skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key is that if you worked more, you would be less productive. So if it turns out that your employer feels the same way, they wouldn't hire you for 40 hours anyway as they would be getting less value for their money.

My hope is that wages stay the same even though you work less, because your value input into the company is the same or better. That would be the dream at least.

I am not accounting for moonlighting or side gigs at all though.
The EU very much wants to control member state tax rates, hence the recent Apple case and the VAT changes they made.

There are lots of EU regulations that are basically pointless busywork. Look at the cookie rules. Huge cost and expense to implement millions of warnings, no benefit, and their plan is to double down on them.
As I understand it, UL is not required for small devices that are not connected to the mains (while CE low voltage directive does apply), and UL module certification is sensible while CE requires a re-test. And there's no US counterpart to WEEE.
ACID is not a way to deal with faster data change. Actually it is totally opposite. The more updates you have and the more online (distributed) you are, the less you want ACID. ACID is extremely latency-sensitive and failure-sensitive. And latency is a problem caused by just plain old physics - this isn't going to get better unless we find a way to make light travel faster than the speed of light ;) And the more distributed and larger your system is, the more frequent failures (like network partitions or servers going down) will happen.

As for "local scope" I meant "at a single business entity". If you look at a banking or online payment systems as a whole then they are not ACID, they are eventually consistent. The are based on two basic principles:

1. write everything down at least two times, so you never lose data

2. updates are incremental, so you never overwrite data
Like cookie laws.
Palo Alto City Council is also unhappy about the tech companies leasing downtown. Their contention is that the existing office space zoning is for accounting and legal, not software.
That's also not true at all - mostly because the North Sea is not "British waters". It's international waters, so if there is a quota for each member state to fish there, then sure, it can lead to a situation where British fishermen have already caught their allowed number of fish, but Spanish fishermen haven't.
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You'd think.

I think a lot of businesses have this or something else coming. There is such a massive indifference to security around in certain companies that reporting legitimate issues will feel embarrassing.
Maybe I'm just oldschool but I've never understood the point of these. What's wrong with varnish + [any dynamic platform]?
Firefox Extension Security Update
I've not read the book but the tool is amazing. I believe the authors have been working on a HTML rewrite for some years now (currently it's Flash). The whole site design got redone a month or two ago, so there may be more changes on the way.
So the system basically works for 80% of people who fall into homelessness, but the moment you get one person back on their legs, another on becomes homeless and needs help. Kind of a "treating the symptom not the disease", but it seems to work 80% of the time.
Read-your-writes consistency is not preserved with read slaves which can show up in lots of ways. Create a document, get redirected to the URL for the document, document is missing.
>> There is no mathematical distinction between different "tasks".

Sure there is. For instance, the minimax algorithm is a mathematical model of
optimal behaviour in a specific kind of game (two-player, zero-sum, complete
information games). Performing minimax to dominate such a game is a very
clearly delimited task and that's exactly why a machine can do it in the first
place.

More broadly, any "task" can be described mathematically by means of a program
for a given machine. Saying there's no mathematical distinction between
different tasks is like saying you can't write a program that does a specific
thing.

>> Insects are indeed tiny. But they are highly specialized.

Agreed- see my comment above.

However, that on its own doesn't say much. Sure, insects have highly
specialised firmware-style programming. How did they come to have them and how
can we reproduce them? We can't hope to create such programs "by hand" so
we're currently trying to create algorithms that learn them. We're still far
from achieving it though.

That neural networks and other learning algorithms can learn all sorts of
different things is true, however you have to train a new instance of an
algorithm for every different thing you want it to learn (what I call a
"task", so a new program). For each instance you need new data (and a lot of
it) another huge chunk of processing power and a long time to train. Then you
have to find a way to combine all the trained models into one ... thing that
can operate as a coherent whole.

We haven't even started on the last bit.

Just having the technology to create pigments is far from being the same as
creating a Mona Lisa.
Thanks for a great list of streams!

I did a similar thing (using `mplayer` though) for me, wrapping it in a script that takes shortcuts for stream names:

https://gist.github.com/EarlGray/d64514459892650881353a465c4...
There is no "directions" button that I can see in Google Maps on my Android.
>> Spiders, as all insects, don't learn.

That is blatantly false. A recent paper has shown that bees can even be trained to distinguishing a handful of human faces( a task which they are of course not optimized for).

for starters:
http://insects.about.com/od/behaviorcommunication/f/caninsec...
Well, yes, that's how we got the Working Time Directive and the 40-hour work week. He's right in that economic fortunes are lumped together. Imagine a guy on a motorbike chained to a guy on foot: the biker complains about his speed being restricted, but speeding up is going to be very bad for the health of the pedestrian.
Would be cool but there's no code to see. Too bad, too!
> I think this comment may have been written for someone
> else to read, it's less of a "head start" and more of a
> "let's review the fundamentals".

