skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you be more specific? In which jurisdiction do they provide a taxi service without a license? Could you provide a source?

Many (most?) jurisdictions differentiate between for-hire-vehicles and taxis, and Uber doesn't operate unlicensed taxis as far as I know. I don't want to claim to know everything about Uber - but services like their black car and UberX service are not considered taxis in most jurisdictions that I'm aware of, for a number of reasons including because they accept only rides that were arranged in advance, they have no special paint job or advertising, etc. According to Quora, Uber does operate "UberTaxis" and those are actual medallioned taxis: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-an-Uber... - so it seems to me that Uber's classic services were never regulated by taxi laws to begin with, and the actual taxi services they have now comply with them.

I'd like to learn more about this topic though, since I find the boundary between business and law interesting in this case, so I will be glad to review further details if someone can provide them. (I have no connection to Uber nor that industry except as a once-in-a-while customer.)
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I see. What would be useful? Forever? 3 months?
Online freelancing service is usually race to the bottom as you have to compete with people from all other the world. For many of them, 100$ is a lot of money. I've done few projects this way then gave up, it's simply not worth the time. If you are willing to invest so much time, getting a part time job might be a better idea.
If you like this Propositions As Types by Wadler is also an excellent read. In fact, the author cites PTLC: Rosetta.

http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/12/194626-propositions-...
The knowledge of homeparhy in Science is really limited.
We cab image the the surface of the top of iceberg as what know the science of homeopathy.
All the iceberg is what you can know learning study and practice homeopathy for years or a live. this is my vision
There's 3 socket options (TCP_KEEPCNT/TCP_KEEPIDLE/TCP_KEEPINTVL) that allows you to control this per socket too, it's not just global.
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he's not wrong though. ssh is the quickest way of accessing remove machines

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ListOfComputers -Command {#code...}
i'd say diversified portfolio of stocks index, bonds index and, say, gold.
> Even a human brain has to train for ~4-5 months to become interested in shapes

Everyone who wonder how (on a superficial level) grown up humans are so good at learning new categories really should spend time around babies and toddlers and children for this reason...

You quickly realise how much training and brain development it actually takes before we're capable of doing much.
What's the most up to date steno tech/software for Boston City Council?
What's the most advanced up to date stenographic technology/software available for Boston City Council. ASCII transcript online needed for hard of hearing folks, the deaf community, ESL English as Second Language folks.
Mmmm better provide also homeopatic reference
It's a number associated with a unit. Making it a distinct type, even when the underlying representation is a float, makes it harder to make mistakes by substituting or combining units inappropriately.

This sort of stuff works really well when the type system incorporates units of measure directly (usually as some kind of generic type parameter). F# is a good example.
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I don't live in NYC, but I can tell you why I drive a car in a city -

1) I used to bike for years while I was at uni. It's dangerous, and not very enjoyable in a city. It's ok on a nice spring/autumn day, but in sweltering sun or in winter or in pouring rain it's downright miserable.

2) subway - nope, because I hate being packed so close to other people. It's frequently smelly and unpleasant. Same with buses.

3) taxi - expensive, and I don't like being driven around by other people, would much rather drive my own car.

On the other hand, yes, driving somewhere is usually slower. But....I sit in my own clean environment, listening to podcasts or audiobooks, at the temperature that is fully controlled by me.
It doesn't seem like it -- the benefits will be developed over time, for example MIR-based optimization passes.
Alternatively: mathematics can be seen as the science of structure.

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/structmath.html
There's quite a number of stateful firewalls that just silently drop the connection with out sending a RST though, meaning TCP connections are idling forever, if it does not employ any tcp or application level keep-alives.
There's quite a number of stateful firewalls that just silently drop the connection with out sending a RST though, meaning TCP connections are idling forever, if it does not employ any tcp or application level keep-alives or timeouts.
So it's murky with Uber, as far as classifying the drivers as independent vs employees. On one end, the drivers work their own hours, own their own car, and are "kinda" their own boss. On the other, they have to go through mandatory training as part of their job, have to keep minimum hours on the platform to keep their job, can't solicit tips, and don't have as much freedom to decide to decline a passenger (as far as I understand Uber will lower their internal rating if they don't accept passengers, so they're penalized when they/lack freedom to decline a passenger).

