skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/09/28/162...

I always enjoy reading analysis/ideas/intuitions about how the brain works, because it provides inspiration for machine learning improvements that can be applied in the real world.

That said, I’m still optimistically waiting for Numenta (and Geoff Hinton’s capsule theory) to set the new bar at one of the many difficult image/speech/language/etc recognition challenges.

Ideas are great, but at the end of the day science moves forward when we measure our ideas against reality. (To the credit of this paper, it does make a series of predictions, though those seem extremely difficult to measure in biological systems for the time being.)
The employee is usually in a much more precarious situation, and usually more concerned with cashflow than ROI.
> I suppose they would have you arrested for impersonating a lawyer to even ask for this.

No, in theory anyone can negotiate the terms of their own contracts.

> It seems strange to me that legally only one side of a contract gets to pick all the niceties.

These are called "contracts of adhesion" (i.e. take it or leave it terms) and are subject to slightly stricter interpretive standards than fully negotiated contracts. It would be impossible for a very large company selling consumer products to have lawyers reviewing every consumer contract because the cost would likely exceed the revenue for each contract, never mind the profits. So it makes sense that it's allowed, though in theory we should be using regulators to ensure that they aren't abused. We don't do that, though, hence the current case.

>Could as a consumer not add an arbitration clause to every contract you are handed with the same requirements except you get to pick the arbitrator?

Not really. You could manually modify a contract by crossing out terms in pen, but that's only enforceable in cases where the other party also signs the contract. As opposed to most consumer contracts where you sign the boilerplate you are given but the company doesn't then cosign that same copy. In some jurisdictions, even if they sign the same copy, they have to initial the changes for them to be enforceable to stop people from sliding things into a large contract on the sly. But you could certainly try this with a larger personal contract like a car purchase or home rental agreement. I personally do not recommend trying to slide things in without the other party noticing, but it's always worth negotiating if you think they are willing and the modification is worth pursuing.
Wow you're entitled. The author owes you nothing!

It's not like they submitted this to HN themselves.
It's bad because the overwhelming majority of people don't enjoy the process of finding a new job and cannot afford to spend time finding new work.

I think a lot of the talk is also due to unhappiness with the economic trend that is drawing the median and minimum incomes closer together, which is a reversal of a trend that gave widespread optimism and contentment.
The whole problem is because of the fact that Google is scary big and has data no government or company has ever owned during the human kind.
https://theoutline.com/404
Because of the massive imbalance of power between employer and employee. Which is why employment protection is a lot stronger in every other developed country than the US.
Googler here, no relation to the colab team. What probably prompted us to introduce this is that it was an internal project that many of us really really like and use quite often, and we thought it would be nice if you guys could use it too. That's it. It was probably somebody's 20% project at first, I don't think there was any great ambition for an actual product when they started it.

Googlers tend to reinvent the wheel a lot because somebody here likes some tool or library or application, wants to use it, but wants to avoid licensing restrictions, incompatibilities with our internal tools, wants total control over its development so they can change and add things as they see fit, etc. Then it grows up and gets a team with a PM and everything, and if it does really well we might share it and let it out of its cage into the wild. You can take it or leave it.

Also did I mention that I really really like colab? I've been evangelizing it to my team at Google Cloud support for all kinds of things like playbooks, reproductions, easily modifiable tools and scripts, etc. It's like Google docs for jupyter notebooks, it's pretty great.
I recall this being at the top of /r/webdev 3 or 4 years ago. It turns out that a lot of the subsections have their own themed 404s as well.

My personal favorite: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404
Style: Towards Clarity and Grace

It was both a pleasant read and the advice in it is not only actionable but memorable, even 4 months later.
You're a customer, then, and as a customer I completely agree with you.

But as an investor in the same company, I would fault them for not taking a simple step to protect their profits. Just because you include the clause doesn't mean that you're going to do evil and exercise it. Again, I can't fault you for taking the get-out-of-jail-free card that's offered. But I fault you mightily for doing something that would require flashing that card.

The fact that the card exists at all seems like the root problem to be fixed.
You change the code, and a few packages get stolen just as would happen if you didn't have the box.
Patreon is adding support for WordPress, Slack, and other platforms – The Verge
I for one say let's see what google builds? I think city management/development is something that definitely could use some 'disruption' if it takes a google/fb to re-imagine modern cities I'm all for it, esp if we get some 'Jetson-like' technologies out of it... Like escalator walks in lieu of public transit.
If the universe is inside a black hole what's outside the black hole?
>What platform it runs on or whatnot is trivial boring detail

