skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that "(no idea what the margin is)" is what OP meant by running the numbers.

Mostly a "pamper early adopters with VC money" operation I think, possibly with a profitability story (that may or may not turn out to be realistic) centered around high real estate value areas: in those places where the ground occupied by a gas pump and its accompanying infrastructure plays a significant role in the local fuel price, using public rights of way for mobile pumps is effectively a value transfer from the public to the pump operator.

Back during the original dotcom, when all anybody could think of was basically a mailorder shop with a website, I joked with friends how a "fuel.com" could be a great parody of contemporary startups and/or a fine participant in the hype wave.

I still think that sending pickup trucks to fill individual cars is stupid, but it's leaps and bounds less stupid than "mailorder fuel" would have been. A nice illustration of the difference between the current breed of VC money sinks and the dotcoms of old.
Organisation names are not, to people's surprise, globally unique. I don't have a Mac but a common "solution" there is to add a country flag, so an Australian firm named Top Burgers gets a different flag icon from an Irish firm by the same name.

But wait, is the burger place you like the Irish one or the Australian one? The faux German decor and the American accent of their spokespeople on TV give no hint. Turns out - neither, the Top Burgers you love are legally named Upper Deck Barbecue and Burger Company, Inc., and so their EV would need that mouthful on it.

So yeah, EV isn't worthless, but it's probably not going to fix anything much you'd actually care about. If I ran a business with PayPal's money I'd get an EV cert because the price is a rounding error. But for 99.99% that's money they could spend on security or customer service improvements that'd see an actual return.
The boys are back in town!
> A high-tech garbage service may sound ridiculous to the uninitiated. But it’s no joke to customers like WeWork, Whole Foods and SoulCycle that have signed multi-year contracts in exchange for RTS’s flexible pricing options, along with notifications about when a truck has arrived and reports about exactly where their waste is being sent.

Their target seems to be commercial waste removal, which seems like a better play than residential.
Thank you so much for your efforts!!
I see. Sometimes I lack imagination. He should do some namespacing. And all linkers should warn about duplicate destructor collisions. In this case, namespacing is the easier fix for sure. :P
Yeah, this was on NPR Marketplace the other day. First I'd heard of it.
Balance scales work independently of gravity, both sides of the scale are equally affected.
Who are you to determine which ideas carry weight, especially without debate? The moment you use political leverage to win intellectual battles, you are embracing corruption.
Wow, very cool. I wonder if elliptic curve certificates and intermediaries via certbot are also in the pipeline. P-256 can be issued via manual CSR and EC intermediaries are scheduled "before September" according to https://letsencrypt.org/upcoming-features/
https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/payments/

That chart is for number of domains. PP is still the market leader by a huge margin. I'm sure if you looked at the number of transactions per month, Amazon might move into the top 3, but PP would still be the largest.
I freeze meat that I'm not eating in the next day or two, particularly fish. Prep includes reading and understanding the recipe, fetching bowls and implements, bringing out the ingredients, preparing the work surface, and often starting water to boil.
Likely 65535. I can't imagine a computer in that era using more than 2 bytes for a line number.
Yes - the issue is that the work is currently presented as requiring "no training", but it has simply relocated that problem to constructing a perfect simulation of the environment. It then uses the fact that current benchmarking systems have available simulations to "cheat" rather than learning that function itself. One of the most difficult and interesting parts of reinforcement learning is constructing the function that determines the evolution of the system. If you know the evolution function a priori the problem is mostly trivial - i.e. alpha-beta search, graph searching, etc.

It's interesting that this merit function works in the absence of a real reward signal, but there's no fair comparison against systems using a reward signal due to this huge alteration to the problem that is providing a perfect simulation.
Shocker: the popularity of Pokemon Go wasn't that it was AR, it was that it was Pokemon. Anyone who thought they could capitalize on a new AR market after the release of Pokemon Go had absolutely no idea what the market wanted.
spoilers I think he implies pretty heavily that the Rhetors actually CAN influence the past, through a mechanism very similar to that described in the article - "choosing" which way an event happened in the past. Their powers work at Narrative scale though, not just experimental observation.
This is why MIT/Apache2 dual licensed is popular; Apache2 contains a patent clause, but isn't GPL compatible, so you can use the Apache2 variant if you don't use anything GPL, but use the MIT variant if you have to have compatibility.
Yea, based on the eia data it should all be ballpark but the calculation is there mostly just to serve as an example. You could shave a little off gas-per-fillup in retrospect because very few people will use 15gal exactly and few new car gas tanks are over 15gal but the $3 service charge balances that out somewhat. Based on the map on their site, it looks like their margins might be slimmer than what I calculated but they succeed by having a lot of customers in a very small area that they serve.
>Why is this? It's because, from what I have read, a number of studies find that when women are treated inappropriately at work, they rarely speak up.

