skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really think so? Sure, in an urban environment cameras and alarms might work.

But good luck protecting a truck on an open highway miles away from the nearest town.

HN conversations about autonomous vehicles are normally focussed on the technical hurdles of getting a car to drive and navigate autonomously. Maybe I'm cynical, but I think dealing with the actions of humans outside the vehicle will be a challenge of at least equal size.
The reasonable null hypothesis is that they aren't. Once we remove all the other factors, if we still have a bias in the results, then it would be time to conclude otherwise - but not until then.

Also note that "spend time tinkering with computers as young boys" is exactly what I mean by discrimination earlier in the pipeline - if your parents and other adults expect you to not be interested in computers as a kid on account of your gender, and don't provide opportunities to explore that (i.e. when boys get a Lego robotics kit for their birthday, but girls get dollhouses), that's already discriminatory.
--and BY him. Great read.
I expected an odd argument about speech to the patent office in constructing an absurd patent and was pleasantly surprised that it was more thought out.

But the argument seems like it should equally end trade secrets and the various gag orders from the legal system over civil matters? Aren't these limiting your 1st amendment rights and of lower priority than those rights?
Comcast is rolling out unlimited potential liability

No, that's not true. The maximum additional liability is $200.

From the article linked to in the recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663935

The third time it's exceeded within a 12 month period, however, the "courtesy months" go away and users will be charged $10 for an additional 50GB of data, which will continue happening to a limit of $200 per month. If you want unlimited data access, you can buy it up front, for an additional $50 per month over your current internet bill.
I first noticed it earlier this week when I hit 631, pretty sure they weren't there at 500 but I could be wrong.
Lawsuit Claims Yahoo’s Marissa Meyer Led ‘Purge’ of Male Employees
This is kind of what we're building in Huntsville, Ala. right now. The local city owned utility, Huntsville Utilities, is building out the fiber network and other ISPs will operate the actual service.

So far the only one announced is Google Fiber, but the long term plan I've heard is for choice.
You cannot expect to capture a panorama from every point within 10000m of the surface of the earth. That is simply impossible.

Impossible today? sure.

But not necessarily tomorrow.

Think Quantum computing, middle-out compression, and billions (trillions?) of microscopic camera drones floating in the air.
I eat up more than 30GB a day from video streaming alone.

Think of how connected households are today, you've got everything connected to the internet now. Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, Streaming devices in every room, learning devices/gadgets for kids. You've got Netflix/HBO/Prime video, Spotify, apple music, Cloud backup services will eat into that bandwidth as well.

Just checked my last months usage and I've used 1.3TB of data, and it's not that I'm doing anything crazy, it just adds up.
Which takes me back to the question of what you mean by "disinterested academic". You implied it meant there was a monetary conflict of interest, but now you imply that it's something to do with tone?
I searched and searched, but I couldn't find a download link on Firebase.com. Help?
I know for a fact (and you can check online too), that Google's non-public datasets are magnitudes larger in training size and far superior in learning signal (labels are very close to their task).

Google has thousands of real robotic manipulator arms to train their reinforcement learning algorithms. Algorithms trained using the OpenAI gym are practically guaranteed to fail in the real world since OpenAI gym is (designed as) a perfect simulator. Don't even get me started on internal image and speech recognition datasets collected from YouTube, search indexing, and Hangouts/Duo calls.

There is no way in hell you can compete with this. The closest you have is Facebook. But they've built an AI that has just learned how to play Go. Let alone defeat a world champion. Hell, Google is already working on beating humans at Starcraft.
it seems programmers are one of the most in-demand type of worker right now. I understand the fear of becoming pressured out of a job... but what about every other sector in the economy?

I think before our profession's sector becomes threatened, a whole lot of other sectors are going to blow up in a mushroom cloud of automation/obsoleteness (caused perhaps by us!) and force the economy to rethink jobs/food/shelter/basic necessities for everyone.
Probably not. And Zach already made asm into a game with TIS-100, which you should totally play.
You try checking a wrong box that nets you millions, and see how willing the justice system is to take you at your good word.
Agree. When I took linear algebra I calculated plenty of eigenvalues/eigenvectors without having any idea what they actually were or why I was doing it. Then one day years later I saw the Mona Lisa examples on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors

I was simultaneously thrilled that these concepts actually had meaning and annoyed that no one explained this meaning to me at the time. Math is filled with definitions and proofs, but none of that has any point unless the result actually corresponds to something interesting!

