skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it wasn't the expected outcome. Or, at least, there was a chance that things could be saved. The high risk is even more reason to offer huge compensation.

We can only see in retrospect that it was doomed to failure.
"When we started this project, none of us at IG were deep experts in color."

This is pretty astonishing to me. I always thought applying smartly designed color filters to pictures was basically Instagram's entire value proposition. In particular, I would have thought that designing filters to emulate the look and feel of various old films would have taken some fairly involved imaging knowledge. How did Instagram get so far without color experts?
Sure we can. Just spin up a parallel universe instance and change just one or two decisions. There's an AWS offering for that right?
It's Canadian for changing tasks: alt-tab, aye?
48 billion dollars. Per week. So, yes, if we decided not to have a military at all, we could meet the basic income requirements for about 3 months.
I think that the correct behavior in the long run is to give personalized recommendations, analogous to this proposal: https://sideways-view.com/2016/12/01/optimizing-the-news-fee...

The main motivation for having a unified view is to decide what to show people who visit but don't rate things / log in / etc.

I'm currently finishing my dissertation on collaborative learning algorithms, and I agree that it is not generally possible to have a single global answer. This paper does something similar to your respect matrix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1127

(The same technique can be modified to incorporate information from an external social network.)
Dev here. This was just a very simple project to help me get started with Vue.js, and it seems to have helped a few others make their first foray into Vue and/or Firebase as well. Please feel more than welcome to submit PR's or open issues; I am hardly following any best practices in this repo, and I'd value the insight from more experienced Vue developers. Thanks!
I still don't understand why google translate is often cited as something that works. I've never seen it perform much better that just looking every word in a dictionary (which i always end up doing, since you're never sure it picked the correct translation for the specific context)

To me google translate seems like the perfect illustration of the shortcomings of this purely data driven approach...

Alpha go, on the other hand is a much much more elaborated algorithm ( from my very limited knowledge) and it does produce amazing results.
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You're kidding. Tell me you're kidding.
The hope is to use features like "person X upvoted this content," rather than to try to use domain-specific features or to do natural language processing or so on. Over the long run, algorithms may play a larger role in that process, but at first it would just be people.
Is this like Google's move to be under Alphabet as a parent company? Altaba is for the holding group that controls that substantial overseas investments while Yahoo becomes just a brand used for some of their web properties that can be sold off if necessary?
On one talks about the actual issue with the H1B. I'm a H1B holder from India, living and working in USA for past 10 years. The actual incentive for companies is that, an H1B holder from India has less rights, they cannot change job or even travel freely outside USA (for decades). That gives the employers full control of the employee. Any guess why companies only recruit from India and China? Because, the country based wait time -- to become a US citizen -- is decades for these countries. So, consultancies will have no problem paying higher salary for someone from India or China.

Immigration Attorneys are making a fortune of this broken system; for e.g., every year my company has to pay attorney fee to renew my visa. Any time I change my job, green card process has to be restarted from square one..more cash to attorneys.

P.S. I remember when I first came here 10 years back I was told by the attorney to wait for 5 years to be a resident. Last year, in 2016, when I went to another attorney he too tells me to wait for another 5 years. So, they never tells the actual wait time is 50 to 70 years. Even the USCIS don't disclose the actual wait time. So, hundreds of thousands highs killed immigrants place all their bets based on the words of Immigration Attorney and get into a mess from where they find hard to get out.

[Edit]: In my opinion, a possible fix shall be to give H1B holder job mobility. I.e., if TCS/Infosys brings in H1B holders to replace American workers; and those H1B holders leave TCS/Infosys the next day; then that business model will not work to begin with.
> Why pay someone huge sums of money if failure is the expected outcome?

Because the people making executive compensation decisions are from a narrow elite class and are the people benefiting from executive
compensation decisions.
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She was very well compensated for her time sinking Yahoo. I think this kind of tone policing is unhealthy.
Since Thunderbolt 3 is prominently advertised in this announcement, can I safely assume that Thunderbolt 3 support has stabilized in Ubuntu at this point? And if so, are we able to use external GPUs over this interface in Linux now?
The bit where it hardly works and lacks a huge amount of functionality.
The original journal article is open access [0], and I think it's pretty well-written and accessible.

This is a really great example of theory-driven materials design.

[0]: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601536.full
As someone that came through Canada's equivalent of the H1-B system, I think the Canadian system gets it mostly right:

- A points system based on a combination of industry requirement, education, experience and English/French language ability

- Permanent resident from day one

- No restrictions on moving employer or province

- Health insurance coverage after 90 days (Ontario)

- Citizenship after 3 years (once Bill C-24 is repealed)

http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/immigrate/skilled/index.asp
So what, give out a participation ribbon?
Unskilled immigrants of today are parents of the skilled natural-born citizens of tomorrow.
Correction: 35mm is grainier, not noisier. After staring at grain vs color noise in shadows for hours at a time, the aesthetics of grain are one of the reasons I still shoot film sometimes.
> Realize that all animal ethics are entirely manmade and foreign to the background of the Universe's amorality.

