skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing new in Abstraction of passes and pipelines. We need to think about practical complications also.
Good call to take it public, it's the only way to solve such an issue in time. Just wait until Matt Cutts or one of his team shows up here on HN to have a look at this problem.
It refers to the generation of electricity. "National Grid" implies that, since that is the name of the system of wires that carries electricity throughout the UK. But only if you have the necessary context.
1. Cost of living soars in Britain.
2. Britain's young people want to leave: Europe offers a better deal. Cheaper property, better employment conditions, better looking men and women, good food.
3. Britain's codger population votes to pull up the drawbridge - not to keep the foreigners out, but to keep its youth enslaved.

You poor bastards, good luck to you.
Lower corporation tax too.
Potting is less expensive than designing an entire suspended/isolated container.
>Technology is always getting better!

>The old timers who almost universally report this phenomenon just don't know enough arm chair statistics. Delusional, basically.

Most all the links that you've referenced do acknowledge the role of perceived obsolescence, ie, replacement of an appliance before its useful life is up. That, along with selection bias and the absence of solid data from the 50s-70s, are important factors that are unaccounted for. Snark won't change that.
I thought it was plant based
PyDev of the Week: Paul Moore
I'd imagine when you're given a study like this it doesn't have any clues that the context of such a study should be taken in the rest of the world. That would be a huge methodological failure on the part of the study.
I interned at Numenta [0] in 2012. Numenta is building an open-source machine intelligence product [1] based on the human brain. Specifically, the algorithms are based on the theory of "hierarchical temporal memory" (HTM) [2] as described by Numenta founder Jeff Hawkins [3] in his book On Intelligence [4]. The basic idea is that the neocortex has a generalized learning framework that acts on generalized input from all five senses. For example, one study enabled blind people to "see" a ball in front of them and grasp it with their hands, by encoding the image of the ball onto electrical impulses on taste buds, using a device in contact with the tongue. I can't find a link to the original study, but here's an article that describes one such device. [5] The conclusion drawn from this is that, even though blind people have lost their sight, their neocortex is able to understand inputs from any sensory source (in this case, tastebuds). The Numenta algorithms generalize this idea to feed time series data into a virtual "neocortex" that builds custom ML models for each data source and chooses the best one (a form of online learning that eliminates the need for data scientists to create custom models for each data source).

Because the Numenta algorithms are optimized for time-series data, their areas of strength are prediction and anomaly detection. When I worked there (5 years ago, they've made a lot of progress since then), one of their main "case studies" was energy usage in large buildings. Jeff Hawkins gave the keynote presentation at Strangeloop 2012 where he discussed this specific application of the algorithms, lowering energy bills in factories by predicting the next day's usage in advance. [6]

My understanding is that the algorithms worked particularly well for energy consumption data (e.g. energy drops at night on weekdays, drops on weekends, spikes in meeting room X at 10-11am every day, etc). I would not be surprised at all if DeepMind is able to capture savings using similar methods.

[0] https://www.numenta.com/

[1] https://www.numenta.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence

[5] http://www.theplaidzebra.com/device-allows-blind-people-see-...

[6] https://www.numenta.com/blog/2012/10/22/jeff-hawkins-at-stra... (link to video at bottom of blogpost). You need to login to download the PDF slides, so I made an imgur album of the relevant slides to this discussion: https://imgur.com/a/5ULak
This course was discussed here on HN 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13224588

thrawy45678: I see a lot of criticism about tmux and other non-core items being included in the overall curriculum. I think the author is trying to portray the workflow he is currently on and exposing the full tool kit he uses. I don't think he is saying - this is "THE" approach one has to follow.

derekmcloughlin: If you've no experience with ML stuff, you might want to start with Andrew Ng's course [...] Paperspace (https://www.paperspace.com/ml) have ML instances starting at $0.27 per hour.

webmaven: Any recommendations for the cheapest (but not "penny wise, pound foolish") HW setup that meets these requirements for course completion? - (answers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227437 )
The way static analyzers fight against false positives, and why they do it
Hey, it's MaulingMonkey! I spent most of my childhood on #gamedev. (Is Washu still around?)

Thanks for the countless hours debating random programming topics. #gamedev was a pretty wonderful incubator for a 14 year old. Whenever I ran into a wall that couldn't be solved with googling, someone was usually able to give some sort of tip or an arcane D3D incantation to point me in the right direction. Hope you've been well!
UUIDs can be chosen to have at least a rough ordering to make them more efficient to use as primary keys, discussion about this use here: https://github.com/jmcvetta/guid/blob/master/README.md
AR will become mainstream at the point people see it as the norm in public.

Apple's core advantage is that they set the standard for mobile smart devices and consumer will follow them if they're able to gain momentum.

