skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say work remotely for a company in an expensive place but live in a cheap small town.
This has worked out very well for me and my family.
All the companies I have worked for were remote-first etc so I never felt like a second class citizen.
This is my favorite part of Montreal. When it's -20C outside, having access to everything without going outside is good city planning

http://montrealvisitorsguide.com/reso-underground-city-la-vi...
Unfortunately the trial wasn't blinded. The only previously blinded trial into FMT for C.diff wasn't very successful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773022

(even the placebo group had up to 90% remission, with no difference between placebo and active treatment for one of the trial locations).
It depends what aspect of safe you are looking at. Higher speed = worse accident.

https://i.imgur.com/TFBOnG1.png

Hopefully we can move to 100% autonomous cars, and then crank up the speed because they are safer, have better reaction times, and are predictable.
Ok so you are telling the truth, care to elaborate on the why part?
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If it's not an eyeball-and-ad-based, for-profit business, then who cares if people click or not? They just need to click the donate button now and then.

In fact the central genius of it, and Wikipedia, is that it's basically outside the commercial realm, and therefore at least theoretically free of most of the distortions the profit motive creates in journalism.

Hence they don't really need an "edge" either, but if they did, they do have one: "We're a non-profit." And/or, "You wrote it." (The public, that is.)

It's basically a copy of Wikipedia where instead of "no primary sources" they'll likely toggle it over to "all primary sources" (or mostly). Though actually I wonder why they didn't just keep it as part of Wikipedia itself, but maybe that's the reason right there.
I encourage you to look for a job that pays you better. I promise, based on direct personal experience, that you do not need to work in SV to do a lot better than that with that amount of experience.
Looks like apple support found about this issue from this tweet: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752
Well in that case it actually makes sense. They can fingerprint the photo and then automatically remove it.

Though really would be better to fingerprint all removed photos and automatically prevent any matching photos from being uploaded.
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The local NVMe storage for i3.metal is the same as i3.16xlarge. There are 8 NVMe PCI devices. For i3.16xlarge those PCI devices are assigned to the instance running under the Xen hypervisor. When running i3.metal, there simply isn't a hypervisor and the PCI devices are accessed directly.

- There is no hot swap for the NVMe storage.

- The 8 NVMe devices are discrete, there is no hardware RAID controller

- Anyone can get I/O performance stats on i3.16xlarge as a baseline. Intel VT-d can introduce some overhead from the handling (and caching) of DMA remapping requests in the IOMMU and interrupt delivery so I/O performance may be a bit higher on i3.metal, with a few microseconds lower latency.
Something like a trackblocker could be the next step for privacy concerned companies. Or an opt-in variety.
Yeah. Housing is high. Crazy high, especially in San Francisco itself.

But the pay far, far outweighs that factor.
Very cool to see Troy use my suggestion:

from https://www.troyhunt.com/im-testifying-in-front-of-congress-...:

"Troy, to your point "Data breaches can take years to discover," I think it's helpful to put in layman's terms that breaches are closer to making photocopies where there are now two people in possession rather than a theft where the owner is deprived of access. How do you detect that a document has been photocopied?"

In the final (this link):

"However, unlike a physical commodity, the trading of data breaches replicates the asset as each party retains their original version, just like making a perfectly reproduced photocopy."

:)

To expand on my point and

> We Often Don’t Know Until Years Later

You notice someone's stolen physical property from you, because you are deprived of it.

You don't notice someone's stolen digital property from you, because now there are more copies of it.

(maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets?)
I think its generally assumed that the unqualified term "floating point" is generally referring to binary floating point, which is not the same as decimal floating point. You don't want to use binary floating point for representing money. Furthermore fixed-point refers to a decimal value with a fixed number of bits for the integral and fractional parts, which is not the same as previously suggested system with an implicit decimal point (e.g. multiplying by 10^N for N places of decimal precision). real fixed-point math can be a better and more accurate system if you're working within a well defined range. Regardless of the system you're using, there are only 2^N unique values that can be represented in N bits, binary floating point distributes them unevenly across a huge range. If you are representing a smaller range with a fixed-point system, it will necessarily give you better precision.
I think it says more about their top performers and business practices than the skills of the average developer employed by them.
It might prevent them from being sent in the first place. If it matches a fingerprint photo, the message stops. It's especially important in revenge porn scenarios where you don't want it seen by anyone, and even the short amount of time between report and take down can have a lot of views.
Is that public information? I don't see any press releases about it.
and even then some of them won't slow if they feel like they will be past them before the pedestrian would intersect with their car

