skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Explanatory power and reproducibility are two of the most important aspects of a scientific paper.

The reproducability problem should be solvable if the authors would simply release the training data and source code that trains the network (as yould scientific practise would require). Or is there anything else that is necessary to assure reproducability (I'm not that deep into CV papers)?
Official correspondence reveals lack of scrutiny of MI5's data collection
>I've personally never learned this skill of persuasiveness,

The few people I've met like this were pretty much office bullies. There's no mythical silver tongued nice guy. When someone dominates the meeting and shoves his agenda into your face and argues until you're exhausted, well, that works because he's not worth fighting. The question is do you want to be a person like that? Pretty much anyone can be taught to be a Gordon Gekko or a GlenGarry Glen Ross's Blake.

I don't take my job remotely seriously enough or care to modify how I act for crap like this. I kinda pity those who do. They seem to get their validation and emotional fulfillment only from work.

The above might be overly critical, but I think everyone hits a point in their career where they have to decide where they will draw the line in terms of personal modification to get ahead. There are so many more asshole-ish ways I could be at work that would definitely lead me to a higher level of success. I just consider it against my moral system to be a person like that and think its absurd that we have to do this constant study of "how to get ahead" just to make a decent living. Threads like this just depress me. Work life shouldn't make this kind of demand on our personal and internal lives. I think if everyone pushed back more against employers, we'd all be happier, instead we have this rat-race that we accept as perfectly normal and rational. Its not.
...apart from workstations...
Branding/marketing oneself, how to make solid career decisions, and general job search type activities don't help you on a day-to-day basis like productivity and communication, but they can greatly impact the overall career trajectory and how you can maximize your chances of achieving whatever goals you have in your career (advancement, $, independence, etc.).

There are thousands of programmers who are incredibly good at what they do (programming), but aren't being considered for jobs because they don't know how to market/write/talk about their own experience. What to write (and leave off) on a resume, a cover letter/email application, LinkedIn profile, what to mention in an interview, how to define an accomplishment, etc.

Job searches, interviewing, negotiating, how to make good career decisions based on your goals - these are all things that don't happen every day, so programmers aren't all that likely to really get good at them. Most other professional industries don't see the volume of career change that we see in tech, where it's reasonable that someone could change jobs several times in a decade. Knowing how and when to change jobs, how to handle those changes, and making good overall career decisions is a skill many lack.
Thanks, reworded.
Grandparent is making a distinction between, "I'll engage in less healthy behavior because I'm insured" vs. "I will use more health care because I am insured."

The latter doesn't imply the former.
Dear Erica: What’s the biggest and best Swift 3 change?
> Unfortunately FreeBSD's init system seems at first glance to be even more primitive than Linux's old sysV-init.

You're better off looking at the rc system[1]. It leaves a lot to be desired, but it's much better than the sysV approach.

There are ongoing efforts to modernise things a bit. The 4Q 2015 report[2] mentions a few.

I like the look of nosh, personally.

1: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/index.h...
2: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-Fe...
I suppose there is no interesting science outside of computers?
** > There are two problems with this assertion:
(1) users often don't know what they want to do or what they'll want to do in the
future and (2) users don't have the education to understand the freedoms provided by
open source / free software or lack thereof. <

RE: 1 - Yes they do. Look at your little sister/brother/niece/nephew aged 13-18. They want to gossip and flirt on Instagram and take selfies as a way to promote themselves. Their goal is pretty clear-cut -- they want to raise their social stature amongst their peers. People in their 40s know what they want too. With Facebook they can keep in touch with people they knew 20 years ago and kill time at their work playing {whatever replaced Farmville} looking at pictures of {cats or something}.

RE: 2 - I agree, but I posit it's really not their job to care. You don't know how the traffic light infrastructure works (presumably) or the logistics of your city's DPW. You just presume concrete will be poured into potholes when appropriate. Very few people actually care how things actually get done; their concern isn't freedom or the subtle politics behind BSD vs GPL2 vs CC w Attribution - their concern is if they can 'drive home without hitting the potholes' (load instagram without the app crashing).

--

(That car analogy breaks down due to the fact that you're driving a relatively obscure car manufacturer/make/model. Those alternative and respectable repair shops are staffed with your average joe picking up a spanner used to swapping out Toyota Corolla struts and changing Ford Focus oil. The difference in topology between cars has decreased as a function of time (especially modern cars, which tend to share components - e.g. the '99 Corolla was piece for piece, internally, what a Chevy Prizm had of the same model year).

