skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll see about getting some writing started. I keep getting asked to write a book.

It was a pretty wild ride. I have a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and actually did my research with vehicular traffic because the date was free. I actually expected to remain in academia, but was given the chance to contract with a government agency, even before I'd done my defense.

Basically, I helped take the art of traffic modeling to the computer age. I say helped because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

I'd eventually be able to hire competent programmers and a real IT staff. Eventually we'd model pedestrian traffic, in addition to vehicular traffic. We would also sell solutions that companies could implement on their own.

The recession hit. The US gov announced they were going to invest billions in highway infrastructure. This made the company quite valuable and I was given an exceptionally good offer. So, I sold it and don't regret that decision at all. I'm happily retired and find lots of things to keep me amused.

There is a whole lot more to the story but that's the gist of it. I'm the same KGIII you may have seen on Slashdot.
One should not need to think too much to realise that if this is allowed to continue, it will set a dangerous precedent of effectively removing the freedom to close one's eyes --- hitherto, it seemed to be accepted even among the strongest DRM supporters that consumers had the right to not consume content they didn't want. They've tried to force (or perhaps "encourage" is the wording they prefer) consumers to consume with things like unskippable video adverts and warnings in DVDs, but AFAIK it's absolutely not illegal to look away (perhaps even at a different TV) or go do something else while that content is playing; now, by effectively trying to say that blocking or denying oneself from consuming --- or letting one's browser or other technology through which one consumes --- certain content, is illegal, they are trying to make it legally enforceable to consume content.

I wish all those who are involved or support such insanity would be themselves strapped tightly in front of a computer or TV, with eyelids glued open, and subjected to this force-feeding of content they don't want to see.

Ultimately, this loss of control of one's eyes, ears, and mind is something I strongly abhor, strong enough to express in a manner I normally don't partake in: fuck this shit!
But surely that renders the contrast still more poignant, not less - the juxtaposition of the rarest exception with the commonplace?
I was surprised when any of it got flagged given that I'm pretty sure I read earlier posts on HN that spoke about sex or race diversity in tech. I remember getting into a few comment threads on some so I'm sure there's prior stuff in this arena on HN. I guess this one was just too taboo or something.
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, I recommend CS Lewis’s book Studies in Words, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_in_Words
Shadow Fiend really comes into its own when blind shots happen, as with many other heroes, fights can be lost to line-of-sight. That requires knowing your opponent's mind and prediction. I can't watch the video just yet, but this is the human behavior you should look out for (such as AlphaGo demonstrated repeatedly in the most recent match).
>The cost of running Soundcloud is comparable to the cost of one F-35 jet.

This comparison is like saying "if all we do is capture 1% of a huge market, we'll be millionaires!"

There's quite a bit more to it than simply saying "Build one fewer JSF boondoggle, please. We need to prop up [pet project X]." Considering that comparison is used hundreds of times daily, I might add... it's not exactly scalable.

The F-35 is a boondoggle to say the least but I actually think the ROI on it is considerably better than propping up SoundCloud.
Was gold not a scarce resource?
I wish we could all schedule things on UTC time. I've been part of 10 person meetings across 4 time zones and scheduling sucks. Inevitably someone assumes a meeting is scheduled in their local time.
I like a bit of "chop" (light to moderate and rhythmic turbulence). I really really do not like phugoid oscillations on an international night flight over the north pole. That was pretty creepy.
Dilution as usual. The last investors, whom I believe invested at a higher valuation, have had their liquidation reduced. The founder shares are probably highly diluted; I can't imagine the founders owning more than 10% combined.
Great point; this happens a lot with YouTube videos, and would definitely get worse with other sorts of media
So far most of the discussion has been around a. whether the facts in the memo were accurate and b. whether google was right to fire him.

Can we talk about whether putting out a memo like this is a good idea? What is the benefit of putting out a memo like this? Clearly James saw a problem and is trying to fix it.

Sexism does exist, even today, even in Silicon Valley. Why put out a paper saying that biological differences between men and women result in fewer women in tech? Women are already the underdogs in this fight. Even if it's true, what is being improved by him pointing this out?

It kind of feels like if someone was to put out a paper saying "The Koch brothers pays millions of dollars in taxes but my neighbor doesn't. That's not fair!" Why defend the side that already has too much power?
> Are you going to make a dis-integrated modern CPU next?

> No.

lol
I near sixty. It has meant arsehole since I was a kid, with one exception. Namely, the soda jerk. That usage was still part of the vernacular when I was young.

I am not sure what timeframe they are using for reference.
I'm getting a really high misclassification rate on what it says I'm throwing. Cute idea, but didn't work for me..
My story:

Years ago, I was on a flight where it started getting bumpy. Seat belt sign comes on. It starts getting worse. The crew starts preparing for landing. It gets worse.

