skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer?

PowerPivot. Database Access (JDBC to a handful of DBs isn't anywhere close to what Excel offers.)
It's a shame that this was flagged instantaneously just because it was perceived as being in opposition to diversity programs. The quote that really stood out to me wasn't about the diversity programs at all, but instead about vilifying the node community on reddit.

> reminder to reddit manbabies that they are kinda pathetic, irrelevant, boring, creepy nerds who’ll never amount to anything. The only thing they seem to know how to do is complain, masturbate about upvotes and karma, and be creepy stalkers when women are involved. Like holy shit, do these weirdos even realize what they’re doing? Y’all are literally the sketchy, sweaty nerds that make us wanna vomit. But keep doing what you’re doing, because I’d rather that y’all vomit-inducing rapey gross dweebs actually keep being open about who you are

That seems like an incredibly unprofessional thing for an employee to say, even if that's how they feel. It sounds more like childish name-calling than any real effort towards promoting diversity. I'm supportive of efforts to increase diversity within the tech community, but this sort of rhetoric just comes off as divisive rather than productive.
Thanks for the comment! I looked at WHOOPPEE a while ago and it is great work. We have thought a lot about doing rankings instead of grading/assessing each piece of work individually with evaluation criteria.

On one hand, I believe that it is easier with rankings to get more numerically correct grades. Humans are bad at rating things, but binary rankings are doable.

The challenge with rankings for peer review, is two-fold. The first problem is that a ranking does not directly tell you where you are lacking or how to improve. The second problem is that quality is generally not 1-dimensional (as the ranking would be).

These problems can be solved by letting students rank papers according to multiple criteria (consequently generating multiple rankings) and then combining these rankings. The challenge with this solution is that doing multiple rankings often ends up becoming a quite time-consuming and overwhelming task. Also, from the research I have looked at about this, students generally find it hard to pick one or the other, often requesting the "I don't really know" option making the problem somewhat less trivial.
I use Karabiner to remap all the keys/buttons on my Razer Naga (so I can avoid using Razer's awful software). I've looked into Hammerspoon but it's not clear if/how I can remap keys only from a specific device.
Such an elegant solution. After crawling through thousands of lines of disassembled code and finding a pretty significant logical error, the solution was as simple as a tiny patch to a configuration asset.
But the stones used weren't just limestone but also granite with marbling.
I agree with most of this, but I'm confused about something. Are you saying that it's not OK to prioritize the needs/realities of certain groups of people?

I think there are situations where it's clearly not OK - for example, it's wrong for a government to limit access to voting based on race. But if you're, say, developing a new technology, then almost always it will be initially expensive and limited to wealthy users. Still, if we hadn't had an iPhone for rich folks in 2007, it's hard to imagine we'd be living in a world with decent $40 android smartphones in 2017.

Would you agree with that logic?
The key term is foregone conclusion, at least in the US. If the contents of the device are known, they can be ordered decrypted. If they are unknown, it is protected by the 5th amendment.

>Whether the government can compel decryption in this manner depends on a legal doctrine called “foregone conclusion” that was first articulated in a 1976 Supreme Court ruling relating to paper documents in a tax fraud case.

>Under the “foregone conclusion” doctrine as applied to digital documents, handing over files is not considered testimony if the government already knows that the files exist and what machines they live on. And when there is no testimony, the protection of the Fifth Amendment’s self-incrimination clause is not available. Prosecutors with specific information about the existence and location of files on encrypted hard drives are more likely to convince a court to order a suspect to decrypt them.

1. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/0...
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There is some very nice imagery in the "Loop of the Day" here [0]. It used to be from Himawari-8, but returning to it to post it here, I see they are now primarily showing data from GOES-16.

von Karmann vortices (e.g. [1]) are particularly nice.

[0] http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_of_the_d...

[1] http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data...
The point of the warning is precisely that the compiler is making a dangerous assumption without proof.

More smarts is needed only to eliminate false positives occurrences in the warning.
It also highlights how close the clouds are to the surface of the Earth. In everyday perception, at least to me, the clouds always seem very distant and cleanly separated from the surface. Here you can see they are actually very nearly connected to the surface, all part of one ecosystem against the backdrop of the distant universe.

Truly stunning.
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That's unlikely to work. Police forensics usually work with a drive image instead of with the device itself as much as possible to avoid damaging evidence either through allowing active measures like a dead mans switch or mishandling by investigators.

