skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A self-backup from pattern data isn't any good for soothing one's metaphysical fears, unless (like most of the people on Star Trek) you don't think that the disintegration of all the molecules in one's body is the disintegration of oneself. A backup self is perfectly adequate if you want certain things to be taken care of despite one's death.

I believe that if I die I'm dead, backup or no, but I'd like to have a backup anyway so it could continue to pursue the research I found interesting while alive and could continue to take care of my family just as I would. The dead-me won't care either way but present-me would like to make contingency plans for the future.
I am not sure if you are serious. I assume you are -- I think the old lady, who was always bored, was tracking who was going where and when. I heard (but not sure) she even peeked into the windows from the outside to find out who was inside. Those were two separate incidents btw.
No, you're buying hardware you can use which has the added benefit of improving the product you're using over time using data collected from your hardware along with thousands of others'.
> Not everything can be made on a small budget with innovative story. Some products can, but not majority.

Honest question, have there ever been any attempts to vary the price of content based on cost to produce?

If a studio wants to pump out high quality, low budget teen slasher flicks, why cant they sell at half the price of a CGI blockbuster?

Would those straight-to-dvd or midday movies do better if their value wasn't directly compared to AAA titles? Sure, it may not have been The Godfather, but it was a quarter of the price to see, so I don't feel ripped off.

If a movie uses unknown actors (which to me always feels more immersive than trying to imagine a star as yet another persona...), why does it have to cost me the same as a movie with individual actors paid an order of magnitude more than the previous film's entire budget?

Why do foreign films have to compete with American films at an equal price point (for local tickets)? Would more people choose a random Bollywood flick over the generic rom-com on date night if tickets were half the price at the same theater?

Maybe that's what we're seeing with original programming on things like Netflix?
I have to admit, while on some ways it seems like "Cheating".. I feel like having this real world data is in reality much safer than training artificially. Will include all sorts of varying areas and stupidity of drivers.
You're arguing semantics. The average person will see "autopilot" and experience a few "happy" drives where the car stays in its lane and has no problems. Then they will stop paying attention and die when they are asleep when it "hands over control" at 60 mph due to a failed sensor or something.
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Octoparse: The SMART mode is easy to use. Grab big data. Web scraping
Does this not get you banned?
Complexity is a relative concern.
It might be within their rights, but still a big issue and something that IMO shouldn't be within their rights.

I can understand (and fully agree with) limiting usage that can hurt them (like you cant use their object db in your own non-tesla car, and you can't use it as free storage for images or something), but limiting how you USE the system in a way that it's meant to be used?

I've only ever seen this kind of stuff in shitty B2B programs, and even there it was a big enough issue to deter us. This is a big deal and could really open the floodgates to some really shitty practices.
That's simply because the no-tech solution doesn't have the flexibility. But that isn't inherent to the concept of part-time employment.
From a point of view of victim I see no big difference between actions of nation state or a criminal. Should not they be treated equally?
I wouldn't call it larger safety margins. Many if not most of the cases where car drivers should take action are survivable if they don't; that's different for pilots in airplanes.

Pilots typically have more time to react, though (astronauts lie even further away along this axis; in cases where astronauts can take action to save their lives, they typically have even more time, but also, in many cases, there's no action that will save them)

As to the "take control at a moments notice": that's where the problem lies.

The arguments in "Ironies of Automation" (https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/nsf_itr/794B/papers/Bainbridge_1983...) such as "By taking away the easy parts of his task, automation can make the difficult parts of the human operator's task more difficult" haven't lost any of their power in the 30+ years since it was published.

Because of that, I doubt the typical driver will be able to handle emergency situations, as it will require frequent training.
they do this all the time, it's a key part of their strategy
That would only imply that it is difficult, not impossible.
Still broken for me. Turns out I have div#ads filter enabled that comes from one of the uBlock 3rd party sources.
Why does it have to do with scaling in the first place?

Performance has nothing to do with scalability whatsoever, by the way.
Note that they say “using a self-driving Tesla”, not “using a Tesla”. Perhaps it means that they don't want you to use the Tesla in its self-driving mode for revenue purposes but it's still fine to use the Tesla for such purposes if you drive it without using the self-driving features.
Completely agree, and this hits close to home.

I was a very math oriented student at a high school with a heavy bias towards liberal arts ... So when it came to picking senior year electives, I was delighted to enroll in AP statistics.

The classes turned out to be tutorials on the built-in TI-83 stats functions, with step-by-step instructions on how to answer the various types of questions we would encounter on the test. I forgot everything and gained virtually no statistical intuition.

