skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's brought up in the article, but assuming that the money going toward reviving extinct species would otherwise go toward protecting endangered species is silly. I would have no ethical qualms donating money to bringing back mammoths and would be justifiably angry if that money instead went to saving the elephants.

Edit: That sounds like I irrationally hate elephants, which isn't the case. I just value pushing cool new science forward more.
You mean turning appliance manufacturers into washing-machine fleet operators? Why would they do that to themselves?

Otherwise, there are already private companies that buy appliances and rent them out to consumers. They maybe be affordable in the short term, but will cost you much more in the 2+ year outlook.
And years of regulatory red tape. Moving from current -> self-driving legal and regulatory framework will be one battle. Moving from that to a driverless model will be much larger.

And those updates have to percolate through federal, state, county, and city level regulations. Making it an inherently slow process.
That's not what private leaks show. For example, in the first half of 2015, they got $3.6 Billion from customers and paid $3 Billion to drivers.
Thomas Edison's Greatest Invention
I can second this. I graduated right after the 2000 dotcom crash. Intel paid me not to show up for the job they offered me. I had a very hard time finding work. I spent the summer learning new things, and eventually I was able to start some consulting work.
Further and more annoying "Ship of Theseus" questions:

If I engineer an animal whose DNA matches that of an extinct species, but it's raised in captivity, or in another way such that its environment is very different from that of when the species was not extinct -- have i actually resurrected a species?

Radiolab had a bit about this w.r.t. whooping cranes. Captive raised birds, released in the wild, have no ability to raise chicks -- because there have been no tutors. The existence of adults in the wild is thus totally dependent on humans raising them in captivity -- is that "really" saving a species from extinction? http://www.radiolab.org/story/254840-operation-migration/
Yes. I'd pay thousands for a pet dodo!
One big bank ripped our idea off after having pitched the idea at the same time we did at Bank A (our investor). If we don't close something this month, we'll sell to them (they're rather eager). Making it an acquihire, because they don't know how to take the product to the next level. This outcome would certainly feel like a big failure to me.

They are not extremely hard to beat, their product lacks a lot of strategic implementations, making the barrier to exit extremely low. Our product also tends to be better.

The reason it's capital intensive is because you'll need to pay for transactions up until about 2020, and also need to acquire users very rapidly before 2018. Only to find out between 2018-2020 how much you can monetize the product. (big risk, fairly unkown reward).

There are ways to get the transaction costs down, but they will always be there long before we become profitable.
Google Apologises as Retailers Pull Ads
The European Council for example.

By does not exist on paper I am referring to the lack of transcript and formal responsibility about what can be said and done there.
Yes, and if you need more expressiveness for the ternary operator and so forth, you will want to structure it as mutually recursive functions, like Pratt parsing.

See "Pratt Parsing and Precedence Climbing Are the Same Algorithm": http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/01.html

The difference is really about how you structure your code. If you have a single recursive procedure like the above, it looks like "precedence climbing". But if you have a set of mutually recursive procedures, it looks more like Pratt parsing. But they are the same algorithm, or you can say "precedence climbing" is just a special case of Pratt parsing.
The sad fact there being that immigration being an issue rather than a net benefit itself was a distraction perpetuated by the Murdoch press.

Fear of 'the other' is a timeless scapegoating tactic when you really want to distract people from the real causes of their problems.

In the case of the UK those problems are entrenched and systemic classism and privilege, a financial services industry rife with fraud and cowboy behaviour and our own sycophantic career politicians that compared to the EU, have done very little for the working poor and other disadvantaged demographics in society.
(copy-pasted disclaimer: I'm involved at a junior level in very-unsexy not-Google-level smart grid research using machine learning, and my power grid engineering knowledge is painfully limited.) Predicting demand is dicey dicey stuff, but throwing sensors on the grid gives a lot of information that can imply other factors. Just pulling this out of the air for an example, but: UK power is famous for having to deal with a sharp spike in demand when a big TV event is going on and then goes to commercial, because everyone in the country in synchronized fashion gets up, goes to the kitchen, and turns on the kettle for tea. (Really, it's a big deal!) Now, that's not the best example because of the dramatic nature of the spike, but you can see how power information might on some level reflect the state just before that spike: people aren't moving around their homes, vacuuming, w/e, they're in front of the TV, right? So our demand forecaster learning from the data might not be able to tell that a new season of Sherlock is airing, but it might learn enough paranoia about everyone-watching-TV-at-once patterns to be useful.
I'm not the OP but I did create an LLC. I personally used LegalZoom to incorporate in Illinois. Some states have as low as $25 filing fee (from what I've heard) so services like LegalZoom may not be worth it. All in, it cost about $750 for everything. The main thing to keep in mind is to keep money separate when it comes to an LLC. The moment you intermingle your funds is the moment you lose your liability shield. I have a business account that everything business related goes through and if I need to use personal money to fund something I write a check to my business as a loan and let the business buy it. It can become a hassle but it is worth it to keep the protections that come with an LLC.
The ironic, depressing thing is this - strong support for the registry and openly making jokes about prison sexual assaults (in movies, real life etc). How can someone support both at the same time, is beyond my understanding.
What is the point of mentioning this here as opposed to, say, e-mailing the authors?