I'm no automotive engineer but I can tinker my way into making anything work (bonus: with a high confidence factor of "this wire loom won't catch on fire"), but Joe-your-friendly-tech is charging 2x-3x more because he has to open a book and invest time in reading data-sheets for something he's not used to working on regularly (then ordering the proper pieces, installing them, and doing things like calibrating the stoich of the carb/adjusting the float, etc that's all taken care of by one of the ~600-800 MCU's in a modern car).
The point is, an organization at that scale can solve problems at that level because they have the resources to fund development of an alternative that e.g. doesn't rely on DOS. Individual users don't have the funds to do that, or the skills to develop new features themselves, so once it's no longer supported they're equally screwed whether the software they rely on is FOSS or proprietary.
Man, this site is heavy, I couldn't read this news anymore. Why heavy ads with autoplay on?
> Officially, the black areas of South Africa during apartheid were different countries too.

Well, no. Some black areas in South Africa (and South West Africa under South Africa's occupation) were converted into notionally internally self-governing regions, but of the twenty (10 each in South and South West Africa), only 10 (4 in South Africa, 6 in South West Africa) were ever even nominally (that is, according to the South African government -- no other government recognized any of them) independent states, and, in any case, there were a lot of black areas in South (and South West) Africa that were not part of either these "homelands", whether the notionally independent ones are otherwise.

(Now, in 1970, all of the black people of South Africa, whether they lived in the "homelands" or not, were assigned citizenship in one of them and had their South African citizenship cancelled. But that doesn't mean that the "homelands" covered all the black areas.)
The Bloomberg link on the previous page suggests that we have hit peak human...
what would make it much better along those lines (are you listening designers?) would be if it drew its thinking lines on the board but under the pieces.

because I can't study the board while it's thinking (it obscures all the pieces) I can't quickly learn if its lines are interesting or not
You can easily get 300K after a couple of years at a big company (e.g. AmaGoogAppBookSoft as patio11 likes to put it). You do not need to be an especially talented engineer at such places to draw those salaries.
Work chat died. We fixed it
It almost has to be a vertical lift/land shuttle type of thing to work. I don't see it being able to land in cities any other way. Very cool though, freedom in a whole other dimension.
They had already raised $4 million for the PDA idea. Or rather, the MVP. The $4 million was famously beamed into their account via PDA.
The article implies that these vehicles would be autonomous.
I blame the health care tax exclusion. If benefits weren't cheaper than wages and people weren't used to getting a health plan from their job, they would be more interested in demanding prices from providers.

Of course, the ACA doubled down on the problem with the employer mandate.
Chances are huge that all of the times are going to want to start strong.

Except when you're the lowest-ranked team, and starting your group with a match against the favourite. In that case, you're likely to play for damage control (e.g. aim for a draw, don't concede too many goals).
Unit vs. Integration Akka Testing
Windows hasn't been at 99% for 15 years now. Apple's share of usage based on Web access stats is at about 10% now. Linux is at 1.5%, ChromeOS at 0.5%.

If you factor-in mobile Web access, Windows share is under 50%, and Android, which is an open source OS, with a Linux kernel (it took discarding the Linux userland and replacing it with a single runtime for apps and middleware to make Linux successful), is over 25% and Apple's OSs are at over 15%. Android "mods" like Cyanogen are a serious factor in open source development.
It is, but I upvoted bc I think they're trying to point out that even Ubuntu gets tainted by commercial desire. But you're right in that the degree and flavor of taint varies between the OSes. It's much more productive to point out the features and uses of each of these OSes that modulate freedom.

Freedom is partially in the OS and largely in how we use it. Constantly upgrading to the newest thing, for example, I would consider a luxurious consumer habit that serves the elite, but gives smaller relative gains to the individual. I suggest holding on to any OS as long as possible before upgrading.

And the fact that even Ubuntu gets tainted with commercial desire is really indicative of much bigger ideas... For example, it points out how power corrupts and needs checks and balances. (don't know if this is even possible with an open source OS). It also makes me wonder if this cyber-organic lifestyle is even physically possible. Is it possible that we've been drawing a massive check against ourselves and this degree of connectivity is unsustainable? Why does it constantly require so much software to keep going? Is there no point of equilibrium in sight?
> We used multiple availability zones and it didn't prevent downtime at all.

Can you explain this a little more? Amazon says this only affected one AZ, and they specifically note:

For this event, customers that were running their applications across multiple
Availability Zones in the Region were able to maintain availability throughout
the event.
Voice commands on car entertainment systems was available all the way back in 2008, albeit in a $120k car (Lexus LS600h L).
So lets get silly here; granted I wanted a flying car ever since seeing a Spinner in Blade Runner.

Deploy a balloon above the vehicle when not under power which reuses the helium when not moving beyond a set speed. Pretty sure it can be an airfoil in itself and compact enough to sit above the craft. When transitioning to full on flight it can be partially deflated to reduce its air resistance but still retain the shape needed for lift. Plus why do these air cars need such high speeds when flying?

