skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I otherwise physically disconnect/disable my microphone
Yes, I use software switches to turn off my microphone
No, I don't disable my webcam
No, I don't disable my microphone
Disproportionately successful minorities such as East Asian and Indian immigrants are considered functionally white for propaganda purposes, as their success in modern institutions is significant evidence that these institutions are not discriminating based on anything other than ability.
This isn't relevant to autopilot in cars, it's just fear mongering.

Humans have driven cars for a century now and animal-driven vehicles for millennia before that. I have yet to find a single documented case of the trolley problem occurring in real life with a vehicle. This simply is a problem which does not exist.
'Misinformation' on Facebook: Zuckerberg Lists Ways of Fighting Fake News
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The traffic is free if it's coming from an instance in the same region.

This is really intended for business. Definitely not a good fit for a personal backup solution.
There is no such thing as "free time".
https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/
I think it could be viewed in a different light. It provides a real sense of control over resources (which should be well documented in the first place). If there are rogue resources and objects being utlized unauthorized in an organization it makes it short work to eliminate such things.
Yes. Google calls them "preemptible instances". Unlike the AWS spot instances, they're fixed price at a discount.
Yep, we spend around $45-$50k/month and are quite happy with our support from AWS.
Yes! A second problem is that not all clients follow the spec. For example, Safari, which has relations with the dog in every respect: http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com/

Thankfully, for those unfortunate enough to be on an iOS device, I'm sure a native app can provide webRTC support rather than going the browser route.
My guess is economics are trying to steal AWS business. Low pricing will draw a % of AWS customers over to GCE and the prices will balance out. Frankly I am more interested in Google's support quality compared to AWS. I don't have any experience with Google but I know Amazon is founded on the premise of customer experience which carries into their support. How is google's support?
We like having small sets of primitive notions ("exists", "for all", "set"). The reason we have words like "surjection" is to abbreviate things which are otherwise unwieldy to state precisely using our small set of primitives. It's analogous to the reason we might program in high-level languages and then compile down to machine code: because the low-level code is much easier to execute directly (analogously, the primitives "forall", "exists", "set" are extremely intuitive and we're nearly all sure that they are non-contradictory).
Matlab now has notebooks[0], probably inspired by Jupyter and/or Mathematica. Is this something Octave is working on too?

[0] https://mathworks.com/products/matlab/live-editor/
This looks like it's for the custom elements part of the web components spec. Doing HTML templates is already supported in most browsers [0]. I think they were just trying to show how to create custom HTML tags and left out other parts because it would be outside the scope of the article.

webcomponents.org has tons more info about web components.

I think it's pretty awesome to get templating, custom elements, scoped styling, and HTML imports as a browser feature without JS frameworks. It'll be neat to have as an option in the future when browser support gets better and people start using it.

[0]http://caniuse.com/#feat=template
Is this NIH scientist funded by tax money, and if so, what does that mean for a future vaccine or drug? Will it still be patented, and if so, who will hold the patent?
No kidding. Especially for Windows users, just figuring out what version of Python is needed and getting it set up with all of the dependencies required by the application is daunting.

What Matlab brings to the table is a customer-centric focus... meaning an awareness that the customer probably has something to do this week besides screwing around with open source scientific computing packages and their inevitable dozens of scattered dependencies.

As for Octave, it's useful for absolute zero-budget applications at the very low end of the market, and for mass deployment of multiple instances at the high end, but it doesn't have much of a role in the middle. The "home use" licenses introduced by Matlab recently really dropped a bomb on Octave. You can get a ridiculous amount of nifty stuff for less than $500.
Pretty much any oil you can think of is cheaper to extract than arctic shale oil. That's an extremely dangerous environment to be operating in, and whatever you extract must be piped out, which incurs significant infrastructure costs as well.

This doesn't even touch on what an environmental time bomb this is.
Our current arrangements fill the data coffers of FaceBook, Google, Apple and mobile operators with troves of personal data. It's already a multi-way surveillance society. We need to expand this even more, to surveil the surveillers or have access to their data.
The most concise original text is the Enchiridion. I would link but I'm on my phone now. It's a wonderful read.
We require more vespene cash.
God the tools my Fortune 500 clients use for remote collaboration are stuck in 2001. It's so bad.
I'd suggest Arq + Amazon Drive.
Good question. I didn't look specifically into that relationship, but rather into slavery in general. One of the reasons the statement piqued my interest is because of the idea of what constitutes slavery, if it isn't specifically defined as outright ownership of another human being.

I found this Wikipedia entry useful:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery

I haven't looked deeply into this. To approach it specifically as it relates to TPP, questions I would want answered would be

- What forms of slavery would be relevant to the TPP?

