skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Tools made of bone or very hard stone.

2. Different type of oxidation.

3. Work with air bubbles; people fished and dived since time immemorial not being able to survive underwater.

4. No one said the ocean has to be a water ocean, how about ammonia?

5. The first space launches of the hypothetical aquatic species may involve air-breathing animals, or it may be delayed until the automation reached a sufficiently high level.

The technological path is not linear. For example, the Aztecs had advanced societies and infrastructure but no utilitarian wheel: http://www.zoesaadia.com/real-smart-folks-but-no-wheel/.
Fascinating. Any suggestions for how us "average Joe's" might get closer to his level of insight about anything when tackling new topics for self-driven education?

I feel like I could improve how I approach learning things in fields that are completely new to me, or where I'm far from an expert. From everything you have said and that I've read elsewhere, Gates and others at his level seem to have really honed their approach to learning and becoming able to have an informed conversation with an SME.
Interesting! love the idea. we need a simple, dummy proof way for the public to ease into crypto. as long as you have access to move funds
I'm unfamiliar with the baseband scene at that level. Might you know why the difference in price between 2G and 3G modules is so striking?
> Those are the things I take pride in. Not a new airforce jet.

Unfortunately, all those nice things go away if your adversary decides to take pride in their new airforce jets.
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It would definitely make the job market a little saner. Right now it feels more like a lottery where you have to gamble on potential winners.
Are you confident that you have enough value to your employer that they would be willing to write into your contract that you cannot be fired for a harassment claim until it has been proven in court (as Bill O'Reilly had[1])? I would guess not, and there are few people at any given company that could say that.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-08/o-reilly-...
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Click is nice, but for my money, Fire is what Click should have been. https://github.com/google/python-fire
... if you buy it on release day.
this contradicts GP's comment

>Bungie is preventing applications from injecting code into the game

if the game is preventing overlays from getting injected, but you're bypassing that protection to inject your """legitimate""" overlays, it serves you right to get banned.
Can you provide some detailed examples of that being the case? Genuinely curious to know.

Usually I hear that sort of thing and think somebody isn't being creative enough with fallback behaviors for when the feature isn't there, but I guess it would depend heavily on what the feature is.
"I'm particularly skeptical of the claim that you could not develop chemistry underwater; it seems equally as implausible as saying that you could not develop chemistry in air for exactly the same reasons."

what? you think its possible to develop fire under water?
chemistry? have you done any chemistry? what about electricity? (a huge but impossible one to do under water)? I am trying really hard not to say something mean
Title is a little misleading; from the article:

“Our data showed that, rather than actually increasing the size of the hippocampus per se, the main ‘brain benefits’ are due to aerobic exercise slowing down the deterioration in brain size. In other words, exercise can be seen as a maintenance program for the brain"

Though, the article also says:

"Overall, the results – published in the journal NeuroImage– showed that, while exercise had no effect on total hippocampal volume, it did significantly increase the size of the left region of the hippocampus in humans."

It's a meta review of other articles, with all the caveats such meta reviews come with.
The last time I looked, GTK# wasn't a good experience for Windows users as it has to be installed separately - has this changed?
Two years is too short but once you get on the extended warranty loop you can basically get another 2/4 years of new phones on the cheap.
Remove the social stigma of not going to college. Hardly any tv shows that show young non college grads as positive.
This is amazing.

The video was produced by a new technology called high-speed atomic-force microscopy.
I am not sure SFJ is guilty. Basically, he was overly critical of ideas and pitches he received. The opposing party had their feelings hurt which they attribute to them being female.
Aww man.. you completely miss the point of why people do what they do.

They dont do it, with feeling, for money. Money is just something they get.

Your attitude is coming across to me in this post as someone who would rather not be there doing that. If i'm getting it, how do YOU expect to get a reaction any better than your attitude?

Is there any aspect of this project that you love ? that you really want to see working?
Focus on that, mentally.. get that feeling in your mind when you're interviewing... and also you need to find space in your head to actually care about the people (not their job) themselves. You'll be amazed how much a difference in attitude this will make to the people that look to you their leader.
Creating fast image classifiers with MobileNet in TensorFlow
>If you have enough money to pay salaries for all these people, why are you working at all?

Most often salaries come from revenues, those revenues require the peoples output to be generated. So just because they owns the company doesn't mean they're rich.
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It doesn’t need to be one or the other. Just because trade schools are good doesn’t mean we should ignore the needs of everyone who wants a 4 year degree or has a mountain of student loan debt.
Wow.... comments like that can get you banned from places like this.
Just to highlight - this is in no way related to the existing Apache Phoenix project, or to the ten other tech projects also called Phoenix. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix#Computing)
This is a new one.
Presumably related to Cloak and Dagger attacks? http://cloak-and-dagger.org/
how does one become 'cleared of accusations'?
I’m eagerly waiting for someone to use the imageNet data on it and show some prelim results
Saving 10x your annual salary means saving half of your salary for twenty years. This is, to my mind, not very realistic.

