skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> provided by the supermarkets themselves?

What service do supermarkets provide themselves? I think it's debatable. Safeway in CA had delivery, and using it was a guaranteed way to get bruised, nearly un-sellable produce. Safeway must have told its pickers to pick the fruit and vegetables that were about to expire... and the same for milk, cheese, or any limited shelf-life item.

Instacart has only the incentive of pleasing the customer. I've had zero issues with suboptimal produce being picked by Instacart shoppers.

So I'd argue that whatever supermarkets need as a core competency to compete in the existing (pre-Instacart) market, providing high quality delivery and e-commerce experiences are not part of that.

I think supermarkets are essentially market makers for household goods, produce, etc. They must understand demand in order to keep the right items in stock.

Beyond that, they seem to flounder between providing super-low margins (and the corresponding slow checkout lanes) or a more premium expeirence with higher markup and other entertainment features (music, oyster bars, etc.)

In the cities I've lived in, all of the in-house delivery options had significantly constrained delivery options.
Are cheap flights to Des Moines available? You'd probably want to hold it someplace with a reasonably low-cost venues but still accessible via low-cost carriers from many cities.

Looking at https://www.southwest.com/flight/routemap_dyn.html and my memory of cities convention venues, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Nashville seem like good options
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Well, for blind users, an audio book would suffice. For blind + deaf, braille would be the only option, and if a library couldn't provide that option, there would need to be a resolution.

In most cases, the resolution is to provide the material in the format required to the user. This is usually a trivial matter as books can be ordered in braille fairly easily.

The university decided that making their content available to all users was too difficult, so their resolution is to make it available to no one. A library could do the same and that resolution would be legal. It's just stupid. Which is why people are saying what the university is doing is stupid.
What happened to TLS 1.3 which was supposed to land in Firefox 52? (At least according to https://threatpost.com/mozilla-turning-tls-1-3-on-by-default...)

Not that I'm ungrateful; Firefox is my preferred browser.
WF is a terrible example because organic, vegan, sustainable are now basically mainstream. I can go to almost any medium town in Texas and find a natural food store to make hummus from scratch. WF has to up the ante by doing more local, exclusive, seasonable, sustainable and experimental/incubator products to differentiate from traditional mainstream grocers and also competitors like Trader Joe's.

http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-biggest-problem-2...

But the bigger issue with Instacart / Google Shopping Express is they're effectively value-add middlemen whom can be cut-out, undercut, gamed and so on. WalMart, Safeway/Vons, Amazon, Costco have the muscle ( distribution and capital) to squash them like Mr. Wonderful's proverbial cockroaches.
A faster, well engineered, drop in replacement for Cassandra is a pretty competitive niche in of itself, don't you think?
Sammy and Qualcomm are big players yes I was just speaking regarding North American mindshare which is a misgiving. Though there is something to be said about the absolutely stellar single threaded perf of the Apple designs. Not to mention their GPUs
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It can help more than superficially, it can become a starting point for humans to go and refine classification into a controlled taxonomy.

The Google implementation can also detect when different people are speaking which is useful - though it takes someone to tag who is who.

As I mentioned in another post, it can also highlight where things are happening in a video - for instance a 2hr video where a scene suddenly appears. Like in a nature video rushes where an animal appears for only a few seconds.

Other types of video analysis can also detect problems in the video/audio, such as dropped frames, noise or colour gamut issues.
It's not simple, nor does "no substitutions" solve the problem.

The Amazon Fresh model is far superior. If the item is out of stock, it shows out of stock.

People will put up with Instacart until there is better solution—any really—because Instacart's solution is terrible.
you can also consider cross compiling.
We have ot agreed on many a topic... but I just want to say; I love you and keep doing what you're doing (PROVIDED youre not perpetuating the Deep State) - but yeah, youre sound and I will still keep calling you 'Patrick'
I guess but I don't really know. Lots of people have Cassandra in production. I suppose there is a certain segment of that market that needs a super high performance version, but is it really that big?
> I'll need to do further study at $300K/year to decide if the UCI should allow that bike or not

The UCI bike regulations are relatively straightforward, albeit somewhat eccentric. They're based on the principles of the Lugano Charter of 1996. This charter was created largely in response to the arms race between Obree and Boardman, which led to extreme and arguably dangerous riding positions. The charter sought to limit extreme bicycle designs and riding positions, whilst still allowing for safe and useful innovation.

http://oldsite.uci.ch/imgarchive/Road/Equipment/The%20Lugano...

