skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are the only one that matters because of superior products, innovation, or business acumen. Obtaining a monopoly in this way is legal [0].

The argument here seems to be that because "unpopular speech" is not being spread through the market-leader media site, that free speech is being restricted. This sounds really similar to the "Fairness Doctrine" [1], and has the same pitfalls: it forces businesses to devote their resources, risk their brand, and jeopardize their ad dollars to promote speech that their patrons disagree with.

If YouTube were a government run enterprise using public money, absolutely -- everyone gets a megaphone. But YouTube's legal obligation is to shareholders and anything that forces them to act against that is not sound policy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
[0]https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> which often is in fact poorly prepared and overly salted and made from the cheapest of ingredients.

Like Chico's Tacos!

> It's a shame, because these people seem to be unaware of how large a country Mexico is, with myriad cultural influences and traditions, regional variations, and a vibrant modern food culture, especially in regards to Mexico City.

Fact! I prefer the style of cuisine that comes from the Chihuahuan desert.
it isn't just price

- they weigh a lot for the range them can provide
- the recharge rates even on "superchargers" is not good
- the range loss in cold climates is very high, can be a third of your range
- charger standards are not aligned

I hope we solid state batteries can solve all of these, if not the weight component by removing the liquid electrolytes. Is there really much more that can be done with lithium batteries?

I am still a fan of smaller EV range backed by a REX; how that REX is done going forward is up to technology but I don't really want to have to haul a thousand pounds of batteries around just to exceed two hundred mile range in mild to warm weather
re: "the “Greatest Generation” went on to create the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible."

Just wondering what amount of history you've studied/read, to come to this conclusion?
Most agree that TARP was necessary, but QE2, QE3, and very low interest rates appear to have done little more than inflate asset markets and increase debt. They are trying to unwind that now, but falling back to the mean with this much excess is not likely to go well. We left the cast on way, way too long.

What's done is done. It'll prove out either way in the next few years.
Hey this is off-topic, but since you recently dumped your FB data, could you see if this kind of thing is in there? https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976368845635035138
Fine for higher-level courses, but how exactly are intro courses supposed to make 'hello world' and the like personal enough that you can't cheat?
trollius is no longer maintained
Gun ownership rates have been falling, not rising.

http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun...
Sounds like a pretty good idea for a tv display.
Actually being a slave might be preferable. Slaves had guaranteed room and board and medical care...
Entry level workstations were readily available and all over universities.
I'm just sad that proper keyboard API for a better Vimperator/Pentadactyl successor seems to have been silently dropped.
There's no 'adblock wall' if you have a script blocker such as NoScript, even with scripts from 'theatlantic.com' allowed.

It is a bit tedious to manually allow js on websites to get them to work properly but...gee, just refer to the article's topic. Scripts from 'facebook.net' are somewhat ironically, but predictably, loaded with the page.
Where have you ever seen 'm' used for miles? Wherever that is, go there and scribble it out! Also tell off the person who wrote it.
I had a nickel for everybody that got in my ear about "authentic" Mexican food

I liken this obsession with simulacra[0]. People looking for an original of something that never existed. “Greek” or “Mediterranean” food in the US is like this too.

Although nothing beats Tex-Mex, fight me.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Have I been to your house?!
Tesla had to raise a lot of money from investors to keep the business afloat. In 2017 alone, they had to raise a debt of $2bn to keep their cash reserves alive so that they could continue investing on their products. Volkswagen, on the other hand, had a revenue of $230bn in 2017 alone.

It doesn't seem to me that money is a problem for the already established car manufacturers. And looking at Tesla's finances, starting an electric car business wouldn't make much of a dent on Volkswagen's finances.

So yes, Tesla is proof that there is some relutance in moving to a fully electric business in the car industry.
New solar deal moves us ahead of schedule in creating a cleaner cloud- Microsoft
Los Dos Molinos just makes their food way too hot, no subtlety to it.
He is using Android 5.1... that was before the whole permission system no?

Besides other people don't seem to be able to reproduce it.
Mostly they focus on their privacy initiatives and features. Not just Firefox directly, but other projects to build brand affinity or something.

I'm afraid I can't go check what ads I saw, since I just jumped on the bandwagon and deactivated my account.
Given that it's generating "millimeters" of water (I assume they mean milliliters), it seems unlikely that it's going to scale up to where the water can be dumped into the ground for irrigation, or even used for hydroponic growing. Many food crops lose a lot of water through leave, for example, it takes about 15 gallons of water to grow a head of lettuce, while a human can subsist on about a gallon a day.

https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/from-lettuce-to-beef-w...
Thanks for the input.

Yes, auto termination is a good idea and on the todo list.

The way payments work is users add funds to their account with a credit card and then run servers. Their account is only debited when the server stops.

