skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that form is not required. A quick counter example. I'm trying to estimate a value from N measurements. The measurements experience Gaussian noise with some general covariance matrix K (i.e., they are not independent)
Therefore, y is a sample from N([1, 1, ..., 1]^T u, K).
The MLE is then ([1, 1, ..., 1]K^{-1}[1, 1, ..., 1]^T)^{-1} [1, 1, ..., 1] K^{-1} y. Or in words, multiply y by the inverse covariance matrix, sum the result, and divide by the sum of all the elements in the inverse covariance matrix. As a sanity check, when the measurements _are independent, this reduces to a weighted average, where the observations are weighted by their inverse variances.
Sure, it's possible to buy a $2k laptop at that salary, but it's sure not a thoughtless routine purchase. That said, lots of people who financially really shouldn't do buy Apple products.

On the other hand I don't know any honestly middle class people who shop at Williams Sonoma with the possible exclusion of special gifts maybe for a wedding or anniversary or some other rare special occasion.
Right, but nobody NEEDS a bath bomb. It's like saying Voss water only costs $3 a bottle; anyone can afford that. Yes, literally, the homeless guy on the corner can AFFORD it, but that doesn't mean he's likely to make that choice.
Apple can't make them much faster because they keep making them thinner and lighter.
Each MacBook has been a very slight upgrade from the previous model since they went Retina. Often times the first of a new generation is actually slower than the one it replaced.
Plus, Apple won't work with NVIDIA so their GPU is always going to be behind when compared with the PC market.
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While there are many places on the cloud to contribute, I will limit my explanation just to the team I am on. You will be building a platform for user interfaces. This includes things like a reusable React component library, a runtime for console plugins written in TypeScript, and testing and metrics platforms for service plugins. Our team is also building out the homepage for the cloud and starting out some new dashboards. Another branch of our team builds out all of the SDK's. It's a great time to join and shape what the future of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will look like. Help keep our users in focus while delivering top notch technical solutions.

I'll call out two tracks that we are currently interviewing for: 1) Webdev - focused directly on the frontend and delivering features. Needs a few years solid web experience and understanding of usability. 2) Software Engineer - builds out backend services and frontend components. Needs full set of skills and a few years experience.

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LOL, there’s more to programming than gluing together npm libs.
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It is simple really, if the battery's health has declined enough to warrant a down clock, just let me know so I can:

a) replace the battery.

b) opt-in to degraded performance.

c) upgrade my device.

Rather than (in effect) tricking me into an upgrade before it was really needed.
Your experience with scratch reflects my own with all the block-based UIs. Some stuff is really easy but when we wanted to do things like functions, arrays and populating variables I couldn't figure it out without searching on the webs. It made sense after I found the correct way to do it, but the visual metaphor gets convoluted beyond pretty simple use cases.

When programming the microbit and I like that you can switch between javascript and blocks to see the cause and effect of making changes though.
They can do it anywhere with sufficient storage effort. That is a massive challenge but so is extraction of fossil fuels. The people who say it can’t be done are lacking vision.
Interesting, I don't play as much as I used but instead I watch a few different gamers I enjoy who play the games I used to play a lot. Mostly I don't play them as much now since I'm too slow - either my work day has drained too much out of me or literally my reflexes are not as good nor my vision.
I think Apple's situation is a bit different from most PC manufacturers: because they aim for "quality/brand/recognition" they can get a crowd that is fine with replacing their computer more often even if they don't need to. "the new thingy that does mostly the same as before but new" won't work on someone who buys the $600 HP laptop. It does still work on phones, but the improvement are a lot more massive both hardware (camera especially) and software. That's why apple NEEDS to go with touchbar and new connectors magic and everything because why else would you change, already on HN you see plenty of people saying they're fine with their 4+ years old mbp.

If you rely on a "premium product at premium price" you need to make people want to have it, and for them to replace it that's either obseleting the old one, or making the new one

Downside of this of course, is that it's harder to rely on that anymore when you try to grab mass market too.
Dedicated iOS developers are by definition, not abandoning Macs and “Creatives” are not flocking to Linux.