I see this all the time. I'd like to point out that this is illegal driver behavior. You can be ticked for it. It is also very dangerous for pedestrians, since it encourages people to cut the tolerances closer and closer. I've had people nearly run over my feet doing this.
Finally, because it was at least 2 weeks known on Apple developers' forum https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235#277225
Sure, Facebook might delete your photo when they're done, but they probably won't delete any machine learning models that they trained using it.
If I may give some dog trainer advice, you are going to spend water and energy making some squirrels just a bit more challenged to the feat, consider just attracting the offending ones to elsewhere where they find some cheap/disposable food source so they let the chicken's alone :-) — this approach is usually cheaper and renders more results with dogs, cats and even chickens themselves! Say, once you detect them, you lure them to a certain path or place, maybe with some LEDs or scent or something you can automate dispensing (I don't known squirrels).
Well, with the Google AIY kit, as it's Raspberry Pi based, you have the ability to do what you want with the hardware. It's really just a microphone and speaker on top of it.

At some point you could run offline models to take voice input and output intent. What you then do with that is up to you. What the cloud services provide are common lookups, such as searching wikipedia, your calendars, etc. You'd need to implement that yourself.

AWS DeepLens seems to run Ubuntu 16.04 under the hood, but it's unknown whether you can get SSH access to it. If so, it's could be a really nice hackable camera on which you could run anything you want.
A graceful upgrade mechanism towards a new password hashing algorithm.
PM of Canada announced he has chosen Sheilah Martin as nominee to Supreme Court
Microsoft plans multibillion-dollar expansion, renovation of Redmond campus
title dilution is indeed something to contend with.
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This is for FB messenger, not FB posts. Messenger has no such rules for no pornography. Plus, this allows them to be proactive, rather than waiting for people to report posts.
If you almost rear-end the autonomous car, it's because you are a bad driver. There is no "innate understanding of 100 years of traffic flow", there is just a socially accepted carelessness and recklessness with which people drive that is killing thousands every year, many of them kids. It's pretty much the leading cause of death for teenagers.
Exactly, you've clearly stated my original point -- economic success in countries has nothing to do with the morality of their society or culture or government. Economic success is more often than not luck of the draw and can happen to brutal slave dictatorships as much as free market democracies.
I worked on the core audio team. It’s kind of hard to find another company that pays as well as Apple where you get to continue doing that kind of work. The only other companies I can think of are either lab126 (Amazon) or google. Lab126 doesn’t pay as well as Apple.

Also, apples 401k match and internal stock discounts are amazing.
Very cool! I watched the SciPy talk on xtensor (same developers as xeus) and the project looked pretty awesome. Many people in my field used CINT for a long time and cling is so much better. It's nice to see it used outside of particle physics.

One thing I disagree with is the idea that the lack of a good interactive environment for C++ makes it difficult to teach. C++ is a compiled language, so learning how to compile a C++ library or program is _part_ of C++. I feel like C++ beginners should go interactive _after_ learning how to compile a project. I write that with first hand experience; my first programming experience was with writing interpreted C++ in CINT and I feel like it hindered my ability to eventually understand what a real C++ program was.
You most definitely can. Lambda freezes the state of the container and thaws it for the next request (assuming the next request is relatively soon, otherwise it deletes the frozen instance entirely -- This is the entire premise behind keeping lambda functions "warm") including any background processes that might be running.

It's not persistent in that it exists between requests, but for the use case here it's exactly what is needed. He would save significant response time by having php-fpm already running, code parsed, opcodes cached and just issuing a new FCGI request to php-fpm instead of relaunching the PHP CLI each and every time.
[Random Remarks from the Internet]...because this sort of thought experiment is intoxicating.

+ The scenario is based on applying the wrong capital allocation strategy at the wrong time. When you have 2200k dollars and you want to make it last, the important thing is capital preservation, not growth. Because growth can be negative and even positive average growth can be locally negative.

+ Once you have 2200k dollars keeping it in your mattress rather than investing it will for growth provide 80k dollars/year for more than twenty-five years. Twenty-five years is a long time even if you're old.

+ Assume the plan is to get to 2200k dollars in five years. This requires an after tax income of 484k dollars/year. And the discipline of living on 80k dollars/year while earning 6x that amount. In ten years it is 282k dollars/year with a 3x discipline. In twenty years it is 181k dollars per year with 2x discipline. That's still tough.

+ The proposed plan does not reflect a discipline of spending only a small fraction of available yearly income. The proposed plan is 80k dollars/year in and 80k dollars/year out.

+ More broadly the proposed plan's 80k per year does not strongly imply holding frugality as a principle virtue. It's about the top 1/8th of US incomes (before not after taxes). This suggests that status is playing a role alongside financial independence.

+ 2200k dollars is an abstract X in an X -> Y problem if the goal is 80k dollars/year of passive income. There are more concrete X's in the X -> Y problem. For example twenty years US military service as an officer could come close to providing 80k dollars/year in retirement. It would still require discipline but not the 2x spending discipline.

