skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a small market that's destined to shrink.
First, note that for each of your Instacart orders, a shopper picks out the food, and a driver delivers it to you. Two people.

To your point, I have noticed that Instacart users fall into two groups, those that care about specific replacements when an item is out of stock, and those that just want the shopper to use their best judgment. If you care about replacements, then you want your shopper to be responsive and well-mannered in working with you to resolve the shortfall.
Sigh. When I first use Google cloud (lowercase c), it was only App Engine (CMIIW). I woke up one day, now it has more than a dozen offerings, confusing like AWS.

Does anyone have, specifically for AI/ML, a list of "If you want to do X, use Y" for Google Cloud offerings? The official list (https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/) doesn't help much. Would appreciate if it's explained by layer (higher such as ready-to-use Speech Recognition and lower where you possibly need to setup some infra stuff).

EDIT: I'm looking something like this (explains AWS offering by layer) but for Google -> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/welcome-to-the-new-aws-ai-bl...
shorter articles without any details is exactly The problem with most fast food style articles. An article should invite thinking, not suppress it.
At many corps, personal phones are not allowed onto the corp net and are not allowed to receive/transmit/store corp data. Or you're fired.
Ignoring whether it's related to healthcare or not, ETH Zurich is a public institution, whereas Stanford is private. Perhaps a more comparable university would be UC Berkeley (which many would consider to be on par with ETH), which has 38.2k students and a ~$2.5B annual budget.
That's kind of a weird approach. Wealthier men tend to be more obese. White women seem to be the only group who's income and obesity levels seem related.

It's right there in bold: "Most obese adults are not low income (below 130% of the poverty level)."

But maybe food stamps aren't allocated the way i think they are.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm
From the site:

> You cannot attach GPUs to preemptible instances. GPUs do not receive sustained use discounts.

So sorry, no.
The people that want to do this just use Haskell :)
The solution is to pay them better and forbid them from taking tips. Make it clear to customers that it's not even allowed, let alone expected.

Unfortunately, I don't think tipping culture is going away any time soon.
It's shocking to me how closely related life expectancy seems to be with a state's political alignment based on those lists. I'd love to see the correlation coefficient of percent of conservative voters vs life expectancy.

http://politicsthatwork.com/graphs/life-expectancy-by-state
I have a rather simple approach to backup. I have my dropbox folder is inside my Gdrive folder. So, its basically backedup in 2 places.

I hope this was about personal backups?
Yeah, I automatically went into what I know :/ Its impossible to route manually there days, which doesnt mean automagic tools are even remotely good, same goes for synthesis (fpga).
I love watching people developing on OS X, targeting Linux, without proper tests forgetting that Linux's FS's are by default case-sensitive in regards to file names, and completely forgetting that OS-X is case-insensitive, by default (and recommended to remain so, because most OS-X software is not developed with case-sensitive file-system awareness.)
I have been reading a lot about Russia and China recently, and I'm struck by just how much more realistic their citizenry is compared to America.

I think it ultimately boils down to how real power operates in the countries. The average Russian or Chinese citizen is way less powerful than the average American citizen. If they have a grievance to make, whether it's against a local or national policy, Russians and Chinese have way way fewer options.

Whereas Americans, if they feel aggrieved at the state of their world, can turn to any one of many many many political organizations that exist solely to collect and distribute that outrage and drive results. We may not be completely 100% satisfied with those results, but it's better than relying on the legal process.

This network of civic participation has mostly replaced the usual role of electoral politics and Americans believe in their system, secure in the realization that if some bullshit is going down, outrage will be generated and justice will be served.

The last election threw that whole system into critical disarray. It got yoked into the service of Donald Trump and the Republicans because liberal Americans trusted the system enough to stop looking to see how it was being used. Trump realized he could game the system to get elected and did exactly that.