Thankfully I had a similar experience to you ("Probability and Statistics for Engineers") with a fantastic professor who researched computer networks. His lectures were sprinkled with tangents tying the current topic back to his own field / research, which to me made the biggest impact. Contextualizing a taught subject markedly improves the course experience.
Indeed. A more interesting comparison would be between C/C++ based shared library and Rust based one.
>If you accept that a chaotic soup of memes can, at any time, combine to form an idea that becomes a popular ideology that prompts a bunch of clever apes to act anywhere from irrational to completely insane for arbitrary amounts of time ... well that's impossible to model in any meaningful way.

I think it's pretty silly to accept homo economicus as an actual definition of rational behavior, since nobody really wants to live like such a creature.
I think the crux of the matter is that the general population don't really need much computation. They just care about meaningful data, especially their own data.

As a programmer and a technophile, computing is the first tool I use for anything. New pin? Just `tr -cd '[:digit:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c 4` and write it down. It would be more difficult for me to find a website that generates pin numbers (and it would be less secure).

I personally value the ability to freely compute. That's why I love my CLI and my text editor.

You can't easily compute on the web because the web was designed for documents (data), not computation. Maybe that's the real problem here.
The problem here is that a Russian citizen targeted and hacked numerous US based computer systems. If an American citizen was hacking Russian computers and was caught in China I'm pretty confident that person would end up in Russia. I don't think you're being realistic here. Sure, differing laws can be an issue IF they aren't covered under the extradition treaty between the two countries. How can you not see this?
> That's a better, but still weak sensor suite.

All you have is two overlapping cameras with poor resolution and they let you behind the wheel, right?

This is a software and processing hardware problem only. Human beings drive OK for the most part and we don't have lidar/radar/sonar/etc.

With 8 cameras providing 360 vision and an advanced NVIDIA hardware suite, this problem is entirely solvable and this is a very reasonable solution to it.
Sure, they should. But they aren't. And I don't believe this case will be the catalyst to change the status quo.
I don't think this should exist
I really hope Trump wins. It will be the biggest smackdown of screaming SJW types (not to mention Buzzfeed) and whiny black-lives-matter-but-only-when-the-killer-is-a-white-police-officer agitators for years.
Experience is not something you get until just after you need it.
Sure lets stop assassinating islamic terrorists and give them the due process they deserv...owait looks like theyre beheading civilians again lul..
The problem with trying to teach statistics, to anyone really, is that once you get past the very basics, you have to stop every time the lecturer/textbook invokes measure theory and figure out how to explain the concepts without just making everyone sit through two to three semesters of real analysis.
The most interesting thing about self-driving vehicles is that there is a legitimate reason people should never be able to modify the firmware on their vehicles. The risks would be very high.

There is also the entire liability and planed obsolescent issues not being dealt with. Will Tesla support these cars forever? Will 10 year old models still get software updates?
Is there a nondestructive way to copy magnetic tape over to a duplicate? Let's get that tape read! What a mystery.
I don't want to spend 30 bucks stroking Speilberg's ego just to show my (hypothetical) kids giant robots fighting for two hours.

They'll get several seasons of Power Rangers, a quality production that required the work of many professionals in the same industry. A lot of whom were probably new to the industry, building experience required to land jobs under people like Spielberg in the future.
There is no reasonable choice in this election and the ends don't justify the means. If even 5% of what either of them are are accused of doing is true, it's horrifying. However, the worst part about this election season has by far been the incessant need for bloggers to write articles claiming the moral and intellectual high ground while talking down towards the other side, completely oblivious to the hypocrisy in the words they write.
You can't hope to "scan" a human brain and make a virtual clone of a human being or any being, because life and conscience is much more than a brain. So that future he describes , at last functioning the way he thinks is impossible. Until we understand 100% of what we're made of, no one can even think of anything like this.
Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics
No, the second chance is supposed to be better than a 0.5 and I could outline the argument, but I don't trust it.
Why weren't the functionality of those for-loops tested? It seems like a strange thing to burden PyLint with catching.
> BUT people are always afraid of anything past 4th grade math!

The problem is that elementary and middle school math teachers can't teach except out of a book. Your child's math teacher isn't teaching your child math, she is just the proctor for their math textbook, which isn't teaching them anything at all really.

This is not a dig on (all) teachers. These workbook-driven curriculum are a band-aid for bad teachers, and all they really do is harm good teachers and students.
Don't worry. It's very common in post from medium because they have some random chars in the URL.
Tiny OpenWRT WiFi module updated in $12 and $4 versions
The Empire of Necessity was a very interesting book.
Ironies of Automation [pdf]
I have pylint integrated with vim through syntastic. The amount of output is thus limited to one module at a time and not intrusive nor disruptive. Also, like suggested, I have blacklisted some errors I don't care about.
Four Examples of Big Data Applications That Are Changing the World
By Python, you mean dynamic scripting languages? Everyone already knows the tradeoff in using one of those over using a language like Rust (and vice versa). It's no surprise that Rust uses less memory. It also takes more effort to code in. What exactly is your point? That sometimes a language like Rust is the better tool? That one programming language is not the best tool in all situations?
If you want to build an analogy the display of power by Russia would be if it requested to extradite Litvinenko for trial and UK would comply (I don't know if they tried to do it).

