skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a good argument for it not to be about the innovators, but rather about the long buildup of compound growth in land use, longevity, and wealth in the preceding century in England, distinctly from other areas of Europe. The thought leaders and innovators of that era and the preceding centuries tended to be cosmopolitan, mobile, and well connected between parts of Europe, so one can't really invoke them as though they were geographically fixed, a regional phenomenon.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/cte/whrepe/wh016301.html

During the 17th and 18th century the English economy underwent a dramatic transformation: its capacity to feed and increasing population increased impressively. ... Perhaps for the first time in the history of any country other than a land of recent settlement, rapid population growth took place concurrently with rising living standands.

...

The notion of life expectancy provides the most important tool to examine the phenomenon of mortality, taking into account the age structure of the population. Life expectancy at age x is the average number of years that a person of age x will still survive at a given date. The most commonly used indicator is e(0), life expectancy at birth (or at age 0), but sometimes other statistics like e(1), e(5), e(20), e(50), are also tabulated. Their main advantage is that they capture age-specific mortality profiles: for instance, an increase in mortality concentrated in the age-group between 20-25 (due, for instance, to a long war) would affect e(0) but not e(30) because the probability of survival, given that a person is already 30, does not change.

Decisions about future capital and consumption are not taken by the agent when he is born but, rather, when he is twenty or twenty five years old. Therefore, the relevant survivial profile for considering the influence of mortality over investment choices is given by adult life expectancy. In fact, making the distinction between e(0) and adult life expectancy is expecially important for our problem because adult mortality behaves in a completely different way from infant and child mortality in the first half of the 18th century: adult mortality rates decreased very sharply from the end of the 17th century, while infant and childhood mortality rates were unusually high between 1680 and 1750.

..

If life cycle inspiration was present in rural England in the 18th century, farmers who were becoming aware that old people were gradually living for longer periods must have been more concerned about their own means of subsistence in the future. This may have been an important stimulus to reduce consumption, increase savings and take into account longer horizons.
Poor people will be able to buy used electric cars in the future. They'll still pay the same for the electricity as rich people, just like for gasoline.

If I were to skewer my own arguments, I'd aim at the batteries. They wear out, they are still expensive, mass production doesn't appear to bear the same cost reduction opportunity as other products...
Thank you; the pass mark being only 40% has given me some hope. It's been a large step up in terms of volume of content from what I did to get in.
Apart from people buying these for status there is another market - Hawaii and other remote places where prices are from 2x to 5x comparing to California.
I don't think that's a fair summary of the layout of the article. Once the article reaches the "How to Prevent This Issue" section there's far more space given to using premultiplied alpha than manually bled images, and it's not blaming anyone. It just tells an artist how they could fix it and tells programmers how they could fix it. Nobody is blamed and the "correct" solution isn't buried at all.
Decentralized solar generation helps the grid in some ways but hurts it in others, specifically the need for sundown peak generation. See for example the "duck curve" problem that CAISO is facing: https://www.caiso.com/Documents/FlexibleResourcesHelpRenewab...
> Correct me if I'm wrong

Yes, you are incorrect. This was an unsubstantiated claim based on WikiLeaks analysis of their leak, but is not at all proven in the actual leaked material.
When home solar installations send excess power to the grid, they also do it in the middle of the day, when wholesale electricity prices are at their highest.
Weird question. For me at least, the order changes based on whether I'm considering their utility, what I think of their ethics/monopoly abuse, or both.
The line is almost certainly when you start using the estimate in the context of conducting commerce, which is a pretty straightforward and understandable distinction.
Buzzfeed has some surprisingly good long form pieces. A recent one discusses in detail what's going on in Myanmar[1]. I found it interesting, but depressing.

The cesspool of fake news, Trump gossip, etc, turning into hot topics amongst Myanmar's budding online culture is sad, like a virus spreading.

Another worrisome side effect is the quick adoption of the medium by hate groups inciting violence towards religious minorities with outright lies compounded by the fact that most Myanmar users don't yet know fact checking is possible thanks to the walled garden.

Some users have landed in jail for not realizing posts containing jests about government officials were viewable by said authorities. The country's speech laws are still evolving and users struggle to understand brand new ceoncepts like scoping of comments.

Interesting times...

[1]. https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru...
This is tautological; the reason poor people don't get a lot of tax breaks is because they don't pay a lot of taxes. The government does spend a lot of money helping poor people, but not via tax credits.
> negative energy

:-D
Do they? Most of the cars with foreign branding are still manufactured in the US. And the big three improved quality thanks to the competition. They just focused on the more profitable segments (same play as Apple).

