skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284886
A paper airplane is flying. A "flight" involves takeoff, climbout, leveling off, descent, and landing.

So the question is, what does autonomous mean and what is it adding?
Your argument can be applied to any industry. So yes, it's better to make the system more efficient so millions of people can enjoy safe and effective transportation
Think about any software updates you do (Windows Update, apt, yum, etc). All these systems rely on distributing a cryptographic ally signed manifest of what each files hash should be.

If you can forge the hash of a file, or the signature on that manifest, there are hundreds of different ways you can easily replace one file for another in transit over the internet.
I heard on the radio today that in Feb there were 2000 instances of the phone search which is appalling.
He said accepting. The amount of time that goes into adding the cookie popup is minor compared to the time each user has to waste on it, in aggregate.

Has the law actually reduced the usage of third party tracking?
BlaBlaCar seems to be a service to link people going somewhere with other people who happen to be driving to the same place and have space in their vehicle.

It doesn't look on demand, or anything really like a taxi service, so it's quite unlike Uber or other taxi services.
Plus, trivially parallelizable across many drones, and it's not even using normal RL techniques to accelerate learning. Training a drone controller is more or less a solved problem, the interest of this is whether all the crash datapoints are useful.
Let's make the fact there are two goats more explicit: One is a Doe`D` and the other is a Buck `B`.

If you chose `D` then `B` must be removed leaving you between staying `D` or choosing `C`.

If you chose `B` then `D` must be removed leaving you between staying `B` or choosing `C`.

If you chose `C` then `D` or `B` must be removed leaving you between staying `C` or choosing `D or B`.

Because your original choice was a 33% chance - by removing a goat - it makes the remaining option a 66% chance of not being a goat. The opened door is functionally equivalent as opening both doors that you didn't choose.

So let's pretend the host doesn't open the door in a separate action. Instead you're given the choice to open both doors that you didn't pick and if one of them has the car you win. Would you choose to open your selected door or both other doors?

Your selection is a 33% chance - but opening both other doors would be a 66% chance!
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There is always a fringe philosophy that had it right.
> I'm confused as to why you think that partnering with a car company won't work.

It would significantly devalue the company if they can't. What value would Uber actually provide then? How hard would it be for Lyft to just do the same thing then?
Former employees are often biased by their job function. At the first startup I worked at, I had a role that straddled Eng & QA, and the lesson I took away from it was "engineering quality is critically important; we failed because there were too many bugs." In hindsight - having now seen v1 of many other startups - we failed because a lack of nerve, because many other startups charge thousands of dollars a month for product quality significantly worse than what we had. We should've shipped it, had money coming in, used that to negotiate another funding round, and then used the funding to fix the bugs. But without visibility into common sales & fundraising practices of startups, there was no way that 19-year-old-programmer-me could've known that.
I want to start Uber for biotechnology. There's nothing that would move the world forward like getting rid of those pesky biosafety regulations. /s.
As illustrated here: http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/
I encourage you to examine the other front page content, to perhaps disabuse you of your notions about the quality of what ends up there. One of the items currently on the front page is literally nothing more than a list of quotes that someone likes. (Who that someone is, I'll leave to you to discover.) It has 115 points.
I'd try the H.R. Giger version.
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> The history of the airframe industry is filled with huge bankruptcies. It's a very volatile, high risk business.

Not at the scale of Boeing. They can survive a failed project, and a failed project is very expensive but most Boeing projects don't fail.

The hard part about long-term research is that most foundational research projects do fail to commercialize and you have to stick it out until you get the one success that makes up for all the failures.

> And that's exactly what the proponents of the short-term profit theory complain that businesses are not doing.

They complain that businesses are not investing enough in long-term research, which is what they are not doing.
I love how he narrated his book 1776 for the audiobook version. He has an amazing voice coupled with his great writing style.
I applaud you for trying to think through this stuff, but minus all the ranting it sounds like what you're basically saying is that there are a bunch of ways we could be (but aren't) spending government money to reduce energy use while also helping poor people. How confident are you of this? Can you name a couple? For example, are you aware that most states already offer subsidies for buying more efficient appliances, and for installing attic and wall insulation, and for sealing heating ducts? (no citation, but I used to work at a non-profit that administers such programs) Characterizing the current policy as "let's give wealthy people more money to play with" is inaccurate, unless you think the people filling out the form to get a $50 rebate on attic insulation are doing so on a yacht.
> At borders is a huge limitation.