Question at that point swings back to how they'll try to do it, which becomes highly speculative.

If I had to guess, they'll morph the iPhone to a AR device like the morphed the iPod to a phone; meaning the first step is to add AR to the iPhone and gain traction.
>crappy wooden

I'm not sure where you got the gripe against wood from. It lasts longer than uPVC given maintenance every 5 years, looks better, is more environmentally friendly and has similar thermal properties. Oh and it doesn't go yellow.
Unlike with betting though, it is seen as acceptable for insurance companies to weasel out of their obligations when paying out insurance.
5 tips for actually shipping a side project
That is a much easier decision to make, but i have no idea what the costs and savings involved are so I do not know.
WebGL 2 Examples: Common rendering algorithms implemented in raw WebGL 2
I tend to be a skeptic with these types of technology but I must admit I've seen a video of supposed HoloLens footage (and even if it wasn't, it would do as a concept), that made me wonder.

This is the video I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mtS_224mKU

Now it's super flimsy and everything, but I guess those technologies are best imagined as they would look like if all hardware quirks were solved. I can definitely see a future where, instead of a desktop/laptop/tablet, you put on glasses and see an unlimited amount of virtual, arbitrarily-sized, floating monitors in front of you. Forget the 3D-gimmmicks, even. That alone sounds cool and useful. It's 2030 tech more than 2020 tech, probably, but I can see a future where this works.
Makes sense for Apple to spend some resources investigating potential large & new technologies, even if they don't produce a product. The field will shift when AR and self-driving cars and [insert intriguing vaporware here] arrive, so Apple should take a good hard look at the impact, if not the product potential, before they're too far behind the curve.
Be happy to evaluate your site vs. the competitors and then give an opinion..
That's what I think any time I'm in the UK. But most buildings are either protected (happened in our office, windows could not be double glassed due to protection and they added a new, secondary window for insulation "behind"), or nobody wants to spend that amount of money
On a similar note, for anyone that hasn't seen it you can get live grid metrics from http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/.
8 people who turn up to every hackathon
If you feel it is web spam, I would report them to the search engines.

For Google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport

And you can submit feedback to Bing on a search results page -- be detailed!

It may not be fast, but it helps them.
I don't see the group lobbying the Government to follow through on that "suggestion". If they believed strongly enough in the "suggestion" to put it on the side of a bus and in their leaflets, surely they should be trying to secure that £350m/week NHS funding as we speak?
Yes; 10 years working while the economy tries to recover from that, and now we're about to chuck it back into turmoil mode again.
Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in American workforce
Even before either of the campaigns they were involved in succeeded, I've read articles that seem to suggest they were better at marketing themselves and selling than actually delivering what they claimed they could.

Maybe they got better at it, but personally I'd point the finger at decades of Murdoch-led media brainwashing rather than anything new-fangled. It used to be Boris Johnson's actual job as a journalist to make up lies about the EU to be fed to nationalistic, right-wing old people. And that demographic did much more for them than the (relative) youngsters on facebook.
On the other hand, if ML gives you a 0.5% disadvantage, that too is a non-trival amount of losses on a national scale. Because they compared against baseline rather than against another data science team (or both), it's difficult to know if ML actually brings an advantage here.
Just as a side note; A bookmaker isn't actually your adversary in the way you mean it here.

A bookmaker (as defined) in a normal? environment shouldn't care for a particular result in a gamble. All they care for is the profit they make from squeezing the odds on both ends of a gamble. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_bookmaking
But the Leave campaign haven't formed a government so can't submit a budget, and ministers can have personal opinions and proposals that aren't government policy.

Attacking the logic of the idea is sensible. Asking why it isn't happening now is ignorance of the whole setup.
I don't know if it's the case elsewhere, but for example in France there is a law enforcing a 10 year warranty for every building or repair on buildings.
https://www.french-property.com/news/build_renovation_france...

Apple aims at planned obsolescence. Those 2007 Macs are still reliable (I have one) but you can't upgrade to the latest OS, so you miss security patches... Same for IOS devices.
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Theoretically yes: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en

No idea if it has any impact.
There’s a huge conspiracy theory brewing about the mandatory rollout of smart meters. They’re going to absolutely freak out when they learn that Google’s Deep Mind will be watching them.
How Alexsey Belan hacked into more than a dozen tech companies
a DIY content farm is still against googles guidelines - and what exactly do you mean by bridge site?

I suspect the OP is in a non English speaking country where anecdotally there is a lot more spammy crap going down.
Worked so well for Goggle and Microsoft so far.
Interesting. I have on my shelves a copy of O'Reilly Associates' 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, copyright February 2010, ergo an increase of roughly seven things per year.
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And neither should they.

