skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is clearly a mistake in hours per ton of steel calculation. It just can't be true. It is probably per thousand tons, then 250 hours to make 1000 tons of steel sound reasonable - wholesale market of steel is ca. $300 a ton so that would be about $1000/hour worked, about average for a highly automated industry.
I don't think it's that much of an issue if each person has a video record of stuff they've seen. I mean, we already have this in a squishy lossy human way.

Where I do think it's an issue is when every person's viewpoint is piped back to the Borg mothership.
First Round Capital signing this is amazing to me - especially since it doesn't look like it required them too to make this happen. Sort of expected the others too but not them.
Nice change - it's a shame this got buried.
Most Trump voters were not working class though:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/93450/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0...
$1,000 wager?
It's an interesting dynamic. The investors hold the cards, because Uber is going to need more funding soon. But on the other hand, pushing Travis out might tank the valuation.

I'm guessing they decided that any valuation damage will only be short term. I suspect they are right.
> What is the point of this comment?

To let you know that I find your comments overly negative, and that they might have a bigger impact if formulated in a bit more relative manner? I mean:

> Postgres is probably the weakest of all relational databases when it comes to scalability, both vertical and horizontal.

Doesn't strike me as a particularly useful comment, given the (to me) obvious hyperbole. If you'd instead, at least every now and then, explain what precisely you find lacking, people - like me - could actually draw useful conclusions.

I only said something because I remembered your name from a couple times reading quite negative and undifferentiated comments. And I linked to the comments because I searched for them to validate whether my memory of the past comments was/is correct.

> Perhaps instead of policing my statements, time would be better spent on improving the features and experience of the product.

I do that. Just about every day.
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Bakers and taxis are inherently different - no one gets stuck in a location they don't want to be because of a lack of wholewheat.

I'm not saying peopl are ok with changing it after the fact: I'm saying the government should do what government is supposed to do and serve its citizens, in this case forcing taxi companies to accept credit cards.

Market/self regulation generally trends to work in two ways: the well off get to crow about how government regulation isn't needed, and the less fortunate don't get to use that service because they're never the prime market for business, but they don't have a soap box so the other side keeps barking on about how good it all is.
> Do people from outside the U.S. share that same mentality or is it just some culturally-imposed ideal that the U.S. has?

I think the latter, the whole notion of "The Land of the Free" always feels more like aspirational marketing than something true, and real.

I'm from the UK, although these days I've moved to Finland for personal reasons. I'm proud of the UK, and proud to be from the UK, but at the same time we're a country that used to have an empire, and due to a variety of changes we lost it. Some of the things we did when gaining or maintaining that empire, were terrible, others were generally positive.

But either way I think the UK has largely given up on being a world-leader. In some fields they still have a big edge, in others they're falling behind. Either way I think it is fair to say there is no cohesive push for greatness, just different people/groups/fields individually doing what is best for them. (Which could be extrapolated to extremes, e.g. Brexit.)
I always figured the Matrix (complete with Zion and the machine war backstory) was just a VR game for humanity to keep ourselves occupied with while we waited for <world event X> to happen in the real world. (Colony ship to arrive, global warming to reverse itself, radiation to die down, whatever.)

Or even (plot twist!) for all the people in the Matrix to be sims / ems in a game, with the agents being actual humans playing the game, who of course have superpowers and a mysterious overarching goal because what video game character doesn't?
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Why do they require either an MBA or M.S.? Anytime you put restriction on something or force a combination, you don't allow it to breathe for possibilities.
Well that's a good advice.
That can apply to about any topic you want to learn :)
Losing his mother, absolutely I feel terrible for him. But his life's work has largely consisted of chasing his own goals without consideration of anyone else. That this came back to bite him is karma, and I don't feel particularly bad about it.
Medallion owners charged huge amounts of rent from drivers. The barrier to entry wasn't on the driver side.
I'm sorry that you have had to use Hipchat so much that you know this and use it outside of it. A human can truly get used to anything.
How well is Garret Camp doing with running Expa?
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Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement
Wow, it was signed by Benchmark, First Round and Lowercase. Those are all of Kalanick's earliest backers and most fervent supporters, even in times of controversy.
The bill[1] itself is plain language and easy to read.

The bill establishes a 'basic economic security working group' to investigate the broader issue of how to properly support sudden mass under-employment. The bill doesn't only mention the automation of jobs but also the widening equality gap and globalization of jobs. As per the bill, Hawaii has a heavy reliance on a service-based economy and is already significant displacement of local jobs.

I don't know how these bills work with schedules/deadlines (there doesn't seem to be any timeline specified in the bill) but I'm quite excited to see the first findings.

1. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2017/bills/HCR89_.pdf
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I don't think that syntax is Hipchat-specific
Saturation? Everyone I know in China who wants an iPhone already has one.
Well, you saw the quotes on the website, they did hire the best pentesters!

For example, one pentester ran "nmap", which did not find any ports open, so he said "There doesn't seem to be an available service to attack." This means the system is SUPER SECURE.
NetBSD will install & run in less, but you need to manually customize the installation and it requires a full 486 (with FPU) at minimum. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard for someone to bring back support for no-FPU Intel again, and also to support installation with less RAM.
Burning down a building that you actually for-real own might not be illegal, but be careful what you tell your insurer. The fire marshall might be annoyed as well, so warn him first. I wonder if the EPA would have questions as well...
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No wonder. Working hours are heavily taxed while energy / resource consumption is not.
> im not here to scold you, but ...

In other words you're here to scold me.

> it shows a need to explain a bad thing by saying that a good thing caused it.

It does no such thing. It explains the nuance of someone else's argument which I thought was being misconstrued. That is, a thing can have positive and negative aspects.

> while i wont deal with the substance of the argument (which i personally reject), its my experience that this argument's format shows up an awful lot when there is a bias that someone has to bend reality to preserve.

Huh? That is to say "I will ignore your argument (but dismiss it) and jump ahead and make value judgements about your motivation and biases."

> its also revealing that you would even bother entertaining this idea. why not just say "yea. they shouldn't do that."? im pretty sure there are companies that have "disrupted" industries that were not filled with toxic culture.

What I find revealing (and amusing) is that you admit you are ignoring the plain meaning of my post, but prefer to look for thoughtcrimes in the subtext.
The economics behind this disruptive innovation in the steel industry were broken down really well by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in his writings and this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FxFfymI4g
Definitely possible. Conceptually you're just debundling the roles into discrete tasks with automated mechanisms that assign those tasks and reward completion of them.

The problem is that it's a complex undertaking to build it, because a lot of the building blocks have to be invented, and they have to be built to the highest standards, both in terms of efficiency, given the cost of Ethereum computing resources, and in terms of security, given the underlying platform is immutable and does not allow reversals of hacks.
Yup. I've been thinking about that for a long time too -- ever since reading Asimov's books on the Laws of Robotics as an angsty teen. I hated the premise and thought about whether our ideals about instrinsic rights extend to non-human sentience, even if we were its creators. I'm not an angsty teen anymore, so I don't know if I'd still feel derisive about Asimov's robot stories. However, seeing as how we as humans have difficulty treating other humans as humans, I'm not seeing much hope for treating non-human sentience with respect. If our creations rise against us, it will be because we made them in our image, and that includes both dreams and nightmares buried in our collective psyche.
Illegal is most often, though not always, used in the context of something criminal. The ambiguity is why I commented. I thought I included enough couched language, apparently not.
Pshaw, where's my raytraced font.
Most likely, it was held for the period in which customers could get returns. This is sane.
You just described capitalism as it exists today. Even if you did away with immigration, your problem has barely seen any solution at all.

If your fear is being replaced by someone who is ready to work for less. There are enough kids who will do anything for a job, including taking a good pay cut. To replace you.

The real issue you must be worried about being relevant to the work you are doing. Being productive, resourceful and keeping your skills up to date. And yes never putting yourself in a situation where you think some particular work is beneath your station.
Though there is nothing terrible about your comment in itself, the fact that it is the most highly upvoted in this thread really shows how toxic this community can be. People here really seem to think that a company culture that tolerates or encourages sexual harassment is acceptable as long as it's not illegal.
Did google obtain medical records of rape victims?
I take public transport to work so that I can get a 1 1/2 hours to read everyday. And sometimes while I'm doing my laundry.
Todoist's Slack competitor is for people who hate constant notifications
I think it's suicidally bad for this to become the default norm for human interaction. Among strangers it's a horrible idea, and among loved ones, a thousand times worse.

If social interaction has begun to feel rigid and sterile already, this sort of thing represents a deep freeze beyond anything we've ever experienced.

Everything points to confession and contrition now. Emotions become bottled and pressurized. Stiff behavior modification leaves no release valves.

Go ahead and experiment with this, if you don't believe me. I'll check out, without hesitation. I'll take my business elsewhere, anywhere.
The number of fonts that cover the whole Unicode character set is zero, as the Unicode character set grows faster than fonts are designed for obscure scripts.

