skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only someone who has not personally witnessed child-rearing as a way to get welfare (not that this is a widespread problem -- its prevalence is blown way out of proportion) would suggest such a thing is unfathomable.

For the sake of argument, consider a person who is extremely short-sighted by nature, who sees an opportunity to apply for a shitty low-paying job right after getting pregnant in order to get paid maternity leave? Where do we draw the line for what businesses need to support this and what businesses can't feasibly do it?

It seems this kind of mandatory paid maternity is incompatible with our current capitalist / socialist infrastructure.
Not to mention what the clock source is. PLLs (internal or external) can become unlocked. RC oscillators have a lot of temperature dependence.
I am the web developer/web designer that usually picks up where other web designers left off or "disappeared". They usually leave without a trace or they leave their client with a broken website. I also take them from being charged a fortune down to being charged a much fairer price. I know I could probably continue to charge them a fortune, but I just don't do that to people. I tend to go after people who are on a "shoe string" budget. I mean.. I charge them enough that I'm being paid for my time, but I am willing to work with their budgets.

I also offer something that I find most web people don't: I offer them good customer service. I answer my emails within 24 hours and I pick up my phone usually when they call or I get back to them asap. I try to give them a reasonable price and I expect payment upon delivery of my invoice.

I have just a few clients, but I've never had issues. And most of the time that is what my clients have confirmed that I have offered that no one else offers: customer service. It's just being extremely supportive. They want to know that someone is there when there is a problem. There is nothing worse than the feeling of running a business.. and knowing that you are screwed or worse -- you have to pay someone you don't know a fortune in an emergency situation.
Thanks for linking to that article.

The most amusing part of it, IMO, is the last sentence: "privacy could be a more important election issue than ever."

Makes the political consciousness of 2014 seem so adorably naive.
Wow, you're a full on biggot with reading comprehension problems.

Why don't you read my post again? I never said any of the things you claim.

Also, good job on equating free speech with yelling about UFOs and gays. That really tells us a lot about yourself.
Curious why you don't have metrics on the other end (whatever is sending to the "Push Collector")?

What if the Push Collector is down or has a random bug where it throws away XX% of requests for no good reason? How would you know if you don't instrument the other end? Something like StatsD works fantastic for this, but also just logging those failures and using a log search/aggregation tool like Kibana or Splunk would be a step in the right direction.
Anyone want to speculate about how the data is being "encrypted"? It seems like they don't want to say, which immediately sets off red flags in my head...

I am pretty sure homomorphic encryption is not being used. I think if they are doing anything rigorous, maybe they are using order-preserving encryption (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aboldyre/papers/bclo.pdf). This would mean that the only valid operations on the ciphertexts are comparison operations. I can't seem to find anywhere where numer.ai actually says how to interact with the "encrypted" data. I think it's a little strange that they would suggest that they are using homomorphic encryption yet have only comparison operations actually make sense on their "encrypted" data.

A second hypothesis would be that no encryption is being used at all, and this is just unlabeled features that have been renormalized within [0,1].

A third would be that order-preserving encryption is being used, but in an ineffective way which is basically just resulting in the second scenario. (understanding the security guarantees of order-preserving encryption is practice is very complicated)
Maybe in the US perhaps. In most of the world manual transmissions are cheaper than auto and more common.
I actually really appreciate JLG's tone when reporting on Apple. Given his history with the NeXT-BeOS debacle, I wouldn't expect him to be so charitable. Of course, time heals all wounds and I get the impression JLG is pretty well adjusted, but still.

Man, BeOS was awesome.
OP may not have, but I have. Near universal size for Android watches seems to be 42mm (and 12mm thick). Roughly that used to be a common size of pocket watch. I don't want a pocket watch on my wrist. Apart from anything else I'll be forever bashing it. I'd rather have a smart fob watch! :p

Pebble Time Round was around 36mm and 7.5mm thick. It actually looks like a normal watch on your wrist. With 3 times the battery of Android.
That's more USB-C than Apple.

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-th...
He deserves the credit - "Origin" is a comprehensive tour de force. That 20 years made him into a very thorough spokesperson.
Except that's not what's happening here if I'm reading right. They are throwing away the newer ones and not the older ones because the ones rejected by the Push Collector are the most recent ones.
It's 36 degree C here today so guess I'll have to wait a bit to read these.
Make a robot swarm from Raspberry Pis over the holidays
An accepted definition:

"A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E." - Tom Mitchell
Tight lockdown of their ecosystem should make it easier not harder. A more open company, such as Microsoft, would have customers that use all sorts of compatible devices and accessories to worry about. One could argue Apple has it easy. Most people use their devices in predictable configuration.
Fitness, Apple Pay, Siri.

