skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How people feel is irrelevant; but based on federal law, the US Constitution, whatever local laws there may be & decades of judicial precedent, what you describe would expose any US employer to an enormous amount of liability. Its not normal or legal--& it can be very expensive.
I deliberately didn't specify the illness for privacy reasons, though it was an airborne contagious disease. I did not ask him why he was using such an old machine, but it seemed to work and he was rather old also. The detail only sticks out because it was so odd.
Time for 2.0 – Polymer Project
TypeScript and I have had many bouts in the past. It is not the solution to my particular problems.
All in all I hope we can see Thiel against him to balance it out.
How a couple went from being laid off to creating a successful ceramics business
Oh totally agreed that C++'s compilation times are (quite infamously) a mess. I think that my parent was asserting that Rust's compile times are "usually ... far worse" (the "it" in the quote above is a reference to Rust).

For all I know, that might be true, but it's one of those "citation needed" type things.
This article about the bracelet is from 2015. No updates since then, and it does not link to anything peer-reviewed. All in all I would take this with a huge grain of salt.
Scoble's statement: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015528797164465...

The post others are linking to from a few days ago seems to be referencing Rackspace, as UploadVR has not lost its CEO.
Medicare doesn't examine assets.

Medicaid does.

Medicaid is the payer of last resort for nursing care though, not Medicare (which doesn't really cover long term care).
Yes it is; and you are correct, it's not necessarily trivial; but the point I'm making isn't about reducing very high dimension inputs into lower dimension outputs or picking the best function to map between data sets.

...how you implement those functions, how you optimise for the best results and performance is an implementation detail.

If you are picking your solution before you know what your problem is, you are falling into premature optimisation.

Understanding how to reduce your problem domain into a series of functions that take numerical data and return numeric data is the key practical problem that most people face, and it's poorly described in the literature.

(That's why most people just pull out that classic line '...its great for image recognition and ...many other things...')
I evaluated Next.js recently, and while it looks excellent on the surface, there were a couple of red flags:

- Devs insisting (incorrectly) that they _have_ to ship the component source code _inline_ in the server-rendered HTML. I commented on this issue here: https://github.com/zeit/next.js/issues/427#issuecomment-2908...

- The same transpiled code is used both server-side and client-side. Code which should be strictly server-only, e.g. getInitialProps(), is visible client-side as well.
ZeniMax is suing Samsung after winning its case against Oculus
>>The problem is that people don't understand what they can do with this technology, or even, in a meaningful sense, what it is.

Yes, exactly.

As a "Pull" programmer [1], I can't tell how I would use this technology to solve problems I have or my company has. This makes it difficult for me to get motivated to learn it, despite all the buzz and excitement.

I went through the tensorflow tutorial. While it is interesting, I didn't find it useful, the way learning a new programming language or framework or library would be.

[1]http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.html#chapter_71
I've walked under these dozens of times and never realized why they were there. I suspect most Calgarians have any clue.
This is really cool, been looking for something like this
very nice, wish could've vote more :D

set as bookmark shortcut in Fx already :D
Maybe they don't believe there's enough demand and/or economic growth to justify the investment considering its risks and expenses?

If given a choice between paying for 6 months of training, or 6 months of waiting for the perfect candidate, waiting is much cheaper. In fact, the longer training takes and the more valuable the trainee at the end (the more demand for the trainee from competitors, essentially), I would guess the less likely businesses are to want to foot the bill. Likewise, training means you have to pay/contract so as to insure that there's not a high risk of a trainee being sniped.

On the demand/economic growth angle, witness all the large corporations hoarding record amounts of cash. It seems like many businesses recognize that disposable income is fairly well soaked - I think a general perception is that there's not enough disposable income to risk much investment in new products/industries unless they somehow clearly cannibalize from an existing market segment or specifically target upper incomes (and it takes a lot for something targeting upper incomes to be viable enough to not be boutique).

Anyway, this is mostly speculation on my part.
I use CL to advertise for my manufacturing business. It delivers 95% of our customers to our online store, and it does it for a monthly advertising budget of $270. We have $15-30k monthly revenue from these customers.

Craigslist's design works for us.
This is such a strange position to me.

The friends I grew up with have very compatible music tastes as me. My wife and I have a lot of genre incompatibility, but there is a trove of music that we enjoy together. I've managed to find common ground with coworkers across many different jobs and countries.

