skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One model is to overprovision hardware a bit, and just not repair until it is significantly degraded (at which point you just swap it out and refurbish). Maintaining a software platform is getting easier.
The Age of Outrage
It's not always WebGL-y stuff. For instance Qt is working on a WASM compilation target:

> https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/widgets_wi...

cf. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63917

The WASM binaries are around 10 megabytes for this. That's a lot, for sure, but this includes a whole windowing system, a raster paint engine, and a C++ reflection mechanism.
I thought it was pretty easy to pick the audio clips with greater variance in pitch and pronunciation. 2-2-2-1 were the human voices.
You could have multiple options which will depend on a variety of factors, such as your background and the backgrounds of your employees success of the company in Brazil and the US, including, most likely, the L-1 and the O-1 visas.
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Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units
> The expensive parts have moved elsewhere (principal photography and special effects) because it’s easy to transmit data, but all the stuff that comes before and after still happens in Hollywood for the most part.

So you'll concede that a strong cost play exists to move away, and are basically betting that inertia maintains the status quo?

Good luck. ;)
"proportional representation" is a generic term for a wide variety of possible representational systems. And each system has their own advantages and disadvantages. Those that get rid of districts entirely lose the ability for specific sub-regions of a state to have their own dedicated representative to vouch for their specific needs. This matters less in small states and countries, but can mean quite a lot in very large states. Other solutions use districts, but have multiple representatives per district, and have a method for apportioning those representatives. These are still vulnerable to gerrymandering, though its effectiveness is less pronounced as the number of representatives per district increases. But apportionment can be complicated. Some of these methods change the way voting works so that you vote for a political party rather than a specific candidate, which comes with a bunch of advantages and disadvantages.

All to say that, while different methods for representation should absolutely be considered and discussed, it's important to remember that none of these are a panacea, and we should be upfront about the nuances and disadvantages of every option.
While you are correct, that seems like a very pedantic complaint without addressing the actual substance of the argument.
I work at a Drive portfolio startup. This is neither Drive's nor my employer's opinions on this topic. There are pros for living here (lower cost of living etc.), but I genuinely hate the weather here. I find every opportunity to be out in SF during the winters. Oh and there aren't many meetups/conferences here, which is a HUGE problem if you're looking to grow/network with people as an engineer. People are generally skeptical and uninviting for newer ideas. Hiring is difficult too. If given the chance, I'd choose Seattle or SF.
It'd be nice if they could make this a paid service at least.
Welcome to identity politics and the over saturation of a politically correct ruling class run amok.

If people weren't so fucking reactionary to everything they read, see, hear and experience, we wouldn't be in this mess and rational discourse might have a chance. As it stands, people are so easily offended, there isn't any space for an actual discussion.

As someone who considers myself an Independent, I spend hours every day reading articles on both sides and then attempt to form a cohesive thought process on where I stand. Do you have any idea how exhausting that can be with the amount of misleading and straight up false reporting there is these days? Nobody cares about the facts anymore, "journalists" just want to frame their stories in a political meaningful way for people to reinforce their "filter bubbles" they live.

We're not encouraging dialect on topics by simply providing the facts, we're actively and purposefully dividing people.
Netflix has a download feature. Does 'download' in this context mean downloaded from unlicenced sources?
Is there any data that points to Google's AI service being superior?

I want to know which AI platform is the strongest, I did find in my anecdotal tests Microsoft's Vision API performed better but this was in mid to early 2016.
I criticize Kaczynski's philosophy because it drove him to try to kill people (and he succeeded at least once). I don't care how "seminal" and "interesting" it is. To me, his philosophy is condemned by where it led him.

(Yes, I realize that a different person could have raised the same ideas without using a bombing campaign to try to publicize them...)
Great, I went to Peru last year and all guides said that the Inca knots were a mistery.
Exactly. I seen it on Reddit like crazy. The right wing is after Google but would guess it will move at some point to someone else.

Funny that Apple would not allow GAB in their app store and Google did but since pulled it yet they are mad at Google. Plus you can use other app stores on Android and use GAB and not on the iPhone.

People do not realize GAB is some right wing social media site.
The cookie provision will probably be changed very soon [1]:

> Simpler rules on cookies: The so called "cookie provision", which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. New rules will allow users to be more in control of their settings, providing an easy way to accept or refuse the tracking of cookies and other identifiers in case of privacy risks. The proposal clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies improving internet experience (e.g. to remember shopping cart history). Cookies set by a visited website counting the number of visitors to that website will no longer require consent.

