skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are deep cnn models for doing joint recognition detection at around 60fps (at 300x300) at reasonable accuracy 75%.

This is arguably the most expensIve part of the pipeline, but we sHould have atleast two more architectures out by NVDA/AMD before any product comes out.
No, I know what you mean - I'm accounting for that.

Forum history and human behavior on the web is my hobby subject.

In this case I'm not saying it's become smarter or less earth shattering. I'm saying that the average focus has shifted, as a cultural shift in the community which come so here.
Absolutely. Reduce the number of friction points.

"Managing money is easy. Managing investors is hard."
I actually want to know what camera is capturing 80 megapixels at 48 bits per pixel. The IQ180 is 16 bits per pixel. Where's the camera that triples this? Or are we doing Bayer interpolation in a way that requires 48 bits per pixel for some reason? Because there definitely isn't 48 bits of actual signal there.

And yes, I also want to know what turns a 500MB photo into >16GB in memory. That's 32 full-res copies of the photo in memory. Just "a couple layers and a couple undo steps", really?
Lol, tons of people know about this or want this. Unlike food, alcohol and marijuana or flowers are the only local delivery products that have wide enough margins to fund the logistics of that pesky ~$7 fixed labor cost. Fetching a $8 dollar burrito that ends up being $15 is just silly.

Back in the dot com days you would just call up Kozmo (the original Postmates) to deliver you whatever booze you want. Most high volume shops in a major metro area offer delivery. San Francisco has dozens, just yelp it.

On top of that there are ten copycats already, each covering different markets. They all offer the same app experience, they all work similar vendors. The only differentiator is marketing and branding. They're all vying for the same oxygen to burn until they run out of cash. And since the tech is commoditized down to just a few grand to build out, there's no intrinsic value, team value, product value, or any value if they don't make it.

What's been tough has alcohol by mail, which indeed is illegal in many states and is highly legislated. Turns out the USPS as the platform model is only workable for candy in a subscription box or underwear in a subscription box.
I also like http://www.cnx-software.com/ for this, but I don't think there are any ARM boards that approach the power of these (or the previous C27xx) chips.
Frankly you're overstretching. If you've ever driven in India you'd be questioning the very basis of humanity.
I think you are pretending to be obtuse. Wealthy people can afford to lobby congress, poor people cannot. Congress (has a whole) rarely does squat unless they are paid to do so. Most, if not all lobbying is controlled by wealthy people. Not all wealthy people control lobbying efforts.

Therefore, when 90% of the workforce is not needed, people who can afford to lobby congress (wealthy) will assuredly continue to lobby congress to ensure that the laws to deal with that problem don't affect their interests negatively. Paying what is essentially social security for everyone isn't going to be cheap. Paying 150 million people (approx workforce) $1000 a month would cost $1,800,000,000,000 a year, and that probably won't be enough.

This is not limited to the GOP and there is a ton of historical evidence of this. The middle class has been stagnant since Reagan. Globalization, trade agreements, ignoring the minimum wage limits, increasing visa limits, not prosecuting employers who use illegal labor, weakening of unions, not allowing the government to bargain on drugs they purchase through tax dollars, not allowing people to buy drugs from other countries, extending copyright monopoly durations, etc. None of those things help the middle class, they only help the corporations and people who lobbied congress.

Here is a list of the top 20 lobbying groups / people. I cannot see of any (except the AARP) that has citizens interest's in mind when they lobby. I certainly don't see any who would lobby to increase their taxes to support a living wage. These organizations are all controlled by wealthy people.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

In short, wealthy people and organizations lobby congress because they are the only ones who can afford to.
Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?
Lately, I don't feel motivated about anything. Job is okay and I just switched about 8 months back. Work is just not challenging enough. I had to accept job because of good money and my previous job being in danger due to internal org. issues.
I exercise 4 days a week but I still don't see any difference in motivation. I also had my testosterone checked. My GP says its normal.

I wanted a leadership position at my company, but I was hired for a position that has no decision making power at all. Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things.

I thought I would be making life changing decisions after taking this job, but so far that does not seem to be the case.

Should I create artificial challenge and try to get into MIT/Stanford for masters?

I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction.

What shall I do?
Buffett charged no annual fee when he ran his partnerships. He took a 25% profit share, but only after investors earned 4% a year first. Nominally it was a 0/25 deal vs, typical hedge funds 2/20, but the 4% hurdle makes it even better. It was the second best deal in financial management history.

The best deal in history has been Berkshire Hathaway. He charges no fees, zilch, only a nominal salary ($100k iirc). If Warren had carried forward his incrediably investor friendly 0/25 deal he'd have ended up being far richer.
One: Ara is dead. Two: how is the article clickbait?
Sure it does. If someone can't afford the machine necessary to process the images that they got from the camera they spent thousands to rent, the problem isn't actually money. It's that they're an idiot.

