skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a useful post. I'm also currently looking for a computer vision resource to provide expertise in a project centered on visually identifying anomalies in video of industrial machines. In other words, watching a robot and firing an alert when he misbehaves or breaks down :-)

Similar to what I believe your approach is, I'm looking for someone comfortable working in iterations. So much of this type of work is experimentation and trial and error.

If you want to connect, hit me up using:

http://telegram.me/tomgriffin
http://linkedin.com/in/tomgriffin
http://facebook.com/tomgriffin
A long two months: Reflecting on mitigating Meltdown
Open Source Color Management Is Broken
Missed the cutoff by a year. Guess I'm a millennial. I stop working now, right?
HD's quality issues stem mostly from bikes made during the 70s until 84. They are pretty solid today. I don't know a lot about Porche, but Harleys are pretty solid.
There is also the sequel “Learn Quantum Mechanics with Haskell”[0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09471
I understand, at least according to numerous speed campaigns by govt here, that accidents at speeds of 30mph or less are unlikely to kill. As speed limits in town are 30 with some areas 20mph, risk of death to either is low.
The way I understand it, long term thinking is neither about the future nor about predicting it or planning something significant for it; it is rather a thought model which tries to extend beyond the timeframes humans might feel at home with cognitively. An off-the-cuff, superficial yet interesting example is the lack of a common word in English language to express units of time longer than 1000.

This style of thinking sometimes has its benefits, like gathering together a community to build a mechanical clock, create a manual for restarting a civilization[1], or write a non-fiction book about "earth without people"[2].

It's just an interesting intellectual, cultural endeavor.

[1]: http://blog.longnow.org/category/manual-for-civilization/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us.
The myth of the American “Randonneur” (2014)
Can we just booooo? Brandolini's law...
"The Jim Bridger Power Plant is turing 250 tons of WY coal per hour into 2,000 MW of electricity for the Pacific Coast. But, it's keeping all the pollution for Wyoming."

How, with all that wind, is the pollution staying in WY?
I attempted to list every plausible reason someone would ever invoke Hanlon's razor. My goal is partially to illustrate how ridiculous Hanlon's razor is.

Let me add another to the list. People like to invoke Hanlon's razor to signal how smart they are for knowing what Hanlon's razor is.

Can you provide one actual good reason to use Hanlon's razor, ever? You seem to think he had a good reason that I've missed. What is it?
AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a growth hacker in NYC
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About AptDeco
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We’re a fast growing NYC based start up. We are ambitious, engaged and excited about disrupting the furniture industry. Moving is already stressful and we’re working everyday to ease this hassle for people across the NYC area and beyond.

You'll work to:
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- Maintain paid acquisition campaign performance reports and regularly monitor campaign budgets.
- Work collaboratively with cross functional teams to develop marketing collateral and case studies to support advertising sales.
- Fulfill other marketing needs such as social media posts, landing pages and other efforts, as needed.
- Analyze data and provide insights that move the business forward, and be able to execute against those insights.
- Create/maintain ad-hoc reports and dashboards used by cross-functional departments, as needed. Tools include but not limited to Google Analytics, Looker, Google AdWords, Facebook Ads Manager.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree ​3+ years of marketing, analytics, growth-hacking and/or strategy experience in a digital or e-commerce setting
- HTML knowledge with hands-on email marketing experience
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills, with basic to intermediate experience with SQL
- Passionate for using data to make decisions
- Strong problem solving skills - able to research issues and develop tangible solutions
- Constantly looks for ways to improve (and/or introduce) processes that drive success
- Excellent organizational, writing and communication (both verbal and via data visualizations) skills
- Interest in furniture and marketplaces a plus

Skills that will give you an edge over other applicants:
- Know your way around Wordpress, Adobe Photoshop and/or InDesign
- Experience in paid acquisition marketing (Facebook Ad Manager, Google AdWords)
- Experience with analytics tools e.g. Looker, CrazyEgg, Google Analytics, etc
- Know how to optimize for SEO

How to apply:
Email your resume to jobs@aptdeco.com along with a short paragraph about why you're the right person for this job.
See my other comment with links down thread, but HELCO (and other Hawaiian Electric Utilities) no longer support net metering, because it is not profitable (enough) for them. So they sell retail at $0.30-0.50/kWh and buy at $0.10/kWh making a lot of people upset and crashing the solar market in the islands. That makes battery storage cost effective where standard installs are much less so.
>I was under the impression that motorcycles were made to be artificially loud, as just like the existence of the engine, the bike being loud is a major selling point. Is this true?

