skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is >40 miles from Seattle.

Here's a comparable home in Vallejo for 10% more (but an extra bedroom) in Vallejo, which is 30 miles from SF or 25 miles from Berkeley

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Vallejo/9311-Big-Ben-Ct-94591/home...
> Type annotations that don't do anything

As in any language, they “do something” in Python, to wit, enable static type checking.

Now, static type checking is provided by systems separate from the language implementation, but the still exists.

> Also, the syntax, which puts some type information in comments, is lame.

The comment-based component of the syntax is a compatibility feature for Py 2.x.
Some types of turbine require pile driving which makes a lot of underwater noise. This can harm dolphins and porpoises. Floating turbines probably don't have this problem.

The blades go very fast at the outer part of the blade. It will easily kills birds.
I don't mean to come off as dismissive, and yes my comment is a sassy one. Machine Vision systems are proof that neural networks and other machine learning techniques are revolutionary. I really believe that.

But the notion of "Explainable AI" just reeks of upper middle management folks performing what they see as visionary risk management. When in reality these people don't know what they are talking about. Explaining exactly what's happening inside "the AI" is the domain of linear algebra. We can't be as exact in plain english but the generalization "it's fitting the training data" speaks volumes more than any _just_around_the_corner_ "explainable AI" secret sauce algorithm ever will.
Tetra raises a $1.5M seed round to bring deep learning to voice transcription
Could you please cite some evidence for your claim about competing commercially? Also, do you mean the technology in general or this particular effort? Here is a year-old write-up of a survey of experts published in a peer-reviewed journal which asserts that floating wind will be cost-competitive:

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/09/15/wind-energy-costs-set-c...
*former
> Uber, AirBnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, etc will all crumble. None of these companies are anything special.

Lol. Please share some of your wisdom with us. Leaving aside taxi companies like Uber and useless things like Airbnb, can you tell us what companies do anything special these days Master Foo?
I made an app to help me study guitar scales: https://www.coolfretboard.com/

Basically it's a guitar/bass fretboard where you can select a scale and a root note, then it displays the notes of that scale on the fretboard. It also has a bit of info about the scale, like the intervals used to build it.

Initially I didn't plan to publish it, but since it was barely decent I tried to put it online. I just spent a few bucks to buy the domain, but it don't cost me anything to keep it online, since it's just a static page and I use Netlify to host it. Btw, Netlify is awesome! Highly recommended!
The Fearless Speech Index: Who is afraid to speak, and why?
Bad code but good product
At one time, operator overloading was encouraged. See for example, << in the cout command. Everyone was trying to think of new ways to use them.
It helps if you have a target filesize, or equivalently an average bitrate. The first pass sets the "budget" that each part of the video gets to use out of the total, and the second pass has to make the best encoding it can that fits in the budget for each part. This lets you re-allocate bits from easy parts and give harder parts a little extra.

Edit: so no, it doesn't produce any of the final video during the first pass so you're just adding a huge amount of latency for nothing.
youtube-dl's name is unfortunate since it.grew.to support many other sites, such as SoundCloud. You can download flac or wav files often using it on SC content.
Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm-pZp_mi0
Good news, I just looked at that bug again and it turns out it's no longer reproducible in the latest version of npm.
It tastes rather like cola nuts to me - like cinnamon + cola + vanilla.

Thanks for the suggestion about fish
I beg to differ, I've seen nothing of the sort.
The op was stating a fact. I didn't take it as "no big deal"
Im working on a small project to have ai learn to paint scenes based feeding in styles and objects that I personally classified.

Its been very interesting and almost parental joy to see when the right logical connections are made and the art looks good.
That's mad as IBM have loads of peer reviewed ML publications.

3 minutes of searching :

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_pubs....

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_pubs....

c'mon
Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity
> ~21 million BTC is the max that can ever exist at once

Just to clarify: it's not that there can only be 21 million BTC 'at once'...unless there's a big change in its design that the majority support.

There will only be 21 million BTC ever. If the keys for 1 million of them are lost, then those will never be replaced.
Just give "them a good whack" if they complain. FTFY
I think at this point, unless your product is pretty niche, it's just going to get swallowed by the big guys.
It could also be useful in cases where you don't have a physical keyboard (mobile, for example, where you do have a camera...).
It's nice when you can hire someone self-motivated and self-sufficient but it's certainly not the only criteria. I've worked with people who struggle quite a bit to be productive when working from home, but that wasn't a problem because we just didn't let them work from home and they were very productive when at the open-plan office interacting with people who were being productive.

