skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read this:
"We saw an opportunity to apply recent advances in image recognition to simplify the food logging process"

do they mean CNN's for image classification and/or recognition? Does the app estimate the distance and the portion size and if not, how feasible would that be?
To save some Googling if you're like me and have no idea what e10s is:

Electrolysis: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electr...
>The smart looters would identify those spots in NZ now, and loot them when they're relatively unoccupied and not in alert state.

The military (or whatever it turns into) would be the ones who gain control of fortified locations, and whatever resources they contain.
Making Code Coverage Relevant for QA Teams
Luckily the things we looked for in a home made the ideal home office: lots of space, an extra room that wasn't a bedroom, big lot so we couldn't hear the neighbors even when they party, fast Internet. The house we ended up buying was perfect for our kids on the way 2 extra bedrooms, and a 500 square foot sunroom, but now that I work remotely it's perfect for that too. If it gets too distracting at home I can walk to 1 of 4 coffee shops.
There are things that, in the interest of global freedom, need to be taken out of the hands of corporations and government, permanently, forever. The transfer of value is definitely one of them.
> I don't think it is the wealthy business executives that rise to head those militias.

Wealthy capitalists and other top elites most usually use their resources to protect themselves and relocate before, during, or shortly after the collapse, rather than hanging around to lead militia groups for any extended period after the collapse.

But that still takes resources of the right kind at the ready.

(Though it's often the wealthier of those remaining behind -- usually middle to upper-middle class -- that end up leading groups.)
Awesome, I've just tried it with an Apple and it worked!

Can you let me enter my height and weight in metric please as I had to use Google to convert.
But I think the claim being made is "scale in size only works with a larger scaling somewhere else". Pointing to growth in Switzerland doesn't do much to argue with the idea that this model only works when you have massive regions with less wealth to absorb exports and services.

To simplify absurdly, average global global wealth per person is ~$24,000. If everyone in China had median Swiss wealth, that would be half the world's wealth. If everyone in China had mean Swiss wealth, that would be more wealth than exists in the entire world.

So at least in the short term, no. China can't become as wealthy as Switzerland. Global wealth has doubled over the last ~40 years - even if China captured every penny of the next doubling, it would still take >50 years to match Switzerland under any realistic model. Swiss wealth is inescapably a product of inequality, in the sense that there doesn't exist enough wealth to raise everyone to their level.
You missed the most important lesson.

1. Don't work your ass off.

Especially, don't work your ass off expecting to be rewarded. It never happens.

2. Never sacrifice your personal life for work. It aint worth it.
* That love pending being home to enact their castle-doctrine fantasies.

It's only anecdotal, but the one thief that I knew loved handguns as they are small, have real value, and are easy to sell.

The fact that no one is going to go into a house to steal stuff if they think someone is there to protect it pairs just fine with the fact that often folks aren't home.
http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-embraces-gays-in-histori...
It is too bad though that e.g. IntelliJ cannot tell the difference, will offer you the transitive dependency's stuff in code completion, and now you are tied to it. Of course, the thing _you_ used went away in the newer version that the newer version of your direct dependency uses, and now you're spending time figuring out dependencies instead of writing code. Which, in my experience, happens pretty much all the time in Java/Scala land. (and I won't start about the sorry state of build tools for the JVM; seen them all, nothing is as nice as what I'm using now (Elixir/Mix)).
Cannabis use among adults in the US has doubled in the last 10 years:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/prevalence-mar...

I couldn't locate much information with some quick googling, but I don't think rates of schizophrenia have doubled in the same time period.
30FPS vs. 60FPS
> Shoreline Amphitheatre

That's really too bad. I've been going to Google IO for five years and that venue they moved to last year, Shoreline Amphitheatre, was a disaster.

They had insufficient room for all the talks. So I waited an hour for the first talk I wanted to attend, just to get kicked out of line due to the room reaching capacity. Then I gave up my next time slot to wait in line 1 time slot ahead of time for the third time slot, but once I got in they kicked me out saying I couldn't come in one time slot before, everyone is kicked out at the end of each.

Throw in a really bad set of key notes - the Android one did have some useful content for developers, but everything else, Allo, Duo, Google Assistant was just Google's marketing arm exploiting a captive audience to try to get future users and wasn't anything useful for me as a developer.

Add in a ton of VR talks all citing their special remote control, but they didn't give us one of them, so we all kept developing on our Gear VRs anyway. This was the first Google IO I'd been to with no development hardware.

At the end I asked for a refund since I had really gained nothing as a developer and just spent a long time waiting in lines and not getting any content and Google refused.