All of these relationships have resulted in a growth of interest in some genre or sub-genre for me.
>25 November, 2016

Title should be updated accordingly.
I've never had Windows 10 reboot on me. I've always had to tell it to reboot, or choose an option to do so. Very different than previous versions.
Exactly. I used Task Rabbit to help me move and it was a great experience. I bought the guy BBQ too and we ate food together on my patio. He was a nice guy who had a full-time job but did moving on the weekends for extra money. Contrast that with hiring a moving company - bad experience, poor interaction, less accountability, full-time employees trying to rush to get to the next job, etc.
But EMR are usually some incomprehensible black box involving MUMPS and/or COBOL. Paper might very well be less error-prone.
I've only dabbled briefly in it and read various articles about the new features, but that hasn't been my very limited experience. The syntax and namespace constructs etc all look quite arcane to me, and then there's the borrow checker. Not sure I'd call it simple and intuitive (at least yet, for me).
Classification is only one problem in machine vision. As in, not even 10% of the whole.

Edit: Btw I just had a look to confirm and what you're saying about "1000 equally balanced classes" is inexact, to put it midly. ImageNet has 100,000 SynSets (as in WordNet) and aims to have about 1000 images illustrating each. Individual images may illustrate several synsets- you don't get one image per class, say.

Also: AlexNet was not a cat recogniser and having unbalanced classes is a problem for machine learning, but not a dealbreaker, per se.
You might find useful to study algebra. It helps finding mathematical representations. You are in luck if you can find a representation that can be mapped to a vector space.
For sure. At 20 billion USD, Paul Allen is in the 11 digit club (googled "paul allen net worth"). If that is mostly Microsoft stock a 2.25% divivend [1] is gonna throw off like $450 million a year in cash. I would have to get real creative to spend a fraction of the wealth.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/
You are right. I can never keep straight which is which. I edited to my repetition of the mistake, but left the original quote as it was.
I was wondering if they've considered just leaving the first stage in orbit and then refueling it later for recovery. It might be worth it to refuel after super heavy loads on the Falcon Heavy.
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$5-10 million!?!? Thats steep. What are you going to spend $5-10 million on? I plan on retiring early at $1.25 million. I could do it on less but $1.25M lets me keep the lifestyle I have now, which is awesome. I don't live in a trailer park, I own a big (to me) house and I spent tons on food and booze.
This is super interesting - is there any information if they're doing this for other Falcon 9s? Or are all of the new 9s built like this now? Was this a contingency plan if the heavy wasn't launched on time or a scramble to get it done?
mmstick, what part of "I have actually tested this" do you not understand? I am not assuming anything. Please stop skimming my comments looking for things you can try to argue against and actually read the damn things.

> It states right there on both of the pages from Google that I linked to you. Brotli will not work without HTTPS.

Again, you don't understand what you're actually reading. There are two parts to Brotli support. The first is whether the browser will declare that it supports Brotli. This is the Accept-Encoding header. The second is whether the browser will actually correctly interpret a response encoded as Brotli. HTTPS only affects the first part. Chrome only declares to the server that it can accept Brotli when sending an HTTPS request and not when sending an HTTP request. But if the server ignores the Accept-Encoding header and hands back a Brotli response anyway (like your server is doing), Chrome will handle that exactly the same way over HTTP as it does over HTTPS. Because it's just a content encoding, and there is literally no reason to make the code that handles content encodings care about HTTP vs HTTPS.

> Enable HTTPS and pages decode. Switch to HTTP and they do not decode. End of story.

Please try testing this, because I promise you this is wrong. Switch to HTTP and if the server returns a Brotli-encoded response (with the Content-Encoding header set correctly) Chrome will still decode it. The only thing HTTPS controls is the contents of the Accept-Encoding header and not the actual behavior of the response decoder. I have tested this multiple times against Chrome 58.0.3029.110, using both localhost and a remote server. You clearly have not, and in light of this your final sentence is particularly ironic.
It is an implementation detail if the current implementation is viable, but if it is not, then designing a viable one might be critical
It's well known within the medical field that being a doctor is really really tough. It takes a lot of smarts and grueling years in residency before you officially become a doctor.

However it also pays incredibly well. Even moreso for specialities and surgeons, who can make over 200k a year even in low cost of living areas. Despite the difficulties of being a doctor it's harder to get into medical school than ever. The difficulties are not deterring med students.

I don't feel bad for people that go into this profession then complain about how hard it is. It's extremely well known within the medical field that being a doctor is grueling. That's why it pays so well. And it's not like this is a new development. It's been like this for decades.

Complaining about it is akin to working on an oil rig and complaining about poor work conditions. It's pretty damn obvious that you're going to have poor work conditions from the start.

Nobody is forcing you to be a doctor, your school credentials plus MD is probably enough to swing a decent job in almost any field. Doctors are some of the most employable people out there.