Early hours of morning here, no doubt flawed.

> My point about the chromatic scale not being "correct"
> is that it's inconvenient to make the chromatic scale
> anything based on a chromatic scale would be inferior
> most of the time.

Yeah, I strongly agree.
I doubt they would be pimp fit though.
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The power of protocol analyzers
> and learning how to balance on a stopped bike

There are a couple of techniques, but both actually require a small amount of forward movement so if it's a long delay then you do creep closer to the car ahead.

But neither is actually necessary; I generally prefer to declip one foot and stick it on the ground as that is quicker and safer particularly when wearing a backpack or conveying a child-seat, since that puts the CoG quite high. But the fact that I had to come to a halt indicates that I didn't correctly manage the approach and I thereby wasted energy.

And please change-down gears as you approach the light. As a fellow cyclist it's frustrating to be stuck behind other cyclists moving-off slowly as they "pedal through molasses" because they're still in a high gear. It annoys drivers, too.
The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)
Tesla defends Autopilot after Mobileye says car maker was 'pushing the envelope'
Besides the CNTK referred on a sibling comment, I imagine Alea GPU (http://quantalea.com/) could be used for such purposes.
> A question is then how we went from working 7 days a week, to 6 days a week and Sundays in church, to 5 days a week. How did people start to work less and live with the reality of earning less in comparison to those staying with the old working hours.

Unions.
> - The common case (go from where I am to somewhere else) is faster.

> - I don't have to think about how to enter "my location"

IIRC at some point this where solved rather nicely by offering you start location pre-filled with your current address.
It delivered exactly what the client wanted.
If you are mathematically literate but a beginner in music most texts on music won't tell you the simple stuff in here. And most music students can't tell you what an octave means (i.e. frequency doubles) besides something wooly like "(a C an octave up from another C) is the same note but a different pitch".

This text is what it claims to be: music theory for nerds (just not necessarily music nerds!)
If you need data integrity you will need a RDBMS.
When local police arrived, I had to explain Skype to them. This is when I realised they probably couldn't do anything about it.
That would be the case if there were forced expulsions, which realistically would only occur if the EU did the same thing to Brits. It's a worst case scenario that everyone presumably wants to avoid (though the EU seems increasingly fanatical, so who knows what will happen).
They didn't make VAT changes in the Irish case. They ruled that Ireland didn't apply its own laws fairly and with equal treatment. It's a highly contentious issue and is being appealed by Ireland, particularly since it's retrospective and involves a massive clawback. It makes the rule of law look shaky in Ireland. It's not likely to stand as is for that reason alone, IMO.

Some countries - particularly ones with larger economies - want to stop smaller economies undercutting their tax bases. The current laws mean that profits get taxed in the country where the company doing the sales is based. There is some talk of changing this so that the profit is more balanced based on where the sales are targeted. I think this is fair; this again comes under beggar-thy-neighbour common rules.
I'm not sure the term "lemmings" has been used at all for this kind of herd behavior as IMO the suicidal aspect is the most important feature if you used "lemming".

I think nowadays "sheeple" is the more appropriate term for that kind of mindless behavior.
The city's usually just responding to property owners lobbying to restrict the supply of their scarce asset in order to maintain/drive up its value.

This is what's going on in London (note that the list of supporters including property-owning associations, property developers and hedge funders):

http://www.skylinecampaign.org/

Politically it's easier to throw sand in the wheels of new projects than it is to propose new projects, which is why this remains an effective way of lobbying.
Shameless plug: my personal project, BedquiltDB (https://bedquiltdb.github.io) provides a mongo-alike nosql api on top of PostgreSQL jsonb functionality. Why choose when you can have both? ;)
Voluntary military service can be beneficial for people, but think about this: what do you get when you put a bunch of 18 year old men together who hate being where they are and feel like getting beaten to death is preferable to taking orders. What you get is hell. That's the only word I've heard used to describe the draft while we still had it and nobody I've asked had wanted to talk about it at length. I've heard "it was hell", I've heard "you become a monster", I've heard of people going in being fine and coming back schizophrenic. I've never once heard anyone ever say that it promotes good habits or discipline.

Maybe it can be different in America, but knowing what it was back here I would never wish the draft on my worst enemy.
> The same technology which beat Go could also, in principle, be used to play a real time video game that requires hunting and stalking things.

