skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your assessment, but disagree with your recommendation. I sincerely doubt ROS will be used in its current state for legitimate autonomy. It can seem half-assed because it is fastly changing.

I think your DDS comments apply nicely to OpenDDS, and I sincerely hope that the spotlight of ROS2.0 will improve OpenDDS significantly.

ROS is a good platform to study and learn. It is not something you'll find in a car in a garage. But it is worth it, because there are similar-enough platforms used for actual, real-world applications that would impress even the most curmudgeonly programmer. Such as ...

https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/showTask.cfm?FuseAct...
Are you sure we get a rejection email?
Do you run Linux with your AMD cards or just Windows? Wondering what the Linux experience is like these days with all the Linux driver improvements AMD has made.
They've recently been trying to share a lot of code between windows and linux drivers. That should help them stay closer to parity.
congrats guys! Cool write up
Indeed; I read this specifically because I was curious specifically what MacCarthy's requirements or specifications would have been for such a thing, back in 1964. I.e. the young MacCarthy take on the problem and how it reveals his thinking about such a thing.

What it reveals is that he had a very firm grasp on advanced computer and operating system architecture. He describes the requirements for an interrupt-driven concurrent system which has two levels of protection: a user and executive mode. Moreover, he recommends a small, well-debugged kernel be used, architected in such a way that errors in other pieces such as peripheral drivers, are recoverable. It's almost as if he's hinting at a micro-kernel architecture.
yes, it been the worst 5 hours of my life. super restless!
It's funny because in retrospect their paginated, dual-column, tiny-viewport UI is the sort of unresponsive skeumorphism that we make fun of today. At the time though it absolutely did lend it a certain air of professionalism, by deliberately styling itself after magazines to elevate it above the emerging gamer-blog tabloids (one of which, in full disclosure, I was paid to populate).
Yeah.. those pictures aren't the ramen you're starving yourself with...
You can still buy Galaxy Note 4s. They are pretty good phones.
Is it 10 pm PT?
This is just not really true. Shared hosting and leased servers were widely available from dozens of providers and very popular back in 2002 when AWS started. Also, FOSS operating systems were very popular for servers back then as well. Sure, bigger players owned lots of servers they sourced from the bigger vendors, but smaller players and upstarts largely did not (and certainly didn't need to).
Actually, there is great doubt. Many environmental campaigners are coming around to intensification broadly as the path out of our current environmental problems. Check out http://www.ecomodernism.org/ a bunch of ex-greenpeace types that are concerned with practical solutions. Tripling yield takes a long time and wheat, and especially corn, is on an exponential improvement curve. https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/yieldtren...
Citation? All the comparisons I've seen still have nVidia way ahead
Wow that website sucks.
Screw this logic. Ok the company who is one of the biggest data--based companies in the world is trying to "make the world a better place" - and we are all one big family blah blah gives no data back, so as to literally stomp on some dream rather than to foster growth.

So, to the VCs out there, you have a moral obligation to tell people why you don't want to invest/work-with or hire.

Otherwise you stick the idea of "vulture capital" aren't helping people get better.

Look at some from the ashes type teams, like WhatsApp - might find more of them if you weren't to crush them out early.
> But I don't see anything like a 1:100 ratio of "better", by any metric... So again, while it's not like school "tier" doesn't matter - this 1:100 ratio is just silly.

I think you misunderstood my point. Parent's observation may be accurate because of a combination of quality disparity and disparities in raw numbers.

The elite CS programs are relatively large compared to many Podunk States. So it's not just that there's a modest 1:10 or 1:20 or 1:5 or whatever quality ratio, but also that Podunk State graduates 20 or 30 students a year while the elite schools are churning out hundreds. So there's a 1:10 quality ratio but still a 1:100 yield ratio. Or whatever.

Again, inaccurate for the large state flagships, but very believable for the regional comprehensives.