These are the killer apps for smart watches. Pretty much everything else the Apple Watch does is a waste of time, just replicating functionality that is easier and better experienced on your phone.

The Apple Watch (and others) are trying to solve a bunch of other non-problems that don't exist for 99% of the real world.

They would be better products if they had less features.
you're a full on biggot

Personal attacks are never called for, regardless of the thread. Please keep things civil, particularly when discussing free speech.
10^14 is what they were going for. It is indeed a typo.
From a writer's perspective the problem is a story that mostly consists of people scrabbling for food isn't very interesting, so either you ignore the question or you create a story element that allows you to ignore the question - giant roaches, say, or some kind of food-from-algae technology.
Here's a more current paper from Quoc Le (http://research.google.com/pubs/QuocLe.html, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vfT6-XIAAAAJ) that expands on the "proof of concept" in the above paper:

Document Embedding with Paragraph Vectors (2015) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07998.pdf
> North Dakota officials estimate more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from the Belle Fourche Pipeline into the Ash Coulee Creek.

> Since 2006, [operators Wyoming-based True Cos.] have reported 36 spills totaling 320,000 gallons of petroleum products...

According to this article's cited numbers, this single spill is larger than all of the previous decade's 35 reported spills ... COMBINED.

These protests could not be more timely. I can only imagine how many spilled gallons have gone unreported: this spill was discovered by a landowner, not the intended automated monitoring equipment.
I'm seeing this trend a lot more.

Editorial boards are cutting staff and research funds for journalism, and writers get paid per column inch.

They go to any sort of controversial/clickbaity thread in Quora/Reddit, copy and paste a bunch of content, and then throw some pictures in the article, and call it a day.

No analysis, nothing.

Talk about mailing it in.
"Muted emotional responses" .. this describes very well how I experience it actually.
You might want to look at Fossil Android watches. I had one for a few days and I loved it but my Android Phone broke and I had to sent it back.
> The monochrome screen is also less attractive though IMO bearable.

True. But the color is very nice. It's a bit washed out when the backlight is on, but ok.
I've had a Mac since 2004. In that time, I had several defective logic boards and several defective displays, and one (slowly, harmlessly) exploding battery. In these cases, I also had to read off a tiny gray serial number off my laptop somewhere, this isn't really new. Hardware fails sometimes, it happens. In my experience, Apple's hardware in the last few years is much more reliable than their hardware a decade ago. Their software quality, on the other hand...
Snitch Hunt: Catch the whistleblower by digging into metadata. CTF game for kids
Actually one method is not really debunked: Approval Voting

Can anyone say anything negative about it that FPTP doesn't already have?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
Why (on earth) was this article flagged?

If anything, it seems to serve as a (most prescient) warning on the dangers of this nefarious cottage industry known as "predictive analytics."

Kindly do please actually read the article, and unflag.
Note that you're pre-selecting respondents who are just fine with a bare-bones JS-free website.

My opinion, refusing to use JavaScript is like driving a horse and buggy because cars can crash. It's not productive.
These kinds of shenanigans are exactly why I deleted my account years ago and haven't used the app since.
What size machines are these? I'm shocked that this volume is your max handling with Erlang unless your using a smaller T series AWS instance for this.
Alright, Elsevier...

As I see it, the reason this article is on Hacker News in the first place is that the community as a whole appreciates your publications.

If the paywall is causing some kind of riot it's actually just a projection that people care.

So frankly an opportunity to fix and redeem.

Nobody wants Elsevier under the bus. That is for damn sure.

Really hope you are reading Elsevier.

You are loved.
For sure and I didn't mean they should necessarily be packaged with the base install either (though I'd argue as long as they're developed in a way that they can be updated you could provide a better UX bundling a few most common ones in). It's certainly doable though my only worry is them being almost smart enough and making a big mistake that isn't immediately noticeable.
My limited experience building some components with Polymer was that it is surprisingly intuitive. When I thought something should naturally work a certain way, more often than not it did.
With an armband you lose a hand for interaction. But I agree that screen size will forever be the watches' undoing. Where they will excel is any segment that has an item you have to mindlessly carry on your person all day: security badges, wallets, door keys, insurance trackers, health-device controls. Everything else will stay on phones or similarly-sized devices.
>> call a shelter or the related police station and ask how many assaults they have had reported in the past year.

