skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example may be a monopoly (if there are no alternatives then Microsoft has a monopoly in that market, whether they actively pursued on or not, just as the first entry in a market has a monopoly until other entrants appear), but when talking about operating systems in general, Microsoft hasn't had close to a monopoly in a while. They still have significant market penetration and the majority of desktops, but credible alternatives exist in most cases, and more and more people are using them (thus the importance and interest in this MacOS release).
It is a search and seizure issue. But note that the man was stopped in Heathrow airport. In the UK, as in the US and most other countries, you have to submit to searches as a precondition for air travel. It is firmly established that the government can require you to give up certain rights as a precondition of entrance to certain places. Like going through airport security, or having to go through a metal detector before entering a courthouse, etc. Which isn't to say that what happened here is not or could not be an illegal search in the US. It isn't necessarily a constitutional issue, there are/can be laws limiting what law enforcement can do.
Any good examples of products that do this? TrueCrypt?
Too late to edit, but that's really what I meant. It's true that windows isn't a monopoly in the truest sense, but it feels like one because of the huge marketshare and vendor lock-in they have.
Tinder on iOS also is buggy, at least in my experience.
>By your definition alm every country has tons of natural resources, and yet results are so disparate.

Not really, being the easternmost port on the Mediterranean and southernmost point of Asia are fairly special things. Add in the almost city-state nature of those examples, and they do noting to prove your point.
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For instance, all your reference links are to yourselves. Are there no data points outside your own findings that could be useful ?
1D signals are typically associated with time series data. There's a ton of work on audio signals, e.g., speech recognition.

edit: I'm not sure if you're asking specifically for examples of CNNs applied to linear image sensor data, or if you're asking whether CNNs have been applied to any 1D input data.
I thought he was going to jump off at the end.. that was close to taking a turn towards Limbo
Great question! There is a few different things we do. First of all, students can flag parts of the feedback for moderation by a teacher. Secondly we calculate the inter-rater agreement between reviewers on a submission - that way teachers can look at submissions with a high disagreement.

Of the slightly more complex parts, we have some algorithms that can detect biased students (similar to this https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3964). Another simple trick is that if one reviewer says your work is good, another that it is bad and you don't flag the feedback saying your work is bad, then the review stating your work is good is probably too nice.

The final thing we are working with is making sure that students are honest when they assess feedback quality. To do this, we use some natural language processing to estimate the quality of feedback so we can see if our model is in agreement with the student that reviewed the feedback.

Basically, we do a lot of automated outlier detection and highlight outliers to teachers for manual moderation. Not all of this is in production yet (in the end, students are actually quite honest), but all of it is working in non-production environments on actual data.
We don't need nukes to deter China (or any other country) from an all-out invasion. We already deter them by being a small, heavily populated and industrially developed, largely monocultural, and largely mountainous country, which has half a million soldiers and is only accessible via sea or through one of the world's most heavily fortified border. Invading South Korea will cost any country more than Invading Iraq cost America. It's simply not worth it.

That's not saying South Korea is invincible, or there aren't any ways China can apply military pressure.

A much more realistic scenario is like this: some Chinese patrol ships suddenly find a need to "protect" Chinese fishing boats from being "harassed" by South Korean coast guards patrolling its EEZ. In such a case, nukes won't help, because what are you going to do with them, bomb Beijing? Can you imagine what would happen to KOSPI index if a South Korean politician so much as made a joke about using nukes?

I still fail to see the utility of nukes. Any national leader has to be batshit insane to consider invading South Korea, and if they are already that insane, I don't see how having a few nukes will suddenly cause them to back down. (Don't be fooled by North Korea: they're carefully cultivating the image of a batshit insane trigger-happy country because it benefits them.)
Yeah, I could have done things much more important. But this is what I do to make money. sigh...
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Or "define: yourwordhere", in case Google doesn't automatically give you a definition.
This is a good list. But I'm wondering what makes you think Amazon has lost direct ordering from China to Alibaba? Amazon makes this process pretty smooth, where a Chinese vendor can directly compete alongside other marketplace sellers. For Alibaba, on the other hand, you're going to a special site based on the expectation of getting cheap stuff from China.

This means that at least for me, most of my direct-from-China purchases have been from Amazon. Though I'm also often happy to pay a little extra for FBA, which also seems like a great way to maximize value for both consumers and Chinese manufs.
Does the playlist button work for anyone else? Even with adblock off it doesn't seem to do anything when I click it.
If you could get to it quick enough that is. I assume police departments these days have a procedure for cutting off wireless access to devices they confiscate by using radio frequency blocking bags. This of course brings up an interesting counter for actual terrorists, devices which don't fully power down and monitor for radio frequencies so if they are lost, the device automatically wipes itself.
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Not containers, docker.

