skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Perhaps work that doesn't pay more than a UBI can provide is not work worth doing

I largely agree with you here, coal mining being a notable exception. As much as I want to be only on renewables, coal makes up 33% [1] of our current production. They talk about how gas prices are a drag on the economy, I dont want to find out what happens when 33% of power becomes much more expensive!!
And fwiw, I do not share the optimism/pessimism that all jobs will be obsolete in 5 years. I dont agree with people who are saying, "just automate it!" Easier said than done(which is a good thing).

1. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
It's described as a prototype, so I'm pretty sure there's no deployment at scale at all.
> just come work with us for a few weeks and we'll figure things out from there!

Interesting idea. How do you recruit people who already have a job but are also open to something new?
Mark Cuban: ‘Willing to Bet’ Trump Not a Billionaire – Here’s How Much He Has
Or perhaps it would be more fair to say "Defense of the Ad Blockers".
Trust.

People know that Google depends on their data, so Google depends on a certain level of trust being present so that people are willing to use Google's products. It seems likely that being more transparent will lead to more trust.
CQRS and REST: the perfect match
Agree 100% on this, Bryan. Their claims about how existing storage solutions are a poor fit for this use case are completely false. As too often happens, they address only high-margin commercial systems and ignore the fact that open-source solutions are out there as well. (Disclaimer: I'm a Gluster developer). Then they leave both files and objects as "exercises for the reader" which shows a total lack of understanding for the problem or respect for people already working on it. Their announcement is clearly more about staking a claim to the "storage for containers" space, before the serious players get there, than it is about realistic expectations for how the project might grow. Particularly galling are their comments about the difficulty of building a community for something like this, when such communities already exist and their announcement actually harms those communities.

Until now, I've thought quite highly of the CoreOS team. Now, not so much. They're playing a "freeze the competition" game instead of trying to compete on merit.
The company cannot solicit or sell non-accredited investors securities but they can remain owners if securities where previously purchased.

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It's cop talk. The current US DEA emerged from the "Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs" which came from the "Federal Bureau of Narcotics" which came from the "Federal Narcotics Control Board" established by the "Narcotics Tax Act" in 1914, back when Prohibition was a thing and they were worried about opium. Law enforcement culture has thus gone off into the weird by themselves, and they use "narcotic" to mean "any forbidden substance".
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way ...."

-A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

This is very relevant to the Bay Area tech scene. This area literally has the income disparity of a 3rd world country.
Apart from the relatively few places accessible by train, bus coverage is pretty extensive. If you live anywhere near a rapid bus stop (along Sunset, Wilshire, or Santa Monica for example) you'll be fine. Also, since Metro publishes real time arrival data, there is a healthy collection of apps that give you to-the-minute arrival times for the next bus.

source: I have lived in East Hollywood / Silverlake / Echo Park for the last 8 years, never with a car. I bike, walk, bus, train, lyft/uber (in that order).
Sure, some sports car engines turn at over 9,000 RPM, but a car stuck in 1st gear on 9 inch wide street tires is not going to go faster than the same car in 5th with 11.5 inch wide racing tires. Even at the pinnacle of motorsport RPM is a poor determinant of speed, it takes a whole system.
Intel acquires Itseez, leading developer of OpenCV
It is useful to hear what architectures they are using (e.g., BRNNs) and I appreciate the pointer to the original paper.

I was hoping for some open source code to read, or more detail on their models. Facebook is pretty good at open sourcing things, so hopefully more papers will be released and open source software as it makes sense for FB to do that.

EDIT: typos
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The US has way lower population density than the EU, and even here there's plenty of space.

And you don't need much space to grow some veggies.
are you serious? They had to decrypt text so that your wife can read it and that is where they started displaying vodka ads.

edit - I meant to say even if they had end-to-end encryption then your text would still need to be decrypted so that other user can read it.
We've had a few internal discussions about ScyllaDB. I think that the performance numbers look attractive, but we are concerned about maintainability. In particular we've invested fairly heavily in configuration management, tooling, monitoring, etc ... and Apache Cassandra seems to work pretty well for us.

We might try it out someday, but for now we're fairly happy with stock Cassandra.
Thanks! That video is pretty old, too, I actually think the interface is nicer now in many ways :)

We're unique in the sense that our primary value is aggregation and curation of other services. So you might use some KM system (like, say, Confluence) to write up a "how to set up your environment" guide, but you then use Pathgather to find, share, and track who has learned that piece of content. This works particularly well when your learning content spans many different websites, which is very common at large enterprises.

Look forward to hearing from you!
I presume this [0] is the referenced paper.

[0] = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7549/abs/nature14...
Musicians do a lot of counting, just that they stop at four. On the subject of which, music would make a lot more sense if the normal count went 'oh and one and two and three and'.
I have read it and I don't think the author is an outspoken advocate of slavery.

