skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this comes down to learning-style. It sounds like your lecturer was not a visual thinker. Some people really like to just get the algebra and have-at-it (not me tho.) The "model" you refer to doesn't need to be visual. There are applications of linear algebra where the visual stuff just doesn't help much.
Introduction to regular expression, Briefly explained concepts
Living Wage Calculation for San Francisco County, California
Show HN: redux-idle-monitor – Idle user event scheduling over many browser tabs
Isn't PoW the defining characteristic of a blockchain?
I used to read Stiftung Warentest (the big consumer report in Germany). But they don't test for anything related to longevity, so I stopped. Frankly, I don't know where to look.
Yeah, one of the biggest shocks to the system when going from desktop software development to embedded development is how easy it is to fry your hardware (and since this is pre-alpha grade hardware, often even with a software mistake). Never buy just one of anything because you'll let the magic smoke out, a /lot/. And that goes double if you're doing anything higher voltage than CPU supply voltage, or higher current than a few hundred milliamps.
I would tend to agree. This quote from the epilogue drove home that the author doesn't think that's reasonable though:

> However, I still do not believe that if one out of three availability zones in a region is practically offline that is reasonable to report that region as healthy.

I can agree that it should be easier to see and understand that there are zonal issues, but I can't agree that the region was unhealthy. Now if 2 out of 3 zones were down, that's a real concern (you can't run a highly-available service anymore).

Said another way: what if there were 20 zones in the region and only one were down?

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
You say that -- and externally the place looks like a catastrophe -- but we don't know what's going on under the covers. If they saw him as a true risk he'd be gone by now.
CloudWatch only tells you a small part of the story. AWS has much richer statistics internally that they do not expose isolating why issues are happening.
No PHD here either, just undergrad followed by some hobbiest reading (of scholarly sources) on Japanese linguistics.

To be clear, the comment about null anaphora was more of a throwaway comment anticipating the objection that sometimes the topicalizing wa does mark the subject. While I have seen this explanation presented, and it is my prefered explanation, I would not necessarily call it pervasive. Now, for the explanation itself (unfourtantly, I am on vacation, so cannot check any of my references).

Japanese is a clear example of a pro-drop language, so using pronoun dropping (aka, null anaphora) as an explanation requires less justification than it would in English, where we only see it in specific contexts. Additionally, we see the topicalizing "wa" in various contexts, not all of which can be understood as subjects, so a unified explanation that can account for all of them would be preferred.

For example, consider the sentence

1) Mary-ga ringo-o tabeta

We can topicalize Mary with the following derivation:

2) Mary-wa Mary-ga ringo-o tabeta

3) Mary-wa anohito-ga ringo-o tabeta (Pro-form substitution)

4) Mary-wa ringo-o tabeta (Deletion)

Simmilarly, we can topicalaize ringo with

2) Ringo-wa Mary-ga ringo-o tabeta

3) Ringo-wa Mary-ga are-o tabeta (Pro-form substitution)

4) Ringo-wa Mary-ga tabeta (Deletion)

We also have the following sentence (kudamono = fruit)

Kudamono-wa Mary-ga ringo-o tabeta

Admittedly, I struggle to think of a context where the speaker would not drop Mary due to context, but that should not be relevent here, and I am sure that there exists better examples.

Notice that, under the null anaphora explanation, all three of these examples could be explained in the same way. If we were to explain the first example as wa being a subject marker, then we would need to explain the second example as wa being an object marker, and the third example as wa being just a topic marker.

I have seen an alternative explanation that describes topicalization in Japanese as a transformation rule. I have mostly seen this by researchers who view Japanese non-configurationally, who argue that a rule such as [ga/o] -> [wa] in a non configurational language is directly analogous to a movement rule in a configurational analysis. Even under this approach, you still need to account for sentences where the topic has no co-referential place in the rest of the sentence.

Further, even under this alternative explanation, I would still not call wa a topic marker. Rather, I would say that when the listener reconstructs the deep-structure, he uses pragmatics to infer what syntactic role the topic plays. Indeed, If you consider a sentences such as ringo wa tabeta and Mary wa tabeta you can see that there is no syntactic way to identify where the topic falls in the deep structure.
Modern washers use the same amount of water, except now you have to manually run the extra rinse program to remove all the detergent.
That's what media has you believe. And you fell for it, and probably made them some money with pageviews.

Sure there are many problems with Uber, but user-facing is not one. You saying 'I really think it's related' is just your opinion, and every ordinary person I know (who don't hate them for social justice purposes) love Uber and their service.
Because kalanick and early investor control the class B stocks, which means they control the voting power. Additionally kalanick has been outspoken about running uber himself so its unlikely that he'll step down.
you can't pay your drivers if you have no money...
It's a family of new techniques that has had great success doing things that are usually very hard or tedious to do with computers. These techniques seem more similar to how a human would do things than most other ways of programming things. This is the reason for a lot of the interest and hype.

