skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's not fully ready yet, Standard Notes can in theory do all these things. It's a client based system backed by an abstract model server, meaning the client chooses how to represent data, and the server can understand any format.

There is an agreed upon client side format which is discussed in the specification[1].

It's also decentralized and encrypted which means you'll have total privacy and security. You can run your own server, or join a community server.

Would love any feedback you have. Follow for updates on Twitter: @standardnotes.

[1] https://standardnotes.org

[2] https://twitter.com/standardnotes
It's simply entertainment and business, just like the Oscars. Does anyone seriously think otherwise? And would they care? People seem to take the "oscars" seriously.
The problem is DS is really 2-3 different disciplines under one nebulous title. What you're describing is folks who are prototyping and productionizing models. That's definitely in short supply, but random STEM PhDs are in no way competitive for those roles unless they're coming from CS programs + have work experience in production engineering.

But that's by no means all of the DS field. There are lots of DS jobs where you're collecting and interpreting and communicating about complex data sets. An engineering mindset is occasionally helpful, but a bias towards building versus towards analyzing and writing can just as often be counter-productive. Not all problems are solved by systems; lots of problems are solved by better understanding the problem and then letting other specialists build the right solution.

The bootcamps have contributed to the problem by focusing so much on building things. The idea that you can go from an econ undergrad to being a self-sufficient member of a production ML team in 6-12 weeks is nuts. What's less nuts (and what I wish programs like Insight focused on) is taking people from having data skills in one domain and with one set of tools (e.g. logitudinal medical record data, stored in CSVs and handled in Stata) to another set of tools (billions of rows of event-based product data stored in a data warehouse, processed in R or Python). But instead the bootcamps behave like the missing skillset is the ability to make a predictive random forest model on some arbitrary data set and build an AWS web app around it. THAT job market definitely doesn't exist and is completely over-saturated.

But people who are smart communicators about data, can manipulate and make sense of massive data sets, can ask incisive questions about their data, and can use data to convince people of a complex argument are always going to have job opportunities, even if they're not production grade engineers. If that sounds like you, I'm hiring - hit me up on Twitter: @drewwww.
>But for smaller projects, maintaining a truthful history is much more valuable.

Elaborate.

>Mercurial supports git's branching model and a lot of others.

Except, it doesn't completely.

>Are you seriously saying that using command line flags is more powerful and easier than using a query language that lets you use arbitrarily expressions to query a data set?

Yes, because command line flags are ubiquitous in nearly every single tool, versus an arbitrary DSL that has no convention behind it, or can be easily parsed by other tools in the same ecosystem.

> Please take a look.

You seem to be under the impression that I have not or do not use Mercurial. You would be mistaken. Both of those pages do not lend support to your claim that the ability to "query" (with or without a DSL) the history graph is somehow superior in Mercurial. They merely document the feature, but do not draw any meaningful comparisons highlighting what it can do that git log or even git rev-list (which git log uses) can't.
I mean, I did a bunch of take-home tests. But those were focused on doing an analysis on some dataset, focused on answering a question.

Should data scientists be expected to do more than that? Or are you expecting a certain level of code quality from them? Within a 48 hour time window?
I'm not sure about acting style, but FPS has an influence on shutter speed, which is usually set to half the shutter speed (eg. 1/48s for 24fps). This changes the amout of motion blur in the image.
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If your legal system is fucked, that's not bitcoin's fault.
> Some of the judges were far worse, others better – with around one in 10 varying their scores by just plus or minus two... A wine deemed to be a good 90 would be rated as an acceptable 86 by the same judge minutes later and then an excellent 94.

Plus or minus 5/100 isn't bad at all for anything requiring human judgement. Its certainly within what I'd expect ratings to swing for judged olympic competitions like figure skating.
Pretty sure that was the bug, but if anyone sees weird behavior around dead comments and banned accounts, please let us know.
> For extra points, have alignment sticker targets you can attach to the body to track the patient if they move

This is roughly how surgical navigation systems work. The leaders in this area are companies like BrainLab and Medtronic, usually using optical tracking sensors (e.g. from Northern Digital), or sometimes electromagnetic, with accuracy in the 1-5mm range. For neurosurgery (the area I'm most familiar with), several companies offer tracked ultrasound integration, usually for live overlay and comparison with pre-operative MR or CT images.

> combine it with the positioning sensors of a VR system

For any folks interested in this, there is an active, excellent open source project called PLUS focused on ultrasound, tracking, and sensor data acquisition, as well as volume reconstruction [2]. There's also an associated 3d visualization ecosystem [3].