They don't come from the factory that way (regulation), but people add aftermarket parts to make them that way. It costs a good amount too; $2500 installed depending on what you get.
So the Haskell version of [1] (in scheme)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

[Free book] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...
This is ten years old. I was thinking of a much more recent article.
Why would that cause "stretching"? Here's how mine looks: https://s9.postimg.org/lcxpndbpr/Screenshot_20180224-203730....
The untold story of systemic gender discrimination inside UC Berkeley
Worth noting that the author is /u/FredTesla on reddit, moderator of /r/TeslaMotors as well as the founder of Electrek. His career is essentially built on being a Tesla fanboy.
>The aim is to grade on recall.

No. At best this means you had a terrible experience, and are generalizing in ignorance. At worst you are dug into a position and are willing to defend it without integrity (a sadly popular and often successful approach).

Many (most?) of my tests were open book and they were hard because they were puzzles requiring you to have absorbed the book to the extent that you could reason beyond it. The tests would probe our understanding of an idea by asserting a small change in the initial assumptions, and have us complete the derivation with that new assumption. Test questions were novel complications of the problems in the book.

That was my experience, and it was a good one. I'm sorry you didn't get that.
pretty sure he was agreeing with you
Since we are speculating here anyway.

Could it be that these type III civilizations are simply consuming so much energy that that in itself becomes the black holes?

The KARDASHEV Scale explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k-Kuc9esDI
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Edit: Sorry, I shouldn't have said "you". I don't know your situation or how much you make, this is a very broad rant that is based off of previous discussions I've had.

This has to be the most pretentious thing I read in a while. You get paid 6-figures with incredible benefits, while making 2-3x of what the median HOUSEHOLD in this country makes[1], with one of the highest average base salaries, and your individual income ceiling is approximately $180-$200k.

All of this, without having to risk your health like many other blue collar jobs.

All of this, attainable very quickly after graduating college (if you even get to graduating).

Feel free to demand the amount of money you think you deserve. I do think programmers are underpaid for the value they create. But don't make it seem like engineers are lowly serfs or something of that ilk. You have it so much better than most Americans.

[1] $59,039 http://www.businessinsider.com/us-census-median-income-2017-...
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
Assholes Don't Finish First
You can take a look at Feynman lecture notes at caltech.edu.
One can observe that, on a global level, CO2 emissions have never been higher.

In other words, not only have we not made progress, we have gone backwards. I believe Jevon's paradox is a major cause, along with a lack of understanding of it.

A clearer way of presentint Jevon's paradox is: price decline, usage increases. Which is such a standard economic statement that it hardly needs saying. The unintuitive part of the paradox is that we measure the price of a unit of energy, not what we can do with it.

I think the best way to combat this is to negotiate for countries to implement a tax on carbon.

Negotiating for emissions reductions directly causes problems: you are asking countries to slow their growth. So, they will look for solutions. Increasing efficieny is the natural way, to get more use out of the CO2 you're allowed to use. But then....every unit of CO2 is suddenly more tempting.

Hence, our emissions have gone up, not down. There's just so much you can do with it now!

If countries agreed to tax carbon, that tax would deal with the externality caused by carbon emissions, and give an incentive to develop non-carbon electricity.

This is so obviously the market based solution that I am baffled more people don't advocate for it. It doesn't even have to raise overall taxes. You just cut the income tax or corporate tax to compensate.
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Good point. Jim Bridger is in SW WY, so prevailing winds do take it east across the state, but it must go past the state as well. It just doesn’t go to where the electricity is used, which is west.
Everything else is already contagious and rots my brain too. If anything rots our brains, then overused clickbait headlines.
I don't think that's possible. Perhaps the singularity itself will survive a "Big Crunch", but I doubt anything between it and the event horizon will. And without the ability to survive the end of the universe, life is unlikely to emerge inside an orbit within a blackhole. Because of the time dilation, life will evolve there hundreds if not thousands of times slower compared to the rest of the universe. So the lifespan of the universe itself may be insufficient for life to form there.
> Any time you ride that thing past someones home

without any context I could imagine you were talking about a Lamborghini.
Wonder if they also explored the possibility that we are in a black hole and the universe structure is recursive.

Maybe the background radiation is the part of the hawking radiation that falls inward. And we perceive it infinite but it’s the dilatated space between the hevent horizon and the naked singularity at the center. And the big bang was the supernova that left the black hole.

