skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean you'd prefer humans to do the driving? Youtube is full of human examples - start here as an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwL7S--E5oQ - and note that it ranges from minor fender benders through some very serious injuries and destruction.

There are lots of examples of not being able to stay in lane, pulling out, not seeing stopped traffic, not paying attention to surroundings. Humans can't even get the trivial simple things right in broad daylight.

(Yes I am aware that you are in the 97% of drivers who are absolutely convinced they are above average. That doesn't make it true. Yes the video mainly has clips from Russia - you can find USA based ones too. And a 9/11 happens on US roads each and every month. People are dying in large numbers because of human drivers.)

Edit: added warning about video content
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I was hopeful, but it doesn't explain why gold has value. It just starts with the assumption that it does. I'm afraid that sooner or later folks will realize it's just a shiny metal with little intrinsic value, much more abundant than many elements.
Did not ACA put incentives in place specifically for outcome tracking? I was just talking with a guy at MIT working on post-stroke outcome tracking and automated scoring simply through the myriad of sensors on a high-end smartphone, and he mentioned ACA now or in the future will pin a significant portion of reimbursement on outcome tracking, forming the basis for his business model.
The distinction you propose is demonstrably not true in modern theories. (Where "modern" means a bit over 100 years old.) We call such things a law, but there is no difference between a theory and a law. Such "laws" just predate our current philosophy of science, and we continue using names like "the Ideal Gas Law" because we always have. If someone came up with an equivalent thing now, we would not use the term "law" - which we can observe with physics from the 20th century.
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Right, and libraries in various municipalities are in fact censored, both in terms of publications and in internet access they allow.

Why would this be different?
> they'll call bullshit on you when you start going off the deep end

From my experience, most people when called out on their bullshit will slowly cut you off. I think it's human nature.
I was wondering the same since the Crown–rump length (CRL) measurement only has two points. One would think the spine should be included for an accurate measurement. However, that must be accounted for already. See also, "3. First-trimester fetal measurements" and "4. Assessment of gestational age" here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/uog.12342/full
Of note: the previous submissions was 8 days ago and had significant discussion, which makes this blatant.
That's still a non-trivial amount. 3 years of that is the entire SLS/Orion rocket system and NASA lives in fear of losing the budget to finish it. Comments like yours really show how insanely expensive modern war is.
I, too, avoid Rails and Django for that exact reason. The "opinions" of Angular, however, are very smart encouragements made by seasoned engineers: data binding models to UI elements, dependency injection for testability, and web components-like loose coupling of widgets. These are simply good practices.
Ah, is it doing the old "move sqrt(2) faster on diagonals" thing?
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For the record, I'm not not a libertarian, and I'm not proposing or defending this system - but smacktoward's comment was just too silly to even be called a strawman argument.
Muni had uptake mainly in the areas that commercial didn't service, and after that everything just kind of froze. They never, ever seem to try to compete on price, and I assume that upgrading equipment is expensive for either ISP. Wwhen it first started, it served unserved areas and was definitely better than commercial ISP by not being overutilized. Now that coverage is complete it just acts like there are two commercial ISPs. It seems like this a lot in the Midwestern rural areas, even with competition, they all settle into a low standard of service to avoid an arms race. My impression of what municipal Internet does, based on my experience, is they immediately implement state of the art, and then stagnate.

By the way, our municipal ISP is opposed to net neutrality.
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Why does a piano sound like a piano?
> Starbucks just knows who I am and charges the total based on my phone being in my pocket or something.

You should chat with class-action lawyers about the history of companies and billing practices.
It seems to me that the right level for government to be involved in these sorts of questions is the municipality itself, rather than running back to Federal statute. Which is, again, orthogonal to preventing Verizon-owned statehouses from passing laws preventing municipal broadband networks.

This is a very light touch intervention to increase market-based competition. How much more quickly would there be privately owned fiber networks if consumers had the option of going to City Internet for $150/GB/s?
All evidence points to the contrary. 34% of Facebook's employees are Asian, but only 19% of managers are.

NYT article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/facebook-mirrors-te...

Facebook's "Equal Employment Opportunity" report:
https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/facebook-ee...
From the OP:

> "We want to be sure we’re not discriminating against founders in our funding decisions at YC"

This is not an affirmative action program. YC is an accelerator, not a charity. It primarily seeks long term positive returns, and to do that you have to evaluate people and their ideas based on merit, not their gender. Having more female founders would probably be better for the startup ecosystem as a whole, but "actively preferring" a class of candidates based on attributes poorly correlated with their probability of success would be bad for YC.
My brain always goes meta when people attack evolution as "just a theory."

