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Wide residual networks are not exactly hello-world networks. For teaching (I teach a course on DL), I think this is great. It adds variety for me in terms of an introductory tutorial for DL, and it encourage students to use a GPU as error rates will be high on their laptops.
Before we get too excited about self-flying planes, watch the following video, which is the NTSB's animation of US Airways 1549 landing in the Hudson River after having both engines knocked out by geese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5hRRio-E8

If this happened to a self-flying plane, would someone on the ground be able to remotely take the controls in a matter of seconds and land it safely (or at least avoid crashing it into a densely populated area)?
They can't be doing that well... the guy is smoking Dominicans and clearly needs a tailor.
Related or not, it seems like a valid point.

We switched to chrome headless after a post from thoughtbot made me question Capybara-WebKit's future.
This is what I get for not following the news. I also remember a case years ago on Bondi beach where a guy having a psychotic break and brandishing a knife was killed. If I remember correctly this was used a justification for introducing tasers.

I should have said rarely.
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I mean I personally feel like there is a brand vacuum. There isn't really a 'Tesla' of e-bikes right now. And something like 30-40% of Dutch people bike, so it definitely doesn't have to be niche.
VR was a big deal in 1995:

https://books.google.com/books?id=79i1lfAqumUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
Intel making neural compute engines isn't anything new. They've previously had them within the Intel Curie chips, such as those found on the Arduino 101.
Right; I think it would really creep people out to know what data is available to target for advertising purposes and how deeply it goes.

Basically, there are a bunch of methods for tying your session back to your identity, and most DMPs will run through a good dozen or two. Most will fall back on geolocation patterns (which are surprisingly accurate themselves) but it's actually very hard to totally anonymize your internet activity. We are creatures of habit, but our patterns betray us. :)
There's still nothing equivalent to selenium ide for chrome headless.
I definitely see that an emergency evacuation for ~6.5 million people would have resulted in a similar result as the evacuation for Rita. I feel uncomfortable just scaling up for the rescue mission while people hang around. It seems way too reactive. I don't know if there's a more progressive evacuation model that works. I assume it's been tried and has possibly failed.
I always procrastinate when booking flights (anything). :)
I would have thought the number of known-stolen plates would be small enough you could push the entire list out to the device.

Google reckons there's only 4.5 million registered vehicles in Victoria (.au) - with 6 character [A-Z0-9] = 36bit/5byte plates that's only gonna need ~22 meg to store them all and you've got a few bits for "flags" - even if 10% of them are listed as stolen at any time, you'd only need a couple of meg for the "stolen car list" - even without handwaving away the overhead for the data structure, this seems a reasonable solution. If you want the make/model/colour info you could then just query the remote db when you get a hit for a plate with the "stolen" flag set (or perhaps the "vehicle of interest" flag).

Of course nobody's gonna build it that way, because then you lose the data set of plate locations you can own without needing to ask for consent. This will, of course, store GPS location and timestamp of every plate is acquires, and if they're being particularly audacious, the actual imagery captured as well. That's how you make this a $80mil project... :-/

(Of course private industry already has this - tow trucks carry alpr rigs and sell the data to repo agencies in the US, I'm told...)
Aren't they? I didn't have a mac a decade ago, and I never really used photo booth since I got one anyway.

But I think snapchat has face-altering features as in 3D modifications while photo booth only changed the image itself or maybe identified "head is at x,y" at most.

Snapchat can modify your head, make interactive animations and all that jazz. Do note that I never really used snapchat, but these are my impressions from the few times someone pointed it at me.
Huh there you go! thanks
Corrected! Thanks :)
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It's not even remotely a good answer. You may charge $200/hour and take a week to build simple HTML/JS web-page (portfolio/landing sort of thing, for example). Good for you, but no way I'm paying you 8000 bucks for something that some school kid can make for me for $20 and an hour.

Unless you are a brand and can charge whatever the fuck you like for your work — things typically have a cost. You know how much a cup of coffee costs, a laptop, a car, a house. Chatbots and web-pages have their market price as well.

(And FWIW, I don't know, maybe it's ok kinda price in USA, but to me all this doesn't sound like a $5000 deal.)
Or donate yourself... I have donated money to maps. Small amounts add up. I don't often donate to charities. But this is an opportunity to contribute to something that is likely to provide a long term solution for a serious problem.

https://store.maps.org/np/clients/maps/donation.jsp?campaign...
Psychedelics and similar drugs for clinical treatment are a genuine example of a suppressed technology.
1) The US didn't kill more than 20,000 Filipinos, the rest died from Cholera.
2) Helping negotiate a peace treaty is now an act of violence?

