skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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While I don't condone the abusive investigation, I will say that plenty of people do pretend to move in order to avoid income tax liability. I don't think the items you listed, like renting an apartment or obtaining a driver's license, are dispositive. Presumably (but maybe not?), the record also had evidence suggesting he still maintained California residence.
I don't think bicycles are allowed on sidewalks.

A scooter is more space efficient, both in your apartment and at the office.
Except the comment to which I replied was talking about '8-pack of 2800mAh' from Amazon. I'm pretty sure they're talking about 1.5v Ni-MH AA batteries.
I always considered the pay-offs in PD to be variables with various positive or negative values. That would make SD is just a subset of PD with different pay-offs.
Same reason a grocery store will spend $100 to catch and prosecute a shoplifter for taking a $2 candy bar. It's more expensive if they don't go after tax cheats.

(I'm not making a judgement on this specific case, but rather the idea of spending more money than you will recover in general)
What about "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop?
That’s exactly why China is doing that, and why China in the past years bought from SIEMENS the entire IP for TransRapid (the only high speed maglev system that actually shipped in production, and is used daily by many travellers)
The common element between all of these is that they are communities based around network effects.

In the case of at least the last 2 they also used community moderators which can be seen as a tremendous HR hack in some ways
It's not just you, a bicycle will always have much more responsive handling. Mopeds have small wheels so they need a long rake and wide tires compared to a bike, to make the steering stable and the contact patch larger.

Higher rake means the bike pitches in response to the wheel turning, because the contact patch is less in line with the handlebars. Wide tires multiply that even more. That gives stability at high speed but when you try to turn the whole vehicle moves the wrong way, making steering lag. It also makes it harder to stay up.
I agree a lot of data can be represented graphically, but if you look at the literature it mostly is getting shoehorned into vector spaces. This doesn't mean people shouldn't learn about Graph Laplacians and friends, but I don't think it's an entry requirement.
OP says they have different email addresses for Amazon and FB. How would Amazon know which user to target ads on FB in this case?
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Honestly PEDs should be legal and regulated in athletics, if not for performance, then at least for recovery. It's completely arbitrary what's legal and not anyway and a good training program and the best coaches also function as a PED.

Make it uniform and regulate it and maybe you keep everyone safe. Or not. I don't really care, I build scripts for a living. /shrug
I worked 3 months remote for the first few months of my current job and, whenever we would hop onto google hangouts, the first few minutes would typically be personal/small-talk things like that. Naturally, if you're talking to someone 5x a day for whatever reason, you'll probably get down to business, but it's easy to find yourself not having talked with someone for a week.

Also, we had a "beer 'o clock" every friday around 4 where everyone available hopped on hangouts and just talked--sometimes work related, sometimes not.
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Another C tty oriented text editor is the classic MicroEmacs:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/me

I learned a lot about programming from reading the source code to it. It's a gem of clarity and design (and you could reasonably argue that many of my changes to it messed it up).
In my experience, no. I don't believe quality from a repetitive process has much to do with passion.

I live in SoCal, the land of taco shops, and most are manned by wage slaves. I'm sure most are completely happy doing their job, but passionate? No. That's the owners of the trendy taco shop, not the people actually doing the labor.
How else could you put invested money to work in a company with no assets except to spend it on advertising though?
The "Blockchain" hype is totally being carried by the hype in cryptos, though. And it is hype - there's endless hypothetical proposals, and endless bare excuses for an ICO, and endless pilot programmes that IBM's managed to sell someone on, but there's about 0 being put into production use.
The legal test for changing residency imposes a very low threshold: you move to a new state with intent to remain there.
Board of equalization? Do they cut people's legs so everyone is equal?
I think a classic reason for ever expanding head count, and in ZIRP era economy, valuations, is because management tries to end run failures of immediate objectives and keep trying more elaborate end runs. Yes, UberCab will be a fine multi city service if they have poured such subsidy into their operations, that every last competitor is bankrupt.
In the case of Reddit they are doing a massive redesign though and were building out a mobile app
The only situation where I've actually employed bubble sort in production code was in a situation where the container to be sorted was guaranteed to be at most 5 elements (and usually 3) and was usually already sorted - and calling this sort was done a lot. All other sorts proved to have too much startup overhead or too much code that bloated caches.. so yes, I wrote a bubble sort to be used there and it performed quite well. But I would generally never recommend bubble sort for 99.9% of cases - but just once in a blue moon it actually can be the right answer.
A Guide to How an Anonymous Cryptocurrency Works
I wrote this a while back to teach myself Javascript. It's supposed to be reminiscent of Tierra or Nanopond from the '90s or early 2000s.