The German government wants to implement insane penalties for not removing "fake news" fast enough, but what they're really trying to do is make sure Facebook only tells their side of the story, i.e. establish censorship on the internet.

Government-critical sites that had millions of followers were already banned while media supporting the government can happily keep spreading their equally or even worse fake news.

It's becoming a world-wide trend to call unfavorable things fascist and then employ fascist methods to fight them. Just like calling oligarchic structures a democracy, because it sells better.
How Atlassian Uses Data Science to Improve Collaboration
There's a history of people hiring the wrong builders and buildings being destroyed, I should imagine it's partially to hedge against that.
How to DEVELOP AN ONLINE SHOPPING APP LIKE FLIPKART?
I would be surprised. That would be way out of character for Google.
US Marines getting lectured regarding nude pics
If people want to be bullshitted they will be bullshitted. Fake news on BOTH sides allows people's confirmation bias to give them that nice hit of dopamine on how right they were about those Muslim immigrants or ignorant flyover hillbillies.

Step one is to realize your side is just as full of shit as the other and to accept that your favorite politicians are not right about even half of most public policy ideas.

After that, then you can start working on removing biases.

Edit: Also fake news is such a shitty term. Call it what it is: propaganda. Media that plays to the worst elements of our animal brains to bring the greatest emotional response and move our fingers to the share buttons. It's nothing new, we just have an unprecedented amount of it available to us and little desire to hear the complex and often unintuitive truth to many issues: nuance doesn't fit in a tweet.
The overhead is not as large as you're imagining. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...

> By contrast, in the hundred years since the first motorized taxi, there has been no evidence of significant scale economies in the urban car service industry. That explains why successful operators never expanded to other cities and why there was no natural tendency towards concentration in individual markets. Drivers, vehicles and fuel account for 85% of urban car service costs. None of these costs decline significantly as companies grow. As the P&L data above demonstrates, Uber has not discovered a magical new way to drive down unit costs.
I can live with odd chess layouts, but the one that always gets me is the Symbol barcode scanner that's mounted as a dash ornament in the new Star Trek movies.

Every time there's a bridge scene I can't help but look for it and "fondly" remember my barcode development days.
I wonder if it is really reliable to bootstrap a production quality app with this. Edge cases in platform APIs are still in a state that is harmful for a developer who uses cross platform tools like these. React Native or HTML5 based frameworks sort of cheat by using an additional VM layer on top.
I'd be surprised if it was genuinely because the building's listed, it's usually just that the landlord doesn't want to make the investment (and the market doesn't demand it). Sadly, until the law requires rentals attain a certain level of efficiency, the same way you need something like a gas safety certificate, I can't see it changing.

And apparently the Green Deal was a failure - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/14/green-de....
They are subsidizing the rides. They are charging you less than what they pay the driver. That is why they are losing money.
Their idea of AR's use is... novel. I cant see myself wanting to "turn someone's head" in AR/VR.

Can I get a Siri that can actually answer my questions instead of "Here's what I found on the web for that" ....
Both plastic and petroleum jelly are petroleum-based, but have drastically different properties.

The cellulose polymer acts as hard plastic.
They lied. It was a clear, unambiguous, blatant, lie.

And although they withdrew it the morning of the referendum results, it's fair to keep reminding people that some voted "leave" because of this promise.

http://imgur.com/indvx6a

http://imgur.com/AJzU5nd

If they were not able to keep this promise they should not have made it. They should have said that this is not something they can offer.

Remember when Nolan Principles were a thing?
Probably not as London is a cheap source for native english speaking engineering resource - compare the starting salary's in London vs SV
> There are no "predators"

Unfortunately, you're wrong. While there might be far fewer actual predators than the registry supposes, there are indeed actual predators on the list. The problem is that the registry is abused by law enforcement and the public through misunderstanding and continued by lack of intellectual integrity. Why read any public case notes of convictions when all you need to know is that they're on the registry? It takes so much _time_ to actually find out _why_ someone's on the registry. It takes a lot of thinking to actually figure out "hey this person was simply exploring their sexuality and no harm was intended". Why spend time and thought on that when you can just assume the worst and let someone else worry about truth?
Cellulose acetate was one of the first materials used for many of the things we use petroleum based plastics for now. Early Lego were cellulose acetate.

It's still used for lots of things.
>You could also say that gambling is net negative sum, while insurance is net positive sum.

