skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of course is that even if some fictional stories contain the right moral lessons, the ones that would work out in the real world, you can't tell them from the ones that are 'wrong' and 'false'. At best you can find stories that tell lessons you already agree with.

And while 'real' stories might still be doctored by the writer to send a particular message and mislead you to a conclusion, at least they're constrained by the facts.
An Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2015)
آموزش تصویری انواع تزریقات(مخصوص اندروید)
The Barcode [audio]
"2D animation software" and "multimedia authoring" are both pretty concrete terms. "Creator" suffers from vagueness more than anything.
Introduction to Varanasi: India's Religious Capital
Home inspections really depend on the competency of the inspector, and for most people this is hit and miss. This is really where the article gets wacky: If he had had a knowledgeable city inspector, who was versed in construction practices, he might not have had so much trouble. He needed a specialty bureaucrat and he got the run-of-the-mill variety: In addition, he should have double checked the building codes before starting and could have saved himself some trouble.

Sometimes you catch something, and sometimes you don't, and sometimes the previous owner masks normal markers of problems. Most the ones I've seen check for major problems in places you can see them. Codes don't make it so you don't have the responsibility: They, in theory, make sure your electrical system is as safe as possible when you are building and other such things. The inspections help to identify known problems, especially important to older houses built to different standards.

Which is why buying a pre-existing house is slightly more risky than a new house. My parents had to treat a basement boiler for asbestos: One house the owners covered up signs of the roof leaking and the electrical was obviously not professional, even for the time of the upgrade. This house was inspected pre-purchase.

Most codes grandfather in old codes, but if you upgrade the system, you need to meet the new code for safety reasons.

I often think you should be able to rebuild in the same general visual style and size. But method? Lets face it, some of the old places were the cookie-cutter houses of the time - it isn't like every old building is of high quality. They used lead paint and asbestos, for example! But so long as the old methods meet current codes (some of which, like the number of nails, was meant to deter shoddy construction) I don't see where most folks get into trouble.

Part of your statement, the bit about style, gets to be a mix of aesthetic zoning laws and safety, the first I generally disagree with and the second usually helps folks when there is fire.
To nitpick on something...

You say:

> I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want. The buyer or insurance company can make the inspection, should they want to.

But then go on to say:

> Should a publicly funded fire department put out the recurring fires in your house due to your homebuilt fireplace and diy electric wiring?

You can't have your cake and eat it too: allow reckless behavior, disregard neighbors' lives and property, and have a reasonable life and property loss prevention policy?

The purpose of your publicly funded fire department is to extinguish fires before they spread to nearby properties and cause even more loss.

The efficiency at which your city/town/village/county/etc's fire department performs this, is something everyone's insurance company pays very, very close attention to when building the elements and costs of policies that'll serve your neighborhood.

Your choices (albeit simplifying it a bit), are:

a) staff up on building inspectors and fire inspectors and spend on office space

-or-

b) staff up on fire fighters and spend on real estate acquiring parcels of land, building firehouses upon said parcels, acquiring more fire-fighting apparatus, and contribute additional funds to the state's firefighting training academy and your fire fighter's pensions and life insurance policies

To me, this (inspections vs. emergency response) is the very definition of proactive vs. reactive.
Marijuana consumption forces many to maintain some form of social links

Ironically, that's only true when marijuana is illegal, hence a poor argument for legalization.

Legal substances may be easily purchased with minimal social interaction.
Additive and multiplicative can be moved between through exponentiation or logarithms. After that, yeah, using the Radon transform seems like a great idea.
Ask HN: Are smart homes the next thing?
I'm just wondering if this will be a good market to get into.

Making cheap smart mirrors with touch screen capability. Cheap LCD-drywall equivalent panels. Smart home AI systems, etc... I mean you could package your own computer system as an AI and sell that as a unit or something. Maybe just rent cloud servers instead.

