skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a really smart strategy for Niantic on the face of things, assuming they charged for it, but second-order effects might be weird / uncomfortable. For example, more and more Pokestops concentrated in higher-income areas, which is already an issue — see https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/753212999758934019
If I am a driver next to someone being a guinea pig for this beta software, where did I agree to that? Tesla can get the driver to sign off on the risks, but that doesn't extend to other road users who are also at risk from bugs or defects.
Grown men and women people playing this game is beyond me.
> "Whereas a five-year-old kid can play some passable Bach on the piano that we can enjoy as Bach, just by hitting most of the right notes from the sheet music at mostly the right time."

Sure, you can get pleasure from that, but at the highest level classical music is very much about interpretation. People may think that classical music is about following the notes exactly, but it's not quite true, the way the player interprets a piece is what brings a piece to life (or not), and these subtle touches are not directly transcribed in the sheet music.
Meta phone data like the number that you called? That's the drug dealer's number, in this example. That's an notification of a call, but not of the contents. So is that an intercept? I would say no, but it depends on your definition of "intercept".
It's not even a good figure for comparing fatalities. See my comment here [1]

Those 100 million miles include non-divided roads, motorcycle deaths, adverse weather conditions, and cheaper, older cars.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12087603
>It's whole different sections of government that decide where the line is. The police should push using every tool they have until the courts or the legislature say it's to much.

That works until the police start hiding what they're doing from the courts and the legislature. Look at the hoops they've jumped through to keep Stingray information away from judicial scrutiny, even dropping entire cases rather than letting Stringray details come to light.

That's the whole intention of parallel construction, too. You step way over the line to collect evidence illegally, but then you find a way to pretend you only stepped over a little bit. Checks and balances only work when each side knows what the other is up to.
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Median salary in general is a meaningless comparison. You'd need to compare it to someone in their field.
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All of their markers for intelligence are suspect.

> including full-scale IQ and a PCA-based measure of g (Clarke et al., 2015), childhood IQ, college attendance, and years of education (Bulik-Sullivan et al., 2015), cognitive function in childhood and educational attainment (Hill et al., 2015), and verbal-numerical reasoning and educational level reached (Hagenaars et al., 2016)

I bet all those markers are more closely correlated with income levels in childhood than with occurrence of autism (or anything else).
Just look at the Toyota acceleration lawsuit, where a consultant spent months trying to figure the system out and still ended up with a probabilistic explanation (basically, the software uses a bunch of bad practices that could result in bad effects that could include the alleged accelerator problem).

http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
* http://sfist.com/2015/09/21/bond_villian_or_tech_dude.php
* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3564464/Facebook-spe...
Humans program computers. There's a reason standards like MISRA C exist: it is critical to minimize error in human abstractions (code) which run on systems that put people's safety in jeopardy. Humans aren't wired to emulate machines perfectly in their minds, yet computers will do exactly what we tell them to do. You are implicitly placing trust in the humans who programmed those computers.

We saw how human factors can complicate the correctness of code in the Toyota unintended acceleration case. The instruction fed to the system by its programmers were incorrect and not up to industry standards. Computers caused the accidents in that case, despite human intervention by drivers.
All music does, really. I have a friend who pays attention and constantly picks up little tricks of guitar playing from me. When she figures one out, she always says "Guitarists cheat!"

I think more to the point, if you have to think about what you're playing while you're playing it, you're hosed. It's like the old question of how does a centipede walk. If the centipede thinks about walking, it falls. So music, even very complex music, tends to be built from small, easy to grok bits of technique, small enough that a player can simply memorize them, the way we memorize how to walk, or how to conjugate verbs.
Is there a certain age where you're supposed to stop playing video games?
We haven't tried Enzyme, but we tend to prefer not adding more JS tools when we don't need to. JS is already a land of wayyyy too many tools and minimizing when possible can be a huge advantage when onboarding new devs onto a project.

Also the DOM api is actually pretty simple to use when it comes to traversing the DOM. No need for "jQuery mimicking." Keep it simple.
Seriously do not understand this phenomenon
I like Steven Novella's nuanced take on this issue: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dsm-5-and-the-fight-for...
By the same logic you should never buy a car period.

All forms of transport have to accept the possibility of fatalities to a certain extent. The test for Tesla is are they safer, not are they perfect.
Nothing. $181M at $1.5B sounds pretty good to me. But in reality the employees are no richer today than they were yesterday. If everything goes right and the stars align, in several years there will be a liquidity event for investors, then founders/execs, then employees.
> Not sure why this article did ended up on the frontpage, it doesn't really add anything useful to the discussion and does not address the main criticisms people have about the autopilot like the limited number of sensors, wrong expectations due to the name and lack of strict enforcement of driver engagement (hands on wheel).