The fonts that come closest are Google's Noto Sans (an Android-esque font that covers every script that's realistically in use), GNU Unifont (a monospaced raster font, great for multilingual coding), and Arial (bringing standardized mediocrity to the whole world).

These projects put a lot of work into finding one visual style that works across many different scripts. I doubt you will find anything that works with a parameterized range of visual styles across different scripts.

However, if you narrow your scope to fonts that just cover Chinese characters, I believe I've seen some projects that parameterize how to draw the strokes. I doubt the output will be neatly packaged in a TTF file.
Most animals are perfectly fine to live without much work. Humans are animals.
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> Why can't we agree on that?

because the republicans are objectively worse.
It wasn't made by Google... it's only hosted on Google fonts.
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I'm generalizing a bit, but if you think that the rest of the world isn't then you are very naive. You simply haven't seen the world through the glasses of being a poor and powerless person from a third world country.

Sympathy is dead to governments and most businesses. Especially with the nationalist opinion gaining popularity recently, I would expect sympathy for the fellow human if they're from a different country to die down even more.
Trajectory matters more. Valuations are forward-looking.
According to a 2016 survey 60% of women in tech in SV reported an unwanted advance. Of those, 65% were from a superior (always inappropriate). One third of women reported feeling unsafe at the workplace. This is why I default to believing reports of harassment

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/elephant-in-the-valley-sur...

Not exactly hard to find. We can quibble about the exact percentages and the methodology but the odds of the real percentage being close to 0 when ~50% of women reported an inappropriate advance from a superior are nil.

You're asking for a completely unreasonable standard to be upheld. If an employee said they got mugged and their laptop was missing, you wouldn't start asking if they were out late at night, were they drinking, "why did you put yourself in that situation," we'll replace your laptop the next time you lose it, etc, you'd say "that's awful" and replace their laptop.
So the probability of a competitor inventing such a claim was literally zero?
I'm not in ML/AI, but I've learned a lot of other stuff on my own over the years. If you have the time and motivation, I think you'll be able to do it. Good luck!
They may have just let it use yeast from the air.
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Maybe it's worth pointing out that to get that code like that from SBCL it's not enough to declare that m and n are fixnums, you also need to promise the compiler that the multiplication won't overflow:

(defun foo (n m)
(declare (type fixnum m n) (optimize (safety 0)))
(the fixnum (* (1+ m) n)))
Very astute, lads.

Please note that Steve Jobs' life philosophy makes it pretty much impossible for him to say something bad happened to him, or that he did something bad.

NEXT taught him humility, that's the story at least, mostly because it failed miserably. Apple was failing under Scully, and Jobs was failing without Apple. They came together again and had a jolly good time.

Uber is likely to skyrocket in valuation now that the "ruthless expansion" fase is ending. Uber will now turn itself into a benevolent market keeper, so n i c e to everyone that it simply cannot be banned. I'll call this the "consolidation phase".

I think they learned this tactic from rape. First you get her really drunk and force yourself on her (ignore the law and just put your product out, obstruct law enforcement in every way, ruin your drivers' lives). Then you hug and say "you're so beautiful and sweet, god that was so amazing, I'm so happy we did this" and she just Stockholms herself into it. This way you avoid rape charges, and cognitive dissonance will maybe even turn you into a great lay instead (history will remember Uber's fantastic ruthless rise as a genius business move - rarely mentioning the funny murky bits).

Edit: sort of derailed there, but I meant it's unlikely this CEO will be seen again.
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Title says it all basically.

Ideally both gpu and cpu.
In part that may be down to review procurement.

Amazon's product questions are like that. It seems people get the emailed question and think a person has reached out to them, they respond "sorry i haven't used it yet", or whatever, and that fits in with the other 20 useless answers.

They don't appear to have user rating on answers, only on reviews?
My team runs a paid chat app for Instagram models to monetize their fan base. Apple did a 180 on their own IAP rules and called us to insist we could not use the App Store without charging with IAP. Their app store rules clearly state that content, not peer to peer payments or something 'done by a person' (like spending time to chat with creepy dudes you wouldn't normally give the time of day to over a DM) does not fall under IAP. It's "Content" and "It takes place inside the app" so too bad. We were paying out the models 70% at the time. In short, they are enjoying all the profits we had earmarked for ourselves and now make 3x what we do from our app.

Google on the other hand have (so far, touch wood) left us alone to handle our own processing and helps offset our incredibly thin margin from iOS. Unfortunately, iOS represents almost 80% of our gross revenue.
During the 1.5 year time I was a lyft and uber driver I returned no less than 5 cellphones to their owners. There's even a url in your reciept email that will place a phone call to the driver for this exact situation.
I didn't get this either even though I understand XOR. I get it now.
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OK, agreed here. I need to specify it a bit more: 1 and 3 are dick moves when they are totally artificial, like saying only 3 left while the stock is around 300 or saying "only 2 hours left" when the time constraints are imaginary.

