skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stephen Shore is one of my favourites. It might help to think of this image as representative of a body of work, which makes it legible. (and, let's not forget, financially valuable). It's not the greatest Shore image.

Shore has a good "eye", which is something subjective that needs training to develop and recognize. It's very plausible that the particularity of a given artist's "eye" will be quantifiable by AI systems soon.

Shore wrote a popular book called "The Nature of Photographs". Recommended.
>Intercooler depends on JQuery, version 1.10.0 or higher.

I don't have any real problems with jQuery being in the mix for intercooler. Even with that, jQuery appears to be an underlying library used for convenience rather than a library an intercooler coder would have to know and code against.

I do appreciate the irony when taken in context with the original article though.
Actually there's absolutely no face detection in there !
Well, here's the thing. Some of us have deeply mainstream tastes. We mostly like the food that's served in chain restaurants, the music that plays on the radio, and the movies that play at the multiplex. If we venture outside that to more exotic material, the experience is usually more alienating than delightful.

Burning Man is made for the exact opposite type of people. It's for people who find all things mainstream stifling, and are driven to break out of it in some way. It's for people who are into producing or consuming something, anything, that's several sigma off mean. That's what it celebrates. And for those of us who are really not into that stuff, going there is at best a waste of time.
If the goal of your company is to avoid getting sued, then you don't actually have a company. Companies hire to achieve real goals.

You seem to be implying that a company that wanted to grow their workforce is better off actively filtering out people on the basis of their age. Why do you think that?
F3 – Live Code 3D Form Mac App
I don't know if this is a _general_ downside of NSE, but in the specific context of dplyr, I've found that the focus on NSE has made it a pain to do things in a standard-evaluation way, like if you're writing general functions that use dplyr under the hood.

Dplyr provides SE versions for most all functions, but you frequently need `lazyeval::interp` when building expressions that do work (e.g. for `mutate_`): https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/nse....

Notice that document avoids full examples of se-dplyr + lazyeval; I suspect this is purposeful because it tends to look horrid compared to the usual NSE approach. That said, dplyr is still an amazingly productive paradigm shift and I'll keep using it.
The EU strategy can solve regulatory problems seen in the US, but it introduces other problems to be solved: funding can become more difficult (although the normal rules wouldn't seem to apply to this group), import/export and taxes become complicated, management from a distance is hard, etc. Keeping in mind that Theranos was trying for a US government contract, their US focus makes sense and the LDT pathway was a good idea. It's a shame that their corporate culture and management were wholly inadequate.
Yes, I said there's a lot here that is interesting, and I think the actual interesting stuff was seriously downplayed. I don't find the stuff that was presented as "earth-shattering". The ability to show a moving video in a 2d square in a 3d environment is as old as hardware accelerated first person shooters.

We saw swimming among sharks and walking on Mars, both having potential for highly informative and educational experiences. The rhetoric wasn't about how much richer viewing Mars is interactively vs with flat, composite panoramas. The Mars bit was about ~12 seconds with talk about how it was desolate and they wouldn't want to live there… quick, get us out and here and lets move on to… the Facebook offices (a more uninspired location for Zuckerberg to choose I can not imagine). Oh, let's play a card game and let's draw a sword for sword fights! The ability to draw in midair and interact with the thing drawn is the real interesting stuff, stuff that we haven't been able to do before, and this was a demo that said, to me, "Farmville is coming to virtual reality".

Where was showing us things we can't currently, easily do without virtual reality? The live walk through of a building yet to be built? The facilities engineer working with plumbers and electricians on a live, interactive 3d model of a building? The interior designer doing interactive, full-size test fits of furniture? The student walking on the surface of other planets for study prep? The inclusiveness and team building of a remote team working in the same virtual space (this was mentioned briefly in the face expressions portion)? The ability to create and dynamically reconfigure complex user interfaces that would be otherwise impossible to create in reality? Leveraging the facial expressions to read people while playing poker would have been more interesting and a step above current on-line poker playing, more so than "look, we can throw around these cards".

Most of this bit looked like it was scripted. It could have been scripted better to showcase actual advances VR enables, kept the "ooh ahh", maintained the conversational tone and gotten rid of the mundane stuff. I don't think "placing a video call from the outside world into VR" is "pretty amazing".
I wouldn't ever buy content I will own with DRM, but if you think you'll ever see streaming without DRM you're crazy. Personally I've done my fair share of pirating for various reasons, and I think streaming services are the ONLY reasonable use case for DRM. You aren't actually purchasing content.
This means there are people who died who otherwise would not have. So weigh the loss of everything those people would have contributed to society and the economy over the increase in stock value.
I like this interpretation too!
thats a great trade. trying to address these issues after the fact by establishing protected classes, affirmative action, hiring diversity programs and punitive law suits is a losing game for so many reasons.

since the value of people's hands and backs is rapidly decreasing, we need a much better framework for harvesting the important things like creativity from the working population.
I don't agree. Planck (https://github.com/mfikes/planck) is quick and great for command line utilities written in ClojureScript. It runs on macOS' built-in JavaScriptCore. There's also an alpha version that runs on Ubuntu.

