skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every delivery location is going to be a little different so you would need a really general AI to understand how to just get the truck up to the loading dock (if you are that lucky).

or, as someone with a loading dock, i'd be willing to pay to have someone come out with a bunch of lidar gear and whatever to model up my dock and surrounding area, so i could just provide a big data blob about my dock to the shipping companies, and have their AI trucks pull in correctly every time.

as opposed to worrying about the days when some new guy (with his local knowledge and general intelligence) shows up to deliver and comes in the wrong way and gets stuck for 2 hours.

(there's a new job for you right there, folks, since the model will probably need to be updated every year or two as the shipping companies change their AIs, and changes are made to the surrounding buildings.)
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Having spent roughly a year doing Parliamentary style debate at the college level and various forms of speech/debate all through high school (admittedly I ended up doing mostly student-congress which is somewhat removed from direct adversarial debate but introduces other challenges), I find this article quite accurate about the state of HS debate. I wonder why at the college level (where the same kinds of "dropped argument" rules apply) the debate hasn't turned to 300 word-per-minute screeds (at least while I was competing).

On a related note, I explicitly avoided policy debate in HS because of its non-sensical verbal vomit style, and by few experiences with Lincoln-Douglass (LD) just seemed too abstract. One of the things I liked at the college level was that teams would present cases that were a little more practical than LD without the "I need to memorize wikipedia and 3 years of the Economist then recite it all" aspects of Policy Debate (PD). Judges also had some discretion on judging whether the case was a fair case (the affirmative team presented a case of their invention usually), which helped curb abuse. I wonder if there's a way to replicate that flexibility at the HS level.
The current rail network already grows and shrinks with demand so long term you it can continue to expand without massive investments.

IMO, Automated trucking makes trains more not less useful. The core problem with using trains is speed plus how much time and effort loading and unloading takes. With automated trucks you can significantly reduce this friction.
Spreading is good practice for speed reading and enunciation. Their coach has failed them if they allow it to continue into the competition room, unless they have asked both the judge and their opponents whether it is OK.

Key thing here: parents judge rounds. These lay judges aren't trained to listen to 300 wpm. They don't know any better though-- they'll still come back to the tab room and say "wow, these kids are really great, I didn't even understand what they were saying!" Yuck. The politicians of tomorrow.

And if your opponents haven't trained spread, what's the use of you spreading? Are you that insecure in your ability to sway others with logic and reason that you would resort to speaking quickly? Maybe instead of getting riled up by the game you should learn a real skill: listening. You'll find more of their flaws that way.

If you can't speak in a way that your listeners can understand, then your words are worthless.
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Sounds like test data (fake stories) made it's way into the wrong environment. This is easy enough to do.
That was the technical error.
One of the key efficiencies that UBI is supposed to bring over welfare is in cutting out the bureaucracy of determining who is worthy.
Is it going to use Vulkan? Sounds like a good fit for proper parallelized rendering.

UPDATE:
Ah, I see it's mentioned in the future work: https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki#future-work

Vulkan?
This could possibly make some of the serial
steps above able to be parallelized further.

So it will be using OpenGL then?
Wacom Cintiq using Pixelmator according to https://mobile.twitter.com/linclark/status/86746972399853977...
Since about 2013, most, all?, completely automated trading systems have ingested some form of news headline as well as sentiment on it.

2-3 times year a story like this comes across the news wire and its a good test to see who blindly follows headlines, vs who actually uses the headline and sentiment news as just one of many signals that are mixed together to create a trading signal.

Of course since most algos also have a momentum component, it becomes hard to see who has poor risk management vs who is just following the momentum and piling on:(

I remember two cases, one was about the FED raising rates by 2% and another was that a plane had flown into the whitehouse that was published by the AP.

Rule #1 of machine learning

- No data is clean, no matter how much you pay for the data, there is always noise.
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"expert's material, first-hand, for the raw, unadultered version" - Too many people jump to conclusions without valid resources, consuming information "TLDR" is more present today than ever before.
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Allow me to present: https://anvil.works/

Visual interface editor? Check.

Component-based UI model? Check. (It's all in Python, everything is an object, very Delphi-ish.)

Back-end communication? Check. (One-line RPC to call functions on the server.)

Database integration? Check.

