skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an idea: you try to do that teaching three or four sections and report back how that goes. I am not sure if you have ever taught post secondary classes before, but what you're describing is untenable for someone who wants to not work 12 hour days. It's a nice idea, and I know that I would have loved to do that when I was teaching, but the fact of the matter is it isn't feasible unless you have a squadron of TA's to help you carry it out, and that's not gonna happen.
having been both a TA and a student, i think this idea is entirely too optimistic. "optional" problem sets can work well in graduate and advance undergraduate courses, but for the bulk of students in the intro/intermediate courses, homework that doesn't get graded for accuracy may as well not exist. i certainly didn't do it, and when the CS department decided to grade homework on completion only, i saw student attendance of my office hours immediately drop to zero.

ultimately, you cannot just expect college students to make reasoned decisions based on the way you set up the course. you need to arrange the course in a way that incentivizes them to keep up at every step.
Agreed, and Intel actually had a track record of really good open source driver support for important stuff that is not GPU. Example, 11+ years ago when a single 10 gigabit NIC cost $6000, Intel had their own staff write and submit freebsd and Linux kernel drivers for their first gen card. The same has continued up until now if you look at the Linux kernel commits for Intel network interfaces.
Early-Stage Customer Communication: Channels and Signals
You're assuming they listen to the cost. For many of these terrible bosses, the second they here "We can", they tune the rest of it out.
I'll admit that finding the right fitness function is hard, but I find that multi-dimensional fitness functions are well-suited to finding a set of solutions that a human can choose from. If you are finding paths for a fleet of delivery trucks, you can optimize separately for time, distance, and cost. Then, with the solutions that are better at all three than every other solution, pick 10 different ones and let a human make a decision.

I agree that when there's a fast, perfect solution, it doesn't make sense to use genetic algorithms. But when finding solutions to a non-general problem (optimize CNC tooling to produce a list of orders, each of which has a series of operations that require a certain amount of time, on certain machines, and require being moved from machine to machine, such that you produce the most on-time orders for high-priority clients), genetic algorithms can work very well.
I'm all in favour of opting out of taxes -- provided that one simultaneously opts out of using public roads and utilities; opts out of being protected by public police, fire, and emergency services; opts out of using public legal regimes for the enforcement of contracts and property rights; and opts out of being able buy goods or receive services from people who have been received public educations.

If you're happy to live without any of those things, then fine -- don't pay taxes.
They have a reasonably coherent generalization planned for this[0].

Chrome will track a user's actual video consumption habits per origin, and compare it to the user's total visits to that origin. Video consumption is judged to be intentional if play is longer than 7 seconds, audio is unmuted, the tab is active, and the video is bigger than 200x140 px.

Then, if the ratio of actual video consumption to visits is high enough, Chrome desktop will allow autoplay. (My read is that Chrome mobile will wholly disable autoplay.)

If you always pause / mute playback on news sites but let Youtube autoplay, Chrome will learn to allow Youtube to autoplay.

If you always pause/mute playback on Youtube, Chrome will learn not to autoplay Youtube.

You can see what inferences Chrome has made at chrome://media-engagement .

(I'm not a Google employee nor a Chrome developer and may be accidentally misrepresenting this policy, but I've attempted to describe it accurately.)

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
Server cost is dominated by storage at the moment. DRAM is also a large static cost with little negotiation room. The cost of a P9 and motherboard is a small subset of a system build and below the price of Skylake for me.
Yes, I agree with you that we can't assume that the car could have noticed the woman from 120 meters from LIDAR data alone. Maybe with some kind of sensor fusion with IR-cameras.

But, as it got closer and what the computer though was noise was on about the same place a sane obstacle finder should have given a posetive match. Maybe at 30 - 40 m worst case?

At 142 feet the woman probably had (assuming she was 5.5'):

asind(5.5/142) = 2.21* => 2.21/0.4 = 5.5

So between 5 and 6 "scanlines" going from left to right over her.

Assuming she was 2' wide that's 0.8 degrees which would be 2 to 3 pixels in breadth according to your spread sheet.

That's between 10 and 18 pixels (voxels?) that stand out clearly from the flat road around it, exluding the bike.