That doesn't follow logically. Just because women tend not to "speak up" when they're treated badly doesn't mean women who aren't treated badly "speak up" when nothing happened. You just don't know.

>As to character witnesses, the whole piece is an argument as to why they are not very relevant.

Yes, and not a very good one. When you get into a he said/she said situation character witnesses are usually all you have to go on.
But that would require the dreaded telemetry, which that subset of users care deeply about not having and would cry fowl if it even existed.

"Why the hell are you collecting information about what file system types I privately run OneDrive on M$!!"

Why, indeed.
> I used to write programs for the trash-80 with hundreds of variable all named $A, $B, $C...$AA, $BB

Ummm, don't feel bad, you actually needed to. Each character of those variable names takes up RAM.
There are plenty of neighborhoods where you'll be fined by the HOA for doing that. Just "tossing in the front yard" isn't a feasible sustainable solution. Anyway if he's paying 50% in income taxes then it's unlikely he even lives in a neighborhood where junk collectors drive around
Responsible Disclosure is not necessarily the One True Way(tm). It's certainly debatable.

If I were a security researcher, I'd only consider an exceedingly few exceptional cases as something I need to give someone prewarning about. Once the knowledge is known, I'm generally of the opinion that in the vast majority of cases it should be immediately published to the world - not a select few elites.

Plus from a past life I know those embargo'ed bugs rarely actually are. They get leaked all the time by the community if the price is right.
Another good one: http://dippl.org/
It's all been done; everything that is new is old already. Our culture-space has been mined dry.
That'll be Windows Telemetry story all over again: lots of people opting out or complaining everywhere they can.
In defense of the white male
As someone who played a lot of Ingress: I _really_ wish a competent company would enter the AR market!

Yes, Niantic had success with Ingress amd PoGo but literally everything they ever did they did in the most stupid and brain-dead way.

I would still play Ingress today but after 3 years I am beyond frustrated with that company and lost any drive to invest any more time and energy.

What makes me sad is the fact that Ingress still has so much untapped potential but at the same time I know that Niantic is unable to do anything with that potential.
In her bio it says shes "ex @a16z" so maybe from there.
I wouldn't turn on a hacked system, except from an Ubuntu install DVD, or some other recovery disk.

Therefore the only secure practice (doing a combined approach) is to only boot from an install DVD.

Or alternatively: just never turn the computer on.
Check with your city, if Waste Management pickups up your garbage you might have three free pickups a year on top of the yearly large item pickup. For the scheduled ones, we usually get a mailer a few weeks before they come up.

Here's the description from a random city:

For items that are too large to fit into the trash cart, residents may request the free pick up of household bulky goods three times per year. We will retrieve up to four large items such as furniture, appliances or up to 20 plastic bags of refuse or bundles of yard waste (less than 50 pounds each) for each request. Advance notice is required. To schedule a free bulky goods pick up, please contact Waste Management...
Although posting an ad on Craigslist under "free" could work
On desktops, Intel Ivy Bridge and newer and everything AMD since June 2015.

On mobile, most mobile SoCs include security stuff, Qualcomm seems to have had them since at least the Snapdragon 805. See here for the addition of the RNG to the linux kernel in 2013: https://lwn.net/Articles/570158/

Even common embedded SoCs like those used in the ESP8266 include hardware RNGs.

Really, there's no excuse for not using it as at least one factor. If you're concerned about possible backdoors, xor it with your own CSPRNG in software like the Linux kernel does.
Pollock?
No. As I can see, no one uses FFT for image scaling. I guess because of it much slower.
I'm told both things, actually, in equal measure. That there's ample casual racism compared to London and yet it's incredibly foreigner friendly. I'm married to a German so I have spent a lot of time in Germany, just not Berlin yet. No idea why my question was downvoted, I was quite interested to hear what the poster had to say about the scene.
From the paper: "In response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), climate models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) versions 3 and 5 indicate decreases in precipitation in the subtropics and increases in middle to high latitudes."

This modeling prediction is in line with what we've observed:

* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6191539_Detection_o...

