skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't enjoy driving until I got an elecrtic car, a Fiat 500e. That was enough fun for me to blow a hugely unnecessary amount of cash on a fun ICE car, a BMW m235i. I enjoy every day I spend in it, but I doubt I'll ever buy another gas car, as this one will bridge me to the future. I may take it to the track if I ever find the time and the right people, but it's unnecessary.

Gas cars can be fun, but if you look at what's actually sold, nearly none of them are fun. Those who love driving will continue to be a small minority, just as they are now.

Edit: I recently had the chance to drive the autobahn, and the most fun car I could get was a BMW 420d. It wasn't nearly as enjoyable as the skiing that it brought me to. So maybe I'm not that big of a driving fan after all.
Because they are entrenched, they publish all the "prestigious" journals, and academics haven't collectively walked away yet.
What wonders me is absence of urgent update after such news...
Unfortunately, yes. Even if you're a paraplegic, and your MJ use has been proscribed by your doctor:

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/03/fired_for_legally_smoking_po...

Then again, we as engineers have just as much freedom not to work for companies like the Dish Network, which pulled off this particular act of callous disregard for the suffering of one of its finest employees.
Brand new account with half its comments praising the new MBP... sure ok chief. How much does one get paid for this type of work nowadays?
This looks like it will end up like Microsoft's inadvertently racist chat bot, except it will be people and on purpose. And it'll happen faster.
Yes, I believe they have an L2 but are working towards and L4. Google is still going straight for L5, which is the only case where you can fully remove the steering wheel. It's a huge bed, and a bit silly, honestly. I feel like at this point, they've definitely got L4 down.

L4 basically says the car can drive itself without attention in most cases. Driver only needs to take over in extreme cases where the computer can't figure it out (something on the road blocking, sever weather, super abnormal situation).
This seems to be the paper behind the article:
http://www.academia.edu/7952415/Accelerating_Moving_Walkway_...

What's wrong with buses includes that they take up a lot of space, have a high energy cost to run, tend to have a relatively low peak throughput, tend to be noisy and polluting, and you often have to wait a long time for the next one.

It's expensive to build these contraptions now but the cost is likely to come down over time. Once built, by energy cost per person they don't compete with "make people walk on a non-moving sidewalk" but do compete pretty well with most of the alternatives. You COULD build them in such a way that the cost of dealing with snow is minimal, it's just a matter of deciding on a suitable strategy and implementing that strategy. The dumbest, simplest strategy would be to add some sort of roof or canopy or shade structure such that snow and rain fall on either side of the conveyer belt. (Like, say, the conveyer belt entrance to Bally's Casino in Las Vegas: https://rlv.zcache.com.au/ballys_las_vegas_conveyor_belt_pos... )

Other options include digging a suitable drainage/collection area that snow can fall into as the belt turns or, yes, melting snow with a heater as it passes a grating. The heater option is only energy expensive while it's snowing but it's still likely cheaper than having guys with trucks clear it. But if the area just plain has too much snow for melting it to be practical you go with the roof option.
Car rental companies already manage this quite handily. Roughly speaking: economy, midsize, full size, SUV, 4WD SUV.

"4WD, Bike rack, Dog area" -> 4WD SUV.

You'll probably have to snap on your own accessories (kayak/ski/bike rack) when the vehicle arrives. Or if you order in advance, you can pay extra to have a specific accessory configuration prepared and set up for you (vehicle drives itself to local servicing point to get configured).
They're different, and they mean different things.
NULL means "I don't know this", whereas "" means "I know this is empty".

Data display with NULL != "" is easy, do what SSMS does and italicise/otherwise highlight the NULL.

What problems does "" being different to NULL cause?
> we have been freed of nondisclosure obligations.

> the Act restricts the use of indefinite gag restrictions that prevent providers from ever notifying customers

Did Google say anywhere in that blog post that they've notified the users the NSLs were targeted at?

EDIT: no, but from the TC article[1]

> A Google spokesperson said the usernames were redacted to protect user privacy and that the targeted individuals had been notified.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/google-national-security-l...
You might also add the condition that best-move(deep-search) != best-move(shallow-search). IMO this is what really makes a move surprising - it looks bad, but is good.

Btw, I've never seen Rxd4!! from Kasparov-Topalov described as a "natural" move. I'm guessing the author meant "unnatural". :)
The counterintuitive bit you're pointing out is an artifact of law, not their political opinion. If you don't care about copyright you use a license that protects you from copyright claims while giving rights to others. Companies that rely on public domain or open source software can't legally use the code until it has a suitable license, the absence of a license being that the owner still holds those rights. So the only way to hold their position is to do what they're doing. More broadly they're also saying they don't believe any of this shit is enforceable so they denigrate their own license but provide it for your sake.
Ok, he made a misstep. Is he still active at Oculus? What's his role nowadays?
This wouldn't even load for me.
Global Surface Water Explorer
I still finding it silly that they are trying to go straight for L5 (which is the only case where you can fully remove the steering wheel).

