skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to put down the OP's work (I think it's a great project), but I'm just wondering what advantages might an ML approach have over "traditional" CV algorithms. In a really well controlled environment lanes will be easy to detect, and computing the difference between the current heading and lane direction should be doable; maybe if we're talking about complex outdoor environments and poor sensors then ML would have an advantage? Or if we're teaching the robot what the concept of a lane is?

I think back to the days when I basically implemented lane following with an array of photo resistors, an Arduino, a shitty robot made from Vex parts and some c code. The problem is much simpler than the one presented in this article, but then the computational resource used was order of magnitudes less. At what point then, do you decide that "OK I think the complexity and nature of the problem warrants the use of ML" or "Hmmm I think neural network is an overkill here"?
Based on Googles track record with Android, and the atrocious deployment of TV on Google fiber, as well as a host of other examples of Googles beliefs and competencies, Google has a better chance of putting a person on Mars than me trusting them with anything. Time will tell what happens to Google.
This isn't right. I know "drivers can choose," and nobody is forcing these people to live and work like this. It still feels wrong. One driver mentioned in the article leased his car from Uber and sleeps in it because it's the only way he can make enough to afford the payments. Seems like indentured servitude to me. Uber owes its drivers more.
I'm working on adding the throttle. This is difficult because you need to drive the correct speed and stopping or running off course can mess up the training data. This project was inspired by Otavio's carputer which does predict throttle, steering angle, and odometer.
Depends on the amount.

There are drinks containing 60g of sugar, or 15 teaspoons of sugar. Combine that with a sugary snack and you will see.
On a related note:

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/1485149100-451.png
Not always. It often just disconnects without any message.
It depends on your threat model. Data security has three components: confidentiality (nobody else can read it), integrity (nobody else can change it), and availability (I can get at it when I need it).

If you're mostly worried about confidentiality, cloud storage may have too much risk for you. If you're primarily worried about integrity or availability, though, cloud storage (plus a local copy) is a big improvement.
Well that is a stupid design!
more like swiss vs everything else (except maybe a handful of german houses (eg lange)). great story about the tuna. hadn't heard about that one.
I think it's much easier to get elected than to move the whole government in the directions you've promised to move it during the campaign. This has been demonstrated over and over again. Power is quite distributed in the U.S. political system and the presidency is pretty ephemeral when viewed from the perspective of congresspeople who in some cases have held office for decades. The president has a good deal of executive power, but his or her political power emanates from the skilled use of the bully pulpit. One of the few populists who was successfully able to battle his own party's interests was Teddy Roosevelt when he went after the big trusts. Perhaps Trump will be as successful, but one thing Roosevelt had going for him was his skills as a politician. It remains to be seen whether Trump has these skills.
You forget about switches, routers, servers, etc. They are also part of the internet.

And the "cloud" is just that: the servers you don't own and don't control. When some company mentions that they will store your data in the cloud, they could have just said that they are going to store your data on their servers. But for some reason "the cloud" sounds more trustworthy than "our servers".

I maintain that "the cloud" is a marketing term, not a technical one. There is no new technology here. There is no need for the term "cloud".

On the other hand, the internet was a new technology, thus the new term for it was justified.
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> I can only question your sincerity.

This is the mark of a viewpoint unfettered by exposure to the other side. Assuming malicious intent of someone just because they have an opposing viewpoint is simplistic and naive.

1. Manning leaks: exposure of one war crime and its coverup. Hardly a trend. Furthermore, Wikileaks edited the Collateral Murder video to imply malicious intent and obfuscate the ambiguity in the situation.

2. Snowden leaks: where was the U.S. military implicated in any of them?

3. Hospital bombings: yes, targeting fails happen in wartime. It is tragic and regretful. War zones are dangerous.

4. Senate report on torture: wasn't that the CIA as directed by Attorney General Gonzalez?

5. Obama refusal to exercise the laws against torture: this is the first time I'm hearing of this, please discuss.

6. Gitmo: hardly the U.S. military; this is an artifact of a Congress that refuses to allow any appropriations toward relocating prisoners elsewhere.

7. Kill lists: how would you approach terminating military commanders engaging in continuous operations (that kill noncombatants) against your country, yet they don't belong to a nation-state?

In the last 100 years, the U.S. military is guilty of much wrongdoing. Compared to other nations, and considering the volume of combat in which the U.S. military has been engaged, the U.S. military fares well when compared to other nations. The reality is that warfare inherently involves the killing of people who should not have been killed, simply because their homes were in a combat zone. You could argue that the U.S. shouldn't have entered most of its wars; that might be true. At the time, it was considered to be the right thing by the U.S. electorate in order to prevent much more bloodshed. World War 2 is the textbook example of a war entered too late to prevent massive bloodshed. This informs U.S. decision makers and cannot be discounted.
I think I'll check in on the author come January 2018 :D
> I divide and conquer and get things done.

