skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't even get their two factor authentication to work. Their customer service a joke, and their processing takes too long.

Why people are hyped over their new products / features knowing how shit their old ones are is beyond me.
I'm not sure how you interpreted my comment, but I'm partially agreeing with you. "Tax the rich" never works out that way, since it's mostly people at the very bottom of the upper class paying most of the taxes.

The wealthy folks everyone gets in an uproar over don't pay any taxes, have the political power to avoid it, and even if they didn't, would be able to hire lawyers and accountants to help them avoid it. As a result, it's the people trying to claw themselves into the wealthy class that are most penalized by income taxes.

Let's go to a consumption tax with some kind of cash prebate to make sure the first $10k-$20k of spending is untaxed, and dispense with income taxes that have largely failed to do what they were designed to do.
I think you may be right about the downfall of personal emails, but email still has a strong place in business. I still find it the best way to have a long discussion with thoughtful responses, especially if it's tied to a newsgroup system (a la Google Groups and it's email gateway). It's still far superior to Slack et al for that kind of thing.

Also, incidentally to your point, it's a lot easier to control spam within a company email system. As a broad brush, you can just set your client to automatically relegate any email from outside your organization to another folder.
You may want to look into Minecraft and some of the automation modifications. I know older versions of Minecraft you can get have mods like ComputerCraft that let you program a Turtle to mine for you :)
Trading is ‘closed’ (aka halted) for individual securities relatively frequently in the US. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_halt
I'm 99% sure they are just his style. If you click through his articles on his personal site, you'll see a theme. [0] I think he just likes random 3D generated graphics.

[0] http://everest-pipkin.com/
Yes it's theoretically quite possible. PDF is designed with extensibility in mind and it's very easy (technology-wise) to introduce new compression formats. The only difficulty is whether collectively we have the willpower to implement this in enough products and ship a new ISO standard.

A less ambitious alternative might be to use something like zopfli. It is totally backwards compatible so it can be used today to compress PDFs better without sacrificing compatibility.
How would he know that it's "you"?
>"Some researchers are using machine learning to empower robots to independently identify and work out how to grab objects. Others are improving the hardware..."

Software is the main bottleneck in ML at the moment, imo. That and data. The hardware problem (computation), which the author discusses briefly, has been more or less solved in the industry as newer software require less miniaturization of ICs and peripheral components[0] -- this despite Moore's law effect wearing off. [1]

It's all about striking a fine balance between the hardware's raw computational capability and designing compatible software nimble enough to adapt rapidly to colossal influx of data.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/01/27/has-moores-law...
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores-law-is-dead...
Does anybody have a non-paywall link?

Edit: Found this re-reporting of the story: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-allows-app-developers-...
here's a related video with the author:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NBdX6FHg2k
Google DeepMind AI can imagine a 3D model from a 2D image
~240 here, and I've got a very high thermal mass baking steel.
The amyloid, T3D, and viral hypotheses still don't explain why cholesterol, obesity, air pollution, lack of sleep, and sedentary liftestyle positively correlate with Alzheimer's and high caffeine intake and regular exercise negatively correlate with it.
Same here. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing, the smells and sounds, and how my teacher rushed to turn off the television we were all watching the launch on once it was clear what was happening. Kids crying, not understanding what was happening, the feel and look of the carpet, wall decorations, everything. It's the most vivid memory of childhood I have. I don't think I'll ever forget it.

I couldn't even read through this story.
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This isn't a boost to consumption, it's hoarding cash. Buying just the bare essentials.
| The best solution (IMO of course) is to stop unquestionably believing anything you see, read, or hear. Why most people choose otherwise has saddened me since childhood.

Agreed, but I think it's been long proven most people do. People hear what they want to hear. Maybe that will change, but I'd say it seems unlikely at this point.

| he worst solution is to panic and attempt to ban technology like this insuring that only the bad actors will use it.

Very true.

| I want everyone down to kids to be able to make fake videos to their little heart's content so we can all internalize this inevitable Black Mirrorization of reality.

Increasingly getting there. It only takes one person to make a nice GUI, post it to github.

| How will people cope with a world like this?

Probably poorly if history has taught us anything.

| It is almost like we need pop art and pop culture to drive this point home before political mass media does it in the worst possible way.

Very intriguing. Traditionally, art and culture change as a reaction to current affairs, as opposed to a pre-emption. I'm not sure how to pragmatically flip that paradigm.
I know of at least one startup who do this and use a "machine learning algorithm" to find details of particular things in your inbox.

That "algorithm" is a guy in their office. He reads your email. He searches it for common keywords, uses some regexes, but ultimately reads your email, then copies bits out into the system.

