skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco is carrying a lot more prime beef than they did 5-10 years ago. Back then you'd only see a few cuts, now it seems like they have prime for almost everything that's not ground.
Thanks for the reality check; specifics matter a lot.

(My only question: how is it possibly a $500 bn/year market? The world economy is something like $60 tn; I have a hard time imagining black women's hair care is 1/120th of global GDP. I can't imagine hair care en toto is anything like ~0.8% of global GDP, either. I mean, if you're going to make up numbers... they should be plausible.)
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The problem there seems to be that you were learning an IDE/Gui builder and c++ at the same time.

Even from a modern persective, I'd disagree with that. Yes, the IDE was a pain point, but it existed because the alternative is much worse. You don't want to start out explaining Makefiles to anyone (even if you start with VS you'll be spending an hour setting up instead of programming).

Pointers force you to understand memory, allocations, the heap and stack, etc.

Yeah, and we'll both agree that this is crucial knowledge for any professional programmer. But if you're starting out (we're talking first language here), it's in the way. You don't even know what a loop is yet. You're at least years away from professional.

Also, not everyone who programs wants to become a software developer. Sysadmins don't need pointers, but a readable alternative to shell scripts is nice (I know such people, they exist). A journalist who wants to make a flashy chart on the internet doesn't need to know pointers. A biologist also doesn't - but (s)he can certainly benefit from programming. Have you seen what Jupyter can be used for?

Edit:

As a side note, I also see much value in starting with a more functional language than C++.

Lexical scope really affects your thinking. If you can get to that at the end of the first course, you'll have taught something tremendously useful. I've been working at a local university of applied sciences until last year, and you really don't want to know how many students there struggle with a C++ lambda expression.

Again, to reiterate: I'm a fan of C++. I still cringe at most other imperative languages. But I see its weaknesses (especially in teaching).
So you're driving scooters (not even one scooter... 3 of them!) around in, let me guess, a poor neighborhood where the average household can barely afford food on their welfare and food stamps, while you manage to have scooters and 5 (let me guess, >= $400 per unit) bikes?! Your friend had a high-end MacBook, other computer(s), and expensive phone(s) - all while their neighbors can't afford a 13 inch CRT television?

Again, I don't mean to make excuses for the criminals. But when you live in a neighborhood whereby you clearly have access to more money and possessions than your neighbors, those neighbors will take advantage. Never live "beyond your means" in daily life compared to your rent. That is my experience. If you cheap out on rent, while using your disposable income to buy fancy things, your neighbors will make a victim out of you.

If you can afford a $3,000 MacBook, you have no business paying < $1,000/month rent. Oh sure, you have the right to do so, and you should be legally protected against such attacks. But that's not how the reality of the world works. Medium (or nearly medium) income households who show off they are living above the wealth of their neighbors, will never live harmoniously among the poor who can't afford the same level of comfort. Fact of life.

If you are going to live in a poor neighborhood, you had better act poor. The moment you step out of your cheap-ass apartment wearing a suit and carrying a laptop, jumping onto a scooter or $50k car instead of a < $100 bike or < $500 used car, you've instantly made yourself an easy target.
The simplest explanation for why America is successful [...] where you think my argument falls apart factually

It doesn't even come together factually, let alone fall apart. The same exact things were said of the Italians, Jews, Poles, Irish and many others that poured into the US. Far worse of immigrants from East Asia. Entirely inexplicably, the country thrived and continues to do so.
More specifically, he captures his methane. I mean it still turns into water and CO2 once burned, but...
At Peer5, our customers are the broadcasters who operate streaming services throughout the world. The users are theirs, not ours, and it is up to the broadcasters to decide how they want to message / roll-out p2p services. Some choose to opt people in by default and allow them to opt out. Others choose the opposite approach. Our job is to give our customers the tools they need to create and enforce whatever business rules they feel are appropriate. This includes looking at ASN numbers to identify ISPs that operate metered services and turning off upstream sharing for such users. No one is forced to participate in a Peer5 mesh network. And the value proposition is most definitely better streaming, especially for the biggest / most popular streams as these benefit the most from a p2p solution. We have plenty of data from users all over the world to support this.
On controversial topics, it's best to frame the question very carefully. In this case, I'd recommend "I was hoping to know more about this topic. Why are black women the target market?"

It's important because even with the best of intentions, the exact wording can lead to a catastrophe of a thread (or avert one).
How would this help physical auto safety?
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Or Nvdia, for their hardware prowess in AI.
> This is a brilliant strategy on Amazon's part.

Indeed. I was recently in the market for a small mono/tripod to bring with me on vacation.

