skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm asking why it's so impressive that it learns by watching a person. Specifically, why we think Terry Winograd would be impressed that 50 years of AI research led to this.

Didn't Deep Blue do the same thing as part of its chess training in the 1990s? Social/observational/modeling learning has been studied in psychological research for over 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory Isn't basically every recommender system, all of the vision systems, and the machine translation we all use... isn't all of that just observational learning?

I'm not saying it's not interesting. It's a cool toy. But Elon Musk gets an idea for a neat machine learning toy, using an idea that predates AI as a field, and Terry Winograd is supposed to be impressed by this?

The point is, AI has only been narrowly successful. Narrow success is rad. I'm not hating. But none of the promises of broad intelligence have really progressed. Siri is not a particularly meaningful advance beyond SHRDLU. Instead of just stacking blocks, she stacks text on Messages.app and pushes buttons in Weather.app.
I can't get into Atom, the load time vs something like sublime is just too slow. Am I doing something wrong in the settings?
If you look further down, it actually says:

"Seller: Home Box Office Inc."
They claim 200,000 paying users. As a point of reference, Bloomberg has a bit over 300,000.

200,000 X $15 X 12 (which basically their highest pricing tier) gets you 27X revenues for $1B valuation).
My guess is that there would be a microkernel service that is the core OS, like the BIOS, and it could be instructed to actively wipe the memory and reload the boot files when the machine freezes
Whenever I hear serverless, I think backend as a service remarketed.

A few years ago they were tried and never fully caught on largely because people saw the inherent vulnerability of betting your entire backend on a company you don't control.

It has that old problem of being beholden to a single vendor.
We have different opinions, but the same conclusion. I haven't found Reddit relavent in years and they still don't turn a profit.

Nothing against it or regular users, just not for me anymore
My main thought is there's a sort of Stockholm syndrome going on. Lola still had thoughts for her family back home, but she was so integrated in the new family it became part of her life, too. I guess it's a coping mechanism. Even slaves need meaning in their lives, and taking care of kids is meaning.

OH, puhleez. This is so much worse than theories of "codependency," as if a woman with young kids being financially dependent on her alcoholic husband isn't an actual serious problem, it's just some sort of emotional disorder. If you are married and financially dependent on the guy, you wake him up and help him get to work and you cover up his alcoholism because you and your kids are dependent upon his money, not because you need therapy or something. Geez.

Lola had no papers. She had no means to job hunt. She had no social connections outside the family. They uprooted her and moved her repeatedly. They never gave her the allowance they promised. This was her only means of survival. And she had agreed to it to get out of being married off to some asshole twice her age. So, she could do domestic labor or she could be de facto a sex slave. That would have probably involved all of the same abuses this involved, only add into it routine rape as part of the deal. She came from a place with no prospects. Then, having taken this deal, she was incredibly trapped.

It is abhorrent to westerners, but indentured servitude used to be pretty common and was often done somewhat willingly/by choice as a means to pay a debt with labor at a time when money per se was hard to come by. Historically, it was not uncommon for people to pay for passage to the U.S. by agreeing to 7 years of indentured servitude following their trip here.

That is still reality in a lot of places in the world. We don't want to hear it, but there is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to afford middle class morality. There are parts of the world where large numbers of people have no hope of anything resembling a middle class American lifestyle.
I think the big factor with the DeX dock is the big fan that runs to cool off the phone while it's in that mode.
Well this probably isn't going to succeed where others failed, but the idea is good.

I'm glad someone is trying to move forward with the idea of using the very capable computer in your pocket as more than a phone. I mean my current phone has more ram than my last laptop....
The FAA issued a blanket approval for all EFBs that are not permanently mounted to the aircraft:

https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/advisory_circular/...

Most people either use them an kneeboards or use a ram-style mount to attach them to the yoke.
None of this is what the article is about. The article, as it relates to your comment, is about imbalances in GDP growth between the developed and almost-developed world, and how the expected upside for the developed world hasn't materialized. the non-manufacturing IP economy, as you put it, hasn't generated enough well paying jobs or enough domestic product, to offset massive export of domestic wealth, capacity and assets. If your argument is that an influx of unskilled immigrant labor and an army of college professors can correct this imbalance then I'm speechless.
"In all Western societies, the new formula for prosperity is inconsistent with the old formula for democracy."

The author expands on this further in the piece:

Do businessmen have an obligation to ensure that their neighbors get first crack at the job opportunities their enterprises generate? Should businessmen deny such obligations, are lawmakers justified in imposing them? High and relatively egalitarian compensation served a number of social purposes. Society owed a debt to modest workers who steadied the constitutional compact in peace and shed blood for it in war. The “family wage” that many corporations paid reflected that debt. It also partially compensated the at-home work of wives and mothers that made it possible to reproduce the society. Corporate executives giddily discovered, once they got to Mexico or Southeast Asia, that they no longer had to think about such things. They were now dealing with a workforce to whom they didn’t owe jack.