Please check the Planck User Guide's section on Scripts
http://planck-repl.org/scripts.html
Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?
One of the issues is sometimes, it's okay to do things in a non-standard way for effect. The other issue is it seems to think the only thing that matters in photography is depth of field.

For example, this kind of generic picture of my son during the fall got an 8.2:
http://imgur.com/a/SOFE0

Where as this other picture I took, one I think is technically superior recently got a 7.1:
http://imgur.com/a/VeEL9

And then there was this one I took in Rome, which got a comment of "not enough blur" which is the exact opposite of what I wanted. This is a fiat in rome, the background is the entire point. rated at 6.2
http://imgur.com/a/zLStt

Compared to this pretty generic musuem pic... that's not really interesting in any way, but managed to get an 8.2 (probably because of the blur)
http://imgur.com/a/Szc9I
> They need academics to provide economic advice but it should be impartial right?

And brits are more impartial, is that it?
When I was in high school I belonged to a club that ran two events every year. The spring event pulling in people from a 100 mile radius, the fall one from two states away. Other organizations in bigger nearby towns had a wider draw but for a town of 100,000 we were pretty well known.

When I joined the same guy had been president of the club for years. And it wasn't until after I went to college that he retired, mostly from the grumbling. The fall event was run by a local business but manned by us and workers from another local business (the owner of the latter is now the mayor). And of course without the excellent town and county infrastructure services, few would have come that far.

It wasn't until I grew up and moved away and joined other clubs that I realized how much hard and smart work these people were doing, and how tremendously hard it is to replicate.

When an event almost goes right, it's easy to forget that because you only see the thing that went wrong.
Indeed, it does not like my 4x5s, but it does like some anime figure pictures I took with my cell phone.

I think it basically looks to see if something is in focus, and you know the "rule of thirds", which it must have learned from custom-cropped photos uploaded to 500px.
> But I didn't even apply. Perhaps this was a mistake on my part. I just had a feeling that my history of developing successful products for Google wouldn't count for much - that instead I'd get logic puzzles, quizzes about algorithmic minutiae and have to code a red-black tree on the spot on a whiteboard - all things that favor recent CS grads.

Yes that seems to be how it works. https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

"Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off."

My interview process with Google only made it to the technical phone screening because I didn't know the Big O complexity of read/write/sort for Trie structures. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie) The interviewer was pretty cool and we had an interesting technical discussion, so I wouldn't consider it a complete waste of time.
The whole point of Dash was to make documentation offline.
Apple HDTV: Why Apple isn’t releasing its own TV set
Young Detroit entrepreneurs profiled in 'Generation Startup' documentary
iamleppert, are you me? I went through literally the exact same situation (same problem with the manager, same outcome, etc.), though instead of quitting I finished the pip and switched to a new team (I was already on another team by the second or third day of the pip as I was taking it to HR, which doesn't always work out - it did in this case).

New team thought it was absolutely ridiculous I was on it, as did many members of the original team. I finished the pip just fine. I work at Large Transportation Company. Same shit over here.

Once I was working with a manager that loved the fact I'm gay, I do great work, stress levels are down (or at least, the stress incurred is the 'fun' kind of stress), etc.

I do agree the review process is ridiculous - I've never been in a company where they had them prior to this. We were told to choose 2-5 coworkers that were really involved in our day to days within the review period (6 months), and after doing so my manager went in and added the rest of the team (including coworkers I barely saw that I had one or two interactions with over the course of months), including other coworkers that had made very brash comments about my boyfriend/age or about gays in general.

Manager used that shitty feedback from three out of the nine total employees that reviewed me (that otherwise gave pretty glowing reviews) to initiate the pip.

There was a whole bunch of other BS with the situation - e.g. a manager and another coworker joking about satanic rituals against us in our team HipChat room - that I really don't feel like going into detail about that just added insult to injury.

What's worse, there has been no investigation into the matter much past asking the offending manager to "talk about things". Oh well.
Not an expert, but I think an important part of this is only releasing male mosquitoes, and separating them at scale is generally considered to be difficult (there have been other successful uses of SIT but always with different species).

From their FAQ it sounds like they have made progress on this front:

> What has Debug accomplished so far?