Looking at the "Best Sellers" for this category, it's blatantly obvious that Amazon is just taking the existing top 3 models, copying them almost 1:1, and then undercutting the original product price with their "Amazon Basics" branded product.

How are you supposed to survive selling a product when even Amazon is out there copying it and selling it for less?
Although I disagree with the sentiment that PyPy2/Python2 should die, I also disagree with the PyPy team treating PY3 as a second class citizen.

For this release PyPy2 shipped with binaries for 11 platforms, PyPy3 shipped with 1.
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>Some of the SKUs we don't even sell to anyone else anymore but Amazon.

It seems crazy to me that they don't have an easy process to support this. Amazon must have as much to gain by being the sole reseller as you do from them blocking other suppliers. I don't see why they don't offer a one-click agreement that a manufacturer can sign saying essentially "we won't sell this through any other channels if you won't accept any other sellers"
Googling around, I haven't seen any substantial evidence of any of your claims. It's hard to separate the hype from the reality when hearing anything about the self-driving car space.
Because sometimes you're trying to manage a single resource.

eg I know some phone/sms services that only let one account manage a phone number or something.

Also, sometimes account licences are absurdly expensive.

There's some services that even though we have (say) 50 licenced users, they also want us to have licences for each admin. We're not spending $50k/year just so we can each login once or twice a year to fix/configure something for someone.
There's a startup called CrowdCow that sells this grade of beef but in smaller portions: https://www.crowdcow.com
WHO: http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/

The US is about 4.3% of the world population. Typically, other populous countries have less cars per capita, but also higher accident and fatality rates.
If you are planning to take it, I would suggest a different approach which I have started.

1. Do Practical Deep Learning For Coders:-

http://course.fast.ai/ To take a plunge directly into deep learning AI, this course has rave reviews. This course will allow you to do practical industry level stuff first, then learn theory behind it, rather than other way.

Course description:

>This 7-week course is designed for anyone with at least a year of coding experience, and some memory of high-school math. You will start with step one—learning how to get a GPU server online suitable for deep learning—and go all the way through to creating state of the art, highly practical, models for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. There are around 20 hours of lessons, and you should plan to spend around 10 hours a week for 7 weeks to complete the material. The course is based on lessons recorded during the first certificate course at The Data Institute at USF. Part 2 will be taught at the Data Institute from Feb 27, 2017, and will be available online around May 2017.

2. Read http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ to gain the relevant math behind it. If you don't know some of the math like calculus or linear algebra presented in the book, learn as you read it from sources like Khan academy.

Now we are up to date on practical side of things, especially deep learning part. We can move on to gain a more generalized and rigorous outlook on various machine learning techniques.

3. Do https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229/ - CS229 By Andrew NG , its more rigorous, and complete compared to coursera course. And coursera course is not

I think within a year (max) just this coursework plan would give a strong foundations on practical, theoretical side of things in AI.

I get distracted trying to learn so many stuff at once, (clojure , sicp, haskell, advanced algo) etc etc. So I made this lesson plan to follow as I am interested in AI the most.
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I don't know that there's any particular formula that works. Other environments I've been around are also territorial, just less so.
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May be worth checking to see if you can get an out of warranty replacement. I bought the phone through my carrier (Google Fi) and they replaced it for free with a refurbished 5X. 6 months out of warranty.
"The iPad 2 is still in use today," IDC Senior Analyst Jitesh Ubrani tells TechCrunch. “The [original] iPad Minis and Air are all still in use today. They were being supported by Apple until very recently. People have been hanging onto these devices and they’re finding that they work just as well as they did when they were released"

It's simply true. I have a iPad 2 and iPad Air 2, and both run fine. The former still on iOS6, so it is fast. Most people who upgraded iPad 2/3 to iOS7+ regretted doing so, and replaced their device.

It's Apple's fault, if they want more sales they shouldn't fragment and confuse the customer with the whole iPad Air 2 not updating for years, than two iPad Pro models with higher price, and now the 9.7 model.

People want faster hardware and new features with every model, otherwise there is no reason to switch and replace an otherwise good working device. It's the same for smartphones, tabets, notebooks and PCs. Only that tablets are in-between phones and notebooks, and many people around the world just got their first access to internet and only own a smartphone. So no tablet and notebook sales from those.

If a brand stagnates, people start looking elsewhere for new more exciting devices. For example in China tier 1+2 cities the last 6 months there is a new trend, iPhone 7 was a big let down in their opinion, and so you see more and more high end Android phones - it happends very fast.