(This isn't idle speculation. My observation is that larger schools tend to get more attention from recruiters, even setting aside quality, and I think this numbers game has something to do with it.)
I know that my brother started running a game for us because the podcasts he'd be listening to other people play on had started to run out.
If you don't need inter-process communications, you don't need ROS.

Caveat: ROS is for research into robotics systems and algorithms. You can pick up your fav language, write something up, and use a thin IPC library (pub / sub) to tie it into the ecosystem.

Otherwise, it quickly becomes impossible to share portable modules and code libraries (all written in different languages, mind you). The alternative: Sticking to their language and compiling in their library or dealing with their dependency chain ... is much worse.
Thank you so much for the heads up. It seems like the site has been hacked somehow. All of the videos have been removed and the data has been changed. I am sorry, I am trying to get it fixed!
I'm refreshing the page a zillion times.
I came on here to say that.
Florida tried to secede once. In this part of the Land of the Free, I don’t think anybody wants a modern version of Sherman’s March to the Sea.
This page loads between 15 and 17 trackers (per Ghostery).
We also need to protect our data from the government and mega corporations.
Not really. I am disappointed that there was no response from the reps. Usually VCs do not respond when your startup is so bad it's cringe worthy.
I'm running only linux. All seems well.
That depends on what metrics you use for 'diverse'. Diversity is more than skin deep. The candidates are very culturally diverse.
I suggest you actually diligently check the sources for the suspect claims that 100 million people died under Communism.

Under the accounting methods used, capitalist systems of government would dwarf that number. Of course, uneven standards are par for the course.

> It was always the plan of the Marxists to grab all the power and run a dictatorship.

"The Marxists". Do you know how many groups participated in the Russian civil war, how many of them considered themselves Marxists, and how many of them were purged by the sole political entity that seized power? Since you uncritically cited that 100 million figure, I'm going to guess no.
Escrow.com API – Chargeback free payments
A friend told me about their big company's interview process for interns from Ivy Leagues, which was getting flown out to a party and then getting an internship. The candidates weren't asked any technical questions, since they were assumed to be smart enough to learn how to code in bootcamp. It made me feel confused about myself for a while, since I didn't have a job or much experience and it was hard enough getting a phone screen.
Any feedback from fab academy graduates
I'm curious what "automatic restoration" means. I recall from The New Jim Crow that the process is onerous in many states, involving paperwork and bureaucracy that many don't end up taking the time to do. But maybe that's just in the nine non-automatic states.

Ah, and in the paragraph underneath that table:

Even in states where ex-offenders automatically regain the right to vote upon completion of their sentence, the process of re-registering to vote often is difficult. One reason is the complexity of the laws and processes surrounding disenfranchisement. In some cases, it is difficult to determine whose rights can be restored. This can vary in some states according to the date of the crime, the conviction, or the release from prison, or the nature of the crime. The complex restoration process also can be daunting. It often involves lengthy paperwork, burdensome documentation, and the involvement and coordination of several state agencies

This, again, is why Jim Crow is an apt comparison. It's a web of rules that all together add up to a system of control.
Has anyone completed fab academy? Did you find it helpful for your career, just intellectually stimulating or a waste of time?
Most optimization problems use Linear Programming if the problem has linear/continuous variables and Mixed Integer Programming if binary values (turning something on or off) is part of the solution. These are used in production pretty much everywhere. LP (linear programming) problems are extremely fast too. My company has a HUGE LP & MIP problems and the LPs are still only a few minutes to solve on nice hardware. MIP can be much trickier.
>certificates costs money

you still pay for x years certificate, but you only get a valid certificate for the next y days. if the CA can sign OSCP responses for millions of visitors, surely they can resign a certificate every y days.

>the world was mostly manual in the past (and in a lot of places still is)

that makes sense when talking about OSCP, but to get OSCP stapling working, you need to configure your web server to do so. instead of standardizing OSCP stapling, why couldn't they have standardized a protocol for a server to get updated certificates from the CA?
Getting S&P 500 Stock Data from Quandl/Google with Python
There are multiple interpretations to the question, clearly.

