skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The diagram is definitely misleading, as is some of the article.

There's no high level integration that would allow image recognition, bacteria are AFAIK too simple for that to happen.

They may have a cellular automata-like mechanism to detect where the biggest light source is in case there is more than one, or it is diffuse rather than focused.

One family of single cell eukaryotes has ocelloids[0] reminiscent of vertebrate and mollusc eyes. Provided nuclear genes form networks conceptually identical to neural nets (i.e. brains), one could imagine that these animals have more elaborate image processing, but I don't know if there's any concrete evidence for it.

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0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelloid
If a project requires that contributors sign copyright over to a central party, that central party can later choose to release future versions under a proprietary license and profit off of others' past work.

A project that does not require central copyright assignment and that receives sufficient outside contributions cannot have that happen, provided it's licensed under something like the (L)GPL.

Copyright paralysis can be a feature rather than a bug.
That's what I've ment, it's not 'Magic the Game' but inventing rules [1] for magic card handling that represents a Turing machine.

[1] "A Rotlung Reanimator makes a messenger token for Alex."
Probably anti-virus software preventing malware from hijacking google analytics.
I don't quite follow this.

I'm inclined to believe we are experiencing scarcity. Sure, I can buy just about anything I desire and can afford. Any food item, cheap clothing, cheap travel. But I think that's an illusion.

Let's say I'm prepared to pay £50-£100 for an item of clothing. Shoes, jacket, whatever. It's likely to be made by impoverished people on the other side of the world who are paid peanuts.

I could even pay £5 for a pair of jeans if I wanted. God knows how that's even possible.

But it's a sliding tile puzzle. If I experience cheap apparently-plentiful goods, it's only because someone else is suffering.

I'm not prepared to pay £300 for a long-lasting item of clothing. The thought barely crosses my mind because I never see that stuff in the windows of high-street shops. Instead, I typically buy "cheap", "plentiful" goods that fall apart after a year or two -- or go out of fashion -- then replace them.

Ethically I dislike this, and try to shop "ethically" and donate old clothing to charity. This requires high levels of vigilance, and is not convenient.

All the above apply to food. I can buy apparently any item I want. Or can I? In actuality, I can buy whatever trendy item the supermarkets can buy in bulk for best profit. Great, I'll have some kale and coconut water and acai berries. Is that "plenty"? What about locally produced fruit and veg? Why do I have to invest in a comparatively-expensive box delivery scheme if I want apples that were grown in my country?

If I want to eat locally reared meat I have to pay a premium, because provenance has become a valuable attribute. Instead I could buy mechanically recovered pressed meat, which is unbelievably cheap and widely available. Even if I believe it's healthy to eat that stuff, and even though both products are undeniably "meat", they're not the same.

Perhaps meat being expensive is actually normal. That's certainly been the case for most of history. In which case, the cheapness of the lower quality meat products is the illusory factor.

So I think "plenty" is an illusion, and scarcity is far, far closer than we conspire to believe.

Edit: I forgot the most obvious and familiar example. Ad-funded content/services vs paid-for content/services.
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> I had no idea it wasn't using procfs anymore

It still uses procfs for Linux (since that's there by default), but not for the other ports. Consider Platform_getLoadAverage for instance:

* linux uses /proc/loadavg[0]

* freebsd and openbsd use sysctl({CTL_VM, VM_LOADAVG})[1][2]

* OSX uses getloadavg(3)[3]

[0] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/linux/Platform....

[1] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/freebsd/Platfor...

[2] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/openbsd/Platfor...

[3] https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/blob/master/darwin/Platform...
It would be beneficial for amazon to sell their services at 50% off to take netflix out of the game of running the DC themselves for the next 15 years
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Yes and no. They can not take away rights granted to existing licensees. But the copyright holder can reissue the same work under whatever license they wish, without having to modify anything.

What the comment you replied to point out is that if I release something under the GPL and then assign copyright to you, you can legally decide to relicense that code under a proprietary license so that the people buying it from me don't have to abide by the GPL.

If I don't assign copyright, on the other hand, any such third parties would need my permission too.
This is (at least in part) how I became a geek :)
Couldnt reproduce it, so yeah it was just this one time.

Nice to hear that, bookmarked.
I was under the impression that a lot (if not all) of Vanguard's ETFs are physical, not synthetic. Can you name one of these synthetic ETFs?
To summarise, Investment Managers manage Funds. When you invest in a mutual (or hedge or venture or wine [1]) fund, you put money in to a Fund. The Fund then pays an Investment Manager a fee for managing it. (Of course, you, the investor, indirectly pay this fee.)

