skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me I fail to see the value because Aldi is here and expanding and now Lidi is following. while they may be on the opposite end of the market from Whole foods I do think they are where the market will truly end up. The middle to higher end grocery stores are going to face a tough time with the discounters and we have yet to see if the European model of grocery can covert a large number of shoppers.

with regards to the purchase I can imagine cobranding or in store only advertising. perhaps they can use it let people pick up orders themselves? Online grocery ordering but only where a Whole Foods store is available.
> I don't understand how this response relates. It's still a huge ethical issue even if those people who are aware of it can learn to avoid it.

Those people should read TOS's. But seriously, don't connect to an open WIFI network expecting privacy.
Whole Foods Faces SEC Probe (2007)
I have a 2011 Macbook that I am writing on. I believe that's the perfect compromise. Anything more than this at least for me is going in the wrong direction. Solid (aluminum body), powerful (i7 16gb ram), and repairable. If you just kept making more powerful versions of this size and repair-ability I would be a happy camper.
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Yes. Even in the context of billable-hour matters, it is typical for firms to write off hours that exceed certain targets per sub-unit of the matter. That is, in effect, a shift towards pricing based on unit of work (e.g. a motion to dismiss) rather than pure hours.

I disagree about pagerank being appropriate for legal research. Pagerank-type algorithms will help you find the seminal, widely-cited cases in an area. But if you want background law, it is easier to just consult a relevant treatise or other reference book that has those pre-digisted and laid out for you. What really takes time when doing legal research is finding cases that have features in common with yours: similar procedural posture, similar factual wrinkles, etc. Usually, you're looking for a way to argue the opposite of the general rule set forth in the seminal cases. Pagerank-type algorithms won't help you find that; boolean searches on specific phrases will.
For a more professional and thoughtful look at music and combinatorial math I suggest:

http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry-of-music.html

There's also

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Topos-Music-Geometric-Concepts-Perf...

Although IMO it's mostly blather - unlike Tymoczko, who's worth reading.

There are no complete scientific theories of music and there never will be, because music is a huge and semi-random collection of cultural experiments and stylistic conventions built only very loosely on perceptual psychology.

Academic theory books define an alphabet of terms, but the rest is learned by practice and experiment, oral teaching, and by listening, copying, and varying.
I have a lot of problems with how cryptocurrencies are dressed up to look like investments. Everyone talks about the market cap as if it were a company with some underlying value and some public value. I feel that is very misleading. As well, with the charts and trading platforms, less educated adopters are treating it like a company that produces value.

It is a digital collectible. There are a finite number of them produced (in Bitcoin's case, at least). The price is high due to speculative demand. People hoard them and lose them, and the price will continue to rise until it collapses. It is extremely deflationary and has no monetary controls in place to stabilize it.

Government backed currencies have value because of taxes. Everyone must pay taxes in the designated currency and failure to do so is punished by a monopoly on force (the government can make your life miserable for not paying).

There is no necessitating force, like taxes, for cryptocurrencies. The main use case and driving forces in their adoption are illicit (ransomware, dark markets, etc). There are no capital controls either. No one will elect to pay their employees in Bitcoin due to its extremely deflationary nature. No employer will elect to pay someone in a currency without capital controls. For example, if I agreed to pay someone 1 BTC per week for their work, and one week it is worth $1k USD and the next it is $3k USD, I would be getting seriously screwed. Also, since it is unstable, prices will always be pegged to the fiat currency (eg. 5 USD in BTC at the current market price), since charging a fixed amount in Bitcoin would cause people to be unwilling to pay it or the company to take a loss on the sale.

I don't know if the illicit markets are enough to sustain demand for cryptocurrencies in the same way that taxes do for normal currencies. I personally view them as a modern day ponzi scheme driven by speculative demand. That is not to say that you can't make money off of them, but don't be surprised if they go the same way as Beanie Babies. Just don't ever expect a major entity to adopt a currency that unknown actors have large control over.
It's not vaporware. (It's not released yet, but it's not vaporware.) (blah blah this is not an official statement blah blah)
Well blockchains have a few problems:
blockchains are extremely slow, the global bitcoin transactions could run on a raspberry pi if using a centralized technology and you need a large population of users, otherwise it's trivial to do to 51% attack

So your use cases either hit the too slow problem, of if they use their own block chain the 51% problem. Most would be better off with a git repo with signed commits. That way 3rd parties could audit, you couldn't arbitrarily edit older transactions, and you wouldn't be limited by performance or the 51% problem.
That's a combination of the building (lots of metal) and cellular service just being bad (relatively) at penetrating in-doors.
You can infect any computer when you have physical access what's the point?
Not a googler, but I have heard that most of the python at google is under Youtube, which Google got in an acquisition.
That's a good point. Most of our current CS / Hardware tech and experience relies on digital computing. Makes me wonder if instead of using neuormorphic hardware as the deployment vehicle, it'd make sense to use it as a specialized high speed trainer. Whereas most of these research projects seem to be assuming that they'd be deployed as endpoint/client devices.

