skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor analogy. Virtual land is unlimited. You can get your servers quite fast if you need to. Plus being a commodity, prices race to the bottom, and if designed right, you can swap you "landlord" rather easily - move your dockers elsewhere.
by op, do you mean my post? I'm accusing you of using unnecessarily obscure wording.

There are many ways to define oneself as an individual. I'm talking about how many Irish see their own country from a historical perspective.

If you doubted that even meant anything, then how could you conclude that I was "project[ing] a stereotype"?
Agreed. I fear the government more than a serial killer.
> But with Tesla, the intrepid pioneers of autonomous driving are everyday people who are engaging in behavior that is probably more risky than they realize, and we're now seeing some of the consequences of that.

Yeah. The author of this article has the same observation [1]. Tesla seems to have been caught off-guard by pushback against its driver-assistance system. Yet, everyone knew there would be pushback if a fatality occurred.

> At the same time, I think you could argue that some people, at some point, are going to have to take on these risks at a large scale, and the one thing Tesla has going for it is a rabid fan base, and it may be true that without that kind of cult following, no company would be able to survive this phase of autonomous driving development.

Fan bases are important, particularly ones that include people who can be give constructive criticism. 100% praise or 100% critique is rarely useful in identifying the path forward. It's a windy road. Everything Musk says is not gospel.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-c...
The former, and strictly so. This version of "privacy" can't survive in a free society I don't think.
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I would not develop software meant to run on specialized hardware like a modern gaming computer on something less powerful than the target platform. That's just asking for trouble.
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> Many of the bugs the quiz wants me to find would be pointed out by my IDE

No no, you are supposed to pretend like you might be in a situation where this is no IDE!

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No, Tesla issued a somewhat deceptive press release to make people think that:

"Tesla received a message from the car on July 1st indicating a crash event, but logs were never transmitted. We have no data at this point to indicate that Autopilot was engaged or not engaged. This is consistent with the nature of the damage reported in the press, which can cause the antenna to fail."[1]

When that gets trimmed down to a sound bite, it can give the impression the vehicle was not on autopilot.

The driver told the state trooper he was on autopilot.[2] He was on a long, boring section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; that's the most likely situation to be on autopilot.

The NTSB will sort this out.

[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Was-Tesla-invol...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/pennsylvan...
Strictly speaking, the probe will be spending most of its time at distances like these. That's the nature of elliptical orbits. But it'll spend enough time up close to get some great pictures.

And yes, photos weren't a priority at all. If it were just a matter of returning scientifically useful data, they wouldn't have included this camera at all. But NASA likes pretty pictures too, so they included one.
I had a very long debate with someone on this about its MitM uses and it confuses the crap out of me when people say it's not used for that. For some reason many people seem to think that, even though there's enough information for research, that it's not what they're used for.

The same folk love to critique and minimize those with privacy concerns for wearing "tin foil hats". I really, really don't understand it considering all that's happened...
"I haven't considered the terrible situation this person has been put in, and I'm all out of ideas!"
the only difference is you need code + data. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's impossible to understand deep learning
I'm not so sure. My nieces and nephews all under 13 don't talk about nintendo, the way kids in the 90's did.

They talk about call of duty, minecraft,playstation 4 and various ios android games. I asked them if they wanted me to buy them a wii u, and they said no. They wanted a steam gift card instead.

Personally I think Nintendo is losing relevance with the new generation.
You should perhaps watch this incredible video from PyCon 2016 given by Lars Bark about music, road trips, software development, and fractals!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s
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I think that's exactly the point. Evolution produced our brains, and no one understands them yet. But evolution was able to produce them because it cares about success-testing, not understanding.

I think we limit ourselves quite a bit in the mainstream software industry by insisting that everything be hand-crafted by humans and understandable. (Not to mention how short we fall of making software "understandable").
I think there's an existing analogy here to service animals. You can train a sheep dog to manage the herd, you can train a seeing eye dog to stop it's owner at the lights. You can improve their training, etc. but you'll never really ever know why they sometimes don't follow the expected script.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing. You get more done with them than you would with out them.
If the "future winning" means beta testing driverless car technology on unsuspecting victims, then that's not a future I want to live in, sorry.

Look, I'm a robotics engineer, so my job security and career prospects directly depend on technologies like autonomous cars becoming mainstream.

That said, the way Tesla is rolling out this technology is just irresponsible. An excellent post from yesterday [1] succinctly outlined the deficiencies of the system, which are now obvious to people outside of Tesla. Given this list, if I were in charge there, this technology would NOT see the light of day until these defects were properly fixed.