To manufacturers of phones/tablets/notebooks/desktop: produce new better models with new exiting features. Why is my 2010 notebook has the same spec as 2017 models, despite new ones that meet even the spec cost almost twice as much? Why is dual core in 2017 models still almost the only option? Where are the augmented reality camera features in smartphones and tablets?
The seller is responsible for delivering the product you paid for.

If they use a fulfilment service which cannot reliably achieve that, it's their problem, just as it would be if they used an unreliable courier.
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I'm assuming you mean a metal foundry and not a semiconductor foundry?

Still, the fact that they build their engines in-house is pretty impressive. I believe that many auto makers purchase their engines instead of designing then in-house because they are so complex to get right.
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Image buried on their site of a toilet.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1554/1773/products/share_t...
Not as long as amazon is perfectly willing to do a refund when you receive a product that wasn't as-advertised. And i haven't seen any evidence that amazon is unwilling to give a refund.

Not only will doing a chargeback destroy your amazon account, issuing a chargeback without first asking for a refund is probably against your credit card's ToS. A chargeback should be a measure of last resort, not the first solution you jump to.
Google Web Toolkit was great for putting your java in your javascript. Those were the days. I didn't really know Java or JS that well but I could write stuff! We actually used it for projects at Google. Plus anything interesting in java was always not implemented in GWT.
It's a serious question, if you have unlimited and automated SSL certificates, what is the purpose of wildcards?
I bought this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OQJO4C/ref=oh_aui_sear...

I'm not sure it is a fake or not. I looks a little "off" to me. Maybe real but intended for a foreign market? Hasn't burnt my house down yet, so that's something.
> I've been working on an idea for something like Dropbox with a viewer to display the different formats, HL7&v2, FHIR etc with basic search as a step up from people having to print stuff out and fax it. Not really an EMR but a tool to view record which could maybe be extended. Dunno if that has legs or if anyone had done it already?

Not sure what your intended market is, assuming internal for a hospital, but that doesn't sound like a usable idea to me. How does a typical enduser get the HL7 out to put in your dropbox? Most health systems won't let you just export a HL7 without paying the vendor through the nose for an interface.

There are so many inefficiencies in the typical hospital that there has to be ideas there, unfortunately there's usually some silly political issue or crazy Catch-22 type situation that stops common sense stuff from being able to be implemented.
The distinctly faint praise of "better than coal" does not seem to justify the term "green energy", I've certainly not heard anyone describe it thus before.
Without a sample list of email addresses, it's a bluff. That "womans iCloud account" is probably someone they know.
> Also, not everyone who programs wants to become a software developer. Sysadmins don't need pointers, but a readable alternative to shell scripts is nice (I know such people, they exist). A journalist who wants to make a flashy chart on the internet doesn't need to know pointers. A biologist also doesn't - but (s)he can certainly benefit from programming. Have you seen what Jupyter can be used for?

In context, this is about CS classes, while the others might do some programming they shouldn't need to do computer science. Also, although being easier, is jupyter doing anything not being done in emacs years ago?

>You don't want to start out explaining Makefiles to anyone (even if you start with VS you'll be spending an hour setting up instead of programming)

To anyone on the path of becoming a professional programmer, yes, it's worth a few minutes to write a trivial makefile. It's worth teaching how to compile from the command line and how to batch those commands with a DSL is really simple. Again, there are way to many programmers who have no idea what their IDE is doing, which really isn't that much.

> Yeah, and we'll both agree that this is crucial knowledge for any professional programmer. But if you're starting out, it's in the way. You don't even know what a loop is yet. You're at least years away from professional.

c/c++ don't force this straight away though, you can easily do for loops before you begin managing memory. In any language memory should be understood before arrays are.
The killer android support is why I still use it. Auto fill in any app.
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Well, my workplace didn't have an espresso machine in 1987 when I was writing apple basic games based on a crappy script. But you mean the tools are better now :-)
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If you are still targeting 16, you should make sure that you are handling a bunch of pretty serious security changes made between 17-21. There are a lot of ways you can shoot yourself in the foot when using the old APIs.
Bison are much harder to manage and haven't necessarily been bred for it as far as flavor. I've had a few burgers and they're nice, but somewhere between Venison and Cattle on the gamey scale.

On top of that, there aren't really any wild/purebred Bison as they all had some mixing with cattle after the herds were pushed to extinction.
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Mozilla helped to solve this problem and one is orogress. Please encourage your company to donate to ooen source in general (maybe it already does?) and to PyPy in particular
Are we sure that the anaerobic digester is a net carbon producer? What would have happened to the hog waste otherwise?

This article would imply that there are other environmental factors to consider: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141028-hog-f...

