skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. Just accept the damn honor. I am not impressed. True humility does not rob others the joy of giving, but accepts the gift being offered.
I know its a monster of an article I was commenting that when I got to that spot it registered as another data point in a the number of times I have read that name over a huge assortment of publications. I kinda of understand the downvoting I am getting for pointing it out as it seems to be a charged topic.
From http://www.teslamotors.com/models/design

>Model S comes standard with a forward looking camera, radar, and 360-degree ultrasonic sensors that actively monitor the surrounding roadway. Progressive software updates over time will enable sophisticated convenience and safety features that use these sensors to respond to real world conditions. These features will ultimately give Model S Autopilot capability on the highway from on-ramp to off-ramp.

That's a pretty nice TODO to leave in the code :)
The fate of Symbolics wound up having little to do with Stallman, Greenblatt, or LMI. Sun et al. just blew away Symbolics with the economies of scale of UNIX workstations, and the advantages of LISP didn't persuade many people to go with LISP machines instead.

Similarly, Rational Software started out making ADA machines, and only survived and prospered after a total pivot away from hardware and ADA alike.
Exactly, and I bet that it's not going away any time soon, "obsolete" or not.
That's the most terse introduction ever. Where can we find out more information?
Node Forward
This reminded me MIT still uses ~<email> for public www space. Must be an artifact of this UNIX paradigm. Brian Chan as an example: http://www.mit.edu/~chosetec/.
I think that was the intent.
I find her easy enough to ignore since half of her schtick seems to be "people denigrate me, therefore I am correct."
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"tick tocking" was what we called it in our sea cadets corp. It is surprisingly hard to get it right without practice (and then I guess less conscious thought)
It's Apache's default UserDir module that does that. It's only the request-controller model of dynamic web application development that has made it look unusual compared to something like /user?id=moemaya or /users/moemaya or whatever.
There is also hyper which is used by Servo: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper
Oops, sorry about that, I did not understand the context in your comment :)
You should consider a contribution to Doctors without Boarders.

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/monthly.cfm?source=...
Indeed, here is a typical schematic of an Ethernet interface:

http://www.micro-examples.com/pics/094-EP2-ETHERNET-schemati...

So the part that's likely to get fried by excessive current is the isolating transformer, if mains is applied across either of the RX/TX pairs. If it's applied between one RX and one TX, then unless the insulation breaks down there is unlikely to be any current flow - and the isolation transformers are rated to 1.5kV as per the spec, so 120V or 240V won't do it. The 2kV cap for the TX ground reference also stops any current from flowing that way.

I wonder if there's market for NICs with fuses or other protective circuitry on the inputs...
At this stage all you need to install is the machine learning algorithm so it can watch and learn what real drivers do when faced with the conditions it's sensing.

Absolutely brilliant!
Despite my aversion to overlords in real life

It's the same in real life. We just like to pretend it isn't and keep policing out of sight. Many American (who can) up and move to gated communities, even join HOAs because neighbour's freedom to manage his own lawn is too much.
Also, since most users tend to post little, active trolls can dominate a conversation in a group where they're the vast minority: 3% of people being trolls posting with 30x the average frequency of other people will cause as much traffic as everyone else together.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. It does sound like the first company's "review" process was more like something they could point to and claim to be fair to deflect complaints, and less like an appropriate reward-allocation system. And given that, I would agree with your characterization of "telling you to wait" and such as a stalling tactic.

If the system were better, though--say, reviews every six or three months, and you saw people who did good work getting raises and bonuses, mediocre performances leading to stagnant pay, new hires' pay quickly reaching what might be called their "market rate"--then I suspect you'd feel differently. Though I suppose that if you thought the outcome was fair, you wouldn't make a complaint in the first place.

I'm thinking one good way for a manager to respond to a request for a raise would be to conduct a performance review of all employees on his team, and give raises to any who were found to deserve them. Unless that had already been done within the last, say, three months.

(Here's a case I heard about from the U.S. International Math Olympiad team. For background, with a series of contests they select the top 12 high school students from the nation, which become the "black" group at an olympiad training camp, and they give these students a test to determine 6 team members and 2 alternates. They also take 24 students in grade 11 or below into a "blue" group, and 24 more from 9th grade into a "red" group. Now, one brilliant kid had made it into the "black" group and onto the IMO team as a 9th grader, winning a silver medal. The following year, he did relatively badly on the contest and "only" made it into the blue group. The organizers knew he was probably among the best there and should probably be on the team, but they had to find a "fair" way to do it... so they administered the team selection test to all students in both the "black" and "blue" groups. The kid made it onto the team and again won a silver medal for the U.S.)
Tim Ferriss interviews Alexis Ohanian (reddit and hipmunk) on Y Combinator …
On an Nexus 5, too.
This article is about attacks on women online. I don't see any claim about an increase in offline assault.
Hot pumping action!
If you'd like to see some t-SNE visualizations of word representations, see my site here:

http://metaoptimize.com/projects/wordreprs/
> Not all dissent, just that which is unproductive.