Trippinng!
Some great point in OP's critique. But CS isn't music theory. Music theory is not really known well by most musicians who are excellent players. Theory is for theorists. I'm not saying that most musicians know zero theory-- they know what key they are in--but seriously, that only happens after they can play lots of concertos. Pianists tend to know more, but that's because it's staring them in the face every time they play. (speaking as a career musician: performer, composer, teacher of performance and theory) Yes, musicians drill lots of different things, but honestly, it depends what it's for. If practicing improv withchord changes, one needs to know those changes inside and out, but that is truly just one way-- if one is improvising freely, one needs to practice by doing. It really is the only way. Improv is the creative aspect-- classical is the perfect reproduction aspect. I'm thinking software development is a kind of hybrid. Also-- there isn't a pro music job on earth that anyone could learn well enough in a bootcamp for even six months with no prior experience, so the good news is-- no software engineer is regularaly competing with Horowitz yet. Sure, there are virtuosos in programming, but as a musician, you are surrounded by them and are already one yourself as an undergrad-- at least! This is good news for creativity in teaching programming. In terms of motivation of students: from what I have experienced as a programming student in several programs and as an observer-- the material studied is not inspiring. In music, we study Mozart and Thelonious Monk. Puccini and Stravinsky. Reich and Cage. In programming, we studied models and diagrams. We never looked at "great code". When I asked if there was indpiring code to see, my teacher guided me to online lessons made by the school. I asked if there was. jupiter Symphony of code somewhere, desperately looking for a way to be indpired as I am with great writers and composers. My teacher treated me like I was "being difficult". I dropped out of this program and learned on my own. This was one of the tippy top bootcamps in NYC. I was hoping it would be there for me in these ways-- it wasn't. I'm left with this: I can't imagine any musician getting hired to teach with such low level understanding of ... the world of interesting examples- even a beginning music professor can direct students to inspiring examples of greatness in the field. Teachers need to be paid well for the time it takes to develop interesting methods of teaching. Teaching is a complex hybrid science and art. Like all of these, it requires time and mastery, but most important: innovation!
Indeed, most of the application logic is in client side. In fact it's built in a way that it could function as a standalone application without backend. Currently it doesn't persist the data locally but that could be easily added.

The backend serves as a fairly generic datastore with an API that allows data to be easily synced back and forth. It implements a logic (again non-specific to Whimsical) for how to handle concurrent updates (basically it implements CRDTs). I believe it's pretty similar to Google's Cloud Firestore - we might have chosen that if it was out of beta and we didn't mind the lock-in.

Two main reasons we did this:
1) to be able to easily add offline mode - we don't have it yet but it's fairly easy to add now
2) to minimize effect of network latency on user experience

As for less load on server & cheaper infrastructure costs - you are right, that is another benefit.
Definitely an almost amusing overlap between different senses of “singularity”.

Such civilizations might be like “simple germs”, their self-sustaining black hole vessels interacting and stirring things together; perhaps the cores of the most “interesting” galaxies are sentient, waiting for one femto-tech civ to arise from a trillion slime-ball planetoids — to make first Contact...

The more general possibility of “intersecting” reality at right angles has been taken up in a few additional works I can think of: in Count to Infinity and Excession.
Thanks for sharing, I always wondered if nice guys finish last or not. I like your reference for the "Meh Guy" totally on point!
Makes me wonder how much the wars effect this study, lots of people (from both genders) were involved in active combat then went on to use the GI bill.

I know from personal experience that having to be "on alert" all the time kind of makes you look at fellow humans in a different light.
There isn't operator overloading as other languages have it, but you can write instances for your types. It seems you're just complaining about using vector addition operator (^+^) instead of a different addition operator (+); if it bothered you that much an instance would create a link defining + as ^+^.
Law firm hours are directly tied to revenue. You can't measure things this way in a SAAS shop.
What grantwu said. You misinterpreted me. Seems to be a theme today. I guess I should spell things out more clearly in the future.
That is a bad idea. The Soviet Union was a shitty place to live, and its economic policies were disastrous. As I pointed out in the comment you're replying to, this problem has already been well-solved by simply expanding the locus of control for zoning so that the interests served by it are more global.
So?

The internet isn’t going to work for you any more. Get past it.
The "ranked by travel time in hours" metric is a little weird. Travel by what? Trains, planes, or automobiles?

There's also a huge chunk of the state of Maine that is more than 3.5 hours from either Boston or Quebec City (there are no cities in Maine larger than 75,000 people[1])

[1] https://www.maine-demographics.com/cities_by_population
I doubt the "loud pipes save lives" concept holds water. The normal rumble of a Harley doesn't bother me. When one of those riders goes out of their way to gun it through residential neighborhoods just to be obnoxious they should be fined
The meta-analysis study they mention seems to be this: https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eob/edobrien_empathyPSPR.pd...

