skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The converse is "hiring tecent college grads" who don't have a ducking clue, and needing to train them for a year or two. Sucking up the time of your preexisting ICs, and rendering them useless
This is horrendous - the entire point of the Internet is that it doesn't care, it's an inter-network, and it's only goal is to keep the packets flowing, at least when our dear leaders STFU. As someone in and out of machine learning - here's an example - I can litter the downtown with cameras, feed them into an ML cluster and if a child wanders off, it's mere seconds to find them again. Or, as in the great state of Connecticut, I can be so goddamn deranged that I want to put guns on drones, and believe semi-autonomous is a fine opening position. The problem is no matter how impressive the feat in ML, the systems involved have zero understanding of the outcome as a value judgement and they aren't going to gain one for a very long time. Do not teach machines to kill because they have absolutely no understanding of the difference between a beneficial act and a hostile act, they just reduce the error between where they're at and where you told them to be at. Going back to the internet you do not ever ever do this, because then what you are creating is a global censor. Happily for the moment such efforts are both localized and porous but this gaggle of idiots shrieking about terrorists and pedophiles need to SFTU and learn something, before they hatch something much worse.
I am not defending or accusing.
But having several good and bad interactions with US borders and Customs.
I should say:

1. Most of the time they are correct but not for the reason we imagine;[1]

2. Most the time the procedures should be followed even if it seems crazy[2];

There is no pleasure in any US service to cancel or deny but they should work on procedures to be more fair. in case [2] even if I am not even close to match they HAD to check everything before releasing me.
So if you have a common name disclose everything (travel to other countries, parents, friends, everything).

If you think US border is "bad" you should check European (London). They do not require visa but if the customs is in a bad day they will reject you and sent you back while you wait in detention.

At least US has the courtesy to ask for a visa before most of the times.

[1] - The form asks if you have any parents and you did not disclose (even distant family).

[2] - In my case my name is on the Wanted Database. There is a terrorist with similar name. So EVERY TIME I approach customs there is an scary look when they digit my name and I should go to "the room". After some time:
"Sorry for the trouble have a good one."

Disclaimer: I do not work for US gov or have any affiliation but I think they tend to be more fair. If not please check Middle East countries or Europeans.
That sucks. People get denied entry to countries all the time and it's always inconvenient. I know this is going to get down voted to hell, but my point is that, this stuff happens. It's not new because Trump is president, and crossing the border just about everywhere sucks.
This is nothing to be upset about or newsworthy. This probably happens every day.

He got rejected because he didn't provide enough evidence that his intent is purely non-immigrant.

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/86578769858118451...
> so there was no choice but to let the humans try. They failed, but that's not an argument for not letting them try if the computers would have also failed.

The major issue in "letting the humans try" in the AF447 incident is that the pilots did not have the angle-of-attack measurement shown to them. AOA is the most critical flight parameter (it determines whether the wing is lifting or stalled) and while the flight computers have access to it, AOA is not displayed in the flight displays. This is a huge flaw; forcing the pilots to guesstimate AOA from airspeed readings is a horrid idea, especially if the airspeed sensors might be malfunctioning. There are already dedicated AOA sensors on the airframe and only a minor software change is needed to display AOA on the primary flight displays.

This design decision of hiding critical information from the humans (what AOA is, what the other pilot is doing with their stick) is what scares me most about fly-by-wire. I get that displaying all the information that's on all the avionics busses would overwhelm the crew, but displaying AOA is not pointless verbosity, it's the most crucial air data measurement on a fixed-wing aircraft.

Sullenberger agrees, "We have to infer angle of attack indirectly by referencing speed. That makes stall recognition and recovery that much more difficult. For more than half a century, we've had the capability to display Angle of Attack in the cockpits of most jet transports, one of the most critical parameters, yet we choose not to do it."

So does the AF447 report, "It is essential in order to ensure flight safety to reduce the angle of attack when a stall is imminent. Only a direct readout of the angle of attack could enable crews to rapidly identify the aerodynamic situation of the aeroplane and take the actions that may be required."
Fair point about my word choice. I just think we can do better is what I mean. I think I agree with you, but I'd need to see it in action. Currently I just use workspaces for whatever I'd use stacking for.
Kick start the singularity by writing the first recursively-optimizing generic AI? Probably with some new kind of neural network that is fast and versatile enough for all problem domains.
An neural network that can extract features of its own design and improve on it with some external metric, test improved copies of itself to solve other problems.
AIs that have human-level of intellect would advance science and technology, without any human-level limits.
Though such AI would have to be pro-human by design:
e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/frozenvoid/wiki/ai/super-intelligen...
I think a lot of the difficulty of management is not in the description of you duties, but rather the difficulty in finding the "right" thing to do, which is very difficult when it comes to soft skills, which almost always lack any quantitative way to measure directly, and must be inferred from secondary and indirect metrics.
That's why coding managers is dumb.