I'm just wondering if this is a phase like VR or maybe not a phase but not going to get "critical" anytime soon eg. most people are not rich/wouldn't want this.
Amazon Go is just the tip of the iceberg: next steps
I'm just happy the Calamary dudes were in this movie haha.
Anecdotal evidence: Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark wrote a fascinating book ("The Eden Express", 1975) about his experience being schizophrenic and a prolonged psychotic episode triggered by marijuana consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eden_Express
Sometimes there are too many building codes, when they are silly.

But some of those codes one doesn't have to pay attention to as much: Requiring grounded plugs with minimal construction standards. If you just buy your stuff, you won't have to worry about the construction standards of your outlet unit, merely that you buy the grounded sort.

"Absolutely no common sense is used for exceptions"

To me, this looked more like ignorance on both sides. If the inspector has no real training in construction, all he really has is the code - the stickers for the wood (for example). And the man building should have checked codes upfront to see what he needed to do to work around it.
It is the difference between RIGHT and WRONG vs right and wrong.

Relativistic morality? (Its ok to kill this race because we are better than them)

if you think of the self aware droids as cattle then its kind of a choie about what you like more. Cows are really nice animals in taste and temperament. Its about where you draw the line, and I guess in a way the jedi were being all realpolitik with how they deal with the galaxy.

In earth scale I would say they best examples is States Rights vs Human Rights. At what point do we get involved with a country for their human rights abuses? I'm Australian and I would happily see a few of my politicians dragged off to the Hague to be hung for their treatment of refugees. so what do we do with, American and its spying and DPRK, the philipines, burma, iran etc etc.

The interesting thing about the Star wars films is that the build up of arms by forces in the galaxy is allowed. I know in other series of sci fi (DUNE) there was a repression of technology past a point, if only to add some normal level to the battle field. If you start to develop capability eventually the end result is the use of it, Im supprised the empire could get away with the build up in secret.

Anyway. Rouge one was a lot like the thin red line. so tip of the hat to the star wars people for making a wholly depressing and sad war film.

-Also something i noticed, the UI and control systems engeneers in the empire a crap. its like a jobs for the boys kind of operation where everyone gets to do something. why is the antenna sighting control seperate from the transmission control. they are so tightly related. and also. The antenna is for space communications, visual sight of the dish isn't really needed as your not pointing at anything.

Other than that everything was super realistic with the fish people and faster that light travel etc. :P
>Partner at a global law firm charges ~$1k/hr, this would take 500 hrs of their time and 1000 hrs of an associates?

Doesn't seem all that unrealistic considering you probably won't have much legal ground to stand on.

>Seems a bit vague?

Yeah, that's the whole point...
Since it's open-source: are the underlying text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines already available as libraries for Linux?
LSTM Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction
Getting an MBA to advance in the business world is like going to culinary school. You don't really need to do it, it'll cost you an arm and a leg, and some experienced cooks will look down on you for doing it instead of learning the ropes in an actual kitchen. However, you will benefit from a structured curriculum, a few letters after your name, and hopefully a bit of a network.

There is not a right or wrong decision. However, the credentials are probably more useful if you want to join a big catering company and work your way up the ladder than if you just want to open your own restaurant (where nobody cares what letters you have after your name, just how good your food is, and you'll have to figure everything out yourself anyway).
Perhaps that was the author's intent. But influencing without sabotage is perhaps relevant to our modern world, especially to the HN crowd - because weapons systems are likely to become more autonomous.

If you're working on a battle robot - no longer just a science fiction concept - paying serious attention to the systems that prevent it being an indiscriminate civilian-slayer could be seen as ethical engineering, compared to leaving a project in the hands of people who care less about such things.
It's named after Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother.
Correct. Regulatory arbitrage is about finding and taking advantage of loopholes, and shifting business activities to other business units (or even locations) where while those actions are technically legal, they're very, very borderline.

