skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why it would be great if more things generating formatted mathematical output accepted UnicodeMath [0], which is about as minimal a formatting language as possible (and, as a result, maximally readable as plain text.)

Unfortunately, I don't know anything that uses it besides Microsoft's formula editors (in various Office apps.)

[0] http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/
I'm not sure how common it is to have smoke detectors automatically notify the fire department . . .

It is extremely common to have smoke detectors integrated with the burglar alarm. I do not know how common monitored alarms are in private homes, however: I personally can only think of one person I know that has that.
They very well could have patented it to prevent anyone else from doing it - which seems more likely.
Every time you treat yourself, with a fine bottle of wine, or a nice sofa, or a great suit, you develop your appetite for "nice" things.

The more money you make, the more nice things you acquire, and the harder it is to imagine living without them. At the furthest reach, it's a private jet--the crack cocaine of travel.

Develop these appetites with great caution.
On my team (and most other teams) it is cool to work from home or a different office occasionally.
Eat out less (the value for money is extremely poor in the UK)

Contribute more to an index fund.

Save harder for a deposit. High rent/shared housing is horrible.

Don't try to keep up with the Joneses. There'll always be someone richer, with a nicer car – you can't win that game. You weren't born in to money, don't even attempt to act like it. Live below your means.

You need to treat yourself far less often than marketing companies would have you believe.
Google gets half of its revenue from the US

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/4/29/15479932/alphabet-revenue-g...
How do they collab on the ML models?
As in, the process in the brain? Because if I could turn on 'sleep mode' while maintaining enough consciousness to perform basic tasks/hobbies then several hours later turn off 'sleep mode' to regain full consciousness and feel fully rested then _YES_ sign me up for automated sleep.
Remote work can be intended also as in "you are at a customer facility and need to access the corporate intranet to get a document or access the SW repository".
Nit: we don't absorb gigabits of information. Perhaps there is that much bombarding our senses St any given moment but the amount that actually makes it into our brain is far less, probably on the order of a hundreds of bits/sec max
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Oh interesting. Kind of annoying to have to keep moving services.
This should be seen as a defensive move so they can sue anyone who comes to market with a product that blocks the shopper's ability to search Amazon while in a given store.

Showrooming benefits Amazon and will continue to until they have a majority of retail space (never).
I think you might be right, but I hope brain-machine interfaces might be able to solve some of the problems.
I see what you mean, but Google seems to manage this problem in YouTube via end user flagging and machine learning. Similar for Facebook, etc. I see why it might take Amazon out of the running to provide it.
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I left my design agency for Uber
This is incorrect! I began as a full-time remote employee and stayed so for 16 months until it made more sense for me to move to HQ.

There are hundreds of remote workers, but being local has definitely allowed me to not need to rely on email and video chats so heavily.

(Disclosure: Google employee)
The 1080Ti you mentioned elsewhere achieves about 1/60th the performance of FP16 deep learning that the P100 does. The V100 would increase that gap by another magnitude. And on the other end, FP64, it has as a similar deficiency.

Of course eventually maybe they'll come out with a cheap but powerful deep learning GPU (though with the V100 having a 800mm2 die, inexpensive is going to be relative), and it's impossible for me to compare with future products, but there's a good reason these cost as much as they do.
I agree with you. I have been reading Stephen King's "The Body" which is a short story/novella and there he describes the journey of 4 friends to see a dead body somewhere in the middle of the desert out of town. There's a section where the kids are walking on a railway bridge and a train comes up and they have nowhere to go but to jump to a 50 feet drop into a river. That scene is so beautifully written that I could feel myself watching the events right in front of me.

He also talks about how his feelings towards storytelling changed after he started doing it as his primary income source instead of a hobby he had during childhood. Very interesting stuff.
I'm a software engineer at Rigetti, so I'll talk a little bit from that perspective.

One thing we are really emphasizing is having a full stack of software to enable hybrid classical/quantum computation. We believe that leveraging current computing resources as much as possible in a quantum computation will be important for near-term algorithms. Quantum algorithms such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm very naturally fit into this hybrid computing regime.

There are lots of details about our quantum computing architecture which differ from the other players out there. There are different kinds of qubit-qubit interactions that we do compared to IBM. I will defer questions about these to other folks and our recently released white papers [0, 1, 2, 3].

From a company standpoint, our goal is to build the most powerful computer. Not anything else. We don't do ads. We don't build business machines. We build quantum computers and make them available with software. When you depend on it to survive, you definitely work a little bit harder and smarter to achieve your goals.

[0] http://www.rigetti.com/papers/Demonstration_of_Universal_Par...

[1] http://www.rigetti.com/papers/Parametrically-Activated_Entan...

