skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but now look at Highrise's visual approach. We know that they have A/B tested in the past, so I am going out on a limb to say that they continue to do so. They have a human element in their hero image on their homepage, and they include an image of a smiling influencer near the top. I'd reaffirm what others have said and test for your audience! I am not affiliated with business of the case study in the link you posted.
https://highrisehq.com/
They share no code at all.
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It's "one fell swoop", unless you're swooping down on a billiards table, which is covered in felt.
An autodrive call will break down as much as a regular car AND then will brake down more because of the various systems over and above that a regular car does not rely upon.

When a regular car brakes down there is normally something you can do. The vehicle is still movable. An autodrive car with a blown lidar unit is probably bricked.
it's newsworthy when men make more than women, or when whites make more than non-whites; however, it's only a passing statement (in the vein of a full diclosure type byline) in which the opposite is true.

This article also fails to mention if the study controlled for types of law practiced by these people -- something that still persists in our "pay gap myth." A lot of the PoC and women that I know in law started out doing basically volunteer work, contract review, innocence project, public defender and environmental defense work, etc. While a lot of the white men went into patent law, divorce law, corporate law, etc. Basically higher-paying professions.
I understood I have less than 10 contacts in my life after closing fb 5 years ago.
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Yep, I dream of setting a ">200 ratings under 4 stars" type filter. Would make finding new films much easier.
It is possible, but I think if you calculate the probability of the neutral mutations happening in series, this probability is astronomically small.

It is possible for all the mutations to appear simultaneously as well. But again, the probability would be astronomically small.
It is not new amongst the wealthy.
Maybe the Internet Archive could participate in this. I imagine that much of this lost-to-time music is recorded on deteriorating tapes which might only be able to be played back a few times. Consumer equipment is getting a lot better but unique recordings deserve professional archival equipment and care.
> they seek a return to a time when a philosopher was prized for obscurantism and bon mots rather than an increase in clarity?

I have yet to encounter any other philosopher who was able to present an idea as clearly as William James did, and he was operating during the time of which you speak. Now, I have not read all that much philosophy in-depth, precisely because so much of it seems divorced from everyday reality and because so much of it is filled with enough jargon that one must already be on the path to becoming an academic philosopher to get much out of it. With James, on the other hand, I've found that whenever I disagree with him (which admittedly is not too often) I can always point to exactly where my thinking diverges from his, and why.

The following quotes from the article very much reminded me of what I like about him:

> Philosophy, understood as the love of wisdom, was seen as a vocation, like the priesthood. It required significant moral virtues (foremost among these were integrity and selflessness), and the pursuit of wisdom in turn further inculcated those virtues. The study of philosophy elevated those who pursued it. Knowing and being good were intimately linked. It was widely understood that the point of philosophy was to become good rather than simply to collect or produce knowledge.

> Our claim, then, can be put simply: Philosophy should never have been purified. Rather than being seen as a problem, “dirty hands” should have been understood as the native condition of philosophic thought — present everywhere, often interstitial, essentially interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary in nature. Philosophy is a mangle. The philosopher’s hands were never clean and were never meant to be.

I have heard James referred to as the last philosopher who thought that philosophy was something practical that everybody ought to consider in daily life. Not in a pop-psych sense where complex things were oversimplified into one weird trick, but in the sense of putting thought into the actions that one takes, paying attention to the habits and attitudes that one cultivates.

I take the opposite perspective to the one found in your comment. There were certainly philosophers of James's time and before who were deliberately obscure and slippery, but there's no way for most of us to tell if their modern-day counterparts are behaving as badly because the terminology and its underlying concepts are so formidable. They may have been hammered out in the pursuit of clarity--though I am skeptical about this--but the effect is the same as building a brick wall to keep out the layman. I will not even say that it does not have its place, but I think it's a shame that the entire field is so specialized. It's as if everyone were required to be a mechanic in order to drive a car. That is something that makes sense when a field is new, not as it matures.
This is such a tone-deaf move. I can't even.
Really want to make a difference, Zuckerberg? Let go of your power
Well, what remains to be seen is their price point then.
Oh man, I can only imagine. As far as fixing a defect on zLinux, that was usually something that made be breathe a slight sigh of relief. It meant I would be doing something on a somewhat sane and modern system that behaved roughly like something I'm used to.
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Plus 5. Devs learn to use their tool. So when they hire the bests devs (hopefully) elsewhere, they already know how to use their tool without requiring any training time.
> But a word of warning, you'll get mean looks and talk behind your back from playground parents if you take that attitude.

