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It is a very good introduction course, I did it as well in 2013. You can still do it for free, but you will not receive the Coursera certificate on completion. To receive the certificate you need to pay $79.
Peak post Trump hysteria, hopefully.

There aren't very many more entities left to blame, tar and feather for his election at this point.
> Naturalists in the 1800's would wipe out entire species getting specimens.

This is the first time I hear this. Do you have examples?
What kind of things does the iPad display? Should the safety driver even be tasked with looking at it while in 'control' of the vehicle?
"full on assault"

Which means? Too many bullets? Wrong color? Too accurate? Too easy to use? It's a meaningless term unless you interpret as a positive attribute.
This can get interesting in Asian countries. As pointed out by wiradikusuma:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16646415

people tend to cross ignoring the traffic laws.
> it is clear that this camera is diminishing exactly how light the road ahead was

Someone else thought the same thing and went to get their own footage of the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0
A blog post is coming, so I might have jumped the shark here. An interesting note from a Cloudflare engineer:

Most powerful Xeon is the 28 core Platinum 2180 at $10k RSP and >200W TDP. Due to the nature of Intel turbo boost it almost always operates at TDP under load. Our ARM is the Centriq 2452 at less than $1400 RSP, 46 cores and 120W TDP, that it never hits. Beats Xeon 9/10 workloads.

https://twitter.com/thecomp1ler/status/976617883164921857
No the OP. Mayer was intelligent but probably didn't so the smartest things for Yahoo.

More info here: "Why Marissa Mayer is the ‘least likable’ CEO in tech" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/why-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-...
> I am getting a bit annoyed by how shocked people on here are about this.

Exactly. Didn't people know all the proprietary social networks are spyware+adware? That's the way they earn money. BTW Ghostery says it knows 92 trackers in the social media category.
The pedestrian is 1) wearing black 2) not wearing any sort of safety reflectors 3) crossing in darkness not under street lights. In the safety video I linked, it's clear that such a pedestrian in the road would be very tough spot and react to. The safety video says there is a very real possibly that a human driver would hit such a pedestrian.

Citing the camera's poor dynamic range, does not imply a human in the same situation would have enough dynamic range to spot a pedestrian in the same circumstance.

High beams would have saved a life here, however in many situations they are illegal to use.
I wonder if Reddit will then ban subreddits relating to Cody's Lab. Maybe youtube will finally ban Cody forever for showing us how to do explosives or make mercury based ammunition in guns! hurray!
> From a more protectionist standpoint, you could say that an AR-15 or an AK-47 will allow you to stand up against your government. This isn't really realistic, however - no civillian weapon, especially not a semi-automatic rifle, will reliably take care of a tank, fighter jet, drone or military robot. [0]

It gives you some leverage however if you need to get some ingredients for your IEDs.

A few guns might make the difference between efficient large scale killings like Auschwitz and a case where a large number of civilians get away and hide until the international community can come and help.
Ask HN: How do I explain a resume gap after taking a sabbatical?
I've been off work for a year, and been doing minor projects/freelancing for some small companies as I backpack and travel around Asia.

Recently, I've been trying to find remote gigs/office jobs, and I've gotten feedback that my resume gap is troublesome.

I pass tech interviews, and I've gotten an offer or two that I declined due to not meeting salary/lifestyle requirements (but now looking back maybe I should've taken them.)

Should I just add a few projects I did on my resume? They're really minor and involve basic Windows sysadmin stuff that can be done in a week or two.

Or, alternatively, how do I re-word it so it doesn't seem like I'm desperate? I've had recruiters from the typical bucketshops of Apex, Cybercoders and misc say "you're a good candidate but that gap is troublesome" in not so nice words.
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And coke makes you fat and gives you diabetes while bacon doesn’t. So it is actually an interesting comparison. Well, the sugar part.
And then FB bans you and your friends for 30 days in random order.
Users started to post reports about who is banned today, for how long, and where to find their backup account (usually, on Telegram).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16645321
I don't think so: the dash cam video is misleading. I had multiple ninjas jump at me before, and although I did notice and avoid them, they were not visible on the dashcam until the very last moment. Surely Uber would not release data to intentionally mislead the public?
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> Also, watching the video of the interior it is clear the driver was looking at his phone or doing something else.

Probably checking the computer installed for diagnostics of the autopilot system. If it's in self driving mode and you are the engineer in charge, you'd want to constantly check what the system is seeing vs the actual conditions on the road.
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Because Facebook used to be a place where you could go to see status updates from friends/family in chronological order. People posted what they were up to, and people left comments. Things were simple, and great.