Captain announces: "Flight attendants sit down now!" That's never a good sign.

It gets worse.

We attempt to land, but apparently we hit very high wind sheer at 1000 feet, and they go full throttle and abort the landing. We wind up bouncing around in a holding pattern in the worst turbulence of my life for about 20 minutes waiting for another chance to land. Eventually, they decide it had gotten enough better to try again. We successfully land although it is very very bumpy.

Captain announces, "I need a beer."
> Like the fed funds rate [2], it's only quoted for one tenor: overnight.

That's not quite true -- for example, 3m OIS swaps have fixings that are essentially the 3m average of FF over the period in question.

In fact, this is mathematically a bit cleaner. If you construct an interest yield curve off of compounded 1m LIBOR vs. 3M LIBOR, you get rather different answers, whereas OIS yield curves constructed from different tenors are much closer.

The argument for using OIS instead of Treasury yields is pretty simple: Treasuries reflect the cost of borrowing for the government and are implicitly affected by the government's creditworthiness (e.g. not raising the debt ceiling), while banks can actually borrow from the Fed at FF. While the US gov't funds at pretty close to 'risk free', in other markets the credit component would be significant.

OIS is generally closer to LIBOR than a Treasury yield curve is.
> compare and contrast slavery and Jim Crow

It's a metaphor, you don't get to pull whatever random interpretation you want out of thin air in order to justify being offended. However, I've now seen the strawmen arguments you've pulled in other comments: willfully or otherwise you misrepresent the google memo, and now you make big logical leaps in my comment.

> shaming you by reducing your argument to the stupid bullshit

There is no "reduction", just misrepresentation. This is fooling no one. You are the one inventing "alt-right" conspiracies.

> Trying to compare yourself to those situations is ridiculous and makes you a massive whiner.

But you the one making that conflation. "massive whiner" is the kind of insulting hurling that is getting you downvotes, among other things.

> You can't make an argument..

Yes you can, and Damore did, with nuance, in the memo - which you haven't responded to in either specific or accurate term yet.
Agreed. I once had a new MacBook Pro delivered by OnTrac. That was not pleasant.
It's known that "communication can only happen between equals." Otherwise it's order giving no matter the semantics.
Only 3 heroes not picked in TI, iirc. It hasn't always been this diverse though. This patch is particularly well balanced.
OpenAI and Dota 2
Solve your own problem. If you have no problems it means you don't experience enough about life. Travel more, invest in new experience and learn.

Write down those problems and apply a design thinking process, so you don't invest time in them if they aren't worth it. :)
I'm confused.. The video doesn't seem related to your post?

Is there another video about what you wrote?
You assume everyone wants as many people to hear their music as possible, under all circumstances and environments. A lot of artists want some control over how their art is consumed (as an example, I would like for people to hear my music first over a high-quality sound system, not some shitty car stereo or beats crap), which a users-first 'UX' mentality attempts to commodify.

(And before someone points out what appears to be a contradiction with my previous statements, while I think SC is for its users, its original design was much more artist-centric and extended lots of control to the people who create its content)

It sucks that the artist you reached out to decided to be lame, but my experience doing that has been the opposite.

SC still offers a download option, and as long as your track isn't flagged for copyright you can set it and unset it freely, so the lack of ability to download from Soundcloud has more to do with the artists you are browsing and/or Soundcloud's UI.

By the way, I am fully in support of piracy, so no objections here. As a principle it stands for the ownership of bits and against the commodification of art. Piracy encourages individual pursuit, curation, effort, and even creativity. Youtube and its consumption culture value none of these things.
I would really suggest clarifying what you mean somewhere then because I don't think anyone would interpret it that way.
This is the heart of the professor's theory: the jerk culpably fails to appreciate the perspectives of others around him, treating them as tools to be manipulated or idiots to be dealt with rather than as moral and epistemic peers.

so, a sociopath?

is this theory really new or interesting?
I find it hard to believe one could get into the west side of FW from downtown Dallas in one hour during rush hour.. It's been 8 years since I lived/worked there, but I can't imagine traffic has gotten better.
s/mp3/flac/i

And mp3 is not obsolete...far from it. 320kbps is still the goldilocks standard among Bittorrent scene, and unlike the current format du jour (what is it now anyway?) it still plays everywhere
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.
First, you are arguing that I should hold an opinion, because most other people hold that opinion. I prefer to think independently.

