skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could sift through arrest records in my city and publish a list of Group X (let's pick an established group, like Italians) and make them look like monsters. But that's just a framing exercise.

This is exactly what the mainstream media does in the US. The relatively small number of police shootings of black men get lots of coverage. The much larger category of black criminals harming white people get very little coverage, as does the biggest category of crime (white on white violence).

Stats quoted here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420565/shameful-libera...

What makes it a less "accurate summary of events" when a non-mainstream source chooses a different small subset of crime to focus on?

As for the "rapefugee crisis" in Europe it's hard to know. Crime statistics tracking these things are usually suppressed and the authorities seem to cover up major incidents. (Even in the US, the Bureau of Justice Statistics stopped publishing it's table of interracial crime stats when Obama took office.) So all we really have are anecdotes and incident reports. Given this level of suppressed information, how can you claim that the white supremacists are less "accurate" than anyone else?

Sometimes unpleasant people are correct about facts. Sometimes their views are just as accurate as anyone else's.
Anecdotal, I know, but I work for one of these companies. Definitely not a pipe dream for us. Most new projects are still in Ruby, but Elixir is now supported company-wide, and there's a number of projects being built in Elixir.
Maybe. Ours looked ok from the outside, was definitely worse on the inside.

Incidentally we bought it from the original owners who had owned for 55 years. I wonder if there is a correlation between condition and how long the current owner had it.
I'm guessing it's not as simple as they make it look in the video...unless the food tags have some kind of RFID/Bluetooth to communicate with the phone in your pocket...maybe the grocery bags? Even with cashiers sometimes they don't know what the price is...also some things are sold by the pounds...where is the scale? What if you pay then walk back in again? You get double charged?
I would recommend knowledge in Python. If you don't know Python prior to reading this book, then you won't learn it here.

The Linear Algebra presented in the book is easy, but if you aren't familiar with Linear algebra then it would be a benefit to learn some basics before reading.

Familiarity with mathematical notation and mathematical reasoning is also a must. If you don't have a basic understanding of being able to follow mathematical arguments, then some side comments (that aren't explicitly stated) may seem mysterious to you.

This book is very suitable for someone with a background in Python and basic Linear Algebra/mathematical reasoning knowledge.

The point of this book is to understand the math/algorithms and not treat the algorithms as blackbox solutions. You'll learn about processing your data, dimension reductions, etc., etc.

You may have to do some outside studying depending on your background, but the author provides those resources for you in the text. Overall this is a very good book and the author did a good job at writing it.
And that's what people do when e.g. they care more about economic considerations than social stigma of drinking alone.
They're 90% of the way there with primenow. You can order frozen chicken, deli meats, etc. No fresh fruits and veggies yet, but you can order eggs. There's no drive-thru though, they just deliver it to your house within 2 hours of ordering, 1 hour if you pay a premium.
Cute, but I was expecting something more interesting than reading a goto loop.
Does automation really remove jobs or just displace them? Honest question. I mean, in this instance, I see perhaps jobs of 10 cashiers in a store replaced with 1-2 monitoring the store and rest done by automation. But, then this gives rise to a whole set of new jobs and industries too, the engineers that design these systems, the ones that build these machines, industries supplying manufacturing of hardware for these system, software developers, maintaining hardware, maintaining software, customer support, servicing. So, if this is deployed in all stores in a city then will employment numbers add up to become a zero sum? Is it just displacing employment from one category(or location) of manual tasks to different tasks?

Besides, if most people lose their jobs to automation in the near future, there won't be enough people who can afford to buy stuff at these stores anyway, so won't it become uneconomical to run these stores?
CPanel -- https://features.cpanel.net/topic/better-password-strength-c...

Will say that "correct horse battery staple" isn't secure password and will give it a score of 0/100.
While "123!" will get 66/100 and will get accepted.

And this is control panel used by many hosting companies. :)
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The extra cost is for the enterprise features.

For example the MX300 quotes endurance of 200-300TB. The 5100 is several times that - up to 17PB.