As far as I can tell, it is their intention to make it a music festival from now on and not developer focused. Going to something like AndDevCon would be much more valuable. It's too bad, really, because professional conferences like GDC make sure to poll users to find session interest ahead of time and make sure they plan capacity correctly. Google IO was just useless amateur hour co-opted by Google marketing to exploit some captive press and potential users of their new chat apps no one likes.
thats a generalization and sounds anecdotal
It's fine to be grateful, but a grad school stipend is not charity. You are being paid to perform a service. If the undergraduates (or more commonly, their parents) and taxpayers did not think research and teaching were useful, they wouldn't pay you.
Apple.com Is Switching from Myriad to San Francisco
The the post lies this answer:

Why haven't you embraced Bitcoin to get away from the restrictions of the banks / credit card companies? - @Eibon

Answer:

We used to accept bitcoins through Coinbase. They dropped us a year ago because we are a kinky site. No joke.

If a Bitcoin site wants to accept credit cards, then they have to adhere to rules set forth by the credit card companies.

Yes, there are other options, and we are going to look into them, but options like Bitcoin are a nice to have and not currently a viable replacement for being able to accept credit and debit cards on FetLife, no matter how much one might want to believe otherwise.

When we offered Bitcoin as an option, it was responsible for less than 0.1% of our daily transactions.
That's exactly my point. "Fake till you make it" was their motto... for their entire carreers (lol).

So they resort to success/motivational lingo without ever doing anything, hoping their BS is gonna blind the higher management until they retire.
> Plus, I'm always concerned when a developer ends their last job on Friday and starts Monday at our company.
Why? I did that else my family would have without health insurance (and income) for a while..
One of my favourite Youtube channels at the moment is a guy who opens, and attempts to eat, very old ration packs. And he recently did a review of a new range of long shelf life camping meals.

I didn't really know who the target audience for those meals was, but this article explains it nicely.

I guess there's a market for exclusive, private, lessons about repair and maintenance of generators and air filters and etc.

Steve1989 MRE Info: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA

The review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZjCiEjZaw0
I don't know about the Gigafactory 21700, but Sanyo/Panasonic has a commercially available 20700 with 247.19 Wh/kg, compared to 258.97 Wh/kg for one of their most energy-dense 18650s.

Tests:

http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Sanyo%20NCR18650GA...

http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Sanyo%20NCR20700B%...
This is probably due to contry restrictions. I get the same "incompatible with all your devices" on the website, but "This item is not available in your country" in Google Play app.
Microsoft to Offer Free Access to Azure AD
They don't, but my experience is more than half are good managers. The best ones I've found delegate by challenging their teams, but also follow up regularly on both an individual and team level. Even mediocre managers can be upgraded to effective managers if they're willing to learn from effective managers.
Nuke subs are my mental woobie against my top horror scenario, the low-altitude EMP detonation. Run silent, run deep.

However, this response does not scale well.
I know a bunch of mid-level guys that have part time MBAs that never really used them.

I think if you really want to be a leader/manager there are lots of opportunities to do so already. If you dont like being the boss, an MBA wont help you magically change you into a different person on a different (better) career track.

It does provide some useful skills for people that want to be managers, but most people I know that did the MBA just kept their same jobs and were happy to do so.

If you really want to be a top manager you might benefit.
Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks
Hey HN, PM for Canonical's Kubernetes (CDK) here. Feel free to ask questions!
That's just to get the work visa. If you are married to a Swiss, for example, and get a visa via family reunion, companies can employ you without having to make this argument.
Which is why I compared the elected official to a product manager rather than the programmer. Product owners don't have to be technical, but the best ones often are. And in the cases where a non-technical PM is the best, they're usually bringing some other form of expertise to the table.

I think scientists writing laws, assisted by the legal expertise you mentioned, would be a positive change. They have that other form of expertise. But I also take issue with the above implication that lawyers are somehow unfit to be politicians. They are, in my analogy, the technical product managers. Absent some other form of expertise, having a lawyer in that position is probably the next-best option.
The linked text mentions that even Coinbase dropped Fetlife, because they (Coinbase) still processes credit card transactions.

So it looks like any use of a cryptocurrency has to be completely decoupled from the credit card world.
I took a picture of my finished Styrofoam hot chocolate cup and straw. Hot chocolate was the first guess. It gave an option for "from mix water added", done. Very cool. Edit: just logged my coworker's lunch in about a minute: Cucumber, grill cheese sandwich in one picture, it let me add them from a list. Ramen soup took another try at a lower angle.
I'm sorry but America is wreaking havoc on the world with it's military.
I have a former colleague that on looking for a new role was offered "unlimited vacation".

He asked what the limit was. "Unlimited", they replied. "Honestly?", he ventured. "Yes, unlimited".

"OK, then", he said, "I'd like to book the entire year off".

"Oh no, you can't do that!", they replied.

"I thought so. So what's the limit?", he asked again. "There is no limit", they replied. "But you just said I couldn't have a year off", he pointed out. "It has to be reasonable", they said.

