skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another bad article.

As I keep pointing out, the way you start to do automatic driving is by first profiling the terrain to see where you can go. If it's not flat road, you don't go there. Doesn't matter why it's not flat. Then try to classify other road objects and predict their behavior. This only matters for moving objects.

Waymo gets this, as we know from Urmson's talk at SXSW a few years back.
Most of the DARPA Grand Challege vehicles got this, because they had to drive off-road, where you have to profile terrain or else.

Tesla does not get this. Cruise may or may not get this. Uber - well, Uber's system detected the pedestrian and ran into her anyway, which should end with someone in jail.

There's this mindset that you just throw deep learning at camera images and automatic driving comes out. Musk claimed that. It didn't work. We don't hear much from Tesla about self-driving any more. Udacity's self-driving course is also deep learning based.

As for how much testing is required, read the California DMV accident reports.[1] This gives you a sense of what the real-world problems are. 25 minor accidents so far this year. Mostly Cruise. The most common problem, especially with Waymo, is being rear-ended while cautiously entering an intersection with limited visibility. Their system will start forward to get a better view, then detect cross traffic and stop. What may help there is some convention such as rapidly flashing the brake lights when a sudden stop is likely and there's a vehicle close behind.

On the LIDAR front, Continental's flash LIDAR is already working well enough that drone makers are buying it. Continental is ready to produce that thing in volume, but they need volume orders from automakers before the price comes down.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...
Most of them are relatively tasteless and people season them with lots of chili, salt and pepper, its the texture and gooey insides that turns people off.

I've had cicadas, scorpions and silk worms along with the normal crickets etc.
I believe it was the burger, since it was the only thing I ate all day that could have caused such a reaction. Despite the experience I remain a big supporter of vegetarian food and meat alternatives. It's still early days for an industry that has to overturn deep cultural bias.
> The problem with free education is that as more people become educated, the signaling effect of education becomes diluted. So the Europeans are paying for something that decreases in real value the more that people have access to it.

This assumes that the only value of education is the signaling value. I strongly disagree with that assumption.
I got a chance to see this in NYC at the Directors Guild with a q&a with the author afterward.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Jeff Erlanger in the film. He was a friend from when I was in grad school at Wisconsin - really a lovely soul.
But the other companies aren't imitators even if what you're saying holds true. They have products that did, before or at the same time, similar functions. Did they actually copy Tesla once the functionality was released on the Model S? The answer is 'no'.
There are many people who are paid to get up every morning and get this law passed in one form or another. They do it every day for the rest of their lives and they get paid handsomely for it. That's why they never give up.
Do sick days come from holiday allowance in the US? All ten of them?
Because they pay you for a license, might be one reason. Maybe some system (possibly backed by legislation) makes it easy for them to share technology without some companies being freeloaders and others being suckers.

Competition obviously is a powerful motivator, but sharing tech can reduce costs for everyone, at least in theory.
Also the fact is that mobile web apps are still terrible.

In almost all cases they still resemble HTML pages rather than feeling like a native app.
I agree, unless this empowers anti-poachers to use lethal force more freely in the field, then I’m all for it. I realize that sadly, the poacher on the ground is the low man on the economic totem of poaching, but they’re also the sharp end of that stick. We don’t really have time to change and improve the relevant societies before there’s nothing left to protect. We should have been doing that more actively for decades, but now that it’s come to this, we need snipers.
Oh man, that takes me back. I remember Cro-mag rally and Super Monkey Ball so well. I wonder if they're still around...

Quick edit: Cro-mag is still alive and kicking, looks like it just got iPhone x support too. Crazy.
Amusingly, the Farmer's Insurance website went down just as I was trying to get my decs page. :)

I liked the flow, although I did have an issue where when I dragged the decs page onto the box in Safari it just opened the page, but once I got it uploaded it worked fine. Still waiting for my report now.
I think Websub is enhancement to XMPP. Both are asynchronous. Which means it should be faster than HTTP. Actually it's a push-based protocol where server sends single POST to the hub, the hub then sends that notification to all subscribers.
I already use arrow :)
> Mr Rogers came about in a homogeneous high-trust society.

No, he didn't. The United States was neither homogeneous nor high-trust in 1968. In fact, it was about as far from that as it ever has been in the post-WWII period, present situation not excluded.
A question about this "dividend".

Obviously, this is a major source of profit for a insurance company, but I imagine is also used to refill reserves after a big payout year. Insurers must have been piling cash away for years after Andrew, Katrina, Sandy etc to recoop payouts. How would this balance with returning money on good years?
Not like a whole lot, usually. :) In my experience, the taste ranges between earthy, nutty, and sometimes "crustaceany". Even when they hit some of the better flavors(according to my cultural background), they're nothing to write home about.