Not caring about actual usage mechanics / acting like they are trivial details makes me question a lot about your perspective.
There's always plain old bash

while read a _; do echo $a; done
Most people can’t just quit their job, they have monthly recurring bills that must be paid. Those of us that work in tech are quite fortunate to have realistic alternatives. However, even many of us are restricted due to location, and before it’s mentioned, yeah we could move but we have families with children in school and spouses who have non tech careers. Moving is expensive. The employment system in the US, especially in states like mine, ensure that employers have persistent power over employees under the guise of “right to work”.
Most interesting bit of Kinect history, IMO, omitted by the article:
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373107,00.asp
1.4 KW is right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Earth

It's an unusual methodology to begin by looking up the power output of the sun, which is worked out using the reverse of your calculation. Might you have erroneously divided out the entire of Earth's surface area (which is 4 times the area of a circle the size of the Earth)?
I always check myself out with the display turned off, works okay for hair. I guess that's what he was referring to.
I'm not sure how that relates. None of those are scripting languages, although when you start talking about "compiled" it gets a little messy with definitions. Either way, it's not what I'm talking about.
Has the increasing cost of health insurance motivated employers to start using more contract workers?
How do you find it weird that people follow the absolute strongest evolutionary imperative, the urge to keep yourself alive?
I read it more like "Facebook made it clear they could duplicate our app in a weekend, then extended a take it or leave it cash offer".
What counts as a neutral, trusted third party. With respect to this issue, does the US intelligence community count? If so, then does the second link, a link to the report meet your standards of evidence?

If not, then I'm not sure what kind of third party you are imagining. What would be the intelligence community's reason to coordinate and issue false statements on this?
So what happens if nobody works ?
Less Repetition, More Dynamic Programming
Depends where you live. I routinely get packages left at my front door without problems. I honestly have no idea of what "algorithm" the likes of UPS uses to determine if its OK to leave an unsecured package but I'm sure my rural location is well in the "it's OK" zone. Even if I'm at home, they usually just drop the package and head back to the truck.

As for neighbors, I have had things that required a signature left with a neighbor but it's very rare.
I would love to have an advanced file system that works on portable drives across multiple OSes.

ZFS is not designed for this use case, but at least it is something. Having compression, encryption, integrity checking, and data duplication on a potentially flaky external drive would be killer features.
Deploy Machine Learning models on your server
FaceID really is the feature that is ruining the new iPhone for me. And the fact that its (currently) the sole reason why interested customers can't get one come November is another major dealbreaker (IIRC OLED was a problem too).

Moreover, it brings into question what "Designed by Apple in California" means.
Is Apple the misunderstood savant, yearning for perfection, requiring their latest work of art not being shipped/produced without it 100% matching the dreams of the designer?
Or, is Apple trying to sell as many units of a functional, brilliant, working product as possible? If they see themselves as the former (and by Job's tone, they do) _why undercut FaceID accuracy_?

Is an iPhone X an iPhone X without the FaceID?

My purchase of this device (compared to the iPhone 8) solely lies on the ability to use an iPhone X without the FaceID. I don't want it and I certainly don't need it. There are also far too many situational "what-ifs" Apple doesn't seem interested in addressing. I've asked a few people and haven't gotten a solid answer if its a requirement on setup of a new iPhone X.

:ed: grammar
Asking OP to define 'best' is a red herring and it would steer the discussion away from the topic. Deflection is the correct response.
The Kinect was a real boon for robotics research. A depth camera that worked pretty well, with skeleton extraction and directional audio? And the price is what!? My lab still uses a first gen Kinect regularly.

Thanks to Jamie Shotton and the team for a sensor that made a difference to an incidental community.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/body-part-rec...
Ahh, I forgot that my calc was based on an average for the Earth's surface - so including high latitudes and day/night. On that basis I figure our numbers broadly agree.
Bloomberg are normally described as a reliably joyless organisation, so it's nice that employees are allowed to have SOME fun.
Not that many people have done something that deserves being thrown in prison in the US, either. We're just far too happy to throw people in for things that don't deserve it, like non-violent drug offenses.
I saw a great talk on this topic by Dharmesh Shah, founder of Hubspot.

He says that movements are great, but they're necessarily harder to build. Convincing people to change the way they approach their job is _hard_, even if you're right. Then you have to sell them software, which isn't trivial.

Their competition, Marketo, didn't build a movement. They latched on to the existing trend of Marketing Automation, and they built a huge business, at least as successful as HubSpot.

In both cases, the software and ideas were new, but as a company, you don't have to be the standard-bearer for your movement. You just have to support it.

As others in this thread have argued, you don't even have to have a movement to sell software. But fundamentally, if your software doesn't enable people and companies to work differently, you haven't built something deeply valuable. Outside of the early adopter SF-product-hunt folks, nobody wants to buy new software just for kicks. People buy software to change and upgrade their workflow. You can call it a movement or a trend or a wave, but it's always about change. If you want to build something enduring or big or valuable, you need the wind at your back, bringing a useful change to your customers.
Huh, never knew. Ok it’s fixed.
Hi everyone! We started working on Chorus because it was really difficult to recommend the podcasts we love to friends - so we mashed up a podcast player with a social network and got Chorus.

