skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess that a road like Dalton where weather-related and road condition-related hazards can suddenly appear, would make an exceedingly poor fit for self-driving non-guideway vehicles.

Far better would be vehicles -- self-driving or otherwise -- on some sort of fixed guideway; given that most of the current usage of the road is for traffic solely between the two points-of-interest on either end. Special vehicles could still be used to access the pipeline running alongside at arbitrary points.

A railway, potentially with extra equipment to assist with maintaining traction and negotiating grades, would accomplish this nicely, but is avoided due to its large up-front cost. While self-driving vehicles don't come with such large non-distributed up-front cost, they would be unreliable on such a road without permanent in-vehicle supervision, at which point they're not really making any of the intervening towns that provide driver services superfluous.
What you describe sounds like search result spam, which is neither irrelevant or a good thing for the consumer.
It is just a learning project. Feel free to not access it and downvote my comment advertising it if you think it is dangerous.
She was given an Air Force Commission when selected as were the other female cosmonaut candidates, so at the time of her flight held a military rank and was generally pictured in her uniform
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Calling aggregate anonymous analytics "spying on your customers" is absurd nonsense.
Often these polices are too in favor of letting ignorant comments go unrefuted.
I'm certainly not arguing that DHS uses perfectly sound logic. I'm just explaining their reasoning, however flawed. I agree that this kind of "reactive" security is less than comforting.
Despite the "Google gives a boost to https" reasoning, which comes from Google itself, in practice I've read several first-hand accounts of how traffic (non XP) dropped significantly right after the switch.
Probably none. There is also a thing about stuff like this changing overtime, between engineering branches and between places depending on local culture.
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Reverse and email me at that address.
2015.

"Ignoring Python 3.." that's getting harder and harder to do these days.
You should try getting in touch with public affairs or the history officer via the NASA Armstrong website- they may be able to help
Do we have any good examples of mass retraining programs working well?
Reminds me of the slightly more recent (2015) "The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet":

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke...
Long haul truckers are very often (usually?) owner-operators that own the truck themselves and pick up hauling contracts; they aren't employees.

Otherwise there are teamsters, which are very heavily unionized.
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> the right to make a living comes before the right to make a killing

That's a hell of a sentence. Clever use of two idioms which are probably unrelated in origin but share imagery.
Accessories are either $1 for random brand, or $30 for Apple/Samsung. Providing them for $10 while spending a bit more time on QC is a sweet spot, of course they're beating Apple and Samsung.
> renting a stateroom on a cargo ship seems like a very relaxing way to go if you have the time.

Clearly you've never been in a storm at sea. Or did I mis-interpret your meaning of 'to go'?
>Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account. In fact I've thought on multiple occasions that someone is hiding something if they don't have one.

Anyone have a source of "further reading" on perceptions towards people not on facebook? And does anyone have statistics on how many people in the U.S. are not on facebook?
Umm, maybe... but can we get a better source than the NY Post for this please?
May I ask which thinkpad you're referring to?
Thank you. I keep seeing this Agriculture jobs reference. But, no one mentions that (most of) those people left by their own will. Not because they were pushed out. My own family used to have a farm. All the boys left to go work in mills when they became of age.
My comment was not a criticism, but a warning. It is very important to note where the data is coming from and any associated caveats which may influence the results.
Local people may know that having large corporations fight legal battles in their district benefits the local economy.
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I see this recurring theme of "I bought some Anker product and it wasn't good, but their customer service replaced it with a better one and now I really like them!"

I guess it's working for them, but it sure seems like an odd strategy.

(For the record, I'm in about the same boat, I have probably half a dozen Anker products, and they replace for free the one battery that failed. My wife really likes their super-duper iPhone cables because she destroys regular Apple cables, and the Anker ones seem to hold up much better.)

I'll also give them props for consistently having not-annoying packaging. Basically just cardboard boxes that are easy to open.
I think Rob Pike half-heartedly mentions in a couple of the twilight videos introducing Go that Ken and he got together to conceptualize go after he walked into the office one day and got tired of a google server binary taking ~40 minutes to compile. Not sure if it this is the real reason, but it's a great story.
> do you mean the AVX2 'gather' type instructions?

Yes, and AVX512, with two caveats:

1. This is processor-dependent. Different processors have different ratios of instruction latency.

2. Sometimes a related instruction is faster than the instruction specifically for that purpose. For instance, on the glibc on my machine, memcmp and strncmp are NOT implemented using the sse4.2 instructions for string comparison, but instead use ptest and pcmpeq, respectively, because it is faster to do so. The same phenomenon could be true of gathers as well.
"Can a company that's not even close to profitable be considered a "market leader"?"

