skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imgix is great, but expensive as a cdn + image size on the fly company. I have been testing then for ~6 months for thumbnail generation but will be transitioning off soon. The cost is running about half of my S3 storage and transfer bill for only generating thumbs.

It's hard to justify not just creating my own thumbnails and stashing them on S3 for my use case.
Navigating Cloud Foundry
I generally agree, except if you click on "Home" it shows a sad PHP 404
> I am confident that by the end of the week we will hear substantive comments on the technical claims in the paper.

I am amazed by the speed with which mathematicians are able to quickly congregate and debate such things like this. It makes me excited to enter a graduate program knowing that people take academia so seriously. Their love and devotion to purely intellectual pursuits should really be appreciated every once in awhile.
Impossible to know as an outsider, but it's interesting to me that Simons tried pretty hard to isolate Renaissance from Wall Street & other hedge funds. He hired people out of academia, saddled them with an extremely onerous non-compete agreement, and was leery of Wall St. traders because he figured if they left their current fund, they'd leave him, too, once they learned the secret sauce. And he put the headquarters in Long Island, away from the loci of Greenwich and Wall St.
I moved out to the bay area five years ago. Mostly, because I'm a nerd and wanted to be around other like-minded nerds and fulfill my nerd dreams.

Fast forward to today. I've worked at startups, big tech, and generally have lived that tech life. I see my friends back in Ohio taking vacations, buying homes, and generally having a nice life. And I see myself here, paying more and more rent each year, working in the high stress of startups and in the tech scene as my own passion for the actual tech slowly wanes. Sure, I make a lot of money and I have a fancy job but money and prestige, I've learned, isn't everything. If you're pissing all that money away with no end in sight, except to become fabulously wealthy in some kind of exit that likely won't ever happen, you start to question your original motives.

At this point I have decided to stay another five years here, mostly so I can say I had a "10 year career" in the bay area. I will then take that experience, most likely back to the midwest, and try to leverage it into a better job than I'd be able to get by spending 10 years back in the midwest. Hopefully, this strategy will be successful for me. I think by then I'll have a shot at becoming director or VP-level, and coupled with my experience out here I will stand out in the midwest. I'll also have a far better experience-lead "technical education" out here than I would have ever had in Ohio, and that at least stands for something.
This is one of the most "HN" things I've read in awhile.

Their first bullet point asks their audience to define a term they just made up, and implies that grouping people via this term is important to social justice, said as someone who has trouble making sense of social justice.

This list feels like they're trying to disprove a math proof or something. As if, if you can "catch them out" with some edge case you can blow this thing wide open. This kind of approach doesn't work outside of maths, physics and CS. It barely works there.

My advice: step back from your 12 highly specific "smoking gun" bullet points and start asking some more general questions. Or, even better than asking, doing some of your own reading.
Does anyone have insight as to why they're still doing top 5? It seems to me like the error rates have dropped low enough that they could move on to top 3 or even single guess challenges. Is there data that shows how these same models perform in such tasks? Though I suppose, if I was motivated, all the needed tools are available to find out for myself.
In-group out-group markers are flexible, but can most easily be based on physical characteristics, so it is maintained. The best chance to remove it is to counteract those markers with in-group markers pertaining to class, dress, language, and values.

EDITED for typos and clarity.
Thank you! The site is down but I read a blog post and it sounds a lot like what I have in mind.
What You Can Look Forward to at AfricaCom 2017
You sound exactly like my uncle who is opposed to all modern car safety measures (seatbelts, ABS breaks, lane departure, blind spot radar, etc.) on the grounds that he doesn't want to get complacent while driving.
> AB 71 would raise $300 million a year for affordable housing, call your CA Assemblymember.

This is just an indirect subsidy of Facebook, Google, etc. By providing low income housing and food assistance to low income workers in high cost of living cities, it simply allows the well to do companies to continue not paying a living wage that corresponds to the situation that they've created by concentrating their businesses in the same area.
You can now make free phone calls with your Google Home
There is no AMP carousel at the top of the page? Are you sure?

This is the ranking boost mentioned: http://i.imgur.com/KsSmYH8.png

"Top stories" relevant to the search are shown, even if they’d otherwise be on page 10 or worse of the actual search.

Any AMP page can end up there, but only AMP pages. This is a ranking boost.
> For Google, the hijack is the prime feature; AMP is the PR vehicle that makes it swallow.

this is 100% true. yet somehow there are still those who swear this isnt the case. i've ranted about it previously [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695268
Humans in the Loop
Yes but Seenti has a good point, it's not necessarily a negative trait. The memo could have explained this, if he didn't want so much outrage. The guy is methodical and very clear, but probably could have padded out the information with some disclaimers. His interviews since clearly show him as respectful and a nice guy, not at all the kind you'd expect to be sexist or bigoted.
Trash analysis from a throwaway account.

