skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large parts of cities will be turned into roads for driverless cars to ferry themselves to and from the office 2x as many times to save the owner $10 on parking. Traffic will go slowly because driverless cars don't care about speed when no one is inside. And then all the plebs still driving their own cars will be stuffed.
to elaborate for @hueving @mugsie et al., consider that OpenStack is organised around Nova, the scheduler++ that is at the heart of any OpenStack deployment. If the CNCF was "like OpenStack" then it could mandate that all projects are organised around Kubernetes, playing a role analogous to Nova. But we didn't want to be solely a "Kubernetes foundation". The market is early stage, and there are other valid approaches to orchestration, including Docker Swarmkit, Hashicorp Nomad, Mesos & DCOS templates like Marathon, and others. So, we need a different approach.

Of course there are people who want a KubeStack that is like OpenStack, for better or worse. That's fine too! We just don't want that to be the ONLY choice for customers.
Signal encryption app sees 400 percent boost after election
I would absolutely love to see how it handles roundabouts in the UK. Some of the ones I use daily are pretty hairy even for a competent driver.

And then there's the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih223jffmek
I'm not a big follower of the climate change debate. So what exactly does this mean? I see a decent sized gap in a time-series that goes back 40 years. There were points during this year that had higher ice levels than other years. How bad is this? Why? Is it unprecedented?
> It's just different from what people are used to.

It's probably just this. You have the same with Vim and Emacs, and tiling window managers - they're different from what people are commonly used to, therefore hated. Even though the paradigms employed in those applications make you many times more efficient in using them.

It seems that a lot of people - even many professionals - have allergy for learning. They feel they've learned enough when they first discovered how to operate computer (yes, every single one of us had to learn that at some point), and they hate being forced to learn further, regardless of how much benefits it brings.
A keyboard cannot morph into a joystick.
D-Wave SC16 Update: What’s Bo Ewald Saying These Days
I would like to know more about the implementation.

I have had node do 12000 requests a minute with no problem (on a single core). In this case they had 4 two core boxes, so they needed each one to at least perform 42 requests a second under max load.

I want to know more :)
People have been trying this for decades without success. McCaw and Gates tried it in the 90s with Teledesic, for example. Iridium also tried it without success. IIRC, Teledesic's early estimates 20 years ago were ~$10B.
The linked paper draws no such conclusion:

"The nature of the signals observed is still unclear."

They are, clearly, taking the tack of eliminating all sources of measurement error. But they haven't yet achieved that, and as yet a force remains. It seems perfectly reasonable to assume it will be attributed to measurement error, but that is not yet the case:

" Next steps include better magnetic shielding.... We believe that this is a good education project to track down measurement errors..."
Codex Silenda is a wooden book which you unlock by solving mechanical puzzles
Now all you need to do is apologize to [your] fellow white folks for lecturing them about 'stuff they often get wrong', otherwise you'd still be treating people different based on their skin colour.

Why not just drop the whole subject of separating people based on the colour of their skin or hair or whatever other innate property (gender, sexual orientation, laterality...) and treat people as... people? Don't talk to 'your fellow (people_of_whatever_colour|gender|laterality|...)', talk to people who share a political opinion or religion or field of interest.
Wiping is an overstatement here. They disabled the accounts with a message inviting them to appeal.

Humans reviewed the appeals, and then re-enabled the accounts.
I think anywhere between 80% and 99.999% would cause a lot of accidents... "good enough to not pay attention and be inattentive when it needs your help, not good enough to not need your help."
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>> we have youtube stars that make millions each year, and there aren't as few of them as you think,

Last time i researched this issue, i came to the conclusion there are only about a few thousand youtubers, globally , are making a living.
Groups like Liberty and the ORG have been campaigning against this for as long as it's been an issue, but if no-one in the mass media is interested in reporting it, there is only so much they can do. It hasn't even made the "back pages" of the BBC News web site much in recent months, as far as I've seen, nor been mentioned on any mainstream TV news broadcast that I've seen.

I'm confused about the current status of the bill. The linked Guardian article says it received royal assent, thus becoming law, on Thursday. However, as I write this, Parliament's own web site[1] says it is still in the "ping pong" stage.

[1] http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypow...
This thing only needs energy to propel (if it actually works), while every other kind of viable thruster[1] needs some kind of "fuel" or propellant that is consumed, including hall thrusters, which limits the delta-v AKA change-of-speed you can achieve (more than energy availability).

[1] ie. nothing working with radiation pressure (solar sails, lasers etc)
I have some sympathy for your argument.

