skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true -- but it's a requirement of SV suburbia tbh. Density isn't high enough anywhere to support retail activity without a huge investment in parking, even in downtown MV or PA.

The personal vehicle oriented commutes exacerbate this.
Yeah, you missed them.
Thank you for your insight and even more for your wonderful creation.
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I hold a masters degree from a top 10 university (Imperial College), have done stints in academia (PhD dropout), big companies (Apple & Morgan Stanley) and more startups than I can count.

The people that I work with tend to value my ability to go from a very loose set of requirements to a very high quality product in an extremely short amount of time.

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This headline is officially the "Peak of Inflated Expectations". Prepare for the "Trough of Disillusionment".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
That struck me as bogus.

In other words, they're saying the businesses aren't profitable enough to service debt loads that were thought to be sustainable debt loads a few years ago.

That still points to lower than expected retail profit. Interest rates have been unusually low for more than a decade, so it's not like a credit spike changed the assumptions.
Never forget to pay yourself. It is morally crushing to work and work and never have any enjoyment. It's wrong to have the attitude that she makes bad decisions so of course she's poor.
Managing the software used to run a cloud platform isn't the hardest part of running a cloud platform. It would be a significantly larger effort for Snap to run and manage their own physical infrastructure. It's a big reason why Google Cloud is a service that makes money.
i'm not a twitter user, but i have been led to believe that eggs are generally not trusted.
Okay, Mr. auto nerd alarmist guy. We still have freaking firearms everywhere even though they're proven to be dangerous, since putting holes in people and things are their purpose. There will be absolutely no political will to limit people from driving their own vehicles.
For years the Roosevelt Field mall outside of New York City had a rather crummy food court. The food was mostly junk fast food, the tables were scarce and tightly packed together.

In more recent times, they redid the food court. It is bigger, with a lot more room to sit comfortably and relax a while. They have some more upscale dining choices, organic food, vegetarian food. It makes it more likely that I would stop and eat there.

I would think the competition from online made them do this. They are in a good location and didn't have to worry much about bringing in customers before.
"Microservices perform better, especially when written in Go."

Nonsense.
yes agreed.
>This is certainly not my experience of the US public school system, either as a student or a parent. The typical US school has always cared more about getting 20th-percentile students

Schools in the US are locally controlled.

There are places that run schools like this. And there are school systems that have fantastic magnet schools for gifted students.
Yes, the lottery sucks and creates traffic problems. Even if you don't have kids, make note of days when there is no school, your work commute will be much easier on those.
You're right: we are taking the mean of the activations of a given channel `z` over all its `x,y` coordinates. (We could sum, but we use mean so that step sizes are comparable between channel and neuron objectives.)
Thanks for the feedback that this notation is not super clear, we will consider rewriting those expressions.

When we do feature visualization we do start from a random point/noise. For the diagram showing steepest descent directions, however, the gradient is evaluated on an input image from the dataset, shown as the leftmost image.
There's no real step size either as we're showing the direction. You can think of the scale as arbitrary and chosen for appearance.

Section numbers are on their way—and figure numbers also sound helpful! I've added a ticket. (https://github.com/distillpub/template/issues/63)
For now you can already link to figures like this: https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/#steepest-des...
It depends on the university.

Here at Georgia Tech, which is a state university, TAs and RAs get an in-state tuition waiver instead of a full tuition waiver. In other words, you get to pay less tuition than if you came in as an out-of-state student.

But you still don't pay in-state tuition: the professor who funds your RA (or department in case of a TA) pays your in-state tuition on top of your stipend.

So there really are no "accounting tricks" going on since the tuition is covered by either faculty funds (e.g., external grants) or the relevant department's budget.
So much for "service economy".
Parking lots are speculators.
Would still be more informative than the average.
A recent video called “Why The Kids Need Stranger Things”[0] made exactly this point about the nostalgia of the Netflix series and how malls were a symbol of free-range kids[1]. Circumstances have changed so much that the creators assert Stranger Things could not be set in the present day.

[0]: https://youtu.be/qHl-BQXYg3s

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_parenting
In some cultures, children are the retirement plan but usually the help is mutual. The children stay with the parents till marriage, the parents help with major purchases, looking after the kids. At some point the children are self supporting and switch roles. The custom of young adults gaining independence early does have a cost.
That's covered in the article:

"Pricing for a small Kafka cluster on Heroku costs $100 a month and climbs steeply from there. It’s temping to think you can do it more cheaply yourself, but after factoring in server and personnel costs along with the time it takes to build working expertise in the system, it’ll cost more."