In your case they are not, so I agree that it is interesting to remind people of actually seeing these.
I think at least the druntime will need to be ported.
YouTube's pitch deck (2005)
> It became clear from conversations with potential COO recruits that few would take the job if Mr. Kalanick stayed, they said.

Aha. Now I think this makes more sense.
Yea, though I'm not strict about it. If the call was from 9:05 to 9:40, I leave the event alone.

Note that I've not tried doing this for a day when I've got a bunch of little tasks to push through.
Did he actually succeed in getting a dual share class structure?!
Alternatively, you're an idiot.
!so narrows your Duck Duck Go search to Stack Overflow.
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>if we really wanted to deny border crossing we would. It just isn't really a priority.

I doubt it. If you really wanted to deny border crossing, you'd have to allocate so much money to ICE that it would upend the federdal spending budget. It isn't feasible easily. That would make the current administration look stupider that it already is.
Do you always try this hard to sound smart?
The heavily animated demo is worrying. Animation is making the Web very unpleasant lately. It's extremely distracting when trying to consume text content. Please don't animate your fonts.
I think they are not purely cumulative because I assume that consumer have a it of slack in their decision/budget and that each optimization consumes some of this slack. The basic idea behind 1 and 3 is to stress out the consumer into believing that he may miss a sale. I think that stressing them out with 1 or 3 more or less gives the same result and does not need to be applied twice.

Real scarcity exists, but this paper gives an incentive to create artificial scarcity. I have seen a lot of websites mention low stocks but none mentioning backorders or restocking estimates. Saying "Only 3 items left" has a very different effect than "only 3 items left but 100 more arrive in 2 weeks".
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I did some googling and came to the conclusion that homomorphic encryption is not quite as supported in consumer hardware as I had believed. I didn't even think about the CPU cache. I guess this remains an unsolved problem. If Walmart's motivations are truly that Amazon might peek into vendor data, then it's a reasonable request after all.
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How does this relate to anything at all?

No one is forcing you to buy or use one and if someone uses one out on the street, then by definition you have no privacy in a public setting. Just because it's stupid doesn't mean it's subject to different rules than rest of people filming in public.
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You can transfer money in WeChat without Apple taking a cut too. This is not what the dispute is about.

The dispute is about buying virtual currency with IAP, to be gifted to streamers, bloggers etc. It's no different from buying virtual in-game currency or items, and therefore Apple would like to treat them the same as all other IAP and take their 30% cut.
Couldn't you say the same about images?

Besides, the OP clearly described the benefits in being able to adjust the font according to screen density. Using system fonts doesn't magically solve that issue.
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TL;DR: Researchers claim to have proof that the 2013 spike to $1,000 was engineered through fraud. It's unclear how much relevance this has to today's far deeper markets. Which isn't to say there isn't fraud going on today, as even a casual glance at ICOs will show, just that it's going to be that much harder to manipulate the price.

In recent work, we show that the first time Bitcoin reached an exchange rate of more than $1,000, the meteoric rise was driven by fraud (Gandal et al. 2017). We leverage a unique and very detailed dataset to examine suspicious trading activity that occurred over a ten-month period in 2013 on Mt. Gox, the leading Bitcoin currency exchange at the time. We first quantify the extent of the suspicious/fraudulent trading activity and show that it constitutes a large fraction of trading on the days the activity occurred. We then show how this trading activity affected the exchange rates at Mt. Gox and other leading currency exchanges [at the time].
So basically you recreated IBM's AS/400 mainframe.

Had you researched it for your work?

I would be interested in some kind of comparison.
It makes sense when the information is accurate and complete. I tend to not trust companies to do the right thing when they have an incentive to do the opposite.

For instance, do you count people "watching" this property through suggestions while they are browsing another one? Do you count people who clicked it but went back after checking the address? How long before you do not consider a person "watching" anymore?

Each of these decisions have different answers if the goal is to raise revenues or to provide accurate information to consumers.
Why is that a problem to you?
I didn't replace the battery, but back when I used mine regularly I bought an external battery specifically made for it.

The company that made it still has its website up, but there doesn't appear to be a way to order. So they may be out of stock. But you could always try to contact them, I suppose.

In a similar vein, I guess you could always get an USB battery pack and a thin USB cable that's long enough to reach to your pocket. I don't think it's ideal, but it might be better than nothing.