skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think this method has anything to do with Markov Chains.

Oh, it absolutely does. I think it's fair to say that Efros launched the field of nearest neighbor texture synthesis, and his abstract states: "The texture synthesis process grows a new image outward from an initial seed, one pixel at a time. A Markov random field model is assumed, and the conditional distribution of a pixel given all its neighbors synthesized so far is estimated by querying the sample image and finding all similar neighborhoods.

This is the same Markov model that all subsequent texture synthesis papers are implicitly using, including the paper at the top of this thread. Efros' paper implemented directly is really slow, so a huge number of subsequent papers use the same conceptual framework, and are only adding methods for making the method performant and practical. (Sometimes, at the cost of some quality -- many cannot synthesize text, for example.)

Note the inspiration for text synthesis, Shannon's paper, also describes the "Markoff Process" explicitly. http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop... (Efros referenced Shannon, and noted on his web page: "Special thanks goes to Prof. Joe Zachary who taught my undergrad data structures course and had us implement Shannon's text synthesis program which was the inspiration for this project.")

> Well, of course almost anything can be interpreted as a Markov process, I don't think it's a very useful abstraction here.

It's not an abstraction to build a conditional probability table and then sample from it repeatedly to synthesize a new output. That's what a Markov process is, and that's what the paper posted here is doing. I don't really understand why you feel it's distant and abstract, but if you want to elaborate, I am willing to listen!
What?

Both Joe Rogan (individual) and NPR (nonprofit) are ad-laden as...
> I don't think there's any replacement for Excel

That would be great. People over use Excel to no end and it causes problems. They need to use programming. Get people with R or Python and Pandas, or some other statistical program. (88% of Excel Spreadsheets contain human errors) These are human error. Use a program not an Excel sheet.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/13/sorry-spr...

One error cost $6 Billion in the "London Whale"
> they were already in debt $80k from school, but still wanted a ceremony that could have easily cost $40K

In fairness, "working class" people are usually not asking for $40k wedding ceremonies (or carrying $80k in student loan debt). This sounds like a valid reason for you to not want to marry your Ex, but I don't think this is a significant contributing factor for most working-class people, who don't generally plan absurdly lavish ceremonies.
Many poor people have smartphones. They're a big force in getting more people access to the internet and other technology, which is probably overall positive even though it has some significant negative repercussions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/01/for-more-poor-americans-smar...

http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/
You're shadow boxing. I didn't say those things.
If Microsoft let me buy Windows without that, I would have paid for it. Alas, If I spend $200 on Windows 10, I get the same tracking landmines than the person who spent 0 a few years ago.
There may be some half assed solutions, the article was why a good standalone podcast app isn't currently possible.
Or just making assumptions about how well single women get on in life, which is, in turn, an assumption about how well women do in the workforce.

If a woman's best life strategy is to get married so she doesn't have to take in laundry or become a shopgirl or take some similar low-pay/low-status job, marriage becomes seen as something the man is roped into, because men can (presumably) do just fine for themselves on their own, and, perhaps, are better off financially without "The Little Woman" to support.

Dual-income households destroy that pretty well, but notice how universal such thinking was in the pop culture of the 1940s and 1950s.

It's one more example of how all social effects are interrelated: It's hard to be sex-positive if the common STDs are effectively incurable, or require chemotherapy (vide mercury treatment for syphilis) to even attempt to cure. It's impossible to have same-sex marriage if your legal system has coverture, which means a marriage is a union of the husband and wife into the legal personality of the husband. It's impossible to take a modern view of marriage as something which can be put off if fully one half of the population depends on it to have a good life.
M.2 SSDs
...and possibly the read/write heads.
> Depending on what you're doing, you might need to pause/play/rewind the podcast a lot.

The existing 'now playing' capabilities of the watch handle this perfectly well. They don't handle selecting podcasts to play though.
Texas has also become a world leader in manufacturing Wind energy technologies
Those companies need to hire programmers and use a programming language like R.
It’s often not good to do this
Did you guys read the article?

All the Hacker News comments seem to think the Marriage is going down because its not a good deal for high net worth me. This might be true, but was not the point of the story at all.

Marriage is declining among the middle/lower classes. Its women who don't want to marry a man who doesn't have a job that are causing the rate to change.

This does reinforce the cynical point, that in marriage men are only there to supply funds, but the rich men who are opting out are not doing it at a high enough rate to matter.
Expect More Powerful AMD Ryzen and Vega Products Next Year
What if one wants to keep things simple with a minimal/nonexistent build system?