If you're running a database server then you might need that endurance.
"Dynamic Write acceleration" means its TLC nand emulating SLC nand. At some point your write saturates the buffer and you lose the speed advantage. The MX series have a dynamically expanding buffer (unlike samsung evos and other competition which have a static sized buffer,) but its not infinite.
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And this is the definition of a Straw Man argument to the implication "we need to care about the people affected by innovation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I bought a house a year and a half ago; Zenstimates are consistently ridiculously low for my area. I was looking for single family homes in Somerville, MA. There is so little supply that every home goes immediately after listing and most likely with a bidding war. If you look at the Zenstimate for my property, it looks like I over-payed by almost 30%, but I guarantee I could flip for a profit tomorrow.
Given its state on Android, I wouldn't advise it.

Google gave up on their plugin for C++ and is now advising cmake as the future for new NDK projects.
I remember this when it happened - and forgot about it... I just took the challenge and love it. Installed. Thank you
Farmer's markets will be unaffected by this, obviously. The possibility to buy your groceries in this manner would still exist, as that's a different "use case", and I absolutely support and enjoy it.
In contrast, I don't believe there is anything worth saving regarding the human interaction in supermarkets - in fact, I think that working an 8 hour shift which consists solely of scanning items and saying a couple pre-defined sentences is a very dismal, and in fact much more inhuman experience than what Amazon is proposing.
> What happens when my phone battery runs out while shopping in the store?

From the look of the video the phone isn't required for checkout. The flow looks like you scan in then camera's and other sensors track you through the store then you just walk out and the items are scanned and totaled.

> What happens if I don't replace an item in the exact same place I picked it up? I'm charged for it I assume.

Then just put stuff back where you got it. You shouldn't just leave items randomly strewn throughout the store already.

> How do you purchase produce or vegetables, all these thing need to be packaged individually I assume. So much for concern for the environment...

It's not a full grocery store, it looks like it's all packaged foods and fresh daily kind of prepared foods.

> Are your poor or without "a supported smartphone"? Forget about it.

Judging from the video, any Android or iOS device should be able to function, all it needs to do is display a QR code and a receipt no RFID or even a decent camera.

> Amazon is a company that tries new things and that's good, but here we have yet another example of tech nerds "solving" a problem that doesn't exist.

Why does everything have the address some deep underlying problem. Some things just make life a little easier or more convenient and that's ok.
College is another antiquated system that needs to be burned to the ground by disruptive technology and lime seeded on the earth where it grows.

Most professions used to have ways OUTSIDE of the college track to enter those professions until fairly recently.

There's tons of exceptionally smart people who could study at night and weekends and pass the Bar or the CPA exam but can't afford massive tuition to get the college approved pre-reqs for this.

And there's tons of startups who are frothing at the bit to make amazing online institutions for these people to be successful.

But thanks to regulations, some rich kid whose parents pay the tuition gets that spot because the smart but poor person doesn't have time to attend a 1:00-3:30 class because he has a job.

We complain about the health care lobby, the oil lobby..etc.

In the coming years as the only available jobs will be accessible to people with advanced knowledge and licenses..the higher education lobby is going to be a serious problem.
Some people don't want to socialize, but just be "around" people. There seems to be a difference.

May be the stigma of drinking alone, where one is sometimes considered a drunk if one drinks alone.
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There are ~100M homes, ~3k counties, ~27k zipcodes, and ~300k neighborhoods and subdivisions that all have different market dynamics. A sample size of 9 make this analysis completely meaningless.

Equally important, is that the author of this article doesn't appear to know much about how the real estate data industry works (especially in regards to market trends and how they are used to generate the Automated Valuation Models (AVMs for short). A bit surprising given the nature of the business he is representing.

The Zestimate is one of a handful of Automated Valuation Models (AVMs in industry speak) - it's the only one with a consumer-facing brand, and as a result sees the most scrutiny despite the fact that the other AVMs on the market are the ones actually used by the banks during the appraisal process.

If you think the Zestimate is bad, you should see some of the other commercial AVMs.

The reality is that creating an automated valuation for the ~100M properties in the US is an incredibly difficult task given the availability of data (or lack thereof!). Zillow does a pretty darn good job and has a bit of a data advantage given its incredibly high coverage of for sale listings (though they lack the experience - some firms have been producting AVMs for decades!).

Another thing to note, is that AVMs (like any statistical model), usually aim for a sweet spot that covers as many homes as possible. As a result, ultra high-end properties are often incorrectly valued. E.g. that $25M mansion down the street will be very hard for the model to price. Additionally, certain luxury features, like say, a tennis court, are almost impossible to incorporate into these models on a national scale.
This is an advertisement announcement not a technical breakdown. There is no need to even say that much.
I am what you might call a 10x programmer. I am directly involved in 15 projects currently and I have programming, architecture, and design responsibilities on all of them.