• If assaults happened in shelters, why would the shelters ever tell you?

• Why would anyone ever tell the police? I can't imagine the homeless victims would want the police MORE involved in their lives.

• Even if someone told the police about an assault at a shelter, would they bother to investigate, or keep records? Police have incentives to reduce crime stats, which isn't the same as reducing crime.
Most CI solutions will take care of that; they'll pull in the PR, merge it locally with master, and run tests on that.
Post your galleys to http://biorxiv.org/submit-a-manuscript when you send the MS out for review. Simple as that. Oh, and respond to RFI/RFCs from NIH asking whether interim research products should count in grant reviews (yes).

You will note that there are now clinical trials on biorXiv, and I've been pushing (as a coauthor) for more of them (NEJM & Blood are the only journals worth noting that won't accept submissions that are archived as preprints).

Elsevier is at least as bad as Blood or NEJM, but seemingly lacks the editorial standards of either. They can suck their 35% profit margins out of someone else, TYVM.
Does the caloric restriction thing basically mean that for each person there is a certain amount of food they can eat before they die?
Have you ever stolen a towel from a hotel?

In all seriousness though, I talk to the cleaning staff at hotels, hotel management, and law enforcement - and theft is the number one problem at hotels; next is prostitution, third is public disturbance.

My understanding is the average hotel has one theft a day; not including towels.

There's a USA TODAY report on hotel theft if you look for it.

Most homeless people don't have anything worth stealing; ask them.
Seeing more and more Bitcoin stories and HN these days, is something "happening" in that space finally?
I'm currently working for a company in that situation, and its a tough sell to both investors and employees. I don't regret my decision, but its really difficult supporting the infrastructure built up by a developed company with the resources available to an early stage startup.
With the limited information we have available, this advice is, at best, extremely dangerous. We don't know:

- the cap table.

- the depressed founder's role in the company.

- the make up of the rest of the team.

- the articles of incorporation.

Without this information, there is no way that you can know if a hard sell, like you propose, will backfire.

Business decisions, particularly those involving major personal losses and ensuing mental illness, never happen in a vacuum. Advising a hard sell is extremely irresponsible.
How Slack Works
yep, and it is cheaper as well.
This works "normally"... however apple is not normal. There is a borderline ridiculous level of control being exercised by the design team. Jobs was Ive's boss, he set boundaries and goals. Cook is empowering Ive to set design direction and as gifted as he is... apple is not an "art" company, it makes products for use. As much as Ive waxes on about Dieter Rams he can't hope to avoid screwing it up eventually because he lacks balance... unless Cook or Apple shorten his leash, Ive will be the cause of Apple's slow decline into its death, built on a road strewn with arguably beautiful objects.
Do we have any particular reason to doubt him on that one?

It should be hard to hide something like double broken legs from parachute training from the others who served with him and his family, friends, and colleagues would surely notice whether or not something big like that ever happened to him.

This doesn't seem like such a difficult thing to fact check if one is willing to do the legwork of talking to known associates from that time.
42mm isn't really outrageous for a wristwatch anymore. At least it's not a Diesel monstrosity.
Epistemic closures are nice this time of year.
I also returned my 13" MBP with Touch Bar. I also experienced issues with WiFi after wake (would not reconnect to my network), but my chief reason for returning it was the abysmal 4-5 hour battery life under light browsing usage.

In its place, I purchased a 2016 13" MBP with the 15W CPU and no Touch Bar. Oddly, its battery has about 11% more capacity than the Touch Bar model [1]. In their battery tests, Ars Technica reported that it lasts about 3 hours longer than the Touch Bar model with 28W CPU [2][3]. Here's hoping I see similar results.

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

[2] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/touch...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/video/2016/11/the-2016-13-and-15-inch...
Sorry, had to run. Errata:

"The first is the idea of telos."

"conceived of as extrinsically imposed by a divine intellect and not something intrinsic to things"

"he will not have escaped"

"This metaphysics has caused a proliferation"

"this metaphysics is the only contender"
American media needs to adopt this strategy on its own. For all such attention seeking suicides, massacres, gun violence, media must not report the name of attacker or scale of violence for at least 72 hours. "His neighbours said he was an introvert" type of headline must be avoided.
I sent mine back almost entirely because of the keyboard. Shocked that most of the reviews gave Apple a free pass on that one.

One surprise was how good the speakers were though. Really hard going back to the tinny garbage on most everything else after hearing those.
I'm not so quick to dismiss people as "happy-ignorant-foolish" just because they don't agree with me.