[2] http://www.rigetti.com/papers/Analytical_Modeling_of_Paramet...

[3] (paywall) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7738703/
You''re describing good recruiters, which are rare and far between. The majority is spam unfortunately. The problem I think is the incentive structure. When you see human beings as nothing more than a commission, the tactics get cutthroat.
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I saw the words "deep collaboration" so that sounds like, yes they have a deal with these companies.
Automated machine learning platform in public beta
Eoin the co-founder of Kyso here! Happy to answer any questions...

my email is eoin [at] kyso.io
It seems from the article this is only being offered as a product to people already using Google Cloud services, specifically for accessing those services? Otherwise it's just a series of papers describing the system.
OnePlus Mocks Removal of Headphone Jack in iPhone 7 While Copying Its Design For
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If I recall, the original post had a slightly negative comment about the community itself which was later removed and then even later made clear that the negativity was primarily with one of the co-creators.
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I don't know why people are negatively marking your post, because this is a thing a lot of people do and it does feel like there is a bit of a stigma to do so.
You've synthesized the two cultures but a "large chunk" of humanity has not. The guy in the story is definitely deep in the "humanities" culture. Its unscientific in the cultural sense, because he's on team "humanities" not "science" such that its hard for people in team "science" to understand him.

There's a classic Chomsky linguistics example of a cool valid line of English that no matter how cool it looks is none the less complete nonsense. Thats what you're up against arguing with the Humanities tribe "Your argument makes no scientific or logical sense" "Who cares its beautiful and inspirational and I'm not on tribe Science so it doesn't matter"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

Unfortunately as the two cultures become more mutually incomprehensible, cultural "islands" are polarizing such that large cultural groups literally cannot talk to each other anymore.

Its interesting watching the two cultures as they exceed escape velocity from each other. We have science and economics unconcerned with the morals, ethics and humanities of what they do, with team humanity running our propaganda institutions (education, media) totally unconcerned with their ideas accelerating separation from our increasingly scientific real world.
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It sounds wonderful, but I have just so many questions. No doubt they don't want to tell us how it actually works, but without knowing that, there's no way I'll trust them.

It's very much a chicken and egg. They say that privacy is what's driving the design, but without knowing how it works I have no way to verify that it really is what they claim.

Tricky.
Just waiting for it's successor to come along...
Note that the average speed of communication in different languages is the same, even though they differ in verbosity and expressiveness. This is why Spanish speakers seem to speak so fast - Spanish has more syllables on average.

So the bottleneck would appear to be, not the physical limitations of communication, but the rate at which we can structure information to be consumed by another mind.

Rather like how the limiting factor in coding productivity is speed of thought, not speed of typing.
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Imgur's big act of hubris was accepting VC money so they could expand.

They were fine before that. They were making enough money to stay afloat, but the founder wanted to expand. So he took VC money... and then the VCs began making demands of him. And then Imgur started sucking.

I remember one of the first changes that the VCs forced on them: Imgur debuted a new API, and if you want to access albums through the API, you have to pay a huge amount of money. There were some allowances for small, limited usage for free, but any app published on a major app store would blow past that limit easily. The cost might be fine for a big company, but it screws over one-man operations like...well, like most Reddit apps. The developer of Sync got hit pretty hard by it.
That picture of the roll call at the Chinese factory --- do you think they would do that on the California campuses, which the article states have been the source of many leaks? I think not, they wouldn't stand for it. It seems like an abuse of power over the factory workers to treat the honest ones so distrustfully. It seems like there's an inherent flaw in your business if it's predicated on "surprise" rather than execution. Not to say Apple doesn't execute, but if they relied entirely on product quality over product cult this wouldn't be an issue.
One of the more interesting insights from the comments (which I agree with) was that the Amazon patent was for defensive purposes in order to prevent other companies from trying to implement such an idea in their stores.

I have never given much thought to the idea of defensive patents, but if this is truly the intent of Amazon's patent then it's brilliant.
The phrase "Well, that went south really quickly" tends to mean a situation got really bad. Implying that south is bad.
I can see three solutions.

1. Use HTTP. It's not forbidden yet. I think it's the most compatible solution.

2. Use http://127.0.0.1. It seems that this is standards-compatible solution, but browser support is not good enough, so if you can dictate browser choice for your user, it's the best future-proof solution.

3. Use your server as a proxy. When your localhost application wants to talk to your site, it talks to server and server retransmits this data to the browser. Quite cumbersome solution IMO, but should work, unless you must be able to work offline.
Let's run a fat HVDC line coast to coast and pump that sunny goodness
The graph seems to indicate that the number of images almost doubles during 2016, but the number of submissions do not?
There is an important point here, which is that even if you've been stable for a while (two years for Rust) and even if you try to get that message out (some people on HN think there are too many posts about Rust), it can take a very long time for broad perception to catch up with reality.