I would never say the millions the Japanese murdered, tortured, raped and enslaved during their WW2 expansion made them unique in history. I would say that the insanity of the military leadership that ordered that holocaust was also the reason for two nuclear bombs.
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99% of the time, you're doing nothing except watching and waiting. Every once in a while, you are overwhelmed by sheer terror, or at least obvious, immediate threat to life. During those moments, adreneline keeps you going. The trick is realizing you are in a situation that warrents adrenaline.
AWS has Certificate Manager which provisions free certificates and manages renewals automatically. Usable across ELB, Cloudfront, etc.

https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/
> If there is one hard problem that Uber has arguably solved, it's managing a fleet of drivers and their cars, with all the trouble such a huge workforce of mostly low-income people with low job attachment brings. It is this core competency of Uber that would be rendered worthless by autonomous vehicles.

Technology companies must be willing to disrupt themselves before the competition does. Your argument here is like saying Netflix should not have pursued streaming because it rendered their core competency of DVD-by-mail logistics worthless.
Can somebody expand on that? I'm a newbie and have no idea what on earth this stuff is, and whether or not it's a joke or an efficiency tool.
Nah - go B2B not B2C. Collect all the data and sell it to insurance companies. Let the health insurance companies increase people's rates for regularly using McDonalds drivethroughs. Let the auto insurance companies bump up your rates because you are seen near racetracks or vehicle modifiers. Charge income protections and disability insures to search for claimants to see what they're doing when they think they;re not under scrutiny "Mr Smith, you claim to be unfit to return to work, but you're paying golf twice a week!"
The seas are free and it's been 72 years since there was a major war anywhere in the world. Civil wars, proxy wars, and spats here and there, but there has been no war where thoroughly modern nations actually fought for their survival. The peace comes through American/NATO military strategy. Plenty of it has been stupid, mind you, but we've kept the world peace overall.

Though NATO we are in a large part the armed forces of Europe. They could certainly be a superpower with an equal military (and more people), but it isn't in America's, Europe's, or the world's interest to have both an American and European superpower – that sort of thing breeds conflict which isn't necessary or desired. Europe also isn't as stable or as old as America (this seems silly today, but the governments and borders of Europe haven't gotten age on them at all, and it's hard to imagine Europe actually attaining the unity necessary any time soon).

So here we are. We have big aircraft carriers that in a real shooting war with a comparable adversary would be useless, but that's not the point of them. They're about projecting NATO power around the world assuming that those sorts of wars aren't possible any more. Nuclear strikes and carriers at the beginning of that potential war makes it so costly to everyone that no one will start it. So we have peace.

You can think all you want about the potentials that haven't happened, and you can complain, sometimes rightfully, about the failures of American foreign policy, but you cannot deny that we have peace.

Part of that is because we build gigantic ridiculous ships.
One thing I've noticed is the old places that start going out of style all start to become run down and less focus is on cleaning the place. If a place looks dirty people won't trust the food - especially if you're charging enough to actually make a profit.
Planes are already pretty much fully automated. Humans make mistakes far more often than computers. Pretty much every airplane crash in the history was caused by simple human error. The more we automate, the better.

As someone who also flies >150k miles a year, I'm happy about this.
The most interesting change that self-flying planes could enable is making small planes & helicopter transportation viable for everyone.

Assuming automation progresses to the point where safety is solved (i.e. at least as safe as in a car), and that noise is also solved, you could imagine a large quadcopter style drone that will pick you up and drop you off anywhere. Once it converts to electricity, the cost of operation would be very low.
How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
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Via just started in NYC giving out 5$ rides, International markets have a lot of competing apps such as Ola,Rapido and OyeTaxi in India, Russia has Yandex, China has Didi amongt others etc etc. Uber's business model does seem like its on thin ice and the edge it has in the market is mostly price driven as of now. That was what the article is emphasizing on I guess.
>Unfortunately most of the world thinks pilots in commercial aircraft turn on the autopilot and can then go for a sleep

They can go for a sleep though.
This is a good idea, but the execution is distracting. What are you selling me, a slack bot or the pleasure of donating to charity?