Vanguard is mutualized. This means the Funds own the Investment Manager. Unsurprisingly, the Funds vote for lower fees. The result is Vanguard charging its funds staggeringly lower fees than average [2]. This also means Vanguard makes less profit than competing Investment Managers.

Enter this guy [3]. He observes Vanguard paying less tax (on account of making less profit) than its competition. He concludes that Vanguard is dodging its tax bill. Vanguard, he argues, should be taxed as if it charged the higher fees it doesn't. They should also pay the back taxes they would have owed if they had charged these fees and earned those profits, again, that they didn't. This last part is helpful because he likes the whistleblower bonus the IRS would pay him if the case succeeds [4]. (Or maybe not [5].)

If this sounds bonkers, it's because it likely is. We don't tax SpaceX as if it were bilking the U.S. government on par with its competition. In any case, the boosted post-fee gains from Vanguard's funds are still taxed at the individual level. But my pie is better than your pie and so the idiots get their air time.

[1] http://www.wineinvestmentfund.com/disclaimer.aspx?url=http:/...

[2] https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/low-cost

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-danon-a0a5017

[4] http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/vanguard-whistleblower-ta...

[5] http://articles.philly.com/2015-11-19/business/68386489_1_da...
People discuss the drawbacks of moving off github in the linked discussion. The big one seems to be visibility.
I don't remember exact number but external connector license is equal to a cost of hundreds if not thousands of CALs.

If you come across that document, I'd be grateful for a URL.
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Yeah, that will solve it. Just like the eurozone money solved all the problems 15 years ago.
It makes no sense to me either.

Forgone fees go to the fund's investers, who are also its owners. And capital gains by investers are taxed, just as they are for other funds. Maybe they're taxed at lower rates than profits of other funds are taxed. But that's just because the fund manager is a not-for-profit.

Right?
A licence like a Creative Commons cc-by-sa is not exclusive, and allows the copyright holder to do what they like with their work. What they can't do is revoke the licence terms from anyone who chooses to exercise them. At best, the copyright holder can request removal of attribution.

In another comment I mention the Geograph project which uses cc-by-sa. For some more background to that, I wrote about the reasons for selecting that licence to ensure long-term freedom of the archive here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/help/freedom
I don't know, maybe they are publicly accessible with FERPA. However, considering that some secure systems on (my) campus are pre-registered to our names using just firstname-lastname@xyz.edu with the password being the ID, or some other simple variation thereof, I don't feel very comfortable about it. As much as I wish I lived in a perfect world, I don't, and so it wouldn't surprise me that students don't think to change their original passwords to secure ones.
Quite possibly, but also keep in mind that there's no way Netflix pays anywhere remotely near AWS published prices. I'd be surprised if they pay even 1/5th of the published prices.

Especially on bandwidth, anyone can buy bandwidth at well below 20% of AWS prices elsewhere. Netflix shouldn't be paying even 10% of published AWS bandwidth prices given their volumes.
Because part of being open is being accessible.

"It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard."

Linux is difficult to use for the kind of person who is downloading software from Download.com - "compiling binaries directly from the source" might as well be Klingon to them. Frankly as a geek I'm much happier with my Mac and Windows machine than I am with Linux. Even now things like the Linux Standard Base not being utterly standard demonstrate that Linux is still aiming for a different market.

There is a gulf between "my Mom is running Debian, she thinks it is Windows, hehehe" and "able to manage a Linux box even remotely competently".
I wonder why there isn't more resistance against the exorbitant fines the US charges European banks every year. These fines have become a significant business risk and should be regulated in free trade agreements, just like subsidies are limited in such agreements. For many European banks, the US business is a money drain, i.e. it costs them more than they get from it. However, they cannot escape US regulation and legal exposure as long as they want to have the ability to trade US dollars. In the end, this is a hidden tax the US charges on all banks world wide, just because it is powerful enough to do so.
ETFs, in general, involve greater risk (in addition to) than the underlying equity. In Singapore, average consumers (those without a background, or higher degree in Finance) are not allowed to purchase (even through their broker) an ETF without first having taken a series of course material, and exams. (pretty good idea if you ask me).

From the course, they highlighted synthetic replications risks as consisting of credit risk of the counterparty when swaps are used by the issuer to exchange, performance of the assets held by the ETF for the performance of the underlying index. Blackrocks' IVV [1] has a cost structure of 0.07%, which is pretty good - and does an extremely good job of tracking the S&P500. It uses, "Representative Sampling" - from their prospectus [2] BFA uses a representative sampling
indexing strategy to manage the Fund.
“Representative sampling” is an
indexing strategy that involves investing
in a representative sample of securities
that collectively has an investment
profile similar to that of the Underlying
Index. The securities selected are
expected to have, in the aggregate,
investment characteristics (based on
factors such as market capitalization
and industry weightings), fundamental
characteristics (such as return
variability and yield) and liquidity
measures similar to those of the
Underlying Index. The Fund may or may
not hold all of the securities in the
Underlying Index.