Japan, on the other hand, is a basket case, and China faces a similar demographic hurdle.
For a new car. Lots of people buy used.
How does consent work when there's an imbalance of information or power? I would say that consent is a necessary but not sufficient principle on which to base a just society.
Try this (https://rest.secapps.com) It is as close as it get to Paw. Also this (https://fuzzer.secapps.com) for fuzz-testing.
Bernd Paysan, “GForth” (GHM, 2014). (webm)
I haven't seen his other comments yet so the heads up helped me understand the context of his comments better.
Forbes = auto-close tab
This is very important. I watch Instagram and Snapchat stories every day. Instagram is 2 or 3 celebrity stories, then I scroll down to look at a few new pics. Snapchat is a constant stream of glimpses into the lives of my close friends.

edit: I'm curious if this is true only for my friend groups/demographic/principal component, poll here: http://www.strawpoll.me/12939274
That's the average for a new car. Most people don't buy new cars.
I think it depends on your definition of MVP. Some are prove to an investor you have a good idea. The kind I like are good enough for your first 10 or 100 customers... time to complete really depends on the product. IMO the MVP should be the basis for all future work e.g. After this first step you are incrementally adding improvements
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Not really. VTSMX has delivered that over 20 years.
That only works if it is worth $15k to the buyer.
Whoa, that's bad.

I personally don't see how it keeps going in the face of Instagram, though their filters are pretty cool. Instagram could copy that too of course, but it wouldn't have the same whimsy that Snapchat brings to the feature.
"Game over?" People around the world will have cheaper, high quality products. Is that bad?

Europe didn't suffer when Lowell stole the loom plans in the 1800s or when they bought a lot of gear from the US following WWII.

And don't forget as China grows and labor costs rise there will still be plenty of lower-wage places like Burma, Viet Nam, much of Africa..."game" still in progress.

Trade is only zero sum if you have a zero sum mentality. If you have $400 in your pocket and would rather have an iPhone, and Apple has an iPhone and would rather have $400 do you really think that one of you was taken advantage of if you swap? Both are happier.
Congrats on the book! I will have to check it out!

I went to the website and the header is a purple, and the purchase link is blue (so it is blue on purple). This doesn't have enough contrast ratio for accessibility reasons and is really hard to read. Since this is your purchase button, thought you would like to know.

Good luck with the book!
Shortly after I graduated, I was taking a couple of CS courses at a local college that was affiliated with one of the mainstream Protestant churches. I discovered that 1) There was a $50 fine for walking on the grass and 2) If two people were caught having sex on campus, it was an automatic expulsion, even if the two people were married. (I didn't discover this by getting fined or kicked out.)

A few years later, at a southern state university, I had the experience of having my driver's license taken by the RA before I could visit with a friend in her women-only dorm room. It was like the rest of the world was a man library, and my card was being filed away like a book in a 1980's library.
Not clear on the historic evidence, and especially not clear when you consider people swapping cap ex for op ex.
I suspect it'd be pretty different. Stories are right at the top when you open the app and are used by quite a few celebs - that must inflate the numbers a lot.
I loved Ingress! Of course after spinning off Niantic (the team behind Ingress), that spinoff went on to develop the highly successful Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go contains many of the gameplay elements of Ingress, but the packaging is a lot better. It seems like Google spun off Niantic because under Google they did not have the opportunity to make licensing deals with companies like Nintendo. Some of the motivation behind selling Niantic can be found here: https://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12153722/google-niantic-pok...
Uh, I got sidetracked and brain hammered by the devolving discussion on that Twitter thread, thus couldn't find the context for this pizza shop kiosk - Is it a customer service portal that attempts to identify the person in front of it to try and match up with an order, or a plain advertising display that is trying to capture the demographics of the people who happen to stop in front of it and look at it?
Amazon is far more scary as monopoly.
That itself reminded me, that the word "robot" comes from "robota, rabota" which means "to work, worker" in a lot of slavic languages (My native language is bulgarian).

From the dictionary:

robot, origin: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor.’ The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).

https://www.google.com/search?q=robot+definition
How do you define the post that i was responding to?
While this may be simply put this really is the best answer. The least amount of effort it takes to push something out the door is the ideal MVP, market validation is many times more important than early stage tech/code in a business, code quality at such stage does not correlate strongly with the success of a business idea.