If the biggest issue I have with a direct report is that they require a bit of attention to keep them focused and productive, then that's a high-quality employee I'll be very happy with.
> I'm sure there's some chocolate out there that cuts vegetable oil into the cocoa butter, but I've personally not come across it.

You should come to Poland. :-(
TechCrunch is owned by AOL, which also owns the Huffpo. Arianna Huffington is a board member of Uber - she stepped down from editorial work at Huffpo/AOL media group in 2016, but I"m sure she has a lot of influence on her namesake. This is totally unsubstantiated but there's generally a lot of mucking about at the board level of high profile companies like this.
Eh, Benchmark shafted most of the Epinions founders, who sued and settled.
+1 for YOLO model being added. Awesome work guys!
Muscles/limbs also don't power-down for long periods. They're in need of constant maintenance (energy, food; waste removed) or they rot.
I was surprised how many different types of prime numbers exist. So I am building - https://prime-numbers.info - to find out which one belongs to most of them.
Current winner is 5 - https://prime-numbers.info/number/5 - but still lot of types is missing.
They have a conflict of interest there. They need to do what they can to get as much control as they can without damaging the value of their shares. There is no fine line there, there is considerable overlap and no matter what they do their shares will drop in value. It's a risky game at best.
It seems ro lack multiple groups of terminals?

In Terminator you can create more than one group to broadcast input to, and it can be across multiple tabs.
I participated in a social program funded by the gov in the 90's as the data person. It was a combined early childhood education / social service program. I won't discuss what I thought of the outcomes or the cost / benefits, but I think there is a piece a lot of people miss.

There are consultants in DC that take all the data from a program and summarize it. They have a contract and aren't always the folks who have the assistance contract on the grant. People are sadly, people, and sometimes the summarizing folks have some pretty powerful incentives to put a spin on the numbers, drop certain grants, and well, other things. Life is incentive based after all.

When I look at the outcomes, I often wish there was a way to get some anonymized raw take because I am a bit mistrustful of third-party analysis particularly when they aren't up on simple things like geographical and economic differences. Plus the tendency to roll all the results in one set of numbers ignores how big the USA is and that San Francisco is a bit different than Salt Lake City or Rosebud.

PS: one thing, it is amazing how many children start life with hearing problems - fix that early and save the rest of us a lot of money. Plus, fatalogic has it right in my book, life is complicated, one axis of action doesn't really cut it.
Hard tech? Righetti quantum computing, IBM Research neuromorphic chips, Geometric Intelligence one-shot ML…
Then you need bandwidth to download the CSS that is embedded in the page.

Where as you if you cache the linked CSS file you only take the hit once but as you navigate around the site each time it'll be loaded from the cache.
"[T]he evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak is flawed and incomplete. [..] The most dramatic claims are traceable to Dvorak himself; and the best-documented experiments, as well as recent ergonomic studies, suggest little or no advantage for the Dvorak keyboard."

It's an urban myth that Dvorak is any better than qwerty.
Your last paragraph is filled with a lot of ideologically loaded terms. "Democratize", "Right-wing"...

Okay here's a good example:

A company hires and pays a person to do job a, said person has skills and knowledge of topics x and y and gets the job done using skills x and y.

The same company hires person b, who doesn't have skills x and y, but still has the accreditation. Person b, doesn't get the job done, still gets paid and the company did not have the problem solved, or service/product to sell.

Further, if we don't set rigorous standards for admission and graduation the smarter people have their accreditations devalued. Additionally, employers and other agencies will not know who they are getting.

The idea lowering standards so 'anyone' can get into anything is dangerous, and creates chaos. It's anti-progressive.
On-The-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation (1978) [pdf]
Take this with a grain of salt, but I heard that some new hires at Snapchat were getting $400k+ in equity, so that might be one of the reasons why it's so high.
Or maybe they are talking about funds and where to invest them.
I'm flabbergasted that as a society we aren't towards immortality.
No,not exactly. There is a shortage of funding and also of creative approach. We cannot ask a question "are we alone" unless we know exactly what a whale sings about (if anything) or what crazy complicated dolphin or beluga chatter means. Besides, if we are ever to encounter any sort of alien life, how can we decode any signals or messages if we cannot even decode our own earthlings signals?
MLlib

Tensorflow

Lime

There you go.
If you're going to say this idiotic line, at the very least take 5 minutes to read Wikipedia on the topic.
> But what's gone in is useless. Also, the syntax, which puts some type information in comments, is lame.

This is only the case in python2. In python3(.6), I don't believe there is any type information that cannot be expressed only in comments.
Okay let us use some logic, I assume you are a logical person.

