skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for Iran, most of the other countries didn't contribute to a large part of the US "intelligentsia" [people with advanced technical degrees]

Any deficit could be compensated by increasing quotas for people from alternate countries, India, Russia, China all which produce great numbers of people in technical fields and who don't always get choice work in their home countries.
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I wasn't rough on it. I wore it 24/7, except in showers/water and when charging it. I don't tend to break anything else in my normal life; I'm not one of those people who's rough on things. I just had repeated Fitbit failures.
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http://www.10percenthappier.com is my meditation for skeptics site. Worth checking out as well. They have a lot of good videos and a podcast.
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They should have logs showing that a problem was detected.

That said, hearing that they provide fossil fuel powerred vehicles as loaners has lowered my opinion of them.
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I think it'd be good for everyone to read these executive orders, rather than jumping to conclusions and acting hysterically.
Correction: it would be a remarkable use of tech industry tools for political censorship.

When the hell did people forget that free speech also includes the speech you vehemently disagree with, justifiably or not?
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However, a face book is a highly specific thing, where as 'paper' is about as generic as you can get - even wasps make it. Can I mop up a spill with dropbox paper? Make a hat out of it? Cut out a coupon? Make a saw[1] out of it?

Not to mention that it's far from the first product named 'paper' in our tech bubble.

[1] https://youtu.be/rYfkhdKcEiE
While that may be technically true, I do not know if that will hold in court, as currently Tesla owns a monopoly on software that runs on Teslas, and they disable their software to prevent the legal owner from using their own vehicle. I suspect this is wholly illegal behavior, and I really look forward to seeing it get tested in court.

While this grey area has generally survived in smaller items, I suspect a car, where you literally have a title to it, is not so defensible under that claim. Especially when they also make it effectively impossible to repair the hardware outside of their company as well.
It's kissing cousins to Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome.
Actually, Europe is included in the common definition of "Western country". Yes, that definition is inflated by the US's ego of being the centre of the universe for no legitimate reason; but "Western country" is synonymous with "First World country". Strange but true.
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Amazon AWS uses .net core to provide c# as a language in AWS Lambda
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-dotnet-co...

Looks pretty ready to me.
The March 2015 announcement that they were deprecating it and ending sales was perhaps a better indication.
I cant tell if all of the comments here are genuine, or the output of some high performance markov chains.

Also, i have absolutely no ability to penetrate what is being described by this article. Holograms work by applying lasers to different surfaces and re-rendering the image relative to the original laser's point of view. How does the word 'holographic' apply?
My observation of the used bulk programming book market is that Goodwill Industries tends to sort through used books and cycle them out onto the internet. I don't have data, just anecdote. But I've bought several used programming books online that came from various Goodwill locations and my local Goodwill tends to have computing books in good condition...and I'm not in a tech hub.
Assume this is true.

It's not exactly a market with a high barrier to entry.
I have trouble seeing how, even if they put everyone out of business, it wouldn't just pop up again pretty much instantly.

Heck, some other vc firm would probably just fund that

So what exactly is the downside to this?

It seems like subsidizing the price of breathing air.

(and they couldn't do something like put everyone out of business, then buy all the medallions, stop anyone else from competing, because the second they put everyone out of business, now they will have the fun spectre of massive antitrust issues for everything they do!)

So what am i missing here?
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3. Denitions. As used in this order:

The term ?critical infrastructure? means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so
vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems would have a
debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or
any combination of those matters.

The term national security system means any telecommunications or information system
Operated by the Federal Government or any contractor on its behalf, the function, operation, or
use of which?

involves intelligence activities;"

So it seems to not imply private systems.
You are confusing two concepts which are completely different than each other - "What computation can be done" vs "How fast the computation can be done".
Surely you realize production cost and value to the customer are related?
I was in Serbia recently. The tomatoes and cucumbers blew my mind. In the city or in the country, all were great. Seemed like every dinner started with fresh bread and a bowl of tomatoes and cucumbers. I didn't need the main dish, until they put slow cooked lamb or pork in front of me.
throwaway26960 7 days ago [-]

The advantage of paper is that you can be more creative and use slow thinking[1]. Just take a look at Newton's[2] or DaVinci's[3] notebooks, how would they think so freely on a computer? Sure for a work task list, a computer is fine, but I find a computer too limiting on my creativity for myself. Added bonus: no ads, bugs, or distractions.
People that create apps create them to make money, not because they make you more productive or help you be more creative.
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp....
[2]https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton
[3]http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=arundel_ms_263_....
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I'm impressed when any new president avoids doing worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-russia...

edit: possibly referring to this?
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I've seen restrictions on a visa waiver compared to preventing green card holders from returning to their homes. Here I'm seeing total admission to the country if you can get here compared to banning people who already have visas and have completed the extreme vetting required.

