skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily agree with what GP is saying, but I don't see why we should be trusting people so much so as to require evidence of absence from people who simply doubt what's being said.

GP provides some examples of cases in which trust was mis-placed, which is fine enough for me to have a second-think about this rather than assume it to be true.
I think the "two week projects" are "agile" sprints.
USA and Germany are different countries, not a single "West" country. They were at war not a far time ago.

Germany delivered equipment to produce WMD, USA tried to stop that.
Ah yeah, I definitely found that in the past, especially with noisy sensors.

Since getting a full frame camera though, I find noise isn't nearly as much of a problem and Capture One's noise reduction is fine. Certainly not as good as DxO but I don't do much low light shooting.
(This only affects you if you're logged out, right?)

Seems to be the fault of a particularly dedicated vandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Dog_...

This person has been at it since 2014! I wonder if there are better solutions - can Wikipedia ask T-Mobile to block that subscriber from accessing Wikimedia sites? Can you throw machine learning at these changes to identify future abusive ones?
Yeah and that could have even been him, but it's unlikely the Russians trusted him with anything after he refused to be recalled. Nonetheless, years later, the FBI found catching an actual Soviet 'nelegal' valuable enough to not expose let alone prosecute him. It's an absolutely crazy story.
In a world of unlimited resources, you'd obviously keep moving the threshold down, but according to OP, many jurisdictions were slow to react to the last change, and many labs can't deal accurately with very low exposure levels anyway (meaning more limited resources being expended to upgrade these labs).

Also, it seems like there are methodological improvements that can be made to observational studies to get closer to an answer for a threshold without literally poisoning people:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27009351
I follow Matt Taibbi's work, he had nothing to do with the false rape story reporting.
Like ripgrep?
Everyone is hacking everyone these days and it doesn't seem like things are going to change. I'm not sure why it's become such a big deal in the media these days, governments have been hacking each other's network equipment since the dawn of the internet
But they (hopefully) tested the drugs in a double blind experiment. So they may not understand the exact mechanism, but they have a strong proof that taking the drug is useful.

In this case, all the em-drive test only give a very weak force that is very difficult to measure and may be caused by other causes (probably thermal because the device gets hot or something equivalent to an electromagnet because it use a current).
These companies are trying to produce something that already exists: The Ultralight Aircraft. Ultralights are cheap, require little training, and no licensing to operate. HOWEVER, they're @#$%ing slow, and aren't practical as a means of transportation because you can get places faster in car.
What's the Facebook events app?
Counting overtime in that calculation is pure evil.
No doubt, but that's hardly an obstacle for an even moderately sophisticated attacker. I don't know what the magic bullet answer to phishing is, but this ain't it.
I'm fairly certain approximately 100% of the people in that thread who thought the IG move was a bad idea also did absolutely nothing to bet AGAINST the move they were so sure about

in the end they were just speculators speculating

My point is not that "commenting on the internet is dumb cause it might make you look like an idiot" but the fact is that probably zero of the detractors in the HN link posted had anything other than an uninformed opinion
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They tried to get Snapchat for $3B 3 years ago too, which also would have been a good buy, given Snapchat's growth trajectory, upcoming IPO and latest reported $20B valuation.

And Instagram is now cloning major Snapchat features outright in the race to compete in mobile attention.
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She is probably doing it because she likes the work. She feels good earning a bit of money even if she doesn't really need it. The sense of fulfillment is probably worth a lot more than the actual monetary value. Lots of us derive happiness from work or from feeling useful.

I know at least one old timer (early eighties) that gets really happy when heading over to exchange his bag of aluminum cans. He lives in his daughters home and he doesn't really need money. My thinking is that it makes him happy to earn a bit of money completely on his own, at his age.
> reek of quantum spirituality... particles as being controlled by fairies who are locked up in hidden dimensions

With the cellular automaton interpretation everything could be calculated and is deterministic. More importantly, there are no silly paradoxes like cat's being both alive and dead at the same time until it is observed. The universe at its most fundamental level are bits of information, or automaton. The speed of light is the speed of causality. It's the clock-rate of our reality. No need for fairies, multiple worlds, or collapsing probability waves that lead to paradoxes.

> that self-organization is a very versatile term and that throwing it around with no context warrants more content.

No argument that you could "cheat" by going low enough to claim anything is a result of self-organization. But it's not cheating if the actual mechanism is. For example, saying that cells in a neural network are self-organizing is not cheating. Say that a neural network is self-organizing because of some fundamental laws of physics that’s many layers down is cheating.

> how that two vastly different systems at different scales can both exhibit self-organization described by similar mathematics.

