skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following sounds like a "where's my flying car" objection, but is founded upon a desire to avoid seeing another AI Winter. I don't need to see AI beat me, I just want to see AI doing the following, in an economically feasible package that is amenable to mass production, so we can concentrate human jobs on value-added activities like 1:1 teacher:student ratio education:

* wash dishes, especially baby bottles and odd-shaped utensils

* mow and edge the lawn, trim bushes, and dig up weeds

* tidy up clutter in the house

* treat stains, wash clothing and linens, fold, iron, starch, and put away clothes, towels, and linens

* pick delicate fruits, vegetables and nuts at the peak of ripeness or readiness

* wash vegetables and fruit, prep them as needed for recipes

* plan, purchase and cook a meal with substitutions where necessary, set a table and clear it

* vacuum, sweep, mop and polish floors and stairs, scrubbing where needed to get that spot of ink off the floor

* dust all shelves, ceiling fans, and contents of shelves

* sweep and wash down all windows and siding

* open and file physical mail

* once a month replace A/C filters, turn water valve knobs, and check water heater anode

* general household repairs like replace a fuse, replace a bulb, fix a squeaky door

The list goes on, but hopefully the idea is clear: AI is far from offering a generalized robot, and automation's marketing hype is very close to claiming such a breakthrough in articles like this, when the reality is closer to single-purpose or limited-use, expensive devices with limited lifespans.
You could just not get drunk...
Siri speaker would have surround sound and Apple would present it at WWDC 2017
> A cup of coffee at a greasy spoon diner might cost you $1. That's a Service.

You can order coffee at a cheap restaurant in the US for $1!?

You guys seriously don't know how good you have it.
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You're not entirely wrong. Opium reversed the flows of silver specie that was the lifeblood of the China Trade. Before opium, most of the European trade was Mexican or Peruvian silver for tea, or china, or what have you. After opium, it was those Chinese products, or silver, for opium.

Opium addiction ravaged China (although by the point it really became a public health problem, domestic opium production had exploded). But the wild swings in the price of silver fucked the Qing economy, that had a bimetallic currency between silver taels and copper cash.
I guess one of my plugins steals ^Z; maybe evil-mode itself.
Ask HN: Is it a good decision to continue in US on H1b as a contractor?
jj is on the home row...
And not all markets behave the same.

So pretending to know what Uber customers will do is asinine.
For some people it can be clinically dangerous to try to bear through pain.
I can see the fascination of this problem. There are so many ways to approach it, from addressing the physics, to higher level attempts to get the right look. Searching around, it seems to have justifiably caught the imagination of many.

Here's another approach, made interesting by its use the connection machine [1], whereby an attempt is made to simulate the diffusion of pigments though paper.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/72ab/54ecaaf7458853bd441b94...
I speak as part of my job and have spoken at probably 20+ events that are 3rd party to my employer in the past 2 years. Currently I am averaging about a conference a month in 2017.

I thought this was a really great list. Some big ones I like to call out:

#9: Travel - This gets me more than most things. I have on occasions bumped into other speakers completely unprepared for their travel for or for things that might go "boom" such as: laptop failure, presentation corruption, display adapters not existing (or breaking which is harder to prepare for) and my personal favorite Immunity Boosters. Hell yes. A coworker turned me on to these two years ago after coming down with the plague after speaking at a few too many events in a short period. Now its a must for me and whether its placebo effect or not I haven't gotten sick while traveling/speaking since.

#10: Showtime - No one is born a great speaker. Flat out no one. I know people who speak weekly at public events and they used to suck at it too. Don't be afraid/stress too much before a talk. That said, I have seen people bite off more than they can chew and give a first talk at a major tech event such as AWS's Re:Invent where rooms average 1k people. If you're going to choke at your first event, don't have it be that big/visible of a one. Start with local meetups!

#5/6: A big one that I always recommend is peer review your content before you even start dry runs. Presentations often live longer on sites such as Slideshare than they do in the minds of those who have seen them live. It is in sites like Slideshare that your spelling, grammar, and even design issues will stand out the most. Get someone who is detached from your presentation to read through it, maybe even two people, take that feedback and then move forward. For me, my wife who was a journalism major reviews almost all of my content despite not knowing much about the technical nature.
Do we do that for various financial endeavors and shut them down due to the economic risk posed? Cost of 9/11 was rather large, but it was not that large simply due to terrorism, it was that large due to the failure of various measures meant to prevent it... all aligning into a perfect storm.
Right, this is the mental speedbump I referred to. I just get tired of people pretending that you're precluded from easily driving out away from cities, instead of the much-lesser inconvenience of "having to get used to the minuscule additional mental barrier". In my own personal experience it took me about three trips before this latter issue vanished.