I don't know all of the specifics, but from what I've read Uber is taking more control from the driver than what a normal employer employing an independent contractor does and it really is hard to argue that they're fully independent contractors. There is the argument that there should be a third classification for cases like this because the employment law is outdated, but generally speaking, I would be surprised if this goes to jury that Uber would win even with their amazing counsel. If they lost this lawsuit, their main business model would be severely hurt (fully driverless cars are not realistic for multiple reasons in the next 3-5 years, let's not kid ourselves) and their valuation would take a big hit. Uber has an uphill battle with this if they have to go through the entire process, and has a lot at stake.
If it's magic, it's AI; if it's understood, it's algorithms.
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> if all that exists follows mathematical law

As a thought experiment, try the opposite direction: Math mirrors reality, not reality mirrors math. I don't see electrons solving quantum equations - equations describe an electron. The cannonball follows a trajectory that we can describe using math - but it doesn't do math. Sure, you can say that it does, implicitly, but IMHO that's stretching it a bit, I don't see the value in such a metaphor.

From a certain level such questions become completely arbitrary and useless: Remember, it's your brain that interprets everything and you can just say whatever you want when there are no consequences.
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From the survey's website:

> The latest findings of The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Ranking – which provides scores for lifestyle challenges in 140 cities worldwide

140 cities is nothing when it comes to deciding "World's most liveable cities" - it's not even one city per country!
A few years back I parsed PDS files as part of my rendering-the-moon-with-added-vegetation project (<plug> http://cowlark.com/flooded-moon/ </plug>).

Wow. It's so... special.

That said, even though the format is clunky and horrible, it genuinely is self-documenting. I managed to parse it in a surprisingly small amount of code without needing to refer to the documentation at all (which is good because I couldn't find any). Some datasets needed special treatment because the value that came out of the formula specified in the PDS label needed to be offset to produce a physically valid value. But it all worked. They're even mmap friendly. So, ancient and loathesome yes, but also pragmatic and effective yes.

The C++ parsing code, if anyone cares, is at https://github.com/davidgiven/flooded-moon/tree/trunk/terrai... in the pds.h and pdslabel.h files.

Incidentally, if anyone knows of:

(a) a raytracer with volumetric rendering that has a programmatic API (right now I'm using a hacked version of Povray)
(b) higher-resolution terrain data of the moon than the 6GB Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter DEMs available here: http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr/WAC_GLD100

...please let me know?
Taxi drivers who do it that way sign a contract with the owner of the medallion but that does not make them contractors just like signing a mobile plan contract doesn't make you a contractor for Verizon or TMobile. They rent the car and medallion so that makes them renters.
"You can see these are not exactly small optimization problems. The smallest one has 89 parameters in the model, and the largest has 600."

Those are small optmization problems. These types of problems are solved in computer vision for hundreds of thousands of variables. His problem can be solved in real-time, not tens of seconds.
The infinity groupoid models of type theory have already revolutionized our understanding of equality in type theory. So far, the 21st century has been an incredible time for logicians.

There are also older, and very different topological models for typed lambda calculi (see e.g. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/papers/entcs87.pdf). These motivate things like Escardo's "seemingly impossible functional programs" (http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...) and, along different lines, Abstract Stone Duality (http://www.paultaylor.eu/ASD/).
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Grammar level: How is babby formed?
What if we trained a CNN to "know [it] knows nothing"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
Win10 broke safe mode, it can be re-enabled, but still... Reboot into safe more, or via recovery disk... restore the to restore point set before updates, reboot.

Most updates in Ubuntu can be recovered from. That doesn't make it better/easier than recovery in Windows... as it depends on what got updated, how it got updated, and what all came with it.
The next step would be to "depixelate" the resulting image. How could this be done? I guess OCR would not work because of the variation of the fonts (you don't want the document to end up in a single font; you want to keep the fonts). Could a deep learning approach work here, even if it has not been trained on all the specific fonts?
It's definitely possible to get insight into how a CNN would classify something like a stop sign.

This paper does a good job of showing how CNNs learn a hierarchy of increasingly complex features to classify images: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2901
Right now is actually a really good time to buy. The changes made to the building regs a few years ago in several inner city suburbs meant that many new apartment blocks have popped up - driving down the price of everything. Supply and demand.
There are a few common options available to most developers.

1. Create a course or ebook plus screencasts. Charge a lot (e.g., $199 for the highest tier that includes everything in a bundle). Typical income range: $2K - $100K.

2. Create an ebook. Charge a lot (e.g., $49). Typical income range: $2K - $50K.

3. Write a book for a high-royalty publisher (e.g., PragPub). Typical income range: $10K-100K.

4. Create a SaaS product that solves a consumer or business problem in a given niche. Typical income range: $0 - $1M per year (mostly the $0 end though).

5. Create a mobile game. Typical income range: $5 - $100K (the majority below $10K).

6. Create a blog and leverage affiliate commissions and ads. Typical income range: $5 - $1,000 per month.

7. Create a template or plugin for a popular platform (e.g., WordPress). Typical income range: $100 - $100K a year.

All require work. Some will be more passive than others after your initial outlay of work (3 being the most passive).