What I’d suggest instead is a clear message of “high quality slack bots for a flat 5000” and a prominent note that all proceeds go to the charity. Maybe you could also mention that when it comes time to pay, you’d like me to pay the charity directly, but you don’t have to lead with this. The charity is the icing on the cake, but you’re building the cake on icing.
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Selenium IDE was discontinued due to the change of extension (from XPI to WebExtension) in Firefox. Nothing to do with Chrome Headless.

see https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s...
and associated HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061605
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China's newest supercomputers are based on Sunway like you linked, but newer FeiTeng models (post-Itanium) were indeed OpenSPARC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeiTeng_(processor)
Still easy to argue that no rational person would do x, therefore x should not be allowed.

Really I think it's just too hard to scale the protections and legal mechanisms. ICO solves some (not all) of the scalability problems.
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The difference between your 30' boat and that 250' cutter is that captain had a Furuno radar 120' up on a mast, giving him a 30 mile horizon. His bridge team calculated contact problems so far out they never came within 5 miles of the contact. You didn't even know a cutter was there.
Don't live in a flood plane, leave early when there's even a small chance of getting hit.

Or alternatively, legally require flood insurance in at risk areas and let actuaries price the risk, problem solved.

If the bad half of global warming predictions happen, this sort of thing is going to be common. If people don't have a motivation to mitigate the risk, everyone is going to have to pay for it collectively.
You are right! Also the discontinuation has no relation to Chrome Headless as far as I know.

I have updated the article so it doesn't seem like the two events are related.
This is a good example of why anecdotal evidence is a bad way to make decisions (also - why the entire world is making the humongous mistakes of ditching nuclear right now because of a couple examples of things going wrong; despite nuclear having saved millions of lives vs. the few it has cost).

For every example like this, there are many more you can point to where NOT having self-flying planes cost everybody on board their life. From hijackings like 9/11, to rogue pilots like MH370 or the Germanwings crash, to simply human error like the SFO Asiana crash, the SFO Air Canada almost-crash, or the Tenerife collision, or the Air France Atlantic crash, or many many more…
Agreed. We recently had a few more members added to the team and are looking to grow it even more. Also note that KSQL is built on Kafka Streams and we have a team that works just on that as well.
Wiring stuff directly to the brain has the nice side effect of improving the tools we use to understand how the brain works. It also helps us develop better prostheses (for example for people who lost their hands).
It's Alpine lakes (misspelled in the article's title, too).
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I disagree on a couple of these (SpaceX being the biggest) but yeah, I do think a lot of what comes out of Silicon Valley are solutions to the problems of business owners created by regulation.

Notice the way that is phrased. The whole backlash across the western middle class against the "liberal elite" is a sense of "all tech has done for me is replace my nice union job with a gig job driving for Uber". There is a real sense that Silicon Valley doesn't have to play by the same rules as the rest of us, and people want that to stop.
And the DVD-by-mail is still valuable since it's still the best way to get movies that the studios won't license to subscription services.

Facebook also disrupted itself by investing heavily in mobile. It's desktop experience is still useful, but it's mobile experience is what really matters today.

The Innovator's Dilemma is very well understood now, which is why you see many of the big tech companies dominating now. Disrupting your own business is part of the DNA of the biggest tech companies today like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix.
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Short story, the company I worked for remotely did not encourage remote-work. And was selective at who gets to work remotely. That itself creates a lot of problems with the team and with the opportunities you get.

As this guy mentions "Be as much available as possible". That technically ends up in over-work. Management will like it, but I did not like it at all.

Having said that it was riskier for me to keep the remote job. And at one point I mistook the management call as if they were going to fire me. That forced me to build up my consulting profile and start adding consulting clients. Eventually the company did not fire me - but the workload had increased quite a lot and I had reached a point where my consulting rates were pretty good than my salary. So I thought "Why not go full time consulting" and quit the job. After a few months of downs the decision turned out to be a pretty good one.

Some transitioning advice:

1. Have 1-1.5 years of financial backup

2. Start building your profile while on job. And since you are remote, it should be easier. You will definitely get stressed and that might pay off in the long run

3. Calculate your hourly rate at job. Leave your job when you can earn at least 80% of what you earn at job within 50% of time (for at least 2 months). Also be honest to yourself and evaluate if the consulting-work counts as a one-off or something that can be achieved repeatedly

4. Be warned - remote job as an employee is much easier than being self-employed working remote
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A remote pilot on call for emergencies? Interesting. I'm picturing a room full of people who are on alert, as a service for near-instant, on-demand remote vehicle control; avoid car/plane crashes, land planes, sort of navigating the edge cases where human contol is still needed to bridge the gap
Here's the back story that the author mentions on the election. Great to see that partisanship still can be put aside at times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_mayoral_election,_2015
They forget their own history, too.

