skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I touched on this in a post a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...

..but the reality is that people will not be able to ever own self driving cars. They'll need FAA style safety regulation, and one security flaw could lead to thousands of deaths at scale.

They also don't really solve any meaningful transportation problems compared to just expanding traditional rail and mass transit. There is absolutely no way a fully automated eight lane interstate with each car holding 4 people can even approach 1/10th the capacity of a single rail track running at 5 minute intervals.
I have a 2015 leaf. Put in ECO mode, then switch to B (braking) instead of D (drive). Plenty of regen for 1 pedal driving. Also, tapping the brake turns on the regen in normal D mode, without moving the brake calipers.

Supposedly, there is a recall mandated by NTSB that will mess up this 1 pedal driving. The NTSB does not like it because the brake lights do not turn on. I'm not having that done.

What I don't like is the "creep" that they put in to emulate an automatic (torque converter).
You don’t think that, for example, deanonymization subpoenas for copyright infringements are a bit strong?

Who is it that’s sharing your content? Is it other businesses?
no adaptive cruise control makes it totally useless. PS: Leaf 2018 will have most Tesla 3 like auto-pilot features. Tesla has self driving vaporware they'll gladly sell you today.
Looking forward to it. Amazon will eventually be the only middleman needed for commerce. Consumers will only benefit.
The community and marketing around perl6 has gone almost as weird as the urbit folks.
"I'm an avid podcast listener. I listen to 5+ hours podcasts everyday."

How do you have time for that? Do you listen while doing light work? Looks like a great service anyway!
Waymo has been in and out of San Francisco since the beginning, but as far as I know it's not full-scale testing in preparation for a deployment. Waymo either is, or has been in 14 different cities, but their primary focus is in Phoenix.
How to use color in density plots (in R)
this is a very accurate observation of the state of excel. I have always thought that the solution is the have an optimized portion of spreadsheets, specific to the use case, in your example a model that is deployed as a web app. Making a better spreadsheet is a very good point, I wonder, if there are attempts already to solve it from this angle?
It is a bad thing, because electronics get old and eventually die. There isn't really any other company like Pebble on the market (Garmin is probably the only contender here), featuring quality hardware, e-Paper screens and a hacker-friendly ecosystem. So when your watch dies, you'll be forced to downgrade.

(I'm a happy owner of Pebble Time, and I dread the day it lets out the magic smoke.)
This is great to know if the study is scientifically accurate. Hopefully we will start to get some clarity around the causes of autism and the role vaccines have played.
They're just very slow, and at least until iOS 10, apps that were in the "restoring" state displayed no indication of such. I was told by an Apple retail employee that in most cases WhatsApp was always the last app to finish restoring, which was exactly the app that was "stuck" for me.

I assume it is because the iPhone is decrypting the backup, but it's just that it is doing it very slowly for some reason.
First-time internet users: Who they are and what they do when they get online
Vertical integration shouldn't be an outright concern. Even if GM can integrate its entire supply chain, if they're still competing with other companies the consumer should come out alright in the end.

If monopolies start to hurt consumers then we can hope that the anti-trust regulators will step in, and hopefully in the case of a car manufacturer the anti-trust violations would be well defined enough for regulators to actually act.
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I've written many init scripts for SysV, upstart, OpenRC and FreeBSD's rc, but I've found that systemd's service units to be by far the cleanest and quickest way to muster up an init script (with FreeBSD's rc in second place).
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Have you looked into PostGraphQL?

https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
I do not trust Amazon with this type of product at all. Their lack of ability or interest in stopping counterfeits now fills me with wary about products that are important to me.
Hey sorry for responding so late. Thanks for sharing those libraries, I'll take a look at both. The one i used before was actually quite tough to find and I remember it wasn't a very popular one. I have a release notes list now implemented in the app (as of about an hour ago) and I think i'm going to try the parallax thing soon cause you're really tempting me haha. I really like the idea of experimental settings and think I'm going to do it that way.
Board games were gone in most of the world outside of Europe - it's not just America. Asia, the Oceanic regions, etc, all had a huge lull in their popularity. This has only changed over the past 10 years or so.

But popularity has increased even in Europe over the past decade. Just look at Essen Spiel - the 2000s were much bigger than the 90s in attendees, and they've had a nearly 30% increase in attendance in the past 5 years.

I was not saying Legacy games are borrowing from computer games - I disagree with the article on that, and my apologies if that was not clear throughout my comment. The only place where I think they have really done any borrowing is in the "AI" components that are more modeled after another player making decisions than static objectives you are playing against.
Armed gangster is not mutually exclusive with writing things. And murdering megalomaniac is not mutually exclusive with education.
Also (unable to edit my original reply now) - I'm not saying this stuff shouldn't be dealt with in public. If the appropriate private channels haven't addressed the wrongdoing, your right to go public should absolutely be exercised if the victim is okay with all the unpleasantness that usually entails. I'm just saying the public they go to needs to be a bit more pragmatic and fair than lynching a person they assume did something they don't like (or on the contrary, turning a blind eye because of politics that sway them the other way).