+ Not that I am suggesting a military career, only that it is a concrete plan with a reasonable chance of producing 80k dollars/year in twenty years. The downside of concrete plans is that they are less intoxicating.

+ There's an old joke that the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune. That's why most people don't have a small fortune.

Good luck.
> [...] only to eventually encounter all the issues that floating point was invented to solve. When they encounter those issues they then end up having to adapt their code only to basically re-invent a broken, unstable quasi-floating point system when they would have been much better off using the IEEE floating point system [...]

Would you care to elaborate on some of these issues? I'm genuinely curious.
A friend does HW for Seagate servers and has talked a bit about the 'math' of servers. The reality is the FB may or may not delete the pics, no matter what they think they really did. With the amount of servers they utilize, one is failing about every second, permanently erasing all the data on it. Yes, back-up servers, and copies of the data. Still, a lot of data is getting trashed every second. So, they may be trying to weasel these pics, but do not trust that they are smart enough to get around the hard facts of server decay. If they are being honest, then there is still no way to determine if some back-up somewhere actually is storing the data, despite their best efforts. The code stack for something like FB is so huge, there really is no way of knowing where a piece of data is or isn't. Kafka would be beaming at it's absurdity.

In addition, they also have a lot of 'fresh' servers out there, spinning about for months, not being written to, as some algorithm works it's way around using the fresh servers. These also fail, having never been used. Seagate does not mind when companies like FB do this nonsense.
> So unless you have a webapp that uses 8gb of memory yet stays somewhere under 20% cpu utilization (maybe with some peaks), you'll eventually get throttled.

FWIW this is, unfortunately, a pretty common description of many low traffic Rails apps.
>> it really should be "bitcoin settled".

Sorry but you can't have futures on bitcoins that are settled in bitcoins.
> "If schools were better at teaching analytical thinking, that might reduce the appeal of conspiracy theories. And it would not hurt if governments were more open and trustworthy."

Two big if's.
If you don't mind me tagging in, TLA+ is a specification language, while Haskell is a programming language. You can choose the granularity of states. So if you were trying to implement a Haskell program that took elements of A and outputted elements of B, in TLA+ you would just say "this all happens in the same state transition."

TLA+ isn't, like, a 'better Haskell'. It's more of a 'better UML' or 'a better sack of flowcharts', especially when you are dealing with concurrency. It's an exhaustive checker on the spec.

You _can_ use it in the way pron is talking about, but that's not how most people outside academia use it that way.
The timeline for all of this is interesting– it seems especially ambitious. The pedestrian bridge over SR520 for example is projected to be finished in 2020. Wow.
I think they look for modifications of the photo as well so a cropping/tilt/text overlay/etc would still be flagged. Their model might require per-processing beyond what they can or want to deploy on-device.
> In Joel's defense, we don't know that gecko is better than X years of incremental changes to Netscape 4.

Yes, we do, as does anyone who was following browsers at the time. They tried to incrementally improve Netscape 4 and it was a disaster.
1. You've got some reading to do about how banks are going to deal with bank failures after the fiascos of 2008. start with: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bailin.asp

2. You're right, which is part of why we bailed on the situation while the real-estate market supported our exit and converting the assets into something real.

3. the time it buys you depends on it's value.

4. Zero mortgages right now actually. you're not a careful reader.
Like? I know about health insurance, but what else?
This is probably one of the worst things that can happen to an exchange like Coinbase in moments like this and I expect this outage to cost them quite a few customers.
I have driven in San Francisco. As a rural Midwesterner accustomed to people leaving space between cars and slowing to allow people to merge onto the freeway, SF drivers are among the rudest I've had the misfortune to mingle with, and I've driven everywhere from my home in Michigan to Canada, the East coast, the deep South, the mountain states (one of the nicest places to drive, in my experience), Canada, Mexico, China, and California. Only in the outskirts of Shanghai have I experienced drivers that were less cautious and less respectful of my car's right to the road than those in San Francisco.

Fortunately, when I was in San Francisco, I was on vacation and therefore content to simply get to my destination a little later, taking back roads and continuously rebuilding the space in front of me, avoiding rush hour like the plague - but wow, those automated cars are getting a stress test. I just hope they're not programmed to drive like the Californians building them!
I've heard it's very difficult to get H1B visa's now a days, so Canadians looking to move to the states, might not be able to.
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I'm pretty sure someone at Amazon is an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOd7HQoKxcU

Oglethorpe: We have successfully traveled eons through both space and time through the Fargate. To get free cable.

