skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! But I would love a clojure-like (or even clojure) that compiles into go-code and then built into native code (or another solution). I don't really want to ship .jar files, and I love golang for building CLIs but I really want to get away from that kind of syntax.
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Also, the fact that once you have almost complete monopoly in the enterprise market, only a huge paradigm shift will knock you down. Most of the times, the market leaders are able to adapt, and the clients give them a lot of leeway - not the least because of the points which you pointed out.
So kind of like generative adversarial neural networks, where the discriminator and generator are modelled as predator and prey respectively playing against each other.
I think biomimicry is a fantastic approach to discovering things evolution has already discovered. And evolution has had a lot of time to discover, makes sense for us to make use of it. I feel very uncomfortable when we are destroying all this evolutionary richness around us, that we could learn from.

Biomimicry and the brain - our current instruments are not good enough, for instance to map neural connectomes in high enough resolution, to the level of seeing the what the neurotransmitter receptors of each neuron are etc. - and then see how they operate in vivo, to really understand the structure and function of biological brains.

We'll get there, eventually.
It would only lead to people trying to one-up each other to leave the "best" comment.

That's why I only upvote 10% of the funny comments, prioritizing the ones that benefits my personal agenda.
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I haven't find a good introductory yet complete resource about build a complete database. I'm on the hunt for it (building also a relational language).
Maybe you're referring to "The HDR Look", the one with halos and high saturation.

Check out these photos - https://imgur.com/a/cisJY - this was shot with a DSLR with 14 stops of dynamic range. My eyes couldn't see much in the dark spots when I was looking at the bright buildings.

These same RAW photos look horrible (and I mean really, unbearably bad) with "linear mapping".
Probably. I'm using 10.0 (11602.1.50.0.10), which is what I got when I upgraded through the App Store this morning.
>But he didn't [...] imply that the opinion of shareholders completely disposed of the question

Quite so! What he said was 'their having committed fraud to bump up the numbers, y'know, as you do, was to please shareholders at quarterly meetings'.

"Business ethics", at this level, revolves around the shareholders, and the comment telegraphs this: as you say, shareholder reaction is the acid test for appropriate behaviour. Nor, indeed, does the opinion of shareholders dispose of the question. Yet, it is fear of shareholder disapproval that drives both the cover-up of fraud (potential jailtime probably helps with this) and the instantiation of said fraud in order to keep numbers up in order to placate shareholders.

But, again, you're right. I'll keep my original comment up, but I should have put ""Business ethics" is all about shareholders, eh? This explains so much...".
test-tube research by the Ghannoum-led team found that the three work together (with the E. coli cells fusing to the [Candida tropicalis] cells and S. marcescens forming a bridge connecting the microbes) to produce a biofilm -- a thin, slimy layer of microorganisms found in the body that adheres to, among other sites, a portion of the intestines -- which can prompt inflammation that results in the symptoms of Crohn's disease.

That seems like a huge find. Biofilms can be very hardy and difficult to break down. I wonder what a treatment for something like this would be.
I wanted to get the point accross that even when all checkboxes are checked in terms of programming language etc they might end up with junior level productivity (after training+grace period) because for example the project scope is different.
There's been a lot of complaining about house prices in London for very many years.

Those articles tend to stay in the UK though.
Not a single photo of him?

Since they are studying him, watching his activities, and even trying to locate him by satellite, I wonder why they didn't try unattended, automated wildlife cameras at likely locations and trails:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=wildlife+camera&source...
I would too, but I have worked with plenty of people with the word senior in their title who wouldn't be able to do a any of that. I've also met "juniors" who do carry the world and build great systems.

The problem is that titles get inflated and can't be relied on as much as we would hope.
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>In having the photographs, it’s hoped we can show that they were made with care and precision for the benefit of the patients – not necessarily to harm.