But I think there is a fair amount of evidence from this election that the increased velocity of idea transmission on media like Twitter made it impossible to dilute. That's one of the factors in information spread models, and it seems relevant here.

The alt-right used to be in their own walled garden echo chambers: Breitbart, Stormer etc. Now Steve Bannon is two months from being chief-of-staff in the Whitehouse.

So I guess that didn't work out so well.
If there is no STOP sign, I don't see how it would know to stop. However, what's interesting is if it goes through an intersection with a STOP sign and the next day the sign has been knocked over by strong wind - will it stop? What if the sign is missing, but there's a STOP sign on the opposite end of the intersection - a human driver will infer that his own side also has a STOP sign, but will the car?
Did I miss it or is there no mention of sample size and average tweets/day/sampled user?
Same happened to me. They should expect a class action lawsuit as even though the list was not finalized, they should have said something.

I had something like this happened before with WordPress.com - I have nikolay.wordpress.com, and then an employee took it way from me. After making a long discussion on TechChrunch about it, the employee decided to give it back to me.

So, my point is, there's nothing new under the sun here - obviously Matt is the old Matt having double standards, and not knowing what's acceptable and what is not in the digital world.

Also, he's going against his investor's interested, because some of these domains could've brought in millions of dollars, but he wants to do his buddies favors, and not honor what was promised.

Edit: Maybe if there are several of us, we should try to see if we can have a class action lawsuit. Our hundreds of dollars were used by the Automattic for 3 months, that's a lot of money collectively, and they should not get away - there was no mentioning of any Founders when they took our money!
I am blaming them for not being up to date on the state of the art and not following up on earlier research, especially on what has been hinted at in: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ilr/rfs/ressourcen/...

First you have to completely decouple the cavity from it's surrounding environment - especially the RF-field has to be generated by an apparatus fixed to the cavities frame of
reference. Also the power has to come from a source connected to this frame of reference.

For me this is Physics 101.

As otherwise your system is not even closed. You are just neglecting that you are pumping LOTS of energy into an open system that you are measuring while assuming it to be closed -> thus leading to wrong conclusions (measuring a change in impulse in one part of the system)

For me this in line with uBeam and the like.

Whacko-science wherever one looks.
You say that, when the alt right is an artificial internet meme, while leftist dogma rules over universities and continues to go after people's jobs for wrongthink.

Vitriol is clearly a bad measure when subjective interpretation rules are becoming official policy. Even Twitter now has special treatment for particular groups enshrined in its policy. You can be as vitriolic as you want, as long as it's against the "correct" group.
Simple quantum computers could be much more powerful than previously realized
what happen if this satellite is hacked?
Probably not. But if he doesn't like it, I wouldn't want to be the person who did put this out.
Overconfidence is certainly a story we're getting out of the Clinton campaign; WRT to the Rust Belt where she decisively lost the election:

Bill's advice to put effort into was ridiculed.

Russ Feingold, who was as far as I know honestly expected to win his election for Senator (note he'd just lost the seat 6 years earlier in the off-season 2010 Republican langslide), desperately asked for help towards the end of the campaign and was ignored.

It's been reported that a computer system named Ada was driving pretty much all these sorts of decisions, and it said the Rust Belt was safe.

And there are some other things I think I'm forgetting this early in the morning, anyway, just how wrong this was is demonstrated by how close Minnesota ended up. If Team Trump had realized the opportunity there earlier and put more resources into it, he might well have won it. That that Democratic (well, DFL) bastion was in play....
reaction mass
In my autopilot gen 1 Tesla, when the software was first released, lane markings had to be really clear, but as the software has matured, it now does less than perfect lane marking in pretty heavy rain without issue.
Lots of discussion here too: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515505
Can't one populate the initial state from the server to skip the extra round trip of the ajax call? Eg. dump a json somewhere on the page and have react load it from there, like a global JS variable.
To be more precise about Tryton differences, it has both a desktop and a web client.
About the "anti-commercial mindset", indeed it is that the Tryton community does not allow lock-in mechanism into the project (at the opposite of Odoo with the business model of paying updates to new versions). But also it does not place a commercial entity as the center of the project but instead a non-profit Foundation.
"Odoo's goal is to build a great open source product", this is also the goal of Tryton project but everyone is free to choose its business model.

