skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The Gilded Age was also a result of the industrial revolution and globalization. It describes a period of history - during which, these things happened.
> To that point, I’m wondering if all IT initiatives codenamed “Phoenix” are doomed from the start

Firefox seems to be doing pretty well :-).
Veeva is a notable counter example. They raised their A round (their only round) once they had a pilot deal in place with Genentech.

Though, at that point at least, Veeva was basically a salesforce reseller.
It's clear that the money is in the enterprise business and not their consumer business.

The problem for Dropbox is that storage is commoditized. For them to make money, they need to become a collaboration platform. Storage is a necessary (but not sufficient) piece of that. The more important piece for any collaboration platform is identity. When your company is on G-suite/Gmail, Google manages identity for you. So it becomes frictionless for other Google products to piggyback on that identity and authenticate you. That's what turns a suite of products into a proper collaboration platform.

Microsoft and Google have an advantage because they manage email. So I had expected Dropbox will launch a G-suite competitor.

If you're in the Google ecosystem with G-Suite, I don't see why you would want to complicate life by using Dropbox. G-Suite integrates well enough with Google storage. In fact, for $10 per user per month, G-Suite offers unlimited storage.
Hm, I thought about switching to Posteo, but no custom domain is a no go :/
What do you mean by "the lowest"? Percentage wise? Because I'm sure they pay millions or even billions in some cases. I agree that the rich might not pay the same percentage that you pay, but that's not even the real problem.

The real problem is that we don't have equal opportunities. That gives the rich people a huge advantage when it comes to earning more money. We don't need to tax the rich more, that doesn't really help you when you're poor. We need to wisely use the money that we already have to create more opportunities for everyone.
Those examples are not the same though.

You can have someone who has an extensive education in Computer Science and can talk about it all day long very articulately but has no implementation skills.

You might be able to catch someone with no comp-sci background by talking to them but not someone who has an advanced comp sci education.

The doctor example is relevant though.

Doctors don't get hired based on talking. They have to do residencies, get certified, and demonstrate ability before even applying for a job. Same reason. Someone could learn how to repeat everything in the text books without being able to do the procedures, which require practice to master.
You're absolutely correct, it's nigh impossible to find SMEs you can even put in front of a stakeholder, and not totally jeopardize something.

I've been on the end of jeopardizing, and on the end of bringing in SMEs... It's a nightmare.
I know that the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" rhetoric is supposed to frighten or shame me into supporting liberal causes (most notably wealth redistribution), but although you're absolutely correct that I don't have millions and likely never will, when I compare how I grew up to what I've been able to carve out for myself by just educating myself and doing the best job I could against what I see in places like Venezuela, I continue to be more concerned by people like you than people like, say, the Koch brothers. It's a shame that traditionally left-wing causes like humane working conditions get bound up in really dangerous suggestions like universal basic income and single-payer healthcare, because there are a lot of areas where America could stand to improve if only we could stop being so back-biting and divisive.
The fact that it would never occur naturally makes it even more interesting. Imagine interplanetary civilizations rearranging star systems to send the unambiguous signal "1. intelligent life lives here, and 2. they are powerful enough to arrange planets, so a peaceful posture is probably advisable.".
Usually, every statistical model is a special case of a probabilistic model in which its parameters have been estimated by data.

The regression E[Y|X] is basically the mean of a gaussian distribution of Y given X with sigma set to the error term. The whole gaussian distribution part is the probabilistic model. But to estimate wich parameters make up this model in a particular application (together with how to check if it is valid or not) is the statistical modeling part.
> small fine, e.g. HSBC

HSBC was fined nearly $2 billion [1]. (Still a shame none of the complicit went to jail.)

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> The project was meant to save costs by firing 1,200 employees handling payroll at various departments around the country and replacing them with about 500 people in a centralized location using Phoenix to handle most of the government’s payroll needs.

> The government will spend C$431 million to keep the program running in the near term, on top of C$460 million already spent to put Phoenix in place and fix the problems it generated.

So for each of the individual salaries Phoenix was supposed to eliminate, they spent C$600k ($500k USD) in up-front costs, and it will be another C$600k to clean up the mess. Turns out, software takes a lot of time and money to build. Who knew? I guess IBM didn't. Or maybe they didn't care?

Maybe there should be some kind of advisory board system for large software projects, made up of disinterested-yet-well-informed techies, similar to what exists for corporations.
See #plottertwitter for a peek at "our" world.

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Don't have a mock strawman argument this long. If you have a point to make, just make it. Don't write up a whole argument that includes weak responses so you conveniently 'win'.
Author is a she by the way.
I'll see your anecdote and call with mine: I live in Atlanta and I can't think of a single person that doesn't use some app to order delivery anymore. Do you live in a city or just know people who live in cities.
That's what the scissors and glue are for.
Can anyone explain why would I ever need to use Dropbox over Google Drive when I already pay for Google Apps for business (and I use GDrive through the official desktop plugin that creates a virtual drive just like dropbox)
This ignores the fact that if you don’t respond to people contacting you you’ll get fired. As a salary you have no voice.