If your project can afford Kafka, use Kafka. This article is about achieving the same pattern in any project that already has Redis.
I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. They knew the bloodlines and "genetics" of a good horse. The emergence of autos made that knowledge less valuable and/or relevant.

I do want to live in that world and I live in the suburbs of vanilla tract homes, charter schools, and club soccer.

Vehicles are expensive in either time, money or both... I recently did the brakes of both our vehicles. It was super inexpensive compared to what I was quoted in price, but it cost me some time. I am looking at replacing one of our vehicles soon as the cost of repair may overshadow the vehicles worth. In all cases... it is a hassle and I would rather not deal with it. The alternative, public transportation and/or Uber is either too expensive (Uber) for our use case or inconvenient (public trans)...

If these self-driving vehicles get to parity with owning a vehicle in terms of cost of ownership and convenience. I will be standing in line to get rid of my cars.
Is that even possible anymore? About 2-3 years ago it seems like "smart" TVs completely took over.
And you can go hunting in Europe... if you happen to be friends with the land owning gentry.
It isn't, right.

I think the point is, that high-tech like computers are more omnipresent now than they were in the past.

So back in the days, only "nerds" were inclined to get to know it inside out, because they liked it and thought it was cool etc.

You could get along in other fields of work without much in depth knowledge.

But today, with the rise of smartphones and the Internet, this kind of technology has a much higher direct impact on our life. So people who would be smart enough but didn't care before are now forced to do such things. They could have done it back in the days, but they simply didn't care.
I don't think that school's will "just" be able to raise the overhead on grants. Congress has no plans to increase grant funding. Instead, grants will become more competitive. The net effect, then, is (1) unnecessarily increased competition for grad school, (2) defunding of education and research, and (3) decreased global competitiveness. I think it's a real problem.
I don't know if the article is too long, but "due to sexist bias" is certainly too short to give it justice.

The specific problem with stack ranking is the one-on-one ranking method. I'm absolutely convinced that I myself would succumb to all sorts of biases when asked to rate people like that: I'd tend to think the silent, introvert guy who stays late and has no fashion sense is smarter than the outgoing jock leaving at 5pm sharp to be with his family. I'd somehow convince myself that the guy I enjoy eating lunch with is more important than the Belgian guy who doesn't speak english well enough to socialise... The article makes a similar point: “My observation was whoever was the best orator got their people ranked higher.”

On aggregate, it's quite obvious that these biases could amount to gender-specific discrimination, even if not a single evaluator had gender on their minds.
> The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command. You will call for it, it will arrive at your location, you'll get in, input your destination and go to the freeway.

Except it won't. You'll go to three Sponsored Locations that offer similar, but not quite the same, services as the destination you selected, while the windows are used as projection screens for advertisements related to your destination and locations you're passing.

- Me: "Take me to Central Park."

- Car: "I'm sorry Tom, I can't let you do that. Going to MOMA, the New Museum, and Battery Park."

- Car: "We'll be passing a Wendy's restaurant momentarily. Did you want to stop to pick up some chicken nuggets or a tasty hamburger? I can offer you a 2 for 1 deal expiring in 5... 4... 3..."

- Me: "We were just planning on pizza, thanks."

- Car: "A $2 non-subsidized convenience fee will be added to your total."

This is my hell.
Fantastic.

Already, something like 60%[0] or more of the energy produced in Ontario is nuclear. We have clean air and dependable power as a result. Modern nuclear is safe, doubly so in a tectonicly stable region. More producers using better technology will be safer, and lower energy prices further.

[0]I based this on a friend showing me a neat website I cannot find again that had real-time graphs of energy output by source for Ontario. If anyone knows where to see that again, share it!
don't be mad. buy bitcoin!

to the mooooooon
The only conclusion is bitcoin is not going up for any of these reasons.
I think there's a bit of a difference between priming the pump so that your forum looks active, vs. having sockpuppets included in your active user numbers that you use to try to get funding. The former's a bit murky, but I'm okay with it at the start of something new and being phased out. The latter's straight up unethical and (IANAL) potentially illegal.
Market fundamentals seem non existant here. At least a few years ago, when there were bad news the prices would reflect that. Now, it seems to go up anytime bitcoin is mentioned at all, regardless whether the market understands the implications or not.
PG rolled up his sleeves personally as well, if you look at his account [0] you will see him contributing very actively in those early days.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/u/Bugbear
When I think about the generics discussion in the Go community (and even though I am personally for them), this is the kind of exponential complexity that I wouldn't want to see in any implementation thereof.
2007, that's when most quant shops shit the bed, you didn't miss much goodtimes. I'm curious, how many out of samples did you backtest your algo through? And what time frames were used ?
Why does NPR have so much good content on stuff that I am looking for?