Removing a tick mark from an infinite number line would just cause all the other tick marks to slide closer together like billiard balls, no?

Or is the question really about what happens if we render six as a forbidden, unaddressable element? Maybe equations normally resulting in an integral six, or involving an integral six return an error stating: undefined? Not unlike a divide by zero error?

Consider rationalizing division by zero. One could interpret the outcome of such an operation as always resulting in zero, instead of an error, but what would that mean when modeling real world events? If you have zero, and you want to divide it into N number of parts, well, you’d still have zero things, and so what? But what if you had somethings, and you wanted to divide them all into zero parts? Does that mean the operation represents the total annihilation of those things?

We can imagine a situation where total annihiliation by division is possible, but is it worth building that interpretation into most models, when an operation like that isn’t often applied to circumstances, and such an outcome is rarely requested?
If you have any, I’d love tips for running a game for kids. (I’ve never DM’ed or played but am pretty familiar from many podcasts)
I consider Pai a malign and ignorant mouthpiece of Big Media but I have a hard time seeing the big problem with this.

I mean, what are the alternatives? If the station can't afford to keep staff around the clock then should they shut down the transmission at those times like in the old days?

These days most TV and radio stations are simply remote retransmission sites for Big Radio anyway, simulcasting a computer-selected assortment of anodyne crap into every market where they have a franchisee. Whether there's some poor sap at the reception desk or not doesn't change that.

Now if Pai really believed that FM radio is a public safety resource (cf his fatuous posturing about FM radios and mobile phones) then this order could have had a requirement that public safety officials be able to add warnings or even recruit a volunteer to take over the station temporarily.

But failing that, broadcast radio and TV are basically zombie media primarily aimed at a literally declining audience of old folks. There's nothing the FCC can do about that (except pander, when there's still profit and/or votes for the string-pullers).
5th day - business development.

This is where most freelancers go wrong, they just expect clients to come to them. This will come over time with referrals but as you're just starting you need to spend a decent amount of times finding customers.
I may be off the mark but I feel like managed web hosts play no small part in this. Managed web hosts that run Apache still almost predominantly support PHP only for a scripting language (if you don't count Perl CGI stuff). For us in silicon valley this seems unthinkable, but these web hosts still run a ton of sites on the internet.
Sketching Interfaces
But the public doesn't benefit.

KQED took over two other local PBS broadcasters and now has 4 general-purpose TV channels (KQED, KQED+, KQED Life, KQED World), plus kids-only and Spanish channels.

Instead of adding diversity to programming, their programming is now less diverse. At times, they will have the same program on three of the four channels at once.

KRCB (Cotati) is the only remaining independent PBS station included in the local Comcast basics.
I'm on Firefox 56, but I believe Firebug worked in 55 still. The performance of Firebug fire exceeded the native browser tools.

The inspector tool in Firebug was damn near instant to allow me to select an element in the browser. Firefox's version of the inspector can take upwards of 5 seconds sometimes to become "ready". Side note... I'm on a 7 year old macbook air, so the differences are very notable.
I tend to agree with you. But with the intense competition for talent, why aren't maket forces sorting this out?
Navy Autonomous Swarm Vessels [2014]
I would be hella surprised if the $86M solution was better than what this guy would make given $8.6M. So there's not a lot to debate around the overrun costs of government purchasing.

