skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that a majority (though not a huge majority) of the commenters do. But if you consider that plenty of the 600 users who posted comments also support the idea, and factor in the 1400+ upvotes on the submission (which tend to be expressions of approval), it's likely that community feedback is between moderately and highly positive. Though you wouldn't guess it from reading the thread.
I'm no evolutionary scientist, but haven't we as a species already denied natural selection long ago?

For evolution you need physical separation. With our level of globalisation that's not going to work.
From which trusted store would you source nootropics and supplements? Those and magic oils seem to attract varying levels of quality products and some questionable ratings on Amazon, for example! Thanks.
Couldn't this be said about medicine in general?
It doesn't seem like a hobby project given he accepted VC funding for it.
Why should we avoid those genes? We have the technology to deal with the situation when it arises. What would be the problem with, eventually, all women giving birth by Caesarean?

There are plenty of other instances where our advancements have likely influenced our evolution. For one, the ease at which we can today travel between continents means that there's far more breeding between different races than we've ever had in human history. Should that be stopped? We also don't run/walk nearly as much as we used to thanks to harnessing hydrocarbons...should we continue to try to select for the long-distance running abilities that helped our ancestors kill animals for food during persistence hunting? And I'm betting that certain people are genetically more predisposed to catching measles, polio or any of the other diseases for which we've developed effective vaccines...would we want to make sure that those genes don't get passed on?

In short...why optimize for a world that doesn't exist? Unless you subscribe to a belief in a post-apocalyptic future where modern technology regresses and mankind is forced to live in a more primitive state, there's really no need for us to actively do anything...the magic of evolution is that it just happens naturally. Now, evolution can be an uncaring bitch to individuals, so there's plenty of reason why an individual would want to screen their offspring for certain genetic traits, but at the societal level, it's just swimming against a really strong current.
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Different name, same issues. Your comment doesn't provide anything of value regarding the issues he raised.

If you think he said "there is only GitHub", then I suggest you re-read his comment.
The NHTSA seemed to only request for comma.ai to push back a release date until further testing happened.

As for the money

>Well, we have Andreesen Horowitz [the VC firm], which provided $3.1 million, and we spent under $1 million to do all of this.
Your point of view is beyond what I accounted for. I guess there is an extreme-extreme that literally wants something for nothing. I was charitable. I told my sibling poster such a desire was too extreme and statistically nonexistent. Maybe I was wrong? Your stance is hostile only to things not connected to the Internet.

In my opinion, get over yourself and shell up for what you enjoy.
Previous discussions came to the same conclusion, with the added realization that Python has no hope of maintaining the consistent latency required by a hard-real-time task such as driving a car.
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>As far as I have experienced its just noise on the wire that we sometimes are conscious enough to recognize.

If it was actual noise it would have absolute minimal statistical chance of having any coherent structure.
We won't have true AI until AI stands on its own. Just as a bootstrapped compiler can compile itself, an AI should be capable to reinvent itself without outside help.

Until then, it's just a child-AI, dependent on human brains to be designed and optimized.
Wow, this codebase is alarmingly bad. No tests. Comments like "TODO: actually make this work" all over the place. I can see why geohot is terrified of regulators.
Of course it's trivial to tell. When individual items are tracked, it's exceptionally clear if the item is from the store or not.
>If our brains would work fully all the time, our head would boil and explode. I don't see how this is so new.

Citation needed.
I am not sure why you think it's not normally a win. It is quite a big win in qsort implementation at least.
Moore's law broke for DRAM a while ago. RAM now gets more expensive when you shrink.

For the time being, Moore's Law still seems to be operating for flash. But I doubt it's got many more iterations left.
does stuff in ~/.bash_profile also get executed when you return from suspend/hibernation or rather just at first boot?
I used to root for BitBucket earlier because I too didn't like GitHub being treated as if it was 'The Way to Have Git On The Internet'.

However, after I started working at a place which uses Atlassian's wiki software and JIRA, I don't hold them in high regard anymore.

Now, I root for GitLab.
By bs, do you mean poor practices like the one in throttle control system for Toyota Camry (which NHTSA/NASA failed to detect)?

http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4423365/Toyota-Camr...
http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
> "The illegal drug market in BTC wasn't actually a thing."

Back up this claim, because it sure looks like it was.
For speciation you need some kind of separation, which does now sometimes happen within a generation (e.g. one social group refusing to date another social group), but is very unlikely to persist across many generations.