You will never please everyone. Ignore strange looks. If you would be surrounded by anti-vaccine people would you avoid vaccination only because they give you weird looks?
It's not that ironic. There were plenty of impassioned essays in the 19th century using the bible to support slavery, for example. And also to oppose slavery. It's not like christianity enshrines civil rights for all.

Similarly, it wasn't anything inherent to christianity that made King behave that way; King chose the parts he wanted to implement. Evidence for devout christians not following the non-violent tenets of the faith is hardly rare.
Your response is incredibly off-base. The author of the BGR article is pretty spot-on in his analysis. If you look at the author's previous articles, he has been critical, but accurate. In any case, even if his 16 years of experience in the mobile industry (I looked him up) don't allow him to make accurate one-day analyses, a different viewpoint is beneficial to everyone's thought process.

There is absolutely nothing "dumb" about bringing up critical viewpoints. Shooting them down without giving them any thought, however...
I think you have an autopilot-type system. This is driverless. That means nobody around. Nobody to do any of those things. So it is an all-or-nothing game.
I don't think the Pi is as brilliant for education as it pretends to be.

The Linux command line and the permissions system are incredibly unfriendly to adults, never mind kids. Have you tried to set up a web server with PHP on a Pi? It makes no concessions at all to beginners. You might as well be setting up Ubuntu Server LTS - only it doesn't give you any clues about security.

I'd be more interested in something that updated the experience of the old 8-bit micros, which dropped you straight into a simplified programming environment, and gave you a path to bare-metal machine code if you wanted to take it.

Maybe something like a Python IDE, with a way through to Linux for expert users, but with basic extras - a web server, a mail server, a VPS that could connect to other Pi users, a few other options - pre-installed and ready to go?
Something is missing from lotharbot's story. Single men pretty regularly go grocery shopping without reproach.
> political dissent is correlated to violence

In some important ways, this is already a non-sequitur.

First, let's stipulate that dissent is positively correlated to violence, although I don't know how exactly you'd measure that. I suspect that, for reasonable measurements, it's not and that in fact it's negatively correlated. But let's stipulate.

To use the example of the current political configuration of the United States: the government is ruthlessly violent, not only within its borders but around the world.

So, which is more strongly "correlated" to violence, support for the government or dissent? If you hobnob with government officials, does this make you more closely connected to violence than if you associate with dissenters?
They even link to it streaming...on BandCamp.
Great stuff and a good story. Her songs kind of remind me of Daniel Johnston's.
How do you balance your suggestion of requiring user data be shared with maintaining user privacy?
Josh, thanks for doing this.
> the ethical implications of projects should be considered on a case by case basis by the university

How's that work during Vietnam when the DoD dangled bags of money in front of universities?
Right. Thank you, that's probably this.

But the question remains: who put these genes near each other, so that something would evolve without being naturally selected just because its gene was near another gene?

What is the likeness of a gene near a gene that's "evolving" to be important somehow in the future of the evolution of that species?
No, this is the wrong approach. The object is not to define personhood through some objective set of criteria which can then be used to justify evil; it's to use our observations about the world to arrive at a broader and more humane outlook.

The argument itself is wrong as well. If some method X is used for evil, it does not mean X is intrinsically evil.

This is essentially the same flawed argument that's used against many areas of science.
It's absurdities all the way down!

My favorite part is that they use the address pwm.trendmicro.com. (I had to finger peck that now, my muscle memory kept typing something much more fitting.)
That's rather arbitrary. Lots of people use Slack for both work and personal.

The deeper I look and more I think about Peach, the more it looks like a messaging app that lost it's vision. I feel the same way about Snapchat lately too, but somehow they still have a multi-billion dollar valuation, so I'm obviously not the best one to rate a company/app like Peach.
The idea that command-line applications could have some sort of Renaissance on devices which do not have a keyboard seems completely insane to me.
You should read up on Agda. Its standard library [0] does all this.

[0] http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Libraries.S...
How does sharecropping sound compared to working for free on an opensource project controlled by a large corporation?
Please don't compare the complexity of the brain to artificial neural networks. The complexity of a single neuron is far more sophisticated than we use for machine learning. Many people are starting to call the machine learning "neurons" as "units" to prevent this comparison.
I doubt you can get every technologist to say "no" to a million dollars. There will always be someone willing to supply this technology.
It's an uninformative prior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability#Uninformativ...). Meaning it's the best estimate you can make, if you don't have any additional information about the problem. Obviously we have a lot of additional information on human lifespans, which allows us to build a more accurate probability distribution.

