skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For service consistency we have been experimenting with the CV which is the standard deviation over the mean (with of course 99% as well being looked at).

I told someone we were looking at it and I too got a similar response.
The trend seems to be towards giving GPs more responsibility. My surgery seems to do a lot more than they did twenty years ago. You are right about the BMA though.
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Is Amazon working on a new messaging app called Anytime?
Twitter did what was good for Twitter - becoming fun, addictive and compelling to use. People made a choice to use that compelling product. These choices worked out well for Twitter, but according to the GP, not well for the users, who unknowingly hurt their society.
Or have universal health care, working public transportation, (almost) free higher education,...
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Remember self-cleaning public toilets? ewww
The BLS suggests that Texas has one of the higher unemployment rates, at 4.8%, and is above the national rate of 4.4%. https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

But it is true that unemployment can vary widely even within state lines. Even from one town to the next. It is possible that localized unemployment is still quite low where the jobs are unable to be filled.
> But if it's for a program that will run 24/7 without human intervention then the code had better be plain, filled with the Unhappy Paths and boring.

You mean like memory and resource management code? Oh wait.. you use a garbage collected language. lol
My history could be very distorted but the "war is bad and to be avoided" idea came to life (in my lifetime) during Vietnam years.

I cant imagine the us population rallying around a new war like they did in the '40's
It sure is (actually a full time job), but I also have another job worth of non-management activities on top of this. At least I enjoy it all :)
It appears u128s are used to intern strings. i.e. efficient uuids.

https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/blob/master/codegen/...
That depends on whether you are rich or poor.
Unlike other questions, I'm interested in logistics behind this. How do you produce 20m mosquitos and where do you hold them? How do you transport them and how do you release them? How do you 'store' them and when releasing are most harmed, are they 'sprayed' or you 'open a box and they will go by themselves'? How do you decide where to release them? Is it all at once (1m per week) or is there a pattern, is it related to wind... so many questions!!

I wan't a documentary "How it's made: Mosquitocide". I'm willing to make one if someone can provide access to info and logistics.
Suu Kyi gained her freedom, won an election, then ignored a genocide.

Democracy is not magic. A failing state is a failing state, regardless of the system of government. Great rebels rarely make for great politicians.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/rohingya-muslim...
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/13/burmese-nobel-prize-winn...
Where is the quote from?
Computer vision makes this really easy. And having the customer's credit card on file makes enforcement a lot simpler.
Freedom of speech isn't such a hard concept to understand. Even if you disagree with someone, you don't put them in prison.
I hope the roads full of autonomous cars will cause a resurgence of motorcycles. Since currently motorcycles and texting does not end well...
Let's pick out each mosquito one by one to check which one we should kill or release then.
This is a pet project I have been developing to solve a very simple problem I have.

I wear a wrist watch with world time feature. I don't often need to know the time in another country, but each time I did the time was off by one hour.

All countries manage DST as they wish, as it's mostly a political choice. So I figured out that the best way to be sure to have the correct time worldwide was to receive an email each time a country toggles DST.

As I couldn't find an existing service doing that I made this website. It is built with Django and Celery. I will open source it once I will get rid of a few non-Free CSS and JS bits.
Consider an alternate perspective:

There were other platforms that opted for a longer format. Yet Twitter became popular.

Perhaps the reality is that, had Twitter opted for a longer format, another platform would have taken its place.

Twitter may not be the cause of societal aversion to meaningful, dense discourse, but a symptom.
Having had from 3 to 14 direct reports the ideal is probably around 7. Too few results is too much attention ("hey boss I have a job to do") while 14 results in total burn out and neglect ("we haven't spoke in weeks - what is your name again").
Mostly. If this is the same thing that was posted in the last month or so, then it's possible for it be patched. Whether it's the firmware itself or through a mitigation technique in the OS, I can't remember. The last time it was posted, it was mostly about phones, and there was an update for Android phones that "fixed" the bug. The status of the bug on iOS was unknown.

It may be that the bug is easily defendable against at the OS level if one knows that it could be present.

Edit: Somebody else posted the previous discussion, so I think it's the bug I'm thinking of.
I love Chance, but I can't imagine that he's got the net worth already himself to buy SoundCloud / make a meaningful investment - maybe he has contacts who do or could help an investment group, but I think it might be a bit fanciful to say that Chance by himself can save SoundCloud.

http://collegecandy.com/2017/06/05/chance-the-rapper-net-wor...

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/03/13/soundcloud-valua...
It is up now https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/886192178200023040
As of 8 hours later I did not receive your mail. If the email in your profile is not correct you can mail me at mine.