The alternative would be to use the annoying/tedious analog hardware to significantly (possibly) reduce the amount of time/energy costs to train a neural net. Then have special equipment to measure the learned weights and convert them to 16-bit weights that'd be easier to deploy.

Facebook/Google are showing that custom chips for deep learning make economic sense. That market feature could tip the scales for specialized neuormorphic training chips which deal with analog circuitry but offset those costs & complexities by driving efficiency and/or speed while still deploying via traditional digital chips.

Of course, this path relies on the assumption that an analog circuit could be much faster or energy efficient. It's not too far fetched though based on the current numbers and time for training vs biological system energy costs.

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Is there a point you are trying to make that's relevant to this discussion? I have read a few of your comments on this thread and I just can't for the life in me figure out what point you're trying to make.
I know some folks who work there. While they we're using Solidus at one point, they've moved away from it a while ago and maintain a custom backend.
How Whole Foods C.E.O. Led 2 Lives
> Because reversing an array is super easy and using a library is one function call

It's not super easy without using library functions when all the operations that work on arrays (including the constructor that makes them) are as much “library functions” as the one that reverses an array. (Conversely, if the mechanism that reverses an array is part of the language core and not a library, the restriction fails to have the expected effect from the other side.)

The restrictions seem to assume that every language has the same division of distinct core “language” features as distinct from what is provided by libraries.
Awesome idea! I've always wanted something like this.
I'll take water resistance over replaceable battery any day of the week.
It's a powerful tool if you are a law firm and your work is not very valuable, otherwise you will receive fake counter-notification from scammer and Google will ask you for court order.
> [...] beat #3 is an echo of beat #2 [...]

This doesn't match the hierarchy of beats present in most music written in 4/4, where beats #1 and #3 are strong beats-- with beat #1 getting a greater emphasis than beat #3-- and beats #2 and #4 being weak beats. Much of the music of the classical period supports this fundamental pattern-- in 4/4 cadential formulae are generally articulated on beat #1 or beat #3, and rarely on beat #2 or #4.

One could make the argument that beat #3 is an echo of #1. But then beat #2 couldn't also be an echo of beat #1. (And there isn't a similar hierarchy of weak beats with #2 and #4.)

Furthermore, this hierarchy usually extends out exponentially in larger durations. So in a Mozart string quartet you'll hear how rhythmic material of measures 1 and 2 is often repeated (or slightly varied) in measures 3 and 4, with measures 2 and 4 being the "weak" measures. A lot of repertoire from the classical period extends at least two levels further so that the first four measures are a group balanced by another group of four. That 8 measure phrase then has a matching 8 measure phrase, although once we get that far out the rhythms aren't usually strictly symmetrical or imitative anymore.

I haven't read the literature but I'd imagine music cognitive research can shed light on just how far out humans can track those rhythmic groups. On the one hand, I know it has to be smaller than, say, an entire section of a sonata (I've never perceived a development section as the "weak" rhythmic group, for example). But techno music makes me speculate that at least in simplistic musical structures these groups can extend quite far.
I'm surprised they're keeping Mackey after he did this:

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/whole-foods-ceo-post...

There was an SEC probe

https://www.forbes.com/2007/07/16/whole-foods-sec-markets-eq...
You also said it's facist which is wrong. And the profits are not guaranteed by the individual mandate, ALL that's guaranteeing is a slow-down in healthcare costs that are spiraling out of control. Young people use healthcare. Everyone uses healthcare. When it goes unpaid, those of us that have insurance pay for those that don't.

I'd rather have single payer too. But that doesn't make an "okay" alternative to it facist.
Purity tests / "all or nothing" thinking is reductive. Everyone picks their battles. Ethical consumption is not possible in the light of a global economy.
Sure, but in some of the popular languages where that is the case, .reverse() is no more (and no less) a “library feature” than creating or indexing an Array.
Fashion comes and goes. Style is forever......
In relation to Bill Sethare's work, I recommend listening to example (1) here : http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/html/soundexamples.html , which is an amazing demonstration of the relationship between overtone beating and consonance / dissonance.

Even if the statement "lack of beating between overtones sounds good" doesn't hold true as a universal rule (and I'm sure this has occurred to many people prior to Wilkerson), you can really see what Helmholtz was getting at here.
> The blockchain is for censorship resistance. That’s it. Use cases such as buying drugs, gambling, tax evasion, sharing secrets, capital flight and scamming people eclipse all other use cases.

> Investing in Bitcoin is investing in vice.