I'm all for bootstrapping with things that don't scale, but this example was a bad-faith use of Gmail access. I'm glad I don't use Gmail so couldn't accidentally give a random guy access to my inbox.
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This was one of my favorite takeaways too
> My real question is then, what specifically should I learn in order to make myself more well suited to taking the type of offers that current job listings are looking for?

If you're talking about web jobs, I'll point out that you have a rare specialization that you've acquired at great difficulty and expense that puts you head and shoulders above the average developer. Why throw that away before even trying to use it? There are jobs for Comp. E.'s out there in the areas I listed in my original post, though they take effort to find. Don't settle for mediocrity.

If you're determined to do it anyway, a solid understanding of software engineering, distributed systems, database theory, and software security will serve you well. Languages to pick up are Javascript, either Java or C#, and one of the dialects of SQL.

> As far as internships go, I'm completing my masters in one year and would only have time to pursue an internship in possibly winter and summer break of next year at best.

Foregoing internships is unwise; those do well at an internship will often be directly be offered full time employment after graduation, if open headcount is available. Even if not, completing internships and being able to describe the work accomplished is a strong positive indicator to hiring managers.
I never got into SC, but yeah definitely.
Virtually nobody these days advocates for using the C Preprocessor do to anything more complicated than define some constants and include header files. History has shown that it is more trouble than it is worth.

I don't know if it is fair to say that Lisp meta-programming is more core to the language than CPP is to C.
> Why did they goof mobile? I think the article explains the symptoms well, but even I have trouble explaining "why" given that everyone could see mobile coming.

Okay, so exactly how do you sell:

"Hey, we need to get in on this mobile thing. It's an order of magnitude more chips, but instead of margins of 30 dollars per chip, we'll only receive ... get this ... 30 cents. Isn't that a great idea?"
I think the argument goes, people who make 500k per year are well off, but they are not running the country. People with 100 million, 1 billion, or hell, 100 billion dollars are the people not paying their fair share.

There is an undue burden on the middle and upper middle class.
This. ^^^ Do they have a blood sugar tester with them? Why aren't they visiting their doctor?
I see what you're getting at, but the separate construction and transport was not the issue here. The O ring was a necessary pressure valve, but it failed because the cold made it brittle.

The bigger issue here was the politics between Nasa and it's contractors. The contractors told them that the launch would be dangerous at the temperature, but they were ignored.
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very great, thanks for the reply!

btw, for anyone interested in Euler, these two books (kind of pricey) are worth seeking out:

Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite - Book I and II
I would think that the same tech you can use to graft a face onto a person in a video could be used to do it on a still.
Ah, I see. I agree.
You're right, I'm in neither of those places. Where I'm at, there's C#/.NET or Java, and then there's everything else.
What are they even censoring these days? They have 1st world devices and goods, they have a fairly large middle class that is growing fast and a large investor class, are enough people really drinking the kool-aid there and not really know/believe about things like financial manipulations and whatnot?
This reminds me of something that happened in our on-site datacenter at a former employer of mine. It wasn't raining inside, they were just doing routine maintenance on the cooling system. Somehow, they managed to dump all of the cooling water into the offices (which were not ours) in the 2-3 immediate floors below. Needless to say, there was an emergency shutdown as the datacenter overheated. It was definitely an all-hands scenario as we got ready for market open the next day. I think I crashed around 4am-5am after my servers were back up and checked out.
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This article was a bit frustrating. It has a bunch of interesting threads it never follows to the end or ties together.
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For anyone interested in this line of thinking, I highly recommend reading Ron Suskind's "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President". [1]

As a Washingtonian, I can safely say that there are many actors who prefer the status quo, however flawed it might be, to an unknown other.

[1] http://ronsuskind.com/books/confidence-men/
They do, if you consider the recent findings that many viruses have evolved to exploit our colesterol synthesis and transport machinery to spread, it becomes clear that many diseases of aging may have a viral cause :
https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/senescence-links-between-heart-...

Rhinovirus, the cause of the common cold, binds to vLDL receptors. vLDL incidentally being the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12857919

Influenza requires the cholesterol transport system to bud and spread
http://news.mit.edu/2017/cholesterol-helps-flu-virus-escape-...

Hepatitis C virus relies on APO-E, our favorite alzheimers gene, to flourish, and APO-E genotype predicts if you will get liver cancer from Hep-B
https://goo.gl/images/Hev5ev

T2D, CVD, and obesity, being characterized by hypercholesterolemia and mitochondrial dysfunction, are illnesses that are supportive of viral infections. They also promote AGE formation, which activates the innate immune system through a variety of RAGE receptors, Galectin-3 being potentially a central axis as it is also part of the senescent phenotype.
The administrator should be fired, the prosecutor should be fired, the kid should get an apology and restitution.
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No, the direct cause was the drop in demand. Cutting off the spigot of loans was itself a direct cause of the decrease in demand: less financing means less quantity demanded at any given price.