With -- at most -- a handful of exceptions (assuming maybe ajacoutot or bapt show up), no one here on HN has the ability to fix this so I really don't see the point.
Yep, there is absolutely no way whatsoever policy could have prevented that from happening. It's all the fault of workers and there is no choice but for all of us to reduce our standard of living to compete with the world's most destitute places.
I think the biggest reason for this trend is the decline in health and human services across the various states which have large rural populations because it's been the politically expedient thing to do when budget crises happen because it's assumed they rural pops will just move to the big city and get the services there. Little do they realize that takes MONEY. So, when you're dealing with the same economic downturns which cause the budget crises also lead to underemployment and unemployment you're not going to see many of those folks move because they have no money or very little of it. Ultimately, there needs to be an honest discussion among the rank and file of the American conservative movements on these matters. Specifically, they need to acknowledge that their whole "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality isn't working and that a whole new program needs to be adopted. Specifically one that acknowledges that Randian/Right-Libertarian approaches are dead ends in terms of sustainability. Whether they like it or not they need to accept that there needs to be some level of welfare in government especially now when the greatest disruption to employment opportunities are ahead of us (not behind us). We can't assume there will be plentiful well paying jobs that can/will emerge in the rural sections of the US. We need to assume the opposite as distance is costly to most industries and there's barely an operable infrastructure to support building up those rural parts of the country (especially when it comes to the Internet-based IT jobs). If there's anything they should do I think an infrastructure bill that focuses on getting Internet access and education programs out to the rural parts of the country would be a good first step on top of rebuilding and augmenting existing welfare programs.
E-tattoos turn knuckles and freckles into smartphone controls
If writes can be done at the byte level, the bookkeeping and indirection for byte level wear leveling would take more space than the data. If wear leveling is required, it has to be done on blocks of some reasonable size. They might be smaller than for flash, though.
I'm sorry...winter? It's almost April now, although of course the grilling steaks is still probably an overstatement
I wonder what Nintendo will do about this?
Apple just freshly created that problem by abandoning tech that wouldn't have required those cables.

Maybe they'll re-introduce it some day and call it revolutionary.
> Mathematics can be true, beautiful, compelling, creative, unique, etc.

Yes, but that does not mean it is art. Art literally means something created by humans, which is distinct from the natural sciences which is studying nature. Both are worthwhile, but it's not the same.
Very interesting read!

As mentioned, the wireless and graphics areas are sorely lagging behind GNU/Linux os'. They only have support upto Haswell in the graphics department. Ouch. The priority of both BSDs is clearly not the regular desktop user where wireless and graphics support can be deal breakers. The FreeBSD based PC-BSD (now known as TrueOS) exists, but AFAIK it does not fix the wireless and graphics support situation.

Given that GPU based computing is becoming more prevalent with the advent of ML/DL, I wonder if there are efforts to improve support for graphics.

(It would have been interesting if a Linux guy also joined the conversation, along with a Windows guy and a MacOS guy.)
Life insurance can have huge paydays. The size of the payout is tied only to the premiums paid, not to the size of the loss.
According to Dominic Cummings (who ran Vote Leave) it was absolutely the case that immigration was the No 1 driver for the vote to leave the EU. So much so that they had to explicitly set aside 15 minutes at the beginning of every focus group to let people rant about immigration before they could get them to move on to anything else at all.

Anecdotally, this is also what my parents found on the doorstep.
very cool, I remember reading this in 96/97. It is a real fun and inexpensive hobby and a fun challenge.
It's a private affair because it's a great racket. Collect money from everyone for doing nothing, then try hard not to pay when people need it. There's a reason that many insurance companies have been around for many decades and are in the Fortune 500. Look up who underwrites your policies and you'll see what I mean.
Is the throughput bad even with USB3? You're looking at 625MB/s which even after signalling overhead ought to be sufficient to saturate 3-4 magnetic disks. Latency might still be a concern but personally I've always found [non-ZFS] throughput to be great.
They're not a taxi service. This might seem like splitting hairs, but it's important. The car-for-hire industry just got good enough that it ate the taxi companies' lunch.
Thanks to user namespaces, it's easy to map, say, /home/myself/gnu to /gnu, as shown in the article (with "unshare").

