skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would like to second DataFox as a valuable tool for identifying conferences that our Salesforce prospects are attending.
> Driving down costs isn't an argument against a merger.

True, but the restriction of choice is. And Amazon is NOT going to stay upmarket long. They're going to wipe out smaller players.

This merger drives down some consumers costs (generally the wealthier who already have plenty of choice) while increasing the costs of others (wiping out marginal stores in areas that are less affluent).

WalMart is a good analogy. When WalMart comes into an area costs go down--until all the alternatives are driven out of business. And, quite often, WalMart isn't even the cheapest. In addition, by wiping out those businesses WalMart wipes out jobs and those people don't care that groceries are 10% cheaper because they now have no income at all.

So, it basically boils down to the people who already have plenty, get things cheaper, while the people already hurting, hurt worse.
Thanks for your clarification and polite response.

I was referring to the entire period of the industrial revolution. But in any case, your argument is inductive and has all the issues as such. Since we have no reliable explanatory model of economics, you're never justified in making a claim with such certainty on the basis of some number of past observations. At any time the dynamics can change. Hence, at the very least it seems prudent to put some serious thought into the potential for things to go badly.
Can you elaborate on what qualitative difference do you see between imagination-as-you-understand-it and an internal simulation of a nonexistent (maybe future, maybe never happening) state of an agent's environment or inputs? There's an obvious quantitative difference - their environment is much simpler than ours, and their "imagination" is bound to imagining the near future (unlike us), but conceptually, where do you see the biggest difference?

Originality seems not to be the boundary, since even this simple model seems to imagine world states that they never saw, never will see, and possibly even aren't possible in their environment, i.e. they are "original" in some sense.

If I look at the common understanding of "imagination" and myself, what can I imagine? I can imagine 'what-if' scenarios of my future, e.g. what could be the outcome if I do this or that, or if something particular happens; I can imagine scenarios of my past, i.e., "replay" memories; I can imagine counterfactual scenarios that never happened and never will; I can imagine various senses - i.e. how a particular melody (which I'm "constructing" right now, iteratively, with the help of this imagination to guide my iterations) might sound when played in a band, or how something I'm drawing might look like when it's completed - all of this seems different variations on essentially the same thing, which is an internal simulation (model) generating data about various hypothetical states.

This might be used to evaluate different actions, but it might also be used to simply experience these states (i.e. daydream) or do something else - that's more of a question on how the agent would want to use the "imagination module", not a particular property of the imagination/internal simulation model itself.
Depends on how good the pattern is, however entropy is lower all likelihood because the layout of qwerty keyboard is standardised.

Most password crackong dictionary already include common keyboard patterns sich as "qwerfdsazxcv" or variations of it.
See my other response -- negative incentives, bureaucratic cruft, etc.

Similar to why you might prefer a 10 line program that is O(n) to a 4000 line program which is O(nlogn) -- seems obvious to me.

There could certainly be exceptions for some programs (like Food stamps for children who don't yet qualify for UBI) or for things that are not bought with cash in a marketplace (if we ever had state health providers, for example), but for the most part, this comparison could eliminate dozens of government agencies and programs while expanding benefits.
> If they say that they support 100mbps then I should be able to get 100mbps from wherever I like.

Precisely. Not "from wherever we've got a 'preferred' agreement or kickback only".
> I believe we're going to look back car's emissions the same way we look back at the pre-sewage treatment days

We will look back like that when we finally ban cars out of cities. Electric cars are less horrible than combustion cars, but are still horrible, because they are still cars.
I think our government has long ago left behind the "pretending to care about the constituents" mentality. If this merger is blocked, it's because someone standing to profit more from the merger being blocked had more political clout than those who stood to make money from the deal going through.
GPUs in the Task Manager
I worked at a Geek Squad for two years, so definitely take my experience with a grain of salt, but at least in the world of big box retail chains, this was quoted so often by my customers and clients I lost count. Most of my clients that came in with an infection on their Mac (sometimes just a rogue browser extension, but often an honest bit of malware) were genuinely surprised, having purchased the Mac originally because it supposedly didn't have these "Windows" problems.

I suspect this is largely due in part to the types of clients that would actually purchase Geek Squad protection in the first place; my job duties had me working directly with "not computer people" folks most of the time. Still, the idea that Macs were immune to malware was pervasive; on several occasions, folks returned Windows machines they had just purchased (and managed to immediately infect) and picked up a Mac instead, thinking that this act alone would make them immune to their problems, or their kids online behavior, etc. Most folks were good sports about it though, realizing that they had been misled by advertising, and allowing me to explain good security habits to them during their visit.

