skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The charging time of the electric car is overnight in your garage, while you're asleep. So the vast majority of the time for the vast majority of people, that's not a relevant concern. On road trips, 30 minute breaks every few hours aren't the end of the world for most people.

For self-driving, there's no way that's going to be held back once it's better than a human driver. The demand is going to be incredibly high, and insurance companies will probably charge human drivers more - they tend to be very good about accurately assessing risk and charging accordingly.

Those other car companies tend to be very lacking on the software side of things.

Have you ever driven a Tesla?

Feel free to short it, but I think it's a very bad idea.
Google’s Amazon Echo competitor and wifi router launching in UK
waterless hand sanitiser doesn't actually work
Hey, most likely all of them that reach conclusions abhorrent to the financial backers of conservative politicians and media!
Not to mention that submission karma is way easier to acquire. Around a third of my karma is from one submission, for instance.
It hasn't programmed us to die at all, and death is scary for plenty of people. If we're going with anecdote, my grandmother told me in her 90s she didn't want to die because she wanted to see how things turned out.
It's strange, isn't it?

As a Brit looking from a distance, I see three roots to it:

- immigrants from actual authoritarian countries. The most prominent of these is probably Cubans or Holocaust survivors. For them it's a very real thing that happened elsewhere, and they talk about it a lot. Including passing it down as family lore.

- Southerners who mourn the loss of the civil war, the destruction and imposition that resulted. This seems to connect with hate specifically against the federal government, tying in with "states rights" and so on.

- Non-white people and others who are paying attention to how the US is authoritarian, but only towards certain people. The root of "black lives matter" is authoritarian policing. The US is the only "civilised" state to retain the death penalty, but also has a very high rate of fatalities caused by police with little or no accountability. The various US foreign interference agencies (CIA, State Department) also have a bad reputation for supporting authoritarian US-friendly governments over democratic socialist anti-US governments, especially where money is at stake (Iran, "banana republics"). Then there's the drone strikes and ongoing death toll. The US also maintains a tiny little gulag on Cuba specifically to keep certain prisoners away from due process of law.

(Edit: ironically while the second and third groups both worry about authoritarianism, they'd generally take opposite sides on any specific incident!)

(I had a Romanian tell me his stories of the anti-communist revolution once. A brutal, suspicious time by his account - everyone knew that there were enemies but could not agree on who they were)
You don't hire a plumber by asking him about the make of his hammer.

You might if all the nails you have could only be used with a certain make of hammer and if learning how to use a different hammer efficiently could take several month.
Dumb question: what are the possibilities for obtaining the same service offered by these data-hungry companies without giving up genetic privacy?
HN needs some sort of h-index
> I take it the "throws" on the type of predicate means it can 'throw/return' an error. Why would you do this? Why not just require your predicate function to be able to process any element?

Because otherwise you can't use partial functions as predicates which is an unnecessary an oft annoying limitation, in my experience it's one of the biggest pains in the ass in Java and a major reason why its checked exceptions system was unusable: you couldn't create "transparent" functions (and interfaces) with respect to CE.

> It seems like the equivalent in Go, for example, would be something like this

`rethrows` is a transitive property, if the predicate is not a throwing function, the HoF isn't one either. So you'd need two functions in Go. And then `drop` works on a more abstract concept than concrete array slices ("Sequence" is what many other languages would call an iterable).
Its not an internet age mistake. Greeks knew about it. It's called the "middle path fallacy." And most people subscribe to it because of the terrible liberal mindset in education and pop culture that screams and bleeds for equality of all ideas -- even lies and bullshit.
I've slowly been going through "J Tutorial and Statistical Package", which teaches J (Iverson's evolution of APL which uses only ASCII characters) in the context of building a library for statistics[1]. I've found that it's a great way to learn the language, and that stats is a domain where APL languages work very well. I also read an interesting paper about using APL to create a notation for statistics, such as "normal prob between 0 2"[2]. Another nice thing about J is that it's GPL'd and free to use commercially.