I had the same insight after many years like the author - that every problem you do can be broken down into smaller problems, which can be worked independently and tested independently. Why it wasn't obvious to me early-on I have no idea. I guess I never developed the intuition to see the efficiency of the method. Did anyone else among you had the same experience?
My guess would be that Western Union has transferred between $0-$100 000 000 000 per year in fraudulent transfers, and I really don't know where in that range they might fall. You don't have to make a guess, and if you have no reason to do so, you should just avoid it. Opinions without reason are just feelings.
I recommend reading Nassim Taleb's book "AntiFragile"
I bought a mechanical watch just as the "smart" watch fad was taking off, for precisely this reason.
The writing os more like the old google, frlm the top of my mind from the google desktop search click through ten years ago: "read carefully, this is not the normal yadda yadda".

I hope hope hope that we can get old google back. I used to be a fanboy back in tje day but they have made a decent effort to get rid of us over the last ten years. For me it has been the breaking of blogger (bad js + redirect to country specific domain), tasteless heavy pushing of Chrome, making Android closed, killing gds, still pretending Europeans are less worth than Americans (actually we never got access to google voice).

Theres a lot of stuff that could need old google like social networks (google+ is wonderful but few uses it), communication (I was a walking billboard for Whatsapp, but they sold out to Facebook and Facebook went ahead to confirm all our scepticism as valid) etc etc.
Those were all human-created events. What happens when we have a super-volcano eruption and the world has another mini-ice age, and there are famines across the globe? Or the coastal flooding that is predicted to happen by 2050 if we continue current warming trends. We can't just force nature to give up through a superior show of force (unlike winning a war).
> How is this not posthumous slander?

Well, mostly because it's libel, not slander.
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I have the same pen. I prefer dark and rich lines, as long as it dries immediately and does not bleed.

One thing i do with all fountain pens are to resurface the nibs using dremel or grinding on any fine surface. Basically a hit and trial to get fine calligraphy like quality, writing after that is more consistent and in control.
In my opinion, "be humble" isn't a winning strategy.

Don't be so arrogant that you stop improving or fail to understand mistakes, but by all means don't be humble. Be proud of who you are and the work you've done. You work in an industry where 90% of people don't understand what you do. Chances are your own boss won't understand the actual value you're providing.

So don't be humble. "There's always someone better than you out there" -- sure, but that person's not here, right?
I love his work. He's by leaps and bounds my favorite sci-fi author ever. His optimism remains unparalleled.

It's a measure of how much darker the world has turned recently that I've started in the last few years to think of ACC as perhaps a bit naive. Or maybe he was just too far ahead of the times? That's an optimist thought - albeit a long-term one.
Today I learned that "aition" was not merely a typo, but rather a new (to me) word! (cool!)

Aition: a tale devised to explain the origin of a religious observance
> Are there any good alternatives?

You might want try the RWG Mobile app [1][2]. Although I have only used it within the UK, they appear to give you a real number rather than VOIP number. I'm not sure if this applies to the US or Canada, but you could check with them.

One of the main reasons I started using the app was because it was the only one I could find that could successfully receive 2FA SMSs. Another reason was because EE hadn't yet enabled Wi-Fi Calling for my phone (Nexus 6P) and I needed a way to receive text messages over Wi-Fi since the 2G/3G reception is really poor where I work.

Being able to centralise voicemail [3] across multiple devices is also quite useful.

[1] https://www.rwgmobile.wales/features/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rwgmobile....

[3] https://bayton.org/2016/07/using-rwg-mobile-for-simple-cross...
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That's a cult relationship, not an employee employer relationship.

I'm not talking about value judgments in that I admit there are probably more toxic employee/employer relationships than toxic cult relationships. Toxic cult realtionships are more famous, brogrammers, literally drinking the kool aide, etc.

Just saying the number of people wanting a professional relationship is going to be a lot higher than people wanting a cult relationship, so you're going to have trouble building the best team when you're limiting the hiring pool to, well, basically friends.
Wow. That actually happened. His name is Emmanuel Nwude[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Nwude
>One of my problems is finding junior jobs. It seems whenever I go searching I see only mid-senior level jobs

Stop applying to junior jobs and thinking of yourself as a junior. "junior" is just code word for "pay me less". Get yourself to where you need to be and just apply for regular roles.
That's part of the libertarian ethos. To each his own...
dexterdog said, "So what do you do for internet access?"

