skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually pretty simple/clever. Constructing labeled imagery costs a lot of time and effort. I assume the current approach is to have a bunch of humans (undergrads, most likely) sit through every image and label (color) them: these pixels are trees, these are cars. Probably it's relatively error prone as well.

The authors propose to just use <some open world game> to take a huge bunch of images. Since we're talking about a game, the computer has a perfect internal representation of entities and hence things that can be considered cars, trees, streets, etc. We can thus not only obtain an image per frame that looks close to the real-world, but immediately also one that is labelled.

Why is this helpful? To train computer vision models such as the ones used in self-driving cars. Of course, the assumption here is that the imagery obtained from a game is close enough to the real world, so that a trained model would continue to work in the real world. I haven't read the paper in full, but the authors experiments show that this is the case. They still use some original imagery though, so perhaps it's not possible to use game-imagery alone. I also don't think an experiment was performed to see if this method would still hold up when using games having older, worse looking engines (it would be interesting to see whether deep models could still generalize towards the real world from this).

Finally, the authors spend a lot of hacky efforts in forcing the game to outputting labelled images. As others have suggested here, they probably would have been better off contacting some mod authors (who could whip this up in a day, probably) or even the game developer itself (though I don't think Rockstar would be particularly interested to collaborate on this).
I particularly liked this part:

"The days of having a polished user interface, colour scheme or branding to separate form from function will in some cases no longer exist. Developing a conversational experience will centre around how something feels, its personality, it’s human like qualities."
The search keyword is "Fuzzy string matching".
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LVM snapshots.

Then ccollect (rsync based with hardlinks and deduplication) to backup the content of the filesystem.
That's because some places have rent control and others don't. You have to make it like Tokyo where nowhere in the whole city had them.
No, they wouldn't be as high.

In most other developed countries, developer salaries are about the same as physical engineering salaries and other highly skilled jobs.
I buy, on average, 3-4 books a month (from Amazon, of course) and I NEVER buy e-books.
Stick with Ruby then: Rails is great to build monolith application easily, Crystal suits a different use (micorservices?).
Also the lack of Ruby meta-programming facilities (send overall) will make to rewrite Rails with Crystal really challenging (pointless?)
VSC rocks. I am on .NET/Win platform and I can open and work on the same .NET Core project both on VSC on Mac and VS2015 on Windows.
Calculating it on an aggregate level over a number of consumers makes more sense to me.
Show HN: A websocket mesagepack api framework in JavaScript
time for a rollback uUber
This is a very amateurish attempt at making a decent reusable framework for myself. Please comment or guide as you may.

Thank you!
Fair enough!

Apologies if I seemed flippant -- things are changing so quickly nowawdays that apart from a few core texts on algorithms and programming languages, I've pretty much stopped expanding my library. It seems to be stackexchange and blog posts across the board now.

I suspect I'll pay for this choice sooner or later...
> Inheritance tax per say does not imply authoritarian totalitarian government. 100% inheritance tax does. Work out the details yourself.

Why? What is the taxation level where the government is automatically authoritarian? 99%? 90%? 80%?

You can't just assert things and then not provide a causal chain.

What makes double taxation an unmitigated evil? Sales taxes are double taxes, as are taxes on corporate dividends. Yet I don't hear people railing about how they're symptomatic of an authoritarian regime.

> Another would be that taxing inheritance destroys capital base, which no society really wants.

How does it "destroy" capital base? Redistribution of wealth does not equal destruction of wealth.

I agree that many governments do manage their capital poorly. Instead of having government hold on to the capital, I'd say we should collect all estate taxes and channel them into an annual basic income for all citizens. Let the living decide how to use the money.

> p.s.: How is me remarking that you have poorly thought out positions an ad-hominem?

It's not attacking the merits of the argument but instead the thinking of the arguer. I have actually thought about this quite a bit.
Error isn't why Elixir performed poorly in the web framework benchmark.

Take a look at the "Single Query" test [1]. The entry for Elli has zero error and is still slower than many Python & Ruby frameworks.

[1]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...
They don't get restricted by backward compatibility.
8 moves are sometimes required. If you have a chessboard 3x3 grid with the middle square the wrong color, you have to flip all squares except the middle.
The sad part is that nobody writes monitoring systems anymore, so it's hard to
find anything better out of the box.