Disclaimer: I'm a Tryton developer.
What's the most amazing is that Elon mentioned on twitter that it's only using data gathered in the past month since they announced the hardware/first video.
America’s new, super-expensive weather satellite launches Saturday
Fastest speed clocked in at 35mph during the entire trip with an average of 15-25mph for remainder of the time. Does this suffice a realistic use case? Specifically in US?
You really shouldn't be getting downvoted for a simple statement of fact like this. The only real difference between extremists on the left and extremists on the right is that the leftists wrap themselves in the armor of holier-than-thou self-righteousness.
Facebook releases open source maps of Internet Connectivity Gaps
How a tectonic plate sank
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Hackers' modular worm builder hoses popular team web chat apps
First question that came to my mind is how is this measured.
I found the answer here: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent

Which begs the next question: Are there other independent measurements that confirm this?
Everyone, please stop sending session or login tokens to analytics companies
It's Milo being Milo, which any regular reader of Breitbart, or anyone sensitive to nuance and style, would realize is more opinion than official un/less biased "news".
"They" probably have dirt on him

The thing about living in a surveillance society is how good people can be silenced via blackmail.
I think the current-gen autopilot vision code is a completely different codebase from a different supplier running on different hardware than the gen 1, though, so all those improvements have probably been thrown away.
a)Where are these data from? Why does this gentleman that defines himself as an environmentalist (possible conflict of interest?) not post the original source?
I'm not saying these are false but it would be nice to know the source.
The image reads NSIDC, where's the relevant link, and the relevant analysis from them?
What's the chance of error?

b)What does this mean?
Will we get some super-storm or something similar?
A graph without the scientific theory that leads to an explanation is just an opinion at best.

Again I'm not trying to say that this is not happening but the way this is posted, to me seems to only grab attention, click-bait style.
Hallo, Yes I'm super interested!
That does look really interesting, I'll keep it in mind for the future!
you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. the car just wanted to slow down to give the male driver time to properly look at the female joggers.
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> The voting in of Trump shows how conservative and not forward-looking the US is. Vast swaths of the South are hell-bent on keeping things the way they are (for better or worse).

This is also shows there are problems boiling under the surface of growth. World is now becoming more and more like it was in middle age where a handful of kings commanded absolute power over their subjects. AI fulled highly optimized corporations could be the new kings of this world and they will command their subjects to work to death or perhaps they will just organize online gladiator games just for fun.

Most of the world's population is at risk of becoming useless unless world wakes up now to put the right safe guards.
Yes, and the is the point.

NASA would have had the means to eliminate most of those sources of errors. I wouldn't call these measurement errors though -> the measurement is fine - your setup is the source of error.

But they decided not to follow such a line of research.

And yes, they are right "We believe that this is a good education project to track down measurement errors".

The measurement error being the "thrust" that is due to your experimental setup.

But let them waste some more money, time and reputation and build this in space so they can find out it does not actually work.
They haven't announced pricing yet, or even when they'll start charging. As far as I know, the SIM isn't really user-removable so once they do start charging, you'll have to pay Tesla.
That allergy is called limited time. You might bump into it, once you venture outside of university/ rich daddys attic.

Every time somebody reinvents the wheel, to save a click- and breaks my workflow, that might seem very reasonable for those who either have lots of money/time - and or already did that investment.

Well, i dont, i have things to create, places to be. If you re-invent a scissor, that only trained experts can use, because its basically two razor-blades taped to the thumb and forefinger- you accomplished all you have dreamed off.
You reduced weight, you allowed for more precise use - and the likes of me will still call you out for missing the obvious.

PS: The Miyazaki tribute is absolutely gorgeous. Im not trying to claim, that blender cant be a excellent tool once you have sunken the cost. Its just that retraining for absolutely no reason..
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There is a News Bias Verification Working Group here for all who want to take this discussion further:
https://discord.gg/jrWc2Rc
> Ad then by '74 we killed it because nobody knew any economics back then. Or maybe because they did.

Probably the latter. By the time Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, von Braun and friends were sketching plans for a Mars mission, and pushing for development of nuclear propulsion. According to Wikipedia[0], US Congress saw that and decided to kill the space race, out of fear it will expand beyond the Moon, and consume resources needed elsewhere (like for the arms race).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA#In_the_space_program
Probably she wants Labour to get elected, and the public are generally behind this sort of intrusion, and political parties are generally not about principles any more, but instead just trying to get elected.
Math notations are so badly designed (if there exists any design) If you'd spoken in plain English, Lamport, most people in the room could have understood the concept of your tedious formula.
So it's not because we don't understand math - it's because the math notations are usually over abbreviated, obscure and inconsistent. Math itself is strict but there's no strict common language to express it, which eventually prevents people from understanding it.
Well I guess we're about to discover which users are running botnets!
Appealing+and+consistent+medical+Ppt+templates
Think about it for a moment. You don't have VCs chasing you to do what they expect from you (drink coffee with them) but probably other people, e.g. parents who want you to get the best grades possible, a group of friends who expect you to go with them to cinema like you do every Tuesday night, etc.