I know people who have to fly back to their home country yearly as part of the process of maintaining their visa, and live in fear it won't be approved. And they aren't even from the mid-east, where the standards are harsher. It's not a fair comparison.
People are truly affected by fear uncertainty and doubt and Trump knows that and uses it. These countries have been portrayed so much as the big scary monsters people just believe it all. One thing for sure... Trump is keeping all of his campaign promises which is usual people are not used to politicians maintaining their campaign promises.
This is a little off-topic but can I ask how your experience with Orleans has been? And did you consider instead using Service Fabric Reliable Actors? If so, how did you choose between the two?
VW is not alone, Fiat Chrysler did the same thing.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/news/companies/epa-emissions...

the tricky question: did anybody figure out how to do a clean enough diesel engine without cheating?

i think its funny that European countries were pushing Diesel engines just because they emit less CO2, disregarding the NOx problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/05/vw-diesel-c...
That was a really great book.
If we could buy Seat and/or Skoda in the states, I bet they would sell rather well. Kia and Hyundai are no longer "bargain" vehicles as they were in the past.
People are finally starting to see that, "an electric car has fewer parts so is more reliable." Is but marketing speak. Even if it's less parts it's still got plenty enough to cause a plethora of technical issues.
I wouldn't call this an "issue" as much as a "limitation". Just as you can develop a data denormalization process for any use case, you can develop one for Firebase.

Here's a practical example of doing joins with Firebase (written by David East who is also the star of that video you linked): https://github.com/davideast/Querybase
They didn't give one. Typical Google. Extremely frustrating to say the least.
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Putting the words "ASP" and "Classic" that close together sent a chill down my spine. You're totally right about the tooling though. If I can't do File->New Project and get it to compile and run an empty project out of the gate, your doing it wrong. Every time I try I have to find some new forum post telling me how to fix my environment.
Voter fraud is just one issue with respect to voting integrity. Easy-to-use and understand, verifiable voting procedures are very important as well. The 2000 presidential election made that abundantly clear.
You missed the point entirely. Leaving out Irish, Italians, Syrias or the Jews (Godwin's Law exception) because of nativist hate toward disparaged peoples was/is shooting oneself in the foot... other, wiser countries will gain by taking in more people (either to bolster their fertility rates, tax bases and/or future world standing) because it's hard to select the good ones in an haphazard, politically-driven immigration process whose children, grandchildren, etc. have the greatest probability of being the next billionaire job creator, small business owner or at least high income-earning taxpayers.
This was posted yesterday, and I flagged it then, and I'm flagging it now. TechCrunch has a reputation of writing opinion stories without doing the proper research or due diligence. With their reputation in mind, I'm going to say this is false news, without sources and confirmations.

Don't believe me? See TechCrunch absurdities written by Megan Rose Dickey who is a self proclaimed reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice. How she still has a job is beyond me. If this were the other way around, a white male writing like she does he would be blasted as a sexist, and racist and socially shamed into oblivion.

- Dear White People, You Suck At Diversity (https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/13/dear-white-people-you-suck...)

- Twitter doesn’t have quite as many white employees as it did last year (https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/twitter-doesnt-have-quite-...)

- GitHub’s diversity is just as bad as the rest of Silicon Valley’s (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/githubs-diversity-is-just-...)
> Trump's order banned legal and vetted immigrants

Do you mean that green card holders will now require additional screening? So by ban you mean temporarily inconvenienced?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-gree...
They are, but they managed to call out Trump by name. If they were drawing parallels, they could have just mentioned the executive orders.

They should have called out FDR also but I think they wanted to avoid seeming to compare him to Trump. After all FDR was a great guy when he wasn't putting American families into internment camps.
I completely agree that on its own, the querying functionality can be quite tedious for anything complex. I linked to this solution on the comment above as well: https://github.com/davideast/Querybase
It's about striking a balance and it looks like some of Putin's actions were due to his thinking he was "provoked" by Nato expansion into his backyard and his being an authoritarian could not allow himself to look like a supplicant or submissive to Us action in the area so he goes about and dusts things up a bit.