If you generalize things enough to mean application of linear algebra, the chain rule and map, then yes that's true. However, the fact is that Neural networks still take a huge amount of skill and experimentation to design new architectures. The more powerful deeplearning becomes, the less skill will be required to do complicated things.

The AlphaGo bot was very data inefficient; at ~1 hr 18 min in http://techtalks.tv/talks/deep-reinforcement-learning/62360/, David Silver points out how they broke correlations by brute forcing millions of games while only keeping one move per game. We want something with better generalization ability than that. As amazing as AlphaGo was, it's more a very early waystation than our final destination. Recognizing the weaknesses of our models instead of glossing over them is how we get to AI!
This is interesting because I think this is my problem as well. I've tried TODO lists, writing things on paper, but I eventually forget about them. Do you use todo lists? Do you write everything down in paper?
Any win for the Britain's fishing industry is not actually a win, IMO; it's just a tragedy of the commons.
How the BBW Dating Websites Work?
You don't even need a separate tool for that:

find -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec md5sum {} + \
| uniq -dDw 32
What about using whatever engine you want, then extract static pages with a script using good ol' wget -r ?
My sentence was perhaps overly hard to parse. It was a list of two things, related only by the general area of tax. Not that the Irish case is VAT related. Indeed it's not.

I was talking about the change to EU wide VAT rules that force sellers to charge VAT at the buyer rate not the seller rate.
What are the best ways to secure-intellectual property against loss part 1
And much, much, much easier querying (if you know SQL). For me, the biggest disadvantage of non-sql databases is the difficulty of doing even the simplest aggregates!
Lots of people like London. I'm not one of them, but then I don't like big cities. I would say my biggest gripe about London is the frequent transit failures. I literally can't remember the last time we didn't have someone come in an hour late because of some train/bus problems. My second biggest gripe is the frequent transit strikes ;-). If it's not busted, it's not running because management and workers are fighting with each other.

Especially if you are comparing London from 20 years ago, I would have to say that it is much nicer than it used to be. I lived in London 2 years ago and also 20 years ago. I remember 20 years ago coming home and literally being able to draw pictures on my arm with the grime that accumulated during the day. Blowing my nose always resulted in black snot coming out. The Thames was filled with garbage. Those days are mostly gone now. Hell, tours on the Thames is considered a fancy thing to do these days.

The things I think are not quite as nice (and I'll brace myself for the backlash)... Culturally the city is kind of confused IMHO. 20 years ago it was vaguely European, but really English when it came down to it. You could still get a decent Sunday roast in any pub in London at the time. Now it is decidedly multi-cultural. I think young people will definitely prefer the London of today, and I won't blame them, but personally I miss the London of times gone by. These days you have to go further afield to get more of an English cultural experience, IMHO. Not necessarily a bad thing, but like I said, there will be people who prefer one over the other.
The problem I see with it is not so much that you don't want a native, compiled implementation of a machine learning as that you want to be able to call it from Python, MatLAB and R. It is somewhat less straightforward to go Python<->Go than Python<->C or even Python<->Rust.
Right, the point being that there is no need to choose between key-value and relational DB - since Postgres et al do it all. Which makes the so-called "noSQL" approach completely obsolete.
I'm going to state a belief that may not be very popular, but it is that technology is responsible for Americans losing jobs. Americans believe immigrants are the reason for jobs not paying as much as they did before, but I believe technology is reducing the need for all kinds of jobs. Think about autonomous vehicles--when all cars are autonomous, will there really be a need for truck drivers?
> And b) either Al-Jazeera has copied them before [2] or there is some mutual stealing going on...
looking at the source and at what they are showing in the updated page of the eggplant story[1] they seem to be using an open source version[2].

[1] http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/gmo-eggplants-aube...

[2] https://github.com/codevise/pageflow
They missed Imagination[1], which seems to be suffering from (allegedly) poor management decisions at the moment, but is the hardware behind the graphics in many mobile phones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Technologies
> Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter.

Marketing did the choice for us. And instead of using all the available communication tools, like FB Messanger, WhatsApp for our benefit, we post cats and meals.
Different NoSQL platforms solve different problems. Graph databases can build and query relationships between entities with significant speed. Mongo has been mentioned a few times because it's easy to iterate development with a schema-less database, but it's also fantastic when dealing with class based structures with sparse attribute populations (e.g. a CMDB). Cassandra's notion of an always available database is a key foundational element in high-scale devops environments. Scylla offers incredibly fast transactions (they advertise 1M transactions per second per server). There are XML databases that store and query documents in ways that are easy for developers to translate (i.e. xpath). There are databases like Axibase that are built for time series data. BayesDB is easy to query for statistical inference.