That is the unreasonable beauty of mathematics

Finally, yes a hammer is not very useful if you have no way to control its behavior. While your magical hammer might provide a plethora of data for people who study it. You need to control what the hammer hits to use it do useful work.

There might be some use from this self-healing tech or any of the past claims. It's the hype that I object to. Then again, I also object to people calling Telsa's cars "self-driving".
I used to live in the Inner Richmond and there was a can collecting couple who drove a brand new Honda CRV and lived in an amazing old brick building. I suspect some of the bottlepickers do it for lack of having any other hobbies.
I used to live in the Inner Richmond and there was a couple who drove a brand new Honda CRV and lived in an amazing old brick building. I suspect some of the bottlepickers do it for lack of having any other hobbies.
These will only be toys, and here's why: fuel efficiency (or lack thereof) per passenger. Good luck getting over 2 MPG considering having to haul around bits to meet both road and aircraft regs, fuel and passenger. Plus, do we really want to rehash the already decidedly terrible prospects of making average distracted/intoxicated/uncoordinated people into pilots? Give up lusting over Peter Thiel's science fiction pipedreams and move onto solving real problems like breaking dependence on fossil fuels or sequestering greenhouse gases.
That's the thing though, it's an old-school Fordist concept that doesn't really apply to modern service/creative jobs. Time, like place, is not related to productivity anymore, modern employers need better metrics.
Looks like it was none other than InterLisp which had this, mentioned in P. Gabriel's and G. Steele's Evolution of Lisp paper:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf P. 18.
I spent a year waiting for the Yoga x260 thinking I had found the perfect machine, after 11 months I am getting ready to send it in for the 3rd time for a "freezing" trackpad, remedied only by plugging in an external mouse. Also, lack of Linux support is insane for a company selling a working man's machine like this, going back to Dell after this :(
He used the published title and, given the content, it isn't as clickbaity as it appears (electric shock is the mechanism discussed).
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong on this. I own one of those 970M model Razer Blades and I can tell you personally that throttling is not an issue on my machine. At all.

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/razer-blade-...

Razer has superb thermal design.
Any other reference? The only thing i know is Stuxnet.
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> The removal of the 3.5mm jack is a failure by Apple.

It's been a total non-issue for me. Since the iPhone 7 comes with both the adapter and Lighting headphones work/home usage isn't a problem. I just use the adapter + existing headphones at home and the Lighting headphones at work.
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This seems largely speculative and unsupported. I think a lot of this comes down to "we declassified something where we did X in 1965 and Y in 1972, therefor it's likely we are presently doing A,B,C,D ..."

I think it's fair to accept that we might be capable of A,B,C,D, but unfair to assume it's already happening unless there's actual evidence.

As for "saber rattling," is this where we think this is going? This strikes me as the kind of minor skirmish between the superpowers we've seen for decades, generally intended to shame one another and court global support.

Finally, I would say that critical security issues and intrusions in utilities could become a big impediment to the prosperity of Americans.
> I agree though - cancelling plum benefits while grandfathering existing recipients is the only politically tractable approach.

How about the approach that was used in the 80s ? 20% year-on-year inflation for a while with the government lying about it saying it's 5% ? That "reduces" liabilities by 15% per year.
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If you're referring to https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/rip-tdd/75084019494... he was being sarcastic.

But he also has said it can be over-done.

Which is not surprising, because everything that can be done can be over-done.
That's a fine point, but it's not what you said. You said people should keep their opinions to themselves, for fear of "looking like an idiot". That's the worst possible reason to not speak out.

If you want people to shut up because their uninformed opinions annoy you, that's something else. Say that, and take the bad karma that comes with it.
Phi may yet win out, I saw a talk from an NLP researcher about Seq2Seq models and someone asked him what his wish for hardware was and it was for GPU cores to not be as stuck in lock step with each other control-wise. Not sure if he knew about the Phi's though.
Busted by Thunderf00t

https://youtu.be/jCAqDA8IfR4

It's amazing people are still giving this bollocks the time of day.
I didn't say there is anything wrong with artificial flavours. The question was about what is processed food which almost always has artificial flavour and colour. Just a correlation, nothing for you to get upset about.
Assuming the targeted published language is English, I might be interested. My email address is in my profile.
That wasn't an appeal to authority, just an appeal to reason.

You'll have to forgive me if I prefer to trust Dr. Pryor and common sense over the Brookings Institution's "studies and accidental experiments."

If people were fruit flies and it was possible to actually conduct controlled experiments in "social science," I'd be happy to take their results seriously. Or more to the point, if controlled experiments were possible, no one would take uncontrolled experiments seriously (not to mention studies by the Brookings Institution, with its very large axe to grind -- see the Moskos commentaries on Brookings research linked above).