Evolution by natural or sexual selection within a single species can still occur.
Vanity performance metrics are worthless [video]
Would love to see this restricted to which lines are actually executed in a typical use. I.e. ignore dead code which is still in the repo.

Probably wouldn't be too hard for the interpreted languages.
Electric propulsion. I have some very promising aero designs that I hope to get into a (virtual) wind tunnel. Bay area.
It is interesting to note that in 1990 there was an expert system composed of a myriad of handmade rules that could produce Bach-like harmonizations.

http://www.global-supercomputing.com/people/kemal.ebcioglu/p...

Unfortunately I can't seem to find the samples now, but to my (untrained) ear they sounded as Bach as the real thing.
People are busy. When checking their email, they probably are doing something else and not looking for educational code projects at that that moment.
haven't we as a species already denied natural selection long ago?

No, how could we? We have influenced external pressures such as predators on our selection, at most.
You mean like a virus?
I'm with you that haveibeenpwned should require email confirmation before listing the breaches an email address was in. As it is, it has become an easy to use dictionary of places to find personal data for any given email address. Yes it doesn't list the breaches that Troy has deemed "sensitive", but if you're trying to commit identity theft or fraud using personal data, it doesn't really matter if these search results don't include websites that deal with porn/adultery/children.

Doubtless there are black market tools that provide such a service but expose far more data, but haveibeenpwned lowers the barrier to entry significantly by being far more available to the public.
Experience. Make lots of mistakes. Build things. Read. A lot.

I would also add, ironically: No 3D printing.

It's very interesting to see young engineers do such things as specify, for example, an array of 0.250 in holes spaced 0.750 in apart and require a tolerance of 0.001 in.

You then take that same engineer into the shop and ask them to drill just two of those holes.

The surprise in their expressions when they can't produce a single good pair of holes is very telling.

3D printing doesn't teach you about mechanical design and manufacturing any more than a word processor teaches you about good typesetting and layout.

So, I'd say, design things and make them by hand using hand tools, manual milling machines, manual lathes, etc.

Just drilling a single precisely positioned and accurately dimension-ed round hole can require an hour of work, if not more. There's a reason professionals call it "hole manufacturing" rather than "drilling". You need at least three tools to manufacture precise round holes.

Anyone who thinks that drill bits are for making round holes needs to go do some research.
I think it's not about politics specifically. All social sciences can get quickly irrational because they're not mathematised. Every one of us is subjective to framing.

You can argue that e.g. "Obama was a great president!" or that "Obama was an awful president!" and there are arguments to back both sides of the discussion depending on where you're coming from.
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We don't even have true consciousness so why should we have true AI. Thats not how things work IMO.
Sounds good to me - call it what you like. Perhaps we can start a conversation. I'm skanga at google's email thingy.
If you're using iOS, have you seen Find my Friends? My group of friends and family all have each other set up on that app.

It definitely does seem potentially kinda creepy or weird initially, but if you do truly trust each other, it's actually really useful. e.g. You can passively see where someone is before nagging them to ask if they're going to get here soon, etc.
It doesn't help that 'the Windows trick', for the UI that is, became popups. Popups after popups that were almost all useless things or worse annoying ads that got popped up on some page you were on.

There is a LOT of noise to that signal. Contrasted to more traditional (teletype inspired) interfaces that only reported actual warnings (if asked for) and failures unless you were extremely specific.
"A survey was sent out to 1234 physicists affiliated to 8 different universities. 149 responded to the questions..."

The sample looks too biased (just 8 different universities) and the response rate is low (149 out of 1234 physicists). Makes me wonder how representative this sample is.
Not communicating clearly and on time definitely leads to terrible candidate experience. I was on the receiving end of this when a recruiter from a famous hosting company told me over the phone that they are going to make an offer by the end of the month. When that time came, he told me that they would need to conduct another interview with the CTO who is out till the end of that month. By this time, it had already been 3 months in the pipeline. I hung on to it because I liked talking to the team and loved the product. But this is surely not worth my time.
So I assume this means that yc is now concerned over alienating a certain political party/faction that tends to have a lot of money but not a lot of support among college grads.

And as many others have said, this is a horrible idea. ESPECIALLY for a site oriented toward start-ups (or, at least, people who like to talk about start-ups). Guess who is going to be signing off on the regulations that determine what is and isn't allowed? Guess who is going to determine where research money goes and what gets subsidies or tax breaks?

Oh yeah, that thing which you don't want anyone to discuss.