How good are you at marketing? Because for software we have Market > Marketing > Design > Code.

My suggestion is to go for 1, 2, 3, or 4. Four is the most challenging among these 4 options and the least likely to succeed. But if it does, there isn't much of a cap in terms of how much money it can make.

Plus you get to hone your development and business skills further. Not to mention that you get to pick your own stack so you can experiment with new languages, frameworks, and technologies of your choosing if that floats your boat.

In general, I would recommend spending your spare time doing what excites you the most. Does the idea of a web side project excite you more than writing a book? If so, go for that.

My other suggestion is to create many micro-launches. Create small projects. Many of them. Stuff that you can launch in 1-3 months. See what sticks. Kill what doesn't. You'll end up with multiple revenue streams. $500/mo quasi-passive income here and there adds up quickly.
"But you are a single data point, and that does not prove anything" :-)

My guess is that you are not a practicing Jew active in a community in Europe or the Middle East. If you were I doubt you would have this point of view.

I know lots of non-practicing / secular Jews who share your point of view, and this comes from an ignorance of what security measures it takes to live a Jewish life in Europe. I don't blame them, and I don't blame you. How would you know the threat unless you have seen it before?

I don't speak of only anti-semitic views. Antisemitism becomes terrorism when it is targeted violence against groups of people for the purpose of political or social objectives.

It is not just war in Syria. There is terrorism. Car bombs, massacres, and more against the civilian population to keep the docile. ISIS wants power.

Last, and this is my key point -- you are jumping through intellectual hoops to somehow magically arrive that

...and are you really saying that the likelihood of terrorism is the same as reincarnation?

If so, then I'll stop here....
Don't use error codes. Use structured messages, such that their serialization
to JSON is easy. Then you can just put in any relevant fields and be done with
that.
Because the laws are behind what the population thinks I'd suggest. Laws are not always an accurate indication of what the majority of people currently think, although in general this is probably true.
> This is a common misinterpretation of who pays for roads. Effectively roads are paid for by gas tax. Gas used to be a great proxy for how many miles you drive and where you drive those miles.

Except the number of miles driven (or where you drive them) has very little relation to how much damage you do to the road, and thus how much of the maintenance costs you generate.
Going by your metaphor some lines of code in your codebase (not in libraries) are licensed by different companies and only they have the right to fix the bug.
Great writeup about how deep learning came to be: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neu... (posted here a few months ago).
I'm in Sydney and a very satisfied user of AirVPN. I mostly use it to get around geo-blocking.
They have more than enough servers and I've never had an issue with the reliability of their service.
Speeds in Europe are reasonable, but I'm on crappy ADSL anyway.

You should check out this very extensive comparison sheet as well:

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Geographic spread seems to help with sports, so is this still a regional specialty, or are there buzkashi sides in the Afghan diaspora? Most importantly, have the blue blazers homologated a Standard Buzkashi Goat? /s
Steam's approach to authentication is annoying. You either get their authenticator app for two-factor authentication, or get demoted to a second-class Steam citizen. Without the authenticator you get nagged frequently to get it, and you cannot buy and sell things on the marketplace normally (every action has to be confirmed via email, and any item you want to sell is placed in escrow for two weeks).

I appreciate Valve pushing for better security, but with the authenticator app the only option this really sucks if you don't have a smartphone, or do have a smartphone, just not with Android, IOS, or Windows Phone on it.

Now I understand this for the interim (people were losing their digital items due to poor security), but it is damn near impossible to contact Steam with suggestions or comments (on the Steam forums your voice is drowned in a sea of despair, and I can't seem to get a hold of anyone with a technical background at Steam's help-desk). Perhaps if someone at Valve is reading HN: please consider using Fido U2F as an alternative to a smartphone app!
Relevant for the HN crowd - Vienna at #2 in this list will likely also get much more interesting very soon as our new "Trudeau" just negotiated a substantial startup initiative.
I disagree that most people know this. I imagine most reasonably technical people do, but I'd be amazed if most people on the street understand any of this.
And how many different pictures of cats are there? If you use so many pictures to train your network, the chances are that almost every picture out there will already be in the so-called training set - not the same exact picture, but a very similar one. Then the whole "AI" is reduced to doing some fuzzy matching on a massive database of pictures.
Everyone doesn't use roads. We're basically just socializing UPS and Wal-Mart's infrastructure. The vast majority of road damage is caused by trucking. Should be paid for by the people who are trucking the goods, no?

No one should wonder why the Waltons are so rich: the interstate system and welfare cover much of their logistics and payroll bill.

