skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That takes like an extra 4 or 5 minutes plus money.

An EXTRA five minutes? That also sounds very unlikely.

Maybe time yourself with a stopwatch next time? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Sci-Fi Filmmaker Hilariously Imagines Donald Trump’s Air Force One and Motorcade
I am not American.

The New Yorker has popped up on my radar a few times, yet I have largely ignored it. I had assumed it was just another paper, but it appears that it is at least partly satirical. Clicking around I found a mix of opinionated satire and highly opinionated fluff pieces. It feels like a really low effort version of Private Eye.

I am curious. Is that the nature of The New Yorker? Or is it just the obsession over the election that is making it look that way?
Because journalists and academics have a longstanding tradition of disclosing potential conflicts of interest, and therefore readers and scholars expect it. To do otherwise displays at best amateurism and at worst a deliberate attempt to hide bias.
Depression is not caused by a deficiency of medications, but by a deficiency of hope, so medications cannot cure it.
That's a ton of feeds. Don't you end up with thousands of unread articles every day? And how do you sift through all of them to find the most relevant / important news? When I open nytimes.com I see the top story right there on the front page. When I open Reeder, I see an enormous list of articles sorted in reverse chronological order.
Twitter / Facebook / Reddit
It's a pain to setup, as most of these things are, but it works well after that. You can trigger lambda functions to read email stored in S3, which is quite convenient. And with a library parsing the email is easy as pie.
>Take him seriously, not literally.

This means: everybody, take all the things Donald Trump actually said, and replace them with the specific things you personally wish he said instead. Then you can all feel better!
I think it's more likely that many authors of on-line publications don't have journalism degrees or haven't taken courses. The web has made it easier for anyone to publish, which is great. People have been able to hone their writing skills and get feedback (through eyeballs and clicks) on how to increase their audience. However, that incentive alone doesn't necessarily align with quality.

As professional journalism has moved from print to on-line, they've been struggling to figure out how to sustain their businesses. The on-line incentives for eyeballs/clicks is now strong for them as well, and they've understandably hired people who have proven to attract online readers. Early on it was clearer to identify the "blog" section of an online publication, but that's become increasingly difficult.

Stray thought: Is there a resource out there to view the credibility of stories by byline?
Considering the physics behind this is new we can safely assume there's room for improvement.
Cool!

If you liked that one, get the one called NUXX, very long mixes of that album.
I don't understand all of the fighting in this thread. I don't understand why people are acting like every liberal was on board with these policies until the election. It's simply not accurate.

Two groups of people who completely agree that mass surveillance is a bad thing will go at each other's throats about _when_ the other speaks up about it needing to be dismantled. You're on the same fucking side and chances are, if you actually believe that mass surveillance is bad, you've both been at least mildly against it the whole time.

The expansion of surveillance powers under Obama was probably _the most_ consistently cited dissatisfaction amongst HN contributors one, four, and six years ago. Threads critical of these policies were consistently on the home page during the Obama presidency. Security and privacy conscious individuals on the left and right agreed. The top thread at the moment mocks liberals: "Well, sure, unconstitutional power grabs are tolerable when someone I like is in power…" but that straw man simply isn't in line with reality, not on this forum at least.

More broadly, yes, masses of people have given up their privacy. Go talk to them, stop bitching at people who agree with you.
Are you aware of the implications of being SOL on climate change? A 6 degree rise in temperatures and we probably kill all phytoplanton - the source, along with kelp and algal planton of half our oxygen (ie. we all die).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/phytoplankton-climate-kachur-1...

http://nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-bre...
I don't disagree, both humans and ML are bad at classifying things they haven't seen before[1]. However that reasoning doesn't disqualify either vision only auto driving systems or machine learning.

Both statements are true:

"Computer driven cars may crash, even fatally, when they encounter a situation that they do not recognize." and

"People driving cars may crash, even fatally, when they encounter a situation that they do not recognize."

The success criteria for self driving cars is that they can drive at least as well, in the common case, as the set of human drivers who are defined to be "good" drivers. And self driving is not invalidated by a computer's mishandling of an event that a good driver would also mishandle.

I expect that self driving systems will be differentiated by how well they handle the unusual cases so a Mercedes system might do better in an unusual situation than a Chevy system. And all of this discussion is orthogonal to LIDAR :-).

[1] http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
You are getting downvoted because "everyone should know those maths anyway" is dismissive (I think you meant "everyone [who is applying for a quant position] should know those maths anyway," which is more fair)
Same here, almost hung Firefox on my ultrabook.
You can certainly expect much of the content in the /humor/ section to be satirical.
The fear stems from the replacement after Scalia -- if Ginsberg is replaced and Kennedy is no longer the median vote, the Court will take a sharp turn on a lot of social issues.
But note that this majority is being told in triumphant terms that they will be a minority within their children's lives, and that's already true of live births.

