skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I'd love it if there was some way to somehow ban politicians from "prestige" projects. It's impossible, since they would be the ones that would do the banning, and they won't and can't. The last thing Detroit needs right now is flashy silver bullets to bring prestige to its politicians; it needs sustained organic growth and the conditions that encourage that.
Fujis are very nice but I notice that there is a lot more variance in their tartness level than in some other varieties. they tend to be on the sweet side, but some of them are much more tart than expected.
We somehow survived w/o back in the day, and that feeling of constantly being contactable, or feeling you need to be, is debilitating imo.
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I think the concern is about externalities like co2.

It could also be a quality concern about doing stuff like picking food super raw and waiting for it to ripen in transit, which seems less than ideal.

But your point about the efficient market is certainly valid FWIW.
And the training set! Mmmmmm!
beautiful building? meh, it's just extremely boring massive ring designed by some megalomaniac without any imagination, it's shame since Apple products have usually decent design but this is shameful mediocrity

this is beautiful building which looks cool and like actual 2017, not that Apple thing which looks like something from 80s
http://www.archdaily.com/778933/harbin-opera-house-mad-archi...

http://www.architectureartdesigns.com/breathtaking-harbin-op...
"Naïve Bayes can only represent non-negative frequency counts of features; therefore it was not a candidate as accelerometer data has negative values. However, this could be mediated by simply scaling all the data to ensure positive values (i.e. multiplying all values times 100)."

I think there are two serious flaws here.

- Bayesian frequency counts aren't measured values - they're counts of measured values...

- Multiplying a dataset of positive and negative numbers isn't going to make it strictly positive (unless you multiply by 0). You'd have to add the minimum value to all values.

This lead me to look for the author, but sadly the author is some anonymous 'GuestBlogger' ...
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Autonomous robots are far cheaper than humans to operate and could more easily parallelize the task of doing multiple deliveries per hour. In addition, the markets will expand significantly when the price of food delivery comes down to $1-2. Also, car-driven food deliveries also only average about 2 per hour, in part because of parking issues on both restaurant and customer end.

(disclaimer: I am a co-founder of one of their competitors -- robby.io -- we're based in Palo Alto/Stanford)
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They're effectively competing with the likes of NonStop doing linear scaling on fault-tolerant systems but geographically distributed. The mainframe and NonStop solutions start at $1+ million if volume is significant. The VMS clusters can similarly cost 6 digits. Spanner might be cheaper than them if you need availability, consistency, and speed more than space.
Because most people leave Apple before they have kids
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Having a tree to have fresh apples is a bit more elite than most of us that have to buy them from the store...
I'm at HP but not in the PC division.
They might be a mouthful of orgasms when eaten right off the tree. The ones in the supermarket are still made of open-cell foam and disappointment.
I agree with every point, and I'll even emphasize the "iPhone 7 plus is too small" claim. Reading a book on the iPhone [67]+ is not a good experience. It's also too oddly sized for browsing most of the web; mobile sites make everything too large, and switching to desktop versions makes everything too small. Videos also tend to lack a lot of detail.

The mini, in comparison, is much like a Kindle for reading books (that is it's comfortable to read, especially the retina displays), and I can read just about any web site without special handling when in portrait mode.

I've bought 3, and the only reason I haven't bought more is because they still work perfectly.
Pretty sure users doing 3D modelling or storm calculations are the smaller group, far more people use office apps and a browser.. one producer serves multiple consumers. Your bubble may be skewed (easily done in Photoshop).
Thanks; I'll upgrade
Not really. You just need some basic natural language processing to recognize what task needs to be done. There's some stuff like this already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54HpAmzaIbs
I've seen that Hofstadter quote used in this context before, and always assumed it was being quoted out of context. Do you know where it comes from? I suspect the idea is related to his "Letter Spirit" project - if so approaches like notMNIST don't really speak to it.

Hofstadter often wrote about the difficulty in semantic understanding, and how AI approaches often approached things in such a superficial way that they miss the deeper meaning by design. Many of his projects were aimed at taking on these much harder problems head on. I suspect this quote, while also being a play on words, is aimed at this deeper understanding.
Shady and controversial are two very different things.
“Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?” (1997)
Yeah, being limited to 720p because you run a free software operating system is not my idea of 'not shady' (Netflix is keeping their streams on Firefox and Chrome on 720p as a matter of policy, 1080p requires IE11, Edge, or Safari on a non-free operating system, or their proprietary app on an approved operating system).

The only way this makes sense is if the purpose of this blockade is to push people towards devices and operating systems that are completely locked down with DRM, from the software to the hardware. I can't think of any other reason — if Netflix does serve me 1080p and 4K streams, would that cause a sudden increase in the amount of pirated releases available?