Beyond that simply removing the dive and putting it in another computer would bypass any switch except one in the drive firmware itself. Are there any software out there designed to do that?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... has an example (Target, not Google) where that could very well be the conclusion, yes (or rather "too bad the ads were targeted so well"). That's off the top of my head, since that one hit the national news pretty widely.
Sideways thinking.

What we might want from clothing:

+ Self cleaning
+ No need to iron but still feels like cotton, not plastic
+ Synthetics that are breathable like cotton
+ Cheaper
+ Can change colour/styles
I've got two NUCs, which I use as HTPCs running Fedora. They're fantastic machines. Really tiny, quiet, and plenty powerful enough for HD movies and light gaming/emulation.
I feel like there's something important going on here, but it's damned difficult to understand what exactly it is.
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The author should spend some time delivering solutions to "real problems". It's easy to be snarky while writing a blogpost with toy datasets but it's difficult to actually deliver production solution in an organization. The real COST is often not the time consumed but costs that arise from maintaining heterogeneous architecture and remaining legally compliant.

A database or hadoop cluster is not just an execution engine, but rather a managable, reproducible execution engine. Sure you can code up a smarter algorithm on your personal i9 workstation. However having something available as part of DB or Hadoop ecosystem enables reproducible execution while taking care of compliance (e.g. privacy), security, access control etc.

Eventually we will have a containerized extensions to DB query execution flow that will allow us to have best of both worlds but for 99% practicing data scientists downloading a Gigabyte sized subset to their own workstation is not a viable option.

The real opportunity lies in ability to add arbitrary compute/memory capacity to DB query execution flows.
Does it only work better spoken, or does it also work better in written form? Do you include the article/prefix in the hostnames?

Naming is the most vexing aspect of programming, so you really must share more, even if just to deflate expectations.
Haha my camera already does this. Filters! Also Meitu, and their other program Makeup Plus can do all kinds of crazy things with your pictures. The VR on them is really neat imo.

The thing is people can usually tell if it's extreme enough. After all we see each other in person sometimes still. :)
Not that I know of. Without some way of knowing where and when they're from, I'm not sure how useful the data would be. It'd make an interesting project.

During WWII the UK government (maybe the US? I'm unable to find a reference but the search terms are pretty generic) requested pictures and postcards from people who'd taken recent trips into Europe. They wanted them for intelligence reasons - I think it was the UK.

That's the closest thing I can think of, where there's been a request for massive photos. They wanted people to include information about locations and dates, as I recall.

Someone here might be a historian and know more details than I do.

But, it seems like it'd be a large pile of data and work. Unless they knew when and where they came from, I'm not sure how much value they'd have - other than aesthetics.
What do you mean by "startup"? The one I normally use is Steve Blank's, "an organization in search of a repeatable business model".

If that's what you're talking about, then a lot of this advice still applies. Looking at the "Pocket Guide" section, for example, I think that all still applies for a niche startup.

If, on the other hand, you're just talking about a new company, one where you're applying a well-understood business model to, say, a new location, then yes, you need different advice. But I think that advice differs a lot based on what kind of new business. The advice for a first-time Subway franchisee should be pretty different than somebody who wants to launch their own consulting company. There, it seems like people form up into specific communities around the kind of business.
I agree that it's atrocious no matter which party is responsible, but the steps in addressing this are very different between a private company and an open source project with significant governance. The author doesn't seem to make much distinction in relation to this.
I've seen that fall apart in the US too.

The defendant tried arguing 4th amendment privacy protections over the information obtained in property that implicated him, but the judge said that didn't apply unless he admitted to owning the property which would equally incriminate him if he did, haha.

very narrow protection
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same like 2D, but the convolution layer is a vector. It's similar like the case of CNN applied to NLP, in this case the text is also 1D on input.
Unless I horribly misread the paper, this is not based on the Efros' quilting method, which indeed uses Markov fields. The method linked here seems to interpolate every pixel independently from its surroundings (neighbor means a close-by pixel in the training set in the feature space, not a spatially close pixel).

And I didn't mean that Markov processes are abstract in any "distant" sense, but that they are an abstraction, ie a "perspective" from which to approach and formulate the problem.
Amongst others, people skills. Excellent written and spoken communication skills, good presentation skills; the ability to explain to people why they have to be so inconvenienced and ideally make them want to. Flexibility and compromise; empathy and understanding and the willingness to relax security restrictions in the right circumstances.