Great point.
To be fair, we don't know what going on in that bundle of several billion interconnect neurons between everyone's ears; what the OP refers to as "accountability" is actually process transparency, and we certainly don't have process transparency for individual humans the way we do for human institutions. We do have accountability though--the ability to recognize mistakes and learn from them (with incentives, i.e. rewards and punishments). Machine learning can also have this sort of accountability--if you fuck up, the fuckup is another data point to train on, perhaps weighted for the seriousness of the fuckup.
In my opinion? The evidence stands - it's real evidence - but the police officer who gathered it in an illegal manner is jailed for doing so.

You want to put that perp away so badly that you're willing to break the law to do so? It will be the only time in your career that you get to do it (because as soon as you do, your career is over), so choose the perp wisely...

[Edit: mikeash has a good point - the line can be grey. Police should only be jailed for deliberately, knowingly collecting illegal evidence, not for making a technical mistake that a defense lawyer with a vendetta can exploit to ruin them.]
It doesn't support group video, but sure as heck supports group audio. I used it just last to do that, as well as the week before.
At the Gym I go to (a real, physical gym, not a Pokemon gym) we had people--grown adults who worked next door at LinkedIn--wandering around outside looking for monsters.

It's insane how popular this is.
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Very COOL! As a DBA, as fare as I'm concerned this is how databases should be used. NO! application should contain SQL. SQL should ONLY be in an API.
The response from Ask a Manager seems to be in agreement with you:

> Your company is relying on the same person to do high-concentration projects and to provide help desk support — when those are two very different roles with conflicting needs.
And here I was thinking this article would provide evidence of "insane amounts of sales", but instead it references threads on reddit which are nothing but a couple of 2-sentence comments.

Am I out of touch expecting the author call a real-life business owner who is involved in the pokemon thing?

The cynic in me says this article is just some marketing ploy and does not belong here.
And that adds to a well-reasoned and statistics-informed discussion on HN, because... ?
Is it possible this was a communication failure not a technical one? I'm guessing your bosses couldn't tell the difference between the old performance level of your code and the new performance level of the off the shelf code. But, I'm betting they could tell the difference in communication styles. I'm guessing you said 'no' a lot and your replacements said 'yes' a lot?
I'd imagine so. I stopped at around 12. There are much more productive things to do in life than play games on your phone. I'm 25 and I have never downloaded a game for my phone nor have I ever played one. I'm 100% serious.
Thankfully, it's not that easy in all countries. For my test, 3 failures in any category was an instant fail. It's fairly hard to pass the first time.

Although if US drivers are so untrained, perhaps auto-pilot is even more relevant.
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It's a big boost for .NET in general, too.
UnityScript is so far from TypeScript that would never happen. UnityScript is absolutely nothing like real JavaScript and has none of JavaScript's real features.
(I'm the post's author.)

Just to clarify a little bit, since I didn't make this explicitly clear in the article: there are certainly questions about the technical side that are useful.

One example from the blog post is trying to understand if the tech team's experience lines up with what they're building. If the founders are 2 infrastructure engineers who are trying to build a social app, or if they're mobile devs who are trying to build a streaming database, then that's a yellow or red flag.

Another example: I've gotten a lot of value out of drilling in a tiny bit when people make bold technology claims. If someone says they've developed cutting edge ML, they rarely expect an investor to ask about it. When I ask them what "cutting edge" means, if I hear words like linear regression or decision trees, then my bullshit detector goes off -- but not for technical reasons. It's not bad at all to use simple ML models, what is bad is misrepresenting your tech, because then I start wondering what else you're misrepresenting.

But for most (seed) VCs that I've met, technical diligence means asking an engineer they're friends with to talk to a CTO they're thinking of investing in. The engineer asks about system design, infrastructure decisions, deployment environment, coding practices, etc. and then tells the VC if they think the tech stack is robust. (VC: "Ah, they're using AWS and Redshift? That sounds modern. Thumbs up!") For many, many startups (SaaS, mobile apps, ecommerce, etc.) I think this type of diligence is basically useless for almost all seed stage companies.
You sound like the most fun guy at the party.
The end of code as we know it
I propose the unit of militaries as a new standard measurement.
> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers?

Well, if you want people to use the tech you need to be able to tell them that the car is at least as good as they are and in reality better than they think they are.

That's no really the problem though. The problem is the current generation of automatic driving is not automatic at all. It is assisted driving - i.e. an evolved cruise control - and the problem with it is that it requires inhuman circumstance to work alright ( driver being alert despite not having to do anything ).