Just the other day on HN on an article about Netflix, someone posted a conversation with someone who works at Netflix from planetmoney. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/13/550793717/epis...

I need to delve into npr.
> not in this instance

not really. why does it matter that this message is authentic? that 2x _really_ isn't going to happen? it can still happen, and it doesn't matter who posts what online.
You can't transfer a wealthy persons ability to generate wealth to another person or country.

Isn't that exactly the VC model?
Legal and yet unfair.

Shaming worked pushing dolphin safe fishing practices, for example.

Laws just codify society's morals. Sometimes by leading, mostly by lagging behind social norms.
The article cites no sources for anything, so it's safe to assume it's entirely made up.

Though I actually was able to find the source outside of this badly written article:
http://www.survey.blockchain.capital/

The question (and answers) were:

How familiar are you with Bitcoin?

a) I own/have owned Bitcoin

b) Very Familiar

c) Somewhat Familiar

d) Head of it but not familiar

e) Never heard of it
No MMS without a data plan. Unless something's changed.
It's more likely that non-autonomous vehicles will be uninsured rather than legislated off the roads. Expect this to happen with new cars in less than 10 years.
Thanks for reply but my question is not "is linux safe". I wonder if zorin os is untrustful than any other linux distro.
I finished a chemistry Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2016 - the way that the university handled "tuition" for science graduate students always seemed like a scam to me during my time there.

In the early 2010s, we all made ~$28K/yr, while the university pocketed a comparable sum from the funding agencies as "tuition." I assume that they spent it like any other general tuition funds. For the vast majority of the time during a typical graduate career, everyone was working on individual research. I suppose the "tuition" could be interpreted as paying for the 1 hr a week of meeting with your advisor (when they weren't blowing you off for conference travel), but that seems like a stretch. That money should stay in the sciences, and ideally be used to pay grad students more.

So it would be good for universities to get rid of this money laundering scheme, but I worry very much for the folks that I know who are still in the system who may be hurt by this. I think this problem should be treated in some way less likely to hurt vulnerable people.
That link/picture isn't crap, even if it is Fox News. That photo goes to the whole concept of what "poor" actually is. Poor can be defined as relative or absolute. We normally use it in the relative sense, so there are always poor people, but over the last 200+ years the standard of living of even the poorest among us has risen dramatically.

Case in point - how many people who are poor somehow manage to own smartphones? That's basically the updated version of the fridge concept but it is still an extremely valid point. The woman in the article was able to become a "road gypsy". Would that have ever been possible prior to the 21st century in any scenario where she wasn't possibly facing starvation or at least malnutrition as she traveled the country? No.
"How would one load up trash in the back of a pickup truck to take to the landfill?"

The same way I do it now, rent or buy a truck or a trailer.

"How would you take a fishing trip off road to the edge of the lake?"

You rent or buy a manual drive car. It'd be illegal to use in manual drive mode on the freeway or in the city but off road or on the track or on your own property you can use it however you want.
True. Enterprising people will develop solutions or we can still own a specialized "manual" with appropriate regulations.
I think what this is really about is what has been going on for a while, especially since the Obama administration further imposed it upon society; the consolidation and concentration of all the things. It's the age old tradeoff between risk and efficiency; dictatorship or liberty, concentration or diversification, freedom or subjugation.

As with social "diversity" that is really about the shattering of real diversity by mixing, muddling, breaking boundaries, and polluting distinct and unique characteristics; the consolidation and concentration of people and culture, and the consolidation and concentration of the internet, among others, have all led to a "great sucking sound" of an emerging monoculture, the destruction of ACTUAL diversity, which leaves unsustainable networks in its wake that collapses upon themselves in what is in this instance being called the retail apocalypse.
It looks like the case referenced in the Daily Mail was settled: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/12/monkey-selfie-cas...

I personally think "abusing" copyright is too strong of a word here. The key test on whether this sort of work is copyright worthy is the "threshold of originality" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality). I can see it possible to argue this passed the threshold for the monkey selfie case (obviously that's debatable, and the person was not successful, but it is not a completely outrageous argument in my opinion).

It's definitely a murky area of copyright law, and one I can see increasingly getting muddier as art becomes more and more machine assisted.
I'm still waiting for my flying car. Damn you Jetsons.
Location: Paris, France

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I'm a full stack engineer with a founders mindset (I've interviewed at YC a few times). I have over 10 years of experience across the entire stack: frontend, backend, iOS, Android, UX and product.

I hold a masters degree from a top 10 university (Imperial College), have done stints in academia (PhD dropout), big companies (Apple & Morgan Stanley) and more startups than I can count.

