skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Marines do, which is one of their strengths. The USMC has ground-pounders, tanks, rotary and fixed wing air, and landing craft. Doctrine is to use them together under one commander. "All operations are combined operations." The package is intended to win small and medium sized battles without needing other resources for 2-4 weeks. That's enough to deal with many crises. For the big jobs, it gives the Big Army time to position its heavy resources. Right now, there are four US Navy amphibious assault ships at sea, loaded up with Marines, weapons, and aircraft, spread around the world just in case they're needed in a hurry.

The U.S. Army, when not in combat, is a resource pool. Deployment involves pulling together various units and equipment from different locations and sending them somewhere. The mix of units depends on the task. "Moving Mountains", by Gen. Gus Patronis, describes how this was done for the Gulf War.
Might you please be able to refer some sources on their differing origins? I would be most interested to read them.
XMPP protocol is so open, that different implementations offer so distinct features, so the lowest common denominator barely includes sending messages to each other.
One quibble: anyone can sign up for vendor express and sell to Amazon directly, even if they aren't the manufacturer.
>In 2005 few people thought mobile phones would change much at all.

In the immediate future (e.g. in 2007 when the iPhone appeared) no. But everybody though mobile phones will ultimately be little computers -- even MS had Windows OS version (a crappy one) for smartphones.

>* In the 1950's the President of IBM supposedly said there was a market for maybe 5 computers in the world.*

And he was right. Though he never really said it, it was more of a misattribution of a quote by another, "Originally one thought that if there were a half dozen large computers in this country, hidden away in research laboratories, this would take care of all requirements we had throughout the country."

Which, if you think of it, is how Cloud computing works. Sure, there are not 5 computers -- but a huge part of the internet traffic is from 5 services and their data centers (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc).

>In 1990 no one thought there would be a global network for anyone and everyone that would change the world a few years later.

People expected and talked of such a thing since the 50s and communication satellites.

Heck, it was the main theme in books like Neuromancer and the whole cyberpunk movement.
I used to love his documentaries. I'm a fan of the music, and the aesthetic. I haven't seen HyperNormalisation, and plan to.

But, years later I look back and kind of think, 'huh, was there really substance to these films, or are the more art piece than legit documentary?"

From what I recall, they're not exactly clear on the sources for claims, and the filmmaking style is fairly manipulative – dramatic music and ominous stock footage that would make almost any politicians look like lizard people.

edit: Also, not saying they'd be 'bad' if they're more 'art' than 'documentary', but that context is important and I know from experience it's easy to take films at face value.
Sure you can do that. A little clunky though.
It seems to me the best way to build a case for autonomous driving would be for Uber, Lyft, etc to give incentives to drivers who have safety features like automatic emergency braking, then quietly build up a database of accident rate statistics. These services could be a great way to collect this sort of data and see which approaches improve safety.

I am skeptical of unmanned taxis for reasons having nothing to do with autonomous driving. What do you do if a passenger gets sick, passes out, starts acting violently, has a heart attack, all things regular taxis encounter. Basically, you need a person to monitor the vehicle, passenger and contents even if the car is driving much of the time. Plus also, pleasant conversation if desired.
>That's obviously a fairly small subset of people, though.

Yes, but it's the same kind of "fairly small subset of people" that today would frequent a place like HN.

So if today's devs and engineers don't think there'll be much in smartphone innovation, then it's like people in BBS in the 80s not believing in a networked future.
I thought he said the market segment doesn't matter, as long as you're on track to monopolize it.
"The AI Winter Is Coming" (February 23, 2017)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-winter-coming-sandro-skans...

so I don't expect deep learning to save us.
If they clearly label commingled stock, they might as well call it "genuine" vs. "counterfeit." There'd be no reason to buy the commingled stock since odds are it'll be fake.
Once again: if your argument is that a group of company executives can decide on a whim to go to a escort club together and not have it be a business function, I can agree to disagree with you. I'm simply rebutting the notion that attending an escort club can't be on its own intrinsically sexist. Clearly, it can be.
When people end up training their replacement H1B worker (ask the Disney employees for one example), I don't think companies are following the spirit or the letter of the rules. The ease of skirting the issue shows up anytime someone looks at the top 10 H1B companies.
This is unsettling. Not only are many counterfeit goods being sold through Amazon, but Amazon's policies (co-mingling inventory, lack of ability to signal counterfeit goods in complaint, lack of ability to review a counterfeit seller of a good instead of the good itself) are directly encouraging this situation. And Amazon's response seems to be a collective shrug.

The news media's response is probably just as much to blame - they're more interested in writing fluff pieces about Amazon's hypothetical drone delivery than in informing the public about the current major threat to consumers posed by Amazon's policies. I'm willing to bet a lot of customers have received faulty counterfeit goods and don't even realize it.