In every depiction of the lunatic asylum, and as seems clear from history, it's obvious that the goal of interventions is improvement - of the patient, of society by their confinement, and so on. One can desire to do good and still perpetuate unspeakable cruelty and harm.

Shockingly, no mention of Foucault's "History of Madness", which I love and is well worth reading if you are as interested in this subject as I. Foucault says these institutions began primarily as a moral category, and that confinement was a way to isolate the "unreason" of the mad from society in an age of Reason.

The modern medical tradition certainly inherits from this moral categorization. The patient is depraved, sick, different, needs to be "corrected".

One of the great confrontations that needs to be made in this century is with the idea of the "normative", of the singular human that everyone must be measured against (and somehow found wanting), a prominent tent-pole of our modern understanding of humanity. The "normative" needs to be replaced with the garden - humans, like all life, are a basket of diversity. We differ from each other in our very natures; forcing us all towards an ideal, "correcting" our sicknesses so we all become alike in thought, is the wrong model for us.
Oracle is going to be hobbled by Cloud providers in similar manner as TV networks by Netflix. If Oracle reduce access of its software to Cloud infrastructure providers then they lose potential revenue stream and Cloud providers can start promoting alternatives. On the other hand if cloud providers have access to Oracle products in their cloud then Oracle cloud looks unimpressive to customers and no reason to use Oracle cloud.

Like networks learned that must watch shows are decreasing on their networks in last few year Oracle will learn their software is must for decreasing number of customers.
Windows might have chocolatey, one among a small number package managers for Windows (including the bleh Windows 10 Store), but not being baked into the OS distribution means the average user isn't going to install it.
Users want what's already in the Start menu/page, not something they have to go to a site, copy some (as far as they know) random text, paste it into a power shell, and then hope it works. You effectively need a package manager to install the package manager.
That might be ok for your power users, but the average person what wants to install GIMP because he's been told by his mate down the pub that it's "like a free Photoshop", would rather go to the GIMP site and download it, he won't even know about chocolatey because he's so used to using Windows without a package manager that he'll just Google "GIMP" and hope the fist link is the right one.
Windows missed the boat on package managers and the Windows 10 Store definitely does not make it any easier.
I think the deep underlying problem is not just handling gamma but that to this day the graphics systems we use make programs output their graphics output in the color space of the connected display device. If graphics system coders in the late 1980-ies and early 1990-ies would have bothered to just think for a moment and look at the existing research then the APIs we're using today would expect colors in linear contact color space.

Practically all the problems described in the article (which BTW has a few factual inaccuracies regarding the technical details on the how and why of gamma) vanish if graphics operations are performed in a linear contact color space. The most robust choice would have been CIE1931 (aka XYZ1931).

Doing linear operations in CIE Lab also avoids the gamma problems (the L component is linear as well), however the chroma transformation between XYZ and the ab component of Lab is nonlinear. However from a image processing and manipulation point of view doing linear operations also on the ab components of Lab will actually yield the "expected" results.

The biggest drawback with contact color spaces is, that 8 bits of dynamic range are insufficient for the L channel; 10 bits is sufficient, but in general one wants at least 12 bits. In terms of 32 bits per pixel practical distribution is 12L 10a 10b. Unfortunately current GPUs experience a performance penality with this kind of alignment. So in practice one is going to use a 16 bits per channel format.

One must be aware that aside the linear XYZ and Lab color spaces, even if a contact color space is used images are often stored with a nonlinear mapping. For example DCI compliant digital cinema package video essence encoding is specified to be stored as CIE1931 XYZ with D65 whitepoint and a gamma=2.6 mapping applied, using 12 bits per channel.
Not all radioactive material is created equal. I would read an article about how dangerous the coal plant radioactive material if anyone knows of one.
I was about to ask how you got that pretty-print output from OSX's `stat` before I noticed you were using `gstat`. Oddly enough, the native `stat -x` gives a similar output but omits birth time:

