skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do they get to that quantity? I assumes is world-wide
"That said, Google has a VERY restrictive IP a policy that effectively prohibits employees from running side businesses at ANY time during their employment on ANY medium, Google-owned or not. Anything you make is Google's.
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Actually, this is pretty much 100% false (I help run the invention assignment committee, so ...). We let it happen all the time, and in fact, grant people the IP to do it.
This is significantly better than most companies, who pretty much don't tell you, and then if you come up with something cool, will sue you and get it from you.
Facebook’s secretive hardware team signs deal with 17 Universities
Given that IE is tied to Windows, Safari is tied to IPhone and OSX, and Chrome is tied to Android, tbese browsers are guaranteed to be predominant.
I agree that a medicare extension to 'everyone' might help.

But that won't work, it will blow up healthcare.

Why?

Because young people just won't buy coverage. They'll all just use Medicare. :)

Most people will = destruction of the industry.

So, yes, 'getting everyone covered somehow by nudging in Medicare' sure ... but it can't just be done by simply extending it.
Upvoted. I love it when someone who really knows what they are talking about chimes in.
This was my question as well. There are some studies showing that carbon nanotubes can be as dangerous as asbestos, so it seems likely silicon nanowires could be as well:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d...

However, if they can make the nanowires shorter than the minimum dimension of a human cell then it likely wouldn't cause the same sort of cancers as asbestos.
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... plus, if you actually set up the rating process the right way, things would probably look even better.

A lot of these studies set up strawman investigations of the process, and then use the results to claim that that people can't discriminate meaningfully between wines, which is a huge leap and an unwarranted conclusion.
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Fair enough. I disagree that it's unprovable, but I'm certainly not going to reach any solid conclusions by posting on a forum :)
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Was about damn time a major player like this dropped IE, should have been IE10 though. Good move nonetheless.
Hyphens normally are not good in names as they're not pronounced.

If you are set on those set of letters, "aCarot" might be another option.
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Boy this site makes me understand why the wirecutter exists. Just tell me which is the best so I know.
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Cloud Foundry can already manage Windows applications and has been doing so for some time now. There's also a .NET Core buildpack for those who are OK with using it.

The underlying components (Garden and Diego) were written with this possibility in mind, long before Microsoft themselves made any move to simplify containerisation on their platform. It'll definitely become easier in newer versions of Windows as Microsoft expose more APIs to implementors.

But lots of people won't move in a hurry, so backwards compatibility is done the hard way. I don't know much about the hard way.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, the major donor of engineering on Cloud Foundry. By coincidence in the same office as the Greenhouse team ("Garden on Windows", geddit?).
1 gig sampling scope is $250 there days
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I think you're deeply misunderstanding my position.

I don't think we should accept and normalize this behavior from corporations, I think we should reject corporations as valid entities with a right to exist entirely.

Expecting corporations to behave ethically is not a reasonable expectation. Unlike individual humans, corporations only have incentives to make money.

I think policing is necessary, but it won't ever work as long as we treat corporations as capable of ethics. It should be assumed that corporations will do the wrong thing the instant it becomes profitable. Corporations should be considered guilty until proven innocent.
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and these same people

You know better than that, or rather, you know that you don't know that. Hard enough to get the water quality data, apparently, let alone join that to voter records.
Honda is in talks to use Alphabet's self-driving car tech
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He should have kept his money.
I mean, your argument supposes that the system can't have that many bits -- but doesn't your device to generate arbitrary bits require more bits to be generated than that amount?

Your argument sounds like "5 bits is too many bits to have in a system, and my 10 bit device can generate 5 bits!"

I guess? But that doesn't really seem interesting to me: impossible outcomes from impossible to construct situations don't matter.

Also, any value which can take on an arbitrary real (or even rational) number has arbitrary storage capcity -- and so far as I know, lots of quantum values do.
Actually no. Zero jobs would be best, because then -everything- that people didn't do for their own sense of enjoyment would be automated.
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The primary reason professionals prefer Stradivaris is that it increases their profile and not because they sound better. Time and time again blind studies show that professionals can't tell the difference or even prefer the modern instruments. But when your resume states that you own a Stradivarius, you will be more highly regarded.
If your perspective of ML was based solely on the comments in this thread you'd think there's 0 opportunity in the field -- obviously not true.
The people who comment on these kinds of posts tend to always be incredibly cynical, and I am not sure why. They offer a limited perspective on the industry and you should not let it discourage you from your desire to learn and become an ML engineer. If I were an undergraduate CS student interested in ML/DS I would start by taking an intro course for ML and creating a side project you're proud of.
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Why？
My thoughts exactly. I just can't fathom an angle where this works out to their advantage. From what I've seen, this permit is literally a formality, so did they just not want to test in California?
I really hope we end up with something much closer to socialism than we do either the future from "The Time Machine" or perpetual cycles of Viva-La-Revolution.
rad, I needed a new homepage...

