skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't recall the model (sorry). This was one of the Compaqs that had been given a new HP model name after the acquisition. The 20A was at 110 volts (US standard) so 10A for Australia with your 220 volt standard.

I just replaced a mirrored pair of USB drives running off a Mac Mini with a NAS from Synology. File server, plus Plex server, plus backup server, all in one. It won't be cheap (even factoring in the Australian duty) but it's something that can be tucked into a closet out of sight.
Funny that a part of Canada speaks French. Who would've known, eh?
Why can't they be made of fiberglass like Corvettes?
Last week I discovered the top ad for bestbuy.com also went to a scam site, tested on multiple PCs in and outside our network environment. I reported it to @bestbuy who confirmed the issue and reported it. In the exact same case, the green link claimed the URL went to bestbuy.com and everything.

From what I can gather, Google actually lets their ad customers lie about URL destinations on their ads so that they can use tracking links and such, and apparently isn't really doing anything to validate that the destination URL is ever actually reached.

Google Ads should be considered harmful, at least until they can guarantee the destination of their ads will match the destination Google Search shows users they are going to.
I just don't like the feel of this.
because you still couldn't search across pages
No idea how these people are elected, but maybe one option would be to make getting re-elected gradually more difficult. So a person aiming to serve for 3rd term would need more votes than person aiming for the 1st.
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Create a goal, break it down into sub-goals, then ritualize behaviours that will meet the sub-goals, making sure to never introduce too many new rituals at once. Works pretty well for long term lifestyle goals. On the downside, there isn't much for BHAGs.
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Maybe the designed tolerances were too close. ie they design something that could not be reliably made.
TPP withdrawal isn't on here yet even though it has already been announced.

As bad as Trump is, we should celebrate the good policies and fight the bad ones. I'm optimistic about the TPP withdrawal, the policy removing two pieces of old regulation (a policy that's been implemented successfully in Canada[0]), FDA reform, cutting down on corruption, and cutting back lobbying. I'm pessimistic about the climate related policy, immigration policy, and especially scared about foreign policy.

[0]: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/409671996/canada-cuts-down-on-...
I reckon it's because 'truly direct democracy' would be an absolute clusterfuck in practice!
Maybe not with a Rolex, but with a Porshe or Ferrari the buyer is looking for attention.
After almost a decade of not bothering with them, six months ago I signed back up for physical magazine subscriptions again. I decided I like having the physical artifact around sometimes. There's even a niche magazine (Vitamag) where I'm one of only about 100 people that pay for it through Patreon, that they actually print our names on a page of each book. That's a pretty cool feeling.
The guy is president, but his kids are running his company. This seems like a massive conflict of interest. The guy has so many conflict of interests I don't know how he can justify others from not profiting off their political careers. It just seems super hypocritical.
Much of the experience comes from teams of people who can move on to work for others. I'd be interested to see examples of important progress made by people who had been in power for decades which could not have been reasonably achieved by people with less time in office.
not op but it doesn't have to be typical. just keep your hand moving for 10 or 15 minutes even if it's gibberish. something usually will come out.
At the congressional level, all that term limits do is increase the power of unelected officials - specifically, lobbyists, executive appointees, and party thought-leaders who haven't held office in a decade, but end up running for President every single time.

It would be like a company firing all their engineers every 4 years, but keeping the management around. How good a product do you think that is likely to produce?

At the presidential level, term limits have the sole upside of preventing cults of personality from forming.
Term limits on Congress are one of those things that sound like a great idea—and aspects of them are—but when implemented they turn out to cause even more corruption.

California did this for their state legislature. The result was that there were no more long term legislators that knew the ropes and could guide new legislators and teach them how to do everything, and so the most experienced people around ended up being the lobbyists, who would come in and say "Oh, don't worry about it, we'll help you!" and then would go off and write the bills for people, etc.
Beyond just showing potential employers you have skills and can apply/talk through them (and demos work fine for this purpose; I would't worry), if you want a specific job then it's helpful to have side projects in the target domain. e.g if you want to do data science for a civic minded nonprofit, maybe have a side project doing analytics on one of the census data sets, etc.
I had a similar experience in Singapore before moving back to the UK.
Congress should have never put term limits on the President, a response to the immense popularity of FDR and their conflicts with him. It was not an action that served the interests or will of the American people.

It's also hilarious that people have even an inkling of hope that a majority of Congress would impose limits on their own power such as the type that is being discussed.

Would you vote in favor of removing yourself from your position?

