skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They definitely still do. It's just not necessarily a formal system - there are a ton of projects out there that people work on while at work that aren't directly related to their main responsibilities, and managers generally are fine with employees taking on 20% projects.
The 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade has broken audio on my xbmc (now Kodi) box. Audio is pretty fundamental thing on a such box. I've spend a day trying to fix it, until I threw in a towel and reinstalled it from scratch.

The 12.04 o 14.04 upgrade was also broken. I don't remember details, it booted, but the dependencies went weird. I wasn't trying to fix it anymore, just straight reinstalled from scratch.

I haven't upgraded it to 16.04 yet. I will try, what will happen, once Kodi stops supporting 14.04.
The real trick is to not get a $4500/mo apartment if you're making $130k.
Nice! FYI, that's the hex value so in HTML write it like so:

Fraction four sevenths: <sup>4</sup>&#x2044;<sub>7</sub>
Caution: the music is really loud.
CRTC establishes fund to attain new high-speed Internet targets
The icons look way too similar. In fact, the only way to distinguish one from another is by the glyphs. This begs the question: what purpose does the blue hexagon serve besides aesthetics?

As @bowmessage mentioned, couldn't you have a color for each family of service?
I think you're missing a distinction that makes self-driving cars not really agents.

I haven't seen reports that any self-driving cars learn to drive better in real time. Instead the data is collected and used to improve the software. There might be frequent software releases (perhaps even every day) but this isn't quite the same thing.

An offline learning process seems considerably more predictable. The release engineers can test each release to see how it would behave under various extreme conditions.

It's not clear that there's a compelling reason to switch to true online learning. Self-driving cars will improve over time, but not to the point where new training data gathered at 9am should make a significant difference to how the car drives at 6pm. Probably this year's model will drive better than last year's, but the changes are likely to be gradual.

As you say, there are diminishing returns to gathering more data, which suggests that in many domains, updating the software in real time won't be a competitive advantage. Unless it's a system that's reacting to breaking news, the delta in training data gathered in the last 24 hours is unlikely to make a huge difference.
I love the way my cats stare at me worshipfully, and I'd envy the machine.
Oops, but it's free anyways.
Isn't it 2 profiles of engineers? Those who make production code and those who work in prototypes?
One thing is to understand why your model isn't converging, another is how to scale it up...
Reading this was like watching a traffic accident in slow motion. I could hear myself yelling at the author as if he were a student driver:

"Use filter-branch!!! Use filter-branch!!! NOOOOOOOO NOT merge union with manual deletes!!!"

But... he went and did it anyways. Honestly, reading back through commit logs, you always find the part where the driver runs off the road, plows through a clearly marked gate, runs on a train track for a mile or two, then merges back onto the main street, carrying part of a mailbox and a deer carcass.

You can fault git if you want, but it seems like some of these cases just arrive naturally no matter what cvs is used. It would be great to have a "git education" repo that contains situations just like these to work through... sort of a "drivers ed" for managing a repo.
In ops, boring is good. :) Great work guys, we had no issues with our MS Software.

I recall spending significant hours during 98 and 99 on the various systems I was involved with, to check every tick box possible - applying updates where needed and verifying each and every piece of hardware and software.

Number of issues after we'd put in all the hard work: Zero.
My reaction to all the people complaining about the lack of issues: Well, doh, _really_? What did you actually expect would happen after so much time and money spent?? Go home.
>I don't care about your problem with NPM, I neither mentioned it nor do I used it beyond amusement purposes.

The commenter who you said had "by far the worst line of reasoning I've ever encountered" was annoyed at having to use NPM to install a simple CSS library. Not only did you flat out insult the person, you did so without taking seriously the tech stack that caused the headache! How do you expect to contribute to a discussion of the pros and cons of new tech when you yourself aren't using it to do real work?
I'm not a typography nerd and I'm sure the Unicode fractions are typically tighter but it looks okay to me.

http://output.jsbin.com/veqakaj
Changes to the orphan rules, for one.

Changing the behavior and representation of stdlib APIs. You would end up with e.g. two incompatible representations of String being used across the crate boundary.
Try http://meet.jit.si instead :)
I've met people who have given up entirely on merging SVN branches. They just copy changes around manually. Coming from git, I thought their overly-cautious usage of svn was ridiculous. My attitude changed when I ran into revprop issues merging my changes and struggled to discover why some commits seem to randomly be missing svn:mergeinfo. I only had so much time to deal with the issue, so eventually I gave up on fixing the problem and just generated patches to apply manually to the other branch.