I think my instruction set was poorly chosen, because the results aren't as interesting as those older ones.
> The world is fully contextless outside the road to an not-even-at-insect-level brain driving two tons of metal, and anything can happen.

See that's where you're wrong. An autonomous vehicle doesn't have to have a human brain. It has to have very accurate sensors and classifiers tuned with generous safety params.

Like any vehicle it also needs redundancies for safety and sane default behavior (mostly "slam on the breaks").

Also, not "anything can happen." There are rules that govern the road that make this problem tractable. There are rules that govern physics that mean if you have adequate sensors + compute you can avoid hitting any objects at all, whether it's a person or otherwise. "Object x is 30 ft away with trajectory y, we're going 15mph, slam on the brakes."

The difficulties mostly lie in how we can "not slam on the brakes all the time and never make progress." e.g if you enter a construction zone you better know what to do and not just sit still, otherwise you'll never get anywhere.
> no one really has a net worth one way or another when they are a child.

The net worth of one's parents makes quite a difference in practice.

That includes things like being born with a right of residence in a developed, stable country vs. in a refugee camp in a war-torn part of the world.
Saying Apple makes the best smartphones has been very contentious for years now.
FreshBooks.
You're not the first person who has told me that.

It's been ~5 years since I read it, so I can't remember too many specifics. I was ~6 months into starting to learn to program and I think I would have probably given up if I hadn't read Waitzkin's book. He talks about how certain people tend to give on something if they struggle in order to protect their intelligence, to keep from feeling stupid or like a failure. It may be common sense but it's something that really clicked with me as I realized that it was something that I had done my whole life up until that point.

I kept going and eventually made a career transition into engineering. But something else happened that was actually much more important, and that was that I developed a much deeper understanding of and appreciation for the whole learning process. I was so tuned in to the whole thing that I would have these insights where I would I could pinpoint almost all of the things he talks about in the book in my personal experience. Years later, I’m able to make parallels in my present experience to all the things I experienced then, which in many cases provides some encouragement because I know I’m on the right path.
Doping does work. There are reasons athletes do it and take enormous risk with their careers and health.

I remember a long article in Outside magazine where the journalist doped with EPO and HGH to compete in amateur cycling at a level he found to be surprising: https://www.outsideonline.com/1924306/drug-test

Using the word "cheating" is too simplistic of a dismissal for doping, I think.
Meldonium isn't doping. It's an antioxidant, like drinking a cup of coffee.
Interestingly, this doesn't seem to work for me if I have uBlock Origin enabled. However, nothing is logged as blocked in uBO, so I can't tell what it's doing to break it.
No car maker dares not be in the race. There is the very real risk that somebody in the race will release an autonomous car, and in just a few months(worst case, but it is believable) governments will see those car is significantly safer and mandate it on all cars. If that happens any manufacture not close to finished won't exist anymore.

Note that being in the race just means they have a plan in place. Car makers partner all the time - it is common to see the same car from several different makes with only the logo changed, or an optional engine from someone else.

I expect that in the end there will be about 5 different self driving systems on the road that are shared between different cars. Designing a system is complex and expensive on the one hand; and not a differentiator that customers will pay for on the other hand: so it won't be worth the cost to continue to develop a system if you have it when you can buy from someone else. (though each might customize the UI as the UI is a feature they can sell)
Bugs? What bugs? Microsoft sees no evil
I tweeted about this. For $100M they could have bought a Chinese phone manufacturer and still had more than enough budget ($60M) left over to easily pay wages and produce the phones. I'm not joking. As an entrepreneur, I find these type of corporate conquest deals hard to watch. Any no bid contract awarded like this should trigger an automatic bribery investigation.
For a few more very common examples of humans using context:

A human will spot a person wearing headphones and recognize that person has a low situational awareness. The computer doesn't come close to even having the optical resolution to do that if the AI was perfect - remember human vision is 570+ megapixels, even a 4K video stream is literally two orders of magnitude lower.

[Now think about the fact that if we built a camera capable of recording 400 megapixels, you'd currently need to schlep around a ~750 lbs 25 node cluster, consuming about 50 horsepower to feed it with electricity, just to be able to process the video stream at 25 fps. Moore's law aint' growing that fast these days, so matching the resolution of human vision is not a realistic option.]

Another example is kids. How does the AI recognize that the 5'1" 30-year-old woman has much better awareness and can be treated differently from the 5'2" 12-year-old boy? Humans can spot that difference even from behind.

