skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is biggest difference. Selling things that there is no real intent to actually make the systems. The other issue is that a real company could get sued and you'd be able to track the real assets bought with the ill gotten gains. With these ICOs, I'm not sure how you track the money to even know who to sue.
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who has this perspective.

I'm a couple of TV shows away from going to an "online streaming only" mode of TV watching.

I'm becoming increasingly annoyed by the "only" in the sales pitches.
Interesting. I was in Wyoming and noticed this as well. During the partial eclipse it was impossible to tell that the sun was dimming except that I could measure this with my camera's light meter. My friend hardly believed me when I informed her the sunlight had been halved three times (losing three stops) -- except that we could feel this difference in how chilly it had become. It is only as the last bit of sun is obscured that the world goes dark in any noticeable way.
So true. I've always thought that fully autonomous driving is a slippery slope to AGI. Imagine Google having to collect an INFINITE amount of driving data (the perfect manifold) before they realize they've sunk billions into an intractable problem?!

Problems in AI can very easily turn into a black hole of money and data. I hope the large number of AI startups appreciate this.
When it comes to a name for this whole situation, I always liked the image of 'cryptographic tulips'.
Amazon always had a route to profitability, raise prices _a bit_.

Uber's route is to raise prices _a lot_.
Exactly. I park in a very small space in a busy city. While backing out I must monitor the street, pedestrians, and the cars parked to the front, back, and side of me.

Just this week, I missed one of those variables and cost myself $500 in damage. This is something a backup camera and automated system can and already does easily help with, and is a major efficacy leap. Small steps like this can really add up.

What I would like to see next is a system that alerts the driver when the light in front of them turns green. I feel like I lose 5-10 minutes a week sitting behind people who are checking their phones unaware the light has changed.
Other countries have much lower car death rates. It's a social problem that can be solved without waiting technological miracles.
Just because we want or even need something doesn't mean we get it.
Numbers and percentage can be deceiving. Also another reason if the percentage is increasing is that there is more of a urge to try to copy what daredevils do on YouTube, maybe they make it look easy. Or they want to create highlight videos themselves but highlights are the tricky stuff others haven’t done.
>It's just unpopular for long distance trains because current systems don't do obstacle detection and its hard to secure long distance tracks against obstacles.

That doesn't sound like it's just because "unpopular", in fact, that sounds like a technical reason. It sounds like you're really saying "they are limited, but people are bad too, so it shouldn't matter."
It's hard to be involved with programming for a long period of time and not run into Shannon, he is one of the foundational people in who worked on the theories underpinning modern computers and telecommunications.

Another is Dijkstra,

In fact it's not overstating the case to say that Dijkstra's algorithmn (and it's descendants) and the Shannon limit are two fundamentals to the way the internet works.
If we had autonomous planes it wouldn't significantly reduce cost or increase usage. But there is a lot of investment in autonomous drones.

Planes also have a very high safety bar to begin with, which cars do not.

Same thing about trains, there's very little value in doing so, and resistance in the form of unions in some locations. Some trains are fully automated though, here's an article with some more info: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj75z/why-dont-w...

Frankly having some dude from Toyota, who don't seem to be very invested in this space, tell me he doesn't think it's going to work isn't very convincing. Chris Urmson saying it might take up to 30 years is far more convincing: http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

But that's 30 years for the entire planet, not until it works at all. WayMo is already letting people ride their cars in Phoenix - presumably one of the places with good weather and easy roads, so I think metro-level deployment in the next 4 years seems about right.

[EDIT]: And on the topic of trains. The MTA in NYC can't even seem to handle basic technical projects, like upgrading signaling infrastructure, or just extending a rail line a few miles without spending billions of dollars, so there's probably a decent chance that some of these are not automated due to sheer incompetence.
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The difference is that the same algorithm that drives a car can't be used to do other tasks. The self-driving car algorithm can't just be plugged in to recommend a movie or summarize an article. Many of the same underlying components can be re-used, but they have to be trained on data for the new task.

AI is kind of a silly term, imo.
what the grandfather is trying to say by my own understand is learning to sail small boat when big boat sinks small boat sailing skill is the only thing that will save your hide.the old man is wise
For whatever reasons I vividly remember asking the question in 7th grade, "can't a story not have a conflict? Can't it just be about some nice people getting along without anything like that happening?" and my teacher simply said "No."
I do not think that a 'fully intelligent AI' is necessary for full autonomous driving: if a universal communication protocol for driving were to be introduced, cars could communicate with one another as well as announce themselves when entering intersections for example, therefore mitigating the need for an 'AI'.