You need to invest into something highly profitable to hit this goal without being so drastic, e.g. to have bought some Bay Area realty in 1980s, or some Apple stock around that time. This is not a common option, and it's mostly unavailable now.
Do you have a complete copy of scihub? The seeders seem to be very slow. Please let me know -- email is in my HN profile -- I'll even pay for complete copies.
It's difficult tell of course, but, could it make a difference to rather than having 4 full-time remote engineers (soon to be 5?) to have 1 great local engineer? Someone who sits next to you all day, someone you can create a bond with, someone you can look in the eye, someone who's equal to you when it comes to engineering work, someone who can cover you if you're not there for a day or two.

My experience with developers is that you get what you pay for.
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>"When this all began, it was with the justification that it's not about getting the right answer, it's about seeing how you think and approach a problem."

Indeed. Now the default seems to be companies sending out a Hacker Ranks test consisting of 5 separate problems, a countdown timer and zero human interaction.

I can't help but think that recruiters are playing a part in pushing for this online Hacker Rank test bullshit.

It feels to me that as the quality of people working as recruiters goes further into the toilet the reliance on the Hacker Rank puzzle test seems to increase.
And here I am, still using Safari as my main browser on Mac for battery performance.

I’m wishing the safari team would be a bit more aggressive with pushing features and performance
An awful lot of scientific progress has come about because of self-interest. See James Burke's "Connections" series.
Just look at where cops do traffic monitoring (aka speed traps). In Germany they are supposed to put speed traps in areas with a large amount of accidents caused by speeding, but many end up being placed simply where people casually speed in tiny amounts (e.g. 20 km/h too fast is 30€)... and a single trap can bring 15M € per year (http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.verkehrsueberwa...).

In total, speed traps in Germany are estimated to bring in billions of euros in revenue (https://www.welt.de/motor/article13877289/Das-Milliardengesc...). There are many agencies which can place speed traps and profit - federal, country, county and city cops, in addition to city personnel and sometimes even private companies.

They are not a good funding source, but a very consistent one once you find the right spots to milk people.
> Basically, it's irrational to try to cover up or ignore harassment in the vast majority of cases.

how did you reach that assessment? this would seem to only apply to behavior that was openly visible and recurring.
What would be an example of substantial progress/major breakthrough in AI?
Well, it's not true that "ARM has no method to enumerate devices". It does have that; it's just that hardware manufacturers are bad at using it properly. (That's not to say it's not a huge problem; it's just that it's an economic/business/social one, not a technical one.)
It's not too soon to judge - plugins I used no longer work unless I turn off auto-update or move to the LTS version. The team knew these were breaking changes for months or years, but the APIs to un-break things don't exist and aren't prioritized. It's discouraging to collaboration when you look at 2+ year old issues (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061) that still haven't been properly addressed.
i kid
"We have the face oval, two eyes, a nose and a mouth. For a CNN, a mere presence of these objects can be a very strong indicator to consider that there is a face in the image. Orientational and relative spatial relationships between these components are not very important to a CNN."

^^^ What? The opposite of this is the mainstream I thought. The promise of DL is to learn hierarchical models of your data. The network learns edge filters, learns combinations of edge filters that differentiate an eye vs a nose, but doesn't learn combinations of intermediate features that determine a face? ppl usually say with a deep enough network an hierarchical concept can be learned...
Yeah, that's an unfortunate reason I'll probably have to keep using chrome fairly regularly.
> To me, that makes the "intelligence" capabilities of the film pretty clear

Maybe it's better to call it toilet-bowl-level-intelligence. The "intelligence" which arises purely from the system construction, not from the system conceiving different plans of actions given internal representations of various tasks.

Toilet bowl cleverly (and usually successfully) tries to keep water level constant in a wide range of inlet water pressures, water evaporation speeds, flush patterns, and even in the presence of leaks.
The amount of hysteria on display by men in this article and elsewhere is ridiculous. What happened to the skeptical "treat each person as an individual" attitude that created "Not All Men"?
Ideally no one should smoke until they are 24-26 years old as their executive functions are still developing.

You shouldn't be drinking either until 26 for the same reason.

I've not seen any study showing damage from people that waited until 26 to consume cannabis.
I really think the great filter is us destroying ourselves from by inventing something that goes out of control or just by war itself.
Sounds like my Republic Wireless Moto X running Android 2.3 from 2013. It still works, but usability has degraded significantly.
Well, Apple completely controls the XNU kernel and its I/O Kit framework. By contrast, Google--and especially phone manufacturers--don't control development of the Linux kernel.
>Recessions aren't all bad. They have a cleaning effect, sweeping up the cruft and inefficient operations, while exposing the outright frauds in the process.

