skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To use a metaphor: the federal government should grease the wheels and kickstart the engine on large-scale projects, but state/city/corporations are responsible for building car and steering it.

For example, it's great that publicly funded prior research and experts bootstrapped SpaceX's R&D, and then NASA's contracts for low-priority launches helped them iron out the kinks. It was a nice transition from publicly funded risky R&D to a market-driven private industry. On the other hand, NASA's "full-stack" SLS product is an inexcusable clusterfuck.

Corporations are way better at diving deep to create practical, economical products... very very lean. The government is good at running lots of small risky/low-ROI projects, unprofitable but foundational to future private sectors. Tax the past to subsidize the future.
Beware that many JSON parsers don't agree with this, although your interpretation is the correct interpretation of the spec. Some parsers will only accept either an array or object. If you're building a JSON endpoint you'll be safest returning either an array or object.
> I am not lamenting an "educational innovation", I am saying that being presented a solution is not education at all.

For what it's worth, that was exactly what I meant. I don't think that anyone says, or even thinks, "grr, these kids and their ways of learning that aren't exactly like mine!"; but rather that one sees these kids and their ways of learning that aren't exactly one's own, and says "grr, these kids aren't really learning!"

This isn't to say that it isn't true, as I'm sure that sometimes it is, but that I think that most of the time it's a reaction that's likely to fade with time. However we learned looked, almost assuredly, like "not really learning" to some of those who came before us. Again, to appeal to my own experience, I have become a lot more relaxed about the use of calculators in math classrooms; I initially felt that they were taking away from students' calculational facility (and have not changed my mind about that …), but now feel more that they are clearing away the computational drudgery to allow more room for conceptual exploration. It is believeable to me that being able to Google the answers to things that are already known is a great way to get as quickly as possible to the things that aren't already known—although, of course, it is a worthwhile argument whether, or how much, preparation it offers to deal with those unknown things upon reaching them.
I pin the most important ones, then switch using cmd+1/2/3 to the one I need (would be nice to have feature to switch to -1,-2,-3 (aka last, second to last, etc) tabs

cmd+` to switch between different Chrome profiles/windows

option+shift+a/d to snap window to left or right

tiptap to switch between tabs when using trackpad

when slack notification comes up, just click on it and it takes me to the right Chrome tab

I do agree we need a better way to integrate tabs in native windowing
> 101domain.com is likely doing a manual process for registering .ai domain names that goes through https://whois.ai/

Gandi seems to do this as well. I recently tried to buy one through them and they quoted $600, and required a corporate subscription. 101domains had the same one for a little over $100, which implied to me that there's a paper process with people somewhere and each registrar is pricing accordingly (since all .ai are $100/2yr flat).

Good timing on your comment, too, since buying-then-transferring seemed like a good strategy until I read it. Didn't realize .ai was so fundamentally manual. Although[0]:

> We expect that about mid 2017 we will support EPP and other registrars.

[0]: https://whois.ai/faq.html
The government should do that, but not in the current state. Governments around the globe became so broken and corrupt, they cannot do the tasks given to them.

But pro-society government (centrist), with regular people having direct tools to remove officials, with politicians being responsible for their election promises and with no lobbying allowed, with tight anti-corruption laws and yearly referendum in place.
>it's incumbent upon us to use the most currently, and thus least likely to inadvertently offend, pronoun and referents

This only follows if the value of "not saying something that would be offensive to someone who isn't even party to the conversation" (a value which we violate without a second thought, sometimes even gleefully, when it doesn't involve an anointed "social justice" issue) outweighs the value of "communicating clearly and accurately". Chelsea Manning was named Bradley Manning. She was male, at least as far as anyone else was concerned.

It's one thing to request that people call you by a certain name and pronoun now - it's quite another to insist that everyone pretend it has always been thus.
Is there a good place or pattern for service methods in Django? I've got some very fat models right now, and it's a DRY improvement over having the fat in the views, but like you say it takes a lot of effort to trace what's going on.
ML can certainly do continuous problems as well, but for many problems, classification works well to solve them. Plus, most problems can be devolved to classification, and classification problems can usually be solved by simpler "classic statistical" methods (regression methods), so are easy and fast to code for (no need for any fancy neural network or deep learning or such, or massive datasets).

I don't think ML or AI (or whatever you want to call it) is going to replace programmers any time soon, either. I do think, though, that having the skills in such domains will be something that employers are going to look at in differentiating potential candidates for job placements. So if you have the knowledge or can get it now, it may prove useful in the future.
Growing sugarcane does a pretty good job of converting CO2 into hydrocarbons using solar power.

But to be cost-competitive with fracked methane, I'm pretty sure we're going to need some heavily genetically-engineered strains of algae, growing in artificial forests of pipes.

