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Dear Luca,

We don't force you to use PlatformIO. If you like manually manage build scripts, toolchains, etc. and understand how to do that, you can switch PlatformIO to your own build system. I remember that I already explained to you how to do that (own `build_script` entry within PIO build environment).

> There's another argument though: Usually I need only one board. Maaaaybe two.

Thanks, I've heard your feedback. PIO is intended for developers who don't want to focus on the 1 board for 1 year. We don't live in 90-th, today each month we have new boards, MCUs, connectivity solutions, etc. PIO allows you an easy switch between them. If you don't know at 100% which hardware do you need for the next 1 year, PIO is the excellent tool here. You can experiment with dozens of boards and find better hardware according to the project requirements. They cost a few $$$ today.

Stay tuned for our news. We are working on the very interesting things which will be announced soon.
Because we, humans, are destroying planet we live on. You not seeing why we should even care makes me sad.
bigclivedotcom has done some positive teardowns of IKEA electronic products: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ikea+bigclivedo...
Thats quite fascinating to watch, however I'm not sure if I missed it but I didn't see the tower being earthed. Those installers must have some impressive protection in place.

I used to be a volunteer on an emergency lifeboat crew, we would do a lot of drills with a man on a winch and the first rule is, don't touch until he's earthed. Helicopters pick up a hell of a lot of static electricity so you normally see a small earthing line hanging below the man on the end of the line.

One time we were practicing fast recovery, the boat and the helicopter doing crew exchange at high speed. We screwed it up and the static charge blew a hole in the side of the boat!
I had the same thought. IF hackers can get into the sirens themselves, what would stop someone from telling people to ignore sirens in an actual emergency.
Understanding the workings of gross anatomy didn't make gross anatomy irrelevant.

It instead ushered in a new age of surgical intervention that saved a lot of lives and prolonged life in general. I know I'm not alone in having a relative that would have been dead twenty years ago if not for the ability to radically alter the mechanics of a malfunctioning heart.

We shouldn't cease to try to understand the world because of the risk new knowledge brings. Rather, we should also understand the risk and act to intercept and mitigate it. But don't condemn Alzheimer's patients to a slow twilight death because of the risk of strong AI; that's not an acceptable tradeoff.
Right, AFAIK none of the available players are advertised as official ways to run apps in production.
I agree, it's an acquired taste. I used to hate white meat chicken; I started eating a lot of it as part of an overall weight-loss program. Now, I actually prefer it. Dark meat seems oddly fatty, and has a weird texture. I don't really know why. I will say that learning to properly cook white meat chicken has contributed. A correctly-cooked chicken breast is very different than an improper one.
Something interesting is that I believe Google is working on a compiler that converts TypeScript to Closure, which would let you take advantage of the closure compiler while utilizing TS. That would be a very exciting development.
Volvo, who is testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, is in the bottom half of the pack in terms of "execution." Okay...
> Interview processes also vary wildly—you can't really say that it works without defining 'it.' Are we talking multiple technical screens that require writing code or a single fluffy buzzword-laden conversation with a C-level? Both have failure modes, but those failure modes sure are different.

End of the day, everything evens out. People add the structure they need when they hire people. If your engineering interview process for some detail oriented gig is buzzword trivia with the CIO, the company will probably tank anyway. Conversely, if you do some nerd-fest whiteboard interview for a CTO in a bigger organization, you're probably not getting the right outcome either.
I don't use Apple products, so can't comment on how that works, but Apple is a rare company that owns it all: hardware, software, support, so the hardest part of any solution -- agreement of different parties -- disappears.
color picker says #b9bdbc on top left corner of the pepper :)
Context or explanation? What do I learn from this? Is it some display trick or are some magic sensors in my brain toggling here...
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They're called neural networks because their design mirrors observations from neurons in the brain.

There's truth to your sentiment, that the current level of knowledge is always somewhat arbitrary, but to say there's "nothing" that suggests a connection between the two is far too dismissive of an interesting question posed by the original comment.
If someone switches away from Python he never used the unprecedented expressiveness of it, which is tens of orders of magnitude higher than the next best language.

One line in Python is worth several screens in the next best language.

Python can be as fast as C++ if you use all its features.

Development time is around 20 to 50 times faster than Java.
Hypothesis: Deja Vu happens when the long term memory isn't suppressed properly during the first few days.

I often find when I experience Deja Vu I think I remember doing a thing I did the day before a long time before that. It feels like I have two memories, one of a recent event and one a vague recollection of something a long time ago. This sounds like exactly what one would expect if two memories are recorded, one suppressed for a few days and one forgotten in a few days, but the suppression fails.

