skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example of people left behind by a fast-moving, dynamic economy. Along with former steel workers and others in industries that have been sent overseas, they pay the price of the transition from yesterday's economy to today's economy.

Arguably it's good for our economy to be able to adjust to new technologies and geopolitical trends, but the human cost is immense. How could we systematically compensate for the costs incurred by those who were just in the wrong situation at the wrong time? Or how can we help people avoid getting into those wrong situations to begin with?
The popular vote was for Hillary Clinton by almost 3 million. 66 million Democrats vs 63 million Republicans, FYI.[1]

[1]http://time.com/4608555/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final/
Anyone have any experience with it? How accurate is the video?

For example, second use case - in the car, she queries the software the amount of some_specific_product in some_specific_warehouse, and the tool answers near instantly. Is that a currently functional scenario? Is this because the client has an API set up with `counts` already calculated for these queries, or is a part of the tool intelligently crafting these queries to answer these kinds of voice questions?
Unbelievable. Probably will be 10 times worse than Siri.
How do you define "domestic"? Is it a company that earns the majority of its revenues in your country? That won't work because Toyota is certainly not an American company but the US market represents the majority of their revenues. Is it a company that was founded in your country? That won't work because of companies like Airbus that are supranational in origin. Is it a company that is headquartered in your country? That won't work because a headquarters can be moved in a matter of months (look at how GE left CT for a more regional example).
> Wow. I had no idea ChatBots needed $117 MILLION in funding to ship.

You don't. But the startup game is often not so much about shipping, but more about name recognition and connections.
First, the Court sees Sci-Hub as essentially hosting the copyrighted materials. From the order in ACS v. Does:

> ...Sci-Hub has copied elements—and, in many cases, the entirety of—those works, and that
Sci-Hub has distributed those works by allowing individuals to download the works from its
website, all in violation of the Copyright Act.

But to entertain your argument of First Amendment protections, linking to infringing documents is pretty clearly incitement of imminent lawless action as established in Brandenburg.
Please define the specific tax loophole.

The "loophole" as far as I can tell is that a company can choose not to repatriate their earnings, which is completely legal.
I'm not aware of any, though I haven't really looked. My understanding is that peer review is done for free because it's understood that it's a necessary part of science. That is, you review other peoples papers for free because they'll do the same for you.

I guess that falls down a bit because I bet there is a very uneven distribution of peer review work, but it's a nice sentiment at least!
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How so? Do you mean that we should specify sizes normalised to the viewing distance instead of in absolute terms?
Let the user specify a zoom factor, but then 12pt text zoomed by a factor X is the same on every display.

There is some issue with how this should interact with certain things (like touch distance). Should two buttons that are 2cm apart be 4cm or 2cm apart after scaling by a factor of two?
There is a fringe case of a display-based ruler, that essentially shouldn't zoom.
You're just jealous of his moves... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaI2IlHwmgQ
I have no clue what I.AM.PLUS is; this is a general comment:

Sure, creating a dead simple chatbot is easy! But you can't compare a bare-minimum open-source dumb chatbot with a enterprise AI company that happens to take the form of a chatbot.
Which issue are we discussing? The age old double dutch irish or whatever it's called, or tax repatriation?

I surmise that you're stating that the two are linked. That's fair. However isn't Apple already paying taxes on its US-sold goods?

This thread seems to specifically be about the repatriation side of things, and the only way to force repatriation is to...force repatriation.
Wow, now that's undiscoverable. Thank you, missed that one completeley

Blog post is from August 2016 "You can now search for wiki pages from either the main search page, or within a repository."

Guess I made up my mind about that 1-3 years earlier and have used the extension ever since :) Ah well, one click less at least.
Taxing revenues means taxing products on every step in production, many many times on their path through production and the economy. You would essentially also destroy low margin businesses, like grocery and retail and Adobe they ate such low margin the entire tax bill would be paid by the end consumer.
Homographs actually. Homonyms are two words that are spelled differently but sound the same.
My argument is that neither is mutually exclusive. Ethereum is evidence of that.
A hiring manager needs an easy way to see what you're all about. Many candidates put a word cloud of technologies and software here but I've found that people are often pretty weak on many things included here. Word clouds don't have any context, either. The hiring manager has know way of knowing if this person knows just a little bit of a technology or if they do it all day, every day.