By the sound of it, they already have an L4 going (can drive itself in 99.99% of the situations, might need user take over in very rare cases).

Why not for now release an initial car with L4, and collect pile and pile of data, which is what they need to get over that last 0.01%.
Do these people understand they work for companies that help profiling ever person on every characteristics already? This open letter is more like mass hysteria.
What do you think fills that role Notes had today? Or would you say it's split between various products/services?
$0. Just tired of all the overhype. Buy one yourself. If you don't like it/battery sucks return it for Jan 8th and get something better suited for you.
Google and presumably Apple have decided not to build their own cars (most likely electric). Two companies that easily have the resources to do it if they thought it made sense for themselves.

I'm no Tesla hater but cars are not phones.
"Zen" is a lot harder to trademark than "Ryzen".

Also, it sounds like "Ryzen" is their consumer product line. Their server product line might be called something else. It makes sense to have multiple product lines with different names and to refer to the common microarchitecture as "Zen".
So we disagree. Fair enough.

However, I don't think my cynicism is unfounded. Nor would I call it cynicism but rather realism. I mean, do you really need to have sent a pull request to remind you to not do things that make you feel morally bankrupt?

That you signed it leads me to conclude that you have actually bought into the "Trump is a Nazi" rhetoric. I'll explain:

1. Neveragain.tech - the name itself is a well known reference among Jews, "Never Again", in reference to the Holocaust [1]. The creators do this in a cheap effort to position themselves as/with the aggrieved in a "new Holocaust" narrative.

2. Furthering on this thinly-veiled narrative of "new Holocaust" they make more references to past mass deportations and genocides -- grouping them as if they are similar items in a basket. They are not. They are unique events in history, each with their own unique political, social, and other dynamics. Yet more intellectual dishonesty.

3. The document is written as if there is something new in the coming administration versus the previous ones. You want to stop collecting information on race? Then end the census. Abolish the IRS. End the FBI national crime database.

You see, this is not a pledge against anything new. It applies as much to Obama, Bush, or any administration going back in time.

Last point -- my point of view is neither cynical or gross. This pledge is cynical and gross. It is cynical and gross to use genocide and the memory of the Holocaust to build a narrative of doom and gloom around the incoming administration. It is cynical and gross to paint only negative outcomes as a result of stepped up enforcement of immigration and counter-terrorism law.

As always, the answers are somewhere in the middle.

[1] - http://english.stackexchange.com/a/39173
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001806
Fake engine noise is a thing. Ford now puts it in their trucks.[1] A DSP synthesizes V8 engine sounds, which are played through the audio system. Here's how to disable it.[2] (This is for engine noise inside the cabin, not for pedestrians. Outside noise generators may be required for very quiet cars, but they will shut down around 35MPH.)

Modern engines just are not that noisy. People need to get over this. They got over sudsy laundry detergents. In the 1960s, it was a selling point for detergents that they generated lots of foam. This was a holdover from the soap era. Laundry detergents don't need foam to work, but people expected them. And customers wanted long-lasting foam, which resulted in sudsing agents which would survive all the way through the sewerage disposal plant and into lakes and rivers. That resulted in EPA regulations which ended the suds wars. Now, nobody wants suds from laundry detergents.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-bes...

[2] http://www.f150forum.com/f118/active-noise-control-fake-engi...
What about Vega? When is it going to be released?
Click-drag to highlight, and then Alt-click to "Search Google" works for me on Chromebook.
This is not a dupe, so far as I can tell.
I really think people are mistaking "I'm not familiar with it" with "it's bad and poorly designed" because they've forgotten what it was like to first use the Unix command line.
> And, I suppose, I have another another question: is it worth it?

As a relatively new vim user I would say it is definitely worth it. I started slowly adapting the navigation just for fun and upgraded vim as my main editor roughly a year ago.

The thing why I personally like vim is because I can optimize every movement, every text change and every action to maximum. If something is not intuitive or feels awkward, I am one step away from changing my vimrc [0] to fix it. As a result, you end up with a editor that never forces you to leave the home row and does exactly to 100% what you expect it to do. Every function outcome and every cursor position after a motion becomes predictable, and if you get better/faster on the way, vim becomes better/faster as well. I am discovering new things or different approaches to existing techniques every day and love every bit of it.

