skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glassdoor salaries for Google Switzerland: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Salary/Google-Zurich-Salaries-E...

The average base salary seems to be CHF 136,344 (USD 140,000) per year.
Not even starving. Look up ashens on YouTube. Maybe it was just for kicks.
>This sounds fairly similar to the 51% attack prevention in Bitcoin

With the advantage that in this case you can set an arbitrary threshold. You could for example only update your clock if 80% of your time servers agree on a time, or 90%, depending on your risk aversity.

>could one get a reliable ~10 second accurate timestamp from the bitcoin blockchain or a modification of it?

You are right that Bitcoin is essentially a timestamping system, but it only timestamps every ten minutes (some other cryptocoins go down to one minute). The protocol is also quite forgiving: you can back-date a block by up to rwo hours. There is also no mechanism for figuring out whether you have all the existing blocks, meaning any blockchain based timeserver could still be tricked into reporting an earlier date by preventing him from receiving the newest blocks.

In short I think bitcoin (and other blockchain technology) is great for proving that information already existed on a certain day or even in a certain hour, but I don't think you can make a usable time-synchronization system out of them.
Maybe if TechCrunch speaks ill of Apple they will offer them a similar PR exclusive as a mea culpa
The 1.5 TB is just for 1024 (8 bit each) dimension feature vectors for 1 frame per second on first 300 seconds of 5 Million videos.

You can actually download each shard (~300 Mb) separately. They haven't yet released the PCA matrix and quantization parameters used with inception model, but should release them soon.
Back in 2008 I was running a design agency. We were always looking at ways to work better together and so one day we applied "pair-programming" approach to the UX part of a project.

I must say that it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. We wouldn't always sit right next to each other and only let one person do the work, sometimes we would work on each of our machines but we would maybe spend 70% of the time with only one of us working and the other observing.

From that day I have always tried to do as much sitting together to solve especially the hard parts together, as possible.

A lot of the times we get caught up in these methodologies as if you can only do one or the other.

At least in UX it helps quite a lot when you have some nuts to crack. You don't need to do it 100% of the time, in fact you don't need to do it at all, but it definitely a helpful tool for UX designers if they can get beyond the "someone looking over my shoulder" issue and (I think this is very important) find a good partner to do it with.
4 years ago, when I was working in Deloitte, it was impossibile to think about using Apple products, half of the software wouldnt work! Good to see some change, are visio and project compatibile now?
"Low carb, adequate protein, high fat" is a more accurate description of this diet.

The other Keto adage is "calories count, but don't count calories". Meaning, if you eat a high fat diet, you naturally will feel full.
logging and metrics are sent elsewhere to be consumed and queried.

I build machine images with packer that get provisioned during the deployment pipeline. That single machine is then put into a cluster with x number of copies. If one dies I don't care, the cluster provisions another automatically.
With this latest GitSense iteration for Bitbucket Server, Bitbucket users can now perform always relevant code searches, which is something you can't do in GitHub Enterprise or GitLab EE. It also introduces what I believe to be a first of its kind, which is a code search tree. With this tree, you can drill into your code search results, by traversing a tree, which can come in handy for situations where you have 100s of matches.
That's a great goal to have! But if you're putting energy into a flow using a propeller or fan, aerodynamic stall means that each propeller can only put a limited amount of energy in. This is why jet engines have so many compressor stages - each one adds as much energy as it can without stalling out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine#/media/File:J85_ge...

In the engine pictured, which has 8 compressors in a row, the energy which those fans are able to put into the flow is miniscule compared to the energy that you can dump in by burning fuel (or electricity) in the tiny combustion chamber.

F-16 in afterburner is consuming 64,000 pounds of fuel per hour = 18 pounds per second
A pound of Jet-A has 20 MJ per pound.

So that's 360 MW of thermal power. Even if you're only turning 10% of that into usable thrust, that's 36MW of power.

Here's what a 35MW power plant looks like:
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/ctds_chp/ctds_chp5....

The people working on electric jets are well aware of the Carnot limit, and it's true that they don't want that. But for now, we'd need a lot of new tech to put 35MW of thrust power into a flow using electric motors and fans. Heck, we need a lot of new tech to put 350MW of power electronics onto an airplane!! My only point is that I don't think we should look down our noses at the people working on thermodynamic machinery. Until we can do better, they're the best we've got :)
If 99% of cars on the road are autonomous, it will probably be very difficult to hit one with a self-driven car, so liability costs won't be high. And unless Miata parts and labor skyrocket in price for some reason, comprehensive and collision costs aren't likely to be high either, and one can always skip both.
My experience with Android's STT:

Accents: Supposedly it works well for US english. I don't speak US english. Trying to force it usually works worse than when I had to force myself to speak Finland-Swedish for my old Nokia phones.