But the definition of science isn't "the best we can do." When actual science isn't physically practical, "the best we can do" is not science but pseudoscience. Fortunately, there are other ways to use our brains.
Management

Sales

Deep knowledge of some domain (real estate, finance, agriculture, retail)

Accounting

Operations

Namely, either some aspect of business (items 1,2,4,5) or some aspect of industry (item 3).
I didn't say there is anything wrong with artificial colour. The question was about what is processed food which almost always has artificial flavour and colour. Just a correlation.
> isn't that it hides performance problems or is hard to invalidate ...

> ... it needs to be invalidated when any of the states that it is composed from change ... need to have a global understanding, possibly across multiple subsystems

:)
Have you ever heard of a little thing called traffic?

Or something called a "speed limit"?

Can't believe this is the top comment on HN. Reddit? Sure, but I expect better here...
I'm also a yeti-denier!

With enough proof you can convince the physics community, even if the result is initially weird.
My favorite examples are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti... .

I think you can push a little against the magnetic field to rotate and change your orientation, but to gain height the magnetic field is not useful.

[Edit: Mmmm I'd change "but to gain height the magnetic field is not useful." to "but to gain height pushing against the magnetic field is not efficient."]
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>Who like to read the following function declaration?(just borrowed as example):

> fn foo<'a, 'b>(x: &'a str, y: &'b str) -> &'a str

Anybody who cares about the validity of pointers would like to read that. It very explicitly tells you what must be true of the arguments for them to be valid and for how long the result will be valid.

In general, you seem to be over-valuing conciseness. If you think conciseness is more important than memory safety, feel free to not use Rust. But frankly, it is trivial to make a language more concise. That's not a hard problem whatsoever.
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I wrote this in another discussion:

For years my wishlist item has been a project manager that can treat a single window as a project. A bit like a stateful, window-oriented Delicious/Pinboard.

For example, say I'm looking for a sofa to buy. I might open the ones I like in a bunch of tabs to mull over. However, if I'm at work, I'd like to just close the window. Since the project manager has associated the window with a project, I can just close the window. Later, I select "Sofa hunting" from the Projects menu and off I go with the same set of tabs. If I change the tabs and close the window again, the project is automatically updated -- no need to explicitly save.

I'd go one step further: Think of the project as a "pile of bookmarks" where the visible set of tabs is a subset of all bookmarked tabs. For example, say I find a nice sofa. I add it to the pile and close the tab. The project now includes that URL, but it won't open a tab for it unless I go into the project browser and find it there and open it. So this disassociates the tab from the bookmark, but retains the "working set" that is my project session. Similar to how an IDE or editor might preserve which files I have open, but still maintain my entire project.

There are some extensions out there that do similar things, but don't get the ergonomics right. There's a couple of "session managers", but they are dumb: You "load" a session, and then "save" it. Changing the window doesn't automatically update the session, and closing the window destroys your session. Safari also lets you bookmark a bunch of tabs as a folder and reopen them again, but there's no link between the folder and the open window.

I haven't tried this extension, but on first glance it looks to me like it makes the same mistake as other tab managers? I.e. you have to manually "save" and "load" named sessions?
The best asset manager in any sector has done amazingly. That being said, it may be just as hard or harder to select an above average investor as it to select an above average investment.
gpu acceleration in spark in generally production ready - https://databricks.com/blog/2016/10/27/gpu-acceleration-in-d...

in fact looks like you can use tensorflow models in spark with GPU - https://databricks.com/blog/2016/12/21/deep-learning-on-data...
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A simple method would be to burn it. If it smells like when you burn fingernail, it probably is ivory.
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It's hard to get a clear picture of what's going on from the heavily biased coverage on Krebs's site, but based on the services being offered (flights, hotels, car rentals) they would appear to be purchased with stolen rewards points. If they weren't limited to spending these points, it seems obvious that they'd sell a greater range of services/products.
Spark doesn't do GPU acceleration, which is super important if you don't have a lot of spare CPU capacity. The one time I tried to train a DL model on CPU it was 48x slower, and with communication overhead it would have taken more than 48 cores to match the single GPH. And given you want to do hyperparameter search on top of that, those CPU cores start adding up.
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Conceivably traffic in the air would still be a problem once we get enough volume, unless we permit cars just fly wherever (huge danger!). Similarly, speed should probably be limited unless we want 200mph cars crashing into a building.
It was a spear-phishing attack. The only way to protect against that is to ban email.
It would be cool. But I've done similar measurements and this bears all the hallmarks of bad experiments. There are plenty of other ways the experiment might have gone wrong than those mentioned in the article - one that leaps to mind is RF interference (if that doesn't sound plausible to you you've never worked with lab RF).
previous discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279600
I feel like this list has been designed in such a way that it is not possible to create any code, without implementing an example from the list.