It's really things like grubs and caterpillars that have the protein, the fats, and the flavor. The sphinx moth caterpillar tacos I've made were easily comparable to shrimp tacos, and were some of the best tacos I've ever eaten. (I did this as a sort of personal study as I never hear of people eating them today but apparently they were a staple of some native peoples.)

Good luck getting people to eat wiggly, squirmy things, though.
That sounds a lot like what CommonCrawl does, and they are a good start. But from what I've seen, if you wanted to build a really competitive search engine, you'd still have to complement that with your own crawling. Not sure though, as I haven't done a deep dive into this topic.
I wish they offered a proper rental model in the App Store, I know you can do it with in-app purchase but that all feels a little underhand, I'd rather use something baked into the store.
For most it is. For some it is not.
Not the person you are replying to but:

* Typeclasses (over higher kinded types)

* Extensible typeclass instance derivation

* Comprehensions on par with SQL in expressiveness
I would actually be OK with something like a sausage that's 40% pig, 60% crickets, if it's possible. I also wouldn't mind if half of my McDonalds burger was made of crickets. A reduction in demand for meat might also have the positive effect of enabling the production of higher-quality meat from better-cared-for livestock.
I like to think of it as an order of magnitude increase for each 9. Ex. If getting to 90% coverage takes 10 hours, getting to 99% will take 100, getting to 99.9% will take 1000, etc.
I have never owned an iPhone, thus I didn't know if that was possible. I suppose there's nothing to worry about.
To be consistent, every buyer of poached items should also get the death penalty. Do we want this?
Well, what is a more reasonable response to genocide?

And not just committing genocide, but they are profiting from it.

Kind of like punching Nazi's - I'm willing to overlook the idea that it might not be entirely reasonable as long as it puts a stop to the thing.
>But I can see protein powder derived from insects being palatable for western audiences.

In early nineties Russia, one brand of instant noodles immensely popular.

A translator made an error on its packaging, translating "soy protein" as "insect protein" and it was there for, I think, like 3 or 4 years.

And for those 3 years, Russians genuinely believed that those brownish-pinkish crumbs inside were something of insect origin. Yes, but they still ate it.
The 9 billion was spent on patents. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola#Motorola_Mobility_dea...

Specifically, this section:

"According to the filing, Google and Motorola began discussions about Motorola's patent portfolio in early July, as well as the "intellectual property litigation and the potential impact of such litigation on the Android ecosystem".

Although the two companies discussed the possibility of an acquisition after the initial contact by Mr. Rubin, it was only after Motorola pushed back on the idea of patent sale that the acquisition talks picked up steam.

The turning point came during a meeting on July 6. At the meeting, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha discussed the protection of the Android ecosystem with Google senior vice president Nikesh Arora, and during that talk Jha told Arora that "it could be problematic for Motorola Mobility to continue to exist as a stand-alone entity if it sold a large portion of its patent portfolio".

In connection with these discussions, the two companies signed a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement that allowed Google to do due diligence on the company's patent portfolio."
Try to write a UWP or WPF application in F#, use EF designers with F#, follow up on Visual Studio changes related to F#.

Heck even PowerShell now has a WinForms designer.
Well, the market certainly agrees with you..there has never, to my knowledge, been anything like what I describe, other than for trivial capacities.

> With regards to hard drives I actually follow backblaze's lead, thus it is received knowledge. They tend to buy the largest drives they can that are not premium priced

This is completely valid for comparable use cases (which I think are vanishingly rare.. usually, performance matters). Their data is, of course, invaluable to the tech community at large (and potentially an annoyance to drive manufacturers).
I'm always amazed at how many Unix features I assume are GNUisms or bashisms that turn out to be in POSIX and be much more portable than I've expected!
> I don't see why that situation is improved because the food being processed is from a vegan source.

my favorite example of this is the plastic package of organic vegan marshmallows i saw at Whole Foods once
It’s less efficient higher up the food chain. I think the point being made is a grasshopper, goats or cows can digest plants a human could never and get sustenance out of. They have different food processing stomachs
Please don't sling insults on HN. It degrades this place and encourages worse. As your edit shows, it's easy to make fair points without doing that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
PDO vs. MySQLi: The Battle of PHP Database APIs
Number one reason is availability. Do all of your current and future targets have the right version of Ruby installed? What if you have a mix of python 2.7 and 3.6?
But at level you quite often get a jump over that - also at that level you can make full use of the various tax reduction perks.

Employee share saves, 20K ISA, Salary Sacrifice into pensions, EIS at up to 1,000,000 a year for 30% tax relief SEIS is 50% relief but only 150k a year oh and their is VCT another 200k per anum at 30%.