A few years old and more geared toward HPC and scientific computing, but Michio Kaku gave a great talk at SC about how politics and lobbying are very important and are actually vital and that if technology wants to advance it needs to not plug its ears and hide but actually be involved and fight for our interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_MbkVozydE

Rather than sit around, gazing at our navels, and talking about how amazingly smart and above it all we all are maybe, just maybe, people should actually consider "disrupting" the world into an "agile" state that can actually result in a government and laws that aren't a hindrance. And you sure as sugar don't get that by talking about how nobody else knows how to communicate with anyone because they aren't "hackers".

But hey, gotta make sure you don't alienate anyone who might be a good business partner.

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Maybe, just maybe, enforce rules about not making emotional and unfounded posts. Because that is largely independent of politics and is the kind of thing that makes it hard to take this place seriously as a "meeting of the minds" and mostly causes it to feel like "A marginally less meme filled reddit".
Show HN: R/ggplot2 data visualization without coding
Also, remove inactive users from your list periodically. (Send them a message warning them they will be unsubscribed though, with an option to stay subscribed.)
Oh no, this is just an alias called `n` that I execute when the drivers are borked. Every other time that my laptop resumes from hibernate my wifi doesn't work. There is probably a much better solution here, but this one works for me.
Impossible. Not garbage at all. We had the same policy for about 15 years. It was better than what we have now for three times the money.
>I don't want anything to do with the NHTSA (or any other government regulatory body) if I can help it.

Great, so don't make software for self-driving cars.
That's total BS. Even if it was abandoned, it was already in a stable state with no significant bugs. It wouldn't just cease to be supported. Your workflow wouldn't have to change. And losing a customer over it? That sounds like complete incompetence on your behalf, which your customer probably figured out. Even assuming that Babel 5 would be abandoned, why move to Babel 6 so quickly instead of waiting a month or so while the nice guides, gulp plugins, etc are made?

Your whole situation and outlook really seems to be blaming anything but yourself for mistakes that you made.
It's noise in brainspace, which is already structured.
ANAE, but one form it could take is via a government or independent expert body with a mandate to inspect and certify code in some meaningful way before it reaches the consumer.
You remind me an Aristotle quote: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. :-)
Bloom and cuckoo filters are designed to have zero FN rate, at least classic ones. Caches and these filters are basically inversely related. One has no false negatives, the other no false positives.

In the vast majority of situations where false negatives are okay you're much better off just caching a hash of each object traditionally
"Computing?" Now that's a term I haven't heard in a long time.

Who does computing outside of data center? I'm typing this on a laptop right now, but I wouldn't say I do any "computing" on it. Even at work, I would say that the actually amount of "computing" I'm responsible for (i.e. a program I specifically wrote to calculate some number.) is very low compared to simply text editing, web surfing, and music playing.

Throwing around this archaic and ill defined term, and then dismissing the phone as "a media consumption device" strikes me as elitist and out of touch. Is photography consumption? Clearly not, since it's production. Is media editing consumption? No. Is it computing? Well given that nonlinear digital video editors were big expensive machines several years ago, I'd say so, unless of course we're moving the bar. Is writing computing? 30 years ago it was. Do people actually write on their phones? Yes. Oh communication doesn't count? How about term papers? Do they do that? Yes, they do.[0]

I think you need to reexamine your biases.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/look-mom-im-writing-a-term-paper...
Actually there is one more approach: https://pharojs.github.io/

Amber is interesting because of how it evolves and what it can do, like having real compiler producing JS as output.

One can learn quite a bit by studying it.

Tools have to be better and there are some limitations but still, an interesting experience.
>If our brains would work fully all the time, our head would boil and explode. I don't see how this is so new.

Small price to pay if it gives you an edge in the valley!
Correct.

My point was to say that 3D printers end-up collecting dust because what's needed to make them useful is beyond the realm of what most people --not all-- are willing to devote time, effort and money to learn. Without learning these things the 3D printers become useless very quickly.
Self replication and self preservation are the essence of life and evolution. There is no primary purpose to a biological system other than self preservation and replication.
Yes, it is dangerous to lock into Github as the home page for a popular project, but I feel that github is great as far as the community is concerned, gitlab still isn't as great looking as github.

Sourceforge story was different and I hope that it was an exception rather than the norm. Almost all of my repositories are on github and my machine, no where else. It is a big lock in
If not enough for that, at least enough to get $3.1 million in funding
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It sounds like you may not be seeing the worst of the threads we're talking about, which tend not to remain on the front page but burn like tire fires anyway.
> one sentence per paragraph, a concerning recent BBC trend

3 of your 5 paragraphs are a single sentence.
That's amazing. Did you open-source your react-native shim yet?
I'd love to see it
This reminds me of a UX lecture I attended in undergrad in the UK.