[1] https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/Jpage/jtsp.pdf

[2] http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501700
Anyone interested on the topic of creativity and the ways to 'channel' it, should watch this extremely relevant (and funny) video made by one of the members of Monty Python (John Cleese).

The points he makes and the relevance to anything creative makes this worth your time a x100 over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMj_CFPHYc
Maybe he already has a Neuralink for himself, is a cyborg, and is just doing a parallel construction of it now.
Maybe that vigilance is why the American Republic has been uninterrupted for over 200 years while freedom and democracy in continental Europe only still exist because the US won and imposed it.
This makes no sense, unless you were a kid why would you have to get your glasses "re-done" every year? I've been wearing the same prescription for a decade and the same plastic frames for seven years. I go to the ophthalmologist every two years to get my optic drusen looked at and my corrected vision is fine. If I didn't go for my drusen I would have no reason to go. If your vision is so unstable that you were getting a new prescription every year then you are an likely a very poor candidate​ for LASIK and your LASIK vision would just revert anyways.

The only time I had to get a new prescription every few months was when I was a child so my vision was changing rapidly.

>Halos, really only at night, is corrected by wearing a yellow tint "sunglass" aka shooters glasses while driving.

Please do not wear these glasses while driving. They are dangerous [1]

[1] https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=113228
Very specific and concentrated search and discovery sites eg., producthunt, zomato, yelp, quora (if they execute really well) will out do google as I think, leaving only discovery of these sites (and their content, like for almost every google search I end up going to SO or Quora) and contextual information as a problem for them to address.
are you joking? if people would take 2 day old horse shit and smear it all over them, especially their faces and eat the rest I would appreciate it more than being next to/talking to a person who just smoked a cigarette.
That's not what "explainable ML is".

That project is about explaining how (say) a given classifier came to a decision on a given set of data. This is fairly easy on a tree-based classifier, but on a deep neural network is extremely difficult.

The most impressive piece of work I'm aware of in this area is LIME, from “Why Should I Trust You?” Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier[1]

The acknowledgement section of that paper read, in part:

This work was supported in part by ONR awards #W911NF-13-1-0246 and #N00014-13-1-0023, and in part by TerraSwarm, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA.

Today I saw ELI5[2], which encapsulates LIME and a number of other similar tools.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf

[2] http://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Should AI be regulated?
Apparently, it's not a free market.
> That ominous mood engulfing the world is not a new dynamic, but a cyclical event arriving every 80 or so years. Eight decades ago the world was on the verge of a world war which would kill 65 million people. Eight decades prior to 1937 the country was on the verge of a Civil War which would kill almost 5% of the male population. Eight decades prior to 1857 the American Revolution had just begun and would last six more bloody years. None of this is a coincidence. The generational configuration repeats itself every eighty years, driving the mood change which leads to revolutionary change and the destruction of the existing social order.

This logic smells.

This "cycle" ignores the first World War and many others. The author includes the American Civil War and American Revolution as evidence of this "global cycle", which were not global conflicts. The American Revolution is estimated to have killed 50,000 people. But the French Revolution happened in 1792 and killed over 1,000,000, but that doesn't fit the cycle.

1800-1815 - Napoleonic Wars, 3,500,000-6,000,000 deaths. Not part of the cycle.

1850–1864 - Taiping Rebellion, China - 20,000,000-100,000,000 deaths. Not part of the cycle.

1862–1877 - Dungan Revolt, China - 8,000,000-20,000,000 deaths. Not part of the cycle.

