skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a good, probing comment, and I would invite you to consider one more factor, because it's a major one: government debt and unfunded liabilities. This amounts to trillions in the U.S., a number so large it defies comprehension. A common solution offered is to simply "tax more", but it's clear that gov spending, by and large, bonkers. I'm sure the reasons for this are the same ones that keep that fat-cats plump, but the big-picture IMO is solving the looming debt-crisis; without that, solving the issues you raised could be for naught.

(edit: removed precise amount of US debt because figure is debatable and I don't want to get caught in weeds. It's a $BIG_NUMBER.
Worth the read: https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-us-israel-and-saudi-...
Very sorry to nitpick, but this and pharma research are applied research - basic research is things like string theory and abstract math. See eg http://www.sjsu.edu/people/fred.prochaska/courses/ScWk170/s0...

Companies rarely do basic research, and that's why it's very important to keep up public funding for it.
I think the “us vs them” mentality is too strong here. Don’t you think these billionaires are just as against each other (if not more so) than against the common man?
> I'm sure Russian propaganda could be more reliable than American propaganda

Propaganda is rarely reliable, from any side.

However, your conflation of the consensus view of the free world’s press with “propaganda” of the type explicitly pumped out by state-controlled Russian outlets is disingenuous to the extreme.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210043
Sticking to the union is right! While working away from home on a job in Anaconda we were politely reminded that it wasn't that long ago that they hung a guy with a logging chain for crossing the picket line. We were non-union from a few hours away. That was plenty of motivation to finish up and leave town.

3rd generation Montanan, raising the 4th.
For the record, in PL jargon, "strictness" commonly refers to how soon the arguments in a function call are to be scheduled for evaluation. Using it to talk about the extent of static correctness checks can be slightly confusing!
More downvotes. Tough crowd :)
Isn't that the message you get if you forcefully power off (long-press power) a hanging mac, instead of a panic where it would reboot automatically after the core dump?
Might be? Of course we can. Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world. They are just a shorthand for adding a bunch of annoying qualifiers to every mathematical statement.
I find the argument about reduced diversity to be way too optimistic (or pessimistic ?) about people’s will and might to change their genes.

To draw a parralel, esthetic chirurgy is wildly available at relatively reduced risks, and it’s not like every bloke and their dog goes to have a face lift, even if it’s understood that a better appearance would have benefits.

Or even thinking about the core group of people who refuse to vaccinate. There’s just no way a medical practice is applied to the totality of a population, even by law.
It seems odd to conflate a freely owned news source that’s seen as public enemy number one by the executive branch with Russian state news sources. Looking forward to those RT and Sputnik op-eds criticising Putin!
It sure does! Does anyone remember MUDs? Some of those boggled the mind with how creative some folks can be with text and symbols. Good times, great memories from back before being a nerd was en vogue.
I get it. lol
Works fine in a lot of other countries without Jay walking laws
Of course applied math is much more relevant to CS than pure math. CS is an application of math.
Like others say, buses are slow, but that misses the point of the article.

Seniors can't or won't walk very far. While buses are more flexible than rail in this regard, neither work for seniors in suburbia. Suburbia is incompatible with mass transit. Seniors want to be able to board and alight within 2 or 3 blocks of their terminus, maximum. Until we get automated cars, the only way to achieve that economically is with density.

I often tell people that San Francisco is the perfect place for seniors.[1] Bus stops are usually a maximum of 3 blocks apart, sometimes only 2 or 1. And there are enough bus lines that there's at least one bus stop within a 2 block radius for the vast majority of residences, and often multiple stops for multiple lines within 2 blocks. In other words, you can pretty much get from any place to another other place without walking more than a few smallish blocks. Whenever MUNI tries to reduce the number of stops, irate and politically powerful senior citizens flood the hearings.

I used to live on a particularly maddening segment of the 3-Jackson line that literally had 4 regular stops on 2 blocks (5 stops in 3 blocks): https://www.sfmta.com/routes/3-jackson Not coincidentally that stretch had two large housing projects--one exclusively for seniors and another predominantly for seniors--directly on the bus line, plus a population that skewed older more generally. The 3-Jackson line has at least 1 stop for most every block; the line averages about 1 stop per block! (I counted 29 stops in 31 blocks inbound.)

For this and many other reasons, San Francisco is an amazing place for senior citizens, rich or poor. (There's a ridiculous number of senior housing and community centers, mostly invisible to people not in the know.[2]) But the mass transit system sucks for working commuters because the system is biased towards the needs of the elderly.

[1] And I mean it. I cajoled my mother to move here in 2011. She finally sold her car last year. For awhile she worked at a community center that provided free lunches to seniors, where several very wealthy seniors from Marin commuted into the city to eat alongside and converse with very poor seniors, simply because they wanted and needed the company.