So why not join the game of identity politics now?
I saw this[1] recently by one of the guys from material-ui[2].

They're going to move to JSS.

[1] https://github.com/oliviertassinari/a-journey-toward-better-...

[2] http://www.material-ui.com/
Paper decomposes relatively quickly; plastic takes forever. This is already well known.
Or maybe I dislike being woken up at 5am every week by people banging around with their huge bags on the staircase.

I'm sure that's some sort of xenophobia.
Mobile safari works for me on an iPhone 7.
Maybe it's a Firefox-specific issue they didn't test for?
Ah, you're only speaking of temporal consistency (or "constancy" - does the source's statement change over time).

I was speaking of consistency with the general body of knowledge in the system, (correspondence?).

In the specific case of evaluating major news sources for trust, I think the vast majority of their statements are never retracted/changed, and therefore they would rate highly on an overall "constancy" scale as well. Their many statements about Trump's likelihood of winning were very constant as well - for months they said he'd lose, then they changed, and forever after they will say he won.

Sounds very temporally consistent, with just a single change.

Not sure if the adjudicator could narrow it just to "trust of the source's future predictions about politics", but basically the whole country just got a negative feedback on the trust weighting for major media in that domain.
No, it creates bundle you can load using only ASDF. The developer uses quicklisp, not the client
> H1-b candidates are very expensive to hire. Although, they do get paid very low.

Huh. I don't feel horribly underpaid. I'm pretty sure I'm making about the same as my American citizen peers.
I use Feedly and IFTT to pipe my feed of 150 or so lists straight into a dedicated Slack channel for monitoring new articles coming out on InfoSec. It's pretty convenient, but also not too intrusive as if you need to switch off, you can just mute the dedicated Slack channel for a bit.
> Some of their services I could see being free/cheap and still almost as good. Like Gmail for example.

Fastmail is pretty damn good and keeps getting better. I still use Gmail exclusively, but pay Fastmail an annual fee to hedge my bets and support an alternative. If Fastmail was to support multiple labels on a message, I would move tomorrow. That's the only thing holding me and my 9GB of mail history back.

> But stuff like Google Maps? Things that leverage all that data to do things no one else can? I'm not even sure someone else could do it as well without all that data, let alone do it for free.

OpenStreetMap? And now there's OpenStreetView [1].

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparision_Google_servic...

http://searchengineland.com/founder-openstreetmap-good-bette...

[1] http://openstreetview.org/
Quickest way to look qualified at least for derivative pricing is go get an MFE.
> weapon without the concept of tool...it's fundamentally broken storytelling.

You're actually objectively† wrong, at least about why it is broken storytelling (which I don't think it is).

For example, you're complaining about: the fact that there was a protagonist, the plausibility of the sci-fi premise, some minor self-plagiarism, a political slant you don't agree with, a misremembered plot point about why there were several ships, a debatable concern about medical protocol in an unprecedented situation, and other sundry things.

These things are all essentially irrelevant to well-crafted storytelling.

If the movie didn't work for you, the things you were noticing are more like symptoms of the problem. Which by the sound of it was that you were just bored by the aesthetic choices the movie made.

I mean, I was totally transfixed and fascinated for almost the entire duration of the film. It might be that the contemplative mood, haunting music, deliberate editing, subtle acting, subdued lighting, etc. all provoked a kind of melancholic trance in me that made me insensitive to any story-telling deficiencies, it's hard to tell, but also, I don't care and the point is you're wrong.

† I justify the word objectively by claiming that the ensemble of extant human brains responds pretty predictably to these cultural artifacts we call stories. And there are people whose profession it is to understand how stories work and how to tell them. And I've grown up around several such people, and paid attention to what they have to say. And yeah I have the gall to think your post is just unbearably wrong.
It's almost unusable on Firefox, rather slow on Edge but fast on Chrome for me.
There's some interesting things about this work:

- You get to know something that isn't published. You find a strategy, you don't tell anyone. Sure, you can talk about it in broad strokes (we're trend following...) but it's pretty unlikely you'll ever tell anyone enough for them to be able to replicate it. Except people you trust, of course.

- You're always thinking about philosophy of science. How do I know that this series of steps I'm doing is not just a monkey and a dartboard? Again, there isn't going to be a specific written paper that tells you the answer.

- At one end of it, you are working with cutting edge technology. Anything that shaves a microsecond off the speed is useful, and you can spend a lot of time optimising such things. I've been staring at a C++ solution that is 100% in house. No STL.