- What level of slavery would be considered relevant?

- What level of enforcement would be considered lax or insufficient?

I know I'm unqualified to make these determinations.

Here's an example of where this has been discussed:

"Is the TPP Okay With Slavery? Really?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/slavery-really_b_7462...
I've been hearing about "this looks like a cure for AIDS!" at least once a year since the 90s. It always just needs to go through FDA testing and approval and then evaporates. What we've gotten instead is incremental improvements in the treatment of the disease. Maybe if you tell me there is a new treatment that completely cures some 1% of those treated I'll buy it. But this, this is preliminary research.
I really hate these comments which imply that black (african) people are intellectually inferior. If so, how do you explain the fact that African immigrants and their children have consistently been the most successful group in terms of educational and income achievement?

Just do a little research before insinuating that africans/blacks are less intelligent. Data says otherwise.

[0] http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2014101...
[1] http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/10/06/obama-education-initi...
[2] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-18/news/070318034...
My team just started using biba as we now have a remote employee. It's ridiculously easy to use and also has screen share.
There is no edict that says haskell programs cannot live in IO.

Also, it is especially rich for some folks to use 'no true scottsman' without even being a scottsman.
Epictetus was a slave with a lame leg (possibly intentionally hobbled so he could not escape), and still managed to espouse the same ideas.
Every security bug, at some point, could have been a zero day.
>Coming from the side that throughout this campaign and after has been engaging in mass physical violence?

I'm really gonna need to see some sources on this, since the white-supremacist hate crimes and police violence against the working class have been the primary source of violence I've heard about this year.
I remember seeing this. I didn't see anywhere in the NASA paper that they tried to replicate the German results. Did anyone else see this?
If Safari is an impediment then it's time to put more pressure on Apple to conform. That's a lot easier than inventing new standards.

Mozilla caved on H.264 so anything is possible.
Admittedly, my exposure was brief and I certainly don't know the notation by any name, but the logic courses used drastically different notation from what I was used to in my math classes. Some of the symbols were the same, sometimes they had the same meanings, sometimes not. Often there were different symbols entirely.
Indeed. One of the more prominent Stoics was a Roman emperor, who had access to every luxury that the world of that time possessed.
Are we talking about the same thing?

Wolfcamp shale is in west Texas (see my link in this thread). It seems more likely to me over the next few years that west Texas sees a boom than Arctic drilling sees intense interest.
WebRTC doesn't help the user inter operate between different clients (apps, not browsers) That's when we have a true standard.

Right now it's just a platform/API for developers (an achievement nonetheless)
They have to train self driving cars to deal with human instincts as bad as they are. It's part of the deal, when you're driving, even if you're human. Humans get bullied every day in traffic.
I think the musical choices are awesome. It's so much better than choices that seem like all the marketing people debated in endless meetings who it might offend and so on. The company has some personality (cult of personality, maybe, but whatever :) )
Epictetus's handbook is a quick read. http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
Ethical disaster. A few observations

- there is a difference between a coaching relationship and a manager-managed relationship. Even as a manager how do you reconcile in your head the need to judge the employee with the knowledge you gained inappropriately? Know my girlfriend is working in a company that is relocating - will you invest into me?

- disclosure - to a degree - can be helpful. But pushing for it from a position of power is wrong. Disclosure starts with oneself.

- Information is power. There is usually limited upside for the employee but significant downside. Treat carefully

As an employee you sell yourself to your manager. Ever seen a company selling a product opening the shop and showing how the gory mess became a sausage? Most keep the sausage secrets secret for a reason. Sausages still may be tasty but please don't think too hard what all went in to make me 8-)
> Does the lack of lidar not scare anyone else?

I don't think lacking lidar should be inherently scary, humans don't have lidar sensors either and they do well enough. I do hope that cheap solid state lidars do come to market to improve low visibility driving nonetheless.
> The rendering time for one frame was from 4 minutes to 15 minutes

I have zero experience in this space but this bit caught my attention. If I'm understanding this correctly, he is saying that the production render of a single frame would take anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes PER FRAME?

