skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contemporary ML is really (and by that I mean human-level) good for some things: classifying images, guiding a car along prominently visible lane lines in perfect conditions, predicting timeseries that have latent patterns.

It's NOT good at the general "bot" problem (or should I say "true AI" problem), and some "features" of human assistants like EQ, generalized task completion, and complex planning are decades away from getting solved.

I would even argue that a mechanized/automated Clara would HAVE to pass the Turing test in order to work.
Kenji's obsessive and hilarious seriouseats.com research into the world's best burger and the world's best steaks and the world's best whatevers are priceless.

What surprised me is how this site kinda came out of nowhere and took the crown from the more staid web presences of well-established "serious eats" publications like Cook's Illustrated, etc.
Are you sure you have the right company? We have 3,800 square feet and 22 employees, so 172 square feet per person.

According to https://www.thesquarefoot.com/office-space-calculator,
100 square foot per person is considered economy; average is 125; and spacious is 150.
That's interesting. Naver dominates Japan, Taiwan and Thailand with LINE, but they chose to create a new messaging app to go after Korea and China since LINE wasn't getting traction there.
Yes, but most of these companies fail and the options thus worthless. I mean it's great when it works out, but like lottery tickets they usually aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
Oh, it absolutely can be. But sometimes, it's amazing.
> The only way to succeed in a micro services architecture is with a strong focus on quality inside each service and consumer driven contract testing between.

Do you have any examples from other large companies that do micro-services at Netflixs' scale?
> I guess the first week of grad school knocked out any illusion that I was the smartest anything.

Studying Mathematics is really, really good for that :-)
This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water
But that's not how you pronounce frigging.
Paper books will never run out of power, be corrupted by a bad read/write, or be arbitrarily removed from my device (like Amazon did with copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four).

Also, it's easier to flip back and forth through the pages, they look great on a bookshelf, and they have a wonderful tactile feel and smell.

However it is hard to beat the portability and convenience of an eReader. My library is, and will remain, a combination of both physical and digital books.
I guess what you described goes by a well-known term called 'critical thinking'?
It's not a good metric for you but it's pretty relevant for everyone else. Also, joints don't take body composition into account either...
Understanding Exclusionary Zoning and Its Impact on Concentrated Poverty
That's a good point. One really obvious case of this is that if the user owes you money or you owe them money, you can't delete their account until the transactions are settled. And you'd need to keep the records for some period of time to be able to prove that you paid them, in case they claim otherwise.

Or maybe you've paid the user and need to report the transaction to tax authorities (e.g., a form 1099). Or you may need to have proof of income or expenses in case you're audited by the tax authorities.
Yeah, or at least sell geeks harder on UTC for most headless cases like servers and routers.

You still need localtime when interfacing with ugly bags of mostly water.
Spoken like someone who hasn't been there. If you have been there, it's amazing you didn't learn not to speak like that - is English not your first language?
My kid had that problem. I asked her to phrase her "why" questions as complete sentences ("why is the sky blue?"), which helped a lot to get her to actually engage mentally.
There's a "movement" in the sense that people are writing blog posts. Fewer than a handful of name-brand startups are putting any money where their mouth is. Any there's huge VCs trying to hold the line and keep anyone from changing the industry standard practice.
The naivety of warrant canaries shows a kind of desperate denial, especially in the wake of Snowden. Warrant canaries are more about preserving the myth of a principled legal system than a real rebellion against deep state surveillance.

I think people cling to the fiction because the alternative is too awful for them to bear. We've gone from denial to a bargaining phase, where we come up with little technicalities that might preserve our beliefs. Next will be anger, and then a polarization of how people act on their eventual acceptance.

As someone who has seriously evaluated buying a blackphone and support SC in principle, I couldn't bring myself to do it. It's not just them, they're just the most viable and so they catch all the criticism from nerds like me. I wanted a physical lens cap, hardware switches for all microphones and all radios, a removable microSD key module, an option to use the 2nd sim slot as a custom javacard crypto module, a hypervisor for android versions (which I think they have something like) a key management spec published in BAN logic, and the moon. The moon would do.

Basically, I wanted the AR-15 platform of smart phones, where the baseband processor is just the lower receiver. Said nobody who wanted to make money ever.

i am not against them, but I do think SC, wickr, whatsapp, firechat, and privacy companies like them need a narrative pivot. The tech will be valuable, but real market fit depends on popular acceptance of a state level threat model - or at least a desire to be seen as against it.

