skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that dont want to pay would simply use another free Linux, or maybe BSD. Centos keeps Red Hat relevant to those users and ensures they have an easy path to commercial Red Hat. It also makes sure accademics and students have an option to get familiar with it and provides a platform for developing skilled Red Hat aware talent. I'd be surprised if it costs them much more than 1% of sales, and as a free taster Im sure brings in much more.
Interesting. In my teeny tiny company our insurance policy states that we must have all contacts over a certain value reviewed by an attorney. Wondering how a vast beurocracy somehow isn’t subject to that rule?
Systemic risk reduction is one effect of reducing interdependence. What are the others? On balance, are they net-negative or net-positive?
This type of waste occurs in all levels of government. My last employer was spending over $1,000,000/year maintaining some horrible SharePoint sites that were rarely used.
I think of Edward Snowden. HK helped him.
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This sort of problem is not limited to government. Private companies waste money on all sorts of dead-end nonsense - all the time.

It's why IBM and Oracle are still in business.
not the op. just my understanding is that it is raphlinus's code. It means Google has literally nothing to do with it, other than happening to own the code.

(IE it's not an experimental product, it's not a product at all. It's just raphlinus releasing some code)
From what in understand, you actually can't. As soon as you modify that shipping container, nobody is stacking it on a ship anymore.

An RV, however, can absolutely fulfill that requirement.
To a Franchise owner at Aamco

You know, I've been seeing investigative reports about Aamco's crooked dealings since I was a kid watching Morely Schafer on Sixty Minutes, and I am not a young man (in fact, I think Morely's dead now.) So I am continually amazed when I see Aamco in the news again.

It's not like there isn't good money in running an honest shop. I wasn't a mechanic for all that many years, but of those years I've known one mechanic that I wouldn't send my sister to. The rest are just working class dogs like the rest of us, trying to make a nice middle-class living. The other Firestone I worked at while I was going to school, as a "tire changer" and not mechanic, the manager was a every-time-the-doors-are-open church goer, and lived it. There would be no ripping off of customers in that shop. That shop made plenty of money.

So I dunno, maybe transmissions are a different business. And there will always be those for whom the good living of auto repair isn't good enough. Sure, I make a ton more writing software, but there are days I'd go back to turning wrenches. Much like software, someone has a problem, and I got a great deal of satisfaction out of solving that problem for a reasonable price. Personally, I never saw any compelling reason to be dishonest.
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lots of building materials contain bits of organic material. Glues, dyes, wood, perhaps bits of people. A big enough chunk of wood can also sometimes be linked to a specific year via tree rings. Such a combination of carbon and non-carbon dating techniques is about as reliable as we can every hope.
don't forget neoxim too
reboot of stargate
The FCC report said that the message that was played as part of a drill said something like, "Exercise Exercise Exercise [Missile inbound message] This is not a drill. Exercise Exercise Exercise." So it was contradictory. But everyone else figured it out.
Absolutely. So based on what I know their financial products and customer service is awesome but I doubt if it comes at a price which is lower than the market (even after considering what they give back to its members).
Your JavaScript version is very easy to use, and I'm so glad I can upload my own images instead of just using examples!

The algorithm itself looks like it needs face (and body) detection to be really useful, though.

Example: My girlfriend and I on holiday in Australia.

Original:

http://peterburk.free.fr/seamCarving/lighthouse.jpg

Shrunk:

http://peterburk.free.fr/seamCarving/lighthouse_seamCarving....
At this point of time(3 years after the latest release), not saying anything would be construed as abandoning the Mac Mini.

I would bet that he was force to say something to assuage concerned Apple users.
Seems rather heavy on thesis and light on execution. The footage in the video doesn't do much to demonstrate that the robot learns or adapts; it mostly appears to writhe around and recoil when it encounters resistance. Futher iteration on the concept might prove interesting.
It is not "coming" from Google despite it is under Google GitHub organization. There is a disclaimer[1] at the bottom of the repo README, stating that "This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.". It's my understanding that it's Raph code and Google has nothing to do with it other than having to own the code.

[1] : https://github.com/google/xi-editor#disclaimer
This reply seems to have missed the point of its parent and just picked up on the word fingerprint in a different context.

I like the parent's overall point, but I suspect its business model is not viable.

Any service that helps the user against the publisher's interests will need to be funded through charging the consumer. Not easy these days.
According to the audit document, the company was Tech Mahindra.

I am genuinely surprised when a 8 to 9 figure software project ever succeeds.

But I'm also amazed that the government spent $25mil before they realized they got completely bamboozled. There's something shady going on here.
I'll bite.

