skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is, unless they use neural network magic black boxes to implement the self-driving part.

Is this actually done? I thought neural networks were more or less used for the vision system to detect parts of the scene (pedestrians, stop-signs, etc). This is the only area where to me it makes sense to take the blackbox tadeoff right now.
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https://twitter.com/HardOCP/status/975730763512668160

> Well, to be fully transparent, I am not sure we are currently in a position to do any follow-up as NVIDIA has gone dark on GPP along with nearly every contact we have in the industry on this topic. Certainly we struck a nerve. Like the OEMs, I guess cutting off $ hits home.

Also, AMD Reddit thread with info on extra developments on this concerningly anti-competitive and anti-consumer set of events:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/85n378/nvidia_gpps_fir...

Also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/85n378/nvidia_gpps_fir...

> The twitter for gigabyte changed to Auros

> https://twitter.com/GigabyteUK/status/955776386068811776

> So does this mean they wont even advertise AMD products now? what a shit show.
Nokia was the first one to try with their web runtime for Symbian, I am still awaiting for web apps to match in performance my daily Android, UWP and iOS apps.

I would already be happy if webgl demos that keep being regularly posted here would run as smooth as my OpenGL ES native ones.
Congrats on the release.

One point about the docs - you can cut down on the verbosity of those examples by using arrow functions (instead of .bind) and class properties instead of state initialization in constructors.
from scratch, less than 4 hours, including all the tools needed
https://youtu.be/VZQoAKJPbh8?t=46m16s
"It’s harder to reason out program flow. "

-- I think this is the key cons which might lead us into nightmare.
He was one of Hollywood’s most well-known producers, he most certainly qualified as a public figure.
No, that's bullshit. It's physically impossible for a human to intervene on the timescales involved in motor accidents. Autonomy that requires an ever-vigilant driver to be ready to intervene at any second is literally worse than no autonomy at all; because if the driver isn't actively driving most of the time, their attention is guaranteed to stray.
Well, no, the breach happened when the data was acquired under false (bogus “academic use”) pretenses and then transferred to CA, thus taking personal data contrary to both the will of the subjects and the policy of the entity through which it was taken; the “dont keep this” was a (pitiful) post-breach mitigation effort by Facebook.
US Air Force still struggling with stabilising airborne lasers
Here's all the ways this can possibly go wrong:

https://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-good-idea-with-b...
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Only tangentially related, but we've recently tried to find an encoding of text that's "stable" with regards to it's characters (as opposed to stable wrt semantic meaning as here). That is, similar words (or fragments) such as "carg" and "cargo" should yield a simliar encoding.

To our surprise, we couldn't find any example or description of someone doing this before. Is this such an uncommon problem or did we just not search in the right places?

FWIW, our use case is a search tool with live result listing, so we're dealing with word fragments and would like the outcome to be somewhat stable as the user types along. We ended up rolling our own, but it has certain shortcomings, such as a hard character limit.
This could be useful with DNA/protein sequences - there's dna2vec and similar approaches to mine sequences for regulatory elements and more, the problem when compared with word2vec is that you have an order of magnitude more words. You don't really have words so you split the continuous DNA sequence into overlapping mers and treat that as words (afaik). That means that dna2vec takes forever (>24h with one chromosome) and builds a huge vector. I wonder whether this will speed up things...
So, this is PayPal?
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Yes, I've read that and disputing if the things mentioned there are really such blockers. I was specifically referring to the point 1.3.2 in my suggestion to use "envelope recipient domain" for verification as I really do not see it as impractical as the RFC supposes
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I think the reason is (d), that most employees believe in the company's mission and do not think they are working for an unethical company, but instead that the company is being unfairly portrayed.
At some point I was waiting for something along the line of the optimal solution is no payement, the optimal solution is an upgraded concept of communism...

But it ended up being yet another solution that does the same thing better than existing product and promise to reduce friction... while actually adding a lot because friction to switch to a brand new system is enormous.
It's missing the highly influential Delphi, which was the precursor to .NET
It's interesting and slightly uncomfortable that the illustration for similar words uses the word "man" as an example, given the gender biases that result from learning word vectors solely from word distributions.

To explain, although I’m sure the author himself is familiar with the issue: For any word that is disproportionately associated with one gender in the corpus, the model will learn that gender difference as part of the representation of the word, pretty much baking it into all applications. [1] It's all fun and games when this helps you find the difference between "king" and "queen", but it becomes a problem when the same difference appears between "genius" and "beautiful".