For cases where user namespaces are unavailable, Pjotr Prins wrote a neat hack that allows users to "relocate" binaries to a different file system location by rewriting file names in the binaries: https://github.com/pjotrp/gnu-install-bin . Scary to some, but definitely does the job. :-)
So far, I see/hear good things about

- CODE keyboard
- Mircrosoft Ergonomic ones
- Filco Majistouch
- Matias Ergo Pro
Mostly Entrepreneurial newslettters
Your throwaway comment about freeway speeds is a bit odd, since there are verifiable instances that show that absolute speed is not the deciding factor in road fatalities.

The most famous example, of course, is the German Autobahn:

"The autobahn fatality rate of 1.6 deaths per billion-travel-kilometers compared favorably with the 4.6 rate on urban streets and 6.5 rate on rural roads."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety
Europe in it's entirety.

Though Scandinavia is an outlier even then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/sweden-closes-...

I guess that in your binary pro/anti view of me this makes me pro-Scandinavian. I can think of worse things to be.
"Slides are useless. We want talk transcripts."

Here's a transcript.

"Take it away, take it away!"
> My personal opinion is that everyone should just use s-expressions.

Aren't S-expressions particularly problematic for providing autocomplete hints?
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, Unless You Have an Accent
I would think this was implied:

Only noobs like myself years ago would go ahead and refactor a lot of code during work hours without a good reason.

However when you stumble through something and finally understand the idea behind it (good or bad) then it might be a good time to add a couple of tests.

And when you have a few tests that covers nearby code you can hopefully find the courage to make a few surgical cuts to remove the worst tumors. ;-)
I don't think either of you are strictly wrong, though--the comment's point seems to be that doing things by hand was so much harder that it couldn't even be done to the same level of success that machine learning achieves.
The third generation made the biggest impact in public affairs with governors and philanthropists. The first made all the money, the second was too small. Webrarely hear ofblater Rockefellers.
You are a little judgmental if you think that no insurance companies care about the welfare of their customers. If an insurance company doesn't care about customers, soon it has none.

GEICO was founded because they though they could provide needed insurance cheaper direct through the mail, rather than through an expensive army of sales-people. They've saved their customers huge amounts of money over the last 60 years (for disclosure, I don't work for or use GEICO, I actually use USAA which is based on same premise).

In church, you have a leader who is milking the flock for an unconscionable amount of tithing, and a bunch of people milking their religious connections to get more business. Of course they will all tell you to help each other out, it's part of how they scam the flock.

And insurance can only work if it's priced according to it's risks. If you have an expensive illness or are likely to get one, it's actually selfish to think that an insurance company will take a massive loss to help you out. If you had purchased medical insurance from the company before you got sick, you'd still be covered and your costs/risks would have been part of a large pool that was correctly priced at the time.

That's the problem with Obamacare, people wanting a free lunch. It destroyed the private insurance market by banning the consideration of prior health conditions, so now only sick people buy Obamacare. Before Obamacare I paid $400 a month for a $5,000 deductible coverage for my family. My first year of the ACA a similar plan cost $1,100 a month, second year $1,300 a month, and this year it's $1,800 a month.

So now my family is on short term insurance and if I get sick it ends after 6 months. Plus I get to pay massive tax penalties for the privilege of having insurance that's not ACA approved. I'd like to go back to my old plan but the ACA banned it.
IMO Apple did an outstanding job with the aesthetic aspects of their Watch. They sold it in different sizes and finishes, with a large variety of different straps. They understood that different people would want different looks, and made the perfect timelessly understated device to accommodate most.

The bigger problem is that Apple Watch never became its own fashion statement. The hype fizzled out quickly and it never reached the same cultural peaks as some of Apple's other products like the iPod or iPhone, products that became their own status symbols in their primes.

And that comes back to function, because the Apple Watch is still a solution in search of a problem.

"Hey dude, something is happening, take out your phone!"

It's not a very compelling value.
>I would also make it a point to let your manager know, as well as HR during your exit interview

Do they still do those these days? The places I've left never bothered.
There's a certain irony in this rant coming from 'dongslol'.
This is buried in a few other comments, but it bears repeating as it's perhaps far more important than any performance gains you'd receive from hash indexes over btree... Hash indexes are not crash safe and not WAL logged. This means if you're running with high availability or even using something for disaster recovery like WAL-E[1] and need to recover your database your index would not be in a working state after recovery. Instead you'd need to reindex that data.

For any real production database hash indexes should be used with extreme caution if used at all.

