skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere at Google, some team are looking at Gmail stats and congratulating themselves on how much more "spam" they've blocked with their latest algorithm.
>Tesla is thinking about their cars as hardware + software

the electric cars are pretty much gadgets (especially the way Tesla did their car - everything what is possible is implemented in software vs. hardware) where is typical ICE car is mostly hardware.

This is why Apple is getting into electric car business - because Apple has great skills doing gadgets while it is obvious (at least to me) that oily ICE car is alien to Apple.

I.e. while electric and ICE car both share "car" term and both do the same function for end-user and have the same 4 wheels/tires/brakes/etc..., they are actually
2 different things. You just add to your iTunes new gadget - iCar - and it gets synched with your other iPhones/iPods/etc... . Google's self-driving "cutie" of course will get connected to Google Cloud/Play/etc... . No Ford or GMC can do that and thus they would be relegated to the roles of Samsung - chip solders.
I second the CG Cookie tutorials. Knowing nothing about Blender and little about 3D animation, I started watching tutorials on a Monday afternoon and finished rendering early Thursday morning, though I did little else besides work, attend class and sleep those days.

It should give you an idea of the sort of animation you can expect to achieve in your first week. The only thing I didn't make myself was the wood texture.

https://youtu.be/YrvfTPx4JlM
It's not really interesting what he has to say there. He never returns to address any of the valid criticisms of his post.
Interesting. I'd love to chat more about this or hear when you're further along and can share more!
Aren't lawn care providers already pretty much doing this by means of fragmentation? (i.e. in one suburban town, there are only 3 providers that serve the whole area) What additional value do you guys provide that isn't already there?
I think something like this is equally (or more) apt to the meat industry, just replace humans in this with say cow or pigs on the assembly line.
I wonder if it will have a "Drake" mode to do 0-100 real quick.
I’m shocked that Homejoy got any investor money at all. In what rational universe could Homejoy have been a baby unicorn?
Just a reminder that a missile fired by a drone is no different than a missile fired by a manned jet or any other vehicle. Drones are simply a technology tool to help protect the lives of our own military. Drones are no different than something like stealth technology in that regard. I can't imagine that anyone would create an art project criticizing the US because the radar signature of our aircraft are too small. You shouldn't have a problem with how many people we kill with drones, you should have a problem with how many people we kill.
Counting hash collisions with the birthday paradox
I expect that some people mark a message as spam because they personally dislike the sender or because they disagree with them.

Say if Told you that your mother wears Army boots.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic, but to be honest I don't really remember. I guess I picked it up over time from here and there. Then moved on to more formal documentation, that is, the standards.
If the international community pays off Iran, above and beyond normalized participation in international commerce, to dismantle its nuclear program, then the incentive is clear for other nations to start such programs in hope of a payoff.

You want something from them, waiver of nuclear weapons to which they have the same right as any existing nuclear power, why would you expect to get this for free? And nuclear programs are expensive, I don't think starting one only because of possible compensations when you stop it would be a worthwhile move.

But let me turn the thing around. Would you say it would be good foreign policy if the rest of the would put an embargo on the USA until the USA dismantles all its nuclear weapons and facilities? If the rest of the world would start sabotaging those weapons and facilities? Ignoring for the argument that the USA is as power
> very much not welcomed here

While I agree with your first paragraph, I have issues with sweeping statements as to which viewpoints are welcome here. While I, as stated, disagree with melling's opinion in this matter, he is more than welcome to have it and make it known. Just as those who don't agree, through downvote or response, are welcome to their view.
Linux Foundation uses Google Apps for Work.

Source: I am an LF employee.
Looks like theres more to this story:

http://recode.net/2015/07/17/google-hires-homejoys-technical...

Perhaps that success is coming sooner than even I had anticipated.
I believe Tolkien directly said it was about mortality, and that power was a sideshow to move the plot along.

The power of the ring is primarily to delay the inevitable and it corrupts all who cannot accept that.
I sincerely doubt a "super-futuristic" aesthetic is going to catch on in the mainstream. One of the reasons the Model S has done so well is because it resembles other large luxury sedans that it competes against.

One very thing in particular about futuristic designs, to include many recent domestic cars (like the new dodge sedans and sports cars) is little vertical space given for windows. In contrast, one of the great things about the Porsche 911 design is that you have incredibly clear 360 views with big windows. That's a major design feature that separates cars that are in continuous production for over 50 years and those that need design refreshes every few years.

Best of luck, FF.
Swift Protocols: A Strategy
And actually I was not correct, the modern wind power plants are variable speed.

