skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robots are tools. Tools can only ever act as a multiplier for the productivity of a worker. A robot can't take your job anymore than a power screwdriver can take a carpenter's job, it only makes the carpenter more productive. This only eliminates jobs if you arbitrarily hold the total amount of production constant. Why would you do that?

In a sane society, we'd celebrate increased worker productivity and use it to increase quality of life by making more and better things and maintaining the things we already have. Entropy ensures there will always be useful maintenance work to be done.

It really shows how effective media gas-lighting has been that otherwise smart people believe that increased productivity necessitates unemployment or a massive shift of economic control to the public sector.

All of that said, there are definitely reasons to move money creation away from the top 0.1% that are well connected and have banking licenses and somehow tie it more directly to productive behavior by individuals. Basic income is only interesting as a baseline model. The same total amount of new money could be introduced to the economy by lottery for example. Anytime you game something like this out you should include a random model as well as a constant one, as baselines to compare more sophisticated approaches against.
Personally, I hope back to doing large-scale science and engineering projects again! I loved the era of the shuttle, the moon landings, and to a lesser extent the probes and rovers.
Doesn't have to be a white/yellow curb. Put your location to a spot that has a place where the cab can easily pull over eg, driveway, fire hydrant, etc.
The US is special in having social benefits that are so poor that Companies has to provide this.

I get 240 days with varying amounts of pay but it's tax money - my employer doesn't pay this. Same if my kid is sick, or am. Tax money, not my employer ensures I get that paid.
Nvidia 1080 is a good one.
Take a look at this write up.
http://timdettmers.com/2014/08/14/which-gpu-for-deep-learnin...
its updated in July 2016 with info about the later versions.
This reminds me of the argument that you should run SSH on an non-standard port. Sure, can't hurt. I'm sure it does stop many indiscriminate drive-by attacks. But it's hardly a real security solution. If your SSH server is so weak that it could fall to a drive-by attack then you have much bigger problems.

(And, FWIW, Google's malware blocking applies equally to ads as it does sites you type into the address bar)
You might want to update the title to add EU (as all the countries mentioned in the article are in Europe).
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This is what we are doing.
Do you have any thoughts or sources on Indian micro-loan investments? It looks like a way to help people in need while gaining some profit off their success. I'm more interested in the former, but I do not wish to simply donate. I do not believe it to be the way to go about these things.
Why not? Why would it be a dystopian nightmare?

I mean, we already have early systems where you pay a tax if you create copies of stuff, which is distributed to creators, and in return you may just rip CDs, etc.

Why would a truly open source world be a dystopian nightmare? Creators still would get paid, innovation would be a lot faster, without sacrificing anything. And it would find a legal solution to what is already done illegally with the remixing culture, and also allow it in software.
sister in law will get something like this.
Which is exactly what GP mentioned. Although using `/opt` to begin with is an anti-pattern in all cases including Chrome.
The food pyramid is literally taught to every child in the united states, and, uh, we're kind of a fat nation. I think it's totally fair to call it out, it's not a straw-man, the government is literally forcing bad advice on people that's making them fat.
It hurts to be reminded of this. I quit wikipedia because of that.

Having your page deleted is an absolute slap to the face. It's like bringing a home-baked cake to a charity cake sale and having the other bakers take your cake, throw it to the ground and stomp on it while cackling maniacally and shouting "not notable" and other stock phrases.

I refuse to accept their excuses.
Stop spreading misinformation. 65% is well within historical norms. People commonly ate that much or more, oils and meat used to be expensive.
IMO it got much, much worse after that part.
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Distelli offers a visual dashboard around Kubernetes that makes working with Kubernetes extremely simple. It allows users to set rule-based visual pipelines that make automatic updates to one's Kubernetes cluster while also allowing one to work with the Kubernetes YAML system.

By looking at the distelli UI one can easily see who did what build or deploy and when. One can even restrict certain actions from certain users by placing users in permission groups.

Additionally, distelli provides a dashboard to provision and manage clusters on multiple clouds providers.

