skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about GM/Cruise's existing fleet of 50 with an additional 100+ on the way? [1] All equipped with LIDAR which to my knowledge you and Tesla don't have, but will need for level 5. I know Uber ATG also has a sizable fleet as well.

I have a lot of respect for your technical chops and the iPhone/PlayStation hacking you did back in the day, but the lofty claims here are hard to back up. At least Tesla has high margin electric car sales to keep them alive while they catch up to their claims.

It's easy to fool the lay public and tech journalists who don't have any technical backgrounds, but there is a world of a difference between doing fundamental AI research and development vs. patching together off the shelf commodity hardware and wiring it all up with some python.

That said, I wish you all the luck, I think a16z is betting on an acquisition like GM did with Cruise when they didn't really have anything that advanced either.

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/06/13/gm-self-driving-chevy-bolt-ev...
I don't think I've seen any backup codes when enabling 2FA on AWS - do they provide them? Support people haven't mentioned anything about those. If they show them I must have put them somewhere...
I've been thinking a bit about hands of solitaire recently as I play it on my phone on the commute to work. It's cool to know that it's an interesting problem to other people as well.

At the same time, you know, I didn't even think to use Monte Carlo let alone design the damned thing...
>We need to get the climate debate away from the ends, and look more at what is actually happening, i.e the facts.

I tend to watch a few websites every day to keep tabs on what's happening. There is so much crap being said on both sides that I've reverted to just watching the numbers to see where we are.

My list: http://spaceweather.com/ to watch sunspot activity, http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/ to watch arctic sea ice area and extent and arctic mean temperature, http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/ for monthly temperatures, http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostu... to see where we are in the El Nino/La Nina cycle, http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ to see what the sea level graph is doing.
> we won't lose equations and symbols. Ever. They are essential, and there is no possibility of real understanding without them.

i don't know.

sometimes i think these symbols and equations are just machinery created by deeply talented, deeply insightful people to help the rest of us arrive at correct statements and give us a little glimpse of a vast panorama of truth which their minds see intuitively, unaided by all the symbolic clutter.
That's a good question -- and of course, the answer is it depends. Having small focused tools is great, but that's only when the substrate/platform that lets you combine them is suuuuper good/standardized/well-designed.

`cat file.txt | sort | uniq` is excellent, but I think a lot of the ergonomics of that kind of small/focused tool reusability is due to the super low friction of using pipe, and how well STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR work behind the scenes. This kind of falls apart when you try and string together web services.

In my opinion, Gitlab's inclusion of so many parts of the process is good because it saves you from having to manage all the other tools, and it gives you answers for the complete process (where it's possible you could get painted into a corner depending on which focused tools you picked to do some pieces of the process, and have to write your own glue or go on a long search).
> Who cares about the religious meanings?

It's no religion; the terms have well-established meanings.

> What matters is having access to the code, whatever form it might be.

The legal permissions you have to make use of the code very much matter, too. And those vary considerably among non-Open Source, source available/shared source license arrangements.
Many vocations use computers, but should they all require learning about software, electronics etc?

If you don't need to "understand" the math, why risk opportunity cost learning it?

> I would draw an analogy with a compiler

staying "high level" is a good thing for some programmers. If every web dev had to dig into the low-level working of the browser, a lot less would get done.
> FastMail is worth paying for, but it's too expensive for one-off side projects.

FastMail will let you create multiple aliases, either at your own domain, or one of theirs, linked to your account.
Probably several days worth of workarounds in the past several years for server-side JSON serializers and parsers that don't support any way to serialize datetimes.
For any others who are slightly disgusted but also intrigued: http://www.finegardening.com/brewing-compost-tea
Basically, in most college courses the problems are either 1) easy enough that implementing a program to solve them isn't super insightful, or 2) difficult enough that complete automation would mean "do research".

I'll limit myself to Math since that's the topic of this article:

Calculus sequence: CS 1 is not a pre-req. And there's not enough time to teach both CS 1 and Calc 1/2/3 in a single course. "Implement it" works well for derivatives but not integrals. You're not gonna teach Risch, and implementing integration tricks isn't particularly insightful IMO. The cost/benefit ratio explodes in Calc 3, and the physical intuitions become as important as than the calculations.

Everything past that is proof-based and now you're kind of in "your homework is an open research problem in combining NLP with theorem proving" territory. Maybe with the exception of particularly bad Linear Algebra courses and a bit of the early stuff in Algebra.

From a "pragmatic skills" perspective, this approach is still highly suspect. E.g. no one's going to invent their way to Risch by implementing integration tricks.

Point is, every field teaches useful life skills / knowledge, and programming gets in the way as often or more often than it helps.
Snow Crash also features the Tower of Babel, Sumerian language, and Eurasian refugees.