What I would recommend for monitoring system is to put some thinking and try
to write a declarative one designed around the idea of stream processing.
Check it Out  Inside Facebook’s new “Area 404” hardware lab
Report, report, report. Who are you delivering the final product to? Email that person, tell that person during stand-up, "I discovered issue X in my project today, this pushes back my deadline by Y hours/days/weeks/months/millennia." You don't HAVE to manage the entire fallout, necessarily, right away, but if you start raising alarm bells early, you can harness your team to assist in adapting! :)

The other thing? CUT. Can't have feature completed by next week? What are the parameters? Could you do a mock-up or a skeleton of it and have it serve the immediate, urgent purpose, while potentially still moving you towards final feature nirvana? Better phrased: you've hit a snag, you can't deliver what you said, on the deadline that you said- especially if you fear that manager you'll be reporting to, tell him/her what you CAN still deliver on that timetable. "What CAN you deliver, then?" is almost certainly on someone in your chain of command's mind, desperately begging for an answer! :)
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Cancer-causing chemicals in your toothpaste and soap
46 Big Data Terms Defined
End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries? (2014)
What about KDevelop?
Yes, but only books that won't be out of date in a year, so no programming language or framework specific books.

I did buy a copy of The C Programming Language a couple of years back though, but that's just because I feel like it's just one of those books you must have.
> the odds ... are that the first recorded human's name was a male name.

I think you have no evidence for that claim. Lot of ancient societies had equality (Egypt) or were even female dominated (ancient Crete).
Amazon really is like the amazon river, branching out in so many areas that are still related with it, all the while improving the found methods and technology.
There is the Google art and culture project which is also pretty great. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/?hl=en-gb
He said something stupid, people didn't like it, and he apologized for it. Where is the bullshit in this situation?

There are legitimate historical reasons for assuming the first person who appears in records is a man, but the reason he gave was just dumb: "I’m figuring a he, because writing was a new thing, and males are usually the early adopters."
Several of his articles mention chain mail gloves. I'm curious how those would protect you from chemicals, since chain mail is obviously quite porous. Or are they just meant to protect you from shrapnel when the container explodes in your hands?

(I also recalled my father demonstrating to me, at a young age, how a candle flame wouldn't penetrate screen-door mesh, presumably because the metal is conductive; and wondered if mail might perhaps give some fire protection similarly, by spreading the heat thin. That seems unlikely, though.)
Just pointing out some assumptions you're making in your post:

1. Poor people are stupid/uneducated ("Applied education is the best path for the poor")

2. Poor people are lazy ("pay poor people to work their ass off")

3. Poor people are criminals ("reduce crime...")

4. ...and junkies ("...and drug usage")

5. The broken window theory is right ("renovate ...")
SVG uploads in Wordpress (surprisingly insecure)
I am surprised that Lucy is not mentioned, or her affectionate nickname AL 288-1. Her time of 3.2 million years ago dwarfs the 3200 B.C. mentioned in the article!

(disclaimer: TIC - Tongue-in-cheek)
any alternative aggregator ??
EXE/OM – Erlang Language with Dependent Types and Changeabe Encodings
"cheese eating surrender monkey", at least, was coined by an American (Ken Keeler, for The Simpsons), though I gather, yeah, it became most popular in re-use in the UK.
Not sure if you're talking about the individual or reoffending in general, but according to HM prison service the reoffending chance would be 36℅:

http://open.justice.gov.uk/reoffending/prisons/
Actually, a chessboard has a light colored square on the bottom right. This game accepts either a chessboard or an inverse chessboard.
As a result a book about Computer Science would be pre-emptively shipped to a warehouse near SV and investment book about economy and shipped near NY.
I am not going to engage in this discussion anymore as you have convinced me that you are arguing in bad faith.

p.s.: for readers - see what Milton Friedman had to say on the very topic, to a person that seems very much on the same level as some of the contributors to this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4
http://www.idope.se/ looks pretty decent.
I've had to deal with a Mastercard fraud department a few times. My card has long been chip and pin, but it still has a magstripe, which gets a skimmed every few years.

The usual way it works is this:

- I discover something is wrong when my card is declined. I pay with my other credit card instead.

- I call the card issuer that evening. Within 5 minutes I'm talking to their fraud department.

- They inform me of suspicious transactions (often preemptively declined) and I confirm I did not authorise them. I'm done within 15 minutes.

- I use my secondary credit card for a week while they mail me a new one.

You just need better bank.
It's not uncommon in the more expensive German cities as Munich to do a flat sharing even after you finished your studies. You often did a flat sharing when you studied, so you often are already used to the situation. On the other hand living space is too expensive to be able to afford (even renting) if you don't have a really good paying job.

But perhaps this is a different mentality between US and Germany.
> Non-rich...

Right. Like I mean, it's more complicated than a straight 100%.

For example: What if I transfer my wealth to my family BEFORE my death? What if I set up a trust to manage properties so that my descendants don't own it, but benefit from it? (What if those properties produce their own cash-flow, which goes to my descendants, but they still don't own the property?).

Let's take another example. Let's take Cliff's Variety store in the Haight. Do you think it's worth more than $100k? Do you think they bought/built it for <$100? (hint: no, it's been around in one form or another since before WWII). It's been in that family for generations; it's still in that family. Should it stay in that family? If the current owners die suddenly, before they can transfer ownership, what should happen?