I just find it rediculous that were having a "poor doctors" discussion when it's the second highest paying profession in the richest country in the world. Get over it.
What other dark side of doctoring issue can I think of? Well, the doctors and nurses at Fairmount kept me prisoner without the ability to call my friends or family, denied me water, physically tackled me and tied me down. I was not allowed to use a lawyer of my choosing. I did not hit back when they tackled me. I never committed a crime. I feel like I am being repetitive. That is completely on purpose. The dark side of doctoring is at Fairmount Behavioral Health in Philadelphia, PA. It's a hellhole and should be closed. https://surroundedbyspies.com
No one in my American family prefers to work. For many of them they have no choice. The job is a job -- not a career or a calling. It is simply what pays the bills and keeps the kids feed.

For many of them, the job is very physically demanding and the body starts failing apart at age 40 (construction, health care).
What other dark side of doctoring issue can I think of? Well, the doctors and nurses at Fairmount kept me prisoner without the ability to call my friends or family, denied me water, physically tackled me and tied me down. I was not allowed to use a lawyer of my choosing. I did not hit back when they tackled me. I never committed a crime. I feel like I am being repetitive. That is completely on purpose. The dark side of doctoring is at Fairmount Behavioral Health in Philadelphia, PA. It's a hellhole and should be closed.
The latest example from CMS is the Readmission Reduction program;

https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/readmission-reducti...

In general, Medicare pays a certain amount of money for a patient with a specific diagnosis. So if 70-year old woman X is admitted with condition Y, the hospital will receive $Z for treating her -- no matter what it costs. Hospitals don't love that since having patients in beds is expensive, so they would often times discharge patients before it was medically appropriate. They would take $Z and then when the patient came back in a few days, they could bill for follow-up services.

With the ACA we started tracking hospital readmissions to see how big of a problem that really was, and if hospitals underperformed their peers (aka they saw a lot of readmissions indicating that patients were discharged too early), they would either not pay for the followup visits or just lower the overall reimbursement for future patients.

Another good example was the Hospital-Acquired Condition reduction program. There is an enormous amount of cost associated with hosptial-acquired infections and the US was particularly bad in terms of modern systems. If patients in your hospital are consistently catching bugs, Medicare will dramatically reduce your reimbursement rate.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/769-hospitals-s...

Since the 1990s though, Docs have been working with P4P -- whether it's increased reimbursement from insurance companies for prescribing an appropriate ratio of generics vs. brand name medicines, to the lump-sum payment per patient, to bonuses for hospitals adhering to best-practices (what % of patients with chest pain get an aspirin with 30 minutes or what % are cath'ed within 90 minutes of presenting).
>Yes, we do have a good idea of what goes on inside a NN trained on images

I'd love a source for this. The last time I checked I didn't find much. Sure we know the first few layers do stuff like edge detection. But the higher layers are much harder. And even if you know images are activating them, writing code that can accomplish the same task is much harder.

>It's just that NNs are rapidly moving ahead and maybe some time in the future both your statements will be true but today they are not.

The best NNs have already surpassed human accuracy at imagenet. That's insane! No one expected that result a few years ago. Yes object recognition isn't the only task in machine vision, but it's pretty representative.
they do. Steven Levy's crypto wars highlights the lengths America went to destroy secure software.
Does next-routes work in a static build?
I'm not particularly fond of political discussion on HN, but this particularly political environment is so insane that it ought to be discussed in more and more places. And I am keen on hearing the perspective of HN readers in particular on what this President and government is doing. It's a unique perspective, particularly when the discourse occurs in a community setting, and it ought not to be suppressed in order to preserve romantic ideas about what HN is "supposed" to be.

The guidelines have always stated that we should discuss whatever hackers find interesting. A subset (at least) find these topics interesting and worth discussion on occasion.
Crude but subtle in very subtle and insightful way!
That's called "lifestyle inflation," and it's real. Your lifestyle inflates to your income. People tend to spend $40k a year if their salary is $40k a year and spend $500k a year if their salary is $500k a year.
or rather, a language runtime that enforced some level of introspect-ability on everything

And now we get to the real meat of it.

It's not a REPL you want.

It's reflection.

It just so happens that the latter is frequently paired with the former.

And I agree, that feature, which separates C#, Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc, from legacy languages like C make them significantly easier to use as a developer as the compiler, debugger, and IDE can do a much better job.