There is case on what amount of assistance is actually too much to avoid that "death valley".

Automatic systems are another problem entirely. If a human intervention is necessary, automatic system need to be designed for a human not ready.

The currently assisted driving system in the Tesla is used as an automatic driving system by misguided drivers. The risk is that this mistake is going to hurt public goodwill in adopting real automatic system when they are available.
Prove what point? Take off your retrospective determinism glasses for a second and note that for any alien species, there's probably going to be a few religions which have double-digits of the population. These religions started from nothing at some point, so of course they look extremely tenacious in retrospect, when in fact any other equally viral religion could have taken their place if history had played out slightly differently.
Having more low-income gamers wander into my high income neighborhood wouldn't exactly be a bad thing for either of us.
I'm not denying he doesn't have that motivation, but let's not kid ourselves here: he's an entreprenuer first and the looking for every way to make his product stand out in the market. A market which will soon be flooded with electric cars produced by the major car companies as well. And they are betting big on autonomous driver technology as well [0].

[0]: http://fortune.com/self-driving-cars-silicon-valley-detroit/
Perhaps the solution would be to just have a set amount of pokecenters/points of interest based on population density, and then auction off the spot for X amount of months?
Remember when phones had IrDA ports and slide out keyboards?
It's worth looking at who's at the helm. You don't make John Riccitiello[1] your CEO just to be bought by Microsoft, unless the price tag is extremely high (possible). He's there to build a huge business, plausibly bound for IPO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello
> to compose music out of the beat frequencies that exist as harmonic dissonances between two or more notes

Do you have any links regarding this?
Yes, the optical-wavelength camera was not a science driver for Juno. It's just making images of cloud tops. The cloud tops aren't that interesting, it's what's going on underneath or beyond.

In addition to fields and radiation instruments you mention, there are two other imaging spectrographs, one an IR instrument and one in UV. The IR camera can look ~70 km down below the cloud tops.

Importantly, there is a microwave radiometer, which can peer ~500km beneath the clouds to determine atmospheric composition as a function of time and space.

They have put Juno in a polar orbit, so it will scan the atmosphere through dozens of orbits before the radiation kills the instruments.
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Underserved market of mobile social gaming for the last 8 years.

Ingress didn't have the catching and collecting aspect of the Pokemon Go skin, only the gym battling aspects via portals.
"but if IT is under-staffed, this guy has work that needs his direct, uninterrupted attention - and people wonder why he might be a jerk or dismissive ?"

From where we are and the evidence given in the post, we can't distinguish between "legitimately a jerk" and "overstressed by interruptions and lacking the emotional bandwidth to deal with people". And, you know, there's even the possibility that he's dealing with the IT requests completely professionally, and that's being interpreted as being a jerk, because IT interactions seem to be somehow particularly prone to that sort of thing. (Probably the problems of getting an engineering, technically-focused person dealing with more people with very different social interaction protocols.)
Often the file system performance is also measured while an on-access virus scanner is active on Windows while measuring/testing the same thing on Linux without on-access scanner.

At that point one is comparing apples and oranges.
In the sources there's a component called VM, despite Gluon being statically compiled. Is that more akin to a runtime system or is it a separate VM for the REPL?
The way I like to put this — or a related concept, at least — is that no business should waste time building the aspect of its product that isn't the differentiator.
Mars helicopter for the upcoming Mars 2020 mission -- (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4457)

Asteroid redirect mission -- (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/initiative/inde...)
And, this is different from most IT support people how??? :-)

Seriously. The guy's over-worked. Get him some help.
When do you need PaaS?
The funny thing about Pokemon Go is watching 12 year olds walk around with their parents playing Pokemon Go, but they can't play because they don't have smartphones
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"Java/Python/etc is too slow."
Then don't use it when speed is an issue!

"C/C++ are unsafe."
Only if you don't know how to manage memory & don't leverage tools.

"javascript doesn't need classes."
It's the native language of the web, it better damn well cater to the preferences of the significant propertion of programmers who HAVE to use it.

Generally:
"Language X is bad because reason Y."
No it isn't. You're using it wrong!
I think Fabric does "help" their revenue ID'ing all those phones where Fabric-enabled apps are installed.
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It is actually quite interesting and I imagine could be really useful for a business owner who knows nothing about the game. Unfortunately the clickbait title betrays that.
Juno is the first use of solar panels for a probe going that far out. You're right that they want to err on the side of caution using well-known technology to minimize risk. But you're missing the fact that RTGs are that well-known risk-minimized technology.