- At the other end, you are working with data in very modern ways. All that ML stuff in the news is interesting to quants, because if there's one thing ML papers are about, it's how to avoid overfitting. Just a few years ago people in the field had not come across ML, or at least the point of view that ML brings. Plenty of other things had already come up, though, like information theory, time series econometrics, signal theory, and so on.

- About derivs quants, it's not my cup of tea, but I can see how others like it. You're basically pricing things hoping that you've noticed something the counterpart hasn't, or hoping you've found a cheaper way to hedge than your competitors, or simply hoping your salesman is a better salesman than the other guy's.
Apparently, the link should have been to http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/07/decameron-when-not-t...
Lab colleague uses cracked software. Should I report it?
More attacks. Marvellous.

Simply put, I took issue with the statement "a double standard that is stacked against whites, males, and particularly the intersection of the two categories." I don't extend my personal experiences to all White Males, but the author of the comment clearly did. I said that my own experience did not back up his assertion that it affected all White Males. I fail to see why that commentator is allowed to make sweeping generalisations but I'm not allowed to exclude myself from that sweep through dint of personal experiences.
Supports cloud users... but doesn't support LDAP.

Sigh.
I agree that the Court will take a sharp turn on social issues. The question still that remains will be what cases could be brought before the Court that would actually give them the chance the overturn the previous rulings?
> Jobs are a bedrock social justice issue in the United States

How many times are you going to repeat this?

You should be wary of protectionism.
>They mentioned that it doesn't do it in the minimal amount of moves on the basis that it would take longer so I'm assuming that's it.

It might often be useful to spin opposite faces in different directions. Two moves by normal counting, but done in the time of one.
If I reported every time a company where I was working was using cracked software...

I hate using cracked software to make money but I don't think that we should "report" though.
Could be. Personally, I don't care about their clothes, phone calls, decorations, etc. I do care when they intentionally take roundabout routes to jack up fares and sexually harass my female friends. This stuff seems to happen a lot less when there's a way to keep track of who the driver is and review them.
I don't think there's necessarily a xenophobic component to not wanting to live next to a hotel. In fact, that explanation seems pretty unlikely -- I don't typically see concentrations of minorities when I'm at hotels in the US... most customers are your average middle class professional on business, or vacationing middle class family.

I wouldn't want to live next to any hotel, including a 5 start resort catering to mostly domestic customers.

Hotels bring a lot of problems -- bursts of foot/auto traffic at weird times of the night, public drinking/drunkenness and loud groups of pedestrians on week nights, etc.

Nothing wrong with any of that -- vacations should be fun! -- but when it's happening every other Tuesday night in the next-door apartment, it can get super annoying.
Doesn't give me confidence that they've done much cross-browser testing...
The incredibly intricate understanding of the NES sound?
Quitting a job might lead to something nice, but my understanding is that programming and computer science is overestimated. It's very interesting to learn how things work, but really doing something meaningful with it is mostly very very hard and one has lack of time or not intended all and thus you end up writing things you would never use yourself.
It's probably like any coding interview. You'll get asked a bunch of things that won't be a problem when you're on the job.

Basically, it's a "have you heard of this" type thing.
The panic over trump is starting to get comical. Aren't you americans proud of your guns to protect you from power abuses? Dont you have probably the worlds best democracy that many would be jealous of?
You can use a model that gives you its classification uncertainty. Bayesian SegNet for example [1]. We may also adapt the legislation for how vehicles should look like we did to make human driving easier (ex: tail and side lights).

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02680
Same for us -- speed was not a consideration at all. We figured that if we could keep going and finish, we'd be one of the top 3 teams.

As it turned out, our mechanical engineering was great. What got us was software: we failed to free memory for passed obstacles, ran into memory exhaustion issues as a result and crashed out at mile 9. When we fixed the leak and reran the course, the truck finished in just over 7 hours.

It was an object lesson that garbage collection won't save you from memory-related issues. In retrospect, it was the also first time I ever encountered a million dollar bug. D'oh.
Trump-Supporting CEO Kicked Out of Y Combinator Startup Incubator
Point is it's already an order of magnitude above other non-propellant systems.
Good blog on python programming
Additional context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388
Yeah.. docs are also weirdly truncated on chrome/android.
I had the same issue as OP on mobile Chrome.
Why not shoot for better than human performance and "cheat" any way possible along the way? To paraphrase a quote I can't remember by who, do we care if a submarine "swims"?

Besides, with even with lidar, the problem is hard enough.
No need to speculate: Cygnus did make a business out of it.
Show HN: Visualize and track your business on a network map
> - So say they relax the rules and say anyone can apply and will get trained.
- A laid off steel plant worker applies for the position of a software engineer

This is a fantasy world. Companies aren't going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training people who have no experience.
I will say that some people's palate are quite limited. They only identify a few things as good. I've met people who basically wouldn't eat a green vegetable because it was yucky.