The critical insight here is that Americans are not stupid, and they are not ignorant, they just believe in the power of systems and institutions and want to just be able to rely on them to drive better results over time. We shift public attention gradually away from everything, and slowly onto the parts of the system that aren't working.

In Russia and China, public arms of policy-making are non-existent. Citizens must therefore be extremely careful about picking their battles.
I've seen research saying healthcare providers in the U.S. are much more likely to prescribe drugs than in other wealthy countries.

> At some point this trend, paticularly the opiods, has to start shortening average lifespans.

I don't know what effects drugs, including opiods, have on lifespan. Certainly, taking the right prescription drugs extends lifespan in many cases. But even the wrong one might affect quality of life more than lifespan.
People with real problems like major clinical depression, severe anxiety that prevents them from leaving the house, schizophrenia, etc. aren't going to be suddenly cured now that you have told them "1 > 0" and all they have to do is put "one step in front of the other."

"Just ignore the problems" doesn't work for people who have problems which are, you know, actually serious.
Regardless of how you calculate the valuation this is bad for business.

People don't like companies being disingenuous, and not realizing that treating employees fairly is actually an important part of building a healthy company (putting aside it's the right thing to do).

If they really needed to do this then don't play games. Just explain that revenue growth can make or break a company at this stage so we need to take these actions. Just being honest about the realities of business and your choices go a long way.

This week Uber and Instacart have damaged their brand due to nothing other than poor leadership.
In the very long run, maybe. I don't see NIMBYs losing steam and I don't see the migration into major metros slowing down either. Maybe when the self-driving car comes?
We spend ~5 billion/year giving people free soda. Cutting back on is an extremely easy way to reduce obesity. Maybe it won't solve it. Maybe it won't even make a big difference. But it will certainly help the cause.
It's not that surprising when you look at this: http://stateofobesity.org/adult-obesity/

A lot of states with the highest life expectancy are among the least obese states. That means there is something about the lifestyle there that promotes better health.
Why is it a bad thing?
That's the primary reason I'm reluctant to give Lyft a try.
They need to do this with morrissey.
‘Our Worst Fears Have Been Realized’: South Sudan's Famine Could've Been Stopped
I especially like the 3Blue1Brown videos on Hanoi/binary-counting and explaining (visually) Euler's Identity.
> Is Google the only entity benefiting from this?

I think so. The latest changes that favor people uploading long videos everyday have been especially bad as a user. This has resulted in short, informative videos like CCPGrey's are now less likely to be recommended than daily, hour long rants and a lot of my feeds are now updating daily whether they have anything worthwhile to say or not. That and pirated content is being recommended to me a lot more.
I know that race plays a significant factor here. I wonder how much that drags down some of those southeastern states?

edit: Reading farther down breaks things out by race, which suggests that it is only partially responsible. White life expectancy in those southeastern states is quite a bit worse.
If you act in a certain way, you are free to accomplish that for yourself. Only ever do a same-day exercise-and-sell. Never exercise early. Never exercise-and-hold. Enter into a 10b5-1 that ensures you sell any shares immediately upon vesting. I think that covers all the cases and you're protected against being taxed on paper-only valuations.

That doesn't mean that your preference should preclude other people from acting differently.
Considering how messed up the patent system can get, it's really confusing how this one instance is where they decide to get worked up about. At least CSIRO seems to do legitimate research in the area, and it is not hunting down small scale players to make them pay up for questionable patents. This is the really abusive part of current patent law, not which research org or corporation gets "blessed" by the patent office.
What is the right way to use/learn AWS?
Been wanting to get started with AWS for a while now. What are the best resources/background/prerequisites for doing things the right way with AWS?
I've been using WSL since it was released to the fast insider ring. It's pretty slick. There have been some warts and growing pains, but the team has been very responsive to bug reports. I've seen responses as quickly as 2 public build cycles (about a week) to get a fix for an issue reported on their github site.
I try to keep all my Content(tm) feeds not-too-interesting. Anything more is anxiety inducing these days.
> The origin of the term 'genocide' arose out of eugenics ('geno').

