skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a good idea to mention that in the readme.md next to the datasets since they're hosted separately. The wording of the MIT license doesn't really help avoid confusion here.

edit: or in the .tar with the dataset
Definitely good points. We have three cameras that are arranged colinearly along the whole width of the windshield, so this dataset has a pretty big effective field of view. And while it is currently limited in a lot of ways, it's just the beginning of the types of data we will be releasing. Everything will start scaling up to cover more use cases, as this data is mainly meant to support the training of a visual network for steering wheel predictions. For the moment, we actually do want to train the networks to drive like "normal" humans in normal situations. Thanks for your thoughts!
The opinion is at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or... ; Judge Mayer's concurring opinion starts on page 27.
For me, it is definitely worth the effort. But I didn't try to learn it all at once, so it didn't feel like that much of an effort. I got good enough at first, then as I kept using it and found something I was doing repeatedly, I'd figure out the easier "vim way" to do it. Over the years all those little improvements has made me able to edit code far more quickly than I could possibly do with another editor.

I agree that we spend far more time thinking about code than we do editing it, but being fluent in vim means that when I have the code in my mind, or I decide how I want to refactor something, I can get those ideas out with very little effort. If you reduce the friction of translating thoughts into code, it means you can spend more time thinking about the code instead of futzing about with an editor. Once you get good with vim, it _reduces_ your cognitive load. I know that from the outside all these tricks and tips seem like random jibberish, and impossible to remember, but when you live inside the vim bubble it really does make sense. You find the tricks that fit your mind and your work the best. They quickly become muscle memory and you don't think about the keys at all.

That said, it _is_ a cult. I've seen cool features in other editors, and I've tried to use them, but it always feels like I'm typing with mittens on my hands. And I come crawling back to vim.
RethinkDB really managed to build quite a lot of positive feelings in me on the back of not very much technology. But what technology was there seemed very robust. Just kind of incomplete.

My situation was very similar to latch's above. I vetted it earlier this year, after having developed warm fuzzy feelings for it last year at another company. We wound up going with Postgres + Solr because A) we've used them before, B) they performed a lot better than Rethink, and C) Rethink's compensating features (distribution) weren't worth the tradeoff.

I thought Rethink seemed like Mongo done right. Both have a simple document storage model. Rethink embraced "relations" a lot better, and seemed interested in borrowing some good ideas from relational theory. Having a uniform query language was a good idea; the "builder" style was an odd choice but whatever. Where Mongo ignored and failed to address Aphyr's concerns directly (and antirez seemed to emit a cloud of interminable semantics debates) Rethink actually reached out to Aphyr for testing and rapidly took action based on his recommendations. They accepted the criticism readily and went to some effort to be transparent about what they could and could not do. Failover was not a 1.0 feature, so they didn't hose it totally. The admin interface was beautiful. You really felt like you had a simple, powerful tool that you could understand.

Performance wasn't great. This was the showstopper for me. But to be honest, I probably wasn't going to give them a dollar even if it was a lot better. I'm not paying for Postgres or Solr either. I don't know how you bootstrap a database business. The Mongo/MySQL approach of "make garbage, monetize, hope someday you can refactor it into shape" looks obviously wrong stacked up against Postgres, which always took the academic approach of "first make it right, then make it perform." But performance is a feature and it takes a long time to make a database right, let alone perform. I think they took the right approach. It's just a long process, and it may not be compatible with startup culture.
Those outside of finance don't know what SAC is.
There is a proxy between believing that the person who purchased the stock and disclosed the position as honest enough to put skin in the game for the company they believe in, and mistaking it for simply this person's confidence of their ability to fool others.
It is inappropriate to use that fact to dismiss a valid request for the evidence. Being famous in some (possibly popular) website does not mean that one's experience has not been biased.
>>If I were to open a market position on TWTR, is the stock price still hyped and would it be a good time to short to stock?

That depends. How confident are you that you have information, or a source of information, that has not been priced in by the market yet?
Here is a blog post mentioning the service offerings around MongoDB as another factor: http://blog.dripstat.com/mongodb-vs-rethinkdb-why-we-had-to-...

(via this HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650033)
1) Developer tools don't really eliminate jobs, not any time soon, not in way a robot can entirely eliminate a line welder position or a self-driving car could eliminate a taxi driver position.