Also see my comment above.
You've come up with a product or you've come up with an idea for a product?
A cool 1.2m dollars
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even if the bootloaders are unlocked, you usually still face an issue with all those non-open drivers to make the phone work right.

One annoying example is how Sony's Xperia phones can have their bootloaders unlocked, but Sony keeps the secret sauce behind their image sensor's software locked up in a proprietary, inaccessible blob that (IIRC) other ROM makers have been unable to integrate into their Xperia builds.

If Nexbit is not only unlocking the bootloader but providing the hw drivers as open source, that could be a bigger deal.
The idea is that any user supplied data has to be separated into two groups: Privacy relevant information, which has to be stored encrypted, and can not be used for advertising, for training models, etc – like communications, private messages, email, etc.

And into user-supplied not-privacy-relevant data. The results of users filling out captchas, classifying info for training of neural networks, the data from Google’s MapMaker, etc.

In the case where these two sets of data overlap, privacy is more important, but on request, the company has to hand out every data you ever gave them in a machine-readable format. So if you decide to leave facebook, they have to give you a .zip with your photos, your posts as xml, etc.
No protection for compilations of facts is not the case everywhere.

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

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/prot-databases...
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Great followup, thanks. Getting a home loan is one time when it pays to be on board with a big company.

Good point about networking. My best networking came from mid-size companies (~100 people - for me that's a big company), because there was a good flow of new people coming through regularly from elsewhere in industry and I actually got to meet most of them.

In general, it seems to me that the best results came when a small, motivated group of people with money had an opportunity to make a lot more money by solving some hard problem before someone else did. In those cases, the payoff was very clear to them and they were ready to pay accordingly. Big companies do this, but they usually seem to do it by partnering with smaller companies or by doing a skunkworks project, often relying on outsiders.

I agree that not enough developers plan for a short career. One of the nice things about being independent is you don't get to fool yourself into thinking you'll have a job in a month.
My point is that it's important to be precise about the terms of a bet like that.
In the US there's about 100 child kidnappings by strangers every year [1]. So you're claiming that each year, there are fewer than 10000*100 = 1 million times in the US that a stranger talks to a child. There are 50 million children in the US under age 12 [2], so only one in fifty children would be approached by a stranger in each year. How many times did a stranger talk to you as a child? More than none? Were you kidnapped?

[1] http://www.pollyklaas.org/about/national-child-kidnapping.ht...
[2] http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
Oops. My mind is more pentomino-oriented, I guess.
Just by guessing a couple numbers I found more:
Goofy Crime Movies: http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/10001
There's a difference between "restricted stock" and RSUs. The first means you get all the stock up front but it has a buyback provision that goes away over a vesting schedule. The second means actual shares are released over a vesting schedule. Only the first is relevant to 83b.

See for example http://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/09/restricted-stock...
It's not so easy. You also need a small overhang above the hole, and make the rotation "kick" against the overhang to make the piece fit. I think in some implementations the rules for wall kicks actually allow you to climb up certain shaped walls, all the way back to the top of the screen.
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I wouldn't have thought that statement controversial, but here's a reference if there's really someone out there that doesn't think that the availability bias plays into our perception of risk:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/fear_and_the_...

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychol...
They're probably realistic, but I'm not sure they'd make a lot of sense for most places right off the bat. They really only need to be out on the roads right after / during a snow storm, which isn't 24/7. For some places in the midwest, this might even be once a week max for a few hours. A human will be a lot cheaper until the cost comes way down.

They may make sense for areas that get a ton of snow, and have snow storms that last days, but I find it hard to believe the price will be cheaper than a human for a while.
Yeah my uk number doesn't work which is sort of amazing given plivo/twilio etc exist...
> Luckily machine learning came along and has shown empirically that the solution is to increase the number of dimensions.

Ah yes, that's just what brilliant scientists like Mendel, Darwin, Fisher, Wright, Watson et al. were missing: Deep Learning! /s. The number of local optima grows exponentially in problem dimension, so increasing the dimension simply provides an even stronger guarantee that your optimizer will converge to one. Evolution, for its part, is definitely stuck in one, as evidenced by the fact that I cannot fly.
They are probably similarly amazed so many other people don't believe in God and the literal word of the Bible as much as they do.
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But that's about how humans do it. I think it was completely legitimate, worked fine, and can continue to work in the field.
Reminds me of this.

http://i.imgur.com/WoneZJj.jpg
This[1] is on the very top of the fronpage right now. TrendMicro has a daemon listening on localhost that can execute arbitary commands.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563
With my doublespend.py tool just sent a TX twice in Coinbase
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The stated reason for extending this to phones was so that they could reuse these models for inference purposes. I'm not sure what this post adds to that (the author seems to miss that point).
I love the phone design and i was naturally optimidtic on first reading through the site, but the negative comments on here brought me round to the point that this isn't solving a serious problem. If you want some potential evidence of the challenge they seem to be facing, just look at the number of views their embedded YouTube video got: it's about 9,000 since posting in September. Hardly setting the world alight!