Finally, while distelli offers a build system for CI, it also works nicely with other CI systems so one can use Drone and Distelli together.

edit: grammar
You'll have to excuse my ignorance as I just like to lightly follow the JS web dev community and am no way a JS expert, but what is the reasoning behind the React spin-offs? There's Inferno, Preact, ivi, and possibly more, but are all of these so different that they require their own repository? Is it out of the question to simply contribute to the other existing open source projects? I imagine there are some backwards compatible breaking changes but it feels a bit weird to have so many React-like spinoffs. Could anyone shed a light on this? I'm genuinely curious.
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That's fair, it's a better state than the previous attempts.

Still, it's not as tested as, say btrfs and ext4. Can't wait to see its particular quirks.
Polymer 2.x will be distributed with npm + yarn. They had technical reasons to stick with bower for time being. They worked with yarn and it is the solution to the problem :-)
There was a talk on the subject on polymer summit.
One does not preclude the other, your abacus could still be broken.
Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You to be Rich is the personal finance book that introduced me to all the basics (e.g., paying off debts, how credit scores work, why not investing in index funds across diverse asset classes is moronic, etc.).

Dead practical advice despite the somewhat sleazy writing style (see title of book).
Another WMD (Weapon of Math Destruction) ready to be deployed.
May I ask, what OCR engine does it use?
You can see the changelog here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-17....

The new product page here:
http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/high_availability.h...

The documentation chapter here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-replication.htm...

A look at the performance here:
http://mysqlhighavailability.com/performance-evaluation-mysq...
So your initial assumption (population growth increases traffic) without evidence is true, but my experience is unbelievable? Seems like a weird way to reply if you want to have a meaningful conversation.
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Most of you state applies, but what I was specifically referring to goes back to the Truman days, and the history I read specifically called a reaction to socialist policies.

But, yeah, I'll cop to vastly over-simplifying.
just for curiosity, what do you use for creating a k8s cluster on aws? Do you use any of the available open source tools like kube-up, coreOS on aws, kops, etc? And if I decide to stop using distelly and preserve the cluster created, will I be able to do so?
Why are you lying like that? Are you trying to hurt people?
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Replace the word 'algorithm' with 'person' or 'institution'.

The politics around racial discrimination and bias means that in reality, few people do the work to tease apart (1) and (2). In particular, I think many people are extremely uncomfortable with the consequences that (2) being true entail.

Hence 'racial bias' usually has a simpler meaning: something is biased if the decision conditioned on race is not identical to the unconditional decision. That encompasses both (1) and (2).

You seem to ascribe some sort of malicious motive to the authors, when what you really have a problem with is how the country talks about race and racial bias in general.

The point is that in general, statistically unbiased algorithms will not lead to racially unbiased (in the strict conditional outcome = unconditional outcome sense) results. You might think this is completely obvious as a practitioner in the field, but it is far from obvious to the general public. Hence why it's fair to point that out to the public.
The most interesting thing I got from this was the DC/OS link, I hadn't heard of it before but I think I'll look at it to see how it might fit with our future direction with/instead of Kubernetes. https://dcos.io/
We fundamentally disagree. You, as a Marxist, see it as us versus them. That economics, money, and means of production (in this case software) is a zero sum game and that if others have, then someone has not. If the rich have money, they took it from the poor. If there is closed/proprietary software, that has subtracted from free/open software. And that is not true. Money isn't zero sum, Windows can have their proprietary software and GNU can have their free-as-in-freedom software. You don't have to, better yet, you don't get to force (and socialism IS force) other people.

I want people to want FOSS. I want people to be free, that's why I want them to use FOSS. Part of freedom is the choice to make unethical choices. Using government levers to force is the opposite of freedom.
Hi everyone,

We found that the site was slow because we were getting throttled by a table in DynamoDB which explains why kubectl scale wasn't helping as much as we had hoped. We were adding capacity, just not in the right place.

We've added read capacity to our table and things are faster now.
Ad quote 2: When I showcased it to you, I edited the code for browsers directly.
> The idea that we'll just find one simple magic change and that will vastly reduce aging/senescence is wishful thinking

I used to agree with that sentiment. Except a single mutation in a single protein seems to be responsible for sleepers that only require ~6 hours/night for a full night's rest. There's a lot of strange stuff in biology.

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/genetic-modifications/
How many obese people follow the guidelines?
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That's why it's so important to have tax funded (not employer funded) programs that also have allocated days for each parent, quickly making it first acceptable but soon also expected for both parents to take parental leaves. That is - if it's an explicit goal for society to have parents and men in particular take longer parental leaves.

