skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no ethical question here. You either see that it's a gnome, or you see that it's a child.

Humans may or may not be less situationally aware overall, but we have the gnome question down cold. Cars don't. They see "obstacle in front of bumper radar."

The OPs point is well-taken because it illustrates a technical risk that few are discussing: the "last 1%" of self-driving software may be equivalent to solving AGI.
Why would you say that?
You are not alone. For me, it activates my tinnitus if the source is close enough to my ears. Even before it started doing that, it was just plain annoying.
That's probably because (As was alluded to in other threads on HN), most of the price cuts came to low-turnover specialty goods. The $8 bottle of lavender water is now $6.
I fell in to this trap with 'BigCo'. I never gave my salary information to the recruiter, and kept my cards to my chest.

When I tried to negotiate my low-ball offer this docu was brought up, that she had taken a look at my past salary that was provided here. I would not fill this out if I could go back in time. That being said, this was provided prior to the salary offer.
I was not aware Zappos was not considered a success.
* UNusual
Urban sprawl involves low-density areas. Metropolitan areas are going to spread out regardless. What cars enable is sprawl even when there is not enough density/economic output to make mass public transport viable.
Also basically the way high cost digital lab equipment works. The high-spec and low-spec versions are identical, but the low spec ones have features turned off, using methods from easily by-passable resistors to cryptographic keys stored in a bit of flash
Someone counted the number of items with discounts at their local Whole foods and it was only 49. http://www.mouseprint.org/2017/09/04/did-you-fall-for-the-wh...
thanks for sharing. I'm first generation American, family grew up in India. I try to be grateful for everything I have right now, sometimes I forget. thanks for the perspective.
Its funny that companies like Google work so hard to make Javascript interpretation so fast. Yet people write in an abstracted dialect that needs to get compiled down to Javascript because of productivity, convenience, sexiness, or whatever else. So many layers...

A developer spends a lot of time debugging. Its so fun to write Jasvacript in the console. Yet we need source maps to solve the above problem in order to debug the code we wrote.

Some times I feel the amount of engineering we do in defining new frameworks, dialects, transpilers, etc would be better served writing features for our end users. No, we absolutely need that hammer++ to hit that nail.
Irma heads northwest, weakens to tropical storm
They're talking about mass-production-ready vehicles, not one-off testbed vehicles.
If you are using the free SSL provided your Webhost "Let's Encrypt" certificate, you will be fine. That is not a Symantec cert.
Again, I hate to keep parroting what another HN said, but I hate to see misinformation repeated:

The paper states that they used an existing net, VGG-Face, to exact facial features: https://osf.io/fk3xr/ (page 13)
>VGG-Face aims at representing a given face as a vector of scores that are as unaffected as possible by facial expression, background, lighting, head orientation, image properties such as brightness or contrast, and other factors that can vary across different images of the same person.
All the heavy lifting for this paper was done by logistic regression on the facial features reported by VGG-Face, they didn't train a DNN specifically for identifying sexuality. The algo wouldn't have seen clothing at all.

Basically, it's not as simple as "All the gay participants had rainbow flags in the background of their photo so let's ignore this study"
> Since his friends and family invested in this company, I figured that he had skin in the game so I let my guard down, turns out he fucked them over too.

This sounds like an episode straight out of 'American Greed' show / Series on CNBC. Sorry you got screwed. I guess lesson learned.
The fundamental problem with cars in cities is that they make each person take up a crazy amount of road area: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9F9_RUESS2E/S7tbclwxiPI/AAAAAAAACmw/uI...
Do you suppose that neither the director nor the OSPO is checking which patents relate to the code under consideration, and that neither might reject the request on the basis that it would compromise valuable IP? It would actually be irresponsible for them not to. Given the value of that IP to the company, they have a duty to ensure that it's protected. The fact (if fact it is) that individual engineers don't worry about it means approximately nothing except that they're sheltered little pups.
Yeah, I came here for a serious discussion about drones and marijuana. WTF??!

The drones could carry more marijuana if they removed the STEMs.

https://www.coloradopotguide.com/colorado-marijuana-blog/201...
Not one of the downvoters, but did want to respond to a few points.

On peer review:
1) The uploaded version of the preprint that was linked is currently version 7. Version 1 did not contain the "this is a peer reviewed article" boiler-plate at the top. It's very possible that GLAAD/HRC saw the original manuscript without this notice.
2) Given that all 7 versions have been posted in the past 9 days, one might reasonably conclude that this is still a work-in-progress and peer review is still currently on-going, (the boilerplate being added in anticipation of the review being completed. Again, the paper is very clearly still being worked on.)