We can see the impact of these regulations today. The Cervelo S5 is widely regarded to be the fastest UCI-legal road bike. It is a phenomenal work of engineering, but still broadly resembles the kind of bicycle that you or I might ride around town. By contrast, a high-end triathlon bicycle, unencumbered by UCI regulations, barely resembles a bicycle at all.

The UCI regulations are a long way from perfect, but few cyclists would welcome a complete technological free-for-all.

https://www.cervelo.com/en/road/s-series/s5

http://www.diamondback.com/shop/andean
Is [t]here a place to discuss why the “Nevertheless, She Coded” posts[1] got flag-bombed? They seemed on-topic to me. Were they off-topic?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821563

EDIT: Oops, it’s since been un-flagged. Nevermind!
Not true. US citizens may criticize the US government, but it is illegal for work visa holders (such as H1B holders) to protest or criticize the US government.

Thus, an H1B holder in the US may need to remove from Facebook any friends who become protestors in case they are asked to hand over their phone at a border crossing.

This represents a material loss to Americans in the Facebook context.
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I never said it was for everyone but since you mentioned it, public transport where I live very rarely smells but I will agree that it can get too cold under some of the air con vents and having visited New York recently (I'm assuming you're American, apologies if you aren't) I totally understand not wanting to partake in the stank lottery.

Also, you don't have a pair of headphones? :P
Can you clone a bitbucket repo, or only GitHub?
We don't use it for any production services, but for internal use it's been pretty darn solid. Really fast too, we benchmarked 80k/sec/node inserts on EC2.
I have seen it detect that a car is drifting..
Have you thought about freelancing?
To put it lightly, the Amara platform needs work. If you try to sign in with both Google and Facebook and the same e-mail address, you end up creating two separate accounts that are impossible to link/merge. Never mind that people have multiple email addresses and phone numbers and YouTube accounts in real life.

If it has existed for years, why wasn't it used to save the UC Berkeley library videos?

I'm thinking more of a Google Docs style interface, where you can make a lightweight edit (only one or two lines of captions) and someone else can concurrently time and edit other lines.
I've hired many people, and I don't know anyone that's ever looked at either kaggle, or stack overflow, or github commits for anything. I've seen them on resumes before, but only from very junior people, and typically from people outside of the US.

Quite frankly it's a rather bullshit signal, since it's presence only tells you that the person spends all their free time on the computer. Maybe the know something, but a traditional interview will tell you that and more.
Potatoes, especially sweet potatoes have been cultivated at high altitude for centuries in South America. You are probably right about -60C being too low, but if they provide some shelter potatoes could handle very low overnight temperatures without needing the amount of climate control that other crops would need. Which is one reason why they are looking at this crop.
>Here's the rootkits track from Black Hat 2008 --- keep in mind that this is almost a decade old and that it's public work

So, yeah, we're fucked, yes?
You can clone anything.
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> depending on whether there's water available on Mars

Actually, we've recently confirmed that there are at least five million cubic kilometers of water ice on Mars ...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars#Present_water_ic...
No modern CPUs without huge government programmes fifty years ago. Similarly for communications and very much so for aerospace; cheap and private now, evolved from expensive and social back then.
Does anyone know where I can find the best summary/analysis of the CIA leaks?

Is there someone I can follow on Twitter that's doing great analysis?
I always thought that Javascript kind of is modern Lisp, apart from all the parens. Radical freedom means everybody implements their own classes, promises, all kind of stuff that is out of the box in other languages — which makes us happy because we can play with it, but then makes everybody unhappy when we try to bring our toys together. And when somebody gets their way in deciding what is the _right_way_ to play, all the rest of us get even more unhappy.
Perhaps this really shows the inherent problems in the assumption that human rights are contingent on citizenship.
Or the good old self-referential aptitude test. http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/math-horizons/self-refe...
An order of magnitude faster Cassandra with no GC pauses (because it's C++). It's a literal drop in replacement. Even nodetool is compatible.
Their "rivalry" reminds me of the Canon/Nikkon co-existence model. Where they competed but in slightly different market segments. One would have lenses for x-type of photography, while the other had them for y-type photography. Or one would have great sensor in some dimension (color vs bleed) or flash system, etc. And they both co-exist without annihilating the other one -although Nikkon seems to have made some poor decisions of late (and nixed one of their most anticipated products due to costs and ongoing product issues)
US intel, law enforcement aware of CIA breach since late last year
Celsius is equally arbitrary to Fahrenheit.

No, Martians measure in Nano Yocto Planck Degrees above Absolute Zero, I hereby dub that unit the Plancktigrade.
Your comments in this thread have broken the site guidelines which ask you not to do classic flamewars "unless you have something genuinely new to say". This isn't new—it's a tedious trope we've all heard a zillion times and nothing is to be gained by repeating it. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821991 and marked it off-topic.
soheil heard, and your request was granted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824445).
Absolutely!

