skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's just a euphemism for when NASA is no longer able to communicate with the men, which is also a euphemism...
Ultimately you want to count photons to produce an image. And if it's an incoherent source, I don't think there's anything else you can do with it.

With coherent light it can be useful to have the light interact with matter in a way that depends on the phase of the light. But if the light is incoherent then that won't yield anything useful. And this still doesn't beat the shot noise limit - your phase measurements still come from counting photons subject to shot noise.

Then there's polarisation. Two polarisation states. But really that's just like saying there are two kinds of photons. Both polarisation states are subject to number-phase uncertainty principle.

I think that's it. There's the number and phase, which are conjugate variables. You can make number more accurate by squeezing phase, but only if you control the light source. And then there's the two polarisation states.

And the EM field simply doesn't have any more degrees of freedom than that, so I think that's it unfortunately.

It's number-phase squeezing or nothing if you want to count photons more accurately than shot noise.
Hang out with astronomers, they do this stuff all the time: poisson noise, dark current, readout noise, readout time, taking thousands of shots and stacking them according to the previous factors.
Leaving the bar at 2:00am, trying to find a number for a cab company, calling their dispatch and communicate your location, then you hope the taxi actually shows up (you have no idea how long it will take, or if they actually will show up at all), being pressured to pay in cash because their credit card reader is "broken", and not knowing how much the total will be until you arrive...

There's a huge list of reasons why Uber is nice to have, taxis and Uber are not even close.
Looks like they're aiming to sell mostly to military customers. The sales process is probably high-touch, in-person sales - a customer going to the website is probably an infrequent occurence.
Firefox is looking to integrate an auto-redirect to the Wayback Machine in case of link-rot. There's a Test Pilot experiement going on and it may be extended to allow for auto-saving of bookmarks on the Wayback Machine when bookmarked.
Just a heads-up because some other people might tell you: In my locale, Zizi means penis (fr-CA)
EDIT: One thing I got wrong is that it was 6 weeks, not 6 months in my original post.

He connected an external drive to the laptop. That's all they know. They didn't say he copied the files onto the external drive. If he did copy them onto the external drive, they would have said this. So now we have to parse their statements.

Do they know he copied those files onto the external drive? No. Did he have a movie on there that he viewed? They don't know, apparently.

And he wiped and reformatted his laptop. When did he do this? Did he do this immediately? Or did he do it weeks later? They didn't specify this either. I would love more information about this, if he did this all in one night. If they explicitly say he downloaded a repo, he copied it to an external usb drive, and then wiped his laptop all in the course of an hour, that's certainly suspicious. But that's not what they said.

Based on what they said, he could have downloaded the repo, worked on it for many days or weeks, attached a usb drive at any point, and wiped the laptop clean before he handed the laptop back to them 6 weeks later. I would love for them to clarify this, because right now they are the purveyors of this information.
Don't people usually learn a second language by bootstrapping on their native language though?
I've read several articles on this. I wouldn't comment otherwise. I'd be more ready to take everything at face value had not several articles, from Indian outlets nearer to the source, drawn direct comparisons between this story and the jungle book fairytale. See the link to the NewIndianExpress article in the OP.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/apr/06/ jungle-book-redux -as-eight-year-old-found-living-amongst-monkeys-in-uttar-pradesh-1590649.html
I don't see how you learning this changes anything. Either they were useful to you before or they weren't. What does it matter how high on their priority list it is? If you were their number one priority but they weren't helpful would you use them?
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If you're using Firefox you have native separators for bookmarks.
Why are privacy concerns a big issue in releasing data?
Data privacy seems to be a big issue...but I would think that most user behavioral data can be anonymized and released for researchers, etc to work with. Why isn't this the case?

Is it just really hard to anonymize data (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf), or is the issue more complex than anonymizing a dataset, or just the lack of an incentive to release data?
I use bookmarklets to perform tasks on sites to make them more readable. Actual bookmarked websites is less common but I have a few. Normally it is for short term "I will forget this otherwise" sites that get removed when I no longer need them.
The problem is that major browsers don't offer a way to offer a view into this data model. The integration is important for an efficient workflow.
There's a functional programming clique in JS that dislikes it.
In a non-Typescript project, they're a shoddy half-baked type system duct-taped together. In a Typescript project, they're almost completely redundant, they add a huge maintenance burden for basically no gain.
YES! So many things to read, and I hate having a million tabs open at once. Even if I don't get around to something until months later, bookmarks are an indispensable tool.
What would you like to seem improved in the bookmark manager?