So if I add $5 to my account and run a Minecraft server for 2 hours, my account balance will be debited by $0.50. If my account balance runs out then I can't start another server until I add more funds into my account.

At the moment, if a user forgets to stop their server then it will keep running until their account balance runs dry. Which isn't great, and this is where an auto-termination feature would be handy. Perhaps as a setting on the server: "Limit this server's runtime to 3 hours"
You can certainly install malware or something like a toolbar that may do nefarious things.. data and ad profiling are the cost of free it seems. Google could vet the apps but they won’t. I’m sure census demographics and your address are predictive enough for a lot of marketing and business related activities. You can also do the hyper ad targeting based on people who live in X and at what age. So the voter profile of CA may not have been specifically more useful than voter registration and demographics. Using Facebook and YouTube was essential though. That allowed them to optimize the content campaigns with real-time feedback.
The idea that Obama only collected data from people who signed up and registered is total nonsense. See the comments from Obama's media director in the below article or go back and read the news articles on the topic from 2010-2013 back then they did not even pretend like they were only collecting data from people who signed up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campai...
I can't comment on #4 but with regards to 1-2 we can make an argument that high dimensional space is generally friendly towards stochastic gradient descent.

Consider a neural net that produces a single output given `N` inputs– it's basically a function `f(x) = f(x_1, x_2, …, x_N)`
A local minimum x* has the gradient `∇f(x) = (0, 0, …, 0)` and an NxN Hessian of the form `[H•f(x)]_{ij} = (∂^2 f)/(∂x_i ∂x_j)`.

The critical point is a local maximum if the Hessian is positive definite at x and a local minimum if it's negative definite; it's a saddle point otherwise.
This corresponds to the Hessian having a mixture of positive and negative eigenvalues.

Heuristically, we have N eigenvalues, and absent prior information we can expect that the probability of each eigenvalue being positive is 1/2, and 1/2 for the eigenvalue being negative instead.
So the probability of an arbitrary critical point being a local minimum is `(1/2)^N`, which becomes extremely small as N grows large.
Large values of N are kinda the bread-and-butter of deep learning, so we expect that most critical points we'll encounter are saddle points.
Additionally, the inherent noise in SGD means that we're unlikely to stay trapped at a saddle point, because once you're nudged away from the saddle, the rate at which you slide off it increases rapidly.

So if your net appears to have converged, it's probably at a local optimum with a reasonably deep basin of attraction, assuming you're using the bag of tricks we've accumulated in the last decade (stuff like adding a bit of noise and randomizing the order in which the training data is presented).

As for 3 & 5, we kinda cheat because if your model appears to have converged but is not performing adequately, we step outside of the learning algorithm and modify the structure of the neural net or tune the hyperparameters.
I don't know if we'll ever have a general theory that explains why neural nets seem to work so well, because you'd have to characterize both the possible tasks and the possible models, but perhaps we'll gradually chip away at the problem as we gather more empirical data and formalize heuristics based on those findings.
Outrage over viral photo of veiled woman in Mercedes at food bank in Germany
Dropbox will price IPO at $21 per share
Outside of some of the mentioned reasons (20-somethings are cheaper, ageism, etc.), I think there's a lot of emphasis on staying up-to-date. In order to be "desirable" you need to consistently be learning about new technologies, languages, frameworks, etc. ON YOUR OWN TIME. As you get into age 30+, many people are married, have kids, have enough money to travel, etc. thus you probably aren't going to be as interested in reading programming blogs and watching tutorials.
BMW is in a pickle because there is a good chance their premium pricing advantage is going to up and disappear with the shift to electrics. BMW has a customer base that loves their esthetics and brando and ignores the very high cost of ownership. Shift to electric and the esthetic and brando go out the window.

See Harley Davidson.
> as we found out from the NFL theorems in the mid-to-late 90s, and it wasn't even clear the field had a scientific basis at all.

NFL theorems are, should I say, purely theoretical and provide no insight on real-world problems. Say we try to find a function that is an optimal solution to something. NFL theorems consider the space of all possible functions, the overwhelming majority of which are discontinuous. Whereas real life problems tend to have functions that are at least more or less continuous.
this sounds like a great solution. i particularly like that it encourages careful thought about test cases.
gcc is perfectly cromulent on Power (speaking from experience with my own PowerPC and POWER6 systems, and when I had time on one of Raptor's POWER8 systems). The speed differential between that and IBM xlc is pretty small IME nowadays, too.

I'm more hesitant to say the same about clang/llvm but it's been awhile and I'm probably not current.
Instead of coming up with punitive solutions, I wonder what can be done to re-structure computer science education in ways that move the incentive structure away from one that encourages plagiarism? Bonus points if it improves the quality of the education, too.