The list goes on.
Literally.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll in case anyone's interested)

> None of this is a coincidence

He's right about that. It's not a coincidence, it's just cherry picking history.
Thanks for your interest:)

Trello is great, I actually use it for this project:). The main difference (for now) is tracking documents. When I am job searching I usually have several versions of CVs and many versions of cover letters. Managing and tracking those isn't always the easiest thing. Hence, ConvertJob.
You can download a database dump which contains the wikitext source. You can interpret this into HTML. What GP means is extracting the natural-language text from this (separating it from the infoboxes, presentation information, etc).
It's a nod to their online model. You sell android phones as a 3rd party on Amazon.com. Buyer claims "not as described". Keeps phone, puts potato in Android box and returns it. Amazon forces you to refund. Probably distressing to Amazon that they can't foist off losses of physical in-store shoplifting onto 3rd parties.
Google Home and WiFi Arrive in the U.K
Clever bit tricks with ASCII
Yes, it's nothing but an opinion.
'Sightings' of extinct Tasmanian tiger prompt search in Queensland
Thanks, there are tarballs for swift-3.1-RELEASE and swift-lldb-3.1-RELEASE now. For the rest (swift-llvm, swift-clang, swift-cmark, swift-corelibs-foundation, swift-corelibs-libdispatch, swift-corelibs-xctest, swift-llbuild, swift-package-manager, swift-xcode-playground-support, swift-compiler-rt) I will check for those invisible tags.
Well what do you know..a person does something because they like it. How elucidating..
A sufferer of schizophrenia is not guilty of the way their condition manifests. They are the victim of an illness.
Except that if it comes to a lawsuit, almost everyone loses one way or another.

Sensible people and companies build up trust gradually.
This was on HN some months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13024352
It's way too hard to get anything that requires OpenSSL to work, I decided not to write Rust code on my windows PC because of that. I remember the process of just getting it to work as really painful and time consuming.
Other than that I really enjoy writing rust code on my Linux machine.
I was really annoyed with many new news sources putting crap on my page.

Personally, I removed the Facebook app from all my devices. But I still have the messenger app. That is a real time killer. It's a quick distraction, but often I regret later for spending time on facebook instead of doing my chores or something useful. I have seen the same with many people in my circle. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but I do not hear people talking about tagging people on facebook photos, these days

Another issue is with Govts & employers looking at your social media presence. I am seriously considering just abandoning my facebook page as I feel it will seem suspicious if I delete it and I did see a couple of people complaining of how facebook activates deleted facebook profile.
MQTT Buddy real-time show room
Formula One Aerodynamics 2017 Webinar
Logos! "In the beginning was the word" can be understood information theoretically. It's almost as though John is telling us that information or knowledge is ontologically primary, rather than matter. And it is "the word", not "the DWORD" ;)
hackathons prizes are bullshit, didn't you know
> They point to Garfield's history of professing less-than-PC opinions about race and gender.

What I don't understand is that if this is the case, why did it go unnoticed until someone specifically went to dig into Garfield's history?
Facebook's login page says "connect and share with friends".

1. The connection part is true, partially. Facebook for me keeps my hold of people I knew or met in the past. But I almost never add new connection via facebook. It is always via, whatsapp or linkedin.

2. The sharing part is done well (for uploaded or created content) but there is a lot of noise from all the pages and ads. So,even when done well, it doesn't encourage me to share much over there given it only reaches to probably only a fraction of my connections.
Never read Selfish Gene, but I loved Blind Watchmaker on publication in the 80s. Wonderfully clear explication of quite subtle concepts.
That officially closes justice to the common people.

If you are going to assume it's an extortion, just don't accept the case, or ask for evidence before calling the defendant in.
Show HN: DeepstreamHub – a faster Firebase with an open core
Thanks! Yeah, first off we're starting with Apple Music since it lacks the discover features that Spotify does have. But if we gather a decent amount of users, we'll definitely keep improving the site!
Golf is an insufferable sport. The land and resources that go into a golf course and all the equipment are a pure sign of feckless wastelessness. It's not possible to justify. Just be indignant if you like what amounts to 5 steaks a day.
Big bonfire of burning books: done

What's the next thing in the manual?
Advanced Scala appears to be just what I'm looking for. According to Gumroad it's in Early Access -- are you able to advise on when you're hoping to publish the final version?

