skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought NASA usually described these sorts of things as "artist depictions", and that maybe I had not been paying attention and some wonderful imagery had arisen.
You can short btc on several platforms, including Bitfinex
Text STOP and report them if they continue.
The wealthy were responsible for a lower percentage of the total tax revenue in 1980 than they are currently. I get the impression thats not the point you're trying to make, however.
It's a very good book. Just be aware that it is very one-sided in favor of the Bayesian view.
I got burnt by the trump bump in the stock market.
Very well said. Replace San Francisco with Austin, and you've described me/my life as well.

My mom is always sending me articles (she literally mails me newspaper clippings) about new tech jobs and a burgeoning startup scene in New Orleans... but I just cannot shake the feeling that it's all on borrowed time.

It obviously worked for our parents, but I cannot imagine investing my time and energy into a life and future there.
With young people yes. But older generation still uses cash heavily.
If you made an app just for white Christians, as a non-white non-Christian I'd be fine with it because it saves me from having to a) look at their profile, b) potentially get matched up with them, and c) waste my time. Chances are they want someone who shares a lot of their same beliefs and more importantly want someone faithful to God.

Like it or not, people have preferences.

A few year ago, I joined Match. You know how many of my 'matches' explicitly stated they don't want to date my ethnicity and only want to date their own? A lot.

Then I joined CoffeeMeetsBagel. And while I never explicitly mentioned a preferred ethnicity, they kept matching me up with women of my own ethnicity despite the fact that 50% of the people in my city are not my ethnicity. Again, how much of that is women explicitly stating they don't want to be matched up to men of my ethnicity?

My point is that even though some apps have a generalized population, the idea of intermingling is a minority. In the U.S. I think interracial marriages are like 10% of all total marriages. And religion has way more differences in terms of life style and philosophy than ethnicity.
I see your point although it's quite depressing.
I don't think hybrids have any future except in the heaviest of vehicles, where batteries won't make sense for another few decades.

We're already seeing companies being interested in making battery-only buses, tractors, semis, and even airplanes. Not all models of those types of vehicles may work with batteries, but it's a sign of what the future could bring.
Is there a future for topological insulators in new technology?
4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys, and how objects bounce and roll in 4D
FWIW, here's a quote from the Bobrow 1972 TENEX paper that I did not include (as the post was getting too long):

"Three figures are better than just the last one, because from these the user can predict the trend as well as note local variation."
Investigating the validity of the Extreme Male theory of autism
You're oversimplifying it. At some places (eg Subway), it was about 1 second timing for credit cards. At most stores, you would have to do things like say whether it was credit or debit, tell it yes/no to cash back, and tell it yes/no to whether amount is OK. All of them seemingly do it a different way. So, if you're used to it, the process might take several seconds. If you're not, significantly longer. Under Chip and PIN, you have that plus a several second wait in most places I go.

Cashiers with decent performance will take a solid bill like a twenty and give you back your change in a few seconds. If you want to give specific amounts of change, that adds time but so does when you split credit cards to put specific amounts on them. If anything, the cards can take longer since the transactions are separate. Wise users of cash also already have most of their money ready for payment by the time the order is totaled since it saves them time.

So, for most orders I see, the cash and credit take about the same time if customer is moving decent speed. The only difference is if the customer is moving slow for whatever reason (eg indecision or fumbling for stuff). That can happen with either but happens more for cash since credit users look for one item (the card).
It's worth considering the choice of Octave in context. The first time Machine Learning was a full blown MOOC offering was in 2011, [1] predating the founding of Coursera. My impression is that even as far back as 2011, Ng's class was adapted from an existing syllabus.

Unlike today, Python was not an obvious choice. In no small part because arguments that it was not fast enough for numerical calculations (right or wrong) held much more sway. In no small part (and as Ng mentions when explaining why Octave was used in the course lectures) because people will always argue over choice of programming language (perhaps the parent comment is a mild example). Pedagogically, using a 'big' language like Octave avoids getting bogged down in the sausage factory of modules and imports and namespaces and objects and list comprehensions and differences between the two major versions of Python and documentation rot associated with all the minor versions of the Pythons when it comes to examples.

In terms of learning Octave, it's not really significantly more or less knowledge than learning NumPy would have been. Irrespective of language the number of functions/methods necessary to manipulate matrices is pretty much constant...or as I heard someone say once, J has about the same number of language primitives as there are methods in Ruby's array libraries. Anyone starting from scratch will have two things to learn.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110923173848/http://www.ml-cla...
Not just photos, but in general I've found that the people who are continuously posting how happy their lives are and how everything is great are most likely the ones who are utterly miserable.