At my job, I spend the majority of my time thinking, browsing code, more thinking and a lot of reading. Once I know what I want to change, no matter where it is, I can jump with minimum keystrokes to the exact spot and do what I wanted to do.

If you want to learn vim, here is what I did: I installed Vintageous in SublimeText and only used hjkl for navigation while still using sublime functionality for everything else. Then step by step adapted motions, text objects and Ex. Once I felt comfortable enough, I gave real vim a try. On the way somewhere I also stole a entire vimrc from someone popular on github and started with that as my base.

The only problem in my opinion is that once you adapted to using vim, it is hard to go to any other editor that does not have vim keybindings/support/motions.

Emacs I think is worth it as well. Almost all terminals and editors come with built-in emacs keybindings for basic navigation and actions: Kill a word, jump to the beginning of the line, jump to the end of the line, go back a word and so on.

[0]: https://github.com/dvcrn/dotfiles/tree/master/vim
Interesting blog post. Hope you learned an important lesson - DON'T "FRIEND" WORK PEEPS HIGHER UP THAN YOU.
I love it when the room just has an HDMI cable that we can plug into. Remote viewers can't see it without the normal song and dance and sacrifice to nyarlathotep, but when it's just local... bliss.
It depends on what conclusions you're trying to draw from that information. What conference a paper was accepted to is a second-order signal of the noteworthiness. It's probably easier for someone versed in the field to just read the paper to determine if it's interesting. If you're using the conference as a quick pass/fail as you skim through the abstracts of hundreds of papers, ok, but you probably wouldn't make time to comment on HN about it in that case.

This paper looks like it builds on pretty well-known techniques like stacked autoencoders, so let's see what first-order noteworthiness data we can gather from a quick skim of the paper. If I had to guess why it wasn't accepted into a better conference:

- It uses stacked autoencoders, which are pretty out of fashion

- It bothers reporting results on MNIST

- (more subjectively) It pulls an unfortunately common technique of saying "here's something the brain does" and then hand-waving that it's a deep reason why a technique they've come up with is useful, when in fact the relationship is just "inspired by the general idea of", not "performs the same function as" the biological mechanism. In this case, I think the tenuous connection of their technique to research on neurogenesis is pretty flimsy. Clearly neurogenesis is not how an adult human brain forms new memories or gains proficiency in new skills (which they acknowledge in the conclusion)
It felt like you were using a point of sale system from the 1980s - the business folks all liked it because of how powerful it was but to the end user absolutely nothing made sense and you just wanted to get back to common paradigms. It required F-key hotkeys to advance in most workflows for gods sake!
Say hello to Waymo: what’s next for Google’s self-driving car project
> Is there a sweet spot where you still experience significant cost reductions but the inconvenience is small enough

It's not that hard. For one thing, you don't need to increase the price much, you just need to increase it a little so that you push cost-over-everything riders out of the queue. There are enough of those that whatever capacity is left should be plenty.

And you are worried those riders who were pushed out of the queue will go back to car ownership, but they are by definition cost-over-everything people, so of course they won't do that. If they could afford to own a car they could afford peak pricing.
Agree 100%. This back and forth between fully-autonomous and partially-autonomous highlights the largest obstacles for "self-driving" car adoption.

The fully-autonomous route runs head-first into the inevitable, messy problems with software: security, maintenance, feature creep, complexity, unreliable networks etc. In theory, humans could nail all of these in car software. In practice, it's highly unlikely. The software industry can't even get basic security for IoT devices right.

The human-in-the-loop route runs directly into the only problem more daunting than reliable software: human nature. Human overrides for self-driving cars that need to be activated in a timely manner will not work. The drivers won't be paying enough attention to react in sufficient time. Note that overrides add even more complexity to an already fantastically complex system.
What if you added a lot of "error-checking" code that kills the host when it doesn't produce enough of the valuable chemical? I'd guess this is very difficult in practice.

Or also add a competing organism that "triggers" when the concentration of byproduct is too low?
Yeah, I don't understand it either. Why do they setup themselves (and their users) to that kind of "march of progress"? They should target features that are in real demand rather than regularly put out what they have.

Perhaps they do it because of job security?
Video surveillance and VSaaS components market to grow 21% to 2020
>And if I can't create something that fits well into that model then what should I do? Create a native app on a proprietary system instead?

Use Java, of course! I heard you write it once and it runs everywhere. And it doesn't rely on that horrible, outdated Web model. Compiles to binary blobs, just the way you like it.
Again, not to take away by the amazing feat Tesla has achieved, but Google has had similar videos going back 2-3 years, and they are still not ready to release.