Independent.co.uk link discusses proposed evolutionary/biological origins of xenophobia, and specifically points at groupthink, not individual bias, as a possible explanation.

Smithsonian link describes a study where babies show a preference for non-racialized puppets who displayed similar food preferences. Nothing to do with race or bigotry.
Direct Pay Online Group Has Acquired Virtual Card Services South Africa
Acer's chromebooks are excellent. Choose IPS.

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/acerchr...
The upside of cellphone calls being more expensive in the EU (or at least in my country) is that this makes mobile telemarketing calls much less convenient, to the point I can't remember the last telemarketing call I received, if I ever received one on the cellphone. OTOH, my land phone stays disconnected 24/7 because of telemarketers.
>Actually, not too different from what they seem to use at the hardware store for their cuts.

At the hardware stores I visit like Lowes & Home Depot, I see vertical panel saws which is a different beast: https://www.google.com/search?q=powermatic+panel+saw&source=...

The blade moves on tracks and the wood is stationary for cross cuts. Euro-style sliding table saw is the opposite of that.

For rip cuts, yes, the operator locks down the saw position and then pushes the wood through the blade. The issue with the vertical panel saw is that the top half of the rip cut wants to close the gap and bind the blade because of gravity. The horizontal surface of the the Euro slider doesn't have that issue.

>But, what about the small scale home hobbyist that can't dedicate a huge space to their table saw (and has a budget under $1k).

I would say make a stretch and pay $299 more to get the cheapest SawStop which is the $1299 portable jobsite saw: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/11697127655919696780
Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
20 Megawatt Utility-Scale Solar Power Project in Lesotho Receives $695,500 Grant
I have 177 tables, 764 stored procedures and 44 joins.

Every single table has either a uniqid() or a UUID() which isn't the primary key (they all have incrementing integer keys) but is 'joined' on in code.

When he needs to 'join' he used coalesce() on selects.

Referential integrity doesn't exist.

Oh and the cherry on the shit sandwhich, we have four seperate systems that talk to this database written in 3 different languages (Java (Android scanners), C# (Factory scanners) and PHP (the main system).

So there is no way to accurately know which SP's are used by what without grepping the entire codebase looking for call <foo>.

The PHP is written badly in the old PHP pure procedural style running on an outdated version of PHP/Debian/MySQL.

Basically if you took the absolute worst approach to everything this would be the end result.

It's good fun!.
Deleting a compromised AWS Access Key isn't sufficient
SF has a population that is 1/2 of Manhattan and covers 2x the area.
I'm 90% sure the first paper proving P!=NP will either use a Kolmogorov complexity argument, or an exact enumeration involving a semigroup problem that is exponential.
How do you get promoted so quickly? I've worked my ass off at several companies and been in high positions at early startups but when I ask for a promotion everyone so far has said no"sorry, you only have X years experience". Maybe I'm not working for the right places...
Bitcoin is not anonymous.
Not saying that's true, but if it is, wouldn't that mean AMP is not a desired product?

I fully support a "faster page spec" that search engines incentivize, just like I support a ranking boost for using HTTPS.

But AMP isn't that; AMP is incentivizing the payment of tribute data to Google under the veneer of a faster page spec, to steer the rhetoric more favorably for the company.
In times of conflict it's easy to lose sight of the fundamental goodness and decency of people, goodness and decency that will flourish if given the opportunity. Great leaders remind us of this when anger and hate pull us apart.
> The argument you make here is that it's unfair to treat people differently based on ascribed statuses (race, sexual orientation, gender identification, etc.). But I think exactly the opposite;

I have been thinking about it and I believe that neither correct or wrong. It seems it is about how one defines fairness: Is is fairness of opportunity or fairness of outcome?. I would like to know more about this. Is there any paper, book, analysis that tries to tackle with it? I would love to learn about philosophical approaches, attempts to resolve it based on solid rational reasoning in the context of some moral values. Anyone?
"The brake isn't reusable, so you have to have a spare lying around so your project doesn't get delayed."

Is the false positive rate non-trivial? Because losing a brake and saw only when otherwise someone would lose a finger seems like a great deal, even from a detached, purely economical perspective taking into account health care and disability costs.
I find myself weighing whether it's better to get the unemotional, unadulterated statement from a President or the focus-grouped, feel-good, superficial statement. I can see why someone would prefer either side, but I find both wanting.
This is a weak argument. A better one is that the saw stop doesn't work for conductive materials including wet or pressure treated wood. For this reason they provide a bypass which turns the stop off. You can imagine how this plays out in a production environment where it's accidentally tripped a few times (hint: workers learn quickly about the bypass).
Here's a better link:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...
Maybe I'm too young, but why would any retail merchant ask for a social security number? The only people I give that out to are banks.
President Trump may also search his own handle on Twitter to find sympathetic messages to retweet.
Indeed, one of the functions of tech economy meccas is precisely to enable this type of economic arbitrage, and certainly, that's one of the reasons why the cost of living in them commands a sizable economic premium. :)

Best of luck in your venture.
I think the main points to consider would be: how much leverage do they use, and how quickly can they get out of their positions?