And as an entrepreneur building the MVP is ONE OF YOUR LOWEST PRIORITIES! Product market fit is, and for that you need to have a MVP, but you don't need to build it. Fake it or try to get the money to have someone else build it while you find more money and other awesome people to work with. If you want to figure out everything after you create your MVP and your MVP is taking more than a few hours/days to set up, then you are just a programmer who dreams about getting rich, not an entrepreneur. Nothing wrong about it, but it's a different thing.
i don't know much about self-driving, but i would not over-interpret the green boxes. Also i don't know if your assessment about the range is true. Seems like a bug.
First, GPS is the US, not "governments". The US owns it, period. There's only one reasonably functional alternative and that's GLONASS which is Russian. There is no communal body or activity supporting GPS other than the US (and by extension US taxpayers). The US can deny access to GPS anytime it wishes through a feature called Selective Availability (SA). This was turned off in the early 2000s and the official US position is that it "has no intent" to turn it on again but there's nothing preventing it. Second, access to GPS (the receivers) is further regulated by the US under certain conditions (ie those that would provide a military advantage) and require an ITAR license from the US. Third, GPS was developed and is maintained specifically for defense/military purposes. Public GPS is less capable and the more capable military signals are encrypted. Sure, it is used by the public, but that is not the primary use case. Granted, this is evolving as the US is at the forefront of things like autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications which require precise positioning data but the intent was and is to support US efforts primarily military. Any global benefit is purely incidental.
Poor results are probably lack of enough data rather than lack of enough researcher attention.

NMT requires massive amounts of data to give even okayish results.
Learning is also one of my main procrastinations, since it feels so useful when you do it.
Years ago most people believed they were being watched by God 24/7. Now we're being watched by AIs 24/7 and everything is recorded forever
Agreed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12972219
The Twitter account that posted the image appears to discuss wind turbines frequently. It comes across as a jab at that, perhaps related to an inside joke between the two, rather than some commment based in what someone believes is reality.

The thing about the internet is that every comment is assumed to be facetious/sarcastic unless otherwise specified.
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Yes, from what I've read Fox was very anti-Trump, aside from a few of its figures who's contracts have not inspired.

I mean, this election was used as an opportunity to mount a successful coup ousting its founder, who'd, BTW, announced a couple of years ago that the network was moving to the left anyway....
My OpenMoko is still (free)running fine. It pre-dates the N900, and Nokia's previous "internet tablets" were WiFi-only, so weren't really 'phones.

When Android came out I installed it, but wasn't a fan. Been with Qtopia ever since.

I've since been given an N900, but it doesn't boot. Looking forward to the Neo900 (I'm scared to install a GTA04 board myself :P ).
This version of ScribbleGrid is only a couple of weeks old but I've created a pretty cool map of the first grid: http://scribblegrid.com/maps/origin/

As expected the place is filled with swastikas and penises but there's also some fine art on there:

http://scribblegrid.com/maps/origin/#9/0.9503/-24.8126

http://scribblegrid.com/maps/origin/#9/-8.8498/117.6224

http://scribblegrid.com/maps/outliers/#5/-80.852/-4.438
http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/EN/Standardart...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/budget-battle-be...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-co...

http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2016-02/fluechtlinge-haushalt-...

interestingly, German sources like Zeit estimates / writes about 50 billion for 2017, while all English sources low ball here. (or don´t cite the source) Zeit is a pretty well known source.

As we both know, projects and estimations are are hard! Very hard! So I guess it will be around 60 billion :)

Tax revenue plans around 230 to 300 billion. Hence the 25% and my guess that they will announce soon or later an emergency budget to cut costs (we have a law, basically saying: we must go to our black 0, at all costs) Cutting costs hits the usual targets (I guess):

https://www.iwkoeln.de/en/iw-news/beitrag/german-budget-why-...

http://www.dw.com/en/sch%C3%A4uble-clings-to-black-zero-feti...

Social services
Infrastructure
School and education

etc.

Interesting times are ahead :)
Curious, why do you think so? Wouldn't make much sense to throw all that stuff away.