So either the problem in practice is much harder than a simple video can show, or something else is up.

Though, I think the real issue is that google wants to go straight for L5 (meaning 100% automated, and you can remove the steering wheel). As compared to an L4, which is more like 99.9% automated, but you still need steering wheel for those rare edge cases.
GitHub: Fake News Detector
I wonder if there's any long term issues with bone conducting headphones. As AR goes, not having noise isolation is a benefit.
It's hard to say for sure. Assuming it works (which seems likely given past volcano eruptions), it could reduce planetary temperatures by up to a couple of degrees, giving us a few extra decades to get emissions down to zero.

Downsides are it does nothing to address ocean acidification, once we start we really can't stop ever, it'll kill N thousand people yearly from pollution/ozone depletion, potential for increased drought in some regions and political issues (eg it greatly benefits China but India suffers devastating droughts as a result).
> It's probably easier for someone versed in the field to just read the paper to determine if it's interesting.

> If you're using the conference as a quick pass/fail as you skim through the abstracts of hundreds of papers, ok

You answered your own statement, I think. Most researchers will skip a paper in a second tier conference. In fact, most I know won't read an entire paper - they'll only read some of it and skip stuff.

You're correct that I am not an active researcher (otherwise I would not have time to be commenting). I merely did some research back in college. But honestly that little experience gives me a huge leg up on most HN commenters in understanding research. It's unfortunate that the only reason this paper is #1 on HN is because it has a cool title.

That being said, MNIST is not really a disqualifier. (Unfortunately) MNIST is the most popular dataset referenced in NIPS 2016 papers (https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/805864969065689088). The handwaving is also forgivable; many NIPS papers handwave a lot too.
Yes, ANNs are inspired by the brain.

Here is a list of properties that ANNs shared with CPUs that are different from brains:

* Synchronized activation vs. asynchronous / partially synchronous activation

* Digital signals vs. analog signals

* Instantaneous transmission of signals vs. delay imposed by axon and dendrite length

* Uniform signal vs. use of various neurotransmitter signals

* Rapid activation speed (GHz) vs. slow activation speed (Hz)

* The use of negative signals vs. strictly positive quantities of neurotransmitters

* Low average connections (10-1000) vs. high average connections (5,000-100,000)

* Low energy efficiency vs. high energy efficiency

For a detailed essay on the topic, see: http://timdettmers.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-sin...
OK, how about things like the Apogee Jam[1] and MIDI adaptors? As far as I can tell, there aren't any MFi-certified Lightning splitters that support both data IO and audio out. (Usually it's just audio out + charge — and poor audio at that.)

[1]: http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/jam
Our lawyer sent them a proposal. They sat on it for 4 weeks before they said they weren't interested in issuing a license.
> Obama put the left to sleep

I agree with this 100%. Suddenly people care about mass deportation, for example, but where were they when Obama was deporting a record 2.5 million people? They are terrified of Trump's "deportation force", not realizing apparently that many such deportation forces (e.g. ICE) already exist.

Some things that the left should have cared about under Obama:

* initiating new undeclared wars

* expanding the surveillance state

* eliminating habeas corpus with the 2012 NDAA

* killing two American citizens extra-judicially

* fracking

* selling arms to radicals and brutal foreign regimes

* the Honduran coup

* CIA black sites / torture (forced rectal 'feeding' to the point of rectal prolapse, for example)

* prosecuting whistleblowers

* raiding legal dispensaries / grow ops and wholesale continuing the ludicrous war on drugs

* pro-corporate policies like the TPP, ACA, and the bailouts

* running up the national debt another 10 trillion or so

* contracting out development of astroturfing software from HBGary / Operation Earnest Voice

I could go on. The real left barely exists anymore in America.
I had the luck to take several classes with the late John Holland, many of which were just anecdotes about Brian Arthur and other SFI people. Unforgettable.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the planetary social space we are building to be naturally "

This is comedy gold.
Perf / ($ * $/s)

/ ((cost) * (power))
Who says you can't take an automated rental car to more remote locations?
> They feel he has fascist tendencies or intentions and does not respect for American traditions or law.

These illegal capabilities have been spreading regardless of party or political promises.
I think, technically, in 2064 :P
It is relatively broad, but the point is that it's based on population size and density. The fact that you live next to a farm and an orchard doesn't change the fact that you live near lots of other people.
> they can decide to lower and lower their price down to wherever they need to be.

AMD has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for quite awhile now. It's unclear how much rope they have left.
So the flaw in the spec is extremely minor and irrelevant to the real complaint. The real complaint is about programs making and accepting slightly invalid files.