skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my own theory. The idea is that there are lots, lots and lots of tiny unspoken things which could make huge difference in long run. And those who successful doesn't necessary know their own tiny things they got right.

Let's say there are two persons A and B who is training in chess. Person A trained for X hours and became chess master. Person B trained for 10X hours and didn't get even close to master level.

The truth is that person A got some tiny unspoken ideas right (may be he even discovered them by coincidence). And person B got this tiny things wrong. No matter how much person B is training, he or she won't improve in chess until B find right way.

Sad story is that A couldn't even realize what exactly he got right and take it for granted. So when A explains B how he train/play, he or she could say very high level things (which you can find in any grandmaster book) skipping huge unspoken context.

That's why many people who read books written by chess grandmasters, don't become grandmasters. Chess grandmaster could try to explain you how he or she plays but these words has very limited power since unspoken context matters most.

So if you didn't progress much in chess after learning theory and practising and reading grandmaster's book, it could mean that you just missed something very fundamental tiny thing which nobody speaks about. May be your spatial representation of how pieces move in the board is not suitable that's why for you it requires more computational power to imagine whole dynamics of some given chess position. May be if you play other similar games and then return to chess, you fix your spatial representation of chess in your head. May be even solving math geometric puzzles will help you with that.

My point is that if you don't progress don't give up but don't bang your head against the wall. Instead think about more delicate things happen in your brain. Your goal is to find tiny thing in your head and fix it. I do believe if you find this needle in haystack, then you could make huge breakthrough.

I think true intellect lies in metacognition. I mean how you think about thinking, how you think about learning.
Couldn't you make your own fairly easily from a dentist chair? They cost quite a bit less, and have multiple swing arms for holding lights and tools that could be adapted to hold a screen and keyboard.
Great post-mortem; thanks for sharing such a detailed account.
"The USB ADC 3.0 defines minimum interoperability across analog and digital devices in order to avoid confusion of end-users because of incompatibility."
I'm a fan of GraphQL, but that's like saying "object-oriented programming is the solution to people leaving variables on the heap after they go out of scope". No, the solution is managed memory. OOP is a higher level of abstraction that happens to work better with managed memory.

See the analogy?
Are you thinking of this? http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
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Congrats, you got the joke! ;)

A staging area is just a list of things to commit. There are many ways to make lists. I personally use emacs because direct manipulation rocks. Complaining about a change in one way to make lists is silly—gitless introduces much more powerful basic mechanisms like uncommitted branching, and lists belong on top of these more powerful basic features; not underneath like in the traditional porcelain.
My impression up until recently is that actually holding onto Yuan outside of China is near-impossible, is this no longer the case?
Yes, by making a branch. Gitless allows you to branch and have unstaged, uncommitted changes on different branches. This extra power in branching is useful.
All sensible uses of PDF (except your first one; electronic signatures are ridiculous, but let's not get into that).

I'm talking about where pdf is used and shouldn't be.
Out of core algorithms, attatchment of data straight into R for a couple of very important things.
Just thinking out loud, perhaps start with calculating perceptual hashes [1] of frames in both videos and use the inter frame hash distances of videos as fingerprints. As I understand it, perceptual hashing is robust against both resolution and color variations.

[1]: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/432-Looks-Like-I...
It doesn't make a lot of sense that the other organs have evolved but the brain didn't.

I put it more down to it's harder to measure politically.

But I do think you need 'practice' to maximise your skills which the system fails many people.
You might be facing very byzantine leaderships. But you might also be severely overestimating your skills. Not only your technical ones but your political ones. A key requirement for a leadership position is being convincing. Social intelligence is of paramount importance. Leadership is not about technical acumen. It's about managing people. Getting them to trust you. You can't get people above to trust you and you think you will be able to make people bellow do?
Good slide deck, and I agree with most of it (and what I don't agree with is probably my own ignorance of the field).

I suspect there will be very few "pure AI" startups, and a ton of regular old tech startups that figure out how AI fits into their business faster than their competitors or figure out how to use it for a business advantage or to deliver a service that couldn't exist in that way before AI. With the early "like X but on the Internet" startups, the ones that succeeded in the biggest way (Amazon, for example) were the ones that built a great X that leveraged the internet to make it an order of magnitude better X.

So, Amazon was the best book store because they got everything right about being a regular bookstore (good prices, good service, efficient sales channel, solid relationships with publishers) and had damned near every book and could serve customers everywhere; a thing that is only possible on the Internet.