Does anyone else have Deja Vu like this?
I have used OpenEmbedded/Yocto, but it pretty much falls under "roll your own solution" category. I know there are many projects and papers written that try to address IoT security, but there's no clear leaders yet. Making hardware projects might span to few years, you can't simply grab something from GitHub, base your project on it and risk it going out of existence in few months.
You trust people who sell your info to spammers not to sell or even give it to the gov?
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Scalability, usability, and learning fast to build and improve describe our days. We’re looking for two engineers to join our 10 person team, make an impact at a startup as we grow.
Looking for people with at least 2-3 years of production environment experience.
This does seems to be John Deere's primary motivation. They make the exact same mechanical machine to serve many different market segments, and then assign each model's capabilities, like horsepower, in software. Of course, the consumer soon figures out that by flipping a couple of bits they can buy the less expensive machine and upgrade it at little to no cost.

Thus ensues the debate of who owns the tractor.
It is less a question of whether the percentage is correct than whether the tests are useful. I've seen plenty of useless tests (testing getters and setters in Java) that assert nothing related to the codes functionality but exist solely to boost coverage. Which is why asserting a strict coverage percentage is dangerous.

Better to just do real TDD in the first place.
Where are you from? Never heard anyone use earthed instead of grounded.
2000 people per hour per direction is a person every 2 seconds per direction which is not that far from a highway with single occupant cars. 1900 per lane is peak, but congestion is much slower. Speed is an issue, but larger gondolas can move more people fairly quickly.
What We Learned from the Co-Founder of Evernote
After drying out breasts using a number of other cooking methods, I've found sous vide to produce breasts that are unbelievably juicy.
So an ensemble beats a monolith? Would be cool to see if the ensemble with distillation could fit to a more computationally friendly model!
Mexico replaced Columbia
Unfortunatly no real explantion, the pic is from here
https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/85065339069460480...
It's the effect of decades of advertisement. We've been duped into thinking that white meat is normal and good, when white meat in chicken breast shows a sedentary existence. Truly free range chickens do not have breast meat as white as those from factory farms.

It's the same way we've been duped into believing that we need to eat that bowl of cereal in the morning.
I thought they couldn't purchase from Samsung because Apple bought out the supply.
Yes, it is.
Many will tell you that it is because there's more work outside Italy, but in reality works ethic is a direct consequence of the cultural heritage, not of the country laws or the abundance of job posts.

I don't see myself as a "typical Italian" anymore, quite the opposite, I find it rather offensive.
The common principles that had brought the citizen of this country together after the fascism and the war and made us opponents and not enemies, have collapsed.

If my job and my taxes (quite a lot higher than the average) are paying for the education or the health care of those people that want to ban vaccines or that protect castes and guild of all kinds, when not directly working for the mob, I'm outa here.
Ask HN: Pitch decks for enterprise customers?
There's plenty of pitch decks for raising funds or getting into accelerator programs but are there any good resources for developing pitch decks for enterprise customers?
Global Political Power Map – Understanding Some of the World's Power Structures
If interested in "hard" masonry problems that had to be solved in ancient times, there's also Coral Castle [1].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM
Unfortunately your estimates and blind hope seem to me rather naive. At one point humanity was reduced to 40 breeding pairs, that is a bad flu away from extinction.

An extinction event is not the same thing as a man made holocaust, it can be far more thorough. None the less, it seems more prudent to ameliorate the issue rather than just accept it as if it's inevitable.
What the hell is with those comments?
In my experience Deja Vu doesn't happen for something I remember doing yesterday, but something I'm currently doing right now, or some combination of events that just occurred. But either way, that's a good hypothesis.
Why do you see Tesla and Google as leading?
They are probably looking more broadly than just the tech. Ford has decent tech:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/28/14100278/ford-new-self-dr...

https://medium.com/@ford/building-fords-next-generation-auto...

But they also have the ability to be producing vehicles with that tech, at volume, in a couple of years. Waymo has essentially 0 manufacturing capacity and Tesla is still spooling up to get their annual production comparable to monthly production for GM or Ford.
Nissan GT-R Police Car – Won’t Run Away from This One
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Next Caller (YC W14) Is Hiring a Senior Architect
Tesla passes GM to become America's most valuable carmaker
Can the World Help Venezuela Save Itself?
- Retail salespeople
- Office clerks
- Registered nurses
- Customers service reps
- Waiters/waitresses
- Secretaries and admins
- Freight and stock laborers
- Janitors
- Operations managers
- Stock clerks and orders fillers
- Truck drivers
- Personal care aides
- Bookkeepers and accounting clerks
- Nursing assistants
- Maids and housekeepers
- Sales reps wholesales and manufacturing
- Maintenance and repair workers
- Elementary school teachers
- Accountants
- Childcare workers
- Teacher assistants
- Landscapers and groundkeepers
- Construction workers
- Cooks
- Security guards

So jobs difficult physically and/or emotionally, some with long hours and little pay and often portrayed as really boring...