I start to think to myself - "Well, you don't understand... New theories are formed all of the time, but the ones that are the most fit survive..."

And then I realize I'm practically using evolution to explain what a scientific theory is, so that the person can understand that evolution is not "just a theory." D'oh!
That's a wonderful story of choosing Stanford over Berkeley, but as a Berkeley student... congrats!
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Actually I support a guaranteed income so that (among other things) people can be sure to be able to feed themselves. It is in a nations best interest to not have a starving population.

It is also in a nations best interests to have an educated population.
How private armies will remake modern warfare
Whoops, I did not mean to link to the HTTPS version. We had that set up previously but when we switched to Squarespace we could no longer use SSL. However my browser still autofills in the HTTPS version. I've updated the link.
This is a popular space right now:

Voltera: http://volterainc.com/
Voxel8
Tempo Automation: http://tempoautomation.com/

People are realizing that iterating on electronics is painful hence trying to fix it. The interesting part is the market size, unit costs etc. Also ability to do very small pitch ICs.

We got so desperate with pick and place that we literally 3D printed a 3D printer adapter combined with our vacuum pump and Pronterface. https://twitter.com/flairvents
You can play Quake at http://webquake.quaddicted.com or Sauerbraten at https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/demos/a/z/az...
I really wish retro-style FPSes like this were more common. There is no shortage of retro platformers, but it seems like not many people are making shooters that harken back to Doom or Quake.

Cover systems, realistic weapons, online ranks, etc is all fine; I just wish there were more games like this. I could play this game all day.

The author links to this essay about Doom which I think really gets to the heart of it: http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74
Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fault?
People often (mistakenly) use the term socialism as shorthand for 'massive wealth redistribution', which is what he appears to be doing here. You are correct, this does seem to contraindicate the claims of a sophisticated view of economics.
The underlying letter http://www.ams.org//notices/201502/rnoti-p165.pdf carefully avoids saying whether or not the NSA put a backdoor into Dual EC DRBG. The language is several places seems to suggest it did not, but there is no outright denial (or acknowledgement).
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Well, then, you switch to Comcast/Verizon/&c. if these issues are important to you. Big ISP will be forced to compete for your business, rather than buying your acquiescence with franchise agreements and big steak dinners at your state capital. I fail to see any way in which this isn't a good thing.
Neat, but what is that payoff for the taxpayers of Washington state?
"micro evolution" You are being confused by terms that were invented by a group of people (Discovery Institute) that deny evolution because of their religion not because of lack of evidence. The snapshot evidence you need is found in the genome (genomes that developed over billions of years of "micro evolution") of every organism on the planet not just primates. You can't just ignore that and ask why we can't observe lizards turning into birds overnight.

Edit: I wasn't aware of this until now. We actually have observed one species ("species" being defined as scott_s mentioned up-thread) evolve into another.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/12/18...
I'm making a different point. People who make that attack have a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works. They don't understand that it is not possible to prove a theory correct, only falsify it. They don't understand that quantity and quality of supporting evidence matter. They don't understand the difference between "proof" and "evidence". They don't understand that their arguments could be levied against any scientific theory, including ones that they accept. That they can do this means they don't understand how science works.

But, nor do a lot of people who don't make such rhetorical attacks. I think that the philosophy of science is an easy thing to miss - it's possible to make it through a Bachelor's program in science without really being forced to think about it.
The problem of asymmetry of resources exists in all domains that have high sunk costs. To reduce monopolies, using your logic ("you need countervailing size") the government would have to get involved in all of the other industries like shipping, oil refining, TV networks, etc.

Instead, why not change the law (if needed) to prevent monopolies from happening?
Why should they prefer different genders or races? What was that thing called... oh yes, equality.
A huge portion of broadband in the US is already owned by Hollywood. At least we have a theoretical voice in the federal government's policies. Still, the ideal is for local municipalities to own the last-mile fiber, like they do with power, water, sewers, and streets most places.
I do not completely agree with you.

Yes, the problem is still there even with scrypt or any strong hashing function. But the (s/the/one) problem here is the use of a simple PIN code ( from 4 to 8 digits ), to store securely your passwords! Why can't we set up a passphrase instead? And then use scrypt.
Morover, I think that PBKDF with 10'000 iterations, as advised by OWASP (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet), is better than clear-text; also if you consider just an 8 digits PIN code.
Just my opinion.
Where I live, I only have one choice of provider - Time Warner. And I can see why Verizon and the like don't get involved - they'd have to invest a ton of money before getting revenue from even a single customer. If the muni wants to step in and provide this service for the public good, I'm all for it.
What about females telling other females that they are "bossy", mothers discouraging their daughters from being "such a tomboy", the need to look pretty, etc.

