skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't blank slates. Genes inform a lot about who we are.
“distrust” is an established English words that means exactly what Google intends. “detrust” is, while not hard to figure out, an unnecessary neologism.
And people are getting fatter and fatter. That's a good thing?
> I don't know how you could be aware of what's going on in academia and believe this.

This talking point is the epitome of filter bubble bias.

First, this is usually characterized as a somewhat recent liberal attack on speech. But the most blatant and egregious examples of speech restrictions at colleges and universities in the USA all come from right-wing christian evangelical colleges. If you think being a conservative at Berkeley is bad, try being liberal (or even conservative but non-christian) at Wheaton or Hillsdale. The only examples I know of students actually expelled for blatantly political reasons all happened at christian colleges.

Second, nearly all universities are infinitely more supportive of free speech -- in policy and in practice -- than other employers or businesses.

This is especially true for private secular universities, who often embody the values of free speech without any legal obligation to do so. MIT can tell anyone they want to "get off my property" but in practice allows, hosts, and even encourages an extreme diversity of viewpoints.

You can probably build a case against my assessment if you spend all day scouring the past decade for counter-examples. In fact, that work was (literally) already done. But "cat everything | grep 'my view point'" does not a preponderance of evidence make.
Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I've used Pygments in the past and didn't even think to check if it had a PNG output mode.

Here's an example of Pygments C++ output:
http://imgur.com/a/7TbMb

And the same file through Prism.js + Puppeteer:
https://github.com/mplewis/src2png/blob/master/docs/arduino....

Pygments does a great job of generating detailed PNGs. The default settings aren't quite what I'm looking for, but they look like they could be tweaked to increase the resolution and change the color scheme.

I'm embedding my examples in a Keynote deck, so I'm picky about font family, size, resolution, etc. I bet I could get similar results by writing a custom script for Pygments. Thanks for sharing!
> One consequence is that he has no option but treat is carefully, use a case, a screen protector, etc.. which is kind of ironic considering how much effort is put on the exterior design of the phone.

Honestly, the resale value for damaged iPhones is still pretty good. Even if the screen is cracked, you can get a few hundred dollars.

I just searched for "iPhone 7 cracked screen" on eBay and filtered by completed listings, and there are quite a few that sold in the past few days for over $300 after receiving quite a few bids.
Thank you for the link. My respect for the researchers has increased.

I still think that while the results are accurate(ish), they reveal fashion trends and not genetic changes. Can in point, the composite average of homosexual male has glasses. Facial features of homosexual are often gender atypical but that's trough a lot of effort to conform with fashion trends (eyebrow reshaping, smoother skin, "kinkier" smile, etc.). This is especially true on dating sites. The whole nature vs nurture thing.

While I agree that hormone levels can impact facial features, I have yet to see a strong study proving that hormones levels can be directly linked to sexual orientation or gender identity.
Thanks! I will check out sharp.
> usually the tool that societies reach for to kill ideas is to kill the people that hold them. 99 times out of 100.

That's not normally the tool that democratic societies use. The US didn't wholesale kill its segregationists in the 60s. Western Europe didn't kill its Nazis, or its Stalinists. Ayn Rand wasn't pushed down a stairs. I'm trying to think of an example of where a modern democratic country _did_ do this. We didn't kill the misogynists or the racists or the homophobes, we just let them slowly fade into irrelevance. It's not done yet; it's a process.

Societies who do try to kill off bad or opposing ideologies rarely actually do that well with it. How well did the Soviet Union really do with getting rid of its ethno-nationalists, say?

Edit: I suppose one example would be covert action, there has obviously been some of that. Rounding people up wholesale doesn't really happen, though.
I'd love to see your current workflow if you're willing to share!
I really need to start doing this. Are you investing it or simply moving it into another account? I've got a silly amount of cash right now, just doing nothing.
The problem with Uber isn't that they provide a decent "cab" service, it is that, collectively, they are amoral douche-bags.
I can't remember a thousand function signatures, and pulling up the list of function names and args is a huge pain if you have to browse through it every single time to find the one function that meets your specific transform, whereas you may as well just write it yourself in half the time.

In imperative land, I find that I have to write fewer functions, for better or for worse. As a result, this is not as much of an issue.
L5 is fate of the furious level
Full stack node js boilerplate
But the things on discount are the things that everyone gets. Milk, eggs, bananas, etc. I shop at whole foods (it's the only place truly 'near' to me), and the things on discount were just about the things that I always get. So I'm happy, for one.