How does a slow, expensive, global time-stamping service which cannot scale to billions or even tens of millions of users create a foundation for a sound business model to track all the food?
Of course they do, but it's a much bigger issue when it's done with taxpayer money. I don't really care what Apple or BP waste money on, but I hate seeing important services degraded/cut in order to keep spending on wasteful projects like this.
Our build was around $355'000, for 279m2 but it was high set. We did opt for some premium finishes not found on most homes built these days, we have 2.7m high ceilings, ducted ac, ducted vac, square set cornices, stone bench tops through out, floor to ceiling tiles in the bathrooms and wc, we also have european appliances, built in coffee machine, steam oven etc.

Based on what we spent yeah ours would have been around $230k if we had built 180m2, but you have to factor in the fact we did go double storey.
The referee that decided most of the scores in prison for 30 years, he was a very close friend to the cheater [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54
I really miss my APL terminal....¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why hasn't D started to replace C++
Is this decision so bad that it’s highlighting a potential red flag for a bribe between Oracle and managers of this company? « Probable cause » warrant investigations in other areas, wondering about this one.
My comment was a satirical response to the parent comment, giving it pretty clear and specific scope.

And the fact that they have failed in some verticals and succeeded in others only strengthens my original point: success/failure in one space has very little bearing on another.
Did you hit any pain points using Metal?
I do hope they keep the Mac. It's the main reason why I am in Apple's ecosystem. If that goes, so does my interest in their mobile devices.
>> spent $25mil before they realized they got completely bamboozled.

Governments regularly spend that much just on the procurement process, long before the bamboozling can even begin.
This is something I have long thought about. For a long time, I thought they might set their sights on SUSE as well, but they haven't. I dislike the idea of Microsoft acquiring a Linux company. Despite my primary current bread and butter being PowerShell and Windows Servers, I have, in a past life been a UNIX admin, and would prefer the two camps to remain divided. Microsoft embracing "open source" cuts both ways in my opinion. They may well indeed give back, promote GitHub and give away a few trinkets, but they are still the wolf they were under Ballmer, only now led by a much smarter, more saavy CEO.
Seam carving is cool and has a lot of potential, especially for certain kinds of images. I can't wait until we see something like it in pro photo editors like Affinity Photo.
I've read the paper. We don't know the exact mechanism by which this works, but I would bet that it's related to the chemical exposure (as the authors suggest in the Discussion section), i.e. exposure to the scent causes ingestion of the chemical which then affects the genetic contents of the gametes. That's really really interesting, but isn't the same as "learned behavior can be inherited". In this case, it looks like it's sensitivity to the scent that is inherited, which was confirmed not just via behavioral methods but by looking at the neurons devoted to it.
"Snow leopard" was 10.6, was it not? 10.6.8 was the best OS X ever. I wish I could have stuck with it forever, but that machine eventually died and the replacement wouldn't boot under anything older than 10.9. Someday I'm sure I'll be forced to "upgrade" again, but in the meantime I'm leaving things well enough alone.
I worry that nobody who hires a contractor has the slightest clue how to develop software.

After working contracts off and on for a while. I’m starting to think of “we need a contractor” as an open admission of guilt.
Well that's why you don't cut windows in it or anything. You keep the container's integrity and just build a home inside it, making sure to keep everything "ship-shape".

I'm not sure how you'd transport an RV to a different continent but I bet it wouldn't be as cheap as shipping a container. Also, to use it you'd have to get it road registered in every country you passed through, which would be an expensive pain.
Check your twitter share link, Its not including the site url.
My problem is the tax payer is paying $195 an hour and the Indian guy is maybe getting $5? Nevermind the tax payer getting ripped off, it just seems wrong.
Drug companies alleged to have flooded West Virginia with opioid painkillers
Well, PonziCoin did what it said on the tin.
oh snap, thanks for the heads up.
As someone who has worked with state funding contracts I disagree that this implies anything shady. Hourly rates for consultants at exorbitantly high. It also depends on how the project is big, fixed feed versus hourly bulk. Regardless, the amount of hours quoted and the rates are inflated based on politics.

It's not shady, its just incompetent people signing contracts to promise tech companies bags of money.
What's the long term value of paying for highly redundant, (yet highly gameable) custodial tracking of a piece of digital media when a dozen competing blockchains can be flooded by a hundred perfectly identical looking fakes made by altering a single bit in a single pixel, to generate a new hash and merkle root? Will enough people care that they don't have a signed original pepekitty by banksy when essentially perfect fake copies can still be made and distributed? Blockchain does nothing to solve this
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And every person I know in my generation is working hard to buy a flat in a major urban center. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Easy: they're probably not based in the US
How do you suppose we fix this? I'm not being factious here.
It’d be a shame if they turned Valve into a Windows/Xbox exclusive shop like they did with Bungie back in the day.
Huh, seems fine. I get:

Copy the Shrug Emoji ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ https://copyshrugemoji.com/

Then I tweet it to twitter and can click through fine. What OS/browser are you on?
>In this setup, the business that owns the advertising platform has an advantage over all other businesses in industry X, because it pays itself advertising revenue, where the other companies have to pay their competitor. So money is always being siphoned off to pay the advertising platform, with a cost to most businesses but a (near) zero cost to the business owning the platform.