If that's the case, the fact that the video is around 200 seconds long would imply that the lower-bound estimate of the time it would have taken to produce the final render of this is around 320hrs assuming 24fps. That's two weeks. I can't imagine the artist actually had to wait two weeks to render his product -- what am I missing?
1) there's the illustration of people ignoring a world Class violinist playing on the subway when dressed as a busker

I hate to see this brought up over and over. There is a great contextual difference between a concert hall and a subway station. People go to the concert hall to hear music. People go to the subway to get to work. It is not that they don't recognise the quality of the music; they are simply not paying attention to the music at all. Even if they do notice the music and notice that it is unusually good, they are still not all that likely to stop. They have a train to catch and things to do. Why is it surprising that people would ignore a busker in the subway no matter how good they are?
I wouldn't ignore physiological causes of depression, but on the other hand why not try? Who knows, maybe it will help you? A lot depend on what actually is going on in depressed person's life. There are different depressions, different people, and different cures for depression. In ancient times stoicism was recommended as remedy for melancholia. I'm subscribing to /r/stoicism on Reddit and this topic comes up sometimes, some people report that it helped them, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/1kljc5/stoicism_a...
Thanks! I was too enthusiastic to emphasize that the Abelson and Sussman lectures are out of the context of Physics. Nevertheless these are no less classic than Feynman's.
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/5052#issuecomment-1...
Just to illustrate:

Octave:

m = [0 1 0; 0 0 1; 1 0 0]
v = [2 3 1]'
m\v

ans =

1
2
3

Python:

import numpy as np
m = np.array([[0,1,0],[0,0,1],[1,0,0]])
v = np.transpose(np.array([2,3,1]))
# wtf? oh, I guess then
v = np.transpose(np.array([[2,3,1]]))
np.linalg.solve(m,v)

array([[ 1.],
[ 2.],
[ 3.]])

If you just want to play around, Python has more clutter and gotchas.

Of course, when you start to write real software, then the tools that Python provides for organizing your code start to weight more and the clumsiness of np.linalg.solve(m,v) over m\v starts to weight less.

But I can see how a 50-line testing script in Octave organically grows to a 2000-line application, and then it's already a lot of work to rewrite in Python.

Edit: a reply below makes a good point simplifying the Python code a little bit.
How to switch into computer science and artificial intelligence
Do stoics worry about Trump?
The world is a completely different place today. If you don't believe me put all these historic times in a table with these columns: time to circumnavigate the earth, mean communication time between individuals, global population, CO2 concentration, diversity of life on earth, most powerful weapons, GDP, trade as % of GDP, performance of "mechanical" chess player, # and % of the world economy of "global" corporations.

If you look at things going on at the national level today in the US, Turkey, Britain, Russia, China you can see clear influence of global events. The Middle East and Africa clearly influences all the above in major ways and the US withdrawal from involvement there, if even possible (not), will not change that. The economy of China influences the entire world's economy. Look at countries like Switzerland and Canada who have traditionally tried to stay neutral and perhaps internal focussed in some sense, the Canadian economy has been hammered by the drop in commodity prices. The Swiss had to break their traditional banking secrecy due to external pressures. Climate change is affecting pretty much everyone and the risks it presents are almost unprecedented in human history.

EDIT: Look at how quickly a disease can spread to the entire planet. SARS, flu, Ebola...
I see no reason why I can't have gone through an ordeal in the past or currently be on an adventure. It's probably easier to look back at ordeals and call them adventures because your state of mind is now positive, but at the time it was an ordeal because you had a negative state of mind. It's rarer to have a positive state of mind while dealing with something and looking back with a negative state of mind...
a renderfarm ? :)
Actual source:

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
Have any concrete connections between the two been drawn? The timeline generally works out that Greeks from Alexander's armies could have been exposed to Buddhists in some of his eastern campaigns.
In the Bible, Paul justifies marriage as a way of controlling the sexual desire so it does not lead to the sin of fornication. But he does not seem to care about procreation.
You're not wrong, but did you read the article? Most of his complaints were around the social and human factors that make remote conferencing terrible. An open RFC standard isn't going to fix that.
Okay, then let's start at the very beginning, the wave particle duality. This is nothing like a particle surrounded by a wave, the particle and the wave function live in entirely different spaces. The particle lives in spacetime while the wave function lives in an abstract state space.

Imagine a particle that can occupy any square of a chess board. The space the particle lives in is then a discrete two dimensional space with eight possible positions in each dimension. The wave function of this particle on the other hand lives in a 64 dimensional complex Hilbert space, one dimension for every possible state of the particle, one for every possible location of the particle. If the particle could additionally either have a charge of plus or minus one unit, then the state space would become 128 dimensional, 64 possible positions times 2 possible charges.

If there is only one particle, you can indeed visualize a probability wave on the chess board indicating the probability of finding the particle on one square or another, but that starts failing once you bring in a second particle. The state space for two particles on a chess board is 4096 dimensional, again one dimension for every possible state, one for every combination of the locations of the first and second particle.