When you make a list this long, you're attempting to cast a wide net over most conditions, if not trying for total coverage by including catch-all buckets.

Meanwhile, it feels slightly impossible to ask anyone to write code at all, without having them complain about something.

The only lesson I can glean from this is that every project requires a compromise of combining abominations with idealized perfection, and that transitory human moods and emotions have more effect on programming tastes, than actual practicality.
"German says battery technology isn’t quite there yet. He predicts the energy density of batteries will need to approximately double for small electric airplanes to really take off."
Exactly. This is just compulsive obsession over classifying (imaginary) things. The worst part is, that many of these are probably somewhat valid observations. I would actually be happy to read well-written book of short anecdotes about "how a bad decision was made and what happened" related to software development. It's not like such books (about life in general) do not exist already, but it is always treated as fiction/publicistic literature (as it should be). Trying to make a list of these and name these (especially in stupid camel-case manner, that does not contribute to readability at all), and assign "properties" ("Type", "Root Causes", "Refactored Solution") to them — it is just stupid and counter-productive.
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Replying to sibling comment:

Appealing to "Dr" Pryor doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. Please step back and examine your line of argument here. You're making unfavored claims based on what you call 'reason' and seem unwilling to consider contrary evidence.

It's fine to have a contrary opinion, but please refrain from spreading misinformation if you don't care to engage with the topic at hand.
You can buy the XPS 13 with Ubuntu pre-loaded on it by Dell. It used to be branded the "Developer Edition" but now it's just part of the normal lineup (but you have to buy from the SOHO-branded storefront because wow is Dell's site a mess).

I wiped their Ubuntu install and put on Debian and that's been working fine for me.
The tone of this and my original post are the same. Sarcasm doesn't play well in text. Apologies.
The next step from automated selfdriving cars could be flying cars. I wouldn't trust a million idiots flying but if it's AI it would probably be safer.1
Actually, reading the article as a whole, I would say an even stronger conclusion is warranted - almost certainly bad science but we should keep investigating just in case.
Maybe it's because there's a lot of confusion created by people who claim that there's an inverse correlation between hours worked and overall productivity, instead of hours worked and marginal productivity. I have no trouble believing that (on average) someone who works 50 hours doesn't accomplish 25% more than someone who works 40 hours. I find it almost impossible to believe that they don't accomplish more overall though.

And this fits the data: why would companies not dramatically push people to work fewer and fewer hours for this magical increased productivity that you're claiming? They could market it as a perk AND get so much more done!

What I think is happening: there's little cost to companies to encourage workers to work 60 hours instead of 40. Sure, they won't get 50% more done, maybe only 20% or 30%, but the company doesn't pay overtime, so that's a free 20% or 30%.

Of course, there's some point at which overwork does start to impact overall productivity vs standard-40-hours, but it's much, much higher than 40 hours. This study [0] seems to indicate that little extra gets done from 55-70 hours, but from my reading, that still doesn't indicate that someone working 70 hours gets less done than someone working 40 hours. Looking at figure 4 in that study, it looks like you'd have to go to 90-100 hours to see output drop back to 40-hour levels.

It just seems ludicrous to me to suggest that for the population at large, working 40 hours is the optimal amount, such that anything less will result in greater overall productivity, and anything more will lower overall productivity. Really?

0. http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf
The CrowdStrike report, and subsequent interview in Christian Science Monitor of CrowdStrike CTO Dmitri Alperovitch [1], stated in June 2016 that they had low to medium confidence that the Russian government was involved with either Russian group detected.

The groups haven't changed; why are we so certain in December of Russian involvement that we're willing to sanction, if we knew everything we needed to know in June? The only evidence that they are associated with the government is a claim by FireEye that they "work during normal Russian business hours" of 8am-8pm, and that their targets (known targets I should say) would be of strategic importance to the Russian government - I bet if you asked any hacker in any country whether they'd like to hack the US government, they would tell you hell yes.

There are two possibilities here: 1, the US government is drawing this conclusion and imposing sanctions based on weak circumstantial evidence or 2, they have actual evidence but won't even hint at what it is. Even during the Iraq WMD debacle (which this ordeal is drawing heavy comparison with) they said they had satellite photos.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/0615/Meet-Fancy...
It's also the argument used by naysayers of corporate jet cards.
Mods, can the title be changed to reflect clarification? It was a laptop owned by the utility - not the actual power grid http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/...