I call them "passions" because these are what I love to do at work. I'm confident about talking at length about any of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

(CF also mentions it in their blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...)
I wish there was a discount code for the Dead Tree Edition. I have a lot of trouble focusing on reading PDFs on my computer versus having a physical book in front of me. And I don't have a tablet, unfortunately.
To everybody interested, check out paper.js. It's also programmatic design but everything can be an object, making animations/interactivity easier, along with some other neat features.

http://paperjs.org/
Facebook truly needs an independent group to audit their site and give them a grade. Anyone interested in doing this with me?
Speaking as someone with a LaTeX résumé, I agree with you. I use it because it's the typesetting tool with which I am most comfortable, not because it's the best tool for the job. I would never use HTML/CSS to create a résumé, but that's because I am bad at using them.
I have mixed feelings about this. I get the point about touch: i.e. the button should have a fixed size in proportion to your finger. However in other scenarios I am not sure size should be constant. In most cases, you have to factor in the distance to the viewer. This is, probably "projection angle in the retina" is a more useful invariant.

For example, in a big TV that is far from you, you want things to be bigger than in a monitor, that is closer. And in a laptop, you probably want it even smaller.

"Design by pixel" takes this into account somewhat indirectly because most display are designed to have their pixel density in inverse proportion to the size of the display, which is also inversely correlated to the expected usage distance. Sometimes technology changes our expectations of definitions and things become small, until designs catch up with the new expected pixel density. We have worked around this problem with pixel density factors on retina/QHD.

I agree that all this in the is a evolutionary "hack". But I am not sure that the proposed solution, even though more rational sounding, actually makes things better.
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Pretty sure that the sample handshake available in the article is not for a 56k negotiation.

My ears are saying that it sounds more like a 14.4k negotiation.
Genesys has been doing this for literally decades
The debt would then be owned by Broadcom with Qualcomm.
Surely that's the work of the editorial board? Again, they are largely unpaid as far as Im aware.

This makes interesting reading if you're interested in how a free (or at least very low cost) journal can work https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...
Alternate title: Theoretical solution of the Fermi Paradox
The spirit of the law is not clearly defined. In fact, by definition it means "person X's interpretation of what the law was trying to achieve".

How could that be the basis for an intelligent taxation system?
I think the clash between globalization and countries (sovereign governments) is just being delayed for no good. It is proving more and more that globalization doesn't work with sovereign governments.

Case in point: Let's say the US government gets strict with Apple and taxes it heavily. Apple already produces its iPhone hardware in China. Its sales are derived from the whole world and the Chinese market might become bigger than the American one. So Apple could just move to an off-shore jurisdiction that is out of hand of the US government.

Boom. Apple escapes the US tax penalty. They might even be able to carry on their US engineer development while being listed as a Hong Kong or Singapore company. The only way to stop that, is for the US to pressure these smaller off-shore city-states.

But smaller and other non-major countries can't do that. So big corporations will be able to screw them. In the end, you'll either end up with weak governments which end up breaking down under the negative financial effect; or have the US rule the world "fiscally".

It seems that we are going for the latter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
I find that kind of great - if possible, the meaning should allow for varied cultural interpretation. As it stands, there are many emojis that make no sense outside of Japan.
I'll gladly take half of the $117 million to license my, all-new, 2018, deep penetration, convoluted, networked neural network, AI chatbot (for the ENTERPRISE) "Alpha".

> Alpha, create a Mars civilization.

>> Okay, I've scheduled terraforming for 2 o'clock on Wednesday. Should I confirm this time?

> Yes.

>> Okay, terraforming Mars at 2 o'clock on Wednesday.

"Alpha™" is a registered trademark and isn't at all vaporware. Calling "Alpha™" vaporware is punishable by death in all 50 states.
Here's one of the instruments from the Baschet workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g6i7KUu2Lg

Mick Gordon–who scored the previous Wolfenstein game–did a great presentation on the instrument design for the Doom 2016 soundtrack, which is in my opinion one of the best (the best?) game soundtracks of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY
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Enterprise is a funny word here. It just seems like any other voice assistant except it connects to your inventory control system rather than your Nest at home. It seems like mostly marketing to me, I doubt the technology is particularly unique.
> I believe points really should have been this measurement, but were co-opted early on with Windows and Macintosh specifying a specific PPI (96ppi and 72ppi respectively) as a function of the OS as opposed to what the monitor actually reported.

> Can we fix how points are handled, or do we need to go to mm or some other measurement at this point?

Points and millimeters are handled identically on all systems I know of. Point is not really any special unit, it is just 1/72 inches.

As for the overall theme of the article, at least at some point Firefox was perfectly able to do completely resolution independent rendering, realizing the authors wish that 12pt should be 12pt. I haven't really followed the situation lately, but I wouldn't expect the situation to be significantly worse these days.
No if they decay into lighter quarks it doesn’t mean they release all that energy just the energy difference between the states.