[1]http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-16_en.htm
I lived in Holland for a year as a poor student and IRL shopping was very much like this... no one store had anything (or even more than a few categories of goods) so I'd have to run around half of Amsterdam trying to buy stuff. What I would have given to have a Wal-Mart nearby...
Hi, I'm currently living in the US as an O3 (the dependent of an O1), meaning that I can't currently work. Because of this, I've had to reject multiple offers of software consultancy work. I'm trying to figure out if there's anyway for me to get into a position where I can accept this sort of work. Is it possible to do my own O1 application that isn't supported by a company? Are there any other paths that I should be investigating? Thanks!
While the standard is high, it is oftentimes within reach for many people. I would need to evaluate your background/accomplishments to give you a solid assessment.
But that goes both ways: It's no easier for an American to move to and work in France than for a Frenchman to do so in the US. There are plenty of Americans who would love to make the move - to gain quality of life at the expense of a big chunk of their salary - if it weren't for immigration restrictions.
A fairer comparison would ask whether the US government has taken any actions against European companies operating in the US similar to those enacted or threatened by Europe against Microsoft, Google, Facebook.
As an individual who is concerned about their own privacy facing corporations with terabites of information, how can you hope finding out what happened to your data without gaining leverage through the government?
Anything with an instant or quick return is easier, and that’s what it boils down to.
Hey meta question here, why do dupes not link to the thing they're a duplicate of. Kinda sounds like it would make navigating to dupes a lot less of a pain.

Not meta comment, aren't all flying objects UFOs until you've identified them?
Well so, thats because the concept of a vertical "monopoly" makes no sense.

A monopoly means that you are the one major player in a certain market. It is in the word.

It is definitely possible that a company could have excess market power in a certain SEGMENT of their vertically integrated market, but that is still a horizontal monopoly.

Vertical integration isn't a threat to anybody as long as every segment of the market has competitors.

For example, maybe facebook has a monopoly on the social network part of their product. And maybe they shouldn't be allowed to use that excess market power for bad purposes.
We've given all that up in the USA with the Patriot Act, though it sounds like the NSA stopped collecting everything in the last couple of years, it's trivial to get a court order to enable it for any individual. The pretension of the FISA court is transparent.
https://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191226106/fisa-court-appears-...
In addition, in 2009 Mike Pence sponsored the "Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009"
(https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/226). This bill "amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance."
Would it be feasible to put inductive chargers and battery banks under the parking spot, so that no wires are exposed and the spot could be used by non electric cars if required? Maybe a signal to/from the car to determine charge rates and negotiate power feeds? Or is that too much power to pass through a special thin layer of say, epoxy concrete? Seems like a good place to have a battery box, to protect it from heat/rain/lightning.
That's not the whole equation.

A Volt is a Chevy Cruze with a Voltec powertrain. If a Volt gets in an accident, for the most part any old auto body shop can fix it as easily as any GM car.

Teslas have been totaled over routine fender benders because of complicated body work.

A Leaf is a BEV based on Nissan's B platform and is closer to the Volt in repairability.

There are Volts and i3s doing hundreds of thousands of miles without issue. The ICEs aren't hardly being pushed in PHEVs since they only need to turn on in nearly optimal performance conditions, and the technology there has been done to death, so they tend to be bulletproof.

EVs in general have lower maintenance costs because things like regen saves on brakes, and PHEVs inherit those lowered costs as well.

Overall maintainance costs end up being a complicated multi-faceted subject that's a little more nuanced than "more parts = more expensive".
Hi, thanks so much for doing this!

Does the recent policy guidance in https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-updates-polic... markedly increase the risk that an H-1B sponsored skilled technologist might (a) be unable to change jobs/sponsors, or (b) lose their visa altogether if they even try to do so?

If either is true, we're worried from the hiring perspective that we could find an amazing candidate but lose them immediately due to the policy, even if we did everything perfectly in starting the H-1B transfer process; it makes it difficult to offer to sponsor H-1B folks looking to change jobs. And certainly from the employee's perspective, if there's any chance of (b) being true, there's a new chilling effect that would trap them at their current employers. Is this the correct read of the situation?
I suspect you're handing over a lot of vig to Bitpay these days given the volatility in BTC.
Beyond culture fit: non-technical hiring criteria for engineers
New Jersey.
A WordPress file uploader allowing to edit/filter images in a browser
A middle ground could be rentals per series or movie such as on iTunes or Amazon Prime.
You're missing it...

Web Assembly would allow devs to build apps without any html or javascript or css.

The UI construct could be WPF/XAML or even WinForms like tech or something new.