"I am driving at 45mph at [GPS Coordinates] [UTC Timestamp]".

"I'm braking [GPS Coordinates] [UTC Timestamp]".
One accidental sweat slip on a 60 foot climbing wall can paralyze you for life.

Trust in your line, I guess.
Did they commit to supporting backward compatibility?
You could cut this list in half if you just used the free stuff already included in macOS. I still don't get the appeal of iTerm or Alfred.
It seems like both kinds of plots set up a problem and resolve it. In one, a problem happens to the characters in the story. In the other, the problem is for the reader to understand what is happening in the story.

But it's very common for stories to include both kinds of problems.
Where was that and at what time in the year?
It's interesting that the example given is of people killing each other. So much for lack of conflict :)

It'd be nice if the author gave examples of significant plots using the structure, like a novel or a film.
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As soon as it's documented, you have to support it.
>even before US embargo'd Intel from china

You can see how well this embargo works in every electronics mall
FWIW I am another very happy long time user of AppCleaner.

More stuff I install with brew-cask on my macs: https://github.com/andreis/cfg/blob/master/brew-cask.txt
One of my friends is a train engineer. I can tell you that it's ABSURD how little automation is used in many train systems, and it's definitely not because of a lack of technology.

To give an example, my friend has to memorize the required speeds for each different section and turn in every train he runs, and has to manually adjust the train's speed accordingly.

Literally all of that can and should be done automatically, but the industry hasn't caught up with what is technologically possible.
Alternate title: Toyota executive frantically tries to convince people to keep buying non-automated cars to protect Toyota's revenue stream while other companies say automated cars are imminent [January 2017].

California is on the verge of approving new regulations that allow automated cars on public roads with no humans in the vehicle, and as soon as that happens, things are going to move faster than the people who believe 10-years-late Toyota think.
FOMO? Fear of missing out?
That would have been excellent investment advice in 1997
This would be perfect for Letters of Note, a blog I _highly_ recommend: http://www.lettersofnote.com/ (I have no affiliation with the site)
It seems like you could have a hybrid where the vehicle operates at level 5 with augmented infrastructure and lower levels for everything else. Add a 10-20% upcharge to every resurfacing/construction contract to embed sensors and whatnot and over the course of the next 20 years you get coverage for 90% of the miles that people travel on a daily basis.
Sure, it helps sells Teslas. The opposite keeps selling manually-operated Toyotas.
> This is what surprises me most about not having a screen.

That thing on the right of the photo is a closed laptop. This person does have a screen, it's just not constantly in use. (Not "in sight", as the article puts it.) They can open up the laptop to show stuff to others when needed. This is how my blind colleague does it.
If you want to understand SVMs deeply, a course in convex optimization. In general, proving maximum likelihood estimation for a lot of classic machine learning models involves using the method of Lagrange multipliers. But not deep neural networks :)
The Copenhagen Metro[1] have been running driverless for a decade. It was the first metro in Copenhagen. Had there been a legacy system to replace I doubt it would have been made driverless. It is properly due to the general "conservatism" (vested interests, old ways of doing it) in established systems. It takes a certain power to disrupt this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro
Bitcoin as a currency doesn't solve any problems for people in developed countries. For the 5 billion plus who are underbanked due to lack of access or government red tape, it solves a big problem. Maybe you live in a country where there is hyper inflation like Venezuela or Argentina, or you are a female in Saudi Arabia and you cannot open a bank account, or you need to purchase prescription drugs online because you cannot afford it. Bitcoin is not perfect, but it actually solves problems for some people. We mostly buy Bitcoin in the west as speculation.
Wait is over and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has launched
Blakes Seven had great characters and a fantastic concept. I binge-watched the whole run about 5 years ago. It had great moments in the first couple of series, but like a lot of TV back then the pacing was painfully slow at times. That's one of the big advances in the last decade or so, the best TV now is paced almost like a movie.
It depends whether you want to work more as an engineer / data analyst, or more as a "ML researcher". For the latter, then, yes, as everyone says below, you need to be totally comfortable with multivariable calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics, numerical optimization etc. But many jobs are more practical in nature, in which the main case essential skill is, being able to run a bunch of different models with different parameter values and collect and interpret the results, efficiently and reproducibly, and be able to talk about them and make recommendations for the way forwards. In those jobs you're not actually going to need to be able to derive updates for backpropagation, even though it's certainly satisfying to understand it.
Planes are mostly automated. The pilots are involved for takeoff and landing or emergencies, but little else. All modern Airbus or Boeing planes are mostly flown with autopilot. The human component is still involved primarily for the "what if it breaks" case where the software isn't there today. A computer would likely have never considered putting a plane into the Hudson river, but that pilot saved a lot of people by doing it.