I wonder why they don't want these jobs...
Oldest tooth filling was made by an Ice Age dentist in Italy
As they should be, economic mobility in the United States is pretty low. Hard work can move you a couple rungs on the ladder but the predominant factor is still on which rung you started.
The preference for chicken breast in the US is because of the "low fat" focus of the past several decades. Chicken breasts have been promoted as a high protein/low fat cornerstone of a meat-eater's diet.

I also wonder if chicken breast consumption has been promoted by the poultry industry because it's easier to increase the size of breasts through breeding and injecting solution than it is other parts of the bird. That means they can produce more pounds of breast (at a higher price) for sale per bird than thighs, wings, or drumsticks.
I have also had the misfortune of explaining to my PM and designer that the framework they chose heavily limits our ability to colour outside the lines.

These kitchen-sink CSS frameworks get you started quickly but it's incredibly difficult to override any one aspect of them. This comes off as a blessing while building out your initial design, but ultimately any team with enough design and development resources is going to want some custom UI/UX elements and what would ordinarily take half a day to build requires an additional week to integrate without side effects.

The initial development velocity gives a false sense of progress, as it is followed with death by a thousand cuts.

Whenever the tech stack is chosen by a non-developer, the the above scenario inevitably plays out. That's why we offer a stack optimized for ease of onboarding, decreased overall complexity, and reduced technical debt. The clients who use our stack tend to have fewer problems down the line.
Just a piece of adv bro, this thread is full of advertising. If you didn't mention it nobody would care, but now that you used the word your post sounds terrible.
No, the importance is massive, and you understate it. While we may all want to just believe, the regulatory ecosystem worldwide (where it applies, esp. in financial realm) demands that we provide explanations of why models made certain decisions on certain data. Without this ability, models will not be allowed to drive innovation or decisions in many areas of life, from financial (credit and risk) to medical (recommendations for treatment) to legal (best contract approach or best defense approach for a lawsuit).

Saying that humans make mistakes and cannot explain their decisions is, in fact, one of the very reasons we want to have better models. We hope they will do better than most people to create a better world. And their explanations will hopefully provide insight into how we as people make good (and bad) decisions.

And sure, we can change the laws over time, but having advanced models which can allow humans to understand decisions and even provide diagnostics to improve the models will be transformative. Until then, we will see massive impact in some areas of our lives, and frustrating holdbacks in others, driven either by the distraction of building for regulatory constraints or by choosing not to build in regulated areas at all.
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"Hard Work" isn't just "spending a lot of time at work". You have to actually do good work, consistently.

Most of the people I've met who don't believe in "hard work pays off" are the type that want something for nothing.

Most of the people that I've seen hard work pay off for are those who were self-motivated to do good work, and it eventually worked out for them.

But you also have to stop working for companies that abuse you and find one that appreciates its employees. Many people don't even believe those companies exist and won't try to find a better company. Even getting people to look for a new job is nearly impossible. They come up with a ton of excuses and just never do it.
Some explanation of a similar image with strawberries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39132378/these-strawbe...
Is this newsworthy? Teens still want to grow up and be rock stars. That dream goes back to the 1950's at least. What would be more interesting to know is if this apparent misalignment is worse than any other time or is this the same-old, same-old misalignment of teenage dreams and reality?
(But it's slower ;))
I'm curious. What are the better ways?
How developers can charge more than $150 per hour
Most CEOs are dramatically overpaid.
I assumed that the placeholder values were not placeholders but example values at first -- so nothing ever happened. Might be what you did as well?
Within the next 3-8 years every new passenger car will be fitted with camera sensors. (Mandated by public safety standards). Most new cars will also be networked. The ECUs on the vehicles may not be powerful enough for real-time biometrics, and the available bandwidth may not be sufficient for this particular application either .. but it wouldn't take much to make it technically feasible. Now., I feel uneasy about the societal risks involved with us going down this route, but I know that there are others who would jump at the chance to exploit this opportunity.
indeed, I would go so far as to say 9/10 weekend projects never get finished, let alone released, let alone getting enough users
at least the vocal people all fall over themselves celebrating the death of Mir and Unity

I'm close to celebrating the death of Unity but won't because:

1. the damage is done. Ubuntu and Linux already lost a whole lot of momentum. We had a really nice desktop. We were selling it everywhere, looking forward to be able to justify paid support agreements.