If solar panels saved weight, they would have been used on past missions like Galileo. Better solar panel technology will eventually shift the balance, but we're not there yet. Juno's panels weigh 340kg. Galileo's two RTGs, which produced about the same amount of power at Jupiter, weighed 57kg each.
> That doesn't matter. The important question is not "Does this new technology solve all previous problems?" but rather "Does this technology solve a net positive number of problems while offering more opportunities for improvement?"

To play advocatus diaboli: Shouldn't it be sufficient for the autopilot to be as good as the worst human drivers that we still let on the road? Or to sharpen the point: As good as the worst licensed drivers under human supervision (compare learner's permit)?

After all the technology is still "learning", under human supervision. And similarly a teenager having a parent as co-pilot does not only endanger their own life but also those of others too.

So if those are allowed on the road with the expectation that they'll get better and that giving them a licence will eventually have net benefits, shouldn't that apply to self-driving cars too?
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I'd imagine so. I stopped at around 12. There are much more productive things to do in life than play /music/ on your /piano/. I'm 25 and I have never /purchased/ a /book of sheet music/ for my /piano/ nor have I ever played one. I'm 100% serious.

Yeah, all those amateur piano players are serious losers.
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The C# is entirely standard. It's compiled to normal IL bytecode. You can call any other IL code from it in DLLs as well, compiled in F# or VB.NET etc. You can even use a newer C# version than their supplied compiler supports if you set it up so you build the IL yourself since it uses the same IL. You lose a few conveniences like opening scripts directly from the editor but it works well otherwise if you want the new C# features. I believe it's also a bit more efficient that way to some degree.
Mmmmh...ever considered that maybe not everything in your life needs to be "productive"?
Because some people believe that the ends justify the means. They would rather see innocent people punished than guilty ones go free. They especially don't like seeing guilty people go free on "technicalities."

Furthermore, many people are prejudiced or bigoted. They see people different from themselves (which in today's world generally means people with dark skin or people who wear non-Western clothing) doing bad things, and they conclude that most or all people who are different from themselves do bad things. On that worldview, due process is an impediment to seeing justice done.

That mindset, together with democracy, leads to abuse.
Long haul trucking on routes with less than 2000 feet at each end off of a limited access highway could be automated very soon. The reduction in sleepy human drivers on the road would probably increase highway safety while saving companies money.
Nobody is prevented from using anything. Can you not talk about gluons (or apples, or atoms, or whatever) just because the word has been overloaded with the name of a business?
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Pokemon Go isn't my thing either, but I don't see any reason to not be glad that other people are outside having fun and enjoying something.
It is because Bay Area valuations are indefensible by most US standards and any European accounting standard
I've worked one at least two or three little startups where they were iterating fast but the code never really worked (core functionality broken) and the non-technical people' didn't even find out until I came in to 'fix a few bugs' and found a pile of spaghetti which could not possibly function correctly.

So just be careful how you define 'iterate' and how much emphasis you put on 'quick'.
> Uber is directly providing Uber drivers with knowledge of the area (via maps)

It's not Uber who's providing the knowledge, but Google or whatever (freely available) mapping backend the drivers / Uber App use.

> requires maintenance of cars

Do they require it, or do they "require" it like proper insurance?

> Assuming I take an Uber, exactly what costs are paid for by someone other than myself, the driver and Uber?

The risk of uninsured driver getting himself (and you) in an accident in an improperly maintained car.

Secondary costs of disruption (the negative kind) of transportation market due to one player outcompeting other by acting illegally and getting away with it.

Destruction of provisions for those "worse off" in said market - i.e. it's fine if you're young and live in the middle of the city, but try getting an Uber as a grandma living on the outskirts. Drivers will refuse such unprofitable rides.

Weakening of social trust in rule of law as a successful business keeps being successful by ignoring the law and attracts copycat (you could say the authorities are to blame for not reacting swiftly enough, but then again you need a criminal doing crime to show inadequacy of the law).
I would bet that AR games is where advertising dollars are going to flow next. Interesting to see the dismissive comments in this thread.
>But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers

Yes. Imagine that it crashes with the same average incidence rate as humans. Humans are imperfect creatures. They break the law. Let's even say that only 1% of crashes involve someone breaking the law (intoxicated, no licence etc). If the car is only on par with humans, then the car is only able to match a law abiding citizen 99% of the time.

You could argue that the car is basically driving buzzed. We have laws that would arrest 1 out of every 100 of those humans, but what would we do to the algorithm? What sort of punishment could you do to it when it messes up?
This seems like an incredible over valuation for a company in video game technology.
Yet another home energy monitoring device
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