I'm currently working on the ability to rename the bookmarks inline in the tree instead of the input boxes on bottom in the Bookmark Manager (the one you get from Ctrl+Shift+B or Ctrl+Shift+O).
Christianity maintains that the soul will be restored to the body on the last day, the day of resurrection. Jesus talks several times about raising people up on the last day, and he refers to his late friend Lazarus of Bethany as having "fallen asleep" before raising him. Paul speaks extensively, e.g. in 1 Corinthians 15, about how Jesus was the "firstfruits" of a more general resurrection, and about how a buried body is like a seed that will grow into an imperishable / immortal body. The Nicene Creed (the historic test-suite of Christian orthodoxy) speaks of "the resurrection of the body". Even Job claimed (19:26-27) that even after his body was destroyed in the grave, he would nevertheless see God with his own eyes in his own flesh.

This is why, for instance, Roman Catholicism forbids scattering ashes (and until recently forbid cremation at all). Of course no one claims that God is somehow incapable of resurrecting a mutilated, cremated, scattered, etc. body but can resurrect an ordinarily decomposed one. But the act of scattering ashes demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Christian burial practices. Human remains are placed in safekeeping for the last day, in expectation of resurrection on earth. It is not the case that the soul departs to heaven and the body becomes irrelevant, and that therefore doing something symbolic and/or environmentally responsible with the ashes is reasonable. Christian burial, under normal circumstances, involves putting the remains in some definite place and putting a headstone on it.

So in turn the traditional Christian burial rites have used text about committing the body to the earth, in normal cases, or to the sea, for sailors lost at sea, trusting the earth or sea with that safekeeping. Here's a 1789 Book of Common Prayer rite, which quotes a few of the passages I mentioned: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1789/Burial_1789.ht...

In particular, burial at sea involves the following prayer:

We therefore commit his body to the deep, looking for the general Resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the sea shall give up her dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his glorious body; according to the mighty working where by he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

That's the sort of prayer being referenced by Nixon's speechwriter.

I'm genuinely baffled at the popularity of the idea that your soul immediately goes and lines up at the Pearly Gates, and then you stay in either heaven or hell forever. It's possible to find evidence to support that model, yes; for instance a literal reading of the the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (no relation to Lazarus of Bethany) would imply it. But there's quite a lot of direct statements saying otherwise.
Makes alot of sense
From what I've heard, they would plan to deliberately cut off communication, so that the entire world would not listen to two men slowly dying.
Their choice of license is great; the real free software license which can keep its freedom and openness.
I agree with you. The author even admits right off the bad that he failed to learn the language. I don't understand the mindset of someone who would write an article critiquing Chinese characters, knowing so little about them.

If the author can be taken this seriously given his self-professed ignorance, I am probably much more qualified than him to speak about Chinese characters.

There are two points worth disambiguating here. One is whether Chinese characters hinder the literacy of native speakers and the other is if it hinders that for learners. Neither I nor the author have any authority to speak about the former.

As a heritage speaker, I actually only recently learned Chinese to a level where I consider myself literate. My experience was that the characters were not an obstacle, like the author suggests, but an indispensable tool for rapidly learning the language.

To learn any language, it is unavoidable that you need to memorize thousands of new words. Memorizing a Chinese character is not much harder than memorizing a word. However, the magic of Chinese characters comes when you combine them to form actual words.

The vast majority of Chinese words consists of 2 characters, but because each character also encodes meaning, you can more often than not guess the meaning of a word you have never seen before.

Although you can take advantage of common roots for words in other languages, the scale is simply incomparable. For other languages, you pretty much have to memorize every new word you see.

My experience has been that learning Chinese characters may be a higher upfront cost (although I disagree), once you learn enough, you rapidly understand way more vocabulary because characters themselves encode semantic information.

Perhaps it's simply the lack of any cognates between English and Chinese, and a tinge of cultural supremacy, that make people, like the author, think it's Chinese characters that's the root of everything that makes the language difficult to learn.
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Not at all.
Even when cooled well below zero and without any Bayer filter I never saw something like this with less than 1/10s of exposure.
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Can I ask what you mean about the internet sucking? Is it censorship, quality of sites, or speed and reliability of service?
console.warn in most (all?) browsers' dev tools didn't/doesn't provide the full stack trace.

I think that changed recently in Chrome, at least.
I wonder if it makes sense for larger companies like Google to intentionally plant online unconventional solutions that seem plausible but have subtle errors. Better still if they point out the errors and give a plausible-sounding argument for why they don't apply, that the person then later repeats during the interview without disclosing that he's seen the problem before.