I'm quick to dismiss them in that way based on what they say and do -- for example, running or the office of President of the United states, whilst not possessing even a middle-school level knowledge of whether the country you wish to govern actually has nuclear weapons or not; let alone what they are actually useful for -- not because they "disagree with [me]".
Mea culpa. Obviously knew that, just said the wrong thing. Thanks!
This seems like a clear case of unequal tradeoffs.

There are a couple of conflict patterns that are particularly easy to identify, which git could merge smoothly. For instance, two unrelated code blocks are appended to the bottom of the same file - whoever merged those two probably wants to keep both in any order.

But if you don't want that behavior, git is going to quietly auto-merge a bad change. That's easily 10x as bad as the time savings is good, maybe 100x. So I agree - this should not be magic, and I'm pretty sure the design for auto-merge hits practical limits long before technical ones.
South China Sea.
D'Angelo Barksdale: Nigga, please. The man who invented them things? Just some sad-ass down at the basement at McDonald's, thinkin' up some shit to make some money for the real players.

Malik 'Poot' Carr: Naw, man, that ain't right.

D'Angelo Barksdale: Fuck "right." It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down in that basement and say, "Hey, Mista Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you"?

Wallace: Shit.

D'Angelo Barksdale: Man, the nigga who invented them things still workin' in the basement for regular wage, thinkin' up some shit to make the fries taste better or some shit like that. Believe.

[pause]

Wallace: Still had the idea, though.
I guess you can think of 'none of the above' as a placebo candidate.

To make that work, I think you'd also have to make the initial campaign shorter to account for runoffs and the possibility of having to start over with a new slate.
How exactly do you think the performance is made public, if the fund doesn't want it to be? This isn't about illuminati, this is just logic. You can't hide what you're doing from the institutions you have to deal with, but they won't exactly disclose it to general public.

Why would you promote your fund, if you have all the FUM you need? If you are doing well, why would you tell people about it? It is funny that your position is because you haven't seen it, it doesn't exist.
Exactly my thought when reading his reply!
Down votes are a good thing. When I get them, and I do, I wonder why I got them. Sometimes I'm OK with that. Sometimes I wonder if I've been misunderstood and could have written it better. Either which way, it's blunt, simple and useful feedback.
Good point, we actually do. We could do the math.
The issue with that is any change, especially how a winner is chosen from a ballot, is a long and politically fraught process so whatever is changed to shouldn't just be 'eh it's not great but we'll change it in a few years' because that's really unlikely to actually happen.
> Does the research not stand on its own?

Academic mathematician here. It does, sort of, but .....

Say a mathematics postdoc is applying for a job, and she works in underwater basketweaving. The two underwater basketweavers in her dream department read her application and can see that she's brilliant. She's developed a new methodology for weaving rattan under 100 feet of ocean without even getting it wet. She has letters from the most preeminent underwater basketweavers in her field. She should be a shoo-in to get the job.

One problem though. A majority of the hiring committee works in different areas of research. One thinks that underwater basketweaving is overhyped. Another thinks that great work was done in the eighties, but all the interesting questions have been solved already. And these people don't put much stock in the letter writers: they have a reputation for writing glowing letters even for mediocre candidates.

And, so far, the hiring meeting is deadlocked until the basketweavers pipe in: Our candidate has published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik and Inventiones Mathematicae and Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS.

And now, all of a sudden, that postdoc is getting the interview, because her competitors have only published in Mathematische Annalen and Indagationes Mathematicae. (These are all real names of math journals.)

That was a bit long winded, and please forgive me if it's a bit silly, but the point is that we need mechanisms to compare researchers working in different subdisciplines, for researchers to "prove" to the community at large that they're doing good work. I wish we could eschew these games, and I certainly wish we could ditch the commercial publishing industry, but we compete with each other for jobs, for grant funding, and for fame, and we need to establish some kind of metric for evaluating researchers which is as fair as possible.

It is not perfect; certainly it is not completely fair. But I believe it works reasonably well.
This is great, I appreciate you putting it here. I have a conflict pattern that comes up with enormous frequency at work, and for various reasons solving it somewhere other than the merge is not a great plan. It's always the same solution, though, and I could even predict it and flag for it in the commit message.

This seems like exactly the answer to that.
I never wrote I'm not worried about China.
He also refers to Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza without adding his well-known title! (Seriously, the man was convicted of violating campaign finance rules, and he's an inveterate liar. Why the hell would anyone take his word for anything?)