skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, yep. Probably some camelCase that my parser accidentally interpreted as a color name.

This bug is at the top of the list for resolution based on feedback I've been getting.
With all the money we spend on "homeland security", there really should be a reserve supply of large transformers, just in case.
Granted, current GUI toolkits are huge. On the other hand, I have worked with Qt, and this convinced me most of the complexity there was a blend of avoidable bloat and a long tail of features few people ever use (a bit like offices suites).

I'm pretty sure properly written GUI toolkits can be much smaller. As in, satisfying 90% of our needs in a couple thousand lines of code. (The remaining 10% might require heaps and heaps of code, but I'm sure it doesn't have to affect the core.)

It's only an intuition at this point (I have yet to implement my own GUI toolkit). But I have reasons to believe this intuition is right: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
I can't speak for the progressives that you have read from, but I can say that there is strong movement on the conservative front for criminal justice reform. Here's a good op-ed by Doug Deason:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/opinion/ruining-lives-with...

His first anecdote gets at the issue to which I believe you misattribute to progressives, "actively repressing general knowledge of the basic facts about race and crime":

> I am a Republican businessman, and President Obama and I do not see eye to eye on most issues. But I agree with him on the inequities of the criminal justice system. I learned about it firsthand. Like many 17-year-olds, I did something stupid. It was 1979, and I threw a party at the home of neighbors while they were out of town. (Their son had given me a key.) The party got out of hand, ultimately getting the attention of the police. I was charged with felony burglary.

> My actions were wrong and irresponsible. They could also have ruined my life, affecting my ability to go to college or even get a job. But unlike many in my situation, I was able to fight the charge.

Perhaps the progressives you accuse of deliberately spreading ignorance, are indeed not focusing on the "basic facts". But they might argue that that focus is flawed in the first place. If blacks were disproportionately targeted and punished for low-level offenses, then that leads to a disproportionate number of people who have criminal records. Even if you ignore the material impact of incarceration, there's the issue of how criminal record can be a negative factor in job searches and overall participation and trust in society.

The basic fact that a greater proportion of blacks commit serious felonies is probably not considered a basic fact for folks who believe that blacks have also a greater proportion of being disenfranchised. It's probably more like a tautology.
Just needs to have fewer failure modes than humans.
Is there a place to download the database that isn't a self-extracting executable? (Seriously?)
That's what I'm afraid of. Rarely is the correct answer to a technological threat vector these days "let the law handle it." In this case it's even worse because of the real world problems that can and do happen when it comes to radio systems combined with the implementation of a life critical system. Look at the Evanston key fob incident as just one example. Would a shop owner with a bad neon sign transformer (or to interfere with radar, a microwave) from China be held liable for accidents on the street?

http://evanstonnow.com/story/public-safety/bill-smith/2016-0...
I have never used polymorphic variants… Too lazy to learn.
Dude you are working way too hard to do... what?

What's your angle?

For me, it's really simple: The day that a machine decides how long I spend in a cage we are going to have a serious problem.
Dude this is basically saying "I want to build something, but I hate programming".

If you don't want to learn js, then forget about web programming.

If you don't want to learn any of swift or java, then forget about mobile programming.

If you don't want to learn java/python/ruby, then forget about server programming.

That leaves you with nothing, maybe learn some MS excel to become an accountant? That qualifies as one man project that will earn you money.
It's pretty clearly the curation. Parks have familiar facilities, guidance and support, and, frankly, advertising.

A friend of mine contacted me after a very bad trip to the Desolation Wilderness. She was shocked that the trails weren't marked, that there wasn't water etc. She thought it would be like a city park! Listening to her story I realized she didn't even understand in retrospect how close to dying she had been.

For someone like her a park is great: it gives her the support system she needs to enjoy the outdoors.
The 60Ah battery-only version is rated to have a 160km range.

With an added optional range extender they make up to 300km.

The new battery will have 94 Ah, instead of 60Ah. Which will extend the range a bit. With some maths this might be: 250km with battery and 390km with added optional range extender.

http://www.bmwblog.com/2016/06/17/2017-bmw-i3-specs-revealed...
This is called a "black start". [1] Definitely nontrivial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start
That's not how basic income is supposed to work. The person who worked would get $1000 basic income PLUS their $1200 wages = $2400.

Sure, above a certain level people's taxes would go up, so they pay back some of their basic income as tax. But that wouldn't kick in until people are earning rather more than $1200 a month.
Here is the resolution calculation for aircraft radar (with respective example of signature - aka image )

http://www.radartutorial.eu/01.basics/Range%20Resolution.en....