The passage most frequently cited as evidence of this charge is:

Thus, Spaniards and Englishmen in the Americas in the 17th and earlier centuries, whose sense of political correctness was negligible, found that Africans tended to make good slaves and Indians did not. This broad pattern of observation is most parsimoniously explained by genetic differences.

A charitable reading of this, in my mind, goes:

Some slavers had an opinion about who made good slaves and who didn't. If one wanted to rationalize a basis for that opinion, which historically existed, the easiest/laziest answer would be genetic traits common to the populations in question

Check the definition of "parsimonious" and assume the author used it on purpose.
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Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, but that doesn't mean that the particular official given a board seat believes that they shouldn't be allowed to drive (or even that the monarch believes that that's the way things should be, generally; just because its not a democracy doesn't mean that Saudi government policy isn't shaped by a desire to appeal to particular constituencies.)
"extremely efficient software worth 200,000 euros?"

what could this be referring to?
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Disable the update via:

https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a...
You bet. Not quite "Buffer-level" transparency but we don't want to pretend we're dumping bags of cash on folks; we're actually pretty focused on building a sustainable business, giving employees lots of freedom, etc.
But that's not what they're doing. I'll get mentioned in a comment while I'm on the site. I'll click over and read the comment and reply to it.

Then, once I'm away from the computer for 30-60 seconds or so (I'm sure they have a system training for this), I get the email notification -- even if the original back-and-forth occurred an hour ago. The timing of when I get the email has nothing at all to do with when the event occurred. It's completely dependent on my interaction with Facebook. Many times, it takes so long, I'm usually thinking "Wow! I wonder what else X had to say?" but I click over and it's the same damned thing I already interacted with.
we worked with computers, but pretty much only with word processing

The article title sounds like a sensational excuse for an otherwise technologically unsavvy group of tax agency workers.
Concise is better than brief.
Instruction sets can affect the speed of the decoder hardware, and how many instructions fit in the L1 cache, to speed up jumping around reading them from memory.

Getting more register names in x86-64 was a huge boost too.
Nope, liquidsoap does video. http://liquidsoap.fm/doc-svn/video.html
Even when commercially misguided, Sun always had terrific engineering talent -- and my farewell to the company captures some of that.[1] In terms of why did the company fail, the short answer is probably that SPARC was disrupted by x86, and by the time the company figured that out, it was too late to recover.[2]

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/

[2] Longer answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
Indeed. The long version is at [pdf] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/notes30-full.pdf; it has 85 questions supported by concrete code examples and experimental data, e.g. (one of several questions that refine the above):

Q64. After an explicit write of zero to a padding
byte followed by a write to adjacent members of
the structure, does the padding byte hold a
well-defined zero value? (not an unspecified
value)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
typedef struct { char c; float f; int i; } st;
int main() {
// check there is a padding byte between c and f
size_t offset_padding = offsetof(st,c)+sizeof(char);
if (offsetof(st,f)>offset_padding) {
st s;
unsigned char *p =
((unsigned char*)(&s)) + offset_padding;
*p = 0;
s.c = 'A';
s.f = 1.0;
s.i = 42;
unsigned char c3 = *p;
// does c3 hold 0, not an unspecified value?
printf("c3=0x%x\n",c3);
}
return 0;
}

Some of the questions have clear answers with respect to either the ISO or de facto standards, but many do not - that's the point.
It is good publicity and good will to release open source code.

They still have their business advantage intact: they have the data and the awesome infrastructure.
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My wife is in law school. The work software can do is still severely limited. I personally think we are on the cusp of a revolution in this, but we aren't there yet. Watson could probably do it, if it were as important as doctoring.

Software has made major strides. The old way of sending multiple copies between sides to be hand redone for each change required stupid amounts of labor. Now we have Word. But understanding the importance of particular documents still requires humans. For now.
Everything is deep nowadays. Somebody should do a parody product called DeepBalls
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It certainly reads like one.
Actually, he writes pretty clearly in this post that he is a racist. He simply claims he isn't racist because he says while whites are smarter than Blacks that doesn't make them 'superior', just having higher IQs...

So yes, he is a racist, but also stupid.
My Facebook account was only for public posts and private messages only, to force myself not to post anything that Facebook might consider public as if it were private. This just made me give up on the company altogether.

Fun that you guys can train a neural net to deduce what I like better than me, but as they said at the CCC conference, everyone has to decide for themselves how close they are with their machines (though that was in the context of taking your laptop to the toilet, in context of leaving it alone unattended).
Thanks for the context. I appreciate it!
Yes, and these cheap devices sadly don't have accuracy description. I would be OK to pay for it if some accuracy would be guaranteed, but writing that it's calibrated and not specifying the maximal error looks always fishy.
Last mile cycling (folding bikes perhaps) infrastructure plus trains seems like the best bet for LA.
Unfortunately, the package is just a mono-wrapped version of keepass2, and in my experience runs equally as bad, if not worse, than keepass2 under WINE.