I'd expect critics to have eaten enough where they can judge many things.

I do agree putting it into words so someone else could have a sense of what it would taste like and possible be able to say if they would like it.
That's okay, boycotts don't really work. Network effects and economies of scale are real. You are NOT a hypocrite for saying "I'm going to keep using this convenient but problematic and unethical service". It's admirable to make the sacrifice, but don't kid yourself. These issues are system-level and not about individual choices, even though that's what it is just aggregated.
The horrible risk of reusable tote bags was recently covered on the cartoon We Bare Bears in the episode "Tote Life".
You are crazy from a careers perspective, but do whatever makes you happy.
As a mental exercise, look up the medical state of the art from 60 years ago (1956), look at what was known and unknown, and compare it to the current state of the art.

The only thing slowing down this development timeline is the FDA approval process, and that doesn't slow down research much at all.

Given that, I would be surprised if it took 60 years. It may not be 6 but I would put it more around 12 - 15 when we start human trials of organ or limb re-generation.
This is what happens when you only test your web app in super fast internet on a maxed out MacBook using Chrome.
Haven't heard of Juno before. I found what seems to be their site: https://www.gojuno.com but there's very, very little info.

What's their deal? Are they just getting started?
I'm seeing the same issue in Safari on iPhone 6s running iOS 10.
Sure, I forgot to mention that.
> expression of sympathy

Whether you intend it or not, it's an expression of condescension. It states that you are in a position where you can look down at (feel bad for) a lesser (poor Stallman).

You may not mean it that way, but it's exactly the same sort of phrase as "Bless your little heart".
Plus they can pay people drastically less because the Canadian job market is a joke.
> > If I explain 1/2 and 2/4 using pie or pizza slices and ask you how "much" pizza did you get, I think the equivalence idea clears up quite nicely.

> Sort of. But childhood me would have just told you that, no, in one case I got one big piece and in the other case I got two smaller pieces.

Why are we using pizza pies in the first place? I vaguely remember being taught something about pie as well. Instead how about this:

You have a piece of string 1 m in length. You cut it into 2 equal pieces. We can denote the length of one piece as 1/2 m.

You have a piece of string 2 m in length. You cut it into 4 equal pieces. We can denote the length of one of these pieces as 2/4 m.

These pieces of string are the same length, therefore 1/2 m is the same as 2/4 m.

Although in my head this feels more like a nice way of demonstrating they are the same, I'm not so sure if it helps a lot with reasoning about fractions. But that's fine, like the article said it's good to be able to explain something in multiple ways.

Personally that's one of the things that absolutely fascinated me about arithmetic when I was young; That you can play around and have multiple ways of arriving at the same answer, and that if you follow the rules of math right, they always end up as the same answer, sometimes even unexpectedly so (for young me).
Well, you've got a lot of answers here already.

I've worked in startups and the game industry as a programmer, designer, producer (probably more like your version of PM), and kind of as a PM (which, in gaming, is probably like some percentage of your job now, but not all of it).

It's definitely true that having worked as a designer and programmer was INCREDIBLY helpful in making me a better producer. The ability to communicate with people you manage or need to make decisions for at a passable level of their domain knowledge will be very fruitful and will help you command their respect. You'll make better decisions too, of course.

Feel free to email me if you want to know more. (That goes for anyone here, I'm always happy to give advice.)
Did the bags not have holes in the bottom to avoid children suffocating? If they did, would you not worry about fluids leaking out of the bin?
Ask them to.

EDIT: I just emailed the article author asking if they'd release the data in a Github repo [1]. Default to action.

[1] https://github.com/washingtonpost
I don't understand your argument, so maybe this is off base, but if you are saying people in industry aren't replacing their supercomputers with commodity gpu's, you're wrong; both apple and google have massive purchase orders for commodity nvidia gpus because they aren't just cheaper, they are better at this application. And I imagine other companies are as well.

Edit: "replace" is probably not the right word, this is work that the old systems don't do well, but they aren't throwing out x86 racks for gpus of course. It's just instead of buying more of the same for machine learning applications.
This is a good strategy, and even better if you tell them when to expect a proper reply (and then you stick to it). That really helps the sender make plans at their end, and thus reduce their stress.
Do the newer systems assume network connectivity to a backend processing facility?

Personally, I view each additional layer (network, someone else's data center, machine learning) to be something that can fail and put people in danger. Assurance via local brute force is much more reassuring for me.
Oups I actually read the values in reverse...

My point still stands though even if not relevant to your statement.