One thing I always worried about when experimenting with commands in SVN was that I'd permanently screw up the server. With git, I was comfortable in the knowledge that as long as I didn't push, at worst I would screw up my local repository. Even better, I could just make a copy of that local repository before trying something I wasn't sure about. I haven't had to do that in a very long time, but it was nice while I was learning.

git is not the first version control I tried, but it's definitely the first that really made sense to me. Sure, there's a bunch of badly named commands to memorize, but the underlying concepts they represent are simple.
I do not believe the projections because they do not consider the inevitability of renewable energy.

There might be some projections that don't take this into account (though I'm not aware of any). However, many consider "commitment", or the long term effects of what has already been done (for example, the CO₂ that's already been produced). I found the following article "What would happen to the climate if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today?"[0] from 2014 useful in describing the situation with links to additional resources:

[0]: https://theconversation.com/what-would-happen-to-the-climate...

For two examples of projections taking the effects of differences in CO₂ emissions (which serve as an effective proxy for fossil fuel usage), here are two from resources linked from that article:

Charts showing different projections of relative CO₂ concentrations based on varying changes in CO₂ emissions[1]

[1]: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-10-3...

Two global coupled climate models show that even if the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had been stabilized in the year 2000, we are already committed to further global warming of about another half degree and an additional 320% sea level rise caused by thermal expansion by the end of the 21st century.[2]

[2]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5716/1769

Speeding up the transition to renewable carbon based fuel production would be more than sufficient.

Do you have references which support this claim? I'd be interested in reading about them if you do. Statements like this seem to sometimes be based on the assumption that market forces will be able to fix climate change issues, though I don't know whether you hold this position. The relationship between market forces and effects on climate change are not tightly coupled. The rate at which renewable energy sources replace fossil fuels is not directly proportional (inversely or otherwise) to atmospheric CO₂ concentration or global albedo or temperature or sea level.

From what we understand of human psychology, we don't intuitively grasp concepts on such a grossly non-human scale (both in time and space) such as climate change, just as quantum mechanics or relativistic physics can throw us for a loop. I should think it's much more difficult for the market as a whole to be efficient in reacting to effects on this scale as they are so much further removed from human intuition.
If Chrome's time ever comes you can be sure it'll never be at the hands of Vivaldi or Brave. One more thing, these are nothing but frontends to Google's Chromium.
Nothing will be done against it, everyone is too busy with other things.
"Nobody gets credit for fixing problems that didn't happen." [0]

[0] http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/teaching/SimSS/Shayne/RepenningS...
Thanks! Just pushed a fix for that.
> Our measurements and user feedback were all positive and so with Firefox 50 we deployed multi-process Firefox to users with a broader set of extensions, those whose authors have marked them as multi-process compatible.

How can one check if some extension is marked as such?

I'm using Firefox beta (which is now 51.0b9) and I noticed that Firefox now splits a separate "Web" process. Is that the indication that multiprocess is enabled?

I also set in the past in about:config

browser.tabs.remote.autostart = true
Delta Airlines kicks passenger off plane for speaking ARABIC
Smartphones, laptops and desktop computers should be able to dispense food to humans as rewards. That would revolutionize UX design and human computer interaction.
But isn't it true that "the best violin players have almost unanimously said they prefer a Stradivari or a Guarneri"? It seems that's what they say, even if they may not actually be able to tell the difference.
Few days ago we visited a company that makes avionics for small private planes. I looked at the hardware, a simple touch screen and tiny linux computer with usual sensor connections. I thought I could build this myself in a weekend for may be $300 tops which is an order of magnitude lower than their sell price. However what I learned was that the thing is expensive is not because hardware or software is expensive but the QA and certification process. There are regulations that avionics needs to work in all kind of weather at wide range of temperatures and pressures while still being accurate and have million hour of run time testing without any crashes and survive extreme shocks, vibrations and G-forces. Someone is after all betting their lives on your device. Now suddenly you have to care about strength of every soldering joint, specs of every transistor and reliability of every screw. Add on to this the customer support, marketing, warranties, legal expenses, returns and other typical overhead of production. If I'd to make device that is compliant of all these, it wouldn't come cheap. Making a hobby device for demo to school kids is quite different than making device that would help people make life and death decisions.
Bless you for saying it.

The analogy I like to use for our understanding of AI is alchemy. We threw Sir Isaac Goddamned Newton at chemistry and he couldn't make forward progress, because the tools were not precise enough. Similarly, we just don't understand minds enough yet to formulate sensible questions about AI.