(btw I don't have any experience of learning from common core, so I don't know if I would like it or not)
Using different worker types with Celery and Django
Anyone here with an Erdős number less than 3? I have a 4, which is probably not going to change (I work in research engineering rather than research mathematics these days).
I admit I don't have a lot of experience with MongoDB, but RethinkDB was really easy to plug into Node. While we didn't support PHP officially, the PHP RethinkDB driver was maintained by RethinkDB's engineering manager, Daniel Mewes, and it looked pretty solid.

When I started at RethinkDB, it was before changefeeds were a thing. I always thought the "killer feature" was, well, ReQL. It had the qualities of an ORM/DB Builder in your native language of choice. There was a poster on the wall that said "Databases should be indistinguishable from magic"; I always thought that was a perfect pitch to the RethinkDB audience. I understand why they canted toward pitching the realtime aspects first and foremost after changefeeds came about, but I thought it had great power even if you weren't focused on realtime/event-driven aspects, and perhaps that should have been emphasized more.
> Why the nickel and dime-ing just to get an extra $150 from a handful of customers who forgot to monitor their usage

They want that ARPU to go up by $50 for the people who think they're heavy users but aren't always heavy users. Best of both worlds from their perspective: someone who only hits 1TB a couple of months out of the year could wind up giving them $500/year of "free" money (10 months of not going over but still paying the unlimited charge). And someone else who doesn't go over except once but does it really big kicks in another $100 or so.

It's all about the ARPU.
True. I miss the way Seattle was when I moved here long ago when it was still a Boeing town. There was a unique Seattle culture that seems to have faded away. Fortunately, the local TV show "Almost Live" did a great job of capturing it for posterity. Few non-locals get the jokes in it, and in 20 years few Seattlites will, either.
Nickel-and-diming is Comcast's way of life
Correction: EpiPen Maker Mylan's Shareholders Will Pay $465M to Settle Medicaid Overcharging Case
Concur. We've been running a small cluster for about a year and we've had the same experience thus far.
Benchmarks for Node.js vs. Swift Server-Side Frameworks (Ubuntu)
Look at the movie 2001 released in 1968. Commercial space flights. A full AI. Living on the moon. And people pretty much thought all that was inevitable (so disappointed it didn't happen). To me this point in time seems less future obsessed.
How are you defining a superpower such that Russia is not a member and maybe the USSR wasn't one?
My startup hired entry-level people for account management. Biz dev involves a lot of high-touch activity which no company will be comfortable handing over to entry-level employees. But account management jobs can be a good path to biz dev positions.
>> If your candidates are 800 men and 200 women, and you need to hire the 100 best candidates from that pool, you have very little to believe that the 100 best candidates are roughly 80 men and 20 women.

Why not?

Statistically, at least, this should be true, provided that the candidates have been treated equally before they came to you. If they have disadvantaged in that treatment, it will skew the outcome even more against the discriminated minority - e.g. if women tend to get shittier education in certain field because their teachers don't believe them as capable as men, then of those 200 female candidates, the proportion of ones that are less qualified is likely to be lower.

If you somehow end up with the numbers that are reversed, it's not at all unreasonable to ask why - there ought to be a cause, and for a difference that big, it should be prominent. It may well be a reasonable cause - maybe you just got a bunch of really bright women in that batch, and that will be reflected in their career records etc. But it may also be sexism or other form of discrimination not related to performance.

We do investigations of discrimination against minorities based on statistics like these all the time. For example, one of the underpinnings of the ongoing push for police reform in US is the disproportionate number of black people when it comes to police interactions, arrests (esp. for often substance-less crimes like "resisting arrest" or "disorderly conduct"), and convictions. Generally speaking, this is not considered proof of discrimination by itself, but when there's corroborating evidence (e.g. you find out that some PD had a racist internal culture, based on the SMS the officers send to each other etc), it can certainly strengthen the case to the point where discrimination becomes the default assumption, and another explanation would require substantial proof.

In this lawsuit, the guy does cite several specific examples that, at face value, do indicate discriminatory approach, so dismissing such a large disparity and such a quick rate of change as "it just happens, wasn't on purpose" out of hand is not feasible - it requires evidence to rebut.
Solar powers yo!

Also there could be a mother ship blimp beaming energy to them via deadly microwave radiation.
The Factorio system you just described is very much modded minecraft. In fact, with the aid of Railcraft, you could literally build exactly that.

Ordinarily, I'd be with you on LPs, but this is SethBling. It's not so much an LP as it is a "look at the cool stuff I built this week."
Well, Russia has about 5 times as many military personal, plus about 2,000 nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
I would disagree. I am not much into Chess, but I used to play a fair amount and consider myself fairly good.