Scripting and CSS would be entirely unnecessary. A lot of businesses would love nothing better than to dump the Jedi-like skills of the scripting developers and trade that for mundane forms skills.
You're right that's better, but it doesn't completely invalidate my prediction, it just means I might be out a bit with the time. Battery kWh / kg is also improving too, I just don't know if it's at the same rate as price.

Its possible now with Teslas to buy the higher kWh batteries and they go further, so it's not like weight is the only factor. The new Tesla Roadster coming in 2020 [0] has a 620 mile range because it's basically a battery and little else.

So it depends on:

1. how much the extra weight/drag of a model 3 chassis would reduce the range
2. how much of the $200,000 price is down to the battery.

Then you are waiting until the price of the battery comes down.

[0]: https://www.tesla.com/roadster
Its in companys interest to prevent the growth of homemade competition- its a subtile movement, but there is also a tendency towards centralization of knowledge.
SV didn't just pop up in NorCal. It's a historical place where the first software companies and the internet were born. Silicon Valley was involved in creating Google, and self-driving cars. In other words, it's not like any city can, all of sudden, change its industries to compete with the level of IT/software innovations happening in SV.
This is required for webassembly; it has to call into JS to access the DOM.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I admittedly don't watch a huge amount of video but a few purchases (physical and digital) and a few streaming services and I'm pretty good. I haven't quite pulled the plug on cable TV yet but I will sooner or later. I certainly get a lot more value out my non-cable TV spending.

There's very little that I just must see and even less that I must see right now. There's frankly far more really good content available than I'm ever going to get around to watching anyway.
The most obvious option to me would be for your spouse to apply for a green card as a person of extraordinary ability (since he or she is in O-1 status, there might be a basis for such an application) and you, as his or her spouse, also would apply for a green card and receive a temporary work card after about 3 months while your green card application is pending.
> The sentiment they are trying to get across is that they want someone who won't let problems lie and who will proactively execute on fixes without waiting for permission or being assigned the work by a tech lead or manager.

I find that's rarely what they want. I've often seen cases where there's some fundamental architectural flaw that will make future development extremely difficult, only to be told, "Don't worry about these things - just ship something!"

Yeah, that's going to break really soon, and we'll be running around trying to put out fires because of your incompetence. If I were the owner of this, I'd fix it immediately, or at least prioritize it reasonably so we don't screw ourselves in the future.
Absolutely. I myself run my company as fully remote for this very reason. But I think I'm pretty leading edge in that respect -- most companies still believe having an office is important.
WebGL Anti-Patterns
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The vast majority of content goes on iTunes and Amazon pay-per-title service. It's the all-you-can-eat services that content creators are worried about.

Because they don't Netflix to monopolize the market. If that happens, Netflix will capture more than its fair share of the profits.
I am not using 'ball' to describe a neighbourhood, you are using 'neighbourhood' to describe a ball! From your own link:

In a metric space M=(X,d), a set V is a neighbourhood of a point p if there exists an open ball with centre p and radius r>0, such that B_r (p)=B(p;r)={x∈X | d(x,p)<r} is contained in V. (My emphasis.)
The solution for me is to wait and get the show on DVD/BlueRay (the local library usually gets these shows for free rentals).
What do you think of the current situation of (ex-)DACA recipients? Do you think the tech industry in general would benefit legalizing those "dreamers"?
No, it can be great.

The Inca had no money: http://www.discover-peru.org/inca-economy-society/
but they had to distribute goods for all the members of society. The knots were probably central to their organization.

If they find older records, it would also corroborate the claims that more Incas died from the diseases bought from the Spaniards, than by violence during the invasion.
Hi, can a non-profit organization working in partnership with a University qualify to apply for cap-exempt H1b visa? What kind of a partnership should they have? Is there a minimum salary limit for cap-exempt H1b visa because non-profits do not pay high salaries?
As someone who would love to move back to Boston that's a very hard sell. Especially when the biggest success story is Hubspot (of "Disrupted" fame) which is more Silicon Valley than Silicon Valley is.
Well the post we're discussing has some hard data. :)

But generally speaking when I talk to AI experts they all agree that for the services that Google actually has, they are better, with MS being #2.
How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job
One of the things I've liked about Linux (though some distros have changed this over the years) is how with updates within a package manager GUI (like system updates, or installation of software), it would default to just a progress bar, which was usually fairly accurate, and maybe some text above or below it showing basic info on what is happening.

But there was also a "show details" button, which would then open a mini-terminal (of sorts) and show the flow of what is actually happening behind the screen, so to speak (essentially identical to what you'd see if you were installing/updating at the command line).