Just one random example: http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2016/TDB1...
You don't have to attend a retreat for X number of days to get the same benefit. Just 5 minutes of meditation or contemplation every day will give you the same or even better benefits.

Just keep at it, but don't push.
It amazes me that making a 12 bit processor out of TTL was still a reasonable thing to do in the late 1970s.
Well, don't leave us all waiting - who is it?
touch pads have high failure rates. if they don't go, the control board does. and if neither, the connection between them.

as for easy to change, replacing the mother board on my refrigerator would cost 600$ without installation fees. guess who bought a new refrigerator? :(
>Point being, the impact on a $200K house may be negligible if its HOA or not - however once you move into >$1M home values they would be almost exclusively HOA. This is the self-evident part of the argument.

What percentage of HOA's are for >$1M houses? A small minority.

In my town, all the >$1M houses on sale right now have no HOA, BTW.

It wouldn't surprise me if nationally, HOAs are more correlated at the middle price range. Around 1 M most people don't like being told what to do. At the next level, sure, they probably exist just to pay for fancy country clubs or something.
Stripe, probably, is going to handle something like this the best. but there are a TON of "alternatives" out there.
Get a local loan,

"Hi, we have a very successful local business but we made a mistake with choosing a payments company that might end up killing us entirely. Here are our stats, here are the kind of transactions we're dealing with, etc...

We need a loan of X to keep us operating for the next few months. what kind of terms can you give us?"

Serbia might not be the kind of place where this is possible, but I could go to my local credit union in Ann Arbor and probably pull this off in less than an hour. Head home, get operations back up same-day, and proceed to bust ass on implementing a new provider on the backend.
What do you think of ClickHouse vis-a-vis Druid and Redshift?
I think you are wrong about reddit being "a really unique culture", at least in this context.

To me it seems very obvious that fundamentally it is exactly like how societies, communities, and communication has always operated, be it local gossip, newspapers, global communication, or hell even the differing thoughts/parts in our own minds.

Im not saying it hasnt changed things, of course the internet has changed most everything, just that the part we are talking about isnt something new. It has evolved certainly, but fundamentally the same.
You do notice the quality difference immediately, like the difference between an iPhone and a cheap flip phone. The high-end Miele machines do look a bit like what an Apple washing machine might look like, too [1]. It's not just the design; those things feel expensive.

[1] https://m.miele.de/haushalt/waschmaschine-1566.htm?mat=07082...
My perceptions in most coin-op laundries has been that they use different brands to consumers!

Additionally, at least in Australia, my perception has been that most renters are required to bring or purchase their own washing machines and refrigerators.
Why replace him? He's publicly unpopular but the company is worth more than ever, and the investors care most about money.

Why get rid of him when they're plenty of ways to spin the narrative. Like making unrelated but scandalous sounding press releases, and finding an occasional fall guy
The content of that internal email is at the bottom of this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-ubers-president-jeff-j...

Kalanick certainly wanted to put his spin on the reason for leaving.

"After we announced our intention to hire a COO, Jeff came to the tough decision that he doesn't see his future at Uber."
The Waste Makers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Makers
Yep, the course is free, but you'll need to pay for the computing power one way or another.

If you have a workstation with a fairly recent Nvidia GPU (I used a GTX 980 TI) and bunch of spare disk space, you don't need AWS at all. You'll still pay for the electricity, of course, but it's not what I would call a significant extra cost. That is, if you already have the hardware.
Elon Musk's lab forced bots to create their own language
I don't mean to shut down your criticism, but how does it present a vulnerable security model?
How Does the SpinaliS Chair Prevent Back Pain?
Basically a percentage of the profits from sales.
The post is clear that A.I. startups in this vertical will be given special resources, but not clear if there will be more startups selected specificially for this?
My own take on this is that we need to develop strongly declarative languages. That way there is no information about implementation to get wrong. You specify the "what" not the "how". You still might get the "what" of it wrong but this is no different than the mistake of "proving" the wrong thing. Eventually there will be strong AI and we will be able to pass off the "what" of it to the machines as well.
Yeah, just like that time microsoft invented lambda functions
Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)
Right. CTR and Shareblue is all in reference to reddit. Rest is just somewhat relevant rambling, that many may not be aware of. Also, unrelated, I somehow responded in the wrong place with my first comment, to be clear.
> We want to level the playing field for startups to ensure that innovation doesn’t get locked up in large companies like Google or Facebook.

It's not just the data. It's also acquisition: Facebook and Google are figuring very large in the exit path of a lot of these companies.