Say you have 2 10meV particles that can fuse into a single 12meV particle this means that 8meV of energy has to be released in the process.

If they also have a decay route that say decays into a 9meV particle it means that only 2meV are released in the decay process.

If we take a real world example then hydrogen fusion releases about 14.5meV of excess energy on top of the helium atom when 2H and 3H fuse, deuterium (2H) is stable, tritium (3H) is not and it’s beta decay only releases 0.0018meV of energy.

This means that the energy released in a fusion reaction is about 8000 more than the beta decay of the tritium.

The product of the decay/fusion is also important the beta decay of tritium releases an electron and a neutrino the energy that goes into the neutrino is effectively sunk since it’s a weakly interactive particle which is basically harmless.

The electron is what you need to worry about in this case.
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Except if you had call-waiting enabled on your phone line - so if someone did call you the pips would drop the line. I think you could add some digits to the AT dial string to temporarily disable it.
Not going to knock it, but I don't really get it. How different can an enterprise version of this be? Probably a lot more to the plan here than this video.

Out of all the different voice things out there (Siri, Alexa, Google, Cortana, whatever), I've only ever done 3 commands really:

> Hey Google! What's the weather?

> Hey Google! Play ____ music on Spotify.

> Hey Google! What sound does a cow make?

Does anyone have stats on how the general population are using these things? So far, just for me personally, I can't really find a way to be more productive with any of this tech.

Conspiracy nut in me first reaction is, "Ok, a new way to spy on companies".
What the fork? A tale of many chains
"Now their head of battery tech is gone and they've missed model 3 targets by a very wide margin due to problems with batteries."

Perhaps a look at this from the other way around is more revealing. They were having issues with batteries --> now their head of battery tech is gone.
I don't know. OCaml is ok-ish.
Can you please provide a reference of this? Sounds very heroic of Tesla/Musk.
Besides generally controlling screen time, I don't let my kid have free reign in the YT app or website itself. This is one case where a walled garden is actually a good thing.

I always vet them first, then download the videos and play them off our local NAS box or the local device (that way, no ads).
A "point" is a unit of measure. If a person wants to zoom in or out, it's up to them, but by definition a point is 1/72 of an inch.

We don't change the definition of a mile based on the type of vehicle travelling it, and we shouldn't change the definition of a point based on the type of display viewing it.
See also CSS pixels, which are one of the weirdest units around.
I've designed several p2p protocols. WebRTC is at least two orders of magnitude more complex than necessary. The same is true of all its component protocols.

It's typical of modern network protocols. They must be designed by committee. Web sockets is for a different use case but it's full of cruft as well. Why couldn't it just drop to TCP? But no there's cruft in there for SOAP for some insane reason. I guess someone from MS was on the committee.

Of course a lot of modern software is over-engineered so maybe it's just a general cancer.
According to the modern physics view, the "future position" is undefined in principle; the only position that is known is the position just measured.
billy, you have to stop, you are wasting money.
I think you misunderstood his question. His question was whether you would support HN banning you if there were a law protecting free speech and making 'you may not post the swastika shape' and similar laws illegal.
Several places have what's called a "General anti-avoidance rule". The way this works is, if you think you've got a brilliant wheeze that avoids taxes, you're required to tell the tax officials about it. If you choose not to tell them then they can prosecute for evasion, and if you tell the court actually it was a clever avoidance tactic not evasion the court says hang on, why didn't you obey the General anti-avoidance rule? So you're screwed either way.

On the other hand if you tell them, they get to look at your clever idea and decide to either allow it, change the rule for next year, or go to court saying you're wrong this avoidance method doesn't work so you owe taxes.
From the article, the launch product is simply a customer service chatbot (currently text, with voice coming soon)

The omega product video is supposed to be the future vision and not a real product.
there is something unexpectedly deeply depressing about knowing will.I.am is a top executive in your field
Conflated, or used the shibboleth of "free-market capitalism" as a cover for monopoly mercantilistic rent-extraction.

Having put a fairly considerable amount of study into the history of economic thought, back to Greek and Roman times (see Backhouse's The Ordinary Business of Life for a comprehensive, if dry, overview of mainstream economic thought), and with a strong focus on Smith to present, this problem is a pervasive one.

The irony is that it's practiced quite ardently by many of the loudest "defenders" of free-market systems. (Not always -- there are straight-up monopolists who have given up all pretense. Most, though, preach and act inconsistently.)
I'm surprised to see so much trivializing of the product and flaming of the entrepreneur.