You are attacking a strawman, not what dexterdog said.
If you can define a testing regimen that would have caught this issue, I'm sure Samsung would gladly pay you in suitcases of cash.
Expensive watches can also be investments, many of which appreciate in value.

Same applies to rare luxury cars, real estate, etc.
Also I think your incentives point is interesting. Right now the auditors (the CAs) are being paid by the auditees for the auditing. Wall Street a decade ago shows us what's wrong with that. If we want to get the incentives right we need a way for CAs to get most of their money from the certs' clients rather than from those who deploy them.
Frankly, I can't understand how Google is so chaotic. Perhaps it's the organization, which looks more like a conglomerate than a cohesive corporation with a clear vision.

They release products, only to abandon many of them without a clear reason (like Google Talk). Or they release two products that should be one instead (Android & ChromeOS, or Allo & Duo).

The Google Talk fiasco got me particularly disenchanted. A beautiful, open, standards-compliant product (they even helped extending XMPP with Jingle!) gets replaced by a proprietary mess like Hangouts.
Are after the fact, retrospective estimates viable? It looks more possible to me than the before the fact variant.

Anyway, I don't think butts in the seats management deals any better with the lack of correct estimates.
Nintendo amazes me: as an organization they make incredible games yet are terrible at everything else.
The one burning more electricity on mining new blocks would win, and the other ledger would be invalid, after the point of divergence.
Looks great - beautiful execution. What tools / frameworks did you use?
It probably wouldn't hurt to have those places as a fallback in case someone really needs them. At the same time, it seems like a bad idea to expect people to need them on a regular basis.
Some people have a cheating/shortcut mindset which is pervasive in every aspect of their life. He was probably cheating in his job as a contract manager as well. His former coworkers were probably happy to see him go, since they had most likely been doing his work.
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453644
How will they enforce that power? It will either require humans (of a different social status) or robotic weapons/mercenaries.
Well, there's a difference between fake numbers under 100% and fake numbers over 100%. Surely anyone would know you're lying when you use a figure over 100%, but maybe I'm putting too much faith in the general public.
Is this replacing the Gorilla database? Or is it using it under the hood? Or do they co-exist? If so, how are they used differently?

For those who don't know, the Gorilla database is also from Facebook and they published a paper about it roughly a year ago: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf
Yep, this was an exercise to compete in the DIYRobocars race in West Oakland last weekend. There were 9ish cars with 7 running end to end Tensorflow autopilots and the others using OpenCV/line detection. Open CV one the race.
Survivalism, prepping, militias, whatever you call it now, is pretty much just Military Cosplay. It's just another hobby for people with disposable income. Instead of golf clubs they're spending it on AR-15s, bunkers, and canned food.
Or even better, offer a restricted photo access permission that only works with the built-in image picker. Then at least the user has to tap on an image before it is transferred to the app. I don't care about the fancy custom image pickers with real time preview effects that various apps build in.
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For me, the benefit comes from two limitations:

- The slow and physical aspect allows you to think about and consider the idea, as you're writing it.

- The negative reinforcement, for that slow consideration, caused by from the permanence of your mistakes or a tired hand.

But, I don't think paper has to be involved. I see it as an indication of a lack of good stylus input in most devices.

I now use a large iPad Pro, with the stylus...err...Apple Pencil, and have no desire to go back to paper. Having the pages backed up to the cloud, being able to insert links and media when necessary, and being able to quickly switch colors, is all too valuable.

If good stylus input gets cheaper, I don't, personally, see a justification for paper.
Yay!! So happy to see Scuba get more visibility. I can't even count the number of times I said, and heard other engineers say, that the thing they would miss most about Facebook was Scuba.

That's the whole reason why we built honeycomb.io. If you're a FB expat, check us out.
It's true if you eat fewer calories you will be thinner, but every study done on diets over the long term(3+ years) shows success rates that hover around 5%(for people who have already succeeded in losing significant weight)

Imagine we gave the startup advice "make lots of money, spend very little money". It is advice that every successful company since the beginning of time has followed. And every failed company has failed to do so. However this advice is exactly as valuable as the advice "eat less calories, burn more".
Cool. I'd never heard of a PID controller... although it sounds vaguely related to a Kalman filter. Indeed: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-intrinsic-connection-betw...

Thanks also for the link to wikiwand!
Or maybe they're planning to stay in the bunkers only until 90% of the population has died off (I hear amazing things can happen in 100 days) and then they'll return to the surface.
Coastal flooding would largely be economic damage - mostly distributed to a small segment of the population, not societal collapse.

Food shortages caused by climate change, on the other hand...
and if you did absolutely have to implement one from scratch, then you probably wouldn't have to spit out an answer on a white board in front of some judging eyes with very limited time and push that into production.
No sync is not enforced, but that is how most people run it.