You've got the etymology confused. 'geno-' comes from Grk 'genos', which means race/tribe. Genocide refers to ethnic killings. Eugenics ('eu' good + 'gen-' race/tribe) refers to the goal of achieving 'better races' and methods to achieve them. Unfortunately those methods involve pruning perceived bad seeds.

They come from the same root word, but genocide isn't derived from eugenics.
This sort of development is often illuminating. I develop on *BSD, Linux, Solaris (SPARC), and MacOS X when I can, and even though they're "all UNIX", interesting insights abound, and dealing w different endianess (SPARC == big, Intel == small), and library differences, etc is rarely more trouble than it's worth.
BharatQR Code to help India go cashless
The title is misleading; here's the article's first sentence:

A group of NASA scientists has proposed a new definition of what constitutes as a planet, possibly opening the door for Pluto to return to its former status.
I've seen Uber drivers discuss this on forums. For some drivers, 'no tip' = 'no 5 star rating for the passenger'
I am a US citizen and I completely agree. I'm used to it in restaurants, but other situations have me searching online to see what's expected, and worrying that I got it wrong. I'd really like to see the whole concept die.
I was a sucker who converted.

In my case, as a homeowner, they were nearly 20% more expensive than my current carrier homeowners and umbrella liability. So either their underwriting model is crap, their data sucks (I literaly live next door to a paid firehouse and got 3* for fire protection).

They also don't ask you detailed questions unless you explicitly do so -- in my case that was nearly a $100 difference.

Last time I bought renters insurance, in 2006, it was something like $35.

Their interview approach to data gathering is slick though!
Use a very limited version of the english language. Something like the one used in sending Telegrams in old days. Also, use same size fonts for all the news.

Also, put the details of the news behind a NLP software and let the users ask it more details about a certain news and let it answer then in one or two words...
Better yet, they encourage it.
I'd like the putty download to be over https and the installer to be signed.
Or, at least, sha512 hashes available on the https download site.
As it is, the download source for putty is one of the weakest chains in internet security!
You say that, but it sounds like a win/win from where I'm sitting:

>Our investigation was a great success: not only were we able to reduce our electricity costs by 35%, but we discovered our high-density SSD storage was even more dense at 87atm!

Time to replicate / H2O-as-a-service it.
A Japanese people saying "He rarely speaks logically, and he only emphasizes one side of things as if it were the absolute truth." feels very ironical to me. Having lived there I discovered that logic is not a core value and more often than not one have to do something the way it is supposed to be done, period. Given that's the second paragraph first sentence, I would take the whole article with a grain of salt.
Surely other countries have disparities of their own, though.
And is anyone familiar with even a basic understanding of human attention psychology surprised? I think not.

Level 3 was doomed from the start.
The shoppers do not deliver to your door FYI.
Right, so the question becomes "Why do enough people perceive the potential of Instacart to be billions when a back of the envelope calculation by a guy on Hacker News suggests that's not the case?"

Presumably said investment bankers are capable of doing the same math as Hacker News readers, so why did they still fork the money over when they have many other crazy bets to choose from?
This is a misdirection and Instacart knows it. In the old system, the shopper got half the tip. Source: I worked as an Instacart driver for fun.
Pretty clear what republicans think of the constitution. Which is in diametric opposition to what they say.
They mention in the docs that there's no reason to keep it only key.upspin.io, and that they expect it'l be replicated and hosted elsewhere.
A Chelsea Manning-WikiLeaks Opera, Seen in a New Light
That sure sounded great to the people running AIG in 2006!
I'm not understanding this. How is animation happening? What is S(t)? Can somebody please explain this project?
What's an example of really shitty coding in a product the general public uses?
I acctually love questions about how to best traverse a tree, binary or not. Maybe I'm ready for an interview at least? But why is it me who should be put through a four-hour white board coding session? I would collapse after 40 minutes. They can code. Why can't they be the ones at the white board? I can "architect" and correct their mistakes. They would still be able to evaluate my competence.
This also requires that you have the money to pay for it at that moment too right?