$ stat -x `which stat`
File: "/usr/bin/stat"
Size: 27376 FileType: Regular File
Mode: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ wheel)
Device: 1,4 Inode: 192606219 Links: 1
Access: Thu Sep 22 11:50:55 2016
Modify: Fri Jul 8 23:03:34 2016
Change: Sun Jul 31 21:44:22 2016
A Diamond Age does seem like a hopeful solution to the problem, if we could rationally harvest the and convert it to carbon fibers and diamonds rather than fill our air and oceans with so much excess CO2. I wonder if we are that rational, though.
No, they should have kept it a development branch until 4.3 or 4.4. It wasn't until then that it was really usable.

What's really funny and sad is that the GNOME team made the exact same mistake with Gnome3.
Where do you live in Canada? In southern ontario (where Toronto and most of the people are) there's no snow for 8 months out of the year. And backyards/sidewalks are really only impeded for maybe 2 months (if you're able-bodied). Meanwhile you can totally have a pool, a vegetable garden, a place for your kids to play, etc. the rest of the time.

I recently moved from an apartment to a house downtown with a tiny backyard, and it's a huge improvement. We didn't really use it in February/March. But the rest of the time it's awesome.
Lets hope those public companies will learn a lesson about enourmous public backlash, the wrath of consumer watchdogs etc sooner rather than later then?

Besides I thought (IANAL) this "maximize shareholder value" meaning short-term-economic-gain meme was massively misinterpreted and needs to die soon?
Thanks. That $20 a year was just an approximate amount. I wouldn't mind paying a little more.

I've seen Fastmail recommended multiple times and have looked at it. Considering that I would actually want at least three or four "users" (access wise), the plans are quite expensive. The fact that each user can have up to 600 aliases (which sounds great and is useful) doesn't matter much to me since the billing is per user (as opposed to some kind of mix and match of users and aliases). This makes their business model not suitable for my needs.
UPDATE: I decided to turn down the startup and stick with the contract. The comments here really helped me make my decision so I'd like to thank everyone for the very helpful advice.
Haha, we have the same thing in Iceland. It basically turns it into "Two tomatoes were walking across the road when one was hit by a car. The other one said, 'come here you tomato sauce'", which is a terrible terrible joke :)

My daughter messed it up even more and started with "Two tomato sauces were walking across the road..." at which point it's no longer a joke, just a story about a traffic accident...
He has that reputation but he has also improved a lot over the years.
With both emacs and vim you can certainly edit 500MB file. I concatenated all sources of recent Linux kernel 4.6.3 once. From what I remember it was all .c, .h and .S files. Resulting file has 542MB and 19'726'498 lines. I did it to test the text editor I am working on.

Some stats:

$ time vim -c 'edit kernel-total' -c q
real	0m8.162s
user	0m7.687s
sys	0m0.398s
$ vim kernel-total ^Z
$ ps aux | awk "/kernel-total$/ || NR == 1"
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
hawski 10467 2.7 17.1 805120 670988 pts/2 T 17:41 0:07 vim kernel-total
$ time emacs kernel-total -f kill-emacs
real	0m7.155s
user	0m6.869s
sys	0m0.237s
$ emacs kernel-total ^Z
$ ps aux | awk "/kernel-total$/ || NR == 1"
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
hawski 10825 43.8 14.8 857484 581152 pts/2 T 17:47 0:07 emacs kernel-total

With vim editing is quite smooth and with emacs it feels laggy. I only edited a bit, like entering a new line here and there, moving few pages down, going to the end of the file and to the top again. Saving is sluggish.
Any pointers / resources for DSP programming?
Check out Wikipedia's chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation#Laws_in_in...

Now, I overstated its ilegality in most cases, but the reality is that you actually have remarkably little choice when it comes to waiving all of your rights away. Try to volunteer for a medical procedure which is governed by, but not yet been approved by, the FDA.

