skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've used the terms "teacher" and "principal" - I hope this all happened in high school. It does make it a bit more understandable that a teacher would want to stay away from risky material with a younger group of students.

Of course, who in their right mind would expect that French literature would be a nice safe area of study that doesn't rock the boat of American sexual mores, haha. (I assume this all happened in the US?)
Doesn't this run contra to another recent story about Uber being against giving cities this data?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/uber-does...
Tail Recursion Elimination
Every smart phone I've had has crashed at least once. Not to mention tons of wifi problems.
I think this is correct, which was default behavior
Another example of the Nash equilibrium being worse than the group optimum is some examples of Tragedy of the Commons, things like overfishing. It's possible to create a model that shows that a more regulated environment leads to more fish per individual than the Nash equilibrium.

I don't think it's appreciated enough that some forms of regulation actually do make things better for everyone, and that acting only in one's own self-interest can lead to results that are provably worse for your own self-interest.
No; it's 20% of the first half, the distribution of the first four years...
Coding can be fun. It can also be technically and ethically complex or not. I personally think the problem with coding is that it's exhausting. That to me is the biggest problem with the software profession, that it's exhausting.
But can they actually send all that data back to their data centers? If they are really capturing that much data, they would need to send it back using consumer home internet connections which doesn't seem realistic. I don't think the fleet size is as large an advantage if you can't actually get 100% of the sensor data.
What is your source for this claim? I did these kind of transactions during the beta.
LSD is one of the safest drugs around, in terms of health effects, at recreational doses (let alone at microdoses).

Unless there are some mystery side effects I'm not aware of, I'm not sure how your analogy makes any sense.
I wrote an article that explains this result with pictures. You might find it helpful for understanding it:
https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/a-brief-introdu...
The popular idea that Tesla will just keep stuffing matrices down the throat of their training pipeline until a self-driving inference model emerges from the other end doesn't make a lot of sense.
Commentary != News

You could follow columnists from either side, but I don't know how many I'd call thoughtful.
The analogy is variable naming.

The skill they're testing in language arts on standardized tests is similar to skill of naming variables, objects, functions, in programming. Famously called one of the only 'hard' problems in coding.

Sure you could use your own house rules in your code and the program would execute perfectly. And sure you could follow some mechanistic system: CamelCase for classes, snake_case for functions.

But how descriptive, how much to abbreviate, how much to abstract into a concatenated phrase representing an algorithm is subjective, but worthwhile to learn nonetheless. Knowing the correct answer to this multiple choice means noticing the context, and picking out what matters the most.
It's win–win–win. If cities make improvements to their transportation infrastructure based on this data, ultimately it helps Uber deliver better service to its customers.
I agree it's not clear but my money is on the intended meaning being the former, despite the intellectually greater interest in the latter!
20% of coins mined in first 4 years, 0% thereafter:

"At first, 50 ZEC will be created every ten minutes. 80% of the newly created ZEC will go to the miners, and 20% ZEC to the founders.

Every four years, the rate of ZEC being created will halve (again, just like in Bitcoin). After the first four years the ZEC created per ten minutes will drop to 25ⓩ, but after the first four years, 100% of it goes to the miners."

https://z.cash/blog/funding.html

"At first, 50 ZEC will be created every ten minutes. 80% of the newly created ZEC will go to the miners, and 20% ZEC to the founders.

Every four years, the rate of ZEC being created will halve (again, just like in Bitcoin). After the first four years the ZEC created per ten minutes will drop to 25ⓩ, but after the first four years, 100% of it goes to the miners."

https://z.cash/blog/founders-reward-transfers.html
Awesome! I'm glad someone went and made something for this, since it's harder to do properly than it may seem (jobhunting, I mean).

Back in the day I wrote a blogpost on how to use Redmine to do keep formal track of the process, but I suspect the effort/reward ratio for that may be more than most people are willing to put in.

Next time I'm hunting, I'll come knocking :)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13351971 and marked it off-topic.
The other cool thing ddrescue does is will 'mine' away at the failing blocks by reading it from both forward and reverse and clawing out every last bit of data it can. That, coupled with the resumption capacity, logging feature and ability to specify the number of retries on bad blocks, makes it a very useful tool and I've used it to save both my drives and aquainteances' drives many times over the years.

I can't sing the praises of ddrescue enough. NB: ddrescue and dd_rescue are not the same!
Meanwhile, 2 - 1.5 == 1.5 - 1, and in half the integer range, the .5's can be represented exactly.
Don't worry. Having drivers is not the long term plan anyways.
The text of the 2nd Amendment is quite clear. Especially the first thirteen words.