Sure it can. Uber and Twilio are generally considered, far and away, as market leaders in their respective spaces; Uber is massively unprofitable and Twilio was operating at a loss at the time of its IPO.

Market leadership is a function of production and capacity, not profitability.
Can't say whether he is over/under/fairly rated, but I like reading patio11's business and career posts because 1) he is good at communicating pitfalls and rules of thumb that I wouldn't otherwise think of 2)it's nice to read tech business stories outside the cult of superstar personalities, sacrificed relationships, and (huge bets)∩(survivor bias)
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both can be true.
If you like working on these kinds of projects, the SRE team at Stack Overflow is hiring and we allow remote work full time! https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/143725/site-reliability-engin...
Not only that. But that same thread goes into his idea being the same as Dropbox, both being startup ideas at the time. Seems the latter won that comeback though.
> This was really well written

That means a lot to me!

> Have you considered using Nim's JS backend to make it work in the browser?

I was thinking about it after seeing someone else's GoL in this thread. I'm guess I would need to write another display layer though.
Me neither besides I think there is not a room for "yet another Java/C#/Replacement".
You need to offer much more now days to convince people to switch.
Perhaps they are not drinking the koolaid you need to drink in order to believe that self-driving vehicles are likely to work well enough to be widely deployed in the next 20 years?
>> We are social animals.

Social is a big spectrum. Keep to your end of it and there won't be any problem.
Thanks for the reply. I agree not hanging out in someone's blind spot and anticipating other drivers' actions are extremely important things to keep in mind while driving.
I suppose in part it depends what "pay the bills" means.

From my observation, some experienced people do stitch together a combination of advisory roles, maybe some teaching on the side, speaking, etc. that adds up to meaningful money without working too hard.

To give you some ballpark figures, an industry analyst will charge something like $10K for speaking at an event or a day-long advisory session. Of course, they have a lot of non-billable hours in order to get those types of rates. (Same applies to expert witnesses.)

For me, one of the issues would be that 20 hours per week isn't that big a win versus a more conventional workweek. The bigger win would be taking months off and that's more difficult because you get out of the loop and behind on tech.
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It's right in the first paragraph: "These essays were mostly written by women. They came off as unseemly, the writer’s judgment as flawed. They were too personal: the topics seemed insignificant, or else too important to be aired for an audience of strangers."

Also, as far as I can tell none of the examples in that paragraph have anything to do with feminism.
Raise your rates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
Stack Exchange is no longer available from my workplace due to this change. We have a strict no-posting-code-fragments policy, and SE was viewed as too risky to allow without some restriction in place to make it read only. Before HTTPS, the IT department had worked out such a read-only restriction by blocking the SE login with firewall rules. But with HTTPS that kludge is no longer possible, so the site is blocked.
FWIW I've been using this one with my Dell u3417w (3440x1440 curved screen) and haven't had any issues: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EXKDRAC
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It just strikes me as odd when people are happy with things like UX (designing something to create a feeling in order to convince a person and to get them comfortable undertaking the action you want them to. Formulaic in the sense there's a whole industry around "best practice"), or A/B testing (covert science experiments on real people to design systems to increase the likelihood of similar humans taking the action you want. Similarly so.).

And yet marketing, because it's perceived as being detached from the product (which it really isn't) is the bad actor because it's explicit and transparent about its goal. Amuses me as much as it frustrates.
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> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.

Exactly. Diaspora and its ilk miss this point entirely. If users have to set up their own infrastructure or even think about how it works then it's never going to scale.
I haven't thought about how motorcycles would be more unstable going through a turn. Thanks!
just as an addendum.

it's not really clear that the math is "high" from the above comment but portfolio management, even the really boring sounding ones like index replication, uses the entire gamut of "high mathematics": robust and Bayesian statistics, non-parametric statistics, extreme value statistics, signal processing, numerical optimization, etc.
> If single offices were the optimum, why aren't we all working from home in single apartments anyway?

Can you imagine paying everyone in San Francisco enough salary so they can afford a 2nd bedroom? Don't be silly.

And yes, working from home without a home office with a door is not the same as having a private office. People have roommates and kids and spouses and all sorts of things that are even worse than coworkers when it comes to focus.
Oh I wasn't clear - I meant that for the same connection headers are not sent for every page but just references for previous values (see [0]). The initial page load is a different matter but that's part of the cost/risk analysis if you need CSP or HPKP (I agree it's not necessary and very easy to mess up).