The irony is that algae can be used to clean up fracking wastewater, so it makes methane production cheaper as it competes.
No Kafka Streams for Go yet.
Other reports say that hedge funds and other investors bought up lots of houses after the crash, and are now renting them out through management companies. If true, that would both contribute to the lack of supply for purchase and capitalize on the demand for rentals.
To me, it seems like you just came up with a question to brag about it. Come up with anything you want or use "James B." if it makes you feel safe(r).
Perhaps because they would like to call into code written in Go.
Re: Fruitfulness. For the general thesis of "computation" vs. "equations" as the "new kind of science", it is not like Stephen is the lone practitioner...

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup...

...(skip down to the last paragraph).
Spending $600B/yr on the military is not limited government.

Spending $600B/yr on the military is right wing welfare.
This is exactly why I have been advocating for a public Manhattan Project for General AI for a long time. I made the case while I was part of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 but basically nobody cared at that point.

I was in the Defense Innovation Board small group session with Mattis, Schmidt etc... about a month ago and it was clear that since then the message was received by some but not all (which is partly why I was invited as a reserve officer).

As a result the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a memo [1] recently which took some of the first steps to get the ball rolling, but frankly it may be too little too late.

OpenAI is generally on the right track, but even then it's primarily dominated by the big players and they don't have incentives to push their best research, data, models, resources to that - of course why would they?

[1]https://www.scribd.com/document/346681336/Establishment-of-t...
Maybe just enough of them to make it worthwhile manipulating them?
I own a 1br condo in the Bay Area that I purchased as an investment. I've considered selling but the very high transaction fees are a big deterrent. Consider:

7% typical agent + escrow fee (3% buyer, 3% seller, 1% escrow). May be able to get as low as 5%

~15% capital gains tax

~10% CA income tax

Even on a sale of a 1br condo, these fees can add up to $50-100k depending on the purchase price and net gain. That's quite a chunk of change! Enough to make one keep the unit on rental market
Captain Kirk, on the mountain.
A Nexus 4 handed down to my son recently stopped working when he dropped it, smashing the screen. Gave him my cast off Nexus 5 that was still storming great. My wife's Nexus 5 was working perfectly, though we replaced it with an iPhone 7 (to her great dismay, it turns out). My own Nexus 6P has worked perfectly, but for dev reasons I replaced it with a GS8 (which is simply a stunning device in every way, including the fact that I immediately dropped a UHS-1 64GB SD card it in and now do my data churning development on that).

The point, I guess, is that anecdotes vary. Heck, my son has been toying around with the G1 and G2, and Nexus One, I had sitting in drawers.
Diplomats are exempt, but a random Member of Parliament is not.
I am not sure about the tight credit. We were approved for something we would not be able afford (too much house). It seems like the new wave is to target prime accounts with over the top amounts. Those account can quickly become subprime if the economy adjusts.
I didn't read it that way.

I read it as simply a recount of why inventory is low:

1. Credit worthiness is preventing many families from owning a home

2. Home sellers are opting to rent out rather than sell

3. Cities are adding workforce population but the amount of single family units is not keeping pace.
> Within 24 hours of the hack, we were on the phone with two important teams: Apple and the FBI.

FBI, seriously? Calling the cops, over malware, as a cool independent software company?! I mean, sure, fuck malware, but what happened to "fuck the police"? :D
Don't forget this part of the article:
“We realized that the commercial varieties being grown at the time didn’t taste that great,” says Martineau. “Even if you grew them in your backyard and let them fully ripen on the vine, they wouldn’t have had great tomato flavor.”
This is definitely a piece of the puzzle in California.
I think it will be interesting to follow Google's presentations at GlueCon: http://gluecon.com/
I didn't even know that the client was not open source.
What makes this Firebase less risky than Parse or the recently deprecated Prediction API?
The AUR (Since you mention yaourt) or PPAs are the linux equivalent of downloading random crap off developer homepages though. They have benefits in terms of updates etc. but they're no more secure (And you may want to look at the next PKGBUILD you install and see how many of them are literally just grabbing stuff off third party servers anyway)

See for example:

* Kivy: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=pytho...

* Chrome: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=googl...

* Vivaldi: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=vival...

* Plymouth (over HTTP too!): https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=plymo...

* Oracle JDK (also plaintext HTTP!): https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=jdk
> standardized format†

†: Parses unreliably at best, Turing-complete at worst. (aka javascript if you didn't catch that)
Possible, but unloading cargo would be more involved. Also, without access to electronic manifests, I am not sure there's any easy way to know what's in a container, not to mention many of them would be stacked in such a way as to inaccessible. All of which is a lot harder than ransoming a crew. I suppose it might be possible for pirates just to threaten to sink the ship.
US Tax laws basically force you to invest that $300k into a new home, or pay high gains.