> But they can. They need preexisting extradition agreements and it's all good.

Then let's wait to see whether muslim countries can make such treaties and start judging westerners posting inappropriate jokes about Allah on Facebook. Such practice will just lead to a situation when international travel will become too dangerous and you'll have to consult a lawyer before going abroad.
It reverses it by discriminating against the young, fighting ageism with ageism. I didn't realise age discrimination against those younger that 40 was legal in the US. There are other countries where a "jobs for the old" site would most likely be illegal.
I guess I glossed over the most important bit, which is that it implies a sustainable system. Ingenuity may keep disaster at bay or it may not. Natural resources that took millions of years to develop like fossil fuels, aquifers, and healthy soils are being strained or drawn down by human population growth.
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I'm not sure I entirely agree with that.

Cars are already extremely risky to modify, but it is still possible (and it's even a protected consumer right). I can go out and accidentally cut the breaks on my own car while changing the tire, if it causes harm, we already have a system in place to deal with it.

Why should software be any different?
Well, I am a parent, and I still think I did understand a lot of what I was getting into back when I had no kids. I think that my advice and thoughts then were sound. Furthermore, I think that I am now sleep-deprived enough to often have trouble making the best judgment in spur-of-the-moment situations. I also have times where I'm emotionally drained because of all the challenges of parenting. I honestly think a thoughtful non-parent could come around and probably give me some good coaching and advice because they would be more objective.

So, I fundamentally think that all the parents who hate how others give advice are potentially just hypersensitive. Okay, really? Most of the non-parents are probably giving crappy thoughtless advice. I haven;'t experienced that too much myself, but I'm sure it happens.

In my case, I've always been very thoughtful about these things and I have lots of experience teaching young kids, so I knew far more than average about raising kids prior to having my own.

Still, I don't agree with the claim that non-parents have no wisdom here.
There is always a market for your asset. You might not like the price. Market makers that are not tied to TBTF banks would actually be more responsible because there is no safety net.

Aggressive traders who understand market structure can and will profit.

I remember flash crash days - my trading platform stopped responding - I could not get quotes and I could not do trades. I desperately wanted get a fill at the flash sale prices. No dice for me. Some friends who had stops in place found out that their broker had automatically sold their positions at deep discounts. Aggressive traders (with working platforms) benefitted for sure.
No, just hit some secret limit on returns.
Good old web hosting is not good at all. Please please never ever use shared web hosting for anything. As soon as your site gets a little bit popular you're almost guaranteed it's gonna get hacked.
In theory, sure. But you're effectively saying computers have to process vision as well as humans, which some experts think is comparable to solving AI. I'm not saying Tesla won't make a lot of progress, but considering how many decades of research has gone into this very problem (I worked on it at Carnegie Mellon as a graduate student, and they've been doing it since the 80's) it will likely take longer than most people like to admit.

I actually don't know a single expert who thinks we're anywhere close to having a stage 4 autonomous vehicle. Most of the people I respect are pegging it at decades instead of years.
Personally, I consider 100% branch coverage to mean an effectively 0% chance of an unsafe bug existing in the code base. Does Rust have 100% branch coverage in their compiler? So how can you be absolutely sure their compiler doesn't have bugs when doing borrow checking and other tomfoolery? 100% branch coverage is an _insanely_ high standard and you can't compare it to any other project unless that project also has 100% branch coverage or similar.
What if you install self-driving linux.
I mean the guy was the poet laureate of the United States once... =]
Tesla Network
> With the onset of functionality like 4K video streaming, this number is set to increase to as much as 22GB/month.

Oh god why would anyone want to watch 4K on a cellphone. Go for 60fps instead, you'll get some value out of that on your 5" screen.
Yeah, I still wouldn't trust it.

Nothing beats manual verification. People aren't sharing credit card numbers on public forums and mashing them against Stripe. People are paying for fulls, and grabbing a socks5 that's piped within a few miles of the address of the cardholder.

Never trust your processor to protect you against your (potential) customers. Stripe has very little incentive to do so. They'd rather you pay that fat $15 fee when you get hit with a chargeback. They really would.

I'm coming out with a book about Stripe (and a few other processors) and fraud. Trust me it will be good, and this is already a part of it.

Sincerely,

Someone who was once your enemy

PS my favorite part of this? Telling the carder how to defeat their algos:

* "This card has been used from an unusually large number of IP addresses across the Stripe network over the last 24 hours."

* "This email has been linked to an unusually large number of cards across the Stripe network over the last hour."