* http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/...
Well the parts used in the post cost $23.12 so the IoT button is cheaper.
Building an Operating System for AI
For small filter sizes, convolution is going to be faster than an FFT approach. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but you need to perform a convolution for every output pixel where the filter kernel is different for each convolution (Sampling the lanczos filter at different points depending on the resample ratio), which would really slow down an FFT approach.
Read that as "Generating the feces of cats.." which would have been altogether more interesting a problem.
Now that I think about it, that's the same reasoning Batman used to justify attacking Superman in the movie.
I get it. You feel like maybe we're hitting some fundamental limitation of capitalism, whereby deserving artists aren't properly supported by the economic ecosystem around them.
You're right in the media ecosystem is weird here. Music is relatively unique in that it is something that's easy to consume more or less piecemeal. Nobody reads only 1/12th of a book or watches 3/10ths of a movie, but these are common in how people relate to music.

But what if there's another possibility?

I think we're expecting the future and present of music to not look like the past of music. Music, like pretty much all forms of art, has a small number of professionals and a large number of very talented non-professionals.

What's changed is how professionals attain that status. Once upon a time it was impress something really rich enough to be hired on permanently. Then this complex system involving record labels came into being. Now we have a couple of different viable models at hand, and we have yet to settle on one as the dominant new model.

Couple this with a lowered barrier to entry and generally increased competition for entertainment dollars (which compete with mobile games, ebooks, etc.), and users have good reason to favor subscription models. Artists have yet to puzzle out how best to interact with this, but I have faith people will get there.

I wouldn't call it a limit of capitalism. I would call it a limit of the old music business model.
I believe many of the refueling companies have shifted to servicing employees of big companies at their corporate parking lots since the economics are way better this way.
What are some of your favorite "non-sexy" startups that you've casually observed?
J1 is for internships. It is known to be exploited in white-collar work such as programming though. What this means is that you can get paid the normal sum and are treated (unless a shitty workplace) equally despite the visa implications.

You have a year or two (if I recall) of time to apply for a J1 once you have graduated. You don't study while on a J1.

And yes, J1 can be approved from 3 to 18 months. It's not a long time, but depending on what your goals are (if 95 in your name stands for year of birth, you are young, maybe just to experience the valley) then it might suit you.

I know people who have got H1Bs, O1s and L1s after J1. I'm not sure what the process is like, but AFAIK it includes some lawyering because J1 is a non-intent visa.

edit: I forgot to mention that the two year home residency requirement does not apply to you if you pay for your trip yourself. Only if you use government funding during your stay will you be applicable. Although I've heard that residents of certain countries can have the ban waived if needed. Not sure is that right though.

And to clarify, I'm no lawyer, but someone who was on J1 in the valley a year ago.
TL;DR: "Although models possess uncertainties, including possible overestimation of tropical convection, our results suggest future GHG-induced warming may lead to an increase in CA precipitation."

GHG = Greenhouse Gas
Yes, actually, at least for basic pickup. I'd support it for big/dangerous items as well. It is really easy to let that trash bill go if you get poor, and folks tend to dump things when convenient or burn things that shouldn't really be burned to get rid of their trash. They leave large items in rentals they are moving out of and put dangerous items in with the regular trash.

Sure, communal pickup is flawed - but so far, it seems to be the better solution.
Mixcloud Founder here, thanks for the support and if you ever have issues reach out. We're working hard on the app, but we're a super small team, so bear with us!
WARN layoffs in NY require 90 days protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
typically you'll need to call a "junk collector service" which will charge you about $50/item to get rid of it for you.
Understood, but I also would think finding an 'all-or-nothing' deal for a team of any real size would be somewhat unique at that point. If you have a team of 10, and all 10 are required to come along, there is likely some chance of redundancy unless we're talking about pure greenfield projects and buyers with no staff.
Time to close my account before all my information is sold to someone or other when they have their fire sale.
> Now they can have their proprietary clang forks and don't contribute anything back.

References? Most of the "custom" compilers are based on some ancient version of gcc.

I haven't yet bumped into an embedded compiler that was clang-based.

> Plenty of slideware examples at LLVM conferences.

Well, the conference can obviously stop that, if they wish.
Out of all the Uber for X things I have heard about this actually sounds viable. Having to go out and buy garbage stickers for random things is annoying. If I just have an app on my phone to do this not only would the experience would be better but I would have better feedback to assess if the thing I am throwing out would be accepted.
This is an awesome idea and if I had known about it would have used it last month. My garbage creation varies widely from next to nothing (default state) to significantly more than fits in a single pickup (lots of guests, back to back parties, etc). I'd pay a premium to get rid of the extra trash the next day rather than waiting till the next local pickup or spacing it out myself. Ditto for paying less for less often pickups.
I come from a country family with lots of family. I broke a different way, and I'm citified. They hunt. I don't.

