skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an area of ongoing research as well, e.g. the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke. (Missy Cummings, who is the director of the lab, used to be a Navy fighter pilot.)

I expect we'll hear a lot more on this topic. Assuming you're at all skeptical about the timeframe for full automobile driving automation, it seems a certainty that we'll have a (significant) period when stuff works most of the time--until it doesn't. And, given that lots of people drive distracted today, what's it going to look like when the car can drive down the highway most of the time on its own?
And there's also WeirdStuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale for more weird surplus electronics!

http://www.weirdstuff.com/
Tensorflow 0.11rc1 Supports Cuda 8.0 Officially
As you can see here TensorFlow now supports Cuda 8.0

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases

I also have this tutorial on how to install it from sources.

http://wp.me/p7GvOc-2H
The ghost of AOL will haunt the Time Warner-AT&T deal
They are huge ISPs. When a crooked huge ISP owns media services, they can abuse their ownership of the physical network to disadvantage competing services which are routed through their network. And they are already doing it!
This brings to mind the three whys, and why it is important to ask them for both positive and negative situations.

Blame culture is extremely toxic, but negative feedback can have as much benefit as positive if approached from the correct angle.
Find Out If One of Your Devices Helped Break the Internet
"I was just settling down with my book and I felt the airplane do a very odd maneuver. We could feel the airplane doing something very significant and abnormal."[1][2]

Human brains are amazing things that, with no special effort - only practice and repetition - can combine a huge number of disparate inputs to synthesize the "feel" of something.

The airplane is a physical thing and it has "a feel". A good pilot (or jockey or surgeon or fighter or truck driver) has a tremendous amount of stored information and experience related to "the feel" of what they are doing. We would be vastly worse off (and less safe) if we discounted that human ability and fooled ourselves into believing that simulation can ever match the experience of doing a thing in the physical world.

[1] http://jalopnik.com/5629528/how-i-saved-a-747-from-crashing
> A freelance marketplace is very much against the idea of freelancing.

Exactly. The point of freelancing is working for yourself, not as a vassal of a third party. That is why etymology is important, even when the initial meaning of a word has changed. A "freelance platform" or "marketplace" only makes sense for you as a freelancer if you own it (i.e. your self hosted site, portfolio or blog, etc.)
And the gigafactory will be net zero or net negative due to renewables. Much of the environmental badness is due to manufacturing. That will be close to nil in comparison to a traditional factory for the Tesla vehicles.
I am a novice, but I'll do my best to answer. IPFS isn't a replacement for the existing web like many of its predecessors, for the purposes of your question, it really works more like a drop-in shared caching system. The site host doesn't have to participate in IPFS for this to work.

As an example: You host a blog. As an IPFS user, I surf to the blog and store your content in my cache. When another IPFS user attempts to access your blog they may pull directly from my cached version, or from the original host (depending which is fastest). Merkle DAGs are used to hash content for quick locating, to ensure content is up-to-date, and to build a linked line of content over time.

This gets more interesting if there's a widespread service outage. IPFS nodes will continue to serve the most up-to-date version of the web even if the web is fragmented. As new information becomes available it is integrated into the existing cache and then propagated to the rest of the fragments.

I still struggle to understand how this works with databased content, but I do believe IPFS addresses this content.
I wouldn't be surprised one bit.

Very downvotable anecdote here but...

My mom is a vegetarian and was before/during pregnancy. This was before prenatal fish oil and DHA/EPA supplements were all the rage. I'm vegetarian myself, live an overall healthy lifestyle, and have struggled with depression and mental fog more often than not.

After starting taking a high quality fish oil and multivitamin I've felt much better when it comes to clarity and outlook.

There are a ton of vitamins, minerals, and components that play a huge role in being mentally fit. Some obvious, and the troubling part, some rather not so obvious.
My father is a flight instructor in New Zealand, he said simulator use there is credited towards yearly flying hours.