How about recognizing an adult who is drunk? Or a blind person? Mourners at a funeral, or fans celebrating after a football game? Or a million other conditions that significantly affect pedestrian situational awareness that human drivers will instantly infer from context?

What will happen when kids figure out they can stop a driverless car on its way to collect its owner just by standing in the street in front of it? They'll have a lot of fun, for sure.

How about when carjackers figure out the same? That they can dress up like construction workers, stop the car in the street, tow it onto a flatbed with built-in RF jammer and head straight for their underground chop shop? There goes your cheaper insurance.
"I was floored by it. I was 100% convinced we had arrived at that dream of intelligent voice-computer interaction."

I remember talking to Apple's Kim Silverman, ¿head? of speech recognition, somewhere in the end of the '90s. He said you had to spend a few hundreds of hours training the recognizer to get at a good level. That's not a lot more than one would spend learning to touch type at speed, but a large fraction of _that_ time is productive; training a speech recognized wasn't.

Also, touch typing, once you can do it, works everywhere; speech recognition didn't work as well when there was background noise or echos. So, few people were willing to invest the time. And they probably were right.

I also agree with your statement that we will solve restricted, but useful domains first, and that a general solution for autonomous driving will be a long way of.

I also agree roads will be adapted to the self-driving cars. It isn't rocket science to embed a steel wire in the center of each car lane that a robot car can detect, for example.

I remember a television program where the engineers of some European car manufacturer thought universally usable self-driving cars would be safer than human driven ones in 10 years or so, but their human factors specialist said it would be something like 40 years before they would hit the road because she knew you can't expect humans to fully attend to driving on very short notice for a few seconds each week.

(that show also said, and showed, that features such as lane assist are more limited than the cars are capable of because of human factors)
Does that include not having a residence in your previous state?

Multiple residency is a thing. As far as CA is concerned if you live there for some of the year, you are taxed.
Cookie is a thing.
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Plain bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble Non-speculative use is all but nonexistent. ICOs are a bad excuse whitepaper attached to a tradeable ERC-20 token. There is no actual economic productivity there, just money going into a whirlwind.

I'm getting emails from friends whose retired parents are being targeted by crypto hucksters. My brother sent me an email this morning which was a glaringly obvious scam a friend of his had fallen for and was trying to get him in on.

I thought the bubble was bad a few months ago, right now it's clearly in batshit insane territory. What they're "mining" is the money from normal people who shouldn't be going within a mile of cryptos, and it'll be a bloodbath. The 2017 bubble is so much bigger than the 2013 bubble.
"Nobody talking about it" doesn't mean nobody is working on it ;)
I work in office but regularly communicate with an outstanding remote employee.

Any time we have an issue or project to discuss, she'll call me up and we either start or end the conversation with some scuttlebutt (5-10 minutes).

As a result of her friendliness and kindness, any time she calls or needs to ask for something I am eager to help. Likewise, if I need something from her I am not afraid at all to reach out.

It takes a lot of patience and kindness to build that relationship, and she does this with everyone - coworkers, clients, etc. Having that kind of relationship is key to her productivity.
This is pretty neat. Is there a Mac equivalent?
I'd highly recommend the Netflix documentary Icarus. The filmmaker starts out trying to more or less replicate the doping routine of Lance Armstrong while competing in amateur cycling.

I don't want to give anything away, but the documentary takes an incredible turn once the filmmaker meets Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov — who ran the Russian anti-doping lab prior to Russia's ban from the Rio Olympics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/ic...
Interesting how Meldonium works.

When I was doing research on SARMs, GW501516 often came up.
It basically works in the opposite way that Meldonium does, increasing cellular metabolic preference for lipids as opposed to glucose. I wonder which metabolic pathway is optimal for weight-loss; probably a combination of the two.
Please describe your feelings on athletes wearing contact lenses. How about athletes who have ever had a surgery? What about athletes who are, at the time of competition, using non-prescription antihistamines? How about pseudoephedrine?
What database to use for a social graph?
Same with Privacy Badger. I think it's the "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" option in the General Settings, except that mine is unset, yet they say the "Default options" protect me so I'm not sure if it's partially set by default anyway.
Taxation is policy. It matters not just in quantity (which you can rightfully question) but (more importantly) quality.

Would you say that legitimately pursuing a law-evader somehow inevitably leads to a police-state?
I chuckled at that, too. I struggle to imagine what would be on the receiving end of that. I doubt most desktop machines could decode a 60fps 4k MJPEG stream, let alone a phone. Maybe they sell an SOC the other side too.
It's cheats only if you get caught.
The Cross Current S costs $1700 and has a much stronger electric motor than the previous Cross Current. You're probably referring to the Cross Current Air which comfortably cruises at 24-25 MPH without heavy pedaling.

