skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other side to that is that people in tech who know they're good come to the Valley because they can get 2-5x the pay. It doesn't hurt that California is beautiful and has a lot of other nice qualities (weather, being the epicenter of the tech scene, close to the ocean and the mountains). Sure, it's true that we don't have a monopoly on good engineers, but for many, once they realize that they're undervalued in their current position (so, a "good deal" for companies), they might try to get a huge raise, get denied, then move to the valley. That's generally how it works, and it works pretty well. Despite the stupidly high cost of living and salaries, companies in the valley still manage to do alright. For employees, layoffs at one company aren't really a problem, since every other company is always hiring. It only becomes a problem when the whole sector is in trouble, which we haven't seen in a while. Hopefully things are diversified enough by now that e.g. AdTech failing wouldn't mean layoffs like the dot-com bust. Given how many areas rely on technology and the internet these days, I see another dot-com bust as decreasingly likely -- not that it couldn't happen, but I think it's more tied to the overall economy vs one sector in the corner. If biotech runs into trouble, VR/AR probably wouldn't be affected much. If payment tech gets disrupted, silicon design shouldn't dip much, etc etc.
Netflix did pay a ransom to Verizon and Comcast back in 2015.

You didn't see it directly, but that money came out of the same pot that would have paid for more content on Netflix.

http://time.com/80192/netflix-verizon-paid-peering-agreement...
Only in the same way a "car is literally a bomb".
Thinking out loud here - but would this be a good use case for blockchain technology?

The problem with visible watermarks is it detracts from the image visibility. Nobody wants to look at photos or digital art pieces with huge ugly watermarks on them. Could blockchain tech help establish ownership in a way that would make watermarking obsolete?

edit: cool - downvotes for asking a question. Real nice guys.
What is so simple about more than 200 documented cases of UB and all the ways one can write unsafe code without even knowing about it?

C++ has stronger type safety, offers the libraries and language features to only go down to C like unsafe coding as last resort.
I was hoping this was a modern flip phone :(
Any of these should work:

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo...
periods like that make phones feel more like a hardware subscription service:

(with protection plan) $5 per week for 3 years for security updates

$7.60 per week for 2 years for OS updates
And you pay at least thrice as much, get far worse app support outside of the US (for example, in Germany > 85% of users are on Android, so that’s where the apps are), and you basically can’t develop at all for iOS (who’s gonna pay 3000$ to get a Mac and stuff AND 99$ a year just to build apps in their free time? Yeah, me neither).
The common resource is land. Although there is a private aspect to land, it is also managed collectively through zoning laws (and other laws).
In Japan, zoning is hybrid (includes all zones up to a given level, so you can have mixed residential/commercial), and height limits are based on shadow projection instead of some city commissioner. It seems to work better than America's obsession with suburbanization and having all your housing in a giant clump a 10 minute drive from all your shops.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Failing is not dying, it is just a painful phase of growth and change. At least, that's how I choose to view my own failures.
You mean communists don't discriminate people they don't agree with? Take a look at any communist-ish state what happens when they get a chance to discriminate said people.

As for domestic terrorism, when was the last leftist riot?
At Essential we don't promise simplicity... in fact we guarantee it will be incredibly difficult!
I wonder how your mother's professor reconciled his personal misogyny with the fact that by 1960 Gerti Cory, Marie Curie, and Marie's daughter Irene had all won Nobel Prizes (and Rosalind Franklin would have won one in 1962 had she not died four years earlier).
On Quantifying Memory Allocation Strategies (2015) [pdf]
Strapless: a color-driven CSS framework for HTML elements
Does it harm you when others hold hand in public? No, it does not. It only requires a modicum of tolerance. So no, it's not ok to discriminate based on that. Or do you discriminate based on couples kissing in public?
Well, you're going to have a heck of a cocktail party story now.
I've always dreamed of finding a field big enough and 10 people willing to play ultimate aerobee. If we can find 8 other people like us, want to rent a polo field?
Re: compilation speed, a story with happy end: Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time

Diagnostics:

- A method takes an implicit parameter to be filled in by the compiler

- the Scala compiler synthesizes an argument for that parameter using macros

- instead of using an existing value in the implicit scope

Conclusion: that's why a small source file took so long to typecheck.