Edit to add: The above statement is false.
Both ends in Califnornia.
Now, what was that quote again? “We have only bits and pieces of information. But what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificance as we gave birth to AI.”

Google seems to be more and more appropriate for The Matrix quotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9780632
Amazon Is Trying Social Commerce on for Size with the Echo Show
Because of that non-trivial runtime when I used it, it also required pro-guard. I like proguard but it comes with its own set of issues. I typically set it up at some point in a project, but I don't want it required as a first step on a new project.
I'm in one of the hardest hit areas in Canada. Rental vacancies hit ~0% last summer. House prices jumped ~20% last year alone. Amusingly, the crunch has been so bad that our city has reached the point where we have approximately as many realtors as listings.

For someone who aspired to one day own a home, the realization that prices have jumped 125% over the last decade is disheartening to say the least.
> Breeding whales in captivity = rescuing them? Really?

Really. This is the definition of rescuing them.

Some whales have very low populations. There could be less than 30 estimated vaquitas alive in reproductive age and is an species exclusive to USA and Mejico that only has one single baby each two years. Is imperative starting breeding it on captivity as soon as possible.

You can release the grandsons of a captive animal, but not a single specimen of a wild and free extinct species. When is gone is gone and there is not more baijis to be released. Too little, too late.
I'll repeat what I've said before about these platforms - I don't see why any institutional money would ever flow to them. Most startup funds require at least 5 years of audited history before any capital allocator will touch them. They might get some small quick money from fund-of-funds, but I think they'll be hard-pressed to keep it. Given the relative short history on these platforms and the likely churn in algos, I can't see anyone putting serious money into them.

One of the other problems I see with these platforms is that there is nothing that stops me, as far as I can tell, from pulling my algo from that platform once it is successful. Now there are lots of reasons why I could see people not doing that (running your own fund is hard, raising capital is difficult), but I don't see why anyone that is successful wouldn't immediately exit the platform in order to maximize their return.
I used to feel the same way in regards to a lot of technology. I think this is the problem with trying to be a generalist is it seems like you need to be an expert at everything. Machine learning might be a great area to specialize in these days but if it is not for you I wouldn't stress out about it.

There are also a lot of resources for ML that don't require diving off the deep end such as tutorials/intro classes on coursera. In my opinion also picking what you learn helps as well. Trying to skip straight to neural networks might not be the best place to start if you don't know anything about linear regressions or classifiers.
Freeonlinetool.io now has MS Office to PDF converter
Introducing Ivy: a new smart contract language
Fewer people are in a position to qualify for a mortgage, and those that are, are competing for fewer houses because existing inventory aren't being sold, but instead rented.
holy cow, that ad looks exactly like a normal result with a very low contrast small link on the upper-right.
The long view is surely that Government provides an excellent vehicle for planning/regulation of infrastructure and allocation of large-scale funding, and independent institutions and private companies the best vehicles to receive that funding for R&D & build.

When a government tries to build infrastructure directly, you often get disastrous outcomes. Australia's so-called National Broadband Network is a recent and woeful example.

The sole counterexample is probably roads, and even then there's an argument that the public administration of roads has many systematic issues that could be blamed on governmental factors.
I think some comments reflects that very similar things has been done for 10 years or so. And this don't seem to solve all problems, only a few of the problems.

It looks like you would end up with one html page per page in the site. And when you have 50 pages or more and decides to change the structure you would have to change all the pages. I'm not even sure the tool supports that, you might have to start with git and a standard html editor and change all files. Then you are back to editing html and have not gained much. For _very_ simple sites this might help and it does look very nice.
Not really trying to ding the Nexus line itself, honestly I loved them overall. My N1 far surpassed my expectations, and lived on yet another year after I gave it to a friend. I liked the 6P quite a lot. The 5X/6P generation does seem to have fairly widely reported and consistent issues however.

They used to be subsidized by Google and offered at a lower price point, but at flagship levels they have greater competition. I guess it's time for me to consider yet another new territory with this round... device insurance.
Thanks for your insight. This term is apparently useless.
> looking out for a good application to try it on.

Self driving vehicles - or other robotics localization and similar problems. Those are fun, at least, I find them fun.

I've also considered stuff in the graphics arts - like the various "deep dreaming" things, or the various ML filtering of images (turning a painting into a "photo" for instance); there's some interesting possibilities there.

But for me - robots are where it's at. The idea of making a machine that can "do its own thing" intelligently - well, that has fascinated me ever since I was a small child and watched the original 1970s "Buck Rogers" series with my dad.
They run Windows NT 4 on the mvm and even have a custom badged start up screen http://salim.virji.net/pix/transit/mta/crashed_metrocard_ven...