But then Facebook decided they needed to make some money. So they started allowing advertisers to inject things into your feed. They often tried to hide it in the form of "things liked by a friend of a friend", but it was still obvious.

To make even more money, Facebook decided to do away with the pure chronological feed, and they replaced it with something much more vague. The vagueness of it all made it all that much easier for them to inject "recommended" content that they were getting paid to show to you.

Nowadays, Facebook is completely unrecognizable. The vast majority of a typical Facebook feed is nothing more than memes, ads, and the equivalent of shitty email forwards. Scattered throughout the noise are just enough tidbits of things you actually want to see, from friends and family. Just enough to keep you hooked.

People put up with it, but a sort of deep resentment has started to take hold. A lot of people are sick of being farmed by ad companies. They are tired of being a product. They are tired of seeing nothing but ads and stupid, tired memes. They long for the content and direct connection that made Facebook popular, but alas, it is never coming back. That kind of content doesn't make money for Facebook.
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There is a big gap between ‘supposed to’ and the real world. Pick up any bottled dressing at a typical grocery store, and sugar or corn syrup will likely be a top ingredient. See the totally unnecessary addition to ranch dressing, for example:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/products/kraft-16-fo-dressing-li...

Or even if you are making your own, a surprising number have sugar or honey as ingredients.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/italian-vinaigrette
Is there any reason you need exactly these "top tier" devices? For under $200 there is well-built Xiaomi devices with 3-4GB RAM, powerful CPU and everything except for removable battery.

Of course you should never use firmware from Chinese company, but it's true for 98% of other Android devices too and LineageOS + microG work great on these phones.
I saw that. The median is landscaped with a bizarre X-shaped paved area. It can't be intended for recreational use or walking; it's a divider between two fast roads. At all four entrances to the X, there is the no pedestrians sign.
There they go again, the big nanny corporations. They are part of the social fabric of our society. The same rules of freedom of speech should apply there.

Saying that they have a right to censor their platform is OK, if this was the case from the outset. As it is, once these platforms were free and unrestricted. It's only after they grew big, are became protected by network effects that allows them to do stuff like this.

This is censorship plain and simple, it's disgusting, risk-averse behavior that displays a debasing obedience to safe money and corporate interests.

I don't know exactly why this angers me so much, party because it is a bait & switch like I said above. Party because it futile, users will simply go somewhere else. Partly because much of the content that I like to watch and learn about these days is probably on some goody two-shoe's shit list. I despise that they get to decide these things on platforms that have profited to much from an unrestricted and free Internet and online culture. They are hating the players, not the game.
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The two billion facebook users indicate that managing social activity/network online is a product actually in pretty high demand.
So ask the threat to wait a 5+ minutes while you call the cops?

Should we DRM 3D printers (DMLS@home is coming) to a walled garden of things? The 2nd Amendment is not separable from general purpose computing. Who needs "assult crypto" anyway?
WeChat has a billion monthly active users, and they managed to do that mostly just in China and a few parts of Asia.

WhatsApp has 1.5 billion monthly actives.

It makes perfect sense that a global social network that dominates in most countries not named China, could get to two billion users.

I must have seen hundreds of skeptical statements on HN over the years about how Facebook can't have X number of users. I've never once seen any supporting evidence against their general scale. Not once, not ever. And again in this thread, skeptics and zero supporting evidence against Facebook having two billion users.

In their favor is extreme data: dozens of large and persistent research efforts put into studying use, by external parties. That spans everything from traditional media usage polling agencies, to large media ratings firms, to ad companies, to competitors, to services that see wide-spread use of Facebook-login, to Web traffic tracking services that indicate massive adoption. It also includes the massive usage that is seen on the iOS and Android app stores. The sole rebuttal possible, is to say: it's all fake! without any equally massive supporting evidence.

Companies like Google would have a very large interest in destroying Facebook by pointing it out, and Google would know as well as anyone if Facebook were lying to such an extreme degree.
I'm used to driving in dark highways. It sounds reasonable as long as these highways are far from populated areas, have the borders well protected from jumping animals and are regularly maintained for holes and possible garbage.
Yeah, well, whatever. "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs," to quote another comment from this discussion. /s

Apparently killing bystanders is now okay, if there's a software component to the massacre.
While I want him to resign, it is not for the failures of Facebook. But because once things starting to blow up, he was MIA.

It was only after, stories about his missing "statements" started to appear that he came forward.
This is what the people who investigate railway accidents in the UK do.