After playing Pokémon Go for a while, I finally realized that the act of playing PMG is like hunting & stalking for deer/elk/whatever, but without needing a weapon, ammo, training, safety gear, or bloodshed.

So after factoring in all the extra exercise, a win for the city girl :-)

I think to replicate PMG's success, the next game has to tickle that same hunter driver. What's the new new thing that people want to hunt and track down? If we identify this, we will have the next winning AR game.
That's fair and we're highly focussed on improving that this year. The groundwork is now laid, time to crunch out the features :)
A lot of good blog posts end up as one line fixes :-)
Pretty cool! For anyone else that had this question, here is how this is different than heroku, which is usually my first choice for this kind of thing.

http://gigalixir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main.html#how-is-g...
Yes, this is very cool stuff and I've been advocating for it in previous posts. There is indeed the problem of prediction. Prediction seems to be an omnipresent paradigm in many aspects of perception, even in early vision.

This, contrary to beating deep learning models to death, may hold the key to artificial intelligence.

I have my own little model which I propose for prediction, I call the Predictive Vision Model, more info here: http://blog.piekniewski.info

I'm looking for more people who see the potential of this.
At the time they said it was for performance reasons. It was a problem though, I remember crashing a server on one site just by viewing a print queue.
I'm gonna guess it'll be treated much like water bills (when the city owns the water processing, anyway). Threaten to call the health authority and child protective services if you don't pay the bill (after all, living in a home full of waste is a health hazard). Put liens on your house and/or car, eventually taking you to court and possibly garnishing your wages. In the meantime, no water service and they'll probably alert other utilities to your lack of payment so you'll either not get turned on or have to pay a deposit.
I still play my 3ds almost exclusively with 3D on. My uncorrected vision is bad enough that I have to turn it off if I'm not wearing my glasses.

However the AR of pokémon go actually makes the game harder IMO, so it's only on in the rare instances I feel the need to take an in-game photo.

Also, pokego is a significant battery drain on my primary device. I feel like leaving the camera on all the time would just kill the battery faster. OTOH I don't really care if the 3d effect kills my 3ds faster. My gaming sessions aren't as mission critical as my phone battery.
sounds like ad-hoc hypothesis
Most points seem pretty obvious honestly. Hard to tell if this isn't just low afford clickbait (sorry if it isn't)
Having it read to you would make it a lot easier to get it right, I would think.

My problem was always going back and forth between screen and magazine, and maybe skipping a line or a hex word or whatever. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to even figure out that moving a ruler down the page to help me find my place each time I looked back would reduce errors tremendously. If someone were reading it while another person types, it'd be much easier to not lose your place on the page.

I guess pair programming works after all.
Has anyone produced a model that has predicted long term temperature or climate trends for 10+ years? Like for instance a model run in 2007 that predicted global temperature in 2017 within one standard deviation?
2016 was an outlier, because many reactors had be stopped in the beginning of winter (because of another Areva fuckery).
Now we're a little happier every time AWS send their bills
Given Uber's history, I would guess they would find out where everybody associated with the fire department, police department, county, and state regulators live and then block any deliveries to them or their neighbors.

Fire Marshalls have to catch you before they can use their teeth.
I just did this at my moms house. But we called the people that do the weekly trash service. For 20 bucks they will drop off a large dumpster and leave it there for a week. And then they will pick it up for 40 dollars.

And this is large dumpster like you find behind grocery stores.
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Primary Responsibilities
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* Engineer reusable, extendable, efficient financial calculation models.
* Continuously improve code maintainability and calculation engine performance.
* Branch out into full stack development with service APIs for calc engine integration, advanced distributed calculation modules, etc.

Requirements:
* Experience with object oriented languages and design patterns.
* 3+ years of development experience a must. Java experience preferred.
* Basic understanding of financial products and their taxation principles.
* Quant or software development experience within the financial service industry desired.
* Desire to learn detailed nuances of worldwide financial products and taxation regimes.
* Strong communication skills and engaging personality.
* Ability to interface directly with outside non-programmer subject matter experts.
* Self-starter who takes initiative and helps to define the product design.
* Comfortable working in a non-structured agile development environment.
* Must like dogs.

Sorry, no sponsorship available.

Interview process is usually 1 phone screen and onsite interview with code review and or whiteboard coding.

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> but it's roughly around $600/mo today

Do you have an estimate of how many Lightsail servers and other components are running ?
Yup, this is a service that already exists in very informal ways. Check craigslist for "trash and junk removal".

Having had a garage I recently organized and about a pickup load full of trash/recyclables I would have absolutely loved such a service vs. trying to find someone non-flaky on CL to actually show up when they said they would.
I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use paypal even if you can sustain that. :)