowhere, Creation of the Univerve.

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I'm always baffled by the ability to draw parallels. Did a colleague take at peek at the screen and said, hey I have the same equations?
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I was just talking about this with a friend yesterday. So crazy this article just popped up. She snagged some headphones on Prime day too. haha.
Don't be confused: the article makes the mistake of comparing DOs new block storage service with other companies object stores. EBS is the competitor to this, not S3. Same for gce persistent disks and azure drives.

Unfortunately this means the pricing comparison is just wrong.
ahah Imagine if in the end it's all a campaign for Hilary or Trump to raise funds :)
This really make me feel bad about my donation
OA also wrote about the way record producers are altering their production process to reflect the ecology of music listening. I found that useful.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention DRM, which is almost certainly one of the main reasons behind this push.
"... the target audience writes assembly and C)."

In C, I make frequent use of "switch" statements.

Does CPython have a switch statment?
Sure, let's torture language for Tesla's benefit! Why not? I mean, we shouldn't let a silly thing like people's lives get in the way.

Since you know about historical autopilots I suspect this will be redundant, but here it is anyhow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot#Modern_autopilots

"Modern" autopilots have been around for a while, something like 40-50 years. Sure if you go back 80 years you can find autopilots that aren't as advanced. If you want to move the goalposts like that, relative to what a reasonable person might expect, knock yourself out.
Is this an email collecting app or what?

I'm clicking on the button to see what does this app do and they it says signup and we will notify you later.
Monographs aren't really a thing in NLP, beyond theses. There are a couple of reference books most people lean on, though:

* Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schütze

* Speech and Language Processing by Jurafsky and Martin (which is being revised for a third edition, which you can look at: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ )

Beyond that, you're basically stuck reading the research literature. On the up-side, most of that literature is freely available from the ACL anthology at http://aclweb.org/anthology/
Lua's metatables are very powerful, and there's actually a tiny implementation of "strict mode" for Lua [1]. I do agree that static checks like these would help the language for serious applications. I recently got back into Lua a bit and the first error I made was omitting "local".

[1]: http://metalua.luaforge.net/src/lib/strict.lua.html
Personally, no. I think all of these models are essentially trivial and a long way from genuine NLP.

That doesn't mean they're not useful in very narrow domains. But language is pretty much the definition of the ultimate wide domain, and trying to cover it with statistical correlations makes as much sense as word counting Shakespeare to try to generate some new plays.
How did you manage to get that?
I think you might be underestimating the size of the "on-demand industry"[1]. I'm hardly in the top 5-10% and I tried out Drizly in place of my beer run on Friday night and paid a $5 premium for my 6 pack to be delivered. I valued my time in the moment more than $5 and told myself it was a once in a while thing. I'm sure on-demand groceries, dry cleaning, etc all just hope for that market of people who tell themselves they don't use these services too frequently.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-on-demand-economy-2014-7
This. It's like they want marketing credit for the engineering feat of creating 'autopilot' while maintaining the narrow legal position that the system isn't actually automatic or a pilot.
Would love to see stats on how often average reddit account owners comment and contribute vs average Twitter users.

I think warcher has a very good point about vocal people from other platforms (e.g journalists) giving a massive misconception over Twitters actual appeal and reach.

There is a huge difference between a platform where you shout in to the void and people have to choose to listen and a platform where you shout into the void and people can overhear you. One of those systems favours the popular, the other favours the average person.
There's an open PR to add 5.1 support, and it seems to just be a bit-for-bit identical copy of the 5.0 code which Vagrant inexplicably requires a separate driver for: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/7574

All the heavy-duty OOP-first power of Ruby at their fingertips, and people still just copy-and-paste massive files to change a version string...
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Many of the bugs the quiz wants me to find would be pointed out by my IDE (but I'm not taking the quiz in my IDE...)
Also, lots of this code is terrible. Simply adhering to a reasonable style could highlight or eliminate bugs. For example, "variable > other_value - 1"; let's get that "- 1" outta there and use >= instead.