They would go to exactly the site, with an identical car, someone wearing the woman's clothing (or identical clothing) and an identical bicycle, and reenact the scene, measuring light levels and so on as the car approaches.

For example, page 23-24 of this report positions a tram at various distances to check the visibility of the headlights: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c8fbfed915...

This is much, much more than is done for a road accident, but would seem entirely proportionate for a robot car accident investigation at this stage.
No it doesn't. The theological discussions around the whole concept of 'free will' are quite hairy, and there are multiple christian denominations that don't strictly believe that we have free will.
One thing to note for anyone using elasticsearch in production, if you setup your own cluster. It might be wise to put nginx as a reverse proxy. By just doing that we reduced the amount of crashes when the server got hammered. Since nginx will help with request queueing
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16644056 and marked it off-topic.
I do not believe the human behind the wheel was at direct fault. I would find them guilty of (gross) negligence since they were supposed to pay attention.

The problem here is that the car had superior systems to the human eye and no large lag between perception and action. It was fully capable of seeing the pedestrian and yet it didn't even attempt to break.
> I am just pointing out that an untrained populace armed with even military-style assault weapons is really just laughable if your enemy is the largest military that has ever existed with technology and weapons that could annihilate humanity.

Tell that to the Nazis. They were the military superpower of their time.

Except for the nuclear option every armed enemy can tie up >10 soldiers if they are going to try to keep people alive for slave labour/selective genocide/etc.

Edit: my point is that the Nazis had a giant technological advantage as well as a giant army and even powerful allies and still they were vulnerable to all kinds of sting operations.

Edit2: a little more context.
You missed the part where I mentioned Vietnam, and the part where I asked what if half the military defects?

I'm against loss of human life too, that's why I'm pro-2nd Amendment. People can defend themselves. People can fight off tyranny. Given enough time, people will need to do that again.
There are several parts here: the hardware a self-driving car uses to "see", the software a self-driving car uses to process sensor input into a representation of the vehicle's surroundings, and then the software that makes decisions and issues commands to the car to actually "drive" it.

You have a car with all of this running but a human driving while you drive around for hundreds of millions of vehicle miles. You then review the data for these trips and use it to assess both the ability of the hardware/software to maintain a meaningful degree of "situational awareness" as well as the reasonableness of the software to control the car if it had actually been doing so. From this you can determine how good of a job the system is doing and build a fairly good idea of how much you can actually trust the car to drive on its own. Then you can let the automation drive the car with a human behind the wheel and actually paying attention. From that you can further improve your assessment of how well the car operates under realistic driving conditions.

However, if the human isn't paying attention then you potentially significantly increase risk. Especially if you short-changed the previous step of monitoring the automation's performance while "side seat driving".

In the case of, say, Waymo, they've done a fairly good job here because they've been careful and thorough in each step. In the case of Uber, as is reflective of their corporate culture, they have rushed ahead and taken on a lot more risk than they should have, in this case putting bystanders in harm's way.
I‘m not that versed in reading dietologic papers, but this review (or whatever you wanna call it) found some concerns that I‘d not dismiss immediately: http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html

I don’t know if the WaPo is a good resource to debunk anything ;)
No. ITAR controlled, in the context of IR imaging, means that you can't export any thermal imaging systems above 9fps. You can use whatever you want inside the US, and 60fps systems are available for consumers today.
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Not only that but it ignores the elephant room here. And the ironic thing is the annoying phrase has been used so often it's lost its power, but this is literally the biggest "evidence" for 2016 in front of people's noses.

Clinton won the popular vote. She won CA for example, so clearly Cambridge didn't mush people's brains up that much. The swing states in the Midwest she didn't win she didn't campaign in. Is it that hard to understand?

Why do we have to constantly relitigate 2016? If you don't like what Trump is doing, why not fight against that instead of this constant reporting and talk of conspiracies? People who peddle/love this stuff are taking away the wrong lessons from 2016.
The video is cut as the person is a few feet from being struck by the car. That's not "the last second" that's basically at the point of impact and already much too late
it contributes to it, quite significantly

The huge number of pets is extremely bad, on many levels
That is too simple.
The conclusion is the laws only work as long it is percieved better to follow than not, either by force, violence or social coercion or their actual concequences.

Drug laws for example does not really work, since some people self medicate no matter if there is a death sentence. Others don't care since they probably wont get caught.

While other laws kind of does work, people can rationally choose to follow them because the concequences of doing so are the "best" available option.
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I work 37.5 hours a week, maybe a bit more if I want to bank some hours for a vacation.

