skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the name isn't too blame, it's the misinterpretation of it (and possibly tesla overselling it).

"Autopilots do not replace a human operator, but assist them in controlling the vehicle, allowing them to focus on broader aspects of operation, such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

I've used an autopilot on a yacht and didn't expect it to dock or avoid ships. A plane autopilot doesn't freak out when the pilot takes their hands off the controls. So there seems to be room to allow the name but tighten how it's used.
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I can't wait. Fast food restaurants with the order terminal flipped around so I can put my order in correctly, the first time around, without waiting for ten minutes for somebody else to get around to serving me, sounds like nirvana.

I'm in these places to get some food and get out in a hurry. Streamlining that process is all good.
Frequently. Passenger air travel. The highway system. Many others.
List of petty annoyances:

- Can't reinstall haskell-stack from Homebrew.

- Karabiner can no longer remap keyboard keys, and seems to be no longer being maintained because development moved to another project.

- CPU is stuck at 100% doing some sort of "optimization"

- Macs Fan Control stops/starts controlling fans randomly
I read articles saying the jobs will be offset with new jobs, but no one bothers to explain what.

That's because it's impossible to know what new jobs will exist in the future. Consider the invention of the digital computer. It would have been impossible to know in the 50s that the thousands of typist jobs would be replaced by web designers, programmers, systems administrators, etc.
For anyone else that doesn't know what it means to come in fifth place: 786 commits by the lead developer, then 58, 46, 34, and finally 24 by yours truly.

https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/graphs/contributors
The best is when you still get blaring ad sound even though "Total silence" mode is on.
There is lots of work on "artistic rendering" like yours, from the early 1990s to the present. It started with work by Paul Haeberli at SGI [1]. The first chapter in "Image and Video-Based Artistic Stylisation", edited by Paul Rosin and John Collomosse [2] describes many techniques you might be interested in. Have a look; you will like what you see.

1.http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97902

2.https://books.google.com/books?id=YjXlTPFYGEYC
BJ Fogg [1] has done a ton of research on habit formation. I successfully used some of it to form simple habits like daily exercise, house chores, etc. Still, you need a reason to get going. I want to drop my body fat to 12%. Sounds stupid, but keeps me going...

[1]http://tinyhabits.com/
So, as a CouchDB 1.x user, where to go next? CouchDB 2.x or Couchbase?
I really like the idea of a pledge for founders but worry about the particular features available here.

The biggest red flag for me is that Founder's Pledge is touted as "completely free," but makes no mention of investment options being available for your assets.

So, while it may not be deducting an administrative fee, keeping your charitable assets with them is akin to leaving your 401(k) assets in cash, which will normally result in you having less funds to donate than if you had used a traditional Donor Advised Fund.

Unless a founder plans on distributing all of their charitable assets immediately (which I believe is atypical), I hope Founder's Pledge discloses that it may be in their best interest to transfer their funds to a Fidelity Charitable or Schwab Charitable DAF where assets can grow.
Gasp! The bot is us! Soylent is people, man!
Hardware bugs are NOT the major source of widely-exploited vulnerabilities in practice. They're a tiny fraction of exploits being used in the wild, and certainly of the ones being used to target the general population.

Further, a buffer overflow is absolutely not a defect in how hardware allocates memory. It's a logical flaw in the software that reads/writes beyond the limits of the memory the programmer intended to access.
EXECUTE itself doesn't cause xid consumption. The increased cost over "plain" queries comes from re-parsing and re-planning queries.
So, double? $400k loaded? I'd buy that.
To clarify, I was saying that the presentation of the circle of fifths was as if it were magical. By itself, the circle of fifths is descriptive more than it is explanatory.
Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub
Statement from Sunlight Foundation's board chairman
It would be interesting to see the analytics for this. I've seen the dialog many times, but can't think of a time I resubmitted the form.
Is it not true that it could have launched barely functional and updates worked out the kinks so that now it is an excellent tablet?
China embarked on wind power frenzy
Clinton email wiper appears to have asked online how to hide 'VIP' info
and the JS is served from a google domain?
I think that this is the first storage device to use the 10nm silicon process. The same dies will be used to make 512GB microSD cards. Perhaps someone from SanDisk can confirm?
>Don't sweat it, when you write your world changing, genre defining masterwork, you can make it as deep and morally ambiguous as you please.

I hate this criticism. The idea that unless you are an author of similar calibre, you are not fit to critique is a dangerous one.

I haven't written an operating system, but I can still tell you that Windows 10 has numerous flaws. Should I STFU until I write my own?
People said the same thing about cold boot attavks against encryption keys. Yet today the police and others are using that and other NAND attacks regularly.