Thanks for not saying the card was declined. If you wouldn't mind, please hold while I switch socks and make a new email.

Sorry if this is crass, but whoever decided on telling the end-user why a card was declined... complete fucking idiot and should never work in fraud protection or payment processing again.
That depends hugely on what you're doing. Often yes, stepping through is quicker and easier. Sometimes, though, you're dealing with a realtime process which is interacting with outside hardware and there's timeouts going off on all sides, and it's easier to just log (or otherwise get data out without halting execution - even just ye good old blinky LED or storage scope on a spare pin.)
“overrun by crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash,”

While a little harsh, it is not inaccurate.
It's a pretty cool gig actually. Only 8.50$/h (yeah, the dem conspiracy only pays minimum wage – go figure), but I get to read all sorts of funny emails when "researching" the people I'm trying to re-educate on the web.

Can't wait for the election. Sure, the ballot-stuffing will be physically exhausting, but after inauguration, my team is gonna get itself a sweet drone. With a bit of custom js, I think I can get it connected to the downvote button.
Generally understanding other people's points of view makes them seem less stupid, not more so.

You might be confusing people's opinions with their points of view.
> If you want to build an analogy the display of power by Russia would be if it requested to extradite Litvinenko for trial and UK would comply (I don't know if they tried to do it).

If you don't know if they tried then why even bring it up, especially since Litvinenko was killed by Russian Intelligence? Speaking of which, how do you feel about a Russian citizen being murdered by other Russian citizens in a foreign country? Does that concern you? Isn't THAT wrong? Obviously this person's rights for a fair trial was violated. As he was a Russian citizen, shouldn't he be judged in Russia instead of being murdered by the state?
Lang's "Short Calculus" (a reprint of the 1st edition of his calculus textbook) is a welcome change from those 2234th edition doorstop textbooks that make calculus into a boring parade of examples, where the goal of the game seems to be becoming an ace at pattern-matching.

More recent, more idiosyncratic but quite nice is T.W. Körner's Calculus for the Ambitious. I could see a motivated high-schooler learn calculus from this.
That ship sailed long ago.
This brings to my mind an interesting line of thought that I ran across via Peter Watts writing about it in Blindsight [1]. In that link, page down to the "Sentience/Intelligence" header, and read that section for a concise introduction to this line of thought: sentience is separate from intelligence. Looking at what computer science research and industry has accomplished thus far, I'm very open-minded about the idea that sentience (feeling and perceiving) is a separate, older, deeper layer of brain processing from sapience (reasoning and intelligence).

I suspect at a layman's comprehension level that sapience is mostly what we are reproducing in research and industry today, and not sentience, because sentience is far more difficult to plumb. Your explanation of the challenges in quantum methods of simulation and the uncertainty on whether it is even necessary seems to bring up this line of questioning to me. This has interesting ramifications. Like we can build OCR and even put out of work lots of formerly middle-class attorneys who made their living in trial discovery phases. But we have yet to create a second Industrial Revolution with general purpose humanoid-form robots that everyone can own that can clean houses, mow lawns, fold clothes, make beds, wash and chop vegetables, pick strawberries, etc., all supposedly "simple" tasks.

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#Notes
> 15 hours on the phone with Amazon and UPS customer service in the last month.

I've had the same issue. Amazon packaged and shipped everything, it got lost in UPS. I did the legwork to track it down. The best I got from them, they could refund so I could get repriced on the items I needed.
Cue Stallman. This is precisely the motivation for GNU software. How long before GNU (or other prxoy) has an autonomous driving project? Part of the issue is that the dataset is as important as the software. First step would seem to be the construction of a "GNU" hardware pack for autonomous driving and people start driving around with it mounted on their cars, gathering (GPL'd) data.
If I'm interpreting the first 5 paragraphs correctly, the author has been writing continuously since about 1950.
That's not true. It's a 66% shot.
It has to be, because there only two options, and (we agree) one of them was 33%, so they other must 66%.
Have a RAV4 2016 SE. Great car, sonars and cameras everywhere but still very stupid driving at times. I don't mind it, because it keeps me alert to take over at moments notice.

I really want to hack the can bus and give it more smarts. What is the legality of that?
"if a plastic bag or piece of cardboard rolls across the highway a human driver knows it's safe to run over without stopping." Well, usually. But frequently they don't see it at all, or freeze and hit it whatever it is, or swerve three lanes over, or jam on the brakes in front of you.

It only has to be better than humans, not perfect.
The x64dbg threading model – x64dbg
You can write DLL/dylib in D to work with Python: http://pyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/functions.html

You can opt-out of D's GC. Turn on `-vgc` flag during compilation and replace GC'd code with non-GC'd code and you are not using any GC.
You just use discrete scenarios, not continuous. Same concepts, easier math.

same way you can do linear geometry without calculus.