(The built-in datastore runs on Postgres, and lets you do things like delegate views on a table directly to the client. Mix this with data bindings, and you can create CRUD apps with tiny amounts of code. Or you can start importing the appropriate Python libraries and go to town with your favourite DB.)
Are these the losers who underestimated the fandom of the Ubquiti networking owners?
CSV is a mess (are a mess?), but all these vulnerabilities have to do with spreadsheet applications' consumption of CSVs. There are very legitimate reasons a CSV might include fragments of potentially executable code, after all.
Call a Web service, call a console application, read/save a file to disk, use a database, SOAP, etc etc.
If you're in the US then it can vary by state. I used LegalZoom to form an LLC and it was ~$800 to start. Illinois charges me about $300 each year to keep my standing and I just use H&R Block software to do my taxes as I don't have much income coming in for the business and have my LLC tax structure to be passthrough so it makes tax season super easy.
1. A technology (or technology-backed phenomenon)

2. You're sincerely excited about (i.e. love working on it in your personal time)

3. You bet is going to change the world in a positive and significant way.
I've seen a lot of articles making this suggestion, but never do they seem to actually check if the software was indeed written by white men. It's as if they don't want their biases contradicted by evidence.
Which MacBook Pro configurations actually have tangible performance differences?
Looking to get another one (13" size) and wondering which features and to what extents actually yield differences in performance for daily work use (some increments look too close to have any). I.e. Differences in processor speeds - is 2.3GHz noticeably faster and worth higher price than 2.5GHz? Or 3.1GHz vs 3.3GHz vs 3.5GHz?

If one can't get the max combo (fastest processor + highest memory + largest storage) then which feature should take higher priority (e.g. fastest processor vs highest memory)? Do certain feature combinations produce better performance? Etcetera.
> The truth one discovers in debate is through their research

When I was in debate (mid-90s) most research was on paper - you'd have a brief with cut out photo copies ("cards") with the words to read underlined. If you weren't at one of the big schools, you were at a disadvantage, as the debaters themselves weren't seeking any truth in their research; they had teams who just cut every card imaginable. The goal, as in spreading, was just to overwhelm your opponent. (More baffle them with bullshit than dazzle them with brilliance)
I disagree, although I found debate obnoxious and inane.

Like many things, debate is a specialist practice in its own right. When the argument itself is the focus of competition, you have to go down the rabbit hole and compete over who is the best lawyer of the debate rules.

When you become a practitioner of many specialist topics, the nuance of the rules and exploiting them is part of the mechanics of what you do.
Is there a quick start guide for LASP somewhere on the web?
Back in the day, we used to train operators to use 'type sudo' before every use of the sudo command, to be sure they weren't surreptitiously using an alias ..
I wrote "script kiddie" as a way to describe the relative complexity of this attack vector - I was highly impressed with the pentest process, and think it's one of the smartest things we did this quarter.

Filtering user inputs is security 101, yet we missed this while focusing on fancy defense mechanics. This large gap between what the engineering team prepared for, and how they were exposed, is what made the outcome "embarrassing" - hence I agreed with GP that CSV/Excel stuff could be a blind spot even for well-trained people.
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I don't think exploiting software, in the usual sense of the term, is even necessary. Just box the truck in somehow when it's off the grid and can't phone home. There's no way the designers will build in the capability to ram through a barricade, will they?

My point, which I stated poorly, is that automated trucking is a whole new class of problems from a security standpoint. I'm leaving some scenarios out deliberately. I haven't even given much thought to the problem, but I hope someone does.
Who listens to these clowns? I'm shocked they have such an overwhelming effect on the market ($SHOP is down ~20% since last week).
The biggest problem with caps and legacy apps is not the semantics - a caps systems can emulate POSIX with no problem. The problem is the data representation: you can't fit a capability into a pointer, so all the data layouts change. Sadly, there are tons of C programs that make rash assumptions about data layout, and they would all break.

The guys are Cambridge have running caps systems that store the extra info in outboard data structures. We judge that the overhead is too great for commercial success. Customers buy benchmarks, and there are no security benchmarks.

'Tis true 'tis, 'tis pity. 'Tis pity 'tis, 'tis true.
You should tell Chris Sawyer about Rollercoaster Tycoon!
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I lived, coded in van. No money.. Apple laptop eat battery in 2 hours. Cannot recharge, no money for gasoline. Parking next to library to have internet..... never again. I hated it everyday. I do not recommend this to anybody.
But aren't the vast majority of Shopify users selling products (not recruiting other users to Shopify)?
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For now, the best information we have is here:

https://lasp-lang.readme.io/

That said, Lasp PG is being used as the underlying infrastructure for the Erlang port of Microsoft Orleans, erleans.

We have several companies using our scalable infrastructure replacement for Distributed Erlang, partisan.