Emory: I think it's a s-star gate

Oglethorpe: Its the Fargate! F, its different from that movie which I have never seen, so how would I copy it?
Exactly. They don't want this in the MSM and the MSM is usually a few days or even weeks behind the internet when it comes to things that aren't relocatable to the vast majority of people.
aaand then there were issues!
Come to Los Angeles / Orange County, where a blinker is a signal for the driver behind you in the lane you are merging into to floor it. Coupled with 12-16 lane freeways this makes for good times.
I may be exceptionally bad at attracting and maintaining friendships. But my experience is that my time between friends is not fungible, and the strength of my friendships are not constant.

For example, my best friends are on the opposite coast. It's not financially realistic for us to hang out in person frequently. The 5 hours a week I could spend sending them letters or calling are not the same as 5 hours I could be spending turning acquaintances who live next door into good friends. Maybe even best friends. It's not theoretically a zero-sum game, of course, but we all know that's not how life actually works and that for one friend to have more of your time/attention means that another loses some time and attention.

What FB has helped me do is to remain easily connected to good friends and acquaintances everywhere. When moving to a new town, finding acquaintances who live there who have common interests with FB is much easier than calling those acquaintances out of the blue and hoping they'll hang out. Most of these acquaintances remain acquaintances, but some become friends -- and the cost of making those friends was substantially lowered.

For remote best friends, FB gives us a way to passively share our lives beyond calling and writing letters. Even if I had unlimited time to spend creating and sending scrapbooks and doing FaceTime, my other friends may not. It's not as good as being together, but I love the option to browse a friend's albums of past recent events on my own time, and then being able to at least experience those memories in a small way.

So I guess I see Facebook has being a very interactive rolodeck. It's not where I conduct my friendships (although I do, to some degree), it just makes maintaining friendships much more efficient. To the point that I keep connections that I would've otherwise dropped, because Facebook has reduced the long-term "maintenance cost". But since it's ultimately a rolodeck to me, I find it easy to ignore and not care what anyone is doing if I don't feel like it, and I have lowered expectations of what I should be getting from FB
Britain did at one time have "red flag laws" that mandated that a person precede the car waving a flag to alert people (and horses).

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/road-traffic-history-befo...
They make up for it with good healthcare, pensions, and unions. You may not make much, but you'l make it to retirement. Hence the push-back against charter schools which have none, essentially.
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Does google voice # work?
Saving a view to an image on iOS is a few lines of code. They could save the view to an image if they were so inclined.
It was a really dirty 40 lines of code, so I don't have it publicly anywhere, but I can upload it somewhere when I get home if you want.
Nice! I bet you could start a business with this if you get it robust. I have been thinking about a bird feeder that works only for birds below a certain weight like hummingbirds. We often have crows taking our feeder apart.
I never read anything official, but some stuff by framework makers (serverless/apex up)

edit: https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/aws-lambda-lifecycle-and-i...
Toronto PATH is my favourite thing in the city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(Toronto)
Ah yes Bitcoin; the completely useless electricity waster is finally hitting Wall St. I wonder how the futures will affect price & how much of it will be settled in actual BTC vs USD.

AM I DOING THIS RIGHT HACKER NEWS? LUL
Yes, let's impede the traffic flow of the vehicle that sees using cameras that are probably recording all the time. That's a smart plan right there.

The car will escalate to an operator, the operator will call the police.
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>"Please upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face. We’ll check it and then permanently delete it from our servers."

>"To determine if the account is authentic, Facebook looks at whether the photo is unique."

The two statements are a bit contradictory. They might delete the photo but they won't delete its signature/fingerprint, because they need the later to check for uniqueness of other accounts.
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Those are token, fuzzy, feel-good efforts. Great PR. But low on the priority / impact scale.

That effort should have been on the table right next to the ACA. If past presidents (in times of war) can ask the American public to make sacrifices, why can't that happen or this issue? After all, the military has declared the obesity crisis as a threat to national security.

https://www.usmilitary.com/29468/military-leaders-say-obesit...

ACA was great politically (for those on the Left), but it was only acknowledging half the problem, and in doing so is ultimately undermining the ACA itself.
Tangentialy I have heard that Amazon has a vesting schedule for stock where everything skews towards the last two years.
There was no PR. But there are traces, like Amazon acquired the domains, etc. Many former Blazegraph engineers are now Amazon Neptune engineers according to LinkedIn, etc. It was rumored widely in the graph db world fwiw.
The stained glass hallway is the most depressing part of my commute in the winter. It's always a mess and very poorly lit.

Also, the pedway in Chicago is more of a collection of disconnected minipedways. You definitely can't cross the lop without going outside. It's not nearly as seamless as the skyway in Minneapolis which has the additional bonus of natural light (even if it's usually overcast in the winter).
> they "trust me" ... dumb f*cks
Mac OS X has always used POSIX compliance as a selling point. Would the change you're suggesting break that?