I haven't evaluated these vectors for built-in biases, but I assume they would have similar problems to the pre-computed word2vec and GloVe embeddings. (If they don't -- if quantization is a natural way to counteract bias -- then that's an awesome result! But an unlikely one.)

To the author: I don’t mean this to sound like an accusation that you haven’t done this yet; I know that short papers can’t tell two stories at the same time. But the next step is pretty clear, right? How do these vectors measure on the Word Embedding Association Test for implicit bias? Does Bolukbasi’s de-biasing method, or an analogue of it, work on quantized embeddings?

[1] Bolukbasi et al., "Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings." https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520
I'd have said age and which assistance systems there are. In many older cars there's just no path for the CC to control the brakes.
Not working anymore... thanks in advance for fixing.
I've made a react.js cheatsheet that includes everything in one single file
From the Arxiv paper, multidimensional word vectors are used in natural language processing. However they can be many gigabytes in size making then cumbersome. This approach aims to solve that issue.

The wiki page on Word2vec seems helpful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec
Uber halts driverless-car program after pedestrian death
This just sounds as a way to try to make anyone besides LG to actually bother to try to target webOS, or yet another attempt to gain a foothold on the new IoT OSes fight for market share.
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It’s already happening. I have a friend in China and like many ex pats he had several jobs - teaching at a college, tutoring English at home and some IT consulting.

He’s back in the UK now, last summer several of his ex pat friends and colleagues were busted by investigators parachuted in from Beijing. They were detained, their visas were revoked and given a week to get out of the country. Fortunately he was in Beijing when it happened and got Chinese colleagues to clear out his stuff and any paperwork from the college, but he had to roll up all his gigs.
I worry about getting periodic warnings about not being connected, it's something that I'm going to have to ask them to demo to me in-store next time I need a new TV
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Those are usually not democratic countries anyway.
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The idea is that you can kind of capture the "meaning" of a word with a sequence of numbers (a vector) -- and then you use these vectors for machine learning tasks to do cool stuff like answer questions!

Word2Vec is one of the algorithms to do this. Given a bunch of text (like Wikipedia) it turns words into vectors. These vectors have interesting properties like:

vector("man") - vector("woman") + vector("queen") = vector("king")

and

distance(vector("man"), vector("woman)) < distance(vector("man"), vector("cat"))

What Word2Bits does is make sure that the numbers that represent a word is limited to just 2 values (-.333 and +.333). This reduces the amount of storage the vectors take and surprisingly improves accuracy in some scenarios.

If you're interested in learning more, check out http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representation... which has a lot more details about representations in deep learning!
WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) shows numerous contrast errors[1]. (Click the contrast button on the sidebar.)

[1] http://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.com/...
Our Passat uses brakes for cruise control, our older Kia Ceed did not. I actually hate when it uses the brake. The non-brake method is much better imo. Feels like such a waste to heat the brakes on a steep incline instead of just rolling with it.
Yes, of course. But that isn't what happened here, right? A woman and bicycle on a median should have been quite obvious. I don't even see substantial landscaping on the median.[0]

0) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverles...
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Very cool! I like the visualizations a lot. Did you try to get an interpretation for what each quantized vector dimension means (have just skimmed, not read)?

Also, I am curious why you chose to go straight to publishing on Arxiv? I am actually also in CS224N right now and have a project me and my collaborator feel is publication worthy, but our plan is to go the normal route of submitting to a conference and only putting it on Arxiv after the review process (though our code is open source, so now that I think about it maybe that's not that useful a plan...).
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. Being able to change colours would go a long way in and of itself.
I think that Indianapolis' job market is much stronger than Cincinnati's is, right now, at least in the DevOps/Linux Tech space.

Most companies around the Cincinnati area don't want to pay more than 80k/year for a good, mid-to-senior linux resource (15+ years). In Indianapolis, I've had a job offers come in at 130, 140, 150, and 180K, but, I'm very hesitant to relocate to Indy because of the RFRA legislation that's in town.
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It's still a little unclear to me what Facebook did wrong here. (Besides suspending the whistleblowers account, which seems like a dumb move.)

Is it that they collect too much data? We've known that they been doing that for years.

Is it that they allow apps to read not only your data but your friends data? That's not a surprise either.

So some company somewhere figured out a way to abuse these already known parts of Facebook in a way that already violates the their ToS.