This doesn't bother Bostrom. He builds castles of thought in the air, and then climbs up into them.
R2 Robonaut Is NASA’s Newest Space Robot Assistant
I wish the trackpad was above the keyboard. I am constantly accidentally switching focus or selecting things while I am typing.
Chairs That Treat Back Pain and Prevent Back Injuries in Canada
Eh, this is just another step towards the Great Island Firewall.

I Googled some info on Sudafed dosages (specifically interested in pseudoephedrine, even though they changed that to phenylephrine apparently) and half of the links were blocked because they were "adult content".

Well fuckers, if you're blocking information like that, good fucking job. It will not affect anyone but the general population, so it's all good. The Brits are pretty complacent with what the government tells them, compared to many other countries.
The ability to losslessly convert it between another format doesn't seem that relevant for a browser-- you still need to deploy new software to support it, at which point you might as well just use something more efficient than JPEG.

Remember, the compression is lossy to begin with.
OpenVZ is dated 2005 in the document, which makes FreeBSD look a bit alone back in 2000, but that's not really accurate. OpenVZ was just a re-branding of Virtuozzo, which was released in 2000, in an effort to upstream it.

Virtuzzo got really popular quickly in the cheap webhosting market, as a more secure and powerful alternative to shared hosting. I worked with it a lot in the early 2000s. I don't think they ever outgrew that market however, and when "real" virtualization came with VMware and friends, that's where all the money went.

It's only fair to mention where it really started in the Linux world. (Also a bit funny to see the pendulum of tech swing back again. It's about time!)
No technology is perfect, it's always a process.

And effectively every computer-related technology has undiscovered bugs.

https://around.com/ariane.html

""The board wishes to point out," they added, with the magnificent blandness of many official accident reports, "that software is an expression of a highly detailed design and does not fail in the same sense as a mechanical system." (...)

(...) really important software has a reliability of 99.9999999 percent. At least, until it doesn't. "

The statistics is against that generous number of nines.
1Password isn't compatible with multi-process? That sucks. :(

I use 1Pass for everything but I use Chrome right now. I've been eyeing Firefox again (it used to be my primary browser) but that kinda kills the deal for me. I'll probably start integrating it slowly. I can't imagine 1Pass will hold out for too long.
What a great example of the Aloha Spirit. Although I have long left my home state, it touches me deeply to know my fellow Hawaiians keep the Spirit alive.
Anyone knows if Tree Style Tab is supported?
The only reason it appears to work in those OSs is because the problem spots are papered over by binary only drivers.

Linux etc do not have that luxury so the warts out for everyone to show.

On top of that they are more often than not working blind, as they have limited to no access to the specs of the underlying hardware they are trying to support.
Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes
Another good resource, on similar lines that I've come across: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev/blob/master/README...
Lastpass + Self Destructing Cookies for me :(
I saw this in a double-feature, paired with "Beverly Hills Gun Club".
> That's a wild assumption.

FWIW A participant (of the 2010 study, not the follow-up you linked) did explain in a blog post that "[the Strads] were loaned with the stipulation that they remain in the condition in which we received them -- precluding any tonal adjustments or even changing the strings"

http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20121/13039/
Make Vimperator great again - still no support. :'(

Two year old github issue but yet any development to be seen or reported :/
This is a pull request that hasn't been merged yet. Maybe the title should be "Proposal to drop IE9 support and go full flexbox in Bootstrap 4"
While I don't have a large sample size to prove this, incredibly high edit numbers on these sorts of non-news events tend to be just one person. These people are unpaid and can focus on whatever they want, and sometimes they just want to edit one page.

That said, accumulating /thousands/ of edits is definitely unusual. For example, my top-edited article is the South American dreadnought race, where I've made 800 edits over four years.[1]

For another example, last year's list had "Geospatial summary of the High Peaks/Summits of the Juneau Icefield" at #2.[2] It was just one person making over 7,000 edits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_rac...
[2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/03/wikipedia-top-twenty/
Παμε στοιχημα και Καλά Χριστούγεννα
No it is not. If you want to install two minor versions of glib side by side, it can be done on the soname level (not to say that it is a smart idea, because Gnome devs are crap at keeping API stable). But it can't be done on the package level without playing musical chairs with package naming to work around collisions.
You don't "download a library" with popular bootstrap alternatives.

You look and see - "oh, this requires sass. sass requires some libs, or npm, or something else. Now I need to know how to go install those (assuming I'm on a machine I can install software on right now), then make sure it's all downloaded and installed correctly (because there are multiple ways to install it 'wrong'), then learn how to use those tools, then learn how to use them well enough to make something decent, the learn how to bundle/deploy that to my website."