The biggest obstacle to security is the people you're trying to keep secure. If you don't get them on side and keep them on side, they will subvert security themselves from the inside. Get them on side and keep them on side and they themselves will identify opportunities to improve security that might otherwise be left open forever.
The Google Support site has this description:

In collaboration with Google Inc., Levi's® has reimagined their iconic Trucker Jacket to create an interactive, connected garment that allows wearers to access a variety of mobile services tailored to the needs of an urban commuter. Control music, get your next direction, and screen your calls & texts by swiping or tapping the jacket sleeve. Touch and gesture data is wirelessly transmitted to mobile phones or other devices through the Jacquard snap tag.

https://support.google.com/jacquard/?hl=en

It’s a jean jacket with a touch sensitive left sleeve cuff that talks to your phone via a tiny BTLE dongle that snaps onto the jacket. Requires Android 6.0.1 and a supported phone.
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.

Not only that, but if you get out of the car before you reach your destination, Uber displays a large dialog asking if everything is okay and if you need to report a problem. I can't find a screenshot of that exact dialog, but it included some of the options at the bottom of this screenshot (eg I was involved in an accident, My driver was unprofessional.)

https://media.consumeraffairs.com/files/reviews/uber_163101....
The post itself isn't currently flagged/dead. Yours currently is.
Black cabs are limited in number due to the difficulty of the Knowledge test. Ubers aren't limited in number and Uber makes no effort to discourage excess drivers from logging on. (If it reduces the average wait by 10 seconds, it's worth it in their eyes, as it costs them nothing. The congestion cost is externalised.)

Uber also sends push notifications to drivers to go to specific areas to prevent surge pricing.
Just in time a reminder for everyone to switch to Duck Duck Go
> Right now, Jacquard only allows one-way communication (human -> device)

Wasn't there mention of light and haptic feedback?
Rationality and reason say that since Uber is a black cab operator, they are, just like other black cabs, legally obligated to report these incidents to the police. They have failed to do so. Case closed.

The victims contacted Uber with the assumption that Uber will carry out that responsibility. Uber failed to do so.
This is only a useful comment if it includes an alternative (and also widely used) definition, or at least a critique of the definition provided.

In fact, the wikipedia article on startups includes the grow fast component, suggesting to me that that is the most common usage:

> "an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process or a platform. A startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model."
Trivializing making bad software that is slower on devices orders of magnitude faster by trying to equate it to netbook prices is a particularly bad methodology of comparison.

This is especially true as people are promoting everyone moving to a platform that is substantially worse.

How about getting more performance and battery life out of the same machine which effects more than netbook users.
Isn't he an alleged* sexual predator?
That was a very strange thing to see, in realtime. foob's comment was marked [dead] but not flagged, as one often sees with shadowbans. Then suddenly not.
jQuery is more than the DOM api.
>This isn't a Republican or Democratic problem. At every level of government, both parties represent distressed areas. But the economic fortunes of the haves and have-nots have only helped to widen the political chasm between them, and it has yet to be addressed by substantial policy proposals on either side of the aisle.

I don't understand how the article can claim this when their own graphic at the top of the page shows that the majority of distressed communities are in Republican-dominant areas.
> This show is post-racism, but still believes in “culture” with a Victorian faith in white mythologies

I'm fairly literate in Liberal Arts English, but I don't follow what this means, especially as the context around it seems to complain about portrayals of race. What does it mean to "believe in 'culture' with a Victorian faith in white mythologies"? What does that modifier mean about one's belief in culture (whatever that even means, all on its own—do the scare quotes mean we're not supposed to think culture's a thing anymore, or is this a hardcore we-can-never-judge-a-culture-as-inferior thing the writer's assuming we all buy?). How does that relate to the rest of the paragraph?
The consensus of the courts is that providing a password is not considered self-incrimination. Self-incrimination means testifying against yourself. It specifically doesn't cover, say, providing a key to police so they can unlock your door and search your house (assuming they have a valid search warrant). If you had a safe that police had a warrant to search, you would have to open it for them, that is not considered self-incrimination. The courts have largely reached the consensus that unlocking or decrypting a device is like providing a lock to open a door, or opening a safe, and is not like providing testimony against yourself.
> When you have to get it done, use Go.

Or Java? I mean, I've never seen any reason to use Go over existing, better languages.

Never thought I'd call Java better than anything, but there you go.
Writes an article complaining about toxic people who claim to be supporting diversity, spends the rest of the time fending off his new found right wing, MRA, Trump supporters. Plainly, there was no way this was going to be written in such a way that didn't attract those who were already predisposed to be angry at one side or the other. The article was written only using examples of issues that solely focused on the issue of exclusion of white men from the project. Questions I would have, include:
* Are there no other ways that the individual harasses people?
* What changes would you like to see?
* Who is the correct person to make these changes?