For angular resolution:
http://www.radartutorial.eu/01.basics/Angular%20Resolution.e...
And how many rounds of additional fund raising is required for Lyft or Uber to buy enough sensors to retrofit 1% of their vehicles? What happens if drivers decide to sell those sensors?
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Fair point, but I still think it looks a little off. Why not make the 3 series electric without any significant restyling? It is a well liked, high-selling model, and I don't see why you need to "weird-it-up" with odd angles and styles.
"I felt pretty "trusted by definition." Citi gave me a credit card with a $3,000 limit as a college freshmen. A few years later I had an $8,000 limit card and a $10,000 limit card."

As a recent immigrant I felt pretty untrusted. In my late 20s, despite being able to show a year of income in the six digits, no overdrafts, I had to go to four separate banks before finding one that was willing to give me a $300 limit card.
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> The radar was added to all Tesla vehicles in October 2014 as part of the Autopilot hardware suite, but was only meant to be a supplementary sensor to the primary camera and image processing system.

I guess I'm surprised that what sounds like a large change in ConOps can be rolled out as an upgrade across a fleet in such a short period of time. It'd be fascinating to hear what sort of V&V had to be done, and how it was accomplished so quickly, to make this happen.
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They have big fleets? Where? For the most part the uber cars are not owned by Uber and certainly not equipped with any sensors. I know they have some tech under development but that's not the same as a massive fleet on the road.
Ideally Autobots.
It is certainly intended to be unique.
I don't 'practice' (that is, with no intention of immediate utility) putting seat belts on. On the occasions I do put them on, it takes some small number of seconds to put on, depending on how complicated the system is and how accessible the various parts are.

Even if it took someone several minutes to strap on a backpack-like device, it would likely save lives in many scenarios.

As to my appeal to the cost of paratroopers' parachutes, that was in direct response to a very specific claim in the post I responded it to:

>It would be expensive to outfit all tall buildings with parachutes
Privacy issues aside, the data volume would be far to high for the cars mobile connection to transfer. But if they only send whenever the actual and the expectation differs, e.g. the cars GPS track deviates locally from the map data, or whenever the driver disagrees with the autopilot, they can get a lot of information.

With this new usage of the radar, they seem to create "radar maps" of all radar echoes from bridges and traffic signs. Using those maps they should be able to detect true obstacles with a high enough confidence to enable automatic braking/evasion. The problem so far with automatic braking by radar is not so much with detecting possible obstacles but with false positives. A car must not randomly brake when there is no obstacle.
Yes. I too "failed" the public information database of my history. :-/
> and replace Friedrich Eichiner as chief financial officer.

Just to mention: As CFO Eichiner is also head of the BMW's IT division.
That isn't just immigrants: Plenty of young, non-college bound students have only access to such cards. Americans also use them after bankruptcy to try to help strengthen their credit scores.
I wrestle with this one and am afraid that at the point a car is driving itself, a EULA that the driver agrees to which states: "I will always maintain concentration and control of the vehicle in the case things go wrong" isn't accounting for how the human brain actually works. Humans only make for good backup systems when they are engaged and/or have time to react. I'll give Elon some credit. This is one heck of an experiment with a life critical system.
I wrote a longer rebuttal to this (it's in the responses section of Colin's original piece), but here's an excerpt on the issue of political vulnerability which is his main line of attack.

"It is broadly true that the more people who benefit from a government program, the more popular the program usually is. Social insurance programs that benefit the middle-class and the poor are usually politically durable.

American social security, for example, is less politically vulnerable than food stamps, in part because food stamps will never benefit most middle-class people. UBI, however, is more like social security than it is like food stamps. The middle-class may not need UBI, but UBI would still benefit them.

A comparable case is the status of single-payer health insurance programs in countries that have them. Most middle-class and rich people in these countries don’t need single payer healthcare — nearly all of them would have employer coverage if single payer didn’t exist. And yet there is broad support across classes for single-payer in these countries, in part because it (like UBI) benefits the middle-class. Universal healthcare is in these countries what conservatives would malign as “a sacred cow”.

None of this is to say that UBI would be politically invulnerable. Even the most durable social insurance programs are often put at risk.

[...]

But Colin appears to think UBI would inevitably become means-tested to only benefit the poor. Financial pressures, he says, would cause voters to limit the program. But Colin doesn’t make it clear why middle-class voters would react in this way, stripping themselves of a direct cash benefit. This is certainly not typical voter behaviour, and I am skeptical that a popular turn against UBI is inevitable or likely."
He was doomed to die no matter what. He was doomed due to the deliberate and malevoloent actions of others.