"Proving That Pascal Is Alive and Kicking Ass" contains the following logical assertions:

p1 Pascal is alive
p2 Pascal is kicking ass, which any urban dictionary will tell you means it is just awesome, and beating the compeition.
p3 is the actual statememnt: P1 AND p2 = p3
They are ALL TRUE. Where is the click bait?
It is 100% true, you are only objecting to the word choice. Which was bu the way accurate, just not boring like your current title.
Possibly because PIA is a US company and therefore someone in Europe does not care?

For someone in, say, Germany a German VPN would be way more worrisome because of the same jurisdiction.
> because of a refactor, I forgot the return statement and it just continued overwriting the file again

Unit tests are specifically useful for refactors. You can refactor your code and ensure that it behaves as intended. Integration tests are great, too, don't get me wrong. Either or both would have probably caught this.
The old formulations are available for $25.

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The URL is behind a subscribe wall. Is there an open link available?
Scotland Yard had a system called Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOLMES_2
From the article: Given the fact that Intel seems to have only one customer using the microprocessor, the short amount of time between the announcement of the product discontinuance and the actual EOL was probably negotiated before.

They worked it out with MS a whole ago, and are only now announcing this product, which they will sell to literally nobody, is discontinued.
Agility varies quite a lot. For example, a pick-and-place robot's arm has more agility than a grasshopper's hind leg, as that leg is pretty limited in its movement.
No, just read up on what happened to Twitter when they went down this route.

Snap is doing bad not because of revenue. Of course that too, but the core reason is their growth has slowed while it's clear that their core feature is becoming commoditized. It's not even about Facebook, there are many other snapchate-esque apps springing up around the world and snapchat can't do much about it.

In fact this is much worse situation than Twitter where they did keep their core strength to some degree.

Doesn't matter how much revenue they generate this quarter, if they don't exist a couple of years later like myspace.
I'm all for something better. Can you detail some more what you have in mind? Especially since you seem to be the one making decisions on what is appropriate. Thought police much?!

Plus, you seem to have a leftist ideological bent, moderating off even mild stuff that might not fit your personal preferences.
How would you know? I would guess that the DoD is not particularly interested in releasing lots of information about their capabilities.

Second, the Department of Energy isn't just a random department with a lot of spare computing power. They run the National Labs, and part of that work is to make supercomputing available to academic and industrial researchers too. These are also used for nuclear-related projects (part of the DoE's mandate, but obviously related to DoD concerns too) and I would bet that there is some mechanism to boot off academic researchers if the national interest suddenly required exaflops of computation,
Both homes have a toll bridge to cross, though I suspect the Tacoma Narrows has a lower toll than any of the options in the bay area.

The home you listed: in Vallejo, which is very undesirable; has $2460/year HOA dues; is in a borderline terrible school district; is on 4200 sq ft lot, with most of the windows blocked due to the neighbors being within normal talking voice distance.

The home I listed: is in Gig Harbor, which is very desirable; in an excellent school district; is on a third of an acre.

In short, the two homes are not at all comparable. For a good comp, you would need to find something in the south bay.
Three zeros (a factor of 1000)
Had me at agility. Where do I invest?
I built this dead-simple "image enhancing" app (http://en.hance.me) to focus in on potentially embarrassing details in photos. It allows you to specify a zoom area and create a 4-panel stacked image that progressively "zooms in" on your target area.
For anyone who hasn't read the actual memo yet, what he did say was "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate". That's not anywhere near "a large number of his colleagues were not adequate to be his colleagues" or "were only hired because they had the right genitalia". All it means is that a larger share of qualified white/asian/indian male candidates get rejected, compared to qualified diversity candidates. Anyone claiming otherwise is blinded by outrage.
Hey Carmakers: Please Stop Bullshitting About Self-Driving Cars
I just finished porting an extension from the Jetpack API to the WebExtension API. It's not that bad. I only had to file two bug reports, and I only had to write one line of workaround code. This is far better than the first years of Jetpack. Jetpack didn't work right until about three years after release. AMO finally seems to be getting their act together.

The big problems are with really old extensions that used the antiquated XUL format. That's been on the way out for six or seven years, and it never worked on Firefox Mobile ("Fennec"). It's not like this was a surprise.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010415085348/http:/mikepence.c...

Apparently not...
https://xkcd.com/1172/

Although, I'm on ESR for now, mostly because my company admins cba to patch and enable java web start instead of java plugin for OEBS. Until recently it was stuck on java 1.6. They enabled recent java versions just a few month ago, so I guess I'm stuck with ESR for now.
"Explicit" isn't necessarily "verbose", just clearer. Sometimes this means bubbling more details to the top in the same amount of code, like taking surprising side effects out of a complex function and calling them more directly.
Com-Phone: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ac.robinson.med...