You don't buy/rent a camera you can't afford to process images from just like you don't buy a car you can't afford to service and you don't buy a house you can't afford taxes for. Or if you do, I have little to no sympathy.
The lesson I've learned is that this is no longer the world for the open exchange of ideas. Mostly because people are already waiting to subvert your arguments.

This is dealt with by PR, advertising and focus groups.
On the contrary. Maltese is an Arabic language; the only one written in the Latin alphabet. Similar to the relationship between English and the old Germanic languages, most of its vocabulary (about 80%) has been replaced by loanwords (in Maltese, mostly from Italian and English), but the most commonly used words are disproportionately Arabic.

There are a few differences between the Maltese-Arabic and English-Germanic relationships. First, while the Germanic substrate of English is itself a blend of Anglo-Saxon and Nordic languages, the Arabic substrate of Maltese is a pretty well-defined Arabic language/dialect - the now extinct Sicilian Arabic, itself a close relative of Tunisian Arabic. Second, while in English the use of Latinate roots is considered high-status and eloquent, in Maltese a higher proportion of Classical/Quranic Arabic words is considered high-status.
It's how Maltese represents the Arabic ح in the Latin alphabet.
H with stroke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_with_stroke
So how do you get feedback for non-public work? On technical blogs, I always read the comments. Even for obscure/somewhat poorly written articles. Because someone who knows more than the author will sometimes leave feedback which will lead you in a better direction and expose you to more ideas.

And thankfully, technical blog articles don't attract too many comments on average. Quite often I find that a blog article on a technical point actually advances discussion on that idea.

All I would say is to make a honest effort. Try and do a basic rewrite before hitting publish.
Currently, I am using Larder (https://larder.io/), which is a bookmarking tool for developers. It supports categorizing and tagging bookmarks. Categorizing is done by folders. You can make a folder that has child. It will make you easier to organize bookmarks. Beside that, you can search your bookmarked links by tag, title, and URL.

This tool also supports synchronizing your GitHub stars. So, you can track updates from projects that you starred on GitHub. If you want to bookmark something automatically, Larder extension is available for browsers, Android, and API.

I have been using Evernote. I just clip a website or PDF that I want to read later. But, I don't know why I can't use it properly. Like what you said, the problem is me. I haven't used Pinboard before. It seems many people recommend it a lot.
China is developing its own digital currency
As long as their breakfasts abd breakfast pastrys are still tasty, I'm fine with this.
Additional reply because I'm out of the edit window. I wanted to address this one line:

>I guess I'm just sort of disappointed that all my most motivated times seem to have sunk into other activities and now I don't get them to learn on my own. I don't know what to do about it.

What you do is realize that you need to cut back on some of the other activities, even if the are what you are 'supposed' to be doing, and give yourself the time and space you need.

This may mean spending less time with friends. That is OK. Everyone needs alone time to some degree. I personally need a lot of it, and I love my family and friends. Getting my alone time is what allows me to be at my best for when I am with them, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Grad students :). More specifically, a professor with a research grant can afford to fund N grad students where N is inversely proportional to equipment cost.

The complaint is not about adding the capability to all chips. It's about smoothing out the step function between consumer machines and professional workstations.
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[0] http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/05/warren-buffett-partnership/
I don't get this. Is this a hostel/guest-house? What's with the "Digital Nomad" thing, what's special about it?
BlackBerry KEYone is a gorgeous and affordable productivity-focused smartphone
Do you believe the following statements are true?

1) Men & women have differently structured brains.

2) Different brains result in different behaviour.
Expensive compared to what? Since this idea is a little counter-intuitive, can you suggest a search or link?

From this [0] I can only conclude that owners were paying for value and the price did go up over time, as did the price of cotton, but it looks like it was a good deal.

[0] https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php
I don't have my copy handy, but I believe that's actually the second system effect
NYC Couriers Race Through Chinatown and Fidi
The traffic is at least twice as bad as you remember it. In other words, the San Diego you remember living in no longer exists. I'm talking hour long commutes to traverse 6 miles.
Has anyone implemented them in production? I read their paper a while ago, but thought that the dual methods they showed might have practical limitations (like insane cache misses, compared to more standard methods)
> The working class is living better than at any other time in history

On the larger scale of history, yes. I don't think working class people are necessarily doing better than a few decades ago, when they had stronger unions and more power, and before wages stopped rising (which seems likely related to the loss of power).