Punctuation: It's really annoying to have to say "dot" or "comma" all the time, and it often seems to get it wrong anyway.

Vocabulary: When messaging I rarely only use "common" words. Gaming stuff gets garbled (I just tried, and it interpreted "raid at 8" as "Friday 8"), and band names or tech-related stuff doesn't fare much better. Bonus points if it's a weird spelling or international name. Good luck getting it to recognize Movits!, Dimaa, or Nekrogoblikon, you'll need it.

Correction: I often say the bad thing, especially when under pressure from the STT timeout. AFAIK there is no way to have it delete the last N words.

Multiple languages: I switch between Swedish and English often enough that I usually forget to switch keyboard. For a keyboard this means getting wrong autocorrections, for voice input this means getting garbage. I know Android STT supports selecting multiple languages, but then it gets confused and switches back and forth all the time.

At this point, I basically only use the voice input for setting bed/egg timers with Google Now. I would use it for navigation home/to work, but I don't have a car and Maps' bike instructions are awful.
This is about whether or not it is possible to solve the hard problem of consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

I think the underlying issue here is the limitations of human understanding. There are really only two possibilities here. One is that human knowledge can come to understand everything, as in absolute mysticism where the mind merges with all of reality. As to why it takes absolute mysticism, it's because the various finitudes we experience are greatly interconnected, and so if you are going to abolish one, the others need to go, too.

The other position is that human understanding is always limited. I and many other philosophers in the last century or so (such Neitzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Whitehead, the later Wittgenstein, Strawson, and all the Pragmatists) believe that human beings, as finite, mortal creatures, are inherently finite in their understanding, and so there will always be mystery.

As to where the dividing line lays, I think the hard question of consciousness is one topic on the other side. One good argument here comes from Colin Mcginn, who says that the human brain is not designed to answer this sort of question.
Anyone else getting an error when saving credit card information?
I do love me some terraform. Mainly use spinnaker these days
Oh, great. So all the companies that have recently had the most problems with ethics issues and user privacy issues are now collaborating in order to more effectively address those issues? Pardon me if my scoffing is audible.
Would there be an issue with just using a google voice number and never share that?
I think your example actually harms your argument. The SR-71 is a nice plane, and certainly much more advanced than the Wright Flyer, but it is completely outclassed by the Saturn V. The space technology is much more complex, and much more energetic, and has far tighter tolerances, and less room for failure. You should have been making this same argument in the early sixties. Right now we do have the technology, the engines, the fuel, the deep-space communications network. We need to scale up the engines to rival the power of God Almighty, but we don't need new physics to do so.

Musk is pointing out, correctly, that this is possible with existing rocket technology -- at least the transportation. Keeping people alive once they're there is apparently somebody else's problem, but until we have the materials science for a space elevator, an obscenely heavy lift vehicle will probably have to do. Ultimately he's going to be asking a lot of people to climb on top of a monstrous Engine and hope that it explodes correctly, and I hope that his conscience is clear when that day dawns. Probably you are right that we're going to have a hell of a time keeping people alive on Mars, but we seem to have a tough time of that here as well.

This is not science fiction. There is no new physics required, just some fiendishly difficult engineering challenges. The Wright Brothers were able to build their plane because there was nothing physically stopping them. They had the scientific knowledge and the dedication, and everything else followed. Really it's not that people -- even Presidents -- haven't been talking about doing this and working on details and preliminaries for decades. This is news precisely because it's not science fiction. This time, it could actually happen.
Fascinating. In Tennessee at the turn of the millennium, I knew many students who were working 6-hour shifts at fast-food joints after school and were working several nights a week. That doesn't even take into account the kids who had to work at their family's businesses (farms, stores, etc.).
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Probably because sorting human-oriented dates is not a trivial task, as it is for recursive listings.
It means "shower" in French.
Sad to not see Baidu on there.
Uh, you're just making this up. You have no idea whether the "microphone" (by the way, for those who are not fact-averse, it's dual beam-forming mics) in the new wireless earbuds is "laughable".

They aren't even released yet. You've never tried them. You have no idea whatsoever.