On the latter, we know it's not comparable to LTCM because a long-held position for Rennaisance is like 8 seconds (so I heard).

On the former, I don't know. But LTCM had to use huge leverage to achieve their returns because their bets were ones with very small profit margins but that they were extremely confident in.
In both cases there are tradeoffs and diminishing returns. We discovered in 1930s New York with the Triborough bridge that highways will always reach a level of equilibrium (i.e. Max peak capacity) and will drive sprawl -- the new trio generation doesn't necessarily improve efficiency. In the case of NYC, it created inefficiency as it pushed the metro area up 75 miles up the Hudson River and at least 50 into Long Island and Jersey.

Housing is boom/bust. Housing booms always attract dumb money and always bust.
Yeah, I see this sentiment flowing around very often and I agree with you on this.

I prefer to think of it this way:
The ability to rise above this type of thing is a part of what makes us human.
Learning to not be bigot is something you have to do. You have to work at it always, it's not free.
I believe when they said "self-published, unknown" journals, the key word was unknown rather than self-published. They're not talking about journals self-published by established scholarly societies and so forth, who are "known." Nature (or other known journals) come with an established reputation (deserved or not) for publishing high quality work; an unknown journal (i.e. one with no established reputation one way or the other) by definition cannot provide this.

In recent years, journals that claim to have a peer review process but which actually offer dubious or no review or quality control have proliferated (some are even published by companies like Elsevier). Having no established reputation doesn't prove that a journal is bad, but having an established reputation is a heuristic shortcut for evaluating whether it is good (at least in the "no one was ever fired for buying IBM" sense). Hiring committees use this heuristic to save time when filtering candidates.
Well he only follows 45 people on Twitter. Roughly a third are Trump entities, another third work in the white house, and the rest work at Fox News.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/following
I made a "retropi" Linux pi box for my brother and nieces. It works remarkably well and wasn't hard at all. Though I needed to include a keyboard and instructions on how to exit(we had an intellivision growing up, but most controllers lack a number pad ).

The intellivision games don't hold up that well,the mame games are much better. A good controller though helps. I feel an arcade cabinet makes those games better. The kids kinda like them, but arcade games are designed to be hard and short and lack nostalgic appeal

https://retropie.org.uk
This reminds me of an awesome site my friend Ben Howdle built called moviesascode. Users would contribute tiny code snippets that summarised a whole movie. As an example:

.titanic{
float:none;
}

Unfortunately he lost the site when he switched hosts, I've been badgering him for years to restart it.
The first article from 2004 has two anthropologists say they "believe" evolutionary psychology can explain exclusionary behavior, while the second has the line "While extrapolating this to mean that the babies are racist or bigoted is probably a step too far...it does raise interesting questions". I wish that's all I needed to firmly hold something as fact, it must feel nice.
Great idea to reduce time to market, collect feedback from customers and prototype creation
Specifically looking at the Smithsonian article, they don't even mention xenophobia until the last sentence.

What they're talking about is instinctive preference for other creatures which the baby identifies with, and in the research the article cites there isn't any direct correlation to race. They talk about food preference — something superficial. There was no research cited to indicate whether the behavior extends to racial distinction, so your using this research to back up your claim that "babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia" is intellectually dishonest at best.

And I ignored the Independent article because they're known to be poor at in-depth reporting.
What's the technological challenge to making it so you can only spoof numbers you own?
Eh, not really. I've learned over the years to avoid providing sources because more often than not the person won't believe you either way and will only use the source as a tangible target for disingenuous attack through motivated misinterpretation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning)

I typically provide sources in response to replies like: "That's interesting, but I can't really find anything on the matter; can you point me to something?" But if there is no indication that the person actually tried to find corroboration independently I take it as a sign that he is not actually interested in corroboration. I'm sure this is inaccurate sometimes, but it's the best approximation I can come up with.
Apple readies $1B war chest for Hollywood programs
The transactions may be public, but your identity can be masked if done properly.
Nice.