And who gets to pick what's productive or not?

That's always the hitch in these schemes: is criticizing decisions about what to police productive? is criticizing the beliefs of the owners productive? is not agreeing with the norm of the community productive?

The person making these calls has a vested interested in not seeing certain kinds of criticism and in accruing more power for themselves, so there's an inherent conflict of interest that tends to go wrong.
This is EP36 from The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast).

Shownotes:

Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: - On the Forbes “30 under 30” list multiple times (then he turned 30)- A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk- In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most selective startup “accelerator”…
Your requests are not async and so the item will always be `undefined`. You should add a callback to your functions.

hn.item(8863, function(err, item){
console.log(item);
});

Edit: Actually, there is a lot that isn't correct about this library.. you should add a disclaimer that this is a WIP and is not in a usable state.
Google, Oracle Java API Copyright Battle Lands at Supreme Court
I speak with mixed-gender groups of people all the time, and don't find it particularly tortuous.
A strange thought but I wonder if their cpu uses ECC memory.

Autopilot is not a place I want bit level errors to happen.

ps. not really a car person but dang that Model X looks nice - announced Feb 2012 but still not shipping?
If it's common usage, it's correct.
The Model D Is Tesla’s Most Powerful Car Ever, Plus Autopilot
More than 35. Actually more than 35 years in the business. Work in Software Security day, a startup in the evenings/weekends. There is not a day that goes by that I don't program. Job title is Chief Head Prod, owner.
It seems that Tesla's autopilot is pretty similar to other highway autopilots from manufacturers like Mercedes Benz. The new feature seems to be automatic reading of speed signs.
Stallman has the normal sort of blindness most zealots have for areas outside of their zealotry. I have always found it a little bit fascinating to see what a naive view of the world he really has for anything that isn't the politics of software.

Which I don't say to be unfair, although I could see those who idolize him taking it that way.
Maria gave some useful advice: she said to role-play a negotiation. Satya said, "you are getting paid enough, don't worry about it", which isn't true for most women and isn't true for most men either. (But may be more true for some men, men who already figured out how to ask for a raise.)
Seconded. Without this information there is literally no point in doing anything and the thread will die. OP, get a temporary email address if you're embarrassed and put out information up front. None of us are psychic and trying to get information by playing 20 questions is a complete waste of people's time.

Not to be mean, but your failure to think this basic thing through probably correlates with your dire financial situation and does not reflect well on your coding abilities. That's probably a very unfair judgment because bad luck can strike anyone, but you only get one change to make a first impression. Fix it so I can delete this post.
Neat idea, but honestly I've given up on brewing my own coffee. I now buy cold-brewed coffee (TJ's, but other brands are good also) and the acid content is much lower than hot brewed, and there is no mess or grinding involved.
D is for disappointment.
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That article could have been from 1955, you know.
I was born in 1990, but I was also introduced to computers at a very young age.

I've been using the internet before the Facebook/Myspace boom, but I never had the chance to really experience the "old-web" or usenet. This "project" gives me a chance to see a part of internet history that I missed or was too young to remember delivered from people who were there.

It's a really unique project for people like myself, and I find it comforting to see culture of the internet that I saw a glimpse of in my childhood.
I recall Phil Hendrie did an Art Bell spoof that featured a hand-crank espresso machine (for the post y2k apocalypse) that still makes me chuckle when I think about it so many years later.
A raccoon recently snuck into my apartment in the middle of the Mission in SF, and rampaged around the place in the middle of the night, ripping through bread and leaving a huge mess. My roommate told me that he chased it back out the window with a broom.

I was totally shocked, and thought that it must have been a one in a million event. Of course, it happened again.

I would say it was a nice taste of the wild in the middle of the city, but sweeping up the mess and wiping down all the paw prints was a huge pain. Nature never ceases to impress.
Retailers are often freemium btw. They have 0 margins on many items and make money on others. That's why best buy pushes warranties etc.
Why 64bit is needed in phones right now?
Is there a memory limit similar to he one on PCs where 32bit can support up to 4GB RAM?
If so then I think there aren't many phones that have 3GB, not to mention 4GB.
That was truly bizarre. Why would you use this device to make sure someone used the correct method of eating food?
You need online governance. User self-moderation, active moderators equipped with banhammers.