2) Sure, you need all the hands you can get in the current market. Still, you wouldn't hire a ten thousand new developers tomorrow even if ten thousand people as competent as your most competent lead developers showed up on your doorstep tomorrow.
Are you open to applicants from the US who don't speak Spanish/Catalan? (would relocate)
So you've never sent an email to someone with a Gmail account? Or you've never let anyone with whatsapp on their phone, add you to their contacts?
Well, they just started. With a stated mission to build an open self driving car I expect them to release more data as they collect it.
At least you learned something about making an objective argument.
Well the Galaxy Note 7 is a higher end device so maybe. But my parents both bought smartphones and they couldn't name the model. I tested this theory just now and my dad got the even the manufacturer wrong.
Plenty of products are built on Cassandra despite not having a commercial entity behind it, same with HBase, Postgres, Couch, etc.
Sincerely curious -- why is that? I was under the impression that public domain was well-established & well-understood, legally…?
Not talking directly to the awesomeness of each of their individual products, which I would be the first to admit, they have many. And not speaking directly to their Assistant product. Before Google Assistant there indeed were those other products, which, I honestly don't get why you chose these ones, they aren't exactly great counter arguments. My central point was, Google puts it's resources best where there is the best return. I did not say, Google never created anything which makes non monetized information more freely available. With this being Google's central philosophy and guiding corporate light, it's a hard sell to continue to paint it as a benefactor to all of humanity.

Gmail was initially a product started by one guy at Google, and was not a project born out of Google corporate philosophy or business strategy. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail

Google Books has been mired in lawsuits brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers with the issues including copyright, privacy, censorship issues. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_...

Re: Google Earth... This one is fully being leveraged for monetization, especially with mobile's commercial possibilities finally being realized. From Wikipedia: "Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004 (see In-Q-Tel)."

some more reading on one take on Google books:
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happene...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-...
https://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/google-books-and-the-librarian...
http://nysbar.com/blogs/EASL/2011/09/the_google_books_projec...
https://www.wired.com/2009/05/libraries-warn-of-censorship-p...
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_...
Open source the code and supporting data.
Norway's prime minister Erna Solberg caught playing Pokemon Go in parliament
Yea. Maybe find a way to charge only the power users with 100k+ followers. Not sure how many of those there are, but generally speaking they tend to have the money to spend.
Which is why it will end up in Bing.
Regular expressions are widely used, and they're written in a total language (at least, originally; PCREs are certainly not regular, although I don't recall seeing proof that they're universal).
Well we use to use cubits and chains for measuring everything too. Science is slowly moving to si, we should probably all start cobaidering a proper system for time that works around metric.

I don't like the idea of explaining to my children that we use this system, because it's the way it has always been done. That's a horrible idea .
It is[0] and electrical engineering students make them pretty regularly, it's just much more expensive and complicated if you actually want to make a chip with the output of one instead of just simulating it.

[0]https://www.coursera.org/learn/vlsi-cad-logic
Oh honey.
There's plenty of fundamental research being done. Research doesn't yield products.
You are right on both accounts. In general, there's a lot of distortion concerning this issue as any google search mentioning Monsanto inevitably turns up a lot of natural food blogs parading as authoritative sources. We're going to need this type of technology if we are truly going to become an interplanetary species and endure the negative consequences of climate change.

I just have a marked distrust of any organization that employs regulatory capture as evident as Monsanto.

The point about food labeling still stands though. It's true that a little information in the hands of the ignorant can be dangerous, but that is the cost of living in a free and democratic society and individual choice. Putting corporate interests over the freedom of information rarely, if ever, works out well. Monsanto has the resources and the former politicians to do effective public outreach and education. That they would rather use legislation makes them seem, at best, not worthy of trust.
Yup, outside of the US is definitely where Google Maps data shines. Obviously just another anecdotal experience, but I've had Google instantly find places in Italy that Apple said didn't exist or gave a location very far from what we were looking for.
How Twilio’s distributed team solves developer evangelism
It does not use Gecko, it uses the Safari engine with all of the optimizations and enhancements disabled.

By Apple rules, any web view inside of an app must use the Safari engine this way.
Read lots of Java code that's considered good? Hard to provide a better answer without some more context to this question.
If nobody buys Twitter the stock will take a dive, right? Is this possibly that reality check on the true value?
That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Really sad to hear this. I always had a ton of respect for you guys and your commitment to solid technology. (I mean y'all even passed Aphyr's Jepsen tests out of the gate [1]) You've also always paid a great deal of attention to interface, both in your query language and in administration.

One of your engineers even wrote once that maybe you took longer than you should have and over-engineered some things, but now that that was in place y'all would be better off for it. I'm sorry that didn't wind up being the case, at least as far as your company is concerned.

RethinkDB was at the top of my list of technologies I want to build something on. I even went to your (one?) meetup in Boulder. I guess my t-shirt is now a collectable :-/

But I'm happy for y'all that you wound up finding a great place you can all work together. Best of luck!