In the United States, border zones are any areas up to 100 miles inland from a land border or coast. The majority of US population and cities are in border zones and the border rules apply to them:

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Sad fact, but true. Most companies simply have no need to have been started, and the failure stats bear this out. But as you also state, in aggregate, this process is necessary or time stands still.
Totally, but if legalized then it would not be Uber for drugs/prostitution, but Regular Taxi for drugs/prostitution... :).
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Know someone who works at Microsoft, can confirm.
Why is it uncivil to ask whether someone might have a financial interest in an outcome? It's a common enough situation, and I think an entirely reasonable response to hyperbole.

One of pg's most famous essays, The submarine, identifies the phenomenon of apparently disinterested reportage or commentary actually being engineered by those who are commercially interested in a particular point of view gaining popularity.

I reject your claim of incivility and stand by the legitimacy of my inquiry. I have always made a point of preemptively declaring an interest or lack of same when it appeared my comments might be read as advocacy on behalf of a specific firm.

Since you've detached this from the discussion I'm going to go ahead and say that I am having increasing doubts about your neutrality as a moderator.
^This is my new favorite quote.
So afl-fuzz could technically be considered the most advanced universal software license key generator? :) I suppose the days are numbered for offline validation.
Unfortunately the "upping" part of the ramp is only an illusion.

There is only one ramp, and this ramp has been going upwards since the Patriot Act of 2001. And it will keep going up, no matter who is in office.
It's how they're training their business.
Well you could decide the action based on the type of the object.

eg: If it's a human "Bob" : listen for command. If no relevant command, detour & continue to goal.

If it's a vehicle in the middle of the road, wait for it to move and then go no with your path if there are no other moving vehicles on a collision trajectory with you.

It's definitely a step ahead of what the OP are doing.... but isn't it a more practical approach ?

The point I'm trying to make is that training an NN to efficiently detect objects has been a solved problem for quite some time now. We should give more attention to experiments that take it a step ahead.
Why wouldn't I prefer Uber to Taxis even if the price was the same? I've ridden in tons of Ubers and taxis and the quality of the Uber ride has always been better: cleaner car, a non-monetary rating system that enforces good behavior (I think it's clear that tipping does nothing), working GPS and credit card usage, drivers always know where to go, etc.

I've never had to tell an Uber driver where to go or approximately where my destination is, so it's really frustrating when I can remember a few times where I would get into a taxi and have the taxi guy be frustrated at ME, the paying customer, for not knowing what region of the city my destination was.
This is so true - Knightrider was my favorite as a child, and I need to leave my memories of it with 7 year old me.
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I love that line. Thanks.
I use Timely for time tracking because of it's fast time-to-data-entry. Also, they integrate with calendar and todo services for those "what did I do today" moments.

https://timelyapp.com
Even adults are not omniscient, nor without pressures that come from having to feed and house themselves and their families. All of those constraints are exploited by various businesses in a systemic way. Employment is very often not a fully voluntary trade.
Why does a soup-kitchen disprove it?
Albert Ellis (founder of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) railed against the concept of self-esteem most of his career. He remarked that you should rate your actions, not yourself as a person. This seems even more significant when you realize how important failure is to mastery:

> Striving, by its nature, often results in setbacks, and setbacks are often what provide the essential information needed to adjust strategies to achieve mastery.
(from the book on learning Make It Stick)

The self serves as a useful model for behavior, but it changes so much based on context. A universal self-esteem makes no sense when you accept the fact that a human being cannot ever exist in isolation (I always exist in relation to my environment).
Apple Music and iTunes? Both horrible.
what happens if after trained we move the drone to another location, will those learned "abilities" be reused? making easier to fly at the new location.
Considering that a random generator could generate 11111111111111111111111111 5 times in a row...it's a bit hard to claim someone's test results as a failure of randomness unless you claim you want a gaussian distribution or some other type of "character of randomness." Ie. running diehard tests on it and whatnot. A fixed number of trials is deceptive unless you can see the algorithm behind the numbers. And for a human being..you can't. So unless you have a giant sample size, and even when you do, there is a bit of a mischaracterization done depending on what tests you are going to use to determine how random the data is
> Of course, the patent troll system attempts to shield Mr. Kaufmann and his companies’ operations from the lawsuit by having Blackbird become the owner of the patent — even if Mr. Kaufmann maintains an interest in the litigation.