Unless the author is using an unfamiliar definition of "vice," I hardly see how this follows. Several of the use cases listed are not what I would consider immoral. Drugs and gambling can obviously lead to addiction, but I don't consider them inherently immoral regardless of whether they are legal in a given jurisdiction. Tax evasion is a little more of a grey area in this context, because I'm not quite sure how you would use Bitcoin for tax evasion. Sharing secrets is completely morally ambiguous; it depends entirely on what the secret is. Does anyone consider capital flight immoral? I've never heard that idea. Lastly, yes, scamming people is fairly unambiguously immoral.
I own a Surface Pro 2 since it was launched and am on my third keyboard. They all look disgusting because of their fabric-like material. I bet that Alcantara is no different.
I really like Gyroscope https://gyrosco.pe
The idea is that if a cryptocurrency completely succeed in its goals, there would be no need to convert the BTC to begin with. They would just use it to buy food, pay rent, and so on.

Obviously cryptos are not very close to this goal, but you can imagine that it could be very convenient in this example if that was not the case.
That's nothing new...

Media:

http://libreria.sourceforge.net/library/Free_Culture/images/...

Food:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7KY4dEnHmnc/U9bkkriu8hI/AAAAAAAAD9...
Cash doesn't randomly increase several times in value and require significant fees and time for confirmation.
In your experience, did you find there was a independent, empowered worker-safety advocate in the decision line?

As you note, I seem most of the dangers not coming from dangerous chemical, but from management pressure to sidestep SOP in order to make quota.
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It's completely up to the publisher (or author if self-published) to enable DRM or not via a checkbox in the UI when publishing on Amazon.

We've been releasing ours with the same CC license as Cory Doctorow, but honestly very few people really seem to care, unfortunately.
I think he means the practice described in the patent is anti-competitive.
Coconut oil 'as unhealthy as beef fat and butter'
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The 51% problem is not relevant for private blockchains unless you allow the public to mine. In a secure system like a bank you could allow transaction to go through the network and trust a handful of well secured machines to do the actual mining.

Alternatively you can piggy back of an existing blockchain where the 51% rule is less of a problem because of high hash rates.

I agree, Bitcoin is painfully slow. But not all other blockchains are. Many have one minute solve times which is acceptable for many transactions and for low value transactions you might even be OK with accepting it as soon as it hits the mempool.
I've wanted, for years, to have an "Oric-1/ATMOS" on my wrist. It was something I fantasised about, in 1983, while hacking and bashing on the actual hardware.

So to me, this story represents a unique kind of harmonic bundle. Not only is it about the architecture of the era, long since abandoned but not entirely useless, but its also about the here and now.

Maybe we don't really need a Cray on our wrists, people.

I, myself would be perfectly happy checking my email, as it were, on my wrist, on much, much less powerful computing platforms.

What better than those that already offer a larger software base?

(* - Oric-1/ATMOS: http://oric.org/)
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This brings up a huge point about how important data sets are to analysis and machine learning. There are so many libraries out there that make learning algorithms quick to run, and the absolute most important part of a project of that type is correct and formatted data.
The people you mention really dislike Walmart.

Still a smart move as it lets Walmart snag some mid-america market share from Gap/Banana Republic/Old Navy (the last makes most of the money anyway).
I recently compared Qlik, Power BI and Tableau as a reporting system for our customers. I would say Qlik was the most eager out of the 3. They got me in contact with their OEM team and were very forthcoming with information. Microsoft gives you all the information you could want up front. Tableau never responded.

Power BI also has Power BI embedded for Azure services which bills report views on a per session basis. This might be what wins me over to Power BI if it makes financial sense.

R also has https://shiny.rstudio.com/ which is pretty neat as well.

In the end we would like our small/medium sized customers to build on top of this platform so we will probably stick to one of the big 3 rather than completely roll our own.
The legal industry is tremendously competitive. Even if you limit yourself to the most "prestigious" firms, there's dozens of potential choices. Even the largest firms have only a couple of percent market share. How many other industries can you say that about? The information asymmetry issues you mention may be true to the extent you're a small company that needs counsel for one matter. But the vast majority of corporate work is done for big corps who are repeat players. They have extremely detailed data at their fingertips about how much their dozens of previous representations cost, outcomes, etc.
Thank you! This should be the biggest takeaway and I could have made it more nuanced, see thread here: https://medium.com/@Tboice/provocative-and-on-point-e3cbe1d7...
Loaning is supported as long as the other person is also using a Kindle. I think if there were a non-proprietary DRM system where I could give my books away or loan them to friends reading on non-Amazon devices, I would feel a lot better about it. Having access to your library when you travel is also a pretty big deal.

You suggest sticking with paper books, but the accessibility benefits (ie large typefaces or screenreaders) that you get with ebooks is hard to give up. For some people, it isn't a matter of choosing between paper or digital, it's digital or nothing.