[1]. https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
I have heard that disavowing is actually not a good practice because you can hurt your own ranking without much benefit (if there isn't a problem).
Yeah, we definitely lack hype. We have some container features, too, if you are interested. I wrote this back in 2015: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/container-provisionin...
When I was living in China and would go run on a track, I'd see elderly Chinese walking around the track slapping their stomachs or thighs repeatedly. I guess they were on to something.
I agree. That's why I said "too much". I didn't say "cut out". In my case, I know my will power is weak. I keep "unhealthy" food out of the house so I'm not constantly being tempted. During the week I only have to resist temptation at lunch since I don't have access to junk food at work or at home.

During the weekend, I don't go crazy but I don't go out of my way to eat healthy.

If I do want something to sweet, I buy the smallest portion.
Shared Experiences
Later in the article, he says one of the hallmarks of art is that it is a celebration of the ineffable. Your objection seems to be that his definition of art is not sufficiently mathematical to be sensible to you. This tells me that you are more interested in reasoning about art than appreciating it. Well, ... I'm glad you enjoy math more than art. But I don't think that art needs to bow down to math by confining itself to a definition that fits your criteria.
Looks like Katy Perry leaked to on fappening 2017
Real-life Robocops will soon replace human police
hedge funds...more fees for less performance
One reason is that in floating-point processing, in some cases adding a constant to an argument can truncate and lose the original argument, so using a single function will fail in a class of pathological edge cases:

import numpy as np
a = np.pi/2
print(a)
> 1.5707963267948966
print(a == a + 1e-15)
> False
print(a == a + 1e-16)
> True
print(np.sin(1e-16))
> 1e-16
print(np.cos(np.pi/2+1e-16))
> 6.12323399574e-17
print(np.sin(1e-16) == np.cos(np.pi/2+1e-16))
> False
You got the plumber quote before I could :)
Kinesis Advantage, I used to have pretty serious carpal tunnel issues and the kinesis took care of the problem. I love the usability of the thumb buttons.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The board of directors exists to maximize profits, not create a stable society. As long as greater profits can be achieved by gutting the lower and middle classes, it will happen. To create change, the government must step in, which is almost impossible since the major corporations of this country have lobbied so much and spread so much propaganda.
It's a lot different if Uber is found, as is alleged, to have induced the employee to take the secrets and bring them to Uber.
Tuna is a big fish. The smaller the fish, the higher the ratio of selenium to mercury. Tuna is the cut off, size wise.
not to be rude but what are you talking about? I don't see that anywhere in the post.
I used to use Lua for quick calculations, but I've recently started using R because of operator vectorization.

For conversions, why use GNU Units over, say, Google in your browser? I find that most of my unit conversions happen in my browser, while I'm online. Anecdotal evidence, obviously, but is this not the case for others? Where do most people use unit conversions?

I'm also not an engineer, so I can't take that into account from experience alone. Wouldn't your tooling provide automated conversions into "correct" units?
A Chevron geophysicist coded it before Tukey, but did not publish it
Any specifics? If you could only read one for the rest of 2017, what would it be?
Stop trying to push some bullshit agendas.

"In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was "dudette" or "dudess," but these have both fallen into disuse, and "dude" is now also used as a unisex term." -Wikipedia

I've yet to hear anyone use "dudette" or "dudess" while I see "dude" applied to females all the time.
Some context: http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/www/stock-answers/lockpi...
Not to mention that warranties on major appliances or home products are often either explicitly or practically non-transferrable to new owners. The previous owners of my house had the basement waterproofed but I can't makes claims under the warranty unless I pay a yearly fee!
Good article but I must disagree with the apology/defense. The comparison to sports touched up on something important but failed to follow through on the medium not being as important as the genre. Why can a novel be a work of art but not a magazine? Why can a Hollywood movie be a work of art but not some seedy porn film or TV commercial? Why is sculpture of a bust art but a road sign not? Why is a ballet art, ice hockey not and figure skating somewhere in the middle? It's all subjective but largely related to the genre - and nothing to do with the choice of a player as alluded to my Ebert. Call of Duty and other FPS games may resemble sports and not an art form, but Final Fantasy XV is closer to 'looking like' art. If all Roger Ebert was aware of when it comes to games was Doom or Fifa then it probably didn't look like art, he needed to have been introduced to Dragon Age, Japanese RPGs and more obviously artful efforts like Monument Valley and Child of Light.
Xiaomi manufacturing facility in SriCity Nellore district
But the end goal is that as a driver of my own car, I can just sit in the passenger seat. As a passenger of a taxi, similarly, I expect no driver.

The ultimate goal of self-driving car is to be driverless. But, if you want to produce a car without driver seat & steering wheel, then yes, from that perspective, driverseat-less car is different from self-driving car.

Otherwise, same.
This. The result here is if you run out of money, sorry pal, you're worthless to society, game over, no one cares, literally go die.
Thank you, I'll listen to everything!