Those words are obvious to anyone who understand the history of the period, what those words meant at the time, and the arguments made in favor of the amendment. But for some strange reason everyone seems to forget they exist or claim that they are some rhetorical flourish that is found nowhere else in the first ten amendments.

So please, show off for us and explain them.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13351730 and marked it off-topic. The guidelines ask us not to introduce classic flamewars like this.
I would go with t-mobile:

https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-internet
>you're risking your health

Really? How so? What health risks come with microdosing LSD?

Are they comparable to the health risks of Adderall? Or nicotine? Or even caffeine?

>Of the 20 drugs ranked harm to individual and societal harm by David Nutt, LSD was third to last, approximately 10 times less harmful than alcohol. The most significant adverse effect was impairment of mental functioning while intoxicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Adv...
sorry, I had mentioned it in the other thread -- in your openvpn config set server-ipv6 and use tun-ipv6[0].

depending on your server environment you'll want to use ip6tables with essentially the same commands as iptables, substituting for ipv6 addresses.

0. https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/IPv6
I think I've wasted enough time with your ignorant ramblings.

Yeah, yeah, go and live with your delusions happily ever, "pal". Shoo.
This slide deck blew me away -- thanks for posting. I didn't even know these kinds of things were possible with SVG.

Was particularly enamored with slide 41:
http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-wi...

I think most of the animations on that slide are not-distracting, and intuitive UI elements (except the chat box on the right).
> "Philosophy's not particularly complicated to someone who understands basic logic."

As with what others have said, you're completely missing the point if all you got from philosophy was logic. Logic is a prerequisite, not philosophy itself.

Philosophy is about exploring big, unanswerable questions. As soon as a field becomes objectively answerable, it splits from philosophy into a subfield usually.

My guess is that you find philosophy to be not a subject and uncomplicated because you don't care about the questions being asked by it, and parse them out, leaving you with the logical structure. If I was left with that, I would think it's a useless field too. But ignoring the interesting parts of a subject doesn't make them disappear from the field itself.

> "there's nothing to study as it's all thought experiments."

Very, very far from it. Is communism a thought experiment? Seemed pretty real to me. What about theory of law and ethics? What about politics? The most effective role of government for human happiness? Is happiness what humans need? All of these are centrally tied to philosophy, in particular ethics. It seems like your philosophy focused so much on logic that you lost most of the subject.
They don't want it. Even if you got the patches accepted to the kernel they'd never accept patches to GNU Coreutils to support it.
> critics of all these theories exist and we consider them still scientists.

That's not true; many are called "crackpots" and the like, and are excluded and ignored; the difference here is that these non-scientists are funded and backed by ideologues and the fossil fuel industry.

Not all ideas are valid or scientific; in fact, most are not. The standards for being taken seriously, especially by scientists, are clear.
I like my Alexa devices. But only because I write my own apps for it to allow it to do exactly what I want it to. I use it at least three times a day instead of taking out my phone.

My favorite (which is built in and I did not write) is "Alexa, play children's songs" while in my daughter's play room.
Guess what pal, even IEEE defines the round to even mode for results exactly between two integers (when they're the nearest representable values).
This article starts out making a case, then about halfway through it takes a weird turn and gets pretty surreal. Am I the only one who got lost there?

I think within 'coding' there is such a vast range of different pursuits - code can be like architecture, document filing systems, artwork, marketing, etc… there is just such an abundance of variety it's really hard to put all of 'coding' into one box like this.

It's like saying 'writing' isn't fun, it's technically and ethically complex. Some writing, like medical records - carry life or death sentences if there are errors. Some strokes of the pens call for executions - not all writing is fun… but would you argue that because some writing is hard, painful, or dangerous - that writing can't be fun as well? Think of love letters, recipes, poetry, maps, music etc. All different forms of writing that can be fun in their own way.
There's one thing that nobody ever told me before I became a father, so I'll post it here: I was (and remain) shocked by how much fun it is.

Seriously. My wife and I were married for 8 years before we even decided to have kids, and didn't do so lightly. What convinced me was a fairly abstract idea that it was, like birth and death, something more or less fundamental to the experience of being a living, biological creature, and though I likely would be happy either way, it seemed like I should go for it given that this was my only chance. "Buy the ticket, take the ride."

I saw a lot of data purporting to show how bad parenthood is for self-reported happiness, especially for dads. And I heard from my friends who had kids (when I could talk to them, which was rarely, since they basically dropped off the map once the kids came) how rough the sleep deprivation was, how they never had time to work out, see their friends (or, half the time, spouses), do fun things, etc. And I figured I was in for something that would basically suck in the near term but had a high chance of being, long-term "rewarding" in a vague, hard-to-define-but-nevertheless-really-important kind of way.