Additionally, our previous work has been inspirational for gen_stage in Elixir (Lasp's gen_flow) and Phoenix channels (riak_pg, replaced by lasp_pg later.) There are several papers outlining out work and designs at Erlang Workshop (co-located at ICFP.)
I would hope so. And maybe the cost of insurance is what keeps human-driven trucking going for awhile longer.
The other moral of the story would don't assume that enthusiasm equals friendship. This poor fellow's erstwhile landlord fleeced him and I'm astonished that his investing partner didn't warn him away in favor of some less glamorous but more economically sustainable location.

Also, commercial landlords are not nice people. I see and hear a lot of similar stories here in the Bay Area, where it's now routine for landlords to jack up the rent by 100% at the end of a lease period. In cases like this landlords often plead that they have no other choice than to charge the market rate, and this is partly true - but they omit to mention that they are often leveraged to the hilt and are using their existing holdings as collateral to buy more property.

Even when property is sitting empty, it may still be 'working' for the landlord - commercial property can be depreciated for federal tax purposes over a 39 year period, so a building in a downtown area can sit empty but serve as a tax umbrella for profitable rentals elsewhere, as long as the costs of maintenance/blight mitigation stays low. I'm no accountant but as far as I can tell the tax code disproportionately favors property owners.
> as soon as someone who's willing to consider only the rules of the game in constructing their strategy comes along, and easily crushes all their competitors

Also relevant to codes of conduct unfortunately.
Sure. Not sure if it's worth going through that effort though. Especially if you need a tight integration with the Java library.
ha! try hugging _this_ to death!

if I'm ever in denver, i'm getting all of my coffee here.
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That's deep and thought-provoking. I like it!

One of my clients has a database flag field that I needed to use to determine whether or not to show something on their website. Should be a simple boolean field, I thought. Nope; their field can contain one of half a dozen character codes, none of which are Y or N. So you're right; I created an enum to represent the allowed codes and map them to meaningful names, and then I had to create a second boolean property to contain the business logic that decides whether or not to do the display based on the various codes.
It seems like it'd be far easier to rob a human-driven truck. Point a gun in the driver's face and they'll do whatever you want. For a machine, you'll actually have to hack into it.
Hi mulmen - I work with George (author). Dist and sort are absolutely an invaluable tool for optimizing your common BI workloads. What we are seeing with our customers is extensive use of arbitrary querying via tools like Looker or Tableau which often do not use the sort or dist key. This is becoming the most common workload for Fivetran customers b/c of the vast number of frequently updating dashboards that are powered by those queries.
This chart shows approximate linguistic distances between most European languages. It looks pretty accurate; in my experience Dutch speakers do indeed have an easier time learning English compared to native speakers of other languages.

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/a-map-of-lexical-distances-...
>Yes you can compile and install your own software, but AFAIK, you have to pay a yearly fee for the privilege of doing so

Yes. And you have to own one of their overpriced computers too.
Nothing to do with the standard of living, it's about exploiting as much surplus value from the workers as possible.
how are you taking payment without incorporating? paypal? any suggesions?
They're modelling filaments as cylindrical tubes of hot electrons connecting pairs of galaxies. I don't know what you mean by "mass associated with filamentary currents of energy", but while the electrons are hot (~million Kelvin), they're non-relativistic and their kinetic energy is negligible.
Perhaps when you put your finger on the home button it would read your fingerprint and authenticate you like that and the user wouldn't have to enter their password into a box that might steal it..

I can spend thousands using just my fingerprint, but authorising my Apple ID so I can buy a 99p app or login into iMessage requires my Apple ID password...
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Okay...

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I just checked the privacy policy and while I'm not a lawyer I would imagine that the following one of the following two clauses would protect them:

"We will share information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we share information with vendors who help us manage our online registration process or who fulfill your purchases. Some vendors may be located outside of the United States.

We will share information with our business partners. This includes a third party who provides or sponsors an event, or who operates a venue where we hold events. Our partners use the information we give them as described in their privacy policies, which may include sending you marketing communications. You should read those polices to learn how they treat your information."
I thought that too, but further in the article, it explains some official dialogs don't have the AppleID.

One way to get the email:

At the start of the phishing app, ask the user to enter in their AppleID, then store it.

Sometime later, present the user asking for their AppleID password.
> the origin of the open source firmware and drivers doesn't matter, it's the end result that matters

Unfortunately, the current end result seems to be a Linux that doesn't even have support for USB or ethernet.

There are so many SBCs these days it's hard to enumerate all of them, but this board looks more open than RPi. I think it uses Vivante/Etnaviv graphics. http://www.imx6rex.com/open-rex/
Google may have expected the Android ecosystem to resemble the DOS/Windows ecosystem of the past ie many diverse companies competing for market share.

