skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The problem is that these cases exist - and it can be as simple as being temporarily ill (food poisoning can really impact you). I think this argument is important to answer because if the answer is "everyone who has a disablement card can ride a car", then we need to go to the next step in the discussion - for example this summer I got so ill that I was unable to walk 700 meters to the store. IMO we should talk about all such cases before if we talk about even a partial ban because it could seriously impact someone, even if their case is only temporary.

If the main point is "we should promote using bikes/public transport instead of cars", I think no one disagrees about that - and that's why an extreme case gets mentioned, because there is no point in talking about a mild case and there is still a lot of people that want a full ban.
How does the one relate to the other?
Uber and Lyft also siphon off ridership from mass transit where the fatalities are way lower.
The point is that prohibition doesn't work very well, at least in the democratic West where we don't like to take measures like executing people for being in possession of 200 grams or more of an illicit substance.

The inefficacy and harmful unintended consequences of prohibition have nothing to do with whether the culprits "need protection" or not.
Redhat website confirmed it. https://www.redhat.com/en
> Hollywood wanted a formula and found one in Campbell.

Insofar as there is a Hollywood formula, it's more Save the Cat than Campbell (or even the Writer's Journey), and the former does not derive from the latter.
From my experience, to be a good applied AI researcher / implementer it’s not very important that you have a PhD in a specific field but it is important that you have experience working with and debugging complex problems. A PhD is usually a good way to gain such experience as you will work on a challenging problem and have access to people that can teach you how to debug / get unstuck when you’re stuck.

Often I see people without such experience getting stuck on something when building a ML model and not being able to get unstuck as they lack the ability to properly debug the issue without external help.

I think it’s absolutely possible to teach people how to write models in Keras/Tensorflow etc. but IMHO it won’t do them much good unless they also learn to effectively debug their models.
That's the Antarctic. The land parts of the Arctic are all divvied up.
I've been trying to diagnose myself for a long time (about a year) before I figured it out. By that time I've been to my doctor multiple times, to two orthopedic doctors, one gastroenterologist, had 3 spine MRIs, gastroscopy, abdominal ultrasound, chest X-ray, a bone scan, lots of lab tests incuding lyme disease, probably other tests and physical therapy. I was to the ER twice where they also had no clue. Someone even advised a psychiatry referral which I did not go for. I got on the right track when I was studying endocrine diseases and happened to include calcium on a panel of blood tests I ordered for myself (presumably because I stumbled upon hyperparathyroidism). Once calcium came back high, it was clear after 2 more blood tests, and the doctors at the Norman Parathyroid Center (where I'm having surgery) confirmed it based on my lab reports. I'm having surgery in 2 days.
The real story here is that cloud is killing them both.
Well, why would you need a PhD? A lot of applied engineering doesn't require you to be doing cutting edge things. You still need to spend time learning existing things in the field, but that is a lot less uncertain than finding something new to write about.

Also a lot of places where recent ML type stuff is useful requires some knowledge other than ML. For instance in quantitative finance this stuff might be useful, so a lot of people who've done finance will do a short course to complement existing skills rather than taking several years out to do research.
My take on this is what's needed to succeed in DS/ML in a commercial setting is a) domain knowledge b) the diligence to acquire, clean, and generally pre-process the data and c) some fairly basic knowledge of ML.

Someone with amazing ML skills but no knowledge of the problem domain will fail. Someone without domain knowledge will be unable to assemble and curate the data they need and will be unable to make any sense of the output. That is the Achilles heel of ML rockstars who think it's just a matter of getting enough data into their training set and the NN will do the rest.
Well yeah, there's CentOS, so a company just needs to step up and provide the level of support RHEL customers expect.

I think this is going to be great for SUSE. They already have comparable service and they already have a solid customer base in Europe. If RHEL alienates its customers through a slow death at IBM, SUSE can come in.