The difference between the magnitude of the two ways of stating this "downside" are vast, and I hear people conflate them constantly.
do you have an evidence for that? It seems a weird thing to say when C# is such a high quality language, and C# (and .net) keeps adapting and changing.

There are some advantages with stronger functional languages. Though C# seems to be slowly but surely working out how to incorporate more functional ideas. Though never will be a "functional language" but will support a functional approach.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I waited for months for the usual 80% off steam sale. I finally gave in and bought it at full price. I almost never do that on Steam.
On the topic of the Silk Road I highly recommend this book which recently came out.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31920777-american-kingpin
Problem is that it's virtually impossible to estimate the probability of a black-swan event, since, by definition, they are events that have never happened before and nobody has foreseen them possibly happening. A priori, your probability is zero, and yet they happen anyway.

We can be fairly certain that something unexpected will happen in the future, but predicting what that something is or with what likelihood it will occur is still the domain of fortune-tellers.
And therein lies the problem. How do you calculate the probability in the first place? For some things (asteroids) this is possible, for others (catastrophic rapid climate change or terrorism) we don't have the predictive tools.
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There is a dangerous knee-jerk "but my grandma is in pain" reaction when this topic is brought up. I'm confident that we can settle somewhere between people dying in agony and _deliberately_ engineering super addictive dope then lying about it.
I've generally optimized for convenience: it's easy for me to ignore the expense when I consider my overall transportation + rent budget (the two aren't really fully extricable).
I don't get your point about unpacking yet to be honest. Both your code examples work fine with namedtuples I think. Adding additional attributes is better in the second example, which is why it is to be preferred, but that works with namedtuples as far as I understand.
That's an awful analogy. Opioids are a medicine, asbestos are not.
Are you referring to Intel's Slicing by 8 algorithm[0].

[0] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/432/446/a_systematic_a...
> The computer didn't fail. It was just getting inaccurate sensor information.

Yes, I see that after looking at the report--the one I'm looking at is here:

https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3532398/ao2008070.pdf

> This caused the control system to automatically switch to Alternate Law, which already removes a large number of the automatic protections.

But it apparently didn't remove the high AOA protection, which was what caused the uncommanded pitch down events when false AOA information was provided by the failed unit.

> If the pilots had used circuit breakers to force a switch to Direct Law, this would most likely have decreased the safety of the remainder of the flight.

It would have prevented the uncommanded pitch down events, which were what caused injuries to passengers and crew, and which were due to faulty automatic function even in Alternate Law. And it seems to me that the only reason there weren't more uncommanded events due to faulty automatic function was just luck.

- After further reading in the report, it looks like high AOA protection is supposed to be turned off in Alternate Law. But it seems clear that automatic high AOA protection was what caused the uncommanded pitch down events. So it could be that Alternate Law was not actually triggered until after those events happened.

> Coffin Corner is a scary thing when you're flying without any automatic protections.

Yes, and the solution to that is to get out of Coffin Corner as soon as you know you have faulty automatic controls--gradually reduce altitude and airspeed to give more margin of safety while you look for the nearest place to land. I see no reason why that couldn't be made a standard contingency plan for the rare cases like this one where the human pilots can see that the automatic controls are doing obviously wrong things.

> realistically, we would just have a spate of incidents where pilots shut down the computers for no good reason and then crashed the aircraft.

So you don't think it's possible to come up with a good narrow set of rules that pilots can use to determine when the automatic controls are doing obviously wrong things? Or that it's possible to improve the designs of the automatic systems so that they can give pilots better feedback on why they are doing what they are doing? In this case, AOA data was faulty, and accurate AOA data is critical for proper automatic control of the flight. So a big red light saying "Faulty AOA data" would be an obvious trigger to tell the pilots that they need to take action. Instead, the automatic system was apparently designed to go ahead and pitch the aircraft down based on faulty AOA data.
Spotify at it again: Remove feature, Delete user data, Ignore ~1500 complaints
Globally? No, that's a very USA-centric view. Terrorism has killed hundreds of people globally this month alone. It has destabilized (if not outright destroyed) many countries over the past 2-3 decades.
I figured as much, but if ad blocking is already in people's technological Overton window, why isn't it similarly popular on desktop?
That's certainly true - things like Pool make it easier to obfuscate the cut Uber takes. But still, price rises don't just have a potential to alienate passengers, but drivers as well. If anything, drivers may well be more fickle than passengers, since someone who takes Uber once or twice a week has less to lose than someone driving for them 8 hours a day.
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lol maybe you're a Haskell ninja but I'm still 10x more productive than you because I don't have to implement every single piece of the app (ecosystem++).
Fat vs thin tails. Namsayin?
Trick to reduce fear and anxiety that takes just 30 seconds and a pen
I couldn't find in the source code where types are inferred.
Yeah it has killed hundreds this month mostly again due to mismanagement of response to terror and management of the prep for terror. It's a significantly different thing to compare terrorism in 3rd world countries who are routinely targets of both non-State and State sponsored terror because lack of control mechanisms and terror in developed countries or countries with stable governance systems.
Thanks! I'll check with my bank and see what they offer along these lines. It's good to know what market rates are so that I can shop around if my bank isn't competitive.
A: Most things are not completely out of our control so it is possible to mitigate those risks.