Beyond the technical problems, there is also a social issue that Tesla is exacerbating. For the last few years now, the general public has been hearing from a variety of popular media sources that autonomous cars are "right around the corner". People have been told that these cars will use their superior computer minds to virtually eliminate traffic accidents.

Now you have Tesla producing a car with a feature that sounds a lot like "driverless car" to normal people; right or wrong, it seems like people are treating it with the expectation that it's one of these magical life-saving driverless cars they've been hearing about.

To Tesla's credit, the feature does work well given the correct conditions. The common user probably couldn't tell you the difference between "autopilot" and an actual autonomous car. Yet, the user is not properly aware of the limits of the system, and Tesla itself doesn't do much to educate users about those limits. Further, Tesla doesn't seem to do anything to keep users safe when they get close to those edges.

What you have here is insufficient and untested technology being used in a production environment by users who have the wrong expectations about what the technology is. The result, as we have seen, ends in death.

And no, these failures are not inevitable conclusions of statistics. These failures are due to concrete, identifiable engineering and messaging issues that can and should have been corrected before the product was ever introduced to production cars.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12084011
good for them.. not so good for the rest of us.
i think Kifi was the only free service that it could do real search to the contents of bookmarks. In fact i had a fairly big kifi library for machine learning & stuff (https://www.kifi.com/gep-gep/machine-learning) and after a while i stopped tagging because search was so good. For example if you searched for 'pca' it would return all the articles in your library mentioning principal component techniques regardless if the word pca was a bookmarked keyword, tag or in the article's title.
Does anyone know/use a similar personalized search bookmark engine??
Nope. Issue persists with it enabled too. To my knowledge it's a technology related issue with VBox and how it runs the VM.
Very often, the "conventional" options in a democratic republic end up representing competing visions of how to address the issues that matter most to elites (not necessarily the upper class alone, but the upper and middle classes -- which together are still usually a minority of the population -- and maybe the upper end of the working class), who in normal times are often the vast majority of participation in the political system. They often have less contact with the bulk of the working class (including the nonworking poor) and their concerns, which when things get especially intolerable for that class, and their immediate interests get most divergent from the elites, opens up a big opportunity for unconventional populist alternatives (often including exploitive totalitarian demagogues, though positive reform-oriented uplifting populism also happens at times, sometimes competing with the other kind.)
Targeted ads are worthless if they aren't targeted based on correct data. Google would lose massive amounts of advertising if they didn't heavily base it on user data.

As an advertiser, Google's ability to target users based on user data is very important to me, so your analogy with Nobel prizes at University misses the mark by a mile.

If Google doesn't let me target users in a region with a specific interest, then I will just go to Facebook.
I've mentioned this before, but for me, the definitive work on this vast subject is "The Harmonic Experience" by W.A. Mathieu. He really gets into low prime ratios, why they sound good to us, and also why the building blocks of modern western harmony are approximations of those ratios, rather than the real thing.

A fascinating read for anyone interested in the subject.
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Just wanted to chime in and say Pokemon Go is another Unity game. Unity games seem to be doing extremely well on mobile.
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I would really encourage you to give it a try. The "jQuery mimicking" is actually not even its best feature. I didn't think much of it at the beginning, but it pretty much makes React's test utils really pleasant to work with. All in all, it basically codifies and gives a reusable api to most of what you say in your gist.
Static checking does not directly imply static compilation.
I ate at a restaurant and stopped at a Starbucks last night with a friend because we were playing the game downtown. If it wasn't for that game I would have gone home and cooked dinner and made my own coffee. Once again anecdotal evidence but I wasn't the only person last night doing the same thing.
Unless the game's popularity dies down considerably (which it most likely will but we'll have to see, Pokemon is a strong IP after all), that probably wouldn't be sustainable. Every shop that could afford it would have one which would have unwanted effects on both game balance and small businesses (Oh, you just opened up a cafe? Good luck competing against all the ones that already have Pokestops on them).

The disparity between urban/high-income areas and rural/low-income areas is a shame but not surprising. Niantic pulled their location data from Ingress which has a, from what I've seen, generally urban, mid to high income, tech savy playerbase. Crowd-sourced submissions reflect that, as well as the fact that they used cellular activity.
Crackpot stuff gets disappeared tho?
"LIKE GOOD STUDENTS, COMPUTERS NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOW THEIR WORKING"

Is working used as a noun here or is that a typo? Just never heard that use of the word working. Like ya, you can see I'm working vs you can see my working.
One major social network that rarely gets mentioned is NextDoor. Unfortunately, they've just begun doing ads, too, and I already hate it.