Then you generally couple regulatory arbitrage with money spent on lawyers and lobbying to monitor the existing loopholes, in order to make sure they don't disappear.

What Uber/Lyft are doing is more equivalent to poker: a combination of betting (a large enough war chest to pay lawyers and fines) and bluffing (using marketing campaigns to garner public interest and shame/scare the establishment).

When the stakes get too high (e.g. ride sharing laws in Austin, TX), they fold.
Would be great to base it on the camera. I have tape over it anyways and could use white tape. I assume you can disable auto-apperture to get the true (relative) brightness? Would need to calibrate itself over a few days of course.
The little book about OS development
>In other words, the VNC acts like the AI’s eyes and hands.

Is this lossless? If not, would the compression potentially create non-deterministic simulations?
I dont think the comparison with China is fair. A big chunk of that $64b is due to permitting and land acquisition costs; China's solution when building the Three Gorges Dam was to forcibly relocate over a million people. Totalitarian states have options that are not available to a functioning democracy when it comes to constructing huge infrastructure projects.
>> when a collaborative project would be able to reduce that by a huge factor and benefit everyone.

Or benefit no one because you create a Desktop that no one likes because it is developed in a way to pisses everyone off

Gnome users do not like the KDE Experience

Awesome Users do not like the Gnome Experience

XFCE users do not like the Awesome Experiance

This is the reason these products exisit, and no it is not "duplicating efforts" any more than have different models of Cars is "duplicating efforts"

Do you really believe the automotive industry would be better off is all the Auto Manufacturers did away with all Models and simply made 1 car.
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>target audience

Of what?
Operating Systems basic are well covered in this course https://www.ops-class.org/
It uses sphinx, which is open source:

It first detects its wake word using pocketsphinx on around the last two seconds of audio.

https://docs.mycroft.ai/overview
YMMV. For me the attempts at a serious story fall flat due to the amount of plot holes and asspulls. I've enjoyed suicide squad a lot more - it wasn't trying to be taken seriously, so the absurdity didn't clash. Same with the previous star wars - it went for a very simple story, so it was harder to mess up

Rogue One is pretty, sure. But the story is a chain of coincidences. No character, except maybe for Vader - who's mostly a cameo, actually tries to act according to its presented motivation, or tries to solve any of their presented problems. Throughout the movie character motivations are at best tertiary to firstly doing whatever is flashiest, or secondarily executing whatever morality cliche the movie is currently on.

Basically, every character in rogue one is unbelievably stupid. And then you get to the 'science fiction' setting where battles between capital ships happen at 200m (but the bad guys only start shooting after the obligatory 5 minutes of tactical discussions), shooting at a force field that just destroyed multiple ships that rammed into it is a thing that makes sense, etc. Etc.

Rogue One is still as much of a fairy tale as previous star wars moves; but it tries to pretend it's not. And that completely destroys any immersion the viewer might have.
The Queen’s Speech: “Love begins small but always grows”
I don't think the point is to actually derive ethics from fiction. It's the other way around. We express our ethics, morals and associated conundrums through fiction as a way of explaining them. This is especially important when those ethical problems are not always encountered directly or knowingly by the people who face them, in this case, by engineers who aren't fully aware of the societal impact of their work.
Open your source as if today is your last day
One thing that did seem a bit silly is that every building with a function needs a whole planet: this is the refinery planet, this is the government archive planet, etc.
Is the Blockchain Rush a Search for Fool's Gold?
Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
Expert Interview with Nizamudheen V, CEO of Toolyt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInkduXOQac
By the same line of reasoning it should be impossible to derive ethics from thought experiments.
The manual controls for the library were the funniest thing ever. Oh yeah, the software can highlight the thing you want with a light. But moving a servo there is too hard, here, use these handles.
It doesn't seem that any particular ethics are being "derived" from Star Wars in the article. The author looks instead to be using the story as a jumping-off point for discussion of various issues and tradeoffs in the ethical space.