Anyway, although I suggest these would be helped by a modern IDE and some style guides, I'd concede that since this is open source code, it's probably older than modern IDEs...
Yeah, are we supposed to run a cron job that periodically downloads the page and diffs it with the previous version?

Come to think of it, I smell a startup idea... Privacy Policy Monitoring as a Service...
OP isn't clueless, just pointing out the obvious.
The differences between the Tesla and the Jazz are a bit strange. The main difference in score between the two appears to be the side impact from a pole - which is all 'good' for the Jazz, but it was 'weak' for the Tesla in the body section. But if you look at the two videos of the cars, after the pole crash, Tesla is almost completely intact (29 kph) [1] and the Jazz is half destroyed (32 kph) [2]. The Jazz impact was 10% faster - but the difference in damage is remarkable.

It's also worth noting that where as this child rating is higher for the Jazz - the actual 'Crash Test Performance' was rated as Good for the Tesla but Adequate for the Jazz. The lower test score for the Tesla is because they don't have Isofix installed.

[1]: https://youtu.be/7uhhYKJWEBw?t=1m4s
[2]: https://youtu.be/PHptsZglju8?t=2m18s
This is how Pokémon Go might win the advertising game
> they should integrate Vine into Twitter

Twitter already does video better than vine though, whats the point?
Be honest, it's for texting, right? b^)
> Deep models are important because
without the extra “dimension” of depth/abstraction,
there is no way to construct “shortcuts” between random
variables that are separated by large amounts of time
with short-range interactions; 1D models will be doomed
to exponential decay.

From my non-professional perspective the above seems that it should have been very obvious - (and also that correlations between variables for natural languages would be better explained by multi-dimensional structure). That is if you told me that this were proved / formally supported as it is in this paper, my reaction would be a "that sounds like reasonable approximation" not - "that result sounds very surprising I must read the paper".
can we see some more info on your benchmarks? what was the performance difference? Kind of need to backup your statement
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If you have the time, I would start by taking Andrew Ng's machine learning class and then this NLP class when it is next offered in September 2016 https://www.coursera.org/learn/nlp
> but I would never have considered Markov processes to be an adequate predictability model for natural language

Isn't it the case that for very short distances (several elements), power decay and exponential decay are (or can be made, with proper constants) more similar? Thus, if predictive models were originally studied only for very short sequences in the past (limited computational resources!), it seems to make sense that this is a mistake that anyone could have made more easily back then.
> Twice the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.010 vs $.005 per GB per month).

I believe B2 is an object store, not a block store (like this). The AWS analogy is block store is EBS, object store is S3.
B2 is not block storage tho, it's object storage. Different products. =]
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Being ilegal does not really remove the incentive, only makes the product more expensive?
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B2 is blob storage, like Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3. What they have launched is SSD block storage, like Google persistent disks or Amazon EBS.

(The TechCrunch article also got this confused.)
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Can you give any insight on the future of Linux guests on Windows hosts using the free Player version?

I just want to be able to run xubuntu 16.x (and newer when it comes out) in Unity mode without issues but from what I read only 14.x works because none of the guest tooling has been updated.

It's a pity that this use case seems to have put on the back burner. This type of set up is the only way for a lot of people to work without resorting to buying 2 computers or dual booting.
No doubt New Horizon's camera was phenomenal for the mission, but I'm actually not sure how good it was compared to something you could do with a terrestrial lens. (There are lots of compromises when you go to space.) Juno's camera is very modest by design: It's a wide-field of view and only a few megapixels, so basically a cell-phone camera.
Try emailing the CIO/CTO direct. You can look up his address here > https://emailhunter.co/
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I agree with you but that's not the kind of material discussed in the article or by original commenter. Exploitation of children is evil. A 16 year old sending a dick/boob pic to their same age boyfriend/girlfriend and being arrested seems like unintended consequences.
First I'd heard of it, but seems like a really effective way to apply bias filters for elitist tech folks to meet and advance careers of other elitist tech folks. Glad it's shutting down.
Isn't it $0.10/GB/month? That would make it 20x the cost of B2.
Um. Can you provide context? What virtio setup? How much faster? How are you accessing each? This is the reason benchmarks are often worse than useless.
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This has been a much requested feature and I'm sure it will be very popular. I'm still reminded of this quote though:

"He was a bold man that first ran a production database on a brand new block storage service!"
I've worked on highly safety related (classification ASIL D) automotive systems. There are rules about how to think about the driver.

