skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree. At this time I never have to go in ever, but I would not mind going in a couple of times for either meetings or not necessarily even work-based meets just because IMO, face-to-face meets actually helps make people comfortable for future remote interaction.
American cultural imperialism has a new name: GAFA (2014)
The reasoning is without the US the powers were balanced enough that nobody would have been the clear victor. The Treaty of Versailles was punitive because the victors could dictate terms to the Germans instead of coming to an agreement entered into willingly on both sides.
An ~8 min history lesson.

"Social Security Cards Explained" - CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Noise and emissions controls.

It was in the 70's too. I had a 1976 Yamaha DT250 and a 1974 Suzuki TS-185 as dirtbikes a few years back and they were both street legal back in the day (I had all the lights and stuff removed though so wasn't gonna go through the process of registering either for the road).

My neighbor had a '76 TS-185 registered though, kinda wanted to buy it to cruise around locally and annoy the crappy newer neighbors.
Probably freeciv or openTTD, but on medium settings.
Marx's economics are the basis for almost all functioning social democracies, which score higher on just about how every quality of life indicator than the United States. Hilariously, Hayek predicted that they would devolve into serfdom, which is what is actually happening in the country that hemmed closer to his ideology. Just look at the gig economy.

The tech industry is actually a quite good example of the collapse towards monopolies. Venture Capitalists siphon up innovation created by underpaid labor using the guise of entrepreneurship, funneling ever greater wealth and control into a dwindling number of corporate giants. Small firms that do survive sell services to them. And I don't even really have to make this argument, as it is the express ideology of people like Thiel.

The failure of socialism to develop in more advanced economies is the result of a violent, rightist empire that toppled any governments that moved democratically too far in this direction. Take Chile, for example...

Marxist economics have been intentionally discredited by US institutions to serve their political ends. That much is true. But there are plenty of modern Marxists economists in European and Asian institutions. The bought and paid for US economists in their cozy corporate think tanks are not the totality of economic thought.
Announcing HTTP/2 support for all Azure CDN customers
I did Illumina UYG. As part of that I got a 1TB hard drive with the nearly-raw files (BAM format with raw reads, VCF with variants).

Lots of people say " I for one would be interested in looking for certain gene variants that are not mentioned at all over at 23andMe." but they either never do anything with the data, or they look into it and realize that SNP analysis of gene variants is still a charltan's game.
Am I the only one who has decided that I'm more comfortable with iOS and an AppleID than I am with something like LineageOS and still having to have a Google account - even though I prefer Android?

I'm operating under the assumption that Apple is more privacy friendly than Google under pretty much any circumstance.

I've done the Cyanogen + F-Droid thing and it's just miserably inconvenient, and none of the "proprietary" alternative app stores have any sort of catalog to write home about.
It was expensive, but not ruinously expensive. As pointed out recently, the Norden bombsight program cost nearly half as much and people don't think of that as ruinously expensive. The US interstate highway program cost vastly more as well.

Russia developed nuclear weapons in peace-time as well, if you consider the cold war peaceful.

South Africa also produced some nuclear capability despite not being at war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma... Naturally a country rich in uranium would be tempted to see what applications there were.
I'm 99.9% sure that a new sample is not required. All of those risk factors can already be looked at with other tools which import raw data from your 23andme account.

Eg Promethease evaluates hundreds of genes (both the risks and positive traits) for a couple dollars: http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
What does this make the runway for Lyft?
So Sony admitted defeat and made the PS4 pro?

I think more than anything, it's the fact 4k happened much quicker than expected..
What's the easiest way to make a text heatmap like the ones in their blog?
Am I the only one who misses Web OS and now Ubuntu Phone?
Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann [video]
The source the article links to [0] seems to be scraping stuff from popular "meme" generating website like imgur, 9gag etc.

"We analyzed data from Priceonomics customer Me.me, a search engine that's indexed practically every meme ever produced and made the text on the images searchable."

This is a strong claim. But even if I give them the benefit of doubt, their analysis shows that memes have strong correlation with real world event and trends die out. Eg: thanks giving meme became popular right before thanks giving and faded after thanks giving. I don't find this too surprising.

I am sure memes can tech us stuff. But I would find stuff like meme trends Vs comments to do sentimental analysis or something along that lines.