What should/could they have reasonably done differently that didn't require changing their entire business model?
"no time for the autopilot to react" - that may be technically true but humans tend to slow before if they recognize a situation they don't understand

http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/

> she came from the shadows right into the roadway

also we were told radars would have have solved exactly this limitation of humans

> Uber car was driving at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone

also we were told these car would be inherently safer because they would always respect limits and signage

> she is said to have abruptly walked from a center median into a lane with traffic

I don't know other driver, but when someone is on the median or close to the road I usually slow down in principle because it doesn't match the usual expectations of a typical 'safe' situation.

I've been advocating against public testing for a long time, because it's just treating people safety as an externality. Uber is cutting corners, not all company are that sloppy, but this is, overall, unacceptable.
I've always been incredibly suspicious of the way Facebook handled it's user data. Remember back when every website on the internet had a box that showed "random" people that liked their website, and if you had any friends that liked it, they were in there?

How about all of the services using Facebook OAuth that subtly leak social graph information? For exactly this reason, Facebook OAuth is always my absolute last resort, and I'll almost always skip a service entirely if it's the only option.

Still, I always gave Facebook the benefit of the doubt and I figured that these things were handled by Facebook directly as a "plugin" to the app/website (I'm not a web developer, I don't know the details of how this would work), and the various services didn't actually see the data. It's pretty mind blowing to me that this is not actually the case. I always felt I was being absurdly paranoid about Facebook compared to most people I knenw, now it turns out I was not being even remotely paranoid enough.

Does anyone know if Google is similarly aggressive with user data sharing? I've never noticed information leakages similar to the above coming from Google (so I don't hesitate much to use Google OAuth) but me not noticing something during casual browsing is not a very high bar to clear.
Strange. I feel only a slight negative connotation of "greed". Nothing to be ashamed of or to condemn. Maybe some meaning is lost in translation to my language.
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You can try encoding your input in shingles maybe, and feeding vectorized shingles (instead of a one hot encoded dictionary) into the usual CBOW or skipgram thing to train the embedding.

You'd need to invest plenty of effort into shingling and vectorizing properly to get useful results, though.
I'll buy the dip, thanks.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did mean the image under "Visualizing Quantized Word Vectors".

I did get that the colors indicated values of dimensions, but I suppose what I really meant is, what is the take-away message? To me, it just looks like noise. Is there a pattern I should look for and go "a-ha, I see"?
Given the history of Lisp & Naughty Dog, I wouldn't have expected anything else. Hadn't seen that video yet though, thank you!
Could you provide a screenshot? You can open a github issue if you want...
> So really the problem is that people are not aware of the scope of the information aggregate of their actions on social media and how it is or may be used or abused.

Simple case: G-fucking-mail. Lot of people on it so even if you're not using it most of your emails end there with a free link to infos from other people's contact list (names, phone number etc.). Shadow profiles are what people will be complaining about 5 years from now if they just discovered what sharing things with 3rd parties mean.
By "larger worlds at higher res" I meant higher cost of asset development.
I hope for the industry this is the case. Although tragic, I can’t help but wonder how many pedestrians have been killed today by human drivers.
The problem is not welfare, the problem is US-style hobbled and deliberately bad welfare systems.
Facebook's coziness with Trump: Watch what Alex Stamos does next (2017)
In the comments of the CA CEO video you linked to is a Motherboard article from Jan 2017:

"The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
How Cambridge Analytica used your Facebook data to help the Donald Trump campaign in the 2016 election.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-li...
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Add on top of that developers that don't care 1 second that HN exists and only do trainings if their bosses make them do so.
#DeleteFacebook Movement Gains Steam After 50M Users Have Data Leaked
But you can still gather learning data from sensor-covered cars "in the wild" and then test it with contrived tests.
quick suggestions:

* create sub-headings, for ex: 'Basic datatypes' chapter, create numbers/strings/lists as sub-headings...

* loop iteration - as you are anyway showing how to use 'enumerate', I'd suggest to not show 'range(len(mylist))'

* lots of '
Finally', might want to remove some or rework those sentences

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Resources similar to this, but full fledged books

* http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

* http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/ - based on think python

* https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

and for exercises (disclaimer: these are from my github repo):

* https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

* https://github.com/learnbyexample/Python_Basics/blob/master/...
You may also try contacting people (and invite them for a coffee) on LinkedIn/Twitter before coming that looong way.
I tried not to discuss my political views in my comment - I'm sorry if you feel that I lent support to one candidate or the other.

> Despite all that, she still had to manipulate the DNC party rules to get the nomination

I don't think this is true. Irrespective of whether there was impropriety at any particular election, there was no way Clinton would have lost the nomination by the time that Sanders was in his stride. The superdelegates all but assured this.