I think the biggest thing that bothered me about the job, and the reason I eventually left for greener pastures (I presently work in Linux Administration) was the pervasive idea that you could fix computer problems by buying additional software. This is something retailers have latched on to, and it bugs me on a fundamental level. The only way to actually be more secure is to understand your tools, so that you can recognize when they are misbehaving.
See the previous point about Ross Ulbricht (arrested in a public library)
Can you link to some specific examples that to you demonstrate that Bezos is a liar?
Eh, that's getting less and less of an issue. My nominal 105/20 internet connection from Comcast Business rarely pushes less than 80mbps download speeds, and from any major provider, CDN, regularly hits and sustains 120mbps.
> WTF, this could get people fired. Many companies do not descriminate whether an employee has uploaded code to a third party server intentionally or not.

That is why developers should be very careful what applications they install on the corporate computer and what cloud services they use.
Monopolies are not only formed of one company, they can be a collusion of companies so long as the barrier to entering the market and competing with the colluders is impossibly high.

Considering the barrier to entry to becoming a cellular operator is owning spectrum, that is one of the most impossibly high barriers to usurp. Nobody has to sell you any, the owners can set whatever price they want, and there are no mechanisms to mitigate this state-created impossible to overcome monopoly on light.

Landline access, by comparison, is macro-harder and micro-easier. It is more likely you can get easement rights to run fiber on a given street than to get the right to use wavelengths of EM, but trying to get easement in an entire city can be similarly impossible.
The irony is that the languages which are the targets of design patterns already encode considerable design patterns from a previous generation of language research.

Those languages are higher-level languages. A considerable number of design patterns disappears in them already.

In Java or C++, you have functions with parameters and local variables.

In assembly language, there is a "design pattern" of pushing words onto a stack to generate arguments, and moving the stack pointer to reserve a frame for local variables, and then unwinding these actions when the function returns. Also, saving certain registers and restoring them may be part of the pattern. This pattern can be supported with macros and pseudo-ops to varying degrees.

In these higher level language, this pattern disappears. The concept of parameters and local variables doesn't disappear, of course. Those things are just declared in a simple way.

The assembly language pattern for calling conventions is in fact a back-formation from higher level languages. It won't even occur to assembly language programmers until they think of their programs at a higher level, and translate from that to machine code.

Or: let's look at C++ vs C. In C++, there are declarative mechanisms which generate code that can be understood in terms of C. It captures coding patterns, such as ensuring that a structure is properly initialized when instantiated, and cleaned up on every exit path from a function.
I don't think you're going to get anywhere productive with analyses that connect all commercial health care spending with top-to-bottom regulatory capture by the health care industry. Essentially what you'd be saying is that any system short of federally-run single-payer was a sign of corruption.

Also: this idea that the "Democrats are the party of the people" and the "Republicans are the party of corporations" is pretty silly.

The Republicans are a conservative political party. The Democrats are a coalition of blacks (~25%), latinos (~10%), women (+10% share), labor unions, and urban (but not suburban) college-educated whites. Liberals are an important component of the Democratic party (and have no home whatsoever in the GOP), but they don't run the table.
Submanifold Spare Convolutional Networks
Scott Meyers Effective C++
Currently reading this. I'm really interested in the subject, as current work is limited by the fact that GPUs can make dense matrix multiplications really, really fast, but aren't great at much else (as far as I'm aware). Sparsity seems essential to scaling networks up to bigger sizes & datasets, and the paper shows one way of doing this.
You can train hunger response. I used to fast for a full 24 hours, water only. It was difficult at the beginning, but a few months in and I wouldn't even feel all that hungry. The bouts of hunger that would come only lasted an hour or so, then I would be fine. This benefit has continued, even though I haven't purposefully fasted for years. Not eating just generally doesn't bother me anymore. If I'm in a rush to get to lunch, it's usually because I want to get out of the office for a bit...
Would the same argument apply to Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?
I do freelance work. I don't think Gig Work needs to be a race to the bottom at all. I have a serious medical condition. Gig Work has been a better answer for me than a regular job. The short version is that I can take off as much time as I need to when my health requires it without living in fear of losing my job.

Yes, there are problems with it. I certainly wish I had more money and more stability. But the real root cause of my instability is my medical situation. Freelance work has been a far better answer for me than regular employment.