Today, it's the electronic equivalent to wearing a motorcycle club patch. Yeah, lots of military and law enforcement and regular folks are in motorcycle clubs, but it's a statement. Privacy apps today are a shibboleth with negative skewed optionality.

One of these companies could become the harley davidson of privacy platforms, (whatsapp is close) but that's the upside. An aging rebel brand torn between loyalty and relevance.

The user base for these niche, qualitative difference apps is not unlike the story of indie record labels back in the 80s. Outsider identities, alternative social networks with their own shibboleths. If anyone can figure out who ever got rich off goth, the business model for privacy tech might be within reach. For now, privacy is just an effects pedal and some shitty makeup for bland suburban consumer apps.

The warrant canary issue is a romantic misunderstanding of law, markets, and politics, and the issue is the least important thing about a company like Silent Circle.
Brexit will make things worse. Is that why people voted for it?
it's not just about the kilobyte. Do view source. You can tell a lot about an organization.
This is a great space to be in. Contrary to even the tone of the article, mainframes are still widely in use across a huge number of industries. Typically in industries slow to adopt major changes - but we're at a moment where the COBOL skill shortage combined with increasing hardware costs is starting to make these machines untenable for even the largest institutions with the most inertia.
> It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

Again that myth is coming back? Who believes in that fake 10000 hour rule ? There's nothing tangible that demonstrates that this rule is true in practice. The book where it comes from is also focusing on outliers, so that does not make that rule stick in any way since it's derived only from exceptions, i.e. clear survivor bias.
One imagines that the votes referred rather to your statement beginning, "Sad to see..." Typically that idiom implies a judgment, which in this case no one really has the standing to make. It was your followup comment, apparently meant to explain this judgment, that included the adverb "undoubtedly" coupled with an erroneous assumption.
Digging in with Google, the writer is much less than a billionaire (though perhaps with more arrogance than one) and the seal was much less than 260 pounds. I have my suspicions about breaking every small bone in his feet and kidney failure too.

And even if that story is true - how much glory is running until one gets kidney failure?
When your kids destroy your sleep pattern and cry most of the time when they are awake during the day, good luck staying rational and yourself. Everyone has limits and kids are very good at finding them.
Agreed on Kenji. Searching for Kenji + name of dish you need a recipe for is the pro-est of pro-tips.
Admirable idea, but not sufficiently complete. For example, the Korean alphabet section shows you the letters, but not how they are combined into syllables. The Russian grammar section doesn't address the concept of declension, as far as I can tell.
I used to put it off, especially because (a few years ago) I was working with a package that used Twisted, which was Python 2 only. (Not sure if it still is.)

Since PyCon a month ago, however, I've been making a conscious effort to use Python 3. Python 2 has less than 4 years of life left! [0]

[0] https://pythonclock.org/
Bootstrap 4: A visual guide
Yes - like most childcare advice, it would more accurately read "according to someone with something to tell that has a degree with science in the name, no matter how dubious the institution." But who would click on it if there was truth in advertising? Not you or me. :-)
Your heart is going to care about how much you weigh but not how tall you are.

Those cancers are going to be mostly a function of height, not caring about weight for most people.

Neither of those is a reason to care about the ratio that BMI represents.
> This is something people don't talk about enough. Kids are literally the future of humanity. If we want to improve our society, we should put more focus on helping parents raise their children and on helping teachers educate them.

False or at least not sufficient, the future of humanity is also what we do NOW. Since our actions will have a direct impact on the environment they live in. Focusing on kids only is a false dichotomy.
Why not just do a hackintosh?
Agreed. It's as helpful as the other post on list of free online programming books. Needs more handholding to help people make the best use of the list.
There really is no reason for me to read the paper closely. They say that the null hypothesis is wrong, and they know exactly why. Then, like multiple people responding to me here, they also want to say somehow the null hypothesis is true.

Everyone who has questioned me also does admit there is something wrong with that hypothesis they tested. You do it too: "the software is not calculating the null hypothesis that users expect", but then you also want to say the null hypothesis they tested is true! Just bizarre, what underlying confusion is making people repeat something clearly incorrect? The null hypothesis cannot be both true and false at the same time.