My coworkers and managers would probably start wondering wth my values are if I didn't take at least 4 months with each kid. I'd look like some kind of stone age man to then I hope).
Have you already had an open and honest discussion with him outlining the above? Presumably you have evidence of his decreased productivity so that it's not a subjective point of view. What is his response when you tell him that he's been absent and not productive when present? Maybe he doesn't want time off, but he needs to come up with a plan with you guys that has him returning to regular productivity.
Based on the fact that no one is anywhere remotely near being able to do arbitrary pickups and dropoffs of passengers without a driver being present today. And that's totally ignoring any regulatory, legal, etc. realities which I expect will get worked out once the tech is rock solid--which it isn't remotely.
This reminds me of a joke where an oilman goes to heaven and is warned by St Peter that because there are so many oilmen already in heaven, space for him will be rather limited. The oilman, undeterred, ventures to the oilmen district and proudly proclaims: "OIL DISCOVERED IN HELL!"

Everybody leaves in a mad rush, and soon the oilman is alone with a surprised St Peter who says that he may do as he pleases in this now-empty oilman district of heaven.

The oilman turns to St Peter and says: "You know, there might actually be some truth to that rumor..."
I find it pretty amazing how a huge, publicly traded company that was in the beginnings of a cultural death spiral (circa 2010) managed to pull itself together. I can't think of many examples of leadership abandoning the philosophy that led them to dominate the market (embrace, extend, and extinguish) in favor of something else (innovation, community engagement, participating in open-source movements).

The anthropology behind it could be valuable to many other companies, I think.
> Maybe I am misreading you and other posters here, but I am getting the idea that people don't think this is a real thing or that it's no worse then actual news.

Can't say for others, but personally, I do believe the phenomenon is real. But I don't see it as something significantly different than "regular" reporting. It's a difference in degree, but not in kind. Regular news already only pays lip service to factual accuracy.
The food pyramid has been out of date since 2011
Ask HN: Could we please not bury our heads in the sand?
During the news blackout, this deeply disturbing piece of news got overlooked:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act

I'm trying to resubmit it but it says "Link has already been submitted". But the link is not viewable because of the blackout.

You are blacking out people complaining about the loss of freedom of speech.
I agree with everything you're saying. Additionally, "burden on the state" is both an antiquated statement and, in a global economy, more and more tied to opinion than fact. An simplistic example of such could be a very wealthy person, who despite paying a lot in taxes, causes considerable (far greater than average) damage to the environment - causing longer term externality and burden on the "state" than immediately recognizable.

Furthermore, Is the "inverse" of this burden an asset to the state? If so, does that mean high taxpayers are valued moneymakers for the "states" coffers? Does that not go outside of the scope of what a government is supposed to be/provide?

Finally, I'd be very careful to read the actual research and compare it to Telegraph's reporting. There are some laypress misinterpretations that are confounded but dont cause as much harm - such as the belief "eating chocolate everyday will make you live longer." Then there are far more toxic laypress misinterpretations that have far worse consequences (such as this article) if people were to accept it as fact.
I was going to edit my original comment, but then your subtle catch wouldn't be nearly as humorous. I'll leave it there as a monument to my lack of skill in ad hoc math.
Thanks for a great link. Cuvier was an impressive scientist.

I suspect he was a particular formidable opponent of evolution because his objections were based on factual evidence such as observations of the fossil record as well as the cited studies of mummified animals. It's equally impressive how many things he got right, such as the idea of extinction events at periodic intervals among many others.

Given the uncertainty of scientific knowledge at the time you have to wonder how well today's scientists would have performed in his shoes.
For further reference (as it seems I've been downvoted possibly for my own snark on this one) - since I can no longer edit the original comment, here are some references

This appears to be the one I recall:
http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html

My numbers were off it's actually 46% "non-polar", 20% "yes", 16% "maybe" and, 15% no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419

Additionally there was a publication in a statistical journal which also discussed the "phenomenon" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 which also found that it wasn't a factual assertion (in academic papers).

Anyways - if the downvote was for something other than my own snark I'd love to hear what it was.