I haven’t done serious web work in ages but if I did I’m quite sure I’d find all of today’s “required” build tools quite frustrating.
Since Bush declared war on half the world 15 years ago, does it mean they are in mutual agreement now?
I have the impression that a cheap desktop (pentium?) PC is in fact cheaper and can house lots of 3.5" drives. Depends on how much space you have and how much storage you need.
No he meant 2.5"

Those models only have the "MacBook pro" "stick ssd" aka M2 SSD, which has a smaller form factor.
But also smaller companies, who cannot afford the sort of machinery a General Electric can.
there was a tremendous ATP episode about this exactly, maybe 6-9 months back. John's explanation of case sensitivity and file systems is a real gem, if anyone can remember the title
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, a NUC would be way overpowered most of the time. A R-Pi and NFS probably solves 90% of my use case.
As the article implies and also is said in comments, a lot of additional burden were placed on men in marriage. That could easily lead for many marriage to become "toxic assets" - i.e. you would be better without one.

Disclaimer: I am happily married.
Probably having chrome installed.
But where are the non-technical details?
These utility functions and shims are "per" component. This means that functions like extend will be repeated many times in different idiosyncratic code across app.

Imagine your app uses, modals, dropdowns, multiselects, search autocompletes, sliders, rich text areas etc. Instead of having one cached utility library upfront you have many hidden utility libraries scattered around each component, which makes it difficult to say clearly that jQuery is always larger.

The other issue is maintainability. When you're working with third party components, hot-fixing an OS library can be fairly daunting if you need to also learn their own internal class structure, selector helpers, dom manip functions. Doing this in jQuery, it's fairly easy to fork the codebase and plop in a .clone() or .append() to fix a stale issue.
He didn't ask for technical details, he asked what the * is this? But maybe the target audience are extravagant billionaires who will buy anything with a logo, regardless of what it actually is.
It is the job of the justice system to understand whether he is guilty or not. I think that if a company fires a person for a claim of sexual assault that wasn't proved, this person is justified to sue the fuck out of the company for false pretense.
I beg to differ. The last time AMD was competitive, my employer was buying AMD server hardware from HPaq for their VMware environment. Granted, all our desktops/laptops were c2d or early core i-whatever.
I'm not surprised by people here offering 'life ends at 30' advice here. No wonder there is so much rampant ageism in this industry.
Take the money. The only way you are going to raise money is if you have a VC network or if you are killing it. I mean killing it. You aren't.

Take the money. Relax. And do it again. The company that buys you will fuck it up and then you can fill in the gaps later as Newco.
Are there any SFF models with new AMD Ryzen? Any coming out soon? I have been unable to find anything.
I don't know how are you going to implement your service. But by looking at your website it seems that you could do a lot by hand to test if it works, sort of "fake it til you build it"

I built a lot of things that didn't work and with time I learnt to first get customers and then build the product.

I usually buy time saying that we are customizing the product for the client's use case, which it's usually half true. Just be honest about dates.
ASP.NET Core 2.0: Razor Pages
I am developing a Visual Search engine with pluggable indexing models.

https://www.deepvideoanalytics.com
Like you said, VanillaJS isn't inherently faster than any of these frameworks, but the cost to the user (and the increased API surface) isn't worth that tiny improvement in code clarity.
I think it depends on what leaks. KPMG, for example, is losing lots of business due to their issues in South Africa.
Same here. Not 1 notification so far...
Here:

http://www.microconf.com/
(edit: not only the conferenece itself, but I mainly refer to the available videos of pasts editions: http://www.microconf.com/starter/past-videos/ and http://www.microconf.com/growth/past-videos/)

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

https://www.indiehackers.com/
Granted. In any case it is not relevant in the context of this discussion. Access to the local keychain does not require an entitlement. Even the "keychain-access-groups" entitlement only applies to the iCloud keychain.
Since I have Chrome installed, I doubt that's it.
I had read an interesting theory stating that the building blocks were cast in place, similar to pouring concrete.

Here a video explaining the theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQk_yBHre4
Well it's not ideal for everyone, but when you own your own product, you can't be fired on a whim.
Correct, there's relatively easy ways to de-risk things. My wife and I dated for 3.5 years and lived together for 2 before we got married. We are in a high income bracket, and both of us thought quite a bit about the person we wanted to married, and made sure we had good conflict resolution skills, respect for each other. We agreed on kids, religion , money and sex (make sure you agree on these or you are going to have a bad time).

Chances of our marriage ending are very low according to the statistics. People always view marriage as this binary thing where you are either being completely and utterly scientific about things, or you are just being naive and jumping in. I love/d my wife deeply when we got married, but I was also aware of her flaws and my own. If you don't have any empathy or like living your life for yourself, don't get married (and probably don't date), it won't end well for you.
> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site trackingdata they leave behind.

Do my Safari Google searches still go via Apple by default though? I guess that's totally ok if you're in Team Apple? It's just sadly naive to believe a corporation has your privacy interests in mind in the absolute.
I think all the same advice applies, except slow down when you get to the size of company you're happy with.
Having Children Can Ruin Your Retirement
I believe judges can throw prenups out.
Something that actually benefits society. Something that pushes it forward.