Alternatively, some scientists and philosophers believe that ethics predate human beings - that they exist in many if not all social animals. In other words, some basic ethical emotions evolved. They then form the basis for our more sophisticated ethical and legal systems.

Also, while you can argue that at some level the universe is "amoral" - it's just particles and laws of physics, right? - you can see that logic requires similar ethical systems in all social creatures. Things like "don't harm others, reciprocate help that you receive, help your elders, protect the young, etc." At some level, those derive logically for social organisms. So one could argue that such ethical laws are fixed and given in the same way that higher mathematics is fixed and given.
Will they sell the broadcast.com domain (or will it 301 to altaba)?

I have a great idea to use that domain to host streaming of live youth sports.
Yes. I don't take it as a given that a manufacturer is responsible for the product they manufacture. If they manufacturer promises certain things about that product, then yes, they should be held to those promises.

Otherwise, what makes it so obvious that the manufacturer must handle anything at all?
And what do they do when the resale value of their baking soda falls below the cost of transporting it?
Also the excessive pay then by that logic?
This will just increase outsourcing - I wonder if there's a law that's going to address that too - a tariff for software and services brought from outside the country.

Seriously, attacking H1B problem purely with salary raises is the wrong approach for many reasons - not all jobs cost a 100k that you can always find American workers to do, it doesn't consider cost of living and further entices companies to look into having offshore workforce. Instead, a slight upward salary adjustment including cost of living adjustments and untying the VISA itself from employer so H1Bs can change jobs freely and making the extension process match the residency delays will go far ways in addressing abuse.
DuckDuckGo uses more than 400 sources:
https://duck.co/help/results/sources
Altabandon Ship?

Alt-A, Backspace?

All t'abort, aaaah!

(OK, I'll show myself out.)

Sneaks in edit: ah of course: Altabasta!
If that's the case, then I'm mistakenly attributing that decision to Steve but it was definitely a major part of the reason that Forstall was removed from Apple. I worked at Apple too when Steve was still there and I remember there being a shift right around the time of the iPad release to move away from skeumorphism as "people don't need to be convinced" to use tools by making them feel like real life. There were still layovers like the contacts app but new apps that were being created were all ditching the real-life look.
> I wonder how their high DPI support will compare with other Linux distros.

Unity is about on par with Windows, in my experience. So it's usable, but not great. You'll probably run into programs that don't scale well, but if you spend most of your time in an editor, terminal, and web browser you'll be OK.
Eleanor Roosevelt Saving the Convention (2012)
"At this point, is it even feasible for anyone to enter the desktop computer market, or has Microsoft simply set the barrier to entry too high?"

-Us, 1999

One thing I've observed in tech over the past 25 years is that change comes from unexpected places and often very quickly.
Marissa Mayer is resigning from Yahoo's board
And that's not everything because this is the TXT record

altaba.com. 1800 IN TXT "google-site-verification=vO3De5z6qb-AeM1GmHkcC5dlWA_cw-7WKN5xhcyFFPM"
Out of curiosity, why do you call her by her first name instead of her last name (Meyer)? Is there another famous Meyer such that there could be a confusion here?
Maybe it's not so much that I'm oversimplifying as others are over complicating the issue.

It's funny you bring up dragging yourself to a library, because that's exactly what I did in the early 2000s. My family did not have a computer. I'm not as unusual as you might think. My social circle is full of successful minorities, with similar stories.

When we go out downtown for drinks if we talk about work we're usually talking about opportunities and things we're working on, not making excuses and blaming white men for things. That's why this stuff bewilders me.

I know that certain white people being "tolerant" and "helping" us makes them feel good inside, and gives them a feeling of empowerment. That's fine. Just know that not all people of color are thrilled about it. It's condescending and counter productive. Of course there is discrimination in business, but if that's all you focus on you will fail. The rules apply to all races, nationalities, and genders: if you focus on why you can't do something, you'll fail. If you focus on why you CAN magic things happen.
Not to mention banning the Ba'ath party, which, while it had ruled under a dictator, nonetheless had the support of much of the population, who were disenfranchised as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_...

>In June 2003, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority banned the Ba'ath Party, and banned all members of the party's top four tiers from the new government and from public schools and colleges, a move which some criticised for blocking too many experienced people from participating in the new government. Thousands were removed from their positions, including doctors, professors, school teachers and bureaucrats. Many teachers lost their jobs, causing protests and demonstrations at schools and universities.
GRE Tunnel bonding rollout maybe?
What is there to gain by changing the name?
This video motivated me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQLil_SGCI
It is by Michał Taszycki at wrocloverb.