I am scientific and made a strong claim above: if you have a plurality of counterexamples I would like to update my comment stating I was wrong.

So far I have just a statement from you that you know of counterexamples. I do not.

Thank you.
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It feels like we just had another massive wifi firmware exploit not too long ago. iOS 10.3.1 / CVE-2017-6975 / CVE-2017-6956 / https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=10...
That's pretty much what happens any time someone tries to improve their country though. You look at what works elsewhere, and then you do it.
> ~25 percent of the total Cambodian population died.

But not from concentration camps.
By the same token, elected judges and sheriffs have largely been a disaster, especially in states with partisan elections for those offices. Direct democracy is a very dangerous tool.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14727400
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My thoughts exactly - this is a clear case of the process working as intended.
The ^3 takes care of that. His answer is for 1 mile, but you can easily substitute 37.23 or whatever miles in the formula. 4/3(x 1609.344/2)^3 = cubic meters.
If Twitter had been preceded by a platform like it, but with longer character length, do you think people would switch to Twitter? I don't think so.

We actually have a case to compare to due to the curiosity of language: Japanese twitter. They can fit much longer ideas in 140 characters. It is a much saner place, and there is no shorter service leeching users.

It's far more likely that what keeps Twitter going is the social network of the existing user base and the vendor lock in of its APIs.
The first table, which shows where deals are sourced from, was most interesting. I was surprised that VCs reported that 22% of leads were proactively sourced.

Beyond that, I don't think the trust VCs to self report. In particular all VCs say "team" is really important. But in my experience they don't really probe the team very much, or get to know them and their background well.

Possibly what they mean is "has previously been CEO of successful startup" or something similar.

Overall, I think VCs build up a qualatitive feeling of how comfortable they are with a play. And critically, how well it can be justified as being a reasonable decision if things don't go well.
Dark Web drug marketplace AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement
Because humans haven't been around long enough for one to expect that sort of genetic variation. Possibly because the link between behavior and genetics is nonexistent. I don't know enough about the topic to know if there is a link between genetics and behavior. Do you know if there is?
Would you consider it just for Snowden to be exiled out of the country?

Would you consider it just for Assange to be under house arrest in an Embassy?

Would you consider it just for Liu Xiaobo to be under house arrest at his own home?

Well, IMHO, all 3 incidents are unjust. However, they all happened.

Interestingly, Liu Xiaobo earned a Nobel price, but Snowden didn't. Not sure what would happen if the Chinese government awarded Snowden or Assange some special prizes.
If your only options are "work here" and "die of starvation", then I'm not sure you can really call it a decision at all. Frequently the people doing the work can not, in fact, make any decisions. The guy who owns the factory, on the other hand, will make sure his thugs beat up anyone who brings up fire safety or asks for better working conditions. If that's not slavery, then what is?
It's not about just language, of course. Otherwise "localization" would be called "translation". But a machine vision AI app isn't very useful if it cannot recognize local signs, brands, whatever, or pronounce them correctly. It would be simply bad publicity.
Sorry, but that's just wrong. End-to-end encryption has a specific definition that you can't distort just to play devil's advocate.
Only about 25% of US military in Vietnam were draftees. Suggests there were 2 distinct trains of thought on "war is bad".
Yeah, and - to extend the smoke detector discussion - most modern smoke detectors are photoelectric and seem to have a somewhat involved state machine that periodically checks that the sensor is still working, calibrates for ambient light and component ageing, reduces false triggering, etc.
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> From an energy conservation perspective nature is perfect

I don't understand. Energy is always conserved no matter if it's nature or humans - literally the first law of thermodynamics. Nature, humans, aliens, anything else is all "perfect" so I don't understand your point, or its relevance
Localization != translation. Especially when it's a machine vision app that's supposed to be useful locally.
This is a frustratingly common way to design mainstream PLs: "show me the use case". I've seen it firsthand for a number of big PL projects. People are trapped in their little bubble. My approach is to be wildly polyglot, actively searching for good ideas in other languages. Also, I try to write complex code outside the intended domain space and understand why it's harder than it should be.

For example, in Go it's difficult to implement state machines in a clean way. Another is handling events and timeouts is easier with Reactive programming. Distributed programming is easier with Erlang or Akka. Don't wait for problem reports in the Go community. Look at the problems in other PLs and proactively improve Go.
Unfortunately I don't see this option in Safari 11.0 ...
Probably not the right way to go about this, but should help push up median wages. So for that reason, probably not a bad thing.
You can still steer and stop a car w/out power. It just takes a lot more force than you're used to.
I suspect the old system was designed to keep people of color out of the States. The United States was predominately white Christian, so people related to Americans were mostly white Christians.