It's very easy to fall into the trap of "everything is relational" or "I could do that with Postgres/Oracle/etc". There are a lot of problems that have good RDBMS centric solutions, but you don't have to look too far to find end users or developers who are unhappy with the RDBMS solutions that they work with on a daily basis.
A company is usually a tree-like structure, where the branches are connected by the root node. Too bad that this particular company's root node was garbage-collected in 2011 while there were still live references to it.
The large majority of deployed machine learning algorithms actually can't learn. The bias is so large that most (all?) specialized hardware assumes that only inference will be done. In contrast, there is evidence for online adaptability in insects^

^ http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/5PHddkgYYKaduPp4CcN5/ful...
For context, this is a nice interview about harpsichord and fortepiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pdBNkgdUJc

And here’s some general explanation of well temperament on a piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNY7Eyntlt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC8p1PmB6sk

(Watch those last ones if you want to understand why 18th and early 19th century music sounds so lackluster on equal tempered modern pianos.)
And interesting if it's downloading some purchased content from the iTunes Store, this doesn't happen. Also, those downloads don't throw a modal dialog when it's trying to "contact the server". It just seems like downloading firmware doesn't reuse existing code for downloading content.
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Glass? This is not the iPhone we're talking about, it's the Macbook Pro. The top layer of the screen is the polarizing filter, it's plastic and really not very scratch resistant.
It could be that their security experts were in their early twenties and had never heard of skype.
Rogan is bad, but Mike Goldberg? Yeesh. A whole new level of gibberish.
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> That's just client side templating. Which has the same problem they all do of being greeted with a white page until ALL the content is ready.

Or being greeted with a white page period if you're using a non-JS enabled HTML client (noscript, CLI browser).
>> Our artificial neural networks are just as complex though.

I don't know about that. I think it depends on how you count the complexity of
a model. There's three cases: a) insects are less complex than machine
learning models, b) both are equally complex, c) insects are simpler.

If (b) or (c) is the case then we're shafted, because we're failing to
reproduce insect behaviour despite building systems at least as complex as
theirs. If (c) is the case, we're particularly screwed because it means we're
missing a simple, more efficient way to do things.

If (a) is the case then we may have a hope to get to where insects are in
terms of complexity and possibly reproduce their behaviour. Still, there's the
issue of combining models to perform well at a broad range of tasks, which is
far from solved.
> as productivity rose business owners turned that in to profit for themselves rather than sharing the profits with workers.

You hit the nail. This is exactly the reason why the 15 hour workweek did't arrive. And unless systemic changes happen it is also the reason why a market requires regulation.
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WebObjects is a server side technology. iTunes doesn't directly use it.
Ask you self, why don't I just become an illegal alien? Because it wouldn't offer you job security? Because you wouldn't be able to easily start your own company? Because you could be uprooted whenever you want?

Jumping through all the hoops is what gives you the security that illegals don't have.
It's still lacking as highly optimized libraries like cuDNN last time I looked :/
Probably he is. Retraining is the classical economics answer to the question of a skills mismatch in the population.
iTunes is beyond hopeless at this point. It needs a full rewrite, possibly split into multiple apps.
I take some issue with this because you're describing one method to resolve a task when there are many.

You can also see notifications by just clicking on the omnipresent icon in the Finder Bar, or act on the notifications themselves by clicking them as they appear.

Like, I agree that the versatility of the trackpads is a blessing and a curse - beyond a few common ones, most gestures are unintuitive and it's probably why not too many applications take use of them on non-mobile devices. But the issue isn't with Apple having hidden behaviors here, it's that one method is less visible than others which are very accessible. The issue with the Windows 8 charms was that all means of accessing them were obfuscated. You had to move to a certain corner or swipe from a certain way on trackpads that often had poor sensitivity (or conversely, were overly sensitive) and the behavior was erratic and unpredictable.

It's fine to dislike aesthetics, but that doesn't make it unusable. In the case of the text buttons, I can't think of an instance off the top of my head where the text wasn't clearly marked as button with either a drop down arrow or ... or some other item.
> Do you still have to use iTunes to transfer music to iPhones?

Don't use an iPhone myself, but if I did, I would try if KDE Connect on iOS supports file syncing over Wifi like it does on Android.
If ebikes aren't of the same mass / kinetic energy as a moped, they shouldn't be classified the same.

Ebikes have the potential to revolutionize transportation in a positive way. Less infrastructure, more dense movement, opens biking to more people with less developed cardiovascular ability.

If I could do 22-25 mph / 35-40kph sustained with a rain suit on, I can beat lots of rush hour car routes, with an output of 10-15mph done by myself, and towing/carrying 20 pounds of stuff, a LOT of car trips become unnecessary.