skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
List of tutorials available at GitHub
This tech generates realistic avatars from a single selfie
That's a last mile solution.

Comparing to human costs of Amazon's preferred shipping method: USPS's subsidized parcel injection. The last mile belongs to USPS. In the urban environment, that's about 15 minute per parcel at $20 per hour (labor plus trucks). I.e., $5 per parcel. For FedEx, the cost of the entire expedition process is roughly $6.6 per parcel ($43bn cost of revenue for 6.5bn deliveries), so the last mile costs less than that.

Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeny suggests $10 per drone delivery. He doesn't specify from where. I assume he also means the last mile.

Are drones more expensive than humans? Air is expensive. Think of helicopters vs cars. With all congestion, helicopters have not become the vehicle of choice. They're noisy and can land only in certain locations. Most urban areas are too dangerous for them.

Air drones inherit these disadvantages.

As for Amazon, it'd have to stop outsourcing delivery to postal services and build a lot of physical infrastructure. Few tech companies are comfortable with this because they become capital intensive businesses, which they don't like.

So, not Amazon and not air drones. Perhaps ground vehicles within city borders and only after cars learn driving without humans. That's 5-10 more years.
Agreed on the perceived futility of these efforts. Even Amazon knows its silly: "First starting with 2 customers and the moving to DOZENS!" Woo hoo good job guys!

But first can we please solve the leafblower problem? Modern american suburbia is already ruined by an almost constant 120dB buzz and pollution & smell of cheap 2-stroke engine exhaust.
Sure! The comment I replied to, seems to imply that hijacking UPS trucks is a non-existent, or rare event. A simple Google Search seems to indicate that it happens all the time. There for making the original OPs concern somewhat valid.
> So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure.

I didn't even know what a ring buffer was

where do I dispose of my programmer membership card?

edit : lol, what a hostile reaction...
You mention 17 product engineers, 5 data engineers and 19 data scientists on board now...what was your launch team like? I assume you've had massive growth / hiring but curious what it looked like at the beginning (in boot strap mode/mvp mode)
I learned that lesson with the transition from WordPerfect 5.1 to WP 6.0.

The new Object Oriented WP 6.0 macro language was unable to do the things I did with the 5.1 macro language (a typewriter mode for diacritics plus spell checker plus smart commas and smart spaces).

Since then, I have always been an skeptic about OOP.

Also: closures are not too different to instantiated objects, one can usually convert from one style to the other while keeping all functionality.
Couldn't they just adopt CommonMark? That flavor already has a complete spec and test suite, and is specifically designed to be as compatible with existing implementations as possible. I believe the only thing really missing is for more of the community to start rallying around the standard.
According to the video, they fly ~400ft up.

Can anyone with more quadcopter experience describe how noisy that is? I know they are loud when they are nearby, but 400ft is far.
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There is an amazing amount of hand waiving and conjecture in this discussion.
Do they need to operate in the cities right now, or is a hybrid fleet an option and different solutions for different population densities?

I note as well that in a city like Oxford (UK) many/most houses do in fact have gardens. Different cities, different solutions. Not everywhere is NYC
I live in an urban area in the US. UPS, FedEx, and the USPS all drop my packages off unsecured at my front door as it is. What difference does it make whether it's a person in a truck or a drone doing it?

As an Amazon Prime member, I sometimes use Prime Now to get deliveries made in two hours from a limited selection of products, and that requires a minimum order and a delivery surcharge. It's still a great option that I take advantage of. I have to imagine I would also take advantage of an even faster drone delivery option for some things: snacks when I haven't gone shopping and have people coming over (and I can't be bothered to go out to do proper shopping beforehand), the odd household item I need but don't feel like driving to pick up, etc.

The "not driving" part is the key for me personally. I don't really like risking life and limb to buy potato chips.
If you know Swift or Java, C# is trivial to pick up. And Xamarin's SDK maps closely to their native counterparts, so hardly anything new there either.

I'd say C# is worth learning if you have the opportunity. But agree it's better to invest time learning a specific platform like iOS or Android. Coupled with C#, you'll be in good shape to pick up any Xamarin project out there.
This is a Trump article mentioning tech, not a tech article mentioning Trump. Lets not.
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You might have misread the OP. He's not asking why using & for the mask requires a 2^n sized buffer. He's asking why bother using & when it imposes these additional constraints on us. A part of the answer is that the constraints are already there with this approach, even if you pick a different function for masking than f(i,n) = i & (n - 1) -- which point OP only recently understood due to a misreading of the article.
This seems to be part of their shift to Google cloud services[0], as it says in this article this is about verifying if their machine learning technology is working correctly.