Can't Cloudflare still have their lawyers go look at the original patentees for possible infringement and file a suit against them?
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I knew it was too good to be true when I first started using it. Same with VidAngel (basically streaming version of Redbox). Any product that bypasses the bureaucracy/legal requirements of the MPAA/RIAA to give consumers exactly what they want is doomed to failure.
Would it not be cheaper and faster to simulate a drone and fly it through virtual 3d environments and still learn?

Or would the physics be too complex to model well for simulation?
No. IMO.
a bit off-topic, are there cheaper ways to buy a windows 10 license than directly from microsoft for $200? (I'm not a student).
Can you not discount a lot of companies like this? Google makes a web page (after all, that's where most of their revenue comes from), Apple makes just a phone (that's where most of their revenue comes from), etc and they are many times bigger than any conglomerate.
I started keeping all quotes/highlights from books I read https://podviaznikov.com/quotes
Did it for code reviews when I was code reviewing C[1]. It really does help. Paper still has a place. Its amazing what you see on a page of paper that doesn't get seen on the screen.

1) which, since I was doing the code reviews, I wasn't allowed to write any production code, because who would review my code? :(
Awesome, congrats on your success! What does your fasting look like?
I revisit Kde every few years to see if they have finally managed to get hold of a designer. Since I use Unity and prefer it to OSX on my retina macbook and Windows 10 desktop, the recent announcement sent me on one of my visits.

I tried Kde Neon and was gobsmacked by the scale of change. With a few settings and a within a few minutes I was able to make it look and behave quite a bit like Unity. This was not the same KDE I remember.

It has improved dramatically and while the default is good you can feel the sheer flexibility of the underlying desktop. Kudos to the KDE team.

Unfortunately the Internet has a long memory and many will continue to repeat outdated information.
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Not true. The muslim ban for example, was uncoordinated and unclear at first - with lots of TSA confusion.

An indicator that planning took backseat to "decisiveness".
I really like most of windows 10. My main complaint is the start menu, I have yet to figure out how I'm supposed to use it
Grounds to search someone for contraband isn't grounds to read their correspondence. US citizens didn't re-enter the country through Ellis Island.
Not Uber, however. They seem to be either betting on the self-driving to pull them out of the borrowing hole, or at least they use it to make VCs keep giving them money they use to subsidize their rides.
Can someone build an AI out of this to predict success / failure factors ?

For the record : I'm being sarcastic :/
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For me, it's counter-intuitively not been hard socially -- the office day has been a lot more difficult.

When out socially, I just eat the salad and the protein and politely pass on the bread. Hard alcohol without mixers also helps.
I know who Jim Simons is. But that sounds like an argument from authority to me.
How does one submit?
Off-topic but what banks offer 2fa that isn't solely SMS based? I've looked but one but it's hard to figure out without already being a customer
Sorry, I don't buy it. I've seen countless cases where developers conclude that "compiler has a bug" and it never ultimately did. There are also cases where they never bother to figure it out, change the code a bit and continue with their lives thinking they've found a bug in the compiler. But they didn't.
Hacker News should care more about the content than the author. But that's a lot to ask.
We don't for the most part, but ended up moving to a VPNed GitHub Enterprise installation over the possibility (albeit unlikely one) that GitHub's main cloud could be compromised and used to inject malicious code into a repository that we own.

It doesn't hurt to shore up on security, but given the expense of operating a GHE installation, the fact that there are some GH niceties that don't work quite right there, and that even in just a few months of use GHE already has a poorer availability record than the public GH cloud, broad code signing might have been a better approach.

We do sign in a few places like for our internal deployment tool that gets widely distributed to all engineers, and which checks its code signature before allowing a deploy. It works pretty well, but the fact that GitHub's "merge pull request" button exists (which will create a merge commit on `HEAD` without a valid signature) tends to cause a fair bit of inconvenience.

I'd definitely be curious if others have been making this work.
That would entirely depend on the local laws, but I don't think requiring companies to have full-time contracts would be a common rule – a transportation company still should be able to use contractors. (E.g. I'm pretty sure my local bus company occasionally hires a driver for just a day or two)

This here would be primarily clarifying that Uber is the one offering the service, fulfilling it using contractors, and can't claim that the contractor is directly offering to the passenger, and they just provide a place for the two to find each other.