It's disappointing because they have such a natural starting base for generating revenue: collecting neighborhood dues. It provides a useful service, would likely increase dues participation, fits within the value-proposition of the product. Lots of opportunities for premium features paid for by neighborhood associations, too.

That's why it's sad to see NextDoor chasing the same ad revenue of every other social network.
Juno's solar panels produce as much power at Jupiter as Galileo's RTGs did. The quality of this picture has nothing to do with solar power. It's a bad picture because Juno is on a highly elliptical orbit for reasons of efficiency and longevity (there's tons of radiation closer in) and this picture was taken when the probe was very far away.
My guess is they want to move much faster in some areas, in particular VR/AR, so that competition (mainly Unreal Engine) doesn't capture the market. That requires more investment than they can currently afford.

Unreal Engine is better in some aspects, but Unity has a very active community.
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> People who aren't experts and who don't bother to check with other experts should perhaps be mindful before they propagate uninformed armchair analysis

I believe some of this controversy began with an article by Fortune [1] in which they claimed Musk overlooked some business reporting requirements.

Do you agree that a financial news outlet is qualified to judge a company based on how they report to the SEC? The world of corporate finance is their wheel house, and that spans to any company, tech or not. The larger the valuation of the company, the more interesting the news would be to them.

Fortune's readers are current or would-be Tesla investors.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/07/05/elon-musk-tesla-autopilot-stoc...
I think it's undervalued. Unity is the go-to platform for quickly building mobile and VR games. I wouldn't be surprised to see full percentage points of all computing time spent on the platform. A few percent of the world's consumer computer use is definitely worth 1.5b.
I'm dubious about the idea that normal people will think of airplane autopilots as autonomous. There's even a common English idiom, "on autopilot," meaning to act brainlessly.

But let's say it's true. Why would people think that, when that's not how they actually work? That's an honest question I asked above when I said, "Where did everybody get the idea that 'autopilot' implies full autonomy?"

Do we at least agree that actual factual airplane autopilots are fairly analogous to Tesla's? If so, how is it "torturing the language" to use the term that way? Overestimating the intelligence of the public when creating a term is a long way from "torture."
Much love to AFNetworking and SDWebImage. Thanks for all the spare time you've given me.
Don't use dd for those tests it's really bad, especially on VMs.
You don't understand software. You have the source, and then you go read it to understand the little slice you want to understand. Then you forget it and move on unless you have to understand that part again and again. Then you might remember that little piece :) that's it.
Do you just have a vanilla OSX VM installation or do you optimize it in some way? For me OSX is very slow on vbox on a very decently spec'ed VM. Far from my experience with Windows guests.
Wow, I didn't even think about this, but yeah, my neighborhood (which is traditionally low-income for the area), has very few pokestops compared to other neighborhoods in the area. Anecdotal, but that's a bummer.
It sounds like you're willing to speculate/entertain assumptions (e.g. regarding miles of "relatable" road usage) when it harms Tesla, but not when it might help them.
I am more interested in seeing how Pokemon Go can encourage voter turnout come November.
I've been in situations like this. Being a "jerk" is a defense mechanism. If you are approachable then everyone brings their technical problems (personal and professional) to you. If you are unapproachable you stand a chance of actually getting 10 minutes of uninterrupted time.
Uber and Lyft are also effectively banned in the 3rd world country of Austin, Texas, USA.

Uber/Lyft/Gett are very useful. Can't imagine why Hungary and Austin don't want them.
Seems a bit low for a company that seems to be doing so well. Does anyone have insight into why the valuation isn't higher?

For those unfamiliar with it, Unity is the go-to game engine for most smaller companies, and many cross platform (mobile/desktop) games. It also has some of the best support for VR.
I'm not being sarcastic. The effect internet has on society is too big to be understood. How could we, mere humans, actually know if internet has or will have a positive effect on a society? We couldn't, there's no way. Castro, as well, couldn't possibly discern whether internet is good or bad for Cuba, yet it remains that he could have good reasons to prohibit it.
> Let's even say that only 1% of crashes involve someone breaking the law (intoxicated, no licence etc).

Speeding? Let's then raise that 1% to like 40% or something. Looking at some random sources[0][1], all the most common causes of traffic fatalities are the ones machines already deal better with than humans. Distracted driving? Check. Failure to stay in lane? Check. Speeding? Check. People die on the roads mostly because drivers behave like idiots or hit their natural limitations.

[0] - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cause-of-the-most-fatal-c...