And you pay as much property tax as a lower middle class person does in the states.
Their philosophy of prioritizing form more than most is not really the issue IMO. OP's complaints are really just flat out mistakes Apple has made. For example:

1. The low-travel butterfly keys would be fine for most folks (even if the low-travel is less comfortable to some, thereby prioritizing form), if they didn't break.

2. The touch bar seems useless to basically everyone, not just the HN set. It's not driving sales the way other things to (such as the quest for thinness)

3. Only one port on the 12" Macbook is probably the right approach, but becomes silly on the "Pro" machines.
I'm also interested in this, perhaps using an aluminized mylar balloon or a large wire mesh with a Van der Graaf Generator and/or electron gun to maintain the charge. There's been a fair amount of research on electrohydrodynamic (EHD) vehicles (lifters), but I haven't seen any experiments using a large charged surface area to create an effect like buoyancy.

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm
If properly designed, the main net should really just be the test net. Any small issues should have been ratified on the test, and the chain should move to production without any issues. However, Tezos basically released a whole new product, without proper prior testing.
Not sure how I feel about this since it hits the most vulnerable of the criminals hardest, the low level poacher getting pennies on the dollar for the ivory or skin he is procuring.
It's similar to the war on drug approach which gives lengthy sentences to the lowly corner dealers while those who control the market on a macro level rarely get caught or receive good plea deals when they do.
15 is the bare minimum for USA tech companies. I've seen a few not so stellar places offer 10.
I currently use VS Code when developing on MacOS and Windows but it would be awesome if VS Code worked out of the box for FreeBSD my preferred development machine. Unfortunately the electron team doesn't really seem to care about FreeBSD, even though a bunch of FreeBSD devs are willing to do most of the work, and there's a $750 dollarsource bounty[1]. But maybe the VS Code team could help encourage the electron team to be more receptive of other platforms.

[1]: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3797
>But the relevant question is: Would that other student have been equally likely to create a vaccine that would banish the scourge of polio?"

We'll never know, because that other student was racially profiled and denied an opportunity on that basis.
This can also be seen as tranfering blame to the poorest of the poaching chain - the poachers themselves. The smugglers and especially buyers won't be affected by this and are just as guilty. Do they get the noose too?

I'm not being argumentative, I am curious how far your belief this is a good idea goes.
"Moreover, an overall overrepresentation of Asians are admitted"

That was the case even with Jewish quotas, which were set to something like 15% of the student body. Still a 15x "over-representation" so what was the big deal?

So do you have problem with Jewish over-representation (which is far more than 10x)?
In the same very quora response :
"Additionally, the fact that PubSubHubbub requires applications to have a server endpoint makes it difficult for desktop and mobile clients to implement."

That's fine, you precised it would be used between servers. But it limits the "openness" of the concept imho
>If "Texas" is a downside for Austin, then surely Portland has the same problem? Isn't the rest of the state strongly conservative?

It definitely does, but to a lesser extent. Oregon is a reliably blue state because the population is extremely sparse outside of Portland, whereas Austin is just a bubble amid a sea of red. Oregon is also a lot less of the "southern redneck confederate" type, and more of the "libertarian don't tread on me" conservative, which is far more tolerable.
The NVIDIA Shield TV is a capable Android-powered set-top box that should be able to run Netflix without a problem, and has a pretty decent history of getting OS updates[0]. Had I not already built my own HTPC shortly before it came out, I probably would've gone with that.

Kodi (which powers most RPi-based HTPC's) had a Netflix add-on for awhile, although last I checked it was more or less just the page running in a browser.
No. Even without background checks, every employer ends up googling my name when I get hired, and rescinds the offer 100% of the time. My only hope of being a professional programmer is to do contracting with people who give second chances. I had two clients who have done that, but one cut off contact with me. So I have one client. No way to expand that.
Discoverability seems to be a challenge on just about every streaming platform. It doesn't seem that difficult to write an algorithm that balances novelty with comfort, and yet nobody seems to have even moved in that direction. I'm not sure what the problem is, the discoverability problem seems to have gotten worse as machine learning has become more mainstream.
Notice how none of the langs you point out are not mentioned though. Comparing an FP-light to classical FP languages is not equivalent.
Can't you crush the insects into powder and remove the chitin afterwards?
When you make bad ideas your enemy, you can promote real change and bring more people peaceably to your side. When you make people your enemy, you are likely to make things worse.
Absolutely. This tradition is one of the greatest legacies that ties together the Anglo-sphere.
Yes absolutely. Given a matrix as an array of numbers there's a number of natural ways to interpret it as a tensor. What are you uncomfortable about?
I will give Microsoft credit that Powershell is a very pleasant to use shell language. There are a few quirks, but I encounter them a lot more rarely than in POSIX shells.