Steve Wing, the UNC-Chapel Hill epidemiologist, says hog operations give off ammonia, methane—a potent greenhouse gas—and hydrogen sulfide, which causes headaches and eye irritation. They also release endotoxin, an allergen, and at least a hundred volatile organic compounds, many of which contribute to the odor of hog farms.

[...]

The result? The covers trap odors, making the operation less smelly. Rain falling on the farm isn't contaminated by lagoon waste. And the farm is transforming waste into electricity-generating enough to power 90 refrigerators.
How about some vitriol?

You know what the #1 feature of nosql is? NoDBA.

I can hear you screaming you'll still need a DBA. You don't get it. You won't need an Enterprise DBA.

Enterprise DBAs are almost invariably horrible blockades to data storage in any enterprise. All they do is lock away the database from developers, cram Oracle down their throats, do things as slowly as possible behind ticket walls. You lock the data away pining for your halcyon mainframe days of white coats and clean rooms, and force your slow ponderous overtenanted infrastructure.

Your profession, since you have proudly identified as a DBA, you are an Enterprise DBA, is a disgrace.
AI Whizz Andrew Ng Quits Baidu
My parents (from out of state) got their Golden Gate Bridge toll in the mail a long time after they visited. I forget exactly, but I think it was at least a year later. There were no late fees or anything like that.
No, don't give up. I know a lot of people are doing a lot of assembling packages into building something, so there's little pride of craft. But there is still great handmade ('bespoke') software happening. In Seattle, there are jobs where you are writing something new, solving a problem. I think databases are where it's at.
Andrew Ng has always been ahead of the curve in seeing strategic shifts. He envisioned MooCs, founding Coursera to realise that vision. Then he helped found Google Brain. Then he helped Baidu become a leading player in AI (interestingly he pointedly says Americans are good at inventing stuff - Chinese at implementing it quickly. Sounds like the Imagenet cheating culture has't quite been eradicated yet - http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...).

So, by the sound of things, his next move is less technical and more political. How will AI change society and what vehicle would you use to help shape that change. Will be interesting to see what he does.
> To be clear: As far as I know, this bug only affects the TCG mode (without hardware acceleration), not KVM VMs or so.

I wonder what's the reach of that bug.
Flat text file on an encrypted volume. I use cat or vi for editing, and grep for reading. If it's ultrasensitive, I keep it on a non-networked device and type it in. Otherwise, normally, I grep and copy/paste from terminal to password field.

I do security for a living. This technique is mocked by other so-called experts, but who's laughing today? I fully understand the security model I'm using. Lastpass users--and developers--clearly did not. Other password manager users should stifle the urge to laugh if they haven't fully reviewed their entire stack.
I understand where you're coming from.
In a past life I trained defence people how to build better software for their killing machines.
Sometimes you just have to pay the bills.
I see you plugging your ears saying na na na if some says CAP anywhere close to you.
I have and it can be very good but the best (and most expensive) cuts from a butcher can be just as good. There were also small farms that have gone into the grassfed boutique approach that sell direct or through farmer's markets and they tend to be better than my great uncle's ranch was (no offense to him). There were some dairy farms that tried something similar but still had trouble being too profitable. The milk from them came in glass bottles and was very good.
> with the worldwide black hair care market estimated at $500 billion a year

Did they mean million? No way it's billion?
> What used to work really well were Flash cookies.

I heard from an adtech company that a patent troll was granted a patent on this (incredible, using an Adobe feature as designed wins a patent), and would wait until adtech companies reached a sufficient size before suing. They had a well known reputation of settling for a few million and weren't contested.
I don't think Amazon is going to make a lot of noise about this, because users who are unaware of this issue (which are still the vast majority) would then start to worry. They've sent out some light PR around it in business-oriented press outlets like Forbes.

Ask any FBA seller, especially those who do product arbitrage, and they'll tell you that Amazon is getting very aggressive with account suspensions and requiring a lot of documentation that the seller's original supplier is either the brand owner themselves or an authorized distributor.

I know a guy who did arbitrage with imports (authentic products, but "not authorized" because they were factory overruns). He made some good money for 2-3 months, but almost all of his products got removed for lack of verifiable paper trail and he ended up in a pretty bad spot.
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"However, while real X86 processors have a maximum instruction length of 15 bytes, QEMU's instruction decoder for X86 does not place any limit on the instruction and length or the number of instruction prefixes."

Interesting, and not your usual type of exploit. Guessing this isn't one that will have the Rust crowd doling out "told ya so" :). Logic error only. No buffer overflow, not much strong types do for you, etc.
An absolutely insane default IMO, especially when those who might need to use Tor the most are the technically illiterate.
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