I can already get everything on Netflix, in 1080p, if I really want just by visiting the usual pirate haunts! So what exactly is gained by degrading my viewing experience by only allowing me 720p as long as I choose to run a free operating system instead of a fully locked down platform?

I wish Netflix would give an honest answer on their DRM strategy, because it is driving me away.

I could understand if this was done because of licensing issues, but Netflix has decided on a blanket ban of 1080p and higher for their customers on free operating systems and anyone else who wants to use Chrome or Firefox.
Screenhero was such a fantastic product. I miss it every day.
As far as Multi-AZ is concerned, it's a bit of a wash. A month ago when the east coast had its issues, Multi-AZ didn't do anything. Every time I need to reboot an instance, with failover it is down/inaccessible for the same amount of time as if I had just rebooted it plainly.

I'm sure there's scenarios where it's worked well for people, but I've never seen it happen.
That was sams idea I had. I found that SparkFun even had a guide on it:

https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/GPS_Guide
tech "journalists" write about things they understand poorly. I'd love to have more insight into where the groupthink on this comes from though. maybe they're more familiar with covering other industries where an expired patent might mean that a pharma company would cease production of their brand name pill (and let generics sell it at lower margins instead)?
Do they use WebRTC and do they work in Firefox on Linux?
Shouldn't think so, at least not of necessity. I lived next to a small apple orchard for a while as a kid, and in a tumbledown hovel with chipboard walls at that; the trees belonged to the same farmer who rented us the place, who certainly wasn't any more a member of any elite anywhere than we ourselves were.
It's rude but I can take a joke when it's about someone else.
yep, it looks really awful like something from 80s almost in par with commie architecture, these guys wasting money apparently never heard of Zaha Hadid and likes

common, it's just massive boring circle, even Pentagon building is more original, there are only two things making this building interesting - size, Apple HQ

make it ten times smaller and put there unknown company and nobody would bother to read about it
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How is it elitism to say that the 99% of the variety that people actually eat suck?

I would think the elitism is insisting that the only way to truly judge them is straight off the tree (after a spell of opportunistic weather).
Only real interesting part would be the technical details of their NGMI interconnect.

Only thing that I understood so far is that it is based on FPGA that suggest that it is experimental i.e. no ASIC yet.
Still no linux support for video and now no linux support for screen sharing. Here's to hoping Google ramps up whatever Slack competitor they're trying to roll hangouts into.
The first question is what do you want to do with the arm and why can't a mechanically simpler contraption like a gantry be used if fixed or something like a dump truck or flatbed truck for mobile?
I assume this is one of the reasons they decided to add it "natively". Since people are using git/github plugins anyway.
Here is the old package: https://atom.io/packages/github
Here is the work they did to upgrade the performance: https://githubengineering.com/integrating-git-in-atom/
Alien 3 is clearly a lesser alien work, but it's still very interesting to watch as an early david fincher work.
> In that case, the database will perform a failover in those instances so there isn't downtime.

Have you done that? I have and there's been downtime every time (~5m).
It's not elitism - the problem is virtually nobody has access to the quality of apples you did. Generally speaking, we are limited to what is at the store, and they taste like shit.
If it was licensing issues, it'd at least be nice if Netflix only lowered quality where required instead of across the board. For crying out loud, why can't I get 1080p streams of Netflix originals on Linux - I've got the stupid Widevine CDM installed, what's the problem?
for people who don't click the link: a larger number is better.

it's ranking by prevalence, so countries like North Korea (rank #1) worse than countries like the U.S. (#52) and Australia (also #52).

I couldn't find a country that was ranked #167 out of #167, though. I think #52 is as high as it goes.
I think that the reasoning against shipping apples across the globe is that consumers do not pay the full price; one might argue that the transportation is subsidised by our extraction and burning of oil at a rate much quicker than it is formed
Better resources: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html

https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts (I don't understand a lot discussed there, but many interesting links and info about current deals to be found)

There also are differences between the quality of the timing output of different GPS modules, with some being optimized for timing applications (as opposed to location finding)
Netflix's culture deck is one of the most horrific things in the tech industry I've ever seen. It's so ruthlessly mercenary, I have a hard time understanding how why people put up with them.
>Remove "not your job" from your vocabulary and you'll be better at not just these things

No one else is removing that from their vocabulary. I don't see the incentive for me to do that.

This is the problem. You haven't realized that everyone is saying "not my job" and pushing it all onto developers.
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What makes you think the Netflix turnover rate is high?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that I have not personally experienced it. I've been at Netflix for a little less than 2 years. We've had zero turnover in my immediate group (the team that runs the OS used on the OpenConnect Appliance), and very little turnover in adjacent teams. I experienced far more turnover at Google.
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Thanks Rob!