For example: What if we move toward a more seminar-style approach of having students discuss and critique each others' code on larger projects?

This might not get rid of all copy/pasting, but it would create a huge incentive for students to at least understand how their code works, in order to avoid embarrassment in front of their classmates. And, should two kids copy/paste the same code, and that becomes apparent in the course of a peer review session, well, that's an event that everyone will remember. No need for the instructor to make themself the bad guy in the process, either.

It also has the side benefit of giving students experience with code review, with reading and understanding others' code, and maybe helps them start to develop a sense for how to write clean, readable code several years before they start getting bludgeoned by senior devs at their first full-time job.

As for smaller problem set type homework, why not give them group work? It doesn't necessarily need to be graded, aside from credit/no credit, if you're worried about giving A's to duffers. I had a few classes that did that back when I was in school, and I really liked it. I felt like I learned faster, both from working together with classmates and because the format allowed them to give us more challenging problem sets.
Google Code Jam void if you are resident of Quebec/Crimea/North Korea/Syria
I have a couple RS/6000's in storage...

But yes... Vintage computing doesn't count.
The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
He looks like he's mocking you because your tests failed.
what exactly am I giving up, by doing this?
> Is that not...good? If Google is reading my emails to sell me stuff (and I've given them permission to do so by using their service), and sees (reasonable) evidence I'm engaged in illegal activities, don't they have a responsibility to report that? Is that not the same thing as a GeekSquad technician stumbling across child porn on a laptop they're fixing?

No, it's not good.

Any internet service provider that reaches mass adoption faces a dilemma:

- Face legal problems

- Become another arm for law enforcement (and maybe even bypass the 4th Amendment)

The prison industrial complex grows fatter.
Maybe it was correct. Maybe Obama and whoever puppeteers Trump are both geniuses.

This is not about using Facebook. It's about doing shady, manipulative stuff.
How much can it reduce indoor humidity in San Francisco...I'd love to have that be a more energy efficient process, too.
Yes, they could get long in theory. In practice, in the place I'm currently using this method, the strings are 3 characters max.
I used a moisture calculator to determine that 10% humidity desert air at 30 degrees celsius and 1013.25hPa air pressure contains 3.03g/m³ of water. At that rate, the air above a 100x100m football field (to altitude of 100m) contains 303kg of water, or 303L at 4 degrees celsius.

So you'd be "drying out" a very tiny cube of air to produce the water needed by an entire family per day even given desert conditions with one of these appliances.

In the first world, we use 100L/day for all our needs. That means if everyone in America lived in a desert, we might need 107,491,749,174,917.5 cubic meters of air to supply us with all our water. If that sounds like a lot of air, consider that Death Valley is 7.8e+9 square meters in area; thus, to supply ALL Americans with fresh water, you'd just need to suck Death Valley's air dry to an altitude of 10,000m or so.
It isn't a popular statement, but I'm super excited about this, and if anything, this didn't go far enough. Section 230 needs to be removed in it's entirety. As Matt Stoller from the Open Markets Institute put it last night, this is the first time that big tech has ever really lost in Congress.

One example that stuck out to me recently was Google's participation in the drug rehab scam market. The Verge called them out on it repeatedly, and Google finally stopped doing it. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...

As noted in the article, Google was making as much as $230 per click. While they knew a lot of the ads they were selling were scams, the market was extremely lucrative for them, they were bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars with it. They even had marketers specifically catering to building the rehab ad market.

Thanks to Section 230, Google can't be held responsible for scams that they knowingly continued to support and fostered the growth of... and made hundreds of millions of dollars from. Even though Google's pulled the drug rehab ads now, all that profit is still theirs to keep, even though it should really go to some sort of victim's compensation fund.

Tech companies have shown repeatedly they can't be trusted with blanket immunity from prosecution, and it's time to take it away.
Is this the best way to do quick arithmetic, or are there other ways?
Telomeres in Disease
It's a poor perception to think that those factors wouldn't have any relation to who is the "best" candidate. Especially when you apply context and subjectiveness to what "best" really means at its core.
Facebook might be a mess, but at least Instagram is listening to its users
Android Apps targeting Android 6.0+ need to handle grant/revocation of permissions at runtime. Previous versions of Android would simply ask for the same permissions upfront when a user installed an app.
Please elaborate on how they are not comparable uses?
I wrote my MSc thesis on Genetic Algorithms in 1998 and I've been waiting for the time when they become popular. There is a lot of discussion going on about the need for "explainable models" and I'm quite surprised that it's not considered trivial that e.g. Genetic Programming builds computer programs that are actually models. Explainability is of course harder but how much closer can you get to building models automatically?
The problem is that the cost to argue this legal distinction in a civil court could be in the $500,000 - $1,000,000 range. Fine for Facebook, deadly for your gaming or crypto forum provider.
MOFs are generally notoriously unstable in water. Would a scaled-up system be able to perform while maintaining functionality over many cycles?
I mean that doesn't sound that bad? 2020 is only two years away.
Because that would be a very silly thing to spend time on? Time taken away from working on things that Krita is meant for?
> Employees received emails from the city's information technology department instructing them to unplug their computers if they noticed anything suspicious.