[1] https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239726/ishares-core-sp-5...

[2] https://www.ishares.com/us/library/stream-document?stream=re...
You're talking about binding energy, and that's not where the majority of mass comes from.

All massive particles get their mass from the Higgs field.
You're absolutely right. Plenty of non-tech scummy practices have been banned / curtailed under consumer protection laws. HTTPS circumventing adware is unjustifiable from a consumer protection stance.
Alibaba: shipping to anywhere in the world, but just from China.
Amazon: shipping goods from all over the world, but just to selected countries (others pay premium delivery rates or can't get the shipment at all).

Maybe there is a place for a third, truly global competitor?
This is one of the best series around

There are 3 seasons, they might be torrent-able, I am not admitting anything :/
Much, much less. If you spend more than a couple of millions a year on AWS you're being robbed if you haven't negotiated a much steeper discount than 50%. I happen to know of companies paying ~25% of published AWS prices. Especially on bandwidth, the published AWS prices are almost criminal - I'd be surprised if Netflix pays even 10% of published prices.
I've known this for over a decade... My piano teacher instructed me to do that.

To learn any piece by heart, never start at the same measure, play voices separately, combine different voices, sing together with it, play it backwards (measure n then measure n-1 + measure n, then measure n-2 + measure n-1 + measure n...), you can do this with bigger sections as well, change tempo, etc. I still remember how to play my 4-voice Bach fugue even though I've stopped playing the piano for years now. I tried this with text and public speaking too and it works.

I thought this was widely known...?
Sort of. They're still targeted at different users, though.

Heroku is for individual developers to directly develop their app in terms of.

AWS, meanwhile, is mostly for enterprises: it's a "virtual datacenter" for your (much-reduced) ops team to manage in place of a real datacenter. In that sense, Elastic Beanstalk is not a service that AWS provides developers—it's a service that AWS provides your ops team to provide to in turn provide to your developers.
I love it when people tell me they don't want to learn to use a computer because they don't need to. Then they come to me and ask me to solve their inability to read instructions... Sometimes I get mad at them... If they want to use computers they better learn to work with them. Or pay for the maintenance. It seems they don't wish to do either.
The weirdest side effect I've had was with the Sky HD box. If it was connected via ethernet then it wouldn't power up while my ad blocking was enabled. I was able to replicate this behavior by enabling and disabling my ad blocking, so my Sky box was definitely phoning home and failing to start if a specific domain was disabled. The weird thing is it would start up fine on WiFi or if the internet was disconnected completely. So I ended up just connecting it to WiFi as my wife was growing impatient by that point!

I did intend to reinvestigate the issue; throw wireshark on a promiscuous NIC and look for what domain Sky was trying to connect to and what data it was sending. I was thinking it might make an interesting article - depending on what I find. But in all honesty I had then forgotten about it until now.
No need to argue! You can blame both oligarchs and socialists. It's not like they're actually in opposition or anything.
How many websites does it break? I'm a bit hesitant to set up pihole since it's rather hard to enable ads for just one domain, as more and more websites just stop working with ads removed/blocked.
Well, Germany has been allowed to act as the emperor with no clothes for a while now; an economic powerhouse sitting on empty pension chests with an ageing population.

To compare pension fund assets:

US: $46k/capita
UK: $42k/capita
Netherlands: $76k/capita
Germany: $2.9k/capita

http://www.oecd.org/finance/Pension-funds-pre-data-2015.pdf
What did it cost to transfer Netflix to AWS and what are the running costs charged to Netflix. I recall reading somewhere that the first attempt was less than successful, and Amazon had to virtually rebuild the service from scratch.
Maybe the banks should simply stop committing crimes.
True. It would be interesting to conduct an empirical study about this and raise people's awareness at the same time.
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Indeed, among other things, they detect edges, movement, and preprocess color from RGB to something conceptually closer to YUV (with color encoded along two contrast axes: red-green and blue-yellow).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV
> I will suggest that most women are as bad about wanting men who are tall and moneyed as men are typically bad about wanting someone younger and hot looking

Agreed, although there seems to be a big difference in the social acceptability of admitting it.