Whatever it takes to get feedback from someone is the amount of work that is needed. Which means you can throw out 90% of the features and anything that even some what resembles an optimization of code, coding processes or business processes.
Funny enough, it was someone's side project at Google.
Hey! Nice page i Love your table solution. Havn't tried it on desktop but it works grest in mobile and scrolling is fast. Care to share it or spread some light om what solution you're using? Thanks!
Checked luggage goes through a CT scanner which is much better.
Snapchat was known for its unusual RSUs--they would evaporate in a set amount of time unless a liquidity event happened. Apparently, if there's what the IRS considers a substantial risk of loss, they're considered unvested and you don't have to pay taxes on them. It looks to me like the situation worked the same on the accounting side of things.
Except that not all problems in computation are GEMMs. CNNs in Machine learning certainly are, but many 'real' systems cannot be posted in such a manner.

In supercomputing this is the problem with using high performance linpack for benchmarks, which typically exceeds actual scientific codes by an order of magnitude in terms of floating point operations per second.
Greenville?
Windows.. TeamViewer.. using the primary screen to display the ad.. and the camera is not even hidden..

Amateurs.

I wouldn't be alarmed by this, they probably don't even now the accuracy of the algorithm they are using or how to interpret the collected data correctly.
Lots of houses over 100 years old out there. No reason to think a lot of houses today won't still be standing in 100 years.
But you need capabilities to create that new user namespace (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, I think)
I thought the use of the specific word "loch" would have been clear enough, but apparently the pronunciation of that word I thought I'd heard a lot on the BBC is not known as widely as I thought. Maybe I'm misremembering. None of the pronunciations you linked to is what I intended. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_fricative , as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English#Phonology .
> Have we considered that these REST "anti-patterns" exist because REST is fundamentally inappropriate for what most people are trying to use it for?

Or perhaps people actually don't understand REST, but think they do, thus leading to endless blog articles about "REST levels" and other nonsense.

> What if you can't shoehorn your functionality into the handful of REST verbs?

GET and POST can represent any arbitrary program (they map to the lambda calculus after all). You don't need any more than that, in principle. The other verbs are merely optimizations.

> What ever happened to plain old RPC?

The inescapable failure modes of RPC are exactly what REST addresses.
That's an interesting story, though I find that I oscillate between periods of perceived dread (though, as your Calc professor mentioned, I am privileged in this regard to not have it as much of an issue) and periods of a kind of laid back-ness in which I procrastinate and put things off as much as they possibly could be put off. This has been a recurring problem for me, possibly because the enjoyment of playing games or watching TV is an instant relief and pleasure.. the years of my life after university are distant and contingent.

On one hand I know that I need to work in order to get anywhere, on the other hand I pass it off by saying "you don't have to do this work to succeed". Couple this with the fact that whenever I want to start working there's a huge mass of things to choose from and I don't know where to start with it, or that I have very little willpower to stay with a question if I don't make progress.

It's hard, and I fear I may never learn. I tried to study in the library but alas no habit formed, even after a few weeks. I had diminishing returns by doing that.
Well that's a reassuring conclusion to the mini PR disaster that was that issue yesterday.
Not all partial orders have well-defined min/max, though. Ideally, you would want traits for meet/join semi-lattices, but I'm not sure how much abstract algebra you can inflict on the average Rustacean. Then there is the whole problem of NaN is incomparable with everything, so you'd have to use a non-standard definition of semi-lattice to allow for that.

And do you want max(NaN, 0) to be NaN or 0? There is a case to be made for either possibility.
FYI LCoE calculation on Si PV assume a reduction of at least 50% of generating capacity within 20 years. This page just claims "30 years" which is outside the expected lifetime of any cells on the market today.
suppose that we got robust practical 3 level logic elements, then potentially we'd need less of them for the same bit-width of computation thus less energy consumption, and the multiply&divide can probably be done in lesser number of cycles.
In fact, if money is what you're after you are probably better of getting the degree and then leaving academics, I don't know many people who stayed in the academic circuit and ended up being well off.
I'll indulge. When Facebook seriously have you in their sights, financially, the smart move is what Snap did: rush for IPO before your numbers start getting affected. Product-wise it appears that if Facebook make a billion dollar offer, accepting it is a wise choice to maximise usage growth and interaction.
People are thinking way too much about how much this saves them at a personal level.

I think people should instead be thinking about how we can save the existence of the entire species, and all other higher order forms of life on earth, rather than focusing on their individual tax breaks, savings, or other trivial concerns. Yes, your cash flow is rendered quite trivial if life on Earth ends.