This has an explanation why it's not always useful to go at max speed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip-speed_ratio

In general, the modern technology trend has been replacing mechanical components with electrical ones. Frequency converters have become successful, and they have no moving parts and are very efficient.

On the other hand, if this can get rid of the mechanical gear at the same time, it might be a wash.

But since Vestas and Mitsubishi wind power are combining and it seems the hydraulic technology used in that Mitsubishi prototype power plant will not see immediate use.

Ironically, ABB and Mitsubishi developed the integrated gate commutated thyristor that's used for those frequency converters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_gate-commutated_thy...
What would you suggest as a good starting point for regulation?
Hey Matteo! A couple things that would make me buy it at any price:

- Sleep apnea detection and tracking (maybe already can do this?)

- Cooling, although this must be hard. Heat is many people's biggest problem in bed, and think of the A/C energy savings too.

- Chemical sensitivity; I'd want to know what materials it's made of, since I spent a lot on a chemical-free bed. (Please no 'chemicals' comments from anyone.)
Owning your own car will go the way of owning your own boat or horse. Expensive and mostly for sport.
This is an easy mistake to make, when you can start automating stuff like this its a MASSIVE increase in scale that enables things that would have been nie impossible before, this qualitatively changes things.

Its like the argument about police drones, there is a fundamental qualitative difference between some cops driving/walking the beat, and every inch of a city under 100% constant surveillance and automatic cataloging of all activity.

Quantity has a quality all its own.
And they don't tell you whether you meet those criteria, until after you go to the trouble of logging in and serving a DNS TXT record for ownership verification, as I just found. Granted, I didn't expect to qualify, but it would have been nice if they'd told me up front.
Checked all my spam boxes on my various gmail accounts, seems nothing bad has happened with mine.

At least they're nowhere near as bad as Outlook. I have one of my domains on their free Live Domains (grandfathered plan, can't get it for free anymore, similar to google apps) - and 90% of my emails end up in spam, even if they're from a reputable company with sane mail setups such as Digital Ocean, Github or even Google.

To make it worse, with Outlook you can't turn off the spam filter, and it's known that Microsoft sometimes SILENTLY drops emails for various reasons so they never even make it to your spam box...

Sadly I've yet to find any decent replacement mail service for my domains that's free (or very cheap) and of decent quality.
Recplay: Motorbike simulation record player
I met someone who worked for homejoy and was stupidly compensated, before homejoy he had worked at groupon. Verbatim he said to me: "I never want to work at a company that is profitable."

I had horrible experiences with their service, and I believe that multiple factors contributed to this shutdown, but I can't shake that quote from someone being paid a quarter million dollars a year by homejoy.
I've had a similar suspicion for a while. Superorganisms of micro-organisms are a place we find consciousness; superorganisms larger organisms (like us) seem at least as likely to be conscious, if not more so, given that consciousness is already present in the components at some level.
Make it unlawful for javascript source to contain nothing but whitespace.
>it would need to slow right down to 264m/s, shedding basically all of that kinetic energy. Back of the envelope numbers suggest that would require about the equivalent of a 90 megaton explosion!

seems like you're several orders of magnitude off. Delta-v of 14km/s for a piano would require on the order of 90 tons of fuel. Delivering of those 90 tons to Pluto (ie. delta-v of 14km/s for 90 tons - that's 9000 tons, still far from Tzar bomba, though close to Fat Man/ Little Boy)
Wildfire burns cars on California highway; drone interferes with firefighting
You should at least do it the justice of pointing out what the driver said:

>The lap itself was around 10 minutes Bridge to Gantry (in heavy traffic) but unfortunately the car went into a reduced power mode about 3 minutes in due to excess battery heat (at least, that’s my guess).

>However, before it did it was able to keep a GT3 RS going full chat, within shouting distance (at the 2:00 mark) far longer than any 4,700lb sedan has a right to.

>I think without the reduced power output and traffic, a B-T-G lap under nine minutes is possible. According to the Bridge To Gantry site, that would put it in the company of some really quick hot hatches.
I remember thinking about this after reading Godel esher bach. The reason I don't believe it's clearly probable is that it's hard to imagine that a system that hasn't been forged under as much natural selection to have much intentionality. And it's hard to imagine consciousness without that.

It's also with considering that the US could be sliced along arbitrary boundaries and it probably wouldn't change too much. That alone seems like such a structural/functional difference that arguing for the consciousness of a system like the US on simialriry-to-brains grounds seems difficult.