Isn't the second part of this statement false? How could insurance companies stay in business if their profits are negative? Isn't it a net negative sum for the customer base by design of the actuarial tables?
Build a fast deep learning machine for under $1K https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13605222 a month ago with many tweaks recommended in the comments.

gcp: Contrary to the claims there, the CPU does matter

dsacco: yes, this will work, it will quickly become suboptimal [...] as you scale your hobby into something resembling more professional work

brudgers: I'd start with a used Dell Precision T7xxx series off of Ebay for a <$300 including RAM and a Xeon or two.

croon: If the limit is a firm $1000, I would get something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XHV9Fd
However, something as epic as self-driving cars are one of those things that come once every two generations. SDCs, if achieved, have the potential to change the entire American way of life and massively disrupt society. Start-ups love to disrupt and this would be the mother of all disruptions.

So, for that reason alone, I think firms are willing to bet a sliver of their portfolio. If I was a family office I certainly would do so.
As someone who's already built several prototypes for the HoloLens, marketed for the Air Force, I also find this kind of humorous.
From a Docker engine to Docker Swarm: an experience to create clusters
A down round with Uber's losses means that the company will probably not survive.
Unless you need to fetch items in order, for some reason.
An obscure joke on this topic that's always tickled me though perhaps not objectively funny:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/property-2
I think the word "adaptive" is meant to mean "general" learning that can be applied to more behavior.

AlphaGo was trained for blackgammon, could it be given chess and learn it just as well? The answer is no.

If I had to personally define AI, I would give a machine input to limbs of robot, and output of cameras and microphones (eyes and ears). And I would see if given sufficient years, can it learn language and conversation and ability to use robotic body for sports.
Part 1: Taking an existing online service, improving it and making money with it
A good warranty from the manufacturer is different, since it incentivizes them to make a product they don't have to repair in the first place. Once you're paying for a warranty, that goes out the window.
> There are no "predators"

This is just as wrong as saying that everyone on the registry is a predator. Of course everyone isn't. But there absolutely are many violent rapists, pedophiles, etc on those registries. Plenty of people who made a mistake or got caught without a Romeo & Juliet law in their state, but also plenty of sexually violent predators.
In a business context if a person wants to call me, I want them to have my phone number. If they want to email me, I want them to have my email address and so on.

The magic number is neither of those and the steps to obtaining my phone number or email address from it are non-obvious because they are not based on decades of cultural practice. They are also dependent on a third party whose servers might go down (even Amazon's servers go down).

Good luck.
60 years ago, most people didn't have large appliances. Growth came from actual growth. You could build reliable appliances and still sell new ones. Today, most new sales come from replacement. I'm guessing, I didn't look this up, but I bet it's true.

Like the author said, there are a million brands but only a few manufacturers. Consumers can't buy based on reliability, even if they want to.
JQuery 3.2.0 released
Tips for Managing Remote teams
> could have backed out of this disaster in a politically acceptable way

I don't think any retreat would have ever been politically acceptable. The general public saw through the "hard/soft" Brexit angle, it was clear that remaining in the single market would not have delivered the majority of leavers wishes.

Worse still, this heavy push on "soft Brexit" made the perception that certain sections of the establishment was trying to deceive their way out of the vote stronger. This sort of feeling, that outside powers are pursuing objectives against our wishes, was a strong driver in the ref vote.
And reverting to proper Imperial units none of those commie SI units back to "Thous" :-)
I think it is other way around. It is non-Go programmers who would pour hate on lack of generics in Go every time. It is irrespective of whether Go is even referred in blog post or not.
LEGO are, officially at least, looking to move to a more sustainable plastic rather than a cheaper one. They have spent a lot of time and money coming up with an analog that is more environmentally friendly without sacrificing quality (compression strength, deformity, discoloration, etc).

Being both non-American and non-public, LEGO are less susceptible to the MBA bean-counting that is at the root of most of the problems described in this thread.
I don't understand how they can still go through with this. As far as I've been following the analytics, news and coverage on this, the outcomes for UK are only negative. Can please someone enlighten me the good outcomes that will come out of this? Or is this really just about pride and stupidity?
> You would think so. But my dad is a varsity Professor with a PhD, my mom has a Masters in English.
They believe literally every cock and bull story they see on Facebook.

I would guess that the difference between you and your parents is years of exposure to the tropes, tone, register and other pragmatics of internet content.
Norway's GDP per capita is quite a bit higher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

Judging by the top entries in this list, GDP PP is a pretty good happiness predictor.
>I don't understand why so many commenters here are so furious about the author's claim that AlphaGo is not AI.

I don't think they really are. I think they are annoyed because nobody (who knows the difference) ever claimed that AlphaGo was strong/true/general AI) - and the article feels like it's swatting at strawmen.
I'm not surprised that the general public is worried about AI but I would expect many others to worry about data. Exaggerating a bit: mathematics and AI skills is something any talented person can get individually, but gathering useful personal data on a large scale requires a huge infrastructure. So if we want to "democratize" then I'm wondering why not democratize access to data.