Edit: re-reading my comment, it does sound a bit sarcastic. I want to make it clear, I actually did set this to my homepage! :-)
A company I co-founded, Shift Labs[1], is trying to do exactly that. The CEO, Dr. Beth Kolko, quit her academic post to found the company out of her frustration with low industry uptake of low cost medical devices emerging from academia.

[1] http://www.shiftlabs.com/
I said you were paid for your attention

And I'm disagreeing, by analogy. That's how it's relevant.

Should the site be able to ask for a refund on their content since you didn't provide what they expected(ad views)?

Also valid, and also leads to the same conclusion: it's a nonsensical idea. Therefore one thing is not 'payment' for the other. There's one protocol that making a HTTP request returns content at the discretion of the server, and there's no advance agreement that the content has value, or that the client is agreeing to trade anything at all for the alleged value.

I didn't say you were legally bound to watch the ads at any point.

I didn't say you said I was, only that content is not payment for watching adverts - and that it would be daft if that was the case.
Recently open sourced Python for library for Bayesian belief networks (aka Bayesian networks, aka probabilistic graphical models).

These are a powerful tool for representing dependence relationships in probability distributions. Given a joint probability distribution, Pr(X1, X2, ..., Xk), a table representing this requires |X1|X...X|Xk| entries. This representation can be accomplished much more compactly by identifying conditional independence relationships among the variables. Belief networks, are one method of encoding these independence relationships. Once this network is identified, it can then be used to perform various types of probabilistic inference.
Extreme winter in Mongolia is decimating livestock and temperature drop to -56C
I was on an island in Sydney harbour sitting behind someone with a handheld video camera. As the first firework exploded, his video camera turned off. Everyone looked around at the buildings, waiting for the lights to flicker.
Apple is doomed, and has been for a while painted by media.

But what people dont realize is that news today aren't really trying to tell you the truth. ( Hence all these Fake news topic. ) They are trying to MAXIMIZE their revenue with their post. Which means A/B testing to see which ever reader likes to read, or tries to attract certain types of reader.

Once the topic has been beaten to death and seen reader flying away, they change the tone and paint a different picture. A different spin on the same story trying to attract readers back.

This is, capitalism at its best.
Theoretically yes we should make them functional again.

But re-spilling takes longer than expected, doesn't happen very successfully across the board and is effectively a huge hole in that theory.

And that's if the people are close enough to the skill domain to manage the jump.

Side note- people underestimate how variables govern human learning,

Native ability, language skills, previous success with studies, self discipline, presence of children, health, spare time, non competing obligations, nutrition.
> But it's cheaper to buy commercial software.

Not once you start needing bespoke customizations, which is why companies generally start hiring programmers to hack on open source projects for them.

You'll pay through the nose when contracting a commercial company to do special snowflake work to their product just for your needs.
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VimFX has been a more than capable substitute.
Venezuelas economic crisis is so bad that parents are giving away their children
Hey that's awesome. Will keep track of this.
Wikipedia says "The wood stove sauna is the most common type of sauna [in Finland] outside of the city areas".

In the context of "It's amazing if Finland has solved poverty to the level that every household can afford to set aside the space for a sauna and costs of running it.", and rural areas tend to be poorer than city areas, discussing wood as fuel for said saunas seems relevant.
I do have to say that my experience between the OLDER fglrx driver (for an R9 285 card (GCN 1.2)) and the mesa 13/13.1 releases (amdgpu driver) has been that the fully open stack is MUCH MORE STABLE. It isn't perceptibly slower, but it is a lot less likely to have some weird corner case bug in random games.
No one pays $100/pill. It's "that much" in America because the manufacturer anticipates that the insurance companies are going to expect a big discount. Pricing it at $100/pill allows them to say "Well, for you Mr. Blue Cross, you do indeed have massive volume, we will offer an amazing 95% off and sell the pill to your very lucky customers for $5." Since it is now illegal not to possess health insurance in the United States, "no one" will be paying an uninsured rate.