I have been seeing a woman's posts lately who is going through a bitter, ugly divorce, and it's astounding how she represents everything publicly via Facebook when I know the full story due to a family member being involved.
How Alexa is central to Amazon's plan to become the world's biggest company
They're already scaling down … in the POWER8 Talos campaign, the cheapest CPU option was something like $1300, the CPU they're offering here is only $300. And the board, because you don't need expensive memory buffer chips anymore, is almost half the price as then.
Very good.

And yes I'd noticed on many *nx systems that it didn't seem to be pure CPU (I think I once had a single-CPU SunOS 4.1.1 NFS server report into the tens or hundreds because disc was slow) I've mainly been treating it as if CPU for ~30Y. Goodness knows what I might have tuned better!

Thank you!
If conditions are so bad that it's unsafe for humans or robots to drive, then refusing to drive in such conditions is the correct behaviour.
North Korea proudly talks about their nuclear program and has tested it extensively. Nuclear tests are globally verifiable in ways that chemical weapons are not.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earthquakes-north-korea-...
Not latent since you can directly measure it. You are thinking of confounding variable.
As much as I think unions are an absurd way to deal with income inequality by doing everything terribly and expensively, this is a really unsatisfying answer when it comes to explaining why the US is so bad at infra construction. Freaking Germany and France are hardly famous union-busters, and somehow they manage to be infinitely more efficient than us at public works projects. There's clearly something more complicated going on than "Unions."
>"We refer to ourselves as a dating app largely for SEO but the reality is our users don’t tend to date, they marry!"

If your users "don't tend to date" then why are you optimizing for the word "dating" why not SEO for term "marrying app"?

>"We’ve tried to build a product that feels fun and light but respects our demographic’s culture and sensibilities, being halal is essential. Some unique features:"

I'm sorry but women having chaperones, blurring photos and filtering by sect and ethnicity doesn't sound very "fun and light" to me.
Transition to python is a great improvement! Took his previous course but the MATLAB part of it was no fun and virtually guaranteed that my work would be hard to implement in any real job setting. His advocacy of Octave probably predated quite a few of the python libraries that have since arrived.
I'm going to join in on the chorus of people here who are voicing their displeasure with the way the modern media works. I'm a left winger but I feel much the same way about the media and the chattering class as the most noxious parts f the right wing. It's not so much that the media is biased in one direction or the other; it's that MSM has mostly abrogated it's responsibility to inform the public. the media, and the class of people that create its content, see themselves as influencers more than reporters.

As an example, take the performance (and I do mean that literally) of Jim Acosta when he made a speech disguised as a question to Stephen Miller about the poem on the Statue of Liberty. Who told Mr. Acosta that what the public wants from its journalists are speeches instead of substantive questions?

It's often said that politicians want to be movies stars. these days it seems that the journalists want to be politicians and it's become a problem that Americans all over the political spectrum are beginning to see.
Language and gender nit-pick: having men and women at 100% parity is not gender diversity, it is gender-binary. You would have to hire a lot more non-binary-gendered people for it to be diverse.
Credit card stigma is interesting to me. For the individual that would otherwise be paying with a debit card, why would you not want to earn rewards on that?

Treat it like real money, pay every month, literally zero downside.

That said, I imagine rewards in the US are much more attractive than elsewhere, since credit card companies have so much profitability to distribute.
That's all options :)
I agree with that (you're talking about Piketty's direct redistribution), but there is a tinge of "tax the other guy more because he's making more than me and it's not fair and I'll never be in his bracket anyway so I won't have to deal with it" to your argument.
i would like to hear more as well.
People like kinkrtyavimoodh have a couple of catchphrases, which they repeat all the time instead of answering the question.
/s

I've said this before, nice username.
Didn't an asteroid come perilously close recently, one that no one has on their radar (wrong word, but it'll do...)?
See, this is unbelievable. There is mipmapping in wolf3d.
I found this entire row to be just depressing. Earlier today there's a medium post about a guy who won't read the memo -- absolutely refuses -- because he doesn't want this "anti-diversity" message polluting him.

This, when one of the memo's explicit points was about excessive dogma around the issue, and inability to have an open and honest conversation about it. The opposition isn't all shrill politically correct authoritarians, but some of them really do come off that way.
Here Are the Citations for the Anti-Diversity Manifesto Circulating at Google
Research project to record the “real world reactions” to a driver-less vehicle
Volume vs area, basically.
"The Libyan disarmament issue was peacefully resolved on December 2003 when Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to eliminate his country's weapons of mass destruction program, including a decades-old nuclear weapons program."