Details at https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/achieving-3.2x-faster-sca...
No, it's not electron vs. nothing. It's one good single-platform application vs. one terrible cross-platform application. If you don't have resources for developing on multiple platforms, it is OK to choose one.
What are the rpi clones that look better?
Surely all this RL process did was speed up what the computer would have learned, by a large stretch? The "cost" factors they chose would have hit them ultimately, regardless of if the bot stood still in the base, or wandered off elsewhere.
Blackberry make a couple of Android handsets with physical keyboards.
Try making an interpreter for a simple language like QBASIC.
Perfect timing! Isaac Arthur just kicked off Outward Bound with an in depth look at colonizing Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFOBoy2MZ8
http://www.grad.gatech.edu/helpdesk/knowledgebase.php?articl...
It looks basically the same as every other smartphone and is mass-produced with no "craftsmanship" involved. The concept of "premium" materials for what's essentially a disposable device just seems ridiculous.
I think the US is the odd one out hete with your one unit of 'math'.

Mathematics -> maths

You don't say, "I am learning mathematic", unless you are a cretin.
Careful there. In some models if your battery goes totally flat the only way to unlock the BIOS to boot boot Linux involved a restore to defaults which erases your Linux partition.

Been there. Lost a couple days of work over it. Gave away the chrome book.
Physician-scientist here. My graduate work was in an immunology lab. Just wanted to clear up some confusion I've seen in multiple posts.

While both peanut allergy and celiac disease involve pathogenic immune responses, they represent very different types of problems and this study's results do not suggest any relevance to celiac.

The peanut allergies that they are referring to in this study are one of the most striking examples of what's known as a Type I hypersensitivity (IgE-mediated/anaphylaxis). In this type of reaction, high levels of IgE, a class of antibody, generated toward a specific antigen become loaded onto mast cells and on re-exposure, cause mast cell degranulation and subsequent smooth muscle contraction. For this reason, anaphylactic responses frequently involve closing of the airway, nausea/vomiting, and other dysregulations of smooth muscle activation and require a strong adrenurgic agonist like epinephrine to counteract this activation.

Celiac pathogenesis is not a Type I hypersensitivity. To my knowledge, the exact mechanism of pathogenesis is not known, but it is likely a combination of Type III (antibody-mediated) and Type IV (T-cell mediated) hypersenitivities.

Anyway, I'm not trying to ruin anyone's hope here, but this study has no relevance for celiac. What this has shown is that there is the potential for food allergies to be systematically eliminated with long-term increasing exposure to the problematic antigen, in this case, peanut antigen. This has been done for some time with other, less aggressive types of IgE-mediated conditions like dog and cat dander allergies. So in that way, it's not all that surprising of a result, but I'm certainly glad to see that this was able to be done safely. This is really great news for the millions of people out there with anaphylactic food allergies.

All that being said, I do hope that celiac can be managed more effectively with immune-modulatory (or other) treatments in the future and my sympathies go out to those who have been affected by this horrible disease.
The Ti-Books had a lot of issues. The biggest one was broken hinges. There were a lot of physical problems with those machines that didn't manifest until after about a year's worth of use.

Too bad, they were really cool at the time they were introduced.
You aren't happy at all that your house is worth a million dollars?
Sure, but when you are atypical because you are an 80s girl who is into computers it becomes hard to use your experiences to determine why there is a large gender disparity in computer relented fields.

It's hard to draw conclusions about a population by only inspecting the outliers, you get lots of noise in the data.
I live in a rent controlled unit and still feel we need to eliminate Prop. 13 (prevents property tax increases caused by property asset increases) and eliminate rent control. Both are removing people from having skin in the game when it comes to housing policy. If everyone can feel the pain, maybe everyone can figure out a way to stop the pain.
Prominent free software developer Andrey Chernov died yesterday. RIP
Probably not but I was thinking either ML or VR could help
Ditto.

Another audio device lacking the cheapest, most popular and reliable audio interface... No thanks.
Zero collisions for a birthday problem? I don't think people waste that much space on wrong definitions of net neutrality.
Quite true, my main reasons were the Atari, Acorn and Amiga sections, and the British humour in many articles.
I got a refurb Dell gaming laptop from Dell Outlet with 16GB of RAM, an i7 CPU, a 4k 15.6" touchscreen display, and an nVidia GT960M GPU for about $695; that was with a 20% or 25% off coupon, but those come up pretty regularly. It's a beast and plays games well. Surely, you can find something reasonable for under $600, with spec requirements as modest as the ones you've listed.

My Dell isn't a nice machine, by any means...it's a standard plastic job, but when I've bought higher end models in the past, they haven't lasted significantly longer than cheapo consumer models, so I just accept the cheap feel of the thing and save the $500+ that better builds cost.

It runs Linux very well today, though it didn't when I bought it, but that was due to video drivers, which would have been true of any device with a 4k display and the GT960M GPU.