The driver is not considered a reliable component of such a system, and must not be used to guide decisions.

Yes, the driver clearly was a fool, but system design should not have taken his decision into account, and come to its own conclusion for a safe reaction (e.g., stopping the car).
Oh. I'm surprised that the difference is considered to be that great.
Britain chose to enter the war, it wasn't cornered. It might have lost the war, and be in a much worse condition.
What if the manufacturer is permitting conditions that incentivizes distracting driving? Like not requiring hands on the wheel?

It's also a problem if it permits driving faster than the speed limit.
My only experience with Periscope was clicking a link at the top of my twitter feed and seeing "This broadcast has already ended".
Then how do you define punitive?
They might limit IO speed (based on usage of previous 24h for example). Like how most cheaper AWS EC2 instances get their CPUs throttled after you're running CPU heavy stuff.
The idea is to discourage the authorities from acting unlawfully because as soon as they get free reign to do so how can you ever be sure of a person's guilt?

Considering how advance technology is there are already reasons to doubt any system which is not fully encrypted beyond the government's access of not having had evidence planted or manipulated.
I agree on the speed, VMWare has performed faster, at least for me. I like the price of VirtualBox, its size, and easy install. VMWare seems to install more things (it is heavier).
Here's the 2 min video showing what we did: https://www.facebook.com/KukieBot/videos/575982642588354/?hc...
Look at the interest rate. Now look at inflation (not "core" inflation, the one you pay). Saving, money in bank, is not a good investment atm. Or put differently, it's at best as good as gold bars under the bed.
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Oh shit. You are right, this would be as worse as my examples but way more realistic. Lets hope that it is not that.
Thank you very much. I'm aware of a large number of books that I could read, but if Sturgeon's law applies, or at least if a lot of the reading would be redundant anyway, I'll rather ask for pointers than to waste a lot of time by rediscovering the wheel. Basically, what I was asking for was the NLP's respected equivalent of Norvig and Russell, or similar books from other fields. Those two books seem to fit to bill.
> What do the bulk of these engineers work on, day to day?

Not the Mac app that's for sure.
Does vine load terribly for anyone else? Always amazed that it's considered a "production-ready" level product when ti doesn't even play videos consistently across multiple sites.
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> In its press release, the BKA said that the operation carried out this week aims to combat a "strong rise in verbal radicalism."

Raiding homes of people posting stupid private shit on the internet is also great way to get more physical radicalism.
Ask HN: Best toolchain for image-heavy, static websites?
Recently, I've taken on several contracts to build portfolio websites for people in the graphic design and architecture sectors. Currently I'm using Jekyll to generate the sites themselves and hosting them on a shared VPS like GoDaddy, but I'm finding it really difficult to optimize all the images they are sending over (bulk resizing + compression).

I'm curious to hear what tools people use to solve similar challenges in addition what hosting solutions that could allow me to better cache + serve these images.

Thanks!
> Amazon EBS.

Not more like amazon EFS?
VirtualBox is last in the alphabet. We're safe for awhile.
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A bit pricey for the long term but great if you just need to add some disk space to your vm and don't need the other improvements more expensive vms give you.

I use DO mostly to compile stuff on Linux when i don't have access to a physical server, and storage size is always a problem.
A late 2020s Europa mission has been given development money. It will take about five years to launch and another five to arrive. Europa has a large interior ocean under the ice and maybhave life. It has enough energy to keep water liquid at certain depths and drive life.

A Europa mission might resemble Cassini and Juno: orbiting the main planet with frequent flybys of the moon. This requires less fuel and keeps the probe in the dangerous radio belts less of the time.
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An 80% performance difference? Something doesn't seem right here.
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You're using the word "it" to describe human children now?