I'm not sure based on the article at hand that this really helps more than it hurts, even if the issue it's discussing is valid.
Context:

When a local cab driver does anything like this, it is local news implicating a small local company if that.

When an uber driver does anything like this, it is international news.

I think this should factor in to your risk assessment of using Uber versus any other service.
Could we stop using the term "lifestyle" to describe young companies that aren't chasing the unicorn dream? A lot of them are run by very driven founders who work long hours to build world-class products for smallish niches. They don't have vacation homes in Tahoe; they don't shut down for a week to go to Burning Man.

Instead, they are obsessed with a definition of business success that doesn't involve ten-digit numbers.

There is one "lifestyle" business that's rampant throughout Silicon Valley, in spite of its efforts to deny it. This would be the bottom quartile of the venture business. It's all about picking up management fees, taking long weekends, and living large.
If the cash is attached to milestones or vesting, it won't be in your account...
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> Changing filesystems, adding external graphics support, adding support for new image compression formats, and updating the graphics API to support VR are all important, and none of them are small tasks. But the UI doesn’t change, apps get only minor updates

I disagree. Recently, I formatted my macbook pro and decided maybe I don't need all these "new features" in Sierra and would be fine with Mavericks.

Turned out it is more complicated than that.

- The external screen renders better under Sierra than Mavericks. I didn't notice the change since it happened gradually and I don't know which version triggered it. But it was annoying enough to notice.

- The battery life under Sierra is much better. I noticed a 10-20% extended lifetime.

- Some apps would not work.

- I missed the Sync between my iDevices. I didn't know that it didn't exist in Mavericks.

- Finder is more responsive in Sierra than Mavericks

I really came to appreciate Sierra after that reset to Mavericks. In fact, I couldn't work with it and decided to upgrade. What High Sierra brings to the table is "unnoticeable" UI wise but makes your workflow easier.

These small improvements performance wise makes your work easier and better. On the longterm they accumulate and are making macOs still the best OS I have ever interacted with.
Hope it was us! I think we are better for a few reasons.

1) We are feature-wise the most complete peer feedback solution on the market. This matters because very few classes and courses are the same and teachers like flexibility where product fit to their teaching.

2) Secondly we spend a lot more time thinking about the user experience for teachers and students in our product. Getting accurate grades and having a lot of smart features is of course important, but making it easy to use and setup is more important.

3) It seems that most other peer feedback solutions are built with a narrow mindset about just scaling grading. We are building Peergrade with a focus on feedback over grades and always looking at improving the way students interact with and learn from each other.

Hope that was an answer to your question :)
If their "tackling" of incidents involves not reporting crimes to the police, can that really be called "tackling"? The fact it is run by former police officers is irrelevant if all they do is decide whether or not to retain a driver.
Because it became saddled with SJWism and PC culture.
The title used here comes from a line in the article, which has the title "Star Trek: Discovery". The essay starts "This week on Dear Television".

It does not look at the broader question of "why did science fiction stop moving forward", but mostly Star Trek, with a few references to Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse.

I write this because when I saw "L.A. Review of Books" I thought it would include SF in books, and touch on things like Stephenson's Hieroglyph Project (See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dear-science-fi... - "Dear Science Fiction Writers: Stop Being So Pessimistic!".)
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The post was from 16 days ago right? Did Apple fix it?
I am not supposed to tell (yet). I understand the show might still be canceled and they don´t want people spending eternity waiting for something that doesn't materialize. :)
Jeez reddit constantly harasses you to use their mobile app, need to remind myself not to go back.
Tv always played it safe.

Books are where it's at.
Not a priori, as a decrease in cab utilization from higher fees might lead to more cars and in fact make congestion worse.

This would be something you had to measure the effect of, due to (possible) non-trivial feedback.
> Does YC have an approach on how to actually get founders to take advice to heart instead of just understanding at a surface level?

I've been building Internet companies non-stop since the mid 1990s. The only means I've seen or personally experienced to accomplish that, is personal suffering (only half joking). That is to say, going through it for yourself. The difference between book knowledge and hands on experience. Taking a punch to the gut (so to speak) provides an intimate, emotional, personal lesson in a way that reading about taking a punch to the gut simply never can. Your brain subconsciously makes a special effort to take note (forms of pain learning mechanisms) and ingrain lessons that it will not (and I would argue, can't) from reading about it alone. It's almost like something getting etched into your DNA, versus just having a surface tattoo. When you actually go through it, you acquire a kind of automated discipline (courtesy of said pain) that you can't have just from reading or being told; children and pets learn the same way from touching hot things.