HIPPA is a very easy compliance standard to meet. If it seems difficult to meet those requirements with your standard tool configurations, you should think about what that means with respect to the integrity of your data.
Considering the millions of miles driven each day, even if the networked signal wasn't heavily weighted, a spoofed emergency brake advisor signal could still do significant damage.
A couple of years ago, I explored the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem with a set of interactive processing.js applets.. it might be of interest to some here to feel the impossibility of the task, before understanding it with the classic proof:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2012/02/implicit-bridges.html
Surely that's Dan Brown.
Have you been to Chicago? If so, have you been outside of the Loop?
Has anyone got any info on the long term reliability of SD cards? Could they be used for archival for 10+ years? What about 100?
Many 'occult' groups met in Second Life, some charging money for attendance.
Yep, yep, yep. Just got "there", thanks to the original motivation. Trying to just "live life". Sucks...
Depends on how often you write to it
To-do templates: an open-source gallery of todoist projects
The 15-Point Federal Checklist for Self-Driving Cars
Discrete math first comes to mind first: lists, trees, graphs, etc. Used in basic algorithms 101, but you need some more serious probability theory for probabilistic algorithms.

Linear algebra is useful for computer graphics, but also for general "system thinking" concepts like inputs spaces, output spaces, transformations, and properties of transformations.

Basic differential calculus, meeeh, but multivariable calculus—specifically optimization—is really important in many programming contexts (e.g. machine learning).

Of course, the most important and most basic of all is the notion of a function f(x), its definition, inputs, outputs, properties, etc.
Active learning
Also related to functions: big-O notation.
It's incredibly frustrating that people are getting excited for autonomous cars' ability to free them from the drudgery of driving when this has been a solved problem for a long time with public transit.

Unfortunately anti-public transit special interest groups have discredited public transit initiatives all over, and fighting this has been incredibly difficult.

On your last point people definitely do see owning expensive cars as a status item and for this reason I think it's valid to question to what degree and speed will autonomous car sharing networks replace individually owned cars.
That's the great thing about atheism, there's no governing body so it's whatever you want it to be.
Show HN: The clientside FormulaCompiler converts pseudocode to valid formulae
Hey, that book looks right up my alley... I just ordered a copy. :)
Results of porter roll-call for Debian stretch
Is this the latest work? https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ad16e2f5-fc7c-cc2d-333...
AFAIK there are zero sources reporting SanDisk uses 10nm for this SD card.
A Unix CD ripper preferring accuracy over speed (forked from morituri)
No joke, the Mandarin translation was almost the comment I made. Just before post I reread it and discovered that their misleading phrasing tricked me into almost saying they were wrong. With all the conflicting modifiers, I suppose they are right, but man did I feel like I was supposed to be convinced of the false statement I thought I read.
Flash storage in general is very poor for long-term storage. Current leakage occurs and if they're just sitting on a shelf there's no way for them to self-correct. Your best bet is still tape or optical (think bluray) media.
Doh. Thank you.
If you're 80 and tomorrow is your last day, what advice would you give to your 30 year old self? Then I suggest listening to that advice.
There is a setting in the client to turn this garbage off. It's a terrible default, though.
As you likely know, AMP'd stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages Project; meaning AMP'd is for mobile traffic.
Saruman did what he thought best, initially for noble reasons... and that turned out poorly.

This is part of the seductive power theme in LotR, which in general I consider something of a counterpoint to GGP's complaints about "simplistic morals" and "obvious dichotomy".
You still use the G1?!
I agree. This would greatly frustrate users on quick-feed news sites and social media who are hoping to find that article or post they were just reading to find it now gone because the sites algorithm marked it as 'read'.
Dan Brown wrote a thriller people couldn't put down. Tolkien simulated the hobbits arduous journey with his writing style.

Funnily enough, before the Da Vinci code, the last book I read that I couldn't put down was The Hobbit.
This is a duplicate of the previous discussion from this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539310
Most people can manually defocus their eyes to accomplish the same effect as a farsighted person taking off their glasses
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No clue why you are being downvoted. You are 100 percent correct. If anything, we are now saddled with Tolkien's dry tropes as the defining element of "fantasy".
Anecdotal evidence : As an amateur photographer SD cards are the least reliable storage. ( they are flash memory after all...)
16GB Should be enough for anybody - Google Nexus Team.
Your argument is premised on the assumption that startup employees are being underpaid. If they are really being underpaid, why did they agree to join the startup in the first place? Why not pursue other career options where they won't be underpaid? We aren't talking about big companies like Google or Amazon, which have tremendous negotiating power; we're talking about startups, which by definition, possess little market power through which to distort wages. The idea that someone can point to a very competitive marketplace, and unilaterally declare that the goods are being "undervalued", goes against all free-market/capitalist principles.
He certainly appears to have joined Hacker News for the sole purpose of sharing this pearl of wisdom with us:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pensive_returns
Looks right, yes.
Note that the behavior described in the post is per spec -- the cache spec is a red herring and doesn't apply here. The web specs override the HTTP spec in various spaces.