I can see the connection... it's fairly vague though.
There's an israeli start-up doing much more with that car data. telling you about problems and more. and it costs as much as 20-30$
https://engieapp.com/
Nope, there's a whole two of us!
I'd guess this is why they're sending message notifications only sporadically? I've been thinking of setting up a little service for myself to monitor the FB web interface messages and then forward their content by email so I never have to look at the damn thing.
No, research does not say that you produce more when working 40 hours per week
Actually it's not a complicated tool with the free form input, integration with Wolfam Alpha, and templates for the commands used. Also during every test I would correct any command that didn't execute properly.

Your point originally was that it requires too much work on the part of teachers/administration to update the curriculum for 21st century. I'm pointing out that this view while true in some cases may not be true in the present situation. It's easy to ascribe to laziness why things are done in education the way they are to someone not involved in teaching.
Lol so Microsoft, Comcast and Sony are safe?
Not answering the question directly but one issue is that as a developer you can often make a product for almost free (and it might even be a really good product) but marketing is almost never free.

Sure you can market with sweat equity. Forums, Show HN, Product Hunt, etc but to get real money you often have to advertise. And advertising is not cheap.

I do actually have a product in this category but I don't want to post it with a throw away account.
> It seems like Google uses some heuristics when deciding whether to ban an account. My theory is that if you stick with your personal gmail account, you have such a long history of activity that it's unlikely to be flagged by whatever "smart" algorithm they're using.

I never saw/heard of evidence of such behavior.

> but you'll still lose your emails if they decide to suspend you

Emails are easily backupable, you can download them locally and/or forward everything to the "backup" email.
One more service to host email on your own domain is Yandex.Mail, it's free and pretty good.
I usually just jam the zero key. Most of the time it works.

Have you ever used one that emits "typing" sounds in to the phone? AT&T started doing this some time ago on their small business wireless support line. I jam zero until it says, "Ok, enter the number you are calling about", I enter it, and it says, "Ok, let me look that up for you", then keyboard taping sound... I can't even describe my reaction the first time I heard it. So, so stupid.
He seems to be quite above average, the issue is the ratio hubris / math skillz still seems improperly balanced.

If my sunday psychology profile is correct, he seems to be passionated and fast to hack around and displeased by big corporations business model + slowness + suboptimality. Thus trying to dig diagonally on his own without the enterprise cruft. So far so good, the issue is that it seems he's lying about his abilities. He managed to do 20% and spins it as 70% claiming he'll be at 100% before everybody else. Without independant testing and legislation of course.
Well you can do both at the same time, it is called local lexing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03277
> I don't understand this line of thinking.

Haven't you noticed the popularity contest going on with computing?

If datomic isn't popular it will disappear.
Whats your proposed resolution for the two cases on this thread?
Primo não é parente.
Sure, but I'd bet that people who have cloud services accounts are much more likely to be better at password security than the general public, as a group.
I found symbolab.com much better at this.. It also has much better user interface.
Go to bed, ny times reporter.
Bush league... I perfarmd my owne brained sugery Las week.
Of money and morals
Great point about compositionality, thank you!
Meet Freesist. A community for service providers helping each other for free
He is a documentary artist in my opinion. I love the way he combines pictures and sound in such a unique way while delivering those fantastic connections.
I deleted my FB nearly three years ago and it forces you to actually go to news sites. I'm much more informed this way.

I get my local newspapers (the Chronicle and the East Bay Times) delivered and I go online throughout the day to read NYT, LA Times, WaPo, BBC. I've never felt the need for the instant spam news that you get on FB or Twitter. There's only been one time where I've had to use Twitter for realtime news and that was during the fire in Oakland last fall.
Can I have your email address? I just need to send you something. Nothing fishy.
Ray: An experimental distributed execution engine
I work at a place that has "Paid Time Off" or PTO. It's used for vacation and sick days, and I get about 25 or so a year (haven't checked the number recently).

On my particular team, we can call in day-of often, if we don't have imminent deadlines or important meetings. "Hey, not feeling good, PTO". No one questions it. It's not abused, in that I have never felt it impacts the team's work.

And I guarantee I've used it for sanity days, especially recently!
I wasn't able to predict that discussing a better setup can cause "an extreme reaction".

The second machine is not that important, I would prefer to schedule distraction blocking on my computer for most of the day and removing apps like FB from my phone.
It looks good, it's a great idea. I really think you have a bad name for it. It seems hard to spell, and the name seems more related to diary entries than billing time.

I think there's a lot of professional services that could use it, say photographers, psychologists, etc.