The people that I work with tend to value my ability to go from a very loose set of requirements to a very high quality product in an extremely short amount of time.
> > This lady gets almost $17,000 a year in pension and social security

17000 / 12 = 1416.67

So no, not "probably like $2400-2800"
In the US, that market has been taken over by Walmart. It is effectively the "one stop shop" that people visit weekly for everything from groceries to small furniture.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if Walmart has had almost as much of a negative impact on malls as Amazon and its ilk have.
The problem with this is what I've been experiencing for years. Online shopping is fine, but what if I need something right now, and I can't wait for overnight shipping?

What if I need something for a Halloween costume, in December? What if I need a tie or pair of pants for an interview? What if I forgot to get a gift for my nephew? Malls don't require that you have a meticulous plan for everything you might need in the next month. Malls make it easy for me to go to, get something I need and get out. No matter how fast online buying is, they can't compete with local stores that allow me to get something as fast as I need it.

I first started seeing this when a bunch of convenience stores went under after 2008. Now it's getting worse. CompUSA and other tech stores used to carry a lot of PC hardware stuff I needed and could get when I needed something. Radio Shack, CompUSA, and bunch other shops all went under. Now if I need something, I'm left with Best Buy's paltry offerings and the closet Best Buy store is a good 20 minute drive one way because they already closed three of the shops that were within a five minute drive.

The death of the Malls and retail in general is already killing the convenience of being able to get something when I need it. Now I have to drive further, spend more time trying to find a retail store which is still open, and then hope their minimal offerings will do the trick.
Also depends on how often you can find your size. The return packaging is usually pretty easy and a label is inside too.
From the responses here, I think I was unclear with the power law part.

I don't just mean "the pay distribution is exponential". I mean any system where the rewards of the work (as judged by the people doing it) accrue primarily to a small fraction of the workers. This isn't about the size of the payout, it's about a system where competition and potentially ruthlessness within the labor force have substantial benefits. (Contrasted with careers like factory labor where getting 'ahead' of coworkers doesn't have much to offer.)

So for orchestras, "all musicians want to perform in the big orchestras, creating a highly competitive supply glut" aligns nicely with what I mean, even if that supply keeps salaries down. Most talented musicians don't make it into a career, most career musicians teach in schools or play weddings or otherwise don't make it to the Pops. Video game design is another power-law return - most people don't get to lead teams, most team leads don't make hit games. The same for mathematicians - the payouts are largely status, tenure, and prestigious institutions, but they're still exponentially distributed.

A decent definition would be any profession where the stereotypical example and the prototypical example are completely out of sync. The prototypical truck driver is basically what we imagine them to be. The prototypical software engineer works on an inventory system for a non-tech company someplace outside the Valley, and has nothing much in common with the 'techie' stereotype.
Averages often say very little about a population.

There are states and metro areas in the US with (and this is the important part) populations as large as many high ranked European countries that rank at the very top of the world in any educational metric.
It's equality of opportunity, not equality of ability.
Hacker News Staff: can you please publish stats on how many of the comments on this thread are posted from Apple devices?
Twitter launches $99 subscription tool to promote tweets
By your definition, the postal service is the recipient of letters containing child porn.
> Drag/drop list reordering, pan/zoom image cropper

I'm curious, were these implemented using a 3rd party library or developed in-house?
Not nearly enough :)

My most popular open source project is Jadelet[1], the frontend templating language nobody asked for. It was primarily made to solve my own problems so promoting it was secondary to coding it.

Most of my other projects are apps that happen to be open source but people experience them through the app much more than through the code, things like pixel editors[2], music makers[3], web based zine based operating systems[4], things like that. In those cases I spend much more time marketing the experience rather than the code or "open source" nature of the project, but again I probably don't spend nearly enough time marketing.

Thanks for reminding me to do more marketing :) aaaand... linkspam! Hopefully my ironic self-aware promotion style will be perceived as endearing and disarming rather than heavy handed and unsubtle.

[1]: https://jadelet.com
[2]: https://pixieengine.com
[3]: https://danielx.net/composer/
[4]: https://whimsy.space
A $10 shift is a fortune in arbitrage.

If you have insider info about the direction of a market, then you have a much reduced risk. You can move in big, take your bite of the change, and then cash out.
Following that argument, if we taxed them, their ways to not escape poverty would be even less sustainable. Victory!

Ridiculous conclusion from a simplistic argument.
>More likely the insurance companies will aggressively raise premiums on drivers who insist on retaining their option to drive themselves. Markets will price people out of the driver’s seat and into the passenger’s.

Or not. The people who want to stare at their phone will self select the autonomous option leaving only the "good" drivers