skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example seems a little contrived. Obviously the formula for Coca Cola isn't the best mode for a vacuum cleaner.

My point was that if their trade secret is also the best mode for the patent, then seemingly that puts them at risk for violating the best mode requirement and having their patents revoked, depending on when they were filed.
Ruby has had keyword arguments for a while now: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/ruby-2-keyword-arguments
Yes, in that case S is {}. {} ∈ P(A) but is not in the image of e.
The other thing is that they are a decade behind AWS is that stuff they don't have... and AWS has been reinvesting all it's profits in that area. That's hard to catch up on.
Suppose a 10 m/s gust of solar-wind accelerates a space-balloon from 0 m/s to 10 m/s. And suppose I want to further accelerate the balloon from 10 m/s to 20 m/s.

A second gust at 10 m/s is NOT enough to further accelerate the balloon to 20 m/s. Because the wind and the balloon are now travelling at the same speed. It follows intuitively that the second gust should contain more kinetic energy than the first gust.
You may think that, but it appears the voters are perfectly happy to hedge their bets with the GOP in the voting booth.
You worry about that. I'll worry about someone growing a fungus or microbe strain to wipe out crops, livestock, or people.
Is now really any different than the last 25 years?
I disagree. It depends how you define "force". Let's stipulate that most people don't have the resources to simply walk away from a job providing them with their income and with health insurance.

Given that, here's selected text from the bill and its references (emphasis in capitals mine):

"""
(HR. 1313, 2017) §1(3) in enacting the [ACA], Congress intended that employers would be permitted to implement health promotion and prevention programs that provide...SURCHARGES, PENALTIES, OR OTHER INDUCEMENTS...including rewards of up to 50 percent off of [sic] insurance premiums for employees participating...
"""

"""
§3(a)(1)(B) ...any reward provided or offered by [such program] shall be less than or equal to the maximum reward amounts provided for by section 2705(j)(3)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–4(j)(3)(A))
"""

Here's that section from the referenced law:

"""
42 U.S.C. 300gg–4(j)(3)(A): [T]he reward for the wellness program...that requires satisfaction of a standard related to a health status factor...shall not exceed 30 PERCENT OF THE COST OF THE COVERAGE in which an employee or individual and any dependents are enrolled. ...[T]he cost of coverage shall be determined based on the total amount of EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS for the benefit package under which the ...employee and any dependents are...receiving coverage. A REWARD MAY BE IN THE FORM OF...THE ABSENCE OF A SURCHARGE...or the value of a benefit that would otherwise not be provided under the plan. [Labor, HHS, and Treasury] may increase the reward available...up to 50 percent of the cost of coverage [at their option].
"""

Now back to the bill:

"""
(HR. 1313, 2017) §3(b) ...[T]he collection of information about the manifested disease or disorder of a family member SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED AN UNLAWFUL ACQUISITION OF GENETIC INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER...and shall not violate title I or title 16 II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–233).
"""

The gist is this: Employers can "offer" programs with a "reward" for participating that is "you won't get a 30 percent surcharge" on the full bill, including both employer and employee costs, including costs for your entire family (i.e., likely a much higher amount than the employee's premium contribution). For the employee to "voluntarily" participate, the employer can require genetic testing, even if such testing is "with respect to" another family member -- and such testing is deemed by this law to expressly not be a violation of protections under PL 110-233. Oh, and by the way, the government can simply declare at any time that the surcharge rises to 50% from 30%.
As a user this frustrates me no end.

I want my apps to be sandboxed to protect my computer. I want my apps to all be in a central repository that automates a bunch of painful processes (buying, updating, etc).

But the Mac App Store is a dumpster fire at the moment. Its impossible to find the thing you want, its hard for developers to comply. Its the worst possible outcome of the store concept.

Apple really needs to lift its game.
I've been panning gold for two summers. So far I have about 0.03 oz ($36). I hope to do better.
> they are protected in your possession. If you turn over all your papers to a third-party, though, that changes things

I believe that interpretation is standard for U.S. courts. However, it's not in the wording itself.

(Courts of course, must interpret the law beyond the wording; I fully support that. The law is not an algorithm, and also someone must apply the law to individual situations. Otherwise the First Amendment, for example, would protect slander, threats, shouting fire in a crowded theater, etc.)