2. Some people actually seems to like Unity and while I really cannot see myself using it I think it would be offensive toward those if I celebrated loudly
...because it does not have bones or cartilage.

So eat the meat and throw away the bones or cartilage. Then go grab the calcium caps afterwards.
You were also taught banks were intermediaries of funds.

Odd that Econ doesn't reflect reality, no?
You already have a relationship with the whitelisted CAs and they know who the correct points of contact are.
Yet in so many ways they don't act like neurons in the brain.
Literally, nothing like that.
I agree. Poor people are poor because they are lazy, if you really think about it.
Lisp is terrific for batch programming (too).

You can edit a Lisp program strictly in files, and run a build step to produce a clean image which is tested, using a REPL just as a debugger, to "go in" and find out what is wrong.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on the Bitcoin debate?
There is currently a large debate going on in the bitcoin world. The main development team of bitcoin wants to keep the current block size limit and wants to enable off-chain scaling (via "segwit"). Other developers are pushing for bigger blocks ("bitcoin unlimited", BU) to allow on-chain scaling.

I'm currently favoring BU, but I would be okay with segwit if that would not mean that there will be no further block size increase. Would like to hear your thoughts on the topic.
What I dislike: It makes me feel like a user.
Wait, who ate most of the paper?
Problem: Improve the classification component of an ADAS system to be able to discriminate between the obstacle type (pedestrian, cyclist, child, old person) in order to adapt the car driver system behavior according to the estimated level of risk.

Approach: Train a CNN-based pedestrian classifier using a combination of intensity, depth and flow modalities on the Daimler stereo vision data set. The resulting CNN classifies objects in images as "Pedestrian" or "Non-Pedestrian" (rather than the more granular goal above).

Result: Outcomes are measured by the False Positive Rate (FPR) at the 90% True Positive, or detection rate. Lower FPR=better.

The CNN created in this experiment ("Late Fusion") achieves an FPR of 0.0125%, which is almost 50% better than the 2010 "Early Fusion" CNN's 0.02% FPR over the same dataset.

Still, a 2011 model ("HOG+LBP/MLP, Monolithic HOG classifier") that uses "explicit features" vastly outperforms both, achieving an FPR of 0.00026% over the same dataset.

Conclusion: "We showed that the late-fusion classifier outperforms the early-fusion one but does not go beyond the state-of-the-art."
I've been using your react version with a personal project for a while and it's been really helpful, so thank you for your work.
Short term memory isn't a matter of days, it's a matter of seconds and minutes. But otherwise, that makes sense. In fact, I think this is already a hypothesis which has come out of fMRI?
I think high risks and catastrophic consequences would prevent most farmers from hot-rodding their tractors. You buy a tractor of a certain size, which is designed to run the implements that attach to it, and you run it and maintain it on a predictable schedule. If you modify it to make more power... the benefits are questionable, and you risk unpredictable downtime which jeopordizes your ability to cultivate your crops properly.

Imagine your employer spent a million dollars on a server that runs everything critical to their operation. You can overclock it easily. Do you?
Always remembered the brand and name: Marimba Castanet, but never its purpose – thanks for the refresh! :-)
It's mentioned in the build section in the Readme - the Joey Generation 3.
Solar houses worth $15,000 more
If anyone has any questions about this please let me know!

Currently I charge $1,000 per day doing PHP development and building secure websites for the financial markets (using Jekyll). And I freelance fulltime. So if you have questions please let me know!
It's unspecified how the server should handle this. AFAIK, it's "one of the great unsolved problems" with HTTP2.
Politics with Allies
Thanks. This was the kind of answer I feared
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I saw Terry Sejnowski give a talk last week in San Diego, and he made the exact same suggestion. He did not provide any evidence, but it's hard not to take his ideas seriously.
I'm sure someone will tell me it just isn't possible, but it sure does seem to be the case that the economy is miss-pricing labor, badly.
"Of the children born in the bottom income quintile, 44 percent are still there as adults."

Is this actually a problem? I would expect this number to be above 30% at the very least. I'm glad it's below 50. What is the desired number? 40%? Serious question.

If this number was actually 20% that would mean that you would have almost no influence on your child's economic outcomes in life- how could that possibly be?
What if you kill the dog for the meat and not just for the heck of it?