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[0] https://me.me/post/the-meme-zeitgeist
IvanK, your demos are pretty cool and renderer looks solid. You should put your work on GitHub for others to build on. These days I don't know of a solid 2D WebGL renderer that is decided for games specifically. There is pixi, which is great, but its not made necessarily for game dev
This just sounds like Uber quickly charges you for the worst case since if they charge you for the best case and things go wrong, Uber loses. No one can know what route will even be possible given how chaotic traffic and closures can be. Then the driver gets paid by whatever route is actually taken. I don't really see this as an issue at all.
I think the reasoning here is that without American intervention the Allied powers would not have been in a position to insist on a punitive armistice treaty.
Show HN: TeamSpoor
I actually prefer the way Google does it. They are really looking for generalists and the process is optimized for that. Once they have determined you have met the hiring bar, then they proceed with a "matching" process which is awesome. You get to list of your interests and get placed on a team in the company that aligns with your preferences and skills.

This is way better IMO to the reverse which is applying to ten different interesting positions at another big tech company and having to speak to individual hiring managers for each position.
For those interested, this is covered with detail and nuance in the beginning of Adam Tooze's book "The Deluge"

https://www.amazon.com/Deluge-America-Remaking-Global-1916-1...
That would probably work. Karpathy's character based RNN could detect semantic meaning in text and code. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
Ah the fifth element. Literally had a space opera.
Whether or not you have the "right" to be rude, I think the more cordial we are the more we can align around learning through discussion.

If someone is rude to someone who's mistaken that could help them unlearn something, but more likely they will become more entrenched because of consistency principle.

Cialdini talks a lot about consistency principle in his book the "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion"

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober...
One thing I wish GitHub made easier is responding to a pull request with a patch rather than encouraging reviewers to type up a bunch of suggestions that the original submitter will have to turn into a patch themselves.

If you have a better idea how to accomplish part of a suggested change, you can communicate that more clearly by making a patch and leaving a comment explaining why. GitHub should encourage this and allow the submitter some interface to easily incorporate that patch into his PR.

This is especially useful in situations where the only changes are in documentation or writing rather than code. Dealing with a dozen responses of "s/topy/typo/" should be as simple as clicking a few buttons to accept all the corrections. It would be less work for both sides.
I'm not saying necessarily that this is due to a lack of care about fellow citizens, but the closest i've come to being hit as a pedestrian was in germany. single lane windy road in the heart of town, porsche flying by at 60+kmph.

I get that different cultures have different jay-walking habbits, even within the US cities are vastly different, but if i really cared about well-being of others i wouldn't drive like that in a city. I think the theory in other comments that drunk driving is seen culturally as immature and stupid is a better explanation.
Oh, come on.

I doubt it's all that sophisticated.
This 'Hoover let it continue'-story is partly correct but it ignores the larger and far more important story. The bank failed because there was a liquidity crunch caused by a badly implemented gold standard and a even more badly manged Fed that failed to do its job. Its not the banks fault that there is a massive liquidity crunch. Its also not the banks fault that they have been legally restricted from note issue. In Canada (with no central bank) no banks failed in the same period, but the economy of Canada was hit almost as hard.

By the way the hole argument that you are making goes back to a British guy 100 years ago (Walter Badget, often called "Lender of last resort"). You would be to discover that this guy was actually against the idea of saving bad banks, and even more he was against central banks in general. His argument was that if banks can not expand liquidity themselfs as they did before central banks, then the central bank must do it, BUT ONLY TO GOOD BANKS AGAINST HIGHLY SECURE ASSETS AT HIGH RATES.

Sadly his arguments have been turned around into something different by people who don't want to read his point for political reasons or simply don't understand them. Now its, 'if you let any bank fail, a domino-effect will destroy everything', this is simply false, most of the time, most banks are good. The problem is liquidity, and the central bank is in control of that, that its job. The domino effect only happens if the central banks fails, as the Fed did in 1930 and 2008.

I'm not in detail informed about this particular case in England. I made a general point about markets and governments.
> Official hardware that just-works, Nexus-of-Ubuntu (130 weight)

I really like this one. I'd made comments of wanting pre-installed Linux, but the Nexus concept is a much better idea. It's following a model that seems to have worked well for Google.

It's a fantastic way to break the chicken and egg situation of getting pre-installed Linux available.
"May his tribe increase" is from a poem about Abou ben Adhem, IIRC. Not from the Bible... https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/abou-ben-adhem/
Awesome, thank you! That clears up a solid 200MB. <3
IMO the media center wars are being won by the actual TVs. We bought a new Samsung TV (SmartTV) over the Thanksgiving. It provides the usual built-in apps (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu etc.). Media Center experience is much better on this TV compared to other devices: No input switching, native 4K, fast switching between apps, simpler remote experience - no switching activities on a universal remote and turning devices ON/OFF.

At this point Apple TV is essentially obsolete for us. We do use XBox for gaming.