You also need a lead figure who commands the community (possibly a rotating role) to settle disputes among your moderators.

Finally, a subtle hellban so some users think they're interacting with the entire community when they're just talking to and moderating each other.
It was even more painful live, in a room of 8000 women. Ouch.
Her article seems to be about what could be done to stop anonymous trolls from terrorizing and threatening women. How about prosecuting them, since terroristic threats is already a crime? Unfortunately, as Hess discovers, the police don't care much about online stalking, which is consistent since they don't care about IRL stalking either. But never mind, it's not the problem: misogyny is the problem, amplified 1000x by online anonymity. Anonymity makes the internet mean and gives trolls= men too much power. This is the subtle shift: what starts out as "misogyny is bad" becomes "anonymity facilitates misogyny."

Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want to be more private-- and the privacy of the women is bad. The women have to be online, they do most of the clicking and receive most of the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is a barrier to increasing consumption, it's gotta go.

...

If you're a guy, you probably don't realize the awesome pressure on women to let themselves get looked at: to reveal themselves online, to post a pic, to give everyone your attention, to stop what you're doing and give the other your self, even if they want to yell at you. "Hey lady, I hate you!" And yet that same pressure tells women they are valueless unless they are public. Madness.

The system is illogical, the things you want cannot actually coexist, but you dare not attack the system that promises everything, therefore something else must be blamed. As a basic example, Hess probably wants all the benefits of socialism and all the brand products of capitalism. When she can't have it, obviously the problem is misogyny.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/05/cyberbll.html
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Machine learning can't do that and won't be able to for a long time even in principle, to say nothing of doing it in real-time on a car. Autonomous driving contains very little machine learning for all the sensing and high-level parts.

It may contain some low-level classifiers for things like people and possibly other cars, but this is not strictly required and car manufacturers generally try to avoid it, because it is difficult to reason about. Traffic sign classification is another candidate, but again, at least the Google car probably pulls this from their precomputed map.

Finally, none of these classifiers are trained online, in the car, but always offline, likely on carefully selected data on some GPUs for many days or weeks.
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A friend brought a portable espresso machine camping and it made very nice coffee. I'm pretty sure it was the http://www.handpresso.com/ . You boil water to the specified temperature (he had a hot water bottle with a temperature gauge) and pour it in the right compartment. You hand pump it up to pressure (there's a gauge). You put the grounds in the filter. Press a button and away you go.
> And who gets to pick what's productive or not?

The community! That's what we're talking about here: how can the majority of some community avoid losing their own gathering place to a minority that makes the same place unhabitable for the rest. See Hacker News. Voting. Moderating.

Edit: Sometimes even resuliting in graying this very comment out. Which is OK if we beleive in the basic principle.
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You're ignoring the possibility of teamwork.
I'd break it down into two parts. The first is the image transformation. For this we use graphics magic, and based on the params in the querystring, we'd crop, resize, alter the quality, anchor the image to a focus point and so on. Not copy and pastable, but [1] should give you a rough idea. Also [2] is code we use to get the file type and size of the image (gm identify can be painfully slow).

The second part was a bit more "fancy". There were two really slow parts to this (a) fetching the origin (from S3) and (b) applying lossless compression (for a large image, it can take 10+ seconds). Fetching from origin is easily solved by caching the origin to disk. So if you ask for goku.png?w=90001&h=9001 and then goku.png?w=2393&h=43433 it's only going to be 1 origin fetch. For the lossless compression, we just used the filesystem as a queue. We'll serve up the umcompressed image with a short cache header (maybe 10 minutes) and store it in /storage/uncompressed. The filesystem is monitored and when a file is added, we compress it and them move it to /storage/compressed.

So, when you serve an image, the flow is:

- check for the file in /storage/compressed/ and serve that with a long cache header (this is a fully transformed image (hash the querystring parameters))

- check for the file in /storage/uncompressed/ and serve that with a short cache header (this is a fully transformed image (hash the querystring parameters))

- Check if we at least have the original in /storage/original

- if not, fetch the original, put it in /storage/original

- Transform the image, store it at /storage/uncompressed and serve it up

- In the background, compress images and move them from /storage/uncompressed to /storage/compressed

It might seem like overkill when you consider that, despite serving thousands of images per second, the CDN handles almost every request. The problem is with the lossless compression. We found it impossible to do it on-the-fly for too many of our images, so you absolutely need that available and ready to go for the 5% CDN miss.