So you not only got a nice and (usually) accurate GUI representation, but if you wanted, you could also see extreme detail of what was going on or why something was taking a long time (maybe it's trying different servers to find a dependency, or it's downloading a file and something is slowing it down - or maybe your router has crashed, and its just sitting there, etc).

IMHO, that's a much better way to represent things - keep a simplified view as default, but allow the option to see all the sausage making in the background, for those who want or need it.
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You can keep one of the dimensions by making a histogram a 3d surface. 3d surface f(x,y)->z can be displayed as flat image with brightness representing z value. Brightness can be displayed using dithering. Putting all that together would result in more or less the same diagrams as described in article. With biggest difference being that information about left part of image is actually visible.

Swapping x with brightness is a bit misleading as dithering effect of white dots on black background give much stronger feeling of varied brightness than actual brightness.
cmus works just great on Windows and macOS.
Yes. I'm not super sure if this is privacy only. I think the cookie part is also for data protection. So that the end user could have understanding she/he is the product.

I also wonder for what some of the sites use cookies in such a way they need to ask for that "You must agree on our cookies" -consent. Since so many type of cookies are exempt from the need: user‑input cookies,
authentication cookies, user‑centric security cookies,
multimedia content player cookies, load‑balancing cookies,
user‑interface customisation cookies, third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing

[http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm]
Nevada side of Lake Tahoe? Easy. No space.

Reno? Easy. No ecosystem, aside from specialized things (Gigafactory etc).

I would LOVE to start an accelerator type thing just over the border of SLT, CA. But I would expect everyone would leave at the end of the it for a larger metro.
The supplied models are trained on document-like images, so I wouldn't expect it to do particularly well on things like street signs. My experience with the new lstm based versions is that it's very much competitive with closed source solutions for document-like OCR.
So let's bring back piracy! Show these content holders who is boss... let's make them feel beholden to us for once! So many "entrepreneurs" think that slapping supply-and-demand on data (something for which there is literally an infinite supply of) is something they can do, let's show them otherwise.

Of course lots of people will be like, "that's stealing" and "if creators don't make money shows don't get made," which is fine, as there is too much garbage for sale anyway. This way we kill two birds with one stone: the culling of shitty media AND greedy creators.
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Really? Does France not have a system for deciding who is likely to default on loans, and what interest rate to charge them based on the loan risk?
>Dealing with cards that can arbitrarily change the rules of the game would require human-level AI almost by definition, unless you want to manually translate them into code, in which case the system would be unable to deal with new cards.

That's not unreasonable at all. No one is expecting you to solve general purpose AI by having the cards interpreted with NLP. And translating the cards' behavior to code is not some insurmountable task. Wizards of the Coast has presumably already done that for the online version of the game.
> The doctors were talking about what they’d decided, and one of them was kind of joking about it, saying there’s no homicidal plot or something. They said, ‘We think Johnny just got mad at the cat ­because the cat scratched him.’

Sadly, that doctor will likely continue their practice.
This just means that no deference is given to an employee's current/previous H-1B approval but this doesn't mean that solid H-1B petitions are not getting approved.
There is no IE anymore. In Windows 10 you already open IE zero times. There is still a blue E icon, but Edge is not IE.
https://stateofjs.com/2017/other-tools/
How can I play the articles I choose?
> Maybe the people who complain about these things are just bad at discovering other apps and platforms.

Or maybe some people just want to keep their life as simple as possible, attention economy and all?

With my mid-30's I don't consider myself "that old", but just the idea of having to manage through a dozen different messenger apps is driving me super anxious just in the same way I like to have all my email accounts in one client/app and not spread across a dozen different clients/apps.

There's also something to be said about efficiency; Keeping up with a dozen apps (not just in content but also software version) is a whole lot more effort than doing it with just one app.

Maybe I'm actually that old? I just think simpler is usually better and to me, there's nothing "simple" about doing the same thing trough 12 different apps, to me that feels counter-intuitive and in the context of Internet communication, very archaic.
I don't think this is necessarily true. If proper regulations are in place Google and Facebook can certainly be out competed in some of their core services.

Verizon and ATT threaten diversity much more than does Google or Facebook. That should be painfully obvious to anyone who's done their research.

Also WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch which should also raise some flags on this article.
Won't tech development be automated by then anyways :)
I've been asked that, and responded "...well, I don't have an answer to that yet and is why I'm in this interview."

I was not offered the job.
In this regard it would matter a lot whether "taking down" means a destruction of the monument/statue/sculpture or simply removing it from that location to be put in a box somewhere out of sight.