It seems like they should be able to verify the machine learning is making sense by, I don't know, using their own notes as examples? Surely Evernote dogfoods heavily internally.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/evernote/
For anyone that comes along, I have found the solution.

Flask-Ask is literatlly Flask for Amazon Alexa: https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask
I wonder if future conventions will have business drones only flying over existing surface streets when possible.

Buzzing over the street in my neighborhood is a lot less intrusive than flying directly over my house.

Obviously it would be a longer route, but maybe the trade off would be worth it.
> but you've apparently deciphered the evil scheme of this master of media manipulation.

Uh. He paraphrased, but could've just copy-pasted for same effect. Jeez man, just do a search before you challenge...

> “I’m a Leninist,” Mr. Bannon was quoted as saying by a writer for The Daily Beast who met him at a party in 2014. He later said he did not recall the conversation. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too,” the site quoted him as saying. “I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/stephen-bannon...
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It's wasn't a stupid attempt, I think it was jackassery. I can understand the idea of wanting a very clearly defined markdown like thing.

The problem was that it was called Standard Markdown, seeming to imply that it was correct and was done without the creator's consent. It was an attempted hijacking of the name.

After the mess it was renamed Common Markdown which is a much better name and less offensive, but by then it had left a very bad taste in my mouth. Or they could have given it a new name and no one would have been that upset. But the announcement had personal attacks against Gruber (Ajedi32 correctly pointed out I was wrong here) and seemed to imply they were taking over stewardship and that was totally uncalled for.
The same way ZipCar, Car2Go and every other car-sharing solution deals with this?
I can't log into work computers using my password manager.
> If you take the time to enter the voting booth when it opens and verify that the ballot boxes are empty at the start, and stay in the voting booth until it closes

Too late to edit my own post but please s/voting booth/polling station/ in the parent. Of course every voter should have absolute privacy in the voting booth in order to rule out coercion, but the ballot storage in the polling station should be publicly verifiable.
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Just need Samsung to put alcohol meters in its next phone.

A few years time to market. Damn. We may get accurate sickness data worldwide before we get driving cars.
My take is that after having won the election, he's moving from saying what wins votes to what helps govern.

I'm really confused by all the Trump haters who assume he's always telling the truth when he says things they don't like.

More likely he's pandering to someone else.
<sarcasm>
Cost of specialized drone wherehouse in remote England: $1.2mm
Cost of 3+yrs of R&D of drone fleet: $436mm
Cost of delivering first package: priceless
</sarcasm>

I'm not sure how this is ever going to compare with a truck and driver, especially when the truck will be self-driving in less than a decade.
They're really not - the IBM PC set is double-pixel wide and with quite different choices for many of the letters because the MSX is 5x7 while IBM PC used 8x14 (EGA) or 8x16 (VGA).

It is far more likely they took inspiration from the Apple ][ font and tried to add serifs in the limited space.

CP437 is the codepage - chars outside the ASCII range of 0-127. The font you are thinking of is probably the BIOS font from either the IBM EGA or VGA adapter.
We just need to pop an anti-gravity engine on the bottom instead of using air-propulsion. Then, to reduce the visual pollution, we just cloak them with an invisibility shield. It's really that simple.

I'm sure Amazon already has this on their roadmap.
Old thread, but I'd like to point out that I don't think filtering out people who can't do FizzBuzz is "picky". What I'm calling picky is the extremely narrowly defined sets of skills people in this thread are looking for. There is a huge gulf between "competent programmer" and "expert in language A, platform B, and framework C". Most companies would be perfectly fine with the former (of which there is no shortage) and reject a lot of good candidates in a sometimes futile search for the latter.
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Actually, there's a slight difference between the two pronunciations, at least for the North American English pronunciation. When you say cock, there's an emphasis on the o (it lasts longer) while with coq, the o is slightly muttered. Like c-awk vs. c-uck, or according to wikitionary: \kɒk\ vs. \kɔk\ for coq.
Except that's not how protecting the environment works. You can't undo damage to the environment as easily as you can destroy it. So if in one minute he thinks its ok to do something destructive, in the next minute it will be too late to undo that.

Please keep this in mind.

This applies to other areas of life as well. If you are an undocumented child living in this country. You can't have a normal life if all you know is that Trump might change his mind. You will forever live in fear. That's not fair to anyone.
I'm not sure how would photonic memory connection obsolete NUMA. The non-uniform latency problem would still persist possibly at a different magnitude of connected memory.
That works. Can you explain why? Does diff see this as a single commit or as set of commits? If it sees it as a set, how does it decide what two commits to diff from that set? If it's just one, what does it decide to diff?