And if you think everyone uses police, you've clearly not talked to many black people. Generally speaking, the police won't come in a timely fashion unless you live in certain neighborhoods which break along race lines.
However, you can't just put in more money into development of a technology and get linear returns. Eventually you're gonna hit diminishing returns, so there's not too much they can do to accelerate it beyond what they're already doing (except adding more researchers, possibly).

I would be surprised if Uber gets very far with their autonomous vehicle testing, especially in difficult driving conditions where LIDAR and sensors don't perform so well, until they can't reliably export it to other markets. There are some of the smartest minds in the world working on this and still haven't figured it out, and Uber's researchers are no exception. And this also completely disregards the legislation side of things, which would prove to be a huge obstacle as well, even with Uber's obscene amount of money they pour into it.
Carsales.com.au is mostly a PHP shop, if that floats your boat. REA is a ruby shop.

There are plenty of other smaller companies doing interesting work there, however!

Source: was living there 12 months ago
purely organic. no advertising or social media promotion.

My stuff lives in the Zazzle store. Just like in all the other marketplaces.

For certain items to do optimize the keywords and headlines to make them a little "click-baitish" :-)

All said, I've been thinking of making a script to auto-tweet and post to certain places, but that takes real work.
How long will you wait for a shopping website to load?
I consider these pointless announcements to be a form of auditory pollution, they do nothing but make you tune out all announcements, making it more likely that you'll miss the occasional useful one. I'm in the UK, rather than NYC, but our rail system is full of useful warnings such as "Don't leave your belongings unattended, they may be taken", and "It's been raining, so the floor might be slippery".

Seriously people, if you need warning of those things maybe just stay at home until you've grown up a bit.
What is shown on the slides is not that innovating. If anything, they seem to have thrown the bulldozer innovations out of the window and moved the architecture closer to the sandybridge-era processors.
For machine learning and deep learning based assistive functions, like Google Now, Cortana and Siri, we let the companies behind them gather a lot of our personal data into "Big Data", because then you can do all the statistics.

I think a (more) true AI would not need all this data and just be a _personal_ assistant, not needing all the big data of other people too. Maybe initially, once, and then be a good personal assistant, learning to know you like a human personal assistant.

It would need some common sense, which is now lacking, mostly.
I used to work on this - the approach is very different. That's a pretty hollow statement on the internet though, so take it as you will.

An interesting aside - it seems like most of Google's team left this year. Chris Urmson left, Anthony Levandowski left, and many of their engineers are gone as well (many went to Otto). It'll be interesting to see what happens now that they've lost all of the original leadership (Sebastian Thrun left long ago).
> When it doesn't discover that it's a stop sign, how do you debug it? Did it recognize the shape.. who knows?

Barring other analytic tools (like looking at which parts contribute the most to the wrong result), the same way you test other things when you have a (somewhat) black box:

Form hypotheses and test them.

Maybe it didn't recognise the shape, so try adjusting the image to clean it up, and once you have one it recognises, try to reduce and alter the difference between them. Maybe it turns out the image e.g. has the stop sign slightly covered, making the shape look wrong, and there's nothing in the training set like that.

Maybe the hue or brightness is off and the training set is mostly all lit a certain way. Test it by adjusting hue and brightness of the test image and see if it gets recognised.

And so on.

There are plenty of other areas where we are similarly constrained from taking apart that which we're observing, so it's not like this isn't something scientists are dealing with all the time.

Within comp.sci. we're just spoiled in that so much of what we do can be easily instrumented, isolated and tested in ways that often lets us determine clear, specific root causes through analysis.
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I got more done when I started working at 1pm
I would love some of those cattle and auto auctioneers to run the show.

https://youtu.be/CITxLRXPk1U?t=6
Where can one get the full list? I downloaded the article and it doesn't have it...
> using `\` for file hierarchies instead of `/`

You know you can use both since like XP, right? You can even mix them up in one path which can look quite confusing
c:/windows\system32/etc/drivers\
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Not only that, what often gets overlooked is that Vienna is the second largest German speaking metro area in the world actually.

Graz is nice to visit though (also great tech schools in Styria in general) and it's pretty close too so that's cool :)
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I have been working on pivoting this technology for a potential Beta for a while now.

Project site: http://malleablebyte.org

The FAQ has a short intro to what I am trying to accomplish with this project.

I am working on solving the problem of spam traffic and applying it to web security. I am interested in figuring out the question of predicting malicious intent using spam traffic for website and IoT.

I do this using simple statistics on web traffic data to do anomaly detection. On top of that, I use touchdowns and the trajectory of data to answer the question of ‘malicious intent’ rather than relying on the obvious outlier analysis alone. I now call this approach digital storm chasing much like weather storm chasing. :D

I would love to have people in HN to try it out and give some feedback.