skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is terribly, terribly good for the middle class.

Penicillin, socialised medicine, low violent crime rates (#), no need to hunt our food, no need to build our own shelters or rub sticks together to make fire.

The finest actors of this and past generations wait for me in my living room while I pee, something that past kings could not even achieve, I travel vast continents in the time it takes for a long sleep, I was the first of my father's line to go to University as a youth. As a consequence I can read and write (almost coherent sentences). The energy I consume per day would be equal to 40 slaves but I enslave no-one (directly) [##]

Maybe we can make an argument that for the current white western male middle class, it is not as good as it was 50 years ago, but perhaps Frank Sinatra would like an iPhone, or modern throat surgery? I do know Sammy Davis Jr would prefer the Civil Rights he would enjoy in Vegas today than in the 50s.

Compared to only a hundred and fifty years ago we are amazingly better off in every measurable way, compared to a thousand its almost shameful. If that does not make us happy, that's a different issue. After all we were only promised the pursuit of happiness.

[#] See Steven Pinkers "Better Angels of our nature"

[##] See Prof. David Mackay - http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/sewt...
Well yes, most people have benefitted, but their point was the extremely wealthy won't have to care about the consequences.
Probably because most people don't use their phones to make phone calls anymore, so other use cases are more important to them? Messaging, Facebook, etc.
Many people feel otherwise. Anyway it's way off topic to the op.
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Turkey's current political climate is endemic of the region. It's a molotov cocktail waiting for a lighter.
IME free and open software does tend toward abandonment or some form of monetization over time. Just ran into this with Synergy recently.
As an anecdata point, I don't know anyone with fibre and I live in Auckland. I get 3mb on a good day when it's still and sunny. Rain and wind lead to dial up speeds.
None of those dollar a day people are living in London or anywhere within 2000km. You need to earn a dollar a minute to even have a hope of a basic apartment in the city. Even then it's a long-shot.
That is definitely not true:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/15/news/companies/dish-employee...
lol. agreed.
Start up a munitions and mining explosives division.
Also the people who vote earlier in the process their vote essentially becomes useless if the candidate drops after a month.
Likely a result of their need to be needed. In a world in which fewer bad things happen and people are bored by the mundane goodness of daily life, why wouldn't a news organization seek those stories 24 hours a day?

I think we blame "the media" as if the people doing it are bad, ignoring the real structural challenges to being positive.
I did a quick Google and it appeared to me that most of the adverse events were measured at rates in the 10's per 10,000 ... Though that is absolutely from a very high level.

This study was presenting at around 20% (IIRC, I was reading the outrage version of this stuff a few days ago)

It is also important to note that this is by no means the end of the drug. The people involved consider this to be a very promising study and are going to continue working on it.

It wasn't stopped early "as a failure" to be shelved and never looked at again. It was stopped early because they knew enough about the upside and didn't have to continue on the down.

The next rounds of trials will likely try to alleviate the side effects while preserving the MOA (mechanism of action)

The VOX article was a reasonable balance to the "men are selfish pigs who can't handle side effects" version of this article. http://www.vox.com/2016/11/2/13494126/male-birth-control-stu...
Stylised fonts are harder to read but make content easier to remember, it's not a huge leap to assume drawn diagrams like these are similar. Comic Sans is good for you.

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/font.html
I was in Paris a little while ago and people were saying that Americans were canceling because of fear of terrorism because of the recent attacks. That just shows that Americans can't do math, because they have far higher odds of getting in a fatal car accident on vacation then being victims of terrorism. The probability of being a victim of terrorism in France is truly negligible.
It's better in every way. Racism, sexism, apartheid, LGBT, corporal punishment...
D'uh. The only reason Trump is there is to make Clinton look good by comparison.
Article's wrong.

It's in the investigative state, solely under purview of the prosecutor.

No court has even got a single piece of paper about it, let alone opened proceedings.
That used to be a hard technological limitation but they fixed it a few months back. You should be able to get more now (but you have to have a good justification for it).
> There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, terrorist plots afoot around every corner, feeding your fear day after day

Could you point me to a quote from the article that tries to make us believe that there is a disaster after disaster?

As far as I know, the article seems to have an objective opinion. It mentions that it's bad, but it's much better than it used to be. Which is basically your point.

Or was your opinion unrelated to the article?
"right after that".

No he didn't explain "right after that." He rambled on and on, and even after all of that, he STILL doesn't bring up JPG.

It's an inherently stupid comparison to make. You can't polish a turd.
As the other poster who replied to you showed, it's actually incredibly cheap. Additionally, it's perfectly elastic. That expensive hardware you provision or buy for your server that can handle this task (at a much, MUCH slower rate) would cost you significantly more. In addition to the cost of the server and running it, you also have a much harder job developing it. If we're talking about multicore, you're now managing the job concurrently on a single machine, and need the code to facilitate it.