If you wan't to get an idea of how LIDAR data looks Velodyne has free samples and a viewer for less resolution models.

http://velodynelidar.com/downloads.html

It pretty hard to identify obstacles far off, but you will still see there is something there. It's especially easy to identify obstacles that are vertical.

As she got closer, she would eventually show up clearly on the LIDAR data. But since the car never slowed down or went left, it didn't notice her at all even at point blanc (or did see her but failed to do anything about it).
I don't see the similarity to the Skunk Works. Lockheed developed the Skunk Works planes in secret because they were... secret planes. The CIA doesn't make a habit of advertising our surveillance capabilities.

I see the Skunk Works planes as similar to the Corvette or Viper or Supra or i8 or any other top of the line car. It's something you think of in the back of your mind when you buy a Malibu, Neon, Corolla or 3 Series.

Maybe I am blind to some other part of Skunk Works history that you are referring to.
I've used Upwork to varying degrees of success.
Here are few of the pros and cons

Pros:
- It's easy to get started, you can just create a profile and get rolling.
- Lots of people on the other end of the spectrum, lots of potential clients which can later help with networking.

Cons:
- Lots of competition, when you're just starting you have to work really hard to build a reputable profile.

- Upwork has lots of restrictions, so make sure you read the TOS. My first account was deleted because of a TOS violation, don't let that happen to you.
- 80% of potential clients either aren't serious or are clueless, this was the major reason I stopped using the platfrom.

I did see some success and I still have clients that contact me for work that I met through Upwork but I just can't stand the potential clients anymore and have pivoted to my own startup.
I suspect the UX will be that once audio is enabled for any video in the page any subsequent videos will get a free pass, and not some special treatment for Google.
you might want to try Upwork if you haven't.
Can you imagine if Walmart banned classes of visitors who were unlikely to purchase things even though they use the toilets?
> Alas, the market didn't think of it the same way. The i3 might not be a looker

...from an American perspective. The i3 doesn't sell much in the US, but is I think the second highest selling EV in Europe at the moment, people here apparently don't have any problem with the way it looks.
man i wanna move to paris now that sounds like paradise.
The German Post approached VW to have them develop electric cars for deliveries in cities. VW refused, so they just hired a couple of students and started/bought their own company. They get requests from all kinds of businesses now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter

To me that doesn't sound like there is no market, it sounds like big car manufactures want to milk their ICEs as long as possible.
What about the opportunity cost? What about the long-term?

Maybe we should make our ecological footprint steady-state sustainable, first.
How i wish i was a fish (2018)
I've interacted with some bad sales people before, but they rarely tune out when you say things are going to be delayed.
The most problematic would be the high density integrated chips and storage media. Lower densities on scale of say 80s tech are doable in a basement with the right know how and most basic electronics can be fixed or replaced easily enough, (The problem is stated as how to make a good enough plasma doping chamber to make transistors.) If at a cost to size and efficiency. (Even advanced voltage regulators...)

That said, a lot of that hardware, especially rugged, would easily last for a few decades.

We'd have to use cassettes for data storage once again.
I love how you pigeonholed me as atheist. I am not. I tend to side with them only because they seem more reasonable, but I'm fairly agnostic and believe in some things (based on experience) that most atheists would scoff at. Your open-minded doubting-Thomas, as it were. Probably "secular humanist" is the most apt description of my worldview.

> The universe created itself from nothing.

And yet it is an equally irrational claim that some entity did it, because there is no evidence of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps It is intellectually dishonest to explain away anything not understood as "God's creation". That is not to say there is no God, although the Abrahamic (judeo-muslim-christian) God is in fact illogical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

> that the word atheist essentially means "correct"

You forgot "debatable". Unlike religious beliefs. I would agree that most atheists assume too much to be true without evidence (because their conclusions are rational, even if untrue... and that is where irrationality sets foot in the unfathomable equation...)

> A fairly big irrational claim of atheists: The universe created itself from nothing.

Actually, there may not even have been a Big Bang: https://www.livescience.com/49958-theory-no-big-bang.html There goes your God-proof, I guess...
Wish I was taught or even knew what VCS was in University.
Would love to help you out with the book! Let me know!
Probably not. There's a reason why the decision was so narrow - they explicitly didn't want to set a widely applicable precedent.
i think so, but didn't audit it myself

* https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs

* https://github.com/brave/adblock-lists

* https://github.com/brave/ad-block
Facebook has restricted apps to only receiving app-scoped IDs since 2014.
Apologies, I didn't make the connection as well as I would've liked.