On misinformation:
Yes I will give you that some of the criticisms might seem over-the-top to the HN crowd, but I think they are understandable given what GLAAD's / HRC's focus is, plus the fact that they aren't addressing "trained scientists." That being said, I don't think their criticisms are completely baseless. I think anyone with technical training, particularly in data analysis / machine learning, is familiar with the phrase: "Garbage In - Garbage Out." And I think it is absolutely correct to point out that maybe if your training data is dating site photos, predominantly of white people in a narrow age range, that you may not have exactly proven your claims that you have "advance[d] our understanding of the origins of sexual orientation and the limits of human perception." That maybe you've just learned some interesting features of current trends in dating site photos.

The tragic thing is that both sides (GLAAD & HRC vs. the researchers) claim to care about the privacy and safety of individuals. And kudos to them for thinking of the social implications of this kind of research! (We all know how good phrenology turned out) Because of these implications, I absolutely think it's right for us to question the conclusions of this research (that you can detect sexual orientation from facial morphology, and that this is evidence of the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientation), given their actual methods (we threw a bunch of dating site photos at a neural-net classifier, and compared to self-reported sexual orientation)

All that said, I do think that the paper is likely to be more nuanced than the conclusions reported / the abstract make it out to be (have not finished reading the paper yet). But unfortunately, because of the way science is reported, where the headline is going to be some bombastic "AI can tell if you are gay or straight from just a picture!", there is probably some pressure to voice their criticisms just as loudly.
> You complain about not waiting for new tech, and then complain about not using current tech.

Excavation is destruction. One tries to maximize the value (by documentation, etc), and minimize the loss (by preserving samples, and leaving most of the site for future archaeologists). Minimum viable destruction. When it's an excavation of choice, and not necessity (rescue archaeology of a threatened site), what threshold of acceptability should be used, has been a subject of disagreement.

> budget

Areas with limited funding depend on the tech of others. As construction as-built documentation gets bulk incremental imaging, 3D reconstruction, and data management, so will archaeology. Same with radar mapping of ground, and of walls. As pro-ams get high-resolution multispectral imaging, so does archaeology. As molecular biology costs continue to decline by orders of magnitude, it changes biology research, medicine, ... and archaeology. And so on.

> What use is future tech going to be if it's applied with the same kind of people?

I don't quite understand the question. But one thing that changes is knowing what's valuable to retain. With pollen dating, there's effort to sample for pollen. If isolated seeds gain value in some context, or tiny fragments of bone or insects, then there's more incentive to conserve them. Grabbing samples against unknown future opportunity is done, but without knowing what it will be used for, or what properties will be needed, it's rather haphazard.
There are multiple laptop models on the narket with mechanical keyboards, from Razer, Acer, Asus, etc.

Mechanical keyboards are objectively bettet in that all top competative touch typists use them.
You can embed PDFs in Keynote presentations.
Waymo is ahead on the technology. They were ready to begin public trials with their Koala cars in 2015, but the California DMV shut them down, and many of their key people jumped ship.

Waymo has since been proceeding a bit more cautiously, and their efforts at this point are oriented more towards smoothing out ride feel, testing under adverse weather conditions, and their early rider program in Phoenix.

Whether it's Waymo or GM to officially be the first to have an empty car driving on public roads, the other won't be far behind, though the victory will be largely symbolic. GM's cars still need a lot of polish, and Waymo needs better manufacturing partnerships.
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This brings up some very good points, front end development needs a fix.
> But it certainly seems as if, in practice, tribalism (at least the clear-cut type you're describing where we exclude people who don't look like us) is recognizable and avoidable.

No, it doesn't. I don't know anyone that has come even close to escaping tribalism.
Thinking about the recent leak/hack, the amount of data and control Tesla has of their cars is worrying. And they truly are TESLA's cars. Does Tesla lose access to the car once it has been fully paid off? How do I disconnect it from their network? How do I verify that they no longer have my place of residence after the car is paid off?
No, it's not sound. Dicking around with the process instead of just being honest doesn't make you look good. They've already indicated interest in you, enough to pay you whatever salary they've offered, so try not to screw it up. If they have problems believing things, and that's really the issue, you can always show them W2's later.
Science isn't about debate, you either falsify the null hypothesis or you don't.

The last thing an issue like climate change needs is a falsifiable hypothesis which is why the IPCC never puts one forward.