Second, you are presenting this as an “Or” between education and experience. If I had to choose, I agree with you and I would also choose experience over education. However, it is a false trade-off since this CEO has both which I would choose over just having one.
you can do a maybe monad without nil types by substituting nil with a single-valued singleton type
Seems like if you were on the beach, or on the road to the beach, you could have any trespass charges thrown out, based on the tool's noncompliance.
in Victor Davis Hanson's words they've been reduced to a "municipal party". Pretty evocative phrase.
Australia was considering forced castrations as recently as 2015. Also, I'm led to believe that internet service is fairly poor there due to limiting outgoing bandwidth.

I don't really know anything bad about NZ.
The only incentive to seek consensus is when the country is threatened by an outside nation even more hostile and foreign (i.e. Hitler or Stalin).

The U.S. has a super long history of half the country thinking that the other half has gone insane. See eg. the elections of 1800, 1824, 1828, 1860, 1888, 1896, 1912, 2000, and 2016, along with other watershed moments in American politics like the Alien & Sedition acts, Hamilton/Burr duel, Compromise of 1850, FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Nixon impeachment, Whitewater, Vietnam & Iraq wars, etc. Someday we'll probably break apart, but a system based on the premise that we're all little shits who need to fight each other has shown remarkable resilience.
Which would give them what? The second clause of your sentence contradicts the first.
try sending an email to hn@ycombinator.com
It is so weird reading all these comments. Almost half of them start out as "it's impressive.. but".
Is it human nature or are HN commenters just so sceptical/negative of all the new tech?

One of the OpenAI guys mentioned that they could potentially use the same technique in real life applications like surgery.
Surgery is not "just" run on a computer it has a physical component too. Is that really the next step or was he just throwing out a random example people could understand?
Crafting Plausible Maps
At the risk of destroying my efforts at being reasonable, suppose it's an "if you eat the whole thing, it's free" situation, except there is no "$19.99 if you can't finish" else clause. You know that they didn't offer an else, yet you eat anyway, and you slip your onions into the plant in the corner.
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I'd love to look at your bookbar bar, if you are comfortable sharing a screenshot. I'm trying to arrange my bookmark bar since quite a while and can use some pointers from your setup.
I think the reason is that if he had used 'she', there would have been a shitstorm.

If you do a word-replace of all instances of 'he' with 'she' and 'his' with 'her', it becomes an entirely different article.
How does that non-response (the same one they pasted to me) give you the impression they're listening? For one, they have done nothing to address the issue of flagrant DMCA abuse. For two, the account is still active. For three, the commit hasn't been reverted.

This is not the first time this has happened.[0] GitHub's response has been woefully inadequate and OSS maintainers should consider using another platform. Everyone using GitHub is vulnerable to suddenly and arbitrarily losing their repository.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766
So an interesting thing you could do as a game company with an "unbeatable" bot is to use it to balance a metagame. Let the bots all play each other and tweak character stats etc until they win a proportional amount of the time. (This presupposes that the bot learns the game the way OpenAI claims it is, without needing to learn from player replays or from playing in a very different way than human players do with tree search etc)
Really was quite interesting to watch (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/166172514?t=7h3m10s). Honestly, the bot played _extremely_ well, but I think the biggest advantage was how much faster it's reaction time was and it's movements were likely much more precise than a human is with a mouse.

I'm pretty interested in seeing their 5v5 results as well. It seems like that will have similar results as the bots can coordinate, but it's still a bit up in the air.

I'm really not sure how well a bot like this would do with 4 human teammates though. I would guess the bot would be a strong laner, but fairly weak overall due to it's inability to communicate, though if it's really good at learning how it's current teammates are playing as it goes, it may do alright.

I'm also pretty curious about the match limitations: no shrines (regen), no soul ring (mana regen at expense of some health), no raindrops (fixed amount of magic damage block)
This is really interesting! Thanks for sharing. Is the vehicular traffic data you're referring to at the state level (i.e. do individual states report on it)? Or is it available for all states? And can anyone access it or is it only free for academic licenses?
FAR 25.303 requires a substantial safety margin for structural loads.

§ 25.303 Factor of safety.

Unless otherwise specified, a factor of safety of 1.5 must be applied to the prescribed limit load which are considered external loads on the structure. When a loading condition is prescribed in terms of ultimate loads, a factor of safety need not be applied unless otherwise specified.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.303

Airplanes in the United States are extraordinarily well maintained. Certified airplanes (which include all airliners) must be inspected annually to maintain airworthiness. Yes, you do hear stories of inspections sometimes being pencil-whipped, but these are by far the exceptional cases. The inspection has to be at least supervised (if not performed) and signed off by a certified Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) mechanic with an Inspection Authorization (IA). The A&P certificate requires training, passing a written knowledge test, passing an oral grilling, and passing a practical test. The IA requires additional training and testing. Someone with that much invested is not going to screw around.