I don't think this is quite right. If I have a fixed quantity to sell (approximately true for advertising space on the web) then units I buy from myself cost me the same as they would cost other companies.

Suppose I have $100, and 5 advertising spots worth $20 each. I have two options here:

a) If I sell the spots to others then I have $100 + 5 * $20 = $200.

b) If I "sell" the spots to myself (the other wing of my company that needs to advertise) I have $100 and whatever 5 advertising spots are worth.

You are representing the situation of b as if it were "free advertising", thus giving my company an unfair advantage. But in fact, compared with situation a, it is clear I paid for the advertising, as I am up 5 spots and down $100 I could have obtained by selling the spots. So advertising's cost is not lower just because I also own the company that sells the advertising spots. If I'm better off than someone without advertising spots that's because advertising spots are worth something, not because of any purported shady synergy I get from owning both the advertising spots and the company that needs them.
> How does it explain that Tether is printing more and more Tethers?

The demand for Tethers is high because the demand to be able to trade is high.

> Do you think more and more people are selling BTC for USDT for a "short term"?

More and more people have been getting involved in trading as the price of Bitcoin and other cryptos was spiking. Now those people are in the market, but Bitcoin has been dropping. It makes sense that a lot of them would want to hold a USD proxy under these circumstances.

Of course, that's the optimistic scenario. It's also possible that There's are being used fraudulently to pump BTC. Without proper transparency, it's impossible to be sure.
I invite the author to go and converse with the general public, narcissism is very prevalent.
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> They want something "cloud ready" yet acquired $600,000 of Oracle cloud licenses (what ever that is)?

Chatting with a former coworker and apparently Oracle has their own (dysfunctional) cloud offering these days.
If Apple devs/execs were forced to use old hardware, personally, this problem likely wouldn't exist.

Whatever you don't focus on, suffers. It's not intentional. It's a product of incentive structures around novelty. It's the natural inclination not to maintain the long view.
> Tangentially, takkyuubin is actually a trademark by Yamato, and the Ghibli movie, Majou no takkyuubin was actually sponsored by Yamato, and is one of the reasons there is a black cat in the movie (their emblem). The generic term is takuhaibin (宅配便).

Ahhhh. I've seen Ta-q-bin which obviously seems trademarked, but not realized takkyuubin vs takuhaibin.
Edge computing on Alibaba
I don’t see the benefit in this, tbh. Go’s GOPATH isn’t complicated, and even if it was it takes minutes to grok. The readme recommends against using this package manager, which is just weird to me.
In theory the requirements fill a bookshelf in practice nobody checks them that closely outside of fairly basic automated tests for things like 508 compliance.
Indeed a portion of revenue does cover all operating costs, fixed or otherwise. However in a large org those costs are also distributed across all of the profit generating employees. The comparative overhead on a single employee among thousands is small compared to a sole proprietor's burden. Economies of scale kick in above a certain point as bulk purchases from supplies and larger employee pools for things like insurance increase your bargaining power when negotiating those contracts. The same is not true of an individual. But the conceit of that argument is that it's not zero sum, those prices also include a healthy profit margin. And I'd wager the profit margin is higher on a large company than for a sole consultant.
Any criticism of any project Rob Pike has been attached to or Pike himself has over the last 40 years accomplished nothing no matter if they are technical or personal.
I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.
They cut down a full size container by at least a third then put huge windows in them and placed them on a what looks like a concrete foundation with a cinder block base - not sure why they even bothered with shipping containers at all, these were brand new containers to guarantee they were never used to transit toxic materials.
That's to come in their second white paper which handles scaling which nobody else has solved. /s
I am just going to grab some popcorn and watch the slow moving train wreck that is tether.
Personally I have no doubt someone has a job offer at oracle or two people are exchanging envelopes. If the vendor suggested Oracle maybe not but since it was someone at the DMV, 100%. I'm about 90% sure Oracle isn't even fully implemented in any DMV.
On both Mac and iPhone I’ve set &shrug to convert to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I use it all the time.
All this reorganization happened after Ruth Porat took over as Google's new CFO. Prior to that, activities of the bread and butter money-making parts and more speculative parts of Google were not separated. This made investors nervous because while they viewed Google as a money factory, they also viewed it as run by crazy geniuses who might be wasting untold amounts of money on their fun research projects.