Plenty of ethics to debate, but when it comes down to being wasteful with tax dollars, there's a monopoly on that.
Would you care to share some 'bugs'? I'm always pretty interested in those things, despite never having had a.. session(?) myself. I know of one where you used a Spiked Chain, made yourself a giant(?) so you got a big boost in combat stats, and because of how the chain works you'd almost always succeed in tripping someone, and when they got up got a free counter attack that again could trip them. Another one I do not know the method of (except that it has to do with Simulacra and Wish) which let's you basically make infinite copies of yourself.
You would be surprised. Even basic stats questions like those are great for filtering out people who don’t have a clue about data science and the extent of their abilities is using a library such as sklearn.
I think he's basing it on a price-performance ratio. Phoronix tests show that NVIDIA's closed OpenGL/Vulkan drivers are still ahead of AMD/Mesa's open graphics stack. -- On the bright side the "relative" transparency of AMD with their graphics development does make maintaining the FOSS drivers easier as a kernel maintainer (although I rarely send patches to the graphics subsystem I have friends who do).
TV Companies can modify product placement in reruns to stay current (2011)
Using Royalty Free Music on YouTube
AMD doesn’t make money consistently. It’s in an incredibly capital intensive business. Occasionally, one of its chips outmaneuvers the corresponding Intel chips for a generation or two. But in a couple of years, it rolls the dice again. More likely than not, Intel will beat it next few cycles. Then AMD will lose money while it tries to develop another hit.
Even geniuses can suffer from alzheimers, schizophrenia, personality disorders, delusions, etc. just like the rest of us. Sure there's the stereotypical eccentric genius, but if someone starts making wild unproven claims coupled with increasingly strange behavior, that doesn't seem exactly like something a genius would do. That sounds like a very intelligent person suffering from mental illness. From wikipedia:

>At the 1932 occasion, Tesla claimed he had invented a motor that would run on cosmic rays.[205] In 1933, at age 77, Tesla told reporters that, after thirty-five years of work, he was on the verge of producing proof of a new form of energy. He claimed it was a theory of energy that was “violently opposed” to Einsteinian physics, and could be tapped with an apparatus that would be cheap to run and last 500 years. He also told reporters he was working on a way to transmit individualized private radio wavelengths, working on breakthroughs in metallurgy, and developing a way to photograph the retina to record thought.

We know that cosmic rays aren't prevalent enough to produce energy. It should be obvious that you can't record thought through a retina because the majority of thought in the brain occurs in areas obstructed by the retina. He was just an already-eccentric old man whose brain was breaking down, and in trying to cling onto his success from the past he might have developed delusions that to him seem perfectly logical. I don't see why we can't accept that the death ray idea was just as nonexistent/nonsensical as these other ones. Additionally, also from wikipedia:

>In a box purported to contain a part of Tesla's "death ray", Trump found a 45-year-old multidecade resistance box.
I feel all I can offer to this discussion is the revelation of my own sense of hopelessness that I'll likely never pass the watch of the statistical gatekeepers and be permitted entrance to the Kingdom of Success.
Oh, but what about wealthy corporations rendering autonomous vehicle services, either as their primary offering, or as an ancillary side business?

You could own shares in such a company, purchase a subscription to summon vehicles at a rate, or buy a vehicle and resell its autonomy, offsetting the expense. One might view some of these options as a form of collective ownership, and so it might not just be you owning one on your own, but maybe contributing to the partial ownership of one or more vehicles.
All of Reinforcement Learning :)
harmonquest!
I remember we used to talk about "computrons" (but these were by analogy to the false friends "electron" or "graviton" described in the article) -- basically amount of computing power ("We could probably solve that if we had enough computrons, but our machines aren't powerful enough).

Dunno if it was widespread or if this was just local jargon...
I agree. The last three AMD booms have tracked to the last three asset bubble periods (1999-2000, 2005-2006, now). They have no earnings to support the present $14 billion market cap, much less higher. When this latest asset bubble party ends, AMD will tank again. They're supposedly in a boom period due to demand for their products, yet they're struggling to even get back to where their sales were in 2014 (when their stock was 1/5th what it is now). It's nothing more than the latest iteration of stock market mania (where stocks like Activision carry near 50 PE ratios while sporting 5-10% type earnings growth).