The relevant spec is at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#the-ses...

Note:

> An entry with persisted user state is one that also has user-agent defined state. This specification does not specify what kind of state can be stored.

> User agents may discard the Document objects of entries other than the current entry that are not referenced from any script, reloading the pages afresh when the user or script navigates back to such pages. This specification does not specify when user agents should discard Document objects and when they should cache them.

and from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#travers...

> If entry no longer holds a Document object, then navigate the browsing context to entry's URL

and

> If entry has a different Document object than the current entry,

> ...

> Make entry's Document object the active document

------

Browsers try to treat the back button as if the user had never left the page. So the XHR requests aren't re-made because the page simply isn't reloaded, it's just made active.

The fact that Chrome says "from cache" might be a bug here, but what the devtools show isn't visible to JS/etc, so this isn't a compatibility issue. AFAICT Chrome and Firefox (and presumably Safari) behave the same here, except from a difference in how the bfcache is invalidated. (chrome seems to invalidate when the domain changes).

I'm not clear why all of this is a problem though. If the page is reloaded, it's reloaded. If it's loaded from the bfcache, it's as if it was never unloaded (almost the same as the user switching a tab and coming back, except of course JS was suspended). Both behaviors seem ... fine for a webapp?
The MRA.org PDF references the article I was thinking of:

> Craig Luebben1 and Chris Harmston did some drop testing on ice screws and found poor results in aerated ice. Using a solid mass of 185 pounds of iron, Luebben reports having “pulled out entire lengths of ice screws” in some tests resulting in a ground fall from the top of the climb.

It appeared in the November 1997 issue of Climbing magazine.
Gwern's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gwern
WebAssembly: Birth of a Virtual ISA (Ben Smith) – Full Stack Fest 2016 [video]
So even after she was voted as the nominee by a democratic primary, because the DNC had their email hacked and she has a temporary case of pneumonia you think she should be replaced?
Melatonin has made it possible for me to sleep much more consistently which has been a huge help, since I saw Gwern's post on it a while ago.
If you like these excerpts, you should definitely check out Kafka's novels. "The Castle" is my favorite book of all time.
> I haven't written an operating system, but I can still tell you that Windows 10 has numerous flaws. Should I STFU until I write my own?

If you started your critique of Windows 10 by calling Microsoft "Most overrated software shop of all time" and then proceeded with a few subjective, shallow criticisms with no detail, you might indeed be told that.

And I'd wager Microsoft has nowhere near the adoration that Tolkien has among HN readers.
SSDs are only rated for one year of retention with power off; I would expect SD cards to be worse. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...

In theory flash can be use for archival but it would have to be refreshed periodically.
Matrix multiplication is a must-have for any graphics programming and knowledge of them is very useful for learning neural networks.

And on the more esoteric side of things, in Quantum Computing every logic gate is actually a Matrix Multiplication
No developers can afford to ignore Mobile Safari, so we're all limited by what Apple chooses to support. It's Apple's prerogative to prioritize what they want for Safari, of course, but there is no justification any more for blocking all other browser engines other than hamstringing web apps.
Good catch! Its always good when your typos completely invalidate the argument you are making.
Marks of Scientific Literacy [pdf]
any recommendation for tape recording devices these days, that will be still supported 10 years from now ?
So what's your argument here, that you agree with me?
> I'd say he invented the genre

No, he really didn't. Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance, there plenty of writers and entire magazines devoted to fantasy.

>Don't sweat it, when you write your world changing, genre defining masterwork, you can make it as deep and morally ambiguous as you please.