Of that, maybe 30 hours is actual productive work. Dunno who thought that a software designer can actually produce useful stuff for 90 hours a week.
The driver, Rafaela Vasquez, is a "vehicle operator," not an engineer. https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/rafaela-vasquez-uber-driver-s...
Let me reinforce my earlier point: I am not predicting Facebook disappears tomorrow because of this scandal. However, I doubt it's the last big scandal, and I don't see a way for Facebook to unreveal their star killer base or disarm it. I am predicting slow decline for them from here on out, until they enter a heay death like MySpace or LiveJournal. Just because it appears to be a complete fixture in billions of lives today, does not mean it will be forever. We all lived without it 14 years ago.

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Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how someone read or didn't read your comment. It breaks the HN guidelines badly and makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I‘m preparing maybe 50% of my own meals, don’t have time for more (2 kids, lots of appointments make me think twice to spend 15-30m on cooking).
Should have put it on Stories. Deletes in 24 hours.
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Please don't post partisan flamebait here. These threads are bad enough without setting additional fires.

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I don't think it's fair or accurate to say folks wouldn't speak out against those things.

Your argument is that people shouldn't have guns because we probably couldn't beat the government. I'll take my fighting chance. It's better to die free.
If you're the driver of a car you're supposed to ensure safety by looking out, not verifying sensory information. If Uber designed their cars to show a rendering of the computer's perception to the driver, or other sensory output, they would violate that principle.

To me it looks like the guy is just falling asleep at a boring job. In all likelihood that was not an engineer more than any other taxi driver is an engineer.
Funny, I have seen what you describe about Indonesia in Malaysia.
> Cohen, who joined YouTube in 2016 after about 30 years in the record business, including stints as a road manager for Run-DMC and a senior executive at Warner Music Group.

I'm not sure he understands yet the culture of the organization he's in, and the way most internet companies work. The fact that Youtube is king of the hill does not mean he's sitting on a monopoly he can milk for revenue. On the Internet, if you crap on your users you become history in 6 months time.
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This is exactly how I currently do it.

I found how inefficient this is when I talked about AsyncDisplayKit with my friends. My friends literally told me the anecdotes he heard from Pinterest and convinced me that it is not production-ready our project, even if it gets a lot of stars on github.

I figure that knowledge like this could be very helpful for a broad audience.
You might start with my shortest introduction to machine learning ;)

http://lausbert.com/2018/01/14/the-shortest-introduction-to-...
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do this again, regardless of how empty another comment is.

You also broke the guideline asking people not to do the "did you read" thing. It would be good if you'd (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when commenting here.
> If uber's software wasn't robust, why "test in production" when production could kill people?

Because it's cheap. And Arizona lawmakers apparently don't do their job of protecting their citizens against a reckless company that is doing the classic "privatize profits, socialize losses" move, with "profits" being the improvements to their so-called self-driving car technology and "losses" being random people endangered and killed during the process of alpha-testing and debugging their technology in this nice testbed we call "city", which conveniently comes complete with irrationally acting humans that you don't even have to pay anything for serving as actors in your life-threatening test scenarios.
There was also a recent lawsuit where Uber pledged to not use any lidar tech and software from Waymo anymore. Maybe they had to deactivate Lidar.
It is materially relevant to yor caims and argument. And appears not to have been considered in your present essay.

Your call.
Learning how to code is easy; a lot of teachers can do it. Learning how to debug is quite a bit harder. Learning how to debug someone else's code is a lot harder. But this is essential in being able to teach coding effectively (not debugging someone else's code as such, but being able to find the bug and steer the student into a way of finding it themselves).

Your proposition also assumes that you have enough Maths teachers, which Australia is certainly lacking (for the same reasons as OP)
Cats kill a ridiculous number of birds. Has there been a huge increase in cats lately though?
Not trying to be an arse here but just because our group of people do it doesn't mean it'll ever be "cool" to do it. It may get cool in our "techy" circles, but i highly doubt our less tech savy peers will come around any time soon.
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Same here. I probably gave FB way too much information over the early years, but I can't see what difference a dormant FB account with occasional event planning activity does over deleting it outright. It's not like you can ever "delete" your FB account anyway.
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I'm assuming LiDAR is not the only sensor installed in self-driving cars. Isn't that the case? And in this scenario, the software didn't have a lot to process. Road was empty, pedestrian was walking bike in hand perpendicular to road traffic...

Even if the detection box changed in size, it should have detected something. Tall or short, wide or narrow, static or moving... at least it should apply brakes to avoid collision.