The lecturer flashes up a picture and says "who is this?". There is a sea of blank faces as a reply. The picture was of Roy Chubby Brown [1] who by some measures was the most popular comedian in Britain at the time. Out of nearly 100 people no one had any idea.

You are not average. Not even close.
Same. It seems that this is just a temporary and fragile step toward something else. Amazon Go or else.
Terrafugia is awesome. They have tremendous respect from me.

But I dislike any type of folding wings. They will need to make a massively strong hinge/joint for this type of machine since the entire car hangs off that hinge. This makes is heavy, inefficient, painful to maintain, vulnerable in fender benders, etc, etc.
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I think 40+ hours weeks happen only in the US. This is one of the reasons I'd be reluctant to ever work there.

It's very hard to program effectively (effective being the keyword) more than 4-5 hours a day for most people. Sometimes you get that day/week when you're inspired and work more, but otherwise it's just pointless, maybe even detrimental, to force yourself.
from yc 2015 class jopwell
I got so tired with todo tools/ stuff like that, I wrote my own in Go. I don't have to worry about the changes they make to their products and it works offline!

http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks

I am currently working to make it run via ajax, it'll be fun :-)
Seems the most important part is not open-sourced:

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/issues/4
That's a great quote! Thanks for sharing! That and the oft-attributed-to-Voltaire “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.”, though I temper the latter with a wholesome peppering of civility.
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If the result of political articles is a break down in polite, thoughtful discourse, such so that the site operators feel the need to take such drastic action, then we as users should also consider how we are voting comments.

I've recently realised I was upvoting comments (across various sites) that I agreed with and sometimes vice-versa, and I have started making a concrete effort to ensure that I upvote views I disagree with, if they add to the discussion.

I agree with the proposal of a one-week political moratorium here because I think that experiments can make good science. Let's also try to change the way we vote (and comment) for a week, by trying to ensure quality discourse is promoted, not just our views.

It's sometimes good for the soul to respect what you disagree with.
This is just for a week, so you're unlikely to lose much, and those topics aren't going to disappear from HN.
But humans aren't even capable of that, and we are intelligent. It still takes a lifetime of learning and experience to create a functional human being, and many never get it right.
But why should they need to? I don't know how my car works, but I drive. I don't know how my camera works, but I use it. I don't know how my TV works, but I use it.

You're just old, complaining about how times have changed.
I think it is based on empirical volume of comments and shifts in discourse, not a belief that civil political discourse is impossible a priori.
Wouldn't it better if he pivoted to self-parking?

At $700 a kit that allows car to drive by itself to garrage, open it, park would be so attractive.

Driving through parking lot seems to be way easier than fully autonomous car.
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Dont forget that a computer program exists in the physical world. It is not unlikely for AI that understands self, to also want to preserve self.
Yes, usually a sponsored op-ed blog presented as if it's an actual article.
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i went through the same pains with my hp stream 11

this helped: http://askubuntu.com/questions/632719/my-wifi-drops-the-conn...

the fwlps=0 option disables the sleep feature altogether which might reduce battery life, but installing tlp gave me ~2 hrs extra per charge
> 3% to 3.3% or 3.6% in 50-60 years - is that statistically significant?

Since all births are recorded, the sample size is very large. So without having the numbers and doing any calculations, just based on that I'm pretty sure even a much smaller increase would still be statistically significant.
Do we really need caveman-capabilities? To be ready for the day we lose our tech and have to start over?

In a different context it has been discussed how we have used up our easily accessible energy and may not be able to restart civilization on this planet. So why keep lowtech genes around? Make way for large brains and large heads!
Yes. The better medicine gets, the feebler we all become. This is a pity, but the alternative is worse[1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Are-we-eliminating-natural-selection-b...
> For evolution you need physical separation. With our level of globalisation that's not going to work.

Global empires are nature's way to shuffle some genes around and reduce inbreeding. Then individual nations start to exploit the empire for their selfish benefit, everything falls apart and nature runs an iteration of competitive evolution for a change. Rinse, repeat.

Disclaimer: talking out of my ass :)
It's impressive you just looked this up on Wikipedia and grasped what the paper's authors who have PhD's don't seem to get.

Though maybe the authors know what they're doing and were under pressure to publish (publish or perish in effect?) so they just picked one of the more BS low-hanging fruit theorems in economics to poke holes in for the millionth time.