[1] http://www.ndigital.com/
[2] https://app.assembla.com/spaces/plus/wiki
[3] http://www.slicer.org
If you use angular 1.x a lot of 3rd party directives depend on bootstrap which is annoying if you're forced to not use it, current project would be 10x easier using bootstrap rather than materialize CSS especially since we have to over write materialize to make it look like bootstrap
Yes, my above paragraph doesn't imply the impossibility of intentionally mixing manual and automatic memory management. E.g. you can kinda do this in Go, but the language provides no facilities to help you get the manual bits right. And you can kinda opt-in to GC in C++ and Rust (via reference counting), but it's not super ergonomic.
It's not on our immediate roadmap, but we have had some demand for it. We think we might go about it by building an Erlang SDK. Hopefully a light wrapper on that would work well from the Elixir side.
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>It's for long-term branches.

Please elaborate how this helps you in long-term branches, instead of just assuming long-term branches aren't something most people deal with on a daily basis.

>you might be happy to have a tool that helps untangle the web of merges somewhat.

This has no relation to long-term branches, this happens with any kind of normal history, and even shared history between repositories (which is a far messier thing to untangle). Yet this feature is unneeded, because the information can be correctly found within git in an accurate and not misleading fashion.
In the US anyone can be a sole proprietor at any time, at no cost.
This is a public health disaster. It's tough to really fathom the number of children across the country that will suffer mental and behavioral problems for life because of this.

Why are there not more lawsuits? Is the scope of the damage too difficult to quantify, or the negligent parties too diffuse/remote to sue?

As much as our litigation-based culture is vilified, it can help spur action by changing the cost/benefit of doing nothing and force companies/governments to step up and fix this before more people are hurt. The risk of Mesothelioma lawsuits, for example, help add some seriousness to asbestos exposure claims.
I had 10+ cats at some moment and feeding them was a challenge.

I used to form lines with cat food. Looked a bit like farming.

Birds then would try to eat the remains, only to become additional cat food.

I've heard some vegans force their cats to become vegans as well. I think it is not healthy.
Behind what? I use Bootstrap and it does the job. I don't know of any alternatives than Zurb
Same is true of software though.

A company I worked for had a new website built (their big customer facing domain). It was just a Drupal theme, responsive, absolutely nothing fancy.

An old friend of mine guessed $20k, maybe $30k tops if you were being crazy, and I thought even that was high. Back in our consulting days we probably would have quoted lower.

They brought on a company for $1 mil, ended up 6 months late and $1.6 mil.

Gotta love those project managers and "status update meetings" to burn the cash.
Flint also made news because local control was subverted by the state to make the decision.
Does someone with a feeding tube eat?
Swipe right for more options? :D
I've been trying to find a solution for this problem. Basically, most of these suggestions here are "rewrite everything in NodeJS" (ignoring the requirement not to) or don't actually come close to meeting your requirements. Great news, I probably won't do better, but I'll post some things I haven't seen yet:

- Ruby - Pakyow framework - I think it uses ring.js and/or vDOM

- Elixir - Texas - might be an experiment, not sure

- Scala - lyft framework

- NodeJS - anything

- anything else - You can use react/vuejs+nodejs as a "templates proxy" and defer your real backend to your language of choice. You get the full whatever of nodejs, plus you can simplify your back-end by only using JSON.
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That sounds like a better solution. Does the cat have issues with wild animals?
Expanded read list on the same topic:

http://www.ncameron.org/blog/sets-of-scopes-macro-hygiene/

https://github.com/acarrico/evaluator
How do you find contracts? I'm interested in doing contract data science work, but I don't know how to start finding interested potential clients.
From Wired 2007, covering an 2005 interview of the then Google CEO Eric Schmidt, now Google Chairman:

"INTERVIEWER: How do people actually do 20 percent time? How do people actually figure out a way to actually get 20 percent of their time for that without working on weekends?

GOOGLE-CEO: They work on weekends."

Source:
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/my_other_interv
TeleMed [1] is slightly higher-end and has CE mark (IIRC in the $1-2k range for the uncleared/demo version). UltraSonix [2] used to be relatively reasonable option (IIRC under $10k), but they were bought by BK and prices may have increased.

[1] http://www.pcultrasound.com/
[2] http://www.ultrasonix.com/
"You might say I’ve won this battle. However I just spent 20 hours armor-plating a cat feeder. I think we know who’s really in control here, don’t we?"
The issue is support.

Most companies won't buy unless you can guarantee a support contract for at least two years with new features being included in it. This is why software prices just skyrocket easily.
Similarly, I'd like to see a map of where the edits are coming from.
Ah, very good point.
"Is it perhaps more like a non-physical zap that's more like an interruption or glitch in consciousness than a ghost physical sensation?"