This was completely wrong.

Of course it sucks to never get enough sleep, of course it's a bummer to lose time for all the things we have always enjoyed in life etc ... but the sheer fun of it has outweighed that for me at every turn. Just hearing that kid's little voice makes me smile, and I've never had so many reasons to laugh as I have since he's been born.

This isn't a pitch. I am pro-humans and pro-more-humans and I think the HN crowd is above the median so on average I'd be happy to have everyone here have a bunch of kids, thus raising the intelligence waterline and producing a better future etc. But I don't claim to have any idea whether it's right for you in particular, and wouldn't have any idea where to start in figuring that out.

But on the scale of "things they don't tell you", the biggest surprise in my life was just how enjoyable the first few years of my son's life have been. YMMV but I figured this was worth posting since nobody told me, and I might have been happier going in if someone had.
Came here to say the same thing. How is this better than Streisand?

Both even use Ansible.
This shows their involvement in managing Russian sovereign wealth lately. Note: their wealth management was directly impacted by US sanctions. Motive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/business/dealbook/russian-...
I've been thinking about this space a lot too, would you mind listing out some of the messier use cases that you have?
These abstractions are building on top of sand.
Even without steroids your body loses a lot of mass after you stop lifting heavy weights.
Very well said. As the father of two young children, I can confidently say that becoming a parent has brought me some of the worst pains of my life, yet also some the highest, most incomparable joys. Until you have children, this contradiction is difficult, maybe impossible, to understand. My kids have taught me more about being human than I could have ever imagined, but raising them has been difficult, fraught with pain and anxiety every step of the way (though I want to point out that my experience is not representative of all parents, as my story includes challenges most will, thankfully, never have to endure). In a way, it's like being reborn. I have watched as everything I THOUGHT was "me" fall away -- friends, hobbies, interests, even my opinions and beliefs about myself and the world -- only to be replaced with a completely different set of priorities and concerns. Honestly, having kids has shown me just how shallow, naive, and self-absorbed I once was, and the person I have become is far more mature, compassionate, and open. The problem is that no one can know how having children will affect them and I empathize with those who choose not to have kids. If one chooses to avoid the lowest of lows, while understanding that this choice could close off an entire range of life experience, I would completely understand. In my low moments I sometimes pine for my days of naïveté, chasing after absurd goals motivated purely by self-aggrandizement, but then I take one look at my children and know that I would have it no other way. For better or worse, I never understood love or purpose until I had children, and my experience as a father is far more rewarding than anything other future I could have imagined for myself. Of course, it isn't this way for all parents, and the decision is highly personal so I fully support those who have chosen another path in life.
The question is whether they should trust scientists about policy decisions, not whenther they should trust scientists about science. Political/ideological decisions don't have to rely on science, this "political scientism" is a very recent thing. The entire 60s revolutions for example were primarily anti-technology, anti-corporatism and anti-established science. Part of progress is breaking up with established ideas, and that includes bad science (e.g. the neoliberal economic approaches). This applies of course mostly to social sciences, it's pretty pointless to fight the laws of physics
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I agree that people should not be discriminated against on college campuses for the ideology, only for bad ideas. But I don't know that conservatives are discriminated against or that their numbers are shrinking.

I've seen no data, and I've only heard those stories as part of the propaganda campaign to discredit anyone who might oppose the ideologues' movement.

EDIT: For some data, see the parent's other post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352697
Headless chromium is reasonably stable now.

I'm working on a wrapper to completely expose the chrome remote debug interface in python [here](https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController), if you're interested. In doing so, I've found (and reported) several bugs in the remote interface documentation as well. It's a fun project.

I hope to eventually completely replace phantomjs in my automated scraping project with headless chromium, but there's still some [strange issues](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=672744).
Bayrock has ties with Russian projects as well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-mafia-linked-...
Well except for the drivers that get paid less and less now. I mean we'll forget about all that once their self-driving vehicles start being deployed, right? Well until they kill people.

I mean don't get me wrong, the data is valuable. But this is a company that constantly says "fuck you" to the law and fair work practices. Let's keep that in mind.
Simple RNA folding in 130 lines of Haskell
> I have barely seen anyone use anything but Python (Golang maybe...) for this

Odd. I see almost entirely Ruby. Especially with tools like Chef.
Microsoft's connected car platform will put Cortana on the road
NightmareJS isn't headless, which is a dealbreaker for me.

I'm automating in environments that don't have X.
Any one have a similar project but based on CentOS that they use and recommend?
Exactly.