Which means that after one or more years the stated goal here could be nixed. You'd almost have to close that route before this statement is meaningful.
I took my anecdata straight to the shops, jumped onto the planned obsolescence bandwagon and bought the cheapest replacement I could find.

Now I don't care if they fail in 2 or 3 years because they're the same cost as the repair of an expensive model. And like you say, all appliances fail at some point, so I'll keep fueling this horrible new world we've built for ourselves and let the manufacturers fight it out over price.
>more conservative in future projections and less price sensitive than consumers.

Which means that if you need some replacement part in the future it's going to cost even more.
Ahhh this is the moment I've been waiting for. Hype has officially hit stratospheric proportions.

Time to add the words "deep" or "learn" to your startup name and reap in the dough!
Uber President Jones Quits Amid Turmoil and Search for COO
It would have been true if there were not so many networks (SWIFT, VISA, MasterCard, Paypal, Braintree, Google Wallet, Apple Pay, ...). Judging by the increasing number of networks It can only be concluded that its not so hard. Only non profit can put stop to this mess.
Not sure if this update came before the HN share, but this is a very explosive statement from Jones:

“It is now clear, however, that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president of the ride sharing business."
But it is donating - because Open-source developers will just keep on keeping on. The developers of a project won't stop building it if no one is paying - until they have to. But for right now, if a bug is found MegaCorp reports it, and the open-source developer fixes it for free.

And that's the problem.
If you're lying to a government agency, that's almost certainly breaking some law. I suspect that Illinois's §31-4 applies here (assuming this were in Illinois):

(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts:

(1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false information

(I'm not sure if the "prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense" would apply case, but I'm not about to try traipsing through Illinois law decisions to find precedence).
Easier said than done...I already borrowed bunch of cash to keep the wheels spinnin...cant get a loan, as we got no physical assets, so doomsday came and I bitch about it. Still, it is unfair what they are doing to us, I am sure we are not the only ones too...
you know he's not the CEO right?
Even if you say it isn't people will still interpret it as they wish:

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

Was against the creators insistence taken as the real deal.
Ha! That's not quite how my model works (you just use a wash pack to clean the whole machine) but yeah, when I did finally clean the filter because a plastic straw was stuck in it it was not so bad considering.
Im guessing if uber crashes and burns, it will make investors re-evaluate stock-but-no-control deals.
I've wanted to break into robotics from machine learning for a long time, but I haven't found a good entry point for the problem. It seems like a rather large vertical cliff I have no way of scaling.

One of the handholds I'd need is a physics engine which which models a robotic arm down to the finest levels of motor control and feedback. I am not a mechanical engineer, and I do not know where to begin with a problem like that. I don't imagine this is hard to build using existing physics engines, but it wouldn't work out the box. It requires some deep domain knowledge of things like friction, tensile strength, and so on. A system like this would spur progress in robotics immensely.
There's a lot of Bob Roth in those videos. I fell in the rabbit hole and came across his short presentation of TM[0].

It feels like a huge PR stunt to sell his certified "Transcendental Meditation®" trainings. Does anyone here have an insight into that?

[0] https://vimeo.com/87931619
Look, I'm not saying Haskell is easy to learn, it's one of the steepest learning curves I know of in programming.

But I don't think do notation is what trips up beginners (not sure if this discussion is about beginners per se). It is explained by simple mechanical plug-and-chug transformations that I think beginners understand, but am willing to hear if there is evidence otherwise.. I just think it's the other things that will eventually trip them up (I was only responding to specific claims made earlier). Also, on the point of resting on abstractions being a problem, I don't find compelling, because I'm also sure that Python beginners don't understand what "class MyStuff(object):" is really doing, but if the abstraction isn't leaky try don't need to know right away, and they can delve later.
The numbers are clearly different, but not in the "one is slavery and the other is not" kind of way right?
Around 40%[1] of the population rents, which means 40% doesn't make the purchasing decision for many appliances.

Do all rental properties come with appliances in the US? Here in NZ that's the exception rather than the rule.
They are called NVDIMMs. One example http://www.vikingtechnology.com/arxcis-nv

I think some of them are protected by both a battery and flash memory for long term backup.
>It's probably not wise to rely on your provider's monitoring for such critical things. As AWS has proven, their alerts are slow, and even if they weren't, they aren't monitoring the very specific thing you need.

In this particular case they are not monitoring that they lost an entire zone? This seems like a cop-out to cover up for the fact that they didn't reveal a major outage that they most definitely monitor internally.
Because the boards act in structural manner, rather than by spur of emotion.

The new CEO will most likely get some key performance objectives related to current problems as well as revenue (or margin) growth.