This also underscores one of the problems with quasi-monopolies - once they feel they have a captive audience, they're only more than happy to screw over their customers in order to make a bit more money. If everyone gravitates towards one company, we end up in a very precarious situation when the company invariably decides that we have no where else to go and then can do whatever they want to us.
Mercedes released a video [1] back in 2013 showing pretty decent driving. I imagine they didn't stop with progress and have even more capable systems today.

Mercedes-Benz has successfully completed the first autonomous long-distance drive ever, involving both town and cross-country traffic, using near-production-standard sensor systems. The Mercedes-Benz S 500 INTELLIGENT DRIVE research vehicle covered 100 kilometers from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, under real traffic conditions and complex situations including traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrians, cyclists and trams.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihC5flC-38
So far you haven't provided an example of something similar that is "luckily not considered discrimination". The one example you have provided is in fact (and has in the real world been) grounds for a discrimination claim.
Buying direct from Amazon can get you third party inventory. Amazon mixes their inventory for many product verticals with third party vendors and will ship out counterfeit goods "sold by Amazon" according to numerous product reviews on their own site.
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NASA Selects Mission to Study Churning Chaos of Nearby Cosmos
Yes. The minute that SV becomes a growth-obsessed low value creation social-responsibility ignoring echo bubble where opinions are valued on the net worth of the person holding them, we're all screwed.
Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
> 4.) Yoga, meditation, plant-based diet have all played a major part in creating the modern world including computers and the internet. If people don't have discernment to know true from false, that is their shortcoming and not Dharma. ;)

I was interested in your argument about meat and then I got to this, which immediately unraveled any point you had for me.

Investments in military technology played a major part in creating the modern world including computers and the Internet. That hippies were so intimately involved at a few important points is more a reflection of the time period and culture than causality, more an observation of the type of people drawn to the work for a season. Stating that we have the existence we have in large part because of yoga and meditation and not eating meat is so revisionist and misguided that I don't even know how to dispute it. I'm sorry, but that's just blatantly ridiculous because it's such a complete inversion of the actual truth.

That you take it further and imply someone is defective and invoke Dharma for believing otherwise is quite something. You should really bring it down a bit if you want your point to make sense, because you're coming across as far more arrogant than I think you intend.
Is this a big opportunity for a class-action lawsuit by sellers whose reputations were damaged by Amazon fulfilling their orders with counterfeit goods, or is there some kind of genuinely binding "shit happens" clause in the FBA contract?
Why do people think Mr. Thiel supports a Muslim registry?
Has he ever indicated that?

Because he backed a candidate who sometimes says dumb things in order to get votes from certain groups doesn't mean he himself supports the full rhetoric.

Parties are coalitions. Not everyone who is a Democrat can be accused of supporting every dumb statement or bad position from Clinton or Pelosi.
From TFA:

> Instead of evil villains, we find husbands, fathers, mothers and neighbours working with the cultural materials available to them, surviving as best they can.

I think it's an illuminating way of looking at Bad Stuff Normal People Do. We're truly very adaptable animals and can rationalise our actions, which often derive from cultural baggage.

I actually think it's quite hard to break free of that baggage, our values, our education, things we received as given when young and did not bother ever questioning.
Sure. That's the point of using external screens (e.g. dumb "docking stations", converting any phone into a laptop).
As an illustration of how much code gets included (on macOS Sierra):

$ echo "#include <iostream>" > foo.cpp
$ g++ -E foo.cpp | wc
37799 104779 1280834

Including just iostream in a file means the compiler has to process 37799 (!) lines.

For comparison, a C file including stdio:

$ echo "#include <stdio.h>" | gcc -E - | wc
456 1638 20880

That still looks bloated to me, but is about 60x times fewer bytes.
I don't think it's presumptuous at all.

ENIAC (which is 70 years old) had some obvious flaws: it was too big, too expensive, too hard to use, and didn't do enough. This has been true for computing hardware ever since. The first portable PC [1] is 35 years old. It was too big, too expensive, too hard to use, and didn't do enough. Ditto the first laptop, the first handhelds, the first smartphones, and pretty much every other first.

But that's no longer true for modern phones. Few complain their phones are too big, and many wanted larger ones, leading to the rise of the phablets. Phone prices could be lower, but they're cheaper than the phone service over the phone's life, so making them much cheaper won't make a big difference. They could still be a little easier to use, but ease of use isn't keeping anybody from buying one. And now they do pretty much everything; phones are the computing swiss army knife.

We may find a new direction to take things in, and there are some plausible candidates. But you can't use the history of computing platforms to predict future change in personal devices, because we've mostly solved the problems we set out to solve. As we've experienced with cars or buildings, we could easily be looking at decades of incremental change.
Rent is also lower in Europe, and house size has pretty rapidly diminishing returns.
just checked my website visitor log. Only 1% people use Edge.
It is not a surprise at all.