However, companies aren't selling these pills directly to consumers, they go through pharmacies and doctors. If you don't have insurance or your insurance doesn't cover the medication, these pharmacies and doctors usually have multiple options at their disposal to increase the affordability of the medication, whether it's a manufacturer-provided financial hardship program, substituting the same medication from a different manufacturer (i.e., "generic version please"), assistance signing up for government-provided medical benefits like Medicaid, or something else.

Doctors do the same thing. Their "cash price" is a hyperinflated joke that exists only to anchor their negotiations with the insurance company. If you don't have insurance, you can and should ask about options to slash the sticker price. You can often get an instant 50% reduction just by asking.

The people who really get screwed are the people who have some type of billing snafu and end up with a cash price account in collections. This will haunt your credit report for at least 7 years and will make your life unpleasant in other ways, but even at this point you can usually negotiate a large discount. Such snafus can happen for various reasons and are unfortunately not rare, as you might guess from the ridiculous complexity of the system already described.

If the medical provider sues, it's possible a judgment could be entered against the individual for the cash amount that no one is ever expected to pay anyway. That is the worst case scenario, and it's bad, but even then most Americans are not stuck. They can file for bankruptcy protection and have the matter settled. In most states, bankruptcy will not require a person to surrender property that is needed for their daily maintenance, and some states have very strong homestead exemptions that ensure a homeowner will not be forced to sell his/her primary residence.

Of course, all of this is a massive disaster, but it should be known that in real life, virtually no one pays $100/pill. :)
> You're changing the topic.

Oh really? Let's see now.

> We're not talking about a general open source project with a potentially large userbase. So what you're essentially advocating is that we have to wait till a few hundred people serendipitously have enough time to dedicate to their hobby of writing control software for medical devices. And after that they have to validate the code, test it and ensure its correctness.

Not at all. A start would be a proof of concept device with barely working software. Maybe even not that, maybe the first PoC uses an oscilloscope for visualising the data. Then someone takes e.g. a Beagleboard and dumps the data via USB into a small Python script. V2 might add a bit of a colour map with matplotlib, maybe a GUI or just live updating Jupyter notebook. That's a start.

Why does everybody assume you'd want to replace the medical devices? Did we even read the same article? The authors even say that

> "[c]reating any device for medical purposes can be incredibly expensive, but this ignores all the other uses that ultrasounds can have in education, imaging, sports training and just for fun".

Except for sports training, do we need medical certification or perfect accuracy? No. So why is it so hard to believe that one person couldn't knock something together in a weekend if the transducers were available? You know, for fun, out of curiosity?
In your case, if you are just planning to de a web API with the majority of the workload being I/O (such as hitting other APIs), then node.js (outperform Python and Ruby out of the box in this case IMO). Otherwise, Python is a more versatile choice. All 3 are relatively easy to start, but given you like Rails, which is big on convention over configuration, the closest you'll get, that has a large community is Django, and a Node.JS counterpart would be sails.js. The biggest difference is in the languages itself, all 3 have some distinct differences in design.

But all 3 suffer from the same issues that dynamic languages have, and weren't designed for enterprise. Node.js is also being added to existing enterprise applications, but normally for anything web facing.

EDIT: Add opinion relating back to main question.
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The need to just copy and paste code that links to CDNs is why so many people don't take frontend development seriously.
huh. TIL people use spacebuckets for growing stuff other than weed
And then somebody makes Twitter API as a service which basically dumps everything into a steaming database that can be properly queried
If you set browser.showQuitWarning to true (also make sure browser.warnOnQuit is true; that should be default) it will show a dialog to confirm if you want to quit. But if you check the box "do not show next time" it will set browser.showQuitWarning to false.
His and probably the vast majority of web developers (Lets say > 90%)
Whatever.

In the meantime, let's bring the manufacturing chain back here so we can build up the automation expertise ourselves, and, while we wait for the End of Work, stop making the middle of our IQ bell curve compete with countries that don't give a shit about their environment, the concept of intellectual property or the safety of their workers.

We can figure the automation problem out later.
Since Google, is essentially what everybody in the western world uses to search, ( Russia, China, Japan, Korea all gets their own search from somewhere else. )

I wish they could release some stats on browser usage. Otherwise i dont know where to get concrete information without substantial bias. Also the time which browsers are used. Since people are likely using different browsers in School / Work compared to at Home.
I thought the same thing, and it's basically the same solution to the same problem. Bored people/cats with nothing to do -> make room fixtures impossible to tamper with.
I'm one of the founding members of the FreeSWITCH Project, I've literally had people call my cellphone and demand I help them for free, because the software is free, it has free in its name and some how that translates into I must help them. This article is spot on, When you find the good contributors you help them, give them empowerment and you'll get rewards as a project, but every now and then you have that one person come along an just ruin your day over something that makes no sense at all. Bug reports that are incomplete, when you close them as incomplete they get reopened with NO additional details. Pasting logs into word docs and attaching them to the bug, uploading core files as if thats helpful.