I think Obama and his advisers sorely missed someone like a Condoleezza or a Cohen, etc. people who would give him some good insight into Putin's thinking and why he acts the way he does.

I mean, at the end of the Obama presidency US-Russia relations were hotting up beyond my comfort.
European nations aren't "western"?

Actually European nations is what it originally meant. Western European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

The term originally had a literal geographic meaning. It contrasted Europe with the cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the remote Far East which early-modern Europeans saw as the East. In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase Western world includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas and Oceania.
You may want to try authorea.com - open format, based on Git, and it supports LaTeX and Markdown in addition to a WYSIWYG similar to Dropbox.
You can fix that with a trivial symlink.
On the contrary, banks have departments dedicated to estimating the amount they will lose from bad loans. It's expected.
Are you claiming immigrants from the temporarily banned countries have greater propensity for all the above?
> You're the event and you have some sort of expectation about your outcomes.

The event is the test grade. I am not a test grade, I am a person. If it's problematic that I'm taking the test, how about I tell my friend that I didn't study, and my friend give a 50% probability that I fail?

> you can peg your chances to pass at 50%, but that doesn't tell you anything about the chances of the rest of the class.

I wasn't talking about the rest of the class, I was talking about the probability that the professor would give me of failing the test. Is your probability theory so weak that it refuses to make a prediction for that? What are we supposed to use instead, our gut feelings?

> If you observe all possible outcomes of an event, you can deterministically predict its outcomes. If you observe sufficiently many outcomes of a stochastic event, you can probabilistically predict its outcomes.

The laws of probability apply just as well to deterministic and stochastic events. There is no useful distinction between a deterministic event of which we have partial knowledge (enough to assign a good "probability" to each outcome), and stochastic events of which we have full knowledge. As an example, take a board game that uses dice. How does the gameplay change if we replace the dice with a seeded RNG picking numbers from 1-6? Moreover, think of your favorite (classical) stochastic process. What if it's secretly deterministic, but only you know enough information -- an impractically large amount of information? What changes?
I think the parent meant GWT.
Grizzly Steppe illustrated that the intelligence agencies are not working together (NSA had different confidence levels in the conclusions than CIA and FBI - why?) If you got a pen-test report back with those platitudinous security recommendations, you would probably not be very happy signing the check.

The Department of Commerce is rightfully responsible for the creation of the private sector report, because NIST is part of the DoC and NIST is where all of the best security guidance is coming from these days (the DoD adopted NIST's security standards, for example).
It's not a walkout if the company is supporting it, organizing it, and the leaders join in it.

It's bad reporting to call this a walkout, but it's clickbait.

Examples of real walkouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkout
>I always thought the real intellectual differences related to Marxism were between Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, the former having introduced Sartre to Marxism and later publicly breaking with him for his "ultra-bolshevism."

Merleau-Ponty was definitely more connected to actual lived reality than Sartre was. When Marxist theory produced a horror, not paradise, he actually sort of admitted it was happening.
This is scary. Email as an identity management platform is okay because the protocol itself is distributed. No one company holds the keys to "email." Sure, people have moved towards centralized email providers like Gmail, but many other individuals and companies still run their own email servers.

The scary part comes in when you think that if this technology becomes popular, new services might provide account recovery or identity management features solely through Facebook. As we've seen countless times in the past, centralization like this only makes it a better target for abuse by malicious actors (Facebook included!).
Yes, but now we're getting so metaphysical that all usefulness has evaporated. "Nothing is knowable" and all. I can agree, but it's a stance which provides no course of action.

We have a current best, or at least competing current bests. These may later be invalidated - that's fine, that's learning new things. It doesn't mean that everything we know now is indistinguishably-wrong as everything we thought we knew in the past. We can predict things now that we couldn't before.

We also have approximations that don't attempt to predict the system, they just produce useful results often enough to be retained - are these indistinguishable from all other attempts at describing reality?

How far do we take it? If Pi is 3, it may actually be true! It'd just invalidate a ridiculous amount of what we think we know. That's equal to quantum mechanics, which appears to have concrete applications.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

> The article claims that the model is at least as consistent as other models while being simpler in some instances. I think work needs to be done to verify those claims.

Great!
You are being too nice calling it a habit. Breeding behemoths is what sells. People will pay a premium for the pick of the litter (which is code words for "the biggest"). I don't have any problems with dog breeding per se, but the market forces are seriously broken.