Allowing people to "volunteer" for work in any condition for a for-profit company is also a very slippery slope. It would allow corporations to get around minimum wages, benefits, taxes... you name it. Not allowing volunteers is much better than allowing corporations to erode our rights as a workforce.
How would a non-technical recruiter know about developers and what's the difference between you and a technical recruiter?
> Ideally in the reddit way, there were actual discussions going on (except between 3 people not the 100 the usernames would success).

Comments weren't in the initial release of reddit, and wouldn't be added until the end of 2005^1. In the stories I've heard, the usernames were just for submitting stories, and the site was getting enough submissions on its own by the time comments were added.

[1] December 12, 2005. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no.... Reddit's first post was in June: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/87/the_downing_... .
Unfortunately it seems that the media, and many commenters only talk about the marginal profit and ignore all those fixed costs.

What's more, is that Mylan's costs would probably be much higher if they had to contact every school or district individually and sell them on this rather than show them legislation, meaning either a reduction in their gross margin (which is not huge) or an even further increase in prices.

And of course (gross) profit margins don't take the risk of failure into account.
This is good news. I like how they identified a precise mechanism that might contribute to it. Maybe eliminating at least one of these three in the body might knock out or reduce the condition. Depends on if other stuff is involved.
The Android app you should have installed
Unfortunately Karabiner is broken on Sierra; they are working on workarounds though.
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macOS Sierra support status

Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment.

We are developing Karabiner-Elements which provides simple key modification for macOS Sierra at first.
(Karabiner-Elements works on macOS Sierra except prefernces GUI.)
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https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Perhaps it will self-assemble. Could we build something from which a new type of emergent intelligence will appear on its own? After it happened in nature, though clearly it took a long time.
Rogan's podcast is absolutely perfect background listening.
The general setup seems to be that you have a public facing LB which just forwards all incoming traffic to any available fabio instance which handles the dynamic routing. fabio does not solve the public VIP problem for you.

Disclaimer: I'm the author.
We define it as:

Junior: requires supervision.

Mid: individual contributor: can take stuff and get it done.

Senior: goes beyond their own individual code, more involvement in larger project (process, architecture, people, client, ...)
It's much preferable to the extent it gets diluted.

The problem in Europe after Chernobyl was not that we were radiated to any appreciable extent, but the spread of cesium and iodine dust that got into the soil.

Even then the reason it had much effect at all is that things like mushrooms and certain plants will take it up and concentrate it, and become food for animals that end up in our foodchain (e.g. sheep and reindeer in Norway tend to roam freely and graze on public land). The risk from this is/was quite limited, but it is quite limited because it is managed by monitoring radiation levels of meat from affected areas.
What should be sex for AI?
Since until now humans are a bad tool to teach a computer how to become intelligent, I wonder if we should try to define what the concept of sex should be for AI. Many hackers many are seduced by new computer languages (like elixir) but perhaps that is not the ideal way of becoming a better programmer.

I envision an ecosystem of machines in which sex is the driving force for evolution, but first we need to define sex for AI. I hope that following this path of evolution human creatures can be seen as sexy by machines and that finally we can produce a new breed.

Edit: Genetic algorithms are not valid in this context since we want an autonomous evolving population, some key ingredient is missing. If someone suggest using genetic algorithm as an initial approach then objective function should evolve with the population in a recursive way, mimicking strategies and resources available in each generation and trying to detect new structures as valuable approach to explore.
I think it has to do with local incomes and land area. The GTA is massive when considering land area. Incomes don't compare to places like SF and NY. Although I might be wrong on the income front. A friend of mine remarked that lawyers and bankers in TO may be making 300K+. So maybe I'm wrong about local incomes being depressed.
Nothing fixes this type of junior engineer faster than giving them some real responsibility. Let them fail then learn from it. Don't hold them back because that just builds up resentment.
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It probably depends on the stage of your life. I had a house with backyard when I was single and didn't use it much.