This went back and forth. In the end "unlimited holiday" in the UK for this firm was 28 days. That is the statutory legal minimum in the UK. If he went over this, it would likely be accepted at the time, but "noticed" in performance/salary reviews, etc.

So, in short, unlimited vacation is a con, and you should try the above yourself. It'll lead to an interesting conversation, although it may harm your chances of getting an offer if you time it wrong.
>All in all, I'd like to hear what others think

I think that "command and control" and "free market" economies are the extremes of the spectrum, neither optimal, with lots of room in between.

Trump has talked a lot, but we don't know where he will actually fall, policy-wise. It's not out of the question he implements economically beneficial policies. We should judge what he does, not what he says.
Offence! the US army has an unequaled capacity for actually running an offence war (or 2) anywhere in the world. No other military has even a fraction of that capacity. Basically the US really needs defence from Canada and Mexico, no one else can attack the US in any sensible way.

Even if european countries spend 3% of their GDP on defence like in the cold war all that money would be spend on soldiers that can defend and very little on those that can attack. Not nearly enough logistics!

The US not needing defence can spend on offensive capabilities instead. This it does, plus scale benefits mean that the US is the undisputed winner in any war.
Thanks!!! So I basically did v1.0 of the design myself and it was.... VERY different hahaha

Let me try to dig up a screenshot:
http://cdn.appcrawlr.com/imageService/aHR0cDovL2E0Lm16c3RhdG...

This is what I designed. After we gained a little bit of traction, I asked one of my designer friends to help out with the designs (she's way better than me)

Because I started out on my own, basically learning iOS myself, I used Parse. I am so so thankful for Parse and what they have done because that is honestly the only way I could have gotten to where I am right now. It was sad to see them shut down, but we wound up migrating from Parse to our own node server after we heard the news.

Anyways, a big part of this for me was that I really wanted to create native applications because enterprise sort of gets the short end of the stick for apps and new technology. I really wanted our enterprise users to have a slick app they actually enjoyed using!
Where there is one, there may be more
The smart kids have better things to do than bully each other.
With the state of internet privacy today it's more important than ever to evangelize about Firefox and Mozilla's efforts.
We do have a choice, and while Comedy Central may be the most popular arena at the moment, it will never be the only arena. Comedy is good for keeping things relevant, but I've never seen it actually convince anyone. For that, you have to have real conversations with people you disagree with, not just mock them.
Ha. Apparently you haven't learned not to pontificate yet.
To slow down review farms?
Parsing Simple Grammars in Scala with Parboiled2
Eternity II puzzle
Our Android app should work on any device running KitKat or above. But at the moment, we're only available in the US and Canada.

We're working on supporting more countries, but localization can be difficult -- we have to worry about things like foods and preparation methods that are local to a region, etc.
I assume the problem is just that it seems to be moving towards completion at a snail's pace. It certainly feels like I have been hearing about it for a LONG time without a stable release.
Accenture opens Liquid Studio to speed up software development
There's simply much fewer bullies and problematic behavior in smart schools. It's not that the administration is better, it's that the administration doesn't have to be.
Is Facebook taking a bite out of Instagram?
Not a developer, but what do you mean in your second paragraph? Do you think people should take more time between jobs or spend part of their (generally two weeks) notice as vacation? Just wondering.
This isn't "news" Business Insider.

This article is sourced based on a tweet which sounded a lot like a joke. Everything Elon tweets is taken as fact but sometimes he's just being playful.
Yes LinkPeek makes me profits. The use case appears to vary a _lot_ between customers. Either this is an indicator that I have not targeted or found my market or I have not marketed to my target properly.
52% of the budget goes to entitlements. 16% goes to defense.

That chart you posted is simply not correct. I think they confused discretionary spending with total spending.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
Apparently you're the one who needs to read up. Any valid transaction from the shorter chain could (profitably) be incorporated into the long chain. Only double spends would be invalid, which are difficult to do in a network partition.
Why your dog is actually your perfect personal trainer
I've issues with firefox on linux, a lot of them, it gets dark and unresponsive sometimes without any reason and then just get back 15 sec later to normal state. On one of the sites where there is a lot of text content when I close the tab whole browser gets unresponsive for seconds, on youtube most of the time video get looped in couple of frames while sound is playing normally. I use chrome on linux also, no problems there..
Well, it's lower hanging fruit but, if that anecdote is true, it sure sounds like most of those bourgeoisie don't really have a clue what "end-of-America" would really entail. That is, the infrastructure of people that normally do what you pay them to are all going to have different motives.

The people in this story are still counting on quite a bit of society to exist to ferry them to their fancy secure locations.