The OS/2 stuff is used on the back end of the metro card system.
That's not true. We grew tomatoes long time ago. Most of them had amazing taste. Even the 'commercial varieties'. The problem is that tomatoes need lots of sun and time.

They are spinning that in the article, and I'm sad to see most of the commenters fall for that. Tomatoes just need time in the sun, it is that simple.
Comparing Steam to CD distribution is not fair, compare it to GoG. They also have a client, but you can always download DRM-free installation executable and just use it without hassle. You are even allowed to install games that are not Officially Supported™ on your system.

I always first check GoG and itch.io for any game I'm interested in. Maybe it's my taste in indie games, but quite a few authors actually want to have DRM-free release, while Steam will probably never support it.
Safari books online. Best online learning resource ive ever used
Hack your car! Make it drive itself!

Or - go smaller (probably safer, too!) - make a self-driving RC car!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etap.12275/full

The full study, which is somewhat less sensationalized. Albeit still without any actual data.
What is the self-sacrifice in this case? You're trading "working to build a business to earn an equity-stake" for "free-riding on others' work to build said business to make your equity-stake more valuable."

Think of it as two separate companies: Startup A, which you co-founded, and which ended up dissolving, you seeing nothing for your efforts (other than whatever salary you managed to scrape out); and then, Startup B, which you bought a huge number of shares of for the amazing price of $0/share, and now get to smile as those shares appreciate, like any investor. It just so happens that Startup A and Startup B are the same company at different points in their life, but that shouldn't change your views toward the two situations.
Guaranteed to be fp16.
Despite the hype and genuinely great technology and growth it's still nowhere near competitive with the big automotive firms.

So while Tesla has definitely driven innovation here, there are still MAJOR hurdles to them being globally competitive.

Further it took Billions and someone like Elon Musk to be able to get even this far, so in that context if even Musk and tons of government dollars can't get there then it's safe to say nobody can.
I may agree with your first sentence. I don't know how to respond to your second sentence.
"It's a new landlord nation where everybody is renting out their basement.
When somebody moves up they don't sell their old place, they rent it out to
somebody else, and it's because they want to keep that 30-year mortgage for 30 years,
and it's because they can easily find somebody on Airbnb who will take the place," Kelman said.

So this is Airbnb's fault?
What about (very wealthy) friends-and-family round investors, who understand the people involved but nothing else?
Private construction of road networks didn't work very well to connect the country compared with government backed road construction.

Additionally, when massive economies of scale drive the market towards a single provider, your options are to either trust a corporation to behave ethically (given history, a terrible choice) or to run a state monopoly.

There are definitely times when a planned system backed by the state can do a better job of serving the public good than a free market. The right answer is to be flexible and examine each situation independently rather than be dogmatic about government vs markets.
I thought a bunch of the gains on the sale of a home was tax free if it's your primary residence and you meet other requirements?
The Wired article from a couple of days ago about the new Apple HQ read like a hagiography for Steve Jobs, at the beginning of the article he almost had a messianic figure, which is strange because the guy has been dead for 5+ years now. I guess the world needs its idols, be it capitalism, successful businessmen, sports athletes and the like.
According to most sources 1 in hundred people are psychopaths. Most people don't have that many friends. I for example have just one.
> I don't think the kernel developers 25 years ago had any idea that some kid would be learning C through the code they wrote.

I am sure you are correct in this statement, but I do not believe in hones in on what the point of the article is. The point is that now that we know people learn in this manner we should do what we can to provide as many learning avenues for future generations. Certainly people will always find avenues, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't provide as many opportunities that we can.
The Google Assistant – App Store
I don't know of a teaching resource, but I have found TensorFlow and Keras to be like Lego when it comes to ML; I am taking the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegree, and in the first term we used both (after having implemented our own simple ANN library in Python - to understand the basics) - I found it to be so much simpler to implement things with (especially neural networks for deep learning).
Why is there not more construction to increase the amount of housing in your city?
No, I said, taking whales that were bred in captivity from bad caretakers, and moving them to good caretakers, is rescuing them.

Taking children from abusive parents, and giving them to foster parents, is rescuing those children.

Taking pets from abusive owners, and giving them to the ASPCA, is rescuing those pets.

So taking now-unable-to-survive-in-the-wild wildlife from abusive caretakers or breeders, and giving them to wildlife preservation organizations, is...?

(Note that I don't believe in paying the breeders for their whales; that just incentivizes making more captive whales. They should be confiscated by law-enforcement, and then law-enforcement should place them with a rescue organization they have a partnership with.)
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