skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, one of things I've been curious to see is how the two services are going to slot together.

Long term Flickr Pro user (signed up 2007) and when my Pro sub expires a year from now there's some compelling reasons to dump Flickr and migrate to SmugMug - not least that SM's had literally anything done with it in the last few years, while Flickr's just got clunkier and clunkier (but also that there's a bunch of old, not-good, photos that I don't really care about on there).

The quality of the "community" on both Flickr and 500px makes the de-prioritisation of the same on SmugMug an advantage too - there's way too much spam on Flickr, although even that's dropped off over the last few years.
"Silly Europeans. Regulations for privacy and data ownership are government overreach and anti-market.

"Oh no."
I moved from hand coding my sites to Word Press to BlogSpot. I get a lot more done on BlogSpot and it's completely free.

I actually set up BlogSpot sites for other people for a few bucks. So if you want help with getting the look you want, I'm for hire.
Photos: https://imgur.com/a/9L9dRol
Here is the text of the PDF:

This research aims to study and design a mechatronic system capable of rendering
images through a touchable surface to help the blind to read and understand these images.
This system uses mechanical and electronic techniques and integrated
software to convert
the gray image to a three
-
dimensional surface.
The mechanical mechanisms used with the control systems have been studied to reach the
design that is capable of transferring the fixed images to the mechanical system with the
possibility
of forming surfaces with suitable accuracy
.
The gray levels in the stationary
images were represented as a mathematical variable that changes on the Z axis in terms of
Cartesian coordinates where zero is considered black, and the maximum value expresses
th
e white and gray levels within the linear area of these two points The
“
Afr
o
ge
”
image
processing library was used w
ith the C
# programming language to build an interface for
analysis and communication with the Arduino controllers, which acted as an intermed
iary
to link the image data and the
mechanical device (tactile display
) to display images for the
blind.
Finally all designed systems (mechanical, electronic and software) have been tested after
they have been successfully designed
.
Training of a group of
blind people was conducted
to test the system on several samples of images of different forms and the system has
demonstrated its ability to transmit multiple types of information.
Key Words
:
Tactile Display , A
ctive touch
, Blind , S
alient graphics
,
Linear actuator
Tishreen University
Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Department of
Mechatronics
Design and study of
mechatronic system for
assisting blind people to recognize patterns
“This project submitted to the department of
Mechatronics
engineering in
partial fulfillment of the requirement of the msc degree in
Mechatronics
engineering”
Prepared By:
Eng. Tareq Khalas
Supervised By:
Dr. Iyad Hatem
2018
Who is buying a new iPhone every year and trashing the old one?

A $1000 iPhone you use 3 years is $333 a year. What is that, one days work as a developer?
Maybe in Chrom*, but not in Firefox.
I registered an account just to reply to your comment.

After reading the article in question, I was thinking about my own experience. I too have been working on prime factorization for the past 6 years in the same fashion that you have and what you just wrote here describe perfectly how I feel about my progress and journey. Which makes me wonder... How many people out there are like us, working on the same problem while feeling the same way?

It's like the problem is laughing at you. Baiting you back in with its extreme simplicity. It truly is a mesmerizing problem that you can't help but feel is solvable if only one single Eureka moment is reached. Boy do I want this one solved...
This side of the Atlantic I see Android tablets everywhere, specially outside of the 1st tier EU countries.
i also feeling something fishy here. i remember geekbench reporting different memory latencies than AIDA64 a while ago.

maybe apple took geekbench and optimized their silicon for the test load(crypto)? or maybe geekbench for arm and geekbench for x86_64 may be doing the different tasks?

geekbench web site have the list of benchmarks( http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/interpreting-gee... ), but is light on testing methodology and there is no way to verify what/how benchmarks are performed.

Unrelated: Linus Torvalds trashing gb3 in mailing list, a long thread https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curpost...

Edit: added the link to gb4 benchmarks list
Building Resilient Communities Through Geospatial Intelligence [pdf]
The article is very old now, so that was a fair point...
when it was published.

But in 2018 we have a lot of evidence that show the effect on transmission is real -- and we also have evidence that circumcised people do not engage in more risky behavior. [1]

So that's why I think this is similar to denying climate change or claiming vaccines cause autism. It could have a real impact on public health.

I suspect I'm getting downvoted because some people are passionately anti-circumcision. And that's fine! Nobody is going to make you get circumcised. But the science doesn't care about one's personal views regarding circumcision.