But 50% of stuff I still get from Costco or Trader Joe's (that requires a forty minute drive).
> working remotely depends on the team itself as much as it depends on the individual

Very true both in my experience and according to everything I've read. Being the only remote member of a team, and especially a team that has never had a remote member before, can really suck. Gotta break 'em in a bit. ;) Even with the best of intentions on all sides, it can be tough. Add in the possibility that people in another timezone are deliberately deciding stuff in hallway conversations or merging controversial patches while you're asleep, and it can be much worse. My last team was (and is) terrible this way. If you find this happening to you, your best bet is probably to get out like I did. My new team's much better, despite less experience and a company generally less friendly to remote work.

Another thing I rarely see mentioned is that you really need to stay on top of your internet connection and videoconferencing setup. Everything can seem fine during regular work, but it can rapidly become frustrating if your VC sessions are awkward or lossy. Get a good camera and microphone (headset if you prefer). Ensure good lighting and position the camera so people don't have to see up your nostrils. Consider upgrading to a faster internet connection. If you have other family members, also consider getting a router with good QoS capabilities in case they're binging on YouTube or Netflix while you're trying to talk to your colleagues.

Both of these bring up my real point: little bits of friction add up. Pay attention to every little thing that annoys you or might annoy your coworkers about the arrangement, and make a positive effort to improve it. Remote work can be awesome, but it's rarely that way by itself.
Exactly, and to get the screenshot exactly as I want takes a couple minutes of setup – pick a theme, pick a font size, resize window – plus a few more if I have to stitch scrolled pages together.
hmm I thought the bottleneck would be on the software side? I saw at least 2 lidars (possibly 3) on the car in the article. Of course we don't know if that's sufficient for L4, L5 but other companies are running with only 1 lidar.
I will get excited about a self-driving car on the day that an auto manufacturer fully opens up details about their development process - size of team, experience levels of team, breakdown of salaries, tools they used, methodologies used, etc. I also want a PERSONAL statement from every single engineer who worked on the project saying that they take personal responsibility for the safety of the vehicle and that every single one of their own concerns about safety or foreshortened schedules or testing were addressed to their full satisfaction.

I also want to see the CEO, CTO, and other C-level execs of the auto company to release a legally binding agreement holding themselves personally liable for criminal negligence if the vehicle is later found to have obvious flaws - obvious determined by an independent group of several thousand unaffiliated volunteer experienced software engineers.

Right now, if a car company slapped a 'self driving' car together that was designed to seek and destroy pre-schoolers, no one would say boo. Certainly not the courts. Toyota killed people by having ludicrously egregiously bad development practices (their developers did not even have access to a bug tracker... they followed 6 of 94 industry standard recommended practices... and worse) - and the courts acquitted them of negligence. That is disgusting, and makes it impossible for any reasonable person to trust any auto company doing development of something as significant and difficult as making a self-driving car.

They know that they will not be held liable no matter how bad of a job they do - would you drive across a bridge built by bridge engineers hired, managed, and made to work the way software engineers are hired, managed, and made to work in modern companies?
I've been speaking to friends working at different companies across the self-driving industry, and almost all of them have their fair share of skepticism of L4 or L5, including those who are actively researching in the field.

The main reason for this is that current self-driving tech has plateaued with most companies going with the redundancy based approach (let's have 3 LIDARs instead of 1, and make that 4 IR sensors on each side instead of 2 etc.) simply because there is no revolutionary new tech that is a panacea to current L1 problems.

Sadly, explaining this to investors is next to impossible, so everyone keeps selling the same idea with a few more whistles as the next big thing while everyone is waiting for the big tech breakthrough that makes actual self-driving cars possible.

Until then, expect many more controlled environment (eg. airports or freeways where traffic is mostly smooth flowing, or roads with perfectly marked stop signs and pavement paint).
I would be seriously surprised if any smartphone company added PWA's to their app stores. Web apps inherently can't take advantage of many platform/model specific features. Even thing like UI elements, fonts, gestures etc. OS manufacturers want their feature sets used because it adds value to their ecosystem. As a consumer of smartphone apps, I tend to agree with them.
That vague truism doesn't seem like enough to justify racially- or otherwise genetically-based separatism to me.
"ugrency-message"
"an physical debit card" ? I swear I see this mistake so often it makes me question whether I actually understand when to use "an"...
As a Uruguayan I can tell you that unfortunately, ignoring treatises has had consequences - the U.S. banking system has issued some dire threats for us.

American banks, including Bank of America, said that they would stop doing business with banks in Uruguay that provide services to anything marijuana-connected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/americas/uruguay-ma...
Evaluating technical capabilities in autonomy based on youtube demo videos is like evaluating the military potential by watching army parades on holiday.