So, the best "X except with AI" company will be a great X company, and then AI will allow them to do some kind of force multiplier to push them to the top of the heap. That means we need to look for opportunities that currently require a lot of resources (say, people, or vehicles, or ) and can have AI added to it to make it produce 10x value given the same inputs. Even 2x value could be a big enough difference to beat your competitors at market, but the real out-of-the-park success stories probably need an order-of-magnitude boost from AI, even if it starts out slower because AI is still clumsy and most of the small companies are starting with tiny data sets (relatively speaking).

Anyway, mostly I think it's cool to play with. I think I see some ways to provide value and make some money with it, but it'll be as much an experiment as a business plan in the short term.
A suggested solution is 'career shares'. The CEO is required to hold shares granted from incentive scheme until retirement. Incentivising them to develop long-term value - http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/people/65/Brian/Ma...

I'll try and remember the name of UK CEO that successfully extracted £200m in incentive based remuneration over a ten year service. A service that saw the share price boom in early years, then by the end of the 10 years crash to below the starting price.
AOT can as well. PGO.
You can always move to Minnesota. You'll just need a good jacket.
Unrelated to the article, but I bookmarked this a few years ago when I first read it. It was my first real deep dive into a novel problem for a while and reminded me of why I like to build cool stuff. I never did anything with the knowledge, but that feeling of excitement and wonder still reminds me of the day I read it.

It was one of those "Hey, I could actually do this" moments in a space I thought I would have no hope without prior experience (signal processing)
There's outward niceness and human decency and then there're things like public policy. Take for example schooling or policing. You can't tell me St. Louis has the same level of dysfunction as SF. Conservative states are more likely to disadvantage the poor, disabled and minorities. There's also more likely to be localized corruption.

And that's not even taking into account culture and diversity which matter if you're a relatively new immigrant.
Yes it is. On the other hand, gcj still did it years ago. I guess some features like dynamic class loading are just not supported.
No, it is because NPAPI is a stability and performance nightmare. No sane person in 2016 would want to port it to Servo or anything else.
It's unfortunate that liberal people from California are moving to Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina. It may permanently alter the character of previously desirable areas.

... it's all a matter of perspective ...
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If this is real, and at 500 views, that has taken my top spot as most underrated YouTube video. Top spot was this[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfNZoXr6rQ
Actually, in Nim almost everything is an expression, including if blocks, case, and even except blocks.

Together with immutable "variables" (let) this encourages a pretty functional style. I'd just wish their support for lambdas and list comprehensions would be a bit better.
Agreed. Politics-wise Arizona is roughly in thirds between Republicans, Independents, and Democrats - http://www.azsos.gov/elections/voter-registration-historical... (though I think the general trend away from the major parties is occurring across the US). Arizona isn't homogeneous either: Flagstaff and Tucson tend to be more liberal than the Phoenix area. Judging any state by the politics of a slim voting majority I don't think paints the whole picture.
Also, a small file and stack based bytecode is often the most compact representation.
magit being the most prominent and most widely used. Within the emacs GUI.

Since magit was mentioned, I'll add 'fugitive', the Git wrapper for Vim described to be 'so awesome, it should be illegal.'
The USB-C spec is just terrifying. All that functionality. All those pins in a tiny space. High-voltage high-current power, in either direction. HDMI. Analog audio. Even supports USB. Either end can be the master. There's even a protocol to support a tiny display on the cable to tell you what's going on or what's wrong. And some more features I missed. Yes, the mobile handset industry wants to get down to one connector, but they may have overloaded this one.

Nobody is going to get 100% of this right for some time. Coming soon: lots of questions on Stack Overflow that begin "When I plug a USB-C cable between my X and my Y, ..."
Does this imply that "audio over lightning" is on the way? I'm looking at you, Apple.
I'm glad I'm getting a return on all the effort clicking street signs and store fronts on reCaptcha.
The select N+1 problem is a problem because of the overhead on each select, if that was free the graph navigation and relational set operations would match.

Reminds me of, "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is".
Thunderbird is still my email client and it's still getting updates. Not sure where it will be in a couple of years, but for now it's still very much decent. And I liked the idea behind PDF.js very much, have been a big fan, but it's still rendering documents incorrectly and doesn't do forms.