I wonder if there's a way to make money from cheaters caught in the act. The only thing I can think of is making reimbursement of travel expenses conditional on not cheating. Or encouraging them to somehow gamble money on the assumption their solution is correct.

Just using unconventional language to describe the solution could be a good signal: People learning something new often use the same words as the source material.
You were saying... http://imgur.com/a/vFobm

See the column headings. These values even sync across devices on Firefox.
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I use a single line favicons across my bookmarks bar and remove all text from them. They are organized by color in a rainbow-like fashion.

It looks beautiful and works well. I just have to maintain a mental map of what general color a website's icon is and while my mouse is gravitating in that direction I'm mentally retrieving the actual icon. It's a great visual memory exercise in the beginning but eventually you wonder how you did it any other way.
I've got to say the Awesome Bar should have a first run demo of some kind. Once I got familiar with it I can't go back to anything else. Firefox has too many features for it's own good and it's sad so few people know about them.
They list a lot of potentially useful applications on the product's own web site. I wonder how long it will take for this sort of technology to be commercially viable for things like night vision driving aids. High-end executive cars have started to include night vision cameras now, but they're typically monochrome, small-screen affairs. I would think that projecting an image of this sort of clarity onto some sort of large windscreen HUD would be a huge benefit to road safety at night. Of course, if actually useful self-driving cars have taken over long before it's cost-effective to include a camera like this in regular vehicles, it's less interesting from that particular point of view.
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> there's no reason why a phone or laptop should be immune to search while suitcases and briefcases aren't.

I can fit several lethal weapons inside a [suit,brief]case. The data on my phone is not a lethal weapon.

The entire purpose of searching luggage is to prevent someone from bringing a lethal weapon into a group of people who are physically incapable of leaving.

My cell phone's data contains literally zero threats to those around me.
> but I got rid of it and haven't considered it since ... I won't be sending my resume their way

From the Parent:

> beyond conquering the few percent of the market who can afford to care and care enough to pay a premium

That's pretty much a confirmation of the stated view - only people "who can afford to care". And by "afford to care", I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that is (with 99.9% likelihood) someone who posts on Hacker News and could send their resume to Uber (but won't).
That's a very interesting use case! Have you tried using keyword bookmarks? If you find yourself visiting a URL often, you could make it a keyword bookmark with an optional %s search parameter, accessible from the address bar. Useful for websites with generated urls, like reddit or 4chan.
With the prospect of Calexit, I would definitely consider having California join Canada. Preexisting trade deals, membership in NATO and NAFTA, and a country used to bilingual culture would all be a great fit for us.
you're probably right - somebody start teaching this girl english, she'll be fine! what's the father of cognitive science and modern linguistics know about anything?
Literally thousands...

Organized in ~150 folders all with subfolders.
Ditched the bookmark services when Chrome started syncing data across devices. There are three features I would love:

1. The search box in the manager does a full text search of the content on the bookmarked page instead of just the title (at the time it was marked, not updated).
2. The ability to search by URL with regex.
3. Show the date I bookmarked the page.
I don't know what you mean by "surface", but the number of photos collected depends on the area of the lens. No quantum mechanics or interference involved.
Feral children usually suffered terrible trauma and abuse. Often they were disabled even before being abandoned. It's hard to separate those issues from the mere lack of being taught language. There are deaf people who weren't taught sign language until later in life, and they turn out ok.

Also she arguably got some socialization from the monkeys. I mean that's probably very imperfect. But it's very different than the cases of kids being locked up in rooms with no contact to anything.
I started using OneNote extensively after seeing how Mike Conley (a Firefox dev) uses Evernote to organise bug info, knowledge etc.

I personally use it to pick out snippets from podcasts I listen to, some code snippet or a technique I find interesting or just collections of links related to a topic. It serves good for "heavier" bookmarks. I can annotate everything.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmaFLMwlbk8wKMvfEEzp9...
I do. I have several top level folders, Daily, Reference, Demo and Personal, then few links on the bookmark bar for Production, Staging and Tickets.
Everything is censored. You have to tunnel pretty much everything. Massive packet loss is par for the course. You can't have a routable address. You can't just fire up a VM in minutes, you can't even have a VM without a registered company with a license to run a web server.