There is a big difference between a "positive" result that is a "false positive" and a "positive" result due to a false null hypothesis. This is a clear cut case of the second.
Inflation is a mental model? Peak oil? Botnet?
I have been using Python v3 since 3.1 was released. I didn't have a large code base at the time so I found moving to v3 easy and have since developed all existing and new systems using v3.x. The only backward compatibility issue being
Google App Engine SDK which requires v2.7. But even there I have had no problems with differences between the dialects.
Los Angeles sub-cities by created_at date
5 Game of Thrones characters that are using your app
Yeah a bit flippant and dismissive. In fact things have been changing faster. Its not obvious that we can stand these changes indefinitely.
You are allowed to be concerned. I probably read too much into your comment. But I think you all understand my point. I was concerned that some mortals might be scared off from experimenting with NaCl. "Experts only."

Some years ago, there was another fellow who wrote a set of NaCl utilities that were very simple, UNIX filters. While I was "scared of the code" because he's not a renown cryptographer (does he need to be?), I was thankful for a simple, working example. There really weren't any publicly available at the time.

I really appreciate when people share these self-learning projects.
Dumb question - why is just a heap not sufficient? You can efficiently remove from a heap by having each element track its index.
To be sure, it was a thinly-veiled anecdote.
Very nice reasoning. It still doesn't explain how a paramesium, without neurons (so no neuron aggregate there), can experience (a sub-human) consciousness.

Ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5OMuFMFUIU
Gnome-terminal does this out of the box, but it doesn't work in tmux or over SSH connections.
The Tech Race to Produce an Instant Electric Bicycle
My wife and I were born in 1977, attended K-12 in rural and semi-rural Districts in OH, US. Our schools were most certainly as the article describes. I do some contract work for a K-12 District today and it's much the same.
You might not have to spend that money on a notary after all. My bank offers free notary services for all its account holders, and it seems like most banks offer this service as well. Try contacting your bank and see if you can save the $12.
My employer had one of those physical checkups for a lowered rate on insurance. I'm 5'10", 215 pounds[1]. The doctor sighed and said that he was required to tell me that according to BMI, I was obese and should consider losing weight. We had a good laugh about it.

My body-fat percentage is definitely not 5%, though. My guess is that it's around 14-15%. Everyone drastically underestimates how low their body-fat percentage is, and I am not a bodybuilder. I lift heavy and like pasta.

[1] terrible picture of me from a few weeks ago for reference: https://i.imgur.com/42WFEyA.jpg
Actually it was only 7 months and I still got ripped in the deal. You can say "low risk, low reward," but in the big picture my reward was sorely out of scale to my contribution. Sorely.
I think you are being just as disingenuous. Without knowing the processes, we have absolutely no idea what the decision chain looks like. I can think of many emergency situations where I would want workers who are close to the problem to make judgement calls. Even if they make the wrong call, at least the chance of success was optimised.

I often notice a bias amongst some people that they think management is more susceptible to caving in to pressure for "success" (success being measured by getting a job done quickly/cheaply, etc). In reality, I think it's just a human condition.

Imagine working in a shop where every move you make is scrutinised. If you get something done fast, everyone assumes that you cheated somehow or that you did an exceptionally poor job. People always doubt you and assume that you are on the take somehow. This would be pretty dysfunctional.

Now imagine working in a situation where when you do work everyone assumes that it is of high quality. They don't have to check it because they know you are capable, hard working and reliable. If you get it done more quickly than expected, it's because you are a genius and should be promoted.

People often try to build companies like the latter. The problem is that it's very easy to let your standards slide. If you do poor work very quickly you get congratulated and rewarded. If you do good work very slowly, nobody looks at it, nobody understands the quality and everyone complains that you took a long time.

If you are in management, it's even worse. If you check up on the quality of work of your workers: 1. They are upset that you don't trust them. 2. If you find problems, it only causes you headaches and makes you look bad because nobody understands quality at all. They just think everything is wonderful and if you bring up a problem, then it's because you are the worst manager on the team! It's really easy to close your eyes and reward poor work.

What I find really interesting is that on teams where there is absolutely no pressure to deliver, conversely programmers often imagine pressure from management to deliver quickly. Again, it's because nobody sees the quality of their work and the only thing they see being evaluated is the speed with which they deliver.

In the end, management must take responsibility when workers make mistakes. Maybe the wrong people were hired. Maybe there was a lack of training. Maybe the social dynamics were poor. It doesn't matter.