I'm kind of confused because gitrevisions(7) says the triple dot is symmetric difference, but exchanging master and experiment does not produce the same output from diff.
Your definition of "all the time" includes two news stories in the last year?
I feel this is a criticism of the past. In the last decade a lot of places were abstraction was required (threads, etc), we've seen good libraries appear. This has greatly simplified code bases, especially if you measure by lines of code.
> Countries like Chine and Russia, try to control it on country level.

UK is on that list as well sadly.
I do not believe the networking issue is orthogonal. I believe you will find that any communication between two OS threads is significantly slower than switching one thread between an active and a parked goroutine. Futexes are slow and spinlocks burn CPU. (This is exactly the case the C++ model I mentioned ran into, and why gccgo got an N:M model.)

But as I said I'm happy to be convinced. The easiest way to demonstrate it would be to move gccgo linux/amd64 back to 1:1 without hurting the channel benchmarks. You could use that as an argument that fanning out an epoll loop among threads can be made fast.
That depends on whether you see null as a marker of not having data or a marker of not knowing if there is data.
You won't be able to hear them on their way to the destination, only near the takeoff and landing.
Generally you are prohibited from accessing your building's roof unless it has a patio.
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Yes, you could, and page loads would take 500ms per resource just to decide whether it should be blocked or not.
How they use the singleton is strange also.

https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine/blob/master/ivote-serve...

> Election().count_questions()

> Election().is_hes()

> for el in Election().get_questions()

> Election().is_voters_list_disabled()

Election is a singleton so they keep reinstantiating it every time they want to use it instead of just doing

> election = Election()

at the module level and having a more idiomatic singleton (module variable are singletons). But a singleton design probably isn't the best approach.

The singleton example isn't that bad of code since it assumes that one server will run one election which is a valid assumption, but reading through this code makes me weary about e-voting. I think this proves that OpenSource doesn't always mean good code. There is little incentive for people outside of Estonia to contribute to the project.
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I disagree. There are those that work on sustainable, inexpensive, and not environmentally damaging energy production. This kind of work is pragmatic, as it approaches the problem as one we can solve.

There are also those that seek to punctuate the discussion and create strawmen, like yourself - that's the dogma side :)
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could instead be devoted to things like malaria and malnutrition.

You know what is the biggest cause of global malnutrition? Climate change, because it is causing more erratic weather patterns that destroy harvests worldwide.

You know what the biggest cause is for the spreading of the malaria mosquitoes beyond the tropics? Climate change again, because it makes some (highly-populated) regions a more favourable habitat.

Climate change isn't some hypothetical problem anymore, like it was in 1850. It is here now, and is already causing problems like you mentioned, that we are spending so much money on countering. But we're treating symptoms, not the cause. I fully expect our spend on treating the symptoms of climate change will rise to unmanageable levels in mere decades.
Not on my Firefox. That's really weird. I almost understand messing up the font size on desktop, but making it unresizable is bad.
At 400ft up, you're not going to hear a thing. Would wager that even if I told you it was there you would not be able to locate it in a timely manner, let alone be annoyed by it.
From everyone else in your building? What's top stop the guy in 5B going "Hey... package... thanks" I see a huge uptick in stolen packages. Heck the drones themselves would make a nice parts source flying free over the city. Just have to pick off a couple of them now and then.

I think the point when this becomes in any way practical is really really far off. Interesting demo for sure but pretty sure I'll never have something delivered this way in my lifetime.
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The silly Hamilton bullshit distracted people from him settling the Trump University lawsuit.

http://mashable.com/2016/12/13/donald-trump-distractions/#.4...

Edit: This also works by keeping the focus on shallow things that can't be legally damaging. The media is in a cycle of reacting to gaffe after gaffe rather than digging into boring details that might lead somewhere.
Markdown is kind of like CSV, where common usage pre-dated both Gruber's script and future attempts at standardization. His co-author Aaron Swartz confirms [1] that Markdown was greatly inspired by (and is largely compatible with) the way people used to 'mark up' plain text in ways that were emergent and natural to them back in the email days. Therefore, the lack of formal syntax is, to them, a feature.

This doesn't prevent forks, of course, but anyone who wants to perpetuate the 'Markdown legacy' should consider this.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
Wow. This makes Labjs, which has been my preferred loader, seem heavy.
Obviously, you wouldn't do this on a Macbook, and not just because the battery is not removable.

IIRC FileVault stores a "forgot my disk" password with iCloud, which is likely subject to subpoena. That assumes there's no law enforcement/nation-state investigative service backdoor in FileVault. The built-in, OS level disk encryption is likely insufficient, so why use a Mac at all here?