> We've developed methods for automated mosquito-rearing, and we know that we can separate males from females with high precision, and we’re continuing development of these technologies at larger scale in our lab.
Deeplooks: quantify the physical good-looks of people through deep learning
Intro to Web Application Data Security and Cryptography
Everyone has some bad tastes at times, no ? :)
But yeah, it's not perfect yet!
How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders
I Begin My Hip-Hop Dance Journey
I am also unaware of Stephen Shore, and have not seen this picture before. I guess we can chalk it up to different tastes - I think this picture is amazing. It captures the feeling of the place.
​Death of the internet: GIF at 11
You need to read gwern's link more closely. Second paragraph:

This indicates that the medium effect size is due to methodological problems and that n-back training does not increase subjects’ underlying fluid intelligence
We (ZeroTier) do P2P on mobile just fine. I just randomly pinged my phone over a virtual network to check.

Granted it depends on how chatty a P2P system is and how much it depends on intermediate nodes for network assist. Ours is pretty idle when nothing is happening, so it doesn't impact battery life or bandwidth quotas very much.

The best design for a P2P network with more involved nodes would probably be to allow nodes to elect their level of availability to perform network assistance roles. Another alternative would be to build a network with two kinds of nodes: 'large' and 'small.' Large nodes could assist small ones.

It's a solvable problem. To some extent "you can't do P2P on mobile" is a dated idea that came from the era when phones were pretty tiny CPU and RAM wise, networks were slower, mobile OSes were more restrictive to background processes, and the battery cost of things like CPU and network I/O was higher. All these things have improved dramatically in recent (past 1-2 years) phone models. The iPhone 7 and the latest Samsung phones have near-desktop-class processors and radios have become more power efficient.

You do have to do a few things differently. One thing we do is to temporally group / quantize background I/O. Instead of sending packets whenever we feel like it, we do it in longer spaced batches when the network is otherwise idle. This saves a lot of battery power by causing the radio to only wake from sleep once for a batch of routine network traffic instead of waking constantly.
Many people (myself included) would argue that CS:GO is worse than 1.6 or source. CS has always had competitive support by nature of being able to host your own servers.
That would penalize a whole pile of parties that probably have nothing whatsoever to do with the spoofers. It's akin to blackholing mail from yahoo.com because there are spammers on yahoo.com.
How OpenStack Is Valuable for Containerized Ecosystem
For more backstory, here's the Firefox bug report with the fix for Google Inbox being "too slow" due to JS array slice being faster in Chrome than Firefox due to a V8 bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963

Here's the Firefox bug report about Google Docs being 3-9% faster, in a particular performance benchmark, when Firefox spoofs the Chrome UA:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307024
I wasn't very familiar with Chattanooga before reading this thread, but after learning more about it I can see why you want to stay. It's a beautiful city.
She shouldn't be feeling bad and wasting time on some of those interviews (unless she's really desperate for a job, which I hope isn't the case anymore). Early rudeness ought to be an instant no-go, things won't get better if there is no obvious reason for that. Interviewers who clearly hate their job would make me wonder what kind of unpleasant tasks are waiting for me. Formal interview detached from actual job and modeled after some Google suggest a company that is prone to CYA and doesn't really know what they want from their people, probably not a great place unless you are feeling extraordinarily helpful and charitable today.
We also have a GitHub with the source code for the Android, iPhone apps… at:
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/

A data page: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
An API doc at : http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/API
Most math textbooks focus too much on proofs, as does this book. Data science is a broad field, but for most use cases formal proofs are not really needed. I would prefer a text that focuses on examples and how/when to apply the theorems, rather than here is a theorem and here is a proof. Oh and here is another theorem and here is another proof. That isn't to say proofs are not important, but the focus of data science is usually on applied statistics.
مشاهدة مباراة البرتغال واندورا بث مباشر يوتيوب يلا شوت
> I doubt that it would happen given that Microsoft's modus operandi is to make as much money as possible by trying to lock people into their products, with Windows being the primary product on which they want people to be dependent.

How easy is it to port the average program from MacOS to Linux?

While the Kernel may be close enough, the window library is so vastly different that it's probably the same work to port from windows to Linux as to port from MacOS to Linux
Zachtronics became auto-buy with me around the time of SpaceChem. Check out Infinifactory too for a different, yet familiar, feel.

Zach Barth is like the nerd whisperer. His games speak to me. Good guy, too: I've corresponded with him over something as pedestrian as Steam keys and he responded and solved it in mere minutes, if I recall.
> They see a lot of attack traffic from tor

This was debunked.
When you have 11,000+ employees, it's hard to have an objective team investigate every single review. Plus, how can this objective team, with little to no context of daily interactions, assess whether or not feedback is "legitimate" or dripping in disdain?
Key Takeaways from Continuous Discussions Ep 46: Deployment Automation 2.0
These are mostly CYA for the company, they don't really care if you don't, they just want to show compliance when something goes wrong...
You're right. The amount of "exercises" that have proven to have some degree of transfer are very limited (n-back being the most typical not the only one). It's not only a problem of Lumosity et al, it's a problem on researchers too. There's an alarming amount of papers that are really bad, both methodologically and in terms of the type of tasks and training duration.