I see from browsing the TOC that some topics are out-of-date (Xor.)
Not to mention, HTTP2 mitigates a lot of this, without the downside of huge upfront downloads.
Sometimes it's just desperation. Sometimes it just actually works. You'd be amazed how much easier it is to pitch buzz word heavy software to non-technical people. Presumably most serious investors aren't that easily fooled, but surely some are. And some are simply cynically acknowledging that a company which exploits the zeitgeist for marketing purposes is more likely to succeed with its non-technical customer base.
How about moving the specialized court to the US Patent Office area (not same building), and have both the 'anywhere' and the 'incorporated' part solved? The specialism is around the corner, the government can set up the court basics and scale to demand. Incorporated Delaware isn't overloaded. And finding the best court to go to for trolls disappears.
The personal data of all of Hong Kong's 3.7M voters have been stolen
But his narrative!! Golf is the peoples' sport, didn't you know? Its free just like Linux. As long as you can ante up your Lexus!
You can't just blame it all on the sickness. He's apparently an extreme racist, crazy or not. The way you put it sounds like he doesn't even exist and is all just the sickness.
And managing and tracking contacts would be the next feature I will be adding.
why foreign? you lack imagination, my dear friend.
First read this thirty years ago. It's a long read, but it's the gentlest explication of Godel that I've read, so well worth it. I only realised recently that the sub title "Eternal Golden Braid" is an acronym anagram of the main title "Godel, Escher, Bach". EGB, GEB...
Instant dating with a huge difference
3 out of 5 new H1b visa applications will be rejected this year
Read up on Near-Death-Experiences, go with the natural and relax.
When you read part two, you realise just how far this guy has gone off the deep end. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/03/27/foundation-and...

"Trump has been underestimated every step of the way for the last two years. He has thrown sand into the gears of the political establishment, made up of both parties, and controlled by Deep State players used to getting their way. Trump was able to use his powers of persuasion to overcome the left wing media propaganda and motivate a large swath of disaffected Americans to come over to his side. The never ending barrage of misinformation and fake news spewed by the Deep State controlled media ignores the fact he won 53% of the white women vote, along with huge numbers of union workers from blue collar states like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Indiana."

...and later

"The staged violent response by the billionaire funded left wing faux anarchists, fake news Russian conspiracy propaganda, and NSA/CIA/FBI campaign to discredit and/or overthrow the Trump presidency is the kind of response you would expect from a dangerous threatened animal backed into a corner. The establishment will not relinquish control without a bloody drawn out fight to the finish."

The man is well off the deep end into being a Trump apologist and conspiracy theorist.
Hackers steal nearly 4M records every day
+1 to the openssl problems.

For me it was only stopping my investigations into hyper and other web stuff (on windows), just writing CLI and GUI apps works fine on Windows. (I use VS Code and a git bash)
> could this be deliberate?

Dailies are more comfortable because they are softer and more porous. That lets more oxygen through and reduces irritation. But it also makes them less resistant to scratches and tears. That's why the manufacturers say you shouldn't clean and reuse them.

Source: my sister manages an optometrist's office.
All good news. Perhaps soon the theater will once again be synonymous with live performance, while digital entertainment is for consumers to enjoy at their leisure. With surround sound home systems, 3D TVs, and smart phones everywhere, how long could this artificial scarcity last?
> The "the US subsidizes drug research for the rest of the world" is a huge lie that cannot die soon enough.

It's a trivially verifiable fact. If you don't like the Economist, here's another source, showing that the US used to fund over 50% of the entire world's medical research. That number has dropped to 44% in the last decade, but only because China and India are growing so fast.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/13/37680135...
Ah the ol' "everyone's a ruthless POS" narrative. Does it make your conscience feel better when you justify your bad blood by assuming everyone else has it too?
Yuval Harari on why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years
Wall Street talking about the possibility of Apple buying Disney
This is a 404 page now.
It's worse than just not knowing statistics. These errors were in a table in one of the published papers. Every single row is calculated wrong.