However today the people most likely to bring their families over are "brown" people who immigrated on merit or as refugees or who got lucky, so now it's time to close that loophole.
Researchers are developing stairs to help mobility-impaired people climb them
> This means he can't have it both ways

I suspect the power asymmetry of the gov't being able to decide which of its own data is subject to FOI means he can have it both ways.
Does Silicon Valley need even more Ayn Rand to fix its ethical crisis?
Old age? 50 is the new 30 and 40 is the new 20... no one is retiring soon, so they have plenty of time to learn...
Does this mean RIP OrCam (the other startup form mobileye creator which basically does this as a full hardware / software solution) ?

http://www.orcam.com/
May want to take a look at using a Cuckoo Filter instead of a Bloom Filter. See https://maxdemarzi.com/2017/07/13/using-a-cuckoo-filter-for-...
Twitter is annoying. I signed up a couple years ago to follow some local stuff's news, mostly events. Thus I followed 8-9 accounts that initially were of my interest, and started refreshing and reading my feed. All I got was the same 3-4 posts repeated annoyingly often, so that I had to fish for new things that sink below stuff reposted almost hourly since months. I though, well, maybe it's these accounts that I follow that don't know what to do, and started looking around. What I found is that there are 3 prominent Twitter stereotypes: (i) the reposter, which repeatedly posts the same thing and retweets anybody who mention them, (ii) the dumper, like news sites etc., which just vomit tweets at you one every other minute, and (iii) the spartan which speaks in semi-cryptic punchlines. Given the platform has no spam filtering or any way to indicate whether a post is seen or not, it's byzantine task to extract information from what you get served in your feed.
In my experience 1 on 1s are nice because it allows me and my boss to speak in private consistently. When we are both in cubicles it's hard for me to have candid conversations if I know everyone is listening. It probably depends on the person but I have always really liked one on one meetings.
He doesn't need to say if it's good or bad. Google "china africa neo colonialism" to decide for your self if colonization is a good thing for the colonized countries in the eyes of the Western people, unless you think the Chinese merchants and the government behind them are meaning well toward the African poor?

If colonization is a good thing, why in the first place the colonies all sought independence as soon as they had a chance?

Why should China be colonized if colonization is not a good thing (for the Chinese people)?
Also flushing people's memories? Seriously, marketing and PR is a human problem, stop treating it as an engineering one.
This article is short on facts. As a high skilled temp immigrant in US (from India), I follow these stories very closely and it is sad to see such scare mongering articles based on pure imagination!

1) Diversity lottery needs to go. IMO it's purpose was to find low skilled immigrants who'd often become taxi drivers or food cart owners. Most of these industries that relied on DV immigrant labor have been disrupted and the new incoming DV immigrants have fewer jobs. If not stopped, the US itself has a brewing problem with unemployed new low skilled immigrants.

2)for people from India and China, abolishing h1b and EB green cards and replacing it with merit based system will be a zillion times better. Current system of giving 20,000 green cards to Indians, 20k to Chinese and 20k every other country, is highly discriminatory and leads to many many sufferings that Americans don't (want to) realise. Hope Trump admin abolishes h1b, L1b, EB green cards and replaces the whole thing with a merit based immigration system.

3) iirc Trump's rhetorics against legal immigration that his voters are concerned about, is primarily the h2b visa, which was expanded under the Obama administration, thus regularising the illegal immigration from Mexico into legal one (correct me if I'm wrong here).
Either his voters liked it when there was more illegal immigration so the labor would be cheaper, or just that right now there's a lot of competition they face for their jobs and want to reduce h2 b visas.

US economy is changing a lot in terms of automation, AI, and machine learning, thus reducing the need for a lot of cheap immigrant labor, while increasing the need for high skilled labor to stay competitive with Tech giants from China. Which means, the US immigration policy needs to adapt to it ASAP.