It seems Porat felt that Google would be in a better position by separating all that out so that things are more transparent to investors. If the stock price is any indication of how investors felt about that, she was right.

This doesn't mean that the Google brand couldn't still be applied to Waymo's activities, as is the case with Google Fiber, which kept the name. But it is not just Waymo that lost the Google brand in the process: Google X became just X, and Google Life Sciences became Verily.
So true about TCP/IP. Even rocket science is a joke compared to most biological systems. That said, even a set of rules as simple as TCP/IP can lead to complex, valuable systems (e.g. WWW).

TCP/IP rules leading to the web is nothing compared to physical rules leading to biological life, true. Even in 2018, one could say that computers' potential has barely been tapped.
Sure, but that doesn’t imply that there’s an equivalency between the two, or that the grading scale should be course-grained enough to show no difference between the U.S. and China.

If I made an article called “human rights violations and numbers of reality tv shows by country” and painted Saudi Arabia and Germany the same color, it should rightly raise some eyebrows.
Really off-topic, but the logo at the beginning of the video for the Blocks project (B made out of a rectangle and two circles) is totally indistinguishable from the logo of the skateboarding company Plan B
Why are you fixated on the part we agreed doesn't apply to you? You still miss my point. I'll try one more time. I admit, I don't have a way with words, and I feel I should thank you for your patience, but it seems like you aren't trying to understand me...

Disclaimer, "you" is not YOU, it's whoever says non-offensive things, then complains that people get offended.

You said:

> we have extremists who take offense even at assessments like "Men are on average stronger than women."

If you say something like "on average men are stronger than women" and they get offended, then YOU are the problem. You are a poor communicator. No one says things like that unless they are trying to make a point. What is the point you are trying to make? Are you saying men are therefore better at some activity that strength is involved in? That's obviously not necessarily true.

They are getting offended at the WAY you "teach" them, the bigger point you are trying to make by citing obvious drivel. Perhaps, linking pages to wikipedia, as if they've never heard of "ad hominem" or something. That's why you offend people. Not cuz the facts are right, but because the messenger is a prick.

And again, if this isn't you, don't be an extremist and get offended at stupid shit.
What I would love to see is code running, extremely slowed down and in a zoomed out view of all the source files in a project.

So say I have a server running, I could make various web requests and very quickly get an intuitive sense of the major paths that the executing code takes.

If anyone's keen - please build a plugin for IntelliJ! I'd love to build it myself but have too many other projects taking up my time.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3594.epdf?referrer_access...

Genetic memory is likely a reality, how it works and through which mechanisms is an open question.

Without genetic memory a lot of the complex inherited behavior we see in animals which emerges even outside of groups wouldn’t be possible.

It’s also clear that some mechanism would have evolved to allow you to update these behavior patterns on some level across generations.
And it’s not the first time it happens, and it’s very visible. Every time we upgraded (even iOS 7 and 9, macOS, ...), everything went slower. Transparency, 3D, probably reduced swap space or cache sizes calculated for models with more RAM, etc.

Given upgrades are mandatory (user is spammed until he upgrades), given those features are planned without a flag to turn it off for older phones/iPads, and given it’s the only way to receive maintenance for the phone (i.e. security updates), it’s planned obsolescence.

Think every time you brought your car to a repairshop they would load it with unused equipment designed for bigger models, both clogging your trunk and making your car so heavy it loses 80% of its speed.

Wow, didn’t think the comparison would be so accurate.
The companies involved in this new venture were already self insured. They were paying for employee health care via third-party administrators, not buying insurance.
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Why traffic apps make congestion worse
Also totally a waste practically because you get no product.
You repeated the phrase different words.

The question begged is Why does Google own the code?
> This one is extra bad. Not even a communication plan? They did manage to spend $13 MILLION on Oracle shit though. The best part is the solution they sold, which is not even working in New Hampshire, and was built on DynamicsCRM (not portable to oracle)... That person needs to be fired immediately and probably arrested.

To be honest, as someone who lives in New York, that doesn't even sound that bad, as far as corruption in government contract goes.

To give you an idea, the MTA was recently caught paying $200,000 per day to people who literally did not have any jobs to do[0]. They were able to cover this up for years, and when it was finally made public, nobody batted an eyelid because, well, this level of corruption and wasteful spending is so commonplace that nobody was surprised in the least.

Hopefully Nevada has a functioning democratic government (unlike New York) and the state government decides to hold these people accountable. It's been over a month since that NYTimes piece came out, and Governor Cuomo hasn't even felt the need to respond to it - that's how little accountability our elected officials here have.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...