You could just offboard the footage to a machine running a Free version of Linux running LUKS and then after shooting and in a secure location and manner give the files to somebody to do the video editing on the Mac.
is 10$ the cost the customer pays, or the cost of the delivery? I highly doubt the little electricity (or maintenance cost over time) is 10$ per delivery.

Also, as a straight comparison, drones are faster, scale better and are able to work at hours humans wouldn't. So even if it was 5$ vs 10$, some could argue that it's worth it. Obviously not in all situations, but sometimes there's an item you need right now and not tomorrow.
It should be possible to have one or more decoy passwords. Under pressure the journalist reveals a decoy password. When entered, the camera presents the view of an SD card with various information that is okay to reveal to the authorities. The real information protected by a different password is still protected.

The implementation of 'real' and 'decoy' passwords should be identical. The decoy isn't implemented any differently than the real. Watching the camera go through the motions to access the file system through that password should not reveal whether that password is real, because the 'real' password isn't any different than a decoy password used to access decoy files on the SD card.

Under more pressure, the journalist could reveal that the password previously given was in fact a decoy, and now the journalist will give the 'real' password -- but it may be a decoy as well. There is no way to tell.
I use to live in an area that got heavy snow and had an all wheel drive vehicle (a WRX). I have lost control in the snow, even driving slowly in 2nd gear, under 30kph. For a human at least, your reactions need to be pretty automatic: point the wheels where you want to go and .. and this only applies to AWD/4x4: don't break. You don't really want to accelerate much, but you don't want to lose power to the wheels. Keep calm and the car will straighten.

It comes down to balancing, and we know we can build machines that can balance. Segways, bipedal robots, etc. So we have some of the tech and algorithms to do this in other applications, but applying it to autonomous vehicles will be its own beast.
With the additional benefit that one can have arbitrary slices between head and tail as a contiguous memory region.
What ideology am I putting above facts? Where did I say I wanted the sea level to rise?
I think it's so annoying because of the timing. I've never had one break when untying the knot or when just walking around. It's always while tying it which means I was just about to leave and now life has thrown a monkey wrench into my plans. Depending on how close I am cutting things, this may be an event that makes me late. Grrrrrr. Stupid shoelace!
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Why don't you hire out support? Sounds like $15-20/h type of work which you shouldn't be doing if you can gain more value building features or marketing.
I bet someone thought the same thing when Amazon sold its first couple of books online ;)
Sounds like a best-case scenario, those drones fly pretty high and are very heavy. Sounds more likely that it would be a fatality.
You're judging the state of the art in video game AI based on your undergraduate classes?

I used to work in video game AI having studied AI academically and was also disappointed that a) there isn't a lot of horse power to spend on AI so you keep it simple and make it fast and b) the game designers and producers don't want characters that learn, they want predictable well defined behaviours. They can then compose these to make fun gameplay for the player.

But that was in the 90's. At the point I left we were using A* and various optimizations on it and real time planning for multiple moving agents is non-trivial. People were using planning algorithms to make the ais behave in a more goal driven manner. I myself implemented a state machine based on Rodney Brook's subsumption architecture. Low level basic survival behaviours (run from grenade) would override the characters more high level goal (patrol route).

Ultimately I got bored but all the tech used in the 90's has continued to evolve and I'm sure there's some pretty interesting AI going on in games like gta 5 and assassins creed where you have large numbers of people and vehicles interacting.

No doubt machine learning as an off line process to teach characters to drive like players and so on will be a fun and productive area to work on soon
I guess it doesn't make any difference with which Luther you compare climate change deniers, it is dumb anyway.
The electronic voting system in Brazil is pretty well thought-out, IMO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Brazil

Still, I would not trust an electronic system unless it printed a paper receipt behind a glass window, and dropped it into a box when I hit the submit button.
Every year, without fail, there are people in the world who are killed by goats.

This doesn't mean that I need to worry about goat attacks.
That's a good idea. Combine it with a DHL Packstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation in every building, or, in more suburbian areas, every street, and you solved deliveries.
Ah ok, sure. I wouldn't call something like a linear transform on anonymized features "encryption" (more like obfuscation?), but I guess it's good marketing in that it lets them associate with the "recent advances in [real] homomorphic encryption"
I'm not sure decreased traffic will be an effect. Only increased air traffic. And more amazon sales.
From a nonparametric Bayesian perspective you're clustering the wrong people with this prior.
Not even a single mention in the press release about guest privacy or whether or not guests may choose to opt-out. I won't be considering Wynn on my next trip to Vegas, that's for sure.
Damn, we've come full circle