I agree that authors should usually get paid (I say usually because I support public libraries). However, I don't think there's much evidence that DRM helps authors get paid. Is there a popular book that hasn't been pirated thanks to DRM? Do you think the Amazon lock-in that DRM provides is good for the industry? I certainly don't.

As for your second question, you are probably not going to get the answer you expect. Lots of people here support and work on free and open source software.
Someone please fix the title, it's "DIY" not "DYI". Or change it to match the title of the page which doesn't say DIY at all: "The cutest palm-sized Apple II Computer (it actually works!)".
Also, the societal cost of more expensive and less durable paint seems a decent trade-off for people not developing impulse control issues later in life.
What, you don't like it when your speakers cones blow a hole through the wall and possibly the neighbor's roof on their way to Saturn?
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Have you thought about getting some counseling or therapy? CBT Therapists are pretty good at working on the kind of mental exhaustion and feelings you mention. There probably are some wherever you are. My S.O. felt she was a failure and therapy helped her immensely.

They do suggest a lot of things that are being mentioned here :) (like atemerev's 2nd suggestion)
Anything more than two spaces is a waste of precious screen real-estate.
>> The make errors are a bit weird because the programs build on my machine no problem. <<

My fault (except for pi-digits and regex-redux).

I neglected to work-through the force-reinstalls that inevitably follow my update of the GHC compiler.

Done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570396
Turning cash into bitcoin can be as easy as buying gift cards.

I sold bitcoins in person around 2012-2013. I had way more demand than bitcoins I was willing to sell.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html
Ask HN: How are HN's comments rendered at scale (server-side)?
HN, as we all know, is a super popular website. I heard, randomly, that it's hosted on rather low-end hardware but somehow it is capable of handling all the load we rabid HN checkers give it. So without something like disqus how are the comments powered?
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Also, if you're unhindered by things like preventing tumors by isolating chemicals from your squishy meat employees, imagine the kind of Superfund sites you'd get when these places were finally decommissioned.
Basically everything Google releases is Apache 2.0. It was company policy when I was there.
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Really. Who reading this do you expect to believe you're unfamiliar with drugs and gambling being called 'vice'?
That's exactly how I felt after living in Asia for a year and returning to America to find all food tasting like candy.
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> ALDI/Lidl (discount, no-frills)

I really see this as the future. Not the whole foods, upper scale, and more expensive store; model. By and large, the middle class is shrinking and with automation looming, it will only get worse.
it does, you just typoed it

http://orgmode.org/worg/orgcard.org

but the reference file is this:

http://orgmode.org/orgcard.txt
I no doubt agree with you about the SV bubble (and credentialism is bullshit). But outside SV there are still tons of great companies offering the same thing that aren't walmart
Do you mean they fit you really well, or that they go out of their way to provide a big variety of styles, cuts, and sizes so that they potentially fit anyone really well?
We don't even perceive the Fourier transform. What we perceive is pre-processed by complex "sonic object" recognition systems we barely understand.

Obvious example: you don't hear formants and spectral distributions when someone is speaking. You hear words, which are parsed into sentences, which are processed into meaning.

Along the way a lot of redundant elements - background noises, breath sounds, ums and ahs, and even distortion from electronic transmission systems - are all eliminated.

Music is similar but even more complicated, because while there are stylistic conventions, there doesn't seem to any single consistent grammar.

There's a superficial listening level which parses a mix of sounds into the sounds of different instruments, a "theory" level which listens for horizontal and vertical groupings and structures, an "emotional" level which reacts to implied emotion and mood, and sometimes a "metaphorical" level which listens poetically and associatively.

It's not a simple process.
Just curious why Tibco Spotfire was omitted from your process.
If you're looking at Qlik, Spotfire is pretty feature-similar.
I'm almost completing my phd in math, and as much as it pains me to say this, I think a great amount of deep learning can be accessible without "the math". And as tempting as it is to tell everyone to pay their mathematical dues by carrying the proverbial buckets of water up the steps, you can get by very well in the field with only the very basic basics of mathematical knowledge.

This is how i'd describe it. Deep learning is a set of tinker toys. Lego blocks if you will that you can sculpt with data into some very interesting models. Its an art, where the brushstrokes are matrices. Place an attention module here, and a convolution net there. And throw in a tensor with a softmax, and viola.

Now I love math. and part of me really wants to see deep learning become a mathematical discipline. Deep in the backwaters there are parts of deep learning involve some math (think variational inference, bayesian models, etc). And I do want deep learning to be about condition numbers and combinatorics. But if you want to be perfectly honest with a newbie in the field, if you want to get your feet wet in deep learning, don't waste 3 months on a class on advanced optimization or measure theory or probability. Just dive in
I had way more demand than bitcoins I was willing to sell.

Doesn't that imply it isn't easy? Or at least wasn't back then?