If that "transportation service" is covered by local laws about Taxis/cars-for-hire/... is not something discussed at this level (and if the answer is yes, then if it is in compliance with them), as far as I understand. The ECJ was asked to clarify on the platform-vs-service-provider point, not the local issue of what specific kind of provider they are and what rules apply to them.
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Loyalty cards are opt in. Security surveillance can be unsettling but customers understand its purpose and limited scope. What you're proposing is more invasive, and most people would not appreciate it if they knew about it.

Look, give up trying to justify it. Customers don't want it. You should find another application for this technology.
My assumption has long been that ~50% of startups fail because they never actually create a useful product. But, looking at those failures does not tell you much about startups just the basic pitfalls of product development.

Similarly, many companies that fail made perfectly rational bets, but things outside their control killed them. Likewise many successful companies may simply have gotten lucky due to things outside their control, even if their initial odds where poor.

Which is why I feel like success and failure on their own tell you very little.
Many (most?) patent troll suits are on contingency anyway, so this isn't really particularly "dangerous."
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A utopia doesn't mean there are no struggles. If you want to be a great guitar player or a master carpenter, you don't magically get those abilities.

If I could afford to be retired today, I could easily fill the rest of my days working on things that I want to work on. I'd love to learn more about cooking, learn another language, take up carpentry, learn how to ride a trials bike, get stronger, learn to play an instrument, work towards a degree in mathematics, volunteer in my community, get my amateur radio license, travel with my wife, work on my marksmanship skills, learn watchmaking, build electronics projects, join a bowling league, and on and on. I'm very fortunate in that I love my job, but it does take up most of my time.
I'm European and I couldn't disagree more with you.

Why didn't the EU block companies like Expedia taking over the traditional travel agent business, why didn't they stop Amazon and others from selling books online and stoped hundreds of traditional bookstores from closing, why didn't they stop VoIP and chat companies from closing, etc.

I'm not a fan of Uber as a company/culture, but the value they provide to me is huge. The traditional taxi driver isn't willing to change, admit that their license/medallion is a barrier to entry designed and speculated by them. If they don't want to change others will come and provide a better service/product.

To me, Uber is a necessary evil. I will continue to use them night and day... until a better service pops-up.
Even if it's correct, it's still a setback for the company.
Cloud is the future of software dev?
At the risk of breaking an actual rule of HN by pointing it out, you clearly haven't been here that long.
I agree with StrictYAML author's assertion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317798 that "the core syntax of YAML IMHO is still nicer than any other", and I found that this FAQ argued the case persuasively.
I maintain an open dialog with my past and future selves. Now how grateful I will be to myself in the future is definitely a motivating factor when there are things I want to accomplish that require doing things I don't want to do. And I do it out loud.
From my own experience, the exposure you get at Codecanyon is not much. Their marketplace is crowded. It's far better to go freemium or try SEO or adwords.
Perhaps not an easy way, but any data transmission from your phone is detectable with external sensors.
This essay reads weirdly like it was transported from an alternate universe where the notion of accelerating human progress only occurred to a fringe group of mostly right-wing thinkers. I guess it reads like what articles about transhumanism and Kurzweil-style singularitarianism did read about fifteen years ago...
What was the point of posting this? To make yourself look like an ass?
Indeed, but as far as I know it does not go so far as to allow them to hold me until I give up my password. They can hold me temporarily, and they can confiscate my phone, but that's it.
And no, I have not actually seen any of your comments about this because it's not something I am in the habit of accusing people of.
Now the question is, do human quadcopter pilots have the same problems running into glass? Although birds tend to be bad at handling 'glass environments'
I agree--although they might not have the "full information" as jstandard points out, the employees are in the trenches all day and have to deal with the trouble spots directly. For probably all places I've worked that failed, the employees simultaneously knew the problems (and would gripe about them) but were not empowered to actually fix them. Anyone who's been in this kind of death march situation knows that feeling of helplessness--that the track up ahead is bent and if only we could just run up ahead of the train and fix it...
Nice! Was that hard to set up?
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I'm not a big fan of drug company profits (and the patents that provide them), but to be fair, I wonder how the results would change without American- and European-developed drugs.
Like most parts of the law the details are very complex. So, in fact there is a huge difference from being within 100 miles of a border and having just crossed one at an airport.

Or to quote your link: Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a "hunch").
At my office the general consensus is "hate using the Mac but development is easier on a unix based machine" and our IT department doesn't have a process for securely preparing Linux machines.

The Fedora support definitely has me excited. Will try it out on my home computer before making the real jump.