An Android app for putting photos/text/sounds together into videos, with the key aim being to have an interface that is as simple as possible. Started as part of a research project many years ago, but now mainly a labour of love for the ~30k users.
If the biggest problem with the program is a prisoner's dilemma issue like this it seems we need to figure out how to get everyone to cooperate instead of defect. We've done it for other issues.
May well have an impact (no pun intended). I think the more relevant question is how that impact compares to other generation schemes, both in the short term (birds flying into large structures) and the long (habitat loss due to climate change).
The things was launched yesterday by a single person. Of course there will be an API, but do not ask for one as if it was the most important feature, the most needed, the most urgent one.

Also, when you ask for an API (I don't know if it was you who asked) you don't give some reasoning on why you think such feature is needed, so why are you asking me that?
In theory, using Process Lasso to tie the game to 8 specific cores on a single die should produce equivalent results.
>Damore argues that a company that was completely free of bias and discrimination would not end up with a 50/50 gender split in all job functions because there are population differences in some traits that might influence the jobs men and women seek out and succeed at. His memo is structured as an argument against a position he refers to as “the extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment.”

Finally, someone actually gets it.
this is a problem that a lot of people just don't notice because they are so used to a sub-optimal positioning of symbol keys/etc... When I built an ErgoDox and started using it full time a few years ago all the symbol keys moved (still not optimized in the default layout in my opinion), and that's when I finally realized it could be better. The ergodox (or any diy board with its own customization firmware) is cool cause you do all your remapping via firmware and it just looks like a normal old keyboard to the computer.

Here's my qwerty based ergodox layout; its still not great, but its miles better than normal symbol layouts on a std keyboard for me. I really only use layers 0 and 1. I need to add a layer 2 shift key and put arrow keys under the ikjl key positions, I just haven't done it yet. https://www.massdrop.com/configurator/ergodox?referer=MSCE5S.... I'm an osx user for the most part, hence the easy thumb access to the command/windows key for the left thumb.
Large portions of these grants are likely to be in the form of RSUs rather than options. I find the whole "underwater" narrative less compelling for this reason (RSUs are never under water).
Richard Gendal Brown has a great post on the difference between a distributed database and a distributed ledger: https://gendal.me/2016/11/08/on-distributed-databases-and-di...

The Coco team shares Richard's view that the distinguishing factor is where the trust boundary exists within the system. In the case of Coco, we assume a lack of trust among consortium participants, but we leverage the attestation and anti-tampering features of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to establish trust between the enclaves: assuming that the TEEs themelves are trustworthy, the TEEs can provide cryptographic proof of the software and configuration running on each enclave. In other words, I don't trust you, but my enclave has decided it can trust your enclave based on mutual attestation exchange and mutual authentication. In other words, we've transitioned from a byzantine failure mode (adversary can replace the expected remote code with arbitrary code at will) to a crash failure mode (adversary can shut the remote enclave down at will, but not alter what runs on it).

Once there is trust between enclaves, Proof of Work seemed inefficient as a consensus mechanism, although it's certainly one choice that is available and that can be used with Coco (in this case Coco would provide governance and confidentiality, but scalability and latency would be limited by PoW). Instead we can use any one of many distributed systems techniques such as Paxos or Raft to achieve consensus.
If you ask nicely, I'll provide a link.
Amazon could start selling event tickets in the U.S
The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9
I'm building a new Unix shell called Oil: http://www.oilshell.org/

It's definitely not making me any money. I would say the motivation is a little bit "joy" / learning, but also frustration that shells are so old, unintuitive, and work so poorly.

I've been going for about 16 months and it's still fun, so that's good. I think that seeing progress is what make things fun.
I don't have the experience to judge either, but I found it fascinating what some of the early employees made according to The Information:

> Early employees have stakes larger than many investors, executives and board members. Two early engineers have stakes worth at least $288 million, according to data from 2014 obtained by The Information. It’s possible the two hold even more, because some employees have received additional stock grants since that time. [...] Also doing well was chief strategy officer Imran Khan, whose stock and stock award holdings were worth $374 million at the opening price, according to securities filings.

> Other early employees, such as ad operations executive Philippe Browning, have stakes exceeding $100 million, according to the data. Engineering head Timothy Sehn and hardware chief Steven Horowitz have stakes exceeding $150 million, according to public filings.
Only in HN's edited title, not the original BBC title.