The market simply optimizes for whatever is easiest for a ceo to install and maintain.
The authors are still collecting more stories for their longer journal version of the paper. If your institution has 10+ stories to contribute and are interested to be part of the journal paper, please go ahead contact the first two authors of the original paper.
You can't really support the argument that the Gilded Age actively caused these negative things by virtue of them taking place during the Gilded Age without supporting the argument that the Gilded Age caused positive things by virtue of them taking place during the period.
Disagree. This presents an antiquated and naive view of trolling as harmless banter that begs rather than illuminates the question.

For context, my working definition of trolling is 'malicious shitposting.' Where shitposting is 'posting nonsensical or absurd content for general amusement' trolls do it specifically to rile up people for the entertainment of the troll's peers. This has absolutely become weaponized in recent years and there is a significant overlap with propaganda, like it or not.
Any advice on how to get started with computer vision / blob detection? Is there any good open source software to play around with?
I do all my coding in gregg shorthand
I'm modestly outraged that your jobs posting was downvoted.

For any security engineers exploring this -- I can independently vouch for team on the basis of the person leading it (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrickdlee/). If you want a team to join where you can both robustly contribute and continue to learn and grow as either/both an engineer and a manager (if that's your thing), you can't really go wrong here.
Microsoft is gunning for them hard with Teams. It's not really a very good product, but it might win traction just by being bundled into their Office 365 subscriptions.

Microsoft does have people on staff that know how to make an Electron app not suck really horribly, though whether any of that expertise from the DevTools branch makes its way to Office and the red-haired stepchild UC teams...
This is awfully thin. It ended right as it got started.
How is this Slack's fault, again? Or is the argument that messaging systems should be hard to install so they aren't misused?

Seriously, what even is this comment chain getting at? If you work somewhere where always-on is a hard requirement, it doesn't matter what messaging system is used. Any place that would fire you for muting notifications would just as easily fire you for turning off email notifications.

In short: Let's stop blaming the damn tool for something that is the fault of the humans using it.
Current software stacks are incredibly bloated. I recently wrote a simple Java web server. I took care no to use unnecessary memory, I didn't use a single library for it, yet it can't do even basic functions without OOM unless I'm giving it 16MB RAM for heap (and it eats even more for other things). So almost 20 MB RAM for hello world. And that's for relatively efficient VM. I guess, similar web server written with C would use around 20 KB RAM (and most of it for I/O buffers).
Populist revolt? In America? 50% of the population would gleefully shoot the other 50% dead as soon as their Masters tell them it's just "treasonous liberal Marxists". The 1% are super-duper safe. They've got nothing to fear from the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".
Google apps (now GSuite) has had offline functionality for several years. You can work on Sheets, Docs etc completely offline.
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What? No, you're arguing for a winnowing down to 0.1% or 0.01%, but our problem is the other way around as the parent described. The problem is the 10% or 20% who support the same basic policies as the 0.1%.
> It looks like USA was known to have submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) but only recently announced adding cruise capabilities

No, the US had nuclear cruise missiles deployable on subs since the 1980s or possibly 1970s (I can't find a good date for introduction of the TLAM-N, only that development began 1972 and it was announced they would be transfered to storage in 1991 and they were retired between 2010 and 2013.)

What your source reports is a recommendation to introduce a new nuclear cruise missiles replacing the retired TLAM-N.
In some cases they might benefit from the same policies, but usually disproportionately so.

What was labelled the "death tax", which somehow became a grassroots issue, was taxes on inheritance over roughly 5 million. It's now doubled to 11 million with the new tax bill. This is not in the interest of well over 99% of people.
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> nightmare

It was a time of massive improvement in the standard of living across the board. You can see this objectively in annual statistics on infant mortality, longevity, and average height.

The industrialization of America was not producing luxury yachts for the overlords. It was producing consumer goods for everyone.
Wow, I never would have considered throwing anything other than an Error. On the face of it, this seems like an incredibly powerful technique, but is it an abuse of a language feature?
Also the Linux detergents.
Is the 16mb unsplash photo on the landing page really necessary?
Say, I am right now interviewing and about to get an offer, how to make them help me?
Warren Buffett on the failure of 'trickle down' economics
Authentication for django-rest-framework with django-rest-auth
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This isn't really a political issue. Implementation was done by the civil service and was and is managed by non-political deputy ministers. There was a similar disaster with the centralization of web servers in the federal civil service a couple of years ago.
Why don't you respond to specific points yourself? I did have a mock argument because these aren't real people but all those are real (and relatively strong) arguments from both sides. The ones supporting IP are actually FROM Ayn Rand for example, paraphrased to include a reference to "you didn't build that".
Yeah, something like uBitx[1] + amp may be a better combo.

If you're interested in digital modes than 10w is usually enough for PSK, JT* and FT8.