Chorus for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chorus/id1221631922?ls=1&mt=...

- alonso from Chorus
I can't even anymore. If this story is anywhere near true -- and I have no reason to believe it is not -- then what the hell do we as citizens DO about it?

How can we put an end to ridiculous infringements on rights and wasteful use of resources?

It certainly starts with voting for representatives that won't allow thus, but damn. There aren't a lot of good choices out there. And even if there are, how do we fix the issues that allow the bad actors to get elected over a "good" rep?
> Rather, under the rule, consumers would have fewer options for quickly and efficiently resolving financial disputes.

This is actually retarded. How is arbitration OR trial less options than just arbitration? Last I checked, 2 > 1 but maybe I need to review my math skills. Just because a company can't force arbitration doesn't mean it isn't still an option.

The Whitehouse is just flipping words around to make it seem like a win for consumers, but their reasoning is just a blatant lie.

Translation:

Someone paid enough of us a good deal of money to make it so they can't be sued in court. Good luck, suckers.
I was looking for an ISO standard and could find no free (illegal or otherwise) source for the standard (found outdated editions, but no way to know details of changes in the latest version). Was kind of amazed how well they police that, given that it's just a few MBs of a PDF as compared a multi-gig movie. $230+ for the document. My search efforts were admittedly limited to google and duckduckgo.

The particular standard was ISO 18004, after reading yesterday's article regarding reading a blurred QR code. Was basically looking to do a hobby project reinventing the wheel of making a QR code generator and then seeing what improvements to the standard might be possible and still compatible. Wanted to work from original source material, but wasn't looking to spend $200+ before even getting started. Found a 2006 (2015 is the latest) edition, so just going with it.

It felt strange and a little wrong to have the official standard for QR codes be closed source. Until 2015 when Denso Wave's patents expired, you actually were only licensed to use their patents on the tech so long as you followed the official spec 100%. Interesting position to be in: either risk patent infringement or buy a spec to ensure compatibility.

If my project gets anywhere, I'll happily spend the money on it. Was basically just annoying to hit that hurdle coming out of the gate. Some ISO specs are free, but only handful of the thousands in effect. And I'm not so idealistic to think that the ISO org itself can run on goodwill and attaboys, but there are known solutions with commercial vs. personal licenses.

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Regarding the article at hand -- we absolutely need open access to standards in order to repair our devices. How can you repair or test an interface if you don't have access to the specs on how exactly it's supposed to work?
The fact they don't even auto-lock is just one of many things wrong with this idea; is what I was trying to say I suppose :)
> In my experience, the contents of the Accelerated Edition are nigh incomprehensible without a prior understanding of Core.

Oh, really? That's too bad, accelerated seems to be a way to get up to speed with Fate in a very short time without knowing anything about the game, shame that that's not so much the case.

> The Fate SRD site is a third-party creation that presents the texts in a more convenient/organized way: https://fate-srd.com/

I browsed through that a bit and it seems to have the exact same text as the guide, so I'm a bit confused. Is it just the guide in HTML format?

> For stories/settings, there are loads of freely-available "Worlds of Adventure" on DriveThruRPG

That's a fantastic suggestion, thank you! I'll definitely check that out.

> IMO it's considerably easier to grok than Fate, especially for people new to RPGs

I've been playing D&D for a while, I just haven't DMed, so I'm not completely new to RPGs. I'll have a look at Dungeon World too, though, as it may fit our group better, thank you.

> I've found the Rollplay R&D series enjoyable

Good call, I'm going to watch a few to get a feel for how the game is played, thanks again.
Adjoint releases uplink – open source distributed ledger written in Haskell
Maths is zero-based. I'm not sure why you think that numbers start with one; every formulation of the integers in modern maths starts with zero.
Small independent producers may not be able to operate without Patreon. I mean, the whole point of Patreon is that it enables a huge group of creators who otherwise couldn't exist as a business.
You confuse dark matter and dark energy. The later is the name for the energy that accelerates the expansion of the universe.

The rest of your hypothesis also has no sense, given what we know today. The big "black hole" can't be "outside" of our universe as our universe is all that is, including the space in which it is.

The universe doesn't expand inside of its own space, there is actually more space between the galaxies appearing, that is, the new space is appearing, according to what we observe. So the mechanism can't be easily explained by imagining some mass "outside" as the mass must be in the very space we talk about.

What we see we call the "observable universe" and because of the finite speed of light, observing the stuff in the distance we see the past! What we see in the farthest distance is actually just a glow of the so-called "big bang," a phase of the universe when there were no stars, no galaxies, just the elementary particles, specifically, we see the moment in which that state became "visible", that is, allowed the photons to travel long enough.