Viewed this way, the “prosperity” of globalization is just a transfer. It rests on a broken implicit contract. Globalization seems to have delivered up to private parties hard-won competitive advantages that were really the common property of American society. Some are quantifiable things like taxpayer-funded research and development, of the sort that the Carrier air conditioner company benefited from before it announced it was moving jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico. Others are advantages that can be grasped only conceptually, like economies of scale. The process of Western Bloc globalization that began in the 1990s differs in degree but not in kind from the contemporaneous Eastern Bloc looting of state assets. Globalization comes to seem a con game.

AKA the old formula for democracy, sharing the wealth and economic gains among the inhabitants of a geographically contiguous region that pooled funds to build the infrastructure (military, social, and utilities) necessary for the generation of that wealth, no longer applies.
As a long time (happy) user of the Git-Plus add on for Atom, I am not sure how I feel about this. Mainly because I use BitBucket for 95% of my projects. I only use GitHub very rarely for public projects that I blog about.

I hope that this won't break existing Git plugins, and won't limit Git functionality for non-Github based repos.
Are braeburn apples available in the US?

I agree that red delicious are terrible eating apples but most of the newer varieties seem to be a bit on the sweet side for my liking. Braeburn has the perfect balance of tart and sweet while being consistently crisp.
I disagree that intensive indoor agriculture can't work. It has worked pretty well. High value, low space plants like tomatoes and marijuana will translate well to a system like this. Lower value crops like grain, where you need lots of it and it doesn't cost much, will not.
Well, so is Continuum, technically. Windows Phone is its own SKU of Windows 10 but it's still Windows 10.
Knowing how base authorities handle off-base housing, I'd say the chances of this are next to zero. I doubt there's a military officer who isn't fully aware that the US's war with the most casualties was the one to end slavery.
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> The number of employed help is sometimes even bigger than their own family. And they are treated as employees -- complete with uniforms etc.

I think it would be helpful to distinguish between a true remunerated employer-employee relationship like what you appear to describe above, and unpaid slavery like what is described in the article. The former is a valued part of the economy in many developing country (if you're wealthy and employ no household staff in some such countries you're considered stingy). The latter is slavery, nothing less nothing more, as the author of the piece was able to recognize at a fairly early age.
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I've always wondered why they don't hire remote.
"Stone explained that his top focus will be guiding company culture.
'It’s important that everyone understands the whole story of Twitter and each of our roles in that story. I’ll shape the experience internally so it’s also felt outside the company.' – Biz Stone

Of the things twitter needs - strategy? product direction? revenue? - is "guiding the company culture" really that high on the list?
Could you re-phrase this somehow? I'm not sure if you are talking about companies in general or Netflix.

Edit: I rather ask than make an assumption. Thanks for the confirmation.
Video Test Bench source code release
Time is a factor of production.

We are depleting oil reserves at about 5 million times the rate they formed.[1] Corollary: oil price reflects an off-books depletion factor of roughly 5 million-fold. The price is vastly too low.

Our fossil fuel consumption translated to present total biomass production (NPP, or the "photosynthetic ceiling"), is a very substantial fraction of all plant growth, I believe about 40%. We currently account for 20% of NPP consumption without utilising biomass as fuel.[1]

The history of why extractive natural resources are costed on a labour-required basis only (and some very questionable economic and legal theories support this) is an interesting accident of history, religion, law, geology, business, oil, and more. I've been digging into that, though have further to go. The short answer is that we'd started using the stuff long before we understood its creation, and by the time we understood we pretended not to care.[2]

The history of oil price response to overextraction in particular is mesmerising, with the booms at Titusville, Spindletop, and East Texas especially. The latter saw price per barrel fall from a $1 target, to $0.13, and then further to $0.02/bbl, before the national (and effectively global) production quota system managed by, of all organisations, the Texas Railroad Commission, was established in 1931. That lasted until 1972, after which you may be aware oil's price fluctuated somewhat.[3]

Similar issues exist for other strategic minerals, as first grasped during WWII, leading to the creation of the Harbord List, now the U.S. Strategic Mineral Reserve.[4]

(Oil is also subject to strategic reserves. You may be aware of an incident involving the U.S. Naval Strategic Petroleum Reserve a few years back, the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration.[5])

Until the early 20th century, only direct labour was considered as a cost of production.[6]

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Notes:

1. https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange1.... See also https://redd.it/2cvap7 and https://redd.it/1x9maq

2. Partial expansion here https://redd.it/5w1zw3 and here https://redd.it/5rnjg0 In particular, the religion and Young Earth Creationist associations are fascinating.