I really don't understand this acquisition.
Also, just don't get old. If you just stay 20, you can bike everywhere.
You'll see a lot of preconfigured CentOS images, not RHEL because of the licensing. Red Hat's recent (and sensible) play has been on-prem Kubernetes with OpenShift.
Yeah, Silverblue is just starting to be really nice. :/
My last startup, blekko, was acquired by IBM in 2015. They treated our people well; many of them still work there.

It takes 6 months to be acquired by IBM, so I don't think recent stock market gyrations have anything to do with it.
The cops have no incentive to run confirmations, for leadership to be re-elected they must appear "tough on crime" or something. There are just no consequences for false positives.

In Orlando the police arrested a fellow after a field test indicated that a box of donuts was coated in meth: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-krispy...

In North Carolina the police arrested several men after a field test that identified sugar as fentanyl: https://wtkr.com/2018/08/29/2m-worth-of-fentanyl-seized-in-b...

It's well known that that sort of test isn't specific for anything and merely gives law enforcement a pretext to arrest a nogoodnik they deem guilty. Why would anyone trust them to act different with DNA? The police's business is arrests, matches are good for arrests, confirmatory tests are bad for arrests, hence no checks.
Unless the leadership happens to hold quite a lot of shares, their stance isn’t going to matter too much.
This seems a bit too mainstream-political for Hacker News, and the commentary thus far is pretty low-SNR.
Now official! It's at $190/share vs Friday's $116.68 close

https://www.redhat.com
Many companies are OSS friendly, but I think being OSS friendly is different than building your whole organization on OSS. RH does the latter, many-many companies are the former.
It's multiple stories driven by the same set of events.

Osborne and Harry both have riches to rags stories of varying degrees. Things get progressively worse for the both of them, but Osborne wasn't doing so great to start with.

Kate and Linda have Cinderella stories of varying degrees. They both start off thinking they're getting what they want, things get worse for most of the story, and both end up with basically what they started out trying to get in the end.
The Scientific Method can't be something we just learn and file away. Method means it is being applied, we constantly need to practice and study in its application. It is a way of being, not a fact.
Because having a PhD is proof that you can do research, and there are so many PhDs available that Intel has absolutely no motivation to increase their hiring risk one iota by extending their net past that market. Even if a BA was only 0.000001% less likely to pan out than a PhD it would not be worth it.

There's such a shortage of STEM graduates that PhDs get hired to do stuff you can actually do with a MOOC (or to carry a pager at Google).
Seamless had virtual restaurants at least 5 years ago. I remember in particular my wife liked to order burritos from a certain restaurant, named "Coastal" on the UWS. We tried visiting the restaurant based on the address, and found out that it was actually "Citrus", an upscale latin american place with an entirely different menu (that has since closed).
Building vertical decorators right
That's true... This is not good enough for Hacker News. https://i.imgur.com/067nQps.png
atomic/particle decay processes are poisson
The alienate and destroy part is likely. Very different situations otherwise.

Sun was essentially a dead shell that still held a few valuable pieces when Oracle purchased them. Overall the business was in terminal decline.

Red Hat, while wildly overvalued (as many things are/were in this bubble market), has a consistently growing business that is on good footing overall.

Their prior four fiscal year sales figures: $1.7b, $2b, $2.4b, $2.9b

They look like they could do $3.4b in sales for fiscal 2019.

Their profitability is mildly lacking and combined with their modest growth doesn't come close to supporting their extreme valuation (much less when the stock was 50% higher). It's not surprising the board might sell the company here, the stock market bubble is likely nearing an end, with interest rates rising or a recession coming up next (either of which guarantee it's over). Red Hat may not see much higher than this market cap for another decade - assuming continued modest growth - if they were valued at a more sane level.