" So one person's experience with one day off meds was a feeling of floating or vague floating-like feeling of imbalance. That's probably related, perhaps an earlier stage of the phenomenon, but doesn't sound quite the same as the electric shocks people mention they get after quitting. Are the electric shock feelings anything like a rapid (instantaneous?) change in balance, like a shift to zero-g and back?"

These are both pretty good descriptions.

Pretty constant background floaty/disconnected feeling punctuated by sudden, momentary shift of balance feelings that feel like a large number of synapses have fired all at once, usually triggered by relatively minor head or eye movements. Each one leaves you with a very subtle sensation that you've just lost a split second of consciousness and are just suddenly snapping back awake.

They aren't painful at all (so the electric shock analogy breaks down), but after a while can become pretty distracting and annoying (to the point of not being able to concentrate on work, study, or even entertainment).
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That piece sounds exactly like every other prog/power metal song written in the last twenty years. What makes you think it is either unorthodox or futuristic?
Pretty sure Facebook has one massive repo for all their projects for thousands of devs.
So which media outlet(s) would you consider to be 'real news'?
How would you force-enable that feature?
Where would they put the foosball tables if they rent no office?
> This means that manufacturers can more easily afford to keep production in high wage economies.

But this doesn't really bring jobs back, since they'll just be automated.

That's not to say there aren't other benefits aside from job creation, though.
> With interpreted and dynamically typed languages, you have to have 100% test coverage, because you have no idea if your code is even syntactically valid until you run it, and of course if it isn't valid, then you throw an exception.

I think you mean _semantically_ valid, e.g. no undefined variables. Most dynamic languages provide file-level syntax checking, rather than line-level. But I completely agree that this is the easiest argument against dynamic languages. Computers are better at bookkeeping than humans, and we should use them as such.
This is the best star wars joke Ive read in a long time. Brilliant. :D
Well done sir, this is a great service.
There was no support, that was to be handled by in-house IT dept. 60 day "warranty"
The painting depicted in the top banner is incredibly interesting. Also nightmarish.
From my experience this year recruiting coming out of undergrad, for the top kids who do DS vs the top kids who do CS, the median comp is higher for DS but the highest comp packages come for CS. I wouldn't be surprised if this holds for more experienced people too.
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You're missing the point. Locality, topology, and even geometry are irrelevant. What matters is how many bits of information you would need to specify the path that the photon takes. And the answer is: you need an infinite number of bits. (OK, well, actually you need an unbounded number of bits, which is not quite the same thing. But it's equally implausible.)
Would an ad server/logging solution make sense to add? Apart from Amazon's solution I had a real struggle finding something concrete.
I upgraded to the latest version of the LastPass plugin direct from the LastPass site and it seems to work fine. For whatever reason, the one they have listed on AMO is a whole major version behind.

https://lastpass.com/lastpassffx/
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Heh, happy to take the blame/accolades for the inspiration! :)

I definitely think there's room for improvement (no particular experience with PNAS) in general -- peer review is very flawed, and there are huge problems with publication bias, the area being so specialized that the reviewers (indirectly) know whose article they're reviewing, etc.

Actually, I think one of the most interesting things (science-wise) to come out in recent years is the meta-science of science-about-science, fuzzy as that may be. I'm guessing you already know of him, but Ben Goldacre has been a great source (for us outsiders) for information on this.
What would that make a difference? You still need a potentially unbounded amount of information to specify which path the particles take.
I don't think this shows the open source projects calling the shots, If anything my experience with jQuery since v2, was that we would use v1 instead of v2 in order to support IE.

Also when you consider how many changes were synced back to v1, I think it shows that at the end of the day, the user calls the shots.
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This feels very much like a political skirmish. Kalanick has run the company this way for a long time, of course, but one wonders if he's attempting to provoke a showdown between the incoming administration (to which he is an adviser) and the political entity that is arguably the epicenter of political opposition to that administration. It certainly sets the stage for a conflict between 'obstructive bureaucrats' on one side and 'impatient inventors' on the other - a theatrical interpretation that may not have a solid basis in reality but which is sufficiently familiar as to give it instant news appeal.
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Someone has to service the machines. Also, big machines are expensive to transport, so it makes sense to make them closer to where they will be used, leading to more service jobs.

There are also a lot of engineering jobs designing the hardware and software of these automated factories.
So, basically, Windows doesn't play nice with others and Windows doesn't do automation. That's why things take longer and why it's more expensive. I'm reading through this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/21z62d/sccm_2012_...

And this:

https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/topic/9357-how-can-you-m...

And I'm seeing three things:

1.) SCCM is not nearly as easy to automate as the alternatives.

2.) SCCM is expensive.