No wonder the brain training industry gets bashed every now and then when a new study debunks most of the allegedly benefits. So we have a group of folks that don't understand what they are doing and are publishing bad papers, and another group of folks that read those papers without fully understanding what is going on under the hood and create a "brain training" app. The fine on Lumosity by FTC was fair and expected.
According to me (note zintinio's reply - he disagrees), the etymology of the term is the following.

Back in the day, if you had small data you didn't need a data scientist. You needed a statistician. He'd do some shit in SAS/Python/etc, reading one CSV and writing another. Then the developers could run that on a beefy server with cron and push the CSV output someplace else.

At some point during the 2000's this stopped working - things became complicated and tangled enough that you couldn't just munge CSVs like this. You needed folks who understood the math well enough to come up with algorithms, and who also understood the computer science well enough to scale out. These folks were termed "data scientists". Banks call them "quant developers".

Very often you don't need a distributed system, or anything that isn't trivially parallelizable. Most of the time when I make money it's based on a CSV < 100GB - often it fits in ram. Nowadays I don't think it's misleading to call yourself a "data scientist" if you can only handle such data sets.

I recently learned that Facebook calls their business analysts data scientists. I guess it's just sexier.
Here's a link to the trailer, it's imho pretty good:

http://www.generationstartupthefilm.com/#trailer

I've got a friend who was a VFA fellow who started a company at the same time in Detroit but to my knowledge he's not in the film.

Hope they make it available to buy online.
I think healthy skepticism is no less important in professional settings than in academic settings. I don't think pharmaceutical researchers oversell research drugs to physicians (although drug salesmen certainly do), and if they do, it's just as bad, and I hope doctors are skeptical.
This is quite literally indirect.
Because they are not giving money to the candidate themselves , they are giving money to a campaign, and the candidate can't touch it.
Those prices are for processing tomatoes. Not the kind of tomatoes you'd find at the grocer, rather the kind that will go into a bottle of heinz ketchup or a can of tomato paste.

They are grown differently and treated differently because appearance basically doesn't matter. They're also not required to be available for retail year round. They'll be processed within days of harvest in the fall.

Greenhouse in the desert can't compete with processing tomatoes. What they can compete is with the green house tomatoes sold in grocery store in the middle of winter.
That guy outed himself as just the kind of jerk that hiring pipelines are designed to identify and reject. Inflated opinion of own importance, attitude of entitlement.
New Story (YC S15) Growth Director
Is it a windows only, closed source, vendor lock-in thing or is the source available somewhere?
I had the same reaction. For example, does taking a lot of "tests" make you good at ... tests? To me it calls into question the validity of tests to measure intelligence.
> Chess problems with 5 pieces on the board. How helpful would practicing these be to solving problems with 6 pieces?

Another anecdote: I experienced a noticeable improvement in my abilities at Chess by studying and playing Go. I'm still not real good at Chess because I haven't studied it, but I can now beat people I didn't used to be able to beat.
As someone who has lived in Southern California 90% of their life, and Berkeley, CA the rest, I can absolutely say that it is true in my experience that Californians (and I obviously include myself in this set) will use 'guy' and 'dude' to refer to anything. Men, women, children, dogs, cats, cars, burritos.

Last week I got up from the table to throw the rest of my burrito away and offered to take my wife's as well by saying "Dude, are you going to finish that guy?" I understand it isn't "correct", and the English are within their rights weep for their language if they like, but it is not weird at all in coastal California.
Cassandra is also dead and not used by any notable companies.
Yes, agreed. Distractions don't have be television, email, Facebook... We spend a lot of time thinking about hypothetical situations that may occur in the future & how we'll react to them. Or reliving our versions of past events over and over. All of these distract from the present moment. Meditation still helps in these situations.
Good point. Microsoft clearly got the memo. I work for a peer-to-peer video delivery provider (Kollective) and we partner with Microsoft to scale video delivery on enterprise networks.
You need to be able to start your new full-time AI role within about 2-3 months of completing Insight. So we recommend applying within the last few months of your PhD, which will allow for a smooth transition from your program into your new role.
It is a cloud based SaaS service. Nothing to do with Windows. It's a hosted offering.
I would be interested in learning about any algorithm capable of grading an essay. Typos and vocabulary use should only account for a small portion of the grade in my opinion. To me, an essay should be graded based on whether or not it accomplishes it's goal, whether that is to inform or persuade. I've always felt that this is subjective and difficult for even a human to put a real grade on.
Where/how?