skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your reply to a well-argued post, you offer no similarly well-argued refutation of its points, just an emotional appeal based on generalities (I say 'emotional' because you take an explicit 'it is us against them, you are either for us or against us' position.) What you are missing is that opposition to simplistic arguments and false dichotomies where safety is an issue is not opposition to autonomy. What you are missing is that one can look forward to autonomy while advocating reasonable caution.
I also got into quotes and whatnot issues but the file format is YAML, not a devilish Ansible invention.
Ask HN: TuSimple achieves state-of-the-art results on KITTI and Cityscapes
Chinese company TuSimple just achieved new state-of-the-art results on KITTI and Cityscapes. The company started a autonomous driving project a month ago.

What do the results mean? How does the them related to the real autopilot system? Are there any benchmarks for autopilot system?
No reason robots can't eventually do complicated cooking tasks that are tedious for people. Plus robots don't steal or spit on your food.
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Amp is not a proprietary format so Google lockin doesnt come in. Plus it is a subset of html so all browser should be able to open the amp pages.
Sometimes I feel people oppose stuff just because it is from a company that don't like rather than the technical aspects of it.
> But it's really a SaaS model of you think about it.

Spirituality as a service?
I tried rustup.rs on PacBSD, and everything just worked, so presumably it'll just work on FreeBSD too.
Just a note that Upstart is Ubuntu-only and it's actually going to be replaced by systemd.
I'm not talking about how Let's Encrypt spends it's money, I'm talking about how I spend mine :)
Unfortunately, the historical precedent is that demand for bitcoin payments in polls and online forums is much greater than the actual demand if they actually go through the trouble of accepting accepting payments.
In thr most famous Tesla case, the driver was a huge advocate and YouTuber who pushed autopilot to its limits intentionally, not being a good copilot.
"The only restrictions are that the charity can’t be political or religious."

That adds quite a bias to the whole "YC and Founders Pledge" idea.
I'm from Chicago suburbs, but worked in the city this summer. I agree 100% with Thiel. I'm trying _very_ hard to not have to work in the city when I graduate in December. I believe the passion just isn't here from the small sample of software engineers that I interacted with. I might be extremely naive to say that. I think evidence would support my theory such as there not being very many interesting startups in Chicago. Only a select few that I've heard of that I would want to work at. Chicago seems to be dominated by Finance.
Skype has gone down hill terribly since being acquired by Microsoft. You can almost draw a line in the sand it's been so bad.

I used to use skype for texting people, but it's now completely useless for that. They can't receive any SMS messages from any phones (at least in the US), and who knows if what you send actually goes somewhere. Nevermind they advertise this feature when you're signing up. Its shocking they would allow a feature like that to still exist and just be fundamentally broken. They did recently move it to some obscure place in the UI in a recent "update" and not even one of their support people knew where it had gone; I had to find it again myself.

That said, all the recent UI updates have been horrible. Not just talking buggy, but the general look and feel has gone way down hill. I had an old laptop with an older version of the Skype client and its amazing the different. They should have left well enough alone.

Add in the super annoying birthday notifications as chat messages, the spam that has gotten out of control, broken payments recharge/web UI, it's a wonder Microsoft should just shutter the entire product down. It's ruined and I have stopped using it. It's clear they do not care about their end users, or improving the product in any sustainable way.

I wonder how long before the same happens with LinkedIn (which is already on the deathbed in terms of how bad and buggy it's been getting lately).
I wonder what he would say about Toronto.
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Having your hands on the wheel is not a reliable indicator that you are paying any attention and are ready to take control.

An eye-tracking system might work.
Tangentially related, in the sense of inspiring imagination - this summer I was in Switzerland and looked up Wiki articles on where I was visiting, and came across this Tolkien-related tidbit:

>J. R. R. Tolkien hiked from Interlaken to the Lauterbrunnen Valley while on a trip to the Continent in 1911. The landscape of the valley later provided the concept and pictorial model for his sketches and watercolours of the fictitious valley of Rivendell, the dwelling place of Elrond Half-elven and his people.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauterbrunnen

Having accidentally recreated this trek, I can attest to its natural beauty, and I can see how it inspired his imagination. I highly recommend doing the same if you're lucky enough to be able to.

A photo of Lauterbrunnen: http://gotravelaz.com/wp-content/uploads/images/Lauterbrunne...
The more human drivers that are replaced by software, the less congestion there will be on the roads. It's delays in human reaction times which cause cars to back up on roads and take forever to get through intersections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
Oracle Compute Pricing
Yeah, definitely, trying to find actual torrent sites now amounts to adding "magnet" "btih" to your query or you get a bunch of junk spam sites filled with malware.
I played with the idea of implementing a little Forth for the PRU, but wasted a weekend looking for fast multiply and divide algorithms (IIRC, it can only do addition, subtraction & left/right-shift). It's a neat little platform, but at the end of the day I've not found any really pressing need to use it.