These insults work both ways - males use them to encourage other males to adhere to the stereotype, but so do females (in a less direct way perhaps).
I see this more as a customized secondary phone for a particular purpose.

My interest in a project Ara phone is if I can buy one configured without baseband (Wi-Fi only) and GPS modules. Using the right apps, one could possibly have a "secure" communication device.
> And on working out, there are studies that working out actually gets you better focus and productivity gains for hours after you're done.

"You should do X because it will make you more productive" – this kind of rhetoric, while not incorrect, misses the point. Productivity is not the measure of all things. You should exercise because it makes you happy and healthy.
Yeah looks like the duplicate detection algorithm HN uses could do with a serious upgrade. After reading the post the first time I felt bad for the OP.

After seen he posted it twice deliberately trying to cover his tracks with a URL shortener I think he is a joke...
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> the US is almost 50% ahead of its next closest competitor in terms of spending per student

Are we talking about increasing our annual spending per student? I though we were talking about increasing the number of students by funding the cheapest post-secondary education programs we have. Certainly this would reduce our annual spending per student.
Lots more is relative. The number of people interested in watches at all is pretty small. Let alone for expensive ones.
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It's not only DO. I had to create a Linux VPS in order to run a Sinatra application because when deployed on FreeBSD it took more than 60 seconds to send a response to the remote API and the connection was timed out!

After performing some tests[2] I figure out that the problem was not FreeBSD per se, but the FreeBSD deployment on the specific virtual server... I think that *BSDs should be avoided because they tend to be a lot slower than linux deployments on virtual machines.

[1] http://www.transip.eu

[2] https://gist.github.com/atmosx/14efea27eb2c1e38af09/
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> Major vendors are trying to catch up, but from what I've seen, demand (and thus willingness to invest) is surprisingly limited.

You may not be able to get insurance to reimburse for it, but my impression is that there is no shortage of people ready to pay cash money, easily into 4 figures, for someone providing this service in a 'personalized medicine' context.

As far as packaging a tool-chain that actually makes these state-of-the-art measurements and applying it in this domain, it's not clear what the FDA approval / requirements would be.
There seems to be a communication failure here, because you accuse me of saying things I'm not saying. They might be things you wish I were saying, but I'm not.

I'm working off these two premises:

1. The FAFSA is free to fill out, but it takes time and attention, which you say some people do not have.

2. Even if we make community college completely free, it will still take time and attention.

So, if the FAFSA is a significant barrier to someone getting into college because it takes time and attention, why do we think this person will suddenly garner a mass of time and attention when it becomes necessary to do the classwork?
The conversation feature is pretty phenomenal, and comes close to a true Babelfish device. I just tried it with English<->Mandarin with my wife (we both speak fluently), and works pretty accurately and is fast.

I will definitely use this when traveling.
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This ought to be highlighted, before people start an echo chamber of "doctor's don't know what they're doing!" that ultimately undermines everyone (guess what argument the anti-vaxxers use).

A string of anecdotes of "I double-checked and it turned out the doctor was wrong" remains less than a trickle compared to the flood of patients doctors have to deal with, and a tiny fraction of the hypochondriacs they must deal with. Our medical system is broken enough without adding doubts on the competence of its medical professionals.

By all means, people should double-check what the doctors say, but realize the much worse consequences of sowing doubt.
I loved the idea of having a phone that could do everything and waited in anticipation for the atrix 4g webtop application. But it didn't live up to hype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opzCFrRkI0
Isn't that bad? I just got told that spending money on education is magic: the more you do of it, the better your country.
No offence to sam but how many people who can affect policy changes read his blogs?
My biggest complaint with gofundme is that they don't make this blatantly obvious. It feels like they're hiding behind this veil of charitable causes and sneaking their hands into the collection plate when nobody is looking.

I've talked to numerous people who have donated to gofundme campaigns and most of them didn't realize exactly how much of their donation went to the platform.
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Right. The usa can't go bankrupt because they have their own currency. Also, a majority of usa debt is held by Americans, the remainder held by foreign governments with no better options to park trade surpluses (the USA playing an imprortant role as the most reliable debtor of last resort).
Everyone keeps saying that the leaks confirmed the backdoor (e.g. wikipedia claims that) but which leak exactly? I didn't see a leak which confirmed the Dual EC DRBG backdoor. If someone did can you link it here?