It should be noted the data only goes until '09, so it's not exactly "today".
I like this thought
1. Take a walk for 5-10 minutes

2. Reward yourself for a job well done (buy a coffee or a chocolate)

3. Force yourself to think of some other aspect of your life for a few minutes

4. As soon as you're able to let go of the emotions associated with the project, you'll be able to get back to work, but not a moment before
MIT AGI: How the Brain Creates Emotions (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
It's implicitly in your post, but basically a battery is a lot cheaper than a ton of extra solar panels since you can use your full day of solar during the peak period.
I'm not sure a few extra apartments in a city of thousands and thousands is going to reduce the value of anything nearby by any appreciable amount?

Got any data about it?

From my experience in London prices just keep on going up and up (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-house-price-index-hpi-...) despite adding more and more (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/london-hous...) apart from more recently, but that is due to brexit - for years and years prior to brexit the prices just kept on going up despite new blocks of apartments being built everywhere they could find an old petrol station or pub or old school or house-with-unusually-large-garden they could knock down and replace with a block of 30-40 apartments.

There may obviously wider economic factors going in to this - i.e. construction because prices are going up, but I suspect SF will be very similar in this regard.
I disagree, I still believe that nice guys finish last. But that's an overall good argument (y)
The design seems nice and clean, and the primitives on the back-end are about the right level. I wrote something similar, with golang, as a replicated object-storage system. Although I didn't call it S3 I nearly did:

https://github.com/skx/sos/

Obviously there is a difference between "object store" and "file store", but it isn't so bad. I have a similar replication scheme:

* Each node knows the objects it hosts.

* Each host can poll others to see what a node should have.

* Missing blobs can be synced.
Indeed. I much prefer “the MTV generation”, ie. those of Ian that remember MTV as primarily playing music videos.
That's a very interesting idea! Although, if the cosmic background radiation is the hawking radiation falling back toward the event horizon, where is the residual radiation left behind by the supernova (because in the traditional interpretation, CMB the afterglow of the big bang).
There is a fascinating PBS Space Time video[1] about black holes that questions the very existence of whatever is "inside" a black hole.

They point out that as you approach a black hole, your proper time is advancing slower and slower when compared to an observer located far away from the black hole (like us, on Earth). That means that from the point of view of this far observer, nothing happens inside a black hole until an infinite amount of time. In other words, what is inside a black hole is separated from us not by a space-like frontier, but a time-like one. Events behind the event horizon are postponed to "the end of times".

Does it even make sense to say that those events exist, then? Are they any more real than fairy tales or mathematical equations? If not, we can make any speculation we want, including the existence of alien civilizations.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY
These terms are collectivism at its finest.
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The big toothed cretin. By Pais logic, slavery was innovation for blacks? History is not currently, nor will in future be kind to this man. And rightly so.
From my understanding of Harley fans is that they really really like their air-cooled engines. V-Rod, Street 750 have all gotten flak for not being 'true' harleys....because they improved on lot of the outdated tech. They can't sell even the newer bikes (revenue has fallen and closing down factories) because the demographic is steadfast in their vision of classic harley.

Porsche enthusiasts also show similar preference for air cooled 70~80s models which appreciates in value....but they kept almost all parts of the formula (the car look, clock, engine in the rear) the same because when they went with a bold new look (like the tear drop of early 2000s) they were facing an uphill battle.

It's sort of like the HN comment I see calling for petrol cars to be banned because electric vehicles are going to render the old ones extinct.

There is a true lack of understanding the market and the buyers in a space that most HN'ers are not the target demographic.
I moved from CA to Europe. Don't regret it. I get a month and a half of vacation, a nice walkable city, and don't feel like I live in a dying democracy.

Two days ago my infant was sick. Made one phone call and thirty minutes later a qualified gp showed up at my apartment and made sure everything was fine. At 2 AM. For free.

In the US I could make more money but would spend it all on rent and cars (and private school tuition in a few years), and my time on commuting and explaining to colleagues that I never check email on vacation. Ever.

I'll keep what I've got. Also, lower eu salaries should make it easier to start a business if the mood strikes.
Paying 50$ to send 1£ after a couple of hours doesn’t honestly seem “an obvious win” to me..
In uk it arrives instantly and it’s free.
And with Alaska you could add a new metric “can’t get there from here “.
How can you evict owners? Are 600 people behind with their payments?
I don't understand why so much effort has been put into branding "generations," but it's just gotten more and more ridiculous as time goes on. Now we're doing transitive generations, apparently. Soon every quarter will have its own generation, like game consoles. Probably named after game consoles.