The best way to secure a browser is just like what chrome and firefox do: open source it.
> Is it really unthinkable that smart phones that you carry around in your
pocket are the dominant platform for the next 50+ years?

Yes it is :-). We have not yet entered the age of carbon (still in the Silicon age) and when we get there (and it will be in the next 10 years or so) you'll see a large increase in computer power per watt. Combine that with the fact that we have imagined a more interesting future than the one we're in, and it pretty much insures evolution in personal technology.
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Yeah, don't hold your breath for those.

You'll be needing an oxygenated brain for when they arrive.
Hmm. I had watched the documentary before listening to the podcast, so maybe my assessment was off since I was already primed with the info.
I'm deferring so much of my details knowledge to google that's it not even funny. Even for casual lunch convos I pull the phone to google specific facts. I'd rather have a less intrusive and awkward interface.
Which doesent make it that anymore than playing soccer or golf in a countryclub does.
Does cold-emailing VC firms ever work?
Octogenarian Couple Donates $10M Insect Collection
Didn't know we'd already been screwed for so long :)

Sorry, not constructive at all...I just had to.
Not really the cell cycle per se, but yes, the idea is to poison senescent cells. But it can be benign to the organism as a whole nonetheless.
I wouldn't worry too much. I can see 500 tech job openings in San Jose only:

https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=PUBLISHED_AT_D...
What is the margin of error of these numbers?
This reminds me of this children toy:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%83%E5%B7%A7%E6%9D%BF
At least valid utf-8 isn't difficult for a filesystem to enforce.
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Is the AC Access Scope whitelisting described in the article available to all UWP apps in the Creators Update?

I understand it was added specifically for Edge sandboxing, but it sounds like useful functionality (albeit niche) for other apps that deal with untrusted data routinely.

PS - In terms of technology and standards Edge is a pretty solid browser. I love the Dark theme.
and speed, efficiency, complexity...?
That might have been the implication. Sorry, I'm British.
I'm definitely NOT talking about the most innovative competitor in the retail space because I'm talking about Amazon. What I'm saying is that if Amazon disappeared, the retail space would be more competitive. I highly doubt that is at all controversial.
who said it can't be? Another strawman.
Google.com is today's Ai. No reason to believe it will stop improving.
If the denominator doesn't matter, then there have been 0 accidents of any kind in the last femtosecond due to humans. Clearly that means autonomous vehicles are a menace, right? Or maybe it's rate of accidents not the absolute number that matters?
I wouldn't call Ansible and Terraform programming languages. In two and a half years at a well known startup, I've written less than 1000 lines of code in a senior DevOps/Infra role.

DevOps/infrastructure is knowing how to glue together off the shelf tools and understanding how everything works. Great that as a dev you can probably bolt these tools together with docs, but your lack of context with the underlying fundamentals will eventually bite you.
On the subject of the actual content of the article, it was a really interesting read. I would like to hear more about how they profiled or "tuned" the app containers for API access. That might be really useful for other devs.
More details would be helpful. If this goes to court, the video from the self-driving vehicle would be interesting.

An important question is whether their system is smart enough to take evasive action.

It's becoming clear that there are two ways to approach self-driving. The first stems from the DARPA Grand Challenge, which was about off-road driving. For that, the vehicles had to profile the terrain, plotting a path around obstacles, potholes, and cliff edges. The GPS route was just general guidance on where to go. That's the approach Google took, as can be seen from their SXSW videos. Google also identifies moving objects and tries to classify them. With all that capability, it's possible to take evasive action if some other road user is a threat. The control system has situational awareness and knows where there's clear space for escape.

The other approach is to start with lane following and automatic cruise control, and try to build them up into self-driving. This can be done entirely with vision systems. That's the Cruise Automation and Tesla approach. This puts the car on a track defined by lines on the pavement, with lane changes and intersections handled as a special case. There usually isn't a full terrain profile; that requires LIDAR. So there isn't enough info to plan an emergency maneuver for collision avoidance.

This distinction is not well understood, and it should be.
The next form factor is pervasive computing, of which Alexa and Google Home are the first stumbling attempts.
I think we'll just keep removing features and raising the price :/
When apoptosis fails, it's might be because p53 binds to foxo4 and gets stuck in the nucleus which prevents the p53 from getting to the mitochondria. In the experiment p53 in the paper, p53 unbound from foxo4 in the nuclease and bound to foxo4-dri and successfully flowed down the mitochondria so apoptosis could occur.
Yeah, actually app container tech is available to any native developer. (Maybe there's a .Net API for dealing with them. Don't know.)
I really don't see his perspective on a lot of these.

I don’t think we’re living in an incredibly fast technological age. - ..speaking on innovation in fields outside of computing.