Red Hat is riding relatively high. Sun was on its last legs as an independent entity. Red Hat very clearly does not need to sell here, if they do it's simply the board taking what is an extraordinary price (would have to guess the deal will value them at 60 to 80 times idealized 2018 earnings).
I think the argument was for limited power that you can apply on top of your unlimited muscle power, regardless of speed. I don't see why it has to be so controversial. 250W is a big boost for those who can't go fast on their own; for those who can, it's a convenient and enjoyable but relatively small boost because they can already put down hundreds of watts and increased drag (which is where most of your energy goes on flat terrain at speeds over 20kph) means massively dimnishing returns.

I really don't understand why it is so controversial.
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The Theory of Computation

vs.

The Theory of Computation
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Your don't buy/hire a leadership team to tell them what to do (unless you happen to like to waste time and money).

This happened at Apple (NeXT took over). Somehow with Disney/Pixar too if I'm not mistaken.
For the last 7 years I have had a callcentric account. I added telemarketer block to my calls, then callers have to press a number to get through to you which eliminates robocalls. You can assign friends into buckets which get different treatment such as dialing your cell number.
> The article states having 20% of home value in liquid cash; my 6 month E fund is about there.

it says >=10%. which taken as some absolute rule, is absurd. if you're not moving in the next 10 years, the current value of your house is meaningless.
Money is a tool to buy time. More money makes that time more fun, but I agree, the best use of money is to buy time.
There isn’t any relationship between your car’s 60 and Tesla’s 11. Tesla’s volume has more than 11 unique volume settings.

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/reason-why-radio-goes-...
Riches to rags for Cox (from CIA analyst to vegetable in hospital).

Icarus for Chad (from aspiring millionaire to dead in mere days).

Cinderella for Linda (from aspiring millionaire to everything going wrong, losing Chad, etc. to having her surgery paid in full by the CIA)
"it turns out many phds are just smart and curious"
So does non-PhD my friend :)
Again, I agree in principle. But to give a concrete example, my girlfriend and I recently missed a leg of a flight while en route to Europe. Totally our fault. If I didn't have a comfortable amount in savings this would have been a disaster. Instead, within a few minutes, we had accommodations in our layover country and a train booked to our final destination (all at fairly exorbitant prices compared to if we had booked in advance). But maybe this is just an example of alleviating financial anxiety versus enabling meaningful experience.

Also, "significant amount of money" is terribly subjective. I know people to whom $100 is a significant amount of money.
> Who owns / controls the Arctic?

All arctic coastal states: Russia, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the US.

> Is it within American jurisdiction?

Since this is 6 miles off the Alaskan coast, that's included within the US continental shelf, which goes up to 200 nautical miles.
America First Committee
Good thing we're using CoreOS instead of Red Hat.

/me looks at the CoreOS article on Wikipedia

Fuck.
https://bit.ly/2PmdUOD
Because Java is an ecosystem that is dying, and the sooner you move away from it the less pain you will have in the long term.
Russia regularly extorts European countries by threatening to cut off gas or raise prices. A big part of US foreign policy is guaranteeing energy security to our allies. The US is already nearly energy independent, due in part to the shale gas (“fracking”) boom. Increasing domestic production, along with the new policy of allowing exports to our allies, will do a lot to lessen Russia’s power.

So yes, it’s about carrying an even bigger stick. But it’s our stick or Russia’s stick. Our allies would much rather depend on America than Russia.
Remember when people presented an alternative to black lives matter and started to call it human lives matter? Emphasis sometimes matters a lot and people get upset when people intend to steer a movement away from the core issue for why it was created. It might look like a People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front, but open source was created with the intention to steer focus away from the freedom ideology, just like how people say that human lives matter is just a name that people use to steer emphasis away from African Americans that get killed.
It goes much deeper than that, Red Hat maintains or contributes regularly to a wide swath of the Linux ecosystem. They also have a policy of open sourcing acquisitions. If the deal goes through, it's a dark day for open source software.
Building a Content-Based Search Engine: Efficient Query Processing
Calculating Space by Konrad Zuse (1969)
Well, fuck. I spent the last couple of years completely revamping my UNIX support group. I got rid of all the weak SAs and used a mix of in person and online vendor training plus internal challenges to elevate everyone's skills. We were able to completely repurpose the "Level 3" UNIX engineering group because all the "Level 2" guys no longer needed to escalate to Level 3 for anything.