This would be far better as a minor benefit that Google built into Android directly. They did hint at remote virtualized apps a while back (in the context of "try before you buy") but nothing came of it.
Hmm, what about the Gmap Pedometer? http://www.gmap-pedometer.com

There is nothing on that site, or its forum, about any impending shutdown.

Been using that (on and off) for a very long time. The changelog goes back to mid-2005; just months after Google Maps was announced.

This site lets you build routes and save them as permanent objects that you can share links to. It's useful for runners, cyclists, etc.

Just trying RouteBuilder: looks like a knockoff of Gmap Pedometer, only capable of connecting straight line segments (doesn't follow roads). That is irrelevant though; both sites basically wrap Google Maps in the same way.
The founding team did an AMA on reddit that addresses a lot of the concerns people have in here.

I thought they did a good job of giving very "real" answers too, they didn't seem to dodge any topics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3l726c/we_are_nextbit...
Yep. Even mighty Microsoft, with no shortage of money, couldn't make Windows Phone work.
> 2) Writing the answer down in a wiki takes exactly the same amount of time as writing the answer in email. It doesn't need formalizing, just recording.

Not usually true in a wiki of any size (unless you mean creating a new page without reference to what's there and shovelling the information blindly in).

"Writing the information down in a wiki" really implies doing so in a useful way. Probably:
- identifying where the information should go
- cleaning it up to remove redundancy (stuff already in the wiki)
- correcting existing wiki content which you discover was wrong/out of date as you go to make your changes
- changing to adopt the writing/layout style of the wiki
- etc. etc.

Of course its common for wikis to not be maintained like this - maybe even the norm - which is perhaps why the "dump and then search later" strategy of gmail, slack etc. is pretty successful.
I am 14 years older than my sister, when I was in grade 3 I was walking myself to school, however as my parents got older and had my sister they became incredibly paranoid and she wasnt allowed to walk to school ever.
> I remember when we had no seat belt laws or child seats

There's really no downside to putting on a seat belt, or using a child seat. There's a big downside for being overly protective of children - both for their development and for busy parents.
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The usual counterargument says that just one mutation is usually enough to create a functional prototype of a complex feature/organ (MVP, if you please). A series of mutations is not required.

That doesn't sound right at all. Look at the some of discussion of the 'Irreducible Complexity' examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Stated_...
1/11 Trend Micro. Never forget! I can see how it can happen, I really do. Few code reviews back, I had to request a fix for a remote path traversal able to read any file on the system.

This is worse since TM is an AV vendor and probably has this deployed across so many desktops.
Fine for single-purpose app deployments, but on a grander scale you've just pushed all the security problems back to the APIs and interfaces of your cloud provider and/or virtualization engine. Now an AWS access token constitutes a root password for everything (for example).
Or just avoid using factors in the first place. Character vectors are usually more appropriate and a modern ingest pipeline won't produce factors in the first place.
No, this has nothing to do with intellectual property rights.

Google is not claiming any legal right to prevent anyone from creating something that looks like Google Maps. They're simply saying that they don't have to give you the Google Maps API for free to do so.

Also, this is about a user interface, not an API.
Most domain knowledge in one corporation has zero value outside that corporation . There's too much path dependence.

And the older the learning, generally the more general it is. There are a million ways to do everything, but a team will have Stockholm Syndrome with how it does things, generally.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-da...
Every time I remember Aaron's story makes me angry. He is and will be a big inspiration for me.
I'm surprised all of the modern attempts at Lisp don't provide some kind of docstrings (i.e., JavaDoc-like documentation as a first class object available in the REPL). Why isn't that something that everyone expects in a modern language?
> do not individually confer any evolutionary advantage

Genes which do not confer any advantage are just as likely to spread as ones that do. Evolution doesn't select for advantages, it selects against disadvantages. Evolution is just an emergent property of death.
Latest printing (only difference is corrections, I believe):

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Sixth%20Printing.p...
You're going to have to be more specific about what doesn't "sound right", because I don't see anything in that article that contradicts what you quoted.
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