That doesn't mean others haven't, of course — I'm very much a software guy these days. Kinda wish I'd had a BeagleBone back when I was a kid, designing & soldering my own stuff: I bet it'd have been awesome. Can't even imagine what Forrest M. Mims could come up with using one of them as a platform!
Please stop spreading FUD. The quote from safecurves you posted is actually describing the very reason safecurves exists in the first place. And it lists the curves that are safe to use.

"Most of these attacks would have been ruled out by better choices of curves that allow simple implementations to be secure implementations. This is the primary motivation for SafeCurves. The SafeCurves criteria are designed to ensure ECC security, not just ECDLP security."

Also you completely ignored them main part of my earlier comment. The actually widely adapted, curve25519 by djb (who's also the author of that safecurves page) with no currently known weaknesses (and needless to say, no backdoors either).
Not strictly a cop show, but I've said before that I considered "24" to be one of the greatest examples of propaganda ever made.

I remember my liberal friends unwilling to miss an episode, and talking more and more about the need to "protect ourselves from the terorists".

It was somewhat surreal. And frightening.

P.S. Seriously, I'm not sure Bush, Cheney, et al. could have gotten so far down the slippery slope (with many of that bunch sliding willingly) or brought the country with them, without "24". Whether or not the producers of "24" directly intended this.
Thanks for this.

Instead of years, the type of content might be a better method of organization. But then again, there aren't many videos so maybe years are the best order.
I didn't say you had to be in SF. Just that you'll be competing with SF for talent.
"Maybe it wasn't so in the US but in the UK, Europe, Australia and NZ the Amiga WAS mass market."

While I know of quite a few people (at least 4) who owned, used Amiga, the Amiga was always the rich-mans computing option. Most home computing at that time was Commodore, PC even Trash-80s.
I don't "need" anything in a book, but it sure was handy to have a full, detailed breakdown with a lot of pictures when I read the first edition of the book without first having to installing some software (CouchDB) that, at the time when I bought the book to learn about it, I did not know if I had actual use for, and did not want to spend time finding my way through its interface in order to find out.

The admin interface of 2.0 will probably be familiar since I've already learned my way around older releases. Nonetheless, I think that there is no question about the fact that if there comes a second edition of the book that is going to cover 2.0, and seeing as how the first edition has some stuff about the admin interface, that's obviously going to need to be updated, no question about it.

So when I buy the next edition of the book, I will probably just skim through the admin interface stuff, but not all readers will have used a previous version of CouchDB, so to some of them, having that covered and up to date will be valuable like it was to me the first time I wanted to know about CouchDB.

So if you think I'm saying that I need the book to learn the admin interface, I think you did not understand what I meant, because that is not what I meant. I meant that I want to learn about mango and clustering, and that I also expect the next edition of the book to have the parts about the admin interface updated.
> Battle-tested at instacart

If you don't mind me asking, for how long?

I've found using EXECUTE in insert triggers to be very problematic - it consumes a txid, AIUI, and every 200m inserts, a bunch of anti-wraparound autovacuums have to to scan allofthethings. My insert triggers have big blocks of IF/ELSIF branches (although it's straightforward enough to construct those in pl/pgsql, just requires an extra level of indirection when preparing the partitioning).
Should have been titled:

"Is Your JavaScript Function Actually Pure? An impractical guide to Pedantic JavaScript."
The name is not the problem. Regardless of what you call it, once people find out empirically that their attention is not needed most of the time, even the most well-intentioned minds will wander.
I've yet to see a compiler that can beat a human hand-optimizing. It's true that for zero effort the compiler can usually do better but if you really care about performance you need to get around those abstractions. I worked on a wavelet video decoder, after a while we had a pretty optimized C code that used SSE intrinsics for large portions of the decode. Some clever guy spent 3 months and rewrote the entire decoder in assembly. It involved careful data layout and optimizing the instruction sequences. It ran more than twice as fast than our hand optimized C code. Same algorithm, input and output.
Ask HN: What is the necessary knowledge to build a chatbot?
I would not be so jealous with ownership. I actually turned down investment from people I should have pursued as partners.
I agree and want to corroborate from another point of view, speaking as someone that's hired at and been a technical lead at multiple organizations: it's very hard to find actual talent, and paying a higher salary for one actually talented engineer is almost always a better investment than paying average salaries for, say, three average engineers (conservatively).