Since I am not a wiz at these things I am not sure how much balloon you need to compensate sufficiently for the vehicle weight. You don't need to compensate all of it, just enough so that when all power fails you don't hit the ground beyond the means of the occupants to survive. With modern electronics losing power at altitude should allow a glide landing.
If my memory serves me right, early OSX used tcsh as the default shell; it wasn't till around 10.4 or so that they switched to bash.
What if what we need is frequent in person interaction with other people?

Spreading out further and further, eating up arable land with exurban homes, putting more distance between ourselves and others. It seems unhealthy for us and the "nature" you want to be in tune with.

"Across the study period, 66 595 youths died by suicide, and rural suicide rates were nearly double those of urban areas for both males (19.93 and 10.31 per 100 000, respectively) and females (4.40 and 2.39 per 100 000, respectively)."
http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=21950...
Not sure about "original" as in AT&T, but certainly lots of files going back to the 80's and 90's. Lots of Sun's legacy to be found.
Yeah it's definitely not perfect, but it's still better than the next best thing, which is probably Virgin Mobile. And it's definitley better than using one of the major providers!
Wouldn't work. The plaintiff only needs to show a nexus to the venue; all they have to do is open an office there to achieve that.
Side tangent: if you want to know how Patreon creators are doing: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators
Yeah, Vue.js is quite successful on Patreon: https://graphtreon.com/creator/evanyou
I think what's contributing to the whole hourglass thing is that browsers do not play nicely with native/low-level primitives. It's bascially yet another waist above the OS waist (browser APIs) and the IP waist (HTTP).

Develop a nice decentralized solution? Maybe it involves some UDP multicast? Forget the browser.

Want to have two devices on the network talk to each other? Bounce it through a cloud provider.

Want to use "everything is a file"-files? The browser's interaction with the filesystem is incredibly clumsy.

So if you wanted to use the full strength of linux/any other lower layers, this would hamper adoption.
It might imply that some would be autonomous, but that's not a genuine "flying car" now is it? It's an "autonomous passenger transport pod" that could describe anything from a hyperloop to an automated self-propelled wheelchair. All this dancing around to try and make it seem like the idea isn't a fool's errand is interesting, I will grant that.
> Preflight checks and flight safety. Larry should first build normal small aircraft that can do without constant manual checks before flight.

Omg, this. The amount of checks required for any sort of aircraft is ridiculous. A lot of it involves button pushing and checking status. This could be automated.

For instance, for a cessna 150:

STARTING ENGINE
Mixture – RICH
Carb heat – COLD
Prime – AS REQUIRED
Master switch -- ON
Beacon Light – ON
Throttle – OPEN 1/8”
Prop Area – CLEAR
Ignition – START
Oil Pressure – CHK
Radio – ON/SET
Transponder – ON / STBY
Wing Flaps – UP
Mixture – LEAN 1 INCH
READY TO TAXI

Most of these things could be set automatically.
I never understood this amongst my cow-orkers when I worked at Microsoft ("co-pay? What co-pay?"). I don't care if a doctor visit is free, I'm not so starved for entertainment or human contact that I'm going to drag kids to a doctor because they have the sniffles.
Yes a Faraday cage blocks both directions. What walrus is saying I think is that if you are a good citizen, you should do any radiating GPS jammer testing inside a Faraday cage. Doing it outside a cage is probably illegal and could create a public safety hazard (911 on cell phones for example).

You could have a test setup bringing GPS inside the cage with coax+circulator or radiate a GPS constellation simulator inside to test the jammer.
Oh really? I seem to recall Ubuntu sending people's search results to Amazon. Why did they do that? They are a corporation and, thus, more concerned about money than freedom.

My comment stands.
No, they both show as retired from the court. They're both in private practice now.
Or acts of self-pollution? (that is an urban myth, right?)
I think there's some value to see other options solving a similar problem, but I agree the "that already exists" mantra is pretty limited.

For a long time we never shipped anything due to the need to try and make the next Facebook in one go. It crippled our creativity.

These days we've learnt that it's ok to build and launch something that's been done before, the most important thing is learning to launch. For us we launched this to get back into the swing of launching stuff after a few months since our last launch. This is entirely an MVP, built and launched in under 15 hours total design/dev time.

Thanks for taking the time to comment Colin.
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Celery does solve the GIL problem and in some use cases is better suited even if the GIL wasn't a problem. However, it is an additional "system" that you have to add to a code base. If you're writing a small program that is easily distributed and needs "non-blocking" features, Celery brings a whole host of extra requirements. This becomes additionally problematic for Python when other languages implement these "non-blocking" features into the language. Thus you can implement these things in a few lines of code, where with Python you must learn a new framework and have a complicated install to use a simple feature.