I wrote down my thoughts after taking his new DL course. Hope it helps you all :)
https://medium.com/towards-data-science/thoughts-after-takin...
I doubt MoviePass will pay full retail price. I bought 100 gold AMC movie passes on eBay for $550 maybe ten years ago. That was $5.50 per movie. You can get substantial discounts on admission if you buy in big enough blocks.
My fault -- you can find much better links if you search for 15 seconds instead of 5:

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-si...
Moore's law is about transistor count and not performance. Performance of those parallel architectures always get subject to Amdahl's rule of scaling.

This is partly why we see slowing scaling in performance and why you cannot just throw cores at the problem.
That's a terrible "analogy". The logic of "don't pay for events that you have no ability to control" is apparent to everyone, as is the arbitrariness of road direction.
It's not the opposite, either. Not all transactions are necessarily traceable to an entity or individual.
>Perhaps it's popular because it's not true

Why would something being untrue make it popular?
Keybase is also addressing that need, but with a traditional database.

gpg already solves that as well, again without blockchains.

Blockchains do no more for identity gpg. Whether they're more or less usable is debatable.
> One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life."

I wonder if we will look back on the events of this week the same way as we see these from the 1940s.
"Putting forth a theory that gender, on its own, impacts career choices is pretty useless. It probably does, but not in a way that we can adequately quantify. It depends on too many things."

head explodes

So you're saying it probably exists, but then conclude it doesn't because it can't be quantified how much? I'm not even saying biological differences explain everything, or even a substantial part; just some part, but you deny that any aspect of difference between preferences in men and women is due to biology? I mean I cannot interpret what you're saying in any other way no matter how hard I try - you're saying that if we can't measure something exactly, it doesn't exist?
> Many of these funds are putting time and resources into securing data sets, technical mentors and advanced simulation tools to support the unique needs of AI startups

What are "advanced simulation tools" ? something like https://github.com/marcotcr/lime ?
Points to lack of exposure to other races as a likely cause.

Far from babies being born racist.
> It is a decentralized network of millions of computers that execute code at the same time.

There are currently less than 30k ethereum nodes. And it is not clear if they are all "full nodes" (ie: verify the transactions). Millions is two orders of magnitude exaggeration.
It feels to me that you're treating this as more of a power game than a mutual pursuit of truth.
> what is harder is presenting a superior alternative.

...and the OP doesn't even try. Instead he asserts his privilege by asking others to justify themselves and their actions to him individually according to his framing and questions. Does he even ask, for example, about the other culture(s) at play here, racists and sexists and so on pulling in the other direction? Surely understanding them is just as important, but that would be inconvenient. No, only one group has to be completely transparent and explicit and specific, while others remain free to roam around the rhetorical battleground changing claims however/whenever it suits them.

This doesn't seem to be about understanding. It's a delaying tactic. Keep people busy answering an endless series of questions and objections, so they can't spend that time doing anything else. It's not like we haven't seen this before. It even has a name: sea-lioning. To the author: show some evidence that you've tried to educate yourself before you expect others to do it for you.
That's not hate though.
It sounds like they kept meetings deliberately off-the-record, but then again here on https://www.google.com/diversity/index.html there's stuff like "we’re committed to making our workforce more reflective of the world we live in". Number goals are unlikely to be published for obvious liability reasons.
If you want to mask your identity wouldn't you be better off buying Visa gift cards with cash at a major store and then using them to purchase services online?
Traffic congestion mainly exists when people don't live close to work. By building more housing all over the Bay Area, people will be more able to live close to work and thus reduce congestion.

Not having enough housing forces people to commute from further out, which adds congestion all along their path.
Love it. I have quite a few family/friends in the healthcare industry..i'll have to ask them whether or not they would find something like this useful.
Certainly.

The point is just that the statement is literally false. That doesn't mean it can't be poetically true.
Organizers of Charlottesville Rally Raised Money with PayPal
Lol, even Filecoin outraised that Fund
Can I pay for ProtonVPN in coin as well?
I use your product. It's great.
The harder part of building a Linux distribution/system would be getting to use the hardware you have and exploiting its full potential, especially those that are not built with Linux in mind.

I switched an old Mac to run Linux sometime ago and have documented issues I faced and the limitations I still live with. Most of it is related to decent trackpad support, GUI options for apps/functions I need, and the customization of keyboard shortcuts system wide (coming from OS X/macOS). A lot of information as well as applications I found were simply outdated and not maintained. I've also spent quite a bit of time just to get the system in a shape that's a bit more amenable to me (as opposed to adjusting myself completely to how a specific distribution of desktop Linux works by default). It's nowhere close to perfect for me, but it's the best choice with constant OS/security updates for old hardware that's unsupported by the manufacturer (Apple, in this case).

My advice to anyone wanting to use Linux would be to look for hardware that has been built with Linux in mind. That will save you time, which you can then use to do more productive work/learning (unless your area of interest is in learning about hardware compatibility, developing drivers yourself, tweaking various config files, etc.).