But an important note, and I don't mean to pick on the parent. In these discussions, the working class is almost always described as "they" and not "we". What do we really know? Input from people with real experience is necessary.
I'm talking about all computer games, so not PC only. I understand where the term "video game" comes from, I was just saying I prefer "computer game", as highlighting that computing plays a role in it, and not limiting it to visual aspects only.
Large companies that lobby congress are controlled wealthy people, are they not?
Satisfaction isn't found in money. Focus on helping others and you will find true joy.
> Panama City, is basically the US. Very modern, safe, and hell they even use the US dollar.

I've spent time in the US, Colombia and Panama City. 'safe' would not be the first word that springs to mind, neither would be very modern. Definitely doable but 'basically the US' is sugarcoating it to a degree that does not match my experience there.
Out of curiosity- any English sources of writing about India you would recommend?
Yes. The last thing the world needs is more half-baked self-promoting drivel.

I love writing. I put more than half of mine in a drawer. A drawer is a wonderful place for of unfinished drafts that aren't ready or aren't working.

I don't know if everyone should write; that feels presumptuous. But if you do, I highly recommend a drawer.
Polio is transmitted fecal to mouth, so proper hygiene is absolutely going to prevent you from getting polio.

As for the effectiveness, it is absolutely must be questioned, and here is a case in point:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/merck-whistleb...
I spoke to some Uber drivers in Johannesburg (also insane murder rate) and they said the same thing - things got dangerous when they started having to carry cash.

Worst thing is they were sold on becoming Uber drivers with the promise that it would be less dangerous because it was cashless...
Sucks to hear, although I am not terribly surprised. What part of town are you in? I used to live in Clairemont, then later in Ramona.
> You aren't getting into an Escalade, but typically a Toyota or Honda.

Keep in mind that popular cars in the US can be luxury cars in Brazil. My Brazilian friends' first reaction when I tell them I have a Honda Civic here is "damn, freaking awesome, you're loaded!"... and then I tell them that's a pretty basic car in America :)
> The assertion is that using monopoly status to do additional work to gimp functionality in one product line and artificially drive up the price of another

1. Are they actually doing that? I'll be honest, I don't know for sure, but I do know that more capacity rarely comes for free. I assume that supporting 256GB of memory efficiently relative to 64GB requires either a faster clock speed or some more pins. Is Intel "gimping" the consumer product or simply not building in the extra capacity?

2. Is it necessarily a bad thing if they are? If consumer demand peaks at, say, 32GB and professional demand reaches, say, 512GB, Intel could develop two entirely different architectures, which seems wasteful and more costly to everyone. They could ship just one chip with professional capacity supported, which drives up consumer costs effectively subsidizing professionals (because professionals are no longer paying the premium for the "pro" chip; they're just buying the consumer one). Or they could ship a consumer chip that doesn't support professional needs and ship a professional chip at a price that makes pros pay for the capacity Intel had to engineer for them.

The last option seems like a good option for everyone except the people who think everyone else should pay a premium for unnecessary pro support so that a few people can get cheaper pro chips.
I have always liked GitHub.

I never liked Uber. Buy a nice four door vechicle, pay for maintenance, wear and tear, and make us money. Excuse me, so many of us have a late model four door vechicle collecting dust---just waiting to "Get our side hussle on,". This company, from the earliest days, just reminded me of the terrible jobs that were created in the last eight years. (Yes--the tech jobs are great, but they will go away eventually.)

AirBnB was cute to begin with, until neighbors decided to open hotels.

I like new technology, and new companies, but treat All employees fairly? And just because you have the money for the best Lawyers/political muscle; try to follow laws that could put the average Joe in jail. I couldn't just decide to start a taxi service, or rent rooms out daily? Just crazy?

I'm all for change, but these companies are exploiting for essentially a small group of people. Wait until all the bugs are worked out if their systems--bye, bye Mr.Imbeingpaidwelltoprogram. "Oh--we will always have a spot for you, but at a minimum wage.
Just skimmed quickly and they do not seem so expensive... Compared to the competition.

Months ago I wanted to leave London and spend a year in accommodations like this, with "like minded" remote workers. There are plenty in Europe and they are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. The average from what I recall is about €2500/month, to live (rent) in the country somewhere, probably with shitty internet. But "like minded people".

Are all freelancers making €10k a month? I have an average salary (compared to my freelancing peers) because I work 4h/day and I don't know who can afford such prices, honestly.

I'd understand those prices in major cities, not in the middle of nowhere.
A valid point, though there might be others. Texturising additives which keep and store well (almonds, almond-meal, or almond paste might, say, keep longer and better than chicken, with less refrigeration) could also be considerations.

It's also possible that almonds rejected from other uses (for cosmetic reasons, small fragments) might be less expensive than whole, high-grade consumer almonds.
Is bartering illegal? Maybe a mix of couchsurfing and helpx?
Are you actually a legal non-profit entity?
I have pondered this question for a while too.