What if my parent owns a company, and I work for that company adding substantial value - like, say, Dr Bronner's soap company? How much of that company's value do I deserve as inheritance, or by ownership, given my contribution?

People live a long time now. I don't have to have the millions of dollars to make you compete for opportunities against my with the benefit of that. Parents (and grandparents, and reasonably, great-great-grand parents) can pay for my education. Or buy me houses. Or not buy me houses - buy themselves houses - and then let me stay there; and this problems is just going to get worse as longevity increases.
Ah, that's disappointing - I did think that was unique to Amazon.

I don't suppose other companies call their product classifiers browse nodes and call their most granular classifiers leaf nodes...?
1. Didn't know Krulwich maintained a blog. It's awesome.

2. I respect that he took the time to write a thoughtful response. But reading the comments, it just looks like your standard troll BS that you see everywhere. Had very little merit.

3. Agree, it's sad that so many people seem to take pleasure in criticizing when they are anonymous.
Herbal Extract Supplier
Damn. Used this site everyday since in arrived on the scene.
Could it be it has suddently became illegal due to some novel interpretation of existing laws?
Python Developer Job as exciting Agile software development company.
The first two images are from real-world datasets, where someone drove around a city, took pictures, and then labeled all pictures manually. That usually takes 60-90 minutes per image because you have no other information than the picture itself (depth data from lidar or stereo is much sparser and does not help much in fine-grained outlining of objects). If you had an algorithm that could do this perfectly, you would not need this kind of datasets. So the purpose of these datasets is being the training data for object detectors and the like. The problem here is that modern algorithms (e.g. CNNs) need tons of data to train (the more the better), but that training data is extremely costly if you need an hour per image.

Now they also create a dataset, but instead of recording and labeling the real world, they take images from GTA and use extracted mesh/texture/shader ids to automatically label all objects in an image.

However, the game does not provide any of these 'rendering resource to object class' associations by default (at least not at the level they are intercepting the game/gpu communication). So someone has to make this annotation in the first place. That is the 'magic wand' tool, where someone is still annotating, but the human effort is reduced by nearly 3 orders of magnitude (7 seconds per image) compared to the conventional way of creating those datasets.
It's easy to modify key bindings to emulate popular editors. For example, Emacs key bindings are trivial to emulate.

But Vim/Vi don't just have keybindings; they have modes. Emulating editor modes is a significant undertaking. It's not just a change to the settings file -- it requires a lot of programming work. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Microsoft to emulate Vim modes in VS Code. A plugin is your best bet.
Quentin Tarantino's characters do have quite the flair for using profanity. Those parts given to Samuel L. Jackson in particular always have such artful phrasing that at times it's arguably poetic.

It's a case study in how a few words have wildly different meanings and implications depending on the context they're used in and how they're applied to the topic at hand. Even the delivery has a huge impact on their meaning.

There's a big gulf between someone who just drops f-bombs for effect and someone who's using their familiar language to convey emotion and meaning that other words cannot possibly hope to measure up to.
People who read books live longer lives
I think what GP was trying to mention is that the cost of things like college have gone up immensely since then. The same strategies won't work now.

You can't live on a minimum wage job in most places in the US, let alone live + pay for school
I doubt it!

I was actually thinking the etymology of the word bin in CS is probably from someone who worked in a warehouse. It can't be a coincidence.
Can you please give example for that 1 day for 5$ from ... lets say Sofia, Bulgaria to Lisbon, Portugal . I had to pay good 30EUR last time I used them.
Ask HN: Engineer working with rLoop needs place to crash in Bay area
Amir, a Mechanical Engineer from India has run out of the little money his parents could put up(dad has a truck he rents around), and hence accommodation in the bay area. He is working with the rLoop team competing for Musk's Hyperloop One Global challenge. They also won the Hyperloop pod competition in [January this year](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-the-redditors-who-designed-a-hyperloop-pod).

He comes from a very average college as me from India, and is in the midst of launching his career as a worthy mechanical engineer. Opportunities like these are very rare in India. His coming back to India right now will put him back into a crappy job. Do you know folks who could relay-host him for a week or two?

Their garage is right next to Facebook HQ. He can't stay there because it is an incubated space. I've a friend who works in Sacramento but that's two hours, one way. Amir has excellent work ethics. Can also help the folks he lives with a little household things, but has 14 hour workdays without weekends.

His Facebook profile is here, in case you want to put a face to the name: https://www.facebook.com/whiplash.01

Know someone who can help?
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So, now that FB has "muscled-in" into the lives of most consumers, it is in a strong position to employ the classic protection racket with the producers.