[1] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8f328359f07f6c5d142e

[2] http://openmymind.net/Getting-An-Images-Type-And-Size/
Fire-and-forget machine learning may be a bit overexuberant, but one should not discount the value of these data. On one hand, there is sensory data about the real road environments these Teslas are traversing. On the other hand, we have human driving decisions. Together, one has–at at a minimum–a rich test environment. At a stretch, it could be analogous to the corpus on which Google developed its translation capabilities.

The nightly reporting-home of Tesla's fleet shows how interconnectedness is introducing network effects into unexpected places. Sort of like how map quality is now driven–in part–by the user base.
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I agree, it seemed like he was driving at the idea that we shouldn't dismiss the way women were acting as wrong, but instead try to see the advantages of their approach. Even though he didn't say it like this, I imagine his thought process was that being overly aggressive in negotiations creates ill-will and hurts you in the long run. Maybe there are men out there who constantly ask for raises and would be better off if they didn't.

>I hope men aren't discouraged by this.

90% of men are simply trying to avoid the entire issue as much as possible, because stuff like this happens all the time.
It is unfortunate that the length of the `immutable` seems to ergonomically discourage its use. I know it's really hard to go back on language design decisions, but have there been any thoughts about providing a shorter alternative?
Fascinating repository. Digital historical preservation is unfortunately neglected compared to where it should be. It will be unfortunate for historians 100 or 1000 years from now when the vast majority of our interesting (to them) data is lost.
> The new feature seems to be automatic reading of speed signs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_sign_recognition

Tesla might have the first US-compatible system, although since it's not out yet it's hard to say if they made it first or not.
Their "autopilot" is basically a "driver assist" system: lane-keeping plus adaptive cruise control. Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, Volkswagen, Ford, etc. already have that. Tesla's is rumored to be the Daimler-Benz system.

That's good enough for about 99% of freeway driving. The last 1% is a problem, which is why none of the big car companies call it automatic driving. Most of them put in systems to insure the driver keeps paying attention, such as insisting on hands on the wheel in auto mode.

We're approaching the "deadly valley" - automatic driving that's almost good enough that the driver can stop paying attention. On the far side of the "deadly valley" is full-auto driving, including automatic handling of unusual and emergency situations, which is where Google and CMU/Cadillac are headed.

The minimum safe level is probably a system that can get the vehicle stopped autonomously when it's headed into a situation it can't handle. Beeping the driver to take over is not going to work in practice. As soon as hands-off driving is available, people will use it when tired, drunk, or texting.
It can get dirty pretty easily apparently. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/35894-Speed-As...
As much as I support donating to MSF as they do an amazing amount of good with a limited budget, the head of MSF has come out and said that this outbreak is beyond them to handle. Who does this leave - the WHO doesn’t build or run hospitals, the countries involved obviously can’t cope...
Great talk, but I agree that like a lot of startup advice out there, it is for companies that have a product-market fit.

I've been thinking why the startup community has so few talks about product design. We have a lot of advice about tech stacks, growth hacking, rising funding, building a team, even some about customer research, but surprisingly little about design.

Yet, product design is one of the key activities to achieve product market fit: you can understand the problem, but if your product isn't easy enough to use, PM fit is hard to achieve.

For example, you can find a deep analysis of a different SaaS models, but it is surprisingly rare that someone does a deep analysis of e.g. Facebook's UI and writes a blog post about it.
I'm on a desktop PC with a rotated display and I receive the same message.
Yes, but Google's goals was never to run a semi-public beta. The L developer images were provided so that developers can develop/test their apps on L.
They're welcome to target whichever type of users they want to - it's 2014, most average internet users have javascript enabled. Besides, you can add a title/aria-* attribute for bots and screenreaders (perhaps not semantically correct but gets the job done).
As many others have noted, the implications of this case are deep. If APIs can be copyrighted, program compatibility becomes strictly controlled by the copyright holder. [1]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracl...
Tetris implementation for emacs: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/emacs/tetris.el
> I don't know if there is a solution.

I'd say there is: constant vigilance: HN still mostly manages to keep the quality by acive sppresion of the unwanted behaviour. There isn't "fire an forget" solution to such a problem.
Yes, even on 4.4.4, there was no noticeable difference between even ART and Dalvik.

On what hardware? I did not notice a difference on my Moto X. My Moto X is in repair now and in the meanwhile I have been using a Moto G. On that, I definitely notice a difference - app starting and multitasking is a whole lot faster with ART.
Regrettably this behavior appears to be protected by the first amendment, unless suicide itself is made illegal (as it used to be in many jurisdictions). A law criminalizing such behavior in Minnesota was reversed at appeal: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/03/19/encouraging-suicide-isnt... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Melchert-Dinkel

I can't politely express my opinion about people like this.