From that point of view, which I am convinced of, I not only see no problem with this - I see it as a good sign, and have more faith in the organization because of it.
Even if it's a little bit primitive, the facebook chat at mbasic.facebook.com still works when you need it.
Toronto is much different from Chicago in respect to the technology scene. Being Canada's biggest, and primary city for tech, there is a lot of passion and motivation to make concentrated in the community their. And the University of Waterloo is a mere hour drive away from Toronto and has been a major feeder school to tech companies for ages now. I visited Toronto for a hackathon in April and was amazed by the amount of companies in the area as well as the organizations that supports technology. Can't say the same about Chicago.
Fox News has now picked this up:
"Clinton email wiper appears to have asked online how to hide 'VIP' info"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/20/clinton-email-wip...
Or maybe that she should have used the official State Department email system/service?
Startups are hobbies in Chicago. Leave or work remotely if you want to work for one.

Source: I lived in Chicago most my life, and worked for two startups there. I now work for a Bay Area startup remotely.
That was a change we just recently made within the past week. We went to a newer, nicer, more modern theme.
Apple owns the world's largest hedge fund
> For instance, HN just performed a full page load for me to make this comment, and will do another one after I click "reply", and then I'll have to find my place again.

That's why I comment in a new tab.

But yes, I see that as an example where JavaScript could improve an HTML page — but that's no reason to make it impossible to use with JavaScript!
This article no longer reflects the behavior of Safari at least as of version 10 (the version that ships with macOS Sierra). In my tests, the second version of the page that attempts to bust the bfcache behaves identically to the first version, i.e. the bfcache is not in fact busted.
LA is on on point with New York as well for tech opportunity.
Definitely a few good resources on there. I will check back and make use of what I can. Thanks!
Toronto is certainly growing and certainly the most ambitious and challenging city in Canada. However it's not near the level of Bay Area or even NYC for tech. There's a small community that you can be a part of but the general feeling of energy isn't there.
So true.
Half of the time when I find myself on a engineering blog for a startup, I am curious about their product but there is no link to their main page. Clicking on the logo redirects me to blog.<startup>.com
Oracle made big claims this week about beating AWS in both price and performance.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3122424/cloud-computing...

As for performance, you'll just have to take their word for it. The user agreement prohibits disclosure of any benchmark or performance testing results without Oracle's prior written consent.

http://imgur.com/a/kXWRH
This pretty much explains away the entire article.

The progression of sounds that a baby learns is well understood, especially the physiological aspects of language development and acquisition.

If we accept as a premise that cultures would tend to assign words most relevant to babies according to their physiological capability, then it becomes obvious why words for mother, father, and even facial features would be strongly similar across cultures. And why the similarity will slowly diminish as the meaning of words becomes less important, functionally, for communication with a child.

And especially for simple words the phonetics would have very little to do with cognitive development (and evolutionarily-dictated language models), but be controlled almost entirely by a baby's physical constraints--e.g. huge tongue in a tiny mouth, poor motor control, etc.
But Thiel doesn't really target tech workers, he makes a more general observation, and its also valid for Toronto. If are smart and ambitious enough you shouldn't stay in Toronto.
I remember reading your article when it was first published. :)

Sometimes in attempting to hide complexity we introduce further complexity. For example, many modern IDEs make some tasks more difficult than they need to be, when editing a text file would suffice (and provides more programmatic flexibility).

I think that it probably is too harsh to boot into a terminal, but to make a terminal readily available for users with a friendly programming interface would not hurt - and this exists in some form today but still lacks the magic of QBASIC/etc.
The mobile gaming trend is terrible. Even some of the nicer game apps (like "two dots") are becoming blatant Skinner box slot machines. The sole purpose of the mechanics and design is to draw you in, keep you coming back, and subtly suggest endless creative ways of "paying to win". It's disgusting.

I know they are between and a rock and a hard place in terms of actually making any money, but I honestly would rather have zero mobile games than the current adversarial and manipulative ones.
I'm sure it was unintentional, but you seriously derailed this thread by bringing in a truckload of extraneous provocation.

Tangents to marginally related things can be interesting, but the fact that an unrelated essay also uses the word 'creepy' isn't sufficient reason to turn an HN discussion into a flamewar. If the quote had been from the OP it would have been one thing, but BYOE (bringing your own explosives) is not cool.
Hacking electricity, water, and food
sssh ;) don't tell them
Beer and bibles don’t mix
Have you looked into Optimizely paired with a gem like this: https://github.com/MartijnSch/optimizely-gem?
He's talking about Opera 12 and before which was built on the Presto engine, not the Webkit engine
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My company switched from WebEx to Skype Business last year. There was a transition period. Everyone stayed in WebEx till they shut down out accounts.

The list of gripes is too long...but let's just say With the lost of productivity I hope they are paying my company to use it.
Chinese company TuSimple just achieved new state-of-the-art results on KITTI and Cityscapes. They obtained best results on object detection, object tracking and road segmentation on KITTI and image segmentation on Cityscapes.