Still, the strangest thing I've considered is: suppose that the US, or some other group we are a part of, like the galaxy, is conscious.and we get good evidence that it's true. Then disturbing it's function, or destroying it could kill that consciousness. It would be like killing God.
The way you worded the sentence is classically used to indicate "well, this is an anomoly, because he is not a normal user, and is maybe even doing something absolutely abnormal, making this a trade off between the needs of the many vs the needs of the few, one he can easily bypass by doing something different inside his niche"; it took me reading a few of your later replies before I felt you were just providing an explanation for how Google's math could be flawed, as opposed to providing an explanation for why this might be an acceptable casualty.
French is the lingua franca, after all. :)
Sorry, but honestly making it faster is about the opposite I want to see as an improvement. It is a near admission, we can't do jack about range so lets wave our dicks around at the stop light.

I was so hoping the D would have stood for distance/double/ etc before speculation ruined that idea. Now it seems their only news is, look its faster which runs counter to the conservation idea of EVs
Thanks for this. As you rightly point out setting up these systems can involve knowing all the rare edge cases. I am sure I could put together a system that functioned - that is until it ran straight into an edge case I have not thought of. Getting this right is not easy.
This is an excellent and thought-provoking article. I'm not entirely sold on the argument -- in particular, there's no reason to automatically assume that any sufficiently complex system is conscious simply because of its complexity. If you looked hard enough, you could probably find lots of complexity in e.g. the interactions between billions of individual cells in a slime mold, but most people wouldn't use that as a basis for calling it conscious. Human brains aren't just an undifferentiated mass of connections that somehow bootstrap themselves to consciousness; they have definite functional units that are genetically determined. Countries have at most a few thousand years of development behind them, rather than billions of years of animal evolution, and it seems a bit implausible that they would have developed the complex processes of consciousness so much more quickly.

We ascribe consciousness to humans by observing their behavior, not the structure of their brains. And it's true that countries do respond to stimuli and act with purpose, but (echoing Chalmers) I think a lot of that can be ascribed to individual people controlling a hierarchy, and not to the collective. If there's anything about a country that arises from the distributed connections between humans, it would be more likely to manifest as broad social trends, not specific actions like going to war. But those general trends seem to ebb and flow for their own inscrutable reasons; they certainly don't show obvious evidence of intelligent purpose.

Nevertheless, the concept is fascinating. And I think the author makes an excellent point that even if it's wrong, the argument is worth considering if only to help us come up with better criteria for what it means to say an entity is conscious.
My predecessor to the Mazda3 (Protege5) was my second Mazda and convinced me that it would likely be my last because over at least a 6 year period Mazda didn't manage to figure out "polish" in cars.

The P5 and predecessor Protege were fun to drive, worked OK, etc. but both were their high-end trimlines and my experiences with the two cars gave me the feeling that Mazda was prone to leaving out stupid really cheap stuff that would have drastically improved the feel/experience of the vehicles.

The examples that still jump out at me are:

* a front passenger door with no internal power lock switch - using the key on the outside you could lock/unlock everything, but from the inside passenger seat you had to lean over to hit the switch on the driver's door. Likely manufacturing cost savings? Maybe $5 including labor? I'd be surprised if the switch and wires would have cost more than $1 at car manufacturer volumes.

* trunk carpeting that was basically nylon felt placed on top of a smooth plastic spare tire cover - not attached anywhere, just sitting there where anything on it would just cause the whole piece of carpet to slide all over the trunk. My fix was 5 hook sides of wide adhesive-backed industrial Velcro. Worked for years with no problem, cost if done at the factory? Probably less than $0.50, but it might have cut into the options of selling aftermarket trunk liners so maybe it was intentional.

* cupholders that were not in fact deep enough to retain any cup, can or bottle commonly sold in US convenience stores during a turn. Make a sporty little car with a stiffened suspension, put in a 5-speed manual, then require that drivers going through curves at speed or turns without a full stop have to hold any beverages in the cupholders or have them go flying underfoot.

The cars themselves were fine for 100-135k miles each and there were workarounds I could put in place for everything, but stupid little crap like that still makes me feel like if they don't care enough to take cheap steps like that then what more expensive things are they skipping?
Well, this is not specific to C++, but there was the failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter due to failure to convert between pound-seconds and newton-seconds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
the new S is quicker than advertised, for two reasons:

1. next year's needs to be quicker on paper by a small margin

2. the 918 needs to be the fastest on paper by a large margin

what's remarkable about the S is it can do launch-controlled full throttle runs to 60 repeatedly. most other cars in this acceleration class (this new tesla, gt-r, veyron) are simply incapable of that, for various reasons.

well, maybe the veyron, but who really cares because it's ludicrous for other reasons.
Come on, it was mobile, and on demand services. So hot right now. I'm just surprised they didn't get a late stage round at a $1 billion+ valuation by the sophisticated investing folks at Fidelity etc.
"We live in some exciting times".