By the way, it's actually very easy to teach Apple's devices the word "fucking". You haven't figured it out yet, but that doesn't make it Apple's fault. Did you try Googling it yet or spending five seconds figuring it out yet? I can assure you, I'm quite able to use any profanity I want on Apple's devices; they learned about my inclination towards profanity years ago and have flawlessly handled it since.
Probably he referred to Spain's situation where several regions want independence and they also happen to be wealthiest - Basque country and Catalunya. They have their own culture and own language. That happens inside (!!! ) a country in Europe .
That is how client-server games already work. The server has the full world state, and each client has a subset necessary to render the world for that player. Ideally the absolute minimum subset, so as to reduce the potential for cheating (wallhacks, etc.).

The purpose of streaming is to remove the need for the simulation and rendering at all. The client is a dumb terminal that just renders frames and records input.

The moment you start making the client smart again — making it aware of a subset of the world state, making it do its own rendering based on the input — you've just reinvented current client-server gaming.
I think we can probably write a cockroach simulator that would pass a "cockroach turing test". Cockroaches aren't magic, it'd be simple heuristics to emulate something that'd pass as a cockroach to an average person. And with expert domain specific knowledge on cockroaches, we could probably build something sophisticated and very cockroach like.

BTW, I'd like anyone to find me a cockroach that can beat Lee Sedol at Go.
No disagreement.
On the need for an open Security Journal
Is 1700 for a 1BR considered "Low COL" ?
Smart health checks and logging should take care of that and remove the instance automatically. You can also spin up a canary machine to "live" debug. I'm referring to distributed clusters not a single machine taking on all the traffic.
It’s crazy how bad Google translate is, try it with any German text, and you’ll get 90% understandable garbage out.

But that could have more to do with how crazy the German language is ;)

Downvoter(s): German sentences -are- intrinsically more complex ("crazy") on average, than English sentences. This is a known, and fairly basic point. So it's not surprising that they should be correspondingly difficult for translation algorithms to "chew on", and provide 1-1 mappings for.
Definitely. Amazon would fire them after about the second time. They have much better data and know exactly which one of their people makes a mistake.

When you give bad shipping feedback, if the same person gets bad feedback multiple times, they get retrained and then fired.
New Galaxy Note 7 reportedly explodes in China, burns customer’s fingers
I have 100% certainty that Musk is not.
I noticed that too. They are being overworked. They are still relatively happy, but I see their stress levels rising.

I know UPS has a few different modes of employment. Some guys supposedly lease their vans, and are kinda self-employed. I'm not sure.

I see my UPS driver still delivering packages at midnight.

I have never had much of a problem with UPS. I just hope they arn't taking advantage of their employees.

I have thought about making a better, smarter, bigger mailbox. A mailbox that would be more secure. I don't want to give away details, but would what do you guys think?

Say if you could buy a mailbox that would scan your mail, and alert you you through an email? A larger mailbox you could lock remotely after recept of a important delivery. Or, is it a bad idea?

I've never had a problem with shipping insurance, or a company replacing an item that was stolen. I have never had a problem with stolen mail, but it's a problem in certain areas. I'm just throwing it out there, is it a bad idea.
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> Have you ever driven on a busy road way before?

Yes, on a regular basis.

Have you ever tried reporting a dangerous or aggressive driver to the police?

> Police cannot, and arguably should not have the ability to, monitor drivers 100% of the time

They should, and ability is only a matter of time.

There is no right to being an asshole in a large, loud, dangerous machine.

> For the most part they are forced to resort to what can be considered scare tactics just to place the idea in driver's heads that they might be caught.

For the most part, they do nothing at all.

> The idea that doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or whatever is necessary, police activity will enable autonomous drivers is absurd.

You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens).
Do any of the large tech companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple) have offices in Chicago?
I find the 'one slider per program' frequently useful. Different programs can be outputting at wildly different levels. I might have my music playing at a comfortable volume, then discover a video on YouTube I want to watch, and it comes in painfully loud, such that I'm immediately reaching for the volume control on the speakers or yanking off my headphones. Then when the video's over, I get to turn my speakers/headphones back up.

With only a single master volume control I'm often fiddling with it to keep things at a reasonable level. With per program volume, I'm fiddling with levels less often and spending more time just listening.
I feel like I'm having a stroke when I see those shutters. You're not the only one.
> most drivers seem to have forgotten that it's illegal at all

And many police officers, for that matter...
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> This site is mostly college-aged leftist millennials.

They're balanced (or perhaps more than balanced) out by the college-aged libertarian millennials, so that isn't a good explanation.
It entirely depends on the people. At my old place it was UPS that went out of their way to deliver things early, make sure it wouldn't get stolen, etc. FedEx was the opposite.