It's really easy to implement. Expect it before Saturday.
Title checks out.

> md5sum md5.gif
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Name the groups?
The more likely it is that your target will discover someone compromised them, yes. But finding a DLL injection exploit only says "hacked by someone", whereas finding a microcode-level rootkit in the CPU pretty much says "hacked by a state actor". Which, sometimes is what you want to say (see e.g. Stuxnet), but often not. If you know the first has a 99% chance of going undetected, and the second a 99.9% chance, do you always want to risk the one that pretty much acts like a calling card?
> Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) had arrived on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2017 to debate the confirmation of attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions.

Feb 8, 2017 was a Wednesday, not a Tuesday.
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Sure it would.

If Intel had transitioned their processor line to IA64, without AMD to defy their roadmap, do you really believe consumer desktops would magically start using other vendor processors?

> AMD went to Microsoft, found out what they wanted from a 64-bit chip, and built that.

Because they still had the cross-license deal with Intel that allowed them to legally build x86 clones.

No x86 licenses, no x64.
Not sure what you're saying. Parking spots being taken by public transport? Lack of parking spots is usually exactly what drives demand for more public transport.
Gail.com already has a large free pool of constant visitors through misspelling gmail.com.

This pool is much more diverse than through targeted marketing, etc.

The hostmaster could renovate and display, for example, an unknown, but horrible, misjustice going on with the world. Added with some instructions on how to help raise awareness and stop this misjustice and you have a more productive and helpful webpage, to society.

The hard part in raising awareness is getting people to see and acknowledge your message, with gail.com this is already taken care of.
Last I heard, the jury was still out on costs of obesity care vs old age care. Anyone have an update?
I like ScyllaDb. But I am not sure, why does it need to run on XFS only ?
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I used Antlr v3 to create a NLP parser for calendar events for iOS and Android. It took longer than expected. iOS + C runtime was opaque, so had to write a tool for debugging. Android + Java runtime overran memory, so had to break into separate grammars. Of course, NLP is not a natural fit. Don't know what problems are fixed by v4.

> The most obvious is the lack of recursion: you can’t find a (regular) expression inside another one ...

PCRE has some recursion. Here is an example for parsing anything between { }, with counting of inner brackets:

'(?>\{(?:[^{}]|(?R))\})|\w+'

A C++11 constexpr can make hand coded parsers a lot more readible, allowing token names in case statements. For example , search on "str2int" in the following island parser: https://github.com/musesum/par
I wouldn't.

Enterprise companies care about performance, sure. But far, far less than they care about being on a supported platform. DataStax has done the hard yards over the years to prove themselves capable of supporting Cassandra. SycllaDB has no street cred at all.

So SycllaDB might make some inroads in performance critical startups and web companies. But that is likely to be about it.
'globox nailed it upthread.
Emissions of CO2 on its own does not necessarily imply that there is a carbon footprint.

Besides the carbon footprint of transporting food, the food we consume is carbon neutral since the carbon in the food comes from the atmosphere. Therefore the CO2 gas we expel is mostly carbon neutral.

Cars are a different story since their carbon originates from ancient reserves(oil and coal) that has long since been removed from the carbon cycle. This carbon is now reintroduced to the carbon cycle, thus leading to a positive carbon footprint.

Put differently, if our food we eat consisted of carbon extracted from oil or coal, then we would be adding CO2 to the current carbon cycle, thus leading to a positive carbon footprint. However this is not true.
It's not intrinsically the domain name, it's the uniqueness of how it gets visitors, and the diversity of said pool.
To those who might be under the impression that recursion is not all that useful in the practice of commercial software development (as opposed to a purely academic interest or as a method of solving logical puzzles) I would point out the fact that recursion is the only way to emulate iteration in functional languages and, as such, it finds extensive use in the C++ template language as well as XSLT - two most used pure functional programming languages today.
I would be interested to know more about this, particularly the database and what you plan to do with it in the future (I am thinking the license on the GitHub project is obviously restrictive for a purpose at the moment).
Sam's club has cashierless payment https://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageNa...
YMMV, but "TWiki is the most popular wiki used behind corporate firewall; it gets downloaded 3,000 times a month and is in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies." --- It's free... http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/TWiki
I would second this. In my dating life I was with many partners. Sex even sometimes felt empty. Some guys like this, I found that I enjoy being monogamous a lot better.