Actual aircraft can be fully automated for landing at least. In the US Army, I flew the Shadow 200 TUAV and it had a thing called the T.A.L.S. (Tactical Automated Landing System)[1] which does exactly what you'd assume it does by the acronymn. It is a monopulse radar tracking system on the ground with a transponder on the plane. You fly the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) into a small area at one end of the runway and click the "Land AV" button (A.V. == Aerial Vehicle) and the landing is 100% hands off. You have the option to cancel the landing if wind or the parameters are off down to 10ft, but below that it is land or crash trying!

For trains, the safest ones are automated, but Unions (in the US at least) prevent most of the autonomous technology from being deployed. Where I live, in Chicago, we had a train conductor fall asleep and the train went up the escalator and crashed into the turnstiles at terminal 2 of Ohare[2]. A computer would have prevented this from happening as a computer would neither have been speeding or sleeping. In that incident, the automated breaking systems had never been tested and in fact were configured / setup wrong, so they both failed. This has been rectified since and additional barriers have been constructed. That being said, there are lots of fully automated trains[3], you just might be unaware of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAI_RQ-7_Shadow#Design

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/news/ct-ohare-blue-line-crash-ntsb-report-met-20150326-story.html?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_subway_systems#Grade_of_Automation_4_Systems
Ask HN: Websites focused mainly on solutions to complex career problems?
There are many websites (such as this one) that have a community that's very helpful with certain career advice, but usually that advice is either geared towards beginners, or otherwise discuss preventative actions (eg. "here's what you need to do to keep your job skills from stagnating").

What I'm looking for are websites or communities that provide solutions to complex career problems to chronic situations, in particular in software careers. As an analogy, someone who didn't take care of their health via preventative actions years ago might now require a complex solution (like surgery).

So it must focus on these topics. For example several years of career stagnation from the failure to follow, or know of, preventative actions. Because sometimes these things also happen due to plain ignorance so unfortunately it's too late for them to prevent those problems from happening.
I'm not a writer in the conventional sense, but can't Kishōtenketsu be reduced as to just world/character-building? I'm not fully seeing just how different it is. The comic panel was too simplistic I guess.
MacOS was based on the same premise, it seems - at least originally: the keyboard was to be used only as a tool for typing characters into a text widget; navigation, selection, etc. all were to be done using the mouse.

It was a popular idea at the time. In fact, Acme is a clone of the user interface of Oberon OS. The difference (from the Mac) was, while the mouse as designed by Apple had only one button, Oberon and Acme required three buttons and the user's ability to press some of them simultaneously (termed "chords").

While I find the Plan 9's (and Inferno's) window system elegant and useful, with the need to be able to use the mouse pervasively and in such an intricate way, these OS and editors seem to have jumped the shark.
I didn't read "perfect" in the same way. He just seems to be saying that it was developed in parallel with the OS, and so was tweaked to fit the needs of OS development at the time.

I read it more as "purpose built", and therefore, better than anything else that was available to him.
From what a pilot told me, I believe the A320 he flies can take off, fly, and land totally on its own. I'm sure the same is true for other planes.

Also, if I recall correctly, he said in certain conditions it's against regulations for a pilot to be manually controlling the aircraft, such as landings in high winds.
Sonos FCC filing confirms a voice-powered speaker
Humans are never going to live on Mars either, but at this point these things are matter of religious conviction for techies.
I've been saying this for a while. The problem is that people are mostly familiar with the rate of overcoming traditional technical challenges (e.g., making your current computer/phone more compact, improving graphics quality, making cameras and screens with more pixels, etc.). What people don't realize is that full autonomous driving will require more than just faster/smaller/cheaper technical innovation - it will require the refinement of innovations that probably haven't even been invented/researched yet.

I can't help but think about speech recognition 20 years ago. Many of the hot software packages claimed something like 96% accuracy, and that sounded great on paper. People thought intelligent voice-computer interfaces were just around the corner, yet here we are in 2017, and Siri/Alexa/Cortana are barely becoming usable (but still frustratingly lacking in many situations).
Level 4 automation trains do in fact do obstacle detection and are capable of unattended operation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
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> How exactly do truely free to use websites run if not with advertisements?