1. https://www.fhi360.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/M...
While that's true, experienced offers are influenced by tons of factors (and arent, as a rule, better than current employee offers ). There's not really enough data to draw any conclusion.
>On the other hand you have more control over your app. The app will work and look as the author intended.

Sure, but it's just the age old argument of static vs dynamic linking. General opinion has settled firmly on the side of dynamic evergreen dependency management for software on the web because exploits are so common and fast moving.
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We're hiring a frontend Rails/Vue.js engineer and a devops Postgres/Elastic/Redis/AWS engineer to help us rapidly expand, build new features, grow into new markets, and scale our technology. You should have a CS degree or equivalent and 2+ years of work experience. Our team is small so you'll be owning your projects right away. Our PA office is a converted body shop with a rollup garage door.

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Personally, I keep trying PlusCal and keep going back to plain TLA+. Every time I get bogged down trying to learn it, and instinctively switch back because it's faster (or maybe it just clicks better for me). I got Hillel's book, so I'll probably give it another shot soon.

The one thing I really like about PlusCal is that variable updates don't need to be complete, so you don't have to write stuff like:

foo' = [foo EXCEPT ![i] = bar]
Why would you have the app and not sign up for the program?? It's no extra work, and it's not like you're avoiding being tracked. Especially with an airline.
> With the existence of economy-only planes and lack of 1st-class only planes, I’d argue that the “cheap seats” are what makes aviation viable, rather than being a money-loser.

On a typical flight, the revenue probably follows a Pareto distribution--20% of the passengers (first class) provide 80% of the revenue--but at the paper-thin margins of an airline, you still need the other 20%.

Economy-only flights are usually from economy-only carriers, which trade even thinner margins for not having to worry about the annoyances of catering to first class passengers.

Economy conditions are increasingly terrible because cost-sensitivity and easy-to-verify sources of pain (nonstop vs. layover flights) have a greater effect on consumer behavior than seat size and other creature comforts. With these conditions getting increasingly worse, economy flights become increasingly more cost-effective, and perhaps it becomes increasingly harder to keep the pampered first class passengers on the same airline or even the same plane as the economy passengers.

Also, first-class tickets aren't even at the very top of the market any more than Audi and Lexus are at the top of the automobile market. The top of the market is in charters and private jets. An airline that flies planes only for first class passengers is close enough to a charter airline that they might as well become a charter airline and bypass TSA and the other associated miseries of air travel.
Hmm, one of BSDs.

In 1991 there were already five or so. Plus other 'cheap' Unixes like Xenix and the usual big names.

If Linux didn't happen we'd have a few thousand BSD variants by now.

The great thing about Linus was the combination of technical brilliance and his forceful personality.
> Do the directions work?

Sadly for Apple Maps... No.
It's obviously an intentional choice to avoid too much screen clutter...

but I agree it's infuriating. I've spoken in the past with some people who work on Maps products and have heard "people say they want it but then they really don't..." and I honestly can't imagine what UX studies are telling them that.

All the time I see a destination and I'm trying to figure out what closest cross street I should stop at and by the time I've zoomed and panned enough to find whatever random faraway place manages to have a label (feels like an unwanted game of whack-a-mole, where will the label pop up??), I can't tell if I've zoomed over to a parallel street instead.

And the solution is so simple too: whenever you zoom in enough that there's enough room on a visible street to put a label, then put the label! I mean if I zoom in so far that only the one street is visible and there's no other text on it, but Maps still leaves it blank... it just feels inexcusable.
If you only have 20% of your time available to write code, then I would much rather you do not review code in which the person who wrote it had 90% or more of their time to write code. The review will be less thorough, correct, and timely than if someone else who regularly spends more time in the code.

These 'junior engineer' tasks are attractive for a manager who still wants to be in the code. They are non-critical and small. Perfect for someone with an unpredictable schedule. However, they also provide an opportunity for the manager to have a better, but still imperfect sense of the codebase and technology.
Her argument was very convincing against her position.

However now you mention lobotomy...that might have made child rearing much simpler. A bit late for me, but you might consider proselytizing this issue for the good of parents everywhere...
I would have dropped the price of HBO Go to half and remove the cable requirement for Sling and AT&T.
Actually, the key takeaway is that some analyst last year thought they were paying $3 billion. They’re making $10 billion on services now. Hardly seems that concerning, especially given the growth and the fact that you have no idea what Google is paying them. I also fail to see how a huge and rapidly growing services segment indicates that they’re no longer innovating. Especially given their total dominance and revenue growth in their other categories.