My wife is awesome. I feel recharged spending time with her. She is an excellent cook. I prefer her food to restaurants. She works part time, doesn't make crazy money but we have enough to afford a house and car. I feel happy being married.

Don't think of women as sex partners. Think of them as close trusted friends with benefits.

Although sometimes we do have our rough patches and I do fantasize about other women occasionally. Never acted on it though.
Yep.

> This solution only prevents from Notepad++ loading a CIA homemade DLL. It doesn't prevent your original notepad++.exe from being replaced by modified notepad++.exe while the CIA is controlling your PC.

The CIA attack is an application directory attack, and the application directory is a trusted location on Windows. See: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161013-00/?p=...

I guess the attack allowed them to inject code into a Notepad++ process without breaking the signature on notepad++.exe itself. There's probably some value to the CIA doing this, or they wouldn't have done it (...right?)
try https://www.hotspotshield.com/

at least that's what I use to see this stuff
Yeah, I have another comment from a different thread saying the same thing I'm about to, but the amount of linux compatible steam games has really exploded since the original Steam OS announcements. I think it's almost at half the top 100 most played games in Steam, but last I checked more than half of my steam library was playable on ubuntu at least.
>I don't know why the CIA has this team of people bumbling around with DLL injectors and AV bypasses.

Got to have something to spend the budget on to ask for more next year?

Maybe they are just trawling and they have more skilled people pick out the wheat from the chaff or combine exploits. It would make sense if there are some bigger picture people directing the contractors. A library of low-level shit might be useful if you're building entire frameworks.
> we'll either be bringing water, or distilling it there

Probably just melting some of the more than five million cubic kilometers of water ice that has been identified at or near the surface of modern Mars ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars
> the more likely it is that your target will discover you compromised them

fair enough, but the like the person above said, it can be very important to hide/obfuscate the identity of the snooper. Stuxnet would have been more effective if experts could not immediately point to US/Israel.
Seconded, and it's why I flagged the article.

The Senate has rules, and those rules are fairly enforced regardless of gender. Tying a movement to the perceived unfairness of a fair enforcement seems to me to be unwise.
> The Amazon Fresh model is far superior. If the item is out of stock, it shows out of stock.

How is this better? Most supermarket items are sold alongside many competing items that are nearly identical. As a customer, I may or may not have a strong brand preference.

In my case I have a brand preference for only about 10% of the items I buy. For the rest I'm largely indifferent. Also, in the vast majority of cases, the store brand is an adequate substitute.

So I would argue that by actually applying intelligence to the problem, Instacart's approach is better. Showing out of stock puts the burden on the user to solve the problem of which alternative to choose.
Conveniently, there's a huge power plant nearby ;) but fair. I read the other day that the space magnet proposed to generate a magnetic field to protect a transformed Mars' atmosphere would be "charged" and then not require active power. I don't know enough physics to know if similar is possible here.
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I think they mean manually labeling data en-masse. Maybe tagging photos with a description of what's in it, as a common example.

"Turking" is probably a reference to Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, where you can to get lots of low-effort work done by people.
Using something like Mechanical Turk to manually add ground truth data to something, though we don't use Mechanical Turk but rather other providers.
Well, that was fast.
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Thanks a lot Life of Pi
Uber without Internet
I guess crowd sourcing ground truthing/generating more validated data with mechanical turk?
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Try postmark instead. You'll get a good idea of the user interaction with your transaction mails.
You've repeatedly crossed into taking personal swipes here, which breaks the HN guidelines regardless of how correct one's views are. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it any more.
Oh c'mon, that bit from Monty Python was the first thing I thought of too. There's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun every once in awhile.

Frankly, I found your post to be shockingly low-humour.
Why is it that the C++ code is pink in one screenshot, but blue in another? And Python is blue in one screenshot and pink in another?

Looks like a great project! Thanks for sharing!
One example of synthetic data generation was for our OCR project. We took a corpi of word choices (Project Gutenberg, modern books, the UPC database for receipts, etc.), took several thousand fonts, and combined it with geometric transformations that mimic distortions like shadows, creases, etc. to bootstrap millions of fake OCR like scannable documents.

We aren't using GANs yet, but are definitely keeping an eye on them. Work like InfoGANs which has the GAN learn a ground-truth like label are very promising, but GANs don't yet work at the image sizes necessary to really make this promising. I do think in the next year or two we will see these problems solved and GANs will become an integral part of synthetic data generation.
Kudos for your first OSS contribution CIA.
The entire database is designed for performance with message-passing thread-per-core async architecture. XFS is the only filesystem that has good async support.

http://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/

http://www.scylladb.com/technology/architecture/