IMO XBox is better off just getting rid of the whole media center thing and focus tightly on the gaming experience.
Simultaneous Feature Aggregating and Hashing for Large-Scale Image Search
No, his arguments is exactly opposite to the gambler's fallacy. If the gambler's fallacy were not a fallacy, then there would be no issue. But because we know it is a fallacy, then the fact that we have 1000 heads so far tells us (in theory) nothing about the fairness of the coin. But in that case, what does a probability of 50% actually mean?
As a kid I grew up in a country which thought that the "market didn't know best". There were shortages of toilet paper and razor blades. Bread, sugar and edible oil were rationed. It would take another 10-15 years, as I became older and as the regime had collapsed, until I found out that Orwell had predicted the razor-blade shortages in his "1984".
I highly recommend all of the culture Novels By Iain M Banks. IF you haven't read any consider "The Player of Game" for a light fun read and "The Use of Weapons" for something a little harder and more touching on existential issues.

All of the culture novels feature "AI is that a powerful enough AI [sic]" yet I do not feel these stories are rendered boring. The AIs just become more characters.
The basic manners that you learned early on for interacting with people face-to-face don't scale to interacting with many many people in an issue tracker every day, anonymously, asynchronously, over the internet. It's a weird circumstance that we didn't evolve to handle, so I think it makes sense to break it down and carefully look at how to handle these situations efficiently and positively.
I take a short fare from my work to the train station near daily. If I am contacted by my driver, I never tell them where I am going. I have had MANY drivers, both Uber and Lyft, cancel because it was a sub-$10 fare. This is in Fort Lauderdale, so it isn't like its out in the boonies.

That being said, I might have waited longer, but I always got service when I did live in rural Broward. I was 20+ minutes from everything though, so it was a guaranteed high fare ride for the driver.
So because that's not the goal it's impossible for them to do so? Why?
Also, it's probably helpful to factor in how much debt they're in starting out.

My fiancee is in (we're in) >400000 of debt. And as a resident she's effectively making ~-2 dollars/hour [0], because of the interest rate on that loan, location, and hours.

I can't find it immediately, but in a recent MedScape report, some ~5% of physicians are still paying off their med school debt at 60 years old.

[0] http://dotphra.se/
If it is merely traffic changes, why is the customer not getting a cheaper ride if the route is shorter? If the customer is paying more, why isn't that money going to the driver?
Regarding the new Nvidia provided mac driver, does this have any influence on Vulkan or modern OpenGL support? Or would that require changes in macOS itself (that would presumably never happen)?
>except you can't pop in a USB drive, you have to use a cable and ADB

You can actually boot your device into TWRP and "flash" the OS zip from USB OTG.
> As far as I can tell the only thing that enforces this is what should amount to an antitrust level of collusion between the mega-companies to restrict access to products (via services such as the Apple App Store) that do things that the other mega-companies dislike

Actually, at least in the US you could be having legal problems... you're circumventing access controls, which may or may not be a "hacking crime". Also, by using the Twitter API you consent to its Terms and Conditions, so they have legal grounds to sue you (for example via trademark law; you most likely will advertise that your app supports Twitter login, but then Twitter can sue you as you advertise Twitter compatibility while violating their T&C).

It's IIRC never been tested in court so it remains an effective FUD, even without the Apple/Google store banhammer.
On a similar note, a 2016 study in JAMA[1] found gender disparities in faculty pay at US medical schools, which persisted even when correcting for age, experience, specialty, faculty rank, and measures of research productivity and clinical revenue.

It seems like the medical profession would actually have an easier path to pay fairness than other industries, because clinical revenue is so easy to measure. (As opposed to other fields where the financial value of an employee's work is more difficult to measure.)

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
Yes, same here. I'd use iMessage over WhatsApp or Duo (or whatever Google's chat du jour is called) any time. They do have glitches (like the recently exposed iCloud bug where private browsing histories were stored indefinitely), but I don't attribute them to monetizability.
Agreed. It would also put say, the Infectious Disease specialty in its proper context, as that involves even more extensive training than say, internal medicine.
Lyfts biggest problem is the media's tendency to refer to the industry as Uber. Kind of like search is to Google, and wiping noses is to Kleenex.
> I hope that any damage I caused to the community is not permanent.

While I believe Leah is honest about realizing her mistakes, I fear this part is unreasonably optimistic.

Libreboot as a project has clearly been tainted all across the internet, and we all know how long these things persist when they've first been given a chance to take hold.

I'd love free firmware though so let's hope whatever stains remain won't be too damaging for these projects as a whole (coreboot, librecore and libreboot).
It might be true, but isn't that also the perfect BS argument? If I said that about lettuce it'd be really hard to dispute.

