skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, what were the pragmatic trade offs: CapEx vs OpEx; development time vs quality; etc.
Angular (2) in production
They absolutely care if you call, if you show up to town hall meetings. It matters. They are elected officials, and they do ultimately care and worry that if they do unpopular things they will not get re-elected.

There is an excellent write up of how this works and why it works from a former congressional aide: https://qz.com/836737/fomer-congressional-staffer-twitter-ti...

Take action!

Write your senators numbers on a note by your desk, put them in your phone as contacts. Add your house representatives as well. When you hear about an important issue, make a quick call. Ask them to represent you on upcoming issues. Thank them for their position on issues you support, let them know you are disappointed in them for things you oppose.
> Too much resolution can result in unnatural and distracting results -- your eyes don't have that much resolution as when you see a person in 8K in a extreme closeup. It's neither natural not flattering to see an actors individual skin pores, for example.

Your eyes can't see human faces 8 feet tall either but no one seems to think that movies are better on 20 inch screens. To the extent that movies look unnatural in extremely high resolution, that's an issue where directors need to learn to use the medium effectively. It's certainly not more natural to see blur or pixelation instead of pores.

> faster frame-rates capture motion more accurately (sharper under motion), but result in a movie that looks distracting and soap-opera-ish to the viewers eyes.

Only because we've been trained to expect films to be a juddery 24 fps experience. If high frame rates become commonplace they'll look commonplace.
TripActions launches its business travel app and unveils a $14.6M round
>Occasionally, text goes some unreadable colour. And it crashes when I click while holding down Super. And it only follows the GTK colour scheme sometimes; enabling night mode ended up with a beautiful mix of black-on-black-with-white-stripes.

Yes, all of the above. Plus having several hundreds of mono libs installed for just one app. That app runs 100% of time, but still...
Great to hear! We do have a European distributor. He's a nice fellow over in France. Email me at 'jaremy @ BA', and I'll forward you to people who can put you in contact.

One thing to note on coolbar lights is that there's a minimum size due to requiring a chiller system. We're working on non-chiller based systems for very small setups.

Are you part of a research group? It'd be great to hear more about what your interests are and what tech might help. We're developing some interesting machine vision based tech too. :-)
I'm not exactly clueless myself. I've yet to see an argument for lower-fidelity technology that is remotely convincing.

Reality is basically infinite fps. We all get by just fine, and the general consensus is that the effect is quite pleasing as long as the subject matter itself is.

Smoothing skin in photographs is entirely different. That's a selective effect applied before it reaches the display. Using higher resolution doesn't somehow force photographers not to airbrush.

As another commenter said, sometimes people deliberately decrease fidelity for effect, like filming in black and white after color was available. Doing it deliberately in a specific context for one work is totally different from a blanket declaration that 8k is fundamentally worse than 4k.
I do too, I've watched him just live streaming hanging out with friends on youtube quite a few times, he's definitely a shit disturber but I actually think he's a very smart guy, and I'm not even sure how evil he is.
See for example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472329
Great job! Coincidentally I was talking to my son today about needing to speed up his reaction time with simple multiplication. If there was an option to put this game into a mode where it asked multiplication questions only that would fit the bill perfectly. Taking this further, being able to choose addition only, or addition/subtraction only, or subtraction with/without negatives would make it playable by a lot of different ages. Also, I'd pay for an add-free version.
Emotional wages and employees’ motivation
Just use petgraph. It manages all of this for you.
Brent crude is identified as a person.
Yes, because they're pending changes. When they're finished, they can be committed and the branch can be rebased to include them.
Oh I agree but if he's able to put up some documentation/proof that his claims are valid than I'm OK with how and by whom it's delivered.

But maybe that's too much to hope and he's just slinging mud. Hard to tell without digging into the details but the article does say this:

Not all his claims are backed up, explained, or accurate. But the site still offers an embarrassing catalogue of bad deeds, which Shkreli told STAT he would continually update.

I'm hoping Ars wouldn't have published the article at all unless they put at least some stock in his claims.
Food2vec – Augmented cooking with machine intelligence
If you are a voting constituent of Senator Feinstein, you'd better believe she's going to listen to you,lest she put her or her sucessor's political career in Jeopardy. No good politician today is going to make Eric Cantor's mistake of ignoring activists in their own party, only to find themselves out of a job by the general election.

Just don't expect elected officials to pay attention to you if you aren't a part of their voting district.
Sorry. I'll get this fixed today - we used to have a proper 'about' page before we redesigned the website and somehow it got lost ...

Founder is John Kozubik, who was previously the founder of JohnCompanies - the first VPS provider.[1]

Address is 524 San Anselmo Ave., San Anselmo, CA 94960.