Projecting much?
I worked on a project about a year ago on a TI TMS470M using CCS and thought it was pretty nice. It had live RAM view which was really useful for the project I was working on at the time and it was stable.
Use middle click (or for those without a middle mouse button on a computer they can't reconfigure, use ctrl/cmd + click)
Yep, it is like trying to make new Star Wars films. The magic is just gone. Still, the Star Wars brand remains strong, even if just by virtue of magic long past. :)
These look great!
This engine tries to define anything (and sometimes fails hilariously)
China's Tiangong-1 space station 'out of control' and will crash to Earth
Does Glycemic Response to Food Really Affect Appetite?
Except that the Nexus 6P came in 32/64/128 GB configurations and the Nexus 5P came in 16/32 GB configurations.
Someone asked this a few months ago and the book that was referred was Concrete Mathematics by Knuth (https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Compu...) which I have since purchased and have enjoyed re-learning from college. Highly recommended, and should cover all you need to know. Very approachable text.
Seil does Caps Lock rebinding, I use it for keyboard layout switch.
I would think you could get basic support for any device from Linux. Question is really, why not offshore the device support to someone else entirely?

Hosted backups are likely at least as reliable as anything you can do. Right?
Dokany - The windows OS FUSE Wrapper
There is no problem with being located in sf but I would take issue with the idea its a job that 'requires' one to be located in sf or have access to the absoute 'highest quality' of engineers.

On the contrary there is a risk of adding complexity where none is needed because super high quality talent requires super high quality work and if the work of generating certs is not challenging enough, complexity is created, like Acme.

I am not sure why generating a cert is so involved with letsencrypt. Does Dns validation, file validation or email validation require a new standard. Perhaps a simple rest api and web frontend would be better.

Here is my domainname, my cert request and a file on my server or dns entry to verify, now can I have a cert please? This is the process. Why does it need a client, and one that can automatically update certs!! and an elaborate new standard? There is no way I am running this on a live server, so the automation is then moot.

I would rather pay $20-40 a year than babysit my ssl every 90 days, and this is for a wildcard.

The kind of folks who automate things spend hundreds of dollars a month on aws or gce, and willingly pay 10 times more for bandwidth than they would at do or vultr. Is $20 a year or $2 a month per wildcard domain in this context really an issue? So who does the automation target and benefit?

For others a manual process would have been more accesible, there are tons of others things to do with one's time, le is automated but that is one more thing to monitor and that can go wrong.

I can't help feeling the whole cert generation process could be simplified and artificial restrictions around 90 days and wildcards re-evaluated. That would be valuable to users, contribute to make running things simpler and money well spent.
Well, to start with, the zeitgeist of the times - https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8846774/Wall.htm...
Then you can look at the consumer complaints to the US Government which spurred Congressional hearings in 1965 bringing about the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, where just for example, a consumer complaint testified that "As if bacon packaging wasn't deceptive enough, <*> has the practice of putting pieces of 100% fat slapped together under the bacon completely out of sight", among so many others. Get those transcripts. Personally, the only reason I am aware of it was that it was on the news, and I was a kid; I mean, the news was only 30 minutes nightly so topics like Vietnam got airtime and were memorable; upset consumers I do remember. In those days, I think, bacon was a necessity, very much a staple, more so than today because of meat or nitrate avoidance - it is what you had for breakfast; people knew how to buy bacon as they had been buying it from a butcher directly, could gauge lean/fat ratio and had very high expectations, but apparently were being ripped off. You'd have to find those newsreels to verify my claims.
>few subjective, shallow criticisms

What criticism isn't subjective?

I'd vouch that Tolkien is massively overrated as a writer. Perhaps not of all time, but up there along with Stephen King. I like Lord of the Rings just fine but it's not even close to my favorite work of written fantasy. His worlds are huge and beautiful, yes, especially his invented languages. But as works of readable fiction, they just fall so flat. My favorite part of the books are the indices because that's Tolkien's wheelhouse.
Lots of areas are important. Every job I have worked has had a specific math specializations that were important. Reed-Solomon codes are used in storage and communication systems. They make use of abstract algebra (finite/Galois fields). Linear systems theory is essential for signal processing and control systems. Quaternions are important in aerospace and graphics.
I believe prisma uses Neural Style for most of its images, and that generally doesn't take too long to train IIRC
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List of unsupported features and alternatives - https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Unsupported
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The difference is that you can go back and reload to do that with the preserved state model, but there's no way to go back to old state with a back-and-fetch model.
You don't know anything about the majority of the people you are insulting. It's childish to do that.
Yes, as a mathematical object, that is true. But any symbol we render in the physical world is going to be finite.

Drawing a straight mark and calling it an infinite set of points isn't really different from drawing a sideways 8 and calling it an infinite set. It's a symbol that represents something else.
TouchKit: open source multitouch
I suspect many modern readers consider Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels long-winded. Does that make him overrated, or just not quite in tune with Twitter-sized attention spans?
I stopped reading after the grammar of the first two sentences. I cannot parse the second sentence, although I think I get what they are trying to say. Fair or not, I interpret this as a public service announcement against nootropics.