Here's another perspective about the times:

"The dark future of American space exploration"
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8052365/nasa-budget-europa

Submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9906017

"If NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto is extended beyond 2017, the entire active human presence at the outer planets will consist of a single probe the size of a grand piano"
His entire site is like that, and full of fascinating articles - the more recent of which also have audio readings.

Wasn't expecting this post to take off the way it did, but glad for him. He does a really nice job on these stories.
I wrote a daemon that monitors a mailbox that users can submit spam to, for spam that makes it through the other filtering layers. The daemon finds the original message in the user's mail directory, reads the headers, tracks down the originating network using whois, and then blackholes the network and emails me a notification about it.

Some networks are whitelisted for practical purposes. Google's one of them.

If necessary, I could provide a list of the subject lines of the emails that have been reported. A YC company, Zenefits, is one offender that comes immediately to mind.

But not until Monday. I'm going camping.
My personal rule is to not downvote grey comments unless it's offensive or extremely wrong. Sometime I even upvote a comment I don't like when it's too grey.
Interesting. While I made some progress
with violin, that's 400 year old technology,
and I want to continue with music but with
more productive technology, likely based on
using a computer to help compose and perform
music. So, I'm interested.

Suggestions:

(1) In the demo, make the text on the screen
of the computer used in the demo
much, much larger and much easier to
read.

(2) Before first using a term, e.g., playground,
motivate, define, and explain the term.

(3) Pronounce all the words clearly, e.g., don't
drop voice volume at certain words or at the
end of sentences and don't mumble. In other
words, speak right up, loud and clear so that
you can be heard and understood.

(4) At the beginning, give an overview
of the work and presentation.

So, right, (1) I can't read anything on
the screen of the computer used for the
demo, (2) don't want to struggle with
and wonder about
undefined terminology, (3) really
mostly can't understand the voice,
and (4) want to have a broad description
at the beginning to have a first-cut
understanding of what the work and
presentation are about.
Explanatory note: Most humans have three types of color receptive cones; a few have four. Mantis shrimp have sixteen.
I have no technical skills
Some materials in "the olden days" were indeed better. We don't have the old growth timber to make cheap, high-quality wood like we did.

But not all materials are better. Celluloid is the first thermoplastic, and the first material used for movie films, but it's highly flammable and has been replaced by acetate film. Celluloid was also used to replace ivory in billiard balls, which was better than the clay and wood balls used earlier. All of those materials are worse for professional play than modern billiard balls made from composite plastics.

You brought up sewing machine. Sewing machines were made in the hundreds of millions. What you see are the ones that weren't trash and were maintained. Here's a page complaining about people complaining about people selling old sewing machines that mostly useful as "boat anchors" http://runningstitches-mkb.blogspot.se/2012/08/open-letter-t... . Quoting one example, "I'm not impressed when you tell me your 1950 Singer has "only been used twice to sew on patches" (note: I am not making this up!) If this machine has been sitting unused in an attic for half a century, it is most likely frozen or seized up."

Quite clearly a lot of old sewing machines do not "still work 50 or 60 years later."

A Singer 201, which is widely considered the classic sewing machine, cost 6 months wages, not the 1 month you think it was. See http://www.sewalot.com/singer_201k_sewalot.htm . (Also, Singer switched from cast iron to aluminum a bit over 60 years ago, so your timeline is a bit off.) There are a lot of crappy modern sewing machines in the <1 week's salary range. But that's hardly a fair comparison, is it? Plus, how many of those have an original motor that's been in use for 60+ years without wearing out?

My Mom has a cast iron Singer 201. Which she loves even though it only does straight stitches. She also has several other sewing machines. She still uses her Bernina from the 1980s. So at least some modern (less that 50 years old) machines can and do last longer than 5 years.

Finally, there are plenty of sewing machines on eBay from the 1950s and early, for cheap. What is the reason that they aren't scooped up if they are of significantly higher quality than modern machines?
Your analogy doesn't really compare as it involves identity fraud.

>You go to the front desk, tell them you're me and get a key to my room.

This would be the equivalent to using an Admin username/password to login to the server at which point you are given permission flags (-access wallet). Logging in with the Admin username/password without permission is against the law - so regardless if you take the wallet or not you broke the law.

You leave your wallet in your hotel room. I go to the front desk and ask them for a key to your room. They don't question me or verify my identity and simply hand over the key.

Would you be angry at the hotel for not verifying who the person is or why they need a key to your room?
What to Look Forward to from Firefox OS
Do you actually mean Google Apps (i.e. Gmail) or are you thinking of Google App Engine? Because I don't think most other providers particularly distrust Gmail.