You can subscribe to his email newsletter but i have not subscribed there yet but I am following his workout plan designed for myself with the skills I want to improve.
The logarithmic response to light is the first non-emotional benefit to film photography I have seen in these discussions. Thanks for pointing that out.
What's the verdict on Marissa, did she do a bad job, or was yahoo simply unsaveable?
The E3-1505M does support ECC, not particularly hard to believe that it's a supported feature now.

I believe ECC overhead is around 12.5% (9 bits instead of 8) for the memory system. However I don't know what percent of power the memory system usually takes.

Seems like about half the power is required for a 3200x1800 display + touchscreen. The XPS 13 goes from 22 hours to 12 hours when you switch from 3200x1800 touch to 1080 non-touch. Of course 1080P screens are lower power, but not zero. Of the rest the CPU takes a fair amount. As a guess I'd say a 15% increase in memory power might decrease the runtime by 20 minutes.
I don't think that's enough to bash someone. She gave it a good shot, I don't think anyone could've done better.
Product Extensibility vs. Maintenance Tradeoff
A lot of species threaten their existence by their own self-interest. Lemmings regularly lurch from near extinction to explosive overpopulation every few years.
Instagram should hire some faster Android developers if that is the case, it's been an issue since 2012:

https://www.xda-developers.com/a-look-into-instagrams-compre...
> "I think film will be very niche."

Yes silver-based photography will be niche, no doubt it already is. I'd emphasize that doesn't mean it's going to disappear, or cease to be a legitimate art form in its own right. Film won't compete with digital imaging, best to think of it as an entirely different medium.

Of course you're right about transparency films having little latitude, especially on the overexposure side, but this is also true for digital cameras. A lot of the "old" techniques are still applicable in the new digital world.

The astonishing possibilities of film are exemplified by many artists, one of the all time geniuses IMO is Jerry Uelsmann [0] whose work back in the 1960's anticipated imagery of the digital era.

Interestingly, there's a shop in town that specializes in old film cameras and related equipment. Speaking with the owner I thought most of the customers would be old-timers like me. To my surprise he said nearly all his paying customers were under 30 years old. To them, digital is old hat, they were looking to try something different and "authentic". Most of us experienced photographers were using digital gear. FWIW his business is thriving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Uelsmann
It's quite difficult to immigrate to Canada as an unskilled immigrant.
>Agreed, but there might be advantages to having someone in the US.

My argument is that they are essentially already hiring the minimum number of US based employees that they can get away with. There are companies contracting them that want a minimum number of butts in seats on premises.
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I actually know a guy that was amicably divorced for 10+ years but remained married on paper just so he could keep his healthcare benefits.

They have children so there was mutual interest in making sure all family members were cared for.
There's a surprisingly large number of Iranians doing great work in Canadian universities. I'm not particularly well-versed in why, but it seems that smart people have both means and motive to emigrate.
The blame for compensation should be on the board, not the CEO.
To attract someone who has a chance of fixing things rather than someone who is guaranteed to fail?
This hasn't been true for a long time. Analog being "finer-grained" doesn't matter, because analog (just like digital sensors) has noise, and noise is the limiting factor for dynamic range.

High end digital cameras have better dynamic range than most film cameras. Eg. check out this Nikon D810 photo of a cloud lit by lightning: https://www.dpreview.com/files/p/articles/7705642292/DSC_481... (source: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikon-d810/14 ). Maybe a large format camera could capture something like this but it would definitely be impossible with 35mm.
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> What's more disappointing for some Linux fans is the fact Dell still uses the Windows logo on the super key.

It's the first thing I look for and most often the first source of disappointment.
I enjoy B&W film photography as a hobby. I do not think I would enjoy any sort of film cinematography, due to the larger scale. A 24 frame roll of photo film is one thing but a reel of cinema film is another!
>They have nervous system, therefore they feel pain, just like us. //

The second part doesn't follow from the first.

People have largely the same nervous systems and largely the same brain structures (AFAIK), and yet they react quite differently to pain and in the extremes they react exceedingly differently to the suffering of others.

Do you think that sows when they crush some of their piglets by lying on them behave how a human mother who accidentally sat on and crushed their own child would? Many animals eat their own offspring seemingly without any response one could term emotional.

You're anthropomorphising.

Now pigs are an interesting species and I wouldn't be personally surprised to find that they show some response which could be deemed a form of emotion.

Just because an animal exhibits herd behaviours, eg wariness when a member of the herd is wary/alert, doesn't mean they are empathising with that other animal.