3 Daniel Yergin, The Prize, chapter 13 generally, though also the history of monopolies and cartels: Standard Oil, As-Is Agreement, Seven Sisters, National Producers, OPEC. http://www.worldcat.org/title/prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-m...

For oil price, BP's Annual Statistical Review. See:

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4defd684cadcbbe55e0...

Current report: http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stati...

4. E.g., http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article33647.html

5. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

6. Alexander Hamilton Church, Production factors in cost accounting and works management, 1910, p. 9.

https://archive.org/stream/productionfactor00churrich#page/8...
The only way it's not superior is compatibility with ancient electronics, just like I said before. What's the problem? Why should I care about playing my music on 15-year-old hardware? I don't have any such hardware any more, so I really don't care about it. In fact, 10+ years ago when I still had a portable music player, I had an iRiver H340. Even it played my Oggs!! So where are these shitty players that can't play Oggs? I've never had one. And these days, they don't seem to exist. My Android phone plays them just fine, out of the box. My car even plays them right off a USB thumb drive. And of course my computer plays them easily. So again, why should I give two shits about compatibility with some ancient devices that I don't have, and likely not many other people do either?

Do you only use software that'll run on Windows 2000?
Have you tried hangouts.google.com? It's possibly still blocked, depending on your employer, but if not, it's just a hangouts webUI that also allows calls.
The norm in SV (from visits to other companies) seems to be open office layout -- desks everywhere without walls or dividers. Ours is more private, I think it's called "semi-open", and out of shot behind me is a carpet-wall-thing that's about 5.5 feet high. So I'd say Netflix is a bit more private than the norm.

I don't know what happened to private offices in SV. Sun Microsystems had a private office for every engineer, but Facebook tore them down when they took over. (I gave a talk at Facebook and included a floor plan from the Sun days: https://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/linux-bpf-superpower... )
I understand your reasoning and try acting decently (even though I probably fail often). Of course it is easier to point out mistakes instead of changing oneself to the better. I think it is commendable that you were so open about your thoughts, which empowered a stranger like me to take a moral shit on your behavior in this specific situation.

I have some acquaintances with weird/antisocial/borderline illegal behavior and never addressed it directly with them, just avoided them.
I have had to work with willfully incompetent people who could not be fired. I will not do it again. I have been contracting the past decade and it lets me fire the company when I am done.

Neither nor the company have any illusions this is anything other than business relationship: I make code I get money, done.

I don't want to fail because I need to drag dead weight around.
It's confusing because Android phones have a SD card mount for the internal storage (and external SD cards are yet another SD card mount).
I can certainly tell whether or not the seat is reclined, but there is no perceptible difference in comfort: both modes are equally uncomfortable. I would guess that the previous poster meant something very similar, rather than hypothesizing some bizarre proprioceptive malfunction which left them unable to sense their body's angle of alignment to the floor, as you seem to have done.
PGConf US: Local Seattle CFP Open
IMO you should either (A) avoid customizing the database and treat it as a relatively commodity data store or (B) treat it as its own service with its own developers (DBAs) that just happens to use an SQL connection as its network interface.

Some of the most horrible systems are when people just went half-way, and you've got logic randomly scattered between two systems with two programming languages etc.
Could be a while.
Kaby Lake Processors Coming to Macbook Pro at WWDC
Cray Supercomputing as a Service Becomes a Reality
Reminder: The United States Code is not the law
In practice it works just fine. They just make you give them permission to blow your app up for twenty minutes a week (and wink and say maybe they won't actually do it this week).
The Samsung DeX dock has a fan to cool off the phone while it's docked in desktop mode.
This comment section is a strange juxtaposition of roasts of the fundamentals of the business modal and shill-like praise of the business...
Picture yourself telling this story to your kid one day.

Then your kid asking you "and what did you do?"

Then yourself telling them what you did or what you did not do.

If you are honest throughout that mental exercise, your next steps, whatever they may be, should be a lot easier to take.
They tested carbonated water vs tap water for the human subjects, and Gherlin was about 0.32 for CW compared to 0.5 for tap water (fig 3 in the full paper).

>The paper is $35

It's on sci hub.
Seems well designed. But besides a startup in a rush for an MVP, who's in the market for a backend as a service?

Who wants to trust the most valuable part of their product to a third party start up that has a lot of potential to disappear from under your feat, is hard to move away from and might not be flexible enough to incorporate all your future use cases? I can't imagine selling this to any company I ever worked for.
Video-test-bench-dos-freeware: final freeware version of video test bench
When I was in elementary school in the 80s one of my friends has a "nanny" who slept on a cot in the laundry room in the basement. I didn't think much of it, a few of us had housekeepers and I just imagined a few other people had live-in help too, like on TV shows...