In other words - I get 10k options at $1 strike price, in order to exercise within 30 days I need to pay $10,000. Correct?
I'm not familiar with Elixir or Debootstrap (I'm guessing web-oriented)? But, I've had great success with using WSL for C++ oriented projects, building with both g++ & clang. Only issue in that regard I've had is that the emulated syscalls cannot currently enumerate ethernet devices. The calls are implemented, but fail at runtime currently. I've not yet filed a bug report, because I don't know how it should perform.
Of course a patent lawyer is going to talk up their claims as much as possible to get a good deal. And patent law is tilted towards the plaintiff to such an extent that it encourages a shotgun approach in order to get something through that will allow them to seek damages. This is why it's hard for courts to sort out legitimate claimants from non-producing entities that are trying to just make a buck from real companies.

The main difference is NPEs target smaller companies and then talk up their claims in the initial phases, then try to settle out of court as quickly as possible so they don't incur alot of expense and can avoid discovery, which is where their patents may get knocked out completely.
I like this, but I want to follow up by asking what your idea of a "good" answer is, what a "bad" idea is and how you would see through a bullshit answer.
They did you a favor, State Farm sucks at claim payment.

Different insurers have different underwriting models. When I was a dumb kid, Progressive was the best deal, they sucked once I got married.

If you have a good record/credit, you should get Amica, USAA or Erie, period.
one of the sharper people out there.
Expiration of 1970s SciFi technology. I'm for it if only to rule it out. I see no problem in this R&D.
Only Work for People You Believe In
SlateStarCodex's "Considerations On Cost Disease" is a good take https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
The infinite sum makes sense when using the p-adic number
system [1] -- and measuring distance using the p-adic metric -- which forms an ultrametric space [2]. An interesting related concept is the Bruhat–Tits building [3].

For an intro on p-adic numbers, read these two short articles "A first introduction to p-adic numbers" [4] and "A Tutorial on p-adic Arithmetic" [5] or see the short video "Introduction to p-adic Numbers" [6]:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrametric_space

[3] Bruhat–Tits building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_(mathematics)

[4] A first introduction to p-adic numbers http://www.madore.org/~david/math/padics.pdf

[5] A Tutorial on p-adic Arithmetic https://koclab.cs.ucsb.edu/docs/koc/r09.pdf

[6] Introduction to p-adic Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdjYiU6skgE
Don't forget Larry Ellison, the original tech CEO-cum-Bond Villain http://www.josephrosenfeld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/La...
According to the NYT, "SNAP households spent 9.3 percent of their grocery budgets on sweetened beverages. That was slightly higher than the 7.1 percent figure for households that do not receive food stamps."

I mean, soda might be a weird thing for you, but it's clearly something that's a standard part of the American diet. It's a 100 billion dollar industry. I don't really understand how removing soda for poor people would have a substantial impact on obesity.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/well/eat/food-stamp-snap-...

edit

"removing soda for poor people" isn't really even the case. it's just not allowing food stamps to pay for soda. I think, effectively, people will just use cash for that, and not change their habits. So $5 less for gas, or rent, or whatever they might actually use the cash for.
> If there was an idea that could ‘fix’ democracy, it would have been thought-up already.