Libvirt would allow someone to run this with practically any "virtualisation-like" system.
For a moment, I wondered if it was the 1st of April.
1/3 is pretty poor coverage. State it this way: "In order to play 2/3 of available video games, you must have Windows."
> Ironically, this mostly depends on you.

So the answer is, "yes." Not, "It depends on if you have ESP."

That said, some noise cancelling headphones offer modes that specifically let road noise through, and folks have hacked them to improve directionality of weak sound signals, and amplify voices. The Parrot Zik firmware comes stock with a 'street' mode.

It's entirely possible to have these systems function as hearing aides. MIT lab folks have demoed small wide-angle optical object detection that's then translated to directional feedback in a haptic belt.
> Programming with abstract types in Java is a pain, which is why (understandably) Java programmers don't do it.

OK, but I never said Java is ML. The example I provided is not uncommon.

> Interoperability between two memory-safe languages is completely useless to me.

Fair enough, but it's clearly not useless to many people.

> Any price is high when you get nothing in exchange for it.

I think that polyglotism and dynamic capabilities are a good deal, and I think that many others find it at least as useful as complete type safety, but, of course, that depends on your needs and personal preferences.
I work at company with about 50 people. Most of my projects are mostly independent, which helps a lot. Launching a new micro-site, automating notification systems, stuff like that.

I don't travel on my vacations, because there is still the chance I have to go into the office for a meeting. I just focus on relaxing and recharging. Working on my own projects, learning new stuff, and being easy on myself.
In reading his stories, I couldn't help but think that either immortality/rejuvenation leads to a very static society, or he has difficulties in trying to think of what a future society might look like.

His stories felt very much like the present, or the near past, projected into the future, with very little change.

This could be deliberate. The some of oldest people are also the richest (including having their own family planet), and least likely to want cultural change. The entire civilization could be bent to their desire to prevent change. But I don't think so. I think he just writes the present into the future.

Of course all authors find it hard to really think about a future culture different than their own. Take Heinlein, whose future worlds are often American pioneer or mid-20th century. But Heinlein added a few things to remind you that it is the future. Kilts are a trend in Methuselah's Children, white gloves for men in Double Star, nail polish for men in Beyond this Horizon, and at the end of Time For The Stars we realize that women throughout the story were always wearing hats, while back on Earth that fad had passed and women had naked heads "like an animal."

While in Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, the future was now, with a few extra gadgets, and a view of sexism which already feels dated. (I agree with the comment about sexism at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/149949969?book_show_ac... . And yes, Heinlein's stories were also sexist. I like the description that he write about a future with woman's lib, with women characters as doctors and engineers, but the reality of women's lib was quite different.)

On a technical side-note, the power sources really bug me. There are super-duper capacitors that can be charged over a century in order to change the weather, and incredible power sources that can be surgically embedded in humans so that a fight between two such augmented human ends up knocking down walls, but there are still diesel engines?
And he has a new book coming out in August 2018, so he's probably interested in some publicity.

https://varley.net/nonfiction/news/irontown-blues-blues/
This line of ethical questioning is behind the plot of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange". The main character Alex is subject of an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals but the method is flawed and leads to unfair consequences for him.
This is why he was chosen as Uber CEO. And I am not kidding.
we have a git repository that uses git-crypt for that. in there I can find all the credentials we need as developers and only someone whose key was added can unlock it. you still need to pull changes of course but it has made our lifes a lot easier for development.
"I Love Lucy" was created so Lucille Ball and her husband could have a family. So, it was a "lifestyle business."* It also was the Star Wars of its era in terms of being technically cutting edge and changing an industry.

IIRC, Plenty of Fish never took VC money.

There are other examples out there. You have to research it if you want it, but it does happen.

* http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...
Yeah, but then no "built-in battery backup", which is part of claimed benefit of buying a used $200 laptop over rooting a $150 chromebox or $200-300 cheap PC.
Oh skeuomorphic hell in DAW software...

I love this rant/gallery:

https://theoutline.com/post/2157/why-are-there-so-many-knobs...
Nicely done! This is a great idea! I hope those photos from the 30s are digitized so they can receive the same treatment
Wow, I don't see these kind of developers walking around. I see managers in finance do this sometimes though. But definitely not plenty. You must be living in some paradise.
Unless something weird happened the UK should will still be bound to the European Convention of Human Rights. Which (among other things) protects the rights to free speech (with some limitations).
Aren't the shares you already have supposed to be payment for that? The other investors had to put a lot of money to get them, often/usually(?) way more than the founders.
C: That'll be $9.99

A: Sorry, I forgot my jacket

C: Oh, we have some convenience nike bio-gloves if you want ...