Having used both for several months, I found the only workable option for myself was converting the database to KDB 1.x and using KeePassX.
The transfer from red->expo is at 7th/Metro, not union station.

Also, I <3 the 704. It's kept me from having to move to the west side. I don't imagine there will be a better route than that unless the purple line actually gets finished some day.
Just to be clear: your complaint is etcd won't let you force the cluster into an inconsistent state to mask your poor infrastructure decisions and therefore etcd is a "dangerous choice"?
It's the paragraph before that. "It's actually quite possible to recognize that human population genetics has a lot of impact on politics and history, and also recognize that human population genetics has nothing at all to do with your individual, personal and professional human relationships. Nor does politics."

You can't really make that non-racist by adding "I have progressive friends and quite like puppies"
Instead of being condescending why don't you just state your opinion and not just be like "I am the smarts S-M-A-T Doh!"
I kind of think Google will win over Facebook in this particular war, based on what I have seen so far.
It would demonstrate a lot about the HN community if we could get through an entire Urbit post without it devolving in to yet another debate on Curtis Yarvin's (incredibly lengthy, vague and contradictory, and entirely irrelevant) views on race.
I've seen a lot of sites recently that either work around my ad blocker to still load ads or else pop up some other annoyance (e.g. Bloomberg). I'm starting to think about going back to noscript and just selectively enabling things.
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Ah, noted. It does, however, keep the history for that tab, although it's greyed out.
Coming from the company that raised hell about Docker's lack of a spec, this is an interesting approach.
Funnily enough I'm just embarking on a little project to monitor the the air around me and have ordered a particle counter off ebay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Hot-Selling-USB-Port-Laser-Dus...)

£29, hooks up to usb somehow. I've yet to get it and try to figure drivers.

I'm now trying to find a cheap NO2 sensor. Those seem to be the main categories that do people in in London. The Guardian figured 3,537 deaths for pm2.5, 5,879 deaths from NO2 in 2010 approx.
Replacing 'done' with a different adjective in the second sentence makes it clear that that sentence is also not passive. E.g.

"Our work is difficult."
Casual conversation is usually not very strict. In any case, it was obvious from the context that parent didn't mean "absolutely every single refugee must be poor".
On yesterday's episode of POI a character said that the Machine (an AI) has to contain a simulation of a person in order to understand what that person will do.
> He tried to explain that opinion further: "The ability to survive as an agricultural slave is a talent."

Oh, well, that makes everything better.
Very thought-provoking whitepaper. As someone who has been working on securing containers for the past year or so, it gave me some additional avenues to pursue.
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He defends what he posted under Mencius Moldbug in a Medium blogpost here[0], which is nominally level-headed. There are in fact genetic differences across ethnic groups (sickle cell anemia comes to mind immediately), and it would be silly to think that the only possible generic changes are changed skin color and a specific blood disorder.

You can say that since men have a statistically higher muscle density, they are genetically better slaves than women are. That does not mean that I'm advocating we enslave all men, or that slavery is anything other than abhorrent.

0: https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lam...
This is the first time I've heard of this, there just seems to be a bunch of holes in it. OK, so you have a basic embedded-style ROM vm with a light layer of application code above it. Hard, solvable problem that they seem to have covered.

If it is supposed to be for the people how am I supposed to find a route between hosts behind a NAT? Is this galaxy.urbit.org the DNS and the TURN relay? Is the expectation of the 'server cluster that is yours alone' still dependent on someone else running the relay? How can my servers have friends that aren't part of my trust network? How do I run my own trust network between people I want to trust?

The weirdest thing is that there doesn't seem to be a designed way for an operator of an Urbit to talk to their/other Urbits. Where's the classic plain text protocol to at least say HELO? How do I fix it?

This just ends up looking like a specific-use estoeric lang + runtime to me, which I do enjoy as an exercise. I just can't see how the UX problem is going to pan out based on what is presented.
So Uber will not be moving to electric cars anytime soon then, I guess.
We made the mistake of buying a 20 core server for running SQL Server 2008, which was fine then, but the upgrade to 2016 would be really expensive due to the new per-core licensing, which means we'll probably be stuck with 2008. Microsoft doesn't leave us much choice than to use Postgres from now on.
Well, for Uber it's do or die.

But for the manufacturers of autonomous vehicles- why would they sell cars Uber at a ~5% margin per car when they can offer the robotaxi service themselves and command a ~25% margin per trip?
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Exactly. They are burning cash to gain market share and will lose that share as soon as they stop. Not many barriers to these apps. Uber is going to implode.
I find the mindset behind, "analysts estimated that ad blocking had cost web publishers nearly $22 billion in lost ad sales" to be both hilarious and terrifying. It's something right out of Max Headroom I watched as a kid, where having an off-switch on your TV was a crime.