In any case, the site is called "Sci-Fi Policy" which leads me to believe this kind of exegesis is their bread and butter. Perhaps they aren't usually making airtight arguments in their posts but I think the discussion is still useful and fun.
I agree, it is very relevant and especially to the HN crowd (who have always appeared deaf to this sort of thing from my limited experience here, though I am happy to be corrected on that point!).
We all work on tools which might get twisted and applied to that which was not their original purpose. It's important to discuss the implications of that.
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California is less densliy populated than a lot of quite pleasant, developed countries. Not just the dense Japan and the UK (which are actually quite nice too) but also France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and even the bucolic Austria.

There is plenty of room even without population transfers to neighboring states.
I'm not even sure it's reducers or transducers. It's mostly a type of functions, not the Array.reduce method. These function don't operate directly, they're meant to be recomposed later by the library. You can [].map(f).map(g).filter(h) and the system will "merge" f, g and h as a one step function that iterate once over the original data and without multiple array allocation. That's my partial understanding, there might be other subtleties.
Found a simple way to test... IMDB allows us to query against death year.

2016 = 3,636 people with IMDB pages to date have died (http://www.imdb.com/search/name?death_date=2016&ref_=nm_ov_d... -- doesn't include all politicians or other famous folks, but certainly some of those people had IMDB pages at this point.)

2015 = 4,064 (My guess is the higher numbers were due to more time for data entry / updates.)

2014 = 3,793

2013 = 3,764

2012 = 3,917

2011 = 3,780

2010 = 3,676 (Someone can do math on this, but I don't see a huge swing in the last 7 years.)

2000 = 2,395

1990 = 1,856

1980 = 1,555 (Possibly due to some data not being entered once we start getting "way far" back.)

Another view... http://www.imdb.com/search/name

1920s = 2,185
http://www.imdb.com/search/name?death_date=1920-01-01,1929-1...

1930s = 3,608

1940s = 5,805 vs 2,556,000,053 total world population in 1950
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762181.html

1950s = 7,381 vs 3,039,451,023 (+6.92% growth in deaths of famous people / all people vs previous decade)

1960s = 10,977 vs 3,706,618,163 (+21.95%)

1970s = 14,044 vs 4,453,831,714 (+6.48%)

1980s = 17,662 vs 5,278,639,789 (+6.11%)

1990s = 21,722 vs 6,082,966,429 (+6.73%)

2000s = 30,883 vs 6,848,932,929 (+26.27% -- an especially brutal decade for celebrities)
http://www.imdb.com/search/name?death_date=2000-01-01,2009-1...

2010s to date = 26,823

(2010s normalized at current rate = 38,319 vs 7,584,821,144 projected... or +12.04% vs previous decade)

Lots of things going on here... IMDB in the past didn't record a lot of international movies -- certainly part of the lower numbers compared to modern records. But there is a growth in celebrity over time. Celebrity death rates seem to vary quite a bit though. Welcome anyone checking my math... I haven't had coffee yet and this is far from scientific. (=
Supporting many devices is a double-edged sword. I feel what Google wanted for their AOSP code is to not support tens of different devices to make the code move fast. Part of what made CM valuable, I feel, was really the changes that made it compatible with so many devices. So CM would have to remain CM for the devices support, not for the features of the ROM.
That's silly. You pay for a home inspection before buying a house anyway. Leave safety to the government and comfort to the private sector.
Pocket Strafe has a different solution to moving around in VR
According to Google they used 280 GPUs and 1,920 CPUs. I'm sure they used custom chips in addition.
\uF8FF?

EDIT: ah, that's where Apple puts their logo in their fonts... that is private unicode space, so don't expect it to show up anywhere non-Apple.
Back in the day, you could get from Berlin to Moscow and back in less than five years. Today, that's not enough time to get from LA to San Francisco.
Vanilla JavaScript Parallax Library
a few years ago an apple launch would do that. they smartly built the stores large enough to contain the crowds, though.
I did not comment on some abstract fight, but on idea of leaving close relative alone in harsh conditions. Just send some money, buy her freedom, and do your jedi stuff after that.