[2] Interestingly, San Francisco is (or was) being sued by HUD for racial discrimination. The supposedly most liberal large city in the country had a housing system that segregated people by ethnicity--senior housing projects tended to be Russian, Chinese, Latino, black, white, etc. Except for black areas, this was pretty much self-segregation. I don't know the extent to which the city perpetuated it, but they didn't seem to try to do anything to change it. (There's a waitlist system for senior housing and the seniors, at least, seemed to assume that people of the appropriate ethnicity were bumped, depending on the neighborhood. But I think mostly it simply had to do that seniors--and people generally--find their way to public assistance through their social networks, and different social networks will tend to channel people to particular programs and outlets.)
is this scientific?
I'm guessing that the sentiment here is that the employee getting paid 70K at McD is adding much more value than 70K + other costs, especially if they're single-highhandedly responsible for saving entire locations.
Your point about diversifying beyond public markets should refer to private equity, not hedge funds.

More and more over the last decade, the correlation of the public markets and hedge fund returns have increased significantly.

Of course, this shouldn’t happen given the name “hedge” fund.

Further, an increasing number of hedge funds are shutting down as their fee structure it too high, and they are being increasingly copied by mutual funds (e.g long short and global macro funds).

So, while I agree with your disdain at the public outcry toward hedge funds, I’ve found they are less and less useful for wealthy investors due to what I mentioned above.
I wish I had paid more attention to or had a better instructor for my discrete mathematics course, I find many of the topics covered in it extremely fascinating now, years later. :(
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Well, I'm an American. I might feel differently if I were Japanese.

Here, children are driven to school by their parents. When school ends, the parents are there waiting in their cars. Kids mostly don't even play outside anymore.

Those of you thinking public transport is fine are likely at least a little bit physically imposing and/or you are in relatively fancy locations.
$1B in revenue sounds reasonable, seeing as there are higher volume days than just yesterday, and those trading revenues don't include revenue from fees on (non-GDAX) Coinbase buy transactions.
"the whole hardware interface is literally mis-designed by morons"

Taken literally, this is not true.
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Does anyone know an alternative that works on RaspberryPi? This states: "Detectron operators currently do not have CPU implementation; a GPU system is required."

Even low FPS (3-5) would be acceptable.
For the news source being freely owned might be a necessary condition to be objective but it is definitely not sufficient.
It's good until you've had Shake Shack or Steak n Shake. Both have much tastier burgers IMO. In-N-Out is fine, and I don't have a problem with them, but I'm also not over the moon about it and truly don't understand the 30-minute drive-through lines at their locations. More power to 'em, I suppose, but it's really just a super-basic burger done fairly well for a good price.
Also Iraq is a buffer zone between SA and Iran which prevents Iran invading and taking control of the pipeline.
Can you really reload a website just even if it is rejecting connections just using a long Cache-Control header? I find that hard to believe.

> because they'd force Gmail / OWA / Slack / etc. to get reloaded with a full cache flush when they change IP addresses

I think security issues should be fixed even if the fix imposes an inconvenience. Especially since the inconvenience is basically just a performance issue.

Side note: I don't find the idea that this attack is hard to fix a particularly strong justification for not fixing it. Not being able to connect to arbitrary hosts is deliberately not part of the API exposed to javascript so I think it would be hard to argue that DNS rebinding isn't a bug.

Side note 2: The workaround of "don't trust" localhost doesn't prevent all DNS rebinding based attacks. For instance, if you took out an ad, you could then have a botnet to bypass any ratelimiter.
> the accepted pronunciation of various tech project names

Resque (where the readme says in the first sentence that it is pronounced like 'rescue') always bugged me. Are there any English words where 'que' at the end of a word like that makes a 'kyoo' sound? Would 'resqueue' have been such a horrible spelling?
You could try tensorflow object_detection api with tensorflow lite

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/ob...

google also recently put up their mobilenet v2 paper which handles segmentation https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04381
Nothing's keeping McD's or KFC from whittling down their menus. Let's see all our companies pay our workers a decent wage rather than what they have done for the last 30 years, race to the bottom in terms of wages, and ingredients.
Going from raw data to pandas driven analysis is pretty seamless.

I can use our production code for heavy analytics or modeling, and just as easily take the data to my laptop Python interpreter in memory.
Don't forget that there are many active BBS's still around - and even new software being developed for nostalgic fun. Many include hook ups to BBSLink, DoorParty!, and a few other game servers that serve up tons of doors with large player bases.

See http://telnetbbsguide.com/ (seems to be being funky right now) or self plug! https://xibalba.l33t.codes/
Well, it wasn't really "them".
It was General Motors, and Firestone Tires, and the oil companies. [1]

In other words, giant corporate interests working together to shape the country in the way that benefited them.