Obviously it is easier for YC to manage its founders and investments if they all embrace a common legal framework.
Being a YC company does not necessarily mean your operations are based in the US, only that you incorporate there.

To respond to some of your questions:

> The president has undermined the rule of law....

My understanding is that the actions of the president or any other official can be successfully challenged in court. He doesn't have the last word

> Immigration policy - you would find it increasingly difficult to recruit foreign staff and could be stigmatised for hiring from outside the US

Not an issue if you operate outside the US. If you operate within the US, you deal with them the same way as your peers.

> Pressure to be an 'all American company' ...

Same answer as stated above

> Risk of war with the world

Nobody is going to war anytime soon.
Trump is a fan of theatrics. As recent events have shown, more mature counsel will have its say.

But on a related note, I have always wondered - how do taxes work for YC companies incorporated in the US with operations abroad? Do they pay taxes both countries? This must impact their profitability and chances for survival in their growth stage
At 50% occupation, alleged 8 beds, and 28/bed=224/day (underestimating, as the single private beds are more expensive). 15days/month is €3360 per month, double that at full occupation. Those numbers might sound reasonable in the US, but in southern Spain that's about 3x the average income.
Alcohol laws vary wildly between states and counties. Some places have strange laws like you can't buy booze between certain times of day or on weekends and so on. Some force bars and establishment which serve alcohol to have more than half of their profits come from non-alcohol items. There are places which are "dry" (more than half the states allow localities to have those laws). Some tax it differently and so on.

Sounds like overcoming the regulatory hurdle here without doing illegal things will be hard part of the business.

Notice just the summary of laws:

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

Now think about the counties and cities having different laws as well.
The title was editorialized. The word "every" was added to the title of the article.
Related, from Mozilla:

* The end of SHA-1 on the Public Web

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/02/23/the-end-of-sha-...

As announced last fall, we’ve been disabling SHA-1 for increasing numbers of Firefox users since the release of Firefox 51 using a gradual phase-in technique. Tomorrow [Feb 24th], this deprecation policy will reach all Firefox users. It is enabled by default in Firefox 52.
Insufficiently Polymorphic
Voynich Manuscript – World’s Most Mysterious Book
I think the distinction lies in always building production ready code.

You can build things to try out and experiment different modes of play or modes of rendering but the code you write should always be production ready. No taking shortcuts because "it's just a prototype".
Use your favorite password manager and create your passwords using https://www.eff.org/dice
The easiest way to make big changes is to make a lot of small changes. Try to focus on small improvements you can make and work towards them. Don't get frustrated if progress is slower than you expect.
> This is all aside from your argument being fundamentally weak, however ("you can't criticize anything unless i say so and contributed by meeting this arbitrary standards. i mean, didn't do anything either, i just get to make up the rules you abide by!!")

Are we both reading the same GP comment? It reads as "If he took this stuff seriously, he wouldn't have waited 12 years since SHA-1 was broken to even start considering any changes.".
Hello,
Thank you for the comment. I have tried being altruistic,but I ended up on the receiving end. I now presume that everyone is selfish and will not think for a second they get better deal.

Hunt or be hunted - Frank Underwood
Wheat/whole grain bread always tasted like mud to me, with an unappealing rough distracting texture. Never really got how there was enough demand for it to be produced even 1/3 as much as white wonderbread-type bread, which has always seemed perfect to me.
This article predates the multiple debunkings of this TED Talk nonsense. One example:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

You can find more.
Thank you for clarifying. That wasn't apparent from your earlier comments. I know for me personally, when someone refers to "computer games", I think specifically of PC games, not other form factors.
Do you work as a consultant? Or freelancer?
Antibiotics can be used in poultry feed, but must be phased out prior to marketing such that there are no detectable levels in the meat.

This addresses concerns over antibiotics in the consumed product, but not the problems of antibiotic resistance promoted through use in animal feed, which really must stop.

https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378100.h...
I started a side project in 2013 to satisfy that constant urge to create. Year after year in part time growing the infrastructure, app ecosystem, and user base. Just completed launching a Twitter Event Recommendation Service Bot. The marketing and negotiation skills I learned in my side job helped me in my day job making me more successful in both.
When I feel not motivated or tired, I play video-games specifically the Mass Effect series because it is Leadership training in a nutshell.
They eat their microwave dinners at home instead :P
There are also temporary traffic lights added and removed during road works.

There are also pranksters that turn traffic lights by 90° to make them face the wrong direction.

Those are hard to map.
If you get in to MIT/Stanford it'll be fun. I did a masters, when I had a dead-end job. It was exciting and opened doors.