The problem is if your local machine is compromised, then the attacker can delete you local files. These deletions are then synced to the cloud storage.

The same can happen if you get ransomware encrypting your local storage, the encrypted changes get synced to the cloud.
But rolling a standard datastructure (and what's the "standard library" for a red-black tree anyway - in Python, or in Java? - or C++ for that matter) proves that you can do something "tricky" and hopefully get it right. You can understand and reason about what you're doing. If they don't let you Google while doing a "CS" type problem, of course, then they're insane.

When it comes time to do something novel, that understanding will be very useful.

People pooh-pooh Google's hiring interviews, but when was the last time Gmail's search results on your email were as bad as Bing's (I use this example because it's not their general index, I'm asking about your mail.)

There are a lot of good reasons to bone up on CS 101 (and 201, 301, 401, and 501).... I disagree that it's just "studying for the test".
I doubt this increase in the attack surface is meaningful. If someone gains control of my device they can in all likelihood initiate a transfer of my files from cloud storage. They can also gain control of the cloud service. But the probability of the latter is too small to consider. When A >> B, A+B =~ A
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What a surprise: the NIMBY, white flight, privileged, white, upper-class has always carved out private spaces for themselves in large cities.
The cycle life at 100% depth of discharge may be better for zinc-bromine batteries than for lithium ion batteries. That's an advantage. Zinc and bromine are available on a larger scale than lithium and cobalt. That's a potential future advantage.

The energy density of zinc-bromine batteries is lower than lithium ion batteries. The cost per unit of storage is higher than lithium ion batteries. Liquid bromine is much more acutely toxic and corrosive than the hydrocarbon fuels we let consumers pump themselves. In the battery's charged state, the zinc is a solid, so you can't recharge a car with such a battery simply by pumping fluids.

Zinc bromine batteries have some advantages that might make them viable for large scale grid tied storage in stationary applications. The disadvantages mean that they are unlikely to be adopted in passenger transportation applications.
I don't mind.

It feels like it is a GOTCHA type of thing

It seems like it is not virtuous in wanting to help the 500+ men and women succeed in our capital.

Tracking a persons actions or promises is used to terminate employees. Tracking (personal / individual level ) is not used - especially sharing ones results with others - to improve a process or reduce a cost etc...

If this is just about the assumption that trump will fail or needs to be removed from office, then the energy should be spent on that sole task

This just seems not good.
OK, I'll bite. What's the secret? Because nobody yet has E-mailed me out of the blue with my next job offer.
There is so much evidence online of this being true but people just don't want to believe it.

Devs love the idea of "being found" because they had the perfect project on GitHub or a great blog. Reality is these are time consuming, low % approaches to improving one's job prospects.

It's so much more time efficient to network and study for interviews.
Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Originally meant for LA, but oddly applicable.
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too passive-aggressive for my taste
It's still more labor intensive. You can stamp metal, any kind of composite has to be laid in a mold in several steps and then infused with resin (the resin is a big part of the cost). Further one the part is finished it has to be trimmed out usually with grinders and sanders. Even with fiberglass the cost of production is going to be higher than the equivalent steel, aluminum or plastic part.
Conda is great software but the Conda/Anaconda ecosystem is a mess.
> [announce] Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Didn't trump do this already?
It would be extremely unusual if all people had exactly the same circadian rhythm; some variation in sleep-wake cycles between individuals would be expected in the same way as a variation in height would be expected.

Wikipedia [1] says: "Normal variation in chronotype encompasses sleep–wake cycles that are from about two hours earlier to about two hours later than average." (Unfortunately the citation link is broken.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype

Also worth reading:

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_owl_(person)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark_(person)
There is a third possibility, or maybe an explanation for #2:

I've been in a situation many times where I couldn't figure out what value a CB was adding, but those who worked with him/her spoke glowingly of them or thought highly of them. So, since they were held in such high regard by others, I assumed that I must have been mistaken in my initial assessment of the person -- all these people can't be wrong, can they?

What the CB is doing is taking advantage of the fact that people more distant from you in the org chart form their impression of you based on very small pieces of information. But, the perception of those distant (e.g. higher) than you can have a greater impact on your trajectory than the perception of those around you.

Bullshitters are responding rationally to a set of incentives which rewards pleasing people far removed from one's actual performance, versus pleasing those who directly depend on your performance.
Wouldn't signal lights require a network to coordinate? That would mean there's some kind of connection to it, so why would it need a battery?
What is an invoice and how can I make one?
How is this privileged ?

Exactly. It isn't. That you think your efforts are what was being described when the post up-thread mentioned "privilege" shows how poorly you understand the concept.
Wow, thanks for this feedback. It is exactly what I was looking to hear.