So the farthest everywhere we look is just the glow. It is all around because around the point where we are now, just like any other point, there was much less space early enough. The glow is called the CMB:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

It was first time measured in 1964, and the scientists received 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for that.

We see the big bang in the distance, even if the big bang ended around 14 billion years ago.

I hope you see why we can't explain what we actually observe by imagining the "black hole outside."
Right, when Patreon started kicking off people on the fringes of the political spectrum (Nazis, Antifa, Alt-right) they moved to a 'free-speech' alternative called Hatreon:

https://hatreon.net/
Islamic art? Surely you mean the Christian art that was appropriated by the Ottoman Empire...
I do not understand how the sources you provided result in the conclusion that 'fats should take higher priority' in a healthy diet. Much of the recent literature suggests that too much fat in the diet can result in a higher concentration of Intramyocellular Lipids (fat in the cells), this has been shown to increase insulin resistance (resulting in +ce instances of type 2 diabetes) [0].

In addition, the blue zone study (largest epidemiological study ever conducted on human health) concluded that diets rich in whole grains, starchy root vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts and seeds proved to result in the lowest instances of diet related diseases (heart attach, stroke, diabetes, alzheimers) and was found to increase longevity.

"From this There is abundant evidence that increased levels of plasma lipids, predominantly free fatty acids (FFAs) and triglycerides, are causally involved in IR" (insulin resistance)

Sources:
http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/52/1/138
What about the habitual thought patterns and prejudices that have been "hard wired" from the life experiences of the elderly, which make it so difficult to think outside the box?
I don't think this is good advice. An algorithm like this could easily be reverse engineered if someone had more than one. Considering how many places have password breaches it's not that inconceivable someone would get a hold of two of your passwords. The entropy is awful and there are 0 cryptographically secure psuedo random numbers being used.

Yahoo, Disqus, Experian, Tumblr, Adobe, LinkedIn, Dropbox, MySpace, Avast, DaniWeb, YouPorn, Trillian, Brazzers, Unreal Engine, PlayStation Network, Warframe, etc, etc, etc.

Here's a list of even more sites that have had passwords stolen:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
Yeh I forgot that's what I did, it was a while ago now, and I admit the average over entire surface area isn't a very useful number :)
MacOS on-boarding at Kolide
In a similar spirit, the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine used to have zany cover designs (my favorite featured a sweaty Steve Ballmer in a Clippers jersey dribbling a basketball captioned "BASKET BALLMER") but they've since switched to plain, solid colors.
The United States of Toxins
I've enjoyed JavaScript Weekly for a while now. http://javascriptweekly.com/
>p.s. I voted for Obama, so yeah, I do get to bitch about the disparity between what he said, and what he did.

While I understand this sentiment, you have to understand that it is also necessary to try and inspire people even if you know that you probably won't get everything you want to get done. You can hope that people will act intelligently in their own self-interest and know that you are the best candidate for them, but in reality I don't think that is enough, you have to inspire people and work their emotions. It is manipulative but also, unfortunately, necessary. Given what Obama had on his plate and a totally oppositional congress for the most part, we can't really complain. He tried to be bipartisan and it was a waste of effort for the most part, yeah he could have been better in theory but in reality I'm not so sure.
It from bit?
I have bought and played all of those games, and they're good games.

2017 has been a better year for PS4 exclusives than Xbox One, although maybe I just feel that way because I like the Forza Horizon games more than the Forza Motorsport games and I suck at Cuphead. There's still plenty of Xbox One exclusives that I'm happy I've played.
One idea about dark matter is that the laws of gravity are
just different at large scale. This measurement rules out
some of those theories ...

> the [measurement] enables us to test a certain class of modified gravity theories, which dispense with the dark matter paradigm and reproduce Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) like behavior in the non-relativistic limit. Such modified theories of gravity have been dubbed “Dark Matter Emulators”. Some examples of these Dark Matter (DM) emulator theories include Bekenstein’s TeVeS theory and Moffat’s Scalar-Tensor-Vector gravity theory
Patreon, where consumers have a direct relationship with individual creators, would seem like the perfect way to avoid those issues though.
Every pattern being matched to every line can be a big win in more complex processing. This is a simple but familiar example:

seq 1 30 | awk '
$0 % 3 == 0 { printf("Fizz"); replaced = 1 }
$0 % 5 == 0 { printf("Buzz"); replaced = 1 }
replaced { replaced = 0; printf("\n"); next }
{ print }'

Note that the awk script is far more general than the typical interview question, which specifies the numbers to be iterated in order. The awk script works on any sequence of numbers.
That's an optimistic assumption :)
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