B: People are not perfectly rational.

However, I totally agree with your main point.
> As long as that stays true and Uber continues to grow outside of the US, Lyft doesn't stand a chance.

Well, except they do because the local market is simply huge. There is room for multiple competitors.

Just like we have ATT, Verizon, Etc.
You're not going to get addicted from one prescription to manage short-term pain for a few days, e.g. wisdom teeth or surgery recovery.

The people who got addicted, and the subject of the lawsuit, were prescribed opioids for long-term pain management. Of course you're going to get addicted if you take them every day for weeks or months. It's the nature of the drug, and the drug companies are being sued because the purposefully downplayed that.
I agree with all that but I still wouldn't call Thiel any sort of libertarian. He spoke at the RNC, backed Trump and is in fact a registered Republican. Like many he waved a libertarian flag of convenience when that was fashionable but the dude's a right wing conservative.

I wouldn't say these sort of conservatives are pessimistic about progress so much they are opposed to progress.
I think you lost everyone here :D
FWIW, I still hit the paywall after clicking on the Google search result.
>* A bike is not walking. Most bikes are for one person, so if you're in a group they're not much use.

My favourite part of visiting Amsterdam was the excessive bike usage. Pretty much everyone has 1 or more of them, you just ride together in a group or catch a tram, even out of the city everyone would either catch a train or simply ride on the side of the highway between villages.
Since I've got a stray downvote, let me clarify: I'm pro-FP. Purity amounts to referential transparency which is uncomplicated. Haskell and similar languages have the character of arithmetic expressions (no side effects) evaluated mechanically. This claim is uncontroversial and is supported by the well known papers of Strachey and Landin. Monads are useful but their use does represent a decision to bring "the awkward squad" of side effects etc. into the clean elegant world of calculating the value of expressions. Alternative approaches might see imperative code written separately from pure code.

It's surely a category error to say that purity is more essential than impurity. What's pure is the expression one types in, and its various reduced forms, culminating in a value. Impure is the messy causal world of real hardware and objects which have stubborn or mutable properties: the whole address-based system of letters in postboxes, for example. The world has state. That doesn't make the platonic ideal of an arithmetic expression any less real, but it's an abstraction of a certain circumscribed set of operations that we perform, typically on a blackboard or with pencil and paper. It's a tiny part of reality.
Haha, that is always an option... but I'd rather the drunks be able to use an app to get home, than fight the larger, and largely self-defeating battle of trying to convince or cajole people into not getting out of their heads.
Oh, for sure. But being spread thinly over dozens of small markets isn't necessarily a better idea than concentrating on a few large ones.
How many of those self driving cars actually exist as a commercial product at this point? So far, zero.
Depends on the software. In general infrastructure has a much higher liability associated with it, as a failed bridge, road, or building, will quickly kill/injure those making use of it. I could see a similar situation arise for, say, embedded software for medical devices like pacemakers etc.
True but a 6% increase overboard is practically invisible.

Will you notice if you pay $7.51 one day, and 7.96 the next day? What with all the surge pricing, route changes, time of day pricing, and other schemes Uber throws at you, you're lucky to get the same price day to day.
And raising fares by 20% is going to reduce demand.
Adding a member to the tuple requires updating all code that unpacks it.

Adding an attribute doesn't impact any code that doesn't use the attribute.
Thanks! If there's a public dataset that you're mirroring, maybe we should be hosting it for everyone under our public datasets program (feel free to ping me with your details).