There are a lot of people who have many other things on their plate beyond just trying to make a living. From parents of small children to parents of special needs kids to people with a sick relative or people going to college, there are a great many reasons why one might need to arrange for life to revolve around some other priority and have earning income take a back seat to that. Our expectation of a serious career actually is very problematic for such people.

Historically, the family was the organizing them for most of the world. This is become less true. Families have a lot of flexibility that full time jobs typically lack. If the family is no longer going to be the primary way that people are taken care of, then work needs to become more flexible.

I don't think it has to be a race to the bottom. We can intentionally design gig work so that it is not. I think this is the key to not only maintaining the high quality of life we expect, but improving it.
A book can be coherent and curated in a way that a collection of posts by different authors cannot be.
the ability to CRUD the CSV via API endpoint after it's in there would be great.
One advice: you promised to make messages on affluentconfidante public at July 17th, but you didn't. I understand that there are still no messages there ;) But you need to do something about it. Maybe postpone the date. [I know the hunger and trying the get-rich-quick ideas; used to do it myself all the time].

Meanwhile -- can you do canvas/d3/realtime charting type of stuff?
A Mentoring Course in Smalltalk[0]. I was really surprised, after reading and really loving Design Patterns, that there was still so much to say about OO design.

I did love Design Patterns a lot though. Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki was also really useful for Haskell, as was Real World Haskell.

Programming Prolog probably had a bigger influence on my Prolog than the other books, even though I read Art of Prolog and Prolog Programming in Depth first. Especially the latest edition, it's a really beautiful book.

[0]: http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/andres-valloud/a-mentoring-co...
Migrating Wordpress Site from Shared Hosting into VPS Hosting
Ask HN: Where to find raspberry Pi zero or alternative under $15
I need about five for a diy project at home, but every where I look online you can order only one per customer, with $10 shipping per unit
> knowledge base

I just figured this was a new term for a searchable FAQ. What do you think the difference is?
Are people looking for fear, or validation for their fears?
zuckerberg never got (finished) his harvard degree. Plenty of success people never went to college, richard branson, henry ford, rockefeller, murdoch, etc.
Reddit is great. r/MachineLearning and r/MLQuestions are decently active, as is Cross Validated, Stack Overflow's stats site.

You could also email me- email's in profile, I'm happy to chat. I currently work in ML as a consultant.
Doubtful.

The kinds of foods needed in those areas are fresh, cheap, high spoliage items aka unprofitable to touch unless in bulk.
Can't do that. Zuck can't use FB resources or any form of support from FB (other than employees who volunteer outside work hours) for a political campaign. If he does he'll have to reimburse the fair value of services received from campaign funds.
I'm nearing 50 so I'm hardly a youth.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=133399 does a very good job of explaining why Design Patterns is a book to be careful with. By contrast Code Complete won't steer people wrong.

See https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo... for a cautionary tale about how a pursuit of OO purity can result in great verbosity, hiding intent behind a barrage of patterns. Resulting in code that I, for one, would rather not work with.
> Billing abuse (care provider) and billing fraud (bad agents) are two aspects of the system that need some serious time devoted to them.

We have a solution. It is called "make it a personal criminal liability". Go after individuals. No matter how low they are on a totem pole and no matter how high they are on a totem pole. Committing such fraud should lead to bankruptcy ( all assets wiped out ) and jail time.

You would be amazed how quick those "accidents" and "mistakes" stop happening.

Unfortunately, as the society we do not want to throw Suzi the billing clerk into the slammer, which means that Mike, the Billing Manager, does not get a slap on the wrist, which in turn means that Jack, the VP of Billing Revenue Optimization, does not get Jackie his wife go bananas on him when their bank accounts, house and kids college fund is seized which means that Jack is represented by the public defender and ends up in a slammer together with Suzi, who actually pushed the buttons, Mike, who told Suzi to do it, and Jack, who came up with this wonderful idea.
At the first glance it looks like it uses all the basic building blocks of JPEG, but with everything upgraded to the next level.

It uses the same 8x8 DCT blocks, but with adaptive quantization. Like JPEG it also codes DC separately, but with 8 predictors instead of 1, etc.

It's like a combination the Guetzli JPEG encoder and Lepton JPEG recompressor.
> . first adoc - auto numbering

That looks like a bullet to me. How do you differentiate unordered and ordered lists?

Also, markdown auto-numbers too, so you can just prefix every item with `1` if you'd like.
It is pretty sad that government in effect requires the dissolution of what many consider the family unit in order to receive benefits. If anything government should reward more to those who maintain an active family unit.