Feels a bit too generous. Like saying a fire that destroyed your house was beneficial because it dealt with all those pesky fire hazards you hadn't been aware of/addressed yet.

The best you can say is that at least it prevented anyone else from moving in unawares and dying in the fire. But it's still a total loss for anyone who already lived there.
> > Phase annealing in SHELX-90: direct methods for larger structures

> I am not sure why this one was listed as 'paywall' when it appears to be available directly from the publisher:
> http://journals.iucr.org/a/issues/1990/06/00/an0278/an0278.p...

It pops up a http authentication box for me.

> > Multiple range and multiple F tests

> Also directly available (possibly with a free JSTOR account but if not, SH/LG):

> https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3001478.pdf

You can only view 3 free items every 14 days, wouldn't call that exactly freely available.
Oh huh, I use keepass2android but didn't know it had TOTP support, thank you!
Yeah like in Mass effect
Isn't there a big lawsuit between Qualcomm and Apple pending?
I hope it doesn't. "Finances first everywhere" is dumb in technology for the same reason it's dumb in research -- you get predictable incremental improvements rather than quantum leaps. We get what we pay for, and it absolutely makes sense to invest into curiosity-driven technological research.

People want "finances first" investment, but then complain that all we get is a bunch of sharing economy clones. If you want something other than doordash, uber, airbnb, instacart, caviar, lyft, etc. you have to be prepared to invest into ideas that have no financial story in the short term.
Passion, attitude, and vision will get you a product management job
It's even better than that. If trade schools can recover some prestige, and more people who would be happier and better off for going there do go there, then colleges can become better colleges, too. Colleges trying to be both is doing a disservice to everyone.
It's really not your fault. But collectively we should care more about this and hold vendors accountable for continued security of devices they sold us.

AFAIK Microsoft and Red Hat are the only ones who do a good job of patching security bugs on older OSes.
What do you guys think of Lineage OS and Open GApps?

I put them on an old Nexus 7 (2013) tablet, and they run well. How trustworthy are they though?
Surely you mean the taxpayers of Missouri will be paying for a long and protracted legal battle. And once they find out the amount they paid to pad his resume they'll have a thing or two to say on how Missouri funds were used.
People in your family don't care about security?
and that's why I love Sci Hub, it has most all the titles I ever searched for:
http://sci-hub.cc/
Exactly. Why did you think Oracle wanted to muscle in on that?
Uber owns and runs rental car companies, such as Lion City Rental in Singapore, whose fee structure is designed specifically for the car-less to sign up as drivers (minimum rental duration for discounts to apply, a discount based on Uber rides driven, etc.).

Lion City Rental has grown so fast as to affect the price of the car ownership permit [1]. Anecdotally, about 1 in 20 of my drivers in Singapore owned their cars.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/uber-bids-co...
Guys, did any one switch to proprietary GPU drivers on Linux to take (better) advantage of GPU Renderer?
I dunno, I thought The Wire was good. And the only guy who went to college in Game of Thrones is sort of a dork.

Seriously though, while this is part of the problem, I think the motivations behind this sort of thing are typically not really about what’s in the best interest of the working class. It has more to do with increasing political polarization of universities and a desire to reduce public spending on education, especially public education. The more straightforward solution is to ensure people can afford higher education if they want it. But if you’re more concerned about the short term bottom line, it’s easier to just let people either borrow absurd amounts of money for it or give up on that and go to a trade school.
this mindset seems a bit like a 'if you have nothing to hide...' view on privacy. they're only concerned because they're villains?
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Social stigma is not the problem. Employers requiring degrees for jobs that don’t require a degree are the problem. They force the cost on the student, and with demand for college education then bring inelastic, colleges have all of the pricing power to charge whatever they want.
tl;dr deep learning needs data to learn invariances, "capsules" build in invariances to 3D rotation... somehow...
At least here in Denmark, "Golden Hour" is no longer thought as a rule of thumb to the new recruits in the national emergency agency "DEMA" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Emergency_Management_Ag...)

Time is off course at a premium, but there seems to not be anything special about the 60 minute mark.
" actively modifying their environment to improve their survivability"

does a hermit crab count?
I am unconvinced about that argument but I am willing be convinced. Can you give some examples of quantum leap companies? I don't see why you would need SV money to make quantum leaps as a company or why that's important.

Edit: I can see from the responses that there is some confusion. I am of course not talking about companies who do some sort of research based incubation. I am talking about the host of companies who do no research or innovation and simply use VC money to get a team of the ground.
I assume english is not your first language.

Fondling is not even close to the word touching.