He either chose, or was unable to overcome psychological impulses, to act in a way that he took his own life.

I'm looking at a definition of suicide that includes the word "voluntary", which could well be contested given the extreme threat and lack of alternative here. At the same time, I do not personally see all suicide as unwarranted, wrong, or sinful (though there are cases in which I'd strongly prefer people didn't kill themselves).

The Falling Man, and the many others who similarly lept from the Twin Towers, and those who similarly take their lives in the face of desperate circumstances are what they are. In many cases the label "suicide" fits. I don't find it dishonourable.

But causality and life are complicated, words express ideas, and ideas are our own mental models. If you trace events back to original causes you find numerous complications at ascribing simple terms and unambiguous labels to them. Sometimes the ambiguity is greater, sometimes lesser.

Describing these particular deaths as both murder and suicide strikes me as defensible.
makes me wonder what's going on with radar detectors these days? Are they just 100% false alarms with all the cars using radar?
> The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database...whether Autopilot is turned on or off, then that object is added to the geocoded whitelist.

(emphasis mine)

This has interesting privacy implications. I am not a Tesla owner, but I imagine that by enabling Autopilot you consent to providing Tesla with diagnostic, error, and sensor data. But what about those who have not enabled this feature? Their Tesla will automatically phone home with data regarding their location and surroundings regardless of whether or not they have consented to this?
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Thanks for the heads up!

http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_be...

"Too many factual problems and a presentation that gets you to do things wrongly before being shown how to do it correctly, and not even always then."
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That's not quite accurate, almost any secured or subprime credit card will have activity requirements. Most will close your account if there's insufficient transactions in the last three months.
I think what you're trying to say is something like "people won't work anymore but they will be able to stay home and take care of their elders". Which I think is a valid point, but also one that is only true for a really small minority of the population, certainly not enough to justify putting the whole population on welfare.

Consider this scenario: you're taking care of you elders and you need to go out and buy some medicine. But the drugstores have all closed, since nobody wants to work there anymore (why would they? They're at home taking care of their elders too). Do you think this is not a realistic scenario in the long run? Why not?
demo of what exactly?
By installing the autopilot software update, or purchasing the car with the radar installed I'm sure you signed away these rights.
It was wonderful living in a certain world, once.
It depends a lot on your priorities between mastering a language/programming and having a successful product/service (ie. making money).
In any case you should figure out first what you want to build as the choice of tools will depend on it.

Also keep in mind that while functional programming may be fun, it may be simpler and faster to just slap some php onto some random webhost (even more so when validating an idea and getting feedback) :)
> How old are you? Just a few years ago, despite making a very decent amount of money and having no marks on my credit, it took an entire year for me to get a credit card. Reason: lack of credit history. A lot of people have similar stories.

I don't really understand why, but it's way easier to get a credit card with no history if you are in college. People who would easily be approved as a senior in college will get denied 12 months later. It's stupid that it works this way, but some of the best financial advice you can give a college student is "get a credit card before you graduate."

> 4. Prevent employers from pulling credit history. Your finances are not their business.

This resonates intuitively with a lot of people (myself included), and is actually the law in 11 states. There are some interesting subtleties that should be considered before making up your mind though. In brief, the practical impact can make things _worse_ for some demographics often assumed to benefit from this type of legislation. A mass market article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/the-l...

The original research: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/no_more_credit_...

> 5. Prevent landlords from pulling credit history. They are not loaning you money.

If all goes well, they aren't loaning you money. However, in most states it takes at least a couple of months to lawfully evict a non-paying tenant. So landlords are implicitly offering to loan tenants a few months rent.
Be careful taking standards group weenies too seriously.
> What does the world look like in radar?

Depends on the radar system. Some are distance only without direction. Some are 1D (a line, usually horizontal) and some are 2D. Many objects are partially opaque, which is confusing. Resolution is very poor compared an optical device of the same size.

> Could multiple radar emitters and receivers be used to create a phased array and improve resolution?

Yes. However, this is currently bulky and expensive (in dollars and in compute power). Thankfully, it looks like capitalism is coming in to the rescue here and miniaturizing the everloving shit out of complex radar arrays for human interface tech. This should be usable for vehicles as well.
Ok, here is the thing. Your parents credit score doesn't affect yours. At all. IT doesn't help you get a credit card, nor bank accounts.