The only difference I can see between a modern simulator and the real thing is lack of consequence.
I've also had this idea.
>I lost faith in HN crowd when hyperloop started.

HackerNews flies off the rails when it comes to anything Elon Musk related, or anything banking/finance related. Musk invented everything and is infallible; the bankers are ruining everything and are irredeemable.
Being struck by lightning?
There are two types of military service compulsory and voluntary hence they are called volunteers.

Compulsory involves conscription or a draft, I'm not sure how the "jail or army" thing is classified but since you are given a choice it's technically stelly voluntary.

The "professional" classification of the army doesn't mean it's voluntary professional means that you can be a career soldier and you are paid for doing so even if you are drafted, conscripts on the other hand are not paid other than a small stipend.

That said once you sign up the contract this isn't a job, you can't quit, you can't "call in sick", can't say no to anything, you are effectively forced to give up certain rights for the duration of the contract.
Yeah, that had a major drawback: it discouraged helpful replies deep in the thread. I'm glad they removed it.
Sadly, that might be the case not because of the pun.
Why do they assume auto makers will just sit there and do nothing?

I have seen far too many "projections" that assume nothing will change - they are always wrong, and thus worthless (unless it's your job to make the change).
I can think of two big differences to consider:

1) The web as a whole is decentralized, but any given web site is centralized by default. A webmaster can "push" a modification or deletion from a central server and have it trickle down through caches/proxies unless someone like archive.org makes a deliberate decision to archive it. In systems like IPFS, content deletion and modification follows a model more like garbage collection, where pointers to old data can hang around and continue working even if an "authoritative" pointer is pointing to something else. Basically, nobody has the authority to break a link (law/policy-mandated filters notwithstanding).

2) The web doesn't really have any built-in mechanisms to promote redundancy for durability, availability, or performance purposes. By default, there's one daemon serving one copy. Everything else (CDNs, forward/reverse proxies, failover) is some kind of optimization tacked on after-the-fact.
Indeed it looks like the Labour rank and file is intentionally doing to its own Party what Labour did to the Liberals a century ago.

Historians please weigh in: Is there any evidence that the Whigs also volunteered in their own destruction?
or funet, or wuarchive
I don't think they're stated as bad, just as surprising given common perceptions of people in those roles, which is usually shaped by movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, since most people have no other window into the lives of top-level executives.
In an ideal world, sure. In the real world, what could be the problem with making everyone take a regular test to have the right to continue doing something that's an inherent part of most people working and participating in society?

Yes, there are some people driving who probably shouldn't be on the road. But until such times as automation arrives, you'll find exactly zero support for that idea outside the young and fit of Silicon Valley.
AFAIK, AirPort is actually running NetBSD[1], with the first generation being VxWorks.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxvOgd2T2nA
Check out https://github.com/mafintosh/tetris . This is a Node.js based Tetris clone, with only 46KB of dependencies.

Please provide an example of a Node.js project which downloads 500MB of deps.
Sharp was acquired by Foxconn. This was announced earlier this year and the transaction was completed in August. And BTW they will revive the Sharp brand for flatscreen TVs which will run on Alibaba's own YunOS (which translates to cloud OS)...
He edited after I commented.
Great, so are we gonna put together special programs to help boys? Are we gonna start boy-only reading groups? Is the White House gonna get involved to close this gap? Are we gonna start ridiculous twitter hashtags?

I'm not holding my breath...
There's other, less public ways to get feedback. You'll get positive review, people at conferences will express interest, etc.

But yes, only time will tell at the end of the day.
No. [EDIT: headline here fixed to not include the words "death spiral"]

The article is a (lousy) summary of a report from Fitch. It has no new content, and its regurgitation of the report confuses most of the fundamentals of the energy and credit industries.
The problem is that many people who are hurt easily by cynical and sarcastic behavior(which is very different than being as asshole) typically take themselves very seriously and it's a sign that they are very self focused and place their own concerns way above those of the team.