The problem is the way people react, not the fact that it was taken public. Private channels should have worked too - that's also a problem.
Online gambling webpages do.
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If the goal of this was looking smart to attract smart talent, I feel it didn't work particularly well. At least, by reading the article, I didn't get that feeling.

Any game where the last survivor wins are based on the idea to get involved as little as possible early on (unless extremely high rewards are given along the way).
Can't wait for the "comingled inventory"
REST API for “The global airport database”
Based on the open data of the project The Global Airport Database (http://www.partow.net/miscellaneous/airportdatabase/index.html#Downloads), I have created an free accessible Rest API to consume this set of data.

You can query all the airport database in http://apiopendata.com/api/airports

Next steps:
- Filter/Query options
- Documentation
- Visualizations in map/graphs
- GraphQL integration experiments to see how graphQL can make open data more accessible.

If someone wants to contribute with ideas how to combine this data with other Api's, all ideas and feedback really welcome.
That's an interesting idea. I've added it to the Trello board of ideas I'm considering for recurring alarms and appreciate your suggestion.
You can do this with the $20 Xiaomi Mi Band 2. It's the MVP of a smartwatch in the best way possible.
Qualcomm's iPhone X Still Outpaces Intel's
I had a similar problem, so I just decided to try running my own game. I'd played when I was way younger, so I have some experience, making it easier. If you watch enough online videos or read enough books, you should be able to piece together your own game with existing friends.

In some ways, if the friends are new to D&D as well, it's even easier, since they don't know what's supposed to happen either!
Well, you could use a generic blockchain to keep an audit trail of the label certification process. But yeah, special-purpose cryptocurrencies are just walled gardens in disguise.
That ship has sailed, I fear. The brand damage from calling it Perl 6 is old enough to drive now.
Story of a Genius Brain Implant
Can anyone recommend any links/articles/books about the relationships between specification, implementation, testing, provability, TDD, BDD, etc.?

I have been working on designing some software for improving the specifications process, and quickly realized that it's a very interconnected concept: the specification can be treated very formally, leading to things like BDD (behavior-driven development), but also to things like formal provability.

I'm generally interested in the relationships/processes that mediate between design <-> specification <-> actual programming. In reality, there's a lot of feedback, and I want to create ways of radically improving these processes.
Marketplace for Deep Learning Models
How about a volunteer part-time intern?
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No consumers will not benefit. In a free market economy nobody benefits if they are limited to purchasing from one party only.
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Shalom. The mask itself would not be expired, but the filters would be. The mask itself is only subject to dry rot unless it's stored in it's bag out in the elements. If you have it in a trunk or a closet, it's likely still good. You can order filters online.
In my experience this is also the biggest obstacle facing older people using modern devices like smartphones. I try to explain that when they're confused they should just poke, press, or swipe something and see what it does. Some older people are simply unable to do that. It's just a machine; it doesn't care if you hit the back arrow a lot! Relatives of mine have written long lists of instructions in preparation for smartphone use on trips.

In fairness, this is similar to many young people when forced to drive in less familiar areas without GPS.
I'm coding together an easy way to serve deep learning models in production and create a market place around it.
Right now I have a private beta out, please do sign up and let me know your feedback.

We have released with tensorflow, we will be releasing with Keras in the coming week

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I live in Memphis, TN. We enjoy cheap power at a rate of .0909USD per kWh
> Perl 6, at least seen through the lens of this post, doesn't appear to have fixed the write-only nature of Perl 5 and it's amazing ability to help you create truly obfuscated code first time round.

Despite all evidence, the Perl community persists in considering this a feature, not a bug. Which is a big part of why the Perl community is so much smaller these days than it used to be.
> PS. This makes me wonder whether and to what degree the structure of the brain's connectome might be a necessary prior for AGI.

I've seen an analogy in hardware that is potentially interesting to explore.

There is a technique in A/D converters (ADC) where input signal noise can be reduced by RMS averaging the sequence of digital outputs. This increases the effective resolution of the ADC, while lowering the effective sampling frequency of the input signal.

In the case that the input noise of a precision ADC is very low, the digital averaging has no effect on effective resolution. Surprisingly, in this case you can actually inject a "hand-crafted" noise source into the input, and still realize the resolution improvements from digital averaging. The key is to find the right amount of noise to randomize the quantization noise.

In the case of the ADC, the structure of the quantizing hardware is known, as is the characteristics of quantization noise. This allows for a guassian noise to be injected with the input source (might be analogous to a "prior"). From there, one can balance the input injection noise with the output digital averaging to get an optimal increase in output resolution.

This technique is explained well in this paper: http://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/adc-input-...
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Munchkin reskins from now until the end of time ;)

Steve Jackson is awesome, and there's definitely room on my shelves dedicated to Munchkin, Chez Geek, and Illuminati.