Incidentally, the Sanders campaign went from decrying the presence of superdelegates to courting them - they may be an unreasonable mechanism for elections, but both groups tried to use them to their advantage.

> claim that the Trump supporters vastly outspent the Clinton supporters

I made no such claim. I suspect that it's true, but my point is that looking at campaign donations (and Reddit activity) highlights the activity of low-dollar donors.

Finally, to put into perspective the numbers from the article you cited, it seems that PACs spent 4 billion USD (across all races) in 2016[1] - around four times the spending of the two presidential campaigns.

It seems complicated to total super-PAC spending. Many websites state that there was more money supporting Clinton/Democrats, but this may ignore Republican PACs that do not declare a party preference[2].

[1] https://www.fec.gov/updates/statistical-summary-24-month-cam...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2...
Great job! Feel free to add Gestalt to https://adele.uxpin.com - the repository of publicly available design systems
Not the GP, but I too feel like if they actually fix it, then there is less chance of catching the other equally culpable actors who now seem to think they have gone above the law (AmaGooFaceSoft). Or worse, actually emboldening them to continue their mad rush to collect every piece of information they can about you.

If FB actually faces complete implosion, their employees are more likely to rat out on the practices of the other companies based on nothing more than having worked at the other company too (after all, when one tech giant hires someone, they are more likely to be hired by a competing tech giant).
At least here in Italy/Europe, beside the "tech bubble", people is vaguely aware that FB is collecting information about them but they are sure "there is nothing they can do with my data beside showing me some silly ad". The discovery that data can be used to actually affect their life has been a shock.

Yes I know, like you, that there is nothing new in the "discovery" but it seems that it's not what people perceive. And this is a significant fact, whatever we think about it.
Maybe then changing their business model would be the reasonable thing to do?
It's a typical raytracing / pathtracing pipeline. Ray intersection accelerated via BVH or KD-tree and computations of BxDF at intersection points.

It would be great if they make an API for the ray intersection routines outside Microsoft's DirectX it can be very useful in post-production renderers.
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I see 2 companies with looking for software developers on your Jobs page: D3 Banking, and Proxibid. Is that typical?
Interesting, definitely need to think about debiasing. Seems like it won't really work straight out of the box since it'd destroy the 1 bit-ness of the vectors.

Though if only a few of the vectors are de-biased then you can still save a lot of space since all the other vectors are still represented using 2 numbers (while the de-biased vectors are represented using the full range of 32 bit numbers).
CA's CEO said it best: "It sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true as long as they’re believed.”

This concept is the skeleton key that explains maybe 85-90% of the legitimately dumb bullshit & disgraceful/reckless behavior from the United States' right-wing

REQUEST: if there's any FB moles reading, maybe live stream that Q&A & ask questions from HN
I've updated the repo with additional demo samples trained on speech samples by Modern Family Celebs.
Yup. Here's a picture of the sign [1].

I found this based on the photo of the accident location in this article [2]. I went to Tempe, AZ on Google Maps, entered the name of the building in the background of the photo ("First Solar"), and from there it was pretty easy to find the photo location. Then it was just a matter of going backward until the speed limit sign for that road in that direction was found.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,3...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/se...
Almost. Smartdust [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
Go compiles straight to native code, so unless you get a framework to re-write Assembly, it is not going to happen.
According to an NYT article [0] the tweets had been requested by FB comms:

"Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook’s communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos’s tweets, according to two people briefed on the incident.

After the tweets set off a furious response, Mr. Stamos deleted them."

[0]: https://nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stam...
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> To our surprise, we couldn't find any example or description of someone doing this before. Is this such an uncommon problem or did we just not search in the right places?

This is one of the defining differences between Word2Vec and Fasttext. But fasttext incorporates these character vectors as part of calculating the semantic vector, so you can't expect carg and cargo to end up being similar, but people have thought of it.

I don't think partial search is that uncommon, but I don't think it is usually solved by using vector representations similarly to word vectors. It seems like what you are looking for is usually accomplished by edit-distance / Levenshtein distance [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
Definitely tried to figure out if the dimensions mean anything -- as far as I can tell they don't really mean much :(
Yes, and then be amazed that certain types match by accident interfaces with completely different semantics, just because the methods happen to be called the same by accident.

Then Start() will throw a rocket instead of starting the coffee machine. just because RocketLauncher and CoffeeMachine happen to have the same set of methods.
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