At the very least, playing a sufficient amount of Chess against sufficiently skilled opponents will teach you things that are easily generalizable.

Just one example, thinking strategically over the long term (several moves ahead), rather than short term (only thinking about your next move).
I don't think that's the only factor in wind handling.

It would suck because of the area exposed, I suppose you'd weather vane into the wind.

Perhaps it is skinny front view and the volume goes vertical like a fish body.
Watch:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wN4yLPPvRBg
The other option is to use coanda-effect vehicles which I'm not sure if there is an efficiency gain.

The other thing too I brought up with somebody else is to use muscle wire or memory wire and put that into blades that are otherwise soft. So if it's about to strike something the blades go limp.
Yeah, I realize I live in a bubble where everyone uses LaTeX, and that most of the world's papers are written in Word (the horror!).
I think there are probably many of them but they are hard to think of because they would relate to unusual situations. There at least one very nice that I know : if you are hosting something (eg a webserver) behind a connection with limited upload capabilities like a consumer grade DSL, you can very easily aggregate multiple uploads links with nothing more than a bit of iptable magic. It would be completely transparent to the downloading peer.
The Jeannete expedition of 1878 was the last expecting an open polar sea, at least according to Hampton Sides's book In the Kingdom of Ice. The expedition's captain met with world-renowned cartographer and open polar sea advocate August Petermann before leaving. While they were en route, it was discovered that the Kuroshio current was nowhere near as strong as anticipated.
In my opinion rethinkdb is super easy to get going and use. The low touch maintenance is what drew me originally.

However, learning to live without transactions takes some rethinking of the approaches taken. It's totally doable but it may not come easy if you're used to transactions in an RDBMS.

Of course in today's distributed multi service multi database world, learning to live without transactions is becoming more and more important anyway.
Practicing math will only make you better at math. Taking the time to truly understand the math in the most general terms will make you good at truly understanding anything in the most general terms.
The only effective way for weight loss is making sure that one's caloric intake is less than the amount of calories they burn. And the only way of achieving that is diet and exercise.

Also comparing the human body/brain to a car/mechanical device would be incorrect and is probably an apple to oranges comparison.
Iraq is a bad example. That is because almost all the non-american nuclear proliferation experts also thought that Iraq had a big nuclear program. That is because they were shocked to discover after the Kuwait war that he was a year from having nuclear weapons, and he refused to agree to real inspections.
The Field Trip to Mars
I don't see how WYSIWYG conflicts with markdowns version controllability, which is it's real advantage over something like MS word. FYI, markdown has WYSIWYG editors already, and this is one of them. This one relies on keyboard shortcuts versus clickable hints, which MS word offers, making it appealing to a non programmer
Nope, that's how they get you.

They have projected precisely the point at which they can enter the market with a cap high enough that nobody will care today, and over time things like 4K netflix and larger and larger games, with frequent large patches and OS updates will eat that buffer to become pure profit. They will be sticking hard at 1TB, not at 99th percentile. Remember that 4K is 4x the pixels that 1080p is, and HDR adds even more data.
I think you're reading something into my comment I didn't intend. Gates and Microsoft generally did a lot of important work that made the open PC ecosystem a long term success, but IBM is the one that created that ecosystem, and Gates took advantage of that opportunity.

edit: Looking back on my original comment, I can see where I should've phrased things better. When I said I couldn't see giving Gates any credit for the open PC ecosystem, I should've said "the creation of" the open PC ecosystem. We may still disagree, but at least now we'll be on the same page about where the points of disagreement are. =)
I enjoy this song, but it is rather dated. The new and confusing way of doing math he describes is the way I learned it in the 90s. It's mostly confusing in the song because it's done quickly and the visualizations added in this version are intentionally obtuse.

The song is occasionally used as an argument for going back to the old way, but it seems somewhat contradictory when parents of school-aged children aren't old enough to have experienced the old style of math instruction he advocated for. New math was a trend from the 1960s, so you'd have to be pushing 70 to have experienced elementary school math before it.
Both parties have shifted dramatically towards hawkish positions since 2001, even in the face of waning public support for foreign adventurism. I'm curious to see how long it takes the pendulum to swing back.
> The reality is simple: It's them or... dialup? Satellite? couple other crappy options. The joy of "monopolies".