The annual inspection itself is detailed and thorough, not a quick eyeball. Any discrepancies or issues (squawks) the A&P discovers are potential followon work. Serious squawks must be addressed before the airplane is airworthy, i.e., legal to fly.

Further, any airplane flown commercially (be it for flight instruction, aerial survey, or transportation) must be inspected to the standard above after every hundred flight hours. Commercial operators have special certificates to allow them to conduct business that they likewise will not jeopardize by foolishly cutting corners. Commercial pilots have hundreds or thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars invested, so they also have a huge personal stake in playing by the rules.

Turbulence is no fun. Catastrophic failure would be even less fun. Safety rules, procedures, systems, and backups are in place that keep safety at the forefront. The airplane can take it. People with significant stake personally and financially have checked, rechecked, and signed off saying that it is safe.
Yes, this is perfect for a future of swarms of drones fighting it out against each other.
DotA is not a MOBA and it's not a very good precursor for military unit management. I'd say Starcraft is a better comparison, and they are working on applying DeepMind to that right now [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/blizzard-and-deepmind-turn...
This link is exactly what I was going to post after reading the story. The USPS is surprisingly good at dealing with mail fraud. Currently it looks like Amazon was complicit in a mail fraud case. It would be in USPS's best interest to investigate Amazons' operations in this regard.
I think you have never had a proper midwestern bag of frozen mixed vegetables, boiled or microwaved to squishy tenderness.
I expect your conjecture is correct. That's the whole point of deep learning -- there are many layers that automate what would otherwise be human feature extraction.
https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
Looks like 2 [+ 2 for old builds] server boards supported; which is ironic since coreboot began as a project for server clusters.
Maybe aggression is a desirable trait.
It sounds like you two need to have a frank discussion about communication with one another. You are just talking past each other. You can bring it up a few different ways if the CEO is a bit of a snowflake. Otherwise be very direct.
SawStop: A table saw that vanishes before cutting your finger
Most of the artists I follow include links to Beatport/whatever and other music stores in their tracks. If yours aren't, why not ask?
there is castella too. written in katakana though. But then even Coffee has a kanji spellIng and nobody is going to assume its a native japanese word. 珈琲
"The recent revelation that 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 is another example of the state’s long history of reproductive injustice and the ongoing legacy of eugenics." - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-stern/sterilization-calif...
Are you a state bar? how can he practice being a lawyer and provide legal services. I expect to see an article on Monday, from you, which explains how you are able to confer the ability to individuals to act as a legal agent.

See how much that sounds like I am an asshole? Maybe read your comments out loud before posting.

Maybe he was commenting on the idea posted elsewhere in this conversation about getting USPS to investigate and explaining how one agent could do so. But your "understanding" may be the correct one.
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DotA and Dota 2 are the games that helped define the term MOBA. I'm not sure why you're saying it isn't one, especially since it's in the first sentence of both Wikipedia articles.
> "Oh you've been working on this for X years without any sales? Pass."

NO sales after years, as opposed to a few, is a really big red flag. It generally suggests that the person is enjoying playing and being an entrepreneur and head-wanking about "business", while lacking the mental toughness to put him/herself out in the marketplace.
I think Thursday is a busier traffic day than Friday, here in Los Angeles. There is a term that traffic reporters use in Los Angeles - "Friday Light" traffic.

I wonder if "Friday Light" occurs in the other cities mentioned in the report.

That being said leaving at 7pm is a valid strategy any day of the week here in Los Angeles.

Great reporting.
I wish the game was talked about more. It became painfully clear to me during my first round of pitches to traditional VCs. We ended up going with a strategic investor whose goals were actually aligned with ours.
DotA is generally considered to have created the MOBA genre. That being said, you are right that MOBA's aren't as good a comparison for military unit management as games like Starcraft or Warcraft.
Conservatives do not like it when the government forces them to pay for other people's birth control. This is usually one of the top issues in any American election and is discussed repeatedly year-round in the media.
82% of households making more than $112,000 a year have a Prime account (https://www.thebillfold.com/2017/06/at-what-age-do-teens-get...). Once you take that into consideration your numbers aren't that surprising.
I'd be curious to see a comparison of weekdays vs weekends. My experience living in the Bay Area was that driving through the east bay was way worse on Sundays, while it's far better than weekday traffic in L.A., where I live now.
My dad was flying a DC-3 in the southwest one day, clear sky, no trouble expected. Suddenly, the plane started shaking violently. All he could do was reduce the airspeed to the minimum (to reduce the stress on the airframe) and hold on.

He radioed in to report the turbulence so other traffic could avoid it.

After he landed, the plane was inspected and found that the wings had pulled rivets out.