You're gonna have to do a pretty amazing job to convince people that ad tech qualifies as that.
>today an 18-year-old college student can get a Visa/MC without a parent as a cosigner.

FWIW, when I was 18 I had to get a secured card[0] and I was barely able to get it (I had to go to my bank twice to appeal the decision). It's definitely different from 40 years ago but it's not super easy for most college students, and a lot of it came down to the fact that I had a few grand sitting in a checking account and a job that paid $12.50/hr. Some of my friends who didn't have that got flat out declined multiple times (I have one friend who has applied for three different cards and she's been denied all three times, with no credit history at all).

[0]: Basically, the card had a $500 credit limit and you had to give the bank $500 for a year, after a year if you've made all your payments they give you your $500 back. It still sat in my savings account generating "interest", but I couldn't spend it
Unrelated: Does anybody know why the favicon of http://www.fast.ai/ an "H"?
Perceptual hashing is useful for copy detection. Its not robust to changes/transformations nor do the hashes encode any semantic information.
If Uber is complicit, where are the charges? Where are the fines? Where are managers getting jailed for concealment of a crime? Is there even a prosecution?
That's a great idea. I'd start by open sourcing everything and putting the offer to hand over access to domain and data in the project README.

BTW, I've just launched my first little SaaS. Seems like you have some more experience doing this. Maybe you have some feedback? https://latency.at/
Out of curiosity, I am wondering if entrepreneurs really worry too much on their competitors. Often I find articles saying the opposite -- they urge people not having a blind eye on their competition so that they can at least differentiate themselves from competition, lest that they're making another me-too product.
> But maybe the target audience are extravagant billionaires who will buy anything with a logo, regardless of what it actually is.

Wait, are you talking about this or about Apple?
A small form factor VR computer would be really nice just for ease of setup (especially for installations or demos). At [1] CHIVR everyone that does a demo is either bringing a gaming laptop or desktop.

https://www.meetup.com/CHIVR-Chicago-Virtual-Reality/
I don't think so. When you are not interesting in scaling to another galaxy it is ok to have relatively few customers and charge them really well.
> even in its crappy implementation I used the hell out of it.

Then based on Marco's own stats, you were one of about 0.1% of users...

That said, now that the watch is free* from the tether of my iPhone, I'd love to listen to podcasts on it on a run while leaving my phone behind.

[1] https://marco.org/2017/08/10/removed-send-to-watch
[2] relatively
>classist

what does this even means in this context?
Doesn't appear to work on Google chrome on Linux Mint.
From the page:

Specifically tailored with the urban cyclist in mind, the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket was designed for getting around the city. The jacket features articulated shoulders to provide extra room to maneuver, reflectors, and a dropped hem to keep you covered as you ride. You can easily access your digital world because Jacquard technology is woven right into the sleeve.

Tiny electronics contained in the flexible snap tag connect the Jacquard Threads in the jacket’s cuff to your mobile device.1 The snap tag lets you know about incoming information, like a phone call2, by giving you light and haptic feedback. Inspired by a strap that you would see on a cuff, it looks and feels like it’s a part of the jacket. The tag also houses the battery which can last up to 2 weeks between USB charges.3
You're absolutely right to be concerned about this stuff, but be aware that it is generally acknowledged as a problem and that the "ethics of machine learning" is quite an interesting and active research topic.

One of the best articles I've read on the topic, if you're interested: https://medium.com/@blaisea/physiognomys-new-clothes-f2d4b59...
What is going on with this site? Have these people never used UBER before???

The reason they are reporting it to Uber is because when you get out of the car, you are immediately prompted for a rating and a TIP for the driver! Uber is almost forcing you to report a driver who makes you feel uncomfortable.

I'm not saying they shouldn't call the police AFTER. But there is nothing strange about them reporting this instance through Uber's channels.
And yet by "keeping it simple" you have to re-write and maintain a bunch of utility functions that are solved problems.
>but does getting hugged on a street (not when confined in a car) supports a serious crime claim in the UK or US?

It depends on what that "hug" really was - walking up behind a woman, wrapping my hands around them and grabbing their breasts might be considered a "hug" but it's also sexual assault.
Yep. I've seen UTC.

And I'm invariably the only geek whose photos are timestamped in UTC because I set devices that way (except for phones which I can't), or who knows that the metadata doesn't even record the TZ until a recent EXIF standard update, 2.31 released last fall, added support.

Wikipedia still says "There is no way to record time-zone information along with the time, thus rendering the stored time ambiguous." It'll be a while for cameras to catch up.
They cover the active window if the active window covers the top right of the screen...
The choice of words is the key. “He sexually assaulted her” actually means “he gave her a hug”. It’s evident she wouldn’t report something like that to the police.