That's not a value judgement on those who didn't know; cache invalidation is a hard problem. But it's an interesting facet of languages that plays out in a number of ways. See the link to Dan Luu's post from forever ago, posted numerous times in this thread as another example.
We definitely absorb huge amounts of information -- but only a fraction of that information reaches the conscious level.

Just google search "unconscious visual processing"
“All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.”
As far as I know, Imgur actually started off as a bit of a public service. From Wikipedia:

"Imgur was created as a response to the usability problems encountered in similar services. Designed to be a gift to the online community of Reddit, it took off almost instantly, jumping from a thousand hits per day to a million total page views in the first five months."
I deal with more good recruiters than bad recruiters. I'm picky and the industry might make a big difference.

I also spend the time to really talk to the recruiter the first couple times so he knows a lot about me and what I'm looking for. And i don't feel he would work out for me, i don't work with him.

I takes communication and i think part of the problem is on the job seekers side. Too many are uncommunicative.
This is neat. It's quite difficult to see this translating to adult shows, but it does seem to offer some promise for a future "remix" ecosystem on platforms like Netflix.

Imagine there was a kind of "choose your own adventure" feature that allowed people to select any scenes in any order from the entire Netflix Originals catalogue, including deleted scenes, extended scenes, alternates, and bloopers. People could edit their own programs and share them. Imagine people editing their own version of Stranger Things down to a two-hour movie, or perhaps changing the entire plot to more of a bizarre high-school romance. It could be interesting.
Ultimately we have to accept some form of centralized control to reap the benefits of this technology at scale. Would you rather be using an AltaVista job search?
The design of bitcoin is that this is resolved by one network's coins quickly becoming worthless. The only chain that matters is the one that most people believe is the right chain. The right chain is the one with the most committed blocks on it.

In the event of a partition, the partition with the most miners will almost certainly have the longest chain of committed blocks and be considered the right one.

*Note: I'm a hobbyist, not an expert on this. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
This was before the client even connected for the first time. And the IPs were well known C&C servers used for collecting keystrokes and screenshots of your O.S
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> Walmart is perhaps the most egregious example of this. Walmart doesn’t pay its workers very well. And because it pays its workers so poorly, they have to rely on food stamps and food banks to make ends meet. So then, Walmart goes ahead and uses its charitable donations to pay food banks, to pay anti-hunger groups to support SNAP—which enables [Walmart] to pay its workers low wages. And then it also redeems about 1 in 6 SNAP dollars around the country.

Yet another argument for raising the minimum wage in the short term and moving to basic income in the medium-to-long term. The current system boils down to company scrip with added obfuscation.
Finland tests an unconditional basic income
Seems apt to link the blog post I wrote when my own image hosting service went under:

https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...
Because American's food supply has been so overly-manufactured and processed that it doesn't really satisfy hunger and nutrition, but rather addictive cravings.
It appears as a wide moat but I'd wager that in reality it's not. The key factor being unlike most networks, economics rule Uber and Lyft's platforms. That's a massive incentive. If as a rider, I can get a $5 ride for $4 with a similar experience and the driver knows he can make every last penny of that $4 (instead of $3), I don't see why eventually it wouldn't convince them to switch.
Not so green: how the weed industry is a glutton for fossil fuels
Just curious, are you a panpsychist?
Great guide, although I think styled-components deserves more of a mention than an "alternative". It's easy to support both CSS Modules and styled-components in a webpack build and I'm of the opinion that styled-components is always the route to go unless you really need the full power of CSS/Less/SCSS.
That's an interesting take... I haven't looked into the history of middle infielders, but left handed middle infielders would require a half a second pivot to throw to first base, especially when going for double plays. Thus, maybe there is a basis for left handers. Seeing how the active roster was capped somewhere between 11-13 during the 1880s, it could very well be the case that having a left handed thrower were anathema to the team when you need 9 players to field.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/baseball_rosters.sh...
That falls under the free service with ads
So your visual cortex isn't in your brain? Would you care to point out which region(s) of the brain only receive hundreds of bits/sec?

Somebody should tell the lossy video compression folks.
Well, if you're a skeptic as to how much can be saved, you might want to look at the many "smart grid" studies, because this has been a hot topic for a while and is already implemented to a small degree.
WOW! This must've taken a monumental amount of effort, thought, and engineering. Why else did it take so long to add tipping? Bravo, Uber. Still goes to show a massive startup can still innovate. -slow clap-
> Have you MITMD your connection

Yes, with another Sysinternals tool called TCPView https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/tcpview.asp...