Sadly, extended memory does not mean you can arbitrarily scale RAM versus cores for free. The memory above a certain ratio per vcpu is charged at a higher marginal rate. The focus of the product is for people that might only want more RAM, but if they add cpus something bad will happen (e.g., they don't have enough licenses for their software, or their code will literally crash). We'll try to update the docs to be clearer about this.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
that looks like a scanse.io lidar on the racecar. I've have a preorder on one of those for almost a year now, wonder how they got it so early.
I'm saying that's not the issue.
F# seems quite popular in linux/mac using mono .NET, I was quite surprised in the F# forums how many didn't even use windows. I actually used my Mac for a lot of F# coding. But the new approach from MS for cross platform is .NET Core which (maybe next year as it seems a bit messy at the moment) will be a great cross platform choice.
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"Data from the National Safety Council from 1933 through 1997 indicate that deaths from unintentional work-related injuries declined 90%, from 37 per 100,000 workers to 4 per 100,000. The corresponding annual number of deaths decreased from 14,500 to 5100; during this same period, the workforce more than tripled, from 39 million to approximately 130 million."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4822a1.htm
Shouldn't the drug companies sue back for the state not having proper regulations?
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I like the aesthetic and I think that it ought to go beyond visual ux. Give me apps with brutal feature sets: just what is needed for full functionality (I think the gmail app is a pretty good example of a utilitarian creature set, could be slimmed down a little though).

Let's lose extras like the camera on the Facebook and Spotify apps, the assurances from google maps that you are on the fastest route, and so on. And get rid of animated transitions or explicitly show a progress indicator.
This is a very good idea. In rocketry, air is your enemy. At the speeds rockets move it causes enormous heat/mechanical stress on the rocket, drag energy losses, and it messes with the flow of matter out the back of the engine that provides your thrust.

With a jet engine, air is your friend, because it is the matter you spit out the back of the engine. And at the much smaller speeds of an airplane, mechanical and thermal stresses are much smaller.
With all the craziness of different CPUs and server configs... just makes me want to hurry up and go serverless!
asking your doctor for oxycodone, even in the US, is a very easy way to be shown the door
A nit on the title's terminology: I think this article is more about the long-term aspect than the monogamy. I think monogamy in career terms would be not taking on a job on the side; many job hoppers are serially monogamous.
There's certainly some overlap, though the Solutions Architects (SAs) are more explicitly focused on publishing solutions (cloud.google.com/solutions).

My team is composed of a mix of Google engineers that can (kind of) talk to people, and recovering CXO types from various industries (Finance, Healthcare, etc.). Each of us try to only work deeply with 1-3 customers at once, while SAs are usually focused on more broadly applicable solutions.

We all weave in and out depending on personal relationships with customers and individual skill sets, but we're all behind trying to make our customers successful regardless of role or title.
Not sure why this was downvoted. I don't see anything in the design which shows that the language is designed for math. The math functions included in the standard library seem basic, even when compared to general purpose languages. I don't mean to rag on someone's work, but why would I use this over Sage/MATLAB/R?
> Last year, when Russian security services began harassing U.S. officials in Moscow — including slashed tires, home break-ins and, at one point tackling and throwing to the ground a U.S. embassy official entering through the front of the embassy — the Obama administration threatened to close the compounds, former Obama officials said.

I wonder what you think this behavior sounds like, then...
Oh my. I was a contractor at Netscape in the summer of 1997, one of two who worked out of the Mountain View campus. JavaScript. Layers. Embedded custom Java widgets.

Does this mean I have 20 years of JavaScript experience? Feels more as if the first ten years have cancelled out the past ten years, mutually annihilating, leaving weird traces in the fog chamber I use for a brain.
To add to this: at some point I want a developer to stop development on a game. This is especially true for games with a lot of mod content, and it's especially true when developers start prioritizing new features over bug fixes (looking with great consternation in your general direction, Mojang). It gets very tedious when a game has been out for a while and yet all your mods still break twice a year because of updates, and you've got to roll back / wait for the mods to update (which doesn't always happen) / etc.

With the exception of perhaps some bug fixes if necessary, KSP 1.3 is done. Stick a fork in it and start work on something else.
You should probably include most US combat deaths in the terrorism category because, no matter how little Iraq had to do with 9/11, we wouldn't have been in a war there or Afghanistan without terrorism. Veteran suicides and overdoses can probably also be attributed to terrorism as they followed from the wars. War casualties are only in the thousands over the entirety of the war, but there's about 20 veteran suicides per day, so the deaths indirectly attributable to terrorism are actually quite a bit higher than your number.
I've been waiting for something like this for awhile and am super excited. I'd be even more stoked if the next project was building a small Forth from scratch and flashing that on the board.

You could show how you could interactively test and control the board that way.
That's why we didn't do this with machine types. If you don't care, you don't have to. If you care, ask for a particular CPU platform (or newer). Most people won't and probably shouldn't care, but Skylake is enough of a jump that we finally are giving people the explicit ability to choose.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Peter Coyote narration of his main book is pretty good. I credit it with getting me into audiobooks.
The nice thing about California's bar exam is that you need nothing more. You don't need to take expensive classes. Just learn the material, pass the exam, and you are a lawyer. Other states require law school.

The schools want it easier, helping them to produce more lawyers. (incompetent ones) Perhaps they'd like to require law school too? I'm sure they would.