Even if other developers are leaving Mac (and the numbers don’t support that) and if Apple could have grown Mac sales by (an unrealistic) 50%, it still wouldn’t have made a noticeable change in their profitability.
On that note what are good books to develop communication skills? Are there any that are specifically targeting tech business communication as well?
I stopped calling myself a gamer years ago after I found myself playing less than 2 new games a year. I realized it was like calling myself a movie buff and only watching a handful a year.

Part of it is that games no longer challenge me like they once did. I played through Breath of the Wild and of the 100 or so puzzle shrines, only a few took more than 5 seconds to figure out their gimmick. However my girlfriend played it and would routinely get stuck for multiple hours. She is smart, but did not grow up playing games like I did. Her play style reminds me of how I played through them as a child. I have just learned all the tricks, the little hints that game developers put in to guide the player. BOTW is a well designed game, but that means it uses standard patterns to teach the player, and I am more attuned to those patterns than she is.

The other side of challenge in games is just grinding skill. Like learning all the characters in Smash Brothers and how to counter them, or improving my aim in Counter Strike. At the end of the day that is a more muscle memory based skill, and I am just not interested in sinking the time into it.

Rogue likes are the closest to the challenge I’m looking for. But even those eventually reduce to memorizing all the random events and forming a plan based on possible future events.
Trump asking the NYT to squash a corruption story about one of his Cabinet secretaries would likely fall flat, for sure.

Obama's CIA asking Fox to suppress a story about the impeding attack on Bin Laden would probably have been honored, regardless of Fox's generally negative opinions on Obama.

Stuff with the "national security" label, or stuff that requires fairly specialized access to sources, is where the close relationship between press and subject can cause issues like the article here is highlighting.
A crash course in embedded Linux software deployment
Which we enforce for 4 years or more. We don't just drop them and redo the elections if we don't like the winning party.
The Hater's Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalog is probably all the context you need.

https://adequateman.deadspin.com/the-2017-hater-s-guide-to-t...
> Just to remain under the existing terms

Except they have already lost two major European agencies (European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority) that are being relocated to Amsterdam and Paris.

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018...
The Xserve ecosystem used to be pretty neat, but I doubt it was very profitable. It’s hard to compete against cheap commodity servers like supermicro and such.
This might help:

https://www.allbusiness.com/how-to-respond-to-customers-who-...
I think the article is right about how our relationship with games changes because our relationship with time changed. When you're younger, time is a seemingly infinite resource and money very much isn't. So a game that can occupy your time, either with the need to practice or even just tedium (looking at you, JRPGs) is more interesting and valuable. When you're older time is scarce, but money on the scale of game prices really isn't. You have a low tolerance for spending time on things that aren't enjoyable like grinding character levels or honing shooter skills.

Nintendo puts a lot of effort into making gaming a more locally social, and especially family-oriented, form of entertainment. And even for some single-player franchises like Mario and Zelda they are adept at creating whimsically enjoyable experiences, so their games often transcend age boundaries. But games like Pokemon, with its grinding and random battles, doesn't.
Personally I think developers want it both ways, don't want to be bothered with building regulations and planning. And also don't want to have to factor in their share of the transportation and infrastructure costs. So they oppose both and then bitch about the result. Not sympathetic.

NYC is also relying on long term preexisting infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded to meet demand. NYC also has the problem that the replacement tunnels to NJ have been canceled by Gov Christie in 2009 and by Trump in 2016.

When I talk about the transportation stuff taking a long time I'm serious. The central subway was in early planning stages in the late 90's, ground broken 10 years later.
There is no real "loot box" system in Black Ops, and all stuff which can be bought is just for "cosmetics".
Yeah that's one of those things I find so attractive about rust. They provide a compiler and a package manager where you can manage dependencies and build setup.

I hope it does not end up like one of those "grass is greener on the other side"-thing :D
Recommendations for a Paxos consensus protocol implementation in Golang
Happy birthday Bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in the Times
The code for an R version of this is on Github at https://github.com/two-by-two

There is a limited demo there as well.
My brief review suggests it's popular for the same reasons that many of us loved incredible machine or even lemmings: logical puzzles with challenging but attainable rewards.
I imagine the notional Spanish control was originally intended more to protect their status as a Spanish company under Spanish law...
I agree, that has always bugged me as well. Growth is not the end goal, it's the desired temporary state for a company to make profits.

Here's a serious question: what should the valuation be for a company that is not growing, but generating $X amount of profit year after year, with no risk, forever (and assuming the profit keeps up with inflation).