That said, my brain does still think in POSIX scripting, so it always takes me a little while to get back in the swing of Powershell.
No property taxes are very low in the UK some one in a 10M house in London pays less than an upper middle class person does in some US states
The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions
Honestly, I haven't used C++ in ages, and I believe you that there great rationalizations for a lot of its behaviors. That's beside the point in my mind though. The end result is a very large and complex language that's very error prone.

C++ goes completely against the principle of least astonishment.There is a huge amount of mental overhead to reading and writing code in it. All that distracts you from the problem you're actually solving and directly translates into long development times, defects, and maintainability nightmares.

I don't think the complexity of the language ultimately justifies the goals it's trying to accomplish.
- Incremental compilation on save

- Not spinning the hard disk all the time indexing libraries

- Showing Javadoc by default without extra configuration steps
Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently
This further deepens the two-party system. That's no solution at all.

Districts should be compact, as simply shaped as possible, equally populated, and ideally follow as many lines of local government concern as possible.

We already have utility districts, school districts, city precincts, county precincts, townships, drainage and levee districts, cities, towns, villages, counties, wards, neighborhoods, state police districts, state House districts, state Senate districts, and more boundary lines within states. Rather than one county precinct being cut into four parts so each can be a portion of four different Congressional districts that also overlap other county precincts, perhaps as much as possible your part of town should have the same candidates on the Congressional race as your neighbors using the same voting station.
I wouldn't say that general relativity suggests that gravity is an "ambient side effect" of material presence. It means precisely that the geometry of spacetime is determined by the matter-energy content within that spacetime; and that matter moves on geodesics dictated by spacetime. I suppose that I am forced to accept that whether you think gravity is more like a shadow of matter than an active participant in dynamics is somewhat up to you, provided that you get the physics correct. If you don't, then your perspective is wrong.

Glancing at some of the other things you've said in the thread, you seem to be convinced that some waves, like sound waves, are somehow illusory. Let me assure you, there is nothing illusory about wave phenomena, both in general and with gravitational waves in particular. Anything that produces wave-like phenomena can be said to radiate emissions, to paraphrase, and in many cases, there is nothing really more "fundamental" than the wave.

As for the concept of color, I suppose it depends on what you mean by color. Color as defined by the wavelength/frequency of light is perfectly well defined outside of the visible spectrum. As a mental concept, I don't see why it is "irreducible." I suppose you are attempting to say that the universal speed of light is somehow fundamental... but in the same way that a "redder" red is impossible? This is a dubious analogy. It confuses the limitations of the mind with fundamental physics.
OCaml was really born as Caml Light, in the early 90s..., it's soon to be 30 years old.
Ok, that's the part I was missing that lead to my misunderstanding. I (incorrectly) assumed the posts were marked NSFW by the creators. Thank you for clarifying that for me. That's pretty awful of tumblr to do that.
I think there is a happy medium, though. I don't know anyone clamoring for the touch bar, but I think the general public loves MagSafe and a working keyboard. I also have a 2012 rMBP and think that if Apple released a new version with a working keyboard (even if with a bit lower travel), no touchbar, USB-C magsafe, and frankly, thinner than the 2012 without causing failures of some components, they'd have something that would please most.
Show HN: List of macbook alternatives for if you don't like the new models
As someone who has used Autopilot and many of its "clones" as well as worked with several OEMs on these features, Tesla's offering is not more mature, it's more irresponsible. Autopilot is a combination of ADAS features that many other OEMs have had for a while and deliberately chosen not to tie together due to safety concerns. These concerns have been validated multiple times now by Autopilot errors. The "clones" are deliberately less good because the manufacturers offering them care more about safety and reliability than about marketing beta products.
This is always the argument from Europe which makes America seem like some hellhole existence.
No, it has a real meaning. How many new businesses are started each year in the US vs the EU? For an existing company, how easy is it to enter a new line of business? How easy is it to hire new workers?

Those things are how dynamic the economy is. It's hard to measure in a rigourous way, but in the US it is distinctly easier for a business to start/expand than it is in the EU.

Digression, so I can get shot at from all sides: This dropped under Obama. Again, it's hard to put concrete numbers on it, but things started happening more slowly - I suspect because regulation became more onerous.
Thanks for this info. I've attempted and put down geb about 3 times never getting too far. The stories were just childish to me.
Here's an idea. When a case like this is thrown out of court, the defendant is awarded 1% of the company's revenues in perpetuity as damages. Or replace that with any decent incentive for asshole companies like FB to pull this kind of shit. There need to be serious negative consequences for abusing the court system and loading it with bullshit cases like this one. There is no agreement here between the two parties. Case dropped. The alternative is fixing our fucked up court system so that it can be used for its intended purposes by non-b/millionaires, but that's highly unlikely to ever happen.
thanks, will read this.