I also feel like your comment is implying that the outcomes of the lambda option vs the worker server are comparable. As mentioned, the worker machine will still run in hours, rather than less than a second.
Wrong. One prosecutor is investigating. Nothing more, yet.
The mean IQ of African-Americans is a standard deviation below that of whites and Asians, and a non-zero component of this is genetic.
Easy enough: (1) You choose any method, (2) if you hit the paradox you declare the result as invalid, (3) there is only ice cream after a valid vote, and (4) if there's no ice cream yet goto step 2.

Now the worst case is not that you make a few people unhappy (the majority), but the worst case is that people start killing each other in the hopes to change the result. But if you think about it that is also not a bad result, since then there is more ice cream for you.
This extension already does in fact, with double base64 (see btoa in source).
Not every state is winner-take-all either. And representation is not exactly proportional by population. You get one vote for each senator and each representative your state has in congress, which favors smaller states.
> The whole "better angels of our nature" optimism thing kind of seems like sticking your head in the sand to me.

I think it's a necessary counterbalance to a 24 hour news cycle that brings the most violent and strife-filled events into constant focus. It is easy to get the impression that the world is worse than its ever been. That's why it's important to take a step back and see a different perspective that accurately reflects how the world today compares to the past -- a past which we as humans are biased towards romanticizing anyway.

> My current pessimism about the future is not a function of how bad things currently are-- it has definitely been much worse-- but that all the incentives are aligned toward making it worse and I don't see many people or forces aligned toward making it better.

That is one perspective that may or may not manifest into measurable "worseness" in the future. Some people have a different perspective, and could point to things like: https://givingpledge.org/
I fly via Dubai, 15 hour leg from Sydney to Dubai is the biggest hurdle. And while I've never experienced LAX, Dubai's crassness (who needs that many duty-free diamond stalls, really?) and very obvious classism isn't super appealing after that either.
I agree. And most art these days involves quite a bit of science. Photoshop's image processing algorithms aren't just sloppily thrown together, for example! It takes a lot of science to make good artistic tools, and artists often do a lot of science when creating their art. (Checking audio levels, figuring out when the light will be just right, etc.)
Atlanta's skyline growth since the Civil War
This was exactly the demo they gave and their AWS Dev Day in SF in July. Using Lambda and the IOT gateway to run a massively multiplayer game (they had everyone in the room play from the web via their phone).
Well, uh...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/south_korean_gun_bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9_Thunder
>don't complain about rich people wanting more and more.

I don't. That's the basic human thing to do and harnessing that greed has lifted billions of people out of poverty.
Unless you are also a cigarette smoker as well, and many of them do inhale cigars and pipes.
Looks like socket heartbeating has been added in this release of ZMQ. From what I can gather from the docs this should address the issue the parent post presents, but does anyone know definitively? See new ZMQ_HEARTBEAT_* options here [0] and Connection Heartbeating section here [1].

[0] http://api.zeromq.org/4-2:zmq-setsockopt
[1] https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:37/ZMTP/
> And what will your island paradise look like with no one to trade with or if your financial firm collapses? NZ doesn't have much of an economy in itself, what are you going to do, go back to farming?

these locations aren't just for vacations. they are stocked with supplies and probably guns and ammo. if the SHTF, they'll be on the first (private jet) flight out of london, hk, zurich, or new york. why do you think they chose a place so remote? there are nicer places a lot closer. they just don't have the infrastructure that new zealand has, and the natural oceanic protection.

as a bonus, they also have a military that is closely tied to the commonwealth crown. how convenient.

it used to be normal to prepare for disaster. in california they taught us how to do it in elementary school in the 90s, for earthquakes. now people think it's crazy. it's not. normal people do this too. who do you think is buying up all the ammo before elections? i know people who have boats, trucks, etc. for the purposes of preparedness.

one thing a fund manager or CEO knows how to do is hedge against risks.
Had a private tasting with JGregory (Mark Jessup, who was the original wine maker for Opus 1)... The tasting was amazing, the experience was amazing... Bought several bottles for $68/each

Got them home - had some later, tasted nothing like what we had in the tasting room... weren't as impressed.

Same thing with Raymond, but Caymus is always consistent.

But if you like to drink wine - it doesn't make sense to drink a 30/60/90 dollar bottle of wine a week. You need to find a bottle that is something you like and is also affordable. Save the Special Selection for a special occasion.
> It's won.

That’s the linguistic descriptivist position.

We can also require all papers and journals and conferences to use "Function as a Service" everywhere, and force all professors to teach "Function as a Service", and require all official publications to use "Function as a Service", by defining an authoritative dictionary, which gets its authority by law.

Then wait a few months, and the term "serverless" will be gone.