But as a feature it's orthogonal to a REPL.
the irony of this bullshit is that the so called socialists that support this idea, are crowding out those that support the idea of closing down the usurous criminal banking system that has enabled the 3 decades long redistribution of wealth and income from working people to unearned marketeers and speculators and insurance confidence men ( the financializer class).

and it is precisely this financializing class that are also financing the so called 'robot revolution', to profit from . so the idea of welfare for all is just a banking sponsored ruse to distract the public from fixing the actual problem ( which is the financial system we use) , so that they can enjoy the notion of treating the 'symptoms' because they feel so powerless that they 'cannot stop progress'.

if you fix the financial system, everyone can benefit from robots without needing welfare regardless of how many jobs are lost . it makes zero difference, because a healthy financial system will reallocate capital away from the financiers and towards people who do anything for work. in a financialized world, the robots profits will go exclusively the financiers with almost nothing left over to create new job categories for people willing to sell their time .

the so-called socialist-communists are actually just astroturfed or useful idiots for the bankstergarchy, protecting their profits in the name of a fool's policy that has been tried many times before .

but, they do have a point. it could be helpful in treating the symptoms .....until the perverse incentives bring society to a screeching halt, or to a total domain control society, something more fascistic than has ever been imagined.
and quotes the daily mail. as far as i'm concerned that puts it immediately in "bigfoot discovered in noah's ark" territory until definitively shown otherwise.
>Convenience isn't an excuse for copyright violation.

Why does one need an excuse for copyright violation?
I automated my search for a houseshare by scraping http://www.flatmates.com.au and searched each description for a series of keywords. Made a potentially awful task much more pleasent.

https://github.com/siquick/findahouseshare

Python + BeautifulSoup
The first stage never makes it to orbit, it's on a ballistic trajectory in to the Atlantic Ocean.

Landing from a short hop is a much easier operation than from orbit. So far SpaceX have abandoned second stage recovery as too hard.
don't know about the website, but "Pen Island" is/was a small shop on Regents Street in London (not far from Picadilly Circus tube station) that sold high end fountain pens, mechanical pencils, etc. Don't know if it's still there, but it was list time i was in the UK (2007)
For jobs in which we are very inefficient (compared to machines) we are being replaced, it's not a question of should or shouldn't.

Maybe we should reconsider some regulations so we can keep the jobs for which we are still competitive. I mean that, while some requirements are unavoidable, others are a product of regulation, specifically of regulation that was created in an age with very different circumstances.
A simple google search shows further updates...

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0711-worlds...

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23559
That's probably why it's included in "fakenews" category on
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
All new falcon 9s are like this, it's the 'full thrust' variant. It's also how they have the fuel to land.
In Brazil Windows is sold in DVDs with the official installer.

The newly installed Windows asks for activation and you just ignore it forever.

You can't choose a desktop background and are greeted with a "You may have been victim of software piracy" every now and them, but Windows Update works pretty fine.

You are probably right about the DVD containing modified images (with malware, probably) but they work OK.
Daily Mail's holding company has a serious data operation in place though, maybe they're leaking their inside info, like where the ark of the covenant is warehoused, now that earth is totally fucked
Email sent to me is addressed to MAIL[at]MAIL[dot]COM – how is this done?
> I'd love a source for this.

I will do some digging for you tomorrow, it's 3:30 am and I really should get some sleep.

> Sure we know the first few layers do stuff like edge detection.

Yes, basic primitives.

> But the higher layers are much harder.

Well, those higher layers are built up out of the primitives the lower layers contain. So you get things that are conceptually easier to understand rather than harder.

> And even if you know images are activating them, writing code that can accomplish the same task is much harder.

That I completely agree with, I've basically gone that route in the last couple of months.

> The best NNs have already surpassed human accuracy at imagenet.

Yep. It's extremely impressive.

It's a watershed moment in the history of computing and half of us are still asleep or in denial. Which is fine by me. But please don't hype. It isn't magic and it isn't perfect - yet.

edit: ok, found two of the things I've looked at:

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/114385/what-is-the...

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/146413/why-convolu...

And this is interesting code:

https://github.com/yosinski/deep-visualization-toolbox

If anything I think that NNs as applied to vision problems are somewhat easier to make sense of than doing the same for NLP or audio.

Though it definitely feels like cheating compared to actually programming a solution.

An alternative name for 'deep learning' would be 'automatic multi-level feature engineering', but that wouldn't be nearly as sexy.
$50k is a plenty comfortable life in 99% of the US. Hell, probably 99% of the world
Median household income in the US is $52k. In San Fran, $78k.
> Its up to YOU to understand what you want to share, enable/disable what you want to share and understand how changing that changes the system you're running in.

So you're suggesting I avoid Microsoft then? Because that's the only way I can control it, otherwise I'm only an OS update away from MS re-enabling features I explicitly disable.