Even if YOU would, do you think a majority of your coworkers would?
LOL never gonna happen. Congress hates trump and loves themselves. you honestly need to be living in a dream world to even THINK that Congress would pass a law restricting their income flow. These people made an exception to insider trading laws for themselves for christ's sake.

These are clearly impossible goals that are put on there so people can be like "See, Trump's not all that bad! He's gonna the drain the swamp!". But let's be real, it was never a priority and will never happen.
Wow. That's insane.
Both of these sound designed to increase the influence of corporate lobbyists.

Less experienced congresscritters? → More willing to let lobbyists do the footwork, less likely to see their game.

Fewer congresscritters becoming lobbyists? → Less competition for corporate lobbyists from those who may give a hoot about their former constituents.
With ball points, I can vary the heaviness of lines by altering how hard I press the tip into the paper. Very light pressure yields very faint lines. A fountain pen is uniformly dark, which I suppose what most people want for writing.
Readers might be interested to know that Sam is one of the people behind this project (http://www.track-trump.com/about). The submitted title made that explicit (“Sam Altman Presents Track Trump”) but we've reverted that in accordance with the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
What are your estimates for the time it takes to become proficient in their use? What's your criteria for proficient?
But of course none of those things are going to happen, because Congress doesn't want them and the President doesn't pass laws. Congress also doesn't want a moratorium on federal hires, tariffs to shore up American manufacturers, etc. That's the thing about populist demagogues: they may tick all the hot button issues for an angry and dissatisfied demographic, but they can't really get anything done because they have no governing coalition. This is especially true when the election results in no real mandate in terms of majority support. The last thing I would mention, and it's important to understand when looking at the U.S. political system, is that we all claim to be unhappy with government, and especially Congress, and we're all big supporters of ideas like term limits, except when it comes to our own representative, who we send back pretty much year after year as long as the pork continues to flow our way. The problem, in short, is not the "elites" in Washington; it's us.
What I don't understand is how it's possible to be the number one ad for the search term "youtube.com" ? You would think that Google would ALWAYS be first in that case.
The type of gerrymandering that divides districts along partisan lines is even more pernicious with term limits, it directly hands control of the district to the party.

The type of gerrymandering that shaves partisan districts to create a contested district is also bad under term limits, a great representative can be shoved aside by the term limit and replaced by some party operator.
Maybe there needs to be an idiom where T is generic, requiring little or not traits on it. N,M,... is a numeric type thing, S,T,U,.. is a container type thing. When one starts to get multiple generics in a function, usually they interact in some way, what names we should give them to describe that interaction, I don't know.

Naming is hard, naming in generic code is x^y harder.
Source: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-security-policy@lists.mozil...
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"which will strip the public of the property and rights they deserve "

I don't see how any Americans 'property or rights' are being abrogated there.

> In Canada, we manage our borders effectively. We're not some fascist state. I don't think it's 'totalitarian' for US gov to responsibly implement the very fair immigration laws on the books.

> Pipelines are all over America. They're not evil. Granted, those that do actual damage should not be allowed - but the process is politicized in both directions.

> "State Tillerson's Exxon holdings won't benefit" - Tillerson has absolved his stockholdings in Exxon. He's as free to buy and sell Oil stocks as you and I are.

> A 'hiring freeze' on government staff is not entirely irresponsible wherein there is bloat. The highest media wage in the US is - guess where? Washington DC. The bloat in DC is epic. At least the sentiment to want to do something about that is reasonable.

> "Reduce the business tax rate from 35% to 15%." - it's not going to be done across the board. He's going to create a VAT system which every other country has. (Meaning US does not pay taxes on products they export - same as other countries) The US without VAT is at a huge competitive disadvantage. This is actually one of the most ridiculously obvious things the US should have done a long time ago. This is not contentious really.

> Allowing parents to choose schools is not 'defunding' public schools, it's allowing people to take public money allocated to their students and put it into the school of their choice. No money is coming out of the system. I understand that it's contentious, but it's irresponsible to position this as 'defunding' public schools.

Most of the items on this list are reasonable. People are getting in a huff about it because it's 'Trump' and they can't stand that.

If he can do just 'the better 1/2' of that list, America will be in much better shape.

Eventually a Democrat will come along and put together some more socially oriented legislation.
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Obviously, Trudeau himself does. That's why it's important to register both domains. Someone else scooped trudeaumeter.ca.