I don't like that particular interpretation. It implies the 4th Amendment applies only in your windowless basement, with no communication in or out. That isn't realistic, and is especially unrealistic in the age of the Internet.
Google’s clever tool for emergency services is now saving lives
Really excited about this acquisition! Might open new avenues for the data science community.
Why bother? What's a march going to accomplish? If we were worried about this stuff, we should have spoken up in November, but we didn't. We voted for the GOP to have strong control of both houses of Congress. All a march does is show that there's an angry minority of voters who lost the election. The GOP politicians in Congress know that these disgruntled people are not the ones who voted for them, so they really don't care about your opinions.

And as for removing both Dems and Reps, how do you proposed to do that? They, together, control the whole government.
How about the simplest and probably truest answer: all of them
The Mac App Store provides real benefits: reduced app permissions, effective malware screening, improved auto-update, and easy uninstallation.

I do see that it's incompatible with many OS augmentation programs, but for the App Store to reduce security would be pyrrhic. What we need is a user-granted sandbox opt-out, so that I can unencumber only programs I believe need it and won't abuse it, without taking the App Store's benefits from those programs.
given a lot of auto-play video in my own feed, I'm presuming it's not all actually 'watched'. if they'd give a separate number on videos 'listened' to (where I actually unmute the audio), I'd take that number more seriously.
Facebook has over a billion daily active users, so 100 million hours divided over 1 billion users is 0.1 hours/user which is 6 minutes per user. Seems reasonable. Of course, there are lots of people who don't watch any videos and on the flip side there are a lot of people who watch a lot of videos on facebook. Edit : as pointed out below, the autoplaying videos might skew the numbers quite a bit.
This looks great! However, I find the pricing odd. Is this really the kind of thing someone is going to pay monthly for, as in see consistent usage? I think a more appropriate pricing structure would be either pay per user or pay for credits, which could then be used.
Its like Rock, Paper, Scissors. One beats the other all the time. Its like a loop of Programming languages.

A programmer chooses a languages which is convenient for the task at hand. Ruby/Rails are amazing to lift off projects in hours.
What has happened is that a clickbait inflammatory article was written. GINA already had an exception for wellness programs, this bill appears to just change the incentives allowed.
The figures you link to show very little to no change in staffing proportions between 1999 and 2009. Professionally qualified clinical staff sum to 52% in both years, increasing exactly in line with total NHS employment.

Figures I found for 1997 and 2007 are similar, showing proportions of clinical staff at 49% and 51% respectively. http://content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB00829/nhs-staf-19...

And medical school intake has risen from 3,749 in 1997/98 to 6,262 in 2012/13 - a rise of 67.0 per cent. http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs

It's still not enough - Britain spends maybe 2% GDP less on healthcare than other rich European countries. But at the end of Labour's time in power, there were 1/3rd more doctors and nurses employed by the NHS. The funding increase helped enormously.

Edit. But yes, the massive IT projects in the NHS were a hugely wasteful like all massive government IT projects. The approach of the Government Digital Service seems to be a huge improvement.
This is an overwrought and inflammatory headline. Even snopes says it's false:
http://www.snopes.com/genetic-testing-bill/
Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Hey I'm the person who raised the question (and I work on Rust, mainly on the trait system discussed in this post).

I agree with the author that while this is interesting, for users it doesn't matter much. In particular, the folks (with respect) pontificating about whether this is a good or bad thing are quite exagerating its consequences. In practice, you can neither conveniently use this property for metaprogramming, nor will you ever get a nonterminal typechecking (not only is there a recursion limit, it is extremely unlikely you will write the kinds of impls that hit that limit except in extreme typelevel programming like documented here).

The most interesting thing is that the two examples we have now of turing completeness both use only features available in Haskell without making typechecking undecidable. The reason our system is Turing complete is that we allow certain impls that Haskell wouldn't, which are in practice very useful.

For example, we have an impl of "ToString for T where T: Display" (in Haskellese "instance Display a => ToString a"); that is, anything that can be pretty printed also has a to_string method. This would be disallowed without the -XUndecidableInstances flag in Haskell. However, if your type can't be pretty printed, you can separately add a ToString impl for it (even with undecidable instances, Haskell wouldn't consider this coherent because Haskell coherence ignores constraints).

If you're interested, the exact sorts of impls we allow that Haskell wouldn't are covered by what's called the "Paterson condition" in Haskell docs.
Thanks!
I didn't know that something like that exists.
Stick to your original point.

this is in regards to Google.

" the more likely reason is that women are being filtered out of the pipeline by sexism, not some mysterious "maybe they just don't want to" handwaving."

So you're alleging that Google is judging women more harshly than men, "at all phases of hiring".

Provide a source for THAT, please.
Lstm implementation explained
I mean... they technically are. Namespaces are just logical. Think of Elixir namespaces. They're implemented as weird Erlang module names via irregular atom-literals. Or languages like Objective-C which traditionally had no namespaces, and thus resulted in conventional patterns like everything in the original NextStep frameworks being prefixed with `NS`.