Cisco is still one of the more remarkable stock stories I've seen in the last two decades. Something like ten straight quarters of accelerating revenue growth, quarter over quarter, leading up to 68% growth for the third quarter of 2000. Three quarters later their quarter over quarter growth had evaporated down toward zero.

That same shock deceleration basically killed Lucent, Nortel and Sun Microsystems. The three were worth around $600 billion together during the bubble. Sun of course struggled on as their business melted, but they were a shadow of their former self by 2009. Oracle nearly got caught in the same trap (also having a crazy ~$200 billion valuation during the bubble), instead they went on a competitor acquisition spree and created as much of a moat as they could. 17 years later, their stock is finally back to where it was during the bubble (in nominal terms).
Well if you can blur an arbitrary section you can, even if not black-black, just choose an average and write over everything with that (so adaptive grey).
Glad to see this is GA now. The cost benefits and monitoring benefits are huge for the consumer. So far, I haven't hit any compatibility issues either.
Thanks for the nicely written article, especially the pictures.

Articles like this make for good reading.
I think Improv was only solving one of the use-cases that you'd use a spreadsheet for - and thats why it was never widely adopted.
Hello, thank you for your feedback it is very much appreciated! The website layout was actually generated by the Rivyt platform. It was very easy to use and I really liked this specific theme for this idea as it shows all the details needed (from views, to release date and even even has the auto play feature). I would say another big benefit is the platform really wasn't that expensive so it made it really worth it!
Per your last sentence, it might not be to the level of detail you're looking for but I really enjoyed "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. I had more than a couple "ah, that makes sense" moments.

That aside, the gut (bacteria) / brain connection gets more and more fascinating. There's so much about our personal inner space that we have yet to understand. Amazing.
By not allowing a housing collapse to occur when it should have.
omg I can't take it anymore! Am going crazy! hehe
Hey, I'm the Tech Lead of the team that runs .google. Can you provide more information? What browser are you using? Can you use some tool like https://ipleak.net/ to determine what DNS servers you're hitting? And can you try some of these other domain names on other TLDs and report back? https://nomulus.foo https://nic.dev https://pki.goog/
Would love to read the post, but it's a 404 atm.
I did not recognize this copypasta. For other confused readers: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/2t4ozr/january_2...
How much reimbursement can we get for travel expenses? Per team.
I hope Intel does step up their game, but assuming that there's healthy competition with good ARM and AMD chips. Competition is good for the consumer.

But I also want to see ARM based laptops from both Microsoft and Apple (Though Intel has Apple by the ears with Thunderbolt until USB 3.2 becomes a viable alternative on the low end.)
This strikes me as the business version of AlternativeTo.net, a stupendous website to help find alternative (consumer) software.

https://alternativeto.net/
When I did Algorithms in college ~18yrs ago, I dont recall it being called DP. We certainly learned it but without a distinct name for it, it didnt hold as a unique concept, just an obvious strategy/approach.
The study doesn't mention this anywhere, but one can assume it considers only a state of glycolysis. This makes the the title/conclusion a bit misleading.

In case of ketosis [1], the brain mainly relies on ketone bodies for fuel.. I'm curious about how one's brain would perform in such state - judging by personal experience, the results would be very different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
> I believe Optiant used Dynamic Programming for supply chain optimization.. So people do or did use it for practical problem solving. ..I think.

Yes, the least cost path problem is not just a classic DP problem but is an example in this article.
they said they will cover all expenses
Yep! From the FAQ: "You'll either receive an invitation to interview that contains details of our in-person meeting, or you'll get an email to say that we won't be interviewing you right now. If you aren't invited to interview, we hope that you don't get discouraged and that you continue with your pursuit to build something great."
Just curious, why would you delete a message on a thread?

Here is my Gmail on Android workflow: I swipe to right and archive the thread after I read the thread. It goes away from my inbox. Once someone adds a new mail to the chain thread re appears in my mailbox. I read it and archive it again. I rarely delete a mail.