A: Not biosynced to me.

C: Oh. Uhmm ... face scan?

A: I'm not American, I'm not in your DB.

C: Bitcoin?

D: No jacket.

C: What do we do then?

D: Do you take cash young robot?

C: You mean like paper? No, it's 2040. Paper cash is unhygienic.

D: So no coffee?

C: I guess not. Sorry. Next.
Deloitte is in the business of providing cybersecurity consultancy and is a major competitor in this space along with the likes of IBM and Accenture etc. This one is going to hurt them quite a lot.
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Yeah - it's hard to imagine a world where rail shipment, parcel delivery, industrial warehousing, and efficient processing of mail orders are recent technological developments. But they were! And bringing tech into the domain of consumer retail has been profitable throughout history.
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I did not get any hits on 'single saw bye' - Is that the case where a siding is connected to the main line at only one end? When I get a chance, I will see if I can figure out that one (I guess there are two variants of the single-junction siding, one with one and one with two switches.) Then there is the question of the minimum-length siding for arbitrarily-long trains. There seem to be some similarities to the Towers of Hanoi problem.
>possessing encrypted data (while being unwilling or unable to decrypt

How does this work with things like DRM? What if you have media on your phone from something like Spotify or Netflix that's presumably encrypted or protected in some way, that you cannot decrypt if your subscription expires...
Ideally clothing can use your back and stomach as a haptic surface. This offers directional feedback and more channels (an upper and lower feedback band, minimally). It also offers more natural touch surfaces.

Indie folks have been doing this for years, and it's getting quite small. Interested parties are both homebrew hackers and folks working at improving the lives of sensory impairment.
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*>Reader. Always on. Automatically use Safari Reader for every web article that supports it, so you can view websites without ads, navigation, and other distractions.

This is interesting, how does a website signal that it's ok for you to block all its ads?
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Possessing random data is also a crime since it's indistinguishable from encrypted data, and if you can't provide the non-existent keys, your SOL.
Imagination is certainly not the right word here. But we seem to agree that "there's more" to a colony than just the physical reality of many thousands of ants in a pile. I can't touch it or extract it from the pile of ants.

If I take half the ants, do I still have a colony? If they now form two colonies, where did the second one come from? How many times can I divide the ants and still have a colony? Where did the colony go if I no longer have one?

Of course "all the ants that form the colony" is a real physical thing, just the same as all the cells that form the ant, but that's arguing in circles. You need to have the "idea" of the larger (or smaller) entity in the first place to be able to point at it.

And it's not the point of the OP anyway, because the ants certainly themselves don't have any concept of the whole colony and don't freely decide if they are one or not. That's just an external observation and classification we made after the fact.
Thank you for that post ! It answered some questions and corrected some misconceptions I had.

I wish you the best for the rest of your adventure :)
TrueCrypt is long dead and uh, like may never have actually done what it said it did and was probably stolen technology to begin with.

Let's not mention it again.
Perhaps so that somebody with the same name and age can prove it isn't him?
My problem is that the people around me have no money to pay for the solution. How do you get around that?
Perhaps the line is quite blurry between addiction on one hand, and the general modifications that take place in the brain as part of the processes we call learning or even evolution on the other hand. Perhaps addiction is just those mechanisms gone awry.
Do you think the censorship of Mein Kampf, the anti-hate speech laws, and the illegality of Holocaust denial in some parts of Europe have authoritarian motives?
That was not my understanding, can you tell me what part of the currently enacted PATRIOT act enables searching a US citizen without probable cause or a warrant from a court (FISA or otherwise) ?
It's sensors woven into the fabric of the jacket, so that you can touch the jacket itself and have it recognize gestures.
The Math Book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393242-the-math-book
Please, please beat 83b into every founder’s head and make sure they’ve internalized it so they get this boring form right for their employees.

You’ve got 30 days or you’re paying income rather than capital gains. If WSGR incorporates the startup they will get this right for the founders. Sign this, sign this, this and this. But will the founders get this right for their employees?
Right now, one political party has majority over all three branches of government (including both houses of congress).

About the only reason changes aren't being made into law quicker is that this party in control is pushing some very polarizing/unpopular legislation/edicts.
2040 startup idea: body-identity-based micro-credit. "You forgot your wallet, but you look fairly legit. For a 5% surcharge, we'll give you that coffee now. Pay this IOU online later. In case of nonpayment, you consent to nationwide tracking by our network of facial recognition drones."
> "The only right wing view I've seen suppressed..."