Critical to that was buying RedHat Learning Subscription and pushing my top guys through RedHat's Certified Architect program. But I'm skeptical but we'd have the same leverage to obtain similar learning discounts from IBM.

Honestly as my org gets more comfortable with pure open source solutions it may be time to just consider Fedora instead, particularly as our workloads are moving from bare metal to VMs to containers it arguably means less and less where the app is hosted anyway.

In the end it may mean RHEL going the way of Solaris as ever dearer license fees combined with a drop in support quality undermines their value proposition.

But I guess that's a problem for the next guy; my org transformation is done so I took a job doing provisioning using Terraform.
Tried IBM cloud when it was "released".

50% of the portal pages were failing due to their own cross origin policies.

Only a idiot would touch such an incompetent cloud system.
What about Waiting for Godot? The play in which nothing happens, two times.
> Whats the issue with your home not being worth the debt you took on?

The issue mentioned in the article is: What if you need to sell? Like what if you lost your job, found a new one but in a completely new city, far away from where you bought your house: will you be able with the new salary to pay for both a rental near your new work, and continue paying the mortgage on your original house?

> most people don't change homes very often, so the value of the home shouldn't have much impact on your life until later.

This is the assumption that people might disagree with.
Does it make sense?
I don't download anything without more info than on this web page.
Now official - https://www.redhat.com/en
I think you might be confused. We are talking about the danger involved with two bikes going the same direction with a 10kph speed differential (25kph / 35kph). When crashes like this happen, people fall off their bikes.

I mentioned that I have fallen off at this speed with relatively minor injury. People generally do not die from falling off a bike at 35kph.

Nowhere did I say anything about being hit by a car at 35kph not being dangerous. No one is saying that.
Superfoods' Origins in Marketing and Industry Research
Wow, interesting idea!

Imagine if (in the future) some item like a phone can detect this information around you, and automatically record it. Forming games ontop of this life data would be weird, neat, fun and sad all at the same time. Imagine seeing a real example of where someone else is just more lucky than you are in stupid but impactful (on your morale) ways.

If it didn't seem so tedious to track, I'd love to implement an app to record this info. Unfortunately no one I know would care, and I'm sure I'd get too lazy to keep it accurate. Neat nonetheless, thanks for the cool thoughts :)
IBM acquires Redhat (press release)
two cans of wine? can someone enlighten fellow European? is it really wine in metal can? sounds even worse than putting ketchup on pizza
Less cynical translation: responsibly developing our resources will make us less reliant on countries like Saudi Arabia, which murdered a journalist, and whose resources have since been branded ‘blood money’
> Ubuntu looked like it was taking over last time I paid attention.

Ubuntu don't have JBoss or OpenShift, amongst other things. Neither do SuSE, unfortunately.
"Intelligence" is an interesting (fictional) TV show that looks at the links between drugs, financial crime, Canadian-US relations, and the intelligence community in Vancouver. Supposedly was cancelled at the request of the Harper government for hitting too close to home re: water rights.
> it will tend toward 10 minutes

If you are talking about spherical-cow style poisson buses, yeah (that's what the author means by "reasonable assumptions). But as the author concludes, bus arrival times are not well modeled by a poisson process.
And then they continue, “Well do you know someone? We pay a $500 referral fee if you give me their name and we end up placing them.”
Thanks for sharing, this is a fascinating topic I just started investigating. Check out "Calculating Space" by Konrad Zuse (the inventor of the first programmable computer). Coincidentally, he published in 1969 - "The Laws of Form" was published the same year.