Logically, companies are valued on their expected future profits. Since you want those to be as big as possible, growth in general is good. But at some point, in rare cases, a company may get so big that it has reached the point where it's just extremely profitable. Wasn't that supposed to be the end-goal?
Consoles exclusives are the new way to charge >$60 for a AAA single-player game (some of the game's price is hidden in the hardware purchase).

It's terribly inefficient in every possible way, but it appears to work.
The difference for me is the "good enough" factor.

I'm fine with paying an explanation premium to go from 90 -> 100% functionality.

But only when 90% functional doesn't already cover my needs.

Apple goosed the iPhone price exactly as phone processors started hitting Moore's cliff of diminishing performance returns. High performance across the market + most users served by "good enough" processors = commodity

Apple's never done well with commodities.
And employees who count on stock options in their financial plans will not be happy.
If this is turning into a recommendation thread...

- Celeste
- Into the Breach
I laughed out loud at "mini-brand," as if the norm for a company in the mind of Silicon Valley is so massive that anything under 2mm/yr in revenue is "mini."

"I'm not an independent proprietor, I'm a mini-mogul of a micro-barbershop." vomit.
Another suggestion:

1) Take the latest iPhone XS

2) Give it a better camera

3) Make it iPhone-SE sized, get rid of the huge display crop

4) Include 5G support
The downvote is feedback. It's feedback that other people don't find your post relevant. You can constructively review how you expect other people to find it relevant and imagine the reasons why they wouldn't.
Right after Excel, JIRA is one of the most abused tools out there. I wish specs were in version control, but we too use that "ticket per feature" workflow at my job. I rather a Confluence page outlining what we want.
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> It's current valuation is based on an assumption that the revenues will continue to grow significantly.

Is it? It has a P/E of ~10, the same as IBM ('big and steady')
The fate of self-driving cars hangs on a $7T design problem
Almost all of it gets cracked. The key is to make buying it and providing the content so much more convenient compared to stealing it that people just don't bother.

DRM only needs to work well enough that people can't copy and paste it to their friends. Most games have online multiplayer modes now that can endlessly check for a valid copy from a central server though.
> As a species, humans are hard-wired for roughhousing, so the body and mind are happy when we let it happen.

We may not, as a species, need to roughhouse as children anymore in the same way lions and tigers do since we no longer need to hunt or rely on our physical attack prowess to secure nourishment but we are definitely still hard wired to get joy and positive reinforcement from such behavior. Working with kids for any amount of time makes this all starkly clear.

Heck... Even being around drunk people enough makes it clear, haha!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but Apple products feel like they've lost their soul. I remember buying my first Apple computer back in 2004, a 12" iBook G4. It was mesmerizingly good. It wasn't objectively the fastest and I'm sure other people can point to other computers that ticked more boxes, but the computer just made me want to use it, look at it, and admire it--the green glow of the power connector ring, the white cables, the "breathing" sleep light, the high quality polycarbonate, the FireWire port in case you wanted to connect a pro-level video camera--it all screamed "I'm a high quality product with a soul." Not to mention that OS X seemed much more stable than it is today.

I have a 2018 MacBook Pro and while I think it's objectively the best MacBook Pro they've ever made, it's just depressing to use. It feels like all the desire has been sucked out of it. It doesn't feel like Apple is making the best computer they can make, it feels like they're making the best computer for their bottom line. Most importantly, it feels like Apple has lost respect for their customers.
There were 43 years in between.

If you do a new one before you even enforce the decision of the previous referendum it's hardly democracy, it's "keep voting".
A second referendum, ideally, would be to confirm that the public were happy with what was "negotiated", rather than just a repeat:

* Yes please leave with the deal we got.

* Yes, we leave, but with no deal.

* No, let us stay after all.

The big problem really is that no deal will make a lot of people happy. The people that voted remain will be unhappy, and the people that voted leave voted for different reasons. So even among the people that voted to leave previously I can imagine changing their minds.

Anyway the whole thing is a mess, from start to finish.
No, the number of people unable to get housing will be reduced by the number of people who win the lottery and get housing. Leverage the market or direct government sponsorship or by whatever means people create, if enough housing is built then the lottery starts to make a more noticeable dent in the out of housing population.
I understand why a person might opt to think in that way! It's an obvious approach when people fully trust every part of their systems.