I try my best to stay positive, I now think of those people as potential customers to help me make living. It does change your view of things. :)
Whats the time from hire to a built live production system you would expect a truly qualified engineer to be able to achieve?
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Can these parsed from a string to a double though?
Free publicity maybe? In any case though, the whole thing is a bit weird...
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You know what else is interesting? The same part of the political spectrum that cites automation as the real cause of working class decline does not hesitate to rationalize mass immigration as necessary to fill the demand for labor. If automation is the problem then what are all the unskilled immigrants for?
Cory Simmons Lost grid is good for PostCss https://github.com/peterramsing/lost

Also checkout his other stuff https://github.com/corysimmons
y2k was a massive deal that was totally solved by great engineering. The full range of engineering approaches, the full range of talents, the full range of management interference brought to bear in every country, company, department etc. and all of it worked out equally well so there was no problem. Us engineers, we're amazing, we should take a bow.

Or maybe, just maybe it was just a teensy weensy bit overblown so consulting companies could charge really big fees especially to government departments and banks. Easiest way to sell is to scare the st out of people then show them "the solution." I bought an invasion like that once, regret it now...
Right and it's pretty sad, I think. Most contemporary software doesn't even try making use of graphic displays and mouse input to create a more efficient interface for trained professionals, often lacking even the most basic forms of ad-hoc programmability.
Neither do I. Unless flexbox's CSS weights a lot more than classical CSS, I don't know how could that be a factor to render slower. Does not make any sense.
Tesla Autopilot’s vision neural net needs to get real-world road data--Elon Musk
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We used to have our own feature flag library built by our CTO as well! We (thredUP) recently switched to Split (http://www.split.io/) and it's been incredibly helpful for our team of 25 engineers. Slow controlled roll-outs, short circuit broken features without a deploy through their dashboard, and we actually use them for A/B tests as well since they have an impression data pipeline and A/B tests are so similar to feature flagging. Definitely one of the smartest "buys" we've made in our last 4-5 "buy vs. build" discussions.
Appears to me that Uber just really did not want to allow a government to dictate what exactly their vehicle & technology actually is. I wonder if their logic is that by applying, they've set a precedent that their vehicle is fully autonomous, and also that local governments can now try to regulate them under this area.

They already fought the existing taxicab legislation, I think they're trying to outrun/ignore autonomous car legislation for as long as possible.
> This results in a cat constantly underfoot begging for food
> for two hours, which is literally a tripping hazard.

We found a solution to this: Only feed the cat when an audible alarm goes off. This way they associate the onset of food behavior with the alarm, not with you.
Excellent, thanks!

If you're using a nightly, you should be able to use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance... to profile it, because nightlies have useful symbols. Might be worth capturing a profile at the point when the spinner stops and the page is finally shown.
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What part of the political spectrum are you referring to? It certainly isn't part of the mainstream.
> In California an autonomous vehicle is defined as having the capability of driving “without the active physical control or monitoring” of a person. The state allows for the driving and testing of autonomous vehicles on public roadways, but requires the operator to obtain a $150 permit to drive in the state.

16 test vehicles. $150 for each permit. Is the refusal to register some kind of moral stance?
Possibly

1. They didn't want to reveal the accidents the technology was involved in as dictated by the permit

2. They wanted to have Tesla be held to the same standard and have to apply for permits for all their autopilot vehicles
What does that look like in code? I was using c# so I did the dirty:

T1 arg;

var foo = arg as T2;

if (foo != null)

....

Also, how do we format code here?
It's the Uber way ... spoiled douchebag brats!
I'm going to nitpick and suggest that you almost certainly meant 8 _bytes_.
One outcome would be a utopia where everyone would share equally in this new prosperity. Another would be a distopia where the prosperity only went to the factory owners.
Some mild punishment may be necessary. If a cat bothers me while I'm in bed, they get held by their scruff and moved to the floor. The cats bother my wife, but not me.
that sounds pretty cool. Sorry for ignorance (heavy Windows background) but where does one start with something like that? Is there a RFC type of thing for these images or runtime spec?
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The likely reason Uber wouldn't play ball is that they wanted to be able to carry paying passengers in their test vehicles, which probably wouldn't be allowed under the test regulations, or even if it was, would leave them open to much more liability if there was an accident.