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

US foreign policy has shown that the only leverage you have is nukes. Libya disarmed and the government was still overthrown because Gaddafi threatened to start a new gold-backed African currency.
Chrysler made several generations of turbine cars in the '60s.

http://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine.html

It was not, in the end, a production car, but there was a lot of data gathered as to performance and reliability in real-world settings.

Not too long ago, Jaguar had a concept CX-75, which was a hybrid mid-engined supercar where the piston engine was replaced with two Bladon Jets micro gas turbines. After 2008, they didn't want to commit to an expensive limited production vehicle, too bad.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/18-october-2010/jet-pow...
If you are choosing a life partner it makes sense to filter for religious beliefs because that is something you need to agree on to raise children together

There are lots of dating services for Christians only, that's not new.

Just because people are super religious doesn't mean they are resistant to all types of change. Not sure what you mean by "super religious" but I know a lot of people personally who have found this app useful who are practicing Islam in a traditional way
I don't mean to be rude, but did you read the article? The reason AIs can't learn just from observation is the frame problem.

You use your body to interpret what you see. Animals who are paralyzed from birth are blind, not because they have no eyes, but because they have no embodied experiences to allow them to interpret what they are seeing.
I have a more detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957553 but basically since he gives no sense of how much he thinks the biological stuff actually matters, he has made the range of possible interpretations very wide. This carelessness (or intentional vagueness?) is anything but tactful. Tactful is controlling your message to not be so easily misunderstood.

The science is not really in doubt, surely, but the magnitude of the effects in the full context of our lives and history and cultural norms is complicated. And figuring out how to use experimental data to improve policy is hard.

The backlash is not surprising because, though he tried, he failed to be clear about what he means.
Given that they're selling systems with AMD cards in them, I would imagine that AMDGPU/RadeonSI at least would very well.
Forensic Analysis of Epic Privacy Browser on Windows Operating Systems [pdf]
I don't like the lumping of Facebook with computer games in general. A "one more turn" experience in a good game is something I genuinely want.
My impression was that the language was "too natural". I mean Octave notation is so similar to mathematical notation that many exercises could be solved by just typing a formula from lecture almost 1:1. Plus, learning Python and things like NumPy or Pandas would be beneficial on its own rights.
Well, uncertainty is exciting. :)
Netflix acquires comic-book publisher Millarworld
From https://www.arlnow.com/2017/08/08/morning-notes-1720/

"VT Says It Is Behind ‘Driverless’ Van — The “driverless” van seen driving around Clarendon over the past week was actually a Virginia Tech research project designed to record the “real world reactions” to a vehicle without a driver. However, there was a driver: a man dressed as a car seat. The mystery was solved in real time on Twitter yesterday and quickly went viral."
> Besides, if you quit a huge company like Google because one of your colleagues holds an opinion...

OP didn't say he would quit because one of his colleagues held a (in his example) racist opinion, but would do so if the company just turned around and said that black employees should just be "more open-minded" to those opinions.

You can separately debate whether the original memo was as bad as OP's racist example, but in the context of OP's example I think he'd be perfectly in his rights to leave if the company was supporting such an opinion.
IMO, the real answer is that no one should be driving in that kind of weather, and autonomous systems which refuse to do so are simply doing what humans should be doing.

I'd be very content with an autonomous vehicle that would detect these conditions and pull to the side of the road to wait for things to improve before proceeding.
> Red flag of what, though?

If your employer/government/etc asks you for your facebook/google+/instagram/snapchat/etc account and you say you don't have any, it might come off as being suspicious. As if you are trying to hide something. The same thing with your banks/financial institutes/etc.
This would certainly disproportionately impact authors, entertainers, and anyone else who makes royalties from media, but I don't know that they represent a large enough swath of the economy to account for the broad trends we see here.

To my original point, though, making money off of a copyrighted work represents income from an asset, the value of which compounds over time, due to inflation.
Did the original title include "(from wikileaks)"? If not, then that's a curious bit of editorializing, given wikileaks' history with Hillary.
What are the chances anyone at Google read the Memo as carefully as this author did before persecuting James Damore?
I had exactly the same experience -- one year in a Great Books school (in my case, St. John's) -- and can say that doing the Elements was probably the single most transformative experience of my life until I had a kid. I ended up reconceiving almost everything I thought I knew about my intellectual constitution.
I probably wasn't clear there.

It's not that the concept of meritocracy is inherently bad. It's just that it's impossible to implement unless all people are perfect, have an exact understanding of what "merit" is, have perfect information etc.