Phone number is +1 619 819 9156.

http://www.rsync.net/resources/index.html

[1] Began offering FreeBSD jails in Aug/Sept 2001. Nobody had coined the term 'VPS' - we called them "server instances".
Odds are many of those companies doing vertical farms are really planning on moving from lettuce to much more profitable leafy greens, like pot.
The lidar is only going to be listening for a pulse less than .005 of the time since light goes very fast and you only get so many points per second. I've had a small fleet of robots running on lidar in the same room and crosstalk just hasn't been a concern.

Reflected sunlight caused us a number of problems but I'm going to assume that any lidar used on a car is rated for outdoor use. I suppose those might still give bad readings if you're driving directly into the sunset or something, though.
Exurbs are on the increase though.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2015/11/03/so-much-fo...
In other words, you weren't using it as the systems language it's billed as. Which is fine, but it's claimed to be a systems level language, and if it's really that painful to do systems level things, then there's a problem somewhere.

Which is what's being discussed.
If it doesn't, then why does it grind to a halt eventually on both Mac and Windows? Firefox suffers from the same nonsense as well. In fact, Safari seems to be the ONLY thing I can keep open for more than a day without a process restart.
Pros and Cons of Interest Rates Going Up
There are decades of hard scientific research driving VR towards its current position. Shooting robots with it at home might turn out to be a fad, but dismissing the entire technology outright as a pointless toy is disingenuous. You really, honesty, don't see any market applications for VR? Any scientific applications? You don't think the Navy is going to train pilots with VR?
I also like that he's knowledgable on many on the subjects on which he speaks, half the people I've spoken to that "hate him" have no idea why other than he made a low volume drug expensive (never mind any of the details behind it)
Head of PM here. I lead 3 PMs in my current position at Styla.com and have taught product management at General Assembly courses.

I myself come from a self-taught programmer background and found myself questioning the product strategy or design decisions towards managers until I was offered a PM position. I do find the technical background enables me to level with devs quite easily but I don't think it's a requirement.
A pattern that has been working very well at SoundCloud is that we liked to transition customer support people into a PM role.

Important feats or skills I additionally look for in good PMs are:

- be a users advocate. Has to be good at putting themselves into the users' position and transfer that perspective to the team.

- has to be really good at email. Org/management/soft skills aside, the most powerful tool of a PM is email.

- eager to learn and apply those learnings quickly.

- be comfortable with numbers but be skeptical at the same time. Data is important but be wary of bias.
Even if it's possible to squeeze three times more money for the actual plant growing, I'm not sure it will make a dent on the difference. From the energy perspective: highest possible solar cell efficiency is around 30%, which means just this particular step in the chain will already eliminate the upside of local produce. We still have to account for batteries, LEDs, transmission lines, heating or cooling of the farm, and pumping water and nutrients around. The numbers just don't add up for "large-scale" staple crops like wheat or soy.
> And how do you need to look at this for it not to be a side-effect?

I would look at it like this: while a function can be pure (no side effects), the thread in which it executes need not be a pure construct. It's a property of the runtime system, which, essentially, schedules pure functions to run inside green threads, to which exceptions can be thrown (which will terminate the execution of the pure function).
Ask HN: Open data as a career – what to learn?
I've been increasingly interested in pursuing a career (or at least doing some work) at open data, by which I mean ie. opening and managing government data and APIs.

I think that one should be adept at least in different API techniques and database systems, but what else would be good additions to an open data expert's toolbox? Data visualization and other ways of making it not only accessible - but understandable - would also be of value?
In what way is he "disgraced"? The article never really makes that clear
Hi Sean, there are two things:

API Harmony is a research prototype we develop here at IBM Research. Using it, we explore things like mining API specifications, static code analysis of web API requests, or API recommendation. Some of this research shows directly in API Harmony (with sometimes good, sometimes fair, and sometimes rather poor results, admittedly), and others are disseminated as more fundamental research results (like our static analysis of web API requests, which made it to the International Conference on Software Engineering this year).

APIful.io is a blog about our work, within API Harmony and beyond. We use it to expose our results and (hopefully) foster discussions.
Okay, you can announce that everything is fine, but it just ain't so. I missed MMS messages on T-Mobile in 2016.

Google's suggested solution, besides twiddling cellular network settings and asking your friends to keep texting you until it works, is to stop using Hangouts [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6318464?hl=en
Kickass article
Microsoft Names LinkedIn SVP Kevin Scott as CTO
As a workaround, in the meantime, have you tried using several windows, not just tabs? Of course, none of them can be minimized, but they can be covered by other windows and should still run.
Or the local effects of loosely regulated and borderline criminal City of London-based financial services industry that repeatedly contributes to economic crash after economic crash.
I was taught that in a german university (in Experimental Physik), but not the name. I guess it falls under the broader concept of epistemology.
Apple bought the company making those sensors and they aren't available any more unless you know where in China they tend to "fall off the backs of trucks".
It'd make sense that there would be a mechanism for graceful degradation, no?
3 UX data visualization tips for beginners
Excellent work! Kind of funny the article mentions

> This will break the web.