10µg and 100µg are very different. You don't trip from 10µg as you would from 100µg.

You may feel a little bit more energetic, a little bit happier, conversations flow better etc... But it's all very subtle.

From the article:
> In fact, a common problem for new experimenters, according to Fadiman, is that people are used to feeling the effects of drugs, and a micro-dose of LSD can sometimes be less perceptible than a cup of coffee.
The press release is light on actual numbers. If they can build LIDARs much cheaper than the competition, and use Google's TPUs for the AI, they might have a genuine differentiator for a few years
Exactly. This is equivocation nonsense that the right trots out. We did it therefore you must have done it. The two sides are not mirror images of one another.
New Secure Social Network
Electric vehicle startup, Rivian Automotive, buys large manufacturing facility
I mostly ask because of two reasons - the first being you expressed confidence in winning earlier, but instead losing, and the second being that publicly discussing a pending court case is generally frowned upon by the courts, and pending a verdict can absolutely swing that verdict in a different direction. Depending on the district doing something like this may even be grounds to have your case thrown out, which would put you right back at the start of finding a judge for the retrial, but now with a legal strike against you. It would have been very wise to clear this with your (or even "a") lawyer.

(I absolutely understand the "getting it off your chest" aspect, but it would have been a good idea to hit "save as draft" rather than immediately publishing it)
Public perception doesn't matter that much because the customers are car makers.

I'll bet the number of people that buy a individual Intel CPU are a fraction of a percentage of the general population. So why do I see Intel ads on television?
In that case, NYC is asking for addresses and timestamps. The data provided by Movement is aggregate. In other words, cities like NYC want Movement but without the anonymization.
Neural nets can take you most of the way there, but pattern recognition alone will not solve the driving problem to completion.

Waymo's autonomous platform is a frankenstein of various machine learning techniques, and much of it isn't glamorous, it's less contigent on big breakthroughs than it is on elbow grease. Google demoed as proof-of concept full autonomy in 2012, and much of what they've been doing in the 4 years between then and now is the tedious job of addressing and validating their system across the full spectrum of edge cases that must be dealt with if they ever hope to foist their safety critical software upon the public.

It's not clear to me that Tesla's current development paradigm will ever be sufficient to completely take the human out of the loop. Tesla's approach is incremental, and I suspect they'll have to make some big changes if they wish to fully close the gap. Waymo has kept their eye on the prize from day 1.
If you're feeling pressured into doing drugs at work, maybe then you should find another job anyways.
CES 2017: AxonVR Brings Touch and Temperature to VR
Have you tried telegram?
Yeah, great more propaganda.

More self driving car talking points.

Wonderful.
That paper is kind of weird -- linear PDEs are solved by convolutions (yay for Green's functions), so using a CNN seems a bit, well, overkill and obvious?
It an alien idea to me, but I don't think its selfishness... more an anxiety or fear that can be controlled.

We live in a strange transitional era, and are still coming to grips with the notion that women have careers and that we don't really need to work as much as we do.

As half of a couple who struggled to have a family (because we waited too long to meet goals that ultimately didn't matter too much), I think a lot of the child free rhetoric is just that. Sometimes when you discover that getting and staying pregnant at 40 isn't a sure thing, it's easier to move on and make the best of things.
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The hair was also great in Moana. It is fun to see nonlinear Cosserst rod theory in use on the big screen!
I Wrote to Carlos the Jackal, and an Israeli’s Assassination Case Was Revived
To be pedantic, it's not cinematography.

Cinematography is the science or art of motion-picture photography by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock.
Ok, I'll bite.

What's so bad about self-driving cars?
> With this stuff, you're risking your health for someone else's profit margin.

Presumably you'd be compensated for it, although that presumption rarely works out in the real world.
HN might as well pin this article to the top since it gets reposted so much.
An unsurprising quote from the article:

> [Boston chief information officer Jascha Franklin-Hodge] said the data has been useful to show the volume of Uber rides in Boston and users’ typical wait times, but it has not done much to aid in city planning.

In other words, that was just a PR offensive. Maybe this new iteration will be something else, but I would be skeptical.
So what? Who says the training data has to be perfect? Your comment reminds me of an essay by Peter Norvig. Where he showed that a simple statistical model could tell the difference between a nonsense sentence that was grammatically correct and one that wasn't, but gave them both very low probability of occuring naturally.

Similarly, the machine may learn that "Give him the flowers" has higher probability than "give him flowers". Or it may learn that both are possible sentences and not be able to correct it. Which is also OK, we can't expect any system to be perfect.
This. People who drive automobiles for a living should start investing in new skills now.