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So you're saying that regardless of the quality/reliability o the article content, you pre-emptively dismiss it? Sounds like this is a you problem rather than a media problem.
Others in this space: Sprig (failed) and Munchery (still around) come to mind.
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My guess is that IBM believes the software works according to specification. And maybe it does. Maybe the specifications are wrong. Most likely, it's a combination of bad specs and programmed logic errors that don't always follow the specs that are correct.

Of course, this requires testing and time to hash out. It would be a major mistake to scrap a project in it's final phase of refinement. They should have switched over slowly, department by department, handling and resolving issues along the way. But scrapping the entire project now only means another $1B investment and repeat down the road. Trudeau would join the ranks of the FAA in flushing multi-billion dollar software projects. It's a waste. I don't know about this project, but software engineers died on-the-job working on the FAA's AAS that never launched.
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What I'm saying is that having more workers is not by itself sufficient explanation. The US always had more workers YoY.
At their scale, that's a small fine. Barely 10% of annual net profit.
No it doesn't. Here's at least three alternative presumptions:

1. Demand is not perfectly elastic

2. Demand is perfectly elastic, but supply was increased more on the lower end of the income range which reshapes the income distribution.

3. Trade policy reduced demand in the middle of the income range.
>Yes, because history. There are no historical examples where wealth was held by the few and social mobility increased broadly

Uh... The industrial revolution.

You seem to be confusing wealth inequality with income inequality which might be muddying your arguments.
It is an excerpt from a newly released book. If you want the milk, you have the buy the cow.
I created my own Terminal client to communicate with Slack [1].

I did it because I like IRC, but my employer (and many of my co-workers) love Slack.

I dislike Slack, having the option to connect to an IRC gateway (unless your employer disabled this option) or to communicate with their API service with a program like this one (linked above) or mine (linked below) is good for people who still need to communicate with their peers but want to do so through the program that they are more comfortable with, in this case, the Terminal.

[1] https://github.com/cixtor/slackapi
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Cost could be minimized if the particular doctor does not have to pay for a facility. I can't even begin to imagine what the cost per sq/ft of a generic doctor's office is, given all the regulation and equipment requirements. Having them mobile may remove a significant cost (though probably won't come close to the added opportunity-cost you mentioned).
The hype is and isn't warranted.

ML is a much broader field than just neural networks. The hype for ML, in general, I think is warranted. We hit an inflection point when AWS launched and scalable processing power became cheap. It became cheap to process tons of data and generate insights. I don't have hard numbers on this, but probably 90-95% of machine learning used in practice is NOT neural networks, and have accuracies in the 90%+ arena. So ML in general -- sure, hype warranted.

Neural networks are the new hot topic, and the hype isn't fully warranted yet. TensorFlow made them very popular in the developer community; this is a good thing because it's spurring more investment and research in ANNs. But for any given problem, odds are that a neural network is not the best (ie, most accurate or cheapest) way to solve it. Neural networks do have specific problem domains where they are the state of the art, but for most other problem domains there exists a better solution. So I'd say that neural networks are a little over-hyped right now, but with a new generation of developers learning about and experimenting with ANNs, that will change in a few years. I think we're about to see an explosion of ANN usefulness over the next few years.

TLDR: ML is very useful but is more than neural networks; neural networks need a little more progress to catch up to the tensorflow hype.
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On this note, I can't believe that iOS the operating system and IOS the operating system have managed to get along.
Tariffs do increase costs. However, if China is actually dumping heavily subsidized steel on the market (supposedly via other countries) and driving prices below cost, and if this puts our steel mills at risk of closing (which seemingly it does), not imposing a tariff risks a supply shortage in the future when China cuts heavy subsidies and incentives. Steel mills take a very long time to build and scale to operation, and this would be devastating, more so than slightly increased prices now.

It can be argued that something similar is happening with oil, in which OPEC countries have massively increased their output, many at a loss, to prevent the U.S. shale oil industry from developing into a contender. The government has turned a blind eye to this for 2 reasons, I think

1) The supply glut has devastated the Russian economy and currency, and the enemy of my enemy etc. -- this hearkens back to Obama-era foreign policy of sanctions during the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, and cozying up to/improving our "alliance" with Saudi Arabia.

2) Imposing an oil tariff/intentionally raising oil prices in any way is a huge political no-no as the populace refuses to pay more at the pump. This is despite prices more than double the current level (considering inflation) being tolerated at the pump not long ago at all.
Old article but probably still relevant today: 39% of Americans think they either are (19%) or one day will be (20%) among the top 1% incomes [1]. You can’t get someone to oppose enriching the richest if that person thinks he’s one of them!

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
That matters very little because our components are wrapped in ASP.NET, Spring, JEE components.

For the user of use components the difference will be quite thin, if at all.
from the article, it doesn't sound like Dropbox is actually using any of Google's infrastructure. It seems to be an a set of integrations with Gmail/Hangouts and G-Suite
We're using AForge.NET but OpenCV is great too. This was a pretty useful tutorial: http://www.aforgenet.com/articles/shape_checker/
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