It's very hard for any of my colleagues to approach me in terms of intellect or productivity. This is how its been on every team I've been on. :)
Trying to get people who make Word documents to make web documents instead, using HTML. I think it's time to bring HTML and the web to the mainstream. Companies are currently paying hundreds thousands of dollars to copy/paste from Word to a CMS that store the document in a database blob, when they could make HTML documents themselves for peanuts. Once you have the documents in HTML format instead of a closed binary format, it's possible to use all the nice tools we developers use, like git.
So, some things you do not seem to have considered:

Increase your price. This may reduce the number of customers but increase the profit margin, thereby cutting back on the hours required of you and making the transition from job to business owner more manageable.

Find ways to somehow free up time. This does not necessarily need to be in the form of business automation, though finding some ways to automate pieces of the business to lighten your load would be good. You could also look at your overall life and either do things like hire a person to mow your lawn or just simplify things in some way.

Take better care of yourself. Eat better. Improve sleep hygiene. Join a gym or fit more walking into your life. If you have more to give physically, this pace becomes more sustainable.

You seem to feel a bit trapped, like the business has a life of its own and you cannot corral it. Try to reframe the problem as one of you needing to get this dog on a leash and teach it some discipline. That approach has the potential to give you the breathing room you need to grow it on your own terms.
If the appraisal is being used to determine appropriate insurance coverage or even an insurance pay out; or possibly a court ordered payout if someone else were to destroy a property; then it would likely be the primary weight.

But lenders generally don't care so much about the cost to build, so an appraisal ordered by a lender generally won't.

That being said, my recent appraisal (I was financing the purchase) said "All 3 approaches to value considered with most weight placed on sales comparison approach."

I could mathematically prove this statement false, as the cost to build had zero consideration on the value. I think it is mostly a canned statement. Maybe they have a different definition of the words "considered", and
"most". :)
Things I love having in gradle:

* custom tasks AND up-to-date checks for them (for when you invariably need special tasks like custom generated code, filtering only some resources in a certain way, calling other build systems like grunt/gulp, etc)

* up-to-date checks in general

* better task exclusions

* better dependency version resolution abilities, including custom strategies

* groovy syntax

Things I think maven does better that matter to me:

* classifier handling (it is really frustrating gradle still has a lot of messed up handling of them)

* way less magic is possible in the buildscript - makes it easier to trace through

End result: I could never go back to maven, every single project I've worked on has desired custom tasks and maven just makes it painful every step of the way. The only thing I worry about in gradle is making things easy to understand so someone else can follow behind - can't use too much magic.
> This is why "smart lights" won't ever truly take off, people don't want to log onto an app to turn their lights off.

They will, one day, when companies stop with the vendor lock-in bullshit. An app - a siloed, sandboxed program that cannot meaningfully interact or seamlessly share information with any other program on the device - is a very crappy interface for doing anything. But we're stuck with it, because it's easier for companies to make money off apps, and cooperation is hard.
This one has capacitors and probably guarantees that what the SSD has acknowledged was actually saved.
EDIT: also often these are guaranteed IOPS, so no stalling on the numbers due to garbage collection or such.
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> is there something else that can be stopping it from producing 14nm NAND flash? I mean apart from the quality.

Well, you'd need the machines for that – there’s only a handful of companies able to build the EUV lithographic machines for that, most of them small German companies with a few dozen to hundred employees.

And they can’t just increase production.
Well, at Starbucks they appear to literally press a single button to pull a shot. So, not much art to that.
Yeah, I could easily see things kind of sorting out along some lines like that, just like we have everything from 'convenience stores' to small local markets to supermarket chains to Costco.
What specifically do you find 'really shitty' about that Angular 2 article? The reddit thread gets pretty unpleasant but the write-up itself is strident but generally sticks to specific issues. It doesn't seem like 'an attack on the maintainers', certainly not by title alone.
> I do not think that stores have any good reason to bend over backwards to keep individual customers.

Funny; want to know how Amazon CS became so popular with people? They gave complainers what they wanted, and only shut down repeat abusers. You want to exchange or return this TV for no reason at all? Go ahead. You bought this a year ago and want to return it now? Get a rep on the phone and it's done.