[0]: https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html#indexed....

> When you take into account that you can only send 10 packets down the first response (in almost all cases today) due to TCP congestion window specifications (google: CWND), they get more expensive as a percentage of what you can send. It may be that you can't send enough of the page to render, or the browser isn't getting to a critical stylesheet link until the second wave of packets after the ACK. This can greatly affect load times.

I wonder how much of the page can be rendered in 10 packets...

Do you send Link preload headers?
> - Public-Key-Pins: we are very unlikely to deploy this. Whenever we have to change our certificates it makes life extremely dangerous for little benefit.

Is it possible to pin to your CA's root instead of to your own certificate? That would make rotating certs from the same CA easy but changing CAs hard (but changing CAs is already a big undertaking for big orgs).

Also, I see your five minute HSTS header ;)
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the problem is the 'dishwasher who gets type 2 diabetes' probably is not very educated and may not be able to articulate his story as fluently as, say, a liberal arts master's degree holder. So all we hear are the problems of the well-connected and educated.
I also like Access for what it is. I haven't used Base enough to really comment... Would be kind of cool to see Base spun off, so that it could be a stand-alone access competitor, if that isn't already an option.
Certain Google employees won't shut up about Clos networking, but I donno if it applies here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network
Awesome. Do you do photo-hosting? I could see that easily sapping away all of your money. Or is it just text?
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Maybe a paper is forthcoming? At least Jeff Dean has confirmed that it's some kind of FP, not e.g. decimal arithmetic. :-)
I've done the same with creating multiple github user accounts . I think that is the only work around for some OAuth app integrations.
Thanks for all your amazing hard work guys and gals, really truly appreciate all the effort that's been going into making GitLab releases faster, reliable and all the new features that have been coming out, especially around Issues and CI.

I upgraded our dev and then prod environments not after the announcement without a hitch.

Keep up the good work!
Plain herring or pickled herring?
This is somewhat self correcting.

HFT firms are make money by taking a spread, which is effectively the cost of making a single trade. As they compete and get better and better at there jobs, this spread well be reduced, the amount of money available to pay for the best and brightest programmers will come down, and they'll suck fewer of them away from other parts of the economy.

The point being, the further they go past this 'point of diminishing returns', the less money they can possibly make. To the extent that HFT is a zero sum game, there will always be a limit on how much money they can spend.

(I believe but cannot prove that this limiting effect has already started, HFT firms are consolidating and making thinner margins than they used to)
I also have made one based on Norvig's: https://gist.github.com/jmikkola/b7c6c644dff1c07891c698f0a52...
Your refutations are both weaker and discussion-worsening when you call names and are personally thorny. The guidelines are here so we can have more civil and insightful discussions.
If you're doing a lot of experimentation, it can make more sense to train your models locally (so you're not paying server / data transfer costs every time you test).
There isn't any picture of the author in the article, so how would it make them feel insecure about their looks?
I have purchased one of those multiple length USB cable packs by Anker months ago and all problems due to poor quality cables were gone. I usually don't have high current demands, but I was short on good quality cables and some RPi and similar boards I was playing with required more current than the usual cellphone so I had to get something better.
So far the only Anker cable that failed to supply one board (can't remember if the RPi3 or a different one but wasn't a low power board) was the longest one at almost 2 meters (6 ft) but I can live with that: it works 100% with everything else and all other cables do their job with all boards.
I often bought Anker chargers and cables while traveling in the US and brought it back home to Norway - even had them replace or refund broken stuff for me a couple of times (excellent customer service!)

Wanted to buy a new car charger recently, and got really annoyed at how difficult it was to find someone who would ship to Norway without breaking the bank on shipping or risking a fake item.

Then I discovered their official AliExpress store - https://anker.aliexpress.com/store/1710553

They won't ship batteries to Scandinavia - but chargers and cables are fair game, and decently priced. All original stuff.
There are not many motorcycle drivers near where I live and I noticed that they are more difficult to spot than other vehicles when you're changing lanes. I'll make sure to keep that in mind.
"At a previous job ..."

Quite.
To my knowledge, the statement "both of the judges that hear most of the patent cases in ED Tx have son's that represent most of the trolls in court" is incorrect as written. The comment may be thinking of former judges, who retired in 2015 and 2011, but even for those judges I am skeptical of the "most of the" portion of the assertion. To be clear, the former judges had sons who practiced in ED Tex (and still do), but I would be surprised if they ever represented the most plaintiffs in a given year (either individually or in combination), though I admit I have not pulled the numbers to check.