Your comments all over this thread kinda just make it seem like you have an ax to grind against Apple.
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Attently is working to massively improve the effectiveness of video advertising, shows, and movies by analyzing how we consume video in our daily lives. We use computer vision and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to help creative agencies, content producers, and brands improve the effectiveness of their video advertising and content. If you’re like us, the majority of the ads that you see are either annoying, ineffective-- or you just block them all. We are going to make it so we won't want to.

We’re looking for a highly-motivated Full Stack Developer with experience building end-to-end web apps and creating working prototypes while iterating quickly. You should be experienced in HTML/CSS/JS/Python with C/C++ being an added benefit. You should be familiar with common ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch/Caffe2) and be crazy enough to attempt things that have never been done before. We'll be developing pre-trained CNN models that will be deployed for client-side execution, conducting near-time video analysis to generate deep insights into human responses to video stimuli.

As an early employee, you will have a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, working side by side with the co-founders and development team. We're working out of an awesome co-working space in downtown Seattle with other exciting tech startups.

Attently is part of a venture backed accelerator program with a history of incubating successful startups in Seattle for twenty plus years.

Compensation includes generous stock option plan for qualified applicants and unlimited paid time off.

Interested? Check out the full job description at www.attently.io/careers
The biggest re-branding failures and successes in marketing history
Fair.

I'm sorry.
Pushing for 2FA != pushing for SMS codes. TOTP (Google Authenticator and friends) doesn't reveal any personal data.
Until you replace 'men' with any other sex, race, gender, etc. Calling valid, if perhaps overblown concerns is just 'bingo squares' maybe you need to consider your own bias.
This. A good manager filters out most of the outside noise and problems so the team can focus on the task at hand.
Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud
I person stopped caring and I think many people are starting to feel the same. While the issues are the most important to our lives and future generations, I feel totally hopeless in humanity. We simply cannot and will not organize on a broad enough level to do anything about it. It will probably take a series of miracles to make any serious impact on improving our situation even though solutions are dead simple. One google search will turn up many viable solutions to global warming but since we are dealing with deeply flawed creatures called humans, we are screwed.

At this point, I don’t know that I care at all. I will die. My offspring will die. Perhaps human extinction is the ultimate cleansing that needs to happen. But then again, who cares if Earth remains habitable. Who cares if by some odd chance the only planet in the universe to support complex life (highly unlikely) loses that life? What are we on universal scale if NOTHING. perhaps a being that cannot stop a stoppable and foreseeable suffering should seize to exist. Isn’t this what evolution is all about? The fit survive the unfit parish.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my fellow human beings. We have overcome some amazing challenges on personal and societal scales but perhaps we have met one we are not capable of overcoming? 1 or 0, we struck out.
Yeah it's totally nuts. To be honest, I regret seeing the other side and knowing I'll never taste that again ;)
Yeah, that’s not what happened to Apple in the 90s. At all.
What I am saying is that if someone is genuinely harassing other people, then there will be lots of complaints.

If there is one complaint, then it will be easy to find a dozen of them.

And what I am saying is, a company should only punish someone if they find a dozen of them.

It is not he said she said. It is instead he said and a dozen people said otherwise.

This is what the investigation is for. I am saying that there is nothing wrong with a company punishing the outstandingly obvious cases, which is almost all cases, and then giving the benefit of the doubt to the rest of them.

IE, nobody should ever be punished for a single anonymous complaint. Instead that single anonymous complaint should be used to talk with other people, and to determine if there are instead a dozen of them.

Let the edge cases go unpunished, and target the obvious harrassers, which is almost all of them.

Let's give a similar example. Imagine someone was going into meetings and just yelling slurs at other employees. And they did this mutiple times. Do we need to police to be called to fire this guy? No. We don't.

Do we have to worry about false accusations of this guy yelling slurs at meetings? No. We don't. There will be a dozen people who will easily be able to verify that yes this guy did this thing, mutiple times, and there is no danger in firing him.

And you should also notice that this isn't necessarily even illegal, therefore it makes no sense to call the police.
Attently | Full-stack | Onsite preferred | Full-time | Seattle, WA

Attently is working to massively improve the effectiveness of video advertising, shows, and movies by analyzing how we consume video in our daily lives. We use computer vision and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to help creative agencies, content producers, and brands improve the effectiveness of their video advertising and content. If you’re like us, the majority of the ads that you see are either annoying, ineffective-- or you just block them all. We are going to make it so we won't want to.