You don't even need an AV product, you can spot malicious activity by eye alone.
Off the cuff comment to indicate that my observation isn't a serious proposition, but just me sharing my general feelings, and acknowledging that my feelings should be considered fairly cynical.
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Imgur has developed a very active community and they have a MINIMUM of $20,000 per "promoted post" (ad). Considering how often I see new ads on there (at least once a month), I'd say they've finally figured out how to actually monetize an img hosting site. Whether they can avoid throwing away all that money on inefficiency and poor management is another story though. If anyone here knows how to scale an imgur clone properly, and can do it as a one or two person team, you'd probably have an amazing startup right there.
Might count large albums as submissions? Upload a single image and it's one image, one submission. Upload 10 images into one album and it's 10 images, one submission.

Could be wrong but that's my guess.
No, they turn y = f(x) into y = g(f)(x), or rather they turn f into g(f), considering side effects.
Why Amazon's Acquisition of Whole Foods Matters for Startups
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean with "fully pre-computed", but local functions in Python close over local scope at runtime:

>>> def splatter(t):
... def f(): print(t)
... return f
...
>>> beep=splatter("beep")
>>> boop=splatter("boop")
>>> beep()
beep
>>> boop()
boop

That's the problem with Python, everything is dynamic.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
What is the business model? How are they making money?
Any recommendations? The only recruiters I've ever interacted with are working for or on behalf of employers. They're looking to fill their position and if I'm not that person, I don't hear from them ever again. It would be awesome to have someone always out there looking on my behalf. Does that kind of recruiter even exist?
>Impossibly broad question, but have we not reached the point of... not needing too much more performance out of our SSDs for most workloads?

This is really not possible to answer in such vague terms ("too much more", "most workloads"). It depends on what your workload is and how disk dependent it is. Storage is still an order of magnitude slower than DRAM. So improving the performance of disk, depending on what you're doing, would still significantly increase performance.
> They’re using those resources in a way that allows corporations to come in as problem solvers rather than problem causers—but to also not really address the root causes and to perpetuate the problem through just treating the symptoms of it.

I feel like I would understand what the whole article means if I could unlock the mysteries of this paragraph.

Food banks as a concept don't make any sense. We already have a well-developed food distribution system: it's called grocery stores. There is no way food banks can accomplish the procurement and delivery function at lower cost than existing retail channels. That militates towards simply writing people a check with which to buy food.

There is a small subset of the population that would use that check to buy drugs or the like instead of buying food for their kids. Those people don't need food banks, they need to be assigned a social worker.
This post must be related to the recent "How do you draw a circle?" [1] article. They used the term "southpaw", which I had never heard before.

EDIT: Strange, I definitely read the word "southpaw" somewhere in the last few days, and I remember learning that it was a term for left-handed people. Now I can't find it anywhere in the circle article, the HN comments [2], or the Reddit thread [3].

Little things like this really make me want to sign up for fetching.io again.

EDIT 2: Ahh, I found it! It was in a Quartz Daily Brief [4] news summary that I had skimmed earlier today:

> Left-handed people are more likely to be geniuses. The trait indicates greater connectivity between brain hemispheres, which may explain why southpaws seem to have an edge at math. ([5])

js2, I'd be really interested to know if that's why you posted this, or if it was just a coincidence.

[1] https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-ab...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579728

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6i5pa0/how...

[4] https://qz.com/daily-brief/

[5] https://qz.com/1006075/left-handed-people-are-more-likely-to...
When I read the opening paragraph I was sure this was going to be using Google Lens with street view data to index offline jobs from window postings.

Honestly the wording makes me think it just wasn't ready in time for the announcement, although I'm not sure how they'd have up-to-date data.

It's one of the few applications of AI over street view data that doesn't utterly creep me out and actually seems quite useful.
Uber to add tipping functionality
Isn't what projects like https://freenetproject.org/ or https://www.torproject.org/ essentially do?
Yeah, Walmart uses welfare to subsidize their business. From a capitalistic standpoint, it's a genius strategy. From a moral standpoint it's deplorable IMO.
I encounter this problem all the time in the suburbs. Finally a driver let slip why: He was asleep. They park their car outside their homes, and they go to sleep. Then when the phone alerts them to a fare, they open their eyes, accept the fare, then they get dressed, etc. go put gas in the car, maybe some breakfast, and then come and get you.
Intel pulls the plug on its Joule, Edison, and Galileo boards
For those thinking "What's Julia?", article has a nice tldr --

Julia is the fastest modern high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading, machine learning and artificial intelligence.