Mozilla is an organization that needs to be careful about allocating their resources. These projects are open-source and with enough interest they can continue. If Mozilla's Persona died, that's because it never had a future in the first place and killing it was the right call ;-)

And on Hello and Pocket, I really don't understand the drama. I think the Internet is making some of us way too pissy.
Sad to see my post get flagged despite the thought provoking discussion that it rooted. People on this site and people in general struggle with taking others' points of view. Even though I'm not actually a conservative, it's important not to judge others -- that is the mark of an educated mind.
I used to have a band teacher who said "practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
Any image where it is impossible to find the originating source, already used thousands of times on tumbler, blogs, and websites, and is under a certain resolution and size (thumbnail for example) falls into the category of fair use.
An interesting case where estate taxes are a problem was recently mentioned by a high school classmate who's a farmer in southern Arkansas: Many small farmers are land rich but cash poor. The property their family has been working for generations is now quite valuable and if they're not making a huge amount of profit - and most small farmers aren't - they won't have enough cash for the taxes to pass down along with the land to their children who will be forced to sell thus ending generations of farming in that family.
Man this reads like something out of a TV drama.

I don't think that's a coincidence. People copy what they see -- even if only unconsciously and because it's the first idea which comes to mind -- and for people who have no direct experience with crime, TV dramas make up most of what they have seen about it.
I hadn't even considered any of the BSDs (it's for servers in my mind - a stereotype :) ). I'm definitely going to give it a go. I have a small recording setup in a spare room to play with which is currently running linux.
But that one is low-tech, like the automatic robots in factories. It uses magnets under the road surface and RFID tags, see FROG link on the wiki page.

The OP article mentions high-tech sensors like stero cameras and LIDAR -technology that requires state-of-the-art computers and is used in Google self-driven cars, etc.
Well, "superior national interests" are invoked for so many much more serious things nowadays even if it has nothing to do with crucial interests.

Tax evasion is actually a crucial, existential problem for several countries. More so than terrorism. I, for one, welcome these exceptional measures in this case.
There are potentially very politically inflammatory issues that could come up if we start talking about genetic variation in intelligence in humans. Modern anthropologists are extremely keen to avoid any semblance of justifying racism.

But think about it like this: biological evolution works specifically by exploiting differences within a species. If every member of a species were exactly the same height, there would be no basis on which natural selection can encourage future changes in height. Humans got so much smarter than our primate ancestors specifically because there was a lot of variation in innate intelligence: the human ancestors who were smarter tended to live longer and have more offspring.

It would be completely nuts if that process just magically stopped, and humans all suddenly had equal intelligence, and differences in intelligence no longer played any role in reproductive success. That idea is completely counter to everything we know about how evolution works... it didn't happen with height or physical strength or hairiness or baldness or any of our other traits. The only reason to suppose it happened with intelligence or other mental traits is, as I said above, to avoid an inflammatory issue.
I would consider gentrification a form of economic segregation; as a consequence, the poor here are also disadvantaged but in very different ways.
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There are blue enclaves in Texas and Arizona. All of the major metros in Texas are, at their most conservative, still pretty moderate. Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso were all won by Obama in the last election, with El Paso and Austin being won by pretty considerable margins (>60% of the vote). In AZ, Tucson and Flagstaff are both pretty liberal. No idea about NC, but judging by the last election, there are at least a few counties that voted for Obama.

Now, granted, outside of the major metro areas, things get more conservative, but if you're comparing it to CA, I'm guessing you haven't spent much time in the central valley.
Why would a streaming service need it? Don't they already know the identity of the music they're streaming? Or am I missing something?
Ah yes, that has been sold and split off more strongly recently.
You're right, I think I misread the algorithm.
Your standards are based on living in a society of fat people. At 149 you'd still be sporting copious amounts of flab.
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The same vehicles are actually being tested in Switzerland by the Post:

https://www.postauto.ch/smartshuttle

https://www.post.ch/en/about-us/company/media/press-releases...

https://www.post.ch/en/about-us/company/media/press-releases...

Unfortunately, it seems they just shut them down after a minor incident.
You mean, nobody will manage to do it exactly as in Lightning?

It is already being done.
For my part, I have no desire to live in such an enclave when state-level conservative politics are leaning towards active preemption of local liberal lawmaking.
> "I hate to say it, but Mozilla needs to die so it can be reborn--again. Every so often, the tree of browser needs to be cleansed with the blood of layoffs--something like that. Then their successors can focus on making a good browser instead of chasing more millions."

And you're thinking that because in all of human history, a success story happened exactly once.

Not much of a sample dude and if I were to bet, I'd say that if Mozilla dies, then Firefox will be completely dead as well, because the market dynamics have completely changed since 1998. The elephant in the room being that developing a browser takes a lot of resources and can no longer be done by a bunch of students on their free time.

> "Mozilla just wants the noobs, because that supposedly brings in the most money."