It is like fighting for social justice, while your children are starving.
Great work! Are you collaborating with the OpenAI team ? It's exciting to see how projects will cross-pollinate each other with their best ideas.
Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
The English original is more better.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/google-...
Oh, many smokers on HN
Get an idea about how reverse mortgage is different than the regular mortgage
NPM search got better
Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access)
The “Burn 1000 Calories in 10 Minutes Anywhere” Workout
For Meteor, I highly recommend the Discover Meteor book. It is a bit behind the times but you'll get the foundation from which to learn the new state of the art as described in the meteor guide.
If this question was posted on a forum for gardeners, most of whom are gardening fanatics, you'd find many of the plans involve gardening.
There are plenty. https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs Is a good one. You probably need to read one of the books on Clojure. I wouldn't recommend starting with "Joy of Clojure". It is definitely "must read', but do it later, after you learn some basics.
A 2000 B.C. Egyptian mummy to be restored in India
2016: The Mainstream Media Melted Down as Fake News Festered
> California's done a lot more than explore the idea of construction.

That's irrelevant. There is no planned path, just patches and the project is going to be scaled back to an absurd degree (or sold off, which is basically the same thing).

> Anyone who thinks that a statewide high speed rail system in California should be $2-$4 billion dollars in 4 years is fundamentally unserious.

The project start, Prop 1A, was for almost 10 billion in 10 years (procedurally discussed, not legislatively enforced).

Much like Federal budgets and projects, anything extended beyond the current administration's term limits means it's someone else's problem. Putting people on Mars and this project, should become a reality about the same time.
> The CEO of Mobileeye (who is an ex-machine learning professor)

The CEO of Mobileye is Ziv Aviram and he was never a professor. Amnon Shashua is the CTO, and he is still a machine learning professor at the Hebrew University.
You are looking at a conflict of the needs of many and the needs of a few (scale). Maybe it is higher quality, but how can an individual inspector assure that without evidence? The reality is housing is often up for 100+ years with ~10 owners. If everyone does their own thing, a significant portion of this will be poor quality housing that damages the quality of life of people in the future, and is too costly to justify rebuilding.

Compare this to individual developers using their own syntax and coding styles across a massive codebase, some of it is inevitably adding in technical debt for the future.
That is true and that makes GM just another intelligence asset then (like the rest of the entertainment business).
Even, when you have a totally true and unbiased report of a true story, will it always lead to the right ethics?

I very much doubt so.

There where to many people living, that brought suffering to others without ever been punished. Many people that slaughtered others, where living a wealthy life till their end. And others, that did good, ended in poverty.

No, "true" life sometimes teaches the wrong ethics. Or should we find our ethics in slaughtering each others?
- WordPress

- Node.js

- MySQL

- Redis

- RabbitMQ

- React.js

- npm

- Browserify

Two really important pieces in my toolkit I made (and probably am the only person using them) are:

- cjs-noticeboard

A javascript pubsub implementation I use client and server-side.

https://github.com/Akamaozu/cjs-noticeboard

- cjs-task

Take a task and easily chop it up into smaller distinct steps.

https://github.com/Akamaozu/cjs-task

Been pretty bad at properly explaining why I use these tools i made myself. I'll put in more effort into doing that soon.
Absolutely same, I really want to get into it. I already tried to do so, but for some reason I was out of luck finding good resources for learning.
Can someone recommend some great resources for beginners?
TBH, would like a free resource. :D

Beside that I want to get around HashiCorp tools, especially Vault for storing and Consul for service discovery.
https://github.com/sol/doctest#readme - Very popular.
There have now been over 540,000 electric vehicles sold in the U.S