I agree that the pace of tangible improvement in some fields (eg construction) has not been as fast as others, but a lot of things have been changing fast. Think of simple manufactured goods. Chairs, plates, etc. The labour efficiency or just end-user price and choice is far better today compared to a generation ago. For a lot of goods (eg clothes) most of the cost to the end user happens between factory door and checkout. We could be doing a lot better at that, but the actual process of turning sunshine, water & air into t-shirts and washing detergent is not stagnant. This happened during a period where China's annual addition of low cost employees to the global pool kept average wages and efficiency low. Labour efficiency would (will) be even higher as their wages rise.

Progress is complicated. But I can't see how he comes to his conclusions. Maybe I'm missing some context.
I guess you didn't read the next sentence? I never claimed it's no big deal. I simply stated an empirical reality.

And yes, I've already provided evidence on how your race will affect your earning potential, even as a felon. Given that white felons may have better opportunities than blacks with college degrees, being a white felon could be as "bad" as being a black college graduate. Take it as you will.

If you have evidence contradicting mine I'd love to read it.
Chrome isn't Open Source. Chromium is Open Source.

Chrome adds a lot of proprietary bits including (but not limited to): Audio & Video Codecs, Flash Plugin, Crash Reporting, Metrics, et al.
It's a real problem. I have been buying and selling used products from Amazon to other marketplaces for the last 8 years. I used to get counterfeits once a month. Now, I get them 3 or 4 times a week.

Even when I bring it to Amazon's attention, I only get my money back half the time. When I tried to file a claim with my credit card company, my buying account was temporarily banned until I paid back the money (for counterfeit goods that I actually got inspected by the manufacturer and had the paperwork to prove it). The big problem is that Amazon will only give you your money back if you can prove it. It can sometimes take 5 months to get it actually inspected (if you are lucky) and by that time, you are well past the time to return it.

The worst part is that it nearly destroyed my business. I got two cease-and-desists in 8 months because I wasn't able to catch all of the counterfeits in time. Myself and my staff are well versed in catching these counterfeits, but it's still a very difficult task.

I had to hire an attorney, and I sent all of the sellers' info to the attorney of the manufacturer. I was lucky it ended here.

To this day, I still can't sign up with an Amazon seller account because 5 years ago, a single customer complained about an item I sold them. I returned their money promptly and even paid for a return shipping label. Amazon support didn't care. My account was closed, and I was out $500, because the buyer never sent it back to me. They no longer will even talk to me about it (all emails go into a black hole as if I never sent them) and I can't even manage another person/companies account without getting it permanently banned.

This is why it's so dangerous to allow a few companies to control so much of the Internet. They can potentially ban you from even making a living and there is really no appeals process. At the time, they had a few automated prompts that claim it's an 'appeals process', but I could tell it was just a bot.

I still don't understand how so many of these sellers can sell counterfeits, which is illegal in the US, and make multiple accounts, with almost no issues.

It has to be some sort of collusion with employees. It really doesn't make any other sense.
I've had the pleasure of working with some great a Linux sysadmins. I had a great relationship with them as a developer. Another developer hated them and treated them poorly. Do you think they would help him out after hours if they weren't on call? Same thing for EEs who treat technicians poorly. A tech might tell them a rework is impossible. If they like you and you buy them a beer from time to time, they might say, "That's going to be really tough, but I'll give it a shot and we'll see what happens."

I think a great piece of advice for life is, "Never assume you are the smartest person in the room." Remember that everyone brings something to the table.
Research reveals inner workings of liquid crystals
Don't worry, it won't be.
Not really a documentary -- just an extended op-ed piece. If you already have any deep knowledge of the topics he goes into, he's not terribly convincing (sometimes even getting a bit looney.)

On the other hand it's nice to see a brazenly unapologetic Marxist, rather than the milquetoast, watered-down socialists the media normally present.
How quickly titles apparently change, as it currently reads "Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident"
Mercedes comes from a tradition of 'keep your mouth shut and then deliver a premium product.' Self-driving cars are not a market where 'move fast and break things' is an acceptable consumer philosophy and Uber demonstrates how tricky it is to reposition your brand from naughty to trustworthy. Mercedes, by contrast, can just run an ad in a year or two announcing that the new Z-Class or whatever it's called can drive you around in any weather and be believed by the vast majority of consumers.
Currently on 6 via Chroma on an early Nexus 4, I flashed it with the tiny gaps bundle so I got just google play, I don't use chrome, gmail, google messenger etc.

I rather like not having googles sweaty little fingers in my mobile life all the time, been able to run Lineage from day 1 will be the single decisive factor on next phone whenever that is since everything else is basically a wash now.
#Malware posing as Siemens PLC application is targeting #ICS worldwide
I wasn't asking about app containers in general. I was asking specifically about the AC Access Scope whitelisting discussed in the article.

Essentially the thing they added in the Creators Update and are discussing here.