If there's a reason to believe TK can commit and be evaluated against the same indicators, the incumbent CEO is a better choice since no time is wasted on onboarding and getting familiar with the business. If he refuses to commit or commits and is then unable to execute, now that stipulates a much more productive board discussion on how the current CEO should step away to let a "more mature" or "more tenured" CEO that can execute against those objectives.

So if any resignation is imminent, expect it in 3-6 months, not now.
Yeah, it may be difficult to get funds, but whining on facebook but taking no other action seems to be rather....careless. I do hope that their issue gets resolved but I also sincerely hope that if they get a chance, in the future, they would have some kind of contingency plan.
There are little questionnaires(online) throughout the year that might flag someone with any kinds of issues. Obviously, you can easily lie about it, then again so could you hide issues from your doctor. This a whole is a moot point. Culturally, there is awareness that intense situations like combat will mess one up mentally and are generally open to talk to a buddy or seek help.

That being said, like Tim Kennedy once said in regards to PTSD and dealing with stress its a world of difference for those who constantly train and deal with certain situations and have the infrastructure in place for them i.e- infantry & other combat arms jobs. Those who are not in those job fields aren't training for it, not mentally prepared, etc but might still be caught up in combat situations. i.e - the water specialist or accountant driving his little truck in Iraq.

To add to all this, its usually young men who commit suicide. Its just a thing they do. Which happens to be most of the military.
All the ones I'm aware of involve the ECU. That is relatively recent though. You can see the dramatic drop in auto theft that starts around 2007, when decent implementations had been going to all cars for some time, and not just luxury models. http://www.iii.org/issue-update/auto-theft (you'll have to scroll quite a bit to get to the year by year stats)

Anecdotal, but I hear most thefts now involve either stealing the key, or towing the vehicle, or simply stealing old cars without this tech.
It's not that we are getting dumber. We are just changing our skill set. Remembering where to find a set of information or how to find a set of information is more effective​ than remebering each item in the set. Search engines have changed us so we don't have to remember trivia and can focus on larger ideas that can't be searched.
Arduino is fine if you just need some low level / real-ish-time control. I used one as glue for a test setup (converting a voltage input to drive some DC motors via H-bridges) and it was perfect for the job - simple to set up, straightforward to run, a little underpowered (I couldn't quite get to 20+ kHz PWM on the pins in software, so it's a bit noisy) but adequate.

I absolutely agree that an Arduino shouldn't be the core of a consumer electronics device, but for anyone not familiar enough with the field to know that already, it's probably at about the right level.
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I think it's because of the built-in nature of message passing in the language. It's just easier to send around messages to processes. Hot code swapping would be possible with other JITed languages (BEAM isn't a JIT).

Also since erlang has excellent pattern matching (even on binary data!) and a supervisor system (OTP) errors are easy to recover from. Erlang takes a very pragmatic approach of building tools that deal with errors by recovering from them instead of trying to exhaustively trying to prevent them.
Whether you think it's a good idea or not, having the dual mandate be the overarching goal is in fact his job by law so he has to take that position.

I agree that more public officials should publish the reasoning behind their decisions.

BTW I think a single mandate of price stability would be a better choice; perhaps you feel the same way. But that would require an act of congress -- good luck!
It's only hype if it doesn't work. Beating humans at games which were previously thought only humans could play.

Speech recognition, image recognition, translation have all made leaps in last 5 years.

Sure it's silicon Valley and a lot of companies will scam themselves in but I absolutely believe there will be another Google coming out soon or has already been born who will capitalize on AI.
That's another discussion. The algorithm we're building right now aren't simulateors of consciousness or thought or anything usually attributed to intelligence. They're not even trying to, and the theoretical foundations they're built on aren't theories of consciousness, but pure statistics and signal processing.
We didn't, but cc transactions were the only ones growing from all other options of payment we have in the app...
FWIW, at least here in Sydney, the taxi people have significantly upped their game. The Silver Service app is close-to as good as the Uber one (at least from a rider's point of view, the drivers prefer the Uber app).

Another interesting thing I've noticed, my taxi trips for a few commonly used trips turn out to be occasionally cheaper, and rarely more than 5 or 10% more expensive than the Uber rides I used to use... (And that includes getting home at 1am on the nighttime surcharge rate here in Sydney...)

As a friend commented on Twitter recently: "it's pretty hard to make taxi owners look good - (not drivers, most drivers NOT owners) but Uber's making it happen"
Seems that they have a company in UK...not sure what bank accounts they use(usually they don't open you a business bank account if you're not resident...at least this did happen to me)
All of those networks you just mentioned rely on banking infrastructure.
Unrelated to the payment subject but it always blows my mind when companies not just copy a business model (which is fine and expected) but also more or less copy the identity along the way.