If Python wants to compete with other languages in the future it will have to keep up with these "non-blocking" features without a huge system overhead expense.

I see this same problem with Django Channels which lets you implement web sockets and such with Django. Django Channels relies on Redis and solves more problems than just web sockets. However, if I just want a web socket, doing it in Django Channels produces too much overhead. Writing a web socket in Tornado can be done in few lines of code without the extra "system" overhead.
>FSF's definition of freedom still stems from a time where everybody being a programmer was seen as a realistic and achievable goal.

The FSF does not believe that everyone should be a programmer. Much like freedom of the press matters for those that aren't journalists, freedom of the software matters for those that aren't programmers. I care about the right to repair even though I'm not a car mechanic.

>The actual situation is that we have two groups that care about different things: Users and developers

This is a very broad and inaccurate generalization. Even as someone that identifies as a "developer", I'm often just a user. Sometimes the "user" ends up hacking on something, perhaps not even really knowing that they did. It's a spectrum, and it wouldn't seem like such a dichotomy if more software was actually written that encouraged its users to explore its source code and provided ways to extend it. The tech industry reinforces the "user and developer" separation and I think that's a real shame.
I can only speak for my own company (startup), but typically it's the simple matter of immediate feedback and reaction. In the startup world, things are changing constantly, and it's really convenient to turn to my left and ask a question. I can't do that when I'm required to schedule hangouts or meetings for things. Having everyone in the same room is priceless when things are moving this fast.
> generally despised by them

That's a ridiculous statement. My church (both as an organization and the people in it) gives tons of money to single moms for everything from subsistence to fully paid Disneyland vacations. We run a volunteer group that does things like yard work, handyman work, and moving for single moms. The most visible charity outside a church in my city is for single moms. There are single moms who work in important positions at my church. The bible specifically points out on many occasions that those who follow Christ should show love and compassion to people such as single moms as Christ would.
I would't take too much stock in that category list, their category system does not work that well. I know they are working a category overhaul (source: I'm the guy behind Graphtreon)
OK, really sorry about that. We're working on it back here, we can definitely see a caching issue somewhere in the pipeline. Would you try once more in incognito mode?
Do one thing right. Get rid of anything that's not essential, like animations.
"Again, users don't care about DRM. Because they don't understand it. If they did, they would reject DRM-enabled products."

This may be the true. But how about this:

'Users don't care much about DRM because the benefits of convenience outweigh the costs'

How do you know which explanation is true? Personally I favor the latter. DRM is not more complicated than other things that people care about. If it was compelling for people to care about it, the people who do understand it would find it easier to educate and convince those who don't.
The president appoints federal judges. Not too likely that he's thinking about how to rig the patent court in East Texas.
The words "reason" and "explanation" are nearly synonymous. (I went to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary to be certain of this.) If anything, an explanation is built from a set of reasons.

So refurb gave a reason for a bottleneck, and now we need to figure out why providers apparently aren't taking steps that address it.
Why is it that Python's single-threadedness is always singled out over every other language in the general family? Ruby, PHP, Perl, and JS are all single-threaded (Perl ithreads and JRuby/Jython caveats notwithstanding). Celery itself is just a framework for fork management, something that has been available to these languages since their inception.
How much you can make working on a movie (Movie credits with salary)
You think $150 is too expensive for a piece of software you use ~8 hours a day to do a $100k+ salary job?

Go ask a mechanic or carpenter how much money they spend on their tools for a job that pays significantly less.
UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service
If he meant GNU why didn't he say so? Linux has nothing to do with OSX, whether you call it Linus or GNU/Linux.

> The only reason Unix is popular for a workstation at all nowadays is because Linux runs everything.

And at a stroke the entire history of Sun, Solaris and Sun OS is brushed under the carpet as though it never existed. Yes. I give up. You win. Workstations only exist because of Linux. I think I need a little lie down.
Is using ajax calls on a loop the best way to track users on a site? I'm curious because when I look at pages using google analytics I don't see any repeating requests in the network console. Does google mask the requests or use some other protocol?
And you can buy the Echo Dot, which I'm willing to guess works so much better that it might as well be in a different category, for $90.
I think there's room for adding style around substance, but not if it causes issues. I wasn't aware of the performance issues, but now I know I'll be sure to look at this when I get home from work.
If the (ground) car enabled urban sprawl... just think what the flying car would do for it.
I'm not saying this view is a positive thing, it's merely what I imagine will happen if personal flying vehicles become affordable, based on past trends and our political environment. I would personally prefer more investment in public transit and dense urbanity, which isn't even really possible due to overly restrictive zoning laws.
>See the MIT, BSD and LGPL licenses which provide more freedom over GPL3.

This is dishonest phrasing and I think you understand that.