But apparently blogger requires javascript just to render static content.
Reminds me of making my TI-83 draw a bunch of patterns in high school with TI-BASIC. It had functions to lines, circles, and some others. Some pretty interesting shapes emerged from just trying out various combinations of LINE TAN(X),SIN(X),COS(X),ABS(X) and such, with X being a variable that I'd make the main loop increment between 0 and 359, or sometimes multiple variables, or it being incremented differently than linearly. I wish I'd have cataloged them.
Well, to be fair, a malicious person could just as easily shine a beam into the optical sensors on my face.

If someone really wants to cause an accident, it's kind of hard to stop them, regardless of whether you're in a self-driving car or not.
You say "fix schools and crime" like it is known empirically what to do. It is not as simple as pumping money into the districts.

France, Canada, England, Japan and other "civilized nations" debate how best to fund schools and fight crime just like the US.
> No in any large numbers.

This implies that "large numbers" of people complain about 3D. I suspect this isn't true, and that it's really a very loud very small minority.

> But even if it was true that people said that about color movies, people can say the same thing about different inventions and be wrong in one case and right in another.

Yes, but the point is that some evidence needs to be provided. Since some statements are wrong and some are right, the argument needs to be more than "it's true because I said it."

> and they have never been that many to make it not be a fad in the cinema either.

What does this mean? At what point do you concede that it's not a fad in the cinema?
You realize you are taking the prosecutions press release at face value, don't you?

If a few WU employees helped a few customers navigate the compliance hurdles, and some of those customers happened to be scammers, the press release would say the same thing.
How climate change will affect energy flows in ocean ecosystems
Sure, shared/unshared semantics are not hard. How do you map that to a generic concept of "usage"? There's no right way to do it.

It doesn't really make sense to ask "how much memory is this process using?" Instead, you want to ask questions like "how much memory are all of these processes using?" or "how much memory would be freed if I terminate these processes?" or "how much extra memory will be used if I start another process?"

What's hard is understanding which question you want to ask in any given situation.
What a lovely piece! It would be interesting to read a series, each with a different animal.
Yes, and I understand how frustrating it can be, I had to learn it, too. My only point is that after you spend the time with it, the cognitive load becomes a lot less and you've learned some new things about programming at the same time.
I'm curious, what were the details that made that story sound less bad than it does at first glance?
What is the role of an architect?

What architectural mistakes have you made in your career - what did you learn from them?

What architectural decisions are you proud of - how relevant are those ideas to other systems?

How much code should an architect write?

Have you been responsible for maintaining a complex system that you didn't design?
I get the sense that he is mad because he got hit for something literally the whole industry does. I do find his obvious douchebaggery less infuriating than most pharma companies that hide their douchebaggery by just lying to you
KeyVault – The Ultimate Keyholder
Mania manifests with signs that don't match those of ADHD. Among the criteria¹ that characterize a manic episode, only one is directly related to ADHD:

>abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood

>increased self-esteem or grandiosity

>decreased need for sleep

>more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking

>flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing

>distractibility

>increase in goal-directed activity or psychomotor agitation

>excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences

ADHD and manic episode, in more concrete terms:

>disorganized, forgets about appointments, loses stuff, puts off chores and homework, can't sit still for too long, suddenly gets up when not supposed to, finishes other people's sentences, doesn't listen when talked to, can't wait for their turn, interrupts busy people, can't pay attention at all in boring classes, mind thinks about anything but the boring task at hand, makes careless mistakes during exams, suddenly finds something interesting to do and works on it all day, finishes the awesome parts of projects then drops them when only the boring stuff remains, highly distracted by noise and background activity

>grandiose delusions concerning own intelligence, potential and abilities, talks about them at length, becomes highly irritated if contested, thoughts race and feels like brain can't process them, thinks he can do anything (like flying) and engages in high risk behavior as result, sleeps 2 hours then goes jogging at 3 AM unable to understand why everybody else is so slow, relentlessly pursues goals and sexual interests to the point of indiscretion, displays exceptionally poor judgement

¹ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64063/#_A92654_
> if they do unpopular things they will not get re-elected.