Fondling is about sexuality.

Touching is a physical action. You touch a cup. You touch a dog. You touch a touch screen. You touch someone when you shake their hand.

Roughly, you can't fondle a cup. You wouldn't say you fondle a dog, and you won't say you fondle friends and family.

(And I do know spaces my workmates are in... as much as family and friends, so should you if you are able. Human beings matter, a workplace is more than money)
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It's a coin flip for me at this point. I'm an agnostic I guess. There are people far smarter than I that have embraced religion of some sort, so I don't feel too bad about it.

Heads: If all we are is math, then eventually, through smarter and smarter computers, we have a chance of solving it... and it'll probably happen fast once (if) we invent AIG. This will inevitably resolve that free will is an illusion. It's kind of the ultimate atom bomb in a way I suppose, but without maliciousness (and wouldn't you want to know anyways??).

Tails: If we're something more than math, a soul or what have you, then we probably can't create pure AIG, at least not without magic. We might create an approximation that uses sufficient inputs to make it almost impossible to tell the difference though. That could be a really useful tool (or weapon...).
I suppose the newer BroadcastChannel would be an option too, for high performance multi-window usage.
I’ve seen a similar low-tech version of this clock (sorry I can’t find a link). You setup two jars. Fill one with 365 * (years of life left). In the morning you move a single bead from the full jar to the empty one. It’s supposed to help you visualize “spending” your days, and encourages you to live them more deliberately.
That's could be because we are accustomed to coding through text. Imagine asking a designer to use code for vector editing?
More likely it would be used to justify yet another tax cut for the rich.
I met a guy on a chairlift in Washington a few years ago that was planning on doing this. He said they were making basically a joint where you can smoke the whole thing and just be comfortably buzzed.
I love how optinionated Click is, especially around how CLI tools should be documented. I feel like I built a better tool because Click guided me towards best CLI design practices.
I suppose Magic Leap is a good example. No one would buy a silly incremental AR headset, but they will probably buy whatever Magic Leap is working on (provided it is as futuristic as advertised.)
>using a stolen (?) piece of factory software

You mean ODIN! That's probably leaked. Many good memories of that tool.
FYI, Chrome has had smooth scrolling since v49. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/smooth-scr...
Importantly, in China, the biggest Android market, none of the phones access the Play store, so that entire country will be omitted from the data. I'll bet they're not getting updates either.
I do not enjoy phones except for pocketable phone, camera and map. I still have an old stubbornly adequate Moto-G. Chromebooks are cheap lightweight browsing and light typing devices. They work better than fine with no surprises.
If the tinkering isn't an end unto itself, an easier alternative is to buy a simple countdown clock on Amazon for ~$15. I got this one for $12 to countdown until the end of my postdoc.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TSC1X8/

Just pull of the retirement sticker.
Please don’t.
You might not realize how much fuel it takes just to maintain generators. They have to be exercised, load tested, overhauled, all on top of whatever time they spend providing backup power. Which is just as well, because an engine that sits without ever running won't operate when it is most needed, and the fuel can stagnate, or even attract water and grow algae.
Hell, I took an outdoor emergency course (the national ski patrols first responder course) and even we are trained on MCI's and triage.
(not profitable, burning money, I'm paying)

In my experience, the thing getting your goat is often kind of the dog you kick because you can't kick the real source of the problem. I imagine that burning money coming out of your pocket is a much bigger stresser driving your negative emotional reaction to the thought of hiring anyone. If it were me, I would be doing some brain storming with a trusted confident for how to address this issue.
Facebook and Google should expand the experiment and provide a basic living wage to everyone in San Francisco.

It'll be interesting to see what happens to the homeless population.
> If you don't like Google don't use it.

What happens when people don't know they're using Google?

I have an Android phone and one thing that is bugging me is how the default browser on the bottom "toolbar" is in fact named "Internet". This may be fine for techies like you and me, but I'm concerned for the older folk who may have difficulty with technology or non-techies. In this case, if one just went with the defaults, one wouldn't even know you were using a Google-built browser.

Remember that old story back when Internet Explorer was dominating the market, and most people surveyed couldn't tell the difference between the web and a web browser? They pointed to the "e" browser logo and said, "That's the internet!"

This is a nasty pattern in tech these days. On my laptop which carries Windows 10, the programs aren't named in such a way to identify that they are Microsoft programs [0]. You see an email client named "Mail" and a map service named "Maps". No indication that they are Microsoft Mail or Microsoft (Bing) Maps.

Also, on Windows 10 when you log in you are presented with a "photo of the day". If you click on any of the links on that image, the URLs will be opened in Microsoft Edge, and any searches are performed using Bing, regardless if you set your default browser to something else!

[0] https://s18.postimg.org/ipxt1962h/default.png