The truth is, none of these companies is any close to full autonomy. Full autonomy _testing_ will begin once they deploy cars without backup drivers, to actually see how bad can things go without watchful human supervision.
If she believes that she's doomed to repeat her failure.
They are Lagrange Points. The cars don't have the hardware to reach them.

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

Or maybe there's some notation collision...
White label Milk, eggs, and some other stuff has always been price competitive at whole foods... Sometimes I found milk cheaper at whole foods than safeway!
> - They still run in a browser. It shows an address bar and whatever else your browser is always showing. Try Twitter's PWA right now: https://lite.twitter.com It's way too easy to accidentally swipe back. And then, Twitter being a shitty Single-Page-App, the browser loses its scroll position.

Android doesn't show the address bar. I don't have iOS but it seems like Safari support for PWA isn't as far along as Chrome.
Waymo turned its LIDAR circuit boards into jewelry and gave them to employees
Yeah, they're majorly helpful for transit commuters - you can avoid extended wait times, know when you can take a walk to the convenience store or even know when there's another or a bigger bus coming so you can decide whether it's worth getting on the packed bus or waiting for the next one. It really does change the transit game a lot.
What about Arugula? That's a staple...

I used to shop at Whole Foods regularly back when they were Fresh Fields in the mid to late 90s. Now I find them just too expensive. Maybe it's just me, because back then, I was feeding a couple of toddlers and now I'm feeding several large eating machines.
I don't think you could ever make an argument that murder is good, but tribes have their benefits. For example, we know that homogenous societies have less conflict, a greater sense of community, and higher social trust.
They say they are putting them on the roads of CA in a matter of weeks. I believe miles driven and disengagements must be reported around the end of 2017. So it should be easy enough to determine is four months or so if they're doing significant autonomous miles.

( here is the 2016 report: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/deade5b7-5b10-4b25... , found here: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen... )
> I'm talking about how Google now knows business hours and addresses and other such things about local businesses. It isn't because local businesses went in and labeled their HTML semantically.

Consider, though, that this is in part because there already are conventions for this kind of data that make it easier for people (or machines) to pull that data out of the page. The semantic signifiers aren't markup, which moves the problem out of the trivial realm, but they're notable enough it's not even particularly necessary to use machine learning to find them.

Addresses and hours are actually examples of the utility of semantic conventions, even if they're not part of a markup spec.

> I'm not just using the Semantic Web in a vague way. I'm using it in the way in which the term was used ~2005 (and a few years in each direction), when the religiousity around declarative CSS and such was at its fever pitch.

Speaking of religiousity, the religious world has fundamentalists who see their texts claim a flood covered the whole earth and believe the only way to read that is absolutely and literally. There are atheists who agree that's the correct way to read those texts and so obviously they're ridiculous and consequently without value. It's interesting how often the anti-religious and the fundamentalists agree on premises if not conclusions.

There was a movement of true believers in a specific vision of the semantic web. What you're talking about may be the only thing those people mean by the semantic web, but it isn't the only thing that people have meant when invoking concerns about semantic markup.

Perhaps it is silly to get bogged down in a discussion of the semantics of the phrases like "The Semantic Web." Perhaps instead it would be helpful if we could introduce some distinctions through the increased structure of formal terminology?
Be careful and make sure you have redundancy, temps in campers can go way way up with a malfunction of the fan.
The best answer I've heard to this and your previous question was at a QandA with Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. His answer was to a question "Is there any music that can make everyone upset or unhappy?" His answer was that in all his research the only music that can make someone upset or unhappy, was music the listener didn't like. It's 100 percent listener preference. The same was true for music a person did like. Unfortunately, the only way we could find out if Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles like the music is to ask them. I'm sure we'll find both support and disdain from the music community on AI generated music. Time will tell if there is a major preference on either side.

Dr. Levitin has some really interesting research on music, but also has some great easier to read books for those of us without a neuroscience degree. My favorite is called this is your brain on music. The world in 6 songs was also a great read.

http://daniellevitin.com/publicpage/
What if I just want the schedule though? It's not unusual that I'm underground (perhaps getting off a subway train) and don't have connection.
Better to contain it at least. I'm all for free speech, but those people (and the general immaturity) made me leave reddit for good.
For some reason I thought MS-RL wasn't an OSI-approved license, but it appears it is: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

Bad choice of words on my part, and I can't correct my comment anymore. That said, LGPL works still aren't compatible with MS-RL, so you can't distribute the combined work as MS-RL.
Still, somehow I doubt SH is being shut down because "Clinton's corporate cronies" "consolidate power" by "cracking down" on cocaine-fueled "counter-cultural" threat to the "current liberal elite status quo".

I think on this issue we can take administration at their word. They prefer clean high-performing students to drug-using mediocre students.