I wish politico and alcorn.law dug into these points instead of writing click baity articles to score points against Trump.
I'm pulling from my studies of ~10 years ago, but IIRC there are points (noun and adjective endings?) where diacritical marks can change the meaning of the sentence. Unlike, say, Spanish, these marks are not written, and frequently have to be interpreted from language cues, including the meter.
I so enjoyed the pattern-matching puzzle that I found preparing for the AP Latin (Virgil) exam to be.
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You would not expect populations separated by thousands of years of existence under wildly differing conditions to evolve different patterns of behaviour? Please elaborate.
OK I've being working remotely for close to 10 years, most places were very flexible about hours and taking time during the work day for family things etc. But one things none was ever flexible about is remote employees dropping off com. channels for days. I think that is clear abuse of trust and the main fear why so few jobs are remote in the first place.
Most new smoke detectors are photoelectric rather than ionisation-based these days because China can pump basic models out for $2-3 shipped in quantity one. (In fact, the cheapest I've heard of them going for is £1 for a two-pack in a UK discount store recently.) Nest got a bunch of flack because apparently they screwed up their original single-wavelength implementation and had obnoxious problems with false alarms.
It gets reported, so you clean it, and flag the previous occupant.

If someone becomes a multiple offender, you ban them.

Simple.
I'm guessing you are not an expert in human behavior. I'm not either. Your last sentence though is an example of the sort of sloppy thinking that kills your desire to read further.

You say, "different populations may have evolved...". You don't present any evidence for this. You just state it as a possibility. It might be the case that god causes the delay in Tibetans. Is it the responsibility of the article to counter this possibility? The article gives a credible reason for the delay in Tibetans and if the reason is correct it reinforces the idea that it is cultural.

I assume the researchers know a lot more about the topic than I do. In my experience if there is a possible objection to a conclusion researchers have made that I can think of when thinking about the topic for a few minutes then I'm the one who is almost certainly wrong.
Tell that to Gartner Group: according to my management they recommend an average of 10 direct reports. They also recommend you don't have "technical managers" just pure managers without technical delivery goals; all that is strictly delegated to individual contributors.
I think there was something about gait analysis, too, just in case bad guys started wearing disguises.
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Bill Maher called this guy Father Maverick when he interviewed him for the movie Religulous. The interview is quite amusing and can be found on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy1lPOzDvs4
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Discussing anything of substance on a social media is a bad idea. These sites incentivise short arguments. Twitter very forcefully. Facebook implicitly with its "See more" links, for when comments get long.

But it's also a result of the reactionary culture of those sites. People want to be offended. They think that because the comment is on the internet, that it's final, and intended as is. But it rarely is.
I think people from family oriented cultures will be less likely to come here if they can't bring everyone over.
The formula he gave for a mile doesn't include a cubic term:

> A mile of diameter weights 7 * 10^8 * density_of_the_asteroid kilograms.
Does this affect laptops running Linux? How do you know if you are vurnurable?
If you're willing and have the list in convenient form, would you share it?
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Are RNNs ideal to process non-textual time series information?

We are looking to replace our Arima models with RNNs and the results so far has been far from satisfactory.

The usecase is: based on sale quantity in past year, predict the sale quantity tomorrow.

Regression does not consider weekdays or weekends or similar bumps and we thought RNN w/LSTM would be well suited for this problem
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I think this is a much stronger historical argument. Twitter came out in 2006, the soundbite culture was a big topic definitely before 2006 (Jon Stewart, for one, had been campaigning against it for years by that point)
I'm extremely curious how "computer vision makes this really easy". Is there a system which can already do that, or are you talking about a hypothetical system where all cars are identical, the camera always has perfect lighting and which can tell vomit apart from a crisp bag on the seat. Having the customer's credit card works only until they do a chargeback, and then you have to go through a long and unpleasant process of proving that yes, it was absolutely, definitely them who made the mess.
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> But think about Trump. Twitter is his platform, and arguably he is the sort of President a platform like Twitter most directly enables. He gets direct unchallenged access to a mass medium

This is actually not true. Many of Trump's claims are challenged on Twitter and outside of Twitter. Maybe you don't like that he can directly talk to the people rather than twist his words to suit your narrative before heading it over to the masses
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Your last sentence of your original post was

"...evolved different inbred attitudes..."

This refers to evolved in the sense of genetics. Of course human populations have different patterns of behavior. But the question is whether these patterns are cultural versus being genetic. My response above has to do with the genetic basis of behavior differences.

EDIT: Thousands of years may not be enough time to cause a genetic basis for differences in human behavior. This was the original objection raised by interfixus. The objection does not seem reasonable given the lack of evidence given for said objection in the context of interfixus complaining about the sloppy thinking in the article.
> the National Insurance contribution that gets deducted from my paycheck in the UK

National Insurance nominally covers state pension and unemployment benefits, not the health service.

Of course, it all goes into one pot of money, but your entitlement to the above goes up the more years of NI you have paid in, whereas your entitlement to NHS does not change.
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What IP theft? Are there instances where Chinese Patent Office failed to act against IP theft claims?