So I'm disagreeing with the idea that Silicon Valley (or Google) is a meritocracy and that the "level playing field" that some people use as an argument against diversity initiatives is actually inherently biased.

Also, I'm not saying all diversity initiatives are great. I know pretty much zero about what makes one initiative better or worse.
Regarding credit card security. In Europe, liability is on the person, in the U.S., it’s on the bank. So the “insecurity” of a U.S. credit card is misty irrelevant to the consumer.
Yeah, when I read through the HN comments from the Bloomberg post, I couldn't believe how many people spoke about this guy as though he was an actual Nazi. I can't imagine anyone honestly reading that article and coming to that conclusion. It's almost like once someone signals that this guy is The Bad Guy, reason and individual thought go out the window. Of course, I imagine those folks would disagree with my characterization (and probably make all manner of insinuations about my character or allegiances), which is admittedly not very charitable. That said, there are only so many times you can watch the same pattern of events unfold...

EDIT: In case people don't know what I mean by "pattern of events", I'm thinking of cases like the Christakis/Yale fiasco where people make reasonable, respectable, constructive critiques of progressive values and are met with popular outrage.
Ad hominem attacks don't work in here dude. This is HN. We either speak with arguments or not at all.

Update: I never forbid you for questioning me because I'm Greek. All I said was that as a Greek I know first hand the results of his actions. If you want to argue on that, feel free to do so.

As for my background, you don't know it and that's the thing. You're assuming that I'm rich(-ish) and thus drawing a conclusion as to where my interests stand. That's irrelevant though, and highly inappropriate. Don't judge me for what (you think) I am, but for what I say.
Wouldn't that explain, then, why women are underrepresented at Google? If 500 males get "thrown over the fence" and, say, 5 make it through... that means if 50 females get "thrown over the fence" it is reasonable to expect 0 will make it through.
Gasoline engines aren't going away for a while; even when every self-driving car is electric, there will be a market for people who want gasoline engines. If it gives a bump in fuel economy to the next (last?) generation of gasoline and hybrid vehicles, great!

I also wonder if the maintainability of these engines will be the same as with diesel. That would be another big benefit.
Note that blockchain in its technical essence is not a ledger, as ledger is
not a cryptographic primitive. Blockchain is a document timestamping system,
and as such allows one to order documents. It's just that ledger happens to
require some means to order the transactions (and make them unmodifiable),
each of which can be easily described by some sort of document (message).

Meaning, you didn't "abstracts the concept of a transaction to that of
a message". You just moved back to the underlying cryptographic primitive.

More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
> biases and position were clear right from the title onward

What were those "biases" and "positions", pray tell?

> vulnerable and defensive

You mean those that lied about what the guy wrote and then attacked that made-up wrongthink?
That's not too difficult to do with a server side script that accesses the database as an Admin user.

I use perl cgi scripts to handle that. There are perl modules for interfacing with CouchDB but you can also create a simple "curl" call to do it.

I have run into some issues with encoding/decoding JSON doing that with perl though, but I've not looked far into how they might be solved yet.
I have a more detailed response about lack of coherence here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957553
Are you working in a competitive field? I know and have worked with many women and minorities in highly competitive fields (medicine, engineering) where diversity programs were in effect and the idea that there's any kind of stigma or that they could be remotely correlated with a less competent team is simply a joke.
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I see. You might pass a combinator into a catamorphism, but the morphism itself isn't a combinator?
Using an environment tracker repository?
> The other jobs were brute searching sites in hopes to improve SEO.

I'm curious on how this works. Do you basically search for specific keywords and click on specific URLs in order to signal Google that the URL is more relevant?
Thank you for a well-reasoned reply.

I broadly agree with what you say. There are some forms of speech that shouldn't be easy to suppress by economic pressure from actors in a dominant position (like corporation vs a single employee), but where that line is in the workplace, is certainly different compared to where it is in off-work public speech. And it's not just about offensiveness of opinion - the corporation is also an actor with certain legal rights, and to unduly constrain them would also be inappropriate.

I would draw the line a bit differently, though. IMO, the distinguishing point here is that this guy wrote his manifesto on an internal corporate network. So he used the company-provided communication channel, and targeted other employees of the company, specifically to discuss how said company should be run. Is this still public speech? I'm not sure. It feels like the company should at least be able to control the communication channel. While yes, ideally, it should be possible to raise criticism internally as well, I think that is also best left as an internal company policy. If its owners think that their business run better if it's managed by yes-men, in general or on certain topics, they're probably wrong, but it's their right to be wrong in this manner.

Speaking out in public - on your own time, using public channels, and not as a company employee - is another matter, that I think deserves more protections.