The army figured it out. The Officers are in charge, but the sergeants get shit done. In engineering, your leads/supervisors are the sergeants.

Officer quality varies between complete shitbird and Julius Ceasar. Either way, the army marches.
I think a big problem is that helium is a very scarce Resource and which we get only from fossil fuels. Much helium has been wasted in the past couple of decades and prices of it will only go up as its scarcity increases. It's really highly needed for medical equipment and other things and I can't see it being used in bulk for this purpose.

Now using hydrogen has been mooted, using newer technologies to keep it safer. I love this idea mentioned in this thread of a vacuum glimpse as well
Try compute the median point across all members of the cluster then compute the cosine similarity between each point in the cluster and the median of that cluster and use the most similar as your label point.
> That's nothing similar to the compatibility break between Windows XP and Vista. That transition broke most of the older applications, at the kernel level.

First i hear of this, so MS did a damn good job of papering over it.

The only Windows breakage on the software level i have noticed is the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit, and that has more to do with CPU modes than Windows internals.

But i keep battling crazy dependencies and odd breakages related to desktop software on Linux. Never mind that devs keep reinventing the wheel (how many VFS implementations have Gnome gone through now? 3? 4?).
This subthread deals with the completely different issue, it's about bad logic. No matter how well Milgrom and/or his theory could be discredited, that doesn't change the fact we can dismiss something prior to fully understand it.

It doesn't matter if that - what we dismissed -
shapeshifts into something completely different (or similar...) afterward, on the contrary, regarding resources spent it would be sad if not.
"N...., is you taking notes on a criminal f..king conspiracy?!?"
I don't. I'm situated in a very stereotypically "rural England" type place — a deeply Conservative area, within the sea of Blue you see on maps of our election results[1].

In regard to Brexit, there's actually a strong libertarian case for leaving the EU. I personally think it was shortsighted of people (and somewhat reckless) to vote with this mindset given our current government, as the exit of the EU that is desired by those libertarians is not that which will occur. However, this is a much more contentious opinion amongst people I know, many of whom would argue that this was a valid and commendable rejection of the status quo. Saying this, I don't know if the libertarian argument for Brexit was strongly enough represented in the referendum to tip the balance. Given the tiny margin by which Leave won[2] (< 1.3 million votes. It's worth noting that this majority corresponds to about 1/3 of the electorate), I think it's possible.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
Dried eggs are definitely less desirable, but in cake batter they are there for neither taste nor texture, but rather for their chemical properties as a binding agent. Swapping out traditional egg for dried eggs wouldn't make a difference as long as the chemical effects are the same.

Also, I'm not sure, but I'd guess that the "egg" previously in the cake mix was not actual dried egg, but some alternative binding agent.
There's definitely more do it than that... apart from anything else, sometimes the other side is honey, or essentially fruit jam, which would be fine just sitting at the bottom or top of the yogurt (the way some other brands do it).

I remember a TV ad for a brand of yogurt with separate compartments, so you can add "a little or a lot" of the side item to the yogurt. It was a gimmick that everybody made fun of because not having all of it seemed implausible, but somebody must have done their research and figured that people like the involvement or feeling of customizing their food.
> Not scared? Okay. Here's how to download...

I have had a great user experience with all his other software except one[1]. Thus I was not scared. High learning curve, but high reward.

1. A FORTH he wrote for IOCCC. Problems compiling probably due to my own stupidity.
The speed isn't ridiculously low compared to the Phenom is the only point I was making, certainly considering that it's half the price.

The range can be extended to 2,200 km if it's just one person flying.
> I just think that people to easily bestow upon it the "best ever" distinction.

Do you have other contenders? I personally avoid superlatives in general, so I would hesitate before using "best ever" in any context, but I can't think of other examples of American television that I personally would rate higher. Many I've talked to about the show feel similarly. While many tend to use superlatives more casually that I would, I don't think in this case it's necessarily a case of hyperbole.
Please do not compare all of Europe with the way the UK runs their immigration services.
Reference card (1060) vs overlocked card (580). Looking at multiple review sites, including international ones like Computerbase, PCGH.de etc, and comparing overlocked 1060 vs overclocked 480/580 the difference is ~50-60 watt.

Not good, but also not twice the power consumption...

I don't understand why AMD didn't use faster memory in the 580 like Nvidia did with the 1060 refresh. The 580 needs faster memory more than higher core clocks.