[1] - http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/07/20/the-6-most-commo...
1. Why do you believe Unity to only be a video game tech? It obviously has applications reaching much further when you consider AR/VR use cases.

2. Minecraft was bought for $2.5B which is literally a video game.

I think its a fair valuation given the current landscape for their domain.
These platforms are worth nothing to society per se. They are worth something to investors in the potential returns they might yeild once they find a way to turn the aggregate data and metadata into a more acurate advertising model.
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dont know for business model, but they provide a fairly good export tool (html/json + interactive page with the option of also downloading the libraries' links of your fellow kifiers who where connected to you)
Oh golly gee a whole four millimeters! Whatever shall we do?

The "how thin can we make our phones" game is as stupid as the 3D TV game.
Or may be outside of Bay Area, not many are willing to put money where the mouth is
It probably seems strange to people without that level of workload, but yeah-- I've seen people have to do this.

It's like that whole trope of "don't fix the copier, then everyone will constantly come to you to fix the copier".
Yeah, they'd laugh at you in London for asking for this kind of valuation unfortunately. (Except for the usual caveat of knowing the right people, etc.)
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The site is having problems. Google cache: Windows benchmark[1], Linux benchmark[2].

1. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

2. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...
I live in a 126 sqft Tiny house I built my self with my partner. Saves an incredible amount on rent.
As he was formerly a lawyer (in the UK) I find TotalBiscuit's commentary to be particularly informative about such things.
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This kind of deeply emotional knee jerk response is why this discussion needs to be left to scientists and statisticians.
How is this different from micropython?
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While the guy might well be a jerk and rude it is also very likely he is stressed and overworked. Sounds like the company needs a junior sysadmin to handle the help desk.

Also sounds like this guy is more of a technical specialist/project manager/possibly devops and not just "the IT guy".
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To complement what others have said, stacking photos is mathematically the same thing as using a long exposure time and blocking the iris whenever the image would have been fuzzy, so it doesn't seem any less of a "photo" than anything else. You are still integrating across the stream of photons you want while discarding ones you don't.
but there is some minimum required. You want to avoid situation where you are investing in a team that litterally does not know what they are doing and are scamming you for money. Zero tech dilligence can't be the answer. But it should be pass/fail not graded for an A+.
Undervalued if anything. Unity is almost ubiquitous in the indie games scene.
None of Tesla's recent press releases indicate their data is error-prone [1] [2]

Rather, they mention a "wealth of internal data demonstrating safer, more predictable vehicle control performance when the system is properly used."

I'm drawing a different conclusion from the same data. I'm not claiming it's gospel. I'm just an internet commenter.

Forthcoming investigations from the NHTSA and NTSB may shed more light.

[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss

[2] https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/misfortune
Well put. You state the problem very concisely!

We don't understand computer systems. Like you said, We won't even understand software.

What we understand is a small slice of it and we make mistakes even with that. Or fail to consider some cases or scenarios.

Then we put those small slices together to form a module and make the same mistakes again.
Yes, yes, citation needed.
This isn't always the case. In many cases, part of the large, later stage rounds can offer options holders a chance to cash out (at least somewhat).
Fastest I've gone is 130MPH (on a proper track), and that's sphincter-puckering enough for me.
You're right, there's no mention of static compilation, just that it's statically typed.
It's got nothing to do with 'accounting' at all, it's a matter of potential. Lots of smug fools laughed at $15 billion valuation for Facebook. A few years later and it's generating more than that in annual revenue.

It seems that many people still find it difficult to comprehend what 1+ billion internet/computer users means for technology companies that are capable of scaling.
> "it matches what i've seen."

Describe the behaviour of the hedonists you know.
Does anyone else not care to know what makes music sound good and enjoy the mystery and emotional complexity of it?
What do you mean by "really bad", out of interest?
They aren't banned in Austin. They left rather than comply with the law. Other companies still operate. You can debate whether or not the law is a good law but they certainly weren't forced to leave.
Right. I think I agree with the general thrust of your previous comment: all worldviews/metaphysics ultimately require leaps of faith of various magnitudes.
Sigh. This article just sets up a bunch of false dichotomies. You can ship good code and put a product in the hands of people at the same time. You can also ship shit code and do the same. It obviously takes more expertise and diligence to ship the better quality code but it's not like taking 5 extra minutes before every commit is gonna break your business if you didn't have a proper business model to begin with.
I know of Dyon [1] as an embbedable scripting language written in Rust.

1) https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon
They were the ones who chose to tank their own credibility by taking money to produce paid promo videos that looked like ordinary non-promotional content. They're not the victims here; the viewers they deceived for profit are.