3.) SCCM has mediocre support for Linux.

And there ya go. Meanwhile things like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet can handle your Linux, BSD, and OSX servers with aplomb. Where Ansible, Chef, and Puppet use mature, cross-platform scripting languages SCCM uses Powershell. Windows is the odd man out here, and skills from nearly every other OS don't really transfer well to dealing with Windows. That's why Windows is seen as more tedious.

And, sure, our Windows guys were dropping to Powershell constantly from their Chef cookbooks. But then you get to deal with maintaining PS 2 and PS 4 scripts. The versions of Ruby and Python you'll find with Ansible/Chef/Puppet are significantly better with backwards compatibility in this regard.

But, let's say that we had bought into SCCM. That doesn't really fix the problems with the other parts of the stack, nor does it fix the inconsistencies across Windows versions.
This is primarily why Debian and derivatives use the so version in the package name. Fedora is designed on the assumption you'll only ever have one version of a library installed and everything is built against it, special cases then get made for compat packages as needed.
It is, and so is Tab Tree, which I found more lightweight.
Ive been thinking about contributing with my marketing/business skills. Though Im not sure how receptive people might be. Marketing is such a taboo issue in tech that it might backfire and create a shit storm of incredible proportions around me.

What do fellow HN'ers think?
I think you're talking about the Flo Control Project. Looks like the original site is gone, but here is an archive link:

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160115204055/http://www.q...
Im not referring to barangaroo - thats only one site and has its own very specific range of issues

Im also not saying density is always done well here, just that it is done and fundamentally thats the right thing to do
Your narrative white washes that he's a bigot who couldn't even admit he was wrong after the fact. I think a lot of people wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but he didn't do himself any favors.
I will definately look into this, because the Firefox that others are describing in this thread seems totally foreign to me.
It's interesting that many politicians, including Trump and Sanders, want policies to prevent jobs from leaving the US, but have no policy proposals around automation.

If you want manufacturing jobs to stay in the US, regulating automation would be far more effective than trying to prevent companies from outsourcing jobs. (Incidentally, a lot of jobs that have been outsourced probably would have been automated if outsourcing had not been possible, and that's what opponents of outsourcing are missing.)

I'm very much against a policy to restrict automation, but it's worth pointing out.
Windows containers don't necessarily need to run Nano server, they can run full Windows Server images just fine.
It is hard to sue government. It is even harder to make them lose their jobs. When it comes to compensation they will simply use our own money to pay back.

Utilities remains a major pain in USA partly because of the ridiculous government control which invariably leads to corruption.

I have been exclusively using distilled water in Sunnyvale for last 3 years. Water in Sunnyvale has dangerous levels of pesticides if not lead.
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1. Just because something has been published as a paper, does not mean it is applicable, says something interesting (even if theoretical), or even that it's actually correct (it just can't be obviously wrong).

2. Setting aside cogsys (CogSci is a whole different beast than AI/ML in computer science), the only impactful journal/conference you've listed is AAAI.

3. Papers are also typically incremental and all of the AGI papers I've seen in AAAI (and there have been very few) are no different, tackling some small theoretical subproblem.

4. I'm not saying the research is useless. It's very valuable. But it's is pure theory right now, and to claim it has insights for us about what AGI would actually look like is very premature.
Where I worked after college, Y2K was the land of honey. It was a .gov that essentially was able to get unlimited overtime funds for Y2K. Everyone participated and my understanding is that people were "working" 18-20 hours a day in preparation for Christmas 1999.
It won't bring manual assembly line jobs back, but let's be honest: nothing will.
I suspect originally when there were only a few services the glyphs were distinct enough.
The battery is the limitation here. Sure maybe you record for a day or two even but it simply can't last longer than that.
Rust supports algebraic types and switching over the type, which handles your example quite efficiently. You would simply define an algebraic union of T1 and T2, and switch on the type into the desired code for each branch.
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Several of these exist already. Why another?
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I'm not sure I'm competent to do that, but this isn't the first time we've had this sort of conversation. Maybe you could drop me a line at gmail outlining your interest.
Consider the possibility that lead poisoning inflicts just the type of mental disabilities that would lead a person to vote in such a fashion to begin with. With that in mind, is this really how you feel?
"The Thing" is not powered by a battery. The Dash button is. That's the whole difference between active devices like the Dash and passive devices like The Thing.

And yes, saying "Dash buttons are secret government wiretaps!" is FUD, no matter how subtly you say it. There's literally a simple way to test: sniff the wire. And people have done that (https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wif...). Spoilers: exactly what you'd expect. I'd also like to see how long you think a WiFi device powered by a single AAA battery would last while streaming voice to the Internet.

Conclusion: FUD.
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