For the current judges in the district, I am only aware of one who has a child that is an attorney, and to my knowledge that child does not practice in ED Tex (and does not practice in patent cases at all).
I don't think this is true. If some government agent tells the pilot you are a "security risk" for any reason you are not going on that plane or if you are already in it they will drag you out.

The plane is a private property so you can be taken of for any reason.
How does fasttext compare to vowpal wabbit?
Anecdotally, I am in the North East and I do recall a year (probably 2012ish) where every local restaurant had exploded with lobster specials. Not necessarily whole lobsters for sale, but their meat used as a choice of protein along side chicken, beef, etc. The price at that time dropped to like $9 per pound in the super markets.

Since that year, I haven't seen the same offerings where this Bloomberg article would suggest that the amount of harvested lobsters has gone up.
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For a hobbyist, it probably makes sense to just use some GPU instances on AWS. But it doesn't really take that long for it to become cost-effective to buy a GPU. It only takes a couple of months of full-time use before it becomes cost-effective to purchase the GPU. Even if you're building the entire machine from scratch it takes under a year. (At least, that was my estimate when I was building a rig earlier this year.) If you're doing any serious deep learning projects it's pretty easy to have a model training nearly 100% of the time.
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Can somebody from GitHub comment on this?

> Apps cannot actively persuade users away from GitHub.

This is listed as requirement from the "Requirements for listing an app on GitHub Marketplace" page. Is this saying your app should only support GitHub?
Type C, and USB3 cables in general seem pretty hit or miss. Same goes for some of the "fast" chargers, depending on phone, compatibility seems to hit or miss as well.
If you fly into the US, it is more than likely that not only will you have to clear airport security provided by the host country, you will also have to go through security provided by the US. It will be US equipment and US citizens operating it.

So in that sense, if Whereveristan wants to sell the airport X-ray equipment they can get, it isn't going to be useful in determining what can pass US screening.
Asking people to turn on the device seems stupid. Just do half battery half bomb and make it functional enough it will work for 10 min.
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I'd argue that Ingress (the game before Pokemon Go) is part of the reason why Anker became so popular during the last few years. If you asked any random Ingress player which battery pack to buy then 9 out of 10 would recommend Anker above everything else.
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K80s and K40s have a K. That's two generations old. We are currently on P and about to be V. If you think K80s are good, you are far far behind the times in machine learning. A single 1080Ti even in a 4U server outperforms 2 K80s.
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A lot of them also don't plan on living long enough to see the seeds bear fruit though or they're knowingly buying property that they know is on a bubble but also know that they don't plan on holding the property long enough to see the bubble burst.
Thanks for pointing this out. I guess it will take a while before most services start taking advantage of the more granular permission APIs. I've lost count of how many SASS products offer Github integration and then ask for all the permissions. I never feel comfortable with that level of access so I always decline or create a new github account so I can contain access I am granting.
I didn't even notice you could log in on that app. Thanks!
I looked for a couple minutes and didn't find it conveniently already done, but it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the US work force from 1850, showing the percentage working in agriculture (including slavery pre Civil War) and the percentage of agriculture workers that were immigrants.

If there is a high proportion of immigrants working in agriculture it blows the whole theory into the sky, as that would be people answering demand for labor at pretty high personal cost, the opposite of incumbents getting pushed out.
My refutations aren't weaker, they're just in poorer taste. I'm sick of the typical Windows apologist making baseless claims about Linux and I don't see it necessary to treat such people with respect. They haven't earned it.
Then WHY NOT STATE THAT SEMI-FIXED LIMIT TO BEGIN WITH AND SAVE EVERYONE THE HASSLE OF TRYING TO GUESS WHETHER THEIR USAGE WILL BE ALLOWED OR NOT?

If the limit is dynamic and periodically re-evaluated, then you run into the "there's always an outlier" problem.

If the determination isn't dynamic, and Snake Inc. advertises its service as 'unlimited' instead of stating the limit, and then starts discriminating against users or tools associated with higher usage, and get a reputation of being a snake in addition to actually having an undisclosed cap, what then? They'll not only lose their high-end customers to other services (which apparently they don't want or they could have disclosed the limits to begin with), but as already mentioned they also hurt their reputation, because whatever the courts say, people are not happy when an unlimited service actually discriminates against high-usage customers.
Wow, that sounds ridiculous. What's the reasoning behind that policy?
I'm sure anyone who doesn't join into the circle jerk sounds privileged to you.
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