An incumbent has over a 90% chance of being reelected until they decide not to run anymore. They literally do not need to care after they've told whatever lies they needed to tell to get elected the first time.
An Introduction to Functional Programming in Java 8: Part 1-Functions as Objects
That would be fine, so long as it's not sold in stores alongside other items for purchase, and is explicitly and prominently communicated to the buyer. There's nothing wrong with renting, so long as everyone knows it's a rental.

Somehow, I think Lexmark might have a problem with this. They want the benefits of the rental model without the drawbacks.
There's no rule that says that rich cities will continue to have bad schools. To take one counter example, there are plenty of well-off parents in NYC who send their kids to public schools because New York has built a number of public schools that are good (not enough, to be fair, but enough that there are plenty of families here). The same could happen in San Francisco.
No way to curse in Japanese?
I'm not OP, but (digital) hardware is probably worse, because all of the parts in the BOM have a pretty short half-life. The bar of what's possible in short runs, at a given price, keeps changing, so design, layout and assembly rules all keep changing underneath you.

But say you had a custom hardware design - for a market. Let's say that the design has been tested with a hard prototype for design verification. what have you got? A set of files, that compile (in a factory), to an artifact that can be sold to a market for a price. How's that different from software, other than logistics, depreciation and inventory issues?
At the same time, the list of bug reports that the init scripts used with sysvinit had (because they all had to replicate the same code, in different ways, patched together from some stackoverflow post) is uncountable.
Points well taken.

Again, we had all of this in place prior to an ill-advised website redesign.

As I said higher up in this thread, I'll make sure this gets republished and put in place properly today and I will add some verbiage that addresses your specific point about HQ and jurisdiction.

In the meantime, I will confirm we are a US firm with locations (ie., our own racks - not rented hardware) in San Diego, Fremont (San Francisco, basically), Denver, Zurich and Hong Kong.
Looks like someone was willing to spend some time on an audit of the original KeePass:

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/22/keepass-audit-no-critical-...
Yea, this could mean that a WU employee explained to a customer why they were being refused service, and explained how they'd have to redo their request in order to send money.

The prosecution will spin it as in cahoots, when it could have just been good customer service explaining a bunch of stupid rules.
The US is not my country. I just pay taxes here, but that doesn't make me blind.
That's not necessarily true given how the jungle primary system works.

Also I have my doubts that she will run for re-election. Garcetti will probably take a shot.
You do know that Chrome has a task manager that will display memory, CPU and network usage for each tab right?
I don't follow. Even looking painfully close to my retina displays the picture still looks great. There is no point where suddenly skin pores become noticeable when they weren't previously. If you see skin pores in a movie then that's the fault of the makeup department--I recall reading early HDTV productions struggled with this.

Rather, I think the reason why theatres don't benefit from 8k is that from a certain distance increased resolution doesn't have a benefit. E.g. If you ever get close to a billboard you may notice that the resolution of the ad is quite poor, but from street level it looks perfectly fine. We aren sitting much farther than 10' from the theatre screen, so more resolution won't be noticeable given the distance from the screen for most of the audience.
Mbps – what is considered fast?
hey ecerybody

i assume that is a easy question for most of you, tho it seems like i cant get a simple proper answer.

with my current internet provider i have 10gb of internet and then the internet speed is limited and limited doesnt mean its slow it means its practically not working anymore. (5mins at least to open a website, if it opens at all eventually)

so anyway i need a bew provider and i can choose between 100, 300, 500 and 1000 mbps. obviously the more the more expensive

thats why i would need to know if 100 or 300 is fast enough or if i should go with 500mbps.

now what do i consider fast enough? i stream movies and i watch a lot of videos on youtube, for enjoyment but also for studying. so neither yt vids nor the movies should buffer.

thank you for your answers, opinions, or any other suggestions you may have.
I have never submitted a paper anywhere that had a publication fee. You generally pay to submit xor you pay to read, the and case is a distinct minority.
I expect each of the dirts will trigger a libel suit in a few days, even if he did post facts with documentation. He might be able to win most of them, but he's going to spend a mountain of cash just defending them.
They won't care.
Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither.
Much of Minsky's criticisms came before current and modern implementations of neural networks, using extremely large datasets and large GPU processing. I'm not saying his criticisms are invalid - and certainly should not be tossed aside!

We are in the very early stages of another "AI Spring" - I have the inkling of an opinion that if we are to advanced further in the GAI direction, it will be by applying these same kinds of large-dataset tools toward other ML models of the past, much like we have done with neural networks - and also seeking to connect and unify these various parts into a whole (I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater - I think all of our past ML systems have validity - it's more of where they fit in the overall scheme that may be lacking).

I do know that such approaches have been tried in the past, but I don't think as much consideration of using today's tools on yesterday's models has been approached as strongly, due to all the hype and money (and success!) being poured into neural networks today.