"What's good for GM is good for America"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
I've never heard of these before today, but I spent some time in Philadelphia and I swear every third person there has a Fraternal Order of Police licence plate and/or sticker on their car. I actually have a couple pictures somewhere of various people who put FOP stickers OVER digits on their licence plate (and under one of those tinted plate covers, of course). Never understood the whole thing anyway since nobody ever seemed to get pulled over for speeding or running red lights there. 60mph on Kelley Drive (35mph limit) was average even though the local tow companies found it profitable to station multiple tow-trucks at every intersection whenever there was any rain or fresh snow.
Oman has maintained neutrality in the conflict, and their Sultan is doing shuttle diplomacy between Doha and Riyadh.

In the interim, Qatar has rerouted all of its trans-shipping activity from Dubai to Muscat.
I believe that people are also affected by local propaganda and they told you propaganda instead of something real. Same is happening with Russia and Ukraine. My ex-wife have Ukranian roots and i am from russia. Ukranian part of her family stopped to talk to russian one and both sides always turn on propaganda when talking to other side. No one of them know what's happening and the truth as always somewhere in the middle.
This is not based on GDP. A big part of the USD's stability has been based on an indirect oil backing. Going back to the 70s the US in which we offered substantial benefits to oil producing nations in exchange for little more than them only selling their oil in USD, and then investing excess revenues in US securities. The petrodollar in another word. This has numerous positive effects other than what I'm mentioning here, but I want to keep this brief.

Haven't you ever wondered how it is that the US is going deeper and deeper into debt, how we increased the US Monetary Base 400% since 2008 [1] with no economic consequences, how we 'printed' (not really) trillions of dollars in quantitative easing, or more generally how now we're only paying off old debts by taking on even greater levels of new debt with no reversal anywhere in sight? If a private organization was doing that, it'd be called a Ponzi Scheme. Yet we engage in all of this with minimal to no economic consequences.

But none of this matters because the USD represents access to oil. Oil is the most in demand resource in the world. And when the price of oil is pegged to the dollar, it makes USD the most in demand currency in the world. But China recently has been making huge strides in getting nations to swap to the yuan for oil. Rather than give any links go search for 'china oil yuan' and you'll get countless articles all within the past couple of months about what China has been doing. In particular China is attempting to even get Saudi Arabia to start pegging their oil to the Yuan, which would be an enormous blow to the US. If they succeed here, it may mean that the USD will need to stand on its own weight. And at that point, we may have to answer for our own economic decisions.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASE
That's extreme.

I have a car in NYC. The subway system here is amazing, while also being an embarrassment.

But, the car provides the freedom to visit friends and family for a day or weekend. The cost is $200 per month parking and $150 per month insurance, plus the cost of the car, which is relatively low as we drive less than 500 miles per month.

We can visit family in 45 minutes or 2 hours (depending on destination), instead of 3 hours or 5 hours by rail. And, we can make all our departures at will.

I can't imagine giving up car ownership, and I don't think I'm deluded.
Sure. That’s why a hundred years of vigorously criticising the government is important to take into account.

Also: your comment history seems unusually political when it comes to Russia.
Yeah, it is. A kernel panic dumps a vague message into the middle of the screen prompting you to reboot, in a bunch of different languages.
This is my intuition too - but better written. Thanks!
Might as well turn yourself in to the FBI.

Creating tons of coinbase accounts is no easy task. You have to validate the accounts with multiple forms of ID and this pattern would eventually be found out and get flagged big time.

Then, you need different bank accounts for every single coinbase account you create and those require multiple forms of ID as well as valid SSN numbers which will be checked.

If you are referring to GDAX allowing you to transfer to USD, looks like it is FDIC insured, which means it is a US bank account, which means it is subject to KYC patriot act stuff and will be the same as opening any other us bank account.
> the truth as always somewhere in the middle

This is a common logical fallacy used by propagandists.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground
Are you suggesting that a footpath is safe?

My father got mugged at knifepoint on one. That is 100% not acceptable. It is a major reason why normal non-poor people encase themselves in cars.

My father wasn't even blind. He was just slightly old, maybe 50 years old. At that age, he could no longer sprint away.

The comment might sound ridiculous to the people who voluntarily use public transport, but your sampling bias is gigantic in that case.
As an Atlanta resident, I can say that they have chosen some of the most challenging roads in the nation. The roads in Atlanta are a classic lava pattern. Many are literally the cow paths from town to town.