I wonder if there is a language barrier but cynical and sarcastic is very very different from putting people down.
> Reddit is the new Usenet with all the good, the bad and the silly.

And none of the decentralization that was Usenet unfortunately.
InTheCyber discovered a serious flaw in messaging systems
Well, I am not arguing for or against automation (although ultimately as an optimistic programmer I land very much in the for camp.)

What I am saying is that simulation time alone is not good enough. Nor is flying-only time. Both are needed, and for different reasons. Sure, time spent in automation mode in the air is not incredibly useful. But it is reality, and enduring that, only to have to take manual control in a panic after 8 hours of boredom is something I don't see simulators re-reproducing very well any time soon.
The world has enough of those kind of people. It needs more iconoclasts.
The Epic Journey of the Oregon Trail (Games)
The difference is IPFS (or similar) would distribute content. Currently communication is distributed, but content is not. IPFS is like https, but where every page is a bittorrent. There are challenges for security in distributing services and monetization. However, the key is that content would be distributed. YouTube probably would not switch to ipfs, but DNS (what was targeted recently) would make sense. A DNS host list should be more distributed. Even with DNS there is a dynamic content challenge. When a DNS entry changes, it would still need to propagate.

This brings it back to a distributed communication problem. If you could distribute content more consistently and 100,000 computers could step in as dns providers with authentic data rather than concentrating dns at dyn or Google it would help. That will still require protocol updates so that the fail over uses local content. Really ipfs and distributed content could be a component to help with distribution. It definitely isn't a complete solution alone (yet -- there is a push to make it the solution).
Doesn't everything? In a way?
I purchase talent from upWork on occasion. But less and less. On the buy-side I think the personal network works better. And, with so many jerks on the buy-side it scares the talent away. Death Spiral.

Is it possible to have a community like this without the BS? How to stop it?
Heading off the objections you'll get to this: the downside to fixed-price billing is that it maximally exposes the worker both to errors in their own estimation and also to errors in specifications provided by client, and to scope changes. Fixed-price bidding forces the consultant to shoulder a lot of risk.

That's fine, if you're sophisticated. Certainly I think fixed-price bids are smarter than hourly billing. In a fixed-price bid, you get to describe the business impact of what you're doing, which can be huge even if the task is relatively simple, and then put a dollar figure next to that impact. Almost any number you come up with is going to at least sound sane in that context. It's the more favorable setting in which to present the comparison of value and price.

What I like better though is the hybrid approach. I still remember someone on HN saying that this was the first original approach they had heard to pricing consulting work --- which blew my mind, since it was simply the way I was taught by my partners to bid projects, and presumably the way they were taught as well.

The approach is this:

Come up with a fixed price for the work you want to do, and simultaneously an estimate of the number of days you believe that work will take. You can divide the former by the latter to arrive at a daily rate. In your bid, focus on the total price of the engagement, but "show your work" in terms of the number of billable days and your day rate. Include a clause stating that overages will be billed at that daily rate as well.

To most clients, this is the moral equivalent of a fixed-price bid, and they'll treat it like one. But it de-risks the project for you.

As you do more projects, you'll get a better sense of what your real daily rate is (it's higher than you think it is now). You can tune your bids so that you keep a fixed daily rate but still value-price your engagements. By the time you're routinely employing this kind of finesse, you'll have enough traction to easily figure these kinds of things out for yourself.
Happy to help. Thanks for working on this awesome project!
The group seems pretty mutable be me.

Right now I work in Germany, writing in C++, the language I have greatest expertise in (except maybe C, where my epertise is all in hobby projects).

My professional goal is to work in Australia, preferably in any langauge other than C++.
I'm a dual qwerty/colemak touch typist. I was able to learn colemak quickly with low risk of losing qwerty because I was already a very good touch typist. A large amount of typing skill is transferred which is why people with poor typing skills have such a difficult time learning a new layout.