Reporting an unwanted hug (to the police, not to the media) as a “sexual assault” is clearly not going to fly.
If anyone is interested I'm building an edtech startup which streams college classes. We have a a few courses from Stanford done in partnership with Y Combinator on building startups: https://www.podiumedu.com
Yes, in 1993, when Sears decided to close their catalog, much of the internet was still considered off-limits for commercial purposes [1]. We take today's use of the internet for shopping (and other commercial uses) for granted, but in 1993 it was not at all 100% clear that such a use would be allowed.

[1] Business Use of the World-Wide Web, 1995, http://www.informationr.net/ir/1-2/paper6.html ("Commercial activity on the Internet has only recently been possible.")
> At this point, does it matter much? I have a Celeron Qnap 25X that chews up everything I throw at it, the only limitation is the 8GB of RAM.

It surely chews no code containing AVX/AVX instructions. Also support vor VT-d is probably missing, just as TSX. Not to speak of AVX-512, which is planned by Intel to come to prosumer processors in near future.
How disposable is this product?

Many products create a waste burden that is an after thought. Clothing has a good disposal path - reuse, recycle or just throw out.

But what about wearable clothing? Since it is fashion it will have a short life cycle.
what happened to the great theory of the French architect? it sounded really promising back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Houdin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lasCXujNPfs
6x5mm of your eyes retina, coupled with our brain does a pretty good job, so there is no reason we couldn't achieve similar results.

I love using my old film cameras, and as an amateur, I actually only use an iPhone and film cameras.
I don't really see a point using a bulky and short lived dslr to produce nor quick nor great pictures.

As a professional, I guess the issues are different though.
They also hijack the scroll for a hard to see "next page" button.
Interesting! I don't think most laypeople are aware of this.

The French architect you mention is Jean-Pierre Houdin, he claims that a long straight ramp was used for the bottom 1/3 of the pyramid, then an interior spiral for the remaining. There is a large notch 2/3 up the pyramid and other evidence of some spiraling features that lends some weight to this one.

Another interesting theory is that water from these canals were used in a series of locks and temporary "ponds" elevated as each layer of the pyramid was built.
Wait, there's more:

Customize and control your jacket with the Jacquard app. Abilities let you control messages, phone calls, navigation, music4, and more. Assign and reassign different abilities to the gestures you want to use and decide when you want to be notified by LED and/or haptic feedback.

And so on...
But all of that is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.

It speaks less of Microsoft and more of the vendors who find no need to change their ways. Yes it really is all held together with spit and tape, but nothing has forced them to change from it.
I stand corrected. Sadly it's too late for me to edit my original comment.
Well, for one thing, getting married was something for everyone, including the poor. In Meg Keane's A Practical Wedding, there's a discussion about what weddings were like in the beginning of the 20th century. It turns out that what we consider a "normal" wedding was once the wedding only rich people could afford.

http://a.co/iC1AZMU

Back then, a wedding happened at church or city hall, and there was a simple stand-up reception at home. The Tappet Brothers warned to beware, "The Wedding Industrial Complex." A lot of the "traditions" around weddings are manufactured with the express purpose of getting more money out of you.

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a VP at my company about what happened to going out to the ball game. It used to be something democratizing, something even the poor could afford. Now, everything is jacked up in price, starting with the ticket, and the amount one would spend to take a family out could count as a major purchase. The same thing happened to the movies. I think capitalism is the best system we've come up with so far, but someone needs to realize that everyone needs an outlet, or else people will reject the system.
To be fair, if you're on a laptop or are just regularly using full-screen apps, top-right notifications are going to cover a chunk of your screen which you might be using. Of course, so would notifications absolutely-anywhere in that situation.
The failure of Sears is really the success of Chinese manufacturing and the rise of disposability and dramatically lower prices that followed. Craftsman used to be tools that would last you for decades, but you paid. Now it’s the same crap everyone else is selling with a different logo thrown on.
Yeah, but at the end of the day the different video settings still use "standard" formats that a normal consumer can open on their desktop or laptop. HEIF being the real outlier, changing any of the settings buried in Settings.app for the built-in Camera.app doesn't effect the ability of a normal user to view their content on a current operating system (Windows 10 or macOS High Sierra). RAW images change all of that - Windows 10 has really basic support for some RAW formats, and there are some workarounds like RAW+JPEG in ProCam but it results in two separate files combined as one "image" in your iCloud Photo library, syncing this to a Windows PC results in two files and just confuses users (macOS works around this by hiding everything in the Photo Library, invisible to most users).
You could argue that denim jackets are never out of style, and last for many years. But then we're getting into fashion discussions...
good meme
I have never run syncthing but NUCs are a really nice product, sturdy and easily concealed (you can just screw them under a desk for example). Don't forget to buy memory and a hard drive for your unit though :) It doesn't come with any.