You either build the innovator internally (Skunk Works), or you let your innovative competitors eat your lunch. Someone with less bureaucracy and incentive to maintain the status quo is going to innovate.
I can't think of one reason why it shouldn't be the default behavior.
These might be good for pro photographers, though right now I'd rather see affordable 300dpi A4-sized e-book reader with tablet pen and SD card slot to get rid of all my paperwork.
I know they exposed identifiers in friends lists as well, long into 2013 as I recall. I remember hanging out with friends and grabbing the Inspect Source HTML from their little "Friends tile" that had a ranked list of Identifiers that were based off of how much their algorithm thought we were friends. It would display a random selection from the top 50 or so but all 50 were in there and were fairly accurate as to who I interacted with most on Facebook. My friends and I would log them all then compare notes.

I never had any illusions that Facebook wasn't spying on me: I just had illusions that they wouldn't be so stupid as to sell the only thing that makes them valuable in a raw format to customers.

Google at least just sells you targets.
One thing that I think people don't talk about enough on this topic is the wildly different plagerism guidelines between different classes.

I did both CS and economics in college. And in my CS classes, even discussing the homework with classmates was often "against the rules".

But in my business and economics classes, me and my classmates would regularly work together on the homework my straight up assigning certain problems to certain people and then copying from each other.

This was not only allowed by the professor, it was explicitly ENCOURAGED!

They understood that if you talked to classmates, you will be able to understand things better, instead of struggling and failing to do stuff on your own.

And with such wildly differing guidelines for different classes, things were often confusing to students.

One potential solution to "cheating" is to explicitly allow it, such that everyone is on the same playing field.

What matters, at the end of the day, is that the students learn the material.
I have to disagree, most of the current electric car offerings on the market are more expensive than the base price of the Model 3 (looking at the BMW i3 in Europe, the base price is 45000 dollars).

Tesla is a company that was built from the ground up, without any prior design and manufacturing experience, and they have been mass producing cars for only 5 or 6 years. You can't simply expect them to have the same business agility as BWM, which is a company with over 1 century old.

The lack of "better" product offerings from Tesla is not due to the technology, is due to the infancy of the company.
The goal isn't to have students to learn.

It's to get students to retain just enough information to get placed in a job after graduation to boost placement rates, earn good salaries, and donate back to their alma mater for the "opportunity it provided".

Students aren't the customers, they're the products.

Unfortunately, companies that propagate hiring based on GPAs, # of internships, and whiteboarding skills are only hurting themselves in the long run. When you need a 3.9 GPA and be able to recite all of LC and CTCI from memory just to get an entry level position, you aren't being encouraged to learn, only to graduate with the best possible resume you can get. That means doing whatever it takes to boost metrics that are completely meaningless for creating value for a business.

Ya'll mad that you can't find 'good' engineers, but put all the focus on cheap memorization and circle-jerking Big N style interviews. Want better workers? Put more focus on workforce training and hold colleges responsible for providing it.
If you want to read RSS, use feedly. I've moved to it when Google killed Reader, and haven't regretted it since.
or have it count to a small part of the grade.

Basically, perhaps construct a class like this

1) HW 20% of the grade

2) Quiz (say 1 Q a week related to homework that was returned a week ago, give students a chance to figure out what they did wrong) - say 20% of grade

3) midterm and final, a 30/30 or 20/40 split.

one can adjust the percentages to achieve one's desired pedagogical goals.

personally, I don't find copying homework to be a problem if the student figures out what they copied. It's no worse than students frantically copying down everything the teacher puts on the board or slides which seems to be a common way students study.
> Look at the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Whether or not you believe they had illegal guns, they had guns, and they died.

Sure, but if you think they were alive, do you think they would have looked back at what happened, they would have seen this as their failure or victory?

If Branch Dravidians didn't have guns, they would simply be arrested and forgotten in the history, whereas today they are folk heroes.

If anything, to all the gun rights supporters, Waco shows that fighting with guns works.

> Guns lose to tanks every time.