Investors don't just give away $117M "because he's famous", and I seriously doubt their enterprise customers care that he's a singer. More likely he and the team have been making steady progress for years and are delivering real value. Kudos to them.
The robots extend the working career of laproscopic surgeons. The training is long, and their career with traditional laproscopic surgury is limited by the onset of microtremors, which we all get eventually. The robots contain adjustable tremor filters, which add 8-10 years to the career of an experienced surgeon. That is a huge benefit.
I find it ridiculous that text on random social media accounts is being associated with "safety".

If anything, it's the user's own misuse and mishandling of their own information, and their lack of understanding that anybody can publish anything, that makes their specific use of social media "unsafe". The trust and total integration of Facebook into people's lives is the actual unsafe component, which Facebook themselves actively promote; it all should be held at arm's length.

There is no reason that users should consider random words on random Facebook accounts any differently than words posted on 4chan.
>However, my suspicion is that the experience itself will remain not amenable to conceptual analysis

I'm in total agreement with this as well. When I suggested looking into what is it that objectivity and subjectivity arise from, I wasn't referring to the "physical" explanation (which I assume will eventually be resolved, though not in the near future) but to the core of the hard problem of consciousness. My take on this is that when looked at closely, it will not be found within the domain of anything that can be conceptualised simply because it precedes concepts. Any concept requires consciousness to exist but not vice versa. Of course the usual argument at this point is something in the line of "so the sun didn't exist before any thinking animals existed?" To which my answer is that the sun as a concept didn't exist. Neither did hydrogen, electrons or wave functions. Only pure pre-concept reality existed, neither objective nor subjective, "waiting" for a mind to evolve and eventually form subjects. objects and concepts that with increasing accuracy describe how this reality functions, and then proceed to confuse this description of reality with reality...
> No. The first copy-equivalent is the original data.

Ah, got it.

> Millions of people buy computers with 1+TB hard drives and then use less than 10% of the space.

See that's the bit that's weird to me. My OS drives are small SSD's and the spinning platters are all comfortably full.

I will say though, I'm replicating once onsite and once offsite so my own redundancy is pretty high. If I could get over the 'someone else having physical access' thing (I don't use cloud for most personal data) I suppose IPFS or equivalent would be cool.
it's a little reductio ad absurdum but what about defaulting to popup blocking? blink? marquee?
It's not the same thing but maybe worth considering when defending web author's intent being ignored.
For anyone wondering: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
> If this was true then you'd expect the exchange rate on Bitfinex to be much higher than other exchanges.

For a while earlier this year, it was
Yeah, the PCIe lanes alone are killing it, never mind the increase in CPU performance. Intel doesn't have much to offer to oppose this dominance, and their at a wall with process technology (can't go much smaller than 7nm without massive power leakage) with a 3 to 4 year pipeline just to get a new chip out. Making one chip takes 9 months end to end, assuming the design is ready now, hence the long pipeline.
Why not? The user knows that the browser remembers field inputs, he wouldnt expect it to be different for your website. So if he really wanted the browser not to remember anything he typed in, he would use private mode or clear his recent history afterwards.

Because then there's the teacher who has to put in medical data for a whole class where everyone got the flu. The teacher is happy the browser does it job like always and that you couldn't dictate what is best for him.
Peering into the blackbox: transparency vs. justification in healthcare AI
Government procurement requirements have been hugely important in regulating and advancing the state of many industries.
I put together a very crude scaffold for p5 a long time ago in hopes it might encourage students to dive in and edit code, share/remix. It was an aid to teach client/server things but hopefully have a point to it.

Didn't really take off though: https://github.com/BirkdaleHigh/sketch
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NIST is recognized worldwide in a similar vein to the IEEE, IETF or ISO. It's a regulation organization important enough to get to move banks, large companies and outsourcing firms.

A recommendation won't allow you to sue a company contrary to what the other commenters seem to think, but it's enough for any internal employee who works on something to call for and justify a change.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

Sibling post also has the link but I don't want you to miss it.
That's basically what Google Nearby uses - one of it's options is to signal to near devices over ultrasonic audio. In fact it looks they are even using it for a payment system http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4896748/Googl...

Not sure what the actual technical specification for the method is.
I "ported" moderncv LaTeX style in simple XHTML/CSS a while ago here: http://www.benou.fr/~ben/cv/cv.en.ganne.html
Feel free to clone it if you find it useful.
I use both moderncv for PDF and this for web-based resume.