Which, to be sure, isn't unrealistic. Just interesting.
I'd be more specific. There is nothing more frustrating than a new hire who delays for stupid reasons; like his previous company screwing with him and he stays more instead of running away.
Right, AFAIK the framework itself functions independently of the services, so you can drop in whatever solution you want for push notifs / analytics / MDM.
What you meant to say is that you're finding a philosophy that lets you act like everyone else but keep being the edgy kid in the back of the class everyone else rolls their eyes at.
Your work/life balance sounds utterly horrific and I am glad I don't have "unlimited vacation" like this. I feel depressed just reading it.
Lots of adorable images of cats in the snow
Actually, that is a human trait you will find everywhere. Sometimes it comes in a cultural disguise (unbelievers), sometimes hidden away, because the rich guy/woman might share the wealth, but wherever you go, people are suspicious/hateful of strangers.
Only group exempt from that is teenagers, who seem to be less risk averse, but if socially lower ranking also go full foreigner hatred to boost self-esteem.

Milk the hatred and distrust for the benefits (Always double-check on foreign science! ) and name it to everyone falling for it as what it is: Ancient Ape bugs. So mild mockery would be the best reaction i guess.

Social suppression seems to have failed on a large scale recently.
This has more front-loaded backstory than a recipe post at Pioneer Woman Cooks, but it sounds like a harbinger for Puritan effects on commerce. Who could be next on the list of these card companies? The cannabis world already has their own troubles, so maybe the ratchet will next tighten on them. That a criteria for canceling an account can be "Illegal or immoral," like those are synonyms, is telling.
Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists
Microsoft’s victory in email-seizure case stands, hailed as win for privacy
>they pick a rich European country

Aren't we (U.S.) the richest country in the world?
Facebook Moves to Curtail Fake News on ‘Trending’ Feature
Our plans basically start at $25 per technician/admin user per month. We go up from there, but most small businesses can get away with our "starter plan". It sometimes seems expensive for a lot of small businesses, but then very very inexpensive for a large enterprise.
The embedded powers will be very happy if Trump succeeds.

Fewer regulations will mean freer movement of capital, which has historically been a great boon for the wealthy and powerful.

If he manages to double down on coal production, the ensuing government subsidies will benefit those with the resources to capitalize on the undermining of the market (after all, any time you introduce predictability into the market, you are handing money to people who have the influence and resources to exploit it).

If he succeeds in building the wall, then he will have successfully shifted blame for existing economic woes onto Mexican migrants, without evidence, which will mean increased popular mandate for governmental power grabs.

If he succeeds in undermining climate change, he will have two benefits: first, he will have vanquished scientific and evidence-based opposition in general, and second, he will have undermined barriers between business and exploitation of known public health undermining scenarios.

If he succeeds in cowing the media, he will have removed one of the few non-governmental checks and balances on transparency of government.

Finally, if he succeeds in general, it will be at the expense of the already tenuous necessity for politicians to tie their agendas to evidence/science-based approaches to policy creation.

I say all of this not as an inveterate liberal, but as someone who is continually bewildered by the fact that Trump can make things up, without evidence, and have sufficient support to transform them into public policy. Actually I should cop to the fact that I'm not that bewildered--history is of course littered with leaders who have done the same, and whether or not they actually benefit the people who brought them to power is really an analyst's roulette game.
That FFI interface looks way nicer than the node-ffi interface.

let f = ffi('int gpio_write(int, int)');

vs.

var current = ffi.Library(null, {
'atoi': [ 'int', [ 'string' ] ]
});
I too have always thought about this. If I was a billionaire, I would also have a secret home setup, and I _would_ take the pilot and his family with me. I would also have a maintenance person and his family there.

I would become his apprentice and have him teach me everything he know. What else would you have to do while you're in hiding?
I don't think a separate school is a good thing.

I was in the gifted program in grade school and junior high, it was an awesome experience. (US Midwest)

Three points.

1. Not all kids are gifted in all areas so usually we were in a mix of gifted and non-gifted classes.

2. It's important to interact with all levels/types of kids and there are experiences at school outside of classes.

3. It makes it feel more special that you get to go to certain classes/do special things and events that not everyone is in.

Keep it as a program inside the school.
But note that it has been suggested that this is actually an internal political purge with the payment processors and politicians as convenient red herrings: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/01/23/links-117-inaugurl-addr...
I actually had no idea this was the case. There is an old chestnut tree in my parents back yard that has been there for 40+ years at least.
But we aren't talking about the short term, or are we? 50 years in the grand scheme of things seems quite short term when discussing such extreme cases as a communist country that was starving only decades ago and Switzerland: they are two polar opposites.

But fundamentally wealth is not a zero sum game. Countries have internal markets too. The idea that China can only grow if the rest of the world gets richer too isn't right: they can achieve enormous growth by selling things to themselves as well. That wasn't their primary economic model so far but that has more to do with the political priorities of the CCP than anything else.