(source: waiting for my Cross Current S order to be delivered)
Matt Levine has a great (humorous) overview of the First Bitcoin Corp shenanigans (scroll to the second section):

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-25/insider-t...
> Seventy years later we still don't have supersonic commercial flights.

Worse still, we have already had and lost them.

And the age for qualifying for social security is going up faster than longevity in plenty of countries.
Simple. Look up what the WTA/<insert authority of sport you play> regulations ban; everything else is fine.
+1 for Icarus. Excellent, fascinating documentary. Don't get distracted by the weird title.
I've been working at home for about 8 years now.

It can be very difficult and it's not for everyone since you ned a lot of mental discipline.

Sometimes you need to overcome procrastination but in my case it's much more common to prevent working 12-15 hours per day and neglect every other aspect of my life.

There are days I wish I could just go to an office and leave at 6pm and say "fuck it".

Remorse and guilt are very common feelings in remote workers.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BeingARemoteWorkerSucksLongLi...
What is it that makes people think that private companies have any obligation whatsoever to provide an equal platform to everyone? What did you expect?
How would that work across different browsers?
Ack. I can really empathize with this. Nothing makes me feel more amateur than just pushing commits with missing lines and the like, pushing another fix commit and determining if I should squash or not.
This is really neat; I'm working with OCR output and hand-rolled something very similar to `ggpage_plot` about two weeks ago to recreate the original layouts with colored labels. Super helpful to get a sense of how to engineer some spatial features to feed into classification models. Having this around might have saved me some time!
My batteries and bulbs are picked up together with the rest of my trash, I just put it in a little box hanging on the bin. There's no reason what so ever to not put them in the right place. So everyone does.
I really feel like going through my post history on here and on reddit to point out all the people that said this was going to be a "game changer" that would effectively kill Oculus and Valve's VR hopes. I was skeptical back then and this only confirms that my skepticism was warranted. Everyone was saying that MS would be able to take a hit on the price and would effectively neuter the higher-price-point VR headsets. I kept making the point that some compromise would have to be made to keep the price point down and several people fell back to Microsoft's financial status as proof of their ability to deliver a competitive product at a lower cost. Glad to see that I wasn't crazy then and that this is exactly what's happening here.
Except that he does not generate these sorts of conversations, given then he has written plenty since qmail and no such conversations have happened.

Kids, I speak as one of the few people, possibly the only person, in this discussion who has actually been subject to this. Daniel J. Bernstein is not in the same class of people as the people who call for retroactive abortions of their correspondents or who call people "slimy hypocritical asshole". It is a calumny to put him in that class.

And if I, who actually has been subject to this, say this, all of you, who have not, do not have a leg to stand upon.
I think the argument was to build a logical rationale for this. Appeal to authority is somewhat weak, in that regard.
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NYC doesn't even care if you live there. If you visit NYC for work more than a min amount (say for meetings or to play in a professional sports game), you're on the hook for taxes.
> Toyota got into autonomous driving late. Then they hired Gil Pratt from MIT. Pratt used to run the MIT Leg Lab, which Raibert ran before Boston Dynamics, but Pratt didn't do much there.

They've hired other folks, too, who have real-world autonomous vehicle experience.

Google/Waymo are definitely leading the pack, but I don't think we'll see Level 5 in a production vehicle for at least five years, probably closer to 10.

I read the recent article about their test facility (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...), but 1. It's still California weather and 2. I've routinely seen worse intersections. What do you do in a rotary where you have to cut across multiple lanes of traffic to exit? If the autonomous vehicle waits for another car to give way, it will be there forever.
You're right. In fact, upon reflection, it is the PD which is not really a dilemma but rather a paradox. The logically correct move in PD (assuming a purely utilitarian quality metric) is always clear: if the game is non-iterated (or iterated with a known horizon) then defect. Otherwise play tit-for-tat. This is true no matter what your opponent does. In the SD the logically correct move depends on your prior on what your opponent is likely to do.
I can accept that but whatever the reference to twitter ads is for, I'm appalled by.
The author did not cheat.
Hmm, that's "interesting". Can you elaborate a bit on how yours and theirs differ, if any?
The number of wallets does not equate the number of users.
Original source: https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...
No, it's not. AMT is only shipped on Core-series CPUs when they're accompanied with the business chipset rather than the consumer chipset. It's not an integral part of the ME, it's software that the OEM has to license and ship in their firmware.
Cygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.
Why are there so many knobs in Garage Band