That said, I could see a service where experts (think node.js and others) could put a badge on their blog site and answer questions for an hour while getting paid for it. That would be something I might use if I can get an hour of an experts time (even if it cost me $50-$100) to get some information from an expert. So instead of me taking 8 hours to learn information, I can learn that info in 1 hour. It seems like a bargain.
Homemade Lava Flows Fuse Science with Art
I wish they would rewrite it to something else. Yes, the app is very likely not CPU bound, but I just can't find myself believing in ruby+rails to ever be "fast". However, I'm also very biased against rails so I generally try to ignore the fact that it's a rails app.
Is growing like crazy the issue? You lower the bar for hire and not enough time is given for the new employee to integrate into the culture. Instead new teams make their own cultures, and fight hard for their own success at the peril of company's success.
This article seemed really incoherent to me.

I didn't understand what comma is trying to do and how selling 1000 "FitBits for your car" to "car enthusiasts and hackers" for $88 helps to compete with Waymo.
Are you SURE it's ADHD?

No blood test or CT scan can tell you if you have the condition — the diagnosis is made by subjective clinical evaluation and screening questionnaires. This lack of any bright line between pathology and eccentricity, Schwarz argues, has allowed Big Pharma to get away with relentless expansion of the franchise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/adhd-nation-a...
https://www.forbes.com/companies/hobby-lobby-stores/

Not definitive proof of anything, as they could be losing money, but that's a big enough number to suggest that plenty of people don't know, don't care, or know but don't care about their extracurricular activities.
Mike got the name from the poem.
Hypothetical: I have filed incorporation with a single share and deposited a Benjamin into the capital account, exactly what powers have I conjured for myself here?

Should your rule be written to use market cap?
We've also got a lot of Product roles coming up, specifically PM positions and some product design stuff on the horizon. Feel free to reach out to me (Lydia M: lydia@trello.com) or my colleague Carrie (Carrie Marvin: carrie@trello.com)
I believe it's as simple as changing the email address for your AWS account, which can be done within the account settings. You can confirm that this does the trick by updating the password and ensuring it doesn't change your retail password.
I would call this as The hierarchy of 'Troubleshooting Software Problems' ( as a parallel to Maslow's hierarchy of NEEDS).

In order to fix a problem at certain Level, you have to go to 'Bottom Most' layer which is ROOT cause of the problem.

>So you might have

a data problem,

a code problem,

a workflow problem,

a design problem,

an architectural problem,

a team problem,

a project problem,

an organizational problem,

a leadership problem, or

an existential problem.
In the demo, is that a Powerline status, solarized palette?
HANDBOOK OF RUSSIAN INFORMATION WARFARE [pdf]
SE can show you what specific incantation format the API requires, but math is a bit different.
Hoping that AI can create a pleasant world seems roughly as reasonable as hoping that humans can evolve, however gradually, until they can create a pleasant world for themselves. Is it not?

In the meantime, I'll cast my lot with creating a pleasant inner world.
Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud [pdf]
my inlaws would never be able to type in or remember "kronikl.io". They would go to "cranikal.com" and their browser would be infected by malware and their computer would die and I would get a call in the middle of the night.
Exercise.
Cooking.
Sketching.
Paying attention to grooming.
Practicing ignoring people as much as possbile in public.
Reducing the amount of information I process outside of programming. --> Not using a smartphone. Using public transport. Minimizing internet use, no social media.
Walking as much as possible to help slow things down.
Consciously taking breaks from mental work, instead of just getting absorbed in a programming task.
The equivalent of interval training.
its possible to strengthen your ability to focus while you program through interval training.
Observing nature, such as bird-watching, wind conditions, cloud formations etc.
Depending on the car, it has many things relevant to self driving. Vehicle speed, RPM, steering wheel angle, etc. For some cars, you can jump to the CAN bus via that port and get more.

It is though, far short of everything needed. He's pitching it as perhaps part 1 of a bunch of other stuff you would need. That's aside from the idea that DIY self driving sounds, er, unwise.
There's a bias at work too. The ads in the news feed are slip-streamed, if you aren't constantly on the look out for that gray, barely there "Sponsored" they look like "normal" news feed items and scroll past/through them only really noticing the bad ones.

Even worse are the socially slip-streamed ones that started as a Sponsored post in a friend's news feed that they found funny/interesting/whatever and re-shared. Once reshared it loses even that gray, barely there "Sponsored" tag and has "grown up into a real boy" in the news feed.

A lot of the mind games in the last election cycle happened because of that (target ads to people susceptible to reshare them and watch them go viral for relatively cheap). Facebook has said they may try to crack down on that sort of thing, but slip-streaming ads is where they make their most money and they don't have enough financial incentive to really fix that.
The disadvantage(?) of a trie is that you can't rank by relevance.
Combining vehicle data with a phone's GPS could improve navigation accuracy in urban canyons [1].

Back in 2007 we read CAN data from a Toyota RAV4 to get wheel encoder, steering angle, acceleration, speed, and braking data [2].