And, on the subject of Electron, I started using Atom at the same time I got this new machine. It runs fine, alongside Firefox with a gazillion open tabs, Thunderbird with a hundred thousand emails in the inbox, and a Gnome terminal with a dozen or so tabs.
My suspicion is this:

All the issues someone with no familiarity of the code base or the problem could typically uncover are things that are prone to be automated away by software in the long run (or are already in the process of being automated).
There is this: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
> Tragedy for the tourists

San Francisco will always be a distinctive and attractive place, with or without density. And by building more housing and improving transit, it will become less distinctive in negative ways (homelessness for one). NYC has multiple tourist attractions that have almost 3 times as visitors as those in San Francisco.[1]

> tragedy for the wildlife

It is a tragedy for the wildlife worldwide for people who work in cities to have to spend countless hours commuting and expending carbon emissions.

True, rich land-owners may have to pay more tax and some may see slightly lower appreciation rates, but many other rich people and almost all poor and middle class will benefit. No doubt someone of it is "self-inflicted" at the state-level (Prop 13 for one, and "environmental" approvals used to drag down new development), but there are actionable ways to fix some of this --
passing sales tax, easing rigid zoning laws, and using new funds for transit measures like Measure M in Los Angeles, and Measure B in San Jose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_attractions_in_the_Uni...
...and if you believe that, I've got a bridge for sale. Titanium is many things but soft it is not. It can also be alloyed with many other metals for specific purposes. One thing it definitely is though is expensive which is most likely the reason for Apple to look for alternatives. That is actually is possible to use titanium to create form-stable notebooks can be seen by e.g. the many Thinkpads which sport titanium lids and frames. I have yet to see one of these warped or bent. This is partly due to the boxy - and with that, strong - form factor but the material plays a big role as well.
Prediksi Swansea City vs. Manchester United 19 August 2017
> Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year.

They only promised 3 years of security updates.
> When governments ban printing presses, which I think actually has happened in the past in Europe, would you consider that preventing people's right to free speech?

Yes, because it prevents people from free using their own resources and those gained through mutually consensual trade to spread their ideas.

> The difference here is it isn't necessarily governments, but rather corporations that control access to the internet (printing press).

No, the difference is that nothing is being banned; people are choosing not to let other people use their digital “printing press”, which is no different than the NYT choosing not to print your opinion piece.

No one is preventing the Stormer from self-hosting. And there are a very large set of domain registrars; the fact that a handful have refused their business doesn't mean that they can't get a domain name (which is certainly a convenience that affects reach, but also not a necessity, to publishing via the internet.)
On top of that, I would add "make it 4.7 inches". When it comes to Android that is. The only current line of phones with specs I like is Xperia Z5/X Compact. First one is great, but overheats and is no longer available, the second one has a weirder design.
Will it work in Europe?
My understanding is that unlike the PC world where hardware can report itself or be found easily the way things tend to be connected on ARM boards make it so that's not feasible or even possible. Someone just has to tell the kernel up front what is where.
Of course not. I've documented some of that: http://kmkeen.com/c100p-tweaks/
>The adjective "self-inflicted" has an undeniable negative connotation. Why didn't you say, "deliberately chosen" instead?

You yourself said:

>we would prefer to deal with the problems caused by insufficient housing than by the problems caused by overly dense population.

Is problems not a negative connotation?

Yes, it is negative, and it is self-inflicted. In your original comment, you are actually agreeing with the parent.
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If you refuse to recognize my existence as an equal human being deserving civil rights, you give up your right to be treated in a civil manner by me. Violence has absolutely no place in arguments between people, but if one party's only intention is to wipe out the other simply for being different, it means the second party is driven to use all options, including violence.
> This is why I've always been in favor of Hybrid zoning. Hybrid structures are even better in my opinion. You can have a building where the bottom floors are commercial space and the upper floors are residential space.

Interestingly in the mission bay area there's a lot of unused commercial first floor space below residential apartment buildings. Some of it empty since the buildings went up 2012/2013.
Not to mention, why take the reliability gains we've made with these devices, likely because of the massive reduction in moving parts, and erase all that with a keyboard. An accessory seems like the right way to do this for those that really need it, and those accessories exist.
Take-home salary after taxes could be a lot less than $6,750 per month. Health insurance is probably reasonably priced given that she seems to have a government job.

But I do see your point - she could (and many do) live closer, pay more, and sleep more.
Morally, the comments I've agreed with most so far are those that pin resistance on two underpinnings: (1) the sheer scale of oppression by the white supremacy position espoused (ie "everyone else") & (2) the fundamental incompatibility with a pluralistic democratic society.

Of these, I think (2) is the more common argument, but also the weaker. It's pretty abstract to justify concrete actions.

The former does jive with my internal morality though. It feels like it at least starts an answer to "Why are outside-the-norm means justified now, but not at other times?"
There are a few theories for getting magnetic poles going on Mars. With that, and some terraforming, and a whole lot of time, they could eventually have a breathable atmosphere.

Of course this will take many hundreds of years and need a bunch of new tech.