You're not saving anywhere near "20 seconds" using bootstrap CDN vs the alternatives (and frankly, not even using bootstrap itself, if you pull it down and configure and compile all its options as well). You're saving hours or days of learning up front, and focusing on getting something basic up and running, then determining what style/ui changes are required later.

But keep making the false comparison between "downloading" vs "learning portion of multiple ecosystem and technologies" - you're coming across as quite learned here.
Target research-intensive jobs. Job descriptions are clear about what sort of machine learning professionals the company is looking for. In most cases, they want data engineers and developers who can make big, scalable production. Not researchers.

Just find who's looking for economists, specifically. Consulting firms and government agencies hire economists, but they don't call them data scientists. Investment funds may be interested, though hedge funds prefer math and physics graduates because they are easier to train.
How Super Mario became a global cultural icon
A machine learning model is core to my company, and core to that is pulling in, cleaning, and working with large dataset from a variety of platforms. This means:

- excellence in being able to clean data at the column level for millions of data points
- knowing how to work with such large scale data in a time efficient manner. One of our newer hires worked at the Postgres/SSD level to optimize and got it to where he could produce a full set within 5 minutes. Before that it was once every few months.

Being able to do these things is a prerequisite to building even a prototype of a model, and it requires substantial real-world programming experience to deal with those complexities.
I have this problem too. They could've mostly solved it by just making the keyboard work wirelessly while detached. (Surface with kickstand on the coffee table, keyboard in my lap.)
https://www.popcornmetrics.com/?
> Here's a summary of the evidence I'm talking about.

And that is our disagreement, my bar for evidence is a lot higher. Literally the doc itself says: "the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked [..] hoaxes [..] or it is the most remarkable fact of history." If we had proof, it could be only one thing, not two things.

And we can rule out one of the two, because we have no evidence of anything supernatural and no indication that people can come back from the dead. (If you can proof either, you can collect a million dollars at the JREF.)

So we would need to go with option number one. And how unlikely is that option? I mean people have died for Marxism. Clearly Jesus his teachings were a good message that people thought was important, even at high personal cost. And willing to bend the truth for and exaggerate quite a bit. All very normal human behaviour.

Back to Stephen. He did not even try to convince the Sanhedrin. He could have made is story legitimate with proof: remember when Jesus died and the temple veil was torn in half? Remember the sudden darkness? Remember the dead walking in the city? Remember that despite the Roman guards, the grave was empty? See how we can heal the sick and so could Jesus. But he doesn't, because it wouldn't convince the Sanhedrin, because it did not happen.

When it comes to the supernatural, we have no grounding, we cannot evaluate the difference between people writing down myths, vs a god spreading misleading propaganda, vs a loving god that you wish to belief in.

If belief gives you comfort and perspective in life, good, go for it. But in Saudi Arabia, people kill each other for not wearing headscarfs. And their proof for their beliefs is as good as yours. Namely ungrounded and still at 3: all explained by iron age people writing down their myths and beliefs.

And even if there is a supernatural, the biblical descriptions of it are as accurate as when it describes the earth resting on pillars.

Thanks you for the discussion. If you have any questions or think I was inaccurate, please let me know. If you have proof, please show me by winning the JREF price. Barring proof, I would suggest you read the bible but cut out anything supernatural. It is still a nice message.

Plus just ceasing to exist when you die after having tried to live well is not so bad. Probably preferable to an eternity with a god who, by his own admission, has committed genocide and has no respect for human rights or humane treatment of prisoners.
well unless you haven't pushed in a while and you rm -rf your home directory. Of course that has never happened to me.

On a completely unrelated topic, extundelete is a great piece of software.
> Stradivarius was ahead of his time

Is this really true?

I was under the impression that the primary issue with the wood was that it came from a stand of trees that had been through an unusual number of drought years and made the wood unusually dense.

So, while the craftsmanship was excellent, it was a happy accident in the material that made it world-renowned. This is similar to how Damascus Steel was an accident of having vanadium in the raw inputs. And was not to be replicated once that raw material went away.

And, you can say what you will about Strads, but wood has a peak in stringed instruments that seems to be about 30-50 years in. After that, it's slow degradation. Strads are long past their peak.
Hmmm, that's the first I've heard about limited season, maybe for a particular variety? There are so many kinds. Searching "breadfruit growing season" yields: https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/breadfruit.html

I forwarded the OP to my friend from Global Manna. His opinion about the effects of cane on the Island biome were less fond.
I forced it in nightly just now and Self Destructing Cookies appears to be working.
For some reason, based on the OP's article, I'm imagining your other cats holding the "authorized" cat up to the machine by the neck like a shakedown. :-P Kinda like in DooM when you use a dead security guard's torso to open up a locked door.