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5
is this in terms of operating and debugging a kalman filter?
If it's like the Galaxy Edge 6(+), the full name is shown in massive block letters on every boot/reboot.
More likely they simply don't care. Developers are a tiny fraction of their overall userbase, and there are plenty of devs who will put up with any kind of abuse just to have a shot at App Store riches.
> 3. you're a utility - charge for it. One penny per tweet would equal $2 Billion in annual revenue

Seeya. The biggest mistake Twitter could make is to "charge for it." They'll realize in a hurry that they're expendable entertainment.
Thanks for sharing.

For me, his most important contribution is his essay on post war German literature and how it failed to adequately reflect the mass bombing of German cities. (Title: On the natural history of destruction / Luftkrieg und Literatur)

It made me better understand what I felt was wrong about how young Germans are introduced to literature and national heritage. Contrast Sebald with Günther Grass. It's shocking to see how popular Grass' or Andersch's brand of literature is, and how forgotten Sebald already is in Germany.

It also made me realize that so many stories of personal loss and tragedy will die untold with my father's generation. I think the denial of suffering Sebald discusses is partly why liberalism still has a difficult stand in Germany, and why Sebald found greater freedom abroad. It took my father 62 years to tell me what happened to his 3 sisters when their refugee train from Saxony to the Ruhr Valley got attacked from the air. There are just so few stories like his published. This must have made it so hard to heal for the war generations. Sebald understood this suffering from a deeply moving, human perspective.

OP may find it illuminating to read Sebald's take on post war Germany and Heiner Müller's take at the same time. That's how I currently try to make sense of all this.
FWIW I've been in the Node/JS community for a few years and I've honestly rarely seen MEAN or Mongo be mentioned outside of blogs and corporate Hackathons (where Mongo is usually a sponsor). Maybe companies use it (I rarely pay attention to what people do with Node at companies) but I'll bet it's because of "hype" and its apparent popularity. Most JS devs I follow or talk to use a SQL database and dislike Mongo.
I can imagine this turning out the way the Yahoo! thing went down last time. They wanted too much everyone bowed out (MS as well) and now where are they? Firesale which may or may not go through.

With Goog and maybe Disney bowing out maybe other parties are waiting for a firesale to pick them up.
Perhaps you've never heard a dangerous form of music called "jazz"?
I would imagine the Trial is what the op was thinking of
As per [0], cryptography standards such as ECRYPT II tend to say that Bitcoin's 256-bit ECDSA keys are secure until at least 2030-2040.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Quantum_computing_and_Bitcoin
> For example, something as simple as assigning a variable has so much more meaning and functionality than I am used to, thanks to pattern matching.

Functional programming tends to take this even further, by eliminating variable assignment to some degree or another. Different languages approach this differently, for instance:

- Erlang (and I assume this extends to Elixir) asserts a variable's value, rather than assigning it. You can see how this works by attempting to assign another value to the same variable: it will throw an error.

- Clojure (and I assume most lisps?) bind a variable to a symbol, but that only applies to the code that follows; if you access a binding, then rebind it, the previous access will only reference the original value. (Clojure, being impure, has ways around this in a bunch of ways.)
*case in point

(sorry)
Ha. Sorry, it was a long day at work today... Forgot about the Apps For Business (or whatever they've changed the name to) issues I had back in the day when I had to set it up for the store I work at. Not nearly as mind-bogglingly frustrating an experience as my most recent Amazon issue, which I detailed in another comment of mine in this thread somewhere.
In many countries you can not "release" works as public domain. E.g. here in Germany, a work can become public domain by expiring copyright, but creators have rights that can not be removed (not even voluntarily) before that.

(In such countries, a court might recognize the intent behind a claim of public domain from a country where it is possible, but that requires interpretation of the law of the country the creator is from. And it's likely not an option for locals, since the concept does not exist in local law)

Creative Commons created the CC0 license to work around this: it clearly lays out that a work is intended to be released as public domain, and failing that, all possible rights are granted and the creator doesn't intend to limit them in any way with his remaining ones.

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
I think couch never caught on because of it's very different querying paradigm that was enough of a friction to mass adoption.(which has only been fixed by making a mongo like DSL in the 2.0 release).
> Correspondingly, we also need to consider the degree to which, while we don't live in Friedrich von Hayek's or Milton Friedman's ideal society, their ideas now exercise far, far more influence over our society than they did at the inauguration of the Mont Pelerin Society[2].