And we have some of the most aggressive drivers in the US.

edit: spelling.
That depends on how long the tariff is in place. It's useless if it's gone by the time you actually get your fab up and running...
> using number (or some measurable metrics) to evaluate any businesses without even understanding what does the business do.

if those metrics are any good, why won't those metrics be higher for those companies that put long term gains (e.g., happy workforce) a priority? Those metrics that show good numbers for short term gains are bad metrics, and the shareholders who like them are likely to want to cash out before the 'long term' hits, and therefore, use those metrics to justify their decisions.
your visual system is finely tuned to be able to judge things like "how far away is that child in the crosswalk?"

you possess an internal IMU that provides instant and accurate feedback on acceleration and rotation.

you lose out on both of those when you perceive the world through any kind of display, whether that be a screen or even a VR headset.

think about your field of view when you look out the windshield of a car. including peripheral vision that's a 150° field of view. compress that fov to a screen, even a really good one. maybe three of them set side by side. can you still make out a street sign with 6" tall text from 200 feet away?
I have no problems with China beta testing gene editing. I wonder what bugs they will find...
Prove running time as in complexity analysis is more analysis than algebra though, right?
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Potentially off-topic, but you brought it up: what could possibly entice you about the TPP?
The tldr; The author makes a prediction this mega battle will never happen due to both sides cowering out at the last moment like has happened a dozen times before. He blames EVE stifled game mechanics for this.
On the one hand, definitely worrisome when taking into account the alternative sites. On the other, it's in a paragraph about legal exceptions, so I'm wondering if the article's saying that Facebook and such get more people looking the other way, and that any smaller competitors would get jumped on disproportionally; just looking at music, YouTube doesn't seem to be suffering too greatly from everyone uploading recordings, while I can easily see a small upstart getting sued into oblivion for a fraction of the infringement. Maybe some of that is that they can point to their algorithms as mitigation, but, A, that gets into proprietary secrets that would be key to even existing clashing with anti-trust laws, and B, there's still plenty of eight-year-old music videos that they somehow haven't gotten around to checking.
Discrete math is important because the universe is discrete. Continuous math is an approximation that sometimes, but not always, is rather convenient.

Once I wrapped my mind around this, I started to understand something. Manifolds are just graphs with many vertices. Fourier analysis studies the eigen-decomposition of the laplacian on a graph, and is used to solve heat, wave and dispersion equations. Stokes theorem (which in a discrete setting amounts to matrix associativity) is a self-evident fact. Most of applied math is thus reduced to a few lines of octave code.

Only when you lose discreteness or compactness things start to get nasty. But this is just a flaw in our current definition of real numbers.
+1 for the Google object detection API. The trained model is quite huge though. 200 MB based on Resnet faster R-CNN. There are creative ways of chunking this model to keep it small.
I've always thought there was something a little shady about these license plates in Washington State, but they're probably worth it if they get you out of a ticket every once in a while: http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistration/splem.html

Basically $28 of the registration fee goes to a foundation for injured police, and you get to prominently tell everyone that on the license plate.
UPenn's Calculus I+II courses with Robert Ghrist uses this sort of notation right at the beginning (it takes the Talyor Polynomial as the natural starting point, rather than derivatives, with knocking off terms of the summation involves factoring them out into the O-notation block).
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you are correct. at least based on the dozen or so people i know that left chauffeur
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Isn't that kind of a non sequitur? The idea that "Google is evil" (not that I agree with it) and the idea that "It's possible to construct a culture where people can air grievances and criticize others without inducing flame wars [like at Google]" are arguments that have nothing to do with each other. There is no role reversal, even if we unreservedly accept both premises.
Is there a class of math problem humans can solve but computers cannot? Then we could just use these problems as a guaranteed test instead of the current CAPTCHA arms race.
I live in San Francisco. I don't take public transit regularly but I've lived in this area for 17 years and have personally witnessed several incidents on BART, Caltrain, and Muni. I also lived near Koln Germany for four years where I took public transit hundreds of times without issue. I think it's fair to say that some places have public transit that is just safer than others.
I think they have a mobilenet SSD model as well.
There's also a 2004 podcast episode on the clock from a Long Now Seminar.

http://podcast.longnow.org/salt/salt-020040910-hillis-podcas...
I saw a graph showing the bailout doubled the number of existing dollars.
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sonic, please build out the fiber to my neighborhood (san carlos)!
I don't know because I don't use Vue. What you'd be missing if you dropped in the react library and did no compilation at all is the ability to use JSX. I'm guessing vue's argument is their attribute tags still work in their minimal deployment whereas with React you'd be manually wiring up things to the React object functions.

So, with React, instead of:

return <div>My component!</div>

You use:

return React.createElement('div', {}, 'My component!);

Some people like the more implicit style anyways (although I don't and I don't know anybody who does at this point)
this is also an effect of US isolationism and America first rhetoric which also means abandoning other states, eg. Ukraine, when the US loses its influence/importance so does the dollar, meaning you can't print like crazy and export your inflation in the world.
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