OTA channels + indoor antenna. Workes pretty well for me. We watched the Olympics that way, and more recently the presidential debates.
> since it's not an actual physical or mental state someone can be definitively in or not in

How do you know that?
So this guy has a job, is able to commute, is able to donate money to charity, able to smile though bitterly. He had big dreams, and now is down? I don't get it. He's not jobless, he's not homeless, he's able to commute probably not even in a wheelchair or crutches. He's has spare change in his pocket. There is no sense of gratitude for what he does have and complains about what he doesn't have. Welcome to reality.
Hi, I'm a pathology resident and I would like to present a journal club on this. My undergrad is in physics and I have taught myself some bioinformatics, like Durbin's use of Markov models, Ukkonen's suffix tree, BWT, BLAST, but clearly I'm no informatics expert. Two questions:

1) in the absence of a reference genome, does Burrows-Wheeler not apply?

2) Could you recommend any good articles to start from?
I would say that taking lots of tests may indeed make you better at taking tests.

You may find that working under pressure or under a time limit is something that you get better at with practice.
>effective in shitty theory

This is meta, but there really needs to be a better phrase for ideas/models that only seem good when ignoring important details. A good theory is also good in practice because it actually factors in the relevant details.
In a roundabout sort of way. And if you make that assumption, you would have to agree that the shareholders benefited from monopoly pricing for years prior. Any serious investor in pharma is well aware of the risk of the regulatory hammer.
The problem is that Putin, as he has stated clearly, has made it his goal to get back to superpower status. He doesn't have the population and economy to do it, so he has to use dirty tricks. And even if he fails, he sure can cause a lot of problems in the attempt.
I really cannot say anything either way on BM, having never been on the same continent and all. I do respect your point, violently creative energy is a spontaneous phenomenon to me, something that emerges on the fringes and gains momentum inversely proportional to its factor of acceptance. I for one, ex *-addict turned sysadmin with a few stories from the darker corners of life, have found that to be generally the case, but there are exceptions every now and then. I know very little about BM, people here only rarely have heard of it and of those nobody ever went, so one person tells tales of a drugged out Sodom & Gomorrha kind of place, others of a syndicalist camp, others again of pretentious Silicon Valley guys letting off steam playing the bohemians for a week. Don't know what is true, no immediate plans to find out.

What I strongly, absolutely, vehemently dispute is that David Foster Wallace killing himself was anything but the worst hit English literature took, ever. Guy wouldn't have been as sharp and witty and beautiful without a long standing relationship with pitch black despair, but man how I wish he'd have lived to produce an oeuvre of Pynchonesque dimensions.
You'd probably be interested in reading Edward Slingerland's Trying Not to Try for a take on the parallels between wu wei and current research in cognitive science.
I consider myself pretty technically savvy... Developer and DevOps.

However, when I see tricks like in this talk using iptables with BPF bytecode[1] to block SYN packet floods, I get completely humbled. I know that I know nothing.

[1] https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoof...
I believe I've heard Mark Cuban say something similar, the technical challenges are easy, the business is the hard part.

I totally agree. I can build the best image filtering app, but would never beat Instagram without a TON of marketing finesse
> I don't understand why they just can't run their business responsibly and not try to screw and scam their customers.

When corporations are more powerful than the law or the political process, then of course they can do whatever they want.

The law of this land is "whoever has more $$$ wins".
It is a sniff test to determine if you lied on your CV.

I personally suck at "whiteboard" coding too. I'd prefer they leave me in an empty room with a text editor and no internet connection for 10 minutes. But part of the exercise is discussing the problem and or showing your interpersonal skills.

Hopefully you'll find a different employer who interviews in a way better suited to you.
My dad has a 2.

Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused.

That's why he doesn't have 1!
What you mention has more overhead that being able to directly run in the main process. Though, I don't know if it's noticeable for most use cases, especially given how fast processors are today
Astranis (YC W16) is hiring EE's. Build the future of internet in space
Apply at:
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We’re building small, low-cost telecommunications satellites. Our mission is to help bring the 4 billion people online who are without internet. And to pull it off we have to reinvent 30 GHz radios in space using SDRs.

Work with incredibly smart people who have flown things in space before. Well-funded, but still a very small team that moves fast. No prior space experience needed, you just need to enjoy getting your hands dirty with real hardware and be ok with struggling to do things that seem impossibly hard.

ROLE
* Design ~2 kW power systems, including solar arrays and power electronics
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REQUIREMENTS
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to anybody curious about this dude's 'financial hacks' - just hire an accountant

the vast majority of financial tricks require scale (of capital) - e.g. itemized deductions, business expenses, even tax-loss harvesting - but they aren't secret!
Regardless of what weird world they live in, nobody refers to a singular woman as a guy or dude in the mainstream.

"guys" became gender neutral sometime in the 70's, Rita Moreno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg
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