This is very true. It's a very interesting exercise to go back and read old copies of the Congressional Reports and compare them to ones from today. Back in the 1940s, Republicans would say things as lip service to prevailing views about labor that democrats wouldn't say today. Big sweeping appeals to the public interest in the way today people make narrow pointed arguments about efficiency and cost-benefit analysis.
Not necessarily. The market determines the price. The company may be overpriced (according to the market) if no one wants to buy it.
For the engineers, it seems... Were there any other employees?
It's not that simple. What if some of it is proprietary? What if I'm not allowed to submit code because I need to be anonymous so reviewers can maintain impartiality? What happens when one of the upstreams update and breaks my code? Do I need to keep it updated? Forever?
Kinda, the price will decline until someone makes an offer to take them out, that might be Google. Why make a bid until the price floor is established?
Could it be because of legal reasons? maybe you have a lower chance of suing them when they don't provide you with any details? (either way, it's wrong but I'm just trying to find a possible reason why they do this)
Are you referring to Microsoft's 2008 offer to acquire Yahoo? That offer amounted to $31 a share, YHOO today is trading at $43-44 a share.
The IP is open source, and Stripe owes nothing to RethinkDB's investors.

Why buy something you can have for free?
A political order may be adopted, imposed, etc, but "society" is something humans, as social animals, develop spontaneously. Proper governance of society follows understanding of human nature and the human condition as well as the contingencies of Man's existence. It is no trivial matter, of course, and utopian ideologies have a particularly bad record with philosophical anthropology. Furthermore, Man is a moral animal. His moral perfection is not a given and must be worked out during his lifetime through effort. Utopians, sadly, often like to blame "the system". Mind you, "systems" are always the product of morally imperfect and ignorant men for morally imperfect and ignorant men. Utopians tend to think they can somehow circumvent all of that.

Add to all of this the consequentialist tendencies in the political discourse.
Just looking at some of the RethinkDB and ReQL stuff, I certainly wouldn't have used it. Two things hit me immediately:

- bad performance

- a dearth of types (literally only a single numeric type that is a 64-bit float, so that eliminates entire categories that rely on integer/fixed-precision exact arithmetic. Also, time series are seriously hurt by that decision. I've seen DBs have to move to 64-bit longs because of that issue alone. Having a pseudo-type layered on top is just going to tie up CPU cycles in the encode/decodes that need to happen. (Plus milliseconds aren't enough in a nano-second world now.)

This whole "let's do everything with as few types as possible" I hope is a fad that will just die quickly in the DB world.

This is with about 20 minutes of looking around and just listing a few things. It looks like RethinkDB was written by web devs for web devs and I don't think that can compete in the database world. You might get the web devs onboard, but the database and HPC people at the firm will probably look at it and go "how quaint when can we get Oracle/Postgres/Informix/etc up and running?"
Prepaid card users will finally be protected from fraud and crazy fees
Here's the intuitive explanation I usually use.

Sequential Bayesian Filtering is how you apply repeated evidence to a moving target. There are three steps:

1. Predict: Using some Markov process, move your prior distribution forward in time so it's compatible with your new evidence. (Intuitively, everything becomes less certain as it's free to move around. Mathematically, doing this with continuous probabilities tends to mean an incredibly gross integral.)

2. Update: Using Bayes' Rule, update your probabilities with the new evidence. (Intuitively, this bunches the distribution back up. If the predict/update don't vary in time/quality, this tends to asymptotically reach some sort of balance. Mathematically, this tends to also be gross.)

3. Notreallyastep: Recycle your results as the priors in step 1 next time. (Note this means your result needs to be in the same format as your old priors if you don't want to re-solve all the math every update.)

If you get around the gross math by doing everything in finite space and brute forcing it (integrals become summations), you get a hidden Markov model.

If you get around the gross math by dingo a Monte-Carlo approximation, you get a particle filter.

If you assume your priors are normal, your evidence is normal, and your update function fits in a matrix multiplication, then you're in luck: all of the math works out so your result is also normal. That's a Kalman Filter.
> Green’s colleague went back onto the plane to retrieve some personal belongings and said that the phone had burned through the carpet and scorched the subfloor of the plane.

I'm surprised this airline still doesn't have Planegard or something similar on board their aircraft. Burning/exploding devices are going to happen often enough that this should be a necessity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU4ALLsedj0
Mongo already had "won" the NoSQL battle. So if rethink had made it compatible with mongo's query language, I can imagine that when Mongo was getting all the bad-press many would have jumped their backend to Rethink, without having to worry about modifying their application.

Of course, this is with the benefit of looking back, but the parent's hypothesis has legs.
I need a way to identify if an image of a particular automobile is a red four door jeep or a blue two door corvette.
>YHOO today is trading at $43-44 a share

What % of that is their core business that MS offered to buy?
More production per square feet, per worker. Sustainable margin.
New Twin Primes found
We tried with the REEP stack. RethinkDB, Elixir, Elm, Phoenix.