It was fascinating to watch from the inside. CS reps became easier to hire (no need for independent thought when 95% of the calls can be answered with binary flags determined by a "follow the prompts" wizard), Amazon's CS approval rating skyrocketed, and they're still making money to this day.

So, yeah, they have proven that there is a really good reason to keep all but the most abusive individual customers.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed reply.

> f you ever want to feel like you were cut in two and had your beating heart ripped out of your chest - that was that moment.

Just reading it and thinking of the situation hurts - I can't quite imagine living with/through it.

> We asked ourselves many times if this behaviour was just normal kids and that our perspective was just skewed.

This, so many times. The frustrating thing is when describing many of the behaviors, there is nothing on the surface to differentiate it from a kid being a kid. It's only the continued nature of them over time that raises concerns with us. We were deterred by our family physician early on when we first raised these concerns.

We're currently in the process of going through the school's evaluation and paperwork. I do agree - they were hesitant to ask us to take this route because of that usual response from parents, and they seemed honestly surprised when we agreed to do the evaluation. I'm still on the fence around pulling in medical help, because medicating a six year old isn't on my list of things to do...

> Does it affect how she's treated at school, to an extent yes, but on the whole the staff have been amazing and collaborative with us

That's good to know, though certainly it'll vary by school district. The school has been very supportive in our discussions so far, and in how they handle him in class.

Thanks again for taking this time, it's very helpful.
Regexes are the problem, because they're simply the wrong tool for the job.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that atomic operations require CPU support. My point was that `atomic` allows you to get access to these operations in a more standard way for different platforms (And of course, it will fall back to generic locking in the event you use an unsupported width or operation - but that's arguably better then simply not working at all).
Professional Bach singer here: member of American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Carmel Bach Festival.

It's actually not true that the "vast majority" of Bach's work had no texts. Bach wrote over 200 cantatas (with around 5-10 movements and separate texts each) plus an assortment of masses and 4 extremely large choral/orchestral works: the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and the B Minor Mass.

Looking at the catalog of all of Bach's works, which I have here, BWV (Bach Werke-Verzeichnis) numbers 1 thru 1071, you get all the way to BWV 525 before you even get out of the vocal works. Numbers 1 thru 524 are all cantatas, masses, oratorios, lieder, the many chorales of course, secular and comic cantatas, etc. And of course many/most of these are far larger than the individual organ works.

(Bach actually wrote a lot more cantatas than this; but only around 224 of them survived. Another hundred or so were lost.)
It is fine to be loyal. If you all will ignore Amazon Go then maybe it will not become popular. However if you are the minority, nothing will stop Amazon.
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That's muddy.

If you are talking about a single system, running an a black-box cluster, all the networking inside the cluster is just an artifact of parallelism (not very different from what happens on the networking between your processor cores and the memory, by the way).

If you are talking about the construction of the cluster, or how to port software to it, you'll break it down into a level where that network is now in your "outside world", and the ordering over it must be called concurrency.
I have spent one year taking part in a multi-team project to fix a build system, because everyone made their own little changes in Ant.

A chaos in a three site distributed system, with around 300 developers at its peak.

In this regard, Gradle is even worse than Ant in what concerns keeping a build infrastructure clean.
Ah, I see this now: https://github.com/KDr2/erlix#about-the-class-erlixmessage. So I guess it is handling encoding.

P.S. zeromq doesn't require you to run another system, it's just a lib.
It can be even worse, at the NYC Union Square Trader Joe's, the line wraps the entire inner perimeter of the store and you shop as you wait.
Is there any evidence that reducing the number of jobs correlates to lower prices?
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Yah, it's the benefit nobody asked for...or at least I didn't. Save me another minute off my grocery trip that's already very reasonable, and remove employment opportunities from people--"drudgery" or not--without replacing them.

Oh, that, and I get to be more self-absorbed and isolated from people in my community than I already am...not that I couldn't make a greater effort, but there is something to be said for a world where face to face interaction used to be expected and normal.
>You seem to have an axe to grind against the company.

No, I said I'd be inclined to give ML a break. I don't have an opinion about ML other than I'm tired of hearing about them. I'm not the parent commenter.

The main point I was trying to make was that credibility is assessed by people in different ways depending on their expertise / knowledge base / etc. So someone knowledgeable about websites would notice such a thing and the average person wouldn't. So arguing over whether something is an absolute signifier of credibility or not is sort of pointless.