If we want people to stop driving cars, take shorter showers and do other progressive things than the last thing we should do is propose something that could be falsified. It would be as devastating to climate change as the catholic church putting forth a testable hypothesis for the existence of God.
Xiaomi takes on the MacBook Pro
Ask HN: How does Proton compare to SpaceX?
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I see advantage for some who may want immediate access to funds. But, from a company like Venmo, I wish they would resisted the urge to offer a physical payment option and find/create a digital solution.
Prejudices? I don't understand why you find it surprising or depressing that people treat those they're attracted to better. Even in professional settings, "personality fit" is often placed very high. Inasmuch as being friendly and being attractive are both equality irrelevant to getting things done, and both make people feel better around you and hence like you more, they're pretty much equivalent.
Is there anywhere that allows autonomous cars to be tested on real roads without a fallback human driver?
It's possible to sell a PWA like sell a $5 app on the App Store/Play Store? The author doesn't address this topic and it's important to make a transition imho.
Not To mention Los Angeles.
Luso-Asian cryptozoology or early modern zoology?
There are 35 thousand deaths per year as a result of car crashes, and over 6 million total crashes[0]. If autonomous cars reduce those deaths to hundreds and overall crashes to thousands, I think you're underestimating the number of people that will sign up for that.

[0]https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
For what I buy, it is still more expensive than Sprouts. I don't even want to know what these items cost before the price cut.
The Germans seem to have an interesting middle ground with a government-funded/sponsored volunteer disaster relief organization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technisches_Hilfswerk

It seems like its size may have been supplemented by serving as an alternative to conscription, however.
One mobile safari bug that really irritates me is not being able to move the cursor on a text input element. Basically, if the text in there is longer than the element, you won't be able to move the cursor left or right. You can only work with the visible part of the input element. Try it - it's really quite terrible!
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The person likely has golden handcuffs that make it financially inadvisable to depart early.
We're still at low levels of renewable penetration on our grid; once over 50%, all these vehicles become a fantastic source of "negative" demand response. Current demand response asks customers to decrease consumption when there's peak usage and the grid is strained. Negative demand response is a signal to consume electricity when a free-on-the-margin source like solar would otherwise be curtailed.

The massive array of car batteries becomes an absolutely wonderful source of both positive and negative demand response. Currently, almost no one insists on driving around with a 100% full fuel tank. Those with electric cars commonly keep them around 80%. And daily usage of the battery is nearly always far less than 50%. And a decent sized EV battery is 1-2 days of household electricity usage.

If a significant chunk (20%-30%?) of our electrical demand is for battery-powered transport, we've solved a huge problem that comes with high wind and solar penetrance on the grid, without having stationary batteries. As car batteries age and have reduced capacity, they will potentially have a second life as stationary storage, where power density doesn't matter as much.

This means, that if we are able to install chargers at a percentage of workplaces, that car batteries will be able massively smooth out not only the daily duck curve of demand, but also deal with fluctuations where some days have more production and others less.
The number of times I've strapped anything to the roof of my vehicle (in 13 years of driving) is exactly zero. This particular vehicle might just not be suitable for your needs. Maybe eventually auto cars without roof sensors will come out, or strapping stuff to your roof will become as ridiculous as strapping something to the side of your vehicle.
"including Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL"

RIP RapidSSL wildcard
My post is phrased as a response to the post it is attached too, focusing on the questions about victims deserving a professional response and responders deserving pay and such.

I would be all for stopping volunteers from trying to do rescues (and coordination) if there is evidence that they don't really improve outcomes. For instance, in the article the author helps get information to the Coast Guard, but the better solution there is to make people more aware of the Coast Guard having call centers and to make sure those call centers have capacity, not to have random people passing info along.

Clean up and restoration, not so much, if people want to help with that, whatever.
With Zelle finally rolling out properly to the big banks, I've started slowly converting friends and family away from Venmo. No need to have money flowing through PayPal and unnecessarily risk it being frozen for arbitrary reasons.
What reason is there for a home battery to hold more than a car?
peaks will happen if enough people do it at the same time. Almost every summer (maybe except this one), there's always that heat wave that taxes the grid. A solvable problem for sure (just like how we can now handle cell phone overload during emergencies) but lets not pretend the problem doesn't exist.
Bank denies $150k withdrawal until TV station steps in
having an account that is older than a year but markdowning your comment

wow HN really has died. Just like reddit.
Basing this on the Framingham study doesn’t say much. We do know homophily is very common world-wide, but Boston in particular is extremely segregated. Out in the burbs it’ll be largely small pools of ethnic (European) groups. While the summary at least touches on this, it would totally flop in diverse areas like SF or NYC. Most of my friends are from all around the world — if they all still shared some genes in a way that was uncommon I’d be extremely surprised.
I'm still concerned about the time needed for recharging, especially if that recharging is to be a home with the now common 100 A and 230 V connection to the grid.