Anyway, for now, we can breathe the atmosphere when we go outside. That's not what it's like on Mars. I don't think I'd enjoy that.
But wouldn't it require you to find how the target image's particular watermark was warped? None of the other watermarks will have precisely the same warping parameters as that image's watermark. You could attempt to de-warp the watermark in place on the image, but that would seem to be likely to warp the image as well, no?
It's still a choice to remain with your religion. It's not a simple one, granted, but if you stick with a religion that requires you to hate or be intolerant to other people, you don't deserve that others are tolerant of your religion. Hence they can choose not to engage with you. Why would hey have to bear the burden of you picking the easy path.
Not really. Manufacturers just stopped making phones with PKB because since Apple wasn't making them, they weren't worth it. It hard to estimate the demand for PKB phones when no one is making them. I'd buy one in heartbeat if one launched with low-mid end specs and less than $400.

We've constantly chosen form over functionality. Larger sized phones, fragile build materials(glass over plastic), lesser battery just so the phone can be thinner. The keyboard was given up to make room for a bigger screen and thinner body, and now writing anything more a few sentences on a phone is a pain in the ass.

Atleast in the era of dumb phones, for all the weird shit (Nokia's taco phone) that came out that time, at least the phones were distinct, you could tell them apart just by looking at them. Now they are all the same generic rectangular glass slabs that cater's to single demographic who want large screens for media consumption. What if you are not in that demographic? Well, tough luck.

I know am in the minority and it's not really Apple's fault that everyone decided to ape them, but a part of me wishes we hadn't given up the variety just to pander to the largest common denominator, even a little variation among phones would be a welcome change.
On the one hand, a Facebook Messenger app would have people spending less time on the website.

On the other, Facebook would use it to mine more usage information from your computer than they can get to from inside the browser sandbox.

Presumably they'd sidestep the Mac App Store's sandboxing requirement and just distribute it through their website.
I've always spelled it whiskey.
If two actors moved to one spot at the same time which actor occupies that spot? How can an actor act accordingly if they moved at the same time?

In functional programming this can happen... in imperative programming it NEVER happens, because the actors move imperatively, aka step by step or one at a time. This is the problem he is talking about.
I worked through some of these[0] a while back as a way to learn property based testing in Python with Hypothesis[1]. Never finished them, but it was a fun exercise.

[0] https://github.com/avyfain/Cryptopals-Hypothesis
[1] http://hypothesis.works
Purely as an observation -

Ironically, but not surprisingly, you're down voted for sharing that possibility.
Tech companies are choosing the Midwest as costs of outsourcing rise
That's a lot of people, thanks for the reply.
The point of the article is that, for sites with a huge image corpus, if they apply some randomization to the watermark for every image, it's much more challenging to recover a un-marked image.

Right now, sites like shutterstock and other image sites apply the same watermark to every image, making it quite easy to computationally extract the watermark, and then apply the inverse transform to marked images.

If the watermark is permuted on a per-image basis, it becomes much harder, since you can't extract the watermark from a single image.
There are also two schools of thought on spending more now vs spending twice. $1k now or $200 4-5 times obey the same course of time misses the opportunity cost -- pay $200 now then put the $800 into index funds. This also assumes that the $200 machine works as well as the $1k machine, which is very likely false. If it's rougher on your clothes and you must replace them more often, there's another hidden cost. If it's loud and keeps you up at night, it's harder to assign a dollar value to that. If you just hate using junky crap, again that's hard to assign a number to.
The problem for me with Simple is that whole they tend to be very good at providing support or technology, but are pretty bad at being a bank. They're unreasonably restrictive with regard to using your debit card abroad, and the lack of a checkbook is, while not a frequent inconvenience, one that always seems to be problematic at the worst possible times.

That their solution is "act less like a bank" seems to me that they have got things horribly backwards.
That would be lame. Maybe, try massive multiplayer soccer, with an average of 1 player per square decameter? Now the captain's most important quality is management skills, and they might need a handful of squad leaders. I guess this isn't soccer anymore, but whatevs.
I'm a fan of Kibana
My hypothesis is it has to do with the name chosen for it. If it had a more 'consumer-friendly' name it would be more widely known. Something like 'Internet Freedom' or 'Free Internet' would have more appeal...
> when the code is appropriately architected

This has a substantial cost. Many games today make this tradeoff as soon as they can. Loading times is often the first victim, but in mobile you see it everywhere, even simple 2D puzzlers that can't hit 60 fps and still burn battery like crazy.
Why is Electron still such a memory hog? Wasn't the Chromium Content module supposed to dramatically reduce footprint by only providing the bare minimum to render a web page?
That's the American/Irish spelling. If it's a Scotch it's whisky.