EDIT: In addition to pushing for bigger dogs, it's also profitable to drive down food and vet costs. Kennel clubs like the American Kennel Club are scams. The kennel clubs just receive fees for processing paper. They don't inspect breeders. They don't care if you're a puppy mill. As long as you pay your fees, you will get your papers.
> Trump has dismissed the acting AG for refusing to execute the laws.

An E.O. that conflicts with statute or the Constitution is not law, in fact, it a violation of the law.

> As far as I know, Ms. Yates's job as acting AG is to preside over the enforcement of the law, not to decide whether it is constitutional

Deciding whether the is a reasonable legal argument for an action before defending it and not defending it otherwise is absolutely her obligation, both as a officer of the court and a public officer with an oath to the Constitution.

> Would Democrats be pleased to see the same latitude offered to Senator Sessions once he's installed?

Democrats prime objection to Sessions involves recognizing that this job responsibility and being concerned that Sessions' past record indicates he would exercise it poorly, from their perspective.
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It's on his website.
I ditched Dropbox years ago - I have no tolerance for any platform that requires an invisible (and not terribly inspectable) patch to my kernel.

Plus, it ate batteries like nobody's business.
> But here's the deal: for someone like AWS who isn't giving back, the choice is not "do they give back or don't they?" -- it's "do they run your software or someone else's?"

That assumes 1) the other software exists (GPL/AGPL has much more effect for software without viable competitors), 2) the license causes more of a problem than switching does, 3) you don't sell an alternative license that costs less than switching does.
When people say I'm full of it or delusional, I ask them to try one of the tomatoes and tell me if it tastes anything like spaghetti or pizza sauce, or simple, un-seasoned tomato sauce, or even goddamned ketchup.

I could totally be delusional about the popcorn, though — I'm not that old. But one could do a taste test: 5600 year old kernels were shown to still pop.
I learned that its easier and way faster to quarter tomatoes and freeze them, then to can.
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I have no clue if anyone really uses it, and it has a terribly un-googleable name, but the Java Spark Framework is the most beautifully simplistic REST API I have ever played with. It's the only time Java has ever felt like Node to me.
It's not like Tesla has a bunch of spare Teslas to give out as loaners. They're selling them as fast as they can make them.
This weekend was a dry run for a coup: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/was-this-weekend-a-trial-ba.... This is exactly how it happens, folks.
And if I download the open source code, and run it on my own server, is it a service as a service as whatever-the-opposite-of-a-service is? I'm confused...
I disagree, section 8 is geared completely towards private sector systems, and section 5 subsection c refers to the most urgent vulnerabilities in civilian, and the most critical private sector infrastructure.
From this reference: "Solipsistic and dazzled by its own swirling universe of technical possibilities, IBM was self-gripped by a special amoral corporate mantra: if it can be done, it should be done. To the blind technocrat, the means were more important than the ends."

How much this sounds like Silicon Valley today.
You just said she's a reporter who's focused on diversity, and the 3 headlines you quoted look like they're focused on diversity. Without having read the articles, just reading your comment, it kind of looks like she's actually doing her job.
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>Those guys were writers, not philosophers in the first place.

Philosophy is generally defined as explicit thought about the most fundamental issues. That is what the two of them did, so they were by definition philosophers.

I think what you are meaning to argue is that they were poor philosophers.
The argument would be that the union's negotiations established a wage floor, and uber drivers get a freerider benefit. If uber's funding dried up, and they only paid drivers from what paasengers pay, they would have a lot more pressure to lower rates. Furthermore the union probably makes the wages sticky, rather than able to be lowered if competitors exit the market.

Though hailing cabs is inconvenient there probably is some socal utility to the medallion system beyond just rent seeking for the owners. For example the supply of cabs being steady at odd hours, and better compliance with ruling on serving all areas of a city.
Fully expect to be downvoted, but that's an absurd topic to have at TechCrunch. She's just feeding the constant outrage machine.
Yes, please, make travel even more inconvenient while accomplishing nothing. Punching people in the face at airports and then taunting them for a facebook video, and harassing innocent travelers is NOT how you win the hearts and minds of your fellow citizens and elected officials.
As long as all the cab companies are put out of business, I'm okay with it.
Is is just me or is that "whimsy" of the gutsy images/animations getting old?
We seem to be simply replacing the old monopolists with new ones. What makes you think the end game will be any less shitty than the old days?