Even with charging stations, there
is the question about how fast can
recharge a battery without overheating it.
I can relate a lot to this. Buddha taught something very similar to this train of thought and it has helped me keep everything in perspective and that anything is possible between birth and death.
A lot of countries are getting pretty aggressive about electric vehicles. The grids will probably scale but the geopolitical ramifications are more unpredictable.

The demand for the US dollar worldwide is linked to oil and the 70s deal with the Saudis. This is a core component of US foreign policy that people like Gaddafi and Saddam found the hard way. US foreign policy is deeply linked to oil.

The middle east itself is a hotbed of political intrigue and geopolitical action since oil, and will lose this central role in the global sphere. Both of these will have far reaching consequences for global politics.
> And don't the victims deserve organized, professional response?

Frankly, there is never enough money to hire enough people to do all the work. This is the US and we have a long tradition of neighbor helping neighbor. Many of the "amateur" responses are professional grade people. Many areas of the country are covered by volunteer fire departments.

The Red Cross often banks the money, and people should really read the authorizing legislation for FEMA since it is a more limited organization than many think.
>maybe you've just learned some interesting features of current trends in dating site photos.

Again, I hate to keep parroting what another HN said, but I hate to see misinformation repeated:

>The paper states that they used an existing net, VGG-Face, to exact facial features: https://osf.io/fk3xr/ (page 13) >VGG-Face aims at representing a given face as a vector of scores that are as unaffected as possible by facial expression, background, lighting, head orientation, image properties such as brightness or contrast, and other factors that can vary across different images of the same person. All the heavy lifting for this paper was done by logistic regression on the facial features reported by VGG-Face, they didn't train a DNN specifically for identifying sexuality. The algo wouldn't have seen clothing at all.

Basically, it's not as simple as "All the gay participants had rainbow flags in the background of their photo so let's ignore this study"
So much for the paradox.

Edit: Is their quality and depth unique then? I feel sorry for this paradox, it was really going places for a minute.
I had 10000 concurrent users on a front page blog post once. I think time of day had a big effect.
philipkglass showed how the problem is solved, he did not ignore the problem.
Thank you for putting more context into that! I was a bit confused at first.
I've never seen a new 5C for that price shrug

My point was - they run well enough, do their job and are really affordable (after all, people were happy with performance of iPhone 5 / 5C weren't they ;).

iPhones (especially refurbished ones) aren't here (I do understand that situation in US is a bit better).
When will google decide let's encrypt is not secure enough and start giving a warning around that.
I see now.

In that case your source code is tidy and the mass of duplication in the output is not so bad while accounting for gzip.

It's best to account for cascading and take advantage of it when suitable. But sometimes a project can just get away from you doing that and you may be better off doing what you're saying. It all depends on the project.

Most of the talk on this page about styling components would result in mass duplication of code. But that might be best for their project.
I think you may misunderstand. The bus company provides live information. This is not a schedule, so cannot be downloaded ahead of time.
TouchID is amazingly reliable and fast, unless your hands are sweaty or greasy at all. In this case, almost every single time I have to click the home button multiple times until it stops trying to read my print and show the pin prompt for manual entry. Even then, it'll sometimes register the previous click (which is supposed to just bring up the pin screen) as a fingerprint unlock attempt, and will attempt to fill in the pin again right in the middle of me manually entering it, making it fail 3 or more times before I can enter my pin.

I've tried disabling it completely in favor of the pin, but in all honesty the 90% of the time my hands aren't sweaty or greasy it works so much faster that I just deal with the 10% and keep it enabled.

These could just be sweaty guy problems, but I'm definitely looking forward to face unlock.
`mscgen' is still my go-to tool for message sequence charts
I tend to leave a pretty decent amount of money in my Venmo account. I consider it my "play" money. Usually, I have my buddy use his reward credit card and I Venmo my part of the bill (mutually beneficial). Having a card would make things a lot simpler for me.
Is Germany a secular nation?
At least you remember those days I suffered from amnesia most of that time.
EVs at home charge at night, solar panels produce energy during the day.
Politifact debunks example #1. Can't be bothered to research the others but I'm skeptical http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/aug/...
If this card could be funded by my points-generating credit card - with no extra cost - I would be very happy.
This type of demand is far different from that 9.5% growth rate, and far more manageable, precisely because it happens during off-peak hours. At night, transmission lines are uncongested, and the wind (typically) blows more.