That's a really condescending and damaging attitude. Most of us are in this industry to serve the needs of the "noobs", in order for them to be better at their own jobs. It's how society works you know.
Forget about the salesman, that's the best bit:

"Did you know Goldman had an extraction team? In my time selling equity derivatives, it never came up."
Fish can do nonfreezing cryogenic hibernation natively.
The article says the headphones would have a DAC. You gotta get those headphone cones pumpin' somehow!
And fully sandboxed on both macOS and iOS!
The analog audio is the supposedly less common and it still requires some digital hardware in the connector to negotiate the move. Might add well put a small cheap DAC and amp in.

I'm pretty sure analog only headphones will become quite rare. Still much better than forced digital only.
His reasoning violates information theoretic bounds on lossy compression algorithm performance.
And the Chinese know better and are buying real estate in Canada.
I don't appreciate the "cost of living" salary differential excuse, and let me tell you why... Ask yourself, does Microsoft charge me less for Windows or Office if I live in, say, Kansas? No, they don't.
(I should've said most-constrained)
Like others have said here I'd advise against it.

It will absolutely put you in a position of weakness in the future because everywhere you go you'll have to be like "I was using Delphi in my last job ... but believe me I'm good and I know modern stuff too!".

The exception I would say is if you are some kind of big shot developer with a big proven public track record that has people offering him jobs every day and so on so you just don't have the worry of having to prove yourself to others in the future. In that case ask for a super high salary and go for it if you feel it's right.
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I use a setup like this and it's the only reason I can keep working. The price seems high, but it's nice that it can convert to a standing desk. It's hard to believe that it will become popular, though.
I remember that HotSpot was promising faster than GCC -O2. This sort of over promising was good for presentations to the Schmidt and McNealy types.
In terms of "real answers", I would only be confident in answering 3 and 12. The others either don't have any answer, or the answer might vary depending from one day to the next. For example if you ask me my favorite sport, I might answer "football" if asked during, well, football season, when it's on my mind. At some other time, I might answer mountain biking, jiu-jitsu, MMA, wrestling, BMX, or something else.

Yeah, I hate these kinds of questions.
Yes Nim has the reputation of being a Python-like system programming language.
Blender is great. The best thing for me is that you can automate everything. The API is very good.
I haven't click through to the article yet, so I'll just respond to the headline now with something I've been saying for a long time:

Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, it could very well just make you habitually wrong.
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Lightning is none of those things.
yes, for sure, totally agree. Which reminds me of the number one rule - don't talk. Shut up and ask for your attorney. She got lucky and is a prime example of an exception to the norm as many of us know what that means. Again, don't talk to cops. She was foolish to consent to the search without a warrant.
Not yet, but eventually that is supposed to be the goal.
Because Java was originally designed for set-top TV boxes and appliances, where it's kind of a big deal that you don't need to know or care what OS or processor each appliance is using internally.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050420081440/http://java.sun.c...

When the appliance market didn't pan out, they went for web browsers and Java applets. Bytecodes were a feature because browsers didn't exectute native code, and because it allowed for sandboxing to limit the attack surface.

Even when Java became more popular on the server than in the browser, the "write once, run everywhere" was considered a major feature: The same bytecode could be distributed everywhere; no need to maintain a heap of different build environments for different CPU architecture and OS combinations.
What do you think about the Three.js editor?

A common workflow is to use the Blender Three.js exporter for exporting models, then compose the scene with the Three.js editor, and do the rest in code.
I'm not sure what you mean. I use this every day in my car.
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Which BMI are you using? The traditional BMI isn't great for very short people - but for the opposite reason you give.

Traditional BMI makes short people think they're thinner than they are.
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We booted a fresh GKE 1.4 cluster yesterday to migrate from our old 1.3 cluster.

Looking at the machine, it looks like this is a fork(?) of CoreOS:

$ grep core /etc/passwd
core:x:5000:5000::/home/core:/bin/bash

$ cat /etc/os-release
BUILD_ID=8820.0.0
NAME="Container-VM Image"
GOOGLE_CRASH_ID=Lakitu
VERSION_ID=55
BUG_REPORT_URL=https://crbug.com/new
PRETTY_NAME="Google Container-VM Image"
VERSION=55
GOOGLE_METRICS_PRODUCT_ID=26
HOME_URL="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/"
ID=gci

$ toolbox
Spawning container core-debian-jessie-backports on /var/lib/toolbox/core-debian-jessie-backports.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.

If not a direct fork, it certainly uses the same base Chromium OS (which is no surprise) and uses some of the same toolsets that CoreOS uses.