A year or two into our friendship, I was over at their house after school and around dinner time I asked if I could stay. The parents said, "Sure, no problem... just let your parents know..." They went to talk to the "nanny" -- who didn't speak any English -- and let her know to set another plate.

There was some miscommunication, the "nanny" didn't expect the father to be home for dinner, so they didn't quite have enough food prepared for me too, since they were already one up. That's sort of what my friend translated after... anyway all I saw was two adults arguing and then the father, not liking the "nanny" talking back to him, slapped her face. Hard. Then stood over her with a clenched fist and yelled at her in a language I didn't understand.

My friend was mortified, he started apologizing to me that I had to see it... and the mother came to yell at the father... and ultimately I didn't get to stay for dinner... for weeks my friend just kept apologizing, saying he was sorry I saw what I saw and sorry his father wasn't kinder to their "nanny"...

At some point, 25+ years later, I saw the "nanny" walking with the mother in a grocery store. She still didn't speak English, but she smiled at me and knew who I was. My friend's mother and I caught up, and it hit me... this wasn't really a "nanny" and I probably didn't have a word for that relationship in my vocabulary.

She was part of the family, went to all the school functions and plays and soccer games... cooked for them... kept house... but wasn't related... and who knows if she was paid or not -- but I doubt it... Still she always doted on children. Seeing her all those years later, the facial expressions she made when seeing me were just like seeing a grandmother or aunt. Her face lit up, and she was just excited and proud to see me all grown up.

Anyway this story was really powerful and reminded me of that woman, and got me thinking we probably all know a Lola -- some degree of Lola anyway. Slavery probably isn't as uncommon as we'd like it to be.
I've been getting these fake DocuSign phishing emails for the last 2 weeks.
This article was great to read up until I got to this point near the bottom:

> One of the alarming innovations of the Obama years was the way the president’s aides enlisted corporations of various kinds—from Wal-Mart to the NCAA—to discipline recalcitrant American states in the same way. Indiana was going to have gay marriage and North Carolina was going to let conflicted males use ladies’ restrooms, or the administration would rally corporate friends to destroy their economies.

I'm not sure what the author was trying to imply here - obviously something about Obama getting help from corporations in an effort to force a couple of states to - gasp - treat humans with dignity and respect.

I guess I can understand the whole "goverments and corporate working hand-in-hand" fear thing; perhaps the author would have rather had the government withhold highway funds or something in that manner, and not get the corporations involved?

Or maybe the author doesn't like that citizens all over the United States are largely in support of gay marriage and LGBTQ rights - and that perhaps these companies, knowing this, knew that it was in their better marketing and brand interest to use their economic might against those states to change those laws?

Does the author think less of LGBTQ people? Should they not have the right to be married, or to use the bathroom of their gender identity? Does the author even understand what gender identity is, and how it is apart and separate from sexual orientation and physical gender?

I can't fault the author if they are simply ignorant on these topics, but I can fault them if they are and haven't taken the time to rectify that ignorance. Understanding these issues isn't difficult. For some, though, being empathetic and supportive of those who are different, yet still human, is.

I'm not sure where the author's bias lies, but that one section seems to indicate that it lies against that of basic human rights, dignity, and respect towards LGBTQ. This made the piece lesser than it could have been; it's arguments (whether you agree with them or not) were made solid and some other example than what was given to show a similar means of globalization on a local scale could have been illustrated.

Other than that, it was a great piece of writing; I only wish it could have offered or suggested potential solutions, or had explored more in-depth the consequences of the current status-quo; though one could say "look around you; these are the consequences" - and I would have to agree.
What are you talking about? Every time I've lived in a suburb, I've had neighbors with incessantly barking dogs. Suburbs have been some of the noisiest places I've ever been between all the stupid dogs, the constant noise of lawn mowers and leaf blowers, and all the idiots with noisy motorcycles and big trucks and modified compact cars.
One reason is I almost never hear from this friend since his relocation to another part of the world. Another is they have enough issues going on, personal issues requiring a lot of work, and being told they are a slave owner would not help.

Perhaps most importantly my friend is not the direct slave owner, if that is indeed the relationship. It's my friend's dad, a guy I've barely even met. Perhaps if he was around, and caning her as I walked into the kitchen, I would have said something, who knows? But I was receiving his hospitality through a third party, and I am a foreigner to their country and customs.

Did you ever read the article and wonder why Billy or his family didn't do anything? They probably felt it was so alien they didn't know what to do.

You also gotta ask yourself, if you owned a slave, why you would allow that slave to be the only attendant when a western family comes through town?