However, it is also possible that workers made the wrong choice, but that the system still allowed the choice with the highest chance of success to be made (given the information that they had). You are never guaranteed to have success. Even when workers and management do an excellent job, sometimes you fail because of something you didn't realise at the time. In that vein, I wouldn't assume that "the workers did X" is an indication that they were incompetent. Nor would I assume that management pressured them into doing something stupid.
My old minister used to say "We can have all the morals we can afford"
What is going on here?

http://learn101.org/marathi_alphabet.php

This is not the Marathi alphabet. It's the Telugu alphabet.
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Don't I?
This is the first link I found of this speech (it's called "Practical Thoughts about Practical Thought"), but its an application of combining mental models from many disciplines from the man himself:

http://mungerisms.blogspot.com/2010/04/charlie-munger-turnin...
> As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don't know anymore: It's something they learnt in college, but after a few years of dealing with symptoms and prescribing treatments, they forget about the why.

The reason why is very simple Biology 101 level material. It's so fundamental that it makes your last statement incredibly comical. Forgetting this is like forgetting that your computer is powered by electricity.
Well, they were convicted in a price fixing scandal not too long ago [1]. How soon it is forgotten though. How strange.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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Has anybody tried this yet? It looks fascinating and I'd like to hear some testimonials.
Why were they so resistant? I'd be interested in hearing their rationale.
Right: startups give out options, and those options are likely to be worthless. Your previous comment, however, was also suggesting causation: startups give out options because they are likely to be worthless. That's certainly not the entire reason. Like I said, a startup doesn't want to pay market salary because it would effectively ~halve their cash runway versus shifting compensation towards equity.
I really am not impressed with arguments that you can’t measure the inheritance of intelligence because the individuals don’t share a common environment. If this was true you would not be able to do any genetic studies on any trait.

The more important question is how much shared environment contributes to the variation in intelligence between individuals and the answer to that is basically zero.
Oh paper books can certainly fail. By fire, water or vermin damage. Or by being lost. I'd argue that digital books are actually more robust. You may have to pay for them again, but no book will likely every be permanently lost in our civilization again, until the apocalypse.
>Cameras that capture photos of the outside of the bag, which is linked to the X-ray image of the bag’s contents.

Curious where all of that data goes. A giant catalog of x-rays of bag contents could be interesting. To get a little bit tin foil hat-ish, it becomes especially interesting if they system provides some way to tie a bag to a person's identity which would seem to be possible given the context.
Interesting. And since she then becomes the head of the Executive branch, won't she technically be the boss of most of the apparatus that should supposedly be prosecuting her (DOJ, FBI, etc). Nobody will want to end up on that side of the table, so at this stage in the presidential race, everyone will be extremely careful and linient, trying to deflect responsability for tough decisions to someone else.

I don't think short of impeachment, there is any mechanism to prosecute a President, or is there?
> The warrant canary issue is a romantic misunderstanding of law, markets, and politics, and the issue is the least important thing about a company like Silent Circle.

Misunderstanding of...? If it disappears it's either 'a business decision and/or NSL or just a NSL. What's the misunderstanding? There are some people who are more relaxed about Trump proclaiming that he "hates protestors'. I am not. When someone says they hate protestors, I set warrant canaries on all my websites. This is a scary time and warrant canaries are literally the least we can do. Furthermore when someone removes a warrant canary then explains it as "a business decision" whatever the actual reason, they have told you the type of company they are; a company that removes warrant canaries.
There are some basic errors, too, which are in the overarching structure of linguistic categories. For instance, 'and' is _not_ a preposition, as it states that it is in the language grammar sections.

Perhaps this is a curmudgeonly and pedantic observation, but linguists be linguists.
False dichotomy. One can be justified in a belief without formally collecting data. It may not be science, but there's plenty of room between that and making crap up.
I see "A Fire Upon the Deep" cited as an inspiration and I'm immediately on board!
>>At the point you've got the money into a russian exchange, you're pretty much safe.

That's not a point that bothers me. I understand that I can easily get my money into a Russian or other such exchange.

What bothers me is being a UK citizen, what can I do with that money?

>>Just trade it and draw it to your bitcoin wallet.

What to trade? How to purchase physical goods? e.g. a TV or something else?

Can I at least get my money back in the form of other tradable currency in the UK?

I don't see a way to use bitcoins outside the drugs market as far as purchasing physical goods are concerned unless the government approves bitcoins. Please correct me if I am wrong.

edit: typo, clarification
No mention of intent... But read section A, first line says it all.

(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, fueling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or signal station, building, office, research laboratory or station or other place connected with the national defense owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control of the United States, or of any of its officers, departments, or agencies, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired, stored, or are the subject of research or development, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or any department or agency thereof, or with any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any prohibited place so designated by the President by proclamation in time of war or in case of national emergency in which anything for the use of the Army, Navy, or Air Force is being prepared or constructed or stored, information as to which prohibited place the President has determined would be prejudicial to the national defense;