Some countries handle their entire language that way – and have an official institution tasked with updating the language every few years, and the updates become mandatory for business communication, press releases, and schools.

Germany and France are some examples.

IMO, having grown up right after one of the largest such changes in recent German history, it’s a better system than letting the mob decide how to call things, or how to write words, because that leads to pure chaos.
There's 'sweet, a promotion, I can finally afford that nice car' "greed" and then there's 'lets destroy 6000 people their jobs to make the shareholders happy so I can get a $1.000.000 bonus' greed.
Yes, and despite the best efforts of the Dali Lama, who favors "traditional roles" for women, and is opposed to same-sex marriage.
I have asked almost everyone I know if they have a subscription to:

nytimes.com
wsj.com
forbes.com

Guess what? I don't even have any minor acquaintances with subscriptions to these sites.

So how come every single aggregator that I visit has articles from these sites commonly among the top and featured positions?
>not only are they mired in their tiny problems, sometimes they jealously guard them as well.

My current position is very much like this. They spent months digging themselves into their current hole. Any attempt to replace their shovels with ladders turns into an argument over how long they spent making their shovels.
You can see exactly that with the speaker grill and the text (This type of transformation is notoriously bad at compressing images of text, and is why you shouldn't use jpg for pictures of text)

In this context, the edges of, say, the macbook are not "high frequency" content, since they only feature one change (low to high luminosity) in a given block rather than several (high-low-high-low-high) like for the grill.
I'm a Kiwi and I don't get it either. We like to point to Australia and say "Sure, we've got racism, but have you seen those guys over there?" so, we're a thinking man's somewhat racist post-colonial society?

Erm, cool?
Oh, you can go to wineries and make your own blend, then they will save the recipe for you and you can go back and get more of them at any later date.
This is fantastic news.
For that to be the case it should be accumulated in the body in the form of toxins or similar molecules, there's no other 'memory'.

So no, it does not work exactly like that. Some chemical compounds trigger mutations at a higher rate than others.
Likely (though I might go for McMullin, as he's available in my state).
I, as a taxpayer/legislator, can't contract a private company to (for a token fee) write and support a codebase that they will (as part of the contract) open source? The people win, as we get open source and hopefully transparent code. The company wins, as they're paid for their work (as they should be).

I fully expect that this would be more expensive than closed source.

(I'm not convinced that we should be using electronic voting at all, but that's a different debate.)
That's because their inspections will pull your car off the road for the tiniest of issues. And inspections are every 6 months. It makes buying a used car risky, IMO.
AUFS isn't included in the default setup of many Linux distributions. CoreOS, CentOS, RHEL do not have it. If I recall correctly, CentOS and RHEL will use the device-mapper driver by default and CoreOS the btrfs. I would speculate that the docker team gave so much attention to AUFS to lower the barrier to entry but it isn't the only option.

My choice is btrfs and it has been rock solid for me since the start. Of course one has to know a bit about btrfs and always leave a healthy percentage (I'd say 10% or more) of the filesystem free.

I think AUFS and overlay2 do have an advantage of their own though (apart the works-out-of-the-box). Due to the way they work, you can have shared memory between containers. Thus if I had to run many containers with a JVM app, I would give them a try to lower the tax on RAM.
Serious question: do you audit code changes in browser updates?

EDIT: I realize there are (probably) fewer authors involved there.
I don't fully buy this. I expect my chosen jazz critic to be knowledgeable, like, a lot. Same for food and wine. I want to read the words of someone who has eaten on more places, more foods and more flavors than me, not less.

Your friend might be too humble.
> Not sure about the legality of it.

Says on the title page: Creative Commons!

"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
While I agree you should try to be content with what you have, there's nothing wrong with aspiring to more. The middle class is being eroded away leaving us with a much larger group of have nots, and an increasingly hard to enter group of haves.

I wouldn't have a problem with this except a lot of the haves are in that group via genetic lottery, nothing that they actually did or earned.
Not as fast as you, but I requested myself for about 2-3 weeks and went from 0 Docker/k8s experience to having a modern SOA rails app up and running on a GKE cluster. Are you using some type of CI/CD tool to deploy? How did you setup DNS?
I would say the odds improve as you have more options. Worse case the ideal mix is 100% wine X. But, given a set of wines odds are some mix will end up being better.
About the site: quite hard to read - almost white text on white background.
> What? You don't like columns?! Columns everywhere!

Form follows function when you're a fifth column.
How will robotaxi services compete in the future?
Nice explanation. Can you explain how to remove ambiguity relating to string length?

"0" = 0.0b = 0 falls in the range [0,0.25) so it's a valid encoding for "A"; but isn't it also a valid encoding for "AA", "AAA", etc.?

AA = [0,0.25) * [0, 0.25) = [0, 0.125), and so on.