Link: ftp://ftp.idsia.ch/pub/juergen/zuserechnenderraum.pdf
Deep learning resurgence is hardly 4-5 year old. Also to become an expert you need more focused work.
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma?
I also use this, and memory footprint is ~100MiB, mostly on the Xorg side. i3 itself + various other components is ~20MiB total.
Per processed byte, IIRC.
If you think IBM are going to keep Red Hat's commitments to Fedora or CentOS going you are in for a rude surprise.
For some it actually reduces their financial burden because you can appeal to have your property taxes repegged to market value. As long as the economy doesn’t tank with the housing market, it can be a welcome adjustment.
The linked forum post doesn't have any more information than your post, other than confirming the pop culture reference.
Ya I feel guilty of this myself. I think PHEV are a great idea, but I want an SUV for backcountry hiking/camping, and recently I've been driving across state to visit family and the comfort difference between my sedan and my sister's and gf's SUVs is enormous.

There are a couple hybrid options, but the SUV MPG are so underwhelming (e.g. ionic 57/59; rav4 hybrid 33/30). OTOH an increase of 10mpg from non-hybrid to hybrid rav4 is pretty decent.
That was ultimately my opinion in the real social political reason US waged war against Iraq; the people pushing it thought we will win this war, everything will be great, and after we will walk around Washington with a big swinging dick.
Show me a single core product IBM have open sourced.
CFS and fibromyalgia are conditions that see incredibly positive results after prolonged fasting. Don't take my word for it, and do not do it without extensive research on your part - but do conduct this research. Look at 7 to 10 days of dry fasting (no food or water), or 20 to 40 days of water fasting (no food, just water).

CFS and fibromyalgia ARE NOT life-long diseases, not by a long shot. You CAN get rid of them rather quickly. I just hope you see this comment before it gets flagged here for absolutely no reason like my other comments do.
> The smell for this behavior is having to search Slack for that last time someone helped you solve your problem. Slack is a great way to spread information, but it's a terrible tool to organize and store information.

If you ever have to do this, you take it as a sign to transfer that information into a document somewhere.
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...

"- IBM to maintain Red Hat’s open source innovation legacy, scaling its vast technology portfolio and empowering its widespread developer community

- Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team"
Dinosaurs Had Bird-Like Lungs
How is requiring javascript an accessibility problem?
I'm not sure it always makes sense to evaluate company policy in the present tense.

Sometimes its like they want to put their arm behind the couch to relax. Then they let their hand rest on your shoulder. Then it creeps down a little further.

Do you have to wait for the hand to actually touch something sensitive to try to put a stop to it?
I'm at a loss for a more vacuous one. You've reduced strategic leverage of natural resources to penises.
For those of us running Red Hat or Fedora on IBM POWER, though (I run Fedora 28 on a Talos II), this is probably a good sign of future commitment. Hopefully they don't screw up Fedora maintaining the enterprise side.
100 per cent correct.
IBM has bought RedHat for $34B
One of my biggest nightmares is that money might bring out the worst in people whether myself, my family, or my friends so if I was lucky enough to get $10M, it would ruin my life by destroying everything that I love.

Sort of like the data behind the misfortunes of lottery winners.

http://amp.timeinc.net/time/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lotter...

In my limited experience, money makes it harder to have good relationships.

“I just don’t like Jack Whittaker. I don’t like the hard heart I’ve got,” he said. “I don’t like what I’ve become.”
i would think this it's same in any country with laws, except it's walking past cashiers
> If you’re dying to buy a primary residence today, make sure you can withstand a 20%+ correction over a five year time frame, if history is any guide. If you don’t have a financial buffer equal to at least 10% of the value of your property after putting down 20%+, then you are not financially prepared for a downturn. Better yet, pay cash.

You're right, the article does say 10%, not 20%. Thanks for the correction!
It already is a major tech hub (top 10 in the nation, pretty close to top 5). But I agree that this isn't a good sign for RTP.