Now here in SF USPS is great, except on my carrier's off day. The sub doesn't give a shit, delivering to the wrong address, throwing packages in the bushes, or just leaving packages behind for my normal carrier to deliver a day late.
A cheap featurephone is pretty small, and you can even run a J2ME TOTP client, besides SMS.
They're making a choice that endangers their own kids and other people.

They should be thumped, when airing their views in public, so their ignorance doesn't spread.
He hasn't been hiding his frustration with the committee's progress. However, when asked about that, he also said he values the democracy and committee process more than his own ideas. On the option of being a "Benevolent C++ Dictator for life", he said "Power Corrupts".
Yes, the same thing is true of the real traditional buildings. They are not overdone, they just are.
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E) Your health checks notice the machine is acting up and it is removed from the cluster and another provisioned. In a distributed environment all of your nodes should be designed to be immutable and stateless. That's the advantage of running them at scale horizontally
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/pair/btc/usd/bitstamp/10-da...
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http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html The original blog post introducing systemd on 30-APR-2010.

The first points that it details regarding the thesis of systemd is that it is a good init system, and a good init system is fast, and that SysV init is not fast.

The first time it begins talking about things a service management system should be interested in is about half-way through with "Keeping Track of Processes".

It spends roughly the rest of the document on important service management things, but to dismiss the idea that "systemd is about speed" is a myth is too much.

systemd IS about speed of booting -- during the development there were flame graphs showing how doing all this in parallel you could make the system boot really really fast. A lot of time was spent making the boot process with systemd minimal, or speedy.

Personally I'd prefer a less speedy service management system that didn't open listening sockets for my daemons so that it could deal with starting services out-of-order... to make the boot occur in a more parallel fashion... to make the boot faster.
Interesting question! This article says how many medals were won in Rio by people born in each state - http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/rio-olympics-medal-count-b.... It doesn't make a lot of sense to count how many medals were won by people living in each state since the facilities for some sports are focused in a single state. Way beyond me to figure out who didn't make the Olympics, whether they would have medalled, and what states they are from :)
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> Mississippi's GDP per capita being similar to that of France, Italy or Spain is really hard to reconcile with the fact that many of us would love to live in the latter countries and couldn't be paid to move to Mississippi.

Remember good GDP versus bad GDP; a traffic jam increases GDP, but isn't anything particularly worth buying. Accumulated capital (like Notre Dame and the Louvre) doesn't show up in GDP either, and if anything tends to lower it. There's a lot of bad GDP and not much capital accumulation in the US...

Climate also doesn't show up in GDP, now that I think of it, and I think that has a lot to do with the Mississippi situation. Who wants to live in hundred-degree heat with hundred-percent humidity?
> I think we can agree at least on one thing. Lack of privacy makes undemocratic regimes more effective (at oppressing people) and possibly longer lasting provided they can actually access any data that people give up to advertisers.

Well, yes, but I think it's a mistake to divide the world into "undemocratic regimes" and "democratic paradise". It's a sliding scale and not a binary distinction, and every democracy on earth has some rather undemocratic stuff going on.

> I'm not convinced that this is reason enough to ban advertising based business models in democratic countries.

Not advertising based business models, but surveillance based business models.

> We can't live our lives preparing for the day democracy ceases to exist.

The point isn't to prepare for the day democracy ceases to exist, but to prevent it from ceasing to exist. Why can't we do that?

> Any negative effect the lack of privacy has on stable democracies seems small and rather speculative in the first place.

How do you know that?

> I don't believe it's a real threat. You do believe that. So we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one.

Nope, we don't have to "agree to disagree". I don't just believe that because I believe that, I believe that for what I think are good reasons, which can be examined for their logical consistency and for consistency with reality/evidence. Now, possibly you aren't interested in doing that, which is your decision to make, but that's not some kind of unavoidable fate, it's simply your disinterest in the matter.

> Also, I'm not convinced that globally the effect of Facebook, Google or Twitter on democracy is a negative one. On the contrary. Free services provided by overseas companies are often the only way for people in undemocratic countries to get around their local police state. Pay services are even more at odds with privacy than ad based business models.

Possibly. Though it should be noted that free services do not necessarily have to be surveillance-based services. There are lots of free to use IRC networks, for example. Or Tor is also free to use. But those are not surveillance-based offerings. And not even advertisement has to be surveillance-based.
Rural Southern drivers are hardly safer than Boston drivers though; jacked up bro trucks with ignorant, inattentive drivers aren't exactly a recipe for safety.
> “We want to involve people impacted by AI as well,” said Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and head of applied AI at DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet.

Who believes that this is to favor users, believes in everything.