It hasn't turned out that way. A few major players have come to dominate the cell phone market and the also rans have mostly exited the market.

The major's market share now gives them the clout to demand higher fees from Google. And all of this has led Google to now compete seriously with it's Pixel line of phones against Samsung and Apple. Now the big boys will battle it out.
And I've never given my wife a single password or passcode or PIN. But she can still use my damn phone or computer if she wants, as can my friends. Worst case scenario, I get a 55 gallon drum of lube ordered on my Amazon account.

For me, the principle is I never divulge credentials, but I trust people I know. Therefore I see no conflict with adding my wife's fingerprint to TouchID, for example. (though it's not worth the effort of re-enrolling her every time I get a new device or a new screen or reinstall from scratch, so that's long lost).
So is this like a conspiracy theory / clickbait blog but for investors? The content (and even web design) is laughable.
That's awesome :) thanks for the great work!
This is beyond grasping at straws.

Shopify performs a service, Herbalife does not. Shopify recruits people, Herbalife sells inventory.

I don't see Shopify asking for upfront payments from their affiliates.

Not to mention the fact that a successful Shopify store relies on skill at SEO, social media and picking the right products. Herbalife relies on being early enough in the "reverse funnel" and having a lot of people downstream (not skill).

There is literally no similarities between Shopify and HerbaLife beyond a program recruiting people, which basically every large site has.
He probably made a ton of money shorting the stock.
I can't help but laugh at the irony of the copywriting style, is this meant to appeal to the same kind of clueless audience that calls numbers for MLM-scheme posters stapled to telephone poles? If so, to what end?
I have weed-induced music -> shape, texture, etc. synesthesia. Each instrument (or voice) in a song has its associated brightness, shape, texture, size, location in space, and they all are animated with the song. This form is much less common than the types of synesthesia relating to colors but I think it's the most fun. There are quite a few consistencies that make sense to people who don't have it: lower frequency sounds look darker, louder sounds are larger, drums have a "sandy" (non-solid) texture. It all comes together and makes the song look beautiful.

I'd like to make a VR animation for one song to show others how it looks sometime. There are some videos produced by others but I don't think they give the full experience and they are missing something. On the other hand, I'm happy I don't have this ability normally because I would've probably gotten involved in some music-related field and that might not be a great career path. It seems to make music composition much more intuitive and just "obvious."

A couple good books on the subject: "Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia" and "Sensory Blending: On Synaesthesia and related phenomena."
I generally refer to this as the 'We reject being civilized' argument :-).

Civilization in this context being the set of rules and norms that impose restrictions on our behavior in exchange for a improvements in the quality of life for everyone in the community. One of the challenges of parenting is trying to explain to your children "why" they should follow the rules in terms they can understand and relate to.
But isn't it a hell of a lot less of a stretch to imagine there are more photons in other parts of the universe than here, than to imagine there is some sort of mysterious dark matter permeating all of the universe? If we're going to be unable to interact with whatever dark matter is to test may hypothesis, we might as well propose the hypothesis that requires the least radical changes to our fundamental theories of physics, no?
No, it's aliasing, just as any fork() is. COW lowers the cost, for Mill as for any other. The Mill fork duplicates the address space, not the memory. The memory is duplicated page by page on demand, i.e. copy-on-write. Mill paging is quite conventional; it's the address space (SAS) that is different.
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This is why --one-file-system should be default, with a warning if another file system is encountered that's skipped so if it's what is desired you can re-run it (or umount and try again).
I agree, they are among the most conservative. But I think that's why they are studying it. Insurance companies hate being surprised.

Self-driving vehicles will going to prevent a lot of collisions which will in turn drive premiums way, way down. The need to insure unattended shipments is one mitigating factor that I bet they are thinking about.
I've never heard of this Citron Research group. However, anytime a company tries to sell something as a "lifestyle" or other cult like mentalities, you know something sketchy is going on.

Also, I'm disappointed that Herbal Life was only required to pay $200 million. Their predatory practices destroyed lives in order to enrich top dogs in the business, and that makes my blood boil
Whats wrong with just setting PS1 to indicate that its a production server, and using a decent host naming scheme that properly indicates the function of the machine you're logged into? I mean this is what I do for my Linux machines, and I haven't deleted a Linux production machine in decades ..
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It's mind-boggling that people here are equating smartphones, browsers to development utilities. This is not something I would expect in Go, node, ruby ... but it's OK because it's .NET build utilities? How is that FUD?