I'm really looking forward to see where the new RFC process will take GraphQL in the next few years. Was great being able to contribute to the standardisation process for subscriptions.
A site trying to "enhance security" at that. Maybe the job security of bot herders.
I agree with most of what you're saying. In my opinion, the most questionable thing Reed did was captured in your first point; Reed shared large bits from his "off the record" conversations with John. I'm not an ethicist or a journalist, but that seems "wrong" to me.

In terms of the "church" topic, I think Tyler's accounts are completely valid/ethical to share (since he was "on the record"). Still, it doesn't sit well with me that John's account of "church" doesn't align with Tyler's. As a listener it feels like I'm hearing something John isn't completely comfortable with sharing.

Thanks for the discussion points!
This is a pretty abominable line of reasoning. Yeah, doing the right thing is not always free of cost.
it's just massive boring circle and i can show you immediately dozen more interesting buildings

now pyramids at the time of construction were massive engineering, this is just dumb boring building
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It says you can only share your entire screen. That's fine from a laptop, but if you have a 4k/5k display sharing to people with laptops, wouldn't the text be unreadable? Sharing just a single window is the standard solution here.
Nah, copyright law prohibits by default as I read it. Then, author selectively grants permissions.
Privilege comes in many different forms. 90% of the population doesn't have that kind of access.
I have a ton of CDs I ripped to 128 kbit a long time ago, back when I couldn't afford the space for anything larger. Honestly, at my age, with only a few exceptions, I don't really notice anything.

Still, when I get new stuff, or rip now, I try to do it at least at 192 or 320, since space isn't an issue any longer.
The most interesting part of this article is the last bit about China. It reminded me of an earlier article I saw on HN concerning the Asian market for wild ginkgo harvested in Appalachia.

It's becoming clear Chinese and American consumer behavior concerning food are vastly different from one another, and globalization has not eliminated all of those differences. Food is still one of America's biggest exports, so there may be a lot of undiscovered opportunities here for smart entrepreneurs in the food manufacturing industry to take advantage of these differences.

Politicians can create and trade restrictions and tax breaks, but they can't wave a magic wand and move consumer markets around more to their liking. The presence or absence of a market is what decides the viability of a business. Either the market's there or it's not.
Lack of Linux support is the only thing preventing our organization from ditching hangouts.
Put another way, at absolute zero, in the void of deep space, does time effectively stop for a quantum system that does not otherwise change.

Does time exist for systems with no events?

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Please don't. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14349672 and marked it off-topic.
Crooks claim to have stolen new episode of the Pirates of the Caribbean film
Might some see this as a healthy, progressive, sex-positive evolution of the modern workplace?
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We shouldn't be talking about a basic income until payroll taxes and income taxes have been eliminated for low to moderate income earners. In addition with federal interest rates at nearly 0% we could expect to be able to increase the federal deficit dramatically without impacting inflation other than an increase in interest rates.

As it is now, we are taxing middle class workers to subsidize our capital markets. A basic income is a great idea for a society in the distant future. However at the moment we have so much neglected infrastructure we could employ our entire economy for decades to come no matter what level of automation we reach.
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machines are best at monitoring what other machines are up to. you need to do both.
Python used to be my "main" language, but that was only due to familiarity. For most IO intensive tasks (especially networking), Python is not the best choice [0]. Recently I've been using nodejs with promises and async/await for heavy IO. I really like the productivity gains of Javascript's functional programming style, and the event loop lends itself well to network/IO intensive tasks. (I would prefer to use golang for this, but haven't gotten around to learning it yet)

Now I use python when it's the best tool for the job, where the "job" is a part of a project. My projects usually involve a combination of three languages: python, javascript (node and/or frontend), and bash scripting. The bulk of the code is node, but for scripts I use a combination of bash and python.

I use bash scripts for anything that involves piping data between processes, simple file I/O, backup scripts, etc. I prototype almost every script in bash. When it gets too complicated, or requires parsing a lot of data, I switch to Python (sometimes I even inline the Python in bash with heredocs).

In my experience, bash is usually the best tool for the job if the "job" involves invoking lots of shell commands and piping their outputs somewhere. Using Python to call shell commands is of course possible, but I find it to be much less readable than bash for that specific use case.

Nothing beats Python for parsing and manipulating data, which is why it can be so powerful when combined with bash. Here [1] is an example bash script I wrote in ~30 minutes that uses inline Python. It deploys schema from a JSON file to parse-server. Bash handles the raw IO of reading files, network requests, etc, but inline Python does the simple manipulation of the JSON files.

[0] I haven't worked much with python3 or async/await... but that looks promising (hah) for increased throughput. I've even seen some benchmarks inline with node.