But even looking straight at Erlang modules... there's not a tremendous amount of difference between writing or calling `lists:map(Function, List).` and `lists_map(Function, List)`, and if you want to leverage something like generics/traits/protocols, then you'd just have `map(Function, Datatype)` and dispatch the right version of `map/2` by inspecting `Datatype` to allow you to do away entirely with namespacing of any kind.

The only other distinction that would be provided here with no modules is the lack of ability to have "private" functions. Unless that would be implemented with the "metadata" he talks about... in which case... how's that different than having to explicitly "export" a function to make it be "public"?

I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm not seeing what the insight is supposedly highlighted by Joe here?
I'm sorry to be the voice of gloom and doom, but this was the money quote for me: "Thirty feet is the cutoff for fatality in a fall. That is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die"
Holy crap, only thirty feet? We are all going to die.
Used to be the same. Given the choice I would prefer an app from the AppStore. I know that I can click and use it across my macs. I don't have to try and figure out what the licensing terms are.

I did feel a little guilty that the dev was losing 30% but I did it anyway.

Now. With many apps I use shifting out of the App Store, it's a liability and I think twice before buying on the AppStore if I think I may be stuck on an older version after the developers shift to direct purchase.
I definitely don't remember all of the cards loading in ~250ms. Maybe like 7 seconds [1]?

Either way, failing to hit $1bn doesnt sound like much of a failure where I live outside the Valley. $400 some million is pretty respectable.

[1]: https://blog.fogcreek.com/we-spent-a-week-making-trello-boar...
Or a forceful enema.
I think C/C++ #ifdefs could qualify as a meta-meta-language. I've certainly found that there are situations where static analysis can't comprehend C++ without pre-compilation...
I turn email grouping off so 50 emails per page is just that. However, with email grouping and a 100 emails per page I could see it ballooning to 1GB depending on the content.

I just tried Edge and with 50 emails per page I'm seeing 398MB used by that process. Setting it to 100 emails increases it to 405MB.
UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
In the near future, Rust's trait system literally will be a logic language similar to Prolog that runs at compile time. We walk the AST and generate statements to prove. This is expected to be easier to reason about, to be easier to extend, and to have shorter compile times - for essentially the reason you cite. Its even given us some (as yet unexplored) ideas for new extensions.
Self-Defense, Hackback Bill (Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act)
Whenever I get a new account I set it up to forward to my main account and setup my main account so it can properly send as that account. This way I only ever need one account open.
There's some big changes coming to Presumi, so I finally found the time to sit down and write about everything that's happened so far.

It's a reflection on starting my first startup, the reason we're pivoting and all the shit that happens along a typical founder's journey.

I just wanted to post this here in the hopes that you could learn something from what I went through. Let me know if you do :)
18 tabs spread over two browsers is a minimal load on almost any machine.
Thanks, now it clicked. I misinterpreted the image as the image of x instead of as the image of e. And then did something weired that now makes no longer any sense at all.
It's not like government mandated insurance isn't going to demand this at one point anyway. Health care should take genetic factors into account for health care optimization; If it doesn't, it's probably not the best health care you could get.
> One of the most corrupt administrations in history took control of the Oval Office

Facts or GTFO
Another commenter mentioned that much of the code was taken from a tutorial [0], so it might be worth checking that out :) It goes step by step with commented code and explanations.

[0] https://pythonspot.com/personal-assistant-jarvis-in-python/
The California DMV doesn't do any testing, all the companies with a testing permit in California self-report.

I'm not sure how one would would even go about independent testing, now or ever. Gill Pratt, head of Toyota's SV research lab points out that to have statistically meaningful data about the safety of an autonomous vehicle, you'd need to do about 8.5 billion miles of real world testing on public roads. Of course, by the time one gets to the 8 billionth mile of testing, the early data will be irrelevant because whatever autonomous OS is being tested will have undergone considerable maturation and development in that time frame. I doubt there will ever be a huge amount of 3rd party auditing.

“You can apply for a permit to deploy when… you as a manufacturer believe the vehicles are ready to go,” says Bernard Soriano, Deputy Director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). “The traditional system of not wanting to be sued crazy controls when manufacturers will do this.”[1]

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...
Insurance doesn't need to know anything about the person covered. Doctors are the ones who provide healthcare.
It's not as if a patent will contain the full implementation details and of course corporations will use whatever tools we give them to protect their business interests and if that means leaving out a bunch of numbers from a patent application if the application will stand on it's own merits then you will see them do so.