As far as say Dvorak or colemak gaining you faster speeds, I'm pretty doubtful of that claim. It has more to do with how much effort you decide to put in.
Look into Codementor.io
So what does the report from Fitch say?

I agree that the article was very click baity, but I am curious about how energy utilities will be affected by cheap batteries. These are some of the most entrenched and connected industries, so disruption, if it happens, won't be easy or fast.
That would be super easy to do just about anywhere these days. One doesn't even have to be particularly controversial. One merely has to vehemently and uncompromisingly come out as a supporter of our Bill of Rights and lay shame on those who have rejected our pre-existing "natural" rights. It's a trigger like none other, it seems. Odd, wouldn't you say?

Worse still, I come out defending rights that have been incorporated in western legal tradition since the Magna Carta and the hate really shines! Is freedom that dangerous?
I think "Bayesian Inferential Programming" would be more direct terminology.
"Why is it that mainstream culture is either afraid of a feminist future—a world where women have equal power at all levels of politics and society,"

It's not about fearing that women will have 'equal' power. It's that we are already seeing the feminist culture not only push women to have more power, but accepts outright discrimination, bias, and bullying of men. Why would I want to embrace a culture that makes me the enemy?

If this is the case now, the future will be much worse. The problem is that this feminist extremism only brings on groups to counter it, like the alt-right. It's getting so ridiculous, that I have started to side with the alt-right in a few cases. It's turning regular people into extremists.

I just want a world of equality (of opportunity, not results).

"For all its toenail-chewing bigotry, there is something poignant about this yearning for return to a world that never was, where former office workers can live their dreams of dominance by kicking all the fat chicks out of the compound."

This is hyperbole at best. Who actually wants to do this? It's ironic, because I'm baffled that anyone would actually enjoy this article.
For him, it is a gift--a reason to leave Buffalo and go somewhere better.
I suspect though that knowing you're being tested in a simulator, even if it is a boring long-endurance mission, could still affect how you think about it and approach it.
Coincidently, an article[1] just came down my WeChat pipeline about the population clean-up of Beijing. It's a great, classic propaganda article, full of pictures and statistics about how crowded Beijing is, and lots of "wouldn't it be nice if there were fewer people?" and "look how hard your government has had to work, don't you feel sorry for us?".

Basically they're driving out those who don't have Beijing housing registration. The propaganda is addressed to those who will enjoy the relief after the undesirables are gone. No one speaks to the undesirables.

The one-child policy may be over, but the Chinese government's manipulation of the lives of its citizens is alive and well.

[1]: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3Mzc3MTc0Mg==&mid=265293...

Edit: Here's another link (sorry, also in Chinese) from June, laying out the bones of the policy to drive people out of the capital. Again, posed as a great policy with no downsides. http://www.china.com.cn/guoqing/2016-06/17/content_38687237....
My school had one in the spring recently. I know because they solicited opinions of the candidate's recent students on his abilities as a teacher. In that case, it was still a mid-semester deal.
There is also this:

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

No simulator can recreate the forces experienced in a real plane exactly, and it can be very disorienting and nauseating. As a simple example, consider a plane accelerating down the runway for takeoff --- that feeling of thrust that pushes you back into the seat can't be simulated. I have severe motion sickness and can't do things like play FPS, simulators, or watch videos with lots of movement in my field of vision without becoming very dizzy and fatigued. VR and 3D only makes it worse. Yet I have no problems driving or riding in a real plane.
This is by itself a very useful kind of HN comment, but just so you know, it leaves me hungry for a lot more detail. In case having a waiting audience motives you to write more... well, you've got one.
Aminet, friends. Aminet.
The Gigafactory makes batteries, not cars. Having toured Teslas factory in Fremont, it sure looked pretty carbon intensive to me. I'm thinking of the house-sized aluminum press, hundreds of giant robotic arms, etc.
I strongly disagree that driving is a right. It is a privilege that should be validated as well as is practical to protect yourself and the rest of society. I don't think we are anywhere near the limits of what is practical. Because we don't currently do this doesn't make it right, or something we shouldn't think of ways to solve. See recent changes in North American society regarding smoking laws. Change can happen faster than you think.
Nice, now that v3 includes some of these crucial features I might even be able to merge the etcd provider for Synapse!