PS - There may very well be a backdoor. In fact I believe that there is. But people keep claiming the Snowden leaks confirmed it, when I see no such confirmation.
Paypal's anti-fraud software seemed to do something like this:

if (rand() >= 0.5) {
lock_account()
freeze_balances()
require_many_long_phone_calls()
require_intrusive_amounts_of_scanned_documents()
refuse_to_unlock_account_and_steal_account_balance()
}
How does profiting off of statistically rare yet catastrophic illness qualify as "magic"?
So right now, what are recommended public key, cyphers and hash functions for reasonable crypto safety? What about safe crypto pRNG's?

The ubuntu's gpg lists the following:

Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
This is not an affirmative action program. YC is an accelerator, not a charity.

Let's not inject FUD about affirmative action into this conversation.

MIT, for instance, has a robust affirmative action program and I can assure you the Institute isn't in the business of picking unqualified applicants. One of the most famous (and successful) affirmative action programs in the world is implemented by the NFL — hardly a charity.

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

Institutions that implement affirmative action do so selfishly to ensure that they're fielding the best proverbial team possible.
Wow... I really hope I didn't get to this thread too late that this just gets buried.

This is a classic example of hyperbolic reporting to try and show physicians as some kind of incompetent lot whereas this 'guy working in his basement with passion and talent' figured out how to hack the entire field of Medicine.

The fact is, nearly all Meningiomas are treated this way because they are overwhelmingly benign and the surgery to remove them is not. If the woman had lost her sight getting this surgery, then our Monday morning quarterbacking would've been entirely different... or not even reported. Also, surgeons in general SHOULD NOT improvise new techniques unless it's specifically warranted because their skill is in their muscle memory and if you upset what would otherwise be a routine craniotomy and turn it into something experimental, you are risking the chance of running into an unexpected complication.

Granted, Radiology can be imprecise at measuring progression of tumors but this is mostly because of inter-observer reliability, sampling errors, etc. that could easily be mitigated by a software-side solution. In fact, there's a lot of research into measuring lung tumors this way. However, issues related to the FDA needing to approve all the diagnostic technology involved are why these are not implemented more quickly--some nifty program to measure the volume of a tumor would probably be against the law to use in a diagnostic setting (IANAL though, I am a physician).

Edit: Another case in point, there is a great technique of placing a new Aortic (heart) valve in place using a catheter from a small puncture in an artery in the leg. This technique (seemingly paradoxically) has a GREATER risk of morbidity to the patient than the open heart surgery approach. There are many hypothesized reasons for this, but it is also a fact that the surgeons are simply better trained in the older open technique and its complications.
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I took differential equations from a semi-retired Harvard PhD (this was in rural Washington State, so it was kind of a big deal) at my local podunk community college. He was also great, and started a math club for all interested students, where we'd sit around and work through high-level math problems and read math papers. He did this during his free time because he really loved math.

Some of the professors there were a little zany, and had questionable teaching credentials ("Oh! You're a local businessman? Come teach a course on business!"), but the enthusiasm and... interestingness... of the education hasn't really been paralleled in high school, 4-year college, or grad school, in my experience.
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At first I thought it was going to be a big deal, but I read a comment somewhere to 'chew' a little.. bite down on it. I was incompatible with Soylent, but 100%FOOD is awesome.
Agreed.

Server-side templates only make sense if you assume that every user action will end up needing the DB. If what you're building is really an _app_, and not just a webpage, you can't expect to compute its UI on the server, making the user wait for a network round-trip for every action.

If your app is built around server-side templates, but your UI doesn't need the server, then you end up with a royal mess. The client has to do DOM manipulation over the rendered page, so now the templates have to include convenient hooks for the jQuery selectors your client will need. There ends up being no clear separation between the server's responsibilities and the client's. In this situation it's much better to just let the client own the UI entirely.
This does have an effect, but I doubt it explains the entire story. I know from personal experience that having to input credit card details into a website, and the delay that input step causes, can often turn me away from finalizing a purchase. Amazon's 1-click proved the value of this sort of process improvement years ago.
There are a number of approaches you can take for this. Many developers simply have a production and staging store. Another approach is to have a production and staging theme which you can preview.

The shopify_theme[1] gem or the new theme sync tool[2] help keep synchronization quick. I can see the problem in the lack of context objects that are available to a theme, and there was even a tool a long time ago that solved that.

Sadly, it was very difficult to keep in sync.

[1] https://github.com/shopify/shopify_theme
[2] https://github.com/csaunders/phoenix