And if the particles are entangled, you can no longer simply visualize the state [of one of the particles] with a probability wave on the chess board because the probability of finding one particle on a specific square may in general depend on the other particle. At best you can integrate over all possible states of the second particle but this will destroy a lot of information contained in the wave function.
I'd say that they do make a difference relative to doing nothing. It's a way of funding cures that's independent of profit, same with government funding. As far as I can tell, the only solutions to this problem are government funding and private funding of cures.

A market based solution might be allowing pharma companies to charge extremely exorbitant prices for their cures, sufficient to recoup the foregone profits of treatment. But i'm not sure how well that would go down.
So does the Alt-Right support the right of self-determination and national autonomy for the Palestinians in Israeli-Occupied Territories?

Yes, but there has to be physical separation. So one way or another, the "occupied" has to go. That's explicitly covered in #10, and #15 says at the end "Every race, nation, people, and human sub-species ... possesses the sovereign right to dwell unmolested in the native culture it prefers."

Does the Alt-Right aspire to the German National-Socialists of the 20's-40's?

No, if for no other reason than that they lost ^_^! The Alt Right is about winning, and the NASDP weren't winners, from the individual level (see how many biographies, granted, biased, say pretty early on "a failed X", starting with Hitler), all the way to the international level.

So not all people should be equal before the law?

That's pretty clear from many of the other points. E.g. a person from "race, nation, people, [or] human sub-species" who's not in one of their nations would not have the same rights as natives of the nation.

"scientodific" - is that even a word?

It's a supremely infelicitous neologism coined by Vox Day that I don't see anyone else picking up because it's so bad. But it's defined in the next sentence of the point, so, eh.

I think Native Americans would agree with you here.

Which just so happen to include Vox Day ^_^ (long suspected by he and his siblings, then recently confirmed by genetic testing; he's also of Mexican descent. No doubt part of why he's part of the Alt West, not the Alt White, although there's also mere details like Christianity differentiating the two subsets of the Alt Right as he's defined their taxonomy, as noted by many including Hitler, Jesus was a Jew after all).

I think the "human sub-species" being referred to in #15 pertains to the recent discoveries WRT to Neanderthal intermixing and the like, but this is not an topic I follow. Ah, per Wikipedia, and this is following earlier research first published in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal):

"In 2016, research indicated that modern humans had three distinct interbreeding events with Neanderthals: the first encounter involved the ancestors of all non-African modern humans, probably soon after leaving Africa; the second, after the ancestral Melanesian group had branched off (and subsequently had a unique breeding event with Denisovans); and the third, involving the ancestors of East Asians only.

In short, only members of the Negroid race are pure homo sapiens ^_^.

Last I checked DNA is DNA and sperm fertilizes egg.

When it comes to defining species and sub-species, not exactly; per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies):

A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which two individuals are capable of reproducing fertile offspring, typically using sexual reproduction.

A common way to decide is that organisms belonging to different subspecies of the same species are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring, but they do not usually interbreed in nature due to geographic isolation, sexual selection, or other factors.
Ask HN: What if the First Family has a criminal record?
Exercise....
As I watch all the views from the cameras, and watch how it is making decisions based on that information, I have to ask:
who says a machine can't be conscious? Who says it can't have free will? How do you define those terms so that includes people and animals, but doesn't include this vehicle?

</deep philosophical mode>
> Google's ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.

I see.
I wonder if they're having manufacturing or yield problems on this round. The first "Retina" machines had a serious issue with under-performing displays that took some time to iron out.
> I can't imagine the artist actually had to wait two weeks to render his product -- what am I missing?

You're not missing anything :) I worked briefly in the special effects industry[0] and it takes a long time to render stuff. Monsters University took 29 hours to render a frame[1] and they had a whole server farm.

[0] There's an old joke that everyone in LA works in the 'biz' at least once.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/24/the-making-of-pixars-lates...
Is there any way to get it in electronic form?
Thanks for posting this, Bresson is an enigmatic favorite.
> But if you will try to discuss pilot-wave and walking droplets here (they are mentioned in part 10), you will receive lot of downvotes here.

If you try to claim, without evidence, that pilot waves predict different behavior than standard quantum mechanics, you might deserve that downvote.

Pilot waves are a mathematical framework, they may be useful mathematical tricks in some cases, but they don't predict new behavior AFAIK.

I've been to talks about Couder et al's work, and the authors don't argue that pilot waves are validated as descriptions of the universe by their work. They do demonstrate a novel macroscopic system that observes the laws of classical mechanics, and under certain circumstances, behavior emerges that is nicely described by the pilot wave equations. This does not mean that pilot waves are somehow a more fundamentally correct description of what's really going on.