Apologies for coming off as a jerk.
Note: Last time we used it for large data report generation results were slow and consumed huge amount of memory.
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I'd like to see a citation that subsidized childcare is ineffective. Here, for a counterpoint, is one saying that subsidized childcare _does_ increase birthrate (note, incidentally, that this comes from WSJ, which is not normally a big proponent of government programs):
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2011/04/27/child-care-helps-boos...
I agree completely Uber and Lyft feel that a competitive app is more important than the overall traffic health and safety of a city. It's heartbreaking for me to watch them slowly destroy what was once a bike friendly city.
The concept of "platform" (and thus no-platforming) is an area where IMO ostensibly progressive society has gone off the rails. It starts with good intentions, maybe as a reaction to the silliness of giving equal time to scientists and unqualified critics on mainstream media.

But then it morphs into this idea that thinking and talking about an idea, or being seen with people who hold an idea, without foaming at the mouth against it is the same as endorsing it, and that is a very dangerous place to be.
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A lot of people here seem to be confusing "wanting to do nothing" with "wanting to be able to do what I want".

A job where you idle all day sounds terrible because that's still 40 hours that just goes poof.

Rather, those 40 hours could go towards hobbies. And there's a lot of those.
(edit: Either confusion isn't a real problem, or else the confusion is inevitable and some new term will become the politically charged one with lots of contested meanings. In either case, the correct solution from your perspective should be more statistics education for more people rather than trying to change terminology.)

> All I said is that we should name it something else

As I said elsewhere, some mathematician would come up with a concept, name it after that new thing, and then we're back here all over again because "bias" is inherently moral and political and has shades of meaning informed by moral and political opinion.

You won't have solved the precision problem, or even the overloaded terms problem.

> Specifically, I think the term "bias" is used to make people think machines are drawing incorrect conclusions.. I think this will mislead people

I agree "bias" is a politically powerful word.

I don't agree, however, that people fail to know and understand the difference between (1) and (2).

And I also think all people know that the term "bias" could mean both, and manage to communicate with one another using the full range of their vocabulary whenever it's unclear what's being discussed. See e.g. internet discussions around stop and frisk or WoD or racial profiling at airports.

People understand the difference between (1) and (2), even when bias is used to refer to both.

I might be wrong about that. A far more important prediction: I don't think there's anyone -- on either side of the debate -- whose position can be explained by their misunderstanding of the statistical meaning of "bias".

People understand the statistical meaning (or not), and call (2) bias regardless. Because they aren't referring to a mathematical object, they're referring to the effect something has within a larger social and political context. A context that cannot be perfectly modeled, and so is necessarily vague and difficult to pin down.

The fact that "bias" can have both meanings isn't a real problem. People are good communicators and, when they want, can easily distinguish between (1) and (2).

Saying that (2) is "not bias" is definitely a political statement when taking the common definition of bias. People are free to agree or disagree with that statement, but arguing via way of naming clash isn't a compelling argument (not saying you're making that argument, but GP is I think).

> Why do you want to conflate these two situations?

I don't think this is a real problem.
Red velvet cake is simply a variation of chocolate cake, and not notable enough to have its own article. Also this article is low-quality and contains several non-encyclopedic/non-verifiable statements. Propose merging into a passing note in [[Chocolate cake]].
NVIDIA is playing catch-up with themselves and the shifting market too!

Just look at the Maxwell-based Tesla cards that came out of the blue (as if they were an afterthought); I bet Facebook, Baidu, Google, etc. told NVIDIA that Kepler was shit for their use-cases and they did not want to wait for Pascal.

Or look at the bizarre Pascal product line where the GP100 does support half precision, but the others don't, not even the P4 or P40. Strange, isn't it?

Things are changing so quickly that it isn't hard at all to find footing as long as you have something useful to offer. At the same time, I agree, a robust software stack is an advantage, but for the likes of Google or Baidu even that is not so big of a deal (Google wrote their own CUDA compiler!).
You know what's real child abuse? Entirely preventable nuclear wars that are only initiated due to ignorance of their effects.
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I wonder if something like AMD's SSD+GPU combo would improve the performance of this? Increasing the usable buffer size.
React as an API is brilliant. A Couple of methods only. The libraries conform to the API and achieve different things. Preact is react but simple. It's very lightweight, readable and gets the job done. Inferno is heavily optimized at the cost of readability. React is the original project which is now a monolith. Smaller than angular but still big.

Remember on average every 1Mb of JS Will take about a second to parse and initialize. Smaller, we'll architected libraries like preact and mithriill means you can make pages load within a blink of an eye.