> (43.67 - 44.55)/sqrt(18.5^2/43 + 14.3^2/52)
should be 0.2551872, rounds to 0.26, he put 0.25
> (68.65 - 66.51)/sqrt(3.67^2/43 + 9.44^2/52)
should be 1.503114, rounds to 1.5, he put 1.38
> (184.83 - 178.38)/sqrt(63.7^2/43 + 45.71^2/52)
should be 0.556064, rounds to 0.56, he put 0.52

source: http://andrewgelman.com/2017/01/25/statistical-heartburn-att...

And that's just basic math, nothing fancy. So, he knows it's bad. I assume it's difficult to get a doctorate at Stanford and then become a professor at Cornell, so there's got to be more to this than him just being stupid.
Can you spot the bug?
I get what you're referring to: 'don't brick the firmware' or 'don't mess with the MBR'. But we're talking about a device for which the main caracteristic is, arguably, its neuroplasticity.

We can do better than blindly compare hacking a brain to hacking a piece of technology made in Taiwan (with all my respects to Taiwan).
Chinese holding firm Tencent acquired a total 5% stake of Tesla
Cancerous Car Company Cedes Country.
Fooled by Randomness, IMHO. Black Swan is an expansion of Fooled. Aphorisms is a vanity project. Haven't read Anti Frangile. Fooled by Randomness has lots of good analysis of survivorship bias, trend following and other mistaken pattern matching strategies that are hard wired into us, and blind us to the true nature of events.
In many ways the real story here is that the cloud makes certain kind of shortcuts thats incredibly common in aggressive organizations where "does" are promoted over "critics" exponentially more likely to lead to serious negative consequences.

In the past an insecure shortcut was a unsecured and unaudited consumer grade network-share sitting somewhere on a lan, today it and Internet facing cloud service designed for publication used to collaborate on "internal only" document that should not even have been viable to the entire company.

It's not that the cloud is "insecure" but that it makes it way to easy for those who should not make IT decisions to turn to shadow IT solutions in order to avoid having to adhere to cumbersome bureaucratic processes and corporate governance frameworks and "get stuff done".
Well, those 80 million ought to get out in the streets, oughtn't they?
Hmm, it still loads for me.
Europeans I know in the USA are terrified of it. I don't know any that supported Trump. But maybe that's selection bias.

EDIT: Correction. Romanian I know supported Trump.
> Meanwhile, anti-vax is huge in liberal soccer-mom only-shops-at-whole-foods cities.

Is it really "huge"? Some links to polling data might help here otherwise I would also be reticent to proclaim that it's comparable to climate denial-ism. After all, we have a president that has publicly proclaimed climate change to be a hoax and sitting members of congress that eagerly attack climate scientists on their research [1].

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/lamar-smith-unbound-l...
I certainly fall into that bucket. Thanks for the note, I had no idea they did mobile stuff too.
macOS is the only OS that gets it right.

You can even drag a window from a HiDPI monitor to an old fashioned one and it will do what's right.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/846580443797368832
You can also just use it on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
I'd say 2 because code reviews are one of the rare "methodologies" that improve quality in my experience.
Uber's business model simply cannot survive in sensibly regulated markets when they have to follow the regulations.

Uber is probably better than taxi services in markets that lack basic safeguarding regulations or have questionable regulations like restricted tradable taxi medallions leading to high prices. But this is not the case in many places around the world.
I'm not saying people should be able to tell the difference, nor am I discounting the value of the final outcome. Just that pitching an app as ML-driven, when it is barely 1% ML-driven is deceptive and mis-informs the public.

Consider taking the side mirror from a Ferrari, putting it on a Ford Escort, and then pitching the Ford Escort as a race-car. The Ford Escort may be a great family car, but it is not a sports car. People who don't know the difference might come to think of it as a sports car, and might even question the wisdom of spending money on a Ferrari.