Then how do you explain US-Vietnam war, Second Iraq war, Afghanistan(first with USSR and then with US). The USSR's Afghanistan war is a great example, the only thing we supplied the Mujahiddins was guns.

Tanks only win centralized armies and we are very good with fighting centralized Armies (First Gulf war was a good example), however we SUCK at fighting decentralized forces. The only reason why we manage to defeat ISIS because ISIS got too centralized (and we got strong leadership), but keep in mind we have still not managed to win Iraq and a replacement of ISIS is in works.
It's a problem in MS programs too.
After implementing plagiarism detection campus-wide, design a process which is very time consuming on the students part, and not as time consuming on staff.

Maybe something like: "Your homework was flagged as possible plagarism. Report to this lab at this time, and code one additional problem which should be easy to anyone who understood the original homework."

Anyone who really did the homework will be in and out within five minutes. If you can't finish in an hour, you get a zero on that one homework assignment, not expelled.

That flips the incentives.
Also, reducing the punishment cuts the drama of people arguing that the software is not 100% accurate.
So these days Facebook requires you to sign a contract to get any significant data or permission any more.

I don't think Google does that...
I got you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKrwF47uP8
nice, thanks.

would be nice if it could allow pipes. example to send the clipboard:

$ pbpaste | qr-filetransfer
2018/03/22 15:06:48 At least one argument is required
A few links you can look at if you're interested in neuroevolution, from the same group of researchers:

Ken Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen original NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) paper: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf

Ken Stanley's novelty search page, and a link to his book, "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective": http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch/userspage/

Risto Miikkulainen's Evolving Deep Neural Networks paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00548

Ken Stanley & team's work at Uber, with links to some recent papers: https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution/
I'm thinking of starting a blog about RC planes, but I'm going to outsource the development. I submitted a bid to IBM but they haven't replied!

On top of that Boeing said they're not interested in assembling my plane!

Clearly these incumbents are holding me back.

/s

Sarcasm aside maybe it just wasn't worth it to VW to take on a relatively small project outside of their core competency?
Most people who speak of “authenticity” don’t really want “authentic” Mexican food”; what they’re really after is food with a clear regional provenance. They want food with a cultural narrative behind it, where that narrative doesn’t feature their own culture as one of the characters.
I think the point here is that the media has failed in its responsibility to inform. If we knew, they knew, and the reason the public didn't know is because they media didn't turn this into prime time news, the way the Cambridge Analytica story has been positioned. That matters.
Beans, along with maize ("corn") and squash, are staples in pre-Columbian America.
If they banned people who walked in proclaiming that they had no money and no intent to buy anything - sure. Doesn't seem that strange for a shop.
If I discovered a lost work of Milton and pretended it was my own, then that would be acting at the expense of Milton's reputation, in the sense I mean. So I don't think it matters if the "someone else" happens to be dead.

(If I tried it with Paradise Lost there'd be no expense to their reputation, but that just means it's not a realistic example of someone attempting plagiarism.)
And that's just fine too; there was an internet before these guys, there will be one after.

But, it would be nice if there were some way to filter out sites like this one, and others that have interstitials or the infamous "Forbes Thought Of The Day" and all the other nuisances.

Because I don't want to be on their site any more than they want me on their site. They just keep showing up in my various news feeds.
Yes, but with android apps, it's my fault for clicking "I accept" next to all of those requested rights. The only one to blame is myself.
I think maybe the term you're looking for is not "carrier" (which people think of as a cell phone service provider) but "career". You might get more responses if you reposted with the correct spelling.
Technically it's not PHP either, but Hack, which is like PHP with types. Nitpick; it's not PHP like TypeScript is not Javascript, but kinda is.
I mean, they kinda market the brand as some big health cure-all, like crossfit. But it's just putting butter in your coffee. Like, maybe having some fats in your diet first thing in the morning is alright, but the science is pretty mixed.

Yeah, it's not snake oil, but like, it sure feels like it.
Alan Kay on functional programming and OOP
I highly recommend taking a look at and following https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/ ...they're very supportive and there's such a range of experiences along yours (and mine), and you'll no doubt get some good pointers. Today is "Interview Questions" day, so you can post your interview experiences in that thread and often someone will respond with some tips and/or pointers.
In light of articles like https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-f... the quote is even more appropriate.