Do I think that's a damn shameful way to frame the situation? Sure. But straight-shooting administrators who just simply don't care about counter-cultural values -- one way or the other -- seems like a infinitely more likely explanation than sinister political plot to undermine free-thinking individuals.

Don't ascribe to political conspiracy what can be explained by bean-counting and political indifference.
The Left Can Win
There's a few issues with this hard-line utilitarian POV, mainly what's called the "utility monster", first discussed by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia[1] (1967). This is getting pretty complicated (and I could very well be wrong), but I think that "value" is probably some kind of combination of what you do for the firm (e.g. how much money you bring in) with what the firm does for society.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp...
No, the presence of bugs in a piece of code only implies that that piece of code exists. ;-)
The only thing you are missing is that this isn't about the users, it is about Venmo. They can a higher percentage from the transaction than they would as interest in their main account. This is the same reason that all banks rushed to do debit cards you could use as Visa etc. They are getting the fees instead of AmEx or Discover.
Noted, thanks. I'm just reiterating the fact that it's been available for quite some time and IMO the experience with their app and card is well executed. I much prefer it to Venmo.
Cool. But sometimes the road is just plain impassable. And having grown up in many Iowa winter blizzards, I still don't trust even electronic systems. They help, but sometimes there's nothing you can do when there's basically no friction.
unless of course your registrar doesn't like you:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/08/14/1344239/godaddy-exp...
He tried for a while to get the money out, willing to come back when they had it. They just wouldn't do it at all. Banks can call the Federal Reserve and can get more physical cash.
I actually didn't catch that typo they made the first time as I was so shocked at how easy it was to force it to keep reloading already sold tickets.
How is this relevant to the post at hand?
Does this have to come up whenever someone uses the word 'tech'? Everything since coarsely chipped stone is tech, it doesn't mean that we don't know what the parent is referring to when they use the word.

We could call it Information Tech but that's already been claimed by people in corporate environments.
I am also an infrequent Whole Foods shopper. Some anecdata to share:

I went to Whole Foods the week before the announcement and then again today. I was very sensitive to pricing on the first visit (and, frankly, was pretty surprised at how expensive most things were). On the second visit today, I noticed big drops in the prices of certain items, such as fish, produce, and yogurt.

For instance, I don't think there was any fish cheaper than $15/pound before the takeover, yet today Cobo Salmon behind the counter was $10/pound (sale) and shrimp was $12/pound (regular price).

It was also possible to buy organic Gala apples for $1.50/pound (sale) and cauliflower at $2.50/head (normal price).

It's not as cheap as the "normal" supermarkets in the area, but it's more competitive than before. Of course, these could be seasonal variations -- for instance, apples are in season in New England right now.
Paypal is awful. It's not to be trusted under any circumstances. They often reverse your transactions and lock your account for any reason, or no reason.

A friend of mine offered a student some programming help. They used Paypal to pay. The student decided they didn't want to pay and told Paypal it was a fraudulent charge. Now my friend doesn't have the money and a strike against their account. (They contested that the charge was valid, but Paypal didn't care.)

BTC sadly is up to $3 in transaction fees, so it's not too lightweight at this point.
Holy Crap that's a tough read.
I had a few issues with Nougat when I first got it. At some point an update fixed all issues. I just upgraded to Oreo and other than being blinded by the UI nothing much seems to have changed.
It exists. Off the top of my head, Flex SDR radios can be fully network controlled via iOS:

http://www.flexradio.com/amateur-products/flex-6000-signatur...

There's other options as well. But I'm not sure how that would help here?
Are humans any better at flying? Doesn't seem to impact how they feel about getting into an airplane.
In many countries judge and jury is one job - it does have downsides of course, but the way juries are selected in the U.S., I think I prefer it.
Worth noting that PayPal owns Venmo...
Reddit also has some absolutely fascist mods. For example, it's well-known that if you post anything that is against illegal immigration (and it gets too many upvotes!) /r/worldnews mods will go through and ban you after the thread dies down.

I was once banned there 48h after a polite discussion on the economic costs (citing various sources) for "hate speech". I got too many upvotes so it was noticed. Appealing to a mod resulted in him "examining my posts on other subs, and given who you voted for the ban will be permanent".

Actual hate speech is one thing, but far-left mods of major subs are using the banner of hate speech to silence well-informed opposing views.
The term is often used for non-violent action. For instance, it'd be reasonable to say that the US democrats purged their racist 'dixiecrat' faction; it took a while, but they have been eliminated.
We already are seeing what happens to the likes of surprised countries like Columbia and Zimbabwe and worried countries like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's a big deal and diversification is not an option, it's the way they need to go.