Women will quite openly say they want a tall man, without being criticised. Whereas a man who says "I won't date anyone who weighs more than xxx lbs" or "I'll only date women at least 5 years younger than me" will often be seen as a shallow asshole.

This is only based on my experience of discussing it with (male and female) friends. YMMV
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Wouldn't it be more efficient to add blocking on router level? Making all of your devices (at home) ad-free.

Anyone exprerienced doing this?
US Regulators fine all banks in the US that they catch flagrantly breaking the law. They don't just fine European banks - have a look at how much they have fined the likes of JPMorgan or BoA over the last few years.

Likewise, regulators in Europe dish out fines a-plenty. The FSA certainly did over the LIBOR scandal recently.

European banks could mitigate risk in the US by trading legally or by ceasing trading there at all. If they really think they can't trade legally then their business is not welcome.
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Why is this being upvoted? We can basically be certain that this guy is either a shill, or drunk.

Product is cheaper than the competition. Boo hoo.
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No - not really, they're both significantly changed since the old days of linux, in the sense that many additional abstractions have been created for supporting a framework for all device drivers, as well as adding frameworks for supporting different classes of device drivers.
For me the opposite is true. I don't have a problem talking to a larger crowd (as long as I know my stuff), but if it is recorded, even if I'm doing the recording myself (as in a screencast) and have the ability to take as many takes as I want, I can't manage to pull through. I'm stumbling and it is totally frustrating, since it takes such a long time.
> just yesterday I reported what I thought was a bug in Firefox but turned out to be chrome and IE not implementing the spec and us using their incorrrect behaviour

That's still loads better than the average issue reporter on Github issues. Though it was not a bug in your case, your effort was genuine and deserved some real attention. If this were the github tracker, your genunie question would have been piled and lost under tons of useless ones.
A tangentially-related point:

> practicing batting and then practicing golfing and then practicing kendo swings

Actually, as the subject progresses toward being an "expert" their practice should be increasingly specific. Beginners will certainly benefit from the approach you mention initially, but professionals will not.

Regular successful achievement of a physical task (reliably hitting a ball with a bat) can be considered a walk through a problem space. Initially, any training that approximates the task will take you closer to the target in the space. However as you approach that target, the margin for error diminishes sharply. Consequently your training should become more specific.
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Precisely part of the problem was to give everyone the same currency but make every country fight each other for debt.
The issue is they are charging themselves a lower fee, instead on an "arms-length" (higher) fee that they would to a third-party. Somewhere in there, I suspect, is an argument that the lower fees are designed to avoid taxes, rather than reduce costs.
I've lived with two medical doctors, both of whom referred to me, with a doctorate in particle physics but now a software engineer, as the 'real doctor'.
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Honest question. why use 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0?

EDIT: Now I've read the discussion below regarding this matter. No need to answer, I guess. I asked before reading all the comments, sorry.
That would explain the high concentration of super cars, then, but It was at least 4 teslas, 2 blue ones, one in red, one in white.
Source: I lived in the area for 7 months last year
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Germany has a PAYGO mechanism when it comes to pensions (which is incidentally the only crisis-resistant and -adaptive kind of pension system).

Those "pension fund assets" can therefore only be private pension contracts on top of it.
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Does anyone ever scan a qr code? Besides, I haven't seen any for maybe 2 years now - or have I just become blind to them?
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Should be very easy to do in OpenWrt and similar firmwares.
Cool, thanks for sharing! I'll still prefer waiting for a Homebrew update, too addicted to the comfort of package managers :).
The bare minimum corrective action when you see "value added offers" in a Windows installer is to cancel the installation and then revert to the most recent restore point. There's no reason to assume the installer will honor your "no thanks" (as it often won't) or that it hasn't already taken the opportunity to hose your system (less likely but a definite possibility with the type of person who is willing to bundle malicious garbage in their installers for a buck).
Linux solve that by allowing users to add repositories. I don't see why that would not work for Microsoft as well.
They're more likely to begin structuring the company as Alphabet has, helping to avoid the risk of disaster.

Logistics/fulfillment, retail, AWS

There are pretty straight-forward division lines. AWS is already a separate corporation for example and will inevitably be spun-off in the distant future as an independent $75-$100 billion company.
I believe VOO is a synthetic fund.
My colleague from Greece has been giddy as a schoolboy about this story all week. Not quite the roaring, thunderous fits of laughter as with the Volkswagen scandal, but this is still developing.
There were reported instances of fake QR codes on political posters in Germany and Switzerland back in 2012. Somebody put a sticker on top of the original code and forwarded the people scanning it to porn websites.

(I'm actually surprised somebody discovered the manipulation.)