The header on the English site says clearly "Trudeau Meter". If you're going to embrace the French spelling, go all in.
I'm a junior web developer (1.5 years of experience) and I don't have a degree in the field, so references are all I have to proof my worthiness. And similarly I have a lot of small (mostly useless too) projects that nobody uses. But I still put them online. I have my own domain for development purposes only and whenever I finish a project to a satisfiable degree I put it on some subdomain amd add it to my list of references. Purely as a quick way for people to check what the code they were looking at actually does.

My references vary from simple image-upload site to a (more complex) link-hosting site that does a lot of magic behind the scenes. And a lot in between.

Even projects from hackathons. [Here's](http://helpmehelp.herokuapp.com/) a perfect example. The code is opensource (terrible though :D). The project is old, irrelevent and unused. But still no reason not to have it hosted somewhere.
I tried to develop Symbian apps and this was probably the worst development experience I ever had. The SDK was a total mess and it felt like the OS was not much better behind the scenes.
> If term limits are good enough for the President, they're good enough for Congress.

Term limits were added for the President because Congress got grumpy that FDR kept winning. It was pure partisan politics. Without them, we might've wound up with a third Obama term instead of Trump.
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What exactly do you find wrong with Common Core standards? All I've seen against it are poorly-graded homework examples turned meme without proper context.
I'm making a directory of learning resources. What from your field should I add?
I've been making a directory of resources, roadmaps, and advice for self-teaching different subjects/skills at different levels.
What, from your field should I add?
IE obscure to beginners to advanced books, challenges, projects, advice on the learning process, why it's so fascinating etc.

If you want to go more in-depth, you can answer the questions on the typeform below (it doesn't require email unless you'd like me to let you know when the site launches).
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Thanks!
> But of course none of those things are going to happen

Well, everyone said Trump could never become the GOP nominee. Then everyone said he could never become President.

I hope people keep saying that he can't do these things.
I am slowly working on doing this when I realized that goals always seemed too far away shortly after trying to achieve them. I have tried Habitica (https://habitica.com) and got really into it to enforce habits but once a few of them slipped I just got bogged down at some point and never went back. It's a real interesting system to help enforce habits. Perhaps I need to just suck it up and try again.
> But I'm assuming that this is more of an exercise rather than a real-world application of ML?

While this example is simplified - and I wouldn't recommend it for a real-world full-size vehicle trial - it does implement everything (scaled down) described in NVidia's paper:

https://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/20...

In short, the project uses OpenCV for the vision aspect, a small CNN for the model, uses "behavioral cloning" (where the driver drives the vehicle, taking images of the "road" and other sensor data like steering - as features and labels respectively - then trains on that data), and augmentation of the data to add more training examples, plus training data for "off course" correction examples...

If you read the NVidia paper, you'll find that's virtually all the same things they did, too! Now - they gathered a butt-ton (that's a technical measurement) more data, and their CNN was bigger and more complex (and probably couldn't be trained in reasonable time without a GPU), plus they used multiple cameras (to simulate the "off-lane" modes), and they gathered other label data (not just steering, but throttle, braking, and other bits)...but ultimately, the author of the smaller system captured everything.

Furthermore, NVidia's system was used on a real-world car, and performed quite well; there are videos out there of it in action.

This is virtually the same kind of example system that the "behavioral cloning" lab of Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree is using. We're free to select what and how to implement things, of course, but I am pretty certain we all understand that this form of system works fairly well in a real-world situation, and so most of us are going down the same route (ie, behavioral cloning, cnn, opencv, etc). Our "car" though is a simulation vehicle on a track, built using Unity3D.

> Of course, the CV part -- "seeing" the lines -- requires some form of ML to work in the real world.

Actually, it doesn't. The first lab we did in the Udacity course used OpenCV and Numpy exclusively to "find and highlight lane-lines" (key part was to convert the image from BGR to HSV, and mask using the hue). No ML was required.

That said - I wouldn't trust it for real-world vehicle driving use - but it possibly could be used as part of a system; however, as NVidia has shown, a CNN works much better, without needing to do any pre-processing with OpenCV to extract features of the image - the CNN learns to do this on its own.
I'm not sure about Saft in particular; with how ridiculously bad their tech is I'm convinced they are a French government jobs program, and nobody I know has ever voluntarily used their cells (except years ago for non-rechargeable.) For reference, their highest energy density Li-Ion cell is 169 Wh/kg. I'm not sure how they managed to be that bad; I just literally taped a rock (14g) to the cheapest battery in my apartment (45.8g, the $2.49 NCR18650PF) and the combined energy density of my new Rock-Lithium-Ion Battery is 170 Wh/kg, better than that of Saft's highest energy density rechargeable cell.