I am surprised Uber/Lyft aren't using something like this. I often see the car location jumping around in SF FiDi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_canyon
[2] http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/research/projects/others/darpa.s...
Meta: Please, for the love of less-than-perfect eyesight, use more than 3.3 contrast ratio for 13px fonts.

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=8e8e8e&b...

On topic, this does seem like a video series I'll have to look at. Human/Machine interactions will only become more important as time goes on; it will be interesting to watch both the philosophy and the reality of it all evolve.
I built a cash forecasting app (http://www.money-stew.com) that I use religiously to verify that I won't have any trouble paying my bills.

I actually managed to get some traffic and ad revenue ($100< a month) when I first developed it and got it into the Google web app store and was featured for a little bit. I think there where quite a few bugs that I ignored and I stopped work on it for a long while.

I continue to try and improve on it, but it rarely gets the bulk of my free time.

Its been difficult for me to get _any_ feedback on it, so I bounce back and forth between feeling like its a worthwhile venture or its just a pet project that is useful to nobody but me.
> Recently, I've noticed they hang up on this behavior

I've definitely had them ignore any sensible operator prompts, but actually hanging up? That's a step beyond. Care to name and shame any offenders?

(I've always enjoyed the claim, and once or twice believe I've observed the behaviour—though I am sceptical—that a lot of these systems scan for obscenity, and route to an agent. When I get a robocall while I'm out walking (phone for audiobooks), I always curse at it for a while, just in case. Even though it almost never gets an agent, it's a good stress reliever!)
Not the full CAN bus, only very small subset of it, isn't it?
They may let you cheat (just like SparkNotes I guess), but these tools also let people like me who haven't had advanced calculus survive when we otherwise wouldn't. If you pay for the WA service (I don't remember what it's called), you can type complex math in and it will break down how to solve it out. This was invaluable to me in some CS classes where I knew how to implement the algorithms once the math had been detangled, but the mathematical notation was so opaque to me at the time that I would've had no hope of figuring it out.

Obviously, I learned a lot from having it broken down like that so I wouldn't be as dependent on the tool now, but at the time, it was a huge learning aid.
You have to unlock most modules, or input a code along with updates, otherwise you brick the the module.

Current generation vehicle electrical architectures are not network safe and rely on physical security.

There is a big trade-off here for the next generation; the electrical architecture will be COMPLETELY locked down, and end users will be locked out of making any updates to modules - something that tinkerers and home-brewers are at odds with. Read only access will still be allowed.
This isn't the same thing as buying a stolen lamp from a yard sale. In fact that's pretty ignorant to ignore the details with this case.

FTA:
Notwithstanding these warnings, in December 2010, Hobby Lobby executed an agreement to purchase over 5,500 Artifacts, comprised of cuneiform tablets and bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals, for $1.6 million. The acquisition of the Artifacts was fraught with red flags. For example, Hobby Lobby received conflicting information where the Artifacts had been stored prior to the inspection in the UAE. Further, when the Artifacts were presented for inspection to Hobby Lobby’s president and consultant in July 2010, they were displayed informally. In addition, Hobby Lobby representatives had not met or communicated with the dealer who purportedly owned the Artifacts, nor did they pay him for the Artifacts. Rather, following instructions from another dealer, Hobby Lobby wired payment for the Artifacts to seven personal bank accounts held in the names of other individuals.
Former Google exec building a high-tech hat that will make telepathy possible
I thought probably Hands Free for Chrome would see some donations given how much it could help someone who was disabled, and given how many donations I've seen more ordinary & simple extensions receive, but I only got $10 the past 3 years, and that was a single donation from a friend who felt bad seeing it at $0.

https://www.handsfreechrome.com/

Barely any users, just around 400 or so.
Ask HN: How to run commands without running whole program?
Is there a way to run just parts of software programs without having to open the entire program? like just the commands?
I had a friend who posited that the Wall-E/Inception scenario would have been a far more interesting prequel backstory for The Matrix than what was actually presented in Reloaded and Revolutions.

Basically, that the remaining "real world" humans were deluding themselves with this grand narrative of a lost war against the machines, when in fact it was humanity's own environmental screwups that blotted out the sky, and most people willingly submitted themselves to a simulated fantasy world that was set right before the collapse of civilization. And if there were multiple "one" persons or matrices or whatever, it was only to keep resetting the simulation and re-playing that golden period. Basically, you would turn the first movie on its head, where Morpheus becomes the character who has to question his world and assumptions, and break free from a tyranny of lies.
And if you put the logic in the IDE, then every IDE has to duplicate the functionality for every language.

It seems like the language implementation is the right place to put logic that requires information about how the language works.
>This should serve as a warning to anybody else who has an Amazon account that is shared between retail and AWS.

Wouldn't Amazon have locked your AWS account for unauthorized login as well? I don't see how the retail activity matters here.