If everyone accepted this fallacy, nothing would ever get built.
Well, I might be. Everyone has some level of cognitive bias.
Honestly, I think just acknowledging that they are struggling and saying that he wanted to help won Trump a lot of voters. When you feel ignored or unheard by the other party that is enough.
I am using k8s on azure container service. It's good! One thing I am unable to do is re-scale the cluster (add more nodes). They don't allow that somehow.
I tip my Uber drivers. I just give them cash. Uber doesn't know about it unless the drivers report the tips, and I doubt they do.
Yes, you can set it to 0, but they are 100% trying to trick people into not tipping and giving instacart the money. At my neighborhood restaurant they eliminated tips and replaced it with a fixed service fee of 20% they give to the employees. It's common to call such things service fees and to think that goes to the end workers, instead of the corp. It's indefensible to say they didn't mean to trick people into thinking it was a tip for the delivery people.
Why dissipate the residual heat into the environment when you could use it for residential heating and/or heating of green houses. This concept seems to be a design for waste of resources to me.
Trump's Hypocrisy Called to Question
Part of me was hoping to see some sign of hacktivisim, not for any particular political stance, but because most of us probably agree the federal government has been slacking off as far as security goes. An eye-opening event might be beneficial.

"it appeared the domain controller credentials had expired on Monday when offices were closed for the federal Presidents Day holiday"

Oh, well that's not nearly as exciting. Still a dismal sign of the state of "cyber security" though.
True Love Waits

Edit: according to the article :)
I live in New Orleans. My family is Ahmadi. (I don't care for religion particularly). A couple days before the executive orders on immigration, a Muslim guy in a bar down the street from my house drinking from a water bottle (with a trimmed beard, if it matters) was telling his white friends about the mercies of Sharia and how awesome it really was. I interjected and asked him what the fate of my family would be. Without missing a beat he said "Execution, in an Islamic state, if they don't repent or continue to profess their faith in public." I wonder why his outsiderhood hasn't given him any empathy. (Both he and I are Pakistani-American)
The reason you haven't found companies hiring graduates for security is partly because security, like most specializations, generally skews towards more experienced candidates, and partly because it's a relative niche.

I'm happy to help you via email if you'd like to get in touch. Practically speaking, my advice would be to pursue bug bounties, read as much as you can in the field and implement security measures in code to understand them deeply.

Plenty of the large and reputable security firms are in an "always hiring" state, even for graduates.
I think this article takes away from what Susan wrote. Her "harassment" story is nothing like what Susan went through. One is in the workplace involving a direct manager and the other is at an optional party outside of work. Also, how do you expect people to act at drunken parties? Sure, it could be harassment, but to compare that to what Susan went through is disingenuous.
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u(t) is called 60 times per second.
t: elapsed time in seconds.
c: A 1920x1080 canvas.
x: A 2D context for that canvas.
S: Math.sin
C: Math.cos
T: Math.tan
R: Generates rgba-strings, ex.: R(255, 255, 255, 0.5)
Hmm, I used the back button on my phone after submitting a comment and it must have resubmitted the form, and now I can't delete the dupe.
"History is bunk. What difference does it make how many times the ancient Greeks flew their kites?" Henry ford.

I know little of Greek history, what is he referrencing regarding flying kites?
It's also very useful for college students with no cars, that live in off campus apartments with 3-4 people (can split delivery fees, tip, etc).
Here's a secret: most investors lose money.
Paul Krugman rather famously rate about this a couple years ago [1]. Much of the disparity is from an increase in middle aged whites dying from alcohol and similar causes.

[1] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/heartland-of-da...
that is the fun. reminds me of programming on MSDOS.
I'm the opposite - if I can impulsively buy a random snack on an app, I will. In the actual store, I'll feel bad about it during the checkout.
I hope you don't actually mean that you think that most or all left-leaning people believe that. I admit that this would be a much less severe accusation than calling all right-leaning people Nazis, but it would still be nice for people to stop stereotyping other people based on their political beliefs.

I think that the whole "PC" issue is an example of this going both ways. There's certainly a bad kind of insistence on political correctness, which often takes the form of demonizing people who express an unpopular viewpoint or who merely say something that could be construed as expressing an unpopular viewpoint. On the other hand, I think there's just as much rhetoric going around claiming that left-leaning people are horrible for supporting this sort of political correctness without any particular evidence that they do so.