https://github.com/airbnb/synapse/pull/58
Elon Musk's AMA on Reddit Today
Did you even read my comment? In my hypothetical situation, Airbnb was owned by a communist party member. A person said something negative about the company and had his/her overall score reduced.
Yes precisely. The coal plants in a local grid can be swapped out for plants that generate power in any number of other ways. Furthermore, EVs can easily have their batteries replaced with other power storage methods should we figure out something that's safer/higher capacity/less toxic/etc.

But an ICE vehicle will always be an ICE vehicle no matter how technology improves. As long as it exists and continues to be driven it's a constant burden on the environment.
No, I think he was asking how you can trust that the VPN end point you are connected to hasn't been hacked.
>In places where great work is being done, the attitude always seems to be critical and sarcastic

It can be tricky, though, to be critical and sarcastic without using a jeering tone.[1]

[1]https://twitter.com/paulg/status/789066303566929920
No, I'm saying most (non-laptop) keyboards in general.

Laptop keyboards are just too stiff and don't have enough "cushion" travel past the actuation point.
To clarify my original post: I do pick up new technologies when they come along. For example I'm using TypeScript in the two projects I'm working on, and I didn't even know it existed one year ago. My point about sticking with something for the long term to build up experience was more a long the lines of "If you think you can be both a Java developer AND a .NET developer" that is very wrong thinking. Pick one. Focus on it. It's just the "jack of all trades and master of none" effect I was getting at. Certain technologies are designed to compete with each other and using them both will only cut in half your "experience" level on each one. I appreciated (and agreed with) all the commenters saying how wrong it is to just lock onto something and try to make a career out of it: however the following are the winners: Java,JavaScript,TypeScript,HTML+CSS, and anyone who has those skills as primary on their resume has a bright future. If you don't, you're taking a risk that your "flavor of the week" will be obsoleted. 10 years from now those core technologies will ALL be in demand.
Here's the Fitch release about their report: https://www.fitchratings.com/site/pr/1013282

Most egregiously, Bloomberg is cherry-picking the words "death spiral" out of somewhere in the middle of the report and putting it in the headline.
Not a course, but here's a nice blog post [0] on writing a lisp->JS transpiler (350 LOC) that was recently shared [1] on /r/haskell.

[0]: http://gilmi.xyz/post/2016/10/14/lisp-to-js

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/57sg9q/building_a_...
Terrible story, all my support to you.
It is completely true that the protection we have is very limited and that we must be VERY VERY selective with clients.
Also if this means to reject offers.
Also if this means to not earn money.
I try to give qualified answers and i ask for qualified customers able to communicate and competent to discuss requirements.
Otherwise i let them go away
“Too busy on other projects thanks” is my mantra on Upwork
It needs discipline and will but to be entangled in a poisonous relation with someone who can harm you… far worse.
Push this story around, it is the best vengeance
This is useful, but I'm actually more interested in your opinions and analysis.
So having classes or simulators isn't going to help, because they wouldn't take advantage of them.

...unless it becomes a requirement for a license.
Some mental illness can be prevented by interfering with development in the womb, surely. Some cannot, surely. Genetics are not something you can medicate away, completely. When we can modify the genes early enough, we still have to deal with what is genetically missing or weak.
Not my app, I'm afraid :) I just found out about it through my company.
As sad as Slahdot is these days, I still think they have a superior moderation system. I like that every vote comes with a reason and that you can use that information to do things like filter out the jokes.