We’re looking for a highly-motivated Full Stack Developer with experience building end-to-end web apps and creating working prototypes while iterating quickly. You should be experienced in HTML/CSS/JS/Python with C/C++ being an added benefit. You should be familiar with common ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch/Caffe2) and be crazy enough to attempt things that have never been done before. We'll be developing pre-trained CNN models that will be deployed for client-side execution, conducting near-time video analysis to generate deep insights into human responses to video stimuli.

As an early employee, you will have a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, working side by side with the co-founders and development team. We're working out of an awesome co-working space in downtown Seattle with other exciting tech startups.

Attently is part of a venture backed accelerator program with a history of incubating successful startups in Seattle for twenty plus years.

Compensation includes generous stock option plan for qualified applicants and unlimited paid time off.

Interested? Check out the full job description at www.attently.io/careers
This is one (imperfect) source of info I've used during my search for potential new employers: https://www.teamblind.com/surveys/2017
Could you explain how the term does not apply? Its meaning seems to be: "to impose upon another's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility involved".
*unit sales growth
If I ever see something even approaching generalized intelligence, I might be slightly concerned.

But, thus far, our best AIs are simply pattern recognition systems strung together like Christmas lights.

There's also no reason to think that 'intelligence' can be exponentially scaled or that any system can recognize how to improve itself -- or have the capacity to do so in situ.
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• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy, and hit our 1000th employee a few weeks ago (for context I joined a little over a year ago and was employee ~250)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at chintan@opendoor.com
People don't like condoms in western countries too but they don't seem to have the same sky-high HIV rates. I don't see how making condoms available for free would hurt.
They consider the needs of their developer customers, that target Apple plarforms.

Those that buy OS X to develop GNU/Linux software not so much. The days of red numbers are long gone.
> the team has shown that they have reflected upon it

My point exactly. Miyazaki offered them genuine feedback ("a dose of reality") and they, to their credit, apparently acted on it. It was hardly, as the OP posted, "ugly behavior"; if anything, it was "beneficent behavior".
New research finds our oceans are soaking up far more heat that we realized
> Just for reference sexual harassment is illegal / legal depending on your location and offense.

Sexual harassment is the name for a particular category of unlawful behavior by an employer to an employee.

> I am explaining that most sexual harassment is not illegal behavior

If it is not yet illegal behavior, it is conduct short of sexual harassment, by definition.
Attently | FT | Full Stack | Onsite preferred | Seattle, WA

Attently is working to massively improve the effectiveness of video advertising, shows, and movies by analyzing how we consume video in our daily lives. We use computer vision and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to help creative agencies, content producers, and brands improve the effectiveness of their video advertising and content. If you’re like us, the majority of the ads that you see are either annoying, ineffective-- or you just block them all. We are going to make it so we won't want to.

We’re looking for a highly-motivated Full Stack Developer with experience building end-to-end web apps and creating working prototypes while iterating quickly. You should be experienced in HTML/CSS/JS/Python with C/C++ being an added benefit. You should be familiar with common ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch/Caffe2) and be crazy enough to attempt things that have never been done before. We'll be developing pre-trained CNN models that will be deployed for client-side execution, conducting near-time video analysis to generate deep insights into human responses to video stimuli.

As an early employee, you will have a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, working side by side with the co-founders and development team. We're working out of an awesome co-working space in downtown Seattle with other exciting tech startups.

Attently is part of a venture backed accelerator program with a history of incubating successful startups in Seattle for twenty plus years.

Compensation includes generous stock option plan for qualified applicants and unlimited paid time off.

Interested? Check out the full job description at www.attently.io/careers
Not the same thing as little green men.

We have data involving a significant fraction of humanity and we didn't find a link. Cell phone aren't rare and cancer isn't rare. It means we have a very good statistical model. Cell phones have been widespread for 20 years now, which is less than we might want but still not bad. Furthermore, fundamental physics go against the idea that cell phones cause cancer. We have more or less proved that cell phones don't cause enough cancer to matter.

For little green men, we can only search the tiniest fraction of space, and we have only a single data point: us. The only vaguely statical model we have come from the Drake equation, and it has more holes than Swiss cheese. It would be laughed off by the scientific community if it wasn't so exciting.
These maps are useful when someone or something else send or share you the specific coordinates to a destination, but useless when navigating and looking for a place you don't know. These maps are useless for the question _Where I am now?_
Unless we are examples of such a system.