It's perhaps possible some might differ, especially in a context where limiting trust and misuse-resistance are concerns. Giving people the choice of encrypting or signing or both could seen by some as potentially less than maximally misuse-resistant.
You've never heard of them because they don't operate in your country, not because they blocked you from visiting their website from your country.
Decentralisation is important if you want the currency to work in an unregulated manner and not get shut down by the government.

The largest predecessor to bitcoin was e-gold

>The e-gold system was launched online in 1996 and had grown to five million accounts by 2009, when transfers were suspended due to legal issues.

The founder, Dr. Jackson, in July 08 - "pleaded guilty to "operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business" and "conspiracy to engage in money laundering"

Bitcoin founded in Aug 08 was decentralised so the authorities couldn't easily shut it and the founder went anonymous to avoid the problems of Dr. Jackson.

That's what the decentralisation is all about. It doesn't really matter that Bitcoin is effectively controlled by some Chinese miners or that Ethereum forks. It's about governments not being able to control them.
Given that DDG doesn't run their own full index (as far as I know), what would Apple gain? + I suspect many users would be wary of it being owned by any large player, even if it's Apple.

They also make a lot of money from Google providing the search.
No one is capturing anything with a rope or cable. It's a rotten choice of words.
There's an interesting psychological dynamic here that's probably relevant for other high visibility purchases, too.

I'm thinking cars in particular. There's a subset of us that under-spends relative to what we could own if we really wanted the greatest wheels on earth. It's not so much that we're in constant dread of an engine failure or crash that would turn a $90K Tesla or BMW into scrap metal. But we get most of what we want with Toyotas and Fords. And we're spared the stress of worrying about the well-being of one more precious element in our lives. (Houses, spouses and little kids create plenty of those stresses as is.)
I think the key here is to take this as feedback for how you can optimize your product.

e.g. You need to improve the user journey or add better copywriting to your website to prepare them for the fact that this is a paid product. OR you need to offer a short free trial so they can test out the product and then pay for it.

If you get many people wondering why it's not free, addressing this as product improvement feedback will lead to higher conversions and more revenue.
Because they're still small applications and not what everyone is looking for. Just like other technologies first got to the market in some small niche applications, and it took decades to fully realize their potential.
But "surrendering to the Irish" on those issues wouldn't exactly be a big deal. I was talking about substantive disputes.
CIA Chief Pushes for More Spies Abroad; Surveillance Makes That Harder
Moto G here as well. Great battery life, decent everything else, if I run over it with the truck I just buy a new one.

A decent camera is the only thing I missed.

Got burned by HTC's obligatory flaws, LG's shipping known broken hardware, and didn't find the last premium iPhone I carried delivered enough value.
That won't happen. Apple is still wildly successful, just not as successful as in the past. Yahoo was a dumpster fire for years, and thus people wanted the cash before Yahoo burned it.
The graphic design of Jacobin is what always stands out to me. There is sort of a retro playful feel to the cover art and images inside. And a mix of different typefaces from article to article. Not to mention the articles themselves are printed on a variety of paper types within a single issue, from glossy and thin to thicker with a fold-out.

One of the few print magazines where I enjoy physically flipping through the pages.

https://coverjunkie.com/cover-categories/best-of-the-rest/ja...
How often can you divide a 64 bit floating point value by 2?
I argued against your ad hominem fallacies quite sufficiently, thank you.

Seeing as I found your substantive claims to be backed by no data, evidence or anything other than low-level ad hominem attacks (propaganda, tech bros, etc) I found no reason to engage with such radicalism on the merits.

Try speaking like an intelligent person who doesn't fill their "claims" with nasty personal attacks, and you might find the replies to you do the same.
Seconded. Apple under Tim Cook can't invent interesting new things any longer, only play MBAish games with prices. But the company is fine.

Apple's greatest innovation might be that it leaves a bunch of Wall Street fools out of jobs. Does an economy need as many people predicting quarterly iPhone shipments to speculate on stock price as it takes to actually design said iPhone?
If they just took a popular game and used the engine like skyrim, fallout, gears, halo, etc. Just pump out more of the same. Using new maps. Keep the same enemies even. I'd buy it, a lot of people would. Why are they leaving money on the table?