Unless: Someone has them cosign for a loan or credit card. This is somewhat common with a first car loan or some student loans, but less common with credit cards. They won't be able to do that if they have a low score.

Otherwise, you are basically on your own. The credit stuff you would have experienced coming here is what many 18-year olds hav to deal with. Some older women find themselves in a similar position - the accounts were all in their husband's name.
Can someone explain the other release notes? Most of them seemed terse and I didn't understand what they were saying?
The capnp structure itself could be a hashtable, and doesn't need to be (entirely) loaded into RAM.

I'm saying you create a capnp list, and then you store elements into the list at position according to their hash -- i.e. how you'd build a hashtable, but the capnp list itself is the backing array.

You would have to do this at write time, of course, and make sure the hashing is consistent between runs.
> .. cannot expect all of them to SSH into a single machine ..

That's pretty much how the Cray supercomputer worked at my old university. SSH to a single server containing compilers and tooling. Make sure any data you need is on the cluster's SAN. Run a few cli tools via SSH to schedule job, and bam - a few moments later your program is crunching data on several tens of thousands of cores.
Pay no attention to the hypocrisy behind the ideological curtain!
I like Paul Graham's Tweet: "BMW management meets to decide whether to follow in the footsteps of Nokia" (in reference to this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-electric-strategy-excl...).

Not too long ago, of course, no one could possibly catch the cell phone king Nokia: https://twitter.com/azeem/status/773991128370647040.
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Does the car still use optical cameras? I'm not understanding how those factor in.
If they did, I'd be shocked if large tax cheats weren't tailoring their cheating specifically to the algorithm, and the only people that it caught were small timers and people who made honest mistakes.
Frankly I've used some of these "private banking" services and they never seemed to add anything beyond fees. Maybe I just didn't need anything amazingly super-sophisticed. I suppose if you have more than $50 million (not me!) you might benefit from something exotic.

If you want to pay someone to tell you you're great, get a dog.
Honestly, there's no way I'd use an MCU that doesn't support 16-bit integer types. I've never even heard of such a thing. It's really a property of the compiler, not the hardware. I use 32-bit ints and floats all the time on 8-bit 8051s and AVRs, both of which are among the most primitive microcontrollers in use today. They are typedefed to S32 and F32 precisely because I want a unified code base that compiles and works the same under Windows.

If I know I'll never need more than 8 or 16 bits, I'll use an S8 or S16, but I certainly won't hesitate to use an S32 or even an S64 on these chips if needed. Using "int" is asking for some serious grief in the embedded world, which is why it's almost never done anymore.

I've also never heard of a 24-bit processor -- unless you're thinking of some antediluvian bit-slice processor, or something like that? -- but I'm sure the same code will compile and run on it just fine, if and when I ever encounter one. If not, that's not my problem. It can be blamed jointly on the administration and faculty at the school that handed a diploma to the programmer who wrote the C compiler for it.

At the end of the day, if I'm that worried about RAM and resource usage, or if I'm building 100,000,000 of something that has to use the smallest, cheapest controller possible, I'm probably writing in assembly anyway.
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I found the related course listing from that link really useful: https://see.stanford.edu/materials/aimlcs229/AI-classes.pdf

But there seem to be a few famous ones (such as cs231n) missing. Any current stanford students want to chime in on what else is hot nowadays? In addition what's a recommended course sequence that will take you from cs229 to a bleeding edge deep learning expert?
Thanks, so I guess clojure is not suitable for a beginner now.

On one hand, I like using something that makes me think and also gets the job done (clojure). On the other hand, it feels good to be a member of a huge community (JS, ruby, python developers) and know what many others know.

I had not thought about your points about selling a software in a "less standard" lang. I think you're right.
Heat death === no remaining thermodynamic free energy. The universe is all one temperature, though theories vary widely on what this temperature might be.

At high temperatures crystals vaporize, absorbing heat. At low temperatures, gases sublimate onto the crystal, releasing heat. Either way, if you have crystals, the universe hasn't completed its heat death yet because you could use the crystal to do work.
Obviously the price issues won't be solved for a while

BMW is offering leases that have a TCO around $300/mo: http://www.bmwusa.com/special-offers/lease.2016-BMW-i3-with-..., with a $199/mo sticker price. Especially given the sticker price of the car, that's a pretty fantastic deal.

Most current electric and hybrids have much better lease deals than purchase deals. The three-year leases also make sense because by the time they expire, the market will have shaken out in terms of the Tesla Model III, Chevy Bolt, and other 200-mile-range cars.
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