They don't. And I consider this a feature, not a bug. The www existed just fine before advertisers came onto the scene, and it can function even better when they leave.
I lean towards this, but I've never seen anything that suggests it is more than a (possibly wrong) intuition. If Starcraft players can do 200 actions per minute, what suggests the mouse is the limiting factor?

I'd suspect we spend more time processing what we are going to do than we do actually doing it. I often find myself pausing to think about how to get the right layout I want in i3, but if I just could drag some windows around, it'd be done.

The mouse is very intuitive, that's probably why Jobs got stuck on it. It's hard to get much more "natural language" than literally using text to control actions as Acme does.
Can you imagine writing a computer program than can drive a car in a video game, but not provide relationship advice to two freshly married people, or think of a fair and just and enforceable law to reduce discrimination at the workplace?

Driving is quite a bit short of "same intelligence as humans"
As some sort of comparison, imagine having to call an IT support guy to come restart your computer every 15-30 minutes... I'd lose my sanity before a single day was out.

I imagine you very quickly identify software / features that cause such interruptions and ruthlessly prune them from your environment.
Aside from the awesome feature that lets you point to any folder for the config file (I keep it symlinked to my dotfiles), iTerm2 can go borderless, which I absolutely love (iterm2-nightly needed)! http://i.imgur.com/GENVtUJ.png
Should the N-word be censored from the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?
For languages on the JVM, having a warmed-up JVM makes a big difference (not only because of the JVM startup, but also because the JIT compiler can work it's magic).

Lambda optimizes for this and keeps the JVM around. From this example: https://github.com/alexellis/faas/blob/8ec31d9b89430176c834b... and also from the docs, it looks like the JVM is started for each invocation.

When I looked into funktion, it did the same.

Do you have any plans to optimize for this use case?

It looks like most Open-Source FaaS implementations don't even consider the JVM, so it's really great that OpenFaaS does! I'm planning to play around with it during our next techtime either way, but I'm unfortunately afraid it's too limiting if we have to cold-boot a JVM each time.
I think the real value of crypto will come when the market is stable enough that people feel comfortable leaving their money in crypto instead of cashing out (avoid the commissions). Get paid in crypto, buy goods and services in crypto, and never have to deal with cash or banks. I think a great use for crypto is microtransactions which are cumbersome using cash (literally coins) or expensive using credit ($0.30 transaction fee).
I always feel that part of the reason why disasters hit us so hard is the fact that despite having some built in resilience in the current system we have it's not resilient on the small scale (i.e. the individual). If SHTF as an individual you're boned, but if you're a corporation or some other kind of organization you can weather it. It just seems to me that a whole new way of handling shocks to society needs to account for this fact more so than ever. The attempt by some to abolish the social safety net is just one of many things that our species is doing wrong. We need less efficiency and more redundancy. We need less profitability and more sustainability. Basically, we need to add resilience to the system down to the individual level where it's practical.
Michael I. Jordan's suggested reading list has been posted here a few times

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055389
We have automated trains in Denmark in Copenhagen which are widely used everyday by the public, so it's not like it doesn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Metro
The crux here is not really about semi-automation for highway driving in personal cars, but about companies that can only hope to live up to their investors' hype if they get rid of human costs, like Uber. And the idea that the capabilities of a car-for-hire could be fully automated to the point of removing any human from the service is utterly ridiculous to anyone who has ever seriously considered what that problem entails. Navigating a vehicle from point X to point Y via chaotic and ever-changing city streets and highways is the easy half of that problem.
She's a bad CEO tho.
Random googling turns up 87 colleges that have residency requirements[1]. So you're right that it isn't "most" but it is also not super rare. I'm just saying its a sneaky way for colleges to bump up costs. Most college students won't go through the work to get a waiver and will just go with the flow. Its like the difference between opt-in and opt-out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/freshman-resi...
I have to wonder what motivates him to admit this, surely hyping his technology is a formula for attracting funding, right? Why admit your job has such a long-time until return?
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For me it seems that bubble sort is mostly popular because it is very intuitive. It is the typical way of how would one sort a bunch of heavy bags with only scales, which is another question that comes up often.
The more details leak about ME the more shocking it becomes. Why is this accepted in any free democratic society?

There can be discussions, there can be debates but in everyday life this is already accepted. And even if one does not want to accept it what are the choices given similar technology is now integrated in other processors?

If we accept that computers are essential to operate in modern society then this is akin to a company taking control of the water supply with the ability to stop supply and do other unknown actions with zero accountability.

If you expand this thought this is a kind of fascism. We could be left with a shell of freedom and democracy while the government in partnership with corporates take deeper control of day to day life.