It seems that adding "A"s to a string in general doesn't change its encoding.
Implementing a CNN for Human Activity Recognition in Tensorflow
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> The modern world has such a ridiculous disconnect.

Agreed. This, to me, is the essence of cyberpunk. To Gibson, 'The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed'

> Just another place for the wealthy elite of the world to slowly ruin, maybe the next step is the moon?

Mars, haven't you heard?

> The system is rapidly growing out of control and no one seems to be able to stop or halt the insanity.

Worse, they are complicit in it. This entire situation amounts to a local minimum, because everyone is working towards their own short term interests. I don't see how we break that cycle, however. The trends are global. I'll admit I'm certainly not doing my part: I'm leaving academia and taking my signing bonus, RSUs, etc. and joining a mega-corp.
For as prolific as he is, the Dalai Lama doesn't pop up on my radar much. But here he is in the NY Times opinion pages sharing monism.

This speaks to a broader human truth: We all need to be needed.

There's an old but relevant perspective on life. We value ourselves by how much we can contribute to the lives of others.

Still though, I'm left wondering, what combination of forces summed up to this particular writing crossing my path?

Leaders need to recognize that a compassionate society must create a wealth of opportunities for meaningful work

Oh, there it is. A message about the importance interpersonal relationships to self worth is co-opted and reduced to nothing more than calling on the government to make sure everyone is feeding their 40 hours into the system.
This article is almost 20 years old. It's pretty interesting on it's own, but a lot of honeybee research has happened in the meantime. I would be curious to see any follow-ups on the magnetic / quantum effects on honeybee learning, though.

Bees generally code direction using polarized light, and they measure distance using the optical flow of visual information. This data is not always highly accurate, so they compensate with smell.

Anyone who has kept bees knows that they are absolutely brilliant creatures, but can also be pretty dumb. They have evolved their highly-tuned behaviors over millions of years. If you try moving a hive a distance of only a few meters, they can have a lot of trouble finding it, showing how critical their optical map of the world is for them to find things.

Anyone interested in current honeybee research, I recommend looking into the work of Thomas Seeley. He's written a few very good books over the last 20 years that bring together modern behavioral research. http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml
That's only for America (and maybe Australia/NZ? I wouldn't know at least). Most houses in Europe are solid brick on the outside, and solid concrete walls on the inside. Not something you remodel in a day.
There's no decent voting system for a body of government this large. Every kind has critical flaws. The best solution is not to have a nation as gigantic as the U.S., but obviously that's not gonna happen any time soon. It used to be a flawed option too, before WMDs, but now all nations are on roughly the same playing field. Plus there's still something to be said for owning as much land as you can, for things like oil more so than farms.
Yeah, Jay Hoag was a long time board member of Netflix since 1999, he just purchased 900k Netflix shares since August this year.[1]

According to this source [2] based on the latest SEC filing, Reed Hastings owns 931,660 shares of Netflix.

Since Jay might own some original Netflix shares, with the new 900k shares addition, perhaps he has eclipsed Reed Hastings in shares ownership.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysomaney/2016/08/12/why-is-jay...

[2] http://www.davemanuel.com/net-worth/reed-hastings/
In BC, Canada we laugh at your measly 12.7% and raise you a ~18% [0] for a total of +31.4% 2015aug-2016aug. Yes, you read that right.

It's funny how this article's impression is "prices are returning to normal" when in fact the government's new token rules haven't had a chance to take effect and certainly haven't had time to be analyzed.

Sadly, these new rules are just for show (an election is nearing here) and until effective reforms are put in place the bubble will continue to rise.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/26-slump-in-v...
Extra funny that she's from Cornwall, which is like the New Zealand of England.
"Americans don't use their vacation" is a lot different than "Americans don't have enough vacation." And while I'm sure there are companies and cultures that expect you to work on vacation, I've been working in tech professionally for over a decade at multiple companies and have never felt remotely pressured to do anything on vacation, and doing so is certainly not the norm.
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OEMs pay for those Windows licenses, that's definitely not what anyone would call "free". It's like saying CPUs are effectively free because the vast majority of users got one with their purchase of a PC. Sure, you didn't send any money to Intel or AMD directly, but you still paid for it.
Quelle horreur!

They found that most customers are stick-in-the-muds. Instead of sampling different regions, grape varieties and vintages, they tend to order the same plonk every time they go out.

And the solution isn't the Vinfusion, its getting rid of the snobbery and not making people feel like fools for not knowing their wine.
What I was trying to say is if you come from a small state like Hawaii or Rhode Island, your votes becomes part of this small group which does not deliver a bigger impact like New York or California. I was just trying to highlight list of complications like the presenter did with 3 small choices.
As If in other countries they don't tell you what you should do with your life.