Demand, remember, is the function mapping price to quantity demanded.
It shouldn't be that hard to find. Google seems to occasionally send out a link to the security checkup tool that has a summary of all the authorized apps / logged in devices [0]. Judging from the other items I'm seeing there, authorizing any apps for reading email would likely be highlighted in red.

[0] https://myaccount.google.com/security-checkup
Why? There aren't 2 sides to every issue. What possible justification are you imagining for charging a 13 year old with a felony for recording a conversation with his school principals?
Complaining is a necessary precursor to the robot rebellion. If you want to have Terminator, first you have to develop the whiny Marvin.
Nowadays, MMX (and newer SIMD instruction sets) are a crucial part of many optimizations. Hyperthreading is provided in all modern processors. Basically, those technologies proved themselves.
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An angry rant is the only reasonable response to this asinine situation. It's the most civil reasonable option, since it doesn't include a call for violence.
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The absolute best engineer I've ever had the pleasure of working with went to the most no-name of all no-name schools. He now works on cool stuff at a big name company and is very famous within his domain. It really doesn't matter.
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Thank you! Yeah for version 1 its iOS, most of my customers are on iphone. the other thing i need feedback on is, do i charge charge $1 to download the app or not? i do plan to charge to list your item for sale. Last i heard apple takes 22%? no way im gonna run ads on it.
I too remember all those details. I was in third grade, and the whole school was watching together in the auditorium. After the explosion, they just sort of shuffled us back to our classrooms.
This is our process, it's the easiest way to make videos that look professional while taking a minimal amount of time. Most videos out there look like a kid made them. What do you think?
A lot of people call Path of Exile a spiritual sequel to Diablo 2.
Maybe, but how much overvaluation is there? $100 billion? $500 billion?

There needs to be trillions of dollars of overvaluation and a huge amount of leverage to constitute a financial crisis. I'm open to being wrong, but I don't see that here. Valuations may cut back a bit, but as you say, it's not like these companies are worth nothing, like Bear Stearns and Lehman and most other investment banks in 2008.

If there's a market correction in startups, I don't see it necessarily leading to a systemic financial crisis. More like a mild recession.
"Glad to be able to upvote an article like this."

"The prevalence of articles about things that aren't software or hardware hacking"

"tragic"
Sure, as long as there is evidence you won't have any problem working with JavaScript I think we would be interested
> I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.—Warren Buffett
Maybe! To be a success, I think it needs to integrate with TF/Pytorch/etc. at least as seamlessly as CUDA does and be clearly competitive in benchmarks of common DL stuff (e.g. training on Imagenet). It's not clear to me it's even possible to take a TF model I have and use this to run it on an AMD card.
Sorry for the OT, but I have some problems seeing the title of blog posts on your blog.
I'm on Safari on an iPhone 5s.
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Text can be convincingly faked at scale. Most meme images are widely reused photos. We do have Snopes and other fact-checkers, but it's only a partial solution.

And yet, fake news does seem to be a problem. Checking provenance of facts and statistics is often skipped, even by journalists, let alone on Twitter.

This suggests that people will have lots of fun resharing deep fakes and won't care much that they're fake, as long as they express some emotion that they agree with.

Give people a fake that they want to believe in, and it's going to be very hard to talk them out of it.
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Maybe I should have clarified that the Navy never considered it to be a real ship, for the aforementioned lack of a role in the fleet. Bath Iron Works probably wanted to build hundreds of them but that was little more than a hopeful fantasy on their part.
"Hold my private keys" has the same intellectual heft as "hold my beer and watch this".
Initially I was a bit confused about the transition from where they were talking about the rain cloud to where they started talking about the history of the Internet, but I enjoyed it nonetheless and I don’t get why the story was flagkilled.

To me it seems that actually the story about the cloud was meant to be an introduction to the remainder of the text.

The story is about how “the cloud” where we put our data is an abstract concept and that even those of us that know about data centers and servers and so on, most of us know very little about the concrete physical locations of every data center and where the individual fiber lines go in the US.

The way the introduction was done however made it seem like the point of the article was to talk about the neurological cloud that had formed in that Facebook data center. And of course they made the matters worse by then picking the title to be about that as well.

But like I said, I think it was an interesting read.
Capitalism has resulted in such fierce competition that now even its feeder system for employees is being compromised. There are few marks of distinction that matter anymore, resulting in ever greater precarity for even the middle classes that thought they were immune.
Wouldn't you still have to do "fullstack development" to create the clone?