>Anyone who thinks animals do not suffer is an idiot. //

The question is whether there is an internal pain that matches the external one. If I program a robot to exhibit pained behaviour and to scream when it's stabbed, then stab it, would you consider that robot to be in pain? The external reaction isn't necessarily linked to an internal feeling. Someone who refuses to leap to such a conclusion IMO is acting logically.
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Twitter is great because creator of JavaScript will help you with JS within 7min
It was a good time! I wouldn't say there is a noticeable speed difference to the end user between the two. The performance gain we are really chasing is the decreased bundle size once we eliminate Angular from our app completely. We are also looking forward to the possibility of splitting our app into multiple smaller bundles which could significantly drop the amount of time it takes to bootstrap on first load.
The goal of descriptivists is to collect information about how words are being used currently and to compile a dictionary based on that information, so what you said about viral memes is compatible with descriptivism.

The best argument for prescriptivism has less to do with authority and more to do with people who have an interest in being able to communicate clearly. A better word than "prescriptivism" might be "subscriptivism". Presumably, we subscribe to the normal rules of the English language so that we mitigate miscommunication.

Purpose matters. The person who demands that everyone use "octopuses" is just an elitist asshole. The science institution, which demands that its members conform to a precise standard of language, is just doing its job.
For those confused, this filing is reporting a name change because the operating business (including its brand, domain name, etc.) is being acquired by Verizon out of what is now Yahoo! Inc. So the Yahoo business, its name, domains, and so on are not going anywhere as a result of this announcement. Altaba is just the name of of the company that will hold the investments that Verizon didn't acquire, including Alibaba shares.
Current APS sensor technology is around 15 stops of dynamic range and 50MP. 4x5 sheets of Portra can resolve 100-300MP with 18 stops of dynamic range.

Digital has beaten 135 film, but it still hasn't beaten 120 / medium format in several key areas. I would be surprised if digital beat 4x5 in the next 10 years because there's no substantial market for such a product.
What makes you think that Gadfly isn't maintained? Also failing Gadfly you could always try Winston, Plotly, or Plots.jl.
Most color films aren't designed to capture accurate colors, they're designed to look good. Portra, Velvia, the various -chromes, etc. are all deliberately inaccurate.

What you like about film is the color grading that the emulsion engineers designed for you.

Film-emulating post-processing is getting there, but it's not there yet. Even with a good digital capture that keeps the highlight information, it's very difficult to get a good film look. It's more than just curves adjustments. I've played around with some software that tries to simulate the chemical development process, and that seems on the right track, but it's not there yet. I tend to think this would be a good application for ML if someone did the work to take side-by-side images with a given film and digital.
Long time OpenSuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu user since '98 or so, but I still have two use cases for which Windows is the only choice:

1. Toshiba portable document scanner - works beautifully in Windows, less nicely in MacOS, doesn't work at all in Linux

2. RFID tag programmer - I need it for my work and the only stack that currently exists is the Eclipse JCOP debugger running in Windows. It's orphaned software. I wish wish wish I had a Linux (or even MacOS) driver.

3. Outlook Mail - for work. It runs on a Dell laptop stored on a bookshelf that I occasionally access using VNC. Otherwise would have zero use for that brick.

When equipped with LibreOffice, Eclipse, Android Studio, x11vnc, Emacs, VirtualBox, Audacity, Gimp, and a few other niceties, Linux is virtually unstoppable.

I'm having trouble thinking of things that Windows 10 can provide that Linux doesn't already have in a lighter weight, easier to configure form. Perhaps others can chime in here?
> grammar nazis

I think you mean "spelling nazis". ;)
I understand the recent security failures of Yahoo must have weakened the company brand name to certain extent, but it's a 2 decade old web company almost every know off, not sure what made the decision in favor of the new name.
Actually Canada is a weird one when it comes to immigration. Work based skilled immigration to Canada is certainly easier than the US. But if you want to marry a Canadian and want to move to Canada as an American citizen, you have to wait 2 years for the visa to get approved, and there is no fiance visa or anything to speed up the process.
I priced an XPS 15 against a MBP 2016 recently, both pretty maxed out (fastest CPU, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM on the Dell + 4K touch screen), and the Dell came to $2,500 compared to $3,400 for the MBP. Seems pretty competitive.
By one point of view, our ethics evolved - as in, were created by biological evolution. And their form isn't arbitrary, just like evolution isn't - it can take many forms, but what it generates must work in order to survive, and it must work with what it has.

In particular, there are only so many ethical systems that can work for a social species like ours.

If that is true, then our ethics predate humanity and are not arbitrary, or at least their core isn't. In some sense, then, our ethics are true and universal.
What an absolutely TERRIBLE new name. Why do they think this is a good idea?
> You have to name things starting with a capital letter to make them public. Who came up with this convention? It is not shared by any language ever.

One of Go's best decisions ever IMO. To each their own :)
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