Well if views are effectively suppressed then you won't hear them.
That's absurd. No reasonable person would call groping someone's breasts a "hug".
I personally like the idea and will try it out for my private projects but this would probably not be possible to be used by the company I work for because we'd give everything to a third party.

Maybe you should think about a self-hosted solution in the future, that might increase the audience.
> Personally I prefer to pay someone for a product/service directly.

Sure, but the vast majority of users do not want to pay for the vast majority of internet content.
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Jacquard as the product name sounds like a Silicon Valley joke. I think they might be getting a little out of touch at Google. :o
I'm guessing he has a bunch of restaurant menus that he needs to read and categorize the items into appetizers, entrees, dessert, etc. etc. The problem is that he'll need 50,000 menus to train the ML model on, and then another 50,000 to verify it.

He'll also run into the problem of restaurants sometimes categorizing entrees as appetizers (is a caeser salad an entree or an appetizer?) so the NLP portion will be especially difficult. What about dish names that are in other languages?

I could go on... Tough problem!
Yes, it's been through a several-month beta period and is now production ready. It's running a high availability, multi-az Kubernetes architecture, and encrypted config is also backed up to S3 in a separate region for additional redundancy.

Definitely give it a try :) Feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions, feedback, concerns, etc.: dane@envkey.com
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Not sure if Bean Canyon will have the same form factor as all of them are 28W. I certainly hope they've got a new cooling solution! June Canyon (Gemini Lake) will be the same as Apollo Lake I'm pretty sure.
So, now an audio plugin system has a physically based graphics rendering engine using OpenGL - in order to save diskspace by eliminating pictures of KNOBS?

Am I the only person who considers this beyond idiotic? So now the audio processing machine doesn't need only a powerful CPU for audio but also a good GPU with good OpenGL drivers so that a plugin (not even the main application, but a plugin!) can draw its knobs?

Seriously, what were they thinking? Why does a plugin even need photo-realistic looking controls? It is not like they work any better than a regular button or slider ...

There is a saying in engineering - "That you can do something doesn't mean you should ..."

double facepalm
Actually it makes having a Chromebook and two Google accounts seem more and more realistic. Now with Google's cooperation you could have a 'duress' password, and log into your account for them and have Google supply an alternate reality.
What's it take to make the concrete mix? I agree that it's a lot easier to move concrete mix and water, mix on site and pour, than it is to move blocks cut from a quarry. But it's important to look at the whole picture. If it is sufficiently easier to cut and move blocks than to make concrete, then that's the more likely method.
Well, what happens if you build a 1D-input CNN in TensorFlow and train it the usual way? Does it work? Seems like it should.

What's even the difference between 1D inputs and 2D inputs? It's all a bunch of numbers anyway. I don't think it really matters if the pixels are arranged (as you see them) in a neat rectangle vs in a straight line. You could take a 2D matrix and enumerate it as a linear string of numbers and it would still be the same matrix, just represented differently. I don't think the CNN cares either way.

I would go as far as saying that the 1D-ness of the input is just "in your head".
Validity of Baumeister's research has been disputed recently: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
Dead man switch
Be careful with using private entities to mail your stuff. Yes, it's encrypted, but they also don't need a warrant to open the package. USPS does. Obviously for international shipping this is going to change based on the country of departure/origin, but something to keep in mind if you actually have a need to be concerned with this type of thing.
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Sorry to hear that! If you have any specific feedback or bugs, definitely let me know. I'm @jmj on Twitter.
Not exactly dying to hear about the latest Trump tweets while I'm coding.
In Europe, free speech is understood in a somewhat more narrow context than in the USA.
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Ever wondered how to “sell” your client an under-the-hood refactor which they can’t immediately experience, but which makes your life so much easier?

Take notes from the copy introducing High Sierra. Apple starts with APFS and doesn’t really get to new end-user features until a few screens in.
And even more damning:

"In total, Uber had failed to report six sexual assaults, two public order offences and one assault to the police. This had lead to delays of up to 7 months before they were investigated. Particularly damning, with the public order offences this meant that in both cases the prosecution time limit had passed before the police became aware of them."
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If you're using a build system like webpack you can use Babel/minify to get rid of unused code or pick and choose your modules directly from the npm package.
You'll get something that looks plausible for sure, maybe not what was originally there though. In the future, someone will be falsely convicted of a crime because a DNN enhance decided to put their picture in some fuzzy context.
My naive understanding of my country's laws is that it doesn't.

I could have a file filled with /dev/random and the law would still apply.
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