[1] https://gist.github.com/milesrichardson/b30acef8827c53aae088...
Maybe... he wasn't specific. I was thinking bigger as that wind energy could be used for things other than electricity generation.
I can agree with this sentiment too.

Im having a tough time picking between: "Any development is good development and we should be happy and supportive" vs. "Dude just put a measly amount of money compared to the hundreds of millions required for a full restoration of the building". Not to mention that THAT particular neighborhood around the Packard has an extremely long way to go.

So while we can be happy that development is actually taking place, we also want to be conscious that there are many factors contributing to Detroit being "back".
By "culture of fear," do you mean the way they stated their willingness to let anyone go if doing so better meets the company's needs than retaining them? That's just what all large companies do; they're just making it explicit.
Did you even read the article?

> One example of this is collapsing, dynamic headers, which are, again, common already on the Web. The Groove Music app already uses such a header; when viewing a particular artist, the header is shown with biographic text and a large picture. Scrolling down through the artist's songs shrinks the header, removing the text and using a small picture.
Looking at the Github [0], it looks like a fairly alpha product targeted at technical people and has one contributor. I think giving the project some slack at this point seems reasonable. I guess if there is major concern about this, one could submit a PR?

[0]https://github.com/maruos/maruos
Netflix recruiter forced me to read all 200 pages of it and asked me pop quiz on it during the subsequent call. No Joke. During the interview interviewer constantly referred to "Netflix culture" as if they were in some sort of cult.

Why does a corporate company need to invent some ridiculous "culture" is beyond me. You pay me I do work, thats all the culture I need.

>>Then while working here, staff cite the culture deck in meetings for decision making advice.

These meetings sound like fun.
Cities have two things in abundance due to human input/output: fertilizer and water. They lack sunlight but with cheap energy LEDs fill that gap.

High density city-"farming" makes economic sense in certain contexts:
- high density living environments
- inefficient or expensive transport costs
- lack of available farming land relative to population (expect net-food-importers like Singapore to lead here)
- northern hemisphere (full-year growing cycle increases appeal and cost efficiency)
- cities not located in close proximity to farmland (e.g. Abu Dhabi, Dubai)

They don't replace organic, and subvert the "local" farm-to-table movement and I'll be surprised if they can match the taste of produce grown in a robust/diverse ecosystem. But they do provide a market need for controlled environments and consistent output that dials into local demand.

Pros and cons, but inevitable part of our agricultural future.

On a long enough timeline, I see this as the future of the industrialization/technology trend that touches everything, including ag. While the "old" industrial-ag model shows that bio-mass reduces over time with fossil-fuel inputs and mass production, so won't stay viable forever. Higher end consumers will support the fully-organic small farm sustainable rural modal, but it remains to be seen if/how they can scale and be price-competitive for mass-consumption vs cheaper alternatives.
This design actually continued for quite a while. The last model came out around 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series

Unfortunately, it's saddled with probably the worst series of atom intel made, the original Z(with the awful powerVR gpu).

They still go for quite a bit on ebay, because people love the 1600x768 form factor. I had one for a while, but ended up selling it because i couldn't get over how bad the performance was(720p youtube was a no go, for example). The GPD is sort of a replacement in spirit, but i liked that form factor a lot.
Cities have two things in abundance due to human input/output: fertilizer and water. They lack sunlight but with cheap energy LEDs fill that gap.

High density city-"farming" makes economic sense in certain contexts:
- high density living environments
- inefficient or expensive transport costs
- lack of available farming land relative to population (expect net-food-importers like Singapore to lead here)
- northern hemisphere (full-year growing cycle increases appeal and cost efficiency)

They don't replace organic, and subvert the "local" farm-to-table movement and I'll be surprised if they can match the taste of produce grown in a robust/diverse ecosystem. But they do provide a market need for controlled environments and consistent output that dials into local demand.

Pros and cons, but inevitable part of our agricultural future.

On a long enough timeline, I see this as the future of the industrialization/technology trend that touches everything, including ag. While the "old" industrial-ag model shows that bio-mass reduces over time with fossil-fuel inputs and mass production, so won't stay viable forever. Higher end consumers will support the fully-organic small farm sustainable rural modal, but it remains to be seen if/how they can scale and be price-competitive for mass-consumption vs cheaper alternatives.
>In the early days, an mp3 could easily be some 64k cbr shite.

When I was a teenager my first MP3 player (RCA Lyra) came with one 32 MB CompactFlash card. I cut the bitrate down far enough to fit 4 or 5 full albums on that at once. It sounded like absolute garbage but I was the only kid who could fit that much music in my pocket.

I tell this story because I'm still impressed by what MP3s can do after so much time.