Invest in the Life Economy, and turn your back on the Death Economy. The value here is in the benefit to life, concern over state monopolized currencies clearly facilitates an economy of death.
Perhaps this has something to do with completion of myelination to the frontal lobes.
It's not the point. The point is they are doing something drastically cheaper than it was, because of mass production.

Even if it comes out to be 40K or 45K -- that's still way lower than it was when it started.

You can get nitpicky about the specifics, it's also completely expected that Musk is always late but always delivers, and usually for a little bit more than expected. This is his MO.
Actually this has come up before with a similar law in Arizona, where the state tried to ban Zestimates. Volokh's analysis basically agreed with me (http://volokh.com/posts/1177792494.shtml). Though I couldn't find any info about what ultimately happened with that case.
Congrats on shipping John. Can't wait to receive my copy.

Maybe in a future podcast of yours, you and Cynthia can talk about how you approached researching for this book and the challenges you had over the 2 years writing it.
From the description:

Solar Roof is the most durable roof available
and the glass itself will come with a warranty
for the lifetime of your house, or infinity,
whichever comes first.
That's Amazon's strategy, where half of the leadership principles contradict the other half so there is always a way you can spin something.
Yes but to the extent you can, it's an easy win. I switched to a GEMMable method for a preprocessing step today based on the Volta and recent TPU news.

Hopefully Tensorflow XLA or other optimization frameworks could solve this problem in a more general way in the medium term:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/04/deep-learning-virtual-machi...
Is this new? Things like Affectiva has been out for a long time.
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If you need to scale that up for some reason or are working with 10-bit displays then just use RGBA16F textures. No reason to stick to 32-bit here. GPUs are perfectly happy to work with half-float textures.

Although if you want to keep 32-bit textures you also shouldn't be doing linear premultiplication like the article suggests, you should be using sRGB instead.
Yes, because everybody would love to have a decentralized, public ledger for sexual activities. /s

Diaspora?
I was referring to you, the individual as being the decision maker. If you are irrational there's nothing I can do to help you. The reason we should want to believe true beliefs is the same reason we should want to not be irrational.
Good point. However if a fire got started (and batteries sometimes do that), it could get going well before anyone noticed.

Anyways the concern about the batteries in the hold is straight from the article.
I'm not surprised.

Laughing cynically, however...
It's an ad. May be targeted advertising, or just simple engagement analysis.

http://www.dinside.no/okonomi/reklameskilt-ser-hvem-du-er/67...

Edit: there is more information in the article. Not going to read it, though.
Honestly, this should be a common part of web frameworks by now. It's a travesty that our industry hasn't developed a solid foundation for this kind of thing 16 years after it was published.

The best we've got on this mark is the Waterken server, which is pretty good, but not good enough.
Also, Yahoo had the search box before Google. So, his analogy is actually perfect: Facebook will wreck him.
The article specifically cites a source talking about asphalt shingle roofs: "The price was calculated for a roof where 35 percent of the tiles are solar (solar tiles cost more per square foot than non-solar tiles), in order to generate $53,500 worth of electricity, which according to Consumer Reports would make a solar roof more affordable than an asphalt shingle roof."
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/infographi...
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None of which brands buy on.
I think you meant to reply to the parent, not me.
One trick for breaking that is to get addicted to improving your craft. For me, it was originally starting an open source project, but there is something magical about a cup of coffee, a big stack of paper, and a math book that you have just the right prerequisite knowledge for.
For sure. And when you consider that research is improving on the topic of guessing someones race, age, gender, emotion via facial video/stills, as well as identifying other quasi-unique features such as gestures, gait, and facial expressions, well... it seems like it'd be hard to evade advanced ad or government tracking.
People serious about saving the planet aren't putting solar shingles on their mansions.

They're downsizing.
I mean, this isn't the only case of broken parametricity I've come across in C++ codebases. Though it's the only one in the stdlib.

I know vector<bool> is controversial (and I understand it can't be "fixed" now), I was just surprised that something breaking parametricity so blatantly was ever agreed upon in the first place -- in more functional languages parametricity is kinda much more jealously guarded. Bit of a culture shock there, is all :)
UK police will use AI to decide whether suspects should be kept in custody
I doubt the capability of china to be able to move up the chain. I mean they just figured out ball point pens... it's too little too late.

I think china struggles because it's only semi capitalist and still has too many relics of a planned economy.