A battle in 1942 was lost, badly, because the USN crews were zonked from a routine that gave them almost no chance for sleep.
But it's government's job to make sure its citizens don't get conned. People have the right to decide to join a suicide cult, but also the government needs to stop the cult because otherwise all these innocent yet naive people will die.
For financial transaction services I can recommend sharding first by customer, then by ledger. As a result, instead of enforcing double-entry book-keeping standards within a single database, do it at an application-specific middleware server layer to enforce only the guarantees you need.

As with all decisions, there are tradeoffs. For a little more up-front complexity and a tiny nominal performance hit, this allows maintenance, encryption, non-uniform storage paradigms to suit individual ledgers, rolling upgrades, storage location migration, and other cool stuff which is typically painful with traditional all-or-nothing RDBMS architectures.
> How does WeChat satisfy something very long-term like that?

You can search your message history. I think that's enough for most personal archives. Of course if WeChat goes away, many people will be unable to access their archives, but at the moment, few seem to be worrying about that.

> Being mobile savvy has nothing to do with it.

Not being internet savvy before becoming mobile savvy has something to do with it. I'd wager that most heavy email users had an email address before they got their smart phone.

If you don't already have an extensive email archive, keeping all your personal communication in email no longer seems so compelling.
I wonder if it'll be increasingly common to see houses on stilts or of flood-resistant design. Anything from a rudimentary elevated home to a fully adjustable Narita-style hydraulic lift system...
I will start paying attention to self-driving hype when they make cars that can drive themselves in Alaskan snowstorm. Until then it's just California-only decoy for companies that make their money on shit smart people don't want to work on.
Cheap EEGs have interesting applications for the quantified-self people. For example, Gwern uses a similar device to get data about their sleep pattern.

> https://www.gwern.net/Zeo
To be fair, humans can't do this either, or there wouldn't be such a thing as carjackers.

One of the biggest challenges that automated systems face is that the acceptable failure rate for them is far below the acceptable failure rate for humans in the same role. To err is human...
Not sure :/ : startups seem to follow the SV technology hypes just like everyone else and well established business like Airbus, Thales etc. use languages like Ada or Java
Is it? Do you mean the driver platform? The rider apps are nearly indistinguishable at this point save for the fact that Uber has the logistical draw for the driver of lining you up for your next ride while you are still wrapping up your last one, which to the end user signals extra waiting time (even though it might actually be less time than calling a ride from Lyft where every driver that could answer is available but further away).
They moved from Vancouver to Singapore to build applications on the blockchain
I'm unfamiliar with ROBS, but in the general case, you not only face penalties for early withdrawal, but it counts as added regular income for tax purposes.
What are you thinking, modafinil?
>In my opinion, all of this is objectively better than kickstarter.

Sure, because you don't even have the little bit of oversight that kickstarter offers. In your case you can just keep pumping coins into the market while they have any meaningful amount of value. Then when they are worthless you just claim your project failed and take the money from selling the coins.
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I thought that was quite funny. For anyone to even pretend they don't have a bias is mind-boggling.
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I guess my point was to try to see through the attractive headlines, to compare base number deaths to a baseline. Looking at http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/129_death_and_death_rat...

For the age group 25-44 we have 269.8 male deaths per 100k, vs 114.8 female ones - or a total of 192.0 per 100k regardless of gender, or nearly ~2 per 1000.

Looking at http://base-jumping.eu/base-jumping-fatality-list/ , which might be a bit dated, I see 26 fatalities listed for 2015 world wide. I tried to find how many base jumpers exist, and ended up on a forum where it was speculated upon. Perhaps 3000? In which case we have a mortality of ~9 per thousand , no age group discrimination.

So.. from that perhaps naive collection I see a 4-5x increased risk of dying if being a base jumper compared to just being average. However one can ponder if it would help fight depression and such. And, looking at death rates for 45+ , cancer then becoming a major killer with obesity certainly being a factor. How many lives does the fitness regime of base jumping save?
and non-toilets have the hot tap on the other side potentially biasing things when they are filled
No. I do work in IT though. But not in the government sector.
I'm genuinely curious how there's so much work sailors have to abide by a schedule like this. Is this only in active war zones or is it always like that?
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By making the fakemeat cheaper than real meat and making people embrace the victim culture.
I think you're thinking of KIX's hydraulic system?
What I heard is that residents started evacuation by themselves a couple days in advance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15120262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15120763
The people who live in flood planes tend to not be the people who can afford insurance.