- http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/eval_object.php

- http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/eval_tracking.php

- http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/eval_road.php

- https://www.cityscapes-dataset.com/benchmarks/#pixel-level-r...

And They just started their autonomous driving project

- http://www.tusimple.com/index_en.html
Why are complex numbers in Python denoted with 'j' instead of 'i'?
Streisand Marketing (TM).
The Rise of MOS Technology and the 6502 (2003)
I use the app version on win 10(anniversary) not the desktop. Don't know if that makes a difference but works fine for me. Even talking across the great firewall of china works fine surprisingly.
Evernote is moving to the Google Cloud Platform
Post-quantum key exchange – A new hope [pdf]
Has anyone who implemented AMP on their personal site actually seen the AMP result show up in search? I implemented AMP some time ago just for fun and I see no sign of it in search results for my blog. The AMP validation tool as well as the Search Console say there are no problems.
Let me guess, your company hired a "growth hacker?"
-- Douglas Adams
Shocking that they've been hosting their own servers until now..
read this post, "Commodore Back in Germany" first ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539051#12542958
I would all be interested in such a place.
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For complex jobs that require lot of focus and perseverance where the employee is going to be remote and on their own, yes - nothing other than a highly self motivated, talented individual will work out.

But for the jobs that are moderately complicated and require a team - like in offshored projects for e.g. - giving that team their own local office to work, hiring a good manager to track their work/progress and provide local motivation, setting up communication infrastructure (Skype, Slack, Code Repositories, Bug Repos etc.), managing timing differences, having the team fly over to your main location or having your core team go visit them once in a while, identifying skill gaps and setting up training to address those, starting slow and initially giving team members clearly defined work which can be reviewed objectively and giving the team actionable feedback etc. can make it a whole lot easier down the line when workload increases and you can't afford low quality work. As an ongoing thing - communication becomes the main thing so making sure to have short, meaningful meetings to review, hear, appraise, provide feedback etc. are a must. (W.r.t communication - being clear and direct, not using culture specific lingo, making sure people understand what you are expecting from them and assigning timeline and ownership for key items verbally make a great difference.)

And there's still attrition to deal with but it can be worked around by having well documented processes and keeping a good work environment. It sounds like a lot but it's a one time thing and some of these apply to local teams too. Finally keep in mind that you can't really magically escape all of s/w engineering problems just by having a local team - there's going to be complacent people, people with skills issues, communication problems etc. and the issues are not limited to remote teams although they do get harder to manage.
The Trouble with Sombreros
I bet the little robots act as platforms for individual boxes. Little mobile conveyor belts. When all of the products are relatively large boxes that can be stacked you don't really have to pick things up. That is the big difference between individual customer fulfillment. Amazon has to pack a bunch of odd shaped items. When everything goes comes in and goes out on pallets you know all the components are pallet friendly. It is a nice niche to be in.
Talent is different from ambition. He was talking about ambition, not talent. You can have neither, either, or both.
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> If a start up fails then the equity is worthless. That's how equity is _supposed_ to work.

Correct. I never said anything to the contrary...

> As for Facebook and Google, you heard wrong. I worked at both companies and know quite a bit about how much equity employees got.

Data? I'm fine with being wrong but being told that and given nothing is...a bit unsatisfying.
Drake would like a word with you.
I moved from DC to Chicago and I love it here. I don't know where Thiel is getting his data but there are a lot of talented ambitious people in Chicago doing amazing things. To me going to New York or Silicon Valley is akin to the goldrush. Their is a lot of competition, nowhere to live, and lots of sheisty people that want to rob you or make you work for free for them. Thanks but no thanks.

Chicago has contributed immensely to the tech world. For example, Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago based company. And I know for fact there are a lot of rails apps powering Silicon Valley and NY.

I guess my point is that there are smart engineers everywhere and its more up to your own individual drive how far you go. Good thing about Chicago is that's it cleaner and cheaper than San Fran or NY so I'll take my chances.
That did it! Thank you very much. What do you recommend for the number of shapes when creating a gif?
Providers in my town still offer dialup [0]. Utterly useless considering that a) websites are enormous and b) they're supposed to be shutting down the copper lines in favour of the new fibre.

I have seen one or two people purchase it: for long running processes that don't use speed. Like a dedicated IRC bot.

[0] http://offers.dodo.com/dialup1_1304/
You can still do so by donating 5$ per year or any other amount you'd like - which is awesome! More things should come around in this way. Talk about being inclusive.
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Frankly, I'd make it part of a non profit group to advocate for age blind hiring. Get donations, pay yourself a reasonable salary, have the job board be part of it.
Saltstack for DevOps – Fast and simple IT automation and configuration management
Please don't. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12544564 for why.
Pushbullet was developed more with Android in mind.