Despite Munchkin, etc, being very accessible, my understanding is that during the period the article talks about, where board games were "gone", it was very much relegated to the same sort of groups that would play D&D, GURPS, etc.
I have heard Norwegian and Danish being described as such
I wear AirPods while coding. You know, modern programming work involves a lot of mechanical work... like moving code block around, copy & paste... For such mechanical work, I can multitask by listening to podcasts -- so I don't feel that I waste time :) Whenever I need to think, I just double tap my AirPods to pause.

I also listen podcasts during commute, workout, doing grocery, ...

I heard serval of my friends said that they spend more time listening to podcasts / audiobooks than watching TV / reading books. I don't know whether it's silicon valley bubble or it's actually a trend :)
I travel frequently across the US, and require the Supercharger network (which is why I went with a Model S over a Leaf), but as you mentioned, you can get a Leaf at golf cart prices. You can also get a top notch used Model S for a bit more than you'd spend for a long range Model 3 (which includes free supercharger access) if you don't want to wait 2 years for it.
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Except those who die in poverty after a miserable retirement because they haven't prioritized financial wellbeing in their lives.
Nuclear weapons could have ended up made by non-state actors (e.g. the average corporation) cheaply enough for a long time now; the state(s) just made sure to get an early lock on publications about uranium enrichment processes, before any of the really good ones became public knowledge.
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How about a volunteer part-time intern? I am a full-time software-engineer (desktop and mobile) and looking for further develop my skills in other area.
> The distinction between a chisel and cocaine is hopefully clear enough: they act on their target objects in extremely different ways.

No. Both change target state. And when "running"(spinning, living) will act differently.
Not sure that the comment really rises to the level of "hate" or "screaming." This would be screaming:

YOUR COMMENT WAS STUPID!
> Why does Burger King ask for your name when you order a burger? AT THE DRIVE-THRU!?!? The same goes for Taco Bell. THE TACO DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW MY NAME!

Must be trying to make sure that they give the right order to the right person. I don't think that this is pernicious. I also suspect that it's ephemeral data unlikely to be used for much beyond the scope of this location on this day.

> Harbor Freight, I don't need to give you my name (and phone#, and address) to buy a screwdriver

They only ask me once and I usually decline with "no thanks" and the transaction occurs without much friction.
How Did Christianity Manage to Grow into 3 Continents?
In the example, the effects of "use Jolly" are restricted to the enclosing scope, e.g.

use lib <.>;
{ use Jolly;
# inner scope
}
# TODO: this does not throw an error
You ordered blue pills, you got "blue pills."

What more could a consumer possibly want?
Meetup is used a lot to put together both board gaming and role playing groups. With the amount of tech companies in Seattle, and the overlap in demographics between boardgamers/roleplayers and tech employees, I imagine there are plenty of people out there if you're willing to go for it :)
A lot of it is software. The hardware is mostly solved except for cost and there's no reason to think it won't go through the same cost reduction curves that are common throughout the industry. So, IF you can get to viable technology for specific use cases, there's not much reason to think you can't get to workable economics.
What happened to Assembly – http://assemblymade.com/ – is there an alternative?
Assembly was a product that was shut down a while ago.

It looked like a great idea to bring people together to work on products they are passionate about. It used to be a platform where you can find a cofounder or an entire team for building your product. You could also find the next thing to work on if you had some free time. You would exchange your skills for their coins which represented the share of the profit. I remember working on a product there, fixing some bugs or adding new features - it was cool because everything was open source so you could check the code for anything and decide to work on it.

It looks like they shut down some time ago and I'm not aware of any good alternatives. I'm wondering what was the insurmountable problem they faced that caused them to shut down. Has anyone got any suggestions for alternatives?

For more info check out their Angel List page at https://angel.co/assembly.
If I can lose all of my keys and passwords, and Apple can let me restore my data, then Apple can let itself — or some other entity — read my data too.
Mike Gerwitz on signing commits: https://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story.
In many places, the freeway is already there. Self-driving cars/vans/etc are road vehicles and road vehicles come with the inherent advantages of being able to (potentially) traverse a much higher portion of the world than fixed-guideway vehicles. Furthermore, additional coverage area can be retrofitted out-of-band (ie. with map updates) instead of having to build it additional tracks.
An OK marketing piece for Two Sigma, but I don't see why being a Hedge Fund has anything to do with it. BTW, Robocode has been there for years and there is a huge community behind it.

P.S. I work in finance and sometimes find companies in this industry try way too hard to appeal to the younger generation. Lots of marketing pieces sound like dad jokes.
My family lived in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. It wasn't a war zone, but we were still given gas masks by our company. I had a hooded gas mask because I was too young to wear a regular one.
I don't think that letting people who are interested in Tezos know about a coin with very similar features is "pumping" the currency. Tezos has some really interesting features, but they have stumbled with the ICO and delayed their release. As someone who was waiting for Tezos to launch I was excited to hear about Cardano and I'm sure there are other Tezos enthusiasts here who are happy to learn about the existence of similar coin. To say that I'm "pumping" the coin implies that I will dump the coin, when I'm really just interested in the Tezos technology, which is also present in Cardano.