But yes; if you want newer battery technology direct from the manufacturer, you'll probably be flat-out ignored even if you're inquiring at a medium-large scale. The way to do it is to hunt around for semi-reputable resellers, who will usually give you what you want at an acceptable price.
To ask if it is worth it, one must ask what is the risk?

If the biggest threat is that you lose your job, you don't have much to lose. After all, that is the same place you would be if you didn't try at all. And if you can gain something in the process, which seems quite likely here, you're already well ahead of the game.
Yep - that's true. With some fountain pens, you can vary with angle, but not as much control as with pressure.

Personally, one of the reasons I like fountain pens is that I don't have to apply pressure. :-)
The detail you and a lot of other respondents seem to be missing is that they actually did do research (at least it sounds like they ran some focus groups), and one of the things they discovered is that pregnant women were feeling the most ill and in need of a seat the most were early in their pregnancy and not showing yet. I'm sure many would feel uncomfortable asking someone to move for them, so having an established non-confrontational mechanism could help. On the other hand, I would echo many of the sentiments in this thread - I make it a point to stand unless there are many empty seats, but I've also been spontaneously engaged for an argument by a women who was insulted that I stood after she boarded the train. So I often just stand the whole time to avoid it all.
> why is there no public official who runs on a digital strategy?

Most people lack basic computer literacy

> truly direct democracy, that is 100% open and transparent

reddit, facebook, etc are all gamed by third parties

> less effort than it would take to dismantle the electoral college, which has resulted in the opposite of direct democracy

the founding fathers didn't want a direct democracy. Madison says “Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths … A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking."
No. Does it build a dependency graph and output your the best path to upgrades ?
> always supposed to be Python 2

This is not correct. It's a symlink to python2 on systems that rely on calls to python to be python2. On modern systems, python is usually a symlink to python3. This is the case on Arch Linux and I believe other recent distro releases.
I do not think batteries will ever get a useful enough energy/weight ratio for airplanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density Not only does jet fuel have a much better energy to weight ratio, but you don't have to carry the weight of your spent fuel. A battery powered airplane needs to get all its fuel to altitude while a fuel powered one has much less mass to get up (and stop when you get to the ground).

Ships probably will see batteries as an asset: they can place them in ideal locations for weight distribution/stability.
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Really? Has Trump been arrested? Charged?

No?

From the outside, it seems as the 'anti Trump' hysteria is just as bad as some of the 'pro Trump' hysteria.

Let's try to move beyond that.
Exactly. ECC takes care of 99.99% of cases, so I don't see what using Elixir has to do with any of this.
I'd like to see a site track Trump's Truthiness as well. But I fear we'd need long long ints to avoid overflow...
A good share of recruiters and some managers are frauds too, so how would they tell? And if they realise it after it is too late, they cannot ever expose the con for it would reveal that themselves are frauds as well.
I'm the author, happy to answer any questions anyone has!

Also, here's the presentation I gave at View Source Berlin, which is a pretty good start to the information I will be going over in the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPrhA_m6ss
This was really common during the first Internet bubble – I remember being on the phone a number of times with a whole room full of people worked on a household-name .com and realizing that maybe one of them had more than a superficial understanding of how the web or commerce worked. Several people basically stated that they were just killing time waiting for the IPO.

The thing I remember is that while at the time most of them were worth a lot of money on paper, it was only about a year later that they were all unemployed and the hoped-for riches had vanished along with a huge cloud of VC funding.

I'm not personally cut out to be a complete mercenary but it seems like if you are it's critically important that you pay a lot of attention to timing your exit. Unless you have a high chance of getting so rich that you won't need another job, you really need more than that to take to the next gig.
A first term senator is often viewed as highly inexperienced, and they get six years to get their shit together.

If congress was limited to eight years like the president they'd barely be getting the hang of it when you turf them out.

What about term limits for CEOs? Mayors? Football players?

It's absurd. Remove barriers to competition and keep the best by having a robust, democratic process to weed out those who are bad.

A badly thought out term limit implementation would see people flip from the house to the senate and back again, perhaps working in tandem to fend off any competition. What point does that useless exercise serve?
The Russian constitution explicitly allows a return to power after a term away like what Putin managed. So not exactly sure how that last statement of yours is an argument (pro or contra).
In Germany, on the other hand, the Chancellor is not elected via a direct people vote, its terms are not limited. And just because of the segmentation of the partisan landscape Merkel could stay in power much longer than its party has even a third of the people votes.
While not criticizing Merkel here for anything I just want to point out that a definition of a democracy must be a very flexible one to accommodate this constellation.