Lets hope AMDs return to tile based rendering (used in Adreno) plus the other improvements help them get better at power consumption just like Nvidia with Maxwell. But I don't expect much from Vega after AMDs GPUs of the last 3 years. Navi looks more promising, as it is probably the first GPU to be fully designed under Raja Koduri.
.NET Foundation was created when .NET went open source, about two years ago.

Still very new and so far Microsoft has been driving most of it, as one can see from the Github architecture meetings.

It is bit different from JCP which goes all the way back to 1998.

Just having the logos on the .NET Foundation web site doesn't mean those companies are driving language decisions.
Well we're seeing a bunch of stuff happening out there and calling it dark matter.

1. The big problem is not enough stuff. Galaxies don't have enough stuff in them to let gravity hold them together.

2. A second problem is that we have stuff out there that our instruments can't detect but seems to be putting out gravity and bending the light.

The orthodoxy of dark matter says 1 and 2 are connected. That dark matter is bending light and causing extra stuff in galaxies to allow them to form and keep them from flying apart.

This physicist says no, just gravity doesn't work quite the way we think it does, because the stars in galaxy are moving at a constant speed relative to their distance from the galaxies center - but if there were a whole bunch of extra stuff in there that we can't see creating extra gravity all over the place, it should mess with the speed and cause it to be different depending on what parts had more dark matter in it.

My parent was saying, how do you explain the invisible stuff putting out gravity and bending light, and suggested that it could not be explained by black holes. I was pointing out that one of the main explanations for it is black holes, but that still doesn't solve the first big problem of not enough stuff.
Your comments:

"Yes, knowing why one's parents behaved the way they did is useful"

and

", but anything before that isn't really different from stories about other people"

are contradictory. How could you know why your parents behaved the way they did if you don't know about their parents?

The person you are is a function of where you grow up, that is, your community. To deny that is to deny what humans are: social primates programmed to absorb a culture.
Vim or Emacs?
Freshcode still exists as a reincarnation at http://freshcode.club/
This use of the word "new" is a bit of a stretch. Consider that the "new" wildcard algorithm has been around for as long as Linux has. Possibly longer, although I'd have to check when 4DOS and 4OS2 started providing extended wildcards.
If this Quora post[1] is to be believed it takes 10 years for an airline to break even on a 747. Assuming similar costs for the blimp that 8x turns into 80 years.

1. https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-an-airline-t...
Insomuch as I never proved using a not-for-profit is best for many of the use cases that we are currently using the business model for, you also didn't in any way demonstrate that we are doing it correctly. I think Wikipedia alone offers great evidence that we are underutilizing the nonprofit model. What evidence to you see for companies remaining moral in the face of shareholder pressure for profits?

These structures are not inherently moral as you said, but they do offer distinct incentive structures for their owners and employees. And there are plenty of ideas today that get called business ideas that could easily be better crafted outside of a corporation.
The fact that someone with more expertise is warning that a discussion is going off the rails is a useful, constructive fact. Demanding that that person explain in detail why in order to contribute is a good way to make sure they don't bother.
I believe it's the responsibility of the person hunting down that one-line change to communicate to their team what was involved with tracking that down. Everyone can learn from a single person's deep dive. An engineer shouldn't feel like they're doing something risky for their career by carefully working through a hard problem with unimpressive code results.

If the engineer can't convey why it took a week to find that one-line, they should work on their communication skills. A good manager can help set expectations for an engineer who has underdeveloped soft skills.

I just spent a week and a half tracking down a bizarre issue in a 3rd party library and filed a fix for it. It was simultaneously frustrating and fascinating, but I never once was worried that the team didn't support my effort because I kept the team in the loop during daily standups. I've also been lucky to have excellent managers who believe in letting the engineers work.
Celgowski got one of the most original and accurate view of the world. He see the big picture.
That's total nonsense.
That's in your board's workflow configuration.
Magnet is great if all you're looking for is hotkeys to arrange/maximize your windows and move them between monitors.
Absolutely. "Big bang" or "let there be light", what's the difference?
Everyone claims to "hire only the best." It's not a very meaningful statement and certainly doesn't help inform actions when it's what everyone tries to do already. Digging in more deeply, what does "best" even mean? The best among those already hired? The best among a pool of applicants? The best among companies in your domain? Among all domains?

At any organization there will be people of various skill levels. Does hiring the best mean you never hire juniors? It is the best at any given experience level? It might even be hard to compare some people. E.g. what if you have two people, both excellent, but excellent at slightly different things?