Things we take for granted like attaching a 2mb file to an email or a simple Google search can take several minutes to accomplish.
Never did.
It's actually extremely easy to create new words using Chinese characters. You simply put existing characters together. To use some computing related terms for example:

mobile phone: 手机 （hand machine)

programming: 编程 （compose orders)

QR code: 二维码 （2d code)

hacker: 黑客 （black guest, this also sounds phonetically like "hacker")

For brands and other names, there is a system of transliterating sounds using characters, or simply a literal translation of the name, e.g.

Android: 安卓 (an zhuo)

Microsoft: 微软 （small soft)

Apple: 苹果 （literally apple)
Eyes welled up a little in this one. Reminds you what a risk they took.
Sure it is not representative, but that does not mean we should not be concerned. The constitution of the United States is extremely important.
I'm sure gun runners tell themselves they're just helping innocent people protect themselves. If your basing your company on the idea that it's is above the law then I guess you have to ask where's the line. What laws do you follow and which ones do you ignore. to me it seems like a slippery slope.
Hmm, I'm not sure what the anti-pattern you see is.

I just go to the folder that represents the topic (typically /Vendors/Mgfr/Product/) and there along with spec sheets, user guides, etc., are the URLs I've saved.

Then I {wait for it} open a blank tab (ctrl+t) and drag the URL 'file' back and drop it on the blank tab -- Presto, there's the page.

Considering I probably find four or five worthwhile web pages for every hardware purchase, every semi-tricky JIRA problem, every new tech to master ... that'd just be unwieldy in a bookmarks app. And this way it's detached from any given browser.

It's not super portable but I suppose I could start saving stuff in OneDrive (forBiz) or the like and they'd be more accessible from various networks (home/work/travel/what-have-you), but so far it's done the job for me.
Which partly makes the CEO so key. Dispassionately, what Uber needs right now is someone who can convince investors to keep the money taps open. If you lose $X BILLION a year, you need $X Billion + y% to maintain that burn rate. So the question is:

Is there a CEO that can continue to raise money, OR that can turn a $X Billion loss into a mild loss, whilst still raising the money required to keep the enterprise alive?

That's a pretty damned niche request!
"Prima Scotia"?

(We (Canada) have a province already named Nova Scotia, roughly translating to "New Scotland".)
It is common in India for family members to put their autistic/badly born kids into a cage and display them in circus. I remember a family showing three of their kids in a circus as "animals" just because the babies were autistic and had tail like features.
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A speech written in case the mission returned with extra unknown passengers, not whimsical?
Yeah, it was a typo introduced paradoxically by my spellchecker. Somebody misspelled Malayalam as Malayam on my Chrome, then added it to the dictionary (!). Anyway, yes, I meant Malayalam.
If you don't want to think about binding, just use the arrow function syntax:

class Foo extends Component {
bar = () => {
// ...
}
}
Accelerated scrolling so that you can't accurately scroll anymore.

Locking part of the screen after scrolling partway so that only a tiny portion of it scrolls with scrunched up text.

It's everything wrong with modern website design.

PLEASE stop doing this!

U/X is about ease of access to information; not flashy tricks.
For other Indians, please stop bringing your regional biases to global forums. Also 'Malayam'. Really?
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> I wonder if there's a way to make money from cheaters caught in the act

You would certainly save money.

Your argument reads a bit like a conspiracy theory to me, but it's definitely one of the more fun and reasonable ones I've read. :)

I was personally wondering why the "find duplicates" algorithm multiplied every number by -2. Maybe there is some reason, but I don't know what it could be.
>gives me even more affection for the animal kingdom over the human kingdom

Because humans never adopt animals? Or is it because animals never abandon their young?
I feel there is a good chance that she was better off with monkeys.
> I would be a bit more worried if they didn't ask all of those questions and investigate the issue, why else are we paying them?

Why are we paying them? Their "service" is, at best, inconvenient, and certainly unconstitutional.

The issue is not that this individual was inconvenienced.

The issue is that the constitution of the United States is being thoroughly disobeyed by the federal government of the United States.
DSLRs have come with dark current removal for a few years now. Another fun fact, the sensor used in Canon's G15/16 has a Quantum Efficency of over 60%, meaning that 60% of photons reaching the sensor generate a signal. Most cameras have sensor with QEs between 15 to 25% (but have way larger sensors, so in the end a better SNR than the G16).
Cheaper to use a telescope.

It's easily possible to grind your own big telescope mirror. A big lens is like trying to build a big refracting telescope -- extremely expensive. The largest refracting telescope ever made is 100cm (40 inches). Mirrors are up to 10 meters.
Except Californian population is larger than Canada's. This would be terrible for those already Canadian.