Ouch, that sort of communication policy seems ripe for phishing attacks.. "If you see anything suspicious, please report them here https://.."
You are correct. I have amended my comment.
bot-infested echo chamber of social media addicts say they want to quit an addiction by telling other addicts about it
El Chico and el fenix aren't good, but I didn't say they are, I said they introduced it to the world.

The term "authentic" tex mex is silly in the first place because it is regional (otherwise known as.. "authentic") food with replacement ingredients based on what was available here.

People that grew up here know its a good food city because... we know the spots. You'd only think Dallas has only chains if you only knew about chains.
Yes, but this kind of HTML authoring is often accompanied by a puritanical dedication to "structural markup". It is often evidence of quite an opinionated, reductive, approach to the web, for better or worse.
The $70,000 Startup Killed by Facebook Data
A webpage or app is not infrastructure, even if the underlying network is.
Oh, now that is great! Instead of just re-writing the problem for the class, the PI takes the time to write you an angry email and just make themself look foolish. Gotta love lazy professors.
This is a critical point to the whole conversation around automation and globalization.

Ask my neighbor the ex-steel worker how his work in Oncology is going.

There are benefits, for sure. But the cycle is too fast and people get push aside. Those people suffer.
A car being totalled is covered by insurance. A car whose engine blows up outside the warranty period is covered by its owner's paycheck.
100% through people I’ve worked with before. (Finding work is not hard if you have a good reputation but very hard before you’ve built one.)
Can someone please explain why a PAXOS[1] solution isn't sufficient and a blockchain is required when all the infrastructure and software is owned and controlled by a single company?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
Not just discontinuous but have high Kolmogorov complexity (effectively meaning that the value of the objective function is random and has no real relation to the input arguments) so not a surprise that you can't do better than random!

Honestly, there's no justification to be using NFL theorems to explain why we can't optimize well on real world tasks.

Edit: And such high Kolmogorov complexity function constitute most possible objective functions -- i.e. exponentially more than the number of objective functions that don't have high Kolmogorov complexity. And all real world objective functions have comparatively low Kolmogorov complexity.
Worst case put it on click after a full screen signup modal that the same sites usually show anyways.
isn't this the expected behavior for apps that you give the sms / voice call / contacts permissions to? i would be surprised if any such app did not display my call/sms history and autocomplete contacts.
Collabora and GStreamer 1.14
Without necessarily (or completely) disagreeing, I'm curious if you can further justify your assertion of the strong path-dependency. I am personally amazed when I contemplate the Apollo program or the Manhattan Project, and specifically the number of technologies that did not exist at the time. It strikes me that there's a clear observational bias here. Particularly in the modern era, we really only have a single data point around the development of any given technology (given how trivial communication and coordination are). Are there any examples from history of the same technology being developed independently with different dependencies?

Possibly relevant, given your choice of fusion as an example, is the somewhat famous graph from the 1976 U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration report on nuclear fusion[0]. We're obviously looking at a number of projections and can't know whether they were right or wrong, but it is noteworthy that we're not even pursuing a plan we believe will ever lead to nuclear fusion ("fusion never").

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...
That's a desert survival device. Not a useful source of water for anything other than dire emergencies.
>There is no appropriate extinguisher when you have a thermal runaway on 20 kWh of chemical energy.

Yes there is, it's called a hose. But you're right, that 20 kWh isn't just going to up and disappear. I think it's realistically possible to do this with a modicum of safety even for a hobbyist but it needs to be passively safe. It can't rely on cells being inherently balanced with respect to one another, it needs to have some serious thought about what to do with that 20 kWh if the worst occurs but that's not an insurmountable task. Sprinkler heads are cheap and even just a garden hose will put out 25 gallons a minute. A very slight risk of water damage can be acceptable IMHO, I wouldn't have trouble sleeping with something cobbled together sitting in my garage so long as I planned for the worst along the way when piecing it together.
Pass/fail grading for making an attempt.
The same thing can be said of agriculture, and there are definitely environmental impacts, but we generally don't worry about the ground cover aspect.
More like classified ads pleading for kids to call their parents.
My internet history may be a bit hazy but isn't Reddit banning r/pizzagate or whatever it was and u/spez shadow editing people's comments the 2 biggest events of Reddit last year and likely why voat has users?
>I'm in my 40s and biggest fear is being unemployable -- not being unemployed.

A nice way of putting it.