Even mortality itself varies from person to person and takes a while to develop
The fare discrepancy can extend beyond longer/shorter route calculation -- there is also the issue of surge price disparity between driver and passenger. For example, the user would see 3x surge pricing while the driver would see 2x surge pricing, where the user is charged for 3x but the driver is paid for 2x. This is pure speculation and I have not witnessed this behavior but it's another way things can go wrong in Uber's favor.

Uber might be able to defend itself saying that the data provided to the driver and passenger are different because of misconfigured caching and stale data being served to either party, but it's a moot point in case Ars Technica has concrete and verifible claims of methodical and programmatic fraud. Personally I have witnessed being billed for $0 in-app after taking a round trip (effectively zero distance traveled) but the email notification showed the proper billing value, and there may be more instances of this "confusion."
Your link is broken. I believe you meant: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html

(".html" missing at the end)
The gold coin would be gold first, coin later.

What makes it a coin is that someone measured its purity, and stamped it with their mark to underwrite said purity.

The IOU, if not attached to a specific name, is just as good and exchange medium as that coin. Even better perhaps because the value is not in the material itself, but in what it can be exchanged for.

Frankly gold is nothing magical, it is just a material that is very corrosion resistant. Thus making weights out of gold would allow them to stay accurate longer while being transported around.
This was the point of Powershell, where programs pass around objects, rather than plain text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell#Pipeline
I have used SWI Prolog in a professional setting to solve a very complex problem in a short deadline. It is definitely a tool to have in your toolbox.
Are we worried that shady behavior that hurts consumers and riders might become the new equilibrium? I don't see how it could be. Whatever the machinations of Uber to artificially alter prices, no matter how sneaky, at the end of the day they'll lose drivers and riders to competitors if their margins drift too far from the economic cost of being the middle man. A driver don't need to know in what way he or she is being lied to or maniuplated to know that they make less per hour driving for Uber than for [Uber's next best competitor]. Thus, I don't see how there could be an equilibrium where Uber is overcharging and still has a significant portion of the market.
With references to infrastructure in particular -- not all aspects of the business -- even very large companies rarely need specialized storage engines for logs or metrics. A thousand servers don't generate enough data for it to matter.

We've seen something of a convergence here with ELK -- people push their syslog into the same system they use to provide general text processing for the application, instead of having a separate/weird storage engine for infrastructure logs.
I know of someone who got ticketed driving drunk and had their license suspended. They acted like they were the _victim_. I'm sorry, but there is just no excuse for driving drunk and if you get caught you deserve worse than just loosing your license.
This. The Titan-line makes more sense if, in addition to viewing it as the top end of their gaming line, you view it as the bottom-end(ish) of their compute line.
I'd say kudos for people who are able to make decent dimes doing hackathons. Back at college my buddies and I used to compete in Topcoder in attempt to earn some bounty prizes. I also saw teams/people who are professional Topcoders and made a living out of competitions. The same goes for Quantopian.

If a hackathon doesn't mandate certain level of technicality or a functional product, then having a good presentation that delivers a great idea/pitch is absolutely a fair game. Given 24/36 hours, the best bet is probably to leverage sponsors' APIs, cook up a good presentation (often neglected by developers) and show how promising the end product would be. Hackathons are more about priorities and showmanship and some people understand that.

People feel like hackathons are overrun by hustlers because it seems easy to win prizes. There are tons of other highly technical coding competition platforms that you can make a living by demonstrating your engineering/coding skills, Kaggle, Quantopian, Topcoder, just to name a few.
If the main contribution here is the quality of the model and its interesting and powerful representation of text, I hope OpenAI does something distruptively different and releases the weights and trained model.

The accidental sentiment neuron is a function of the model, distribution of the input dataset, and the optimizer finding nice saddle points. Insight into these foundational components would make these results amazing. It sounded like training on other datasets doesn't have the same sentiment properties, which provides a lever to explore these concepts more.

At the moment it feels like the Google cat neuron. It attracted a lot of intrigue but the individual contribution from that in terms of research was more on the infrastructure side, and few people seem to refer back to that publication at this point.

That said OpenAIs mission in itself doesn't necessarily require novel research. For example, the gym is fostering a competitive atmosphere for the community to work on RL which hopefully leads to more progress in the field.

Training a model for a month is difficult and if it has captured interesting phenomena it seems in the interest of the community to release the weights and model. It would be hard for the community to reproduce this without a month of compute and 83M Amazon reviews.
Bang paths are still supported in email addresses too!

Your email address might be george@cmu!vax!something!mitre!foo

Which meant Route the email through foo->mitre->something->vax->cmu.

Sysadmins would often keep tables of known routes. While people would describe their route from common known routing hosts.

We were so living in the cyberpunk future then.
Geography and type of employment also play huge roles. A clinical professor at UCLA earns far less than a private practice doctor in Ft. Worth.