Patent law is not always the most intuitive thing and it works in ways that tech people usually do not readily comprehend because to them many things are 'obvious' that are not obvious to a patent examiner or someone 'skilled in the art'.

And many times the software people are right (especially when it comes to software), and just as many times they are wrong or simply confused by the jargon surrounding patents.

The 'best mode' is not a requirement for a patent at all, you either have something patentable, or you do not. If it stands the test of time (other paying their license fees, you winning court cases against parties infringing) then it was a strong patent. If you come up with a better mode later on that's fine and need not be disclosed.

Whether or not a patent was the very best patent that you could have taken out is - as far as I know - not of any material impact to your chances of winning such cases.

But what I do know is this: in some places breaking NDA's and spreading trade secrets around is a very dumb thing to do so if Google can make that claim stick the other party has a serious extra problem.

The patents will be dealt with on their own, regardless of any 'modes'.

Ideally this should all be disclosed, including future improvements but it's been a long time since patents were used for their original intended purpose anyway, these days it is probably best to think of them as weaponized IP.
Back in the day I used Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition My Font Tool to create a font from my handwriting. I couldn't find a link to download it from Microsoft these days but some of the semi-sketchy download sites claim to have it.

Internet Archive to the rescue: http://web.archive.org/web/20051223202032/http://www.microso...
“Tech interviews have undergone some massive difficulty inflation since the 60s”
That's too granular, as others have pointed out. It will lead to too many prompts.

Access /foo?

Access /bar?

Access /baz?

But you have the seed of a great idea, which is that the app developer should explicitly request permission, so that they can request it once in a way that covers all the folders they need, rather than one by one. Like:

if requestAccess("~/Documents") == ALLOWED {

// Do the work.

} else {

print "Sorry, the app needs access to your documents"

}

The key thing is that all apps start with zero permissions, and escalate their access only when needed, rather than starting with full permissions, as happens today, which is insecure.
There is an obvious difference between your doctor using genetics for medicine and your insurance company using genetics to set premiums.
Strictly answering the question posed: O(100M) USD. (evidence: all the "first engineers" at AmaGooFaceSoftFlix).

If you are above average but not super smart, willing to put in hard work and have normal interpersonal skills (i.e. not being a total jerk, know how to talk to groups, know how to write effectively etc), here is how you can be a millionaire in 10 years:

1 year: Practice super hard for tech interviews. They are notoriously difficult, but all you need is good understanding of the best reference book for {Algorithms, Data structures, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Databases}; which is basically what they teach you in undergrad CS. Online, you will find plenty of "how to crack google interview" links. Then apply to a few small companies as "warmup exercise". Finally, apply to all the big names AmaGooFaceSoftFlix in high-salary area (SV, Seattle, NYC) and get in one of them.

next 9 years:

1. Give your best in the first 3-4 years. If your group is bad (mainly due to bad manager), suck it up - you can easily switch teams in most big companies within 18-24 months.

2. Aim for promotion every couple of years. Find senior people who are friendly, make friends with them (plenty of opportunities to hang out socially in your early years), ask them career advice from time to time etc. With this strategy, you will be E5 in FB or Senior S/W Engg in Google (or equivalent) in ~4-5 years. This level pays ~250-300K in Salary + Bonus + Stocks. Previous 2 levels should pay 150-170K and 200-230K.

3. Don't get daunted by "high cost of living" memes. If you are at a big company on a good trajectory, you can easily afford it in SV/Seattle/NYC.

4. Out of your total earnings, allocate 25-30% for taxes, 30-35% for living expenses, rest for savings (preferably 401K, Roth IRA via backdoors etc) in low cost index funds.

5. Beyond a certain level, either you will need a bit of interpersonal (political?) skills or super smart chops in some specific area to grow further. But decent knowledge of some stack plus hard work can get you to next level within next 2-3 years, at which point it starts paying really well - >400K, bulk of which is from stock grants.

After 10 years, your savings will nicely grow nicely close to 1M USD. If you have have purchased house, your home equity may replace some of the liquid net worth.

Disclaimers:

1. I assume ability to work in the US

2. I am not counting for outliers in either direction (some folks become director+ in 10 years, some folks languish).

3. I am basing this on my own experience and that of many of my friends. Again, we were lucky to work during a period of tech boom, cheap money, amazing stock rally etc etc. Who know what next 10 years will be.... but again, life is not that fragile either.

4. IANAL, IANACPA, yada yada...
>EM drive was just a recent example of my point - that people touting a little bit of science have been wrong to declare something impossible many times.

Your example busts your point wide open!