Rather than saying "hire only the best" I would perhaps instead suggest that you hire people who fit your culture and compliment your existing teams. A team that works well together, doesn't fight, doesn't get distracted, and is happy, is going to be efficient.

Or, another way to look at it is to consider the "Secretary Problem" [1]. When do you decide to hire someone considering that you can get a stream n people applying over time? You don't want to wait until the last person since n can be large and you need people now not in a year. The solution is to not hire the first n/e people, then pick the first person who you deem to be "the best" compared to the first 1/e people.

Hiring is complicated!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
> ad-blocker-blocker-blockers

An ad-blocker-blocker-blocker is just an ad-blocker.
You should be able to get a known traveler number from the TSA. When provided, that should dispel any concerns they have about the similar name.
d'oh. Thanks to all that pointed this out.
I doubt you could put swimming pools on a craft that size and still have it be lighter than air. Look at how small of a livable space there was on hindenberg-class airship: http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors/

Materials science has improved, but not that much.
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A.) God waved his finger, and the universe sprang into existence.

B.) something happened, and the universe sprang into existence.
I had an XT clone in the 80s (bought in '87 if I'm not mistaken) & I don't really recall these being a factor on the PC at the time...PC drives were actually relatively fast and CGA/Hercules-era graphics were primitive enough to have put a pretty harsh upper bound on the kind of graphics you could do anyway.

This was very different to the c64 or atari 8 bitters for example (both of which had decent graphics and abysmal floppy performance).
I don't know which land you're from, but in the US (I assume the main market) almost all trains have a max of 177 km/h [0]. There are about 4 lines in western Europe that go faster than 300 km/h [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:Hi...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:Hi...
Sometimes literally.

We had a "visionary VP" who'd visit the devs personally. I placed my desk at the entrance to our area, so that I could catch and block him (and others).

We had a basket of shiny toys (eg books about XP) to keep this VP amused, satisfied that we were sufficiently forward thinking enough.

For my part, I've always moved my devs closer to the customers, bypassing the internal hierarchy. More signal, less noise.
I vaguely remember reading about this effect before but honestly, I've never met someone who expressed this feeling about Ikea products. Whether it's my own set-ups, friends, or the dozens of people I've bought and sold Ikea furniture from/to. If anything some have expressed frustration at the difficultly they had in putting together some builds.

It's also said to cause sellers to place a higher value on the second-hand sale price due to the bias of assembling something of their own effect, however those I've bought from rather price their items substantially lower as they're looking to see them gone for various reasons. Perhaps this bias holds more true for things like home renovations as described elsewhere in articles on the effect.

The application of this concept in tech for the examples I've read seems to be mostly in allowing customer customization which I do think helps give a feeling of creating something a little unique but personally I'd call it by some other name.
My first week without mobile phone since 17 years
Here are some quotes from the article:

Amazon’s third-party sellers have to offer new books, not used ones, but in many cases they don’t seem to have bought their books from publishers. No one is quite sure where their books come from, including, it seems, Amazon itself. -- Some of the comments in this thread link to pictures of counterfeit books.

If the Buy Box winner for a book is out of stock, it will look to most customers as though the book is out of stock everywhere. -- This would cost the author a sale. Many shoppers don't realize that the Buy Box is only one merchant out of many.

This policy is part of Amazon’s ongoing, years-long quest to drive down the price of books. -- See the App Store for the endgame of race-to-the-bottom prices.
Blockchain and cryptocoin markets will probably grow the most in the next five years.

The total market cap for cryptocoins will grow from $50 billion today to $1+ trillion in the future.
> This looks an awful lot like survivor bias.

I'm not sure it's survivorship bias.

H. pylori, for example, actually is a major cause of gastric ulcers. If we were actually good at identifying good ideas, Marshall and Warren would have had a pretty steady rise to fame over the course of their careers since they had, in fact, figured it out. For what I've heard, they did not--they were treated pretty shabbily for a while, then the field did an about-face and they won a Nobel prize. It's not the case that anyone who (somehow) survived that long gets a Nobel!

> I doubt you want to do away with peer review.
I don't think anyone wants to completely do away with the idea of having others sanity-check their research. However, there is a huge gap between peer review as an abstract concept and peer review as currently practiced in NIH study sections. Personally, I think that there's a lot of room for improvement in the latter. For example, you could imagine giving program managers more room to actually manage a portfolio of research and (e.g.) hedge across multiple hypotheses.
Fraudulent “drug treatment” centers in FL fleece parent health plans
Really. The article cites NIST and one scientific study (of which there are many). And your response is "Anecdotally..." ?
I thought the cool part was the ship that lifts itself up on stilts to become the construction platform!