Businesses that do not engage with FB or do NOT pay FB "protection money" will see a gradual drop in their consumer engagement online. FB will gladly "nudge" the consumers in the direction of the businesses who pay FB.
VS Code does not claim to be an IDE.
Yes. Could have been phrased better, but it's true. For anyone who's read/heard any of his work, it's clear he's not sexist. Think the meaning he had in mind is different from how it comes off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis
I almost fell for this. I am now convinced that this is a joke, based on the tagline:

> A super strict yet probably too lenient methodology for writing maintainable CSS
Analysis of the size of Trump's hands
They could do what, exactly? Slash their prices and run themselves into the ground? Who knows how much money Amazon is sinking into this venture and running it at a loss, hoping to make it up in other areas.

There's no way "free shipping" isn't costing them a mountain of money, but they can just blend it into other operational costs. Logistics companies make all their money on this stuff, they can't afford to subsidize.

For FedEx to do Amazon a "favor" by matching prices is suicidal. It sucks they lost the business but there's nothing they can do.
Die Dashboards, Die
The stack trace tells you where one of the concurrent accesses happened. As opposed to data corruption where (if you even manage to witness it in the first place) all you know is that one of the things that accesses that memory got it wrong.
The moment he mentioned peroxone, I had to go on youtube and look up if someone's actually doing it... Yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haZrhoKSOI
Maybe they could buy old B-52 bombers and convert them to drop laser-guided guided packages to their destinations.
The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark
Well, most researchers want the raw data, so they can build and train their own architectures, and benchmark results against each other
Yes, she doesn't understand that it's not because they're working hard that they succeed. They succeed because they're part of an incubator owned by her husband.

If she thinks the odds are tough in her husband's incubator, wait till she sees how tough it is OUTSIDE of it. I mean it's tough for me not living in SF but I imagine it would be even tougher in places like China - People there probably drive themselves to insanity in the pursuit of success.

If she divorced her husband, the whole incubator (and all startups within) would probably go bankrupt within one year.
Maybe your term paper was about the (excellent!) analysis Marx gave on the failures of capitalism? Because almost all I'm reading, except the comment you replied to, are market-based approaches with a healthy dose of victim-blaming for poverty.

The "nordic model" has actually very little to do with Marxism. Marx didn't write about money, he wrote about power, specifically economic power. Experiments with that idea all failed because it's a very bad idea to randomly give people power (or, as it happened in most of those experiments, give it to the government).

There's a newer idea which people are generally advocating when they mention Scandinavia which so-called "Social democrats" came up with: just redistribute (some of) the money. Leave enough to the wealthy to leave incentives intact, give enough to the poor so they and their children can live a somewhat normal life. I believe it's worked quite well for almost all countries that have tried it.
No sum types, no higher-kinded types, huge verbosity in declaring a new type. I'm talking something like OCaml/F#/Scala/Haskell.
Yes. I left Prezi's engineering team 2 months ago and back then it was still running. Be patient, they'll get back to you - they're super nice people.
From Python to Java, or not
In many cases, they are even people who stand to pay more if they get their wish. You don't have to personally profit from a certain policy to advocate it.
They banned third party clients from accessing their API.

From the chart it looks like third party API clients were generating two thirds of total traffic. That is a lot.

On the other hand, this has sparkled a huge community effort to reverse, understand and bypass the implemented protection/fingerprinting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/comments/4w1cvr/pokemo...
Could be, but it doesn't seem likely considering torrents themselves are not illegal, it's what they point to that might be illegal.

But then again, I wonder why trackers are seen as illegal? They're nothing more than what a router is.
Yet in this case all the encrypted secret chats are still kept private. Because even gaining access to the user account, doesn't allow you to read messages from secret chats.
Show HN: acts_as_pushable – iOS and Android push notifications for your Rails app
Mercedes Is About to Unveil an Entire Fleet of Electric Vehicles
How much golang are you guys using and is this on site only?
Oh wow, what's going on with torrent sites lately? I feel like we're "running out" of them somehow.
Python FAQ: Why should I use Python 3?
JetBrains finally changed its Plugins Web UI
18.5 hours per day, including Sundays. I guess this is only possible if you use some nootropic. Considering that she has invested in nootrobox [1], I guess she took that path.

Not that I am against nootropics (I have tried many of them; good short-term; disaster for long-term usage), but it would be great to have the full history.

[2] https://nootrobox.com/team
Homepage

https://sites.google.com/site/mcheng0606/research
...or it could simply be a short form of "binary".
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But isn't that the whole point of this discussion? That the money made in Nebraska, while less in absolute terms, still buys more due to lower cost of living and/or taxes?
The truth about Lisp (2006)
Interview with Dmitry Volkov: SD Ventures Opens a Co-Working Space in Riga
Technological reality doesn't matter in law. What matters is whether you facilitate crime or not.
Well, I dunno the prices for that - but the 5$ was literally what I paid the last time I sent a package from Germany to Britain, which was surprisingly cheap.