However this has been known for decades and combined with imprisonment is reason behind the lack of two parent families among some groups, mostly minority. how did we ever arrive at a solution that values on parent more than another?
> If the democrats wanted single payer and considered it crucial to their agenda, they could have done that.

And then watched it get blown away by next congress as soon as the GOP gained 51 seats to do whatever they want. Blowing away the fillibuster is an awful, terrible, no good idea and there is almost no legislative agenda which would validate it.

And to be clear, the GOP senators were and still are slimey bastards for basically everything they did leading up to Gorsuch. It should have never been done. They will almost certainly regret it as soon as they lose the senate.
That makes a lot of sense. I have been battling with the paradox of choice. Everyday I try to start a new project but instead I just keep on googling Angular vs React, Asp.net vs Django.

I have a windows computer and visual studio seems like the best tool I can use , so simple to set up. I enjoy working with it, maybe I should take the risk and just dive into that technology.
Upvoted! I don't even know what is in the article. I just love the headline and I totally agree with it.
I just ordered a Blu-Ray copy of Sing off Amazon yesterday, it's $20 on iTunes and $15 on Amazon for the Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital product. Considering I can keep a high-quality archival copy of the movie in a box and still get a code I can plop into iTunes, though I'll just rip the disc into my Plex library anyway, it's a much better deal.
For most of them, yes. But horror is (or at least can be) distinct from fear. "The Silence of The Lambs" is horrifying, but not necessarily considered a horror movie. Likewise "Apocalypse Now", which is mostly about the emotion of horror, but not designed to frighten in any way.
Except if bandwidth were legitimately scarce ISPs would be trying to incentivize the use of bandwidth at low times and disincentivize its use when congested. Power companies can and do do this - the price per kwh can be much cheaper at night or in the morning than by day or evening when there is less peak load on the system.

Nowhere are IPSs offering "3mbps from 5-10 and 30mbps the rest of the day" plans. Because the cost to improve total network bandwidth is almost nothing, relative to the last mile costs. Every ISP could easily meet the full rated line bandwidth of every residential connection they have within their current margins without issue. They don't, because they have no competitive pressure to actually do anything than make sure the current service works. They have no competitors besides maybe cellular providers, who are already paying them in business contracts to attach towers to the backbone.
The main thing at (near) steady state noise at higher speeds is how well the car is at mitigating the road noise. At city speeds, having both a Leaf at home and a Toyota Sienna, that the noise from the Leaf is near nothing.

If I'm accelerating to make sure I make it through the yellow light, I never get a roar, an downshift, or anything of that nature. On my Toyota or any large car, that flares up and the noise is appreciable. If you floor it on an ICE at 60 to pass someone, that noise is quite loud, even against the road noise. On my Leaf, it's just road noise. I don't get a loud revving of the engine, just more road noise.

Also, here's a reference for interior cabin noise found here: http://www.auto-decibel-db.com/
No, East Menlo park is north of East Palo alto. It's adjacent to FB HQ and has separate services from MP.
Also, if it looks likely that Trump is going to lose then the Democratic primary will be super-competitive. Elizebeth Warren and Sanders are going to eat him alive.
> For me to consider the Democrats as the true party of the people rather than a tool of corporations

It hasn't been like this since LBJ. Both parties are completely driven by corporate lobbies. All that differ are the excuses why.
Employers can also contribute to HSA. Ask them to top you off.
That's not the cost we're measuring! We're measuring cost on the macro scale, in terms of the percentage of the economy spent on health care and, in particular, the percentage of the federal budget spent on health care entitlements. That's the cost curve we're talking about bending, because the pre-ACA projections were literally prima facie untenable.

Any number of effective cost-saving measures could be passed that would have the effect of increasing your premiums.
Hehe. I think that's the difference. It is usually illegal to ride on sidewalks in the US.

If it's an electric bicycle, then since it's now "motorized", simply cannot ride on the sidewalks.

In China, it seems like almost anything goes. ;)
> ISPs have profited massively from many many Moore iterations while consumer bandwidth is stuck on below 1990 technology.

On one hand they don't have to compete in many place so ISPs are close to being a monopoly so they can keep charging $80 for < 1Mpbs if they want.

At the same time Moore iterations don't dig trenches and lay fiber between cities. Also frequency spectrum doesn't grow with Moore's law either.And in many instances it is still mostly a shared resource. Cable companies usually have groups of houses share the upstream bandwidth.