Now, I have family and kids and totally enjoy having it even though I only get to use it 4-5 months out of the year:
- kids spend a lot of time there on the trampoline
- my wife has an organic garden and beautiful flowers
- my dog chases rabbits and squirrels
- enjoy being outside without having to go to a park (reading books, playing with my kids)
- family gatherings, BBQs and etc

There's no way I'm going back to living in an apartment or even a townhouse with no backyard unless I really have to...
What a lot of these analysts overlook is why Oracle is trying to take on Amazon, despite being years late to the party. I believe it's a defensive move: Oracle is seeing long-time customers deploy new applications in AWS, and that customer starts to realize, "hey, that went pretty well, why not move more of my stuff to AWS?" Their Oracle sales rep comes calling, and suddenly a once-reliable customer needs fewer Oracle licenses than last year.

Oracle therefore needs an answer to those customers transitioning to the cloud; they want their own cloud to sell. Oracle can undercut Amazon on price--even run their own cloud offerings at a loss for a while--because losing some money on their cloud is better than losing customers from their high-margin products.
I'm surprised somebody hasn't started a software company in a place like this. Maybe not the very out of the way island featured in the article but similar ones. Rent must be dirt cheap. I wonder how big a company (or collective of freelancers?) it would take to save a town like that.
We Enjoy Typing is the explanation I usually see.
I used to Go, now I Have.
And it fixes a few other unexpected problems as well.

We use SHA1 hashes of the CSS classes' contents as it's name when using CSS modules. This has the cool side effect of making any 2 classes that do the same thing to have the same name, and get de-duped in the final output, regardless of where they originated in the application.

When I saw it happen the first time, it really kind of cemented in the idea that this combined with a way to "punch through" the modularity to combine and extend "base" classes and include global colors (for us it's SASS imports) has pretty much "solved" CSS for me.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Ch..., Fukushima released about 900PBq of radioactivity, of which the vast majority went into the Pacific Ocean where it will be essentially harmless. Chernobyl released 5200PBq of which most fell on inhabited land in Europe.

What made Chernobyl so bad wasn't just that it melted down, but that the graphite moderator in the core caught fire and burned for days, which spread lots of core material far and wide.
> Move cursor to beginning of line

> Ctrl+E

Isn't it Ctrl+A?
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Oooh, I can break it down to just 2 personality types: men and women!
I've been happy with i3wm for quite a while now, a good balance of power user features and ease of use.
Because it's in the upper right gartner quadrant.
A user on my site ran into this while playing Go Fish. He was pretty surprised to see this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6430877/screenshot.png
Antibiotics are not given to livestock to reduce loss. They are given to increase mass.

Farming without prophylactic antibiotics--where antibiotics are only used to treat sick animals, as they are in humans--could meet the demand for food easily.
"but the title is clickbait"

Almost every Bloomberg title is clickbait [1]. Probably Bloomberg should be flagged for title correction.

Perhaps: "Canadian government offering relocation to homeowners from some declining villages"

Financial news readers may enjoy Reuters, which has far less irritatingly misleading titles.

[1] source: Bloomberg.com
BDR is coming to (unpatched) PostgreSQL 9.6
Extreme nitpick: the test which caused Chernobyl to explode was unauthorized, reckless, and far from routine. But this doesn't change your point overall.
I spoke to an MD/biochemist friend of mine about this issue recently, and was told that this really isn't that big a deal. Specifically that antibiotic resistance is usually a self-limiting trait, so bacteria that evolve that capability will quickly lose it when no longer in a hostile environment. So these 'superbugs' can be an issue in particular settings, like hospitals, but are unlikely to ever produce major global catastrophes, or spread much beyond those limited environments.

Can anyone else with more knowledge of this